(868) Real situation
- The more things a person has in his heart, the more he or she can't be so easy...... Secrets that are accidentally learned are not necessarily beneficial gains.
The maidservants inadvertently learned the truth that Lin Shan can't drink alcohol today, although it is enough to overturn the gloomy argument of the mouthy maid just now, and prove that Lin Shan doesn't drink the wine made from old wine, and he doesn't dislike her, but who dares to say this?
This secret is like a double-edged sword, hanging over the heads of all the maidservants from today, I am afraid that only when they no longer wait for Lin Shan, and go thousands of miles away to cut off the connection, the threat of this sword will dissolve due to the long-forgotten time.
The maidservants couldn't laugh, but the maidservant girl who showed a gloomy gaze 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 he asked explained: "It is impossible to go north, there are almost no deep mountains and forests, and it is almost to the wild goose realm. The old medicine master will not go there when he returns to the mountain gate, so only the remaining 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.
The guards in the woods' dwellings all had a dark cloud over their heads. When the whole team was about 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 very accurate to say that these two people rode horses to climb the mountain, because the "mountain" that the two horses climbed can only be described as mounds. 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.
But. Lin Shan and Chen Jiu did not continue to walk on the dirt road, but carried the reins to the horse to climb the mountain, 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. Four people in this way. Walking 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 on his back, and the belt around his neck framed the medicine box like a necklace, and the medicine box was quite heavy because it was filled with no less than forty-three small medicine bottles, and 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 Northland are the years of Yan Xingzhi's growth, the eating environment with more meat and less vegetables, and good-looking novels:. Let this young man, who was still as tall as Liao Shi when he came, now has grown to the height of Liao Shi's forehead on his shoulders.
In order to support the medicine basket on Liao Shi's back, Yan Xingzhi had to walk with a slight bow, so the appearance of the old man and the young walking together looked as awkward as it was.
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 pharmacist regards as treasures. Therefore, the box is made of three layers of material, and there is a layer of iron plate made of forging hundreds of times in the middle. Although the box was not big, I weighed it, and with those bottles, it weighed about 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, "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 in annoyance, 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 Beili 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 this day...... Since their Medicine Valley has become an independent faction, it is not easy for the Northern Fence to intervene. Perhaps only the official inheritors of the generation of the Northern Fence School can send enough manpower to find out the specific location of the Medicine Valley, but I think it is better not to know, lest the Medicine Valley be robbed. ”
Hearing the words "Inheritor of the Northern Fence School" in Lin Shan's words, she didn't think deeply about how the Medicine Valley might be destroyed because of the leaked address, she just unconsciously remembered what Liao Shi explained to her a few days ago.
As for the Hokuri School, which is extremely low-key, but has a long journey that is almost the same as when the previous dynasty was in operation, there are strange school rules that resemble the laws of the cultivators.
If Lin Shan can't inherit the position of the inheritor of this Shimen school, or before returning to the Shimen to compete for promotion. Does that mean he doesn't have to comply with this provision? That means that he can really make a lifelong commitment to the woman around him who he likes happily?
Watching the aged wine seem to be thinking about something, and it looks slightly distracted. Lin Shan couldn't accurately recognize the thoughts in her heart at this time, and only thought that she was still pondering the location of the Medicine Valley.
After a little consideration, Lin Shan said slowly: "Although only Liao Shi knows the way back, since he took the initiative to take Yan Xingzhi to the Medicine Valley, he should be able to take care of it well no matter how far he travels along the way." ”
Chen Jiu retracted his distant thoughts, and nodded lightly when he heard the words. And when her thoughts returned to her eyes, she suddenly remembered something she had heard Lin Shan mention about Medicine Valley before, and couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that Medicine Valley kidnapped children to practice medicine puppets is true?" ”
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On the top of a hill a hundred paces away on one side of the dirt road, the couple on horseback was talking about a certain topic when they reached a critical juncture, on the dirt road parallel to the ridge. The old man, who had been burdened with a lot of weight on his chest and back, and seemed to have been crushed by this, was also 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 come close for the time being. Keeping a distance of three steps from Liao Shi, he was rejected many times, and he couldn't help but be a little strangely annoyed, raised his eyebrows and said: "If you don't let me carry it, the burden in my heart is 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." I can still afford it. ”
As he spoke, he was seen pressing one hand on the medicine box on his chest to make it less frequent to bounce and bump on his fleshless sternum, and the other hand went around his back, tugging at the bottom of the bamboo basket so that it didn't always slip on the sides of his thin shoulders, and other book friends were watching.
But this move. In Yan Xingzhi's view, it was a bit like he was protecting himself and no longer let himself touch the slightest.
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 that I will carry the weight for you throughout the whole process, at least two hundred 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 with an extremely sharp tongue, 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 Liao Shi had extremely precise research and drug application, and he felt relatively good, he would not forget that the time from the first appearance of his illness to the death of his brother 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 in his body that is too strict, can it really be completely proved that he is not 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.
As for the tragic situation when this family strange disease broke out in full force, 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.
Liao Shi has always disliked arguing with others on verbal falsehoods, except for the pharmacology of new subjects, in which he has always believed that only his demonic junior is worthy of discussing with him, and he chooses to avoid other trivial matters of life as much as he can. Inevitably, he will express the most authentic results in the shortest words and in the most direct way.
For example, in the face of a seriously ill person, life is life, and death is death. He seldom said anything that he was sure of. It really hurts to talk like this, and it also brings him a lot of trouble. As a person, being able to say something beautiful should be a standing skill, but it is this temper that Liao Shi has cultivated in the relatively closed living environment of Medicine Valley since he was a child, and no one can change it lightly, including himself.
At this time, the old man looked at the young man's silent appearance, and he was a little unbearable, so his tone softened a little, but the words he said again still seemed a little hard: "Wait a little longer!" ”
Yan Xingzhi slowly raised his head when he heard this, and the gloom in his eyes was still there...... At this moment, there was a new trace of doubt.
Because he could hear from Liao Shi's tone that they really seemed to be waiting for someone or something, but before leaving, Liao Shi told him a lot of details about the long journey, and made sufficient preparations for the trek. But the only thing that was deliberately omitted was not told.
And it seems that as long as they wait for this person or thing that is also waiting for them, it will be of great help to their situation of carrying a heavy burden at the moment.
"What are you waiting for?" Yan Xingzhi couldn't help but ask, and unconsciously, he stopped.
"Tell you to wait, you wait." Liao Shi also paused slightly, and his face suddenly smiled with a sense of mystery, still refusing to explain his words. "However, we don't tell you to wait where you are, we still have to keep moving forward."
"Oh ......" Yan Xingzhi ran two steps fast, keeping up with Liao Shi's pace, a good-looking novel:.
Although he could clearly see that the old pharmacist had something to hide and refused to explain it quickly, he knew very well that although the old pharmacist had a withdrawn personality and spoke badly, he would not even have bad thoughts towards strangers. What's more, for him, a little follower of the medicine boy who has been officially recognized. If you don't say it, you won't say it, and it won't get in anyone's way anyway.
Yan Xingzhi is just sick physically, as a descendant of a famous medical family, he has been cultivated by the family's dogma since he was a child, and the good character he has created will not change lightly because of his physical illness.
He's not a frizzy person. And the old pharmacist finally admitted to accepting him as a medicine boy, which made him full of confidence in his "entanglement" formula. I don't know today, he will find a way to take advantage of the old pharmacist's good mood to ask questions again another day, and he will definitely be rewarded.
Looking at Yan Xingzhi's thoughtful appearance, Liao Shi's heart moved, and he wanted to ask him what little idea he was making, but the words changed again, and he just said in a very casual tone: "Four hundred miles is Lin Shan's sue for you?" ”
"Yes......" Yan Xingzhi nodded without thinking, but he quickly seemed to understand something else from Liao Shi's words, and immediately asked, "Isn't it?" ”
"Huh." Liao Shigan laughed.
Originally, he didn't want to say anything more about this matter, but when he thought that Lin Shan had finally been deceived by himself, he was a little proud. At this time, it is only a pity that his beard is not long enough, otherwise he will be able to grow his demeanor in front of this newly acquired little medicine boy while brushing his beard.
"If you want to get rid of the people he sent to follow you, it's not enough to have four hundred miles." Liao Shi let go of the hand pressed on the heavy medicine box on his chest, touched the short beard under his chin, which was only half a finger long, and said slowly, "But if I tell him that it will take eight hundred and thirty miles to return to the valley, he will definitely know immediately that I am lying to him." ”
"Huh? Four hundred miles is fake? Yan Xingzhi looked at the rickety old man with extremely surprised eyes, and after being stunned for a moment, he suddenly shook his head again and said, "Eight hundred and thirty miles, if you tell me, I won't think it's true." ”
"It's... Hey......" Liao Shi almost admitted that eight hundred and thirty miles was a reliable distance, but his words were cut off by himself after only one word. He wasn't sure if he would take this Yan family's only grandson back to Medicine Valley for the second time, so it would be useless to talk about it.
After a slight pause, he casually perfunctory: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter how long the road is." ”
Yan Xingzhi pursed his lips and thought for a moment, he gave up asking Liao Shi "why doesn't it matter", but said seriously: "Mr. Lin wants to give us a ride, and it is also a good intention, pharmacist, it is wrong for you to lie to him." ”
Liao Shi smiled disapprovingly when he heard this, and said lightly: "If you can only refuse a person by deception, how will you choose?" ”
Yan Xingzhi didn't answer, but just puzzled: "Why do you have to refuse, isn't it acceptable?" Mr. Lin didn't mean to throw you a fireball. He's just going to send a few guards to escort you for a while, and he doesn't need you to take care of the food. ”
"You don't know what kind of place Medicine Valley is, that's why you can say these things calmly." Liao Shi sighed lightly, "If he sends someone to escort me." Those who must be sent are his most handy subordinates. Of course, I believe that these subordinates will be able to escort them safely, but I can't guarantee their return, and I can protect you alone at most. This way back, it's not that I can't go by myself without those few guards to give me a ride, so why let him lose his most powerful subordinates. ”
Liao Shi's master has only been stored in the ears of the world, and no one has ever been able to accurately say the specific location of this place.
Even if some of the false addresses are popular, they will soon be exposed. Because there are still quite a few individuals or organizations who want to find the medicine valley and destroy it, as long as they really go out to investigate, they will find out which claims are false. But nevertheless. Nor can anyone strip away the real results just because they rule out false rumors.
Of course, there are still a few medical students who want to learn from their teachers without fear of hardships and dangers, but in addition to the hidden address, even the recruitment of people in the medicine valley does not seem to be an open way. In addition to Liao Shi, he also left some footprints in the world. The demon doctor who was falsely rumored to be even more exaggerated, specializing in alchemy, and even refining medicine puppets for daily pleasure, had never been seen by anyone because of the seclusion of Medicine Valley.
Hearing Liao Shi personally mention the horror of Medicine Valley again, but not saying what the specific horror is, Yan Xingzhi squinted, and a question that had been entrenched for a long time in his heart also popped up again, but it was not the legend of the medicine puppet that the world paid the most attention to, and other book friends were watching:.
After enduring it for a while, Yan Xingzhi finally couldn't help it. He asked, "Pharmacist, I have long heard rumors from others that the Medicine Valley has been immersed in a poisonous mist all year round. Even if anyone just enters by mistake and doesn't know that it is the Medicine Valley, they will be killed by those poisonous mists. Is this really the case? ”
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On the small mountain parallel to the dirt road that extends from the entrance of the town's torii, the forest cedar riding on horseback looks down the mountain.
There was no rain for many days. The open dirt road reflects the grayish-white color of the dry sand in the sun. On the road, an old man and a young man suddenly took a few steps away from their bodies, and suddenly approached side by side, and their walking speed was also fast and slow. When the old and the young looked at each other, their lips opened and closed from time to time, and there was no long pause. It's as if we're discussing a more important issue.
However, with the distance of Lin Shan, not only could he not hear what the two people were saying on the dirt road a hundred paces away, but it was impossible to even capture the shape of his mouth to read the words.
After condensing his gaze towards the two people at the bottom of the mountain for a while, Lin Shan withdrew his gaze, took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled.
Looking sideways at Chen Jiu, who was riding a horse beside him, he remembered the question she had just asked, and after hesitating for a while, he finally chose to answer: "The medicine puppet is indeed a thing, but the reason why the medicine valley is causing trouble is not only this." ”
Originally, Chen Jiu saw that Lin Shan didn't speak for a long time, thinking that the matter he asked caused him to be displeased, so he was not prepared to get an answer. However, not only did she get an echo at this moment, but she also saw Lin Shan's answer so directly, she couldn't help but be slightly stunned.
Putting Lin Shan's words in his mind and repeating them, to make sure that he had heard correctly, Chen Jiu couldn't help but sigh and said, "It's hard to imagine that the pharmacist's sect is such a terrible place. ”
Lin Shan pondered for a moment, then said, "Liao Shi left the Medicine Valley almost thirty years ago, and after seven years, there were rumors of demon doctors refining medicine puppets in the world. Liao Shi quietly went back to the Medicine Valley and made sure that his crazy junior brother had indeed done evil, but it was slightly different from the rumors, and those puppet children were picked up from the refugees who had fled the famine. ”
The surprised expression on Chen Jiu's face was slightly subdued, but she still firmly believed that the medicine refining puppet was doing evil, and immediately argued: "Refugees are also human beings, and even if those children starve to death in a disaster year, it is better than being tortured and living in a human form. ”
In fact, it is also true that it is a sin to test medicine on a living person, for whatever reason.
"Now that the medicine puppet has been refined, there is no room for manoeuvre in this matter." Lin Shan looked at the old wine, his eyes softened.
He knew that women had motherhood, and he could not see children suffer. Even if Chen Jiu scolded Yaogu in front of him for a few words, and scolded Liao Shi with him, he would not be angry at her. Let alone...... It would have been a big mistake for Yakuya to do this kind of thing, and there was no reason to explain it.
When he saw that the anger on Chen Jiu's face had receded slightly, he slowly explained: "The Medicine Valley is secluded in the mountains, and there is no chance to meet refugees, but Liao Shi's junior brother also came out of the Medicine Valley that year, just to find him. I didn't expect that the person I was looking for later didn't find it. But he took a few sick children back. ”
Chen Jiu said suspiciously: "It turns out that the rumored demon doctor has never been out of the medicine valley. ”
"That's just the time I came out." Lin Shan Wen Yan continued, "As soon as the rumors of the medicine puppet came out, Liao Shi returned to the medicine valley in order to dissuade his junior brother. Since then, his junior brother has never been out of the medicine valley. Of course, there will be no more arrests and puppets in the valley. Liao Shi agreed with his junior brother that he would return to the Medicine Valley once a year, as long as his junior brother could settle down. ”
Chen Jiu's puzzled expression on his face became even heavier, and he couldn't help asking, "Is such a ruthless and terrible person also afraid of loneliness?" Do you want his junior brother to go back to accompany him for a few days every year? ”
Lin Shan didn't answer immediately, but asked rhetorically: "If you have enough food to keep making wine, but no one comes to drink it, and your love for wine makes you still can't help but continue brewing until the room is full of wine." How would you feel if there were even new varieties and still no one came to drink them? ”
Chen Jiu muttered thoughtfully: "That's indeed a bit lonely, other book friends are reading:." ”
So Liao Shi goes back to the Medicine Valley once a year, although it is true that he is to accompany his junior brother for a few days, but the content of the company is not a happy and leisurely thing like hand talk, fishing, and drinking. It's about fighting medicine. Lin Shan sighed lightly, "His junior brother is even more ruthless with poisonous methods, if he walks out of the valley, he is almost a strange person who will not be tolerated by the world." ”
Listening to Lin Shan's words all the way to this, Chen Jiu faintly realized a Yan zhòng problem, his eyes shrank slightly, and he asked softly: "As far as you know." Liao Shi and his junior brother, whose poison is more powerful? ”
Lin Shan heard Chen Jiu's worry, but his expression eased, and said gently: "These two people are invincible to all poisons, even if anyone is heavier, they will lie down for a few days at most." It is not possible to kill people. No one in the Medicine Valley goes without medicine for a day, and poison is to the two of them like we touch food every day. ”
Chen Jiu suddenly said: "Is it that they are poisoned by their own medicine, just like ordinary people choking on eating and eating are almost the same, let them rest for a few days without eating, it will be natural to be fine?" ”
Lin Shan couldn't help but stagnate when he heard this. Then he smiled and said: "Almost, I can only say that it is almost, it is better to eat less poison, although it is not invaded, it is just a flesh body." ”
Chen Jiu raised his hand and raised two fingers, covered his lips and smiled.
Lin Shan smiled and looked at her for a moment, and then looked sideways at the dirt road, and could vaguely see that the old and the young on the road were still talking about something.
Liao Shi didn't really tell him the specific location of the medicine valley until the day before he set off, but he still knew the general direction, so he found someone to investigate and arrange a route for him.
At this time, seeing that Liao Shi and Yan Xingzhi were still walking unhurriedly, as if they were just wandering around a certain scenic spot, and there was not much hurry, Lin Shan was very worried that when it got dark, they might not be able to go to the next town in the established route to rest.
And if he could hear clearly the distance between the old and the young just mentioned, it is estimated that he would not only not be worried, but would also be a little annoyed.
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Regarding the question about the poisonous mist of the Medicine Valley, after listening to the personal explanation of the heirs of the Medicine Valley, Yan Xingzhi was so surprised that he opened his mouth and forgot to speak.
Liao Shi looked at him and just added: "I made an exception to tell you this big secret, you can't just say it!" If others find out and spread the word, the medicine valley will suffer! ”
Yan Xingzhi hurriedly shook his head and said, "Of course I won't say it, otherwise Medicine Valley will not be a secret." ”
"You kid, you really have a simple heart, and you think about Medicine Valley so quickly." Liao Shi felt a hint of joy in his heart, but the more he saw Yan Xing's heart towards the Medicine Valley, the more he suddenly felt that he should remind this young man of something, so he said solemnly: "Since you have heard the rumors of the poisonous mist, of course, you will not have heard the rumors of the medicine puppet, why don't you ask about this matter later, for fear of making me unhappy?" ”
Regarding the choice of these two issues, Yan Xingzhi did consider avoiding the important in front of Liao Shi. Suddenly, when he heard Liao Shi mention this matter himself, he was a little speechless for a while, and he didn't know whether to continue to avoid the important and light.
The rumor of the refining medicine puppet is almost a stained hat that exterminates humanity in the drug delivery valley. Now that he is almost half of the heir of the Medicine Valley, it will always be a little inappropriate to talk about this matter in front of the old pharmacist as a junior, right?
"Alas......" Liao Shi sighed, and said with a deep sense of melancholy in his tone: "This is the most criticized and most difficult stain in the Medicine Valley. But I'm going to take you to Medicine Valley now, and even if you don't ask about this matter, I'll sue you. So that you can take precautions in advance, and you can be less uncomfortable after arriving at the Medicine Valley. ”
In fact, just waiting for Liao Shi to admit the matter of the medicine puppet is enough to make Yan Xingzhi uncomfortable.
The stain of Medicine Valley that has been criticized by the world is strictly because he grew up in a family of famous doctors. It also listens more often than the average person. In the eyes of many doctors, Medicine Valley is the scum of the medical world, and the image of the two descendants of Medicine Valley has been demonized, otherwise how can there be two titles of "medicine ghost" and "demon doctor"?
But Yan Xingzhi has always privately thought that the rumors of the drug puppet are just false rumors, and other book friends are reading:.
Although Liao Shi's reputation in the world is evil, after getting along in recent years, Yan Xingzhi thinks that he knows this withdrawn old man well enough. The old pharmacist was ugly and spoke unpleasantly, and he couldn't even see a bit of charm outside the body when he looked at him from behind, but this old man was just not enthusiastic enough. Not tactful enough, but not vicious.
At least you can't do such a terrible thing as refining medicine with a living person.
But now he has taken the initiative to admit it!
"There are about six puppets in the Medicine Valley...... Well...... This is what I counted when I went back four years ago, and I don't know how many ...... are left."
"Those puppets have whiter faces and straighter eyes when you look at people, so don't be scared when you see them. But don't try to talk to them, because they don't think anymore. ”
"Also, if a puppet tells you to go somewhere, just don't answer them. I still have to tell you again, when you arrive in the Medicine Valley, don't listen to anyone there, including your uncle. For you. He is just a madman, without the affection of the teacher, and it is extremely dangerous. ”
"Oh, there's one more crucial thing to say. If you see what your uncle asks you to eat or drink, don't think that he has tried it for the children around him, and you can eat it with confidence. The medicine boys who can follow him are all refined. Don't be afraid of any poison, you can't compare. ”
“…… It seems that sometimes even I can't tell that the food is poisonous to you, because I can't taste it, how good is that......"
Liao Shi chattered a lot slowly. Yan Xingzhi, who was walking side by side with him, not only did not respond half a sentence, but gradually slowed down a lot, and fell behind Liao Shi.
Liao Shi had to stop, and when he looked back, he saw that Yan Xingzhi had simply stopped in place, his young face was slightly pale, and his eyes were full of surprise.
"It's not going to scare you right now, is it?" Liao Shi misunderstood Yan Xingzhi's expression, but from his observation point of view, it was indeed difficult to read Yan Xingzhi's mood at this time.
After being stunned for a moment, Yan Xingzhi muttered: "If the rumors of the medicine puppet are true, why didn't he mention it to my grandfather when I mentioned the matter of apprenticeship to the medicine valley, he didn't mention it in the first half of a sentence, only that if I can pass your test, even if he agrees?" ”
"Yan Guang Lao'er really means this?" Liao Shi hesitated for a moment, a trace of surprise suddenly appeared on his face, and he asked in other words: "Could it be that you always thought that the rumors of the medicine puppet were just a lie?" Or if the medicine puppet is proven to be true, you don't want to go to the medicine valley? ”
Yan Xing was speechless.
When a person has always believed that something is suddenly overturned, and thus provokes a complex process of emotional change, it is really difficult to express it in any way for a while.
Liao Shi has already looked down on the world's prejudice against Medicine Valley, and it doesn't matter how much others pour more dirt on his master, anyway, he doesn't plan to hang the pot to help the world, he has never considered making friends with nobles and celebrities, and he is not short of silver, so his reputation stinks!
However, when he saw the little follower in front of him behind him, who had been inseparable from the young man to the weak crown in a few years, he also showed a hint of doubt about him, and somehow, this trace of negativity was quickly enlarged in his eyes, which made him a little sad.
If he has nothing to do with the world, in fact, it is not absolute, he only made very few friends, but these few people who know him well actually have a lot of weight in his heart.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have given her daughter five years of free treatment for her body poison because the woman named Ye Ziqing created a medicine box for him more than ten years ago, and he also achieved a complete cure, with her daughter's anti-poison physique.
You must know that the former queen mother treated him to death, and the current emperor summoned him several times to ask him to treat the second prince, but he refused to go