The ancestral hall of Majia Village, which had been cleaned up, was very quiet, under the gaze of the tablets of the ancestors of Majia Village, the old doctor was busy alone, and Jinglong, who had put on the ordinary soldier armor left on the ground, held the sword in his left hand, and silently guarded the side, waiting for an order that could be made at any time, as for the village woman who was an eyesore, she had already been driven out.

In the entire ancestral hall, there were only three people, Gu Xuan, Jinglong and the old doctor.

"Smack!"

The removed arrow was carefully thrown by the old man into the copper basin on the side, and after falling into the water, the arrow instantly dyed a large piece red.

How painful is it to open the bones and take the arrows?

Gu Xuan bit the white cloth in his mouth to prevent him from hurting his tongue, gurgling, holding back the pain from his muscles and bones, he was trembling all over, his head was covered with sweat, but he didn't scream, and when the stinging sensation that seemed to have been stabbed into his brain by a sharp knife was slightly reduced, Gu Xuan finally let go of the white cloth that had been bitten through his mouth and breathed heavily.

The old military doctor calmly applied the medicine brought by Jinglong from the capital to the wound, then took out the needle and thread, simply rinsed it with boiling water, and then burned the silver needle with a candle flame, then buried his head and carefully stitched up the wound for Gu Xuan. ”

Everything finally settled, Gu Xuan also breathed a sigh of relief, although his brain was a little dazed due to excessive blood loss, and his left arm was as weak as numbness, he still managed to get up from the simple bed, supported the bed board with one hand, and thanked the old doctor with a weak face: "Thank you, sir." ”

The old military doctor moved his somewhat stiff body, and while packing up the medicine box and utensils, he turned his head and said: "The prince doesn't need to thank you, this is all that the old man should do, and then the prince only needs to have a good rest, just to avoid leaving a dark disease, I am afraid that you will not be able to use your left arm in the next few months, and you will be healed when your muscles and bones grow again." ”

Seeing that Gu Xuan still wanted to say thanks, at this moment, Jinglong, who had been quietly guarding by the side, suddenly spoke: "Please also ask Mr. to avoid it for the time being, so that I can appease the soldiers outside, let them wait for another one or two, and discuss with the prince and the prince in the future." ”

The old military doctor was not at all annoyed by the other party's attitude of driving people out after the matter was done, but nodded in agreement, and saluted Gu Xuan very solemnly, and then walked out calmly with the medicine box on his back.

Jing Long followed up and went up to the door, carefully pinching the arrow that had been pulled out from Gu Xuan's left shoulder just now and washed it, and ran to Gu Xuan with a frown, and said with a very serious expression: "Lord Wang, there is something wrong with this arrow." ”

"What's the problem?" Gu Xuan was still very weak at this time, his mind was chaotic, and he was unable to think, seeing that the old military doctor had left, he didn't blame Jinglong for being unkind, but fell back on the bed, and when he heard Jinglong's words, he immediately asked with some puzzlement.

Jinglong looked at the arrow in his hand, and explained: "This is an iron arrow, where did those horse bandits come from this kind of arrow, my Liangguo court has long stipulated that the folk blacksmith shop is not allowed to cast weapons privately, and the arrow is naturally included, this is to prevent the people below from secretly holding weapons, disrupting public security, committing murder, and even threatening the imperial court, and this decree has been investigated very strictly under the implementation of the second prince over the years, and it is even more impossible for a blacksmith shop to dare to create arrows for people of unknown origin like horse bandits." ”

"Can they open the furnace and cast it themselves?" Gu Xuan lay on the bed and frowned and asked, he shouldn't have asked such a stupid question, but it was really because he was too weak at this time to think carefully.

Jinglong was also stunned when he heard this question, until he saw Gu Xuan's pale and bloodless face on the bed, and finally understood what was happening, but this discovery was really important, and he didn't care about staying here to disturb Gu Xuan's rest, so he quickly explained: " It is completely impossible, even if there is a blacksmith as a horse bandit, he does not have the ability to open the furnace and cast weapons by himself, although the interior of Youzhou is crisscrossed by the border of horse bandits, but because the imperial court often carries out encirclement and suppression, it is basically a small scale to flow around, and do not dare to be stationed in a place without moving, so it is certainly impossible to open the furnace and cast it by itself, and the more critical problem lies in another point. ”

Jinglong paused, raised the arrow in his hand and put it in front of his eyes, and carefully rotated and looked at it for a long time before continuing: " The process of the arrow is very complicated, it is not just to find an ordinary blacksmith can be completed, to special molds and ores, and the style of this arrow is not in our Liangguo army, I have been in the army, I can confirm this, the style of the arrow, the way of slotting, is not shoddy, I think there is a big problem, and the pockmarked face that hurt the prince, I made two moves with him, this person is definitely not the kind of desperate outlaw bandit from the point of view of behavior, his moves, is a move in the army, and his accent, is also very strange, although he speaks the local dialect of Hedong County, Youzhou, but it is not like we are a native of Youzhou。 ”

Gu Xuan finally reacted at this time, and said in great surprise: "Are you saying that he used to be a soldier, and he is a soldier from another country!"

Jing Long nodded seriously, and said in a somewhat heavy tone: "Yes, not only is there flaws in his accent, moves, behavior, etc., but the most important thing is the source of the arrows in his hand, and those strangers in the desert don't have this kind of craftsmanship, this can only be obtained from neighboring countries." ”

Arrows are military weapons, the style is very particular, how to maximize the lethality and recycle, is the direction of the Xuanji Battalion under the Ministry of Imperial Court and the border army has been cooperating with the border army, each country has similar departments, but the names are different, so the arrows used in the army of each country are absolutely different, the same, such a well-made arrow, it must not be an ordinary blacksmith can make it.

Gu Xuan, who was still lying on the bed, woke up in an instant, and had a terrible conjecture in his mind.

"You're saying it's possible that he was deliberately sent by another country?"

Jinglong frowned, and he was not sure, so he could only say in a helpless tone: "It may also be just a deserter from another country, maybe these clues are too fragmentary, I can't piece them together." ”

Gu Xuan nodded, and said with some regret: "It's a pity that I let that pockmarked face run away, but as long as he is still in Hedong County, we will catch him sooner or later, and we will naturally learn the truth at that time." ”

Jinglong nodded with a calm face, and then raised his head and asked, "Lord Wang, there are still people waiting outside in the Youzhou Army." ”

Gu Xuan hurriedly said: "It's a cold day, don't let them wait outside, I can't ride a horse for the time being, you give them instructions, prepare a carriage to pick me up and take me to their nearby camp, let's stay for a few days, wait for my injuries to stabilize before going to Huangsha County, by the way, tell them about it, report the situation here first, but hide the news of my injury, so as not to make them afraid." ”

Jinglong naturally had no objection, and hurriedly lowered his head and hugged his fists and said, "Yes, Lord Wang." ”