Chapter 9: The Cholera Mind
Su Huihui listened to Lord Zhizhou's shouting, and just had some clues, but a pair of soap boots flashed in front of him. Her gaze slowly moved upward, and she saw a guard with a wooden face and said clearly:
"This doctor, Lord Governor, please do your best to treat Lord Wang, come with us. Behind him, a man was carrying Zhizhou out of the door.
Su Hui suddenly felt that it was not good, they didn't want to kill it! The hand that hit the scabbard just now was still aching, and there was a lot of uproar in the shed, and no one noticed the guard's rapid movements. The Governor's eyes were really sharp...... Of course, it is also possible that the subordinates have made their own claims.
The guard saw that she hesitated for a long time and frowned, "Please leave quickly, the doctor." ”
Su Hui smiled and said, "This, I still have some tools in the residence, you can ......"
"I'll go get it for you, Doctor Su will go over first, it's important to save people, if there are not enough people over there, I can still take one." Chen Hua suddenly interrupted her, nodded at her, and said, "Is this okay?"
The guard looked at her suspiciously, "Yes, I'll go with you." ”
Su Huihui didn't speak, she followed behind the guards, and walked away quickly. When she passed by the doorway, the man in the scarlet coat was still standing in that position, and she pretended not to see it, and lowered her head and drifted past him like the wind. After walking far, she dared to glance back like a thief, and this glance just caught the man's smiling eyes.
Su Hui turned his head stiffly, only to realize that he was not smiling at Lord Zhizhou, who was still breathing.
She felt that she was going to be as unlucky as Lord Zhizhou.
*
Ye Gong walked into the county gate with sweat in his eyes, and ordered the master to bring him the tea he had just bought yesterday. Master Xu had already asked people to wait aside with tea cans, and persuaded:
"Don't be anxious, I think that at this time, the governor is busy stabilizing the hearts of the people, where is there any leisure to worry about the stories of our people. ”
Ye Gong glared stubbornly, and his two mustaches blew up: "What do you know? Even if we can work in a small county town, we can also work as a governor! Do you really think this is a treasure of feng shui?"
Master Xu hurriedly said: "Lord Zhizhou is sick now, and the governor has to be sympathetic to his subordinates, and his affairs are even busier. ”
Ye Gongzhi didn't want to look at him anymore, bypassing the ring stele in the Yimen, and swept to the eight big characters of "The people are easy to abuse, and the heavens are difficult to bully", and his heart was cold again. Although he also has the right right to divide the Zhili, he only lives in the province on weekdays, and is the most low-key of a big man, what wind blows him out of the water, and he has to patrol this cholera-ridden place again before returning to the hospital after the examination.
Walking through the lobby, through the hall, and all the way to the back hall, the magistrate's legs were a little weak.
The black-clothed guards with swords in the back hall stood solemnly, Ye Gongzhi recognized this as Jin Wuwei from the tooth card, and only guarded the capital on weekdays, and His Majesty sent a special army to protect the governor, which shows that his identity is extremely important. He swallowed, cautiously stepped into the threshold, and said to the master:
"The lower officials see the governor, the adults have been tired of traveling to my Zou Yuan, and the lower officials have not been able to meet me from afar, which is really panicking. ”
He waited for a while, but no one answered.
Ye Gongzhi's face turned pale, so he knelt on the ground, and he didn't dare to get up, and the master book behind him did the same.
There was silence in the hall, he gritted his teeth and endured it for a while, and finally said in a low voice: "The lower official is derelict in his duties, please punish him." ”
The faint thousand-step incense flowed out of the ivory incense tube, like the fragrance of water, and one person chuckled:
"If the official wants to blame Lord Ye, there is no way to find a reason. After waiting for so long, why don't you get up?"
Ye Gong held a seven-grade county order, and he didn't even have the right to intervene in front of the third-grade governor, and the other party said that the adults had been promoted too much, so where could they not be sued. He lowered his head and arranged his clothes, stood up respectfully, took the tea set from the master's hand, and personally served tea to the governor.
The governor did not object, Zhi Yi looked at the tense movements of the county order, and his mirror-like clear eyes could not reflect a trace of affection.
The tea was full, and Ye Gong retreated to his original position, silent. This made the lord go abroad for nine years, and now he was fortunate to see him when he returned to the capital, but he was so young that he was more cautious, for fear that he would offend this promising deputy envoy for a while.
Ling Jieyu said lightly: "Lord Ye has a heart. However, it is better for this tea lord to keep it for himself, and His Majesty has been checking it tightly recently, and the official has to take it seriously. ”
The blue-shirted chief standing beside him neatly handed back the blue and white jar wrapped in silver cloth to Master Xu, Ye Gong was stunned, and said for a long time: "This ...... It's the negligence of the lower officials, damn it. ”
Ling Jieyu held the lid in his right hand to skim off the foam, and turned the small and delicate white porcelain cup. Looking at the untouched Qingbi tea soup still in the cup, he said slowly: "This official can't let Lord Ye also understand it. ”
Ye Gongzhi was startled and panicked at first, and was completely stunned after listening to what he said. After taking out a delicate locket, Ye Gongzhi's hairs stood up all over his body, God knows what was inside, this governor was a person who couldn't guess, they were afraid of this kind of peak who couldn't figure out their minds as a petty official.
He opened the box very carefully with a look in his eyes, and a trace of elegant and sparse fragrance suddenly jumped to the tip of his nose. The jade-colored incense bottle is only three inches, with a thin neck and a wide belly, cracks like ice floe opening, the old plum Shuzhi, the workmanship glaze is extremely precious, and a delicate spoon is attached. Ye Gong glanced at the bottle with a light on the spot, and suddenly couldn't hold the box steadily--the thin slices were as white as ice, and only dipterocarp worth a thousand gold was made like this on the market, but how could dipterocarp be used by anyone? The two big words "kill" popped up in his mind for the first time.
Ling Jieyu pressed his knuckles against his chin and said with a smile: "There is no need to shirk Jingxu, this official has never cared about these things outside his body." ”
Ye Gong listened to him call himself to express his words, looked at his demeanor, thought about it secretly, and suddenly felt that his heart was a little bright. He hesitated and said, "Lord Meng is favored by the governor, and the official is ...... Xia Guan is really worried about the safety of adults, Zou Yuan is now poor mountains and bad waters, people are not living, even if adults love the people like children, they also need to take care of their noble bodies, and there will be more places to rely on people in the future. ”
Ling Jieyu knocked on the table twice, and his voice turned cold: "Lord Ye is giving an order to expel guests? Wang Zhizhou is still unconscious, what is the purpose of Lord Ye being in such a hurry to drive the official away?"
Ye Gongzhi knelt down with a puff while holding the box, and said tremblingly: "My lord, my lord misunderstood, the lower official has no other intentions, the adult came from afar to be a guest and a master, and the lower official served the lord well, so he should be a guest and serve the lord." ”
Ling Jieyu smiled slightly, "The more the strange Dao grade, the more spiritual it is, it originally refers to a mouth." Anyway, Lord Ye is kind enough to understand that it is not only the mouth but also the ......" voice stopped, and his slender fingers were gently raised, facing the sweaty head of the county order.
Ye Gongzhi couldn't think deeply at this time, he was a little weak, his mind surged violently, and when the chaos gradually dispersed, the seven orifices suddenly opened, and he said happily: "Xia Guan understands." ”
Jieyu was satisfied with the crimson sleeves of his shirt, and his bright fingertips were hidden under the folds of his clothes.
"How are the doctors from the capital settled?"
Ye Gongzhi immediately knelt down: "The lower officials don't dare to slack off, the elderly doctors don't have to run errands when they live in the monastery, and the others have arranged for Zhou Quan's room, which is very close to the nursing room." ”
Ling Jieyu seemed to be pondering for a moment, waved his sleeves and retreated, the door of the hall squeaked shut, and Ye Gong's heart rose again.
"That's very good. The gate of the back hall of the county needs to be repaired, and the official directly took the twelve taels of floating purple to the tea market and sold it in exchange for some silver money and the adults to renovate the house. ”
Ye Gongzhi knelt down and took two steps, "There is nothing special on the table in our county, and the lower officials heard that Nan'an produced this tea, so they ordered someone to buy it. ”
Ling Jieyu saw that he was not ashamed, and smiled more and more sincerely: "Can you know Guan Yiwu's advice?"
Ye Gongzhi replied like a stream: "Gong Zhi thinks that Huan Gong is evil purple, and the country is not purple, and the merchant who sells purple clothes is also Qi Min, and he should also be blessed by the lord of the country." ”
Ling Jieyu nodded, "This official has been taught." ”
He stood up from the chair, the peacock pattern on his scarlet robe was shining, Ye Gong looked up at his long figure, although his heart was beating, but he warned himself that he must not avoid looking.
Ling Jieyu walked around behind the county commander and said indifferently: "Lord Ye, there are no outsiders at the moment, can you hand over the roster to this official?"
Ye Gongzhi kept a little more eyes on it, and said with a forced smile: "What do you say, the lower officials are the most subtle people. ”
Ling Jieyu said: "This official still has a booklet here, you can see if there are any omissions." ”
Ye Gong's hand in front of his abdomen was released, and he slowly picked up the black corner of the exquisite cuff, and his palms were full of sweat.
After this booklet was soaked in liquid, the font was revealed, it was Wang Huai's handwriting, he turned the pages one by one, suddenly his fingers stopped in one place, his mind suddenly realized, and raised his face to see the coat of arms of the governor of the three products, he could only sigh that Wang Huai's fate could not be eliminated, and it was not enough for him to plug his teeth with a county order, so don't be a pawn across the river.
"Lord Ye, Wang Zhizhou has his own plans, and this official must have an explanation when he returns to Beijing, even if he wants to protect him, he can't do it. ”
Ye Gongzhi was born in the same Jinshi, and it was Wang Huai who arranged him to a middle county in his own prefecture, or he would still be guilty in the southwest prison of the poor mountains and rivers. Six or seven days ago, Wang Huai came to Zou Yuan in the name of investigating the cholera shape shì and gave him a roster privately. Since ancient times, there has been a custom among officials that the income other than the income is recorded, and the people who come and go are also written on paper, all with special ink. Wang Huai has always been low-key, and he has no dealings with him on the surface, but secretly he has helped him contact many like-minded people, Zhizhou put the booklet here for him, only saying that he avoids the limelight, and he can't attract much attention from a small county. The epidemic affairs were too tense, and now that he knew that Wang Huai's private name and surname were discovered by the governor, he couldn't help but feel 120,000 points of his heart.
Ye Gongzhi bowed down again, "Gongzhi understands." I only hope that the governor will be more forgiving, and I am grateful for it. "The roster is like a hot potato to him, the sooner he throws it away, the better, he decided to dispose of it to the governor in the evening, as for Lord Zhizhou, he really can't do anything.
Ling Jieyu said with a smile: "It's good that Jingxu knows that this official is saving you." Today's closed-door talk, Ye Zhixian knew the general situation, and told the official about Shangfeng's greed for ink to the emperor, and His Majesty was deeply pleased. ”
Ye Gong was silent.
He slowly approached the incense tube on the wooden frame, dialed the slender cannula, and the light in the room was draped on the hollow landscape bamboo leaves, and the ivory carving immediately showed a soft texture.
"With this official's actions, His Royal Highness King Yue must be very satisfied. ”
*
Su warmed up on the round stool like a pin.
There are few people in the entire mansion, and the warm pavilion of the main house is only guarded by two guards, and the face of Zhizhou on the bed is bloodless. When Su Huihui entered the door, he thought that he had traveled west with a crane, but after a while, the medicine box was delivered, and Chen Hua was nowhere to be seen. She opened it and counted it carefully, everything was there, and after a sigh of relief, she became worried again.
She uncovered an ordinary-looking bottle, and while wearing silk gloves, she poured the white powder inside into a tiny silver bottle she had taken out of her sleeve. Qin Yu always asked her to bring something and put it on her body, she was troublesome, but now she feels that it is useful. She walked around the room several times, even checking the beams, and found that no one else was staring. The defense is too loose, and I don't know what they think, do they expect her to not be able to slip out or do they think that she sneaks out and two people are enough to solve it?
She really doesn't know whether to treat this half-dead Lord Zhizhou now, and it is likely that she is just making a show when she comes in, and she looks very good, and the tools are complete, but Su Huihui feels that if she treats it seriously, she will have to lie down and go out. She began to complain that the trembling and cold adult on the bed happened to fall in front of her, and she was destined to commit Tai Sui today, and it was not suitable for her to travel.
She dangled in the warm pavilion and no one cared, thinking that they should have been extinguished a long time ago, and the soldiers were clean and neat, and it was possible that their masters in red robes had other arrangements, or their mentality was very bad.
Su Huihui made a decision and lifted the bed curtain to make a look.
Zhizhou Ma's face was distorted, his eyes were blue, and his lips were purple, and she slowly touched the pulse of his right wrist. There would never be a scabbard that popped out of the way this time, and she pressed it with satisfaction.
Zhizhou's eyes opened suddenly, Su Huihui was so frightened that he immediately let go and took two steps back, only to see his mouth squirm once or twice, as if he was about to say something.
Su Huihui immediately made a decision, quickly plugged his unreassuring mouth with the quilt, and looked at the pair of mung bean eyes coldly and blinked.
Since the person woke up, it was not good to make him faint again, so she asked with a pleasant face, "How do you feel?...... If you can't speak, it's a bad feeling. The folk girl will take your pulse, don't move. She took out a silver needle and shook it in the air.
Zhizhou didn't move, his eyes cleared, and he looked at her anxiously and pleadingly, and his mouth made a whining sound. Su Huihui made a silent gesture and pulled out the quilt, and Zhizhou was really quiet.
Su Huihui stared at him closely, the guards who sent him knew that he didn't faint to the end, he expected that the governor and his party would put him to death, but he didn't expect to send a doctor over and treat her as a life-saving straw.
Wang Huai really didn't faint completely.
He heard the sound of talking and footsteps coming back and forth, and the man had not come near, and just as his wrist was cold, he used all his strength to open his eyes and open his mouth, and wanted to tell the physician to tell the outsider that he had important documents to hand over to the governor. Only when he got out of the darkness did not have a good brain, he did not consider whether the female doctor would be able to get out of this room alive, or if she would come to give him a ride.
He struggled and said intermittently, "...... I, I want to see the governor......"
Su Huihui was waiting for his words, and ran outside the warm pavilion: "Someone is coming, Lord Zhizhou wants to see the governor, it will be difficult to be later!"
The two guards were still guarding, and one of them knocked on the melon seeds, spit out the shell and said, "Got it." ”
Su Huihui was stunned for a moment, and suddenly became confused, what kind of attitude did he have! What did she want to say more?
Another guard glanced at her obliquely and said, "Lord Ling, let the doctor not worry, Lord Wang will wake up when he wakes up, and we won't embarrass the doctor." ”
Su Hui was silent, she couldn't remember if the two guards were in the shack at the time, maybe they weren't there, but she didn't want to take the risk.
The guards continued to knock on the melon seeds, treating the mansion as their own yard.
She felt that these guards didn't seem to be Fuzhou guards, and the soldiers in the guards were either too strict or too relaxed, these two people didn't have waist cards, and their behavior was too casual, but they spoke and did things very tacitly, recalling the row of black-clothed soldiers in the ward, all of them were well-trained, like they were specially designed to open the way for the big guys. And to prevent her from saving a governor, unless Fuzhou Wei has been rebellious, this leisurely appearance really can't be reminiscent of those two words.
Su Huihui asked tentatively: "Two, Lord Zhizhou needs to take medicine in time, I will write the prescription and hand it to you, can I go out to breathe again?"
The guard smiled, "The doctor can go out and take a breath now." He turned his head and chatted with his companion.
Su Huihui returned to the warm pavilion, regardless of Zhizhou's flickering eyes, a wild grass, and handed the paper to the guards who ate melon seeds in less than half a cup of tea.
The guard waved his hand, and did not go outside to inform, and said idly: "Go and come back quickly." ”
Su Hui warmed her heart and walked to the door step by step, there was no one at the door, and her left hand shrunk into her sleeve.