On the morning of the second day, the ship had entered the boundary of Yanzhou Prefecture. There are still several miles from the old wharf, and the canal is clogged with mud and sand, and the boat cannot get through. Li Yuliang paid for the boat, and then helped Wu Ciyou to go ashore with the green monkey and stayed in the newly opened "Canal Inn" on the shore. Li Yuliang and Qing Monkey were busy asking Wu Ciyou for a doctor's diagnosis every day, and they were very attentive in serving soup and medicine.

In the spring of the tenth year of Kangxi, the upper reaches of the Yellow River were thawed suddenly, and the spring water of the mighty river poured straight down. Although Yu Chengchan has the skill to govern the river, he follows the ancient method and only sends a large number of migrant workers to clear the sediment deposited downstream, although the effect is fast, but it does not cure the root cause. This spring flood came suddenly, and it was caught off guard, and several executions were made, and many people drowned in the Gaojiayan area. After the flood, Yanzhou was full of hungry people. The porridge field of the Confucius family in Qufu attracted thousands of hungry people, and the plague also spread with the arrival of hungry people from all directions. Wu Ciyou has been ill for a long time, how can he resist it? fell ill again, the heat did not go away, he didn't think about eating, and Li Yuliang was so anxious that he was in a hurry.

"Brother Xian," on the evening of the fifth day, Wu Ciyou was already dying, lying on the bed and panting slightly, "You go and sit down, I have something to say......" Yu Liang hurriedly agreed to sit on the edge of the bed and asked, "Where is it uncomfortable?" Wu Ciyou smiled and shook his head, and said: "I have made a lot of mistakes in my life, God punished me like this, but I am not wronged, now it seems that the end is approaching, dragging the virtuous brother and the green monkey to suffer for so many days in vain, this, this ......" He coughed lightly twice, and said, "I am a scholar, there is nothing to repay you, here is a chicken blood and green jade inkstone, it was the emperor...... I came to give it to me...... You took it and went to Beijing to find Wei Dongting in the camp to testify...... No, don't go, just keep it for a thought. In the future, if you can see my father and tell him about my foolish brother, I will be blinded......" At this point, I was already weak and weak.

Li Yu's conscience can't say what it feels like at this time, she has been crisscrossing the rivers and lakes all her life, killing countless people with swords, she can do whatever she wants, and her heart has never been cold; The people I have seen have talked about a thousand things, but I don't take it to heart, and when I see the man in front of me, I feel that I can't give up! Seeing that Wu Ciyou was dying, thinking of the past of high-rise poetry and candles in the west window, can it be sad? After being stunned for a long time, Yu Liangfang cried: "What does Mr. just say about these unlucky things? I, Li Yuliang, go to heaven and earth, and I must find a way to cure your illness. ”

"I don't need it." Wu Ciyou smiled miserably, "Life and death are fateful, how can human power do it?" There is only one thing that has been on my mind for a long time, and if you know, you must tell me......"

"What's the matter?" Li Yuliang looked at Wu Ciyou's eyes, and she was a little confused.

"Who is Yun Niang?" Wu Ciyou asked in a low voice.

Who Yun Niang is, even the green monkey doesn't know, the house fell silent, and after a while, Yu Liang suddenly sobbed, sobbed and said, "Don't hide Mr., I'm Yun Niang...... It's a female ...... Target. ”

Wu Ciyou's eyes widened, stared at Yun Niang for a long time, breathed a sigh of relief, and sighed: "I understand...... you take half of the words 'Yun (Yun)' and 'Niang'...... Alas, why do you want to ask for this bitterness? ”

"Sir is right, but it's a long story." Yun Niang said, "You are not in good health now, and you are recuperating, wait for a better time, I will start from the beginning......" Seeing Wu Ciyou close his eyes and nod, Yun Niang forced back her tears and returned to her room.

But Yun Niang couldn't sleep peacefully that night.

She is a native of Shaanxi Zhenyuan, and her ancestors made a living in Litian. In my father's generation, life was just a little better, and then I was hit by the plague, and my mother and aunt both died of illness on the same day. The old father saw that he couldn't do it, so he sold Yun Niang for three taels of silver, gave the Wang family a girl, and hastily buried his wife and sister. Yun Niang was only nine years old at the time.

Mrs. Wang treated people well and did not abuse this little girl she bought. But soon, something strange happened to the Wang family, which suddenly caused her a catastrophe. Wang Shigui, the eldest young master of the Wang family, is a cloth dealer who is away from home all the year round, and the presiding over the family affairs are Wang Liu, the young wife of the old lady, Wang Liu, and the eldest grandmother, Wang Cai. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have always been at odds.

Since the second young master Wang Shirong chose the tea horse platform in Guizhou and went home to live for a month, the relationship between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law suddenly improved. Old lady Wang is old and sick, lying in bed all day long, one day, Yun Niang got up early, as usual to the wife's room to serve the urinal, she stood at the door of the room and called softly twice, no one answered, so she walked in by herself, who knew that there was not only no urinal, and even the wife was not there. Just when it was strange, the west wing house where the second young master lived "squeaked". Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law smiled and grinned, you twisted me, I pushed you, buttoned the placket and came out, and when I saw Xiao Yunniang standing at the door of the hall in a daze, they all changed color.

"Cheap Nizi!" Wang Liu took a few steps over, grabbed Yun Niang's ears and lifted them, gritted his teeth and scolded, "Mother sells cunt, the chicken hasn't crowed at this hour, what are you doing here?" As he spoke, he slapped twice violently, causing blood to erupt from the corner of Yun Niang's mouth. Wang Caishi came over with a smirk, and said comfortingly: "You just came?" Didn't you see anything unusual? ”

"Nope." Yun Niang was so aggrieved that she cried, "Just see my wife and grandmother ......"

"Well, good baby...... Wang Cai said with a smile, "Is grandma treating you well?" ”

“…… Good. ”

"Madam, this baby is pitiful, and I haven't come home to see it for many years." Wang Cai said to her mother-in-law with a straight face, "Why don't you tell her to go back today?" Wang Liu snorted, lifted the curtain and went into the house, and said after a while, "Look at your face, tell her to go back, if you are talking nonsense, come back and carefully look at your skin!" ”

After Yun Niang left, she did not return to Wang's house. It was raining heavily that night, and on the way home, she was dragged by a man to the old pine forest in the back mountain, where her hands were cut and tied to a tree. In this old pine forest, there are packs of wolves looking for food at night, and before dawn, she will be left with no bones.

Yun Niang will never forget that terrifying night, in the black pine forest, the wind and rain howling, the howling of wolves in the distance, and the whimpering of nearby owls...... She was numb with horror, and her wet hair clung to her face, covering her eyes, but she still stared blankly ahead, looking at the black peaks, where Daddy's broken thatched hut was at the foot of the mountain.

Just as she was trembling with terror, two passers-by rescued her. One is the Qingxu Taoist of the Yellow Crane View of Zhongnan Mountain, and the other is the senior brother Hu Gongshan. On the same night, a fire broke out in Wang's house, crackling and burning until dawn, and the heavy rain did not extinguish it. The people in the city also made up a lyric, saying that "the fire burned down the ** family". Wang Shirong, who escaped from the fire, rushed back to Guizhou overnight.

Li Yunniang came out of the mountain this time, originally out of a competitive spirit. Hu Gongshan accepted Hao Laosi, who was given death by Kangxi, as an apprentice in Yuepengdian, and when he returned to the Yellow Crane Temple, the head of Qingxu Dao had been feathered for half a year, and the senior brothers and sisters had been separated for many years, so naturally there were endless words. Unexpectedly, when Yun Niang heard Hu Gongshan talk about the situation in Beijing, she was annoyed: "Senior brother, don't blame me for saying you, you are really a nest!" I think Mingzhu is not a thing, but you are generous and give him that Sister Cuigu! And that Mr. Wu and Su Hegu, you actually saw that Mingzhu was broken up, and you are still a chivalrous person! After saying that, he took a sip and turned his face away.

Hu Gongshan, a person who is strong, is strong when he is strong, evil when he is evil, and weak when he is good, he just smiled bitterly when he heard her words: "Senior sister, you have been on the mountain since you were a child, and you only occasionally walk the underworld, and you don't know about fireworks in the world, you go down and take a look, and you will naturally understand......"

"I don't believe it!" Yun Niang said: "I'll go down the mountain in a few days and come back to show you!" ”

Now, she has experienced the affairs of the world, and she has begun to struggle in the dense and intertwined network of the Three Principles and the Five Constants. She planned to send Wu Ciyou back to Beijing and force Mingzhu to come forward to re-arrange the matter with Su Malagu, and even the green monkey laughed at her for being too stupid. Now that Wu Ciyou is seriously ill and has seen through his female body, how should he deal with it?

The sky was unconsciously revealed, Yun Niang suddenly remembered that she must go to invite Fan Zongyao, a famous doctor in Yanzhou, to see the disease today, and she got up, and just finished washing, she heard someone on the door ask: "The shopkeeper's house, can there be a gentleman named Wu Ciyou living here?" Yun Niang's eyes couldn't help but light up, and she stepped out of the door in a few steps—the person who came had a dry yellow face, triangular eyes, inverted eight-figure broom eyebrows, and an extremely ugly face—this person was Hu Gongshan. Yun Niang saw him at this moment, just like a wanderer who met her brother when she was desperate, the corners of her mouth twitched a few times, and finally she whimpered and cried.

"Don't cry, don't cry!" Hu Gongshan turned back to his apprentice Hao Laosi in Taoist clothes and said, "-Qingfeng is here, I've seen your aunt!" ”

"Auntie!" Hao Laosi swept the dust, stepped forward and said, "Senior Aunt Da'an!" Yun Niang knew that this person was smart and cunning at a glance, so she hurriedly turned around and called out the green monkey, and said to Hu Gongshan with a smile: "No, I also accepted an apprentice, green monkey, I am about to see your uncle and brother!" ”

The green monkey came over with a hippie smile, and there were a few rings: "Hello uncle, brother!" We have heard for a long time that Uncle Shi has a good means and a good way of medicine, and when Mr. Wu is cured, he will also give his nephew a few tricks! ”

"Good, good!" Hu Gongshan smiled: "Sister Yun, you have to be careful, this leather monkey has stolen your kung fu!" Hao Laosi hurriedly asked, "Mr. Wu is also here, what's wrong with him?" ”

The green monkey hurriedly said: "It's too angry, it's terrible!" Why don't you smear salt water when your aunt sees you? Hu Gongshan didn't say anything after hearing this, stepped into the room in a few steps, looked at Wu Ciyou who was lying motionless on the bed, and frowned and sighed after a long time: "Sister Yun, why don't you even know the slightest bit of medicine?" - Lift the curtains and door curtains! ”

A gust of river wind blew in through the window, Yun Niang shuddered, and asked, "Can't you freeze?" ”

"People have become like this, why not freeze?" Hu Gongshan stepped forward and sat down, and while taking Wu Ciyou's hand, he said with a smile: "If you two weren't strong and stayed in this house, even you would be contaminated with this sickness!" As he spoke, the two thick black broom eyebrows frowned.

After a while, Hu Gongshan put down Wu Ciyou's arm and said: "The disease is in the intestines, but it can be cured, and I am afraid that I will not be cured for a while." ”

"Then please Senior Brother to work hard!"

"Needless to say, we're old friends." Hu Gongshan said while writing the prescription, "I can only take care of it for a few days, and you have to do the rest." But—"

"What?"

"The medicine used is very ordinary, but this disease needs to be taken care of, can you handle it?"

"What's not to take care of?"

"That's good." Hu Gongshan said lazily, and handed the prescription to the green monkey: "Go and catch it." The green monkey took the recipe and ran away. Here, Hu Gongshan got up and said, "Do you think you can do my treatment?" ——Hair internal strength, forcing out the sickness in his five internal organs. As he spoke, the five fingers of both hands formed a claw shape, which was activated in the center of Wu Ciyou's feet, and went up and down his body more and more, until his chest was pressed with both hands, and he did not take it down when he moved. Wu Ciyou's face gradually turned bloody. Hu Gongshan breathed a deep sigh of relief.

Yun Niang immediately understood what he meant, her face turned red to the root of her ears, and she replied in a low voice after a while: "That's nothing!" ”

"Another idiot." Hu Gongshan smiled strangely, "Sister Yun, I am an outsider and a person from here, I advise you to cure his illness and return to Zhongnan Mountain, how about it?" ”

"Why?"

"No why." Hu Gongshan said, "This is good for you, and good for him." ”

While he was talking, the green monkey jumped in and walked in, stumbled and frowned, "It's a weird thing for a donkey to give birth to a rabbit!" The few main medicines that Uncle Shi had just prescribed ran all over the town, but there were none! ”

"These are all very common medicines, which crude medicine store can not have them?" Hu Gongshan frowned, and his eyes emitted a thief's bright light, "Is it that the pharmacy has seen too many patients and hoarded it?" ”

Yun Niang suddenly panicked and said, "There were still a few days ago, why is it all gone in an instant?" What to do? Mr. Wu's illness cannot be delayed! ”

"It doesn't matter to your Mr. Wu!" Hu Gongshan said with a gloomy face, "Tens of thousands of hungry people spread the epidemic, how can they get it without medicine-what do the people in the pharmacy say?" ”

The green monkey wiped a handful of snot with his sleeve and said: "The people in the pharmacy said that the flavored medicines of Poria cocos, Eucommia ulmoides, and gastrodia are blocked because Yunnan and Guizhou are stuck, and some medicines cannot come in. Zheng Taizun here bought the rest of the brains and gave them to Zhong Saburo Xiangtang here. There are medicines in the incense hall, but they don't sell them, what is the way? ”

"Zhong Saburo - a bodhisattva pinched out of the mud in the pit, so domineering!" Yun Niang gritted her teeth and scolded, "It's really an endless wild bastard!" ”

"Master," Hao Laosi next to him smiled, "Let's go for a while tonight, shall we?" Hu Gongshan smiled when he heard this: "Sister Yun, listen, this is a person with a background, who was previously the emperor's third-class guard, who violated the king's law and came to me to ask for a life, but he still has a murderous heart and loves to talk about Fengyue!" ”

"Fengyue?" Yun Niang was a little puzzled.

"yes!" Hu Gongshan laughed, "'The wind is high and the sky is on fire, and the moon is dark and kills people', isn't it 'Fengyue'?" ”

The green monkey obviously liked this uncle very much, so he said to Yun Niang: "Please allow me to follow the uncle to open my eyes!" Yun Niang pondered for a while, then nodded in agreement.

In the dead of night, Hu Gongshan and the others went. Yun Niang stayed in front of the sickbed for a while, saw that Wu Ciyou was breathing steadily, felt a little relieved, and was about to go back to the room to rest, but when she saw Hao Laosi coming in, she nodded and smiled: "You sit down, Mr. Wu has been treated by senior brother, and he has been much better." ”

Hao Laosi sat aside and said, "Auntie, Mr. Wu is also my friend, and when the emperor gave me death the year before last, he also made an elegy for me." Yun Niang nodded when she heard this, did not speak, and only sighed softly. Hao Laosi smiled again for a while: "Senior aunt, the master persuaded you to leave Mr. Wu and go back, it is indeed a mother-in-law's heart, but if the senior aunt is willing to pass on my kung fu of 'four or two thousand catties', I have a better idea!" ”

"What's the idea?"

"It's good for you to leave Mr. Wu for a while."

"Why?"

"Auntie, don't lose your temper." Hao Laosi said seriously: "-Strange and scary-You old Mingjian, the more things in the world are getting farther and farther away, the closer you are, the more you go, it's this reason, you follow Mr. Wu step by step, Mr. Wu can only treat you as a friend, not to mention that he still has a Su in his heart——"

"Shut up!" Yun Niang's heart was suddenly beating by Hao Laosi's heartfelt words, how many days have she hidden in her heart, and even she didn't dare to admit it, so that Hao Laosi came out all of a sudden, she was troubled for a while, and suddenly said angrily: "How do you know that I have other hearts?" If you're such a bastard, do you expect me to teach you? ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" Hao Laosi hurriedly replied, "I don't dare to be a jerk anymore!" said in his mouth, but he smiled secretly in his heart, "These mothers-in-law are so weird, it's clear that it's like that, so don't let people say it!" ”

"Listen!" Yun Niang got up and looked aggressive, "If you use this kung fu to kill good people, I know it, it will be easy to take your life, and my senior brother will not be able to save you when the time comes!" ”

"Very good!" Outside the door, Hu Gongshan laughed, brought the green monkey in and said, "Our senior brother and sister have received a pair of charms!" The green monkey is lifeless and Bai Lai wants me to pass on his iron cloth shirt skills, and Qingfeng wants to ask you for four or two thousand catties - a pair of Laizi! The four of them couldn't help but look at each other and laugh. Wu Ciyou on the bed **, turned over, and shouted: "Water, water......"

He has not eaten water and rice for three days, and once he is treated today, he has taken a turn for the better so quickly. Yun Niang saw that his pale face looked elegant and vulgar under the light, and when she remembered Hao Lao Sifangcai's words, she couldn't tell whether she was happy or sad, emotional or self-hurting. She turned her face and glanced at Hu Gongshan, who was leaning over to see Wu Ciyou, this hateful and kind-hearted senior brother, who chased Wu Cuigu all his life until Cuigu died, and only regarded Hu Gongshan as a brother, but Cuigu had a hot fight with that unconscionable pearl! How can marriage in the world be so incredible! Do you want to follow the old path of your senior brother?

Hu Gongshan saw that Yun Niang looked at Wu Ciyou stupidly and was silent, thinking of his own life experience, he didn't feel a little sour, and tugged Wu Ciyou's arm into the quilt to soothe him: "Mr. Wu, you can rest assured that you are recuperating, there are dog meat Taoists Hu Gongshan and Yun Niang here, which impermanence dares to hook you?" Green monkey, decoction of medicine! ”

"It's Brother Miyayama!" Wu Ciyou was completely awake, and when he saw Hao Laosi also laughing in front of the sickbed, he couldn't help but tremble, "Fourth brother! You're not...... Is it dead? How is it here again! ”

"Buddha Amitayus! Mr. Wu walked away in the ghost gate, and he never forgot his old man, and the ancient style is admirable! Hu Gongshan smiled, "The Hao Laosi you said is indeed dead, he is my Taoist disciple Qingfeng - I feel better?" ”

"Oh!" Wu Ciyou was lying flat, and Yun Niang fed him a spoonful of water to drink. After being silent for a while, Wu Ciyou said: "Brother Hu, thanks to your good skills-Fang Cai, it seems that there is a gong outside, what is going on?" ”

"I got a few boxes of medicine for them, and they're hitting the sky there!" The green monkey smiled, "Originally, we didn't want to make a big deal, but this Zhong Saburo's turtle grandchildren are also weird and evil." They didn't press the goods to make money, but they wanted to gather and burn them with a fire! Wu Ciyou conspired for a long time and said: "Brother Gongshan, there is a lot of article here!" You have always been committed to helping the world, and you know very well the truth that the people are the foundation of the country, and if the people's hearts are unstable, the country's foundation will be difficult to consolidate - they are doing this just to disturb the people's hearts and radicalize the people, and they are too vicious! ”

Hu Gongshan's yellow face sank, and he was moved: people are sick to this extent, and they still think about the community and the common people, and this open-mindedness is much bigger than his own medicine to help the world! After staying for a long time, Hu Gongshan sighed: "Mr. Wu, you understand what you say." The past is unbearable to mention, you take care of your illness, ** cure you before leaving! ”