Tan Yun raised his head, stubbornly not letting the tears flow, and rubbed away the tears with the back of his hand. Chu Zhixia held a sword in his hand, staring at the healers on night patrol in the narrow and dark alleys, like fireflies in the deep sea.

"I found something else." Tan Yun calmed down and took a deep breath, "It has something to do with Lingtang, but I haven't had time to give it to you." If you don't want it, I'll burn it. ”

Tan Yun held a crumpled envelope in his hand, and the ink smeared a strange color in the firelight. Chu Zhixia is not a very curious person, she is just too keen. But at this moment, there is a voice in my head shouting "open it, open it".

Chu Zhixia hesitated for a moment, speculating on Tan Yun's attitude to Chu Mingxiu, vaguely guessed something, and asked, "My mother's background is not good, is it?" ”

Tan Yun hesitated for a moment and nodded slightly.

Chu Zhixia slowly opened the envelope in her hand and looked down word by word.

Shen Yu, a native of Su County, Yanzhou, sold 20 taels of silver to a woman surnamed Liu in Yangzhou, who was ten years old at the time. The woman surnamed Liu made a living by raising thin horses in Yangzhou, Shen Yu was amazingly beautiful and introverted, and disappeared after falling into the water at the age of sixteen, with no trace.

At the end of the envelope was a facsimile of Shen Yu's lowly official documents.

Yangzhou thin horse is actually a high-level Oiran, since he was a child, he has been pampered with fine clothes and food, cultivating piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, observing words and feelings, and giving them to high-ranking officials and businessmen.

With the wrist of the king of Zhenbei, it is very simple to give his beloved a new identity that can be seen in the past. But the sixteen-year-old Shen Yu is like a brand, and her flesh and blood are nailed to this cheap document with a scorching fate.

A weak woman, thousands of miles away from Yangzhou to the north of the country, where she met a high-powered king of Zhenbei, fell in love at first sight, raised three children, and left a prescription that can save the world from fire and water decades later - how to listen to it like a word of mouth in the market, infatuated men and women, poignant.

What's more, no one has ever heard of Princess Zhenbei's mastery of medical science.

Chu Zhixia covered the letter paper and sighed faintly.

Tan Yun knew that he shouldn't investigate the Chu family's selfishness, and said a little guiltily: "Maybe it's just the same name." If you use the means of the king of Zhenbei, it is very simple to destroy these documents. ”

"No, it should be." Chu Zhixia said.

Chu Shixia had checked the household registration documents in the clouds, but there were very few clues left by Shen Yu, and she slowly forgot about it. Now that I think about it, Shen Yu did it deliberately, whether it was to keep the traces of being a thin horse in Yangzhou, or not to leave a trace in the Chu family like the wind and clouds, she didn't seem to want to be related to this world, and she didn't care.

Just as she had foreseen the plague in the sixth year of Xiangfu, she only sandwiched the prescription in an inconspicuous medical book without much interference.

The image of the mother suddenly appeared from the ancestral hall next to the spiritual seat of the king of the north of the old town, and a silhouette faintly appeared.

But Chu Zhixia still couldn't see clearly.

"What are you looking for this?" Chu Zhixia asked.

"I'd like to find more of the remedies she left behind." Tan Yun shrugged his shoulders and said, "The plague is not a disease of one family, there are many concomitant evidences and variables. If she could find all the remedies she left behind and analyze them, she might be able to deal with the plague more effectively. ”

"Did you find it?"

"Nope." Tan Yun said discouragedly.

Chu Shixia casually opened the medical book and said, "Maybe you can think differently." ”

——

In the sixth year of auspicious charms, at the beginning of November.

Binzhou.

It's snowing.

Layers of frost bloom on the jet-black stone bricks, and pedestrians walk in a hurry. The sound of coughing spread through the streets, and the smell of burning in the air could no longer tell whether it was wormwood or a corpse.

The pony carriage swayed into Binzhou City. Zhang Gui lifted the curtain of the car and saw Yu Linwei, who was banging on the gong on the side of the road to enter the afternoon, loudly announcing that a certain small official embezzled how many stones of food for disaster relief, and what kind of punishment should be imposed according to the law of the Great Zhou. A few unkempt officials were pushed and shoved to show the public, and they were soon pulled down again.

Assassin Shi led a group of officials to wait respectfully, and Zhang Gui also politely greeted them, looking at each other.

"On the way here, I heard a lot of gossip. Some people say that the Qincha did not come to provide disaster relief at all, but to lock up the infected people together and wait for death, and the people's resentment boiled. Zhang Gui asked sternly, "Where is Miss Chu?" ”

"Miss Chu acts on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and there is nothing the lower officials can do!" Thorn Shi complained and said, "Lord Yushi of the capital might as well follow me to the post house first, and take the wind and wash the dust!" ”

"The people have been displaced here, what else can we talk about? Amusing! Zhang Gui flicked his sleeves indignantly and said, "Where is Chu Zhixia?" I want to see her. ”

"Don't worry, Miss Chu, she ......"

A sound of horses' hooves came like thunder, and Yu Linwei sat on a tall horse, took off his armor and signaled to Zhang Gui.

"Yulin Guard, Cheng Yuan." Cheng Yuan leaned over and saluted, "The eldest lady has something to say to Yushi, and please move." ”

"How can you get off the carriage and do business? It's better to stay at the inn first, and don't rush at this time. Thorn Shi glared at Cheng Yuan with a straight face, and made a gesture to block Zhang Gui.

"No, I'll go see her." Zhang Gui brushed away the thorn history and was pulled on the horse by Cheng Yuan.

——

"Hello, Lord Goshi."

Chu Shixia sat behind the fence and half-knelt in the mud to bandage a child's knee. The child's face was red, and he stared at Chu Zhixia pitifully. Chu Zhixia pinched her face and hugged her to the adult before turning his head to look at Zhang Gui.

Zhang Gui was not very familiar with Chu Zhixia.

The rumored Chu Zhixia is frivolous, perverse, and murderous, Zhang Gui has seen her a few times from afar, and thinks she is just an unruly child. Zhang Gui has always been incomprehensible to the emperor sending Chu Shixia to relieve disasters and quell the rebellion. But Chu Zhixia was in prison at the moment, and he greeted Zhang Gui gently and skillfully, and Zhang Gui's tightly clenched eyebrows couldn't help but relax for a moment.

"It seems that those rumors are false," Zhang Gui said in a low voice, "and his heart can be punished." ”

"You have a valuable identity, and you shouldn't put yourself at risk." Zhang Gui admonished, "Don't want a child's temper and insist on going your own way." ”

Chu Shixia waved his hand and said, "I've been here for almost half a month. If I were gone, rumors would spread, and the victims would become displaced and then the rebels, just one step away. I am here, and the military heart is there, so they will believe that Da Zhou has not abandoned them. ”

"Who spread such vicious rumors," Jang Gyu's eyes narrowed keenly, "You deliberately recruited me to Binzhou?" ”

"I want to borrow the hands of adults to break the ills of Binzhou." Chu Shixia said, "Your Excellency, you can check it, I will protect you with the power of the Qincha and escort your article to the imperial capital." ”

Zhang Gui disdained to talk about state affairs with such a child, shook his head and said: "Now is the time to employ people, if you arrest and cut people together, who will arrange disaster relief?" Even if you have the ability to reach the heavens, you still lack the skills. ”

"The party struggle between the DPRK and China is nothing more than the Zhuang and Chen factions. But don't forget, there are still people in Hanlin Temple. "Chu Zhixia is in the road, "Binzhou is bitterly cold, the plague is rampant, and those who have a way are reluctant to come." Only a loyal and upright person like you, Lord Zhang, will be summoned immediately. ”

Zhang Gui's stern gaze looked Chu Zhixia up and down, and finally nodded, and said miserly: "I misjudged you." The Chu family is really still the Chu family. So, are you from the Pei family? ”

The Pei family has a prince, a cabinet assistant, and a talented young lord who enters the palace every day to accompany His Majesty, and it seems that it is a good choice to choose the Pei family. But Zhang Gui didn't think so, the Pei family, who intended to send the six princes to the throne, was just a transformed Chen family in his eyes.

Chu Zhixia raised one eyebrow, which seemed to be a little novel, "Have you always talked to people like this?" ”

"Yes or no." Jang Gyu said toughly.

Chu Shixia waved his hand and said, "Whether I am or not, it will not affect the truth of the Binzhou epidemic." Master Zhang, I know that you are a person who values the truth more than anything else. Then use your eyes to take a good look at the flowers covering the eyes of the Great Zhou River, what is under the flowers? ”

——

Imperial capital.

"Zhang Gui has already arrived in Binzhou, right?"

Xijing Lake was covered with a thick layer of ice, and Pei Zhang was wrapped in a big coat and sat tremblingly by the lake to ice fishing. A hole was carved into the ice, and the dark blue of the lake was full of fish.

Pei Cifu sat beside him, warmed himself with fireworks, and nodded in response to the words, "According to the time, it's time to arrive." ”

"This Zhang Yushi used to be a princeling, and I don't know what Miss Chu thinks." Pei Cifu shook his head, picked up the warm hot wine in his hand and took a sip, "Disaster relief and counterinsurgency, shouldn't she ask for soldiers and money, what does she want a royal history for?" ”

"You don't understand this." Pei Zhang shook his head and said, "Binzhou has no money, it doesn't mean that Yushi has no money." ”

Pei Cifu was dumbfounded, "She really ...... That Pennsylvania assassin has traveled widely in the DPRK and China! Isn't she afraid of being attacked by a crowd? ”

"So Miss Chu found a Zhang Gui. Zhang Gui is a person who is very good at writing and writing, and he won the first place in the palace examination with a good article, and Zhuang Songbai couldn't suppress his limelight. Pei Zhang smiled, "Do you guess they will scold Chu Zhixia first, or Zhang Gui first?" ”

Pei Cifu thought seriously.

Pei Zhang said with great interest: "Why don't we open a handicap, you bet on Chu Zhixia, and I bet on Zhang Gui?" ”

Pei Cifu flatly refused.

"I'm betting on Chu Zhixia." Pei Cifu took the lead.

"Oh, that's a shame." Pei Zhang shook his head and sighed.

At this time, the fishing line hanging on the ice cave suddenly jumped, and Pei Zhang hurriedly stood up and put away the rod.

——

At the end of the sixth year of Xiangfu, the Great Zhou Dynasty set off the largest sweep in history.

Zhang Gui, the Imperial History of the Imperial Prefecture of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, impeached Binzhou Assassin Shi for privately accepting and accepting officials, buying officials and selling lords, fish and meat people, etc., a full 21 crimes. This letter was intercepted several times and failed to reach the emperor, but it flew with strange wings and was pasted on the streets and alleys of the Great Zhou.

The celebrant was copied into the palace overnight, and the emperor was furious. So the twenty-one charges of Binzhou Assassin added another one - "bullying the king".

When later generations sorted out the historical materials of the Great Zhou Dynasty, they were amazed that such a bloody storm was caused by the seventeen-year-old Qin Cha and the imperial history of the capital scolding each other in the compromise.

"I have a fever today, so I'll only update one chapter first."