Nie Duo failed to invite Lin Chen, so Lin Chen used his superior Qinggong skills to disappear at the end of the alley. After changing back to his original clothes, he left the city without even returning to the medicine store.

When the waiter at the inn saw that the fortune teller was being traced by people from the Jiangzuo League, he thought that the fortune teller had committed a crime and hurriedly sent all the things Lin Chen left in the inn to Mei Changsu.

With nothing else but a change of clothes, was Lin Chen already ready to run away?

The next day, Lin Chen's shop posted a notice recruiting a doctor.

On the third day, a group of four people entered Lin Chen's house holding Lin Chen's letter of recommendation.

On the fifth day, he drank old duck bamboo shoot soup that was no longer stained with duck feathers.

On the sixth day, for the first time, he identified the identities and backgrounds of ten people on the road.

…

But he was not happy at all.

"If I had gone to his stall to meet him in person that day, wouldn't he have left?" Mei Changsu didn't take Lin Chen's departure to heart at first, but he happened to remember that Lin Chen

He once said that the banquet at Huixiang House must be booked a month in advance, but he will be in Langzhou in a month...

When the one-month period expired, Lin Chen did not appear in Langzhou. He also thought about asking someone to check Lin Chen's whereabouts, but this thought was abandoned as soon as it came to his mind.

Even if he is a liar, Lin Chen has the ability to deceive people. Unlike him, the only person who can deceive is Jing Yan.

The medicine left by Lin Chen was finished half a month after he left. Li Gang wanted to go to Lin Chen's shop to ask a doctor for consultation, but after thinking about it several times, Mei Changsu shook his head and rejected it.

Just because Lin Chen could help him didn't mean that Lin Chen could use Langya Pavilion to help him, so... he asked Li Gang to find a doctor from the Jiangzuo Alliance for consultation.

After learning about it, Elder Xi personally selected five doctors to consult him. The five doctors took his pulse in turn and discussed for a long time before prescribing a new prescription.

That day, he realized sadly that his body was far weaker than he thought.

"Sect Master, it's time to drink the medicine!" Li Gang came in with a bowl of dark concoction, "Today, my sister-in-law Ji has made some sweet-scented osmanthus syrup. You can try it after you drink the medicine!"

Mei Changsu shook the medicine bowl so that the medicine residue on the wall of the bowl would be submerged into the medicine juice and sink to the bottom of the bowl: "This medicine is no longer bitter, but why do I still think the medicine prescribed by Lin Chen is good?"

"I also think the medicine prescribed by Mr. Lin is good, but Dr. Zhu and the others have read the prescription prescribed by Mr. Lin and said that Mr. Lin's medicine is not right for the patient's condition!" Li Ganghou said from the sidelines.

"...!"

"...Sect Master, there are always inconsistencies in medicine. Mr. Lin knows that you have been poisoned by fire and cold. Dr. Zhu and the others don't know. Don't..."

"It's rare that you would speak for him." Mei Changsu placed the empty bowl on the tray, took the candy on the saucer and put it between his lips.

"Although his medicine smelled bitter, the sect leader didn't have so many dietary restrictions at that time. He didn't feel tired during the day and slept soundly at night." Li Gang blushed and lowered his head and said, "Doctor Zhu and the others are ready.

After taking the medicine, the sect leader felt sleepy during the day and woke up several times at night!"

"Any doctor with my condition would need time to adjust the prescription. I can't blame Dr. Zhu and the others. Besides, I'm feeling better these days than before!" Mei Changsu comforted, "It's just this taboo.

Alas, Lin Chen finally made me a bowl of crabmeal and tofu for Mid-Autumn Festival last year, but this year I didn’t even taste the crab legs!”

As for river crabs, which are so cold, how can the sect leader eat them? He asked Li Gang to immediately throw away all the river crabs that Sister Ji had steamed and presented.

"metropolitan……!"

"Okay, I'll just say this, you don't have to be sullen. Just don't throw it away in the future. I can't eat it, but you can eat it!" Mei Changsu said with a smile, "There are a lot of taboos, but Sister-in-law Ji can There are a lot of dishes to cook, and I look forward to cooking them every day.”

"Yes, Master... But these four people Mr. Lin has found are really good. They cooperate with each other tacitly and understand etiquette. Without a summons, they will never step into the inner courtyard. With them, not only do I not have to interfere with the chores of this mansion, I can even rely on them to discipline other servants. Master, do you think this Mr. Lin will return to Langzhou?" Li Gang said with great expectation, "I will send someone to clean the room you left for him every day!"

"As long as his store is still looking for doctors, he will come back!" The notice seeking doctors has been posted in front of Lin Chen's drug store. There are several doctors applying, but none of them have even been tried. Intention... "How are Shen Cong's funeral arrangements going?"

"Ye Yun has given him a grand burial as ordered by the sect leader!"

Shen Cong was originally a member of the old army who stayed in Jiangzuo. After Su Ping went to Langzhou, he sent him to Yizhou to assist Ye Yun in capturing the entrance of Yizhou Hall. It took half a month to conquer the entrance of Yizhou Hall, but Shen Cong unfortunately fell seriously ill. Mei Changsu could only send a letter asking Ye Yun to find a good doctor for treatment, but Shen Cong still...

When the news spread to Huirongzhou, Mei Changsu was sad for several days. He once walked out of the sea of ​​​​fire in Meiling, but he could not escape the illness.

"If I hadn't sent Shen Cong to Yizhou, maybe he wouldn't have died!" This thought still lingers in Mei Changsu's mind to this day.

"This has nothing to do with the sect master!" Nie Duo and others said.

"You all should be well, I don't want to lose anyone anymore!" Mei Changsu and Shen Cong only met a few times, but his departure still made Mei Changsu deeply sad. This feeling of powerlessness is the result of As Lin Shu, he had never experienced this before, but as Mei Changsu, he had to endure it again and again.

"Sect Master!" Nie Duo called, walking up to Mei Changsu with a pigeon in his arms, bowing and saying, "The pigeon sent by Wu Yu that landed in the tea shop...!"

"Well, I've made some progress. I didn't send it to the drugstore this time!" Mei Changsu smiled teasingly and said, "Take off the copper pipe and give it to me. Feed the pigeons and let them fly!"

"Sect Master, if this pigeon is given to us by Mr. Lin, it will have to be imprisoned for a month before it can be released. Mr. Lin said that if the pigeon is to be sent to another place to deliver the message, it needs to be imprisoned in a new place for a month, so that the pigeon can land in a new place next time. ." Nie Duo took off the copper pipe and handed it to Mei Changsu.

"The teahouse is ours, and of course this pigeon is ours too. Just do as you say, lock it up for a month and then release it! Hey, he built a bathhouse for me in Fuzhou and asked me to let Luo Qing from Fuzhou come to the shop. He also asked you to go to Yizhou and bring Ye Yun back to Langzhou as soon as possible?" Mei Changsu put down the note and frowned slightly, "Why is he using the bathhouse? I can't go to Fuzhou to bathe in the bathhouse!"

"Hey, if we didn't build a stone house as a bathhouse in the courtyard, I would go to the bathhouse to take a bath, but Fuzhou is too far!" Nie Duo interjected with a smile, "Sect Master, you don't know that going to the bathhouse in winter is not easy. A treat.”

"Enjoy it?" Mei Changsu frowned and said in a high tone.

"Sect Master, Jin Shuang made a mistake. Jin Shuang is just saying that with the current situation, Jin Shuang absolutely dare not go to that place again!" Seeing Mei Changsu's expression slightly condensed, Nie Duo immediately said, "But even in the past, I When I go to take a bath with my eldest brother and the others, I want a private room, and I won’t go to a big pool where traffickers and lackeys bathe!”

"I...have never been to that kind of place!" In the past, as a descendant of an aristocratic family, he went most often to the Royal Hot Spring on the outskirts of Jinling City in winter. "Do many people really go to that place to bathe in winter?"

"Isn't that true?" Nie Duo said energetically, "Soaking in the hot water in winter can relax the whole person. Add a pot of fine wine to it. It's true that everyone will get drunk even if the wine is not intoxicating."

He didn't go to the bathhouse to take a bath, but every time he took a dip in the hot springs on the outskirts of Jinling City, he would still...

"In a place like that, people would be extremely relaxed and talk a lot, right?" Mei Changsu asked, looking at Nie Duo and Li Gang.

"Well, I went to the big pool...after all, I...usually soaked for half an hour, and someone would say a lot of things, such as the Li family's child wet the bed again last night, and the Chen family's sister-in-law didn't let the husband in yesterday, etc.

It will happen." Mei Changsu's eyes stayed on Li Gang, and Li Gang had no choice but to say bravely.

"And this is exactly what we need!" Mei Changsu said, "To open a bathhouse, you only need a location and some household appliances to open it, and the shopkeeper and waiter in the store only need to be eloquent, such as

Skills in back rubbing, facial shaving, and pedicure are even better. If I remember correctly, Luo Qingzu was a pedicure master. Before he joined the army, he set up a pedicure stall with his father. I also thought about setting up a pedicure stall for

Luo Qing, but he never thought about setting up a bathhouse and inserting Luo Qing into it. Lin Chen thought further than I did!"

"That's right!" Li Gang said with admiration, "We used to go to the bathhouse, but now we have one in the house, but we never thought that we could get information by opening a bathhouse outside!"

"Hey, he paid a deposit for seven days at the inn, and he was planning to come and laugh at me on the seventh day, but he didn't expect that I would ask Nie Duo to invite him on the third day. He was unhappy, but he didn't want to

Just admit defeat and build a bathhouse for me, and that’s the end of it? Humph, how can there be such an algorithm?”

"That's not right. Mr. Lin paid a seven-day deposit for the inn he booked, but the meal he ordered at the restaurant next door was only for five days!" Nie Duo said in confusion, "Could it be that he...!"

"In five days, I'm tied with him, but in seven days, I lose! As for why he doesn't live in his drug store, I guess in addition to confusing me, there may be other reasons for him. For example, the drug store doesn't have a room for him, or the cook at the drug store doesn't have a room for him.

The food cooked by the shopkeeper’s wife is actually very unpalatable.”

"...!" Nie Duo and Li Gang looked at each other. They had a strange feeling that Mei Changsu was much happier to have won the bathhouse than to have been the leader of Jiangzuo.

"Li Gang, send a letter to Luo Qing, asking him to go to the bathhouse Lin Chen mentioned, and tell him to read more, listen more, and learn more. If he can do it, he will take care of this bathhouse in the future!" Lin Chen

His intention was nothing more than this, and he would no longer reject the good intentions from Lin Chen.

"Jin Shuang, what do you mean when you said he asked you to take Ye Yun back to Langzhou from Yizhou?" Mei Changsu read this sentence several times, but still didn't understand what Lin Chen meant literally. What happened in the bathhouse

After the arrangements were made, Mei Changsu pondered over what Lin Chen had said.

"Yizhou and Fuzhou are close to each other. It takes three to four days to ride a horse. It takes more than two days for Lin Chen to travel quickly. He helped me build a bathhouse in Fuzhou, but he sent pigeons to Yizhou and asked him to

You go to Yizhou and bring Ye Yun back to Langzhou?" Mei Changsu put down the note, looked at the last line of cursive writing on the note and said: "Did Ye Yun do something?"

"No, it can't be!" Nie Duo was startled and said, "Ye Yun is a captain of thousands. Among the surviving old troops, his rank is only below that of young marshal, Wei Zheng and I. In the old troops, he...!"

"So, Lin Chen asked you to go because Wei Zheng is not here, and you are the only one who can take him down!" A gust of autumn wind blew by. It was originally a cool autumn breeze, but Mei Changsu actually shivered, "No, Shen Cong! Shen Cong didn't die of a sudden illness, he died...!"

Silenced by Ye Yun!

"Young Marshal!" In his desperation, Nie Duo forgot to change his title and stepped forward to support Mei Changsu.

"Sect Master!" Li Gangze had already called him 'Sect Master' smoothly. He helped Nie Duo and Mei Changsu sit down slowly.

"What happened? Li Gang?" Mei Changsu said angrily, "What happened to Yizhou? Wasn't the entrance to the hall captured? What did Ye Yun do that made Lin Chen ask Nie Duo to take him! "

"Subordinate, the news I received from Yizhou is that the entrance to the palace has been captured and everything is safe!" Li Gang said with his mouth shut.

"Everything is safe? Okay, just pretend everything is safe! Nie Duo, you set out overnight to bring Ye Yun back to me from Yizhou!" Mei Changsu sneered.

"Young Marshal?"

"Why, I can't make you bring back a thousand captain?" Mei Changsu asked angrily.

"Nie Duo accepts the order. After Nie Duo has packed up, he will set off immediately!" Nie Duo said, cupping his fists.

"Wait, wait a minute...!" Mei Changsu squinted his eyes slightly, thought for a while and then said, "How many old troops are there in Langzhou now?"

"There are ten people returning one after another and those who originally stayed in Langzhou!" Nie Duo replied.

The old ministries were all under the control of Nie Duo, and Nie Duo had to be notified when coming or going, so Nie Duo answered this question very quickly.

"There are no old troops returning to Yizhou, right?" According to his request, the old troops staying in other states need to take turns to return to Langzhou for training.

"Yes, Ye Yun said that there are many things going on in Yizhou and they can't spare the manpower!" Li Gang said.

"There are eight old tribes in Yizhou, only two less than Langzhou...!" Mei Changsu rubbed his fingers and frowned and asked, "Are the only old tribes who stayed in Langzhou only Wu Yu and Shi Lei in the tea shop? ?”

"They are the two of them, Sect Master, do you want to see them?"

"No..." Mei Changsu slowly clenched his rubbing fingers, closed his eyes tightly, and shook his head in pain, "Nie Duo takes Ye Yun away. I don't know what kind of storm will happen to the remaining old men, but there is no one around me. We can send more people!”

"Sect Master...!" Seeing Mei Changsu's uncontrollable grief, everyone was at a loss. After a while, Zhen Ping whispered, "Sect Master, how about I go? There are seven of you, I can still stand it. Just when I leave, you..."

"I will take good care of the sect master, but, Zhen Ping, can you do it?" Li Gang said worriedly, "You are not familiar with Yizhou!"
To be continued...