bookrandom Chapter 393 Zhu Tong and Lei Heng
Chapter 393 Zhu Tong and Lei Heng
"Laifu, Laiwang, come with me for a walk."
"Yes, Master."
Lu Cheng went back to the house, put on his clothes, and hung a jade pendant around his waist. Then he walked out the door with two servants.
Lu Cheng's house has two courtyards, and usually needs someone to clean, chop wood, fetch water, buy supplies, etc. Naturally, there must be a few servants and a housekeeper.
Among these servants, Lai Fu and Lai Wang are considered to be Lu Cheng's long-term followers, and he basically takes them with him whenever he goes out.
After walking out of the alley and not far away, you will arrive at the main road of Yuncheng County.
Yuncheng County is not very big. The two main roads, east-west and north-south, divide the entire city into four areas. The two urban areas in the north are mainly inhabited by wealthy families, landlords, government officials, etc., while the southern urban area is mainly inhabited by ordinary people.
The Lu family's Huichuntang medicine shop is located on the North-South Avenue in the city, not far from the intersection in the city center. The gate faces east and the geographical location is very good.
Lu Chengxian brought two servants to his own medicine shop and saw the shopkeeper Liu sitting beside him, taking the pulse of a patient. The shopkeeper of a medicine shop naturally had to know some medical skills. Although the level of shopkeeper Liu was only average, it was still pretty good in the small Yuncheng County.
In addition, the pharmacy also has some prepared cold medicines, wind-cold medicines, and healing medicines for sale, so business is pretty good.
When the two waiters saw Lu Cheng coming, they quickly stood up and saluted: "Hello, Master."
"Okay, you guys go ahead and do your work, I'll just take a look."
The two assistants were busy with their respective tasks, one grinding the medicine and the other preparing it.
Lu Cheng took a look from the side and saw that the guy was preparing ready-made cold medicine. If you had a cold, you just needed to buy a few packets, boil it at home and drink it, and you would basically be cured.
"Ah Fu, what finished medicines are on sale in our shop? Bring them out for me to see."
"Yes, Master. This is the Fenghanling in our shop, this is the hemostatic gold medicine, this is the swelling and pain relief ointment, and this is..."
Lu Cheng looked at them one by one. He found that these prescriptions were well matched and of their own standard. They could easily treat common diseases.
Afterwards, Lu Cheng checked the medicinal material reserves in the shop, the newly collected medicinal materials, etc.
At this time, Manager Liu also sent away the patient and came to Lu Cheng: "Master, do you have any other instructions?"
"I recently told the drug suppliers to buy more Cuscuta, Cistanche, Morinda, Lycium barbarum, Epimedium, etc. If there are good quality deer antlers, buy some as well. I am going to launch a new finished drug for sale."
"No problem. Master, do you want to make a finished medicine for strengthening yang and replenishing deficiency?"
"Yes, you guys get busy."
"Master, walk slowly."
After leaving his own pharmacy, Lu Cheng took two servants to the market to have a look around and get to know the prices at that time.
Nowadays, the daily income of ordinary people is between a few dozen and 100 wen. If you go to a restaurant with three or two friends and order a few side dishes and have a few drinks, it will cost about wen.
In the original play, Yun Ge'er, who sold pears by carrying a basket, could earn thirty or fifty cents a day, which was enough to support him and his old father.
Wu Dalang's sesame cake business should be better, otherwise he would not be able to support Wu Song, a strong man who practices martial arts.
After buying a few pancakes on the street, Lu Cheng took two servants into a restaurant and ordered a fried fish, a roast chicken, a plate of mutton, and two vegetarian dishes. Lu Cheng sat by the window and started eating.
While eating, Lu Cheng also listened to the people in the restaurant talking about various news. Some were talking about how the two captains of the county government had dealt with a few hooligans, some were talking about what kind of figure had appeared in a nearby county, and some were talking about which daughter-in-law couldn't stand the loneliness and hung out with others, etc.
Gossip is human nature and has been so since ancient times.
At this moment, Lu Cheng suddenly heard a group of guests at a table not far away talking about something: "Have you heard about it? A group of bandits have recently gathered on Liangshan Marsh and are causing a lot of trouble. The leader seems to be called Wang Lun, a scholar in white."
"Hey, I heard about it too. It is said that there are hundreds of minions on Liangshan Mountain now, with three leaders. The local county government and Dongping Prefecture have sent troops to encircle and suppress them many times, but they have not been able to capture Liangshan Mountain."
"Liangshan has 800 miles of water, it's not that easy to attack."
"The world is getting more and more chaotic. There are strong men everywhere who want to cut off the road and block the way."
"That's right. There are still big insects in the forest. I heard that there is a big insect in Yangjia Town, 20 to 30 miles to the north. It has eaten seven or eight people."
"These days, it's better for us to go out less."
"Isn't Lei Dutou of our county government known as the Winged Tiger? I just wonder how he compares to a real giant insect."
"In my opinion, it's still a long way off."
"Keep your voice down, don't let anyone hear."
"Yes, yes, yes. We can't see the tiger, but the winged tiger can come to our door at any time."
As they were talking, they heard the waiter's voice from below: "Captains, you are here. Please come in."
When the people upstairs heard this, they immediately fell silent and dared not talk about the two captains anymore.
A moment later, two men dressed in the uniform of yamen runners came up the stairs. The first one was tall and strong, with a face as red as a date, a long beard down to his chest, and eyes as bright as stars. He looked like Guan Yu in the legend. He was none other than Zhu Tong, the head of the cavalry of Yuncheng County, the man with a beautiful beard.
The man following behind him had a dark red face, a strong back and thick arms. He was none other than the county's infantry captain, Lei Heng, the Winged Tiger.
Lu Cheng just took a quick glance and estimated that the man with the beautiful beard, Zhu Tong, was about 2.05 meters tall.
It was recorded in the original book that Zhu Tong was eight feet four or five feet tall.
Judging from Zhu Tong's height, the standard of eight feet four and five should be based on the Eastern Han Dynasty standard. One foot is approximately 1 centimeters in later generations.
It is said that the author of Water Margin borrowed many characters from the Three Kingdoms period and used the measurement units of the Three Kingdoms period when creating this story.
Maybe, this is really the case.
One jin in the Eastern Han Dynasty is about 224 grams in later generations. Five hundred jin is equivalent to 224 jin in later generations, or 112 kilograms.
Some heavyweight weightlifting champions in later generations were able to lift more than 200 kilograms.
If calculated this way, Wu Song's ability to lift a 500-jin stone is considered within the normal range.
But Wu Song in the original work was able to throw the 500-jin stone more than ten feet into the air, and then catch it and drop it steadily to the ground. This was definitely beyond the scope of a normal human being.
Thinking of this, Lu Cheng couldn't wait to fight with the masters of this world and test his own level.
Thinking of this, Lu Cheng looked at Zhu Tong and Lei Heng who had just come up from the opposite side, stood up, smiled and bowed: "Two captains, it's rare to meet you in this restaurant today, would you like to sit down and have a drink together?"
The two looked at Lu Cheng, and Lei Heng agreed directly: "So you are the young master of Huichun Hall. Since someone is treating us, we brothers will certainly not be polite."
"Both of you are welcome. Waiter, please bring two more sets of bowls and chopsticks, a few more side dishes, and two jars of good wine."
"Okay, Master Lu, please wait a moment."
"My dear captains, I like to wield spears and sticks at home. I have heard that you two are well-known figures in Yuncheng County. I have always wanted to make friends with you, but I have never had the opportunity. Today, I happened to meet you. I would like to toast you two."
"Mr. Lu is too polite. Please come in."
Although Lu Cheng's family only had one medicine shop, and was not considered outstanding among the wealthy families in the entire Yuncheng County, these yamen runners and gangsters were often involved in fights and killings, and were injured and bleeding. They were still willing to make friends with doctors who worked in clinics and opened clinics and medicine shops.