In the imperial study, Emperor Shenzong Zhu Yijun sat in front of the desk wearing a bright yellow dragon robe. A unicorn-shaped incense burner spews wisps of cigarette smoke from its mouth.

Shoufu Shen Shixing sat on the first sandalwood chair below, looking respectful. Shenzong glanced at him and said slowly: "I am very worried about this Jiangnan plague, your cabinet vote has been written?" Shen Shixing said: "Back to Your Majesty, the cabinet already has a vote." ”

Emperor Shenzong said, "Oh. Let's hear it. Shen Shixing said: "The cabinet approved the excerpt of the governor of Zhejiang, and the Ministry of Rites instructed the prime minister of the hospital to do this. Shenzong said: "The silver taels used for disaster relief, can you report to the ministry?" Shen Shixing said: "Back to Your Majesty, I'm afraid the ministry won't be able to take out this silver." ”

Shenzong was stunned and said, "Wouldn't you want to tell me about the matter of King Fu's mansion?" Shen Shixing said: "The old minister has no such intention. Shenzong said: "A good one has no such intention, you are clearly pushing things on my body." Shen Shixing's face changed, and he hurriedly knelt down on the ground and said, "Weichen is guilty of death." ”

Shenzong waved his hand and said, "Get up." When I don't go to court, your courtiers will clamore for the crown prince. I have now agreed to this, when to repair the mansion of King Fu, when I will canonize the crown prince. Until now, there is a plague in the south of the Yangtze River, and the officials can't get any money. The people are my people, and King Fu is also my son, and the palms and backs of his hands are full of flesh.

If the people are ignored because of the mansion of the king, I am afraid that the son of heaven will bear his name in vain. I will not embarrass you, and neither will you be embarrassed. The matter of repairing the mansion of the king of Fu was temporarily suspended, and the matter of the crown prince's canonization was also put on hold. What does Elder Ge think?"

Shen Shixing understood that Shenzong was continuing to delay, and the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty did not stand for a day, and the country's capital was shaken, and Yu Daming Sheji was unfavorable after all. But at the moment, to solve this urgent need, the only thing that can be drawn is this silver. As the head of the cabinet, it is a matter of one sentence to make a decision, but if he agrees to this matter, those officials are afraid that they will be impeached again.

He bowed his head and said impatiently: "Shen Shixing, did you hear my words clearly?" Shen Shixing raised his head and said, "I'm afraid this matter is not decided by the minister alone?" Shenzong said: "I gave you this position in the cabinet, and I expect you to be more effective than Zhang Siwei." Now it seems that I was wrong?"

Shen Shixing knelt down, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said, "Shengming has no past Your Majesty, and the old minister obeys the order." Shenzong smiled and said, "Okay, Zhang Whale, you give the prepared ticket to the elder pavilion." I'm tired, stand down. Watching Shenzong walk out of the study, Shen Shixing couldn't help sighing.

The eunuch Zhang Whale helped Shen Shixing up and said: "Pavilion Elder, we are all on an errand for the emperor, what the master says is what it is, why bother to call it this?" Shen Shixing pushed Zhang Whale away and glared at him, brushed his sleeves and left.

Zhang Jing looked at Shen Shixing's back and said, "What kind of energy, how is the cabinet? A little eunuch interjected: "Grandpa is right, if you want me to say that this old boy really doesn't know the times." Zhang Whale sneered: "He won't be proud for a few days." ”

said that Xiao Yunfan got the guidance of the swallow and rushed to the broken temple in the west of the town. As soon as I entered the temple gate, I saw the two beggars lying on the ground, blood overflowing from the corners of their mouths. He leaned over the noses of the two of them, and then took their pulses, the two beggars had been dead for a long time.

He carefully checked the cause of the second beggar's death, and he died by pinching off his neck bone. I couldn't help but wonder in my heart: "It seems that the murderer rushed here earlier to kill the two of them, could it be the hand of the ghost Xiangmen?" Then he reached out and groped around the corpses of the two beggars, found two small packets of oil paper, opened them, and saw that there was white powder inside.

He said to himself, "This is probably the poison powder they used to make the plague." I might as well take a look at this thing, and maybe I can find a way to restrain it. ”

When he returned to town, he saw that the infirmary was closed. In front of the door, a child about seven or eight years old sat on the ground and played. Xiao Yunfan asked the child, "Little friend, now that the plague is rampant, why are you playing here alone?"

The boy raised his head and said, "Daddy is dead, my mother is dead, and I have nowhere to go." Xiao Yunfan felt pity in his heart: "That child, I asked you where is the doctor's house in this medical hall?" The child replied: "You said that Doctor Liu, he died earlier." Xiao Yunfan said strangely: "Dead?

The boy said, "No, uncle." Dr. Liu hanged himself. Xiao Yunfan was puzzled, and then asked, "Are there other doctors in this town?" The child said: "I heard that the doctors in the town seem to be dead, so no one treats us." Xiao Yunfan said: "Your parents are dead, why are you okay?"

The boy said, "A few days ago, a big brother gave me a pill, and he said let me take it, so I'm fine." Xiao Yunfan said, "Where is that big brother now?" Can you take me to find him?" The child said, "Big brother said to let me go to him when it gets dark." ”

Xiao Yunfan pondered: "The eldest brother in this child's mouth must be proficient in medicine, I might as well meet this person, maybe he has a way to detoxify everyone." The child looked at Xiao Yunfan and said, "Uncle, do you have anything to eat?" Xiao Yunfan took out a steamed bun from his arms and handed it to the child.

Xiao Yunfan saw the sweetness of the child's food and said, "The child eats slowly, it's not enough, Uncle has it here." The boy nodded. Xiao Yunfan said, "What's your name?" The kid said, "My name is Qin Ying." Xiao Yunfan said: "You are helpless now, what are your plans in the future?" The child said: "The eldest brother said that when he finishes his business, he will take me out of here." ”

In the evening, Xiao Yunfan and Qin Ying came to a cemetery. Xiao Yunfan said in his heart: "This child shouldn't be a ghost, this benevolent brother has no place to reincarnate, and he shouldn't be looking for this child." He was muttering. Qin Ying suddenly ran forward, only to see a person standing on top of the tombstone.

Xiao Yunfan arched his hand and said, "Hello this brother." Unknown honorific name?" The man wore a broken hat and said to Qin Ying with a straight face: "Hey, little guy, why do you just bring outsiders to see me." Qin Ying touched his head and said, "Big brother, this uncle is a good person." The young man in the hat frowned and said, "You stupid boy, are good people and bad people written on your face?"

Xiao Yunfan said: "It's a presumptuous, just because I heard this kid mention that Brother Ren has a poison-avoiding pill, and the people around here are suffering from the plague, so I came to ask for it." The young man glanced at Xiao Yunfan, stood on the ground with a somersault in mid-air. The young man asked, "I don't buy this pill." ”

Xiao Yunfan said, "Oh. Since Brother Ren is willing to give medicine to this child, why don't you give it to other villagers?" The young man said: "It's my business whether I give it or not, the pill is mine, I can give it to whoever I like, it seems that it's none of Your Excellency', right?" Xiao Yunfan smiled: "As the saying goes, 'Saving a person's life is better than building a seventh-level floating slaughter', if Brother Ren can keep the people in this vicinity alive, everyone will thank you for your kindness." ”

The young man sighed: "Tut-tut, you are like a monk." It's a pity that I don't believe in Buddhism, and it's useless for me to ask for a seventh-level floating slaughter. Even if you say it, I won't take out the pill. Xiao Yunfan said: "Since Your Excellency doesn't save people, can you pass on the recipe to me to save people, and let me save them." The young man shook his head and said, "No." How can I give away the recipe I worked so hard to come up with?"

Xiao Yunfan said: "Since I don't give it away, I can always pay for it." The young man said, "Are you deaf?" I said that if you don't sell it, you won't sell it. Suddenly, his eyes saw the long sword behind Xiao Yunfan, and said, "However, it is not completely non-negotiable. Xiao Yunfan smiled when he saw that his tone was softening: "In this way, Your Excellency is willing to make conditions." ”

The young man said, "Don't be too happy, if you want to know the boy's prescription, you must win against me." "This young man is none other than Feng Huihao, a disciple of Changchun Island who appeared in Xuanbing Mountain Villa that day. It was only because he accidentally broke one of Master's favorite Ru kiln azure peony flower dragon pattern bowls, so he escaped from the island.

He originally wanted to find an identical thing before the master returned to the island, but he traveled all the way to the boundary of Huizhou, and there was no such thing in all the major antique shops. After he left Xuanbing Villa that day, he went to several antique shops to inquire, but still found nothing. Unexpectedly, within a few days, a plague broke out on the border of Huizhou.

The patriarch of Changchun Island has a lot of relationship with the patriarch of Shennong Valley, so the disciples of Changchun Island are also involved in medical Taoism. However, the plague was so strange that he couldn't do anything about it, so he spent the next few days collecting herbs and running around. The little boy Qin Ying was met outside this town, and the only thing he gave Qin Ying was a poison avoidance pill that could not have the effect of detoxification.

When Xiao Yunfan heard him say that he wanted to make a move, he smiled and said, "Since Brother Ren has this Yaxing, he will accompany him below." Feng waved a hand and said, "Slow, you fight with me, we have to set a rule." Xiao Yunfan said: "What rules?" Feng waved slightly: "The first is the rules of winning and losing, and the second is the rules of fighting." ”

Xiao Yunfan said: "Okay, Your Excellency's question is." Feng waved and said: "If you lose to the kid, you can borrow the sword on your back and play with me for two days." If you win, I'll tell you the remedy. Xiao Yunfan said: "What's the big deal about the sword you want, just give it to you." Feng waved happily and said, "Are you serious?" Xiao Yunfan reached out and unbuckled the sword buckle and prepared to hand the sword to him.

Who knew that Feng waved his face and said: "No, the kid didn't win, I can't take advantage of you in vain." Keep your sword first. Feng waved his cheeks and said, "Usually everyone else is fighting, but the two of us are fighting backwards, what do you think?"

Xiao Yunfan listened to what he said about this comparison very interestingly, and said in his heart: "This person's temper is very consistent with me." At that moment, he unloaded the sword and baggage, let Qin Ying hold it, and then said: "Okay, since Your Excellency has a problem, I will accompany you." ”

Feng waved and said: "Fight backwards, each of us only needs to use one hand, whoever lands first will lose, what do you think?" Xiao Yunfan said: "Okay, it's up to you." ”

Feng took off his hat at the moment, threw it casually, and put it on Qin Ying's head. He smiled and said to Qin Ying: "Little guy, you better stay away." The two of us got into a fight, and we were afraid it would hurt you. Hearing him say this, Qin Ying took two steps back.