The pain behind the medicine was strong, as if there were a lot of small insects crawling and biting, Han Yan asked her softly, "Does it hurt?" ”

Gu Qingyan nodded, now is not the time to be reckless, when she looked at Su Tanxue next to her, her face was a little happy, and she asked, "Tanxue, what happy thing have you encountered?" ”

Su Tanxue leaned into Gu Qingyan's ear and whispered, "Brother Yan said, we can stay for a few more days and then go back." ”

I don't know if it's because of this sentence or because of the pain in her back, Gu Qingyan's ears turned red again at a speed visible to the naked eye, and she coughed to hide her heart at the moment.

Seeing Su Tanxue's giggles, Han Yan didn't know what she was talking about, only heard Gu Qingyan coughing, and hurriedly poured water into Gu Qingyan and handed it to his mouth.

"What do you mean so happy?" Han Yan asked.

Gu Qingyan drank water, buried his head in the cup, and naturally did not answer, Han Yan did not ignore Gu Qing's smoky ears this time, and looked questioning.

Su Tanxue shook her head and said, "It's nothing, it's nothing." ”

In order to pass the time, Gu Qingyan asked Su Xin to go to the West Wing to find the chessboard, Han Yan and Su Tanxue played chess, and Gu Qingyan watched.

During this period, Dongli came and said that Xu Shaolin had given an order, and the four girls would not see guests during the recuperation period in the Pure Heart Courtyard, and others would not disturb them. King Yu handed over Xu Shaolin to help Gu Qingyan see him off, as for Gu Ning and his wife, because it was already a habit for Gu Qingyan to rest behind closed doors for three or four days after the trial, they were not suspicious for the time being.

However, Gu Qingyan still has one more thing, that is, King Yu's final answer to her, who knew that Dongli sent something in a box, saying that it was given by King Yu. Gu Qingyan asked what it was, Dong Liang said that he didn't know, King Yu ordered this box, and Gu Qingyan could only open it.

Taking the box, Gu Qingyan opened it and took a look, she was very familiar with that thing: a token with the word Qin Rui engraved on it. There is also a note next to it, "You are Emperor Qinrui, and you are also Gu Qingyan."

In this way, Gu Qingyan understood that King Yu had promised her, and she would have to do something in the future.

Closing the box and letting Dongli retreat, Han Yan asked what it was, and Gu Qingyan only said: "King Yu owes me." ”

Han Yan smiled, Gu Qingyan, Gu Qingyan, everyone around you knows that you often have your own little thoughts, but you just let it be presumptuous, and then accompany you to act.

Just like this chess game, the two people playing against each other and the person watching obviously see the same thing, but their mood is different, and the things they do are different.

"By the way, you wear a mask all the time, don't you feel uncomfortable?" Han Yan was afraid that Gu Qingyan would be too bored to see them playing chess, so he also talked to her.

It wasn't that he didn't notice that the mask Gu Qingyan wore during the trial was the one he gave him, but because his focus had always been on Gu Qingyan, he ignored the matter for the time being.

Gu Qingyan also remembered that the mask he was wearing was still a masterpiece designed by the person in front of him: "Because I thought this was good-looking, I wore it." ”

Although the conversation between the two is normal, only these two people know about Xiao Tian, and they all smile at each other.

Su Tanxue looked at these two people for a long time, and the atmosphere and tone between these two people made Su Tanxue feel sweet when she heard it.

looked at Gu Qingyan, she couldn't fully see Gu Qingyan's face from the angle she was sitting at, and she didn't know that Gu Qingyan's current mask was designed by Han Yan, but she always felt that it meant something.

Both of them were absent-minded in this game of chess, so they didn't take it seriously, and Gu Qingyan watched chess purely to kill time, so that's it.

When Zong Yue came in with the medicine, he looked at their chess game and said, "You guys are really interesting in this chess game." ”

Before the two of them who were playing chess could say anything, they handed the medicine to Gu Qingyan, and the strong smell of medicine had already made Gu Qingyan retract into the quilt when he came in and pretended that he was not there.

As a result, Zong Yue saw through the little trick at a glance, and gently pulled Gu Qingyan out, and his eyes threatened to make Gu Qingyan drink the decoction.

It was so bitter that Gu Qingyan frowned and stuck out her tongue, not caring about her image, but fortunately, Su Xin came in time to save the scene and gave Gu Qingyan a bowl of honey cheese made by Shen Sanniang, which was much more comfortable.

"Every time I take medicine, it's like killing you." Zong Yue complained.

Gu Qingyan replied: "Then can you rely on me, it's because your medicine is too bitter." ”

"Good medicine is bitter!" Zong Yue doesn't know how many times he has said this.

Gu Qingyan scratched her ears and stopped Zong Yue's words, there are still others here, so she will talk a few words about her, otherwise her life will be saved, and where will she put her face.

Zong Yue also understood that he was about to leave after receiving his things, and Gu Qingyan stopped him: "Second brother is busy going back to do something?" ”

She thought that there should be nothing in Baicaotang that Zong Yue needed to do in a hurry, but Gu Qingyan forgot about one person, that is, Yiyi.

Since Zong Yue finished chatting with Qianhuayu and Xing Ming that day, he didn't say a few words to Yiyi when he went back, and first let Yiyi let her identify medicinal materials in the pharmacy warehouse, saying that she would be assessed when the trial was over. This is how to decide whether or not to eventually take in as an apprentice.

At that time, Yiyi was stunned, didn't the matter of accepting him as an apprentice already be done, how could there be, and later Nan Ke explained to her that in Taohuajian only if he formally apprenticed in front of the valley master and several other masters, he could be regarded as a real apprentice, otherwise he would be like Shimen, just a disciple, or an apprentice of Taohuajian.

"So is it because of this that Master doesn't teach me much martial arts?" Yiyi's obsession with martial arts sometimes Nan Ke also feels terrible and helpless, but at least he doesn't have a way to take Yiyi like Zong Yue.

Nan Ke said to Yiyi very seriously: "The points I said below, whether you succeed or fail in the end, but you must know in Peach Blossom Stream. ”

Yiyi nodded, sat down very seriously and listened to Nan Ke speak: "First, anyone can teach you the matter of learning martial arts to protect yourself and your family, including your father, but what are you coming to Taohuajian to learn martial arts for, and what are you learning from our master?" You have to figure it out. ”

"Second, if you know your purpose and are determined to stay in Baicaotang, then let me tell you, Baicaotang is not only about martial arts, but more about medical skills, and we have a specialization in the art industry."

"Third, since you want to stay in Peach Blossom Stream, you must know that Peach Blossom Stream is not a place where you can be willful and arrogant. Even if it is the fourth girl, she has never been disobedient to her brother and these masters. ”

Nan Ke didn't say much, but these points were the most basic, he wanted to tell Yiyi, so that Yiyi could figure out whether he was just a momentary enthusiast or really figured it out.

Yiyi doesn't seem to understand it now, they have a few days to let her think, after listening to Nan Ke's words, Yiyi also began to ponder on her own, but there is still a question in her heart, I don't know whether to open her mouth or not.

Nan Ke saw that she wanted to speak and stopped, and said, "You can say whatever you want, right?" It's better to make a mistake with me than to go out and make a mistake. ”

There is no other uniform habit in Peach Blossom Stream, that is, every yard is used to protecting the short.

Yiyi struggled mentally and asked Nan Ke: "Who are the people who study in Shimen?" ”

She remembered that at that time, the child with her once asked her about her background, and after she finished speaking, the child looked surprised and then asked her helplessly: "Then why are you here?" ”

She replied, "Because I want to." ”

"Naive." After the child finished speaking, he stopped talking to her, and it didn't take long for her to be sent out of the stone gate by Gu Qingyan.

On the road, Beiming also mentioned to her: "Not everyone can enter Shimen, but those who enter Shimen don't want to have that past life." ”

So Yiyi has always been curious, but here she can't find out why, because no one will tell her, and now she has to ask Nanke.

Nan Ke said: "If I tell you that it can make you die, that's a good thing. If I tell you that it still doesn't make you change, then you're just a story, and you forget about it. ”

After this sentence, Nan Ke told Yiyi what kind of experience the people in Shimen had: "There are several types of people in them, the first type is that their parents were originally from Shimen, and then they lost their lives when they went on a mission, and the uneducated children were brought into Shimen to study; The second type is the children who are left at home and have nowhere to go, and the people who met Shimen looked at the eyes and took them to Yuhualou, and the third master decided where to go; The third category is those who are left to their relatives in the family but have been abandoned for various reasons, if they come to the stone gate, they must be decided by the third master and the fourth girl before they can enter; The fourth category is the outlaws, the bloodthirsty, or the strange; The fifth category is the dead heart. ”

Listening to Nan Ke say this, Yiyi was also seated in the right seat, but found that he couldn't match any category, his father and younger brother were still there, and he was not a poor person, his family relationship was harmonious, and he was not a special person.

"The past of these people is almost always painful, dark, and crazy." Nanke added.

It's like people who are disliked, disgusted, and forgotten by the world and can't find themselves, they have nowhere to go, no family, friends, and even feel that they are just a shell.

Yiyi looked at Nan Ke's empty eyes, as if she had seen the past of those people in the stone gate, and saw their wailing, collapse and despair.

"What about you? What kind of category are you? Yiyi asked.

Nan Ke came back to his senses, and his eyes were no longer empty: "Me? I am the one who escaped from the plague. ”

That year, Nanke's hometown village was hit by a large-scale epidemic, and the people in the village fell down one after another, and they were infected from house to house.

Soon after, people began to die slowly, and the smell of death hung over the village, and every day you could hear the voices of the family in the east and the family in the west.

Officials and doctors have been evacuated, and only the blockade remains, leaving them to fend for themselves. Nan Ke watched his elders, partners, and neighbors die one by one, his eyes were full of fear and uneasiness, until death also came to his door, before his parents died, he told Nan Ke, don't care about the blockade, take advantage of the night to let him take his sister out, be sure to find a good doctor, maybe they can still be saved, otherwise they will only be left to die.

Yiyi listened, felt a little guilty for a while, mentioned Nan Ke's sadness, and thought about it, and now there is no woman like a sister around Nan Ke.

Nanke saw her thoughts and said, "My sister is dead too. Not long after I took her out. ”

They took advantage of the night to leave the village, and on the road in the village, there were no people, and even the house was terriblely quiet, because Nan Ke knew that those who were lying in silence were corpses that were unwilling but helpless to die.

Nan Ke and his sister finally met a family, and as soon as the family heard that they were from that village, they quickly closed the door with a "snap" as if they had seen a plague god.

The younger sister began to cough and cough badly, and her limbs began to weaken and she couldn't walk, Nan Ke knew that this was a symptom of the epidemic, and if she couldn't find a doctor, her sister would leave him in the near future.

"Brother, I'm so tired." My sister said.

Nan Ke was also very tired, but there was no place to rest around, only a bridge not far away, there was really no way, Nan Ke picked up his sister and slept under the bridge this night.

Nan Ke will never forget the cold and howling wind of that night, his sister shivering in his arms, and the two of them rumbling with hunger, but there was nothing they could do.

There were small streams, moss and grass at the bottom of the bridge, so Nanke used his hands to scoop water for his sister to drink. Eat moss and grass to fight hunger.

"Don't worry, don't be afraid. Tomorrow my brother will take you into the city to find a doctor, and we will be fine soon." Nan Ke comforted his sister like this.

It's just that he knows that this place is still some distance from the city, and he is afraid that he won't be able to walk there, "Don't wait here to die." Father's words rang in his ears.

Just squinted for a while, Nan Ke picked up his sister and continued to walk forward, he hoped that even if he didn't go to the city, as long as he met a kind person.

There is no good going in life, Nan Ke not only did not meet well-wishers along the way, but attracted officers and soldiers, and his sister's condition became worse and worse, Nan Ke couldn't hold on, and the place where they slept became a big open space that day: "Dad, mother, the child can't hold on." ”

Nan Ke finally broke out all the unhappiness and grievances in his heart after enduring it for a long time, as if he had seen his father and mother waving to them in the distance.

My sister whispered beside her, "Brother." Then his breathing weakened, and the hand that was holding Nan Ke tightly gradually lost his strength.

At the moment when the sky was white, my sister didn't see the sun rise after all, Nan Ke felt it, he had no tears, he looked indifferently to find a place, and reluctantly buried his sister. Holding the tired body, mourning is greater than dying.

He didn't know whether he should continue to live or go with his family, so he walked aimlessly, walking, and then met a person, who told him: "Maybe you can go to Yuhualou and ask, there are all kinds of people there." ”

Yes, at that time, Nan Ke was also suffering from the epidemic, and the man who met him showed him the way out of kindness, and he came. Seeing Xing Ming, who was in charge of Yuhualou at that time, Xing Ming found a famous doctor and spent nearly a month curing him, and said to him after listening to him: "If you want, I will take you to a place and teach you to become stronger." Of course, there are people there who are also learning the art of medicine. ”

When Nan Ke said this, he listened to it, because Yiyi could also imagine what was going on. Nan Ke came to the peach blossom stream and entered the stone gate, saw Zong Yue, and followed Zong Yue from then on.

"Did you think about studying medicine in the first place?" Yiyi asked.

Zong Yue said: "At that time, I just felt that there was nowhere to go, my home was gone, my relatives were gone, and no matter what I did, it would be the same, so there was no difference between studying medicine and martial arts." ”

"After entering Shimen to learn martial arts, and slowly getting along with these people, I slowly came back to life, and I began to want to set a goal and define for myself." Zong Yue told Yiyi this, not to tell her what and what you must learn, but to let her know that no matter what she learns, the most important thing is to be able to play to her strengths.

Besides, the two are compatible, aren't they, and sometimes don't cling to one thing and forget that there is something else. Complementing each other is the greatest effect.

After chatting with Nan Ke that day, Yiyi obediently went to the pharmacy warehouse, firstly, Zong Yue was too busy with inventory and trials to take care of her, and secondly, she could also think about her own affairs.

After Zong Yue finished collecting his things, he said to Gu Qingyan: "I have been free for the past two days, I want to have a good chat with Yiyi." ”

"Yiyi?" Gu Qingyan remembered it.

"Well, this child's original mentality was too selfish, just thinking about her to learn, full of enthusiasm, and I didn't know how to teach her, I put her in the pharmacy warehouse these days, and I heard Nan Ke say that the child seems to have thought a lot, so I plan to take a look." Zong Yue said.

Gu Qingyan thought about it and nodded, indeed, people sometimes need to run in when they get along with others, and only when there are commonalities in certain points will things go smoothly.

Thinking about it like this, Gu Qingyan didn't stop it, and let Zong Yue go.