Chapter 684 Mei Sanniang's Back-Up Plan (Two in One)

Qing Xiao followed the merchant gang and never came back. Li Changxiao was happy to be idle. Every day, apart from cleaning the courtyard and taking care of the flowers and plants, he had nothing to do.

Spring went and autumn came.

This winter was particularly cold. Before the snow fell, a cold wave had already blown. The cold wind was chilling. There were occasional guests staying at the Laiqu Inn. Li Changxiao himself was not afraid of the severe cold, but he still had to prepare dry firewood early. So he carried a wooden basket on his back, an axe around his waist, and went straight up the mountain to chop firewood.

There were only a few jobs in the inn, and after doing it for a long time, it would indeed feel boring. Outside the Laiqu Inn, there was a mountain with a stone tablet at the foot of the mountain, on which were written the three words "Chai Chai Mountain".

Li Changxiao, Mei Sanniang, and the cook came to this mountain to chop firewood every winter when they ran the inn. They came many times and wanted to confer a title on this mountain. Give it a decent name.

The three people each wrote a word, and they all wrote down the mountain of cutting firewood. After the name was given, the mountain did not grow taller, but the trees became more luxuriant, which was the best for burning firewood.

Li Changxiao searched for a long time along the rugged mountain road before he found the trace of the mountain again. The stone tablet had long been covered with weeds, moss on it, and a poisonous snake had made a nest on its back.

Li Changxiao cut the weeds, washed the moss, and moved the poisonous snake away. Then he cut a mountain road and went up the mountain to get firewood.

It was not snowing yet, but the weather was cold. Ordinary mortals dared not go out at this time. It was because if it snowed halfway, it would definitely snow for three days and three nights before it could stop. When people stayed in the snow for a long time, everything they saw was white, and they could not see the gullies, cliffs, and roads at all.

Many people died every year because of a wrong step, falling off a cliff, or falling into a fork in the road. Li Changxiao was the only one walking alone in this desolate mountain, but he was also a skilled and courageous man.

His axe was sharp, and every time he chopped, he was precise and powerful. He could chop down a tree in just three or two strokes, which was neat and pleasing to the eye.

With a "rustle", a "firewood tree" was chopped down by the knife. Li Changxiao was surprised to see a red fruit on the top of the tree. He picked the fruit and looked up and down, and saw that the fruit was bright and plump, and it smelled sweet at first glance.

The name "firewood tree" was also given by Li Changxiao and others privately. The three of them were quite skilled, but they were not known to the world. This kind of "firewood tree" can be seen everywhere, but no one knows what it is called.

I still remember that Li Changxiao, Mei Sanniang, and the cook had a lot of discussion when naming the firewood tree. Mei Sanniang wanted to name it "Sanniangzi Tree". She was always so narcissistic that she always thought of her own name first when naming, for fear that others would not know that it was her who named it. But Li Changxiao joked, "Look at me, I'll cut off a beautiful lady with one knife." Mei Sanniang's face turned pale, and she felt that it was not right, so she changed her name again and again, and changed it to "firewood tree".

In the end, she had to be beaten again. Li Changxiao really couldn't beat Mei Sanniang. The cook always thought that Li Changxiao enjoyed it and deliberately asked for a beating. In fact, it was Mei Sanniang who enjoyed it.

The cook named it "Wan Cut Fear Winter Tree". He was a sword master, and the name must be related to the knife. He felt satisfied with it and explained the meaning, but was firmly opposed by Li Changxiao. Mei Sanniang also stood on Li Changxiao's side and refused to agree.

In the end, he was so anxious that he named it "firewood tree". It was because this tree neither bore fruit nor was it beautiful. It was the same all year round, as if there was no winter, no autumn, no summer, and no spring. There were neither advantages nor disadvantages.

So he named it "firewood tree". But Li Changxiao suddenly found that the firewood tree bore fruit. He was very surprised. For so many years, he had never seen a firewood tree bear fruit.

He picked up the fruit and continued to chop down. He found that only one or two of the ten trees could bear fruit.

He took a bite. It was sweet and refreshing at first, but when the coolness faded, he became thirsty and his throat was dry. The taste was really bad.

Li Changxiao suddenly realized that there must be a secret hidden in the abnormality, so he studied it seriously and stopped chopping trees blindly. Instead, he picked the red fruits of the firewood trees one by one and stored them in the dream space.

He would study it slowly in the future.

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Li Changxiao returned to the inn, split the dry firewood, stored it in the warehouse, and finally had a rest. When he first came back to the inn, he was determined to make the inn bigger and stronger.

But now he has become a Buddhist, no longer deliberately soliciting customers, just maintaining daily operations and maintaining the original appearance. In fact, at the beginning, Li Changxiao saw that the inn was dead and lifeless, and needed a burst of "prosperity" to clean up everything inside and outside, so as not to make it look like a funeral, which was not auspicious. It was also a way to tell someone that he was back.

Now it is no longer necessary. After all, coming and going in the inn is quiet and cold, and travelers come and go in groups of three or two, rustling and rustling, which is the norm.

The weather was cold, and there were three or two guests sitting in the lobby, warming themselves around the stove. They were all rough men and easy to get along with.

Li Changxiao chatted and joked with a few people. After a few days, the three or two guests left again. After waiting for a while, new people came in...

Li Changxiao didn't know how long he would stay or what he would do. He would always stop somewhere, but he would not stop forever.

While paying attention to the situation in the South China Sea, he seemed to be waiting for someone or something. He couldn't explain it himself. Perhaps, one day, he would suddenly have an idea and leave in a hurry like many passers-by.

He smiled leisurely, not thinking too far ahead. Taking care of flowers and plants every day would help him to accumulate knowledge and sort out his experience.

One day, a man came here carefully according to the old road in his memory. He saw that the inn was still there, and his eyes were filled with shock and regret. He wanted to knock on the door several times, but he didn't dare.

It was Li Changxiao who took the initiative to open the door and recognized who the person was. It was during the war, and the waiter who fled away was a normal human emotion, but his face was not very good.

It turned out that the waiter avoided the war, but also contracted a strange disease, an unclear disease, which had never been cured. Now he happened to pass by here and saw that the Laiqu Inn was still there, so he was moved. He remembered that the innkeeper had a magical power. With a silver needle, all diseases disappeared. So he wanted to ask Li Changxiao to treat him.

Li Changxiao would not really hate the waiter. He readily agreed, gently inserted two needles, and told the other party that the old disease had been completely cured and he could leave.

The waiter was very grateful and bowed out of the inn. In his memory, the innkeeper seemed to be always so easy-going, smiling freely and casually, and not taking anything to heart. He thought to himself: "If the shopkeeper has this medical skill, if he opens a clinic, there will be countless people seeking medical treatment, which will definitely be more promising than opening an inn."

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but think further: "I left him at that time, which was indeed a betrayal, but the shopkeeper still treated me. I think he didn't care about anything, but he treated everyone who came. If I...", he immediately had a bad idea.

After returning, he thought hard and came up with a way to seek personal gain. He began to announce to the public that he knew a miracle doctor, and he could meet him for a thousand gold coins, and all diseases would be cured after meeting him.

At the beginning, there were very few believers, but there were always rich people who "desperately sought medical treatment". An old man in the south, with a rich family and thousands of acres of fertile land, had a strange disease since he was a child. After hearing the rumor, he came to find him.

The waiter was worried, so he blindfolded the old man and went to the inn to find Li Changxiao. Li Changxiao really agreed. He gently pricked the old man with a few silver needles, and all the stubborn and old diseases were cured in an instant. It was really miraculous.

In this way, the waiter's reputation became known, and within a few months, several people really came to see him. The waiter blindfolded the other party and took the people who came to see him to visit Li Changxiao and ask Li Changxiao to treat their illnesses.

Because if the outsiders knew that the so-called miracle doctor was the handsome shopkeeper of the inn, then his way of making money would be cut off.

Li Changxiao saw that they were suffering from diseases and were miserable, and most of them were stubborn and vicious diseases. They had been looking for doctors for a long time but could not get better. It was very pitiful. In addition, he has always been interested in "diseases". Some strange and unusual diseases opened his eyes, so he couldn't help but try to figure out the pathology of them and why people would get "diseases" because of this. What is the essence of "disease"? Although the matter he started was simple, if he thought deeply, wasn't it a series of enlightenment?

He saved the patient, but how could the waiter's thoughts and calculations be hidden from him?

Many of the stubborn diseases were actually incurable according to the laws of nature. But if Li Changxiao cured them, it would be against the constraints of the laws of nature, and bad luck would arise from it. Li Changxiao had endless misfortunes and would not care about this little impact.

But the waiter was different. He used this to seek personal gain. It seemed that he made a lot of money, but it was a business without capital. He indulged in his own intelligence. Little did he know that the price had already been paid in the dark.

He sighed softly and reminded him several times in a vague way. Seeing that the other party still did not wake up, he stopped reminding him in the future. Let the waiter become more and more presumptuous. Soon, the waiter had become a famous rich man in the surrounding area. He was respected as the "Medical Immortal".

His real name is Liu Erniu. He was a farmer who couldn't even find a wife and was bullied. Li Changxiao felt sorry for him and happened to be short of staff in the inn, so he pulled him into the inn and gave him some means of livelihood.

Liu Erniu has accumulated a lot of money in the past few years of going to the inn. The rewards from the business gang and the intentional or unintentional rewards from Li Changxiao on weekdays. Although he is a waiter, his wealth of money is far more than that of ordinary people who go to the fields to farm or even travel far away for business.

Otherwise, if he had no money, how could he dare to move easily during the war? Today, Liu Erniu has risen rapidly. He has not only purchased several large mansions in the city, but also bought more than a dozen shops.

He opened an inn by himself and named it "Qulai Inn". At first, he felt guilty and felt that he had taken advantage of Li Changxiao, so he named it "Qulai Inn" to commemorate Li Changxiao's kindness.

But later, he changed his mind and thought that the smarter a person is, the richer he should be. Although what he did now was based on Li Changxiao, the shopkeeper of Laiqu Inn, it was gained with wisdom.

He no longer had awe in his heart, and with his status in the city gradually rising, he wore luxurious clothes and wore gold and jade on his waist, which was completely different from the Liu Erniu of the past.

He even wanted to do the opposite, buy Li Changxiao's Laiqu Inn, and take Li Changxiao under his command in the future. Not only would he have no worries in his life, but he would also not have to worry about the sudden interruption of this way of making money.

When Liu Erniu thought of this, his heart began to beat fast, and he could no longer suppress this idea, and his breath became rapid. Others may not know, but he knew that Li Changxiao was definitely a treasure, a priceless treasure.

So, he visited Li Changxiao in person, and before leaving, he deliberately changed into coarse linen clothes, knocked on the door of the inn, and tried to persuade him, but was always rejected by Li Changxiao with a light sentence.

Liu Erniu did not give up. He came three more times, but each time he came back empty-handed. When he left for the last time, he looked at the man in white sitting on the chair. The man did not even open his eyes. The moment he entered the door, he skillfully said no.

He could no longer control his anger. His face was extremely ugly. He slammed the door and walked out, but he did not dare to curse loudly. He did not dare to curse loudly until he walked four or five miles and sat in the big green sedan. His face was extremely gloomy.

Little did he know that even if he was ten or twenty miles away, Li Changxiao could hear clearly if he wanted to. Liu Erniu said to himself that since Li Changxiao didn't drink the toast, he would ask him to drink the penalty wine.

So he contacted the government and said that the "Laiqu Inn" was originally named "Qulai Inn" and was founded by Liu Erniu, but a few years ago, the surrounding wars continued and Liu Erniu had no choice but to flee. The outsider Li Changxiao found an opportunity and forcibly occupied the nest.

After the announcement, the surrounding towns really believed it, and the officials dared not offend Liu Erniu. After all, who is not sick? Who can guarantee that they will never ask others for help?

So they really went to Qulai Inn and made it "Qulai Inn", turning black and white upside down. Liu Erniu was very proud of himself and went to see Li Changxiao again as the chief shopkeeper.

No matter how proud Liu Erniu was, Li Changxiao ignored him. Recently, a wounded bird fell into the Laiqu Inn. Li Changxiao carefully bandaged and took care of it. He would tease the bird whenever he was okay. Liu Erniu thought that Li Changxiao was pretending to be calm and left with a sneer.

Not long after, several people came to seek medical treatment. After paying a thousand taels of silver, Liu Erniu blindfolded them and brought them to Li Changxiao's side. Seeing that Li Changxiao still treated them, and the disease was cured by acupuncture, Liu Erniu became more determined. Li Changxiao was under his control.

Liu Erniu was vicious and began to purchase wild animals, including black mountain bears and man-eating tigers, and raised them in large numbers on the mountain roads near the Laiqu Inn. Outsiders were afraid to approach the inn.

Li Changxiao found that there were obviously fewer guests. There were wild animals in the mountains, and everyone was afraid to come. He made a quick calculation and knew who was playing tricks. He was calm and composed, and after a little calculation, he found that Liu Erniu's retribution would come soon.

He didn't care. If Liu Erniu could repent before Li Changxiao ran out of patience, he wouldn't mind helping him. But now, he had already forgotten the old friendship and let him go.

It was from the "wood tree" that Li Changxiao found several red fruits. After pondering for a long time, he gradually figured out a clue.

"Stinky woman, did you expect me to go up the mountain to chop wood?" Li Changxiao cursed with a smile. If his guess was correct, it should be related to Mei Sanniang.