Chapter Twenty-Three: The Aftermath of Stubbornness

Xie An is sick, in Xie Shang's words, he just doesn't measure his own strength and asks for hardships. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After a few days of illness, Xie An was defeated by the weakness of his body, and he was groggy all day long, sometimes hot and sometimes cold, which really responded to the idiom of "lingering and breathing".

No one in the family except Xie Shang knew that Xie An, a four-year-old hairy child, would be bold enough to touch the door on the second floor of the Pavilion.

Xie Shang only said that Xie An was tired from reciting books and slept in the study and caught a cold, but he burned for more than ten days in a row, and at that time, his life was in danger.

Even though the second brother who is proficient in alchemy and the imperial doctor in the palace are helpless, he has taken a lot of medicine, but his high fever has not subsided at all.

Now even the matter of going to Ruan's house to pick up his sister-in-law was delayed by his illness, Xie Anxin was very ashamed, and occasionally woke up from his coma to see the figure of his eldest brother Xie Yi guarding the bed, and he was inexplicably sad.

Xie Shang was even more upset, he suffered alone for a few days, and finally told his second brother Xie about Xie An's broken words.

Xie Ju punched Xie Shang hard at that time, and then he didn't have time to say goodbye to his wife and children, so he rode a fast horse to the outside of Jiankang City, saying that he was looking for a little fairy Weng, a hermit.

It's just that the man is living in seclusion in the mountains to write books, and he doesn't want to get involved in the world, but fortunately, Xie is involved in pill medicine, and has visited that person and has academic exchanges.

Xie Shang recalled the words left by the second brother, as if he remembered what the hermit was called.

Xie An really regretted it this time, of course he knew who it was to hug Puzi, it was Ge Hong who wrote "Hug Puzi", but this Ge Hong is now living in seclusion in the mountains to write books, and I don't know how much effort the second brother has to make to find it.

But fortunately, this Ge Hong is still a close friend in Jiankang, that is, Ganbao, who is an official in Wang Dao Situ's mansion with Xie Shang.

Gan Bao is the one who wrote "Sou Shen Ji", and now serves as the right long history of Wang Dao in Situ Mansion, who has just finished compiling the "Book of Jin", and is a praised historian.

Gan Bao learned from Xie Shang that Xie Ju had gone to find Ge Hong, and he hurriedly ordered the sergeant to bring the letter quickly and escorted Xie Ju all the way to Ge Hong's location.

This time and again, when Xie An saw Ge Hong, it was half a month later.

At this time, the Xie family's family was already in a mess, and they had never heard of a child with a fever for half a month, and he vomited and vomited after eating, and he vomited and ate, with the words of the imperial doctor, if it weren't for the child's strong willpower and reluctance to die, the child next to him would never be able to hold on.

In ancient times, the medical conditions were poor, and if Xie An was not born in the scholar clan, his family would not have so much spare money to use precious warm and tonic medicinal materials to extend his life.

Whoever sees this child who only has one breath left, it's really sad,

Zhuang's and Gu's loved Xie An, crying every day, going to the temple hall to pray for blessings, and boiling medicine was done by themselves, and they didn't dare to fake their hands to others.

Father Xie was calm on the surface, but he couldn't sleep every night.

Although Jiao's said that she didn't like Xie An, she was still a little happy a few days before he fell ill, but as she became ill for a long time, the more she felt bad in her heart.

Especially Xie An's illness for half a month was spread, and someone mentioned to her whether she should prepare for the aftermath of the little prodigy earlier, after all, it was almost the New Year, so as not to get bad luck, she choked back angrily, "Phew, your family is only preparing for the aftermath!" ”

Xie An barely woke up for a while every day, and although he didn't know much about the situation at home, he could think about it.

So he tried his best to eat, but his muscles and bones seemed to have been seriously injured, especially the right hand holding the pen, and it hurt all over his body if he didn't move a finger.

Seeing him in such pain, Xie Shang almost begged him, "Ahri, if you are in pain, you can either cry or shout." ”

"Brother Shang, I won't die." Xie An didn't know what to say to comfort him, in fact, he was also worried in his heart, if he died, would he be able to return to a thousand years later, but here, it was really reluctant.

Once when he woke up, he saw Jiao Shi sprinkling salt in front of his room, and the bear child Xie Wan also sprinkled some salt in front of his bed, and there were tears on the little fat face.

At this time, it is the custom of sprinkling salt to ward off evil spirits and pray for the protection of the gods.

So he has to hold on even more, for the sake of his family.

In the end, he waited for Immortal Master Ge Hong and his wife Bao Gu, both of whom were skilled doctors.

When Ge Hong was sixteen years old, he worshipped the alchemist hermit as a teacher, devoted himself to alchemy and medicine in the mountains, and later went out of the mountains to enlist in the army and achieved fame, and after marrying Bao Gu, the husband and wife worked hard to study medicine and alchemy, and now they are compiling "Hug Puzi" in the mountains.

Bao Gu is good at acupuncture, and after coming to Xie's house, she applied needles with her wonderful hands to correct Xie An's meridians that were damaged by Xuan Xiu's mental power.

Ge Hong brought the qi-tonifying elixir, and pushed Xie An's qi several times, both inside and outside, and finally let Xie An's high fever subside after two days of busy work.

I saw that Xie An's tongue coating gradually faded, his sallow face gradually became bloody, and the cloudiness in his eyes gradually faded and turned back to Qingming.

Ge Hong is now forty years old, but because of Taoist Xuan Xiu, he looks like he is only in his early twenties.

And Bao Gu is one year younger than Xie Shang, fifteen years old, and Ge Hong has not long been married, but she has faded away from the youthfulness of the girl, gentle and bright, and faintly immortal.

Xie An really wanted to give a big thank you gift to the husband and wife, but now she was still full of Aunt Bao's needles and couldn't move. This Bao Gu is also quite interesting, in the rest of Xie An's recovery, he has to insert needles in him every day, and he has to make records while making records, as if he is a living experiment.

On this day, Aunt Bao came to do the experiment as usual, and saw that Xie An was awake, so she smiled and said: "I said Ahri, you kid is so bold, this Lord Xie Kun is a master of the third grade on the Xuanwu list, and your child who has not grown a dime wants to break his ten years of Xuanwu cultivation, are you really a master on the Xuanwu list are decorations?" ”

Bao Gu was born in Lingnan, her father was the Taishou of Nanhai, Guangzhou, and under the influence of her father, she cultivated and studied medicine since she was a child, and her temperament was straightforward, not as reserved as the children of the Central Plains family.

Xie An smiled bitterly and said weakly: "Ahri doesn't dare anymore." ”

Bao Gu is applying needles on his right arm, there are many acupuncture points on his small arm, and none of the three main meridians are missing, and finally the needles are dropped on the three fingertips of Shaoshang, Zhongchong, and Shaochong to fix the meridians.

Bao Gu pinched his emaciated face, "I don't know if you are born lucky and have Xuan Qi to protect your body." This right arm bears the first responsibility, and the meridians should have been broken, but now it is only slightly damaged, otherwise you will have to write with your left hand in the future. ”

Xie An asked: "Xuanqi body protection? ”

Bao Gu said: "Of course, my husband said that there should be a supreme Xuan Qi protection body in your body, which has now dissipated, and he can feel the residual power of Xuan Qi when he pushes with you, which should really be cultivated to pure Xuan Qi." ”

The gentleman that Bao Gu said was Ge Hong, Ge Hong's cultivation was quite high, and he found out the bottom of the vein.

At this time, Ge Hong was entering the door, and when he heard the conversation between the two, he said with emotion: "Life is determined in a few days, some people are born with the purest Xuan Qi, such as Mr. Zuo Ci, the teacher of the poor grandfather, was born with this talent, and when he was young, he would have supernatural powers and be able to drive away ghosts and gods. Ahri, you can escape this catastrophe, and it is also fate. ”

"Then it should be blessed by the ancestors." Although Xie An thanked his ancestors in his mouth, he suddenly realized it in his heart.

He remembered that at the last moment of breaking the word, it was the bird in the dream who pounced in and out of the "door" to calm the Xuan Xiu's thoughts, and it seemed that the bird should have helped him block the disaster.

So because of the failure to break the word, that point is still left in the character of Da Bo Xie Kun.

If there is no accident, this should be Wang Xizhi's power of metaphysical cultivation, which is her first stroke.

Wang Xizhi solemnly folded her first pen and gave it to herself, as if she had given him a talisman.

At the moment, he only hopes to heal his injuries quickly, and when spring comes, he can see her and solve all these doubts and speculations.

Ge Hong and Bao Gu stayed at Xie's house for a few days, and only left with peace of mind when they saw Xie Anneng walking around the ground, although Ge Hong had to be coaxed by his friend Gan Bao to go to Situ Mansion and meet with Wang Dao.

Director Wang naturally wanted him to stay as an official, even if he stayed in Jiankang to practice medicine, but Ge Hong repeatedly resigned, and also rejected Director Wang's gift.

Of course, Director Wang is not the only one who admires Ge Hong's reputation in alchemy medicine, and Uncle Yu Liang also invited Ge Hong to have a meal by the way, but he still got the same answer as Director Wang, and in the end Yu Liang had no choice but to give up, but since the immortal master arrived, Yu Liang's sister Empress Yu also invited Ge Hong into the palace to treat Emperor Sima and his wife.

The emperor and empress were all in good health and unharmed, but when Ge Hong left the palace, he was left by the emperor's personal old eunuch Han Gonggong and asked, "I heard that the immortal master is studying the art in the room?" I don't know how it works? ”

Ge Hong was stunned, before he entered the palace, he heard that the emperor had recently gained a new favorite, and he was very infatuated, and Gonggong Han asked for it for the emperor.

Ge Hong said lightly: "There are more than ten methods in the house, either to remedy injuries, or to treat diseases, or to harvest yin and benefit yang, or to increase life and prolong life. ”

The implication is that it can't be taken out now.

Gonggong Han had no choice but to give up, after all, a person like Ge Hong, who was close to a half-immortal, was not easy to offend.

The Xie family knew that Ge Hong was unwilling to be an official, and he was poor in the mountains and was willing to treat him, so the elixir to treat Xie An should cost a lot, and he wanted to thank him with a big gift, but Xie knew that Ge Hong was a human being, so he ordered someone to find a pair of good gold needles and give it to Bao Gu, and secretly ordered someone to send paper, pen and ink and daily necessities to Ge Hong's seclusion.

Xie An will lie down for more than a month, although he did Bao Gu's live experiments during the recovery process, he also wrote down a lot of acupuncture points, Bao Gu was very happy, and bluntly said that he would accept him as a little apprentice.

Here Xie An is recovering from his illness, and there is another owner in Wuyi Lane who is seriously ill, that is the Ji family, the leader of the Jiangnan Shi clan, Ji Zhan.

Ji Zhan has been ill for a long time, and he is over seventy-one years old, and Ge Hong has tried his best to delay the old man's life for the New Year.

In the last days of his life, he was worried about Xie An's safety, until he was very comforted to hear that the child was able to get out of bed and walk.

Probably no one else in this world knows except Director Wang, why Ji Zhan cares so much about Xie An, a child.

Maybe it was Xie An who made the dishes at the family banquet arouse Ji Zhan's thoughts of the old man in one fell swoop, or maybe it was Ji Zhan's insight that penetrated ten years of time and found a talent that could be created again.

It's just that Xie An didn't know it at that time.

At the age of four, he only knew that the old grandfather who had a relationship with him and had let him go to Ji's house to sit had passed away, and before he died, Ji Zhan tried his best to play a song of the dong flute, but unfortunately he had no extra strength, so he had to smile and ordered someone to give the Zizhu dong flute to Xie An.

Many years later, Director Wang informed Ji Zhan of his evaluation at the family banquet that day, and that night, Xie An returned home, stood in the Canglang Pavilion, held the purple bamboo flute given by Ji Zhan, and played Xiao Qu all night.

Ji Zhan's death was probably expected by many people.

At the time of the Wang Dun Rebellion, Ji Zhan was already sick to protect the king, and died peacefully at home at the age of seventy-one, which was the best way for people in the troubled times to die.

Xie Wan also accompanied Ji You to shed tears for a few days.

There were a lot of people who came to mourn at Ji Zhan's funeral, although some of the Jiangnan scholars were very resentful of his help to the Sima family, so that the northern scholars greatly overwhelmed the southern scholars in Jiangdong, but the Si people have passed away, and the grievances have disappeared.

This winter, some people in Wuyi Lane escaped death, some people passed away according to the destiny of heaven, winter goes to spring, life is like this.