- Approaching the door of the house, Wu Shu squatted down, and the little girl understood and quickly slipped off his back. She had been bumped on his back all the way. I only felt five internal shocks, dizzy and dizzy. There was even a delusion that the ugly young man seemed to be more familiar with the location of her home than she was. It's good now, I finally don't have to do it so much.

However, as soon as her feet touched the ground, she felt as if she was stepping on a volley of open nets, and the short child's body was swaying from side to side, unable to walk in a straight line.

Wu Shu looked at her like this, hesitated for a moment, and suddenly said: "If you grab the corner of my clothes, you won't fall down the latest chapter of the official." ”

This...... It was originally a common move for Mo Ye to stand beside him.

According to Wu Shu's usual habits, he could have easily crossed the wall directly, but the Ye Mansion he was facing at this moment was not a mansion that he usually needed to listen to news, or to assassinate someone. On the contrary, the person who could save the girl in his arms could be regarded as his old friend, but although he and this old friend lived in the same capital, they had not seen each other for many years. In short, no matter what aspect it is, he can't go directly into the house by climbing over the wall.

But he didn't have much experience in visiting other people's homes, and if he wanted to go to the door of his old friend's house in such a polite way in the eyes of ordinary people, he would still unconsciously have a strange emotion in his heart.

Fortunately, this slightly embarrassed and slightly embarrassed emotion was quickly released in a sudden turning point.

Wu Shu was holding Mo Ye in his arms, and it was inconvenient to free his hand to knock on the door. It is also impossible to kick the door with your feet instead of your hands. And at this moment, Wu Shu saw the little girl swaying her steps to the door of her house, she was limited in height and couldn't reach the door knocker, so she had to reach out and pat the door panel, and at the same time shouted loudly: "Open the door!" It's me, there's a patient in need of treatment! ”

Surprisingly, she just slapped the door panel after reaching out her hand, and the door of the mansion, which looked a little heavy, slowly opened to the inside of the house.

The little girl was stunned, but Wu Shu, who was standing beside her, quickly noticed the middle-aged man standing directly opposite the gate.

Moments after the gate opened, the figure stood erect in the courtyard directly opposite the gate. The look is serious and implicit. The middle-aged man who seemed to be waiting for someone said in a calm voice: "No'er, where did you go last night?" ”

As soon as his words started, Wu Shu felt the hand of the little girl next to him who was pulling the corner of his clothes tremble.

The look in Wu Shu's eyes moved slightly, but he didn't say anything.

The middle-aged man standing opposite. Judging by his appearance and the way he looked at this side. It's not hard to discern who he is in this mansion. He is the master of the house. The little girl's father is also one of the nine imperial physicians of the Imperial Medical Bureau, and Ye Zhengming, a famous doctor in Kyoto.

However, the little girl standing next to her faced her father. also didn't say a word like Wu Shu, as if standing opposite her was just a stranger who had nothing to do with her.

However, this was not the case, she faced Ye Zhengming, and slowly lowered her head, her eyes full of fear. She was obviously under her father's scrutinizing gaze, and she was consciously repenting of what mistakes she had made.

Ye Zhengming saw that his daughter was back, and there was a stranger with him, and the annoyance in his heart was temporarily suppressed by doubts. When I looked closely, there were still two strangers, and the girl who was much younger of them seemed to be in a bad condition.

Thinking of the words that his daughter shouted when she opened the door just now, Ye Zhengming temporarily suppressed the anger in his heart. The patient's suffering is the most urgent and important matter in the eyes of the doctor, and he is not fit to deal with private matters under the attention of outsiders.

However, when he walked towards the gate, his eyes fell on Wu Shu's face, and when he got closer, he saw Wu Shu's unusual half of his face clearly, and his gaze couldn't help jumping.

Getting closer, Ye Zhengming saw more clearly, and he quickly decided one thing in his heart because of what he saw at the time.

Although his gaze froze on Wu Shu's differently colored face, he did not show the slightest fear of that ugly and somewhat terrifying face.

As a physician with nearly a decade of medical experience, Ye Zhengming has seen many poor patient conditions. Among the external wounds, when the burned person's affected area is the most hideous and terrifying, Wu Shu's face is relatively easy to accept compared to the wounds he has seen. However, even so, when he and Wu Shu looked at each other closely, a smile actually appeared on his face, and this scene always felt a little weird and weird in the eyes of his daughter standing aside.

"Is that you?" Ye Zhengming gradually smiled and said calmly.

Wu Shuyi said calmly: "It's me." ”

Wu Shu's half of the face full of strange meanings made him not good at expressing the gentle emotion of smiling. Facing Ye Zhengming's smile, he just showed a wisp of warmth in his eyes, but for him, this was already a very strong expression of joy.

In the eyes of Ye Zhengming's daughter, the greetings between the two adults who seemed to be old acquaintances were only paused in these two words that were too short to be called sentences.

Ye Zhengming's eyes no longer had the anger towards his daughter before, nor the idleness that he had cultivated after a few days at home, his eyes lit up, and his eyes fell on the girl in Wu Shu's arms with a serious and serious meaning, and he quickly noticed that the corners of her mouth and the blush on her front placket showed a look of wanting to say something.

But in the end, he didn't say much, except a brief sentence: "Follow me." ”

Ye Zhengming's daughter looked at the two people who were walking in front of them and turned to the back house, she was stunned, and hurriedly followed the back house.

……

Kyoto is the second most prosperous capital city in the Shokoku Mall, but no matter how many goods enter and leave the city and coastal ports every day, no matter how many people pass through the Sifang Gate every day, no matter how much live silver is circulated between merchants and ordinary people every day, and how much tax revenue the imperial court can collect from it, the prosperity and hustle and bustle of this capital city seem to be unable to exaggerate the tranquility of the bamboo forest in the south of the city.

The capital is surrounded and guarded in the realm. It is impossible for a mountain to occupy an area, but this bamboo forest is leaning on a large mountain, a huge mountain of garbage. This bamboo forest is also leaning against an unnamed lake with majestic water resources, but the water in this lake is green all year round, and I don't know if it will be slowly poisoned after drinking.

Perhaps it is because of these two peculiar reliance that no one in the capital wants to do business close to this place, and even does not want to live too close to here. Except for the extremely poor and some wandering beggars who are willing to make a simple home in the vicinity of this area, only monks who are simple and indifferent to life and death will be willing to stay here for a long time, right?

Perhaps there is a deeper reason why these monks are stationed in the temple in the bamboo forest, but at least everyone thinks that the reason is so simple but unshakable. Because they are willing in many ways to let go of things that others are unwilling to let go. Only then did they fully grasp the tranquility of this small temple in the bamboo forest.

However, the quiet atmosphere of the small temple was stirred by the arrival of a guest today.

A quiet meditation room in the depths of a small temple's compact building, shortly after a plain-clothed monk and a green-shirted guest stepped in, a sound similar to a quarrel erupted inside.

"It's just for you to pull out the lot, do you need someone else to do it for you?"

"You don't believe in divination yourself. And why is it imposed on me? ”

In addition to a hardwood bed, there is a plain meditation room. There was only a low desk at the head of the bed. The owner of the meditation room seems to have put a stool in the room as redundant. Cen Chi and the monk Xixin, who were sitting on the ground facing each other, suddenly spoke at the same time after being silent for a long time, and there was some anger in their tones.

At this moment, Cen Chi lost his usual good temper at all. Xixin also suddenly lost the quiet state of mind that a monk should have. However, this scene can only be seen by the two of them, just as their original friendship will never be known to others.

After saying a sentence at the same time, the two closed their mouths at the same time and fell silent again.

It seems that since the meeting after entering the temple, the two have been tacitly playing dumb riddles, but this tacit understanding is only reflected in the form, if you open up to talk from the heart. Both of them seemed to be at odds with each other.

I don't know how long it took for this tense quiet atmosphere to be broken by a sigh from Xixin. He said slowly: "I already know about him, what are you doing here in a hurry during the strict investigation in the city?" ”

Cen Chi said without thinking: "I want to see the map of that place in Qingchuan." ”

His reply was quick and direct, so direct that Xixin was a little surprised, and he didn't understand what he wanted.

Xi Xin shook his head and said, "I used to have it, but it burned down a few years ago. ”

A cold smile appeared at the corner of Cen Chi's mouth, and he said, "Senior brother, are you really going to be a monk here for the rest of your life chanting scriptures and ringing the bell?" ”

Xi Xin said indifferently: "I used to be the same door as you and me. I don't think I heard what you just said. If you don't keep your tongue in check, don't blame me for throwing you out. ”

"Even if you enter the Buddha Gate, you used to be my senior brother. I will always respect you as my senior brother from now on. Although we don't have many disciples in the Beili line, our habits and personalities are always very close. So, Senior Brother, you should know that even if you say you want to throw me out, I will continue to keep my mouth shut. Cen Chi said this. He added: "What's more, the two masters of the Xiangfu who came with me today are waiting for the strongest pharmacist outside the temple gate to read the full text." ”

"It's not a secret that I practice martial arts." After Xi Xin said this, he let out a breath abruptly, and he gave up and continued to argue with Cen Chi on this trivial issue, but he still didn't change the meaning of the seal, and when he opened his mouth again, he just repeated what he had just said: "I really burned the map." What do you want that thing to do? ”

"Alas! If our master knew that his only disciple really planned to be a monk for the rest of his life, would he be angry to death? Cen Chi sneered and pretended to sigh, and then said, "And if he knew that his descendant disciple had stolen the map of Qingchuan that he had drawn for several years to complete. But in order to set a fire to ashes, will he vomit blood three times before being angry to death? ”

Xi Xin frowned slightly when she heard this. Because it involved his mentorship before entering the Buddha's door, although he opened his mouth, he lowered his voice and reminded Cen Chi: "Uncle is always a teacher, the origin of the same door." You have a little virtue on your lips. ”

"If I were the one he had taken captive and been held up like a prisoner for thirteen years. I will not forgive him as you do today. Cen Chi said, took out a stack of paper from his arms, and slapped it on the ground in front of his knees. Immediately afterwards, he took out two similar stacks of paper from the left and right sleeves and slapped them on the stack of papers that had been slapped on the ground before.

Xi Xin didn't care about the disrespect for the seniors in Cen Chi's words, and only focused on the stack of papers on the ground, and then raised his eyes and glanced at Cen Chi suspiciously.

"What our uncle did, my brother did, but he took longer and was more careful with his drawings, so a rat who sneaked into his house to steal a mess of manuscripts came back." Cen Chi explained as he laid out the stack of papers on the ground one by one, "You have seen that big picture, although the big picture has been burned by you now, but you must still remember the overall direction, help me arrange the order of these residual pictures!" ”

said the words of the request, and invited the request, but there was no sense of 'please' in Cen Chi's tone.

Xi Xin was noncommittal, he just picked up a piece of paper, and after looking at it carefully for a while, he said with doubts in his tone: "This is too vague, but I can see the shadow of some battle strategy layout, what is Senior Brother Lin going to do?" ”

"As early as more than 20 years ago, our uncle, as a new generation of artists in the Northern Fence lineage, was free to leave the master to find a king who was willing to assist, and finally he chose to stay in the Northern Kingdom. At that time, he suggested that the northern monarch secretly station troops in Qingchuan, for which he drew up a map of extreme detail, but later this map was stolen by you, and the matter was temporarily put on hold. ”

Cen Chi said this, and the hand that was placing the paper paused. He looked up at Xixin and pondered for a moment before continuing, "Maybe the plan to garrison the troops has been suspended, and your stealing of the map has only partially troubled it. At that time, the Zhou Dynasty had not yet died, but it was chaotic enough, and it was easy to ignore the small actions behind the big river in the west. At that time, Wang Chi was still in the north, and it was probably from that time that he planned to send a lot of spies to the north, and the matter of the troops should have made him smell it. When Wang Chi went south to the east, entered Kyoto and changed his name, and mastered all the legion forces of the national dynasty, it would not be so easy for the northern country to garrison troops under the cover of the great river of Qingchuan. ”――

(To be continued......)