The coachman, who had been carefully selected from the post station system in western Beijing, waved his whip in the sky, snapped and was loaded with heavy grain, and a railroad carriage slowly started, leaving Shanyang Port and heading for another port in the north.

Fang Xingmu sent the carriage away, "I just hope that today's carriage can go all the way smoothly, and when we arrive at Shanyang Port, we will have half of the troubles on our hands." ”

Li Jie nodded: "If it's like yesterday, it's going to be in trouble." ”

Last night, after a train full of grain for fifteen miles, a section of track was crushed and misaligned at some point. The carriage ran over without warning, and fell off the track along with the horses and the car.

The driver had an accident, and the four people in charge of the escort were lucky enough to suffer only a few skin injuries. Everyone has experience in dealing with damaged carriages, and there are also plans in place to deal with damaged tracks.

In the middle of the Fangcheng track, there is a maintenance point, one person untied an uninjured horse, brought his own saddle sheath, and rushed to the police. Another person returned to the original road, and on the standing log on the side of the road a hundred paces away, a string of five lanterns from top to bottom was hung, which was a pre-booked emergency signal, so that the car behind could stop the emergency after seeing it. One of the remaining two rescued the coachman, and the other took up a bow and arrow, nervously wary of an enemy that might appear in the dark.

The officials in charge of the night duty at the maintenance point first sent people to report to the ports of Sanyang and Sanyin, and then sent three craftsmen, one on horseback and two in a car, with a dozen soldiers, to the site of the rail damage. Relying on the faint light of lanterns and torches, he nervously threw himself into the maintenance work. By the time they repaired the broken track, it was already dark, and the whole track had been interrupted for two hours.

Fang Xing sighed: "If the plan wasn't done well, there would definitely be a big mess at night." ”

"All things are foreseen, and those who are not prepared are wasted." Li Jie said, "With a pre-prepared plan, it is much easier to deal with things. ”

"Actually, it's still because of the lack of experience, so I won't be so busy if I come twice more." Fang Xing said with a smile, "After all, the track has only been around for a few years, and it is not easy to arrange it now." ”

"Now the track is much better than the official road that turned over the pulp in the spring. The official roads that go north of Kaifeng are frozen like iron in winter, but as soon as they are warmed up in spring, looking at the good end of the avenue, the wheels are a ditch in the past, and there is still muddy water, and they can't be repaired. In the summer, the road was full of ditches, and the water could be a foot deep, and there were groups of tadpoles in it, and frogs and toads were jumping. There are also mud pits that emerge on the road, although they look shallow, but when they are about to step on it, they may not be able to drown the top of their heads. ”

Li Jie compared the track and complained about the official road in the north, Fang Xing listened with a smile. When Li Jie's words were heard, he leaned closer.

"Haven't you heard?" Fang Xing tilted his head and asked in a low voice.

"What did you hear?" Li Jie was confused, and his brainless questioning made people feel inexplicable.

"Xiangzhou's business." Fang Xing looked left and right, and found that the officials and entourage around him looked like they were all concentrating on doing things, but they all pricked up their ears towards themselves.

Pulling Li Jie to a secluded place, Fang Xing whispered the rumors he heard to Li Jie.

"Pox, joke, right?" After Li Jie heard this, he laughed and said, "I can't believe this kind of rumor at all." The king of Beizhou still had the name of subduing demons and subduing demons before the incident, or Maitreya Buddha, and the most difficult thing was a thousand cuts. This must have been deliberately spread by someone to deceive foolish men and foolish women, how can it be believed? ”

After working together for nearly half a year, Li Jie and Fang Xing have more or less friendship, and they are less taboo-minded when they speak. The success of Xianghan Cao's fortune is in sight, and in the old days, he was underestimated by his close relatives at home, but now Li Jie relies on his own strengths, and he is about to get an enviable reward. Now in Han Gang's curtain, there is no longer the cautiousness at the beginning, but more and more freely.

Fang Xing didn't smile, "If it comes out for no reason, you can ignore it." But you don't want to think about which one is sitting in Xiangzhou? ”

"Is it really a dragon picture? ......" Li Jie's heart was full of doubts, frowning, "Why didn't you even send a letter?" For such a big matter, Long Tu will also notify you and me, which is convenient for you and me to deal with. ”

Fang Xing was actually puzzled: "Speaking of which, we are both sitting here in Tangzhou, but Shao Yanming [Shao Qing] and Tian Chengbo [Tian Zhen] live in the Caosi Yamen, why can't they even breathe?" If there is such a thing, they will ask someone to send a message. ”

"Didn't it mean that they were entrusted by Long Tu to make up some "Three Character Classics"?" Li Jie complained, "How many days have it been, and it hasn't been written yet." ”

Fang Xing shook his head: "Although it is a Mengshu, it is a good thing to hang the word 'scripture', and it is poorly done, but it makes people laugh." How could Shao Qing and Tian Yu be willing to leave people laughing? Besides, they are all born in the Hengqu Gate Wall, but they are not very famous, and their knowledge is not so outstanding. ”

"It's useless to say that they have their own errands to do." Li Jie pulled the topic back to the rumors: "If this matter is undoubtedly conclusive and can indeed be effective, no one can shake Longtu's position in the court." ”

"Yes, no matter whether Long Tu is willing to admit it or not, the identity of this Medicine King's disciple will definitely not be able to be washed away." Fang Xing smiled, and then made a straight face, "Actually, this matter is both a good thing and a bad thing for Long Tu. ”

"Bad things?" Li Jie frowned and said, "How can it be a bad thing?" As soon as the pox method comes out, the descendants of Longtu will be able to enjoy wealth and reverence for generations. ”

"That's why!" Fang Xing raised a hundred tables and shouted, "Long Tu's merits are enough. If it weren't for age, it would be more than enough to be prime minister. Now with one more pox, what can you earn? With the prestige of the dragon map among the people, it has long been the star of the world. If he wins the hearts of the people again, let alone the disciples of the Medicine King, he has to turn his head and do what the Medicine King can do. Think about it, can the Son of Heaven not be worried? ”

"The prime minister can hold the boat in his belly, how can the official family be so small-bellied?" Li Jie retorted two sentences, and looked at Fang Xing's expression of shaking his head and smiling secretly, and paused. After thinking about it, he changed to a more reasonable reason: "The official family only has two sons, and with the technique of planting pox, at least there is no need to worry about acne." Bless the emperor's heir, this is a great merit. ”

That's why I say, it's a good thing and a bad thing. Woe, blessing rests, blessing, misfortune lurks......" Fang Xing was halfway through his words, and suddenly shook his head and laughed at himself: "Actually, there is a lot to talk about now." If you don't catch a rabbit, you can't cook with boiling water. The whole thing hasn't been cleared up yet, and we're here to think about it, at least until it's settled. ”

Li Jie also smiled. It's just a rumor, and the two are foaming at the mouth, and it doesn't make sense at all. "Wait and see, whether it's true or not, we should be able to see soon."

Fang Xing and Li Jie are both busy people, and they don't have much time to chat, so after they broke up, they went to do their own business. At dusk, the two sat down face to face again to eat, and by the way, they wanted to summarize and discuss today's and tomorrow's work.

As soon as the two of them sat down, they brought a stack of books and were about to speak, but Fang Xing's servant knocked on the door and came in, "Guan Gou, Long Tu's letter." ”

"A letter from Xiangzhou?" Fang Xing's expression moved, and he immediately spread out his hand.

The attendant held two letters in his hands and handed one to Fang Xing, and the other stretched out his hand and handed it to Li Jie.

"For me?" Li Jie was puzzled, and took it, and it was also Han Gang.

The two of them opened the letter and quickly read it. In addition to encouraging and praising the hard work of the two in the matter of Cao Yun, the rest is about the matter of pox.

The doubts were explained, and the rumors were confirmed. Han Gang had explained the ins and outs of the whole matter in the letter, although he had already been mentally prepared and had heated discussions before, Fang Xing and Li Jie were still surprised after they really got confirmation from Han Gan.

The two saw that there was no private content in the letter they received, so they exchanged views with each other, and the content of the two letters was almost the same, saying almost the same thing, Han Gang did not favor one over the other.

Li Jie's heart fluctuated, and his face was flushed with excitement: "Together with the brothers and sisters from my uncle's family, there are four people in my younger brother's generation who died under the pox. If the dragon map's pox cultivation technique can really see miraculous effects......" Li Jie suddenly pursed his mouth, his eyes blinking vigorously. After a while, he said loudly: "This is Ze by the common people!" ……”

"It's true that Ze was born, but the problem is more serious than estimated. Alas......" put away the letter, but Fang Xing shook his head and sighed, after he was excited, he fell into worry, "I really can't figure out what Long Tu's idea is." Since Long Tu has this technique in hand, why didn't he report it to the court as soon as possible, it is the pox planting method passed down by Sun Zhenren, and it is not without workarounds. It took ten years to dedicate it, what will the Son of Heaven think? If I did, I would either have offered it at the beginning, or I wouldn't have offered it at all, or after I did, I wouldn't say that I had gotten a prescription ten years ago, but that I had recently gained a little in medicine. How can you tell the details and details that will anger the Son of Heaven? ”

"Long Tu didn't dare to hide the old virtues of the old people, nor did he dare to lie and bully the king, and in terms of sincerity, he was an example for us." Li Jie scratched his chin, "And Long Turen loves people, how could he be willing to see someone die because of himself, so he didn't sacrifice the old law." ”

Fang Xing shook his head: "The Son of Heaven rules all nations, and there are countless people who are willing to die to show their loyalty, where can they not find someone to make ripe seedlings?" Longtu has done something wrong. ”