Many identities
Zhou Hanzhang had previously said that he wanted to sell winter clothes to Pang Guan and Pang Jiuan.
After a nap, the two of them packed up simply, took enough silver and went out.
They were planning to go to the Central Street, which was the largest and most prosperous street in the entire Yunshui County, with all kinds of shops.
Although it can't compare to the shops in Beijing, it still sells some basic things.
After arriving at the central street, the two entered a clothing store. This store specialized in selling children's clothes and had quite a few customers coming and going.
"Hanzhang, what do you think of this one?" Shi Yanqing asked excitedly, pointing at a pink cloak. The cloak was embroidered with cute rabbit patterns and was perfect for children.
Zhou Hanzhang's eyes were originally looking around the store. After hearing what Shi Yanqing said, he looked in that direction. After staring for a while, he nodded and said, "Okay, this one suits An An very well."
"What about this light blue one?" This is a double-breasted buttoned jacket with rabbit fur, and it also has a rabbit pattern embroidered on it.
Zhou Hanzhang still nodded: "It's also very suitable."
Shi Yanqing also liked these two pieces of clothing very much, so he asked the guy who had been following them to take the two pieces of clothing down from the wall.
After buying clothes for Pang Jiuan, the two went to another clothing store to buy clothes for Pang Guan.
When she came out, Shi Yanqing saw two familiar figures appear not far away, but she was not very familiar with those two people, so she did not go up to say hello.
However, after seeing her and Zhou Hanzhang, the expressions of the two men changed obviously. Qian Yueshu became a little guilty, while Qingfeng looked happy.
"Doctor Shi, Lord Zhou." Qing Feng released his hand that was holding the hilt of the sword, walked up to the two of them and greeted them.
Qian Yueshu, who was behind him, saw Qingfeng greet him, and he walked up to greet him without feeling guilty.
"Haha, what a coincidence."
Zhou Hanzhang nodded slightly at the two of them without saying anything.
He was not familiar with Qian Yueshu, and even less familiar with Qingfeng. They had only met a few times.
Shi Yanqing smiled, a little surprised that these two people knew each other. After all, one was a rich young man, and the other was a ranger who had no relatives left.
But she suddenly remembered the gossip she had heard before, that Qian Yueshu seemed to be giving up literature to pursue a military career.
"What a coincidence." Shi Yanqing replied.
Her eyes fell on Qingfeng. The last time she saw him, his arm was injured. After so long, the wound had long since healed.
There shouldn't be any root cause of the disease left, right? Shi Yanqing thought.
None of the four spoke for a moment, and the air was quiet for a moment.
Qing Feng spoke first, "Doctor Shi, Master Zhou. Yueshu and I have some matters to attend to, so we'll be leaving first. I'll visit you another day when I have time."
After saying this, he tapped Qian Yueshu's arm with the blade of his sword, signaling him to follow him, then turned and left.
"Then we'll go first."
Qian Yueshu hurriedly said this, turned around and ran towards Qingfeng's back.
Shi Yanqing watched the two of them leave, then turned to look at the silent Zhou Hanzhang, and then smiled.
"Let's go back too."
…
In the afternoon, near dusk.
Shi Yanqing and Zhou Hanzhang took a carriage to Pang Guan's residence.
Not long after the two knocked on the door, Pang Jiuan's little face appeared behind the door.
"Sister Yanqing, you haven't come over these few days. Anan misses you so much." After Pang Jiuan opened the door and saw Shi Yanqing, he ran over and hugged Shi Yanqing's legs, tilting his head back and said softly.
Shi Yanqing's heart softened immediately. She held Pang Jiuan's two small hands, then squatted down, raised her hands and gently pinched her cheeks.
"Sister is here now, and she even brought Mr. Zhou here with her today."
Lord Zhou is what Pang Jiuan calls Zhou Hanzhang.
It was just because when she first met Zhou Hanzhang, Zhou Hanzhang was wearing a red official uniform, and the clerk following him called him "Sir".
Before Pang Jiuan was adopted by Pang Guan, she wandered the streets with the beggars in the county. There were several times when they were starving, and it was the officials in the county government who sent them food, which helped her and them survive.
Although Pang Jiuan could no longer remember what that adult looked like, in her heart all the adults in the county government were good people.
So after learning Zhou Hanzhang's identity, she always called him Lord Zhou.
"Is Lord Zhou here too?" Pang Jiuan's cheek, which was pinched, moved slightly, and her attention shifted from Shi Yanqing to the person behind her.
When Pang Jiuan saw Lord Zhou holding a candied haws and smiling at him, his eyes immediately lit up, filled with desire.
She hasn't eaten candied haws for a long time.
Want to eat.
When Shi Yanqing saw her like this, he pinched her chubby cheeks in a funny way.
"Little greedy cat."
Pang Jiuan said she didn't understand. She trotted over to Zhou Hanzhang, tilted her head back and smiled sweetly, "Master Zhou."
Zhou Hanzhang raised his hand and touched her head, then handed her the candied haws string with only three pieces in it.
This is food for children.
Pang Jiuan took the candied haws and ran towards the door, saying as he ran, "Sister Yanqing, Master Zhou, please come in."
Shi Yanqing stood up and looked at Zhou Hanzhang, and they smiled at each other.
"Let's go."
The two followed Pang Jiuan into the inner courtyard, while Shian and Danye were outside moving the things they brought this time, including winter clothes, cotton shoes, dried fruits, cakes and so on.
Lanterns were lit in the yard, and the warm yellow light dispelled the gloom. Pang Guan was lying on a recliner. Next to him was a small table with a pot of wine and two wine glasses on it, and there was an empty recliner next to it.
Shi Yanqing walked to the recliner and stopped. Together with Zhou Hanzhang, he bowed to Pang Guan, "Teacher."
"Here they come." Pang Guan opened his half-closed eyes and looked at the two of them.
"Huh? Hanzhang is here too this time." As he said this, he held the handles of the recliner with both hands and sat up, with his feet touching the ground.
"Now that everyone is here, we can start eating. An An, go to the kitchen and tell your brother that he can start cooking."
Pang Jiuan was sitting on a small wooden stool beside her eating candied haws. There was only one hawthorn ball left on the skewer. When she heard this, she immediately got up and ran towards the kitchen.
"I know~." The ending tone was dragged out softly.
It was already dark outside, and the crescent moon was barely visible in the sky.
Shi Yanqing and Zhou Hanzhang followed Pang Guan into the house and sat down at the square wooden table.
The three of them chatted about recent developments in the house for a while. After a while, brisk footsteps were heard outside the door, and then Pang Jiuan appeared in the house.
She had a smile on her face and looked very happy: "I'm back~"
After she finished speaking, she ran to Shi Yanqing and rested her head on Shi Yanqing's arm, half leaning on him. "Sister Yanqing, look at the little flower on my head. It was given to me by sister Duoer next door. Isn't it beautiful?"
Shi Yanqing knew that this sister Duoer's full name was Liu Duoer. Coincidentally, Liu Duoer was the protagonist of the gossip she had heard.
"It looks good, it looks good." Shi Yanqing touched Pang Jiuan's soft hair.
She smiled and opened her mouth to say something when she heard footsteps outside the door again.
She was a little confused for a moment. After all, Shi'an and Danye had dinner in a small restaurant outside after sending them here, and they should be eating now.
Before she could ask Pang Guan if there was anyone else there, she saw a familiar face appear in front of her.
"Doctor Xu?!" Shi Yanqing looked surprised. She looked at the middle-aged man in front of her, and then looked at the teacher sitting next to her.
Xuanyu Jin was holding a plate of food in his hand. When he saw Shi Yanqing and Zhou Hanzhang appear here, he gave a friendly smile.
"Master, the dishes are ready and we can eat soon." He said to Pang Guan who was sitting in a chair.
After putting the two dishes in his hand on the table, Xuanyu turned around and went out again. There were still a few dishes on the stove in the kitchen, and he needed to go back and bring them over.
Zhou Hanzhang had previously learned a lot of things from Shi Yanqing, about a doctor who sold witchcraft to his patients.
After Xuanyujin left, he saw that the atmosphere in the house was not right, so he stood up, took Pang Jiuan's hand and walked out of the door, walked towards the kitchen, and prepared to help Xuanyujin serve the dishes.
When Shi Yanqing and Pang Guan were the only ones left in the room, Pang Guan, who had been eating peanuts quietly, finally spoke.
"Yanqing, it's not that the teacher is hiding this from you on purpose, it's just that I haven't found a suitable opportunity to tell you this."
Shi Yanqing listened quietly. Apart from being a little surprised at the beginning, she kept her eyes down and no one knew what she was thinking.
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Pang Guan continued, "When I was young, I loved traveling. Every time I arrived at a place, I would stay for a while, looking for local famous doctors or less famous doctors, and learn medical skills from them."
"Later, I met your master's parents. One of them was a witch doctor, and the other was a Chinese medicine practitioner. I learned a lot from them, and my medical skills improved rapidly."
"Later, they accepted me as their apprentice and taught me both medical skills. But the good times didn't last long. They died while saving people during an epidemic, leaving only your master behind."
"Your master was very talented. She mastered both medical skills before she reached adulthood. Later, she separated from me and went out to explore the world on her own. When I saw her again, she was covered in wounds, and the tendons in her left hand had been severed."
"She was betrayed by her apprentice. Your uncle and I put in a lot of effort to remove the poison and the insects from her body. Then she left, and that was the last time I saw her."
"Many of them were patients saved by your master. He had always admired your master, but your master never fell in love with him. After your master left five years ago, he found me, and for some reason, I accepted him as my apprentice."
"In the past five years, every time he and I met, we were very careful, and basically no one knew about our relationship. But one time, I found someone secretly monitoring me, and later I found out that it was the Black Witch's people."
"Black wizard?" Shi Yanqing couldn't help but ask when he heard this.
"People are divided into good and evil, and witch doctors are no exception. Witch doctors who use extreme methods to practice medicine are called black witches. Those who practice medicine with normal methods are called white witches."
Pang Guan explained.
When he saw Yan Qing finally speaking, his heart finally settled down and he slowly let out a breath.
He was afraid that Shi Yanqing would have a problem with Xuanyu Jin because of what happened before, and would no longer care about him as a teacher. If that happened, he really wanted to cut off all ties with Xuanyu Jin immediately.
He had no idea what his master was thinking and was chatting with Zhou Hanzhang in the kitchen.
As he was talking, he suddenly felt his nose itchy.
After the three of them returned to the house, the atmosphere between Shi Yanqing and Pang Guan had returned to normal.
Zhou Hanzhang brought the dishes to the table, then sat down in the seat next to Shi Yanqing. He glanced at her expression and felt relieved when he saw that there was nothing unusual.
Although there were many more things to do, the atmosphere at the dinner table was still relatively relaxed.
After dinner, it was already pitch dark.
Shi Yanqing didn't stay long. After sitting for a cup of tea, he and Zhou Hanzhang left.
Outside the door, Shi'an and Tanye were sitting on the wooden frame outside the carriage. When they saw them come out, they immediately got off the carriage and took out a low stool for the two to step on.
"Let's go."
After both of them went in and sat down, a voice came from inside.
The night was quiet, with few pedestrians on the street and only the sound of horse-drawn carriages could be heard.
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