Chapter 2: The Great Calamity
"Da Lang, good Da Lang, you are finally willing to call the concubine Ah Niang, mother...... It's worth it to die! Aunt Xue was almost half-hung in the crook of Li Zhongyi's arm, crying for a while, laughing again, like crazy.
Li Zhongyi has been attached to the Li family for many months across time and space, and he knows a little about Aunt Xue's heart disease.
The old owner of this skin, in order to please his mother-in-law with a prominent family, deliberately treated his biological mother Aunt Xue very coldly, and often scolded and insulted Aunt Xue in front of many people, making her disgraced and painful.
Although the head of the family, Li Dahe, is a medical officer, he has also learned the typical style of a scholar, and he ignores the affairs of the back house or pretends to be deaf and dumb.
The husband doesn't care, and the son keeps talking badly, this Aunt Xue's life can be imagined to be difficult.
Because they were in a hurry to flee for their lives, the three of them were not slow, but who would have thought that as soon as they arrived at the back door, they saw a large group of fierce and vicious generals, shouting and pouring in from outside the door.
"Da Lang, you hurry up and go out over the wall, my mother will block them......"
At the critical moment, Aunt Xue didn't know where the monstrous courage came from, so she actually stepped forward and opened her tender arms to block in front of Li Zhongyi.
"The little ones, they all put their tricks on Lao Tzu, and they are not even allowed to run a single grasshopper...... " Li Zhongyi heard the shouts outside the wall, and couldn't help but sigh softly, it was obviously a fantasy to escape over the wall.
The generals who rushed through the back door forced the three of them to a corner of the wall with knives and guns amid the shouts of the officers.
Facing the cold light of the murder weapon, Aunt Xue was obviously scared to death, her lips were black, and her whole body was trembling, but she was still sheltered in front of Li Zhongyi.
In an instant, the softest part of Li Zhongyi's heart was hit by a huge and unparalleled force, and the warm current overflowed all over his body.
"Auntie, I'm a man." Li Zhongyi looked at Aunt Xue with a smile, his expression was resolute, and the meaning revealed in his eyes was extremely clear, he was a man, and he had to stand up.
"Big ...... Da Lang ...... "Aunt Xue was anxious to hold Li Zhongyi, but Li Zhongyi had already stepped over Aunt Xue quietly, blocking her and the bottle behind her with a slightly thin body.
After the generals took control of the house, they didn't act rudely to Li Zhongyi and them, but just stared at them coldly.
After a short time, there were a series of shouts from the front door, "The envoy has arrived!" β
"Hurry up, hurry up ......" Under the threat of the generals' swords and guns, Li Zhongyi and the others were driven to the front of the main hall.
A white-faced, beardless eunuch, holding an edict in his hand, stood on the steps.
Maybe it was because he saw the big burden on Li Zhongyi's shoulders, and the eunuch asked with a smile: "You have been prepared for a long time, do you want to leave your relatives, or do you want to visit the door?" β
The wall fell down and everyone pushed it, which is really a wise saying.
This eunuch obviously wanted to make fun of them, so as to have fun, and imitate the story of the cat and the mouse.
For this kind of ridicule of Cheng DΓΉ, with Li Zhongyi's knowledge and experience, he should only be a breeze blowing through his ears.
Li Zhongyi coughed lightly, and after attracting the attention of the eunuch, Fang smiled and said: "I just want to leave my relatives, I don't want the envoy to arrive, and I don't want to entertain the envoy well, and I hope that the envoy will not be surprised." β
"Huh......" The eunuch looked at Li Zhongyi with some surprise, he was just a trick with the chance to win, but he didn't expect the kid under the rank to have such courage, which was unexpected.
"Since the envoy has come to receive an edict, why don't you wait for a while, let the incense table be placed under it, and listen to the holy will." Li Zhongyi restrained the fear and panic in his heart, and politely bowed deeply at the eunuch.
Until now, Li Zhongyi still only knows that his father Li Dahe treated the concubine and cured a big problem, but he doesn't know the inside story at all, what he needs most now is time, so that he can carefully ponder and even inquire about this matter.
The eunuch didn't want to agree to Li Zhongyi's request, but helplessly, the imperial court had strict regulations on the process of receiving the edict, and it was indeed necessary to set up incense cases.
The eunuch looked around, his eyes swept over the generals who were three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, and he thought about it, anyway, the person has been charged, can this cooked duck still fly away?
"Hehe, I can't rub too much sand in my eyes. Children, you are a concubine, and I am afraid that it will not be your turn to set up incense cases to receive edicts. The eunuch laughed a few times, and suddenly shouted, "Come on, bring them all." β
"Whoa!" In the shouts and cheers of the generals, Li Zhongyi suddenly saw his crying mother-in-law Cao, and his second brother Li Zhonghao, who was colorless, being pushed and escorted over.
Li Zhonghao's originally handsome face had a few dazzling blood marks, his gray head was dirty, his head was scattered, he looked like a madman, where was there still half of the Li family's grandeur?
Under the gaze of everyone, maybe because of the guilt of running away in private, or maybe for some other reason, Li Zhonghao always avoided Li Zhongyi's sight and didn't dare to look at him.
As soon as Li Zhongyi saw that his mother-in-law and second brother were also arrested, he immediately understood that the news of his father Li Dahe's accident could reach the family in time, and it was likely that someone deliberately set a trap.
Thinking about it, the Li family is just a mere home for the imperial doctor from the sixth grade, and the major events in the palace, if it weren't for the arrangement of someone with a heart, how could it be spread to the family so quickly?
"Li Jiaerlang, what are you still doing, hurry up and set up the incense case, and take the edict?" The eunuch glanced at Li Zhongyi smugly, and his expression was quite disdainful.
In the red walls of later generations, Li Zhongyi has seen too much of the that is similar to the red top white and falling into the well, so he naturally doesn't care at all.
The eunuch urged Li Zhonghao repeatedly, and Li Zhonghao's whole body trembled, like a patient with typhoid fever, and he swung vigorously, and finally stumbled and trembled: "YiqiΔ...... A qiΔ is up to the eldest brother to call the shots. There was an uproar.
The bottle was so angry that her face was purple, she completely forgot her fear and identity, and shouted coquettishly: "The advantage of the family has been taken advantage of by you, but this unfortunate thing has to be borne by Da Langjun, what kind of truth is this?" β
Li Zhongyi secretly shook his head, his younger brother has been pampered since he was a child, and he has never experienced wind and waves, and this mud can't support the wall after all.
"Honorable envoy, it's not too early this day, why don't you do it on your behalf?" Li Zhongyi took half a step forward and respectfully slammed to the ground.
The eunuch looked up at the setting sun that was about to set in the west, and then at Li Zhongyi, who was calm, hesitated for a while, and finally nodded, and said, "Hurry up and let someone do it, be careful of delaying the hour." β
Li Zhongyi did not delay his work at all, turned his head and instructed the bottle: "Hurry up and find the housekeeper to find the incense candle, don't forget to wipe the incense case clean." β
When the bottle was about to leave, Li Zhongyi raised his hand to stop her and asked, "What are you going to do?" β
"Go...... Go to the housekeeper...... "Bottler is just a maid in a deep house, in the event of a collapse like today, how can you not be flustered, and it is inevitable that something will go wrong."
Li Zhongyi was glad of his caution, he stared at the bottle tightly, spit out word by word, and said the command just now in full twice.
"Don't panic, go ahead." After Li Zhongyi confirmed that it was correct, he gently beat the bottle away.
The eunuch pursed his lips at the bottom of the stairs, and the two generals immediately followed, carrying the bottle to run errands.
"Honorable envoy, the sun shines like a tiger, why don't you go to the hall and take a nap?" Li Zhongyi slowly walked to the bottom of the steps, and several heavily armed generals made a kind invitation to the eunuch.
"No need!" The eunuch categorically rejected Li Zhongyi's request, "You step down." β
Although separated by a few meters, Li Zhongyi's nose still smelled a faint smell of urine mixed with incense, and he nodded secretly, That's right!
Li Zhongyi's purpose in approaching the eunuch was to confirm whether the relevant records in the family medical history were authentic and reliable.
In his previous life, the ancestor of the Li family used to be the top imperial doctor of the Qing Imperial Hospital. According to family history, although Wei Zhu, the great eunuch of the Kangxi period, was emasculate because of that words, he always had an old problem of inexhaustible urine that could not be overcome, and a large number of spices must be used to cover the smell of urine.
Later, because of a crime, the ancestor of the Li family offered Liang Weizhu a home remedy that could significantly suppress urine, which saved his life.
The courtyard was full of heavily guarded generals, and it was obviously impossible for Li Zhongyi to communicate with Cao and Li Zhonghao in private. Then, if you want to find out the truth of the matter, you can only open a breakthrough from the eunuch in front of you.
It's just that since this eunuch has been cut off, it is inevitable that there are some ** and taboos psychologically, and it would be too stupid to poke at his shortcomings in front of so many people.
Although, the history books say, there is no eunuch who does not love money. In this kind of fatal time, money is something outside the body, and it is left in the green mountains, not afraid of running out of firewood.
However, although the Li family has some money, it is all in the hands of his mother-in-law, Cao, and Li Zhongyi does not know the details, so he naturally has no way to start.
Just when Li Zhongyi was in a hurry, his eyes suddenly lit up, and the Li family had half a Korean ginseng that was more than seventy years old.
Li Dahe once drank too much, and once lost his word, that half of the Korean ginseng is a priceless family heirloom, and for the sake of insurance, it has been hidden under the movable floor tiles of the ancestral table.
After making up his mind, Li Zhongyi said respectfully to the eunuch: "Honorable envoy, there is still a seventy-year-old high ginseng Li handed down from the ancestors in the family, and this Korean ginseng is a miracle medicine...... He deliberately stopped halfway up the mountain, wanting to see the eunuch's reaction.
According to medical history, the ancients have always had many ridiculous misunderstandings about the efficacy of Korean ginseng. Korean ginseng in this era was simply touted as a living fairy grass, just as ridiculous as some people in later generations preached that eating raw eggplant can cure all diseases.
"What? What the? Seventy years old Korean ginseng? The eunuch asked silently, glaring at Li Zhongyi in surprise.
"Dare to deceive the envoy in Xia'an?" Li Zhongyi accentuated his tone and gave an unusually positive answer.
The eunuch looked Li Zhongyi up and down suspiciously, his eyes rolled wildly, and his face changed impermanently.
"Please move to the main hall and let me speak in detail." Li Zhongyi didn't dare to delay, and handed the steps to the eunuch in time.
The eunuch hesitated again and again, after all, he couldn't resist the ** of the immortal medicine, he immediately put on a smiling face, and said kindly: "Since Da Lang sincerely serves the king, when the time comes, the miscellaneous family will say so good things for you, and the court is very likely to be extrajudicial." β
Li Zhongyi was secretly funny, this eunuch was just trying to deceive the Korean ginseng, and the so-called promise was not the slightest sincere.
This kind of deception is simply not worth mentioning for Li Zhongyi, who was mixed in the red wall in later generations.
"Envoy, please!" Li Zhongyi didn't dare to delay the precious life-saving time, so he shot first and made a gesture of invitation respectfully.
The eunuch led Li Zhongyi into the main hall with a smile on his face, sat down separately, exchanged a few words of greeting, and then leaned over and asked Li Zhongyi: "Virtuous nephew, I don't know where that Korean ginseng is now?" β
Good guy, even the name has been changed so numbly, isn't it just half a Korean ginseng, may I ask, how much does the festival cost a pound?
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