In the wilderness of the eastern suburbs of Wuling County, there is a village near the mountains and rivers, the building is clear and elegant, the bamboo and wooden house beams, blue bricks and red tiles, and the heart is extraordinarily clear.

But it is undeniable that this area is remote and not close to prosperity, and has always been regarded as a symbol of poverty by the people of the county.

At this time, several magnificent carriages were parked in front of Zhuangzi, and several heroic and strong guards looked coldly at some farmers coming and going at the gate of the other village, and also looked at the large fields in front of them, with contemptuous eyes.

There are some similar guards in the village, but they are guarding everywhere, especially the main house in the attic of the main courtyard.

Inside the house, several grandmothers with wide waists and large bodies were hugging a emaciated grandmother, gathered around the side, watching the old doctor check the pulse of the woman lying on the couch.

After a while, the old doctor withdrew his hand, stroked his white beard, and looked a little serious, "Miss Jin, this situation is not very good." ”

The thin grandmother raised her eyebrows, glanced at the old doctor in her eyes, flashed depression, and said to him: "The girl's illness is not a day or two, Doctor Zhai will talk about it in detail." ”

Doctor Zhai was probably a little stunned of this thin mother's identity, so he said stupidly: "The girl has hurt Benli since she came out of her mother's womb, she is weak and weak, and she has become a disease over the years, and it is even more difficult to solve, this..."

If it's too ugly, it's always hard for the doctor to say, after all, he is the family doctor who is raised by his family, no matter what the identity of the other party is, and no matter how contemptuous these grandmothers are clearly unconcealed, but they are also serious girls in the clan, so they still have to respect it.

After all, he doesn't have the support of an old lady behind him.

It is said that "you will not live long", "wait for death as soon as possible", and "prepare a coffin" are absolutely unacceptable.

However, he also noticed that these grandmothers did not dislike the bad news at all, but showed a look of "it should be like this".

"In this case, let's bother Doctor Zhai to prescribe it, and I always need to do my best."

Doctor Zhai frowned, a little embarrassed, and wanted to say something, but was pushed out by two grandmothers who were a lot fatter than him.

The thin grandmother looked at the woman on the couch coldly, lowered her throat, and was sharp and deliberately polite: "The lord is worried about the girl's body, and specially gave this quiet place away from the noise to the girl to recuperate. ”

Her words were ugly, and the personal maid Peony who served her was indignant, and couldn't help but say: "The girl is so good to give birth to, but this has been trapped in the house for many years, where can she be comfortable, she..."

"Shut up! Where do you speak? ”

As soon as the thin mama's eyes were horizontal, the peony was covered and dragged down, and after that, the thin mama was left alone in the room with another mama, who immediately spied out of the door, closed the door, and gave the thin mama a look.

Only then did the thin mama stretch out her hand and re-grasp the weak wrist, and the sharp nails were dotted on the snow-white skin, and there were immediately red marks, but she didn't care, like pinching wood, after a while, her brows stretched out, and she smiled.

The heart pulse fruit is weak, the breath is disordered, and with such a body, don't say anything wrong, it is difficult to live for a few more years.

Under such a judgment, she was already in a comfortable mood, but she suddenly saw that the eyebrows of the drowsy woman were frowning, as if she was about to wake up, and moved slightly, and the thin quilt slipped down.

Gai is sick all the year round, and his clothes are not worn properly, and the cyan thin silk gauze can't cover the delicate snow color, and the curves fit, revealing a slender but soft body under the delicate neck.

The ink smudged and entangled her, and she opened her eyes, like a spirit wrapped in water to breathe, weak and painful.

The thin mother was taken aback, and her first reaction was that this was still the high-spirited and unrivaled Xie Mingjin back then?

The second reaction was to spit on her: naturally she is still a scourge, exactly like her lowly mother!

"The girl is awake? It's really beautiful, so that the old women and sons will not rush into the air, and they will bring the summons of the lord in vain. ”

How can a person in pain distinguish or take into account the yin and yang of others, Xie Mingjin opened his mouth slightly, as if he had charcoal fire in his mouth, hoarse and delicate.

"Father? .... Does he think of me... What... Affair? ”

The thin grandmother raised her eyebrows and raised her eyes, and said lightly: "I summoned the girl to go back to the county town first." ”

"Go back?" Rao is seriously ill, and Xie Mingjin, who heard it clearly, also showed joy, and the more pale and graceful he looked, he was a little ambiguous, and muttered, "Is my father going to let me go back?"

Because of joy, there were some clear and delicate tears in his eyes.

The thin mama's eyes flashed with coldness and mockery, and she held a lofty posture, and said coolly: "The girl can't go on the road now, if there is any delay due to illness on the road, how can we explain, it is because no matter how much the girl wants to go back, she has to raise herself first, and then I have asked Doctor Zhai to prescribe a prescription, and the girl will often take it in the future." ”

After that, she didn't bother to deal with this sick seedling anymore, and the thin grandmother left by herself.

The two grandmothers went out of the room, and the thin grandmother first found the peony that was being reprimanded.

The reprimand was not small, but the thin mama passed, and the other mammas stepped aside.

Peony's originally aggrieved and unwilling face paused, her eyes rolled, and instead of being afraid of being repaired by the thin grandmother, she smiled, lowered her voice and said flatteringly: "Mama Zhang, what do you have to ask, I have been watching her all these years at your command." “

Is it so true?

I don't know how the seriously ill seedlings lying on the couch inside will react when they see this scene.

Mama Zhang snorted lightly and said meanly: "Take care of a sick man, you can see what you can, the old lady just wants to know about her condition, but your news has been intermittent all these years, and we have to come in person." ”

In fact, it's just that they want to confirm that this Xie Ming is not serious.

One Doctor Zhai is not enough, few people know that Mama Zhang also knows how to look and hear.

But this did not prevent her from "instructing" the peony.

Peony nodded, "That... When will you call me back, every day, I have to accompany her to be locked up in this village, she is not crazy, I can't stand it. ”

"Look at her now, how long can she be, you can stay and wait for our news..."Mama Zhang said casually.

Peony was a little curious, "Does the lord really want her to go back..."

Before she finished asking, she was intimidated by Mama Zhang's powerful eyes, and hurriedly lowered her head and sneered.

Mama Zhang didn't say much, and asked Mama on the side to stuff a little silver into the peony to feed the horses to graze, and then went to find Doctor Zhai, who was mentioned, although her face was not good-looking, but she still responded.

Tossed one or two, the prescriptions and medicinal materials were left, but a group of grandmothers refused to stay in this remote place, and they didn't look down on the many croppers in the Zhuangzi, so they got into the carriage after being fed in the backyard with a proud attitude.

But I didn't know that at this time, the attic on the second floor of the main courtyard was also the place where they had just stayed and the anti-guest was the main thing to show off their might, the sick character on the couch who had not lived for a long time had already lifted the quilt, Shi Shiran sat up, because of that posture, the already loose and soft silk pajamas slipped from the shoulders, half of the clavicle and the arc downward, almost half with half of the spit style, a little lazy with green silk, wrapped with the delicacy of the ice and snow peaks after melting, no edge, flesh and skin, the surface and inside, the elegance is delicate.

Wiping her forehead with one hand, the thin sweat touched her fingers, her fingertips tossed slightly, stained with cold sweat and wetness, she got up tiredly, she didn't bother to put up her clothes, she only walked barefoot on the plank, and when she arrived at the window, she leaned on the doorway, and quietly looked at the back of the tall horse neighing in the open space in the distance.

The dust is flying, and the carriages and horses are graceful.

The "traitor" peony who came in with the medicine box entered the door, and when he saw this scene, he was shocked and anxious.

"Hey, girl, don't blow the wind, you haven't taken this medicine yet, your symptoms haven't disappeared, why are you so casual."

Xie Mingjin looked back at her and smiled, "It's fine after taking the antidote, it's not in the way." ”

It is a pretended illness of medicinal properties, and it can be solved even if it can be solved.

Xie Ming took the pill in the medicine box and took it, and it was not too much, and his pale and weak complexion improved a lot, if Doctor Zhai came back to check the pulse again, he would probably be very frightened.

This.... Where is it still the previous "can't live long" vein!

"Although it is a deception to them, but your body has only been raised after hard work in the past few years, but it is not as healthy as ordinary people, so you still have to be careful to maintain it."

The peony chattered, and took the robe and put it on for Xie Mingjin, for fear that she would be really sick.

Xie Ming, who was much taller than her, was also well-behaved, let her mess around, looked down at her little head, and said funny: "My little traitor, can you make a small penny?" ”

"It's only ten taels, and if I have to cover up for the girl, I won't be able to deal with the fat and thin man."

Peony hates these old grandmothers who don't care about the dignity and humility of the fox and the fake tiger, "If it weren't for the girl back then, you.... How dare they do this..."

When it comes to the past, Peony is only talking about it, and only occasionally can't control her mouth and purs, but she can always restrain herself in the future.

It's a secret past, it's a scar, and you can't rub salt on it.

Xie Mingjin didn't seem to care, just smiled, and someone outside the door came to report, it was Bi Shiyi, the head of the guards in the village.

Through the door, he reported: "Girl, the medicinal herbs they gave have been checked, and this is the medicinal prescription detected in the pharmacy." ”

Peony opened the door, took the list, just glanced at it, glared at it, and gave it to Xie Mingjin.

The latter looked at it, but he was not as annoyed as Peony, but said calmly: "On the surface, it seems to be a blood tonic, but in fact, it will make me weak and die more and more early." ”

She wasn't asking the two of them, she seemed to be talking to herself.

The two didn't dare to say much.

Bi Shiyi outside the house lowered his head and didn't look at the people in the house, but said, "The things you explained have also been done." ”

Errands?

Peony was surprised and asked.

"It's nothing." Xie Mingjin took out the books on the bookshelf that he hadn't been able to finish yesterday, and said lightly: "It's to let Eleven unload one or two nails from the hub of their carriage." ”

Peony: "...."

The carriage would have been fine at first, but it would not have been able to do so halfway through.

"If the carriage breaks down halfway, and there is no shop in front of the village and behind the village, so many of them will have to walk to the post station..... Maybe it will overturn. ”

Thinking of the high-spirited grandmothers panting on the desolate official road with their fat and thin bodies, with their physical strength to follow the old lady for all these years, I am afraid that they will not be able to catch up with the post station at night, and they will have to sleep in the wilderness.

Thinking of this, Peony couldn't help but let out a long sigh, pretending to be sympathetic: "It's so pitiful... They're not young. ”

Then she didn't hold back, and just laughed out loud.

Xie Mingjin also sighed, pretending to be aggrieved: "I don't blame me, who let her pinch me." ”

She stroked the wrist that left the red mark, and smiled slightly, but after glancing at the prescription in her hand, the smile faded.

After all these years, my grandmother still thinks about her.

Actually, why bother.

I don't want her to go back, in fact, she doesn't want to go back either.

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The official road has always been depressed, the road is potholed, but over the years there have been more and more cars and horses, today there is a tea shop on the side of the ten-mile pavilion to usher in the send-off, probably the first time here, a little curious, a merchant inquired about the other business travelers at the same table.

Others laughed, "Brother Tai often walks Fengling Road at first glance, and rarely walks this road." ”

"But no, didn't I hear that the bandits were suspected of being infested recently, and they might be ambushed and intercepted, so I wanted to go down the wrong road, and I wanted everyone to take this road."

"That's probably not because of the bandits."

"Hey, what do you mean, brother?"

"It's just because this place is under the jurisdiction of the little sage."

But no one knows exactly what it is secret.

Including what kind of person is the master who lives in the village and almost never goes out.

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The little sage Beizhuang sounds very profound, but the old people who have some geographical knowledge in Wuling County know that it is just a poor and remote pastoral village, and the ancestors have been brilliant, and then they don't know how many generations of depression have passed.

The older generation is always stubborn, unwilling to recognize new things, and unwilling to change their perception of the little sage Beizhuang, and has not tried to understand it.

Those grandmothers also thought like this, even if the grange agriculture was very busy and thriving, they didn't look at it, just because what they had been doing over the years was just the prosperity of the county town and the grace and wealth of the family.

Where can I see here.

However, many traveling merchants are sensitive, and they are well aware of the energy of this small village, and the passage is too peaceful, and the transaction is developed, so it is the first choice for businessmen.

At this time, in the huge study of the little sage Farewell, the master of Zhuangzi was arranging spies to prepare to investigate the affairs of the county town.

What was it that made her grandmother change her obscurity over the years, and suddenly sent someone to tempt her, and even did not hesitate to bring so many precious medicinal herbs to her.

But before the spies went out, someone suddenly came to the village to report urgently.

Someone again.

This time it was her father who had sent him.

The purpose is exactly the same, to summon her back to the county seat.

But it was better for her grandmother to send someone to inquire earnestly, this group of people only gave the news, and the people withdrew by themselves, and they didn't even see Xie Mingjin's face.

Peony was overjoyed, but soon felt that something was wrong, and she was a little stumped: "Girl, now I see that the lord intends to let you go back, the old lady is unwilling, and wants to strike first, but ....."

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"But no matter what the old lady does, she will never hide it from the lord, but he still let these people outside, which shows that the lord is really filial to the old lady and can't bear to be disobedient, and Xie Mingjin is no longer valued back then."

On the other side, the car really overturned halfway, and two grandmothers fell and broke their bones, after the ghost cried wolf, everyone trekked hard, and finally arrived in the town to spend money to hire the carriage again, and the miserable grandmothers at first suspected that it was Xie Ming's hand, but they felt that it was not, in the Zhuangzi, either they planted such a spy as a peony, or it was the guard raised by the clan, guarding the Zhuangzi with all their hearts, and never letting Xie Mingjin leave, the latter was like a caged bird, which one was willing to do things for her?

What's more, she is really seriously ill and will die soon.

However, under this conversation, they also determined one thing again.

Xie Mingjin has been an abandoned son of the Xie family since he was exiled and imprisoned by the lord four years ago to this village.

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"Allowing my grandmother's men to come, and sending a special group of people, the former of whom were either sure that I could handle her, seemed redundant, and my father had never liked to do fearless work. Either I hope my grandmother's people will succeed in stopping me. But no matter which one it is, combined with what he did later, it seems that he doesn't want me to go back, and he has to let me go back. ”

Previously, Mama Zhang also mentioned that she should go back to the county town first.

If it is the first, is there still a back?

The place she really wants to go to is definitely not the county seat.

Even her father had to be coerced by that force and had to do it?

Xie Mingjin tapped his fingers on the table and looked at Bi Shiyi, "Eleven, you were sent by your father to guard me, what do you think?" ”

The grandmothers could not have imagined that these caretakers would do things for her, and that they would keep their heads bowed to her as long as they did not disobey her father's initial orders, as long as the benefits she gave were sufficient, and as long as her father had not taken her family name away.

"Eleven doesn't dare." Bi Shiyi lowered his head and refused to express his position.

Xie Mingjin didn't embarrass him, he just smiled, and smiled very lightly, like the wind outside the window.

"Father's order is hard to disobey, then let's go."

She stood up, her sleeves fluttering, and her eyes looked out.

"By the way, bring that Mr. Xu with you."

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