After the harsh winter, it is another spring. For Iz, however, the seasons are no different, just as they are yesterday and tomorrow. The affairs that need to be dealt with involve more and more areas, and the number of scribes under his command is increasing, although the daily medicine is the same, but he feels more and more bitter, and the daily walk of more than half an hour is becoming more and more boring.

Because of the bad relationship with Xin Yan, the Dajing official government was secretly fanning the flames behind his back, and the transmission of news became very unsmooth. Yi Cui hadn't received a letter from Lao Wu for three months, and he didn't even know where Gu Chaoge was, let alone what she was doing.

Obviously, Yan Zhao was trying his best to reduce the work at hand, but Yi Cui added tasks to himself. He doesn't want to be idle, because when he is idle, he is easy to think too much, and if he thinks too much, he will feel that time passes very slowly, and it is unbearable.

This is not because his work is meaningless, on the contrary, all the affairs he handles are extremely important to the Red Turban Army, and Yi Cui is an indispensable and important role in the stability of the rear and the supply of the army. But this feeling of no one to share made him feel very lonely, Gu Chaoge seemed to have disappeared completely, without any news, as if this person had never existed.

Itri sometimes wondered if he knew that one day she would quit her duties as the chief medical officer and travel west alone to find that hopeless secret technique for him, he might not have rejected her that night in Yangzhou. The unclear feeling of whether she was alive or dead was unpleasant, and the distant ominous predictions were nothing compared to the real panic caused by her absence.

Since Chu Dongyuan knew the truth about his junior sister's departure, it was not for himself but for Yi Cui, and every time he came to Yi Cui to confirm the supplies, he stretched his face. Especially after learning that even Yi Cui hadn't received news from Gu Chaoge for a long time, Chu Dongyuan's face stinked even more.

"Top secret, burn it after reading it." Another day, Chu Dongyuan came in the dust, and the heavy armor collided with the sound of metal before walking, and he slapped Yan Zhao's secret order on Yi Cui's table, and said in a deep voice. Yi Cui took it and saw that it was Xin Yan's army plan, and as discussed, there were a large number of sailors to play an important role on the battlefield, and the plan was sketchy, with the focus on special requirements for supplies. After reading it, he burned it with a lamp, and glanced up at Chu Dongyuan: "Got it." ”

"Do you understand the location of the battle," Chu Dongyuan made a calm face, "The news you received three months ago is that the little tear pack is in the Huguang area, right?" ”

That's where they're encroaching on this time.

Yi Cui was slightly distracted: "Lao Wu said that there is nothing they are looking for, they have continued to the west, and they will not be affected by this war." ”

Chu Dongyuan snorted coldly: "It's better not to." He gave Yi Cui a cold look: "If she can't come back safely, I'll kill you." Yu Ba stood up with his sword, turned around and left.

Yi Tremo rubbed his right knee, which seemed to have lost some of his feelings recently, and looked at the back of Chu Dongyuan's striding meteor away, and a deep disgust for himself suddenly struck. He envied Chu Dongyuan for being able to go to Huguang to fight, and if Gu Chaoge was still there, they might have a chance to meet again. And he can only sit behind his desk forever, using pen and ink to review official duties that can never be completed, and he can't even see her when he is thousands of miles away.

"Ahh

Someone in the deep mountains suddenly sneezed again, and Lao Wu glanced at her: "Nose is uncomfortable?" Spring pollen is sometimes tormenting pinching. ”

"It's fine." Gu Chaoge rubbed his nose and looked at the east side of the mountain forest, according to the agreement of the past few months, today is the day when Ah Yan came to get medicine. The road in the mountains is not easy to walk, they must give the medicine to Ah Yan when the sun is up, and then walk down the mountain quickly, trying to leave before dark, otherwise it will be very difficult. According to the past situation, Ah Yan should have been waiting here early, but today......

"Why hasn't Ah Yan come yet?" Gu Chaoge muttered to himself: "I shouldn't be in any trouble, right?" She was worried. Now she and Lao Wu live in a small town at the foot of the mountain, there are only about 100 households in the town, and it is difficult for Lao Wu to even send a letter out, but Gu Chaoge is very popular in the town because of his good medical skills. But about the secret art of the village in the mountains, few people in the town know about it, if the only connection with the secret art, the child Ah Yan suddenly does not come one day, or even no longer appears, then Gu Chaoge really doesn't know what to do.

Fortunately, her worries were unwarranted this time. It wasn't long before there was a rustling sound in the woods, but this time it was much louder than ever.

"There are others!" Lao Wu subconsciously touched the firewood knife behind his waist.

Ah Yan poked his head out of the bush first, and after several months of no longer growing taller, he had gradually adapted to his current body, moving nimbly to push away the branches. He was followed by an adult with a swarthy face wrapped in a turban, and seeing Lao Wu holding a firewood knife, Ah Yan hurriedly explained: "Sister Gu, Uncle Wu, don't be afraid, this is, this is my father." ”

In other words, this kid finally brought the patriarch?!

Gu Chaoge was happy in his heart, but on the surface, he tried to pretend to be quiet and even vigilant. This is really difficult for her, who can't act, at most she can be expressionless: "Ah Yan, what are you bringing your father for?" ”

"I'm here to thank you two for your help." The patriarch called Ah Yan's Yi clan name, Gu Chaoge couldn't understand it, but although the patriarch's salute to her and Uncle Wu was strange, he could understand the meaning of gratitude.

"The person who can lift the curse of the mountain god must be a person sent by God to save my clan, and I want to invite you to our village as a guest," the patriarch directly explained his intention directly, not polite, he touched Ah Yan's head lovingly, and said with a smile, "Please also ask Doctor Gu to continue to heal him, so that he can serve the mountain god for a long life." ”

"Serving the mountain gods?" Lao Wu was stunned, Gu Chaoge didn't understand the meaning of this sentence, but he could guess: "What do you mean, if Ah Yan doesn't have a curse, will he inherit the position of Great Witch in the future?" ”

The patriarch smiled and said, "Exactly. If the two of you can completely cure Ah Yan's illness, I can also implore the Great Witch to continue to impart knowledge to Ah Yan, so that he can teach him to be a qualified Great Witch. ”

Ah Yan lowered his head and muttered: "Da Wu's skills are nothing more than that, I want to learn from Sister Gu even more......"

“%￥&！” The patriarch called him by his Yi clan name and rebuked him.

Ah Yan turned his head away unwillingly.

"If Ah Yan wants to learn, I can teach him, as long as the Great Witch doesn't mind," Gu Chaoge smiled slightly, "Since the Heaven has taught me the method of lifting the curse, I have the obligation to teach Ah Yan, after all, he is the future Great Witch." ”

It's not heaven, it's recorded in Wen Yidao's codex, ah, she's lying again! Gu Chaoge tried to widen her smile so that her eyes would narrow even more and prevent the patriarch from discovering the weakness in her eyes.

"Do you want to pass this method on to Ah Yan? Thank you so much! The patriarch saluted Gu Chaoge again: "Please accept my invitation and go to our village as guests!" ”

Of course I will, I've been waiting for months! Gu Chaoge's eyes were shining and nodded again and again: "Ah Yan's illness ...... Uh, the curse will take a long time to be removed, we stay a few more days, will the patriarch mind? ”

"No, of course not! I'll make room for you! ”

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The enthusiasm and simplicity of the patriarch confirmed Lao Wu's guess in his heart, this village is not large, about the same size as the town under the mountain, occasionally going down the mountain to sell prey and buy supplies, or have some intermarriage with other cottages, and the rest of the time he stays in his own village happily. On the whole, the people in this village are very talkative, but ...... The living conditions are very, very average.

Even if the patriarch vacated the best house of their family for Gu Chaoge to live in, the space built under the house was used to raise pigs and cattle, and there was no way to change this. The smell of pig dung and cow dung and urine, as well as the cries from time to time, made Lao Wu feel that he was back in his childhood. I think that he lived in this kind of house where people and animals lived together, so he couldn't wait to run down the mountain after reading a few pages of notes, and used the way of giving life and death sentences everywhere to make a living, mix up a little money, save money, and live in a clean house with no peculiar smell and no pigs and cows in the same house!

Thinking that this time I don't know how long I will live in the cottage, and the task of delivering a letter to Lord Yi is once again far away, Lao Wu thinks about his less and less pension money, and silently sheds two lasagna tears in his heart. Especially when he saw Gu Chaoge, who was in peace, he felt even more sad: "Girl, do you really want to live in this place?" ”

"Or else? I'm looking forward to the Great Witch Sect Ah Yan's secret arts, this kind of secret art is generally not passed on to outsiders, and the Great Witch will definitely not teach us, but I can learn from Ah Yan! Gu Chaoge's eyes were shining, and she held her face expectantly: "I really hope to know what method it is, and when I learn it, I can go back to save Brother Yi!" ”

"You should bring Lord Yi to live in this place for a while, and let him know how much hardship you have endured to succeed," Lao Wu took a puff of dry tobacco weakly, with a loveless expression on his face, "Otherwise, Lord Yi will think that you went out to play and easily got the secret art, alas, I don't know how to cherish it." ”

Lao Wu sighed with a headless emotion, and Gu Chaoge comforted him in turn: "Uncle Wu, if you think about the smell in the small town, the smell of the wounded barracks, those rotten maggot meat, and the blood mixed with mud and sand, it is even more disgusting when summer comes." If you think about the environment here, you will feel much more comfortable! ”

"Sister Gu has seen the soldier's injuries?" A head popped out of the doorway, and Ah Yan stood barefoot on the board made of bamboo rows, and asked curiously, "What kind of situation is that?" ”

"Without your secret technique, you can only rip off the carrion and wait for it to grow slowly, if the injured person is not in good health, it is likely to die of fever." Gu Chaoge explained to him while gesturing: "There are many such medical cases, if Ah Yan wants to hear it, I can talk about it for a day!" ”

"Really?" Ah Yan's eyes were shining, but his father came over, patted his head to stop him from continuing to ask, and saluted Gu Chaoge: "Miss Gu, our great witch wants to see you." ”

The Great Witch wants to see her?!

Gu Chaoge suddenly became nervous, she tidied up her dress, did not dare to carry a bamboo box cage with a knife and needle, and followed the patriarch to the residence of the Great Witch with bare hands. Although Lao Wu would wait outside, she couldn't help but think of all kinds of terrifying scenes of sacrificing the living. Fortunately, Ah Yan held her hand and comforted her all the way, and the people in the village she met along the way greeted her kindly to the patriarch.

Gu Chaoge's nervousness reached its peak the moment she walked into Da Wu's house, until she smelled the familiar smell of cow dung and pig dung.

Like the patriarch's house, the Great Witch's house is friendly and "in harmony with the animals".

The Great Witch was a skinny old man with a dark complexion, wrinkled skin, hands spread like dried corpses, white hair wrapped in a turban, and a gray beard. He was wearing an unknown beast bone necklace around his neck, holding a tortoise shell in his hand, as if he had just completed a divination, when the patriarch brought Gu Chaoge in, the big witch had words in his mouth, and then slowly turned around, his closed eyelids opened suddenly, a pair of shining eyes stared at Gu Chaoge, and suddenly shouted: "Where did you come from, you dare to go against the will of the mountain god!" ”

Gu Chaoge was stunned.

The patriarch was also stunned, and he quickly talked to Dawu in the local dialect of the Yi tribe, trying to tell Dawu that this girl was sent by heaven to save Ah Yan. But the Great Witch suddenly stood up and pointed a witch wand made of beast leg bones at Gu Chaoge, intending to knock her on the head: "Get out, evil thing, demagogic evil thing!" The mountain gods will punish us for this! ”

Ah Yan stretched out his arms and stopped in front of Gu Chaoge to prevent Da Wu from beating her. Gu Chaoge saw the atrophied but still powerful muscles on the arm exposed by the Great Witch, and took a step back cautiously, she thought that this Great Witch's malice towards herself could not be eliminated, after all, her arrival would rob him of his "business".

Since we can't coexist peacefully, let's see who is better.

Gu Chaoge took a deep breath and clumsily saluted the Great Witch with the etiquette of the newly learned village, she said gently: "Saving all those who are in suffering, this is the original intention of God to give me this skill, since it is such a good deed as saving people, why would God punish it?" She put her hand on Ah Yan's shoulder, looked at the child with the greatest benevolence and kindness she could, and smiled, "No matter what, I will save this child, and this is also God's original intention for me to meet him." ”

"What kind of evil god would ignore the will of the mountain god and save people who shouldn't be saved at will! He must bear the wrath of the mountain god on his people! Da Wu waved his bones and excitedly refuted Gu Chaoge's words, and Gu Chaoge took two steps in the direction of the patriarch to seek protection. Ah Yan looked at his father at a loss: "Abba, I didn't do anything wrong, why should I be cursed by the mountain god......"

The patriarch's face was very unsightly.

"I think Dawu should be tired today." The patriarch said this, he took Ah Yan and Gu Chaoge out of Da Wu's residence, Gu Chaoge glanced back before leaving, and Da Wu stared at her with a vicious gaze. She was stunned, her eyes rolled, and she suddenly grabbed the patriarch's arm, and cried in panic: "Is the Great Witch trying to kill me!" His eyes are so terrifying! I just want to save Ah Yan, I don't have any malicious intent! "Thank you for being so easy to tear out.

The patriarch subconsciously looked back because of her actions, and happened to see the malicious eyes of the great witch who didn't have time to take it back, and the tears that Gu Chaoge shed when he said it made the big witch's actions look more like a bad person, and the patriarch's face became very unsightly: "Doctor Gu is my guest, it's not that there have been no Han doctors in the village, they are very good to our people, and Miss Gu is the same, I hope that the big witch will not be confused by evil things, and misjudge the good and bad people." ”

Da Wu lowered his eyes and spoke in a low voice: "%~@#&*#@......" Gu Chaoge didn't understand, but Ah Yan later quietly told her, which was like a curse.

"Then Ah Yan wants to protect me," Gu Chaoge said with a smile, "Ah Yan is the future Great Witch, so he must not be afraid of the curse of the Great Witch or something." ”

"Of course!" Ah Yan clenched his fists: "I will definitely protect Sister Gu!" ”

Gu Chaoge smiled and churned, not expecting that Ah Yan would soon fulfill his promise.