Legend of the Knight

Chapter 18 Three years and three years

early morning.

A rooster crow woke up the small village, and people rolled over, yawning and rubbing their eyes, and started a busy day.

This is a small village next to Luoyang City, called Dukang Village, famous for its rich wine, but more important is the location of Dukang Village.

Dukang Village is located ten miles south of Luoyang City. People who want to enter Luoyang City every morning will rest in Dukang Village before entering the city. In the evening, people who leave Luoyang City will also rest here before leaving.

People come and go here every day, and it is as lively as going to the market every day.

Huang Xiaoshi came to this small village with two disciples. After a simple breakfast, the two disciples went to the village to set up a stall to sell medicine, while Huang Xiaoshi drank tea alone at the breakfast shop.

This is a breakfast stall in the village, with only two tables and a few small stools. People who have breakfast can drink unlimited bowls of rustic rough tea from the boss.

Huang Xiaoshi drank tea here slowly, he was not drinking tea, Huang Xiaoshi was waiting for someone.

In the past half a year, Huang Xiaoshi brought his disciples to the booth every day, and everyone in Dukang Village knew this young man who liked to wear black clothes.

Because he was afraid of missing out, Huang Xiaoshi would stay there every day until the sun was about to set in the afternoon before he would leave.

Through the operation of the stall regardless of the weather, the business of pills in Dukang Village is very good now, and the pills that are carried three times a day are sold out before noon.

Today is February 8.

As time passed day by day, the anxiety in Huang Xiaoshi's heart became more and more intense.

……

Time flies, this is already the sixth year that Huang Xiaoshi came to this world.

After fighting off Wang Er and merging with Shennongmen, Shennong Baicaomen has completely monopolized the elixir supply market in the southwest region through continuous expansion in the past three years.

To be precise, outside of Shennong Baicaomen, there was originally no market for selling elixir.

The elixir sold by Shennong Baicaomen is similar to Huang Xiaoshi's Chinese patent medicine before crossing over.

You know, even before Huang Xiaoshi crossed over, the marketization of Chinese patent medicines was extremely tortuous, and there have always been people who always use Chinese patent medicines as an example.

Not to mention it now, many people are not only suspicious of Chinese patent medicines, but also disdain and rejection.

Physicians generally believe that people get all kinds of diseases from eating five grains. Even if everyone has the same case, the root cause of the disease is often different. Even if the root cause of the disease is the same, everyone's constitution is different. Life situations are also different.

There is a saying that "there are no two identical leaves in the world".

Similarly, doctors believe that there are no two identical diseases in the world.

Since diseases are different, we must pay attention to prescribing the right medicine.

At this time, you make a medicine for everyone to take, even as long as the symptoms are the same or similar. In the eyes of these doctors, it sounds like the medicine is not right for the disease, and it is called murder for money.

However, there are many people in this world who have a very urgent need for cheap drugs.

In this world, the vast majority of poor people and a large part of ordinary people cannot afford a doctor when they are sick.

Doctors need to charge a fee for visiting a doctor. No matter how the price changes in the past dynasties, the doctor’s fee for visiting a doctor is not low. The analogy is equivalent to 10 days of living expenses for ordinary local residents.

If it is a famous doctor, the consultation fee has to be doubled.

Although it is said that some doctors will reduce or exempt the consultation fees for poor people, they are a minority after all.

The doctor and his whole family rely on the consultation fee to eat, how can it be free every time.

The reason why doctors are so scarce is that it takes a very long period to train a doctor under the apprenticeship system, and they also face a very high elimination rate.

Those who are not smart will not do it, those who have no patience and perseverance will not do it, and those who have bad intentions will not do it.

Hundreds of apprentices, after more than 20 years of study, only a few of them finally became teachers.

Coupled with the control of family inheritance, doctor has always been an extremely scarce profession.

If rural people want to see a doctor, if they want to invite a doctor to their home, they will not only have to send them back and forth, but also double the consultation fee.

To see a doctor and spend a lot of money to invite a doctor, that is just a doctor.

You need to pay extra for getting the medicine.

Some people became smarter and said that I didn't see a doctor anymore, and I went to find other people's prescriptions to get medicine.

Sorry, pharmacies don't sell it.

First of all, before writing the prescription, the doctor will first write a description of the condition, and then write a paragraph of his own treatment ideas, and the last point is the prescription.

That is to say, each prescription is actually a complete medical certificate.

It has the patient's name written on it.

You take other people's prescriptions, and the clerk at the pharmacy sees that the medicine is not suitable for the person. I'm sorry and dare not sell it.

In the same way, you have taken a prescription three or five times in a row, and when you go again, the clerk at the pharmacy will politely say to you, sorry, I have run out of this prescription, you have to see a doctor to check your physical condition .

With the treatment, the patient's condition will change. At this time, a follow-up visit is required to adjust the prescription again.

Just as no two diseases are exactly alike, no two prescriptions are exactly alike.

The condition of the same person will change over time. The doctor will replace the medicinal materials with similar medicinal properties according to the actual situation of the patient, or fine-tune the increase or decrease of the same medicinal materials to make the medicine more suitable for the patient's condition.

Because the content of active ingredients in natural medicinal materials is very low, every doctor needs to bring out the maximum medicinal properties of the medicinal materials.

Otherwise, it will happen that if the disease is identified and the medicine is taken correctly, the patient will not be cured for a long time or even the condition will deteriorate due to insufficient dosage.

If each illness is like a door, the current illness is like a door lock.

The doctor needs the most accurate key to open the current lock.

This means that the prescription must be closely related to the illness.

If it is a complicated disease, the doctor has to be like a master of reasoning, thinking through every step of his treatment before he dares to prescribe medicine.

It is a quack doctor who takes one step and sees one step. A good doctor always takes one step and sees three steps.

In order to come up with a prescription, it is common for doctors to think hard for ten days.

This kind of extreme "personalization" will inevitably bring about high costs and low efficiency, which also dooms high-end services such as "medical care" to only a very small number of people who can enjoy them.

It's okay to get used to everything.

After everyone takes this situation as a matter of course, although the number of people who die early because they can't afford medical care or medicine will not decrease, but people's mentality is better, and everyone calls this life.

If this is a disease, then this disease is called "poor".

If this is life, then this kind of life is called "poor".

Shennong Baicaomen directly broke this industrial structure and sold medicines directly without seeing a doctor.

There are people who applaud this approach, and there are also many people who criticize it. It belongs to the half red and black.

Fortunately, the Shennong Baicao family has a big business now, and they are not afraid of people coming to trouble it.

Of course, if there are doctors who are squeezed out of their jobs by Shennong Baicaomen, not only are they not worthy of sympathy, but they will be ridiculed.

Explain your medical skills.

The key reason why most doctors don't think that Shennong Baicaomen is robbing them of food is that Shennong Baicaomen is targeting the low-end market, and the pills they sell are really cheap.

The reason why the elixir was cheap was originally because of the price war between Shennongmen and Baicaomen. When Shennongmen and Baicaomen merged, Huang Xiaoshi, as Gong Guangjie's financial director, never thought of earning money from the poor.

In Huang Xiaoshi's words, market share is more important than making money.

Gong Guangjie also half-understood what he heard, but he knew that Shitou's words must be accurate.

If you don't make money, you don't make money, just make a profit.

This kind of low-end medicine is definitely not really cheap compared to other things, but it costs a few hundred yuan for a consultation fee compared with other things, and the medicine for ten yuan is already affordable by ordinary people.

That is to say, when I was sick in bed and couldn't afford to hire a doctor, I could only work hard, when I saw Shennong Baicaomen selling medicine at a street stall.

Most of them have the mentality of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, and bought some medicines to feed the patients indiscriminately.

A lot of people have really been cured like this.

People in this era have a very simple concept. People are going to die. If you take medicine worth more than ten cents, you will come back to life. It is like killing your life for nothing.

It's too late to be happy.

Even if some people die after taking the medicine, this is the so-called "fate". No one would think of it, and no one would dare to trouble the medicine seller, saying that your medicine is not effective.

Due to the extremely strong rigid demand, the market became hot immediately after it was opened, and the elixir of Shennong Baicaomen was simply in short supply.

With the expansion of the market, Shennong Baicaomen is also expanding crazily. From a small and unknown sect a few years ago, it has suddenly grown into a large sect in central Sichuan.

Now Shennong Baicaomen has more than a thousand disciples, Yaonong tens of thousands, and even the deputy sect masters have three from the left, middle and right. The group of people who followed Gong Guangjie in the past have already made great achievements.

However, between the sect master and the deputy sect master, there is a very special "second sect master", that is Master Shi Huang Xiaoshi.

Huang Xiaoshi didn't know his birth date and age. After Gong Guangjie picked up Huang Xiaoshi, he randomly set him a 12-year-old according to his height.

In the past three years, Huang Xiaoshi has grown from a dark and thin boy to a dark and thin young man.

Darkness is due to too much sun exposure, while thinness is purely a physical problem.

I don't know if it's due to the lack of nutrition and not being able to make up for it, or this body is born with this appearance, Huang Xiaoshi stopped growing after just passing five feet one inch, which is less than root three when converted into meters.

Huang Xiaoshi is currently the second son-in-law of Shennong Baicaomen (the number one is the boss Gong Guangjie). If he hadn't been in Shuzhong already, and the people of Luoyang thought he had already married, the people who told him about his marriage would have stepped on the threshold.

Just such a hairless young man, everyone in Shennong Baicaomen called him "Shiye".

In this voice of Master Shi, there is both respect and awe.

In just one battle with Wang Er, Huang Xiaoshi killed everyone.

That day, after comforting Gong Guangjie, Huang Xiaoshi walked out of the hall and woke up the five disciples of Shennongmen who had been knocked unconscious and had their acupuncture points pressed.

These five people are all heroes who know current affairs. After understanding their current situation, they immediately became Gong Guangjie's licking dogs.

Afterwards, the four doormen went to clean up the mess in the hall, and one doorman took Huang Xiaoshi to the well to fetch water for him to take a shower.

After Huang Xiaoshi took off his blood-stained clothes that had become extremely thick, the doorman carried three full buckets of water to wash away the bloody smell on Huang Xiaoshi's body. He was surprised to find that this evil blood After the man took off his clothes, he didn't even have a knife cut all over his body, that is to say, the blood all over the ground was shed by others.

The other four disciples who tidied up the hall were also having a hard time, especially when they cleaned up Wang Er's body, they saw hundreds of knife wounds criss-crossed all over Wang Er's body, and everyone was shocked.

They really don't know how Wang Er offended Huang Xiaoshi and was killed by him so wickedly.

From that day on, Huang Xiaoshi's brutal and murderous name was fixed, no one dared to call Huang Xiaoshi's name, and no one dared to call him Shitou except Gong Guangjie.

Two years ago, because the business of Shennong Baicaomen was getting bigger and bigger, and it needed to continue to expand the market, Huang Xiaoshi proposed to Gong Guangjie that a branch should be established in Luoyang.

Later, Huang Xiaoshi shared with Gong Guangjie the reasons for setting up a branch in Luoyang.

First of all, sects always want to expand, and where to expand is a matter of direction.

This direction is really the direction, this kind of east-south-north-west.

However, Bashu has its own special situation. If Bashu wants to expand, the first problem is transportation, that is, the problem of roads.

Shu Road is difficult, and it is difficult to ascend to the sky.

This mainly refers to the east road in and out of Bashu.

Going east along the Yangtze River is one of the most convenient ways to get out of Bashu. However, due to the large drop and dangerous peaks along the way, the water flow is very fast. In addition, there are many water bends, and the capsized rate is unimaginably high.

The danger of the river, with the Three Gorges as the crown, peels off every time it passes (the trackers in Sichuan are basically concentrated in it, and the purpose of pulling the fiber is mainly to sail against the current when going up and prevent the boat from going too fast when going down).

The danger of the Three Gorges, especially at the mouth of the Qutang Gorge, stands in the middle of the fast-flowing river with a huge stone pillar blocking the river.

Countless boats crossing the river were smashed to pieces on this stone because they couldn't dodge it in time (Yanyudui, commonly known as the bird's nest stone, was blown up in the winter of 1959).

Transporting goods on this road is completely betting with God.

But the other way, from Bashu to Hanzhong is relatively easy.

There is a saying called Longwangshu.

Once you get Longyou (now Gansu), you can attack Xishu.This road is sufficient for the passage of troops.

Therefore, although Bashu is closer to the east, the real main road is the road to Hanzhong.

After arriving in Hanzhong, go out to Xi'an.

After arriving in Xi'an, the road is easy to go, and you can go directly to Luoyang after passing through Xi'an.

Although Luoyang is not the capital now, it can go north, south, and east through Luoyang, which is worthy of the phrase "the essentials of the world, the throat of Kyushu".

If Shennong Baicaomen wants to promote the market, it must base itself in Luoyang.

When Huang Xiaoshi said this, he was afraid that Gong Guangjie, who was obedient to him, didn't reply immediately.

After all, establishing a branch is a big deal, and if it is not done well, the entire Shennong Baicao Sect may be lost.

A few months later, Gong Guangjie approached Huang Xiaoshi and said that a branch could be established in Luoyang, and Huang Xiaoshi knew it, and the matter was approved.

Huang Xiaoshi had a good understanding of the minds of the people of Tianlong Sect. Just like what Wang Er said before, although the people of Tianlong Sect also value money, they value land and people more.

The lower sects demanded expansion, but it was too late for Tianlongjiao to encourage them.

Gong Guangjie also told Huang Xiaoshi with a relaxed face, don't care about money when establishing a branch, don't lose too much within three years, and keep capital within five years.

Huang Xiaoshi knew that Gong Guangjie must have obtained a large sum of money from Tianlong Sect by establishing a branch.

In this way, the Luoyang branch of Shennong Baicaomen was established, and the branch was managed by Huang Xiaoshi. Huang Xiaoshi changed from the second master to the yellow master.

Originally thought that when the pills were transported from Bashu, the tofu would be worth the price of meat, so he would definitely suffer a blood loss.

Unexpectedly, Huang Xiaoshi's business is booming, not only did he not lose any money, but he also released a lot of money from the original door.

Everyone didn't know how Huang Xiaoshi's skull grew. If he poked it at any place, silver would come out like water.

The reason why Huang Xiaoshi proposed to establish a branch in Luoyang is because Luoyang is so important.

After Huang Xiaoshi arrived in Luoyang, the first thing he did was to find his anchor.

Huang Xiaoshi's anchor is not the spinning top that distinguishes the real from the virtual, but a person.

This person is the head of the Tiangang Sect in Luoyang City, a rich merchant in Luoyang, a hero of Heluo, and the instructor of the Imperial Forest Army—Jiang Tianxiong.

This consistent title can only show that this guy's identity is extremely complicated.

And Huang Xiaoshi also knows that Jiang Tianxiong's [Tiangang Wuji Kungfu] was originally a super-class inner strength method created by a generation of heroes Xiao Xiami.

Not to mention too much, after Huang Xiaoshi came to Luoyang, the first thing he wanted to do was to confirm the current time.

This time is not the year and era as the common people say, but the original "game time".

Originally, there should be no way to determine this kind of thing, after all, there is no mention of the year in the original game.

But it just so happens that there is an important scene in the game that is "Jiang Tianxiong's [-]th birthday, the heroes gather in Luoyang".

What is displayed in the game is "February of the second year", and the time when the game starts is "September of the first year".

Jiang Tianxiong's age is the most important time anchor.

When Huang Xiaoshi arrived in Luoyang, he learned that Jiang Tianxiong was only 47 years old, so he was relieved.

In the past two years, Huang Xiaoshi has made soy sauce with peace of mind, and he has successfully become a local worm.

The water in Luoyang is too deep, Huang Xiaoshi doesn't dare to call himself a local snake, he should just be a bug.

When Jiang Tianxiong was 49, it was just summer, and Huang Xiaoshi took his disciples to Dukang Village every day to stay.

However, time passed day by day, and the days until September became less and less, Huang Xiaoshi's heart became more and more restless, he was not sure whether he could really wait for the most important person.

For the past six years, Huang Xiaoshi has been thinking about ways to escape. There are three strategies available today, but Huang Xiaoshi is not going to use them. He wants to try out-of-the-box tricks and directly use the BUG to skip all the checkpoints and reach the finish line.

Just when Huang Xiaoshi sat down until noon, thinking that today was a waste of time, a person came by the small road at the head of the village.

Seeing that person, Huang Xiaoshi's spirit was lifted immediately.

Here it comes, here it comes, finally here it comes.

　The previous first volume can be regarded as a prologue, or a wedge.

　　Starting from this volume, more and more characters appeared on the scene.

　　To be honest, it is a challenge for me to write so many characters well.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)