During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a small village at the foot of the Yanshan Mountains, and the village was not large enough to have dozens of households. In the east of the village lives a "barefoot doctor". Everyone calls him Dr. Wang, and on weekdays, he sells some herbal plasters and bruises and liquors for a living. Because of his medical skills, he also got the nickname "Herb King".
The Herb King is easy-going, who has a big affair, he has a helping hand, up to the 80-year-old old sorcerer down to the Yiyi children, see him are extra kind! If your family is sick, the herb king is a must-have, the fee is reasonable, and if the family encounters difficulties, it will be on credit... Therefore, his staff is exceptionally good, and everyone praises the Herb King when it comes to it.
One day, he went up the mountain alone to collect medicine, and this harvest was the sunset on the western mountain, and he hurried back to the sunset, because legend has it that there were wolves in this valley. At that time, the mountain was really an ancient timber wolf forest, overgrown with weeds, surrounded by primeval forests, so the way down the mountain of the "Herb King" was extremely difficult, it was really easy to go up the mountain and it was difficult to go down the mountain! He couldn't help but sigh!
Halfway up the mountainside, it was dark, when a wolf suddenly jumped in front of his eyes, and the "Herb King" was trembling! Terrified, he didn't dare to move, the wolf came tall alone, his eyes were glowing green, his mouth was full of white hair, and his thick tail was straight to the ground.
Only to see that the wolf was holding a small cloth bag in his mouth, approaching him step by step, the Herb King thought to himself, today is probably the fierce Duoji less, only to see the wolf slowly approach him, put down the small cloth bag, and then slowly take a few steps back, as if it did not hurt him, the Herb King bumped the courage to bend down and pick up the cloth bag, opened it, inside it was actually a few pieces of gold jewelry, which surprised him, at this time, the wolf slowly came over, pulled up the corner of the Herb King's clothes and dragged it forward. The Herb King seemed to understand something, and followed the wolf forward to a cave entrance.
The wolf stopped, the "Herb King" was very curious, leaned up and looked into the hole, and found that there was a wolf lying inside, this wolf seemed to be injured, a little dying, the Herb King immediately understood, the wolf's intention was to let him save the wolf, so he quickly took out the herbs, cleaned the wound for the wolf, put on the medicine, and carefully bandaged it, everything was handled properly, the "Herb King" put down the small cloth bag in his hand, turned around and prepared to leave. Unexpectedly, the wolf actually picked up the cloth bag and put it at his feet, and the Herb King understood that this was a little bit of the wolf's intention, so he took the cloth bag and left.
But the strange thing was that he walked in front, and the wolf followed all the way behind, making the herb king's heart fifteen buckets of water, seven up and eight down. In this way, after walking for about half an hour, suddenly several large gray wolves sprang out of the woods. Surrounded the Herb King tightly, at this time, I saw the wolf behind me whimpering at the wolves and roaring loudly, and the wolves clipped their tails, Tara waisted, and obediently walked away with their ears behind their backs, so that the Herb King came down the mountain safely under the protection of the wolf.
The next day, the herb king took these jewelry to the pawnshop to prepare for some money, and as a result, he had just taken out the jewelry, and was taken to the county court by two servants, and it turned out that two days ago, a merchant had been killed, and the property had been robbed, and the hand ornament that the herb king was holding was exactly what the murdered merchant had lost, and the pawnshop had reported it to him! There is also a merchant's self-title on the jewelry, which is really hard evidence. When the county commander saw the hand ornament, he slapped the wood and shouted in unison: Mighty ~ Mighty ~ The water and fire sticks in his hand knocked on the ground and rattled.
This herb king who had seen this battle, two legs like sieves trembling said: "Back to the big lord, these jewels are the ones I saved a wolf, the wolf took the initiative to pay me, the county order was furious after listening to it, pure nonsense, you when I was a three-year-old hairy child, how could the wolf know to take the jewelry to repay you, immediately ordered the herb king to be tortured, (the old saying is good, the shadow of the famous tree, because the herb king helps the poor, the servants are just doing things, or they are not mutilated or injured) The herb king is wronged, So he insisted that the jewelry was indeed given to him by the wolf.
The county order is also very helpless, people are stolen and captured, it is reasonable to say that they should be put into prison, but there are many people in this gate, and everyone uses their lives to guarantee that the herb king is not a person who kills people and oversells the goods, giving him a lot of pressure, and he has heard a little about the person who said the herb king.
Therefore, the county order sent a servant to escort the Herb King Mountain to find the cave in the mouth of the Herb King. Sure enough, he saw the injured wolf again, and the wolf's injury had improved, and the Herb King said to the wolf, "Wolf, wolf!" Now only you can save me, the jewelry you gave me that day caused me to be misunderstood, wronged me and killed people, hurry up and explain, or I will not be able to save my life! As soon as the Herb King's voice fell, he saw the wolf screaming at the sky, and in a few moments, more than a dozen wolves appeared in front of everyone, and one of them ran to the Herb King, bit off the rope that was bound, and then screamed at the Servants, and the Servants saw the situation and quickly fled down the mountain with the Herb King. Back at the county court, the servant told the county lord about the situation, and the county commander also felt that there was something wrong when he heard it, so he temporarily imprisoned the Herb King in a cell, waiting for further investigation.
After a few days, the county order went out to patrol, and suddenly a wolf blocked his way, only to see that the wolf had a shoe in his mouth, the wolf put the shoe on the ground, the county lord ordered someone to put away the shoe, the wolf turned and left, and the county order was confused!
Back at the county court, the county commander looked at the shoe in his hand and murmured, "Wolf, Herb King..." Is this shoe related to the murder of the merchant? The county lord pondered carefully, so he ordered someone to investigate the owner of the shoe, and later through the secret visit of the servant. They heard that a woodcutter had encountered a wolf when he went up the hill to cut firewood, and the wolf did not hurt the woodcutter, but only snatched a shoe, so Mr. Xie hurriedly asked the woodcutter to take him to the county court, and after interrogation, the woodcutter confessed to killing the merchant and robbing the property. It turned out that after the woodcutter killed the merchant, he took all his belongings and went down the mountain in a panic, but unexpectedly lost a small cloth bag on the way down the mountain, but he did not expect that the small cloth bag was picked up by the wolf, in order to repay the herb king's life-saving grace, the wolf gave the cloth bag to the herb king as a reward.
Finally figuring out the ins and outs of the matter, the Herb King is eventually acquitted, while the woodcutter is thrown into death row and waits for the autumn queen to be beheaded.
Wolves know how to be grateful, and for those evil people in human skin, they are not even as good as a wolf...