An Dinghou looked at the hand he had just fought with Xu Lai, and nodded silently, not knowing whether he was responding to Xu Lai's words of sailing against the current, or replying to the words of the people under him.

Xi Yuanxiu and Liu Xiao stood at the door very politely, waiting for An Dinghou to call the two in.

It was only for a moment that Andinghou came back to his senses and used his other hand to call Xi Yuanxiu and the others in.

An Dinghou and Xi Yuanxiu looked at each other, Xi Yuanxiu smiled awkwardly, and An Dinghou also squeezed out a smile with the corner of his mouth, in fact, it was so embarrassing.

Xi Yuanxiu is in the heart of Andinghou, in fact, he can't even compare to Xue Luping, but he is the only son of the former Xiangguo, so he has to take care of one or two in everything.

And when Xi Yuanxiu told Marquis Anding that he was coming to Yangzhou City, I'm afraid only the attendant who didn't know when he disappeared from the prince's side would know.

Except for Xi Yuanxiu's handwritten letter, in the past six years, the two have never even deliberately remembered each other's news.

Andinghou is also because he doesn't like Xi Yuanxiu's lazy style, which was the case in Chang'an Xi Yuanxiu back then, he can sit and never stand, he can sit in a sedan chair, and he never walks.

And Xi Yuanxiu did not take the initiative to get close to this Hou Ye, who had sought a way to survive for him in his most difficult time, and only he knew during this period.

In fact, these two have known each other for so many years, and it seems that only in the backyard of Yangzhou Mansion, it is the most conversational between the two.

"Virtuous nephew, I was in prison a few days ago, and I must have suffered a lot!"

An Dinghou broke the deadlock, and he also noticed that after Xi Yuanxiu came, Xu Lai naturally stood by Xi Yuanxiu's side, and he stood a little later.

Although I didn't look carefully, I couldn't see much of a gap, but all of this was seen by An Dinghou.

And this is enough to show that among the two, Xi Yuanxiu is the leader.

"Uncle is worried, I haven't suffered any grievances, these hardships have been suffered by His Royal Highness Xianwang, and I also bother you to go to this Yangzhou!"

Xi Yuanxiu said respectfully, but his hand was pulling the origami in Xu Lai's arms.

"I just heard Xu say that uncle, your current kung fu is sailing against the current, and uncle, you don't seem to have any intention of refuting him!"

Andinghou gently tapped the lid of the teapot with his fingers and said: "It's okay for me to come here, anyway, I will go back to the capital to report on my work in some time, but by the way, and I can also understand this matter for Your Majesty and relieve Your Majesty's worries, besides, I will not only return to the capital this time to report on my work, but also to see a doctor!" ”

Seeing a doctor, the word illness has always been something that Xi Yuanxiu is very afraid of, so he has always cherished his body, even if he occasionally feels cold, he will deliberately ask the doctor to carefully diagnose the pulse, for fear that something will go wrong.

Xi Yuanxiu looked at Andinghou's ruddy face, and couldn't help laughing: "Uncle won't find such an excuse because he can't afford to lose!" ”

I saw that the tiger guard beside Andinghou invariably moved his footsteps slightly, and his toes were facing Xi Yuanxiu, as if he wanted Xi Yuanxiu to say more than half a word, and his head would move immediately.

Xi Yuanxiu didn't think so, but Liu Xiao tightly grabbed the corner of Xu Lai's clothes and sought refuge.

"Stand down!"

After Andinghou finished speaking tepidly, there were soon only the four of them left in the room.

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"He's sick!"

Xu Lai looked at An Dinghou's hand intently and said.

The reason why a person who is in the prime of life and is the best master in the world does not advance but retreats, I am afraid that only the disease that makes people afraid can do it.

But what kind of illness can make people like An Dinghou helpless, leading to a regression in their skills?

Because of his body, Xi Yuanxiu also learned some fur to see, hear, and cut.

He took a chair and sat down opposite Andinghou, and motioned for the other party to reach over so that he could take a look.

An Dinghou lifted the sleeve of his right hand with his left hand, put it on the table, looked at Xi Yuanxiu's serious appearance, and couldn't help but smile: "Becoming a doctor after a long illness? ”

Xi Yuanxiu laughed silently, put his hand on An Dinghou's wrist, and cut the pulse.

After a while, Xi Yuanxiu stood up with a sad face.

"The pulse is intermittent, but it is strong and powerful, and there are other forces in it, can my uncle tell me what is the disease?"

"Snow floc poison, since the last time I returned to Jiangnan from Chang'an, I found it!"

Such as snow, such as spring breeze catkins, such as maggots attached to bones, with its life.

Liu Xiao nibbled on the pastry and said vaguely: "How can this poison be regarded as a disease, just look for that person surnamed Chu, wouldn't it be good to show it!" ”

Xi Yuanxiu said: "If it is so simple, why should Hou Ye go back to Beijing to seek medical treatment, in ancient times, the saint scraped the bones to cure the poison, and naturally there was a cure, although the Hou Ye could not be compared with it, but if there was a method of detoxification, Hou Ye would not wait so long." ”

"But when did Master Hou get this poison?"

Xu Lai's words.

Since it was discovered after leaving Beijing, then Xiang must be in Chang'an.

But who dares to poison the first martial marquis of this Jingguo in the capital.

When was the poison given, which reminded Xi Yuanxiu of the clues he had found over the years.

"Could it be that after my father, I want to do it to my uncle again?"

Andinghou stretched out his hand back and was silent.

Liu Xiao also stopped his mouth and looked at Xi Yuanxiu.

Xu Lai leaned against the window, his fingers rhythmically tapping the scabbard.

Xi Yuanxiu knew that there was now a big hand that could cover the sky, fiddling with the chess pieces in Jingguo's big chessboard.

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The rainy city could not cover the sand blown by the wind, and the sound of fighting outside the city continued, and such a heavy rain did not wash away the blood stains on the ground.

After a long time, the rain stopped, the sound of fighting also stopped, and the muddy ground was full of corpses.

The battle came suddenly and without warning.

"His grandmother's, are these barbarians crazy, this year before the autumn hunt for them, they pounced on themselves, Your Highness, you must let me out of the city today!" Speaking of this person, he is about thirty years old, compared with the people standing on the side, he looks like a small mountain, with a burly figure, eyes the size of copper bells, a beard, and scars on his face, which is so scary.

The man standing in front of him, in his early twenties, standing on the city wall, like a pine, with a grim face, looked at the barbarians outside the city who were collecting the corpses, and did not reply to the man's words, but asked, "Is there a letter from Yangzhou?" ”

The attendant on the side shook his head.

Li Yuanyan looked at the cloudless sky after the rain, patted the big man on the shoulder, and went down the city wall, what happened outside the city did not seem to be very important to His Royal Highness King Liang, he knew that these barbarians were destined to lose.