Zuo Shaoyang prescribed medicine to them, and told them the precautions, so that they could come back regularly to change the medicine. The four wounded soldiers were grateful, and they helped each other to leave.

Liang had already cooked the meal, still a black-flour steamed bun, and gave the wounded soldier with a wounded leg bone two steamed buns and a bowl of pickle soup, and let him eat it first. The wounded soldier was a half-old child, seeing that his comrades were gone, only he was alone, his leg bones were broken again, he didn't dare to move, he was lying on the bed very sad, and his stomach was already hungry.

When the family was eating, because the Miao family was beside them, Zuo Gui and his wife could not speak, so they could only eat with their heads covered. Zuo Shaoyang saw that his father Zuo Gui had a gloomy face and was worried, knowing that it must be about his marriage to the Qu family, so he deliberately pretended not to know and buried his head in eating.

While they were eating, Hope and Fennel came.

Liang hurriedly beckoned them to sit down and eat, and the two said that they had already eaten, and this time the enemy army attacked Hezhou, and both of them were worried about this, so they took the time to come over and take a look.

Liang was also having no idea about his son's affairs, and when he saw them coming, he was calling the two of them into the house with a rice bowl with his own heart, closing the door and muttering.

After eating, Miao Peilan rushed to wash the dishes and clean up the house, Zuo Gui said to Zuo Shaoyang with a gloomy face: "You come to the house, my father has something to ask you." ”

Zuo Shaoyang followed Zuo Gui into their bedroom. In the house, Hou Pu and Fennel were talking to Liang, and when they saw him come in, Fennel came up and pulled Zuo Shaoyang down to sit down beside him, complaining: "Brother, are you stupid?" Father and mother told you that the granddaughter of the Qu family, Miss Bai, is a daughter-in-law, why don't you want it? I have seen that white girl, she is naturally beautiful, she can be said to be the appearance of the country and the city, and she is a scholarly family, an official family, and our family is just the right match, what a good marriage, why did you refuse? ”

Zuo Shaoyang glanced at them and said, "What's the use of looking good?" She is self-righteous and looks down on me at all, saying that I have no medical ethics and take advantage of others' danger. Moreover, her eyes are above the top, as if people all over the world are going to revolve around her, and it is annoying to look at. ”

"It's all a misunderstanding!" Fennel said, "Her grandmother came to explain to her mother, this is all a misunderstanding, and it can be explained." ”

"I don't think so." Zuo Shaoyang shook his head and said, "Anyway, I don't feel anything with her, so I can't talk about going together." In short, I don't want to marry her! ”

Zuo Gui's father said angrily: "You are still not satisfied with such a good daughter-in-law, what do you want?" Do you really want to marry the princess? ”

Zuo Shaoyang knew as soon as he heard that it must have been Mrs. Qu who told them what she said, and smiled faintly: "What's wrong with marrying the princess and county lord?" Thousands of miles of marriage are linked, maybe my marriage will be led to the princess county lord, and I don't know! ”

Hou Pu smiled: "That's right, Da Lang is right, I think that since Da Lang doesn't like it, it's better not to get married to this family, so as not to have a quarrel in the future." ”

Zuo Gui has always attached great importance to this son-in-law's words, listening to his words biased towards his son, and now Zuo Gui already knows that his son Zuo Shaoyang's medical skills are far better than his own, and he also attaches more importance to Zuo Shaoyang, under this kind of psychology, he naturally can't be too domineering, so he slowed down his tone: "But, it's all said." It's not good for us to regret our marriage, right? ”

Zuo Shaoyang smiled faintly: "They are desperate." The second elder can rest assured, they are just making a gesture, and when their old man is well, this matter will definitely be over! ”

The Liang family was reluctant to do so, and said with a smile: "Let's not talk about death, let's get married first, you get along slowly, anyway, they are all next-door neighbors, and it's convenient to be together often......"

"No need, such a woman, I don't even have the desire to cultivate feelings, I hope the second elder can understand my feelings, and please rest assured, I will not be a single person for a lifetime, I believe that I have the ability to marry you a satisfactory daughter-in-law, and the incense of the Zuo family will not be interrupted in me."

If Zuo Shaoyang said this a few days ago, Zuo Gui would definitely scold and ridicule, but several cases in a row, especially the treatment of a few injured soldiers today, Zuo Shaoyang's new surgical drugs and new technologies made Zuo Gui really have a feeling of being impressed, and now that Zuo Shaoyang said this kind of thing, Zuo Gui almost believed it, so he didn't get angry, just sighed and shook his head: "Since that's the case, let it be!" ”

Hearing what Zuo Gui said, Liang and the others naturally didn't want to say anything. Liang said: "Then I'll go and tell them about it later, and the marriage will be over." By the way, by the way, I returned most of the ginseng. ”

Liang thought to himself, this old ginseng is used to marry a daughter-in-law, since the white girl can't be a daughter-in-law, this dowry naturally has to be returned, and it will be used to find a new daughter-in-law.

Zuo Shaoyang wanted to change the topic, so he pretended to be relaxed and asked his brother-in-law Hou Pudao: "Today I was on the city tower, and I saw that the rebels didn't seem to be attacking Hezhou with all their strength, they were tens of thousands, and I think there were only two or three thousand soldiers in the city who participated in the defense, and our city wall was not very tall and solid. But I think they are just waving their flags and shouting a lot below, shooting arrows upwards, but very few of them are actually storming the upper city. It's weird. ”

Hope smiled, "Really? I stayed in the yamen all day, and the county lord said, let us guard the yamen, so I didn't go to the city tower, I don't know what's going on. ”

Fennel hurriedly said to Zuo Shaoyang: "Why did you run to the city?" The sword doesn't have long eyes, what if there is a good one? ”

At this moment, I heard a rumbling sound from a distance, and soon it was close to the front, and even the ground was shaking.

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly walked to the window, opened a window and looked outside, and saw that in the dark night, a team of soldiers carrying various weapons were hurriedly walking in front of the pharmacy. Looking at the banner, it was the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, and their expressions were very depressed.

Hou Pu also came to take a look, and said to himself, "Didn't they go to conquer the rebels?" How did you get it back so quickly? ”

Zuo Shaoyang said: "The enemy army came to attack our Hezhou during the day, but I am afraid that the purpose is to force the army back." ”

Hope nodded: "It's very likely. Seeing them like this, they don't have much energy. ”

Zuo Shaoyang sighed: "The military rations have been burned, and these tens of thousands of troops, I'm afraid that they have begun to starve, their stomachs are not full, and they can't find the rebel army for a decisive battle, so it's no wonder if they are not depressed." ”

Hou Pu also sighed: "I'm talking about it, I really don't know what to do in the future." ”

After talking for a while, seeing that it was changing, Hou Pu and his wife said goodbye and went back.

The Liang family went to the Qu family next door, and said very euphemistically that Zuo Shaoyang was unwilling to do this family business, and they couldn't help it, I'm afraid this matter can only be like this. The old lady Qu was stunned for a long time, shed tears, and said that she would reply to them when the old lady was more conscious and returned to the old lady.

Liang hurriedly nodded and agreed, feeling uncomfortable, since he still had to go through their old lady's level, it was naturally inconvenient for the old ginseng to return this dowry to the old ginseng, so he didn't mention it, and sat down for a while before saying goodbye and coming back.

Zuo Shaoyang listened to what happened to the Liang family, breathed a sigh of relief, tired for a day, especially after personally experiencing the ancient war, and escaped from the enemy's saber, he was really haggard physically and mentally, seeing that Miao Peilan was also a little in a trance, knowing that she killed someone for the first time today, and killed three people, the shock of her heart was far more powerful than herself, and she comforted her a few words, and the two went back to their rooms to sleep.

Early the next morning, Zuo Shaoyang got up, but when he came downstairs, he realized that Miao Peilan had already gotten up, had already filled the tank with water, and even cleaned the pharmacy.

Seeing that it was just dawn and there was still a period of time before leaving the door, Zuo Shaoyang said to Miao Peilan: "Let's go out for a walk?" Look at the situation in the city. ”

Miao Peilan smiled and nodded, followed him out, and walked along the street to the area where the fire broke out yesterday.

When I arrived at the Qingxiang Tea Shop first, I saw that the houses were in ruins, and those who had lost their homes were still looking at the ruins, as if they wanted to see if they could find anything else that had not been burned. Some sat on the stone steps on the side of the street wiping their tears, and their voices were already hoarse.

Many people died in the war, coffins stopped in front of the ruins, men and women dressed in linen and filial piety knelt or stood, and the voices of mourning came and went.

Zuo Shaoyang glanced at the fragrant tea shop, the door had been opened, and he looked obliquely, there seemed to be no tea customers, and it was empty. couldn't see Sang Xiaomei and them, Zuo Shaoyang didn't want to get closer, so he took Miao Peilan and walked towards the gate of Dongcheng.

When I came to the city of Dongcheng, the houses near the city were almost burned to rubble, and many soldiers were cleaning up the ruins. Zuo Shaoyang originally wanted to go up to the city tower to have a look, but was stopped by the soldiers. There is a sign erected next to it, which reads: "Idlers are not allowed to go to the city." ”

The two men left the city wall and went to the southern city. I remember that there were several fire spots in this area the day before, and the two walked south according to their memories, and sure enough, they saw several burned ruins along the way. Judging from the ruins, several of them burned down were the homes of large families. It confirmed his previous conjecture even more.

Along the way, I saw many victims on both sides of the street, dragging their families and families, sleeping on the streets, the remnants of the snow on the street were white and shaking, the victims were ragged and unkempt, the children were crying, the elderly were coughing, and they looked very miserable.

The shops along the street are almost closed, and the situation is not peaceful at the moment, who would dare to do business on the knife edge?

When I passed by the Jinyu Restaurant where Humpty Dumpty, who wanted to ask Sang Xiaomei to be a concubine, I saw that there were many people around the door, and there was a pool of blood on the ground. Zuo Shaoyang didn't want to pay attention to the matter of the shopkeeper Zhu, so he didn't go over to ask what was going on.

They went to the square at the entrance of the state capital again, where it had become a makeshift field hospital, and everywhere there were wounded soldiers groaning in pain. Military doctors are still changing dressings for treatment.

They went to the county yamen again, and in the courtyard of the yamen, there were fir coffins, all of which already contained the corpses of soldiers killed in battle. Due to the death of hundreds of soldiers, there are not so many coffins in the city at once, and they are looking for carpenters to do it in a hurry, so some of the corpses have not yet been buried in coffins, and they are placed side by side under the wall, covered with white cloth sheets, which looks very miserable.

Both of them were in a heavy mood and slowly returned to the pharmacy.

(To be continued)