Chapter 24: On the Road

"Now I'm going to arrange for someone to keep vigil tonight." Xin Yi motioned for us to stop what we were doing first: "From the third watch to the fifth watch, Bingran, me, and Achu, one by one for an hour, we are now very close to Feixia Pass, who knows if we will meet the Beirong Tartars, the sword has no eyes, so everyone must be vigilant, understand?" ”

Achu and I replied, "Understood." ”

Sun Zhongjing weakly protested: "I have a question, why didn't I arrange the vigil, I am also a man......

"The purpose of the vigil is to ensure safety, so that everyone can sleep peacefully, you keep vigil, none of us want to sleep." Xin Yi waved his hand with palpitations.

"Yes," Achu seemed to be about to let out all the wake-up anger that had accumulated for several days: "I finally had an inn to stay in last night, and I woke up by knocking on the door and saying that a ghost was calling, and the result was that the water boiled by the innkeeper was boiling." ”

"That constant whining sound in the middle of the night, don't you sound like a ghost?"

"The night before you kept a vigil and called out all of us to say that there were wild beasts, we watched you take a stick and beat the crow's nest in the bush with a stick, and then we all crowed and quarreled all night."

"When there is movement in the bushes, the first thing you think of is not a wolf or a tiger, how did I know that the crow would make a nest in it? Besides, my vigil is not completely useless, didn't I find the three thieves the day before yesterday? ”

"Stop talking about that!" Achu didn't fight angrily: "I woke up a long time ago, and I was going to touch the sword to sneak attack, you howled and the four of us were all exposed, fortunately they are few and there are Bingran drugs, otherwise our heads will be hung at the gate of Dazhai!" ”

"Just a few of us, if we want money but no money, we have no power, what's the use of cutting us down and hanging the village? And ......"

"Okay, Sun Ergou, shut up." I immediately stopped Sun Zhongjing's words: "Your vigil is really terrible, Ah Chu is the only one among us who knows martial arts, and the safety of the four of us is on her, so she can't sleep well at night." ”

"Ergou" is Sun Zhongjing's nickname. Sun Zhongjing, a person with excellent medical skills, is too cheap, especially when everyone travels together in the morning and takes medicine together in the evening, they quickly become familiar with it, which causes the frequency of his embarrassing jokes to skyrocket, and the three of us can't talk about him. It just so happened that one day when he was eating, he slipped out of his nickname "Ergou", and after that, everyone joked with each other.

Sun Zhongjing finally closed his mouth in amusement, with a somewhat aggrieved look on his face, and he looked very pitiful with his pretty face.

Beauty misleads people...... So we also felt that the first three days of our lives were only one day in the second half of the night, and it was a bit too much for him to be collectively crusaded in the first half of the night for three consecutive days, A Chu said: "Don't be discouraged Ergouzi, you can focus all your attention on developing prescriptions." ”

"The ruler is short, the inch is long, and you don't rely on the vigil to eat." I said, "If you can't sleep at night, I'll go through the medical book with me to improve the prescription during my vigil." ”

"In this case, let's hurry up and rest, but I will prepare for Feixia Pass early tomorrow morning." Xin Yi ended the conversation perfectly, and everyone dispersed, each keeping vigil or sleeping.

I kept the first round of night, so I took the medical books and herbs to the outer room to pass the time, and Sun Zhongjing also sat down.

The four of us have been five days from Shuangqi Town, chasing and losing the large army, and there is no speed of the Gu family's army, originally to the north of the town three passes at least seven days up, and then Xin Yi flipped through the map of this area, and found that there is a side road to go from Bailong Mountain, which can save a lot of time, the disadvantage is that the mountain road is extremely dangerous and can not be guaranteed There are bandits and beasts. We weighed it, thinking that saving people was like fighting a fire, and that we could always resist it with a drugged sword, so we gritted our teeth and went into the mountain.

Achu and I live at the foot of the mountain, and we are used to entering the mountain; Although Xin Yi's family is in the town, he has the habit of going up the mountain to collect medicine from time to time because of his medical practice; And Sun Zhongjing has been doing You Fang Langzhong outside, looking at Wen is a little weaker, but he is not afraid of walking, so although it is really difficult to walk on the mountain road, everyone is not unable to walk.

But the bandit beast is invincible. In order not to stay in the mountains for a long time, the four of us drove the mountain road for two days without sleep, during which we crossed several wooden planks of iron chain bridge by moonlight; I met three bandits who didn't notice us, but they were howled by Sun Zhongjing, but fortunately, their kung fu was also very poor, and after being subdued by Achu a few times, they were also sprinkled with drugs on my face once, which can be regarded as a thrilling situation.

Recalling that after the thieves recovered from the medicine, we didn't want to cause more trouble, and we saw that they were not extremely vicious, but they were forced by life to make money and didn't want to kill them, so they decided to let them go, but the thieves were very emotional while crying and said to me and Achu very emotionally: "Eldest sister didn't expect you to dress poorer than us, and I can't see you clearly in the dark lights at night, so don't mind!" "I just think it's going to be an experience I'll never forget.

Thinking that tomorrow will be even if I have one foot in the destination, my heart is full of nervousness, worry and excitement, and I have indeed gained a lot after reading the medical books in the past few days, but at this time, I heard Sun Zhongjing speak: "Shen Bingran, ......what do you say?"

I gave him a slap in the eye: "Be quiet, you're asleep!" ”

Hearing An Chu in the middle of the room snorted with some dissatisfaction, he hurriedly lowered his voice: "Oh, do you think the medicine we have made in the past two days can be symptomatic?" ”

"It's hard to say, but my inference is correct, it's not a plague, it's a massive poisoning." When I thought of the sinister nature of this, my eyes went cold.

"You look so scary right now." Sun Zhongjing interjected, but his expression also became serious: "Thanks to the cases of the same symptoms recorded in the ancient books handed down by the Gu Xinyi family, otherwise we would be the same as other doctors looking for prescriptions, even in the wrong direction." ”

Moreover, this poison is classified in the "Exotic-Northern" item, and now the Chinese army is fighting in the north, and the enemy is Beijung, probably ...... This was originally a game designed by Beirong. ”

"Insidious." Sun Zhongjing shook his head.

"Soldiers are not tired of deceit, not to mention that it is indeed useful." I said, "Although there is a record of the detoxification method on it, there is still too little information. ”

"Yes. First, there are only a few main drugs written about poison, and from the perspective of medicinal properties, this prescription is still incomplete; The second is the detoxification method, but the page after the antidote is inexplicably gone, whether this will affect the efficacy of the drug is unpredictable. ”

"Although it is impossible to fully confirm the effect of the antidote, as long as there is no error in the description on your third brother's message, maybe it is good that this medicine can alleviate one or two." I sighed: "Actually, what I'm more puzzled about is that if Beirong poisoned, what means did they use to poison so many people and still go undetected?" ”

"Mole, this statement may make sense, but no one will believe the nonsense of three village girls and one You Fanglang." Sun Zhongjing shrugged.

"Indeed." I agreed: "It's also a question of how to get those generals and officials to want to try our way." Also, although I have also made some preparations for drug prevention in the past few days, I don't know where the source of the poison is, and I am afraid that I can't prevent it, not to mention that I have the same opinion as you about the mole, if this traitor's status is very high, he will definitely take the first step to kill those of us who may hinder his plan. ”

Sun Zhongjing said suddenly: "No kidding, I've been thinking about it for the past few days, is what I see not necessarily true?" ”

"How?"

"For example, the Jiangmen family who seems to protect the family and defend the country has actually moved the idea of colluding with foreigners."

“…… You said that the Gu family is a family of loyalty and righteousness for generations. ”

Sun Zhongjing scratched his hair: "I'm also speculating, after all, we came out of Bailong Mountain to the town near Sanguan in the north of the town, and the more news we heard, the more unsteady our hearts became, and we always felt that what others said was true, and it seemed that we couldn't believe anything." ”

"It's normal to care about chaos, but I think it's too outrageous for a big family and its descendants to collaborate with the enemy and commit treason on the front line, and abandon the generations to clear their names and ignore the clansmen and daughters who are still in the capital." I remembered the look in Chenyi's eyes when he looked at me and the phrase "wait for me" that I vaguely heard in my sleep, and I couldn't help but retort.

"That's right."

"Also, although there is martial law in the front line of the war at three levels, but tomorrow we will have to enter this Feixia Pass, and it is best to be able to join your third brother, but I don't know if it will work with money."

"At this time, I think that sometimes it is not necessarily a bad thing to eat and wait for death, right?" Sun Zhongjing's hippie smile.

"Flim Flam."