4. Chapter 4
"Yes," the girl nodded stunned for a long time before realizing that something was wrong, "How does Childe know that my surname is Gu?" I don't know you, who are you? ”
Six years ago, she was a little girl, and Itsuri was just a teenager who hadn't changed her voice, and six years of change in appearance was enough for her not to recognize Itsuri. And Itsuri didn't want to discuss the history of the escape with her in front of everyone, so he just smiled at her slightly, he smiled softly and beautifully, but he didn't have the will to solve any of her doubts.
On the contrary, Zuo Da made himself clever and said for him: "There is nothing that we Nanqiao don't know about Yi Gongzi!" ”
"Release!" The fat boy of the Ji Zetang family shook his big left arm fiercely, and snorted heavily at the little girl Gu with his nostrils: "Yi Gongzi is here to be a witness, if I am still alive and well in three hours, this kind of female hooligan who is deceived and abducted, and ask Yi Gongzi to drive her out of Nanqiao!" ”
Yi Cui understood that Sun Xiaopang of Ji Zetang was afraid that if she really had good medical skills, she would rob their business if she didn't take money. And with the half-level of his reading of a few medical skills, he really couldn't see how this ruddy-faced little fat could die three hours later.
However, remembering her strange and evil appearance when she met this girl, Yi Cui still asked cautiously: "Are you sure that you are in good health and do not need to see a doctor?" ”
"Of course not!" The fat boy said decisively. As soon as the words fell, he felt that someone was pulling his sleeve, and when he turned around, it was a female liar with a sad face: "You, you believe me." ”
"Let go!" Who is happy to be in good health but let people use the knife, this woman is sick! He didn't think about it, flicked his sleeves, made a farewell salute to Yi Cui, and swaggered away.
Leaving Miss Gu, who was at a loss, stood in place, not knowing whether it was better to chase after her and continue to beg for disgust, or to stay here to see a doctor. However, after this incident, the people who watched the excitement had gone all the way, and no one wanted to seek medical treatment from her, a "liar" who would cut off life and death at the exit.
Seeing this, Yi Cui smiled at her and threw out a temptation: "If Miss Gu is fine, you might as well go back to the county office with me and wait for three hours." If you want to find someone, it is also more convenient to look through the household registration documents of the county office. ”
County office? Is this good-looking son a county official?
Oh, I almost forgot, this place is not under the government's control. However, along the way, it is the best order after the rebellion in Nanqiao, unlike Shi Wei's white spear army, which burns and loots, and knows how to bully the people. So, I guess this boy is not a bad person.
"But just now the man ......," she was still thinking about the fat boy.
"He figured it out, and he will come to the county office to find you." Itsuri blamed her.
"He must come to me." Miss Gu was completely confused by Yi Cui's gentle and harmless appearance, and knew that she was really powerless at the moment, so she nodded very obediently, lifted the bamboo box cage on the ground, said goodbye to Zuo Da, and obediently followed Yi Cui's ox cart in the direction of the county office. Zuo Da originally wanted to stop her and ask her if she still wanted to find the craftsman Zheng, but seeing that she was also following the ox cart step by step, she knocked on the door of her head, and the heart Taoist was taken away by Yi Gongzi, what did she worry about? So he smiled, turned around and left.
On this side, Yi Cui was bowing his head and asking her: "Under Yi Cui, take the liberty of asking what is the girl's surname?" Why did you come to Nanqiao alone? "Dajing's discipline of women is relaxed, if it is a peaceful world, although her behavior is rare but not surprising, but now it is not a peaceful world.
"My surname is Gu, my name is Chaoge, and I am a bell doctor," she pulled out an old brass bell from her sleeve to prove her identity, and then said truthfully, "I heard that there is a craftsman Zheng in the Nanqiao area who is good at making fine objects, and I want to ask him to make a set of silver needles for me." ”
"Doctor Bell?" Yi Cui felt even more strange: "You have been a bell doctor for a few years, and there is no one at home, so you let a girl be a bell doctor." "Hand cranked string bells, walked through the streets and alleys, diagnosed and treated ordinary people, coming and going in the wind and rain, both hard and shabby, it was the largest number of doctors but the lowest status.
"It's been five years," Gu Chaoge counted with his fingers very seriously, "After my master died, I lived alone, and Doctor Ling can earn food and save people, what's wrong?" ”
I don't feel the danger of being alone.
Yi Cui looked at her and smiled: "The girl's blessing must be great. ”
Gu Chaoge didn't know why he suddenly said this, but obviously this sentence made her very happy: "My master said that as long as you are a doctor who is dedicated to doing good, your luck will never be too bad. As he spoke, a flock of birds flew in the sky, and a black mass fell with precision, and a lump of black and white bird droppings suddenly appeared on Itsu's white-washed robe.
Gu Chaoge's expression suddenly went blank, and she sneered: "But it seems that the luck of the son is not very good......
Itri smiled, didn't answer, and calmly wiped it off with a handkerchief. The odds of this kind of thing are small, but it's not impossible, and it's not surprising that he's encountered them once in a while.
At this moment, Sheng San, who was driving, said: "Childe, it's time to the county office." He jumped out of the carriage, took the cane for Yi Cui and handed it over, Ah Huang Tong mooed twice humanely, and bowed down, and the ox cart slowly fell forward, so that Sheng San could help Yi Cui get out of the car.
Watching Yi Cui, who was on crutches, get out of the car with great difficulty, turn around, and walk slowly towards him, Gu Chaoge's eyes widened, and he realized that this good-looking son had a disability.
No wonder he was pale and out of breath when he spoke. If your legs and feet are inconvenient, you must be negligent in exercising, and your health must be bad.
She hesitated for a moment and asked worriedly: "Young Master Yi, can I give you a number and pulse?" ”
Yi Cui straightened the cuffs that were accidentally turned up because of the activity, looked up at her and smiled politely: "No need, Yi Mou's body, I know it myself." If she finishes her pulse, she will say, "I'm afraid you won't live for three months", so that Yan Zhao knows that he has to turn the sky upside down.
"Oh."
If you don't look at it, it's unbearable. Gu Chaoge quickly glanced at him again, looking at his face, thinking that this person's anger was still relatively strong, and if he didn't show her, there would probably be no problem for a while...... Yes.
Alas, if only the Master were here. She thought to herself, chagrined. I am always so soft, I always listen to the patient, and what the patient says is what it is. If it weren't for the fact that human life was at stake, with her courage, she wouldn't dare to pester the fat boy like just now, although in the end people still didn't listen to her.
The people in the county town have big ideas and a good temper, and she really likes the poor countryside where there is a lack of medical treatment, and the villagers there are very obedient.
Alas, to put it mildly, it's still useless for yourself.
Yi Cui didn't know what she was thinking, and when he saw her head down and was silent, he thought she was upset. Xindao is really a young girl, after learning a few medical books, she thinks she can rejuvenate her hands and be invincible in the world, so everyone has to listen to her?
Even when he arrived at the county office, he had no intention of talking to her about what happened six years ago for the time being. Because of his legs, that experience was the last thing he wanted to mention, and Gu Chaoge's behavior was strange and the origin was unknown, Yi Cui always looked at people with twelve points of caution, thinking that it was not too late to talk about the past after observing her for a few days and confirming her identity. What Yi Cui values at present is whether she really has superior medical skills, so after entering the county government, he asked the little official to take her to look through the household register, and to deal with the affairs accumulated in the past few days, waiting for her "three hours" assertion to come true or fail.
He was waiting to see a good show with seven points of doubt in his heart. When the sun was setting, the two new magistrates who had just entered the county government ran in panting: "Young Master Yi, the eldest son of the Ji Zetang family, really, really out of breath!" The shopkeeper of Ji Zetang, who carried his son's body and was going to the county office, said that he was going to beat the drum and complain, and accused the woman of killing his son with medicine! ”
Really dead?
Yi Cui stopped writing and looked at the sky outside, and a little interest gradually appeared on his face. As for sadness, there is no such thing, it doesn't matter if he is hard-hearted and cold-hearted, it was Sun Xiaopang's own choice of death, and no one forced him.
"Let Shopkeeper Sun come to the back hall, there is no need to beat any drums, there is no county official here, there is no need for these flower shelves," he pushed the wooden wheels on both sides of the chair and slowly walked around to the table, "Inform that Gu girl to go over with you." ”
The lawyer took a breath and said: "No need to inform, Miss Gu doesn't know when she ran to the door of Ji Zetang to probe her brain, and was caught by Shopkeeper Sun, and came to the county office together!" ”
Yi Cui was slightly stunned, guessing that she ran away because she was worried about Xiaopang, but it seems that instead of trusting her, the Sun family beat her up and wanted to frame her.
Things are similar to what Yi Cui guessed, the shopkeeper Sun is conceited of his medical skills, and when he saw his son falling, he naturally wanted to treat his son personally, and even asked the servants to use sticks to drive Gu Chaoge outside the door as far away as possible. However, his medical skills were really limited, and he didn't have time to use medicine, so Xiaopang rolled his eyes and whimpered. Maybe Shopkeeper Sun knew in his heart how his son died, and instead of reflecting on himself, he blamed Gu Chaoge for not saving him when he saw death, so he said that Gu Chaoge poisoned and murdered his son when he was diagnosing his pulse, and he wanted to make her get into trouble to relieve her anger.
He didn't know that his "trouble-seeking" was exactly what Itsuri wanted. He thinks that this girl has great ability, and she wants to do good deeds but causes a commotion, so she must be angry, and she will definitely debate with the shopkeeper Sun in court, so that he can also debate to see if her medical foundation is deep, and whether she can tell the cause of Sun Xiaopang's death clearly.
Who knew that Gu Chaoge's reaction was unexpected.
She was caught like a chicken by Shopkeeper Sun into the back hall, and the lawyer stepped forward to ask Shopkeeper Sun's guy to let her go. She looked down and saw that the center of the hall was a corpse covered with a white cloth, and the shopkeeper Sun was unwilling, and glared at her with four or five men, her little face was white, and she hid behind a pillar with a swish, refusing to come out.
She seemed to be frightened by this battle, and while wiping her tears, she muttered over and over: "I want to save him, I really didn't poison him." ”
"If you don't poison it, how can my healthy son be killed, or within the time you predicted, the king of Hades will never be so accurate!"
Shopkeeper Sun was pressing step by step, Gu Chaoge was unable to support it, the whole line was defeated, and the situation on the field was completely one-sided towards Shopkeeper Sun. In the end, even the lawyer standing on the side couldn't stand the shopkeeper Sun's bullying of the little girl, and persuaded her: "Miss Gu, you have to defend your innocence, so that Yi Gongzi can judge right and wrong." ”
"Justification?" Gu Chaoge wiped a handful of tears, sniffed, and looked up timidly at Yi Cui who was sitting on the upper seat.
See what I'm for, and I can't defend you. Did he look at people this time?
Yi Cui simply hated that iron could not become steel, and he just wanted to hold his forehead and sigh, and secretly said to the woman in the world.
But sighing, he still wanted to help her, so he raised his hand to signal the shopkeeper Sun to silence him, and said to her gently: "Miss Gu, if you insist that you are not poisoned, then tell the shopkeeper Sun how his son died suddenly." "Actually, he wanted to say that otherwise you would have to go to prison, but looking at this girl's eyes that were as red as rabbits, such a threat against his will, Yi Cui couldn't say it anyway.
This time, Gu Chaoge thought for a moment, and finally nodded. She wiped away a handful of tears and turned to find something out of the bamboo cage. By this time her expression had calmed down considerably, and she stood up, hesitated, and walked away from the pillar where she was hiding, and walked to the front of the hall.
Yi Cui thought she would open her mouth to debate with Shopkeeper Sun.
But she made an astonishing move - she squatted in front of the little fat corpse brought by the shopkeeper Sun, uncovered the white cloth, and removed the corpse's robe.
Everyone didn't know what she was going to do, so they were all stunned.
I saw that in addition to her outer robe, she took off her inner clothes and pressed them on the chubby belly. Shopkeeper Sun was intimidated by Yi Cui's presence, so he didn't dare to stop him at first, but when he saw a girl's family touching his son's corpse, he felt weird, and he finally couldn't help but step forward and stop: "What do you want to do, don't touch my son!" He wanted to go up and push her away, but he felt a sudden cold light flash in front of him, and before he realized what was happening, he saw a big hole in his son's stomach, and the smell of blood and a disgusting stench came to his face!
Yi Cui was dumbfounded, he watched Gu Chao singer rise and fall, disemboweling the dead little fat, regardless of the fishy smell, he dared to reach out and take out a piece of intestines from it!
For a while, in Yi Cui's mind, Gu Chaoge's image completely coincided with the little girl who was in the mass grave six years ago, and the memory of thinking that he was a ghost came to his mind, and he suddenly felt a chill on his back, and his cold hair stood on end.
He no longer dared to think that the girl had traveled alone by mere blessing.