- The handmaidens couldn't laugh anymore, but the handmaid who had a gloomy look in the laughter of everyone just now laughed at this time. She didn't smile very brightly, but the corners of her mouth moved like a twitch, and although she was smiling, the anger in her eyes seemed to be heavier.

It was only because she was at the back of all the maidservants that no one noticed the smile in the corner of her eyes that was worse than a curse.

The smile was only faint, and it was calm.

Whether it was a few maidservants who came to the dining room to clean up the tables and plates, or the two guards guarding outside, they were all in their hearts at this time, but the matters of the two sides of people's hard work and sadness were a little different.

The guard Shanliang came to look for Lin Shan, because Liao Shi took a step ahead just now, and when he ran into him at the gate of the residence, he handed him something and asked him to pass it on. This was not an urgent matter, but to Shan Liang's surprise, after only a few moments, several of the main characters in the residence were gone.

The guard who slapped Shan Liang just now, after listening to Shan Liang's report, thought about it: "Although the people in this place are still relatively simple and peaceful, exceptions are not excluded. You take my waist card and call a few people to the west of the town to look for it. ”

Shan Liang took the waist card and said hesitantly: "If Lord Lin really went out of the town to send the old pharmacist, how can you be sure that you are going to the west?" We don't know where the old pharmacist's ancestor mountain gate is. ”

The guard who was asked by him explained: "It is impossible to go north, there are almost no deep mountains and forests there, and it is almost to the wild goose realm, and the old medicine master will not go there when he returns to the mountain gate, so only the other three sides are left." I'll go to find Jiang Chao, and I'll go to the east and south to look for it, so you don't have to worry about it. ”

Shan Liang nodded and went.

Just when the guards in Lin Shan's residence were all facing a dark cloud on their heads, and they were calling the whole team to prepare to go out of the town to find someone, the two people they were looking for had already left the stone archway at the entrance of the town. Two horses and a couple of men galloped at a moderate pace on the unrepaired dirt road at the exit of the town, their hooves moving in unison, kicking up a cloud of smoke.

This road did not go far, and the two men turned into a mountain pass.

It is not quite accurate to say that these two men rode horses to climb the mountain. Because the "mountain" climbed by the two horses can only be described as a mound. The mountain is not steep, and the sparse trees on the mountain are comparable to the top of the head of a middle-aged man who gives thanks to life. Horses in the north have long been accustomed to this kind of sparse mountain forest, and can run wild in it almost without hindrance, as if walking on the ground.

However, Lin Shan and Chen Jiu did not continue to walk on the dirt road, but carried the reins to the mountain on horseback, the main reason was that they had caught up with the footsteps of Liao Shi and Yan Xingzhi.

On the top of the mountain, a man and a woman on horseback on the mountain watched from afar as the old man and the young man walking on foot on the dirt road down the mountain, and the speed of the horse was also slower to the same pace. In this way, the four of them walked on two parallel lines, one high and one low, hundreds of meters away.

The slender old man walking on the dirt road carried a bamboo basket for collecting medicine behind his back. A belt around his neck that frames a medicine box like a necklace. Because it was filled with no less than forty-three small medicine bottles, it was quite a heavy medicine chest. At this time, it was like a large jewel pendant at the front of the necklace, bouncing on his sunken chest as he walked step by step.

The old man's thin shoulders were still hung with the strip of braised dried pork slices, and the tail of the jacket hung the old gourd that was fifty years old wine, and it was also "walking" on his crotch.

Liao Shi threw all the weight on Yan Xingzhi's body onto his shoulders, which were not strong.

Yan Xingzhi, the only grandson of Yan Guang, the doctor of the Taiyi Bureau, walked beside Liao Shi. He was very close. The vision of the two people walking on horseback on the mountain was slightly blurred, and Yan Xingzhi's hand was placed under the medicine basket behind Liao Shi's back, as if he wanted to use his hand to support it as much as possible to help Liao Shi lose some weight.

The three years of living in the north are the years of Yan Xingzhi's growth, and the eating environment with more meat and less vegetables has made this young man who was as tall as Liao Shi when he came here, and now he has grown to the height of Liao Shi's forehead on his shoulders.

In order to support the medicine basket that was on Liao Shi's back, Yan Xingzhi had to bow slightly and walk. So the appearance of the old and the young walking together looks as awkward as it gets.

Lin Shan, who was riding slowly on the hill here, finally couldn't bear to sigh and said, "That medicine box is full of medicine bottles that the medicine master regards as treasures, so the box is made of three layers of materials, and there is an iron plate in the middle that has been forged hundreds of times. The box was small, but I weighed it. Including those bottles, it weighs nearly thirty pounds in total. Counting the set of tools for climbing the cliff and digging medicine in the bamboo basket behind him, he must have fifty pounds in this body. ”

Chen Jiu, who was riding a horse beside him, pondered and said, "It's about the weight of half a bucket of water next to the well pavilion in the backyard?"

Lin Shan nodded, and said, "Uncle Liao has to walk about four hundred miles with the weight of this half bucket of water."

"Four hundred miles?" Chen Jiu's eyes showed a hint of surprise, looking at the old and young people walking slowly on the dirt road below the mountain in a somewhat awkward posture, she thought for a while before she said: "From this direction, where his division is located, it should reach the clear water and surrounding mountains in Zhongzhou." However, you can move the people in Zhongzhou, and he won't let you send someone to send him, so you can also transfer the people from Zhongzhou to respond. ”

"It may be in the Zhongzhou range, but it may not be in the clear water and surrounding the mountains...... I don't know ...... accurate," Lin Shan lowered his head a little annoyed, and then quickly raised it again, "Liao Shi is considered to be the same generation as my mentor, but his sect was separated from the Northern Fence School a few generations ago, otherwise there would not be such a big difference in expertise and attainments when it has been passed down to the present." Since their Medicine Valley has become an independent faction, it is not easy for the Northern Fence to intervene. Perhaps only the successors of the generation of the Northern Fence School have the people to find out the specific location of the Medicine Valley, but I think it is better not to know, lest the Medicine Valley suffer. ”

Chen Jiu suddenly remembered something she had heard Lin Shan mention about Medicine Valley before, and couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that the Medicine Valley kidnapped children to practice hidden puppets is true?"

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On the top of the hill a hundred paces away on one side of the dirt road, when the couple on horseback were talking about a certain topic at a critical juncture, the old man on the dirt road parallel to the ridge, who had carried a lot of heavy loads on his chest and back, and seemed to be crushed by this, was talking to the young man beside him to a point where he was about to quarrel.

Yan Xingzhi wanted to remove the bamboo basket on Liao Shi's back and carry some weight for this elder whom he respected incomparably, but it was already the sixth time that he was pushed away by the old man's thin palm.

"It's just a bamboo basket, and it's not heavy!" Yan Xingzhi, who had just been pushed away, did not approach for the time being, keeping a distance of three steps from Liao Shi, and he was rejected many times, and he couldn't help but feel a little strangely annoyed. raised his eyebrows and said: "If you don't let me carry it, the burden in my heart will be heavier!"

Liao Shi still didn't back down at all, and said with a breath in his nostrils: "Nonsense, this is just the weight of half a bucket of water, and I can still afford it."

As he spoke, he pressed one hand against the medicine box on his chest to make it bounce and bump on his fleshless sternum so often, and with the other hand went around his back, tugging at the bottom of the basket so that it didn't always slip on either side of his thin shoulder.

But this move. In Yan Xingzhi's view. It's kind of like he's protecting himself. Don't let yourself touch the slightest bit of a look.

Yan Xingzhi pursed his lips and said: "I know that the pharmacist is going to take me to a somewhat distant and dangerous place, and I have been paying attention to recuperating my body for the past few days, just four hundred miles, not to mention letting me carry the weight for you the whole time." At least 200 miles of weight can still be done. ”

"And then the remaining two hundred miles, you want me to carry you on your back?" Liao Shi said extremely sharply, and after a pause, he said again: "That's what will kill me!"

Yan Xingzhi was silent, his eyes full of frustration.

Regarding the strange disease that has been passed down from the Yan family for four generations, the cause has not yet been figured out. After the first symptoms of that strange disease began to appear on his body three years ago, although he felt relatively good about himself with Liao Shi's incomparably precise research and drug application, he would not forget it. The time between the first appearance of his illness and his death was only three or four years.

If it weren't for the careful treatment of Liao Shi, the first pharmacist, Yan Xingzhi felt that he would probably have reached the state of his dead brother's terminal illness.

However, there is no pathological flashpoint that is too strict on his body now, which can really be fully proven. Aren't you in a state of severe illness? Perhaps the current good state of physical fitness is only the result of fine control of medication, and has not really changed the pathological constitution.

At least in the face of his seemingly good treatment state, Liao Shi, as a healer, has always been extremely rigorous, and he has never relaxed his spirit at all.

Since even the pharmacist did not dare to slack off in the slightest about this disease, he, a patient who had not yet figured out the cause of his family's strange disease, should indeed follow the doctor's instructions everywhere.

And this tragic situation when the family disease broke out in full swing, Yan Xingzhi really didn't want to recall what his brother looked like before he died.

In fact, Liao Shi didn't want to say such cruel words, but Yan Xingzhi was too tough, so he would make a quick knife to cut off, and his verbal words would naturally become sharp.

But at this time, the old man looked at the young man's silent appearance, and he couldn't bear it, so he softened his tone and said: "Wait, wait......"

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In fact, it has been passed down for hundreds of years, almost the same life as the national fortune of the previous dynasty, but it has not accumulated much fame in the world. When a disciple of the same generation sees something of this significance, he or she receives the message of the same disciple that the object represents.

Just like the ordinary-looking wooden block that Cen Chi showed in front of Xixin before, only in the minds of his generation of Beili heirs, can he parse the shadow of the forest cedar from the lifeless wooden block. Only Xixin, who is Lin Shan's senior brother, and his junior brother Cen Chi, when they see this extremely ordinary wooden block, can instantly know what this wood represents, and what Lin Shan's meaning is to this world.

At this moment, the broken bamboo stick in Xixin's hand has the same approximate meaning as the wooden block. However, the meanings of these two are somewhat different after specific analysis.

If Lin Shan's strong strength in civil engineering has rendered the wood he carries with him an extraordinary significance, then the real strength of Xixin is in the area of personal connections.

The half of the bamboo skewer that Xixin handed over to Cen Chi was about to play a role, similar to picking up a thin needle at one end of the thread.

Next, just wait for Cen Chi to use this token of bamboo stick texture as a power guide to straighten this human connection, and the people who have staggered but have never departed from this thread will appear one by one, more or less help Cen Chi to do something, until he completes the task to complete this time to provoke the thread.

However, when Xixin used it as an introduction and said the name of the first person who would help Cen Chi, Cen Chi still couldn't help but be sexually shocked. This person's name can be regarded as spanning three generations, and it can be regarded as a side line outside the side line. If it weren't for Xi Xin's brief mention of this person's connection in the division, he might not have known that among the heirs of the Beili faction, there was such a person as zài.

"I really can't imagine that Fang Wu is actually a disciple of the Northern Fence who has been passed down from the generation of Uncle Shi." Cen Chi couldn't help but sigh, "We've met a few times in the Prime Minister's Mansion a long time ago, and I didn't see it at all, but he didn't seem to recognize me either." ”

Xi Xin smiled and said: "Although Uncle Shi is the twentieth generation ion inheritor of the Northern Fence, his disciples and grandsons are actually not completely disciples of the Northern Fence, at most they can be regarded as having some connections with the sect. Just like our uncle who has been in the northern country for more than 20 years, although he defeated our master in the sect competition and inherited the twenty-first generation of ions, but the twenty-second generation of our northern fence series of ion heirs can only be selected from among the disciples taught by the master. The heirs of Uncle Shi can no longer have a direct relationship with the sect. ”

When it comes to that uncle, Cen Chi will naturally think of some of the things he has done, not only does he not have a good impression of the elders in that sect in his heart, but he also has evil thoughts all of a sudden. This trace of evil thought was linked to what Xi Xin said just now, which made him imagine a possibility in his heart, and the expression on his face was strange, but he didn't notice anything himself.

He just glanced at Xi Xin, endured it, and finally didn't say that idea.

Xi Xin's mind was clear, where would he miss seeing the strange look on Cen Chi's face. Maybe it was because the parting was imminent, Xixin didn't sink the doubts in his heart anymore, and asked softly: "If there is anything you don't understand, just say it."

Cen Chi realized that his senior brother was very observant, but he didn't completely tell the truth about the idea that came to his heart just now, but after hesitating for a while, he said lightly: "Forget it, Uncle Hongdao, it's actually not bad for you."

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