Angel on earth

In August, most of Potosí is quiet.Farmers weeded silently, children and women stayed at home doing odd jobs, poultry stayed under the sheds and refused to move; in the sporadic newly built factories, the noise seemed sparse.

On the vast hills and plains, the green grass reflects the dazzling sunlight.The flowers that bloom in the morning will shrink into a ball at noon. Weeds are everywhere in the shade of the mountains and by the streams. With pink and purple flowers, small fish wandered among the reeds.There are often animals gathered nearby, and the older children are led by the women to dig wild vegetables. If they are lucky, they can even kill a few wild quail with soil slingshots.

The same goes for Kara Town.This small town belongs to the jurisdiction of Chalek, and there are many scattered villages nearby.Arnold would come here at the beginning of each month, saying it was a vacation; people in Potosí are used to procrastinating, so the end of the month is the busiest time for various jobs, and people often get sick, and when the weather is hot, they will fall drowsily due to heatstroke. This kind of thing often happens. Although Arnold is not very busy, after all, not everyone can afford a doctor, but this weather is enough to go out for a run.There were many bad things in July. Arnold left a patient with a broken leg in a small room next to the living room to be looked after by Katerina, and he rode to the town of Cala in cloudy weather.

Mikhail insisted on following, saying that he wanted to investigate Kozlov's case; the merchants who claimed to have been robbed that morning heard that the mayor and his wife had been killed, so they immediately gave up pursuing responsibility and ran away before Rollins became suspicious. up.

Arnold ran away just to avoid him, and there is no evidence that Mikhail lied to deceive Rollins, because Mikhail had already arrived before he checked into the hotel he usually frequented, and because he stepped on two stairs collapsed Helping people fix it.

"Doctor Edwards!"

Arnold stepped back with half a foot, and before Mikhail could make a sound, someone stopped him.The doctor rolled his eyes, sighed, slapped his forehead, and stretched his retracted legs into the store helplessly.

"Old rule, when the medicinal materials are used up—" Before he could finish speaking, Mikhail blinked his eyes purely.

Sure enough, there was a wooden box full of herbs by the side of the stairs.

The boss happily grabbed the earthenware pot and cup: "The water is not very cool, but it was boiled this morning, and the pitcher and cup were also boiled, and they are all clean. Don't worry, Dr. Arnold Edwards, you have been here So many times, I know the rules!"

Two boxes slammed onto the table.Arnold shook his hands, took a sip of water, tapped on the table, told the patients to wait a while, went to look through a box of herbs brought by Mikhail, and found that they were all useful for him, and there were many others that he had purchased before. Herbs not listed.I really shouldn't show him the medical books in the clinic!

The boss turned around and added: "Give me a shoulder press first, doctor, maybe I'll be more energetic in boiling water!"

Mikhail smiled at Arnold and asked if he needed help.Arnold sighed, and while the boss was serving water to other guests, he gritted his teeth and shouted softly: "His Royal Highness Kupala..."

"I didn't follow you." Mikhail said confidently, "The exorcist sent by the church to purify, brought some herbs for the kind doctor. I'm not lying, I'm indeed the chief exorcist of the church."

Arnold adjusted his glasses: "This is the town of Kara, not the countryside below. I've always heard your name!"

"I'm Misha Ivanovich." Mikhail blinked, and the stars and lightning inside became dimmer, as if hiding behind a cloud, "I'm not lying. The arrival of the Sun Knight will not affect you, will it?"

Arnold glared at him, picked up the box, and went to see a doctor.

Arnold insisted that it was not a free clinic, but it was not far from it.There is no charge for simple massage and massage. If you have money to prescribe medicine, you can pay for it. If you don’t have money, you can give some useful herbal medicine. For Dr. Edwards, any herbal medicine can be used.The only doctor in Kara Town is an old man who has built a coffin for himself and booked a cemetery. The hotel has a steady stream of patients who have been waiting for a long time.Many of them are caused by overwork; some have a little ailment, and seeing that his fees are cheap, they also come to try their luck.Arnold has no problem with this, it's just a minor ailment, and it's good to practice your hands.Besides, in his opinion, taking health checks every once in a while is a matter of course, but more and more people can't afford the money, and the mayors say that people are getting richer every year, which is really strange.

Fortunately, Mikhail really went to the village below to exorcise the demon after repairing the stairs, otherwise the church's property would have cost a lot of church property.Well, if the Sun Knight still needs to make a name for himself, and restore some of the bad reputation he made in the Siegfried Federation, it is not impossible to spend some money to save the town of Kara. Anyway, there will be no changes in other places, at most after he leaves ...

Arnold exhaled, not thinking about him anymore.After Mikhail and Rollins had gone, he also packed up his things and ran away.Yes, give those two idiot knights a leg treatment after they go back, and drive them away early.Arnold Edwards was not incapable of accidentally drowning in the Inns or the Ross, if necessary.

The area around the hotel was bustling with hawkers coming over to sell food and daily necessities. From time to time, someone came with baskets of plants and asked the doctor if they would accept them.The doctor picks and chooses for a while, always buys some, pays a few copper coins, and occasionally takes herbal berries to pay for the treatment.This is a matter of benefiting others and oneself. It is much cheaper to collect herbs directly than to buy from merchants and hawkers. People can also earn some extra money, and women and children will not only get half of their wages.Arnold usually only brought some prepared medicines, and went back when the materials were used up. This time Mikhail brought a box of medicinal materials over in advance, and he was happy to stay a few days longer and stay away from Rollins.

Making up his mind to stay until the next Sunday, Arnold called off work early, gave the hotel owner a silver coin, and told him to prepare an extra serving of bath water every day.As long as the boss can make money, it doesn’t matter if you think the shop is dirty or not, it’s good enough that the doctor is willing to make rounds, and Arnold prescribed the anti-fetal medicine his wife drank.

The next evening, Mikhail returned to the town of Kara.Arnold quickly ended the consultation, pressed his back with one hand and pressed his arm with the other, and forcefully clicked and pulled the last patient. He didn't even care about the three patients who had just been pulled by a bullock cart, and found a reason to go upstairs.The boss gave the bath water winkingly, and then went downstairs to greet the exorcist.Ivanovic, a young, kind and often shy man of Confederate origin, held a very formal prayer for his wife, wishing her a healthy and successful birth this fall.

Mikhail just came back, ate bread and soup, and turned his head to find a way to accommodate the patients who had to sleep in the open because of Dr. Edwards' willfulness.The bread was hard, mixed with bran and grain, and the soup was as salty as if salt was free—the boss always treated the doctor so generously.Mikhail was so hungry that he stuffed food into his stomach in a hurry, ran to the local church to make a fuss, and came back to the doctor angrily.

A face to face, Arnold screamed, cursed a bunch of dirty words, slammed the door, told him to go wash up.

Mikhail raised his sleeve and sniffed it, and immediately let out a disgusted groan.Before he could lift his foot, the door quickly opened again, and a small box fell on him.Arnold Edwards closed the door, furious: "Did you sleep in the pigsty all night, Your Excellency the High Priest? Pigs know how to roll in puddles!"

"No, no, I did some work for someone..." Mikhail tried his best to justify a few words, but there was no answer from the door, so he had to scratch his hair and go to the boss to borrow the bathroom.The boss said that there is water for bathing, but there is no bathroom.Mikhail got used to the blows these days, and walked towards the backyard resignedly.

In the little box was a medicated soap made by the doctor himself.Mikhail wiped his hair and body with it, washed his clothes, and after drying them with spells, he smelled like a doctor.He sniffed here and there, blushing inexplicably.

He thought of Arnold's cold, stiff lips, and the cool air and herbal teas in the clinic.It was supposed to be more of an illusion of hometown than the coldest spring, but Mikhail always felt very hot.

He didn't understand why the doctor said that was wrong, the doctor was avoiding him.This made him very wronged, it was just a kiss, he had seen Richard kiss her lips when he was meeting his beloved girl, and he had also seen Ethan and Beto walk around the girl who grew up together in the narrow alleys of Lieyang City He chattered endlessly, then blushed and hid behind the fence with mottled shadows.

Could it be that what Arnold was doing was the part about going behind the fence?

No, wait, I'm here for a question.He shouldn't have left those poor people out there with no money to spend the night or even to eat.Even if civilians eat two meals a day and bring bread and water, where will they sleep at night?The chapel in Kara town didn't even take people overnight until today, the priest is dereliction of duty, it's time to throw him out.

Mikhail knocked on the door again.Arnold hesitated and opened a crack, sniffing for a long time with his nose up, before letting him in.

"you……"

"I'm afraid of getting dirty." Arnold interrupted, "I can't stand it. It's a personal preference. But in the end, everyone should like to be clean. This is the best way to prevent the epidemic."

"You are not even afraid of lepers."

"Disease and dirt are not the same thing."

Both of them were in a bad mood, and in the end Mikhail changed the subject in a good-tempered manner:

"You got a lot of St. John's wort today."

"Yeah. They make people feel happy." Arnold said dryly, grabbing a handful of golden yellow flowers. "Although not as strong as marijuana, they are also less toxic."

"What are they for?"

"It makes you feel good." Arnold repeated, patted the edge of the bed and sat down, giving the chair to Mikhail. "It makes the unlucky one want to live even more."

"Who doesn't want to live?"

Arnold looked at him blankly, and Mikhail closed his mouth.After a while, the boy softened his voice and begged:

"Arnold, if you want to be angry with me, you should tell me why."

"I told you, you shouldn't do that kind of thing."

"I like you."

"No matter what, you shouldn't kiss... a man."

"It is true that there is no such etiquette in Potosi, but your ancestors belonged to the Kingdom of Baal, so it is very common there..."

"Etiquette, that's etiquette. Misha, did you kiss me twice out of etiquette?"

Mikhail looked at him seriously.He could understand what Arnold meant, but Arnold looked like he wanted him to deny it.

So he smiled brightly: "No. Because I like you. Just like Richard loved his—"

The author says:

Note, John here is a joke.The next chapter will mention the Kupala Festival. In reality, there is a Kupala Festival in Russia. Later, it coincided with the Christian birthday of John the Baptist. It was originally July 815th, but here it was changed to [-], August Festival, and it also exists in reality. , It seems that the social animals are on holiday.St John of the Wort is also John the Baptist.But John in this article is just an ordinary saint, and the Church of the Sun God does not believe in the Trinity.