On the evening of February 12. Ran Sheng led a hundred troops and ten from Jiankang back to Guyi's army, and De also arrived with him, and there were two Xie Fu deacons who came with him, but it brought bad news, Xie Xuan's Yang girl who was about to marry was infected with plague and died on the seventh day of the first month of this month

Hearing this news, Xie Xuan was silent, and quietly read the letter written to him by his third uncle Xie An, and Xie An's letter also contained Yang's funeral post

Chen Caozhi and Xie Daoyun on the side didn't know how to comfort Xie Xuan, who had already planned to return to Jiankang in two days. I was preparing to go to Guangling to marry the Yang girl, and I thought that I would take my wife to Jingzhou Nanjun to serve after marriage, but I didn't expect to get this sad news today!

Xie Xuan's subordinates hurriedly reported the matter to Wei Chang, the chief secretary of the General's Mansion, and Wei Chang reported to Huan Wen. Huan Wen came to Xie Xuan's apartment to ask.

Xie Xuan begged Huan Wen: "I want to go down to Guangling tomorrow and go to mourn." Please allow Gong Huan to grant permission. ”

Huan Wen said: "This is common feeling, there is no allowment, Xie Oak should not be too sad, you are the Xie family Yushu, you should cherish yourself."

When Huan Wen returned home. Chen Caozhi followed out and said, "Gong Huan." Tomorrow, I want to go with Xie Youdu to inspect the epidemic and suggest that the state and county take measures to prevent it from spreading. ”

Huan Wen said: "Chen Oak said that he wanted to prevent the ulcer plague when the soil was cut off last year, although the states and counties had a certain amount of prevention, but it was still difficult to avoid natural disasters, so Chen Oak didn't have to go." Shangshutai will issue a document requiring all localities to strictly prevent the epidemic

Chen Caozhi said: "Last year, my teacher Mr. Zhichuan left the book "Treatise on Ulcer Qi" to me on his deathbed, hoping that I could teach and promote the prevention and treatment of Yousi. Please ask for the permission of the Great Sima

Huan Wen nodded and said: "Chen Oak is a benevolent gentleman, then tomorrow you will go to Guangling with Xie Oak, be careful not to be contaminated with the epidemic, you are a person who is a certain person of Huan." When he got into the car, he turned around and said: "Zhu Xiang will also go with me, recruit Gu Kaizhi into Xifu for me, and come back from Guangling to Jiankang first to wait, and wait for Qin to reply." I will show you to be an envoy. ”

Chen Caozhi returned to Xie Xuan's residence, and told Xie Daoyun and Xie Xuan about going to Guangling together, and early the next morning, Xie Daoyun went to the Lingshi Office to receive the documents to recruit Gu Kaizhi into Xifu, and then went to the Jiangkou Xifu Navy Wharf with Chen Caozhi and Xie Xuan on horseback. From there, board a boat and go down the river to Quang Neung.

Chen Caozhi asked Shen Chilun and Ran Sheng to stay in Guyu to wait, Ran Sheng served as the governor of the thousand-person department, and was ordered to select three hundred elite sergeants, who would go north with Chen Caozhi, Chen Caozhi prepared for his envoy to let Chan and Huang Xiaotong stay at Jiankang's third brother Chen Shang, so this time they took the two to Yangzhou Guangling.

On the night of February 13, the boat is full of Zhu, at the time of the third watch, a round of cold moon hangs high in the sky, the river is surging, the waves are shining silver, the moonlight is connected with the water vapor, and the upper and lower skies are cloudy.

Xie Xuan put wine on the bow of the boat. Raise a glass to the river and the moon, sing "Stubble Dew Song", the sad sound is urging, and dozens of boatmen listen to it. All of them are compassionate.

Chen Caozhi and Xie Daoyun stood on the port side, watching Xie Xuan, who was dressed in white on the bow of the boat, singing sadly under the moon, and the sentimentality of life came naturally

Xie Daoyun said in a low voice, "Ah Ji has never seen that sheep girl, where does the sorrow come from?" He replied to himself: "Although we have not met, there is such a person in my heart, who wants to stay for the rest of his life, but he died suddenly, how can I be embarrassed."

Chen Caozhi was silent. The heart said: "Who can avoid this eternal suffering, everyone has resisted death and denied death." But in the end, you still have to die. Tao Qian's poetry "There must be death if there is life, and it is not fate to die sooner." Yesterday and evening were the same people, and today they are in the ghost record.

, only death can highlight the beauty of life, and the Jin people are good to elegy, which is the aesthetic feeling of sadness as beauty. ”

The moonlight in the heart of the river, cold and deserted, the distant mountains are quiet, the elegy is sad, listen carefully, the sound of the water is grand and deep, as if it is gushing out of the ground, as if it is the background music of the beautiful elegy

Before the afternoon of the 14th, the ship passed through the Jiankang Baichaizhou Wharf, and did not stop for a while, and headed straight towards Guangling. Arrived in Guangling, Yangzhou on the evening of the 15th, Chen Caozhi ordered someone to prepare an anti-epidemic decoction early, drank it with Xie Daoyun and Xie Xuan, and entered the Yangfu to mourn. Xie Xuan read the letter in front of the spirit and sobbed. Burn the faith and worship and go out.

After the original Yangzhou Thorn History Wang Shu Shengshang Book Order, it was led by Huan Wenyao Yangzhou Mu, it was that Yangzhou had no history of thorns, and Wang You led Yangzhou government affairs with the internal history of Wang You, Wang You and Xie Xuan and Chen Caozhi were old friends, please enter the state government hospitality, speaking of plague and sore, Wang You said: "Every year in spring, there is always an attack of ulcers. No worries

Chen Caozhi:. Last winter and this spring, Yangzhou's climate was warm, and the drought was not alleviated. The epidemic is very easy to spread, and the history of the king should not be taken lightly, and it is advisable to take measures as soon as possible

Wang You was a little displeased, and said: "Ge Zhi" I have ordered people to copy more than 100 copies of "The Theory of Ulcerative Qi" and distribute them to the counties and mansions. Medicines are available. There is no need to worry about it

Chen Caozhi couldn't say anything more. The next day, he returned to Jiankang by boat with Xie Daoyun and Xie Xuan.

Since my aunt came to Guangling, I went down the river, but it was only four days. Now return to Jiankang from Guangling, two hundred and forty miles of waterway, drum sails to shake

Second, the people also need to pull the fiber. On the afternoon of the 22nd, he returned to Jiankang. Xie's sister Erzhi Eryi Lane, Chen Caozhi took Xiaochan, Huang Xiaotong and two Chen's private soldiers to Hengtang Gu Mansion, the third brother Chen Shang did not return in Situ Mansion, and Gu Kaizhi knew that Xie Xuan's fiancée had died. also knew that Chen Caozhi had just accompanied Xie Xuan back from Yangzhou to mourn. It's a sigh of rage

At noon, Chen Shang came back from Situ Mansion, saw Chen Caozhi, was very surprised, hurriedly had lunch, and accompanied Chen Caozhi to visit Sima Yu, the king of Langya, because Sima Yu had instructed Chen Caozhi to go to Jiankang to see him.

Chen Shang has been promoted from the Dianshu to the Langya Wangsheren, although the Dianshu Chengcheng and the Kingdom Sheren are both nine products, but the status is different, the Sheren is an idle position, and it has always been a transitional official position for the children of the Gaomen Shi clan to cultivate qualifications, and it can be promoted in less than two years.

Sima Yu met Chen Caozhi in the Qingyan elegant room, and asked Chen Caozhi to accompany Xie Xuan to return from condolences, and sighed: "Half a month ago, Queen Qing died, and she seemed to be on the same day as the daughter of the Yang family. The elegy is sung. What a sorrow! ”

Sima Yu asked about the matter of the Huiji Tu Judgment, although he praised Chen Caozhi, but he was angry about Huan Wen's borrowing of Sima Xuanli, the king of Pengcheng, and the king of Zhangcheng was just hiding fifty shades, although it has now returned to Pengchengguo, but the royal dignity has been greatly affected

Chen Caozhi reported to Sima Yu that Huan Wen intended to send him as an envoy to Qin, but Sima Yu was not very interested in this matter, and the Jin family was in danger. Not in the north, but in the powerful ministers of Bahu, and listened to Chen Caozhi's suggestion that Huan Wen postpone the Northern Expedition and sit and watch Qin and Xianbei Murong fight, Sima Yu was very appreciative, he was worried that Huan Wen's third Northern Expedition was a meritorious service, and his prestige was like the sky, and then he would replace the Jin family and establish himself as the emperor

During the secret conversation, a maid knocked on the door, came in and whispered a few words to Sima Yu, and Sima Yu said to Chen Caozhi: "The little girl Daofu has been in poor spirits since she returned to Ning in August last year, and she is losing weight day by day. Hundreds of medicines are ineffective, so I live in Jiankang for a long time, and I have not returned to Jingzhou to teach Mr. Cheng Zhichuan, and the medical skills are exquisite, please try to diagnose and treat it. ”

Chen Caozhi said: "It's strange that I haven't seen the county lord of Xin'an in my aunt, I thought she went back to Jingzhou to be with Huanji, but she was recuperating at her mother's house, I don't know what the illness is?" "Although I feel that I have borne the trouble for Wang Xianzhi. Fortunately, he was about to send an envoy to Qianqin in the near future, and he was not afraid of Sima Daofu's entanglement, so he said: "In the lower medical skills, it is nothing more than a few elbows behind, and I really dare not treat the county master." ”

Sima Yu said: "Why not try to diagnose and treat. Carrying Chen Caozhi's hand, he gathered into the house, came to Sima Daofu's leap house, entered the pavilion, and saw that the tent was low, and there was a whisper inside.

When a few maids outside the curtain saw Sima Yu, they hurriedly greeted each other, Sima Yu saw that these maids were face-to-face, and they didn't care, so they asked the maids to enter the dimension to give Sima Daofu a make-up, don't be rude to see each other.

After a while, the tent was opened, and Sima Daofu, the lord of Xin'an County, greeted him, his eyes were extraordinarily bright, and he saluted his father Sima Yu, but he peeked at Chen Caozhi, and his joy was not concealed. Compared with last year, his face has indeed lost a lot of weight, and his chin is noticeably sharper

Behind Sima Daofu, a plain-clothed woman with a light veil covering her face followed Sima Daofu to salute King Langya without speaking, and Chen Caoyi was quite surprised to see this masked plain-clothed woman. Although I can't see this woman's appearance, she is tall and slender, and she is graceful in every step. If it's not Li Jingmei, who else will it be!

Sima Yu obviously didn't know that Li Jingmei would be here, and Ran Sima Daofu: "Daofu." Who is this lady? ”

Only then did Li Jingmei open her voice and say: "Concubine Li Jingmei visits the king." ”

Sima Daofu added in a low voice: "She is the sister of the late Guiyi Marquis Li Shi, who came to Jiankang to pay tribute to her deceased brother Wang from her aunt, can you understand?" "Knowing that this is Huan Wen's concubine, Sima Yu is inconvenient to stay for a long time, so he ordered the maid to invite Sima Daofu's biological mother, Concubine Xu, to accompany her, after all, although Li Jingmei is just a concubine, she is the sister of Guiyi Hou. Identity special one

Chen Caozhi didn't want to stay here for a long time, so he said: "I see that the county lord is still good, as for not thinking about eating, you can eat yams and lentils." Frequent outings to relax. You will be able to live in good health. "I'm going to take my leave.

Sima Daofu was anxious, and finally saw Chen Caozhi, and was about to leave in a hurry, but he had no plan to stay

Li Jingmei, who was on the side, suddenly stepped forward to help Sima Daofu and exclaimed, "County Lord, what's wrong with you?" ”

Sima Daofu was not very anxious, and looked at Li Jingmei in a daze, Li Jingmei had to remind her again: "Is the county lord dizzy?" He blinked as he spoke.

Sima Daofu finally understood, and hurriedly supported himself with his hand, and moaned: "Oops, my head is so dizzy." The two maids hurriedly helped her back to sit on the embroidered couch.

Chen Caozhi naturally couldn't just leave, and he didn't say much at the moment, so he wrote a party in the outer room, and ordered someone to decoct the medicine according to the prescription and take it twice a day. Then he took his leave.