Chapter 2: The Pain of the Zhao People
The young woman lived in a dilapidated thatched hut facing the street less than 30 square meters, so the scene inside the house had long been seen by the "spectators" who were crowded outside. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Although they couldn't hear the muttering from the mouth of Old Doctor Liu, from the increasingly solemn dark old face, everyone could guess a few points.
There was already some noise outside the house, but now the "visitors" saw that Dr. Liu frowned tightly and said something in his mouth, but there was inevitably a commotion again. Although there was a lot of noise outside, it was unusually quiet inside. Perhaps out of exhaustion, or perhaps out of despair, the young woman, who had been whimpering, was now just staring blankly at the boy. The old doctor Liu on the side was still frowning, shaking his head and muttering.
I don't know how long it took, but suddenly another gust of night wind hit, and the two of them who felt the slightest chill shivered inadvertently. Looking at the flickering candlelight jumping up and down, the thoughtful old doctor Liu seemed to think of something, and then turned his head and instructed the apprentice beside him: "Ping'er, heat the decoction you brought again, and mash all the herbs prepared in advance for later use!" Afterwards, I brought some firewood and grass from home and brought some candles, remember? ”
Ping'er is the apprentice of Dr. Liu. The reason why he was named Ping'er was because this child was picked up by Old Doctor Liu on the battlefield of the Battle of Changping.
"Hey!"
The little medicine man answered cleanly, and then he took something out of the medicine box familiarly. Old Physician Liu watched the little medicine apprentice take out the medicine and muttered, "Alas...... I hope this new drug will work wonders, otherwise ......"
Seeing this, the woman kneeling by the kang wanted to get up and kowtow to Doctor Liu to thank her, but because she had been kneeling on the ground for a long time, her legs and feet were numb, and after she got up suddenly, the young woman began to feel dizzy, and her feet and knees were sore and staggered. Seeing this, Old Doctor Liu hurriedly stepped forward to help her, and then said to the young woman, "Don't panic, child...... Don't panic......"
The young woman nodded helplessly, and when her attention returned to the child, the tears began to flow again.
Looking at the young woman with pear blossoms and rain, Dr. Liu comforted in a low voice: "Although the child's condition is not very optimistic, it is not that he can only sit and wait. The old man felt that if he could get the miracle doctor Xia Wuqi to cooperate with the old man and assist in the use of the old man's new medicine...... Not...... Then it is not impossible to save the child's life! After all, the child was treated by Xia Wuqi last time, and he should know more about the child's injuries. ”
Dr. Liu's words made the young woman happy and sad at the same time. The good news is that the child's life is still possible, and the sad thing is that the young woman does not think that Xia Wuqi will cooperate with Old Doctor Liu because of saving her child.
Thinking of this, the young woman said with a sad face: "Doctor Xia's brother also died in the Battle of Changping, and he has hated the Qin people since then. Usually Dr. Lixia is not kind to our mother and son, and if the child was seriously injured last time, if it wasn't related to her daughter, he would definitely not treat my son! ”。 After the young woman finished speaking, she lay down on the child and wiped her tears, and the old doctor Liu was stunned when he heard this, and his brows furrowed again.
The thatched hut was not large, and the words of the young woman were naturally heard by the "warm-hearted" people outside. When the young woman "complained" that Xia Wuqi did not give her child medical treatment, Zhao Ren outside the house suddenly boiled.
In the crowd, a middle-aged woman who was holding the door of the house scolded excitedly: "Hmph! You slut still has the face to say that Doctor Xia, you don't look at what you are? A good Zhao Guoren doesn't marry a hostage of Qin, you are really cheap! ”
Another middle-aged woman chimed in: "That's it! I see, Old Man Liu is also nosy! So many people in our Zhao Kingdom still can't be cured, what do you care about him as a Qin State wild seed? ”
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The young woman seemed to have been accustomed to the invectives of the crowd for a long time, and her mood did not fluctuate much because of the insults outside the house. Unlike the young woman's reaction, Dr. Liu's face instantly turned ugly after hearing the insults outside the house.
Just as everyone was pointing fingers at the young woman and insulting her, a young man in the crowd muttered impatiently: "A group of old women know how to bully people......
Although it was muttering, it still made a group of red-faced women listen to it after all.
"Yo he! What's the matter, little Liu'er, are you not happy to scold this little slut? Are you distressed...... aren't you?" a middle-aged woman gave the young man an angry look, and then began to scold him irrelentlessly. The woman's insults were accompanied by the other women's coaxing, and suddenly the outside of the house became even more noisy.
At this time, Dr. Liu was already upset, and the noise outside the house made him angry, and then turned around and walked outside.
When Dr. Liu walked out of the grass house, the streets and alleys were instantly quieter, and the original noisy and invulnerable sounds were replaced by whispers. Old Doctor Liu looked angry, arched his hand towards everyone and said, "Folks, it's getting late at this time, and it's already night when you go out of the house, if you have nothing else, please go back!" ”
Old Doctor Liu's words made the faces of the "spectators" change slightly, and as soon as the words fell, some people who were afraid of causing trouble and eating whips quietly left. Just as everyone was about to disperse, a middle-aged woman in the crowd suddenly shouted: "Oh, look at what you said, old man! We are all honest ordinary people, where do we dare to deliberately commit the night, and everyone is not guilty of the night because of that little slut? ”
The crowd was about to disperse, but with the woman's words, the crowd stopped.
Seeing this, Old Doctor Liu was so angry that his lean old face couldn't help twitching, and his slightly cloudy old eyes glared at the mouthy woman fiercely. Just when Old Doctor Liu was about to open his mouth to scold, the woman spoke again and said to Old Doctor Liu: "Old man, you have a good nature, so you can treat the wild seeds of the Qin people regardless of family hatred and national hatred. But...... But ......"
The woman suddenly choked up when she said this, and then her eyes turned red and she hid her face and ran away from the crowd. Although the woman did not say it directly, everyone present knew the intention of the middle-aged woman to say this to Old Doctor Liu.
Looking at the woman's gradually blurred slender back, the originally noisy crowd was unusually quiet. However, this state lasted only a few seconds before being broken by the cries of the women. And at this moment, the old doctor Liu, who was originally angry, didn't know when, and there were a few more tears on the old face of the ravine.
In fact, what the middle-aged woman said was right, just ten years ago, the large-scale, tragic and tragic Battle of Changping broke out between Qin and Zhao in Changping. Due to the complete defeat of the Zhao State, hundreds of thousands of Zhao soldiers were captured and killed. When the bad news reached the territory of Zhao State, the entire Zhao State fell into chaos and sorrow. Almost every family of the people of Zhao has relatives who died in the Battle of Changping, and the poor people of Zhao have not even seen the bones of their own families, so they can only pay tribute to and remember their deceased relatives in their own memories, and the subsequent Battle of Handan made the entire Zhao Kingdom even worse.
In the face of these two catastrophes, Dr. Liu's family was not spared. Doctor Liu's son, grandson, and even great-grandson all died on the battlefield one after another. The three generations of ancestors and grandchildren, who were originally in the rear and should not have died, were brutally cut off by the Qin army because of King Zhao's mediocrity and Zhao Kuo's incompetence, which became a sign of the Qin soldiers' invitation to merit. Losing a child in old age is already grieving, let alone being old and cutting off incense?
As soon as Dr. Liu cried, Zhao Guoren outside the house cried even more painfully. After a while, the crying shook the sky, startling the officers and soldiers who were patrolling the night and rushed here with no life. In a few moments, the alarmed night patrol officers and soldiers rushed over, and the originally dark alley was suddenly illuminated by more than a dozen blazing fires......