Suddenly, Zhu Qishen opened his eyes, twisted his beard and groaned: "Has your brother been injured?" Look at this vein, it is like evil qi entering the body, infected with epidemics. He frowned and paused, "If he was diagnosed and treated by the old man when he first became ill, he was still seventy or eighty percent sure, but now, there are only two percent left." This is the first time that the old man has seen this disease, and it is indeed tricky. ”

Ye Chen's heart was already cold, she raised her face to look at Zhu Qishen, and said eagerly: "My brother injured his ankle a few days ago, could it be that at that time...... Doctor, isn't there still two percent sure, you save my brother! As soon as she grabbed Zhu Qishen's hand, she stuffed all the silver into his hand.

"The old man will do his best, and if he is not completely sure, he will not accept your money, but you can think about it, if he fails, he may be killed on the spot." Zhu Qishen pushed the silver back and said with a straight face.

Seeing his brother lying there with a flushed face, Ye Chen pinched the corners of his clothes and nodded.

"Okay." Zhu Qishen opened the box he was carrying and took out a knife as thin as a cicada's wings. He untied the cloth on Ye Jing's ankle, and a putrid smell came, and the carrion on the wound was bleeding yellow pus, looking weird. Zhu Qishen carefully scraped off the carrion with a knife, poured some wine and washed it carefully, and bandaged it with medicine.

Ye Chen was annoyed for a while, she only heard her brother say that it was not serious, so she just cared about hurrying, and did not think that the skin and flesh were rotten.

Zhu Qishen flipped out another book, selected a page among them, folded the corner, and handed it to Ye Chen, "The old man doesn't have this medicine here, I remember that there was a bush on a dirt slope with walnut trees on the side of the road when I came, and you rode the old man's horse to find it." ”

Ye Chen took it and took a look, and carefully put the book into his arms.

Watching Ye Chen walk out of the door, Zhu Qishen sighed deeply and muttered, "It's too late, it's too late......"

Ye Chen controlled the horse in fear all the way, and finally found the medicine, she carefully wrapped it in a handkerchief, and beat the horse back with two fingers.

When she walked into the dilapidated house, she saw that Zhu Qishen was giving her brother a needle, Ye Chen put down the herbs and the book and withdrew, she sat outside the house with her knees crossed, and looked at the old horse in a daze.

I don't know how long she sat there, Ye Chen heard Zhu Qishen calling her in the house: "Girl, come to the house." ”

She hurriedly got up and staggered into the house, "Doctor, how's it going?" She asked anxiously.

Zhu Qishen was silent for a moment, sighed and said: "The old man has figured out a prescription, but the ferocity of this epidemic came, he was injured again, and the old man has been fed medicine, whether he can survive tonight depends on his creation, if he survives, he will live, but he will die." ”

Ye Chen was stunned for a moment, and said in a trembling voice: "Is there no other way?" Can only wait? ”

Zhu Qishen shook his head and reached out to touch her head, "Girl, you drink this medicine, don't get sick." He picked up the bowl and handed it to Ye Chen.

After Ye Jing drank the medicine, the two of them stayed by his side and watched carefully. The sky was already dark, and when she looked up, she could see the stars in the sky, the firelight was reflected on Ye Chen's face, she sat with her knees crossed, and looked straight at her brother.

This night, Ye Chen felt that it was a long time. She didn't sleep all night, kept staring at her brother, and wiped him with a handkerchief dipped in water from time to time, but he never woke up.

Until dawn, Zhu Qishen held the hand she was going to wipe again, and shook his head, "Girl, he went." ”

Ye Chen suddenly felt that the air had become thinner, and he was a little breathless. She didn't know what expression to make, her whole body froze there, her head empty.

"Girl, let's be cremated, I'll go collect firewood. You...... Condolences. He patted Ye Chen on the shoulder, turned around and went to collect firewood.

Ye Chen seemed to be crushed all of a sudden, his heart twitched, and his tears opened the floodgates and could no longer be closed, just like a flood. She cried lowly, earlier she had lost her mother, then she had no father, and finally even her brother had gone.

She became destitute.

She tried her best to stop crying, now is not the time to cry, the only thing she can rely on in the future is herself.

Zhu Qishen walked into the house, he walked out with Ye Jing in his arms, and a wooden shelf was set up there, and he put Ye Jing on it and spread some hay. He turned around to look at Ye Chen, and lit the hay with a torch.

Ye Chen watched quietly, some ashes fell above her head, flying like black butterflies, like the black ashes flying outside the city that day, they could finally be reunited, she thought so, and shed tears again.

"Girl, where are you going? There are plans. Zhu Qishen packed the box without raising his head.

"My family has a big flood, my father and mother have gone, I was going to go to Wencheng with my brother to join my uncle," she paused, "Now, brother, he ...... I'm still going to Wencheng. ”

"You are a female doll, if you go on the road by yourself, it will be too dangerous, but the old man wants to go to Yuncheng to see the plague, if you follow a doll, you are afraid of the disease, no worse than the old man. That's it, the old man will send you to the town in front of you, and find a caravan to go to the capital to pick you up. Zhu Qishen touched his beard and sighed.

He glanced at Ye Chen's outfit and leaned over to take out a palm-long porcelain vase from the box.

"This is for you, the old man has nothing to do, it has an interesting effect," Zhu Qishen laughed proudly, "Let the voice be low but not hurt your voice, girl, your voice is brittle, not like a male baby." ”

Ye Chen took the porcelain bottle and poured out the medicine, sniffed it and ate it, only to feel that his throat was extremely cool, as if he had eaten mints.

She opened her mouth to thank her, and her voice became thicker, the timbre of a young man. She was taken aback, and saw Zhu Qishen smiling and stroking his beard, very proud.

"Doctor Zhu, thank you." She held the porcelain vase and said solemnly.

"Silly girl, be careful on the road, the old man can only help you get here." Zhu Qishen patted her hand and walked outside the house.

Zhu Qishen drove Ye Chen to the town for half a day, found a good caravan and paid the silver, noon had passed, and the two parted ways after eating noodles at the road stall.

Zhu Qishen touched Ye Chen's head and said, "Child, one pill of that medicine in three months is enough, enough for you to take it for a long time." Old man Zhu Qishen, let's meet again. ”

"Thank you, old man, I will repay you when he sees you again in the future." Ye Chen bowed and said solemnly.

After the two parted, Ye Chen carried the burden and the caravan out of the town. Although this town was not affected by the flood, but because of the heavy rain for several days, the crops were damaged, and the caravan with Ye Chen went to Shu to buy rice through the capital.

Ye Chen sat in the carriage, sorting out her baggage, she put the throat medicine and a penny of silver into her personal pocket, and the rest rested in the baggage.

The road was quite flat, and Ye Chen fell asleep leisurely. It wasn't until dinner at night that she was called up and got a fair portion of the food.

Just wandered around like this for two days, Ye Chen stayed in the carriage all day with nothing to do, thinking about Wencheng's distant uncle, she always felt unreliable. I've never seen it, I haven't said it, I haven't seen it at home, I've only heard my father mention it once, if it weren't for her good memory, she would never have remembered. When the time comes, I will first find a house to settle down and then think about earning money, and I will not starve to death if I am literate and know how to cook.

Ye Chen picked up the dinner sent by the caravan and ate it, today's soup tasted delicious, but unfortunately she ate late and was a little cold, Rao couldn't help but move her index fingers like this.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion outside the car, Ye Chen hurriedly put down his meal, lifted the curtain and looked out.

It's a bandit! Ye Chen hurriedly lowered the curtain and listened carefully, only to hear the caravan boss and the bandit leader being righteous and wronged, and the people below were secretly vigilant. Ye Chen saw that the momentum was not good, so he quietly got out of the carriage from the back door and stood close to the wall of the carriage.

Her carriage sits in the middle of the field, and any movement is noticed. She listened carefully, looking for an opportunity to slip away.

The bandits, armed with all kinds of weapons, stared at several carts full of silk and jewels, and listened to the bandit leader: "Since the master refuses to keep these carts of goods as money for the road, don't blame the brothers for taking them for themselves." ”

After that, the two sides fought together, and Ye Chen took advantage of the chaos to run towards the forest by the roadside. With a brush, she only felt that her calf was about to fall to the ground as soon as it hurt, she endured the pain, hurriedly stabilized her body, and limped into the woods.

The sound of the fight behind him gradually faded away, and the one who shot Ye Chen just now was only lost, the archer was not aimed at her, but the shot was crooked, but it was a pity that she became a target.

Even so, Ye Chen didn't dare to stop, she endured the pain and ran another five or six hundred meters, and didn't stop until she couldn't hear a sound behind her. She sat down on the ground panting, looked around, and found herself at the edge of a stream, where the moonlight shone coldly on the water, which was quite quiet.

Ye Chen didn't have time to care about these, she staggered in the direction where she picked up a stone and carved it on the tree. Then he sat down by the river and examined the wound by the moonlight, and saw a long arrow of forty or fifty centimeters piercing through his clothes and inserting it into his calf, and the arrow pierced diagonally into it, and hung on his trouser leg because of the running, and the small half of the arrow was sunk in the flesh.

Ye Chen breathed a long sigh of relief, fortunately it was not too deep, and he only went in a little. She carefully ripped her trouser leg open, gritting her teeth and pulling the arrow out. Ye Chen gasped in pain, and quickly wiped it with a handkerchief dipped in the stream water, the blood was almost flowing on the road, and Ye Chen didn't have much trouble dealing with it.

She wrapped the clothes in her baggage around her head, carefully climbed up an old tree by the stream, found a comfortable place to lie down, tied her legs to the trunk with her belt, and then closed her eyes and slept.

Early the next morning, Ye Chen woke up by rubbing her stiff neck, she stayed for a while and then slowly climbed down from the tree, and after changing the medicine for the wound, she felt that her brain was a little dizzy, and her face was a little hot, and she had a cold.

Hastily washed his face by the stream, and Ye Chen barely sobered up. She turned around and walked back in the same direction she had had had been last night.

When approaching the place where last night's fight took place, Ye Chen slowed down, looked around, and walked out only when he saw that there was no movement.

I saw that the ground was in shambles, the wreckage of several carriages was stained with blood, and the bandits had stolen almost everything. Ye Chen wanted to find something to eat, but he found nothing. She had no choice but to continue westward, which was not far from Wencheng anyway.