Chapter 72: The Valley of the Medicine King
"Yihan ......" Ye Wushuang and Shangguan Tianyu were surprised, and immediately stepped forward quickly and brought King Chen back to the top of the mountain with light skills.
"Lixue ......" King Chen looked at the cliff with tears, spurted out a mouthful of blood, and passed out......
Three days later, the final battle between Southern Chu and Beichen finally began, and Beichen's soldiers recaptured the two lost cities one after another, and in the end, Southern Chu was defeated and ceded five cities to Beichen, and at the same time signed a treaty with Beichen for a hundred years, mutual non-aggression.
In January of the 122nd year of Beichen, King Chen led his troops back to the court, pushed open the gate of King Chen's mansion, and the ground was messy and looked particularly desolate. King Chen returned triumphantly, and brought back five more cities, the so-called treason of the Empress Dowager Bai is naturally self-defeating, and there is not much credibility in the first place, which further confirms the Empress Dowager Bai's intentions.
Although the Chenwang Mansion has restored its former glory, the Chenwang Mansion without Chu Lixue still looks deserted. Ye Wushuang took the people of the Cold Moon Palace to search under the cliff for more than ten days without results.
Finally, in the 122nd year of Beichen, in January, it was announced that Princess Chen had passed away, and a grand funeral was held for Chu Lixue.
Because Chu Lixue's body was not found, King Chen prepared a mound for him.
The coffin is made of golden silk nanmu, and it contains Chu Lixue's favorite clothes and jewelry before her death. The guard of honor set off from the palace of King Chen, passing through the streets and alleys of Yuncheng along the way, the people hung white cloths on every house, and everyone wore white cloths on their heads, kneeling on both sides of the street.
King Chen, dressed in sackcloth, walked with the hearse as if he had lost his soul. The guard of honor walked all the way to Cuimo Mountain outside the city, watching the coffin enjoy the burial, King Chen's heart was like a knife, and he almost fainted.
Yanshou Palace, Empress Dowager Bai learned that after Chu Lixue's death, King Chen was in a slump, and his stroke was soon cured, as long as King Chen continued to spend time like this, no one would compete with his son for the throne, it seems that this gentle township is the hero's tomb is really right.
At the foot of the mountain, a group of people and horses were preparing to rest, and a small group of people came to fetch water with bamboo tubes, but saw a female corpse floating in the water.
"Mom...... Help......"
The young man, holding a long sword, looked at the woman floating in the river, stepped forward, dragged the woman from the water to the shore, and probed his nose with his hand, "Well, it's still alive, come, take a hand, save people first." ”
"Young Gu Master, this girl is not lightly injured."
"Well, maybe it was washed down from upstream, and as for the wound on this body, maybe it was caused by the impact of the water and the sharp stone."
"Yijun, what are you doing by the river?" Not far away, the voice of the old man was heard.
"Dad, I just rescued a girl from the river."
Hearing this, the old man put down the water bag in his hand, walked over in three steps and two steps, looked down and saw that the woman was covered with blood, stepped forward and grabbed her wrist, and slightly checked her pulse, "She injured her internal organs, it must have been caused by falling from the cliff, speaking of which, she is really fatal, and she didn't die when she fell from such a height." ”
"Dad, then let's take her back for treatment."
"You stinky boy, why should I save her? Oh...... I know, did you want to save her because she was beautiful? Wait for her to be your daughter-in-law? ”
"Dad, what are you talking nonsense, I just saw that this girl was seriously injured, and the doctor is benevolent"
"Hmph, the ghost believes that you have any healer's benevolence, you are my son, can I still not know you? Well, well, for the sake of her beauty, and for the sake of her falling from such a height and not falling to her death, take her back and heal her, so that I can have someone to test the medicine. Hey! ”
"Dad, you agreed, don't regret it! Uncle Ding, a few people came over to carry this girl into the car and take her back to the Medicine King Valley. ”
Yakuo Valley.
A mysterious place on the border of Beichen, Yaowang Valley as the name suggests, here is the birthplace of all medicinal materials, the valley owner cultivates a large number of precious medicinal materials here, whenever the medicinal materials are mature, they will sell the medicinal materials to the medicine shops around the country according to the grade, and the business is wide, all over the surrounding countries.
There is a trap and a misty forest at the mouth of the Yakuo Valley, and it would be difficult to get out of this misty forest if you weren't for the people in the valley.
"Madame, ma'am, what do you think I brought back?" As soon as the old valley lord entered the door, he shouted.
Hearing the sound, Mrs. Gu Lord, who came to hear the sound, saw a beautiful woman lying on the flat car behind him, and was furious, "Okay, you are an old immortal, you dare to bring a young and beautiful woman back, are you disgusted with my old Zhuhuang?" With that, he raised his hand and struck it.
The old valley lord shouted while dodging: "Madame misunderstood, Madame misunderstood, this is the woman who came back with her son, and I want to show you this." After finishing speaking, she took out a delicate wooden box from her arms, and when Mrs. Gu Master opened it, it turned out to be a hosta.
"What do you want to buy these? It's not like I don't have a jewelry belt. Although she said that, the valley lord's wife had a smile on her face.
"I know you are not lacking, but I think this hairpin is the most beautiful with my wife."
"Flim tongue. By the way, who is this woman that my son brought back? ”
"I don't know, my son fished it back from the river, and he still has a breath when he looks at it, isn't this bringing it back for healing."
"I'll take a look." As soon as the words fell, Mrs. Gu Master had already come to the side of the flat car, and looked carefully at the injury on Chu Lixue's face, "Well, the injury on the face is not serious, this appearance is just right for us to be a daughter-in-law." ”
If you want to say that this medicine king Gu family has a big cause, if the young valley master is willing to openly recruit relatives, women thousands of miles away will rush over to participate in the election when they hear the news. It's just that such a woman can't get into the eyes of the young valley master, and as a result, the delay comes and goes, and it drags on for a few years, and now the young valley owner, who is already twenty and three, is still single, how can this not make the old valley owner and the valley owner's wife anxious.
Chu Lixue didn't know how many days she had been lying on the bed, she opened her eyes in a daze, and the pain in her body couldn't help but make her scream.
"Ah...... It hurts. ”
Hearing a sound in the house, the young valley lord Yijun hurriedly pushed the door in, looked at Chu Lixue's bright eyes and smiled lightly: "Girl, you are awake." ”
"Did you save me?"
"Yes."
"Thank you." After that, Chu Lixue was about to get out of bed and salute, but Yijun immediately stepped forward to support her, "The girl's injury has not healed, so it's better not to get out of bed and walk around." ”
"Childe, what kind of place is this?"
"This is the Medicine King Valley, I am the young valley master here, my name is Ling Yijun. I don't know, what is the name of the girl? ”
"Chu Lixue."
"Oh, Miss Lixue, you can take care of your injuries, I'll go boil the medicine."
Chu Lixue looked at the unfamiliar environment, Medicine King Valley, she thought that such a place would only be found in novels, but she didn't expect that she would have the opportunity to come here. If you don't go around, won't you come for nothing?
Thinking of this, Chu Lixue got out of bed and got dressed, walked out slowly, pushed open the door, a faint fragrance of herbs wafted in, raised her hand to block the dazzling sunlight, and Chu Lixue saw everything in front of her clearly. I didn't expect that the pavilions and pavilions in the Valley of the Medicine King were no less magnificent than those palaces and marquises.
"Girl, why did you come out? Let's go back to the house and lie down. A woman dressed as a little girl said lightly.
"I've been lying down for too long, and I want to come out and move."
"Where are you going? The slave and maid came to help you go, and our old valley master said that you are seriously injured, and if you don't take care of it well, you will leave the root of the disease in the future. Between the words, the little girl also peeked at Chu Lixue from time to time with the corner of her eye.
Chu Lixue felt very strange, could it be that she ruined her face when she jumped off the cliff, so this girl looked at herself like this? Thinking of this, there is indeed a little pain on the face, hey, forget it, it's good to be able to save your life, if your face is ruined, you will be ruined, there will be gains and losses, Chu Lixue comforted herself in her heart.
"Girl, you are really good-looking, you are the most beautiful woman a slave has ever seen." The little girl said with a smile.
"Then you must have never been out of this Medicine King Valley."
"How does the girl know?"
"If you had been out, you wouldn't have thought I was beautiful." Chu Lixue smiled lightly.
"Then you are also a very beautiful woman, when your injuries are healed, the old valley master will host a happy event for you and Shaogu."
Hearing this, Chu Lixue was stunned, doing a happy event? What is a happy event? How can she marry someone else if she is a married woman? Besides, she and the young valley master had only just met, so it was too irresponsible to marry him like this?
Chenwang's Mansion.
Since the death of Chu Lixue, King Chen's whole person has become very depressed, and even looked at one place for a long time, suddenly laughed, and then cried, at night, he had to hold Chu Lixue's pillow and ask about the taste that belonged to her, so that he could fall asleep with tears.
"Empress Dowager Qiyu, it seems that King Chen will not threaten the emperor, since Chu Lixue died, King Chen has been reluctant all day long, and he has to hold Chu Lixue's used pillow to fall asleep at night." A little eunuch smiled lightly.
"Hmph, the mourning family is worried, I didn't expect him to be such a useless thing, for the sake of a woman, let him fend for himself." The Empress Dowager Bai looked at her nails painted with rose-red Kodan and said.
It has been a month since Chu Lixue died, and King Chen will go up the mountain every month to worship his beloved wife. On this day, when he went up to the mountain, there were already people waiting there.
The man was dressed in white snow satin and sat in a wheelchair with a bouquet of white camellia flowers in his arms. "Lixue, when you first came to Jiang Guogong's Mansion, you said that you liked the camellia there very much, and today I brought your favorite camellia to see you. I'm sorry that this friend of mine couldn't help you when you were in danger. But rest assured, those who hurt you, I will make them pay. ”
"Lixue will understand you, at that time, you had a leg attack, and you were already unable to support yourself, how to save Lixue. I was the most useless, watching her jump off the cliff...... "Before the words were finished, King Chen couldn't cry anymore."
Compared with Jiang Tian, he has more days with Chu Lixue, as long as he is in Yayuan, Chu Lixue is everywhere, if it wasn't for avenging her, he would have chased him to Huangquan Road.
"Don't be too sad, right now, revenge for Lixue is the first thing."