Chapter Forty-Six: Quick Knife Liu

Xuanzong was playing with the crickets in the jar on the dragon chair, and Jin Ying stood aside respectfully.

After a while, Xuanzong got tired of playing before he put down the jar in his hand, "In addition to looking for this 'King of Crickets' in Beijing this time, how about letting you go to Jingling by the way?" "Your Majesty, the slave maid stayed in Jingling for five days after receiving your holy decree, and the construction period was generally smooth, just ........." Jin Ying wanted to say and stopped.

Xuanzong stood up and paced and said, "If you have anything to say, you can say it, you don't have to hide it and let you go, just to find out what is wrong." "What the emperor said was that the slaves and maids went to find that the people were killed and injured too much, and there was a large number of escapes. The prison guards were also too cruel to be beaten up, and some were beaten to death if they were caught. ”

Xuanzong said with a little shame when he heard this: "I know that building a mausoleum is a matter of labor and money, so I asked the household department to allocate some more silver taels to the Ministry of Industry, why is it still like this." Jin Ying said: "The emperor is merciful and sympathetic to the people of Dawn. However, it is difficult to ensure that officials do not enrich their own pockets and deduct food and salaries. Years ago, it rained for more than a month, and then there was heavy snow for a long time, so the construction period was delayed. Or can the Holy One delay it a little longer? ”

"No, what I have decided cannot be changed, and besides, the date of completion is a once-in-a-lifetime auspicious day of the zodiac, how can it be changed lightly, you just know it. I'll let the Cabinet take care of it. ”

"The slave knows." Jin Ying said, "Okay, you go down." I'm going to rest. Xuanzong said and told Jin Ying to retreat.

When Jin Ying withdrew from the Qianqing Palace, the sky was already showing some fish belly white.

As the sky gradually brightened, the two people who stayed in the "Qili Pavilion" saw the road in the direction of the capital dusty from a distance, and a galloping carriage appeared. The coachman jumped out of the carriage and said that Jin Ying had sent him to answer him.

After a few simple greetings, the three of them carefully carried Qingyu into the carriage, and for fear of bumps on the road, Jin Ying specially asked people to put several layers of thick bedding inside.

Qingyu was put on the car, his body kept shaking, and the brocade guards sitting on both sides were helpless and sweaty, so he had to urge the coachman over and over again, and the coachman was so anxious that he had to whip the horse's back desperately.

The carriage galloped into the city under the whip and turned to the "Dingfu Gate", and after two streets it arrived at the "Kuaidao Liu".

A brocade guard jumped out of the carriage and knocked on the gate without waiting for the carriage to stop, and the sound of the beating was so loud that the whole street could be heard, and in a few moments someone came to open the door, and only the sound of swearing could be heard from the door.

The door opened and a boy came out of it, although the boy was young, he had also seen the world and seen people wearing "flying fish suits", so he knew that he was not good at stubble, and quickly said with a smile: "Is there something wrong with the official brother coming here?" Jin Yiwei didn't care about this boy and said: "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and call your master, and say that the leader of Jin Yingjin will bring someone over and let him take care of it." "If you want to enter the palace to be a eunuch, you have to be castrated first, and "Quick Dao Liu" is the place designated by Jin Ying for castration.

The boy closed the door and went in to find his master, and the two brocade guards waited at the door for a while before someone came to open the door again, this time there was not only the boy but also an old man with white hair and crane face, and there were three or four people standing beside the old man.

Jin Yiwei stepped forward and said straight to the point: "I will wait for the order of Lord Jin to come over on behalf of you to take care of it, and please make it convenient for you." "Quick Knife Liu" saw that the person who came was wearing a flying fish suit and heard that it was on the order of Jin Ying, and he was not sloppy, so he hurriedly said: "Since it is on the order of Lord Jin, the old man should do his best." I just don't know where people are now? ”

Jin Yiwei said, "It's in the carriage behind me." "With that, let the carriage come over." "Quick Knife Liu" asked people to step forward and carry Qingyu into the mansion, but Jinyiwei did not go in again and said to "Fast Knife Liu": "Since the person has been delivered, I will bother you to take care of it more, Lord Jin is very concerned about this person, I don't know when I will come over, I hope to use more heart, I will go back to my life." ”

"Quick Dao Liu" said: "You two can rest assured, the matter of Lord Jin is an old thing, and I should do my best." "In that case, I'll take my leave." After saying that, the two brocade guards turned around and left.

Qingyu had already been placed on the bed at this time, and "Quick Knife Liu" stepped forward to look at it and said to the person next to him: "This person is covered in injuries, presumably he was beaten." You first go to the pot and boil the hot water, and then add some herbs to clear blood stasis and relieve pain, and boil them together. Then rub the person's whole body. The people beside him listened to the order and went down to do the errand, leaving only the boy alone.

"Kuaidao Liu" said to the boy: "You go to the cabinet over there and take some 'flat grass' and put it in the bowl and mash it, by the way, put water and sprinkle some salt in it when you pound it." The boy went to find the "flat grass" according to his words. "Quick Knife Liu" stripped off Qingyu's clothes and laid them flat on the bed.

After a pillar of incense, the boy came to the "Quick Knife Liu" with the mashed "flat grass". "Quick Knife Liu" asked the boy to put the medicine on the stool in front of him, and asked him to bring a jar of "Daughter Hong" who had been Chen for ten years to the front, and took a bunch of other bottles.

"Quick Knife Liu" leaned Qingyu against the side of the bed, took the wet towel wrung by the boy and wiped Qingyu's whole body. Then he pressed it all over Qingyu's body with both hands, and every time he pressed Qingyu's body bones, there was a crisp sound, and after pressing it again, "Quick Knife Liu" was already sweating profusely.

"Quick Knife Liu" casually picked up the wet wipes that wiped Qingyu's body and wiped the sweat on his face, and muttered in his mouth: "Dead old man, send some more of these people over, if they don't die, I will be tossed to death first." No, I'm sweating profusely when I'm older. The boy frowned on the side, looked at "Kuaidao Liu", and scolded in his mouth.

"Quick Knife Liu" wiped the sweat and then slapped Qingyu's body with both hands to make a deafening sound, although Qingyu fainted, but his face still showed a painful look, and Qingyu's upper body was slapped red by "Quick Knife Liu".

The boy couldn't bear to say to "Quick Knife Liu": "Master, can you see if he is so painful to be tossed by you." "The boy is an orphan picked up by "Kuaidao Liu" in front of his house, and he is very happy to accept this little guy as an apprentice.

Seeing that the boy's sympathy was overflowing, "Kuaidao Liu" said dissatisfiedly: "You know a fart, learn something from Lao Tzu on the side." Although he scolded a few words, he still told the boy the reason: "At first, his bones made a crisp sound, and I was helping him reset them, and his bones were broken in many places. As for now, it is to keep his blood from gathering in one place to form new blood stasis, and those blood stasis will dissipate and flow a little under my patting, so that the medicine can be applied next. As he spoke, he pointed to a bruise on Qingyu's body.

"You took off your shoes and went to bed to straighten him." "Quick Knife Liu" said to the boy, and the boy staggered onto the bed at the age of eight or nine, standing on the bed and struggling to hold Qingyu's body with his small body.

"Kuaidao Liu" picked up the ten-year-old "Daughter Red" next to him and drank a few sips before he took a sip of wine and sprayed it vigorously on Qingyu's body, Qingyu was spilled all over his body with wine, and then he heard the boy shouting: "Master, you look at the point and spray it on my face." Looking at the wine on the boy's face, the old man said with a slightly red face: "Okay, you can come down." The boy jumped off the bed in three or two clicks, put on his shoes, and quickly grabbed the wet wipes that "Kuaidao Liu" had used just now to wipe his face.