When the last rays of dusk fade, it means the end of another day, the late autumn wind blows with a bone-chilling air, and the gloomy sky means that there will be rain tonight.

Sitting in his wooden wheelchair with both legs dipped in hot water, Itsui bent over and carefully massaged the acupuncture points on his right foot with his own hands, one after the other, slowly. This is the method that Gu Chaoge taught him before leaving, out of that ridiculous dignity, Yi Cui is reluctant to let other doctors take over Gu Chaoge's work, and not every doctor has the same level of acupuncture as her, such as Zhou De, he has lived most of his life and has never touched a silver needle.

So she taught him how to massage the acupoints on his feet and legs in order, or use moxa sticks to smoke moxibustion, and left a prescription of tonifying and nourishing qi with an added or subtracted amount, telling him to take the medicine on time.

"However, the prescription should be adjusted in a timely manner according to the patient's physical condition, and after I leave, you ...... Alas, I don't worry about any doctor in Chuzhou City. Remembering that she was writing under the lamp, the dim candlelight reflecting her frowning little face, she bit the tip of her pen and pondered for a moment, and finally the weight of the prescription was slightly reduced.

"This recipe, if you take it for a long time, it should not be a big problem. But you must stick to it for a long time, and give up halfway, the effect will not be great! When she handed him the recipe, her expression was very serious. According to the usual practice, she had to write a proposal and give it to him, but when she finished writing it, she was worried that he would not care at all, and finally let the treasure's discussion style disappear in the pile of files, and when she came back and asked him for it, he couldn't take it out at all. So after she finished writing, she folded and folded and put it away herself.

Thinking of the time when she was angry with him and had to think about him, the tangled little expression, the corners of Yi Cui's mouth couldn't help but hook, and the more she thought about it, the more interesting it became.

Such an interesting little girl, how could he not like her in the first place and think she was very annoying?

"Tuk-tuk." The knock on the door interrupted Yi Cui's thoughts, and it was Sheng San, who brought a message from Song Wuyi, informing Yi Cui that Gu Chaoge appeared in Changxing a month ago, and this was the last time the Red Turban Army learned of her whereabouts.

To the south, it is the lawless Liukou area, and further south, it is Zhang Suiming's territory. Song Wuyi did not receive any news about Gu Chaoge in this month.

She vanished.

The smile on Itsu's face slowly retracted, this was something that had been expected for a long time, and now it was just a real thing.

"Got it, let Lord Song not bother anymore." He turned his head and glanced at the Zhao'an order from the Dajing Mansion that was pressed on the desk, and knew in his heart that it was an eventful time, and he should not waste manpower on this kind of matter.

The city of Chuzhou in late autumn is still relatively calm, but an invisible storm is already brewing.

And where is Gu Chaoge at this time?

She is in the deep mountains and old forests, and when she fights, this is the safest place.

Being able to pass through so many messy places and be unscathed indirectly proves that our Chaoge's ability to recognize the way & perceive danger & survive in the wild is not ordinarily strong.

Before leaving Changxing, she tried to stay in the mass grave, but the local security ruled by the Red Turban Army was too good, and the local people would report to the local soldiers when they found that the mass grave was lit up at night!

At this time, Itri's sign came in handy, and the leaders of the soldiers took the sign and looked at her suspiciously, so that she shook from head to toe before letting her go, and ordering her to leave the place as soon as possible.

Damn, how can the Red Turban Army be different from the rebels in other places, everyone only burns, kills and loots, why do they still care about local security!

It must have been Yi Cui who asked them to do this, he just cares about this kind of trivial thing, Gu Chaoge secretly cursed in his heart that there were insects on the vegetable leaves that Yi Gongzi ate, and then left the territory of the Red Turban Army very depressed.

As she walked southeast, she would see some villages at first, and she would stay in them, visit the farmer's family, and ask if there was a bell doctor nearby who was good at treating trauma or leg ailments, or local remedies that were good for leg ailments. She always remembered Yi Cui's legs, but unfortunately what disappointed her was that there were a lot of earthwork, but none of them were specifically for Yi Cui's special situation.

This kind of thing can't come in a hurry, she knows, many times it depends on fate.

But the further southeast you go, the worse it gets. She saw many burned villages, the houses were pitch black, half of them had collapsed, some of the smoke had not yet dispersed, and she could smell the smell of burnt meat when she got closer.

That's the taste of human flesh.

Gu Chaoge would not go to this kind of place to look for the body. She is very experienced, and knows that in chaotic places, there are often multiple bandits and thieves who are intertwined, and they will fight over women, money, and territory, and the losing side often runs away, not caring about burying the corpses of their companions, even if they think about it afterwards and go back to find that they have lost one or two corpses, they only think that they have been taken away by wild wolves, and they will not care.

The donkey she took away from Chuzhou was really a good helper for carrying corpses. With food and water, she hid in the woods to find a narrow cave where she could hide alone, and then she could slowly study a corpse for days on end. No one will disturb her, but when she is unlucky, there will be hyenas and even wild wolves following the smell of blood, she buried many traps in front of the cave according to the way taught by the old hunter, lit bonfires all night long, and erected snowy knives, and the wild wolves who got the corpses knew how to accept them when they saw them, and only the greedy hyenas did not know how to flee if they did not see blood.

It's strange, maybe she's been alone for too long, she's not afraid of wild beasts, but she's afraid of people.

There was no need for such trouble before, Gu Chaoge, who had followed the master to dissect many corpses, was familiar with this. Only this time the situation was very special, she had to complete the last and most difficult part of Master's notebook - the human brain.

There are no organs and bones that are more complex than the human brain. When Master was alive, she was the most obsessed with this part, she was young at that time, she didn't understand, and asked Master what was the use of studying these things, she would only be regarded as a psychopath and a monster.

At that time, the master touched her head and said with a smile: "Is it useless to know us ourselves?" Even if you can't see the benefits now, it will always be useful to leave it to future generations. ”

Master is a strange old man, she used to think so and still does, but no matter what, she has to complete this notebook that collects Master's life's work.

The skull is the hardest part of the human body. The knife that Zheng Lin built was more like a saw, shaving the hair, exposing the scalp, cutting it, and using the knife saw to see it back and forth, little by little, slowly, until the skull was sawed open.

The smell of bone chips made Gu Chaoge want to vomit with nausea.

Yes, even she felt that craniotomy was a very difficult thing to do. She needed a lot of effort to saw it slowly, and when she sawed open the skull, the bone chips fluttered everywhere, just like its owner, who had done all kinds of evil in his life, attached his soul to it, and surrounded Gu Chaoge with a gloomy gaze in all directions, abusing her, cursing her, and destroying her head with such a vicious method, leaving herself dead.

Once, Gu Chao singer shook, the knife saw slipped, and cut his finger very deeply.

It hurts, her tears are falling down, and she looks at the half-sawed head, the sunken eyes on the skull staring blankly in her direction. As soon as the knife saw was released from her hand, she suddenly felt scared, scared, and aggrieved, and she cried aggrieved. There were bursts of birds in the mountains and forests, but there was no voice, she shrank in the corner of the cave, clutching the sign given by Yi Cui tightly, knowing that it was useless now, but holding it, she would have an inexplicable sense of security, as if Yi Cui was by her side.

It was a very difficult time, so much so that for a long time afterward, she sealed up all her knives and instruments and put them on the shelf. When he saw the corpse, he recited a sentence of Amitabha Buddha from afar, and then walked away quickly.

Even after many years, she was still afraid to hear the sound of sawing wood, and she never wanted to smell the peculiar smell of bone chips again.

In late autumn and winter, when the snow fell, she couldn't stay in the mountains, so she went to Zhang Suiming's territory, which was her second visit. In Changzhou, in Yangzhou, business is done here, wine is drunk, songs are sung, a paradise scene, as long as there is money, nothing is a problem. It was only when I occasionally glanced out of the window and saw drunken soldiers punching and kicking the ragged beggars, laughing at them, that I realized that people who did not have money here could not live.

The proprietress of the inn gave birth to a difficult birth the year before last, and she helped deliver it. When she came to the inn, she was shabby and poor, like a little beggar begging for food, but fortunately the proprietress still recognized her, and in order to thank her, she refused to charge her accommodation fee anyway. She rarely went out, always staying in the inn room, completing the Master's notes little by little.

Once, the proprietress came to bring her a meal in person, and the proprietress was curious about what she was doing in the room every day, and then said hesitantly: "Our big family in Yangzhou, the eldest lady Wei Tong, is said to be evil these days, and I have invited a lot of Taoist priests and doctors or something, do you want to try it?" The reward can be high! ”

"So many doctors can't see it well, and I'm sure I can't either." Gu Chaoge replied in a low voice. After thanking the proprietress for the meal, she turned around and closed the door, continuing to complete her notes that must not be seen, otherwise the proprietress would have said that she was possessed by a monster and would draw such a thing.

Yangzhou City is not as good as the territory of the Red Turban Army, the soldiers here are very fierce, the rich families are colluding with Zhang Suiming's army, the famous Wei family she has also heard, the legend is that the hands and eyes are up to the sky. For the sake of her life, for the sake of prudence, she should not go, the Wei family is wealthy, no better than those poor villagers, and she will definitely be able to invite a good doctor.

Gu Chaoge had only been in Yangzhou City for a month, and when she left, she heard that Miss Wei's evil disease was still not cured, and the bounty had been raised again, so the proprietress tried her best to try her luck. She was afraid that if she didn't leave, the proprietress would enthusiastically hand her over to the Wei family, so she packed her bags and left quickly, and then plunged into the mountains again.

Even though the craniotomy was done many times, the structure of the human brain was so complex that she could draw a rough outline, but she could not understand the role of each of them, leaving blanks in some places, so she could only try her luck with a few more corpses. If it doesn't work, then she can only give up, this is a matter of personal ability, and Master Jiuquan can't blame her.

The footsteps of spring soon spread to both sides of the Yangtze River, the spring flowers bloomed, and the breath in the mountains became warm. Gu Chaoge stumbled and barely completed the last part of the notebook, digging a pit and burying the bodies of several bandits, kowtowing to them with incense, and thanking these heinous guys for their "contributions" after their deaths.

It is said that the world is full of fragrant flowers in April, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple are in full bloom. When the birds in the mountains are singing and the flowers are fragrant, it is already late spring at the bottom of the mountain, Gu Chaoge is dirty and smelly in the mountains, even if she has bathed in the mountain spring and lost her clothes full of corpse smell, she can't hide her "beggar" smell.

But she didn't care at all, just like this, walking on the road like this, so that there would be no bandits, bandits, or officers and soldiers to rob.

But today, her luck doesn't seem to be good.

"Jun Ye, Jun Ye, it's her, catch her, she's the witch who eats people!"

Someone shouted in a panic, and Gu Chaoge looked curiously in the direction of the sound. I saw a farmer with a hoe and a leg of mud, his eyes widened, and he stretched out his hand and pointed in her direction: "It's her, it's her, I saw her eating human brains with my own eyes!" ”

Next to him, there were two big men who were obviously not dressed as Dajing officers and soldiers, and they looked in her direction with murderous expressions.

No, it's not her "direction", it's her that's what they're looking at!

Gu Chaoge chuckled in his heart, turned over on the donkey, and flicked the whip.

"Run, donkey!"