"Is he awake?" Su Ying asked.

Zhen Youde shook his head.

"I've been fed medicine, the wound has been treated, and my life has been saved. However, I have been having a high fever, and the whole person is confused, and I am still not awake. We'll have to wait. ”

As long as you save your life, there will always be a time to come to your senses.

Li Changqing was recuperating in bed next door, and he was only separated by a partition from Zuo Chengyi.

Su Ying brought pork skin jelly and a jar of braised pork over, which were good dishes that her father used to entertain guests when he got married yesterday, and she specially set them aside.

Li Changqing finally had an appetite and ate a lot.

After eating, he pulled Su Ying to speak.

"I was lying in bed all this time, and I couldn't think about it or feel right. Two big living people, how can they say that they will be burned to death? If you find it on fire, you really can't escape? Or is there something else going on in this? ”

During the day that day, Shen Jinbao also brought a lot of gifts to see him and said a lot of things, he didn't feel strange at the time, but now that he thinks about it, every sentence is like explaining the aftermath.

He didn't believe that the death of the Shen family couple was not premeditated.

"Shen Zhaocai, Shen Jinbao, the two brothers are all good people, but they didn't die well, God doesn't open his eyes."

Su Ying knew that Shen Jinbao and his wife were most likely still alive, but it was difficult to reveal anything.

However, for Shen Zhaocai, he felt more and more mysterious.

Because his father used to say this name almost every day, Li Changqing has not hidden it since he exposed his identity as a physician, and he often mentions Shen Zhaocai.

However, as a younger brother, Shen Jinbao almost never took the initiative to mention his own brother.

This made Su Ying curious.

"Grandpa Li, have you dealt with Uncle Shen Zhaocai before? How much do you know about him? ”

Daddy only knew about Shen Zhaocai's deeds in the village for more than ten years, and since he left with the old eunuch, there has been no news.

The Shen Zhaocai that Li Changqing knew was exactly what happened after he entered the palace.

"Shen Zhaocai, he is smart and studious, and after entering the palace at the age of fifteen, he went directly to the inner study hall to study......"

The inner study hall is a place for eunuchs in the palace to read and study, but not every eunuch has the opportunity to enter.

After Shen Zhaocai entered the palace, he was just a miscellaneous eunuch in charge of sprinkling and sweeping at first, but no matter how hard and tired he was every day, he would always get the opportunity to run under the window of the inner study hall to steal school.

At that time, the people who were in charge of teaching the eunuchs to study were the scholars of the Hanlin Academy, who were above the top, and they originally looked down on the eunuchs who had no roots, but it didn't take long for them to be moved by Shen Zhaocai's sincerity, and they made an exception to let him study in the inner study hall.

Shen Zhaocai is hungry for reading and literacy, he is naturally smart and has a talent for learning, and he won the first place in the assessment in half a year.

After that, he made steady progress, and in two years, he entered the eunuch in the palace who wanted to go to the most.

Although Shen Zhaocai has risen all the way, he has not been contaminated with the bad habits of the eunuchs, and has always been a high-profile person and a low-key person, which is a unique stream among the filthy eunuchs.

"It's just later, Your Majesty...... The current emperor has hit the capital, if it weren't for General Xiao Ding Xiao at that time......"

Li Changqing stopped suddenly.

"What does General Xiao have to do with Uncle Fortune?" Su Ying was puzzled.

Both of them spoke attentively, and no one heard Zuo Chengyi's very small cough next to the partition.

Li Changqing sighed lightly, and then said:

That night, the emperor ordered the slaughter of the entire royal family of the previous dynasty, the palace was up and down, blood flowed like a river, and the eunuchs and palace maids were all killed.

Shen Zhaocai ignored his own danger, hugged the little princess who was only two or three years old and risked her life to escape, and was about to escape, but was chased by the red-eyed soldiers.

Seeing that the sword was about to cut at him, it was General Xiao Ding Xiao who came in time to save the person.

But after Shen Zhaocai thanked General Xiao for saving his life, he still jumped into the river with the little princess in his arms. ”

"Why?" Su Ying was really puzzled.

Li Changqing took a deep breath and spit it out again.

Said slowly: "Before Shen Zhaocai jumped into the river, he told General Xiao that if he and the little princess were saved today, then General Xiao would definitely be betrayed...... That is, the current emperor is liquidated, and it will not only be him and the little princess who will die at that time. So in order not to implicate General Xiao, he could only commit suicide with the little princess. ”

The emperor wants to kill people, but General Xiao wants to save people, which is contrary to the emperor's intentions, Shen Zhaocai can be regarded as seeing it too thoroughly.

The two sighed, but Su Ying still had many questions.

"Since Uncle Zhaocai has committed suicide by throwing himself into the river with the little princess, how did it come to be rumored that he was hacked to death in the palace by a chaotic sword?"

Li Changqing has long had doubts about this, but he has never been able to solve it, so he can only guess by himself.

"Maybe he didn't die by jumping into the river, and went back to the palace, only to be killed.

Anyway, when the identity of the deceased was counted in the palace, your Uncle Shen Jinbao took a large sum of silver to ransom the body of your Uncle Zhaocai.

At that time, the emperor fought for several years, labored the people and lost money, and the treasury was empty, so he acquiesced in this method of obtaining money, and I heard that many people also went to the palace to pay money to ransom the bodies of their relatives. ”

Later, Shen Jinbao traveled thousands of miles to transport his eldest brother's coffin home for burial.

After that, Su Ying basically heard from his father.

She knew the inside story of Shen Zhaocai's death, but she was still thinking about another thing.

"Uncle Fortune jumped into the river and didn't die, let's not talk about why he went back to the palace again, just say that the little princess who was two or three years old, where did he go?"

Li Changqing was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said: "The river is cold and deep, and a three-year-old child either froze to death or drowned in the river." At that time, it was very chaotic, and it is estimated that no one went to fish. ”

For so many years, Li Changqing has never talked about this matter, it is too bloody, and he doesn't dare to think about it at all.

When I talked to Su Ying today, I was much happier in my heart.

He simply said a few more words.

At that time, General Xiao was brave and good at fighting, conquering cities and conquering invincible places, but he never touched the people wherever he passed.

The emperor of the previous dynasty was mediocre and incompetent, and the people were not happy, but they thought about changing the emperor.

Everyone thought that General Xiao would be the last person to sit on the throne, but who knew that the emperor had entered the palace first and put on the yellow robe.

If it weren't for General Xiao's entire family, all of whom were buried in the sea of fire overnight, maybe the people would have begged him to take the throne a long time ago. ”

This is too rebellious, if it weren't for the fact that Su Ying was reliable, Li Changqing wouldn't dare to confide it easily.

Su Ying could only sigh, "Perhaps, this is fate." ”

After chatting for so long, Li Changqing was a little tired, so he lay down to rest again.

Zhen Youde came in from outside, checked Zuo Chengyi, and said to Su Ying: "Fortunately, Zuo Gongzi has lost his fever and stabilized his breathing, so he must be able to wake up soon." ”

"That's good." There is still something to do in Su Ying's shop, so I won't stay much, "I'll come back to see him later in the afternoon." ”

No one noticed that Zuo Chengyi had actually opened his eyes just now.