Chapter 47: The Infirmary
Although he changed to a new place, Pei Yungui still slept soundly all night, stretched out in the morning, opened the doors and windows, and the melodious wind of spring came with the sweetness of flowers and plants, which only made people's hearts.
On the first day after leaving Jifu, I was happy and at ease.
Pei Yungui boiled a kettle of water for himself, and drank tea while pouring a lot of courtyard.
After years of disrepair and abandonment, her yard is already overgrown with weeds, and she ponders that she has to pick a good weather to take care of, plant some flowers here, and carry some trees there, at least to make her small yard a little more eye-catching.
Thinking like this, Pei Yungui's eyes lingered at the root of the overgrown wall.
The grass roots moved suddenly, and a fluffy white tail stretched out from it, swaying from side to side, quite leisurely.
Pei Yungui took a closer look, walked towards the root of the wall, and before she could get closer, a cat with a fur like snow poked out of it.
She was startled by a fat cat that suddenly popped up.
The cat was very affectionate, and when he saw Pei Yungui, he rushed over, rubbing the hem of his skirt and barking softly.
No girl could refuse a fluffy sticky creature, and Pei Yungui was no exception.
She immediately crouched down and reached into the snow-white hair.
"You're from next door, aren't you?" Pei Yungui stroked the white cat's head jerkily and asked softly.
Gu Rin's mansion was less than eight feet away from her mansion, and the cat should have jumped in along the high wall, called Yuanyuan or full.
He called out sweetly, raised his head and rubbed the back of Pei Yungui's hand.
Pei Yungui was pleased, put his hands together, and stroked the white cat's hairy head.
Gu Rin is muddy, but it is not all useless, at least the pets raised will be pleasant.
Pei Yungui thought so.
Touching it with both hands, he touched a cold hard object around the neck of the white cat in vain, and Pei Yungui's thin white fingers slammed suddenly
She brushed away her long hair, and suddenly saw a small bamboo tube hanging from the white cat's neck.
This is for her?
Pei Yungui's eyes were puzzled, and he leaned his head to look at it intently, only to see the four words engraved on the bamboo tube: "Give Pei Yungui."
She was even more puzzled and removed the bamboo tube.
What tricks is Gu Rin playing again?
There is something to say, her house is so close to the Gu Mansion, she really doesn't want to take those two more steps, she can hear it when she stands on the pavilion and roars twice, why do she still twist and play with the flying cat?
It's not like his temperament.
Puzzled, Pei Yungui opened the bamboo tube in two by two and took out a small piece of paper inside.
The paper reads: Chengjiao westward more than four miles, there is a medical hall, called Xiangyun, is the place where the king worked in previous years. If you have a suitable income, you will be traded with a certain answer to your doubts.
Xiangyun Medical Center?
Pei Yungui crumpled the corners of the creed, and his heart beat faster.
Is there really a message about her father in it?
How could she never have heard of the existence of this medical center?
Pei Yungui frowned, digging deep into his childhood memories.
What she remembers most about spending time with her parents is the time she spent traveling from state to state with them.
It's as if I've been wandering the world with them for as long as I can remember.
Xiangyun Medical Center...... She couldn't remember anything.
However, the memories of her childhood have gradually become blurred and untraceable, after the death of her parents, she was greatly stimulated, seriously ill for many days, and forgot a lot of past events, perhaps Xiangyun Medical Center is also among the forgotten, with those fragments dissipating in the brain.
Pei Yungui read the content on the paper word by word from beginning to end, as if confirming the authenticity of the ink characters.
No matter how bad Gu Rin is, from General Yipin, he shouldn't tease her, and the premise of the later exchange of conditions is that she gets useful information, and she won't suffer a loss if she runs around.
Although he was skeptical about the content on the paper, Pei Yungui still planned to go to the Xiangyun Medical Center on the outskirts of the city to have a look.
Because there were no resources available at hand, and the understanding of the incident eleven years ago only came from a few words from the Ji family and Gu Rin, the progress of the investigation was stagnant.
If the Xiangyun Medical Center really exists, and her father happens to be inside, it will be an important breakthrough for her investigation.
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If you say you want to go, you go.
With the experience of being followed last time, Pei Yungui didn't dare to wander around alone at night, so he set off that morning.
She rented a carriage in the market, hired a coachman, and staggered to the outskirts according to the instructions given by Gu Rin.
The capital is prosperous as smoke, and there seems to be an invisible dividing line between the suburbs and the city, dividing the inside and outside into two worlds.
The grass in the suburbs is green, a blue expanse, the grass and trees here are more heaven-send, the growth is gratifying, but there are no footprints, it seems to maintain the oldest innocence.
The carriage slowly moved forward in the green bushes, and from a distance, it looked like a reed crossing the river in the panze.
After about half an hour of travel, the carriage gradually stopped.
Pei Yungui lifted the curtain and asked, "Uncle, but it's here?" ”
The coachman got out of the car and tied his horse, looked up and said, "Girl, the suburbs are more than four miles west, and this is it." He glanced around at the vast wilderness where there was no one and asked more, "What are you doing with a girl, running to a place where such a bird doesn't?" ”
Pei Yungui jumped out of the carriage, and the sun stabbed her eyes.
"When I heard that my father's old friend lived here, the little girl came to visit. Uncle Lao is waiting here, and the little girl will go back when she goes. ”
"Cheng, in the wilderness, the girl pays attention to safety."
Pei Yun replied and looked forward.
On the outskirts of the city, there are weeds and weeds, so deep that they seem to drown people, and there are no more people besides them.
On the way, I saw a few houses, but they were all abandoned houses and no one lived in them.
Pei Yungui continued to look forward, not to mention the human figure, there was no bird shadow.
She was tired of searching, so she randomly found a shady place to rest, and she couldn't help but have doubts about Gu Rin's note.
I have lived in Beijing for so long, and I have never heard of the name of Xiangyun Medical Hall, where did Gu Rin dig it up?
Besides, a medical center is not located in the city, why is it still located in this place where birds don't?
Gu Rin wouldn't really slander her, right?
Pei Yungui became more and more suspicious of the contents of the note.
She looked at the increasingly victorious sun, and decided to go some further, and if there was no clue after noon, she would turn back.
Pei Yungui wiped the thin sweat from his forehead, and looked forward, his eyes searching the distance.
There is no other building than the lush vegetation and rolling hills.
The sun was already hot, burning on the skin, revealing the unique heat of midday.
She gritted her teeth and looked for another quarter of an hour, and if she couldn't find it, she would go back.
Pei Yungui lifted his lead-filled foot and continued to walk forward.
This time, before he could take a few steps, he tripped over something hard.
When Pei Yungui reacted, he had already fallen face to the ground among the grass.
"Which wild boy doesn't have long eyes, spare people's dreams!"
There was a cry of pain in the grass, followed by a scolding voice.
Pei Yungui was stunned for a moment, and only after a while did he raise his head from among the bushes, and when he lowered his eyebrows slightly, he saw a long dark arm under his palm. Pei Yungui's heart jumped suddenly, and he withdrew a few meters in an instant.
Did she just stumble over someone?
Pei Yungui's eyes widened, staring at the moving grass in shock.
In the wilderness, the sudden appearance of a second person is really a bit scary.
The grass moved, and indeed a man came out of it.
The man was dark-skinned, his face wrinkled like a piece of crumpled kraft paper, his hair was white, and there were a few weeds flying in the wind on his head.
Zhao Heng spit out the dogtail grass in his mouth, and looked fierce, "Is it me you woke up?" ”
Pei Yungui silently retreated for a distance, and said, "The little girl didn't pay attention to her feet and stumbled over the uncle, I'm really sorry." ”
Zhao Heng got up, patted off the grass stained on his body, and suddenly saw a clear shoe print on his chest, and immediately became angry.
"The old man is just this one piece of clothing, and now it has been ruined by you, look at it, how can you continue to wear it!"
Pei Yungui looked intently and saw the mark on the embroidered shoe on the old man's chest, and he couldn't help but be ashamed.
I didn't expect to go out of the city to find clues, and I even found a trouble for myself.
She said cautiously: "If the uncle doesn't dislike it, why don't you let the little girl compensate you for a new dress?" ”
"Forget it, it's a big deal." Zhao Heng sighed and said in annoyance: "Hurry up, don't bother the old man here." ”
"Huh?" Pei Yungui was stunned, and he was relieved in a state where he was not stunned.
"I said you should hurry up, look at the girl who is very smart, why is she so wooden."
"Oh." Pei Yungui touched his nose and turned around like a wooden man.
After taking a few steps, Pei Yungui suddenly came back to his senses.
No, how rare it is that a big living person finally popped up in such a large field, he may know some things about Xiangyun Medical Hall, how can he let go of a good opportunity to inquire about the news in vain!
Pei Yungui slapped his head, and ran to Zhao Heng again.
Zhao Heng was still filming the footprints, and was startled by the big living person who suddenly popped out in front of him.
Two nerves in his head jumped, "Why are you back again?" Looking for scolding. ”
"No," Pei Yungui gasped: "Uncle, I'm really sorry to disturb you, the little girl wants to ask you about something." ”
"If there's a fart, let it go." Zhao Heng squinted his eyes, and his tone was not good.
Pei Yungui smoothed his mouth and immediately asked, "Does the old man know where the Xiangyun Medical Hall is?" ”
Hurriedly hearing this word, Zhao Heng thought that his ears were ringing, he plucked his ears and said, "What are you looking for Xiangyun Medical Center for?" ”
"Do you know about Xiangyun Medical Center?" Pei Yungui's eyes lit up, as if he had opened hope, "Then can you please tell the little girl where the medical hall is located?" ”
Zhao Heng looked Pei Yungui up and down, his eyes showing vigilance.
"The hospital has been closed for many years, and you learned the name from He?"
Closed?
Pei Yungui was stunned.
No wonder she had never heard of the name of this medical center.
Looking at this old man's reaction to the words "Xiangyun Medical Hall", he seems to be very familiar with it.
Could it be ...... The old man also used to work in the hospital?
Pei Yungui thought so, so he didn't want to hide it, and told the purpose of his trip one by one.
Zhao Heng listened and listened, and his face gradually changed.
He said in a deep voice: "You say, you are Pei Zhengtian's daughter?" ”
Pei Yungui nodded immediately.
"Does the old man know my father too?"