On that day, the sky was exceptionally blue, and Zhang Mengtan prepared a small boat for us on the Zishui outside the city. Fishing rods, bows, food, and nets are all available. He even kindly helped prepare firewood and spices for grilling fish. Si'er and Wuxian were bought by his friendly actions, and they called Mr. Zhang very affectionately. But I know in my heart that Zhang Mengtan's intimacy has another purpose, on the one hand, he rejects me, a "spy of the Qin State", and on the other hand, he should take care of me at the behest of Wuxi, so he can only do his best to let me be intoxicated and stay away from the affairs of the Qi State.

On that day, I lay on the boat, looking at the blue sky, blowing the breeze, getting up and casting the net twice when I was happy, and when I was tired, I put my head on my head and slept in the waves, which was pleasant to say. It's a pity that this leisurely and beautiful time finally ended in a woman's cry.

When I met Ah Su, she was hiding in the reeds by the water and crying. The innocent at the tip of the ear heard her voice first, and hooked her out of the reeds with a flick of the fishhook.

Ah Su is a poor girl who is not good-looking, thin and shriveled, but she still lives in a dilapidated house by Zishui with her sick father in her twenties. She said that she was crying today because her father, who was seriously ill, was wailing every night and had passed away for a long time. Ah Su spoke truthfully, which provoked Si'er to wipe several tears.

It stands to reason that this action is secretive, and I shouldn't have too much to do with the Qi people, but as a doctor, I can't see death without help. In the end, under the bitter pleading of Si'er, I followed Ah Su home.

It was a dilapidated thatched hut, half of the thatch on the roof had been blown away by the wind, and the wooden door had grown penicillium because of the humid climate. Ah Su took me to the hospital bed, where a man in his forties and fifties lay on the wooden bed that creaked at the slightest touch. His face was so swollen that he couldn't see it, and the knuckles of his fingers and toes were red and swollen, and he let out a terrible wail when I touched him.

It was the first time I had seen pain in a man whose family was so poor.

Pain is a disease that is nicknamed "noble people's disease" by medical dust. The sick are mostly obese, like to eat meat, like to drink alcohol, and do not work. Once sick, the toes and knuckles are red and swollen, and finally the whole body is in severe pain, unable to stand, unable to walk, unable to eat, unable to sleep at night, until death.

The man in front of him had lost the ability to walk, and he cried bitterly and begged Ah Su to give him another pot of wine to relieve his pain.

I tentatively asked Ah Su what her father liked to eat and drink on weekdays. Ah Su said that her old father used to be the butcher of the right minister Kan Zhifu, what to burn and what to eat.

It's me who is too careful, it turns out that he is just a greedy cook.

After dispelling my doubts, I wrote down a prescription, and especially told Ah Su that her father could not drink a drop of wine in this life, otherwise in less than half a month, even the gods would not be able to save his life. Ah Su responded one by one, and finally knelt on the ground and bowed for a long time.

This thin, pale girl told me that she wanted to study medicine with me, even if only how to heal pain.

I couldn't refuse her, and I remembered that I was kneeling beside A-Niang and crying bitterly, and I was not allowed to refuse her.

After that, every morning, I would row a small boat to the dilapidated house by the Zishui to visit Ah Su's father, and then take Ah Su to look for lobelia, benzyl roots, and plantain in the wilderness and in the mountains and forests. I told her everything I knew about the pain.

In the past few days, I gradually fell in love with this serious, stubborn, and studious girl. I taught her the properties and uses of many common herbs, and I hoped that after I left the kingdom of Qi, she would become a healer, treating poor people like her, earning some food rations, and supporting her father.

But the day after Asu's father was able to walk, I lost news of her. She disappeared like a wisp of green smoke on the bank of the Zishui River. The little dilapidated house was empty, and if it weren't for the slag of medicine dumped outside the door, I would almost suspect that everything that had happened these days was just a dream of my own.

"Girl, do I know you?" Chen Wei, who was sitting in front of me, interrupted my memories with his low, hoarse voice.

Chen Wei is a great hero known to everyone in Linzi City, a murderer who will fall to the ground tomorrow. Kan Zhi wanted to use him to pull Chen Heng from power, but Chen Heng resolutely abandoned him in order to protect the Chen family.

I looked at the man with a bloody face and filth on his hair and beard, and shook my head gently, "I don't know you, but my brother knows you." ”

"Your brother?"

"Four years ago, you carried his head back from Ailing." I got up and carried the lacquer bucket filled with rice water to Chen Yi, "The strong man is going to see my brother, wash your hair!" Tomorrow I will take your head and go to them outside the city. ”

Lao Shui told me that the eleven heads that Chen Hui had brought back from Ailing were buried next to Shishui in the southwest of Linzi City. The owners of those heads were Chen Wei's brothers who were born and died on the battlefield, and I think he might want to bury them with them.

Chen Wei didn't say anything, only silently immersed his head in the rice washing water.

I know I've taken the first step for today.

"Let me do it." I raised my sleeves and carefully helped Chen Yi wipe the filth from his hair, "The jailer has already sent it away, there are still some drinks and food in the box, the strong man can eat a little later......"

"I don't want any food or drink!" Chen Wei, who was silent, suddenly raised his head and grabbed my wrist, and the force seemed to break my hand bones, "Whose little sister are you?" He asked.

"It hurts—" I exclaimed, and said urgently, "Cui Liao is my eldest brother, and I was sold into the school when I was nine years old to become a maiko. ”

"Are you Cui Liao's younger sister who was sold into the workshop?" Chen Wei was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly let go of his hand, "Sister, I'm sorry, I can't eat this wine and food." ”

I smiled bitterly, withdrew my hand, turned sideways, and haphazardly gathered the light gauze robe with a large open collar: "Does the strong man think that I am lowly, and that the things I carry are as unclean as my person?" ”

"Nope! No! Chen Yi clenched his fists, his eyes were blazing, his two cracked and molting lips opened twice, closed tightly, and finally, he only silently sank his hair into the bucket again, "Dying man, Miss Xie is very loving." ”

The Chen Yi in front of me was exactly the same as I imagined. He is silent, not good at words, he has quick skills, but he has a stupid mouth, and under his knife-like face, there is a warm heart that values love and righteousness.

I gently put my hand on the man's head: "Why don't you run away?" Your head shouldn't have fallen in the stinky mud outside the West Gate, your head should have fallen on the battlefield like Brother's. "I picked up the rice washing water that had long since changed color and poured it on his hair, and the more I learned about him in the past few days, the more I felt that people like him did not deserve to die in the filthy execution ground.

"I can't escape, I can't let the century-old foundation of the Chen clan be ruined in my hands."

"I don't understand the affairs of the nobles...... I just think you deserve to die like yourself. I sighed and muttered.

Chen Wei lifted his head from the bucket, dark brown droplets of water running down his hair, over his bloodstained forehead, over the whip marks on his face, and into the corners of his mouth.

I pulled out a handkerchief and wiped the sewage from the corner of his mouth.

"What's your name?" Chen Wei looked at me, his water-stained eyelashes trembling slightly.

"Du Ruo, the Maiko on Yongmen Street are all named after flowers and plants." I twisted the handkerchief and put it in his hand, "Wipe it, this water is dirty, I'll go and beg them to see if I can change another bucket." ”

"How much money did you give the jailer?"

"I spent three days with them." I lowered my head and didn't look at Chen Yi's eyes, and got up and stood up.

"Don't go!" Chen stood up suddenly, "I'm sorry, Du Ruo." If I had met you earlier, I would have ransomed you out of the church. But now, my life is no longer my own. You take my head tomorrow and go to the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion to find the prince Chen Pan, and he will redeem himself for you. ”

"Redemption? Where can you go after redeeming yourself? I took out a pot of Jiuyu from the baggage I brought and handed it to Chen Yi, "Take a sip, there will be many people on the execution ground tomorrow, I'm afraid I won't have the opportunity to drink a farewell wine with you." ”

"Hmm." Chen Wei took the flask, choked, and then raised his head and drank wildly.

I looked at the wine that meandered from the corner of his mouth, and sighed silently in my heart, Chen Wei, I'm sorry.

After drinking the pot of Jiuyu, Chen Wei quickly fainted and fell asleep.

Taking advantage of the night, I quietly left death row. Zhang Mengtan has completed the work assigned to me. The rest is up to him.

At night, Chen Shun will be secretly transported out of death row, and someone will report to the right minister Kan Zhi, telling him that Chen Shizi Chen Pan plotted rebellion and took risks to save his best friend Chen Shun.

If things do not come to our surprise, then the struggle between the left and right sides of the Qi Kingdom will not end tomorrow, but will intensify from tomorrow. Because only in this way can we give Wuxian enough time to find the missing Fan Jiji, the Fan Sect Master who I inadvertently rescued and let go.

On the third day after Chen Wei was rescued, I sat in the small courtyard by the Zishui, holding the wine jar, and drinking wine cup after glass.

"Asu, Fan's Suqi, Asu, Fan's Suqi......"

The yellow-skinned, thin, thin and humble woman on the bank of the Zishui River made me willingly treat Fan Jiji, who had a common enmity with the Zhao family. It took her four days to deceive me into trust and pity. In the end, I disappeared without a trace with my love for her.

After Ah Su disappeared, I told Zhang Mengtan about meeting her. Zhang Mengtan carefully interrogated everything that happened after Asu and I met. When I told him that Asu's father's left hand had a little finger more than normal, his dark brown pupils burned with rage, and his clenched right hand seemed to wave into my face in the next moment. At that time, even if he hadn't said Van's name yet, I could already guess what a terrible thing I had done.

It was only ten days after I first arrived in Linzi City, and I did my opponent a great favor with all my heart and lungs - this realization made me sad and scared even more. The person who set up this bureau, she knew me, knew that I knew medical skills, knew that I would go boating in Zishui, and she even knew that I would not see the temperament of not being able to save myself. And I don't know anything about her.

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