The seventeenth trip to the divergent road
According to Lin Jianlan's thoughts, no matter whether Dr. Cheng agrees with taking Wan Xiu to the hospital alone, Mrs. Wan will not let go of this glimmer of life, and she will definitely be able to make the trip this time.
After waiting for a few days, when Lin Jianlan went again, he saw that Mrs. Wan's place was already busy inside and out, and a bunch of various cages had been prepared, and Mrs. Wan was instructing the minions in the courtyard to clean up, and when she saw him coming, she hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Alas, I wanted to personally send you to the foot of Baiyun Mountain, but Axiu, this child, if you don't let me follow, I have to trouble you to take care of her all the way." β
Lin Jianlan said: "This is natural, but the predecessors are too cumbersome to prepare these many things, just prepare some necessary, I only have two people, Ah Xiu, and it will be a headache to manage these objects on the road." β
Mrs. Wan was stunned for a moment, and muttered: "I don't think about this, in the past, there was an entourage to sort it out." After saying that, he smiled and said, "Alas, Ah Xiu left me for the first time, and I don't know how to start." β
Lin Jianlan saw that she was just like an ordinary mother at this time, and sighed in his heart, and said: "Mrs. Wan, according to the opinion of the younger generation, it is enough to prepare two or three sets of clothes for Miss Wan to wear in cold and hot weather, especially to prepare the medicines used on the road, in addition, there is nothing needed, I know that Miss Wan is weak, so I will not let her travel in the carriage for a long time during the day, and I will take good care of her." β
Mrs. Wan said: "That's true, it's better to travel lightly for a long journey." After that, he dispersed all the people who were busy inside and outside, and said: "Lin Gongzi, if there is no accident, will you see how it will be in three days?" Ah Xiu is weak, and her appetite has not been good for several days, so I have the heart to make up for her in the next few days. β
Lin Jianlan nodded and said: "That's very good, by the way, since you are going to seek medical treatment, can Mrs. Wan sort out the prescriptions that she has given to Ah Xiu in the past and let me take them away, maybe there is a reference?"
Mrs. Wan said: "This has already been collected, and it will be taken away with Ah Xiu when the time comes." But there was still worry on his face.
Lin Jianlan couldn't help but explain: "Mrs. Wan, Miss Wan, she has been following you since she was a child, because she is weak and sick, she has spent most of her time alone in the house for more than ten years, and it is inevitable that she will be depressed in her heart. Miss Wan still needs to meditate and recuperate, so I won't bother her anymore, and I'll come back in three days. Then he took his leave.
Mrs. Wan stretched her brows, listening to Lin Jianlan's words just now, she was very sincere, seeing his back hurriedly away, she had mixed feelings in her heart for a while, stayed in place, and sighed for a while.
At this time three days later, Mrs. Wan stood here, watching Wan Xiu's thin body being carried into the carriage, and the vehicle carrying the two of them rolled away, and the sound of wheels rolling on the long street became smaller and smaller, and gradually disappeared. Although he knew that this was just a long line, and he would have to follow him secretly after waiting for a while, he still felt a little sour in his heart, but a person flashed behind him, and said in a deep voice: "I have sent someone to keep an eye on the carriage in advance, why should Mrs. Wan worry about herself here? If you have kung fu, it is better to prepare for the road, but we have to work harder than them." β
Mrs. Wan slowly turned around, and saw an old man with a sick face, his expression was slightly suspicious, and she said coldly: "Doctor Cheng, since I did what I had to do according to your instructions, it is not your turn to talk to me about the rest." β
Doctor Cheng didn't expect Mrs. Wan to be so angry at the moment, he was stunned for a moment, and then said with a noncommittal smile: "Mrs. Wan must be foolproof in doing things, their carriage has already run some distance, let's go on the road." β
The two of them showed their skills, and the people who had already been arranged by Dr. Cheng to follow along the road came out to show the way, and they followed behind, although they could not look at the vehicle, but they could ensure that nothing went wrong. The carriage was moving very fast, and about an hour after it was followed, and someone had already come up and pointed forward.
The two looked in the direction that the man pointed, a straight long street led to the west gate of Chang'an, the crowd was bustling, the vehicle appeared and disappeared in the crowd, the speed was already a lot slower, it took a lot of effort to get out of the city gate, Doctor Cheng said: "Can you see clearly?"
The minion said: "There is a dark purple tassel tied to the back of the car, which is indeed Miss Wan's vehicle." Doctor Cheng nodded, glanced at Mrs. Wan, and ran towards the city gate.
The crowds outside the city gradually became scarce, and there were not so many people to keep up all the way, so the two had to speed up their feet, and only looked at the carriage from a distance, Mrs. Wan was secretly worried in her heart: "After walking for a long time, I don't know if Ah Xiu can withstand this bump?"
After following for a long time, Mrs. Wan was a little out of breath, but Dr. Cheng was still strolling leisurely, only staring at the carriage, not daring to leave his eyes for a moment, and slowly felt that the carriage was walking on the wrong way, not along the official road, but more and more remote, faintly aware that something was not good, hurriedly stopped, and said to Mrs. Wan: "The two of them don't know the road anymore, and they won't leave the road behind, I'm afraid there will be fraud." β
Mrs. Wan looked intently, and saw that the carriage had stopped outside a straw hut in the field, and there were several neighing of horses, and the two of them came closer, and saw that behind the straw hut were the tattered and old wheels piled up like a hill, and there was an unfinished carriage crooked to the side, which turned out to be a family that raised horses and made vehicles for a living.
Doctor Cheng was hesitating whether to step forward a little more, and saw a person jumping down from the front of the vehicle, holding a short whip in his hand, and pulling the reins of the horse back in his hand.
The two of them were startled, and hurriedly flew up, and the horseman turned around and saw that there were two more people out of thin air, and they were startled, and they didn't care about him, and opened the car door, but it was empty, and looked around again, and the tassel was still floating in the wheel, but the person was gone.
Dr. Cheng didn't want to make such a mistake when the matter came, so he was furious in his heart, grabbed the coachman, and said, "Where did this car come from?"
The coachman was about to struggle, and when he saw that the unkind mother-in-law next to him had already pulled out her sword, her face suddenly turned pale with fright, and she stammered: "Yes, someone asked me to wait in that alley, and let me run out of the city at the west gate after changing the car." β
Doctor Cheng was impatient to hear this, and threw the coachman into the car, saying, "Where to change the car, go back to me!" After that, he and Mrs. Wan hurried into the car, and Mrs. Wan pointed a long sword at the coachman's vest.
In less than an hour, Mrs. Wan only felt that the surrounding scenery was becoming more and more familiar, and the coachman "shouted" to stop the carriage, but let out a scream, Mrs. Wan's long sword was not able to be withdrawn, the horse stopped sharply, and suddenly drew a bloody mouth on the back of the coachman, and the coachman exchanged tears in pain, rolled off the car and knelt on the ground and said: "This is it, two of you spare me!"
Mrs. Wan looked around, it was a long alley quite close to where she lived, if you want to go to the street, you must pass through this road, she hated and angry in her heart, raised her foot and kicked the coachman and said sharply: "What the hell is going on?"
The coachman was very frightened at this moment, for fear that he would lose his life if he was not in a good position, so he hurriedly said: "About ten days ago, a young man went to the horse market to order a car, and then found me three days ago, and gave me some more silver taels in addition to the car money, and asked me to drive the carriage to this alley and wait. I came, seeing that he himself was also driving the car, but it was much better than the one he ordered, I was wondering, but he hurriedly came out with a young lady, let me move all the things inside to my car, and then kicked up, and then told me to go all the way to the west gate, my house is outside the west gate, is on the way, he gave me more money, I responded, who knows but provoked the two. Speaking of this, he had a handful of snot and tears, and kowtowed again and again: "The little one still has a wife and children, lord, madam, raise your noble hand and let me go, I don't know anything!"
Doctor Cheng said: "No need to say any more, do you remember what the car looked like?"
The coachman said: "He ordered a very ordinary carriage, you two old people go to the street to have a look, but all the carriages, ten out of ten are made of that one mold!"
Doctor Cheng waved his hand and sighed, "Forget it, you can go." Seeing that the coachman hurriedly crawled out of the alley, he was fooled over for the second time, and hated Lin Jianlan very much in his heart, gritted his teeth and said: "He knows that the closer to where you live, the more relaxed the precautions will be, I am afraid that he will be suspicious, so he only sent someone to guard the corner of the alley, and he didn't want to be taken advantage of by him, it is really hateful!"
Mrs. Wan thought of the whereabouts of her lost daughter, and her heart was like boiling oil, and she pointed the long sword directly at Doctor Cheng and said, "If Ah Xiu has any three long and two short, I will fight with you!"
Doctor Cheng pulled the tip of the sword away and said, "At this time, it is not easy for you and me to have any more disputes, although that kid is cunning and gets rid of us, he will definitely take Ah Xiu to Baiyun Temple." β
Mrs. Wan said in a trembling voice: "It's easy for you to say, if he takes Ah Xiu over every ten days and a half months, wouldn't Ah Xiu be dangerous?"
Doctor Cheng said: "You can rest assured, the antidote is always by her side, she herself will not be in danger of her life, without further ado, we will go to Sanyuan to wait in advance." β
Seeing Mrs. Wan's reluctance to recruit people to prepare vehicles and things used on the road, Dr. Cheng slowly walked to the entrance of the alley, and saw that on the long street, sure enough, the style of the carriage was roughly similar, and any one of them was lost in the crowd, and then it was like looking for a needle in a haystack, thinking that when Lin Jianlan first arrived in Jiangnan, he was still crying and crying along the way and couldn't adapt, but now he has deceived himself twice, thinking that he has waited until this great age, if he is let go next time, I don't know what kind of changes will happen, and I sigh and resent, and unconsciously clatter a pair of dry hands like branchesγ
Outside the south gate of Chang'an, the pedestrians and vehicles on the official road are in a hurry, only a carriage walks slowly along the road, very leisurely, a pock-faced young man sits in front of the carriage with his legs dangling, holding the reins lightly in one hand, and throwing a whip in the air with the other hand, and does not whip the two horses that pull the cart, but as if he is chasing flies for them.
Although the carriage seemed to be very ordinary, the interior of the carriage was very comfortable, the curtains on both sides and the door curtains covered two layers, the outer layer was a thick brocade, and the inner layer was blocked by a layer of light veil, the seats were much wider than the usual ones, covered with thick fur cushions, and two or three pillows were scattered underneath, and a small lantern hung down from the wall above the center, burning with a faint light, and a young girl curled up on the seat, the black veil on her face was lifted aside, and she held a book in her hand, and the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned.
After a while, the girl seemed to suddenly remember something, and shouted softly: "Lin Gongzi, you don't have to pretend to be a little pockmarked anymore!"
The pock-faced young man in the car smiled, stopped the carriage, turned around and leaned in, the girl took a bronze mirror out of nowhere, the young man lifted a corner of his jaw against the mirror, and the whole piece was removed from his face, revealing his true face, it was Lin Jianlan who threw off Doctor Cheng and Mrs. Wan.
Wan Xiu saw that he had a towel tied on his head decently, "poof" smiled, pointed with his finger, Lin Jianlan took off the towel again, and said, "You still laugh at me, use this pockmarked dough to make a hemp cake for you to eat at night." β
Wan Xiu stuck out his tongue and said, "I didn't expect Lin Gongzi to be so disgusting." β
Lin Jianlan smiled and said, "I'm going to continue to catch the car, you put the curtain away, don't get sunburned." So saying, he turned his head back, straightened the curtain behind him, pulled the reins gently, shook the whip a little, and the two horses walked slowly again.
Wan Xiu said softly inside, "Lin Gongzi, are you walking in the southeast direction?"
Lin Jianlan leaned back slightly, and said loudly: "Yes, Ah Xiu, don't worry, Sanyuan is in the northwest of Chang'an, I want to go to the southeast first, delay for a while, and then go to the Taoist to see if I can heal you." β
Wan Xiu said: "I'm not in a hurry, in fact, I don't want to go to the doctor like this, and I will go back after the treatment." β
Lin Jianlan laughed and said: "Silly girl, if you are cured, don't you go wherever you want? Do you still need to envy Sister Man?" He mentioned Lu Man himself, but he couldn't help but have a little worry in his heart, I don't know if Lu Man returned to the South China Sea safely after that day of separation, and I don't know when I will see each other again, and a trace of melancholy slowly came up. But he heard Wan Xiu whisper something, and hurriedly said, "What did Ah Xiu say?"
Wan Xiu said: "I didn't say anything, Lin Gongzi, how is it in Hangzhou? I've never been there, you said that your hometown is in Liaodong, and I don't know what it looks like, can you tell me?"
Lin Jianlan smiled, and was about to speak, but found that his memory of the countryside had long been blurred, and he didn't know how to say it, the only thing that was deep in his mind was the pear blossom in the courtyard, but the scenery of the four seasons in the main hall of the Kuangyi Gang in Hangzhou was vivid, and he said a little abruptly: "Okay." β