Around the clock, the group arrived at Lixia Village.

After Qingzhi got off the sedan chair with the medicine leaf, he looked around and saw that he was standing on an east-west road in the village.

On both sides of the narrow village road are farmhouses made of low and dilapidated cyan rocks, and the walls of each house are also made of cyan rocks. In the gaps between the rocks of the wall, there are weeds scattered and grown.

In the distance, the village is surrounded by mountains, which act as a natural barrier.

The size of the village seems to be about 200 households.

There are a few old men chatting under a big tree in the village, and there is a stone table and a few stone benches under the big tree, and several old men are sitting or standing.

On the west side of the village road, an old woman was carrying a wooden barrel and walking this way.

On the east side of the village road, in front of a courtyard on the north side of the village road, there was a woman in her thirties, who was standing at the door with a baby about a year old, and the woman was looking at them.

Qingzhi carried the medicine box and walked under the tree where there were several old men.

At this moment, when the old men saw her walking over, they stopped talking, and their eyes looked at her.

"Ladies and gentlemen, is there anyone in this village who needs to see a doctor?" Under the tree, she said.

One of the old men looked at the medicine box she was carrying and asked, "Are you a doctor?" ”

Qingzhi said: "Yes." In the following, you can see for free if you have any illnesses. ”

Another old man asked, "What?" Gratis? Is there such a good thing in the world? ”

Lu Yuanqing also walked over behind Qingzhi at this time, and said back to the old man: "Why don't you believe it?" This doctor has already treated many poor people for free, and I have been here before, and I recommend you to come here this time. ”

The old man asked suspiciously, "Really?" ”

Lu Yuanqing said: "Do you think this doctor looks like a doctor who can deceive people?" ”

The old man looked at Qingzhi for a while, and then said, "The knee of my leg has often been painful for no reason in recent years, can the doctor help me see what the reason is?" ”

Qingzhi approached the old man and said, "I'll take a look." ”

Qingzhi touched the old man's knee with his hand, and felt a tophi the size of a soybean at the joint, guessing that he was suffering from wind-cold, damp-spleen gout, so he asked the old man: "Uncle, do you often sweat less?" ”

The old man said, "Yes." ”

Qingzhi said: Uncle, you have wind-cold, damp-spleen gout. ”

"Is there a way to look good?" The old man looked at Qingzhi with a look of hope.

"I'll write you a prescription, you can take some medicine according to the prescription I wrote, and pay attention to your diet at ordinary times, you can be optimistic."

She took out paper and pen from the medicine leaf, spread the paper on the stone table, and wrote down the prescription with a pen:

50 grams of coix seeds, 20 grams of Qianghuo, 10 grams of Duhuo, 5 grams of parsnip, 10 grams of cangmu, 10 grams of angelica, 10 grams of cinnamon branches, 20 grams of ephedra, 5 grams of Sichuan Wu, 20 grams of ginger, 10 grams of licorice, 6 grams of Aracea, 10 grams of desmodium, boil for an hour, drink after filtration, three times a day.

After writing it, he handed it to the old man and said: "Uncle, follow this to catch the medicine, and also, on weekdays, you try to eat less legumes, such as red beans, mung beans, soybeans, all of which should be eaten less, and tofu should not be eaten more, and also, do not eat more mushrooms and seafood." ”

The old man took the prescription and said gratefully, "Thank you, doctor, thank you." ”

Another old man saw that the young doctor seemed to have two brushes, so he rushed home and called his wife, who had a corn on her hand for a while, to see if the doctor could take a good look.

When the other old men saw this, they also went back to their respective homes and called for someone to go. Some went back to call their wives, some went back to call their brothers, and some went back to call their neighbors.

Soon, the stone table was crowded with people.

Some really came to see the doctor, and some just came to see the excitement.

Qingzhi found that the people in this village were really like Lu Yuanqing said, there were old people, women, and young children, but there were no young men.

When she was practicing medicine, she inadvertently glanced at the place where she got off the sedan chair just now, wondering where Lu Shikang was staying now, and saw that the sedan chair had long since disappeared, and the place where she got off the sedan chair was now empty.

So she looked around, looked for a long time, and saw another tree about ten feet away from the tree where she was sitting, and under the tree there was a table and two chairs, and an old man in his fifties was playing chess with him.

Wu Shan, Qi Fang, Wang Lu, He Ying and Qian Yan were all standing behind him watching him play chess, so He Ying stood in his nearest position.

Lu Yuanqing was chatting with a thirty-year-old lady in green clothes, who was holding a child in her arms, and Qingzhi saw that it was the lady who was standing at the door of a courtyard just now.

The village was not big and there were not many people, so after two hours, there were no sick people to see.

After Lu Yuanqing practiced medicine for the last patient in Qingzhi, he immediately said, "Great, we can also rush to the foot of Mingyue Mountain for lunch." ”

After departure.

When Qingzhi and Lu Shikang were sitting in the sedan chair, Lu Shikang said to Qingzhi after the sedan chair left the village: "Do you know why there are only old people and women and children in this village?" ”

"Didn't Yuanqing say it before? It is said that the young men in this village have all gone to Mingyue Mountain to do business? ”

Lu Shikang said: "It's just rhetoric. ”

Qingzhi glanced at him and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"If they just went to Mingyue Mountain, why is the village only three miles away from Mingyue Mountain, but they only come back once a year? Parents, wives and children are all at home, but they are too far away to even three miles? ”

"How do you know they come back once a year?"

"I asked when I was playing chess with the old man. He told me that his son came back once a year, at the end of the year, for about ten days, and then left. ”

"Then don't you think they went to Mingyue Mountain? So where did they go? ”

"They may have gone to Mingyue Mountain, or they may have gone elsewhere, but they may not have gone to do business."

"So what do you think they did?"

Lu Shikang did not answer her, but said: "This village has an ulterior secret. ”

"What's the secret?"

"This secret may have something to do with a big person."

"Why do you guess that?"

"Because, when the old man who played chess with me was taking out a towel to wipe his sweat, he accidentally took out a bronze medal from his sleeve."

"What, Bronze?" Aoeda exclaimed.

In such an inconspicuous small village, there would be someone with a bronze medal?

Just listened to Lu Shikang said: "Do you remember what I told you, "Jiangbei Ye History" said that if Nie Xiao's descendants have a chance to make a comeback, they will gather other Nie Xiao's descendants in order to make a comeback. And the way they summoned the other clansmen was to find out the clansmen whose secrets were hidden in various parts of the Great Subordinate through secret words, and then recognize each other's identities again through bronze plates. ”

"So you mean, the people in this village are all descendants of Nie Xiao?"

She didn't expect that those who looked ordinary were actually Nie Xiao's descendants. At first glance, not all of these people have the characteristics of bandits, some of them do look a little fierce, but there are also quite a few people who look quite good. Could it be that it is because he has married other women from generation to generation, and his appearance has changed?

Lu Shikang replied to her: "Very likely. Therefore, it is certain that when our family came here six years ago, their young men had already been gathered and left, and now they must be serving the subordinates of some big man, and that big man must also be a descendant of Nie Xiao. ”

He paused, "Six hundred years have passed, and there are at least more than 20,000 descendants of Nie Xiao. The descendants of such a large number of bandits, once they are gathered by someone, it is a great hidden danger for the safety of the people of Dali. It is also a hidden danger for the stability of the Dali Dynasty. ”

Qingzhi didn't answer him. She thinks his analysis is not unreasonable.

This man is always so smart that he can't hide anything from him, maybe if he was born in a turbulent era, he can become a strategist.

Thinking of this, I glanced at him with admiration, and when I met him, he was also looking at himself.

A pair of eyes with warm feelings.

She suddenly turned her face away and stopped looking at him, so she heard him say behind his back: "Doctor Kong, you don't have to look at this son secretly. You can appreciate it in the open. ”

"Who peeked at you?"

"Why is Dr. Kong always duplicitous?"