"What sweet potato? It's yam. Anyway, your yam is too thin." Su Nuannuan was at a loss for words. Suddenly, Duan Tingxuan beside her pulled her sleeve and whispered, "Wife, this is iron stick yam, the best yam."
"Hey, this guy is the real expert." The vendor laughed and said, "That's right, this is the iron stick yam. If it's thicker than this, it won't sell for this price."
Su Nuannuan immediately "became angry and embarrassed". She turned to look at Duan Tingxuan and gritted her teeth and said, "Why are you butting in when a woman is buying vegetables? You are only making things worse. Get out of the way." After saying that, she turned around and said, "Even if it's iron stick yam, you're too outrageous. Two cents a stick, I'll buy ten."
"Give me twenty-five cents for ten sticks. I won't sell them for a cent less." The vendor was also very tough.
"Twenty-three cents."
"No, twenty-four cents."
"Twenty-two cents."
"Too little, at least twenty-three cents."
"Okay, deal."
Hawker: ...
Duan Tingxuan: ...
Prince of Xiangyang: ...
Lu Fengyu: ...
Looking at Duan Tingxuan who was walking listlessly with ten yams in his arms, the King of Xiangyang suddenly sighed and said, "Feng Yu, I think I am too suspicious. How could these two people be Duan Tingxuan and his wife? The prince and his wife bargained with a peddler to this extent. This... even if they were pretending, it would be hard to fake it."
In fact, Lu Fengyu felt the same way. The prince and his wife lived such a life just to be an undercover agent? That was too much of a sacrifice. However, he was always cautious. Hearing this, he said, "Your Highness, don't jump to conclusions. You must know that Sun Bin also pretended to be crazy and stupid in order to escape from Wei. This little thing doesn't mean anything. Let's take a closer look."
"Well! That's true." King Xiangyang nodded and gave Lu Fengyu an approving look: Although his number one military advisor loves food, he knows what to do when it comes to big things, and he didn't speak up for the chef Wang just because she's good at cooking.
Duan Tingxuan and Su Nuannuan spent more than half an hour strolling in the vegetable market, enjoying the pleasure of being a young couple in the market, and then they walked back happily with their vegetable baskets. Prince Xiangyang and Lu Fengyu watched for a long time, but they could not find any flaws. They were discussing following here today and going back to eat first, when suddenly they heard a scream. They quickly looked over and saw a big black horse galloping on the street. After knocking over a person, the horse did not stop and just sped away. Passersby were so scared that they dodged.
"This is too much. Whose evil slave is this? I must ask the master to investigate it when I get back." Su Nuannuan shouted angrily. Then she ran to the person who was knocked down, but saw that he was an old beggar, wearing only a patched dirty clothes, with unkempt hair and dirty face. Even his hands and feet were black, and he had not taken a bath for many years.
It seemed that the passers-by wanted to rescue the old beggar, but when they saw how ragged and dirty he was, they hesitated and stopped. Only Su Nuannuan was the only one who stopped. Although she was also full of disgust and muttered, "How can he be so dirty?", she did not stop and quickly laid the old beggar flat on the ground, pinched his philtrum and screamed, while touching his carotid artery. She screamed a few times, and when she saw that the old beggar was unconscious, she looked up at Duan Tingxuan and said, "Why are you still standing there? Check if there is a clinic nearby and ask a doctor to come over."
Duan Tingxuan saw Su Nuannuan's expression and knew that the old beggar was not in danger of his life for the time being, so he hesitated and said, "Wife, forget it. We have no relatives or friends with him. Why should we care about this matter and be bitten back by him..."
Before he could finish, Su Nuannuan raised her eyebrows and shouted, "What are you talking about? This is a life. Are you going to get a doctor? If you don't go, I will."
"Okay, okay, I'll go." Duan Tingxuan was indeed a henpecked man. He agreed and turned away. After about a quarter of an hour, he dragged a young doctor over and said breathlessly, "Okay... We finally found a clinic, and there's only this one doctor there. Let's just make do with him."
The young doctor frowned in disgust when he saw the old beggar's appearance, but before he could say anything, Su Nuannuan said, "Doctors are like parents to their children. You don't mind the dirtiness, do you? Don't worry, we won't give you less money. If you save this old man, you will also make a name for yourself. What's the harm if it's a little dirty? Just go back and wash it and it will be clean."
After hearing this, the doctor had no choice but to step forward, and after a thorough inspection, he took out a needle bag from his bosom, picked out a few silver needles and inserted them into several acupoints on the old beggar's body.
Su Nuannuan frowned, thinking, "Has this silver needle been sterilized? Just give it to people? After using it on this old beggar, I don't know if it will be sterilized again. Alas! The medical environment in ancient times was really not optimistic. No wonder there were plagues and the like all the time."
But there was no point in saying these things now. The old beggar woke up quickly after the acupuncture and thanked the doctor profusely. The doctor did not take credit for it and pushed Su Nuannuan and Duan Tingxuan out. So the old beggar came over to thank the two again. Su Nuannuan counted the copper coins to pay for the consultation and bought the used silver needles while nagging, "Old man, although it is said that eating dirty food will not make you sick, you can't be too dirty. If you don't have the facilities to take a bath, there is water everywhere in Jiangnan. You can jump into any river or stream to wash. Why make yourself so dirty? It will do no good to others or yourself."
The old beggar chuckled and said, "Thank you for your kindness, young lady, but I am already used to this kind of life. It makes me feel uncomfortable if I take a bath."
Su Nuannuan shook her head helplessly and said, "I can't control you, but if you listen to my advice, it will be good for you. Otherwise, if something like this happens again next time, everyone will despise you for being dirty and refuse to come forward. It's hard to say whether you can survive. It's not every time you can meet a kind person like me."
The old beggar chuckled twice, bowed to Su Nuannuan, and left, which made the young doctor very angry for the couple. Duan Tingxuan also complained to his wife, "Why bother? Good intentions are not good..." Before he could say the word "revenge", his wife threw him a dagger in the eye, so he shut up decisively.
This was just an episode, and the couple did not take it seriously. They felt that they had been hanging out outside for so long, long enough for their spies to report to their master. So they returned to Mingyu Villa with their vegetable baskets, and along the way they were discussing that they would visit Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City next time they had free time.
Prince Xiangyang and Lu Fengyu did not follow him, but returned to the palace and sat down in the study. Prince Xiangyang asked, "I have followed you for half a morning. How do you feel, sir?"
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