Finally, Ran'er still fell ill.

If it weren't really difficult to persevere, Ran'er wouldn't have agreed with Ge Zhuang and Yao Yuan to send her back to Liuqingcheng, a hundred miles.

Ran'er, who lived in the inn and was helpless, although he had money on him, he really didn't have the strength to go out to invite Langzhong, so he could only beg the innkeeper.

The innkeeper was a middle-aged man in his forties who looked very shrewd. As soon as he heard that Ran'er was sick, he sent the shopkeeper outside to invite the last Lang Zhong in Liu Qingcheng without saying a word.

Originally, as soon as Ran'er's master and servant came in, from Ran'er's demeanor and dress, the shopkeeper felt that this girl was unusual. Although I can't say what is unusual, I always feel that there is a power in the girl that makes it difficult for others to blaspheme.

After Lang Medium finished his pulse, he asked Ran Er a few more words before saying:

"Miss is worried inside, and she feels cold outside, so she leads to a rise in fire and disharmony in her spleen and stomach. Although it is not a serious illness, it needs the cooperation of the lady. To open your mind, think more about everything, and then supplement it with the help of medicinal stones, and you will definitely recover as before in about half a month. ”

"Thank you, doctor."

As he spoke, Ran Er took out a small piece of loose silver taels from a small handkerchief she carried, and did not weigh it, but estimated that there should be about one or two, and handed it to Lang Zhongquan as a consultation fee.

"More, more, not so much. Miss waited, waited for me to prescribe medicine, and then paid for the consultation before it was too late. ”

The shopkeeper had already prepared a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and Lang Zhong quickly wrote down a prescription and handed it to Ran'er for a look, and then handed it to the shopkeeper. Ran'er gave the shopkeeper two or two silver and asked him to help catch the medicine. Lang Zhong then collected about three dollars of silver for the consultation fee, and said goodbye and left.

After Lang Zhong and the shopkeeper left, the shopkeeper came to Ran'er's room and asked affectionately if there was any other need. Ran Er thought about it, and wanted to buy a girl to serve herself, but the key was to wait for Guan Zhongping to take over, if her body was difficult to persevere, she would be able to replace herself, but Ran Er finally dispelled this idea. It's not that I don't want to buy it, it's that I won't buy it until Ge Zhuang and the others come back. Otherwise, it is not a good thing for a girl's family to be rich outside.

"Uncle, I'm really causing trouble for my uncle. When my carriage returns, I will pay more. ”

The young lady spoke like this, and she was out of sight. Who hasn't had a time when there are three disasters and two evils, let alone going out? I just feel like you're a girl, and the accent seems to be southerner, so why go all the way to this desolate place? ”

"Uncle, let's not hide it, my brother was conscripted into the army, and some time ago I sent back the news that he was seriously injured, because his parents are old, and there is no one else in the family, so I have to come to pick up my brother and return to his hometown to recuperate."

Hearing what Ran'er said, there was a beginning and an end, and the shopkeeper didn't want to have him, so he nodded and believed it.

The second child in the store bought back the herbs, fried them, and after Ran'er took them, he really saw a light on his body.

It's just that if you want Ran'er to let go of the worries about Guan Zhongping in her heart, I'm afraid you can't.

Living alone in this strange place, Ran'er is very careful, especially at night, and rarely sleeps without hesitation. Always sleep and wake up, and a lot of the time it's more sleep during the day. In this way, although Lang Zhong's prescription was very effective, Ran Er was concerned about Guan Zhongping, who was seriously injured and unconscious, and Ge Zhuang and Yao Yuan, who went to pick him up. In addition, I didn't dare to sleep at night, and my condition lingered, and there was no obvious improvement after five or six days.

When that Lang Zhong came to the inn again to check Ran'er's pulse, he couldn't help but sigh lightly:

"Child, what is there in your heart that you can't let go, why can't you let go so much, and you don't even care about your body? You must know that the body is the capital of a qiē, even if the things you are concerned about have a result when the time comes, but your body can't survive, isn't it still empty? ”

The reason is very clear, but he can't let go of the pipe in his heart.

At the same time, Ran'er always feels that something bad will happen recently, and Ran'er has always trusted her instincts very much.

After changing the prescription again, and telling Ran Er a few words again, Lang Zhong shook his head and took the consultation fee and left.

That night, the small city of Liu Qingcheng was besieged.

Some say that it was stragglers who retreated from the front line, some say that it was bandits in the vicinity, and some say that it was a surprise attack carried out by the enemy in the north. It's just that it's dark in the middle of the night, and the people besieging Liu Qingcheng outside didn't take the initiative to reveal their identities, so everyone in the city just guessed randomly.

It's not that there are no soldiers to defend the city, it's just that there are too few people. Looking at the posture of the besiegers, they were preparing to attack after dawn. Therefore, the county magistrate in Liuqing City, as well as the generals of the garrison army, began to mobilize the young and middle-aged people in the city overnight to assist the garrison army on the city wall to defend the city.

Even the shopkeeper in the inn was called away.

Frightened by this sudden news, she sweated profusely, and her condition improved a lot. I can barely get dressed and walk around the yard.

What shocked Ran'er was not that Liu Qingcheng was besieged and her own safety was threatened, but that she was worried about the identity of the people besieging the city. If it is a straggler, or an enemy in the north, then it is not good news for Ran'er, which means that the front must be defeated again. In that case, whether it was Ge Zhuang and Yao Yuan, who went to take over Zhongping, or Guan Zhongping, who was seriously injured and unconscious, they would be in danger.

If there are only bandits and bandits outside the city, then you can rest easy.

In the conversation with the innkeeper, Ran Er learned that because of the proximity to the border pass, there are indeed many bandits and bandits nearby, and as for whether they are bandits outside the city, they can only wait for dawn to know the details.

Liu Qingcheng was besieged after midnight, and there were still more than two hours until dawn. Under the persuasion of the innkeeper, Ran'er went back to her room and lay down for a while, until news came at dawn that the people outside the city were indeed bandits and bandits nearby, and Ran'er slept with confidence.

However, when he woke up around four o'clock, he could hear the sound of fighting outside the city in the inn. I couldn't help getting dressed and getting out of bed, and came to find the shopkeeper to inquire about the situation.

"Alas, in the past, most of these unauthorized bandits came and went like the wind, and if they could not attack in an hour or two, they would have withdrawn long ago. I don't know why, this time, he put on a posture of not giving up if he didn't come in. ”

"Uncle, aren't they just bandits?"

"There were wounded people who were carried down from the city wall just now, I asked, and it seems that there are a lot of stragglers mixed in."

This news made Ran'er's heart tighten, if this is the case, the front-line war will definitely not be good.

Ran'er was very hesitant at this time, thinking about going to the city wall to take a look, after all, she was a girl's family. But if you don't go, you really can't rest assured. In case Liu Qingcheng is breached, the first person to suffer is probably a weak woman like herself.

What to do?