Broken temple

"Gong'er ......" The woman on the ground woke up and weakly spat out a name.

"E-niang!" Kaigong immediately knelt down, clasped the woman's hand, and burst into tears.

Zhenying also wanted to give the mother and son a last chance to say goodbye, so she walked to Kangxi's side, sat on the stairs outside the door with Kangxi, took down the silk handkerchief, and looked thoughtful with her eyes.

Kangxi looked at Zhenying with this expression, and out of kindness, he gently bumped her with his elbow, and said softly, "Hey, I just was, I was just afraid that you would be infected, so I didn't think about it so much." ”

After hearing this, Zhenying only turned her eyes to look at him, and then turned back.

"What do you mean by that? So, how is the child's mother? ”

Zhenying shook her head, then lowered her head, "It's all smallpox, what do you think?" I left room for my brother and his mother. ”

Seeing that Zhenying was in a bad mood, Kangxi wanted to comfort him, so he raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder, "Don't be sad, let's guard them, if his mother dies, we can still help." ”

Zhenying nodded, but still didn't want to speak.

Kangxi then took out Zhenying's silver lock again, this time it was sent to Zhenying smoothly, when there was a bright silver lock in front of her, Zhenying instantly became excited, took the silver lock, and looked at Kangxi, "Why are you here?" ”

Kangxi smiled, "You fell on the first floor of Beijing, I picked it up for you, I was thinking about returning you just now, who knew that you ran into this broken temple." ”

"Thank you, I've been looking for it for a long time, and I thought I had lost it completely."

Kangxi was a little puzzled, "Is this peace lock important to you?" I don't think it's worth much, huh? ”

"It's not a question of whether it's worth or not, this is what my mother gave me, I've been carrying it since I was a child, my father died before I was born, this silver lock my mother also said that if you wear it on your body, my father will bless me in heaven, this silver lock is like my father and my mother, always by my side."

"So you're also a Han?"

Zhenying nodded, Kangxi understood, the short man in front of him, who usually looked like a gangster, and dared to scold his six brothers in front of him changed more than a little, "Then I'll help you get it back, how can you thank me?" Kangxi asked expectantly.

"Thank you? Wasn't it enough that I just gave my life to save you? Zhenying disagreed, and suddenly yelled back.

"Hey, since the silver lock is so important to you, and I'll help you get it back, shouldn't you thank me well?"

"Forget it, for the sake of the silver lock's return, I don't care about you." Zhenying put away the silver lock, but her mood was only happy for a while, "I'm happy that the silver lock is back, but Kaigong's Eniang will never come back." ”

"But he's okay himself, at least it's a comfort to his mother." Kangxi wanted to change the subject, so he asked: "When did you study medicine, I saw that you were very martial arts and courageous, but I didn't expect you to know medical skills?" Also, what's the matter with this boy? Why are you chasing him? ”

"My martial arts and medical skills were taught to me by my master, originally I only wanted to learn martial arts and not medicine, I felt boring, no martial arts fun, but it was because a few years ago many grandparents who loved me very much, and very young children were isolated and died one by one because of the epidemic, we didn't have the money to treat so many people, and my master could treat them but there was no money and not enough manpower, so I just watched them leave, so I made up my mind to follow the master to study medicine, I was not infected at that time, and my master did not let me get close to themLater, I didn't even have time to see them for the last time and they were cremated, and I was thinking, I must not let this happen again, I don't want to be sorry for the person who hurt me anymore. ”

Zhenying's moving words, Kangxi also suddenly had a kind of self-righteousness, as an emperor, everything in the world belongs to him, but Zhenying, who has experienced this kind of experience in front of him, is undoubtedly a big folk lesson for himself.

"As for Kai Gong, before I met you, he was chased by many other people's families, because he stole other people's things, and I helped chase them back, and that's when I saw such a picture."

Kangxi snorted coldly all of a sudden, "No, you are also an expert in stealing, why can't you see others stealing?" ”

Zhenying got up suddenly, pointed at Kangxi, and defended herself, "I said, I don't want to attack anyone, I'm only interested in the money of evil landlords and dog corrupt officials, the owner of the money he stole from, I heard their family say that only these few treasures he stole don't prove that people don't have any money?" Can I sit idly by? ”

Kangxi looked up at Zhenying's big movements, pointed at himself again, and blinked, "I, I'll just make a joke." ”

"Hmph, how can a boy like you know about the suffering of the world? I'll just say that you who eat the court's money should contribute money and efforts to benefit the people, the emperor just connived at corrupt officials and didn't rectify it, what I said before is still counted, the emperor's young son of heaven is not enough for the government! ”

"Don't get excited, don't be so loud, let me tell you, this is really a big crime to kill your head, dare to disrespect the current emperor, you are really bold." Kangxi no longer reacted as angrily as he heard Zhenying scolding him for the first time, but calmly persuaded her not to scold her too loudly, others heard it and wanted to clean up Zhenying, and Kangxi was not very good at helping her clean up the mess.

"But the current situation is like this, and there are so many people around me who are suffering, of course I ......"

"E-niang!!" One of them shouted inside, causing Zhenying and Kangxi to look at each other and run in in horror.

The scene inside is heartbreaking, Kai Gong Eniang spit blood out of his mouth, struggling in pain, Kai Gong cried even more tears on the side, and couldn't stop his tears, while wiping his mouth with a coarse cloth, Zhenying hurriedly came over, seeing that there was really no way to see this situation, gently stroking Kai Gong's back, Kangxi was also silently sad in the back.

"This, this little boy ......" The woman spit out these words with great difficulty, her eyes were almost open, with tears in her eyes, looking at Zhenying, her eyes were full of hope, "Gong'er, after I leave, there will be no one to take care of him, he is still young, I can't watch him suffer, little boy, just beg me, please help me take care of me, my Gong'er ......"

Seeing that it was very difficult for her to say something, Zhenying couldn't bear it, so she hurriedly agreed, "Okay, I promise you." ”

The woman smiled slightly, "Thank you." "Look at Kaigong with difficulty, "You must, grow up well, listen to this brother's words, Gong'er, Eniang, can no longer be by your side, remember, there is kindness, must, repay ......" The time when the woman's last tears flowed was the moment when she passed away, and the woman completely left Kaigong and left this troubled world.

"E-Niang !!" Kai Gong's heart-rending screams can't bring back his mother who has closed her eyes forever, and Zhen Ying next to her also witnessed the painful struggle of the last moment of the woman's life, and the emperor, I'm afraid that it is the first time to witness the pain of ordinary people leaving in pain under the consequences of having no money for treatment, and I am afraid that my heart will be turbulent, and then look at Kai Gong, who is crying into tears, it is even more mixed.

"Kaigong, we must cremate your mother, as well as the things she used during her lifetime, all of them must be burned to prevent the spread of the epidemic." Zhen Ying saw that Kaigong was crying so much that she didn't listen to herself at all, so she broke his body and asked him to face herself, "Let's help you with half of your mother's funeral, okay?" ”

Kai Gong nodded like pounding garlic, "Brother, in the future, you will be my own brother, okay?" ”

"Of course you can, your mother handed you over to me, and I will take care of you, but I can't guarantee that I will give you a particularly good life, can you?" And Kai Gong is already a poor child who has suffered a lot, and as long as Zhenying takes him in, it doesn't matter to him.