One.

In the twentieth year of King Chen, the second year I became prime minister, maybe it was my new official who took office, God wanted to test me, this year was not peaceful, starting from the incident of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in early spring.

Two.

When I was eighteen years old, I married my wife, Yao Dongkui. Mrs. is the daughter of the Ministry of Shangshu, my father-in-law dispatches and manages the officials of the court, is the oldest one in the six books, gave birth to a litter of sons, on Mrs. a daughter, naturally is pampered in every way, accustomed to my wife has always been the same, and most like shopping, but also particularly loser. Bare rouge, rouge of the same color she wants to buy the products of all the rouge stores in Qiwu City. As a progressive woman (she is self-proclaimed), she gritted her teeth with hatred for "concubine", the normal way of life and entertainment for men in the Chen Kingdom, so my original dream of marrying twenty little wives was also shattered.

Madame is in good health, I don't want the east wind to blow a little fiercely this year, and in early spring, Madame was blown down like a beauty lamp. I asked Qiu Ming to go to the palace to ask for a doctor, and Qiu Ming came back and told me that Princess Xiaoxiang was also sick, and all the doctors in the hospital were called to serve in the old man's pavilion, and the palace was in chaos.

As soon as I heard that there was something wrong with Princess Xiaoxiang, I dispelled the idea of looking for a doctor. Han Chen, the little fragrant princess of Chenguo, is also a legend, I was her companion for a few years when I was a child, she was smart and clever since she was a child, and she was crowned an heir at the age of five, nicknamed Xiaoxiang, and given the name Linde. I don't know how this nickname came about, but it is rumored that the princess was born with a fragrance, and the folk also call her Princess Xiaoxiang.

Princess Xiaoxiang is sick, so naturally she comes first.

After Qiu Ming returned home, I found some doctors from the folk medical center, and they all said that Mrs. was tuberculosis and could not be saved, so scared that the teacup I drank tea fell off, and they thought I was angry, so they knelt down and kept kowtowing. At this moment, Sun Yuji sent someone to pass the word from the palace: You go to see Chen Lixia.

Sun Yuji asked me to find Chen Lixia, and I was startled at first. The three hospitals have been in dispute for a long time, and Chen Lixia is the first descendant of the Chen family to be out. And Chen Lixia is a person, I know, he is a man in the rivers and lakes, although his medical skills can be crowned in the world, but he has a rule, that is, to exchange people's hearts for human lives, claiming that saving a person is to break the balance of the world, and he must kill a person, so the world calls him a doctor.

Chen Lixia wants people's hearts, no one knows what he is doing with it, a dignified seven-foot man, it is not the fox demon who eats people's hearts in the painting, he kills people for a while, and there are countless enemies. But Chen Lixia relied on his golden needle stunt that is said to make the blind see and bring the dead back to life, and he lives well, and he should eat and drink.

When I was a child, my family education was strict, unlike He Yunsheng, who could practice martial arts, and could also mix in the rivers and lakes, although I didn't have the opportunity to contact the people in the rivers and lakes, most of these people's things were also heard from He Yunsheng, but I was very yearning for the things in the rivers and lakes. Li Xing, a famous poet in Chenguo, said well that every child has a dream of rivers and lakes when he is a child.

Now there was an opportunity for me to meet the famous killer, but I hesitated. At this time, I am already the prime minister of a country, and it is impossible to ask Chen Lixia to get on the stage. Although Sun Yuji said in her words that she had made friends with Chen Lixia when she was practicing medicine abroad, she had already sent someone to greet Chen Lixia, and as long as I went, he would be a doctor.

I thought about it, and when I saw that my wife's face was getting paler, I decided to take Qiu Ming to find Chen Lixia.

Chen Lixia's house is on the edge of the secluded Beita Street, and it is said that secluded is what I lifted, but in fact, it is a residential area that the Ministry of Industry has forgotten after the new city was planned. His house is Zhuxuan, you can smell the fragrance of medicine from a distance, there are a lot of medicinal herbs planted outside Zhuxuan in the fence, Qiu Ming and I carefully bypassed this field that was not very neatly planned, and stepped into Zhuxuan.

Chen Lixia sat in the smoke boiling medicine, his face was bloodless, his clothes were terrible, his hair was not curled, and he was not tied, when he saw me coming, he put down his fan and said, "The Aracea outside is not stepping on it." ”

Qiu Ming said: "What is your attitude towards Xiangye..."

"Autumn tea." I said in my heart that after all, I came to beg someone, "I didn't step on it, I bypassed it." ”

"That's good, if you step on my Aracea, be careful I stomp your foot." Chen Lixia said the threatening words to me indifferently, "Yuji told me, but Prime Minister, you know my rules." ”

I felt that I must not lose in momentum, so I learned his tone and said: "I naturally know, I am here, if you cure my wife, don't say a heart, even ten hundred I will give you; If it can't be cured, I'll take your one carefully. ”

Chen Lixia got up and extinguished the stove and said, "I'm ready, I can go." ”

"Where's your needle?" I wondered. Chen Lixia's golden needle stunt has long been spread in the rivers and lakes, and I see that he is empty-handed, just like the furnishings of this house.

"The needle is naturally in a place where the prime minister can't see it." Chen Lixia said.

I nodded, looked around, the room furnishings are terrifyingly simple, there are a lot of paintings on the wall, the painting is exquisite, and the style looks like the work of Wu Mo, a famous painter in the Chen Kingdom. But asking Wu Mo to paint is not something that ordinary people can afford, not to mention that Chen Lixia is not a rich person at first glance. There is a large empty piece in the center of the wall, which looks a little abrupt. I said in my heart that Chen Lixia's decoration taste is not very good, and his paintings are also messy.

In the carriage back to the Prime Minister's Mansion, I couldn't help but ask about the painting, but Chen Lixia was very direct and did not hide it: "It's Wu Mo's paintings, all of them." ”

"So much? Can you afford to buy so many Wu Mo's paintings, and still live in that shabby place? I asked.

"Why can't it be that I bought so many Wu Mo's paintings, so I can only live in that shabby place." Chen Lixia said lightly.

When I thought about it, Qiu Ming, who was sitting on the side peeling oranges for me, heard this, and said with a smile: "Speaking of Wu Mo's paintings, didn't Xiangye just buy one a few days ago and dedicate it to Your Majesty?" I saw that it was really beautiful. ”

"Of course, it cost me three gold to buy it, and it's the biggest painting Wu Mo has ever painted." I said proudly, "Your Majesty likes it very much, and it is hanging in the upper study." ”

"A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains?" Chen Lixia's tone rarely changed.

"Isn't it "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", the painting of Wucheng and Guxi Mountain is nine feet long." Qiu Ming said, "Mr. Chen also knows how to paint? ”

"I understand a little." Chen Lixia said lightly.

When I arrived at the Prime Minister's Mansion, my wife was still lying on the bed, her face was pale and she kept coughing. Chen Lixia first checked his wife's pulse, then wanted to prepare the stove, and asked me to retreat.

"I don't like others to be present when I use needles, if Xiangye is not at ease, he can stay, and others must leave." Chen Lixia said, and out of nowhere, he conjured a needle in his hand. I said in my heart that you have a really big temper, but you still let everyone go out, and even Qiu Ming rushed to the door to wait.

Chen Lixia conjured up two more needles, and when I saw that they were not golden, I said, "Didn't you say that you used gold needles?" ”

"I never said I used gold needles, but it was handed down by the world, and I always used silver needles." Chen Lixia burned the needle on the fire and inserted it into my wife's eyebrows, his movements were crisp and neat, and he said unhurriedly: "I can save her, or I can kill her, do you believe it." ”

I never thought of this reversal: "What do you want to do?!" ”

"Please do me a favor." Chen Lixia said quietly.

"What's the rush? Chen Lixia, do you know who you are threatening? "I felt a pain in my heart, it's over, Madame loves beauty so much, if she leaves a needle's eye, she won't be angry? Or do I advise my wife to keep some broken hair?

"Xiangye promised me first." Chen Lixia's fingers holding the needle pinched the needle and turned it a few times.

"You say!"

"I want "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains"." Chen Lixia said.

"You're crazy, I've already dedicated "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" to Your Majesty!"

"And I want Xiangye to help me find Wu Mo."

"Are you finished?"

Chen Lixia shrugged, and the needle in his other hand was also put on the fire to burn, and I immediately softened: "Okay!" I promise you, I promise! Chen Lixia took it back with his other hand, and I dared to say, "What do you want that painting for?" What do you do with Wu Mo? ”

"I have my own reasoning, Xiang Ye doesn't need to ask more, but I can tell Xiang Ye a word," Chen Lixia looked into my eyes and said word by word, "If you don't take back that painting, Wu Mo will die." ”

I was taken aback by him, I am still familiar with Wu Mo, Wu Mo became famous as a young man, often sat on the streets of Wucheng to paint, I often took my pocket money to ask Wu Mo to paint, on my fifteenth birthday, my third brother asked Wu Mo to paint a small portrait for me, I still have it.

Seeing that I didn't speak, Chen Lixia continued: "Just now I have poisoned the prime minister's wife, the antidote, I only have a total of ten here, if the prime minister does not do it within ten days, the wife will die, and the death is very miserable." I can't describe how miserable it is, because it's too miserable to describe. And Xiangye, no one can solve the poison I matched. ”

Chen Lixia withdrew the needle, bowed to me, and swaggered out.

After Chen Lixia left, the more I thought about it, the more angry I became, thinking about whether to find He Yunsheng to force him to say the antidote, and then kill him to discourage. Just as I was about to make a plate, King Ping suddenly summoned me to the palace. It stands to reason that today is a national holiday, what can we do?

I was full of worries, and I didn't have the heart to take the carriage, so I led a horse and went to Yangri Palace.