Chapter 3 Treating a disease also requires risking one's life

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"Young Master Feng, you have thought about it, it's not a joke to treat Prince Pingxi." Although he was dragged to the foot of Wuhua Mountain by Feng Xiang, seeing that Feng Xiang was about to go over to negotiate with the guards of the Pingxi Palace, Xiao Erlang, who was quite loyal to the Lu family, still pulled Feng Xiang's sleeve and said nervously: "Young Master Feng, it's good to say that you have cured the illness of the Prince of Pingxi, if you can't cure it, then the consequences are unimaginable." If you lose your official position and resign, I'm afraid that it's still good, but if you don't get it right, you have to lose your head! Young Master Feng, do you know this? ”

"Of course I know that." Feng Xiang, who was nicknamed Feng Dare when he was in college, was not a little nervous, and said in a calm tone: "But if I don't take this risk, I'm afraid that in this life, I am afraid that at most it will be the life of a seven-grade county order, and life and death, honor and disgrace, are all decided by others." If you want to get ahead, you must at least make a name for yourself, leave an impression on those princes and magnates, and then have hope to realize your life ambitions. ”

"But Young Master Feng, you're kidding with your own life!" Xiao Erlang was also anxious, and persuaded again: "Young Master Feng, if we don't take this risk, wait for the prince of Pingxi to get better and then go to see him, and then go to Qujing to take office as the magistrate of the county, even if the official is a little smaller, he can still scrape the ground to get silver, even if he catches less, it is better than landing on the head!" Young Master Feng, you don't know that the prince of Pingxi has killed countless people in his life, and killing us is as easy as pinching an ant to death! ”

"Yes, young master, it's better not to take this risk." The other members of the Lu family followed suit, and they also expected to follow Feng Xiang to Qujing County to get oil and water, but they didn't want to see Feng Xiang, the backer, fall like this. But no matter how sincerely these families tried to dissuade him, Feng Xiang just didn't listen, but insisted on saying: "You don't understand, my starting point is so bottom, if you don't gamble on this, even if you become the county governor of Qujing in the future, you won't have a good time for long." ”

Pushed away Erlang and other family members, Feng Xiang strode to the intersection of the upper mountain at the foot of Wuhua Mountain, it is also a coincidence, the leader of the guards on duty at the intersection today happened to be the captain of the guard team who received Feng Xiang's silver yesterday, so without waiting for Feng Xiang to speak, the captain of the guard team took the initiative to say: "Lord Lu, I'm really sorry, you have to run for nothing again today." The prince's condition has worsened a little today, and even the governor of Yunnan and the admiral have been refused, so you can go back and wait a few more days. ”

"General Chen, the lower officials are not here to see the prince of Pingxi today." Feng Xiang shook his head, and said in a deep voice: "Annoyed General Chen sent someone to tell the prince of Pingxi, saying that the lower official is here to treat him today, and the lower official has a panacea in his hand, as long as the prince of Pingxi is willing to use this medicine, the medicine will definitely be cured, and the golden body will be cured!" ”

"You're here to treat the prince?" The captain of the guard surnamed Chen was also startled, hurriedly looked left and right, and said to Feng Xiang in a low voice: "Lord Lu, this matter is not a joke, I am for your good, in addition to the prince's poor health these days, his temper is also very bad, and he also killed a servant of the palace last night, if you speak out and can't cure the prince's illness, not only will your head not be saved, but I will also have to be implicated with you!" ”

"General Chen, please rest assured, Xia Guan is only twenty-five years old, he is still young, and he is still reluctant to die." Feng Xiang smiled and said, "So General Chen, you just have to pass the word, and the lower officials won't joke with their heads." ”

"Really? Lord Lu, are you really kidding? The captain of the guard team looked Feng Xiang up and down suspiciously, and saw that although Feng Xiang's white and chubby ordinary fat face was full of kind smiles, the gaze in a pair of black and white eyes was very firm, and he seemed to be very confident. Feng Xiang replied with a smile: "Of course the lower official is not joking, General Chen just needs to report on behalf of the lower official, if the lower official cures the prince's illness, the general can also share the credit, right?" With that, Feng Xiang took out another ten taels of silver from his sleeve and stuffed it into the hand of the guard captain.

"That'...... Well, I'll give you the answer. The captain of the guard squad gritted his teeth and made up his mind, and added: "But I said ugly things in front, if you can't cure the illness of the prince of Pingxi, the prince will cut you in anger, I can't save you, and don't come to me if you become a ghost." ”

"Needless to say, of course." Feng Xiang laughed and agreed. The captain of the guard team gritted his teeth again, and then explained the errand of guarding the intersection of the mountain, and ran up Wuhua Mountain to pass in person. But after Feng Xiang waited at the bottom of the mountain for half an hour, the captain of the guard team came down the mountain again with his head down, and said to Feng Xiang: "Lord Lu, it's not my brother who won't help you, it's the second prince who told you to get out of here." ”

"The second prince told me to get out, why?" Feng Xiang was a little confused, in Feng Xiang's memory, although Wu Sangui's second son Wu Yingqi was mediocre, but Wu Sangui's loyalty and filial piety was absolutely nothing to say, and even when Wu Sangui was about to die of illness after claiming to be the emperor of the Great Zhou, he passed the throne to his eldest grandson Wu Shifan, Wu Yingqi did not complain at all, but continued to be loyal to his nephew, insisted on the struggle against the Qing Dynasty until the last moment, and volunteered to treat Wu Sangui, how could Wu Yingqi tell himself to get out? Puzzled, Feng Xiang hurriedly asked: "General Chen, why didn't the second prince let me treat the king of Pingxi, did he not believe that I could cure the prince of Pingxi?" ”

"I guess so." The captain of the guard team nodded and said: "I arrived at the gate of the palace, and after I asked the guards at the gate of the palace to send me into the palace, it didn't take long for the second prince to come out of the palace in anger, saying that he told your lord, you get out of here, don't be embarrassed here, lest he be scolded by the prince of Pingxi again." Also, looking at the appearance of the second prince, it seems that he is also very angry. ”

"Hey! Wu Sangui, an old man, is really big enough! Feng Xiang felt a little helpless, it didn't matter if he couldn't see Wu Sangui, but if he didn't seize this opportunity to show his face in front of Wu Sangui, leave a deep impression on Wu Sangui, and then win Wu Sangui's reuse and trust, then with Lu Yifeng's background, family background and connections, it would be a fool's dream to realize his ideals and ambitions. What's even worse is that it is now the sixth year of the Manchu Qing Dynasty Kangxi, and Aobai will fall within two years, and Wu Sangui will rise up against the Qing Dynasty within six years.

"No matter what, don't miss the opportunity, if you lose it, you won't come back, if you miss this village, you won't have this store." In a hurry, Feng Xiang had an idea again, asked the family for a pen and paper, and wrote sixteen words on the letter paper with a stroke of a pen - 'The illness of the king of the west is rooted in the heart. If you want to get rid of the disease, you must first cure the heart. Finally, Feng Xiang put the letter paper into the envelope and sealed it, and held it in front of the guard captain with thirty taels of silver, and said in a low voice: "General Chen, take the trouble to go through the ceremony again, and hand over the pulse case I opened for the prince to the second prince or the prince of Pingxi, if they read the pulse case I wrote and want to drive me away, then I will leave immediately, no two words." ”

"This ......." The guard squad leader was a little embarrassed, but for the sake of Feng Xiang's confidence and thirty taels of white silver, the guard squad leader still gritted his teeth and took the envelope, and said: "Okay, I'll be scolded and help you run again, but this is the last time, if the prince and the second prince still refuse to let you go up the mountain, then don't embarrass me again." ”

"That's nature." Feng Xiang smiled and nodded, but Xiao Erlang next to him couldn't look at it a little, taking the opportunity of the guard squad leader to go up the mountain, he couldn't help but pull Feng Xiang's sleeve and whispered, "Young Master Feng, as for it?" In order to send him a letter, you actually gave him thirty taels of silver? These thirty taels of silver, how much land do we have to scrape in Qujing to get it back? ”

"You don't understand that." Feng Xiang replied with a smile: "As long as he can deliver that letter to the King of Pingxi, my fifty taels of silver is equivalent to five thousand taels of silver." In recent years, some people who can't find the temple gate to worship God with a pig's head are lucky enough to be able to do big things with a little money, which is already quite good. Erlang and the others looked at each other, and they really couldn't understand what their young master was thinking, but they had no choice but to go with Feng Xiang.

The captain of the guard team surnamed Chen went up the mountain for a long time this time, Feng Xiang and the others waited at the bottom of the mountain for almost an hour, and still didn't see him come down the mountain to give an answer, Feng Xiang was still a little patient, Erlang and the other family members couldn't sit still, and kept standing up and looking at the mountain, for fear that a team of people would suddenly rush down the mountain and catch the false god Lu Yifeng who was swaggering and deceiving. And what made Erlang and the others breathe a sigh of relief was that after a while, the captain of the guard squad finally led a thin and withered old man down, the old man was about fifty or sixty years old, with white pigtails, a wrinkled face, and a dry smoking gun thicker than his wrist in his hand, and he was wearing a robe that was usually worn by Confucian students, not as if he had an official position, but the captain of the guard squad was extremely respectful to him, and the other guards also stood up and saluted him, a typical look of not being small.

"That one, is Lord Lu Yifeng from Dali Mansion?" The dry old man looked at Feng Xiang and his party and asked. Feng Xiang hurriedly stepped forward, bowed to the dry old man and said, "Back to the old man, the next official is Lu Yifeng of Qujing Zhixian County, dare to ask the old gentleman's honorable name." ”

"Master Lu, this is Mr. Liu Xuanchu." The captain of the guard squad hurriedly said: "Mr. Liu is the number one staff member under the prince's account, and he is deeply trusted by the prince, why don't you kowtow quickly?" ”

"Liu Xuanchu?!" Feng Xiang was a little surprised - although Feng Xiang, who loves history, was born in engineering, he had also seen Liu Xuanchu's name in the history books, and knew that although this dry old man did not hold an official position, he had two brushes in both internal politics and strategy and tactics, and was one of Wu Sangui's most important strategists, and at the same time, this Liu Xuanchu was also the one with the firmest position against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty among the people under Wu Sangui's command, and he should have the same interests as himself, plus Feng Xiang respected Liu Xuanchu as an old man and an ancient, Busy with twenty or thirty family members knelt down together, kowtowed and said: "Junior, Lu Yifeng, lead the family to knock on Mr. Liu Xuanchu, Mr. Wanfu Jin'an." ”

"Excuse me, excuse me, Lord Lu, please get up quickly." Liu Xuanchu obviously didn't have much to offer, so he personally picked up Feng Xiang, looked Feng Xiang up and down, and nodded and said: "Yes, it is really a young hero, Lord Lu is really young and the old man is a little surprised, the old man still thinks that he can see the root of the prince's illness, at least he should be a middle-aged scribe in his thirties or forties, and he can't imagine that Lord Lu is still so young." If it is true, people cannot be seen, and the sea water cannot be measured. ”

"Mr. Liu has won the award, and the lower official is just a coincidence." Feng Xiang pretended to be modest, and asked again: "Mr. Liu, I wonder if the prince of Pingxi agrees to meet with the lower official once and let the lower official diagnose his pulse and treat his illness?" ”

"If the prince doesn't want to meet you, the old man won't come down the mountain to greet the adults in person." Liu Xuanchu laughed, pulled Feng Xiang's hand, and greeted: "Lord Lu, please, the old man will personally lead you to see the prince." Feng Xiang was overjoyed, and hurriedly left Erlang and other family members to wait at the foot of the mountain, and he followed Liu Xuanchu up the mountain to meet the old man who was so famous that he smoked half of the people in the city to kill Wu Sangui - it's really not easy!

The way up the mountain was not all smooth sailing, and when he was about to reach the halfway point of the mountain, Liu Xuanchu suddenly stopped, squinted at Feng Xiang and asked: "Master Lu, the old man has a question for you, I hope you must answer truthfully." ”

"Mr. Liu, please ask, the younger generation must know everything, and say everything." Feng Xiang replied honestly. But Liu Xuanchu's next question almost scared Du Fengxiang, who was brave enough to seal his nickname, half to death! Liu Xuanchu asked, "Lord Lu, are you a soldier sent by the imperial court?" If you tell you the truth, the old man will definitely keep you safe. But if you plan to lie, the old man won't lie to you, outside the back door of the Pingxi Palace, a guillotine and an executioner have been prepared for you. ”