However, when the car had just left the densely populated coast and walked on a relatively quiet and uninhabited section, the second prince in the car finally couldn't help it, coughed violently, and his straight back also coughed slightly.

He coughed so hard that even the bones on his body seemed to be about to shatter. Seeing this, Wang Zhe's heart tightened, and he hurriedly moved closer to the second brother, letting him lean on his shoulder to save some of the strength needed to sit firmly.

In fact, when he just got off the rooftop, Wang Zhe already felt that something was wrong with his second brother. Since then, he has raised his sleeves and pressed his lips from time to time, but he only coughed lightly once or twice, as if he wanted to clear his throat, but he didn't need to say anything when he was on the altar.

It turned out that since then, he had endured it, until now, when the cough broke out, the situation seemed a little harsh. Realizing this part of the problem, Wang Zhe couldn't help frowning.

The car in which the two princes were riding was a short distance away from the one in front, and there were several rows of honor guards walking in the middle, so although Wang Hong coughed badly, the emperor in the car in front of him might not be able to hear it.

Of course, even if my father hears it, the honor guard should not stop because of this. If an abnormality like Wang Hong suddenly occurs, he really needs to return to the palace and lie down smoothly before he can be treated. There is not only one imperial doctor in the Imperial Medical Bureau who has said something similar, and the second highness's physical deficiency is more effective than treatment.

But at least at this moment, Wang Zhe still desperately hoped that there was some way to let Wang Hong slow down first.

Wang Zhe rarely returned to the palace, he was accustomed to living a life of traveling outside the palace, and gradually grew in age and knowledge, this kind of life for a noble prince, a somewhat alternative and non-etiquette living state, for him, is becoming more and more normal.

However, it is precisely because of this kind of perennial living abroad. Let the third prince Wang Zhe have many opportunities to get in touch with the normal life of ordinary people, so he can also experience homesickness more deeply than ordinary nobles. Not going home may be due to many reasons, but definitely not because of discord with family.

No matter where he is, he always clearly remembers that his home is in the Imperial Palace in Koyo, Kyoto, and among all the relatives in the family, the one he misses and worries about the most is the second brother who is only one year older than him.

I haven't seen my second brother for a long time, but I didn't expect it. When I accompany him now, I still feel uncomfortable watching him most of the time as before. I suddenly felt uncomfortable in my heart.

Wang Zhe suddenly remembered what Ye Zhengming said to him that day in the Song Mansion, under a pavilion in a garden.

- Isn't it true that a brother is more important than a sworn brother? But why can he stay in Bojun for three years because he accompanied Ruan Luo to recuperate? But he couldn't accompany his second brother to live in the palace for three months?

As soon as his mind reached this point, he suddenly heard a clear voice in his ears.

"The guilty minister visits the second highness and the third highness, a thousand years old and a thousand years old."

The royal horse, with a shiny mane and a colorful silk saddle on its back, walked with broken steps, led by a military guard, a little faster than the guard of honor, and slowly approached the side of the chariot. Ye Zhengming sat on horseback. Waved to the two princes in the car. In order to maintain a certain speed of the guard of honor, he did not need to dismount before saluting.

Although he called himself a "criminal minister", there was no trace of guilt as a criminal in his tone.

At this time, he met with two princes. But in his appearance and attire, there is no haggard and low like a criminal minister, and he still seems to be more vigorous.

In fact, the two princes in the car also knew, not to mention Ye Zhengming's so-called crime of being convicted of staying at home for several days in this Beijing official self-trial incident. It's obviously empty, even if he really wants to make a mistake. I don't think the emperor will really hurt a hair of his hair.

However, after Ye Zhengming's "sentence" was over in the past few days, the emperor didn't know what he was thinking about, and he hadn't made it clear whether he could return to the ranks of the imperial doctors of the Imperial Medical Bureau on his own.

However, the medical officers with slightly more seniority in the Taiyi Bureau all know that the Wang family and the Ye family have some old entanglements, saying that they are not relatives, saying that they are monarchs and ministers, and there are some unbreakable relationships, so the emperor does not speak, and the Taiyi Bureau is also a half-held relationship.

I don't know if Ye Zhengming is annoyed because of this, so he deliberately calls himself a "criminal minister", just to show a little affection.

But if you want to apply this kind of speculation to him, it seems that something is not right!

Ye Zhengming has never been in love with such honors and titles as officials, and he joined the Taiyi Bureau mainly to study medicine. After staying in the Taiyi Bureau for several years, he has already shown a little boredom, and he is afraid that he is already counting on being dismissed and sent out! Because now he wants to take the initiative to resign, the emperor may not approve it.

Wang Zhe's mind turned, and he smiled at Ye Zhengming and said, "Uncle Ye, don't be formal, I'm about to look for you!" ”

Hearing the title used in Wang Zhe's words, Ye Zhengming took a deep seat: "The criminals dare not trespass." ”

Wang Zhe smiled a little helplessly, no longer paying attention to whether Ye Zhengming was really making trouble, and continued his thoughts, Wen Yan said: "Uncle Ye, come to the car, my second brother is suddenly a little bad, look at ......"

Ye Zhengming's word "crime" is about to pop out of his lips again.

"Don't sin!"

Wang Zhe finally couldn't continue to pretend that he couldn't hear.

The second brother's coughing in his ears had not stopped, and Wang Zhe couldn't understand that for doctors, there was something more important than thinking about the patient.

Even if there is such a thing, it is by no means a mouthful of a "criminal minister".

When those three words came out of his throat with a tone similar to reprimand, Wang Zhe, who was still sitting in the car a moment ago, stood up suddenly, slid out in half a step, and kicked on the edge of the car in the remaining half step, jumped onto the horse that Ye Zhengming was riding, and sat behind Ye Zhengming.

"If you're a criminal, can you still have a royal horse to travel now?" Wang Zhen's slightly impatient voice sounded next to Ye Zhengming's ears, his voice was quite loud, regardless of what others thought and whether it would stab Ye Zhengming's ear drums, "Is there a way to slow down?" ”

"Yes." Ye Zhengming's short beard under his jaw trembled, "If you want to throw away the sin...... The minister went over and asked His Royal Highness to see it before throwing it. ”

As soon as Ye Zhengming's words came out, Wang Zhe almost couldn't hold back his laughter, and his face was strange for a while.

With a dry cough, he straightened his mind. "Qiang-" pulled out a short dagger he was wearing, his eyes were slightly condensed, and he waved his sleeves and threw it.

The dagger, which was less than a foot long and nearly three inches wide, pierced into the gap between the handrail and the board on one side of the chariot, and the dagger edge was almost completely submerged, leaving only the head of the yellow tassel exposed.

Seeing this scene, the guards who were leading the horses in front of them, as well as the other guards who were scattered in the honor guard, only glanced sideways, and had no other reaction. But the third prince suddenly waved his hand and threw his sword. It frightened several palace maids and eunuchs who were closer, and they couldn't help but shrink their necks slightly.

The style of the three princes is almost completely different from that of the royal family in the permanent palace. Even Ye Zhengming was slightly moved when he saw this scene for the first time.

"Go over yourself, or I'm going to throw you." While Wang Zhe was speaking, the hand that threw the dagger had already copied forward from behind, squeezing Ye Zhengming's hand away. He took control of the horse's reins, skillfully drove the horse to a position very close to the car.

At this time, neither the horse nor the chariot stopped moving, but the speed was almost the same, and if you didn't look at the surface, it was as smooth as if both were stationary.

Ye Zhengming doesn't know martial arts. But it can also be very easy, one foot on the stirrup, and the other foot on the handle of the dagger inserted in the side of the imperial chariot. It only took two steps to run from the back of the horse to the car where the second prince was.

As soon as he stood firm, Ye Zhengming did not sit down in a hurry, but turned to look at Wang Zhe on the horse, and said, "Please stay on the horse for a while." ”

This time, he did not use the self-title of "criminal minister" when he spoke. The words are very direct, and after the blunt reminders. Even the behavior was very direct and he personally lowered the leather curtain on the outside of the car and blocked the third prince Wang Zhe out of the car.

Wang Zhe's face was slightly stunned, and then he smiled silently, but he didn't say anything.

Regarding Ye Zhengming's attitude, Wang Zhe has always followed his father's wishes, tolerant and indulgent, and both.

Although in Ye Zhengming's character, there is always a twisting energy that he cultivated when he was young, but after all, he has never done anything to harm the interests of the royal family, and he is extremely protective of the face of the royal family in front of others.

Maybe he would do this, because he had some deliberate elements, but if he was linked to the things that the Ye family had done for the Wang family, their Wang family categorically did not blame this Ye family's remnant.

Lowering the outer windshield curtain, the light in the car was slightly dimmed.

The second prince, Wang Hong, probably because of the sea breeze blowing on the altar for a long time, his body was cold, and his face also faded a layer of blood, but after a violent cough just now, some red threads appeared on his pale cheeks, and he did not hide it in such an obscure light in the car.

Seeing that Wang Hong wanted to wait for his pulse as usual, so he couldn't hold back his cough and control his wrist not to move, Ye Zhengming didn't hide his feelings anymore, shook his head and sighed.

Sitting down cross-legged beside Wang Hong casually, Ye Zhengming put down a small medicine box hanging on his shoulder, but he didn't open the medicine box, and he didn't reach out to grab Wang Hong's wrist, but just bent his arm and took it out in his arms, which seemed a little unelegant.

After digging for a long time, when he pulled out his hand, he held a small burlap bag in the palm of his hand, and poured out a small bottle with a delicate appearance from it.

Wang Hong watched Ye Zhengming's actions after getting into the car, and at this point, his face couldn't help but have a trace of suspicion, because the small bottle that Ye Zhengming pinched between his fingers seemed to have no mouth - it became a ceramic pimple.

However, Ye Zhengming quickly answered this question for him with actions.

Ye Zhengming's eyes drooped slightly, and he swept Wang Hong's waist, of course he didn't want to see what style of jade belt the second prince tied today, but was looking for his saber.

Although the second prince is not like the third prince, he has a superb martial arts body, but when the royal family goes out, they will carry the flying fish dagger given by the emperor, this kind of dagger that can be stabbed near and far can be thrown, but it is a genuine, iron-sharpened treasure.

Seeing the meaning of Ye Zhengming's search, Wang Hong subconsciously felt that he was looking for the flying fish dagger he was wearing, and the cough was unbearable, Wang Hong didn't have time to ask, and without waiting for Ye Zhengming to speak, he had already untied the flying fish dagger from his waist and pushed it to Ye Zhengming's knees.

Ye Zhengming was not polite, pulled out the dagger, and slashed directly at the strange bottle mouth of the delicate vial without holes.

Naturally, there is a hole in the mouth of the bottle, but the craftsman who fired this bottle deliberately cast a small part of the mouth of the bottle to death, Ye Zhengming raised the knife and cut off a small part of the dead bottle mouth, and the contents of the bottle were finally revealed.

In fact, Ye Zhengming hadn't done the pouring action yet, but the smell of the liquid medicine in the bottle was emitted extremely quickly, and the smell wafted out on its own.

The second prince, Wang Hong, smelled the smell of the medicine. The suspicion in his eyes returned, for he could clearly smell that it was the smell of liquor, and it should be the smell of that extremely strong wine. The first smell is mellow, and when you inhale it into your nostrils and go deeper, you can feel a little stimulus. He attended a lot of royal banquets, because he couldn't drink too much, but it allowed him to keep a clear mind. Familiarized with the smell of dozens of liquors.

Wang Hong looked at Ye Zhengming in amazement, unbelievable that he would take out this thing. But on second thought, such a small bottle of sealed "wine". Unusual, I'm afraid.

Moreover, Wang Hong soon found that after smelling the fragrance of this "wine", he felt that the cough in his chest naturally subsided a little - sure enough, this thing was really related to the treatment of diseases and cough suppression.

Ye Zhengming stood up in the car. Shake the small bottle in your hand and sprinkle the liquid in the bottle everywhere without worrying about the image. If Wang Hong was lucky enough to see the appearance of the folk wizard when he exorcised the demon and jumped the great god, it would not be difficult to associate Ye Zhengming with him.

But Wang Hong unfortunately has no experience of observing this scene with his own eyes, although he has dabbled a little in the book, but it is far less vivid than the impression after seeing it with his own eyes. At this time, his cough decreased slightly. Seeing that Ye Zhengming didn't care about his demeanor at all in order to achieve the purpose of administering medicine and curing diseases, he was just grateful. and deeply agreed with Ye Zhengming's move to pull the curtain just now.

Presumably he will also trust and indulge some of Ye Zhengming's small actions more because of his recollection of this incident in the future, in fact, Ye Zhengming has often been like this in front of him in recent years, and a certain feeling in his heart is also accumulating day by day.

Soon I finished this part of the adjuvant treatment of the liquid medicine. Ye Zhengming sat down cross-legged in front of the second prince again, and then he poured the vial in the air. He took a few drops of the wine-scented liquid in the palm of his hand, then put down the bottle, quickly rubbed his palm with the liquid medicine, and said in a loud voice: "Please undress Your Highness." ”

Wang Hong's expression on his face was unnatural for a moment, but he still quickly did as Ye Zhengming meant.

Ye Zhengming didn't care about any etiquette rules, rubbed his palms, then pasted Wang Hong's vest, pushed and rubbed it, touched it about thirty times, and then wrapped his palm in front of Wang Hong and stuck it on his right chest, but only pushed twenty times, and finally withdrew.

The robe was taken off by Wang Hong himself, but in the end, it was Ye Zhengming who served and wore it back, which can be regarded as filling part of the etiquette obligations of being a courtier.

At this time, Wang Hong only felt that there were two fires on each of his chest and back, which were the positions that Ye Zhengming had just taken with the medicinal solution, and his whole body gradually warmed up because of these two fires, and he almost forgot the chill in his cavity that made him cough.

Wang Hong thought that Ye Zhengming's treatment measures would be over at this time, but unexpectedly, he handed over the delicate small bottle and said, "There are still a few drops left, please take it for Your Highness." ”

Wang Hong was surprised and said, "Do you want to drink it in your stomach?" ”

Ye Zhengming didn't answer this question, but after nodding, he said seriously: "The liquid medicine is too small, not enough to swallow a mouthful, but this medicine can't be swallowed too quickly, you need to hold it in your mouth for a while, and then swallow it after closing the saliva." ”

In fact, Wang Hong didn't want to ask about the method of taking this medicine, the question that made him feel incredible and slightly worried was that if this liquid that smelled like liquor and felt like fire on the skin, if swallowed in the stomach, would it burn the stomach and intestines?

No matter how much he trusted Ye Zhengming, it would not break his ability to question his concerns, but in the end, the spirit of trust prevailed, Wang Hong only hesitated for a moment, then took the bottle, and took the last few drops of the liquid according to Ye Zhengming's instructions.

Wang Hong was mentally prepared to taste the spirits, but when the few drops of liquid stained his tongue, he only felt a cool sensation similar to mint.

However, it wasn't until the potion was completely swallowed, and after a few moments, he felt its medicinal power, as if a fire was burning in his abdomen. There were three fires burning inside and outside like this, but it didn't make people feel any pain, but it was as if the frozen limbs and hundreds of bones had been pushed by the heat to wake up, and the whole body was extremely useful.

Wang Hong exhaled softly, without the slightest cough, and even every finger warmed up.

Looking at this good change embodied in Wang Hong, Ye Zhengming finally showed a smile on his face: "Are you comfortable?" ”

Wang Hong also smiled and nodded.

Ye Zhengming seemed to be coaxing a child to be happy, and then asked, "Don't you think it's very strange?" ”

Regarding the bottle of potion, Wang Hong hadn't thought in this direction yet, but after Ye Zhengming mentioned it, he suddenly felt the same way. But when he was about to speak. He suddenly realized a problem again, and said in surprise: "This medicine ...... Something strange. ”

"Even His Highness can sense it." Ye Zhengming sighed, "The style and quality of the work are actually related to the character and nature of the author. This bottle of medicine is someone else's work. ”

In fact, when Wang Hong first spoke, he had this answer faintly in his heart. At this time, seeing Ye Zhengming take the initiative to mention it, he simply stopped interjecting and only listened quietly, because he felt that Ye Zhengming would take the initiative to mention other people's works so seriously. I'm afraid it's not just a bottle of medicine.

However, after a long silence, Ye Zhengming's first words made Wang Hong's heart skip a beat.

"Your Highness......" Ye Zhengming raised the hand that had been smeared with medicine just now. Leaned close to his nose and sniffed, then looked at the second prince Wang Hong, and then said: "If from the beginning, Weichen will tell you that this bottle of medicine was refined by Liao Shi. Will you hesitate to abandon it? ”

Wang Hong looked at Ye Zhengming's gaze and froze, but he didn't answer the question.

Ye Zhengming waited silently for a moment, but did not get an echo, and he didn't ask, just smiled faintly, and said slowly: "Because there are rumors that Liao Shi is the same demon doctor who can refine people's puppets. So by the way, he was given the nickname of a medicine ghost, and Liao Shi laughed at himself with this, saying that he refined this medicine. It's called 'Three Fires.'" It is rumored that there are a total of three fires on the body and shoulders of the person, and if you extinguish one place, you will be vulnerable to evil things, and if you kill three places, you will be dissipated. But it's not about burning evil fire in the human body. I watched while he was refining this bottle. He doesn't have the slightest witchcraft. ”

The second prince, Wang Hong, suddenly opened his mouth and said: "Liao Shi is a person, and the medicine ghost is just a title." ”

"Your Highness is a person who can look at things objectively, minister, and it is true that he is happy and convinced." Ye Zhengming's tone of voice suddenly became respectful, "However, Liao Shi has never made any mild medicine, this is his personal style that he knows most on the bright side. The medicine that Weichen used for His Highness just now, in fact, Liao Shi refined this bottle, and he himself said that he would not refine the second bottle. ”

When Wang Hong heard this, he suddenly felt a burst of regret, and couldn't help but say, "This medicine is very good, why don't you make good use of it?" If it is a first product, there are still some improprieties in zài, and it should be slowly improved. ”

Ye Zhengming was silent and hesitated for a long time.

Although Wang Hong's words only mentioned a few words slightly, if you evaluate it strictly, Liao Shilian's unique bottle of potion is really just a first product. Perhaps Liao Shi had tested the medicinal properties of animals before refining the formula, but at least this was the first time that this medicine had embodied its medicinal properties in humans. And this person who tasted medicine was a prince.

Today's emperor has only two princes.

After concentrating for a long time, Ye Zhengming finally spoke slowly: "The fire on the wick needs to be continuously supplied with oil from the root of the wick in order to keep burning." This medicine ...... Injuries. ”

When Ye Zhengming said this, it was tantamount to looking for death.

The meaning of his words, describing his behavior just now, was simply using the body of the second prince as a drug test game.

Although Wang Hong's body is weak, his mind is not muddy, and when he heard Ye Zhengming say it so bluntly, he couldn't help but be stunned, and his mind sank in an instant, but he quickly calmed himself down.

In the end, it is because of the trust in Ye Zhengming that he has become thick over the years and can withstand the twists and turns of a certain process, so that his perspective on the problem has always been firmly biased.

After taking a deep breath, Wang Hong showed a relaxed and relieved smile on his face, looked at Ye Zhengming, and said seriously: "Uncle Ye, you are so bold, you are crazy. ”

Wang Hong said this at this time, in fact, it was a bit similar to convicting Ye Zhengming of the crime of rebellion, if Ye Zhengming had scruples, he would definitely immediately open his mouth to defend himself, saying a bunch of reasons why he had no choice and had to apply medicine like this.

But he just lowered his voice, laughed a few times, and didn't say a word, not knowing what he meant.