In the spring of February, in the south of the Yangtze River, it is already full of flowers, that is, along both sides of the Yellow River, it is also the apricot stamens spit white, but the sky in the north is high and cold, and it is still cold. Since the second day of leaving Gubeikou, the sky has really changed, the white-haired wind is wrapped in snow particles and snow flakes, sometimes like a sudden sand rushing, sometimes like a jade dragon pillar sky, the so-called "smoke cannon" is like this. Kangxi was in a hurry because of greed, and he was careless in his daily life, so he didn't want to take the cold, his head was dizzy and hot, and he was too lazy to move. Although Gao Shiqi was by his side to take care of him, he had no choice but to pass through Montenegro County, all the way to a deserted village shop, the diet and medicine were not well prepared, and the high fever on his body could not go away. Put a few ministers in a hurry to heat the pot like ants. Seeing that they were about to arrive in Longhua Town, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Gao Shiqi clasped his palms together and recited the Buddha: "Amitabha, there will be a crude medicine shop in the town!" Mingzhu smiled when he heard this, and Suo Etu teased: "Aren't you a protégé of Confucius?" Why did you suddenly convert to Shakyamuni again? Wei Dongting also smiled: "Don't worry, I've been to Longhua Town, and there are two crude medicine shops!" ”

"The so-called rushing to the doctor is also human nature." Gao Shiqi was relieved, and said to Suo Etu with a smile on the horse, "I'm just afraid that my master will turn to typhoid fever, and when I go to Fengtian, I will visit the ancestral tomb and see the Mongolian prince, I am afraid that I will not be able to bear it, and then I will be disabled, but I will not be dethroned, where will my face go?" Suo Etu complained: "After the camp of the Karaqin Left Banner, how can the wolf keep the master?" A few of you don't say a word, it's up to the emperor's temperament! As he spoke, Wei Dongting straightened his mouth and said with a smile: "Don't talk about these gossips, no, Longhua Town has arrived!" ”

There are more than 1,000 households in Longhua Town, because of the heavy snowfall, there are few pedestrians on the streets and alleys, the plough prints are crawling all over the ground, and the halberds on the side of the street are stacked neatly and neatly, one after another. Because it was already dusk, there were only a few dry shops along the street, each standing with a watermelon lantern in his hand, shrinking his neck and stomping his feet to greet the guests. According to Wu Dan's meaning, he just found an inn on the edge of the town to live in first, but Wei Dongting was extra careful because he had met assassins in the store with Kangxi, and he picked and picked, and Fang found a century-old shop called "Xinglong" in the densely populated place in the center of the town to rest on the spot. Gao Shiqi prescribed a prescription to grab the medicine, decoction and tasted it, served Kangxi to sleep peacefully, and saw that Kangxi had taken the medicine and fell asleep, so he was relieved to go out of the upper room. Seeing Wei Dongting standing under the eaves, he smiled and said, "What can happen now?" You're too careful! After a day's walk, it's time to change your wet boots! Suo Laosan, Lao Ming and Wu Dan are all eating in the front hall, you can go too! ”

"Be careful, the master can't do without us playing with knives." Wei Dongting said with a smile, "Wu Dan and I have discussed, we will take turns to guard here, you just have to eat your food—the master's illness is irrelevant, right?" ”

Gao Shiqi was moved in his heart, if it comes to loyalty, this Wei Dongting is indeed the first one, no wonder Kangxi loves him. Because he said: "This dose of publishing medicine, the quasi-emperor is fine." The master's body is strong, where is he really sick? "Let's go to the front storefront.

This is a three-storefront shop, selling food in the front and living in the back. There were more than 30 civil and military attendants, eunuchs, and palace people brought by Kangxi, and there were six tables. Because of the snow, the boss also did not prevent so many guests at once, although they were all dressed in casual clothes, but they were all magnificent, up and down clearly, they knew that they were not ordinary guests, and they were busy sweating before and after. Gao Shiqi came in, ignored the eunuchs, only nodded to the Wudan table, and then went straight to the top pearl and Suo Etu seat, and sat down. Mingzhu saw that there were miscellaneous people in the store, and asked in a low voice, "Has the master used medicine?" ”

"I've used it, Ansheng has slept, I sweat this night, and I'll be half sick tomorrow!" Gao Shiqi picked up a bowl of hot rice wine, poured half a bowl of goo, the cold air was dissipated one day, his face was flushed with red light, and he saw that the dish was very greasy, only picked a piece of jellyfish and chewed it, and said with a smile: "Master Ming'er is not good, you just smack me!" Suo Etu knew that he was funny, so he wanted to make him laugh and relieve his boredom, because he laughed: "Hugh said big things, the doctor has to die of a sudden illness to the patient's house, I have seen this kind of thing!" ”

Gao Shiqi stilted Erlang's legs and trembled, and said with a smile: "What's so rare about that!" I've seen midwives give birth to babies at the mother's house! The words made the whole store laugh, but they heard Gao Shiqi say again, "The brother in Langzhong that Lao Suo said is not a stranger, and I made a sacrifice when he died!" ”

"Oh?" Suo Etu sipped rice wine and said, "There must be a wonderful good word, why not recite it, let us feast our ears?" Mingzhu also felt tired, and wanted to make fun of her, so she also picked up Gao Shiqi to recite the sacrificial text.

Gao Shiqi was forced, and pondered for a long time, and said: "The article is done to hurt the yin, it is a juvenile study, and you refuse to offer ugliness. After thinking about it again, Fang Lang recited:

If you can't study, you can't carve the rotten wood; then learned fencing, five years without the ability to cut chickens; switched to medicine, and no one cared for ten years. Public indignation, public illness, public self-treatment, ineffective, public death. Alack! The death of the public is also, the dead city is less unjustly killed by the sick ghosts, and the medicine of the tiger and wolf has no place to rage, although the public is dead, it will benefit the sick family......

This strange article has not yet been "memorized", everyone has laughed, Gao Shiqi to continue the end, but heard the sound of the door outside the store, a guy rushed over, flashed the crack in the door, looked at the person and said: "I'm sorry, the small shop is full, please go to the west, there is still a vacant house in the old Cai family store over there." "Fuck your fart!" An old lady scolded in a voice, "We live in Cai's old store, we don't fire over there, and we come here to buy food to eat, understand?" I haven't seen you anywhere, guy, blocking people outside the door on a snowy day to talk! As he spoke, he squeezed his body and walked in, pulled in a young man, knocked off the snow on his body, and sat down at the table in Mingzhu, making everyone look at this side silently. The old lady put two taels of silver on the table, and said loudly: "Beat a pound of rice wine, heat it a little, a yellow stewed chicken, two bowls of mushroom soup, two bowls of water over rice—what are you stunned about, our silver is not enough?" ”

The guy had the intention to make things difficult, picked up the silver and took a closer look, it was a ninety-eight color "true circle" silver cake, half of which had been clipped, and the cut feet were slightly white, which was really impeccable, because he smiled and said: "Old lady, it's not that I refuse to support you, the clip in the store is broken, and you went to redeem the money, how about it?" "I don't want you to return it!" The young man sitting silently next to him couldn't help it, and suddenly raised his head and said loudly. As soon as he turned his face, he was looking at Gao Shiqi and was taken aback.

"You-" The young man stared at Gao Shiqi and snorted, "Oh, the surname is Gao?" ”

Gao Shiqi was stunned for a moment, then looked at him carefully, and saw that he was wearing a crimson Ning sheepskin coat, a pair of high-waisted cowhide boots under his feet, a big wool cowskin hat pressed low, thin eyebrows, the corners of his mouth slightly hanging, and a pair of deep dimples on his cheeks. When she was frowning and pondering, the old lady suddenly said: "Gao Xianggong, you are really a noble person who forgets things, and you don't remember the old woman of Huangliangmeng?" ”

"Han Liu's!" Gao Shiqi's eyes lit up, and he suddenly smelled a faint fragrance, this young man must be the daughter of Tushetu Khan, and he is going to have a good time with Chen Huang! He stood up with a "brush" and said to the dazed fellow, "Get out of here!" These two are with us—old lady, how did you get here? What about Haruha? ”

"The devil sent it to God!" Han Liu smiled proudly, "Chunhe went to his uncle's house, and he was a student in Hangzhou, and he really thought about you, the life-saving benefactor." The child you saved is now more than five years old, and his name is Han Mugao! ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard it at this time, Gao Shiqi was surprised to see everyone, so he told a rough story about his journey to Beijing to save Han Chunhe, and only hid his life experience of rescuing Miss Zhou and A Xiu in a sedan chair. These two things, one is related to one's own reputation and the other is related to national politics, and it is inconvenient to say more. At that moment, after everyone laughed and ate, Gao Shiqi ordered someone to clean up his inner room, so that Han Liu's "mother and son" lived, and he actually lived outside, he went to the upper room to visit Kangxi, because he saw Kangxi sweating profusely and sleeping deeply, so he came back to see Han Liu and Ah Xiu.

"Mr. Gao, people say that my wife has a lot of eyes, but she is actually a fool!" Han Liu sat on the warm hot kang, listening to the silence of the people outside, only the whistling wind rustling the snow falling, Fang said slowly, "Do you know, the golden monk who lives in the Tianwang Temple is actually a thief monk!" ”

Gao Shiqi looked at Han Liu and A Xiu's miserable faces, recalling the scene when he was depressed and living in the temple, and his body was full of goosebumps.

"Soon after you went, it rained even a lot," Han Liu sipped his tea, falling into deep memories. At this moment, Gao Shiqi suddenly felt that this Han Liu must have been a beautiful girl when he was young. He nodded, plucked the charcoal basin with fire chopsticks, and listened to the old lady continue, "There is a lonely grave in the back garden of my house, you know, I moved to Shandong, and I didn't move it when I erected the house. Because it was raining, the grave collapsed into a big hole, and the rain poured into it one by one. When I saw that I was not satisfied, I became suspicious, and as soon as the day was clear, I asked someone to put down the big poplar tree on the grave, and wanted to dig it up to see what was buried, and if it was really a dead man, I had to move it somewhere for him, so that he would not be troubled in the water. ”

"You dug up?" Gao Shiqi asked, "What's buried in it?" ”

Ah Xiu didn't say anything, and took out a big thing from his sleeve, and when Gao Shiqi saw it, it was an emerald. Under the reflection of the candle flame, Axiu's soft palm emitted a green and faint light!

"That's it, and cat eyes, rubies, and a box." Han Liu said abruptly, "The rest of the boxes are very heavy and can't be moved, and I didn't dare to move, it's about gold bricks and silver ingots...... Gao Shiqi was a little out of breath with excitement, and asked with a glare: "What happened later?" ”

"Later, I learned that as soon as the big tree saw, he reported a message to Monk Jin." Han Liu said, "Although I haven't seen it, I also know that there is a treasury of gold and silver buried behind the garden, which is a source of trouble. On the morning of the third day, I took Ah Xiu, my son and daughter-in-law out with my grandson in my arms, and only told my family that I wanted to go to the golden top of Wudang Mountain and make incense to my grandfather. made a big detour, and only at night did he quietly hide in Huangliang Mengzhou's in-laws' house, wanting to see the wind and make plans.

"There has been no movement for half a month. I thought to myself that this must have been buried by a rich man in the former Ming Dynasty, when the war was in chaos, and then when people died, they became ownerless wealth. I was thinking about going back, but in the middle of the night that night, my housekeeper Ma Gui ran to Zhou's house in a panic, saying that Monk Jin and Yu Yishi had brought a hundred and ten big men, all with Shandong accents, and first said that they wanted to spend the night, and they did not agree with each other, and their family told him to kill three. Please take the proposition from your in-laws.

"You also know that my in-laws are an old and fiery person, and when they hear it, they get angry, and they will go over to fight when they start their family. I didn't hear it right behind the screen, so I came out. It frightened Ma Gui and said, "Old lady...... You...... Didn't you go to Hubei? ’”

"I said: 'Ma Gui, you go back and say to the surnamed Jin, everyone knows that I went to Wudang, I took the box with me, if there is no box, I will die! Let him take the rest. There are dozens of post soldiers in Linhaoguan, and it is far away from Handan. When Ma Gui returned, the people here also went out, sifting gongs and drums and shouting in the dark field, scaring them away! ”

And so it was, not half an hour. Monk Jin and Yu Yishi were busy taking away the boxes of gold and silver, and they didn't kill anyone again, and they lit a fire before leaving, and it rained again, and the fire didn't burn. After Han Liu finished speaking, he breathed a long sigh of relief.

Gao Shiqi also breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "If you provoke such a big thing, you want to put it on others, I don't know how!" You really can't afford to lose at all! Didn't you go back? Ah Xiu said: "I said that I was going back, and my mother said that this home was no longer a safe place for her, so she gave up the house to Zhou Yuanwai." ”

"Monk Jin is not dead, and it is rare for me to live in peace in this life." Han Liu smiled, "I'm so stupid, staying at home and waiting for him to kill?" Thinking that there was no way, he took the family to Hangzhou Chun and his second uncle by boat. His second uncle is a businessman, and his second sister-in-law is not tolerant in his eyes, thinking that I have lost my family property and defected to them, and I have nothing to do. I am not poor, but rich and avoid revenge, where can I bear it? bought the original plate of his second uncle's silk shop in Luomahu Town, so that his son and daughter-in-law had a place to stay, because the daughter was anxious to see the long live lord, so she took her out together, and it was like breaking into the rivers and lakes! He pursed his lips and smiled.

Gao Shiqi smiled when he heard this, and said: "It's also a shame that you are a wise multi-star, and you want to change to another woman's family, I don't know what to do!" You're understatement, but as far as I can imagine, it's thrilling. Xiugege, are you in a hurry to see the emperor, or are you still asking for soldiers to avenge the army? ”

"Where is the emperor now?" Ah Xiu's eyes flashed and asked.

"Far away, close at hand!" Gao Shiqi said, looked at the light in the upper room outside, and said in a low voice, "The emperor's trip to Fengtian this time, on the surface, said that it was to pay homage to the ancestral tomb, but in fact, what is more important is the Mongolian prince of the conference, and the women and women in the article here are difficult to know!" Xiugege, with all due respect, the princes who came to the meeting this time, including Chechen Khan and Geldan's envoys, have a lot of enemies, and the emperor is now going to be enveloped, and you are not good if you show up openly! ”

Ah Xiu sneered when he heard this, and said, "There are enemies and relatives!" My uncle Öndörkhan is also coming. If the emperor really doesn't care about us, I don't want to live anymore, and I will have a lively time when we meet, I'm afraid you will regret it! Gao Shiqi was stunned for a moment and said, "How do you know everything?" It's amazing, Öndörkhan is coming, I don't know yet! No wonder Chen Huang, this kid has no fate, you are a fairy! Seeing that he was talking lightly, Ah Xiu sat up straight and said, "Mr. Gao is self-respecting, don't forget each other's identities." ”

"Yes, Gege is taught!" Gao Shiqi's face flushed, he bowed, and said with a sneer, "Shiqi and Tianyi are old in the lake and sea, and they forget their love when they talk - I don't know if you have ever seen Tianyi again?" Han Liu saw that Ah Xiu didn't turn his face and didn't answer, so he sighed: "This is the injustice of the previous life, and people can't do it anymore!" I took a boat from Hangzhou to Luoma Lake, but I passed by Qingjiang, and I saw that my daughter's face was as white as paper, and I also persuaded me not to get off the boat to meet Mr. Chen. I don't know what she thinks, she shook her head with tears, but she refused. Later, in Luoma Lake, I heard that Lord Jin was involved because of Xiao Jiadu's ruling, and the imperial court sent a messenger to lock Lord Jin and Mr. Chen to Beijing...... Alas...... "At this point, the three of them looked gloomy, and Ah Xiu held back for a long time, but tears still flowed silently. Gao Shiqi was not comforted, so he took his leave. This night was lit by candlelight, and no one slept.