The Penglai army intercepted Cao's army in the water.

Although the two sides have been facing each other for several months, Xuzhou City has never been affected.

The people in the city live and work in peace and contentment, and the market is thriving.

Yuan Xu rode a horse and only brought a few guards with him to visit the old jade craftsman.

The old jade craftsman's residence is two relatively low houses.

Outside the door, Yuan Xu turned over and dismounted.

A guard stepped forward and raised his hand to slam the door, Yuan Xu said: "Be light, don't disturb the old man!" ”

The guard answered, tapping lightly on the door.

No one in the room responded, and the guard looked back at Yuan Xu.

Yuan Xu nodded.

With some added strength in his hands, the guards slammed the door a little heavier than before.

Still no one responded.

"Childe, no one responded." The guard said, "Are you not at home?" ”

"If you're not at home, how can you bolt the door from the inside?" Yuan Xu said: "Take a look from the window! ”

The guard answered and ran out of the window.

He looked into the room, and he turned around and said, "Childe, there is no one in the room!" ”

Realizing that something was wrong, Yuan Xu said: "Enter the house from the window!" ”

Before, he asked him to knock on the door softly, but at this time, Yuan Xu actually asked him to enter the house through the window, and the guard was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly responded.

The window was small, and the guards barely managed to squeeze in.

He did not immediately search the house, but opened the door for Yuan Xu and the others first.

Before entering the house, Yuan Xu smelled a strong musty smell.

The life of the old jade craftsman in his later years can be seen to be really not good.

There was no one in the outhouse, and Yuan Xu entered the inner room.

Standing in the doorway, he looked around. I didn't see the old jade craftsman.

"Childe!" Just as Yuan Xu was about to turn around, a guard pointed behind the door and shouted, "Old jade craftsman!" ”

Look to the ground. Yuan Xu really saw a person lying behind the door.

The man had white hair and was dressed in tattered clothes. Lying on the ground with his eyes closed, as if he were dead.

Polishing the crystal still requires the craftsmanship of the old jade craftsman, Yuan Xu was taken aback, and hurriedly squatted down to probe his snort.

"And the breath, call the healer!"

One of the guards turned and ran out, mounted his horse, and galloped in the direction of the palace.

"Lift him up!" Yuan Xu held the head of the old jade craftsman and said to the guards: "Help me to sleep first, and then talk about it when the doctor comes!" ”

The guards stepped forward. Lift up the old carpenter and place him on the bed.

Yuan Xu sat aside and covered him with a mattress.

Outside the door of the old jade craftsman's house, several horses were ridden, and some people stepped on horsebacks and rode away at a gallop while shouting loudly.

No small movement alarmed the neighbors.

Many people came to the door of the old jade craftsman's house, and a few of them even wanted to enter the house.

Their plan did not succeed, Yuan Xu was in the house, how could the guards allow outsiders to enter?

"What's wrong?" A woman tiptoed into the room and asked the guards.

"My husband fainted." The guard said, "Don't you and your neighbors feel strange? ”

"Weird old man, who dares to provoke?" The woman pouted and said, "Even his son can't live together......"

Yuan Xu in the house heard the woman talking. Command to the guards: "Bring the one who speaks to so-and-so!" ”

The woman had intended to see the excitement, but she did not want trouble to come out of her mouth, but she was to be brought into the house.

She was startled and hurriedly said, "The little woman doesn't know anything......"

"Childe called you in. It's not killing you! The guard glared at her: "Go inside and talk!" ”

When the woman was summoned, the guards did not move, but the woman's legs were already weak with fright.

Entered the house. She timidly came to Yuan Xu's side.

"You just said he had a son?" Looking up at the woman, Yuan Xu asked.

There is no need to be scolded by the guards at all. The woman knelt on the ground with her legs bent, trembling like chaff: "Son, spare your life." The little woman was ...... for a while."

"There is no fault, why do you beg for mercy?" Yuan Xu interrupted her: "Do you know where his son lives?" ”

Yuan Xu's tone was not stern, and she said that she was not at fault, and the woman was a little bolder: "Two streets away, the one who polishes the stone for people is!" ”

"Call his son." Yuan Xu instructed one of the guards.

The guards departed.

After a while, there was a sound of horses' hooves outside, and the healer's guard came to the door.

Jumping off the horse, the healer who was riding with him was helped down, and the guards separated the crowd into the house.

"Enlightened son, the healer is here!"

Yuan Xu got up and said to the doctor: "When I came here, my husband had already fainted, and I asked the doctor to check it." ”

"No!" The healer saluted, sat down beside the cover, and took the old jade craftsman's hand.

After checking the pulse of the old jade craftsman and checking his head, the healer said, "I am too old, and I have lost my head again, but I can only try but I don't know if I can save him." ”

"Do your best to know your destiny!" Yuan Xu said: "If you need to use medicine, just go to the treasury to get it." ”

The doctor responded, took out the silk silk and pen from the medicine box, quickly wrote a few small seal characters, and said to Yuan Xu: "This is a prescription, but the old man must take care of it......"

Yuan Xu was about to instruct the guards to carry the old jade craftsman back to the official mansion, when a person rushed in outside the door.

Seeing someone rushing into the house, two guards hurriedly restrained him.

The man was carried by the guards, struggled vigorously, and shouted into the house: "Father! ”

Hearing this person's call, Yuan Xu ordered: "Let him in!" ”

The guard stepped out of the way, and the man rushed in.

Yuan Xu was wearing a brocade dress, and there were several strong guards in the house, but this person ignored it, and threw himself on the old jade craftsman and shouted: "Father, what's wrong with you? ”

The old jade craftsman in a coma closed his eyes tightly, where would he respond?

"You're his son?" Yuan Xu asked on the side.

It wasn't until Yuan Xu spoke that the old jade craftsman's son came back to his senses.

Turning to face Yuan Xu, he knelt on the ground and said, "Thank you Gongzi for rescuing ......"

"Don't be busy." Yuan Xu said: "I came here to find your father for an important matter, and I don't want to see him unconscious in the house." ”

Kneeling on the ground, the old jade craftsman's son did not answer.

Yuan Xu said: "I asked you, why don't you live with your father? ”

"Hui Gongzi." The son of the old jade craftsman said: "My father has a strange temperament and can't get along with most people, and I am also ......."

At this point, he could no longer speak, and sighed heavily.

"Someone can understand!" Gently patting him on the shoulder, Yuan Xu said: "When a certain father is still alive, a certain father wants to avoid him." I didn't see each other until I died, and I still feel guilty when I think about it. In the future, no matter what, even if he does not live with his father, as long as he is alive, he will come to visit the house every day. When you get older, no one can say when you will go. ”

"Get up." Yuan Xu said: "The tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop, and the child wants to raise but the parent is not there." If one day he is really gone, it will be too late to be filial! ”

Kneeling on the ground, the son of the old jade craftsman was already full of tears: "The son taught a lesson!" If my father survives this difficulty, no matter how strange his temperament is, I will not dare to leave! (To be continued.) )