Chapter 25: Mei Gang
Gao Yuan quickly came back with a few sugar skewers, Mei Xue asked the guys from the medical hall to bring water to clean their hands, and then disassembled the sugar skewers and put them on a plate, and then picked up scissors to cut the long fishing line to just over half a foot long.
The originally noisy medical hall was quiet inside and outside at the moment.
People all looked at Mei Xue quietly.
The young girl in green clothes and green shoes, her eyebrows and eyes were as clean as spring snow, and her expression was extremely focused when she was busy, only her long, curly eyelashes occasionally trembled.
Three or four jelly beans were skewered on the fishing line, Mei Xue asked Xiao Yan to gently hold those jelly beans, and she skewered five or six jelly beans on the line.
Xiao Yan's face was full of surprise, and he was about to ask Mei Xue what he was going to do next, but Mei Xue suddenly pulled up the end of the fishing line with her left hand, pinched the outermost jelly bean with her right hand and quickly pushed it into the child's mouth.
In the blink of an eye, the hook was pulled out of the child's mouth along with eight or nine jelly beans.
The kid didn't even have a chance to be afraid, and Xiao Yan's hand was still in the same position as before.
Mei Xue stood up, carrying a fishing line with sugar skewers in her hand, and whispered softly to the child:
"Be careful when you play in the future, otherwise, even if you don't hurt your throat, it's not good to hang your eyes or face."
The child was already laughing, though there were tears on his face.
The onlookers were greatly surprised and immediately discussed. The child's family was overjoyed and thanked Mei Xue repeatedly.
took the child and got up, and asked her to kowtow to Mei Xue and call "Auntie".
The shopkeeper and the doctor of the medical hall hurriedly stepped forward to greet Mei Xue, and the old doctor admired Mei Xue and saluted:
"I've practiced medicine all my life, and it's the first time I've seen a girl save people like this, and sure enough, there are people outside the mountain, I wonder if the girl can easily talk about the truth in this?"
Mei Xue returned the salute to the old doctor and said politely:
"I don't deserve such praise from my predecessors, it's just a little trick that can't be put on the table.
If the hook goes too deep and the jelly beans are skewered and quickly straightened, it will instantly become like a bamboo stick, and the hook can be picked off the throat.
Because the child's throat is delicate and narrow, even if the eye can see, straight or curved stick-like objects cannot reach through. ”
After hearing this, the old doctor nodded again and again, and sent Mei Xue and his party out with a respectful expression.
Li Jinzhi and Song Zhijie have been standing on the side and watching, neither of them has spoken, but Song Zhijie's eyes have been falling on Mei Xue's eyes as if nothing.
The group walked back after leaving the medical hall, Xiao Yan was still excited, shaking his fan and laughing:
"Miss Mei, I think you will have to go out for a walk more in the future, because every time you go out, you can save people, and you are still children, which is a blessing!"
The last time Mei Xue saved the child who was poisoned by eating bamboo chicken, Xiao Yan has always been thinking about this matter, and after returning to Chengdu, he has to tell almost everyone he knows.
Mei Xue was speechless, glanced at him behind the hat and said:
"When you say that, I feel like a plague god, and as soon as I go out, it is a sign that someone is going to be unlucky."
Xiao Yan was stunned after hearing this, and then laughed straight down.
Li Jinzhi also laughed, pulled Xiao Yan away from Mei Xue, and let him walk on the other side of him.
No one noticed that Li Jinzhi's eyes looked behind him twice.
After going back and having lunch, Mei Xue got up after taking a nap and sorted out the manuscripts she had written during this time, and when she was loading it in the box, Gao Yuan came to knock on the door, holding a box of exquisite fruit boxes in front of Mei Xue and said:
"Miss Mei, this was brought from the ship two days ago, and the master asked you to send it over."
Before Mei Xue could speak, Gao Yuan had already put the fruit box on the table, and then ran away.
When I opened the fruit box, it was actually a box of various kinds of candy, neatly arranged in several compartments.
Mei Xue was stunned, thought for a while, and finally remembered that she asked Gao Yuan to go to the stage to buy sugar skewers in the morning.
Li Jinzhi probably thought that she liked to eat candy because of this incident, so she specially asked Gao Yuan to send it over.
Mei Xue lowered her eyes, reached out and gently pinched an orange candy.
When she was a child, she and her mother had just fled to Taiping Town, she was always sick, and her mother would always prepare some sweet food for her in order to make her less bitter when she took medicine.
But at that time, the family was poor, and candy was an extremely expensive thing, so my mother was never willing to eat it, leaving her alone.
Later, now, she finally has no shortage of money to buy candy, but her mother will never come back.
was originally scheduled to return to the ship early the next morning and set off, but that night, Li Jinzhi asked Gao Yuan to invite Mei Xue to the main room.
The hall of the main room had been cleaned up, and only a few simple tables and chairs remained.
Li Jinzhi sat in the middle, Song Zhijie sat on the lower left, and on the ground in the hall, there was a middle-aged man.
He was in his early forties, dignified and burly, and although he was still wounded on his face when he was tied, he had no fear.
Gao Yuan kicked him to kneel, but he only sneered and still stood with his head held high.
Gao Yuan laughed angrily, kicked the man again, and then said to Li Jinzhi:
"Master, this guy's kung fu is very good, if it weren't for the subordinates who brought a few more people with him, he really wouldn't have been able to catch him."
Li Jinzhi smiled and waved his hand, signaling Gao Yuan not to embarrass the middle-aged man anymore, he invited Mei Xue to sit down, and said to her:
"Miss Mei, this person has been following us since we appeared in the hospital today, just now he said he wants to see you, can you see if you can know this person?"
Mei Xue's eyes swept over the man, and then she shook her head.
The man had been staring at Mei Xue since she entered the door, and suddenly choked up and shouted, "Cousin." ”
As soon as the words fell, this person had already knelt down towards Mei Xue and cried directly.
Xiao Yan had been sitting next to Song Zhijie, and at this time he jumped up in shock and said:
"You are Zhejiang accent, you, you, you ......"
Xiao Yan said, looking at Mei Xue in horror and confusion.
Li Jinzhi and Song Zhijie both looked at Mei Xue silently.
Mei Xue sighed in her heart, but her face did not change, and she looked at the man lightly and said:
"What's your name? Where are the people? Why do you call me that? ”
The man raised his head, with tears in his eyes, looked at Mei Xue and said:
"The villain Mei Gang has been serving the Mei family since he was a child. When Madame was still alive, the people who came to Beijing every year to give gifts to Qiao's family were villains. When my cousin was young, the villain saw you several times, and you and your wife looked almost identical.
The villain also brought a box of clay figurines to the cousin girl from Qiantang, you like it very much. ”
Mei Xue only felt dizzy in front of her, and those memories that belonged to Qiao Anyi came back again.
Although she couldn't remember the person in front of her, she remembered the box of clay figurines that she took out to play with from time to time.
But it was only for a moment, Mei Xue's face returned to calm, she looked at Mei Gang lightly and said:
"You recognize the wrong person, I'm not Miss Qiao as you said, I'm Mama Mei's niece, my name is Mei Xue."
Mei Gang became excited, struggled to kneel forward, took two steps, and said with tears:
"Cousin, the villain will not mistake you. The Manchu people of the Mei family suffered, and the villain escaped a catastrophe when he went out on an errand, and then the villain went to the capital to find you and his wife, but when he arrived, he was already ...... Already.....
The villain later went to Zhuangzi to find Mama Mei, but she refused to leave, she said that Qiao Yan's let her live just to use her as bait, and she had to stay there so that she would not affect the cousin. ”
Mei Gang said this, wiped the tears on his face fiercely and said:
"Cousin girl, back then, Qiantang was looted by the Japanese Invaders, but it was not the Japanese Kou who destroyed the Mei family, it was the person of the chief soldier Tie Lanxiang, he was Yan Yuncai's subordinate of the old thief for many years."
Mei Gang cried again:
"Cousin, the villain has been looking for you in Shu for a few years, until this time the news of the miracle doctor spread in Chengdu.
The villain knew that Aunt Han knew how to heal, and heard that the divine doctor was a young woman surnamed Mei, so the villain became suspicious and chased him all the way here.
Cousin, hundreds of people in the Mei family died unjustly, and Mrs. is also a corpse with two lives, please avenge them, the villain is willing to come forward to testify, and he has no regrets until he dies. ”
Mei Gang never had a chance to see Mei Xue, until today in the medical hall, Mei Xue took off her hat.
But he was too excited at that time, and Li Jinzhi discovered the abnormality.
Having said that, Mei Xue basically believed in Mei Gang's identity, but she still looked pale and did not intend to admit her true identity.
Qiao Anyi probably only has fear and hatred left for the Qiao family. And she Mei Xue only owes her father and sister in this life.
She doesn't care about being the concubine of the Qiao family, she will always be just Mei Xue, just her mother's daughter.
Xiao Yan looked at Mei Xue with a shocked expression.
Mei Xue said that she was the Mei family and that Qiao Anyi was dead, but listening to the person in front of her who said it in such detail, Mei Xue was obviously Qiao Anyi.
Why wouldn't she admit it?