Seven years

Houtian's father, after General Meng Feilong returned to the court, asked about Bingzhou. What his father was most curious about was that all the animals that disappeared died head-on to the meteorite. Full of mystery and fatalism. "The bird flies against his hometown, and the fox must be the first to die" So he picked up his tortoise shell, copper coins, and divination grass. Combined with yin and yang, momentum and calculated a hexagram in four days. Who knows that this is the last hexagram of his life, and it is also his own fateful hexagram.

He found that Bingzhou's luck was very peculiar. His form of divination is to use the method of divination, and if a place is peaceful, then its yin and yang are always in dynamic balance. But Bingzhou's yin and yang qi always fail to achieve this balance, one pole is extremely strong and the other is extremely weak, this is not a celestial phenomenon that can last for a long time. Everything in the world is always balanced by yin and yang, negative yin and yang, and negative yang and yin. There are always slight fluctuations. The phenomenon of yin and yang imbalance like Bingzhou will bring some strange fates or adventures to the creatures living there. Such a strange thing has never happened in Xiniu Hezhou for thousands of years.

This must have been caused by a sudden meteorite. Divination is sometimes also a matter of feng shui. Mountains and rivers are all dragon veins that religious believers reveal. As the longest and most precipitous mountain range in the Six Kingdoms, the Beacon Fire Mountain must be the dragon vein of a continent in Xiniuhe Continent. However, the meteorite fell on the northeast side of the Beacon Mountain, at the end of the mountain range - the neck of the dragon's head. This is the fortune of Bingzhou that is surprisingly strange.

Perhaps the animals that go to the crater are unwilling to accept the unknown future because they feel that their future is uncertain. That's why they're looking for death. But why go to the crater?

On the top of the main hall of Liuxian Mountain, the attendant said to the sect leader: "Sect leader, should we inform Yiyun's soothsayer, lest he leak the heavenly secrets." ”

The sect leader snorted coldly, "That's it, no matter how talented and intelligent he is, it's just a flesh skeleton, he has only learned a fur after living on Liuxian Mountain for ten years, and he can't guess the heavenly opportunity." Once Yiyun killed his father, he wouldn't talk about it. Don't worry about it - it hurts. ”

The loyal soothsayer gave the results of his deduction to Emperor Ming. At that time, the plague in Bingzhou had just passed, and the war between Yiyun and Guhuai and Sangshu had just subsided, and the whole country needed a calm period. At this time, the soothsayer wrote to tell Emperor Ming that something was going to happen in Bingzhou. Emperor Ming was very unhappy, so he put the soothsayer under house arrest in the palace.

Those who had been studying in the study all day long, waiting at home for their father to come home, could only meet each other in the palace if they were fortunate enough to meet each other. Naturally, Houtian became the new soothsayer. Because of the high status of the soothsayer, there is only one official position.

The next time, when Emperor Ming gave him a marriage, he couldn't hide. Because of the mystery and nobility of the soothsayer, so the marriage of the previous soothsayer has been handled by the royal family, Emperor Ming will invite the next saint of the witch god sect to be the wife of the soothsayer, until she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a child, if she gives birth to a daughter, she will be sent to the palace for foster care, and the lucky one will become a princess and a concubine.

The boy who is born will be brought back to the Witch God Sect by his biological mother, and he will be sent back after ten years of raising. , and after going down the mountain, don't tell the "mortals" about the things in the Witch God Cult. This is a very necessary thing, and it will increase people's fear of witch gods and soothsayers. This is why a soothsayer's head can calm the resentment of millions of people in Yiyun.

Emperor Ming used to give marriage, and Houtian said that he was young, and now that he is an adult, it is no longer appropriate to shirk it. Although he felt that the later he got married, the safer it would be. Because you have an heir, the emperor will be merciless when he wants to kill you. For you have sons who will succeed you as a soothsayer.

Houtian didn't feel too close to others, not because his mouth wasn't strict enough to tell the things of the Wushen Sect, but because he wanted to maintain the majesty and mystery of the soothsayer. So I regard Bai Shell as a friend in my heart, but they usually don't have any interaction, so they can go directly to the Bai family this morning, and then take a carriage out of the city. Their home is just three streets away. Houtian lived in the Wangxing Pavilion, which was the place where the fortune tellers of the past dynasties lived. It is also the premier high-rise building in Yiyun Country, which is convenient for officials to watch the celestial phenomena. It was heavily guarded day and night. And the place where Baifu lived, where Bai Shell lived, was a residential area where officials of the current dynasty were concentrated.

In this way, the two brothers of the Bai family went shopping, ate the twist flowers of Pixian County, and ran for Si Ling's specialties. Bai Shell and Houtian didn't say anything all the way, he read his book, and he was in a daze. More than a dozen entourages are also leisurely, without the slightest urge to hurry up and get on the road.

In this way, it really took ten days to reach the border of Bingzhou.

On the official road leading to Bingzhou City, there are not many pedestrians coming and going, but there are also a lot. Some people are tired of walking in the shade and rest in the shade, and some people set up stalls on the roadside to sell some melons, fruits, plums, and peaches. Although not many people buy it, they have to drink it very diligently. Bai Ke didn't know that he really wanted to eat the green dates on this stall because of sympathy, so he jumped out of the carriage, bought some, and shared them with everyone, and Houtian also took some and put them in his mouth, which was indeed crispy and sweet.

The lush street trees obscured the autumn afternoon sun, and the twenty or so people who were in a hurry got off the carriage and horses, walked on the wild grass, and avoided the sunshine while eating, and then continued to hurry. Looking at the mountains and forests in the distance, an endless field of barren grass, and a few fields planted with sorghum are dotted in between. The foxes who ran and chased the hares, I don't know if I had seen enough outsiders like them, looked at them and looked stunned, forgetting to run and staring at them, and froze there. If anyone has a bow and arrow, they can't help but draw a bow.

The beautiful fields and the beautiful sunshine behind the house reminded the white shell. Seven years later, the scenery here is dark and oppressive, and the summer with the most vitality has the slaughter of late autumn and the coldness of winter.

Nature has a great creation. Time has given life to this ruin.

After eating the green dates, they got into the carriage and headed towards the gate of Bingzhou, which was getting bigger and bigger. When I arrived at the city gate, the once cracked and collapsed city wall had been repaired, and although seven years had passed, the lines where the old and the new met still told of the past.

Bai Ke handed the clerk to the city gatekeeper, and the guard took a look, and then sent someone to open the way to send the group to the post house to rest, saying that the governor instructed that when the imperial history arrived, he would go to the post house to rest first, and it would not be too late to go to the palace tomorrow. Finish the work of entering the city. As soon as I put down my luggage at the post house, someone came to pay a visit, and it turned out to be the master of the state capital. At the order of Governor Li Hetian, he came to meet the imperial history. Today, a night banquet was held in Fushan Tower, waiting for the imperial history to come in person. It turned out that the city gate guard sent someone to open the way to send Yushi to the post station, and on the other hand, he sent someone to the state capital to notify Yushi that Yushi was coming.

Saying that they are imperial history, in fact, they are not imperial history. The Imperial Historian is a supervisory official, and they can only be regarded as a messenger, investigating the cause of the disease, and treating the sick baby.

But in the evening, they still went to the Fukuyama Building. There were three tables of dinner, the three brothers of Baike, Houtian, Li Hetian, and the master sat together, and the rest of the people sat down at separate tables. Between pushing the cup and changing the lamp, Li Hetian all showed his worries as a parent official, saying that he was unlucky, how could he encounter such a thing as soon as he was promoted. It turned out that Li Hetian was the champion of the new branch and had been an important minister of the imperial court for generations. was supposed to be an idle official in Kyoto, but he had great ambitions in his life and was bent on escaping from the shadow of his ancestors. So please be ordered to be the governor of Bingzhou.

The six counties of Yiyun, Bingzhou used to be an important place, and the local governor must be able to provoke the beam. The official rank may be the same as that of the other five counties, but the power and strength must be much higher than them. Since the population of Bingzhou plummeted and military service was exempted, the imperial court did not pay attention to the affairs of Bingzhou except for the recovery of residents' lives. Therefore, when Li Hetian asked to be the governor of Bingzhou, the other ministers did not object, and the predicament of Bingzhou had been solved by Jiachen. With Li Hetian's ability, he can also do it. But his father, for the sake of insurance, let his most powerful master follow the young master to Bingzhou.

Baihu Houtian had planned to check on the deformed child early tomorrow morning, so he didn't dare to drink more. When I watched late at night, I thanked the state government for its hospitality and took my leave. A good night's sleep.

The next day, the thick sky got up unusually early, and the mist on the ground had not yet dissipated, so I walked on the dew and wandered around the streets and alleys of Bingzhou, looking at the atmosphere. Look at the trend of yin and yang. Yin and Yang are the basis of heaven and earth, Yin and Yang are combined with all things, and people will get sick, which is caused by the chaos of Yin and Yang in the human body or the surrounding environment. Therefore, when a baby was born in Bingzhou, Emperor Ming only appointed a divination officer who observed the yin and yang of heaven and earth, and an imperial doctor who observed the yin and yang of the human body.

Houtian took out the compass he had brought, and the eight prisms. The compass is not a compass, but on the surface of the compass, the five elements of the eight trigrams are drawn, and the direction of yin and yang can be found. The pointing of the compass hand is where the yang energy is most victorious. And now the pointer has been pointing to the west of the city, but Houtian's face is frowning, because the yang energy in the west of the city is the strongest, indicating that the yin energy in other places is the most prosperous. In fact, the best state of this compass is that the pointer is wobbly. This shows that yin and yang are always in harmony. But the needle seemed to be resisting, and it did not move. This is undoubtedly a big omen.

Houtian is calm and knows in his heart, this kind of thing should not be silent and nervous until a solution is found.

Back at the inn where they stayed, Bai Ke and his party were having breakfast, and Houtian ignored it, and they didn't know if they saw Houtian. Houtian walked straight back to his room and changed out of his dew-stained, wet clothes. Went downstairs again for breakfast.

"Master Hou got up, I knocked on your door just now, but no one answered, and I thought the adults had already gone out. Bai Shell said with embarrassment. Because the group was eating, but there was no equal adult. Lord Hou's official position is not high, but his status is far above all of them, and the reason why all the affairs along the way are all done by Lord Bai is because Lord Hou doesn't like to talk and doesn't understand the world. Since last night's banquet, the master has been letting Houtian sit in the main seat, let his young master be the lower position, and correct the direction of the shopkeeper's fish head. Judging by a series of actions, the ministers of the DPRK and China all knew the absolute and noble status of Houtian.

How could Houtian take this kind of thing to heart. But when the other people saw that Lord Hou's face was still like water, they all thought he was angry. They all stood up and waited for Lord Hou to sit down before sitting down again, and no one dared to eat if he didn't move his chopsticks.

Although the retinue sat at another table. The people above didn't eat it, so how dare they eat the small ones. Houtian felt that they were bored, and their previous atmosphere of talking and laughing had been ruined by themselves. So I decided that in the future, I would eat all three meals in my room.

Although more than 20 of them lived in a post house, it was better to live in a high-end inn. Because this post house only entertains officials from various county governments and imperial courts. Needless to say, the decoration and furnishings are carefully carved doors and windows, tables and chairs made of sandalwood, and the tea saucer of Huanghuali is a tea set fired by the official kiln. Even the cooks who run the hall and cook are the best in the state, and a few of them are hired from other counties and counties. And its geographical location is very good, surrounded by plum trees, pine trees, and bamboo forests, which blocks the noise of shouting and selling in the downtown area not far away within a hundred steps, and adds vitality to the post house.

After breakfast, except for Houtian, he didn't go out of the room, and the others all took the guy to the free clinic.

Angelica dahurica, after all, comes from a medical family, and the symptoms are still familiar. So they divided into three routes and set up free clinic stalls in the more populous places in the city. Just see a doctor, write a prescription, and don't charge a penny. Those who look down on the sick, those who are greedy for cheapness, and those who really want to come and see the sick are all lined up. No one cut the queue and crowded, because the big flags of the Bingzhou government were planted on both sides of the free clinic booths, and there were soldiers standing on both sides of the line, but they didn't dare to stand too close, for fear of scaring the patients away.

I had heard that the emperor would send an imperial doctor to come to diagnose and treat strange diseases, so if there were deformed children in the family, they would all take them out to see a doctor. If you think about two or three thousand, no arms, no eyes, many noses, palms like duck webs, and no legs, what it feels like to go into the city together. But no one judged them, because these children were related to them, or they were among their own relatives.

When people can point fingers, they must be strangers.

The cold courtyard of Angelica Angelica Atractylodes reflected the popularity of Baihu, and the long queue turned several corners on the road. The person standing in the front of the queue feels that his medical skills are directly proportional to his age, and the people in the back of the queue feel that so many people in front of him have chosen this to let you see a doctor, then his medical skills must be the best. So there are those who are desperate to come last, and they are willing to do so later.

Li Hetian had to send some more soldiers to maintain order. Li Hetian looked at the long procession, and his heart was very desolate. There were so many patients in his jurisdiction, and the long queue was like an arm thrown out, slapping Li Hetian's face very hard, but the pain was not on his face, but in his heart.

After a morning, less than one-fifth of the patients in the team went home, and some who couldn't wait, didn't want to wait, and felt that their illness was not very serious and could wait.

The rest are deformed children and their parents.

Look, watch the improvement of its patients. His face was pink, and his eyes were bright, although there was some fear and resistance in it, but it was not a disease.

Smelling, smelling the patient's voice and breathing, smooth, powerful, and full of breath, is the characteristic that children at this stage should have.

Ask, ask the patient about his condition, and the patient is not particularly unwell. It's just that it's inconvenient to move around.

Cut, the white shell lost its shape when cutting the pulse. When Bai Shell put his hand on the table and asked the child to put his hand on the felt, the child did not let it go, and the child and the parents wanted to cry, especially the mother, whose eyes were red, and kept dipping her handkerchief in the tears in the corners of her eyes. The white shell found that the child's two sleeves were empty.

Prescription, white shell does not know how to write. Because the child is healthy.

Bai Shell just wrote down their addresses and called the next one, this time avoiding embarrassment, and took a special look at the child first.

At the end of the day, no hidden health problems were found in these deformed children, and no common cause of the disease was found by asking. White Shell will continue tomorrow because he still has many more patients. The paper I brought with me was almost the same, but most of it was used to record the patient's home address. This is a Houtian requirement to remember, and secondly, it can facilitate the follow-up of the white shell.

The next day for breakfast, Houtian really ate breakfast in his room. No one asked about yesterday's Houtian trip, maybe he stayed in the room for a day.

When Bai Ke came to yesterday's free clinic booth, there were already people lined up in a sparse line, and the dew on their bodies still showed that they had come early in the morning, or that he had walked a long way to arrive. What attracted Bai Ke's attention even more was that next to his paving, there were many more paving, some selling steamed bun fritters, some selling porridge and roasted rice, which were sold to those who lined up, saving it from being inconvenient to queue up to buy food, and they could only queue up again after coming back. Bai Shell laughed in his heart, you have a lot of ideas to make money. Subsequently, some soldiers brought some tables, chairs and benches, and after asking, they learned that Li He, the lord of Tianzhou, saw that the imperial doctor Bai was so busy yesterday, and he couldn't help it, so he specially invited famous doctors from the three counties of Benzhou, the neighboring counties of Kuai County and Qingcheng to sit with the imperial doctor for consultation. However, a few carriages stopped, and a few came down, and the old man with a childish face, if he was a famous doctor, he knew each other. Ancient style and Yue Qin from Qingcheng, and Gui Hung and Hua Mingdun from Kuai County. Seeing that they wanted to get out of the car, Bai Shell hurriedly went to help.

It was also inconvenient to sit on the free clinic seat and chat, so I looked sick. We won't say much about the famous doctors in Bingzhou, because what Bingzhou is best at is trauma, because Bingzhou soldiers fight outside all the year round, and the most vulnerable injury is physical injury, and one of Bingzhou's specialties is gold sore medicine. Therefore, soldiers will always bring some medicine before going out to rest assured. For this internal disease, I can treat it, but I am not good at it.

The white shell is a lot easier to work. By sunset, all the patients had been treated. But they plan to come again tomorrow for half a day to see if there is anyone who has not yet arrived, after all, Bingzhou, which is thousands of miles away, always needs time to come from afar.

In the evening, it was Li Hetian who was doing the east again, washing the dust for several famous doctors. Bai Shell specially told Houtian and persuaded him not to eat cold food in the room, knocking on Houtian's door, there was a big map on the table of the Eight Immortals, which was not very detailed, but roughly outlined the whole picture of Bingzhou.

Holding a brush in his right hand, Houtian picked up one from a thick stack on the table with his left hand, and after looking at it, he clicked a dot somewhere on the map.

The stack of paper is the patient's address recorded during the daytime free clinic.

Looking at the black dots on the map that were pointed out by the tip of the pen, the white shell suddenly realized. Immediately understood Houtian's purpose in doing this. I couldn't help but admire, Houtian's intelligence. Find out the geographical factors of the disease from the distribution of patients.

There are more patients in the west and less in the east, and more in the north and less in the south. Isn't that the place where the meteorite fell?

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