After Li Yanzhao listened to Xin Taishou's verdict, he knew in his heart that these people were almost finished.

Even if they have been beaten by those dozens of rods, they will only have to go to Lingju County to carry spears in the future. In the city of Guangwu County, the career of a bully who is flying and domineering, bullying the weak, and doing whatever he wants has left them. I couldn't help but feel a little relieved. Although he lost his military horse before, but now he not only found the lost military horse, but also took out the bully leader in a county town, which is not a bad thing to think about.

After the verdict was completed, Xin Taishou left the main hall and turned to the back hall. Li Yanzhao saw that the officials had taken a group of prisoners down, and he also left the main hall with Ye Chao with great interest. However, just as he was about to go out, an official came to stop him, and the straight prince was invited. Seeing this, Ye Chao said goodbye to Li Yanzhao and walked towards the gate of the county government.

The official messenger brought Li Yanzhao to the inner hall where Xin Taishou often reviewed official documents. Li Yanzhao looked inward, but saw that Taishou did not sit in front of the first case to review the official documents as in the past, but paced repeatedly in the inner hall, holding a delicate saddle in his hand and observing it repeatedly, admiring.

Xin Taishou saw that the official had already taken Li Yanzhao outside the hall, so he waved to Li Yanzhao again and again to call him in. Li Yanzhao strode into the hall, but he still bowed to Taishou with a respectful attitude: "Li Yanzhao, the commander of the 100-person cavalry of the subordinate Guangwu Army, has seen the prince of the house. ”

Li Yanzhao has not increased even the slightest bit of arrogance with the change of identity, but has become more and more meticulous in etiquette and other aspects. Because he knew in his heart that if there was no Xin Taishou in front of him, there would be no Li Yanzhao today. Tai Shouzhi was also overjoyed with the saddle, and hurriedly stepped forward to give a hand, saying that you don't need to be polite, please get up quickly.

Li Yanzhao stood up as he said, but he stood in front of Taishou with his head bowed very respectfully. Taishou held the saddle in one hand, handed it to Li Yanzhao and said, "Take a look, how is this saddle made?" But does it still fit the way you envisioned? ”

Li Yanzhao took the saddle and took a closer look. The saddle was a delicate leather saddle with two stirrups hanging from either side. The stirrups were also very delicately made, just like what I had drawn on the drawings. Li Yanzhao turned the saddle over and over again and observed it for a long time, and it was indeed very much in line with his own imagination, whether it was the style of the stirrup, or the position placed on the saddle, and the sophistication of the saddle itself, it was almost exactly the same as he thought. He looked at it for a while, then handed the saddle back to Xin Taishou, and praised the craftsmanship of the craftsmen in the county town again and again, and admired it very much.

Taishou was also very happy when he heard this. After thinking about something, he said, "I have ordered a reward for the craftsman who made the stirrup, and I believe that it will not be long before the pencil designed by you can be made." ”

When Li Yanzhao heard this, he was very excited and praised the craftsmen of the county town. Taishou was also very happy. Subsequently, Li Yanzhao suggested that Xin Taishou should gather craftsmen as soon as possible and make a batch of saddles with stirrups in large quantities. Xin Taishou nodded again and again when he heard this, and he thought so.

After bidding farewell to Taishou, Li Yanzhao led two lost and recovered military horses out of the county government, and then went straight to Dou Tong's house in the north of the city. Now, what he is most worried about and most concerned about is Dou Mu's condition. After listening to Dou Tong's account, including the symptoms shown by Dou Mu, Li Yanzhao felt that Dou Mu's illness might even have developed into pneumonia.

What it means to suffer from pneumonia in this era, Li Yanzhao is clear in his heart. I had been searching for horses, arresting people, escorting, and hearing for nearly two hours. It's almost afternoon. Li Yanzhao also didn't care that he hadn't eaten a grain of rice since he got up in the morning, and he was already hungry at this time. Holding the reins of his horse with one hand and Dou Tong's horse with the other, he drove his horse to the Junhu Lane in the north of the city.

When he arrived at the door of Dou's house, Li Yanzhao got off the horse and tied the two horses to the wooden beam at the door, and then knocked on the door, Dou Yi opened the door and saw that it was Li Yanzhao, so he invited him into the house. Li Yanzhao saw that Wang Langzhong in the house was still there. And Dou Tong also took out a basin of water from the big water tank at the back of the house from time to time, and then vigorously scrubbed the handkerchief in his hand.

In the water tank was cold well water, which froze Dou Tong's hands red. However, Dou Tong did not complain, and still carefully rubbed the handkerchief in his hand.

Dou Tong scrubbed it, and according to Wang Lang's words, he put the handkerchief soaked in cold well water on his mother's forehead. Then he took off the other handkerchief on his forehead and scrubbed it vigorously in the basin. Dou Tong, who has been doing these things repeatedly, has no complaints.

Wang Langzhong leaned over again and touched Dou Mu's cheek. The frowning brow was immediately relieved. Then ask Dou Tong for pen and paper. Dou Tong had a bitter face. I am an ordinary person, and I can't read a few words in Douda, where can there be such things as paper and pen? was about to go out to borrow, but Li Yanzhao didn't use it. Then he took out the cloth wrapped in mud and a few slightly crumpled pieces of paper. Xindao carries a pen and paper with him, which is really a good habit.

Wang Langzhong watched Li Yanzhao open the cloth bag, and then took out a cloud of dry black mud, and his brows couldn't help but wrinkle again. Seeing this, Li Yanzhao said to Wang Langzhong again and again: "Langzhong don't have to worry, you come to prescribe a prescription, and I will write it accordingly." Hearing this, Wang Langzhong's brows eased slightly.

"Half a 25 baht of ephedra, half a 25 baht of licorice, half a 25 baht of almonds, half a 25 baht of nepeta mustard, 122 baht of cinnamon branches, 122 baht of fine spice, 122 baht of golden hairpin, 122 baht of Zhimu, 328 baht of raw gypsum, decoction with water, three doses a day, seven days can be cured."

Hearing that Wang Langzhong opened a prescription, Li Yanzhao carefully recorded them one by one on the straw paper in his hand. Wang Langzhong saw that the soldier in front of him was holding a piece of dry black clay and writing on the paper, which felt very strange. stepped forward to take a closer look, and saw that the prescription he had just said was carefully recorded on the paper, and the handwriting written in the black mud was also clear, and he couldn't help but be surprised.

After checking it, he saw that Li Yanzhao's record was correct, so he put his mind at ease. Regardless of the dirt, he took the dry and hard black mud that Li Yanzhao had just used to write and studied it carefully, and saw that it was nothing special. handed it back to Li Yanzhao, and then turned his head to tell Dou Channel, who was still rubbing his handkerchief: "When the body temperature drops, remember to take the medicine on time, cover more when resting, and don't suffer from the wind and cold again." ”

Dou Tong hurriedly put down the handkerchief in his hand, thanked him repeatedly, took out the money bag, and paid the consultation fee. Send Wang Langzhong out of the door. Dou Yi walked to the side of the bed again, and carefully pulled another worn-out quilt for his mother to cover.

However, after half a pillar of incense, Dou Tong had already returned home, and when he saw that his sister was taking care of his mother, he sighed faintly, and then returned to the basin and scrubbed the handkerchief in the basin. After rubbing it a few times, he put it on for his mother, and took off the one covering his forehead, and then returned to the basin to scrub it.

Li Yanzhao looked outside the house, and when he saw that the sun had sunset, he turned around and urged Dou Tong to return to the camp.

Dou Tong heard the urging of the hundred people, stood up uneasily, walked a few steps towards the gate, and then turned back as if sleepwalking, escaped the money bag in his arms, and stuffed it all into the hands of his sister Dou Yi, thought about it, and said to Dou Yi: "Xiao Yi, for my brother to go, you and your mother take care." This money will be left for you to take medicine for your mother. ”

Dou Yi heard his brother's farewell, and nodded obediently. However, Dou Tong burst into tears as he spoke: "I'm going, I don't know how long it will take to return home, you are good, find a good family, and then take good care of your mother, and you will be relieved to be a brother." Xiaoyi, you have been well-behaved and sensible since you were a child, you must be able to find a good family. ”

After saying these words, Dou Tong turned around and strode out of the door, wiping the tears falling from the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand as he walked......

Dou Yi was in the room, tightly squeezing the money bag handed by Dou Tong, looking at the back of her brother who had left with tears, she felt a little unusual.

When the horse's hooves sounded outside the door and gradually moved away, Dou Yi finally couldn't help but chase out. I opened the door and ran into the street, but I saw the backs of the two horsemen in the middle of the street. He desperately chased after the departing two horsemen, shouting as he chased: "Brother, brother, where are you going...... Are you going to go on another expedition? When will you be back? ”

The man on the horse didn't look back, and the answer to Dou Yi was only the sound of horses' hooves clattering away. Dou Yi tried his best to run and run towards the two horses on the road.

At that moment, all the scenery on the side of the road was gray in her eyes, and in her eyes, there were only the two horses that rode away, and the desolate and stoic back of her brother.

Without paying attention, Dou Yi tripped over a stone in the road. She fell down the street where she and her brother grew up. Ignoring the dusty ground staining her clothes, and ignoring the aching feet that tripped on the stones, she struggled to raise her head and look in the direction in which the two horses had departed. For a long time, for a long time.

"You must, you must come back!" Dou Yi, who was lying on the ground, finally struggled to shout out his heart at the moment.

Dou Tong faintly heard this shout coming from a distance behind him, with a girl's unique crying and heartbreaking. Dou Tong's eyes were sour, and tears poured down again.

Li Yanzhao looked up at Dou Tong, and wanted to say something, but after all, he still held back what he was about to say. The two rode their horses through the streets and alleys, went out of the west gate of the county seat, and galloped straight towards the camp of the Guangwu Army.