In the spring of the seventeenth year of Zhaojian

Today's weather is really good, and the people in the Qingzun Pavilion who are busy on weekdays are happy and leisurely today.

The pavilion owner put out his beloved small tea table, made a cup of fine oolong, and happily sat on an old sandalwood carved rocking chair in front of the hall, took a black bone wooden fan, and admired the natural colors of spring and Jingming.

From time to time, a trace of spring buds of stamens passes in the wind, and the breath of all things sprouts. With the addition of the fragrance of Qinqin's tea, Cen Chan felt that every muscle and blood from the snort to the back of the neck and then to the end was stretching. Slowly, a wave of laziness and tiredness also surged up along the muscles and blood that had just been stretched.

Just as he was about to fall asleep, a cloud-piercing arrow flew and nailed it to the pavilion master's proud little tea table, knocking the teacup over and smashing it to the ground, splashing the pavilion master's face with hot water.

The pavilion master's face was almost wrinkled into a chrysanthemum, and he sat up all of a sudden, wiped his face, and asked sharply:

"Which rabbit again? Get the hell out of here! The days are good, so I have to rush to find scolding. ”

The little disciples who were active in the courtyard all covered their mouths and snickered. Sneaking a peek in the direction of this side. There was one who was bold and not afraid of things, so he opened his throat

"Who else can there be, it's not Senior Sister Qi, that's Senior Brother Yu."

Sure enough, Chang Yu slipped over with a small bow and crossbow and shrunk his neck.

"Division...... Master, an accident, an accident. "The slippery head of the hippie smile is still the way it looks every time it gets into trouble.

"I knew it." The pavilion master said and glanced at the bow and crossbow in Chang Yu's hand. "Hmph, you kid, you know how to play around with other people's bows. When will you make it yourself? ”

"Alas, Master, although I am not good at making this machine, but I have a lot of intelligence, and that is the wisdom of the overall situation!"

The pavilion master wrinkled one eye, as if smiling:

"Our Qingzun Pavilion is famous all over the world, how many people are rushing at these small bows and crossbows of ours, entrusting us with the mission that should have been handed over to the dart bureau and the yamen? You're just lazy. ”

The master and apprentice were arguing, and a girl on the roof was Gu Chao.

"Dad, Chang Yu didn't make a crossbow himself, so he robbed me of what he did, but he didn't care about it, the last time he took a dart, he took my three crossbows, and then guess what? I'm all broken! ”

Gu Chao took out a handkerchief from his pocket, quickly wiped the tea for Cen Chan gently, and pulled the arrow back from the table and quickly put it away.

Cen Chan glanced at it and snorted coldly

"Girl, give me something."

Gu Hao pursed his lips, panicked, and waved his head to look at Chang Yu.

Originally, Gu Chao just came up with the idea of making these thousand clusters of arrows, and after making it, he wanted to try its power, but he was taken by Chang Yue and shot indiscriminately. Now that my father has seen it, I'm afraid it's a little troublesome.

Gu Chao gently took out the arrow from his cuffs, held it in both hands and handed it to the pavilion master. Cen Chan took it and glanced at it, then broke the arrow and threw it back

"How much did you make of this thing?"

"I ...... I just wanted to do this on a whim, so I made a dozen of them, not thinking that if I had to go down the mountain, I could better defend myself. ”

"Self-defense, one move to defeat the enemy, you cut out many tiny thorns on the arrow, it is not self-preservation, but insidious."

Gu Chao couldn't help but feel a little guilty when he heard this, and originally thought that if he ran into that difficult opponent, he would not only be fatal with one move, but also make him feel painful. I didn't think about it that much for a while. So I had to bow my head obediently

"I know Dad, I'll fold them all when I go back, and I will improve my martial arts in the future, and I don't want to think about these crooked tricks anymore."

Cen Chan nodded with satisfaction, and stroked his beard again, "How long have you and Chang Yu not gone down the mountain?" ”

Chang Yue saw this article revealed, and hurriedly replied

"Oh, Master, don't you know, these days, Gu Chao and I are bored, and we don't know what to do in the house every day, so Senior Brother always brings in the boss a bunch of books for us to read, if this continues, I think we are about to become an academy!"

Gu Chao glared at him

"Alas, alas, you can't sit still by yourself, don't pull me, I'm well-read, and I usually make crossbows in the house, look at drawings or something, how can I waste my time like you."

Chang Yue heard this, and deliberately smacked Gu Hao, which made everyone laugh.

It is normal to say that this fellow brother and sister are fighting and making trouble, and although Chang Yu and Gu Chao are arguing all day long, except for the senior brother Cen Li. The relationship is good for their brothers.

Chang Yu is also a child picked up from the bottom of the mountain, and he takes the Qingzun Pavilion as his home, and he went up the mountain a year later than Gu Chao, so even if he is one year older than Gu Chao, he still has to be called Senior Sister Gu Chao according to his seniority. But he rarely calls it that.

When a group of people take advantage of this rare leisure to talk and laugh. A carriage drove outside the gate. As soon as Gu Chao heard it, he knew that it was the senior brother who was back, so he hurriedly greeted him.

Cen Li just had to go down the mountain a few days ago to run errands, and he only came back today.

"Senior brother, senior brother, what is new when you go down the mountain this time? Come and talk to us about it."

Gu Chao rushed up and hugged Cen Li, but Cen Li pushed Gu Chao away. Just when Gu Chao was surprised, Cen Li hurriedly explained

"Stay away from me, I just sent a group of patients who have suffered from the epidemic to the temple in the back mountain."

"The epidemic? How? Did the epidemic start when the epidemic began to spread at Yamashita? ”

"That's right, dozens of families have already been infected. There were a few children from poor families who really didn't have the money to be treated, so I sent them all to the ruined temple in the back mountain. In this way, the monk will not be infected, and he will be able to take care of these patients."

Chang Yu jumped out and said, "That's nature, he lived in our place for nothing, and it is also appropriate for us to take care of some patients." ”

After Gu Chao asked about the severity of the epidemic at this time, he hurriedly asked, "Such a serious illness, then senior brother, you are so close to those patients, what if you are infected?" ”

Cen Li smiled softly

"Senior sister, don't worry about me, I was hurt when I was a child, and now I don't think it will infect me. But you haven't suffered from this disease, so you still have to pay attention. ”

Cen Chan walked over slowly

"Does the monk still live there now? It was desolate and remote, except for a small stream. There was no fruit or food. How does he live on weekdays? ”

Cen Li said as he unloaded the horse from the cart

"When the little monk went up the mountain, a girl who was slightly older than him followed him, and I don't know if it was his sister or some other relative. Maybe I'll take care of him every day. And sometimes I send Sister Yuqin to bring them something. ”

Chang Yu smiled strangely

"You said that a monk with a girl is in the temple, isn't it quite clueless?"

Gu Chao shrugged and smiled

"Look at you, it's just that the dog can't spit out ivory from its mouth, don't you understand that people may have come to flee? And people live in our small broken temple, and they are not serious monks in the high gate temple. Don't say that it may be someone's relative, but no, what about you, don't you also want a girl to serve you day and night? ”

Chang Yu grinned again

"This idea is not bad, if you can personally serve the master, I will be very useful, hahahaha."

Gu Chao rolled his eyes slightly, and was about to fly out of his hand with two small pebbles to teach him a lesson. He had already been preempted by the pavilion master, and a violent shudder knocked on his head.

"The more you talk about it, the more boundless it becomes, don't make fun of my girl, it's beautiful."

Chang Yue is very dissatisfied:

"Master? You, you, you're too partial, they're all your apprentices, isn't Xiao Xiao'er your daughter? You are so partial, if she grows into a white-eyed wolf in the future, won't she be worthy of your love? ”

Gu Chao flew up and kicked him on the calf, "You say it again?" ”

Cen Li smiled softly and said to the two little enemies

"Okay, okay, don't make trouble, you two go back to play first, my father and I have something to discuss."

Gu Chao and Chang Yu, you pushed me back. Cen Li moved the pavilion master's stool into the hall and helped his father sit down.

"Tell me, what's so hot."

"Dad, this time I went down the mountain, I was supposed to do some errands, and buy some items by the way. But it took so long, not just because of the epidemic. ”

"Oh? So what's going on? ”

"I heard some people say that at this time, the epidemic was first contracted by a young lady named Song Jinyao. But this young lady doesn't go out of the door on weekdays, and she doesn't step out of the second door. The rest of her family was not infected, but now it has begun to spread on a large scale, mainly from poor families. A lot of people have died now. ”

"What do you think is different? But no one has entrusted this matter, and we can't intervene. ”

Cen Li approached his father:

"But those people think that Song Jinyao is ominous, although this Miss Song has recovered, but there are some people who have often made trouble outside the Song Mansion recently. A few of them almost injured Song Jinyao. ”

"So, Song Jinyao's family is being abused by everyone, and Miss Song's safety is threatened, just when she needs help?"

"That's right."

Cen Li replied in the affirmative

"So, have you seen the head of that house?"

"No, I think this is very unusual, so I'm going to come back and ask you for instructions."

"Huh? Tell me, what's so unusual? ”

"In the past few days, there have suddenly been a lot of people in Qingcheng County, but most of them are passers-by, and few of them stay too long, so the public order is chaotic, and many people have been violated to varying degrees."

Cen Li took out a small note from his arms:

"This is a prescription prescribed by a few Lang Zhong under the mountain, I have also roughly read it, when I had this disease as a child, the prescription for medicine is similar to what is written above, but there are two or three more flavors of medicine on this prescription than before."

After Cen Chan recalled, he asked:

"I vaguely remember when you were a child with this disease, this disease was not so bad, but some people who were weaker died of the disease."

Cen Li also moved a chair and sat down:

"So in general, it's strange that this disease spreads strangely."

Cen Chan cleared his throat and squinted his eyes again for a while.

"This disease, do you want to help Miss Song. It's just a matter of a thought, so you rushed back to discuss with me because you think the mountain is not peaceful again, so you want to take someone down the mountain? ”

Cen Li nodded in affirmation.

Cen Chan looked thoughtfully at his son

"I think you've already got a candidate."