Chapter 108 Stick beats mandarin ducks

Yao Ziqi rode a donkey back from outside the mountain to buy salt, it was almost time for lunch, Yao Huang said a few words to her, and asked her to go to the kitchen to help Lu Shi cook, and he carried a bowl of soup and medicine into the hut in the west, Han Li sat on the small stool next to the bed, and when he saw him come in, he turned his head and called for the jade who closed his eyes and slept lightly.

"Yu'er wake up, take the medicine first, lie down for a while and then eat."

Yi Yu didn't fall asleep at all, so she snorted, opened her eyes and asked Han Li to help her up and sit down against the head of the bed.

"Alas, look at my memory, I forgot to take the medicine, Brother Han, you go outside to find a mulberry tree and pick a handful of leaves for me, wash and send it over."

A few days ago, I didn't see him make mulberry leaves as medicine, Han Li knew that he intended to support himself, but he didn't expose it, but when he walked to the door, he suddenly turned his head, stretched out an index finger at Yu Yu and shook it, and left with a smile, as if he was reminding her of something.

"It's windy, close the door." Yao Huang didn't care about his little action, and as soon as he saw the door close, he put the steaming medicine bowl on the low table next to him, pulled a stool and sat down next to the bed.

"Xiaoyu."

"Uncle Yao," Yi Yu replied softly, shrinking back into the bed without a trace.

"Well," although Yao Huang tried his best to make his expression appear kinder, but the tangled beard didn't help, how could it be a malicious look, "Xiaoyu, Uncle Yao taught you a lot of things back then, but you didn't serve tea and kowtow, you are also half of my apprentice, I left in a hurry that day, this few years, you are about to get married in a blink of an eye, the days go by so fast," he first sighed, and the words changed:

"By the way, I heard your mother say, then you have the ability now, not only can you pinch pills, but also diagnose the pulse and see a doctor, which you learned from the master later?" No wonder he would guess so much, in this world, whether it is literature or martial arts, the profession, if you don't apprentice, that one will teach you sincerely.

"I traveled with King Wei for two years, and I encountered a lot of strange things, and I learned a few hands from the same people, but I didn't learn from the teacher." In terms of pharmacology, if Yao Huang led her into the door in the adjacent month, and then spent half a year in Python Mountain, it was all Xiao Fei's teaching, strictly speaking, compared to Yao Huang, Xiao Fei is more like a master, but just like Yao Huang said, they are not masters and apprentices without serving tea and kowtowing.

"Oh? What kind of characters are they, have you come to see me and heard of them? ”

Where did Yi Yu not know that he asked the east and west, the purpose was to explain the word "pharmacist" in the silk book, not that she didn't want to tell the truth, but was afraid of being bitten by a snake, when Yao Huang escaped from her backyard, the dark wooden box left intentionally or unintentionally, let her be kidnapped by Fenghongzhuang several times afterwards, that silk book is obviously not a mortal thing, Yao Huang's essence is the same as Han Li, both good and evil, and now he doesn't mention a word about the wooden box, who can guarantee that the silk book will not bring trouble to their mother and daughter and Li Tai, So she made up her mind and never let go.

"Those people are not like you, they are not well-known, and you don't know them even if they want to say it."

"Then you tell me about it, if you don't know me now, it doesn't mean that you won't have the opportunity to know each other in the future, and if you really meet them in the future, I can make friends with them."

"Well, there is a surname Huang, a surname Hu, and a compound surname Ouyang."

Yao Huang was obviously not satisfied with this answer, he almost decided that the silk book that Yu Yu said would be on these people, "You can make it clear, what skills and characteristics do they have?" ”

"Oh," Yi Yu looked at the door, with a slight look of memory in his eyes, "The doctor surnamed Huang has a good hand of pills, especially one called What Nine Flowers Jade Dew Pill, which is very qi replenishing and benefiting the spirit, and he is used to hanging a jade flute on his waist." The Lang Zhong surnamed Hu makes a good acupuncture method, can pass through the manager's pulse, he has good medical skills, and he looks good. The gentleman surnamed Ouyang is the same as Uncle Yao, and he is good at poisoning."

Yao Huang listened to what she said, and it seemed to be a few great characters, but he couldn't remember where he had heard of them when he thought about it, so he waved his hand a little stupidly:

"Okay, I know, if I happen to meet them, I'll ask them for advice."

Yi Yu secretly glanced at him, thinking secretly in his heart that he might not have the opportunity to ask these people for advice in his life. But when he saw that his face was drooping, and his heart was not happy, he called him and said:

"I went out with His Highness this time, and I got a few rare and good medicinal materials on the way, and when I got home, I will sort out some of them and send them to you."

Yao Huang came back to his senses, swept it over her face, suddenly reached out and rubbed the hair on her head, the palms of his hands were soft, his eyes were also soft, he laughed, blew his beard and said strangely: "What good things can a little girl have, the medicinal materials in this world, I want but can't do it, you are afraid that you have never heard of it." ”

It is said that Hongzhuang has a kind of soil, can breed a hundred herbs, Yu Yu knew that Yao Huang did not say a big word, but she did not say a big word, the medicinal materials in the small valley of the big python mountain are mostly difficult to find in the world, at the beginning of Li Tai's people escorted back, placed in the Wei Palace, and later Li Tai returned to Beijing, so he allocated some to send to Puzhen Garden. She thought about going back and picking out some good ones to send to Yao Huang, so she smiled and didn't explain much, let him rub her hair a little messy, took out the vial and put it under her nose before standing up.

"You rest, I'll take a look, the medicine is going to be cold, is this picking a leaf on the top of the mountain?"

Yao shook out of the house, covered the door, and Yu Yu slowly waded back to the bed, just said a few more words, I felt dizzy, sleepiness, vaguely heard something outside the yard, but still fell asleep in a daze, but I didn't know that when I woke up, there would be a big "surprise" waiting for her.

The wild mulberry forest was a few hundred steps away from the small courtyard, Han Li was picking the leaves slowly and methodically at first, but as soon as he heard the sound of trampling horses' hooves not far away, he quickly broke a branch, and then ran back with light skills, and saw from a distance the outside of the fenced courtyard, several tall horses were standing, and immediately there were several swordsmen dressed in black, and a blue figure was clustered in the middle, Han Li's face showed a look of surprise, not because he didn't expect them to come, but because he didn't expect them to come so quickly.

He didn't know, Li Tai couldn't find the figure of the relict jade for a few days, so he sent people to guard the rabbit outside the Puzhen Garden, Yao Ziqi was invited by the relict jade to send a letter to Longquan Town, and as soon as he appeared, he was stared at by Li Tai's people, and the fast horse here rushed to the capital to find people, and the donkey that followed Yao Ziqi walked leisurely into the mountains, leaving marks along the way, and was chased by Li Tai's fast horse halfway.

Let's say that Yao Huang came out of the jade house, noticed that there were outsiders in the mountains and forests, so he went into the kitchen, and jumped away from the backyard after pulling Yao Ziqi, who was chopping vegetables, Lu Shi was dumbfounded and watched the two father and daughter jump out of the window in front of her and escape, and after a while, he heard the sound of horses' hooves outside the courtyard, walked to the kitchen door and looked out, and his face was suddenly complicated, until the young man who was the leader nodded at her with a cold face, and then turned over and dismounted, and strode into the yard, she hurriedly stepped on the steps to meet her.

"His Royal Highness the King of Wei."

Li Tai raised his hand to avoid Lu's salute, his eyes passed over her, he had already looked at the small courtyard on horseback just now, and then he looked directly at the closed door in the west of the courtyard, turned around, and walked straight over.

Lu Shi took a few steps faster than him, stretched out his hand in front of the door to stop the person, and said in a low voice, "Yu'er is still sleeping inside, if the prince doesn't like it, can you listen to me say a few words." ”

Li Tai's eyes walked between the Lu family and the door, and after weighing, he felt that people couldn't run inside, so he nodded to the Lu family, walked to the tree on the edge of the fence, looked sideways at Han Li who was standing in the courtyard not far away, raised his hand and gestured to the swordsmen outside the courtyard, and a group of people consciously rode back and scattered, surrounding this small courtyard,

"Please forgive the prince first," Lu Shi saluted, "There is an emergency, I took the little girl out to seek medical treatment overnight, but I couldn't leave a message, presumably it was to let the prince look for a few days." ”

Li Tai's face remained unchanged, and he said very rarely, "It was the king's negligence that missed the news over there and failed to rush as soon as possible, so that you were frightened in vain." ”

Lu folded his hands on his apron, pinched it, and said bitterly, "Don't be afraid of the prince's jokes, it was indeed a fright, that day Yu'er burned all day, from morning to night, reading nonsense in pieces, and finally fainted, if it was sent later, maybe the brain would be burned out, and then become a fool, oh, you don't know, after my child was born, he grew up to be four years old, and he was still an idiot."

Li Tai was annoyed that he couldn't arrive in time because of Yu Yu's illness, but when he heard Lu Shi say this, he lowered his face, pursed his lips, and looked at the hidden door, but he didn't care much about Lu Shi's words, he already knew about Yu Yu's stupidity when he was young.

Lu Shi said a few words, raised his eyes to look, and found that Li Tai was absent-minded, his face changed, and he sighed and sulked, "If I don't know how to say anything, I will talk to the prince directly." This time Yu'er is sick like this, and she hasn't eased up until now, I know in my heart that I can't get rid of you, what happened, I don't inquire, but I'm a mother, I have a few words that don't vomit and are unhappy——"

Lu Shi paused, his fingers twisted on the apron, and his eyes began to redden:

"My child, life has not been good since childhood, you know my family affairs, her two brothers, good when they were young, also enjoyed a blessing, only one of her, still in the mother's womb with me to run around, as soon as she landed on the ground for four years, fortunately she got better, but congenital insufficiency, has always been born thin and small, we are in the countryside, although she is not called to do farm work, but when she is not as tall as my waist, she began to take needlework, with me to learn female red, just to subsidize the family. Xu is pitiful, she has passed the year of infatuation, she is much smarter than ordinary children, and she is a caring sensible, eating, drinking, wearing, never begging, every time I give a few bits and pieces, she saved her eldest brother to buy a book See, she learned to write when she was a child, she had to push the sand pile to write with branches, or she picked up the back of the paper used by her eldest brother, dipped in thin water to write, every year of harvest, I bought a few pieces of hemp paper for her, I have to be happy for a while, contentment is sad I always feel that such a good child, Mo, Didn't you come to me to suffer because you were born in the wrong baby?"

Lu Shi covered his mouth, tears stringed down, turned his head and whimpered for a while, Li Tai listened to it, and pulled out a sour feeling from the bottom of his heart, and the hand behind his back was also clenched into a fist, and Han Li thoughtfully recalled the woman's words in the distance, this was the first time he heard Lu Shi talk about the children's childhood.

Wiped his tears casually, regardless of the embarrassment on his face, Lu Shi took a breath and continued, "What happened later, you will be clear, our family settled in Longquan Town, at first relied on small business to make a living, her second brother followed the eldest brother to study in the Guozijian, she and me, got up early and greedy to make red-claw skewers to the capital to sell, and when the days were better, she was accepted into the Guozijian again, our mother and son recognized the Lu family, seeing that the hard days came to an end, who would think, this is God and want to torture her again." ”

"First I was kidnapped, her grandfather died of illness, Jun'er disappeared, Zhi'er suffered a lawsuit again, and finally lost her life," Lu's voice trembled uncontrollably, "I know in my heart that this child's most important affection is to treat me and her brothers as fate, she is devoted to the three of us, more than anyone else, I just need to think, when I was living in Yunnan with good food and drink, Yu'er she was alone in Chang'an City, she lost her mother, and she had no brother who depended on each other, and she saw her eldest brother die unjustly in prison, she, She was only twelve at the time, and she was still a half-old child, and I couldn't stand it as a woman, how did she survive as a child, and if I could make her suffer less sin, I would like to cut myself and suffer for her——"

Han Li's body shook slightly, and when he heard Lu Shi talk about the sadness, he suddenly figured out something.

"But she saw me again in Nanzhao at that time, but she hid the matter and hid me, and she wouldn't even scream to her mother, just thinking about not making me sad and sad, you say, how can there be such a stupid child in this world, she should hold other people's hearts and hug them, just think that her own heart is not flesh?"

Lu Shi raised his voice and drank the last sentence, lowered his head and cried silently, Li Tai waited quietly, his chest was like a drum, a shock was far more uncomfortable than injury and bleeding, this feeling made him more and more urgent to see her person, holding her to his hand to be at ease.

The atmosphere in the courtyard was very dull, I don't know how long it took, Lu's low cry gradually stopped, she rubbed the corner of her eyes with her sleeve, raised her head, with the position of a mother, the stubbornness of a mother, looked at the young man in front of her, stared closely at his eyes that were not ordinary, did not feel afraid, but gave birth to an incomparable courage, even if the emperor was standing in front of her now, she did not want her to retreat half a step.

Li Tai felt that what she was about to say was very important, so he also straightened his countenance, and looked back at the woman, and heard her rough and hoarse voice, and her voice was blocked, but it was unusually clear in her ears:

"Yu'er is a suspicious child, she will hold anything in her heart, she is afraid that others will worry, so she won't talk about anyone, and this temperament will be difficult to change. Lord Wang, you are a man of few words, after a long time, you will inevitably have mutual suspicions, a marriage becomes a bad fate, and if you make her sick like this a few times, sooner or later you will lose your life, in my opinion, the two of you are definitely not a good match. I know that Yu'er is still thinking about her eldest brother and refuses to let go, I will persuade her, if the prince really has a love for her-please go back, just if you don't find her, just if she has escaped marriage, only if there is no such person as her in this world. ”