Chapter 5: Unrelated Family and State Affairs (II)
It's just a hurry, and I haven't even seen my appearance clearly, so where is the concern?
Luo Yun thought about it in his heart, and he felt confused. If you say that it is love at first sight, and you fall in love, it is nothing. But not only is there a bit of pity lingering, but what he said to Uncle Wu during the day is not all false. It's just that Luo Yun himself can't tell where this pity comes from. It's not like the memories that come to mind naturally when I encounter some special things in the past. For the royal family at this time, Luo Yun really didn't even know their appearance, and he didn't have any memories related to them.
If you look into the bottom of your heart carefully, you may only have some pity for the imperial city, for some of the nobles who were born there, and for those distant women who are like stars but flash like meteors.
Have mercy on their feelings, spare their lives.
Since ancient times, there have been many dirty things in the palace. However, some of the women in it also made the historian sigh. Just like that, the eldest grandson of the queen. If Empress Changsun passes away, will future generations, looking at the historical books of the Tang Dynasty, regret her early death? A virtuous and filial woman like Princess Changle is trapped in a sick body and can't laugh happily to enjoy her youth, so she lingers on the sickbed early, how can she not make people feel pity? If the two little princesses lost their mothers when they were young, they were in the royal family and had no mother's care. The palace is full of filth, two ignorant girls have no love, how can they not be pitied?
Somehow, the cloud suddenly thought of a lot. It's not that Luo Yun cares about the royal family, it's just ......" Luo Yun shook his head, not knowing how to express what he felt in his heart: "I have heard that the eldest grandson queen is very virtuous. When I saw Princess Changle today, I heard her words and was also very filial. Pity...... Although I have never seen the queen's mother, Princess Changle's illness can be seen by Yun to be brought out by beating her mother's womb. As soon as the Taoist returned to Chang'an, he entered the palace to treat his mother, which shows that his body is also ......"
Sun Simiao shook his head slightly: "Poor Dao has practiced medicine for many years and has treated countless patients. Self-knowledge of birth, old age, sickness and death, the normal state of human beings. No matter what the cause of the pathology is or what the pain is, the poor road is just doing its best. The queen's illness is not exhausted. The princess is sick and weak, and she can also recuperate early. Born in the royal family, he has no worries about medicine and food all his life, and he is far better than the small people. Xiaoyou sighed but ...... Some...... Biased. ”
When he heard about the queen's virtue and saw the princess's filial piety, he felt pity for her illness. In Sun Simiao's view, he still cares about the royal family. There are more loving mothers and filial daughters in the people's homes, but the people's homes can't have no worries about food and clothing, and they can't have no worries. Not to mention the daily careful diet, carefully recuperate. If the family is poor, not only is the money not enough to buy medicine, but I am afraid that I will have to drag my sick body to work. Aren't those people more pitiful?
What the Taoist said, Luo Yun understood. The heart of the Taoist healer, saving the sick and relieving the sick, and preaching the doctor. In the eyes of the people of the world and the Taoists, there is only a difference between sickness and health. There is no such thing as high or low. The heart of the Taoist chief, Luo Yun admired. Luo Yun bowed to Sun Simiao, got up and continued: "However, Luo Yun is not a Dao Master. What Luo Yun has seen in this life is not as good as the Taoist in case. Perhaps he is narrow-minded, although he does not value the distinction between the rich and the poor, but he also has no thoughts of helping the people of the world. When Luoyun does not go out of Yunshan, the only people in his heart are the relatives of Lijiazhai. Luo Yun came to Chang'an and encountered Princess Changle falling ill, so he felt pity for the queen and the princess's mother and daughter. Just because I met them, that's all. If you meet someone else, maybe you have the same idea, or you may have different ideas, but it's just for people, not for identity. ”
Sun Simiao looked at Luo Yun expressionlessly, as if he was guessing Luo Yun's thoughts, and slowly opened his mouth for a long time and said, "Xiaoyou is a person who 'meets at will'...... But since Xiaoyou has something in his heart, he deliberately asked the poor Dao to say this, but what do you think? ”
"There is indeed something I want to bother the Taoist chief." Luo Yun summoned Xiao You, took off the gourd tied around its neck, handed it to Sun Simiao with both hands, and said: "If this thing is helpful to the Taoist and beneficial to the queen's body, Yun is willing to give it to the Taoist chief." ”
Sun Simiao looked at the green jade gourd handed to him, but he didn't reach out to take it. Luo Yun was not a person who was secretive about him, and he had studied him when he was in the inn.
If it comes to medicinal wine, when he was in the south, he saw the Dragon Boat Festival, and the Tusu wine that Li Min drank can be regarded as a kind of medicinal wine, and he also helped improve the recipe. Others, such as realgar, tiger whip, snake gallbladder, etc., are not medicines at all in his opinion!
According to the compatibility of monarchs and ministers, the pharmacology is clear. Ordinary one dose of medicine, the main drug plus more than a dozen flavors, more than 20 flavors, its pharmacology is already very complicated. Except for those alchemy practitioners, Sun Simiao had never seen anyone use more than 100 kinds of medicinal materials to prepare a dose of medicine.
The first time he smelled the rich aroma of wine that seemed to be indissolvable, Sun Simiao had a feeling. After tasting it, he confirmed that if it weren't for the medicinal effect of the wine brewed from plants, trees, flowers and fruits, those rich medicines would be directly condensed into pills after the fire refining of an alchemy furnace.
As Luo Yun said, the person who refines medicine does not save the life of medicine at all, but only for various flavors of wine. Feeling the methods of the world's masters, Sun Simiao still wanted to figure out Luo Yun's purpose: "You want me to use this medicine to save people?" Or do you want me to dedicate myself to the royal family? ”
"Yun hopes that the Taoist can use this wine to relieve the pain of the queen and the princess." Luo Yun spoke earnestly, and the hand holding the green jade gourd was handed forward again.
Sun Simiao leaned over and took the gourd, looked at Luo Yun and said solemnly: "Yun'er can know that the royal family is rich all over the world and sits on the world. Every year, countless tributes are paid from all over the world, but because there are too many things, His Majesty the Emperor doesn't care about most of them. However, if something is paid attention to by His Majesty, whether it is something or a person who dedicates it, it will inevitably attract the attention of the government and the opposition, and from all directions. Sun Simiao paused slightly, and asked in a cautious tone, "Luo Yun, are you ready?" ”
Luo Yun was stunned, what Sun Simiao said he really hadn't thought about. But that's not something he'll think. "It is not my will to hear and attract attention. Yun just wanted to help the mother and daughter alleviate some of their illness and suffering, but this matter was only because of Luo Yun's personal feelings, and it had nothing to do with the family and the country. ”
Sun Simiao smiled: "In this case, Poor Dao knows how to use this wine." After speaking, he got up and said goodbye to Luo Yun. When he walked to the door, he turned back and asked, "I don't know what the name of this wine is?" ”
Luo Yun thought for a while and said, "It's called Monkey Bar!" Seeing Sun Simiao's thoughtfulness, he explained: "The materials used in winemaking are all picked by apes in the mountains. ”
"I see. Little friends don't have to send it, let's rest early. ”
Seeing Sun Daochang away, Luo Yun felt confused in his heart. It's only been a day since I came to Chang'an, but I encountered a lot of things that I never thought about. I thought about a lot of questions that I never thought about when I was in Yunshan. But it's a little overwhelming.
This night, with too many thoughts and too many worries, Luo Yun not only suffered from insomnia but also caught a cold. Early the next morning, when Cheng Mu shouted for Luo Yun to get up, Luo Yun muttered a few times and did not move. Cheng Mu didn't think it was strange, thinking that Luo Yun was just dozing off in bed. When breakfast was ready, when he went to call Luo Yun again, he came to the side of the couch only to find that Luo Yun's face was flushed and his forehead was hot. Cheng Mu was shocked, and hurriedly called his father over, and then went to find Sun Simiao.
When Sun Simiao heard the news, he asked and asked for a prescription, and the Taoist boy who accompanied him immediately rushed to grab the medicine. Sun Simiao stayed in front of Luo Yun's couch until he watched Luo Yun drink the medicine, the high fever gradually faded, and he fell asleep peacefully. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief and instructed Cheng Wu and his son to wait until Luo Yun woke up to take the medicine again.
Later, the envoy from the palace summoned Sun Simiao into the palace, and Sun Simiao prescribed an extra prescription and handed it to Cheng Wu for the purpose of recuperating after Luoyun's illness, and then left with the palace people in a hurry.
Cheng Wu and his son have been staying in front of Luo Yun's bed, constantly using wet wipes to cool Luo Yun. By noon, Luo Yun's high fever had completely faded, his body temperature had returned to normal, he woke up and took medicine, drank a bowl of white porridge, and then fell asleep again because of poor spirits. Cheng Wu finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Luo Yun was sleeping peacefully and that there was no major problem. Seeing that it was still early outside the window, I thought that I finally couldn't let go of what was in my heart, so I explained to my son, saying that I was going out and would be back soon.
Cheng Mu was surprised when he heard this, he didn't expect his father to leave when Luo Yun fell ill, looking at his father who seemed to be preoccupied, he opened his mouth to ask, but he still didn't dare to ask, he just agreed and nodded.
Cheng Wu carried more than 20 copper coins with him, and he didn't bring anything else, so he walked out of the Taoist temple, looked left and right, and walked towards the nearest fangmen.
In the fourteenth year of the Sui Dynasty, Cheng Wushang was in the Wagang Army at that time, when Li Mixian was defeated by Yu Culture and his vitality was greatly damaged, and then he was defeated by Wang Shichong and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. It was in that defeat that Cheng Wu escaped. Crawling out of the pile of dead people, I heard that several generals had either escaped or were captured by Wang Shichong, Cheng Wu no longer had the intention of continuing to fight, and wandered around alone.
Relying on self-conceited force and the horse lance in his hand, he robbed when he had no food to eat, and occasionally did the work of robbing the road, but he no longer hurt people's lives indiscriminately. At that time, the Tang army occupied Chang'an, and the Tang Dynasty was subordinate to the Turks, so the land of Guanzhong was still peaceful, and Cheng Wu also thought about finding a place to settle down and learn the craft to eat. It's just that before he could choose a place to settle down, a mountain robbery changed the fate of half of his life.
When Cheng Wu later remembered or talked about it with his beloved wife Su Mei, he couldn't help but be silly. Who would have thought that he was alone and cautiously robbed in the middle of the mountain, and it was not a caravan that was robbed, but two small peasant people with four or five steamed bread in their baggage, and they actually provoked a dozen strong men who danced knives and guns. After being beaten hard, Cheng Wu was dragged to death by Li Zhenxing, who beat him the hardest, and dragged him to Luoyun's cheap father Li Zhenping like a dog.
"Do you want to be thrown by us to feed the wolves in the back mountain, or do you honestly farm for my family!"
Needless to ask, as long as you are not a fool, you will choose the latter. As a result, Cheng Wu became the nominal tenant of the Li family, and in fact, he was a long-term worker, and he still had no wages. However, in troubled times, if he can have a stable meal, Cheng Wu will be content. What's more, the main family treated him really well, and later he was lucky to defeat Li Zhenxing and other strong competitors, and married his wife's maid Su Mei, such a gentle and virtuous wife, and gave birth to a son to inherit the lineage, life is so sufficient.
has been in Yunshan for seventeen years, and his sons are so old. Cheng Wu has really forgotten about this thing outside the mountain. But this time, when he accompanied Luo Yun to Chang'an and met the Red Whisk Girl, he remembered Li Jing, who was famous in his early years, and couldn't help but recall his original military career, as well as the general who gave him his name and surname and rebuilt his kindness.
Looking back at the past, Cheng Wu seemed to be enchanted, immersed in the past. I couldn't help but have the idea of looking for the general back then, just to know if the benefactor was still alive. But Chang'an City is too big, how can he, a foreigner who is not familiar with the place, find someone here, or even the general is not in Chang'an at all. Cheng Wu thought about it all his life, and it was difficult to find it if he didn't look for it.
Out of Fangcheng, standing on the wide Chang'an Avenue dazedly, at a loss, I don't know where to go, and who to ask. After being silent for a long time, Cheng Wu turned around and went back, and when he saw the guards standing by the gate, Cheng Wu stepped forward and saluted and asked, "This military master, I want to ask you about someone." ”
The guard looked Cheng Wu up and down with his spear and said, "The big people who live here can still know a thing or two, if you are looking for relatives, it is best to go to Li Zheng and ask." ”
"The villain is not looking for relatives, and the person who is looking for him doesn't know which square he lives in, but the person the villain is looking for has also been a general, so he came to ask the military master."
"Oh? It's strange that you're looking for someone, and you don't even know where you live. One hundred and eight squares in Chang'an City, do you still want to find them one by one? Even if you run and break your leg, you won't be able to find it. After speaking, the guards and several guards next to him all looked at Cheng Wu and laughed.
Cheng Wu arched his hand and was not annoyed, but just asked: "The villain dares to ask the military master, have you ever heard of a general named 'Cheng Biting Jin'?" ”