1. A prophecy

The Xiangshi shouted slogans to solicit business: "The mountain gate cultivates the law, the medical door saves the life and helps the wounded, the life gate draws talismans and alchemy, the physiognomy looks at the sky and knows the fate, and the divination machine comes and goes." Know the past life and the future, predict the future, know the blessings and misfortunes, look at the ups and downs of the future, and ask about the joys and sorrows of marriage. ”

After speaking, he shook the copper bell in his hand a few times.

Just as Liu Yunqiao and Zeng Shuying passed by Xiangshi's stall, the Xiangshi casually read a poem by Nalan: "If life is only as first seen, what is the autumn wind and sad fan, and so on, but the old people's hearts are changeable, but the people's hearts are changeable." The capital is a good marriage, hating impermanence and lovesickness!"

Liu Yunqiao and Zeng Shuying listened to each other and smiled. Liu Yunqiao walked over, and Shi Li asked, "Dao Chief, how do you say this?"

"What a pair of fairy couples, but the wind and clouds are surging, and the moon is difficult to complete, and it is difficult to meet once adrift. The two of them are willing to draw lots for divination, ask about the good fate of this world, and the poor road can solve the danger of impermanence. ”

"Do you mean us? I don't believe it yet, Daoist. Then give us a divination. ”

Liu Yunqiao was a little disgusted by his trick of hanging people's appetite and luring people, but he wanted to see what kind of medicine was sold in this Taoist gourd.

"Do you want to ask about the future of numerology or marriage?" the Taoist priest shook off the folding fan in his hand and said pretending to be profound.

Then he shook the bucket a few times.

"Ask!" Zeng Shuying finished speaking, took a breath of his right hand and signed one casually, and handed it to the Taoist priest.

After reading it, the Taoist priest took out a book, looked at the photo book, and wrote four sentences of explanation on a piece of paper.

The Taoist priest did not speak, and handed the note with the unsigned poem to Zeng Shuying.

Liu Yunqiao and Zeng Shuying, unfolding the note paper at the same time-

Houmen embroidered the deep boudoir dream, once the garden bathed in the spring breeze, the clothes did not change the mountain oath, and the sad farewell met again for twenty years.

Zeng Shuying's face was pale, and her hands trembled slightly.

"Don't believe it, if you believe in this thing, if you don't believe it, you don't believe it. I can't say it accurately!" Liu Yunqiao comforted Zeng Shuying.

After speaking, he gave his birthday to the Taoist priest. The Taoist priest pinched his fingers and gestured for a long time, still muttering in his mouth: A, B, C, D, and E, Zi Chou Yinmao.

"Young man, the appearance of the great wealth, this is the dream of Kuixing, the dragon and the horse flying in the sky, the talent of the dragon and the phoenix chicks through the heavens and latitudes, but how to transport the canopy to the sky. Extremely talented, with ups and downs in life, and a lot of fate. In the second half of his life, he worked hard, the dragon and phoenix among people, and the unicorn was reincarnated!"

After the Taoist priest finished speaking, he also wrote down the explanation of the lottery of Liuyun Bridge: Transporting the canopy is empty, the heavenly horse is in the dream, the dragon is in the dream, the heart is ambitious, and the life is in the rivers and lakes.

Liu Yunqiao and Zeng Shuying pondered for a long time. Then he asked, "Dao Chief, is there a way to resolve it?"

"Hey, don't forget each other, the end of the world looks at each other, never forget, there will be an echo. The Taoist priest shook the folding fan in his hand again and stroked his beard.

"Don't forget each other, the end of the world looks at each other?" Zeng Shuying muttered this meaningful sentence in his mouth.

Liu Yunqiao casually threw twenty coins to the Taoist priest and took Zeng Shuying to the tea mountain.

In the following days, Zeng Shuying's mood was somewhat affected by the lottery fortune telling.

Liu Yunqiao has always been guarding her around, intimate and comforting.

But the power of love is so strong, and the joy of love replaces all unhappiness and shadows.

2. The sky is unpredictable

Two people who love each other can be said to have never met and smiled, and they have promised their lives at the first meeting.

But there are unforeseen circumstances, and just when the two people swore tenderness and sweetness, there was a big misunderstanding and episode.

On that day, someone came from Prince Gong's mansion, and the person who came was Xue Changshi of the palace, who came for the marriage of the prince's eldest son, King Dorojun.

Xue Changshi said that he had checked the birthdays of King Doluo and Miss Zeng, and they were lucky, and they were also married by the emperor, and the emperor's order was irresistible.

This is undoubtedly a blessing for the whole Zeng Mansion, but it is also a problem.

After Zeng Shuying's maid Lilac overheard all this behind the screen, it was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day.

Zeng Shuying is in the prime of jasper, twenty-eight years old, waiting for the word boudoir. After getting to know Liu Yunqiao, as long as her mother mentioned family affairs, she changed her usual gentle and virtuous manner, and cried in the dark after jumping like thunder.

Miss Zeng is soft on the outside and strong on the inside, and she is resolute and resolute. She went on a hunger strike and then kept a pair of scissors with her.

No matter how much her father and mother persuaded or threatened, she pressed the scissors under her pillow and locked herself in Qinghanxuan, and the door did not go out.

She ignored her parents' words and the appointment of the matchmaker, and she fought for half a year, feeling depressed and unable to afford to be sick.

Things took a turn again, that year coincided with the death of the emperor, and the system was kept for three years.

The marriage of the king of the palace was no longer mentioned, and it was stranded, so another two years passed.

Miss Zeng thought that she had won the weak struggle and could fly with her beloved Brother Yun.

In those two years, the two quietly dated, the willow branches on the moon, and the people made an appointment after dusk.

It coincided with the incident of Changmao from Jintian, which swept South China and became strong. Zeng Dashuai even suffered defeat and almost committed suicide, and then the shogunate east window incident, Liu Yunqiao's father was one of Zeng Shuai's four great strategists, but he was accused of fornication and thieves, and his family confiscated the letters of fornication with Changmao.

Life is impermanent, and the world is unpredictable. A twenty-year-old girl is vulnerable in the face of great changes, this time she has been sick for more than 100 days, her heart disease is difficult to treat, and she still has a breath.

Her mother did not bring her much comfort and affection, and she visited less and less.

Her father was busy with military affairs and only saw her once. may think that her behavior violates etiquette and religion, and it is even more shameful for the family.

Life should come back, death should be Sauvignon Blanc. She sandwiched the string of willow branches in the thick book of "The Complete Works of Jade Tea Hall", put it next to her pillow, and coiled the string of Bodhi seeds in her hand.

Only in this way can we give some comfort to the painful soul and relieve the psychological torture and physical pain.

Lilac is illiterate, and she can't read or paint in her physical condition. In the days when there were no poems, no books, no sound and no tea, the walking dead.

She is extremely lonely and desperate, just like her name: the crane shadow in the cold pond, and the cold moon buries the soul of the poem.

In the early days of entering the customs, the imperial court clearly stipulated that the Manchu and Han did not intermarry, but more than 100 years later, many daughters of the prefects of the official family were selected to enter the palace as concubines.

Although he did not enter the palace through the draft, his father is a pillar of the national humerus court, and it is obvious that the court is encircling his father, and he has undoubtedly become a bargaining chip for political marriage exchange.

As the side of the county king, she enjoys glory and wealth on the surface, but it is not the destination of her dreams, her ideal is to live and fly with her beloved, and never give up.

The pressure of the family's parents and the trouble of the royal palace urging marriage, she ignored it, and there was no better way. She could only think of a masochistic solution - hunger strike, pretending to be sick.

After taking decoction for a long time and eating irregularly, the originally thin Zeng girl became even thinner and weaker.

Lilac felt sorry for her master, who was also a sister who was like a sister, and always secretly poured out the decoction every time, and also brought her some dry food such as fried dough sticks and steamed buns in her arms.

Coincidentally, in those years, Liu Yunqiao's personal and family have undergone a huge turning point and subversive changes.

When Liu Yunqiao was twenty-two years old, he failed in the autumn of the big year (palace examination), and it was the year when Enke (the emperor increased the number of exams) was added, and Liu Yunqiao stood out and was in the top three in high school.

After waiting for half a year, he didn't find an official position, the court sold his official position in the dark, and his dream promotion career was far away.

Liu Yunqiao was frail and sickly when he was young, suffering from asthma, and his mother coached riding and archery and martial arts. Under the planning of his father, he went to the Hankou camp to join the army, and the young man's literary and martial arts have a place to use, he has both civil and military skills, brave and tenacious, and was promoted to the post of deputy dart commander (equivalent to deputy battalion commander) in only one and a half years.

Just when he was full of ambition, that day he suddenly received a secret report from his old subordinates in the barracks, persuading him to flee overnight.

The family suffered a huge change, and his father and two younger brothers were directly arrested and imprisoned in the barracks.

He hurriedly ran away, galloped back to his hometown in Yancheng on a starry night, rescued his mother, and escaped overnight.

Fleeing to the Hankou wharf, he was intercepted by a checkpoint halfway, the mother and son were outnumbered and seriously injured, and the mother pushed him into the Yangtze River in order to protect herself.

The mother's life and death are unknown, and there is little luck.

In this way, the changes in the family and the urging of the palace to marry instructed a pair of loving lovers to go to different sides by mistake.

3. Righteousness saves good business

Ximen Luoyan, Fu Qinglong and Qu Liang, the executioner, took Muhong Divine Doctor all the way north, crossed the Yellow River through Fengling, traveled for several days, and came to the ancient city called Woniucheng.

Outside the city gate, many officers and soldiers held hands, and people came and went to search carefully. The city gate is an arch structure, and the sea fishing documents are posted on the gate wall.

There is a middle-aged woman and a teenager, and the name, age, and place of origin of the fugitive are written one by one, and the reward is 100 taels of silver.

As soon as he saw the portrait of the man on the paperwork, a familiar figure immediately flashed in Simon Luoyan's mind.

"Liu Xinghong, Liu Zhu, why does this man seem to be a person from the dart game a few days ago?" she said with a frown.

Qu Liang also came over, he didn't know a few big characters, and he also saw the portrait on the paperwork. ”

"Why didn't I find out about the man you were talking about? "He has been a storyteller since he was a child, he can play suona, and his voice is crisp and thick, and he is a natural caller.

Doctor Mu hurriedly pulled them over: "Don't be nosy, it's important to hurry!" As soon as they turned around, they saw that Doctor Mu's face sank, and they hurriedly led the horse into the city.

At that time, there were external worries and internal troubles, continuous wars, continuous famines, epidemics, and the closure of households.

The streets are deserted, many shops are closed, and it is not easy to find a remote restaurant to break down.

The bartender was a young man in his twenties, with a brown birthmark the size of a copper coin on his forehead, his voice was extremely loud, his movements were agile, and he warmly greeted a group of four people into the store.

Opposite the tavern is a medical hall pharmacy, and at this time there are many people around the door, which is extremely noisy.

As soon as the four of them sat down, Qu Liang, the executioner, couldn't wait to ask, "Xiao Er, why is this Cow City so deserted, what's going on, what's going on with the pharmacy opposite, could it be that someone has died?"

"Guest officer, you're from out of town, you don't know that something big has happened to us in Cow City. The old Yu family, a wealthy merchant in the east of the city, and Yu Zhiping, a young owner, go south to Guangzhou and then to Hepu in the North Sea every year to trade pearls. To Yangzhou and Hangzhou, a sale of cash silver taels, and then to Suzhou and Hangzhou to purchase high-quality silk tea to Woniucheng for resale, ten times the profit. This young owner is not only a talent, but also very knowledgeable to go south and north, but also willing to be kind and good at squandering wealth, building a shed porridge in the year of famine, and opening a warehouse to give rice. Hey, good guy. ”

The shopkeeper acted quickly, wiping the table and pouring water, serving food and telling stories, and wiping a crack to greet the guests at the next table. Speaking of Yu Zhiping, he not only sighed.

"Maybe he went south to Guangzhou to gain knowledge, but after he came back, he was not used to seeing the smoke house, and when he saw the smoke house, he took people to stir it up, and smashed it when it was heavy. It's no wonder that his parents, his second brother and sister-in-law, almost the whole family has a few mouthfuls of Fu Shou ointment, and the family resources are exhausted. The whole family is enjoying more and planning less, and now the family business that three generations have worked hard to create is difficult for him to fight alone. He smashed the smoke house, and the prefect began to support it, but he didn't think about it, this is a lantern in the thatched house - looking for (death). Most of the smoke houses in this cow city are opened by the garrison flag people, and the prefect can't afford to offend. ”

The shopkeeper moved quickly and sharply, and while talking, he served a few plates of cold dishes.

"Then in the end, how happened to Yu Zhiping?" Doctor Mu Shen ate a few bites of cold cucumbers, took a sip of noodle soup, put down his chopsticks and asked.

"Isn't that the lice on the bald man's head obvious? Yu Shaodong's family was almost not killed. The few family members who brought over were killed on the spot, hey, you don't know, the miserable appearance of those who were killed, one by one missing arms and legs, and there were no corpses. As for Yu Shaodong's family himself,—— he has only one breath left, oh, why don't he go to the opposite medical hall to save his life. It's been a few days and I've passed out. This is not over, the flag man led people to serve more than a dozen shops in the city of the Yu family, and killed the guys in the shop, and the Yu family is finished this time. ”

The bartender pouted as he spoke, and his mouth turned towards the pharmacy opposite. He sighed, emotionally angry.

"Isn't there a royal law?

"The royal law is according to the decree of the imperial court. Flag man can be exempted from death once for homicide, and even if he commits a capital crime, the local official has no right to try it and must be handed over to the criminal department. The flag soldiers stationed in the camp also wrote to the imperial court, and they made up a demon to confuse the public and disturb the market, and they justifiably sealed the remaining shops. ”

With a "bang", the tea cup in Qu Liang's hand slapped heavily on the dining table, splashing a table of tea: "How can this be reasonable!"

"Hey, right and wrong are just because of talking too much, and all the troubles are because of the strong head, the Yu family is completely finished. ”

The shopkeeper seemed to be commenting on the book, full of emotion, and it was estimated that it was not the first time he had told a guest.

Ximen Luoyan didn't say a word, and Fu Qinglong also remained silent.

At this time, Doctor Mu got up and walked straight to the pharmacy opposite.

Simon Luoyan quickly stood up and followed him quickly.

The two walked through a very small room in the back hall of the pharmacy, and on the bed lay a young man of twenty-seven or eighteen, with a yellow face and dying, and his left leg was rotten and foul.

This person was Yu Zhiping, and when he touched his forehead, he had a high fever and hot hands, chapped lips, and was delirious.

He picked up the decoction casserole on the table next to him, sniffed it, untied the layer of cloth covering his lap, checked it carefully, and sat down to give Yu Zhiping a pulse.

At this time, a person who looked like Lang Zhong came in, and the person saw that the Divine Doctor Immortal Feng Dao had an extraordinary backbone, smelled the medicine and looked at the wound, and a series of actions told him that the person who came must be a fellow Xinglin.

"Excessive bleeding, lack of timely medical treatment, rotting and infected wounds, life-threatening, and my leg may not be saved. ”

Lang Zhong explained and reported the ins and outs of Yu Zhiping's injury, and said a little regretfully.

Doctor Mu didn't pay attention to him, and after some looking, listening, and inquiry, he came up with a diagnosis: "The right person can diagnose his pulse, the pulse is weak, the injury is in the yang, and the bleeding is excessive." "Tiger Bell Sutra" cloud: Those with a slight pulse are alive, and those who are ill are dead. Those who sink small live, and those who float big die. This person's life can be saved, and so can the leg. There is nothing wrong with the prescription, but it is only applied externally, the medicinal power is insufficient, and it is necessary to take internal medicine to treat it in a balanced manner to stop bleeding, relieve pain, and continue to save your legs. ”

He said it in a detailed and accurate way.

After speaking, he picked up the pen and wrote on the prescription: half a tael of male lard, three coins of rosin, half a tael of flour (fried, sifted), one cent of musk, one cent of yellow wax camphor, one cent of borneol, two coins of blood exhaustion, one penny of tea frankincense, one coin of myrrh, and half a tael of hibiscus leaves.

"You only need to go to the very fine powder of the medicine research, first boil the lard, rosin, and yellow wax, filter out the trickle, wait for it to be cold, and then stir it well, and store the porcelain. In addition, deer antler velvet needs to be disinfected, and the poison can be dispersed to reduce fever, first save life, and then save legs. If it is ineffective for three days, it is necessary to boil it with internal numbness, dig out the carrion with a burning blade, and then apply gold sore medicine externally. ”

There are also internal prescriptions: half a tael of dogwood, soaked in soup seven times, dried and slightly fried, three points of Aracea, cannon Linglie, half a tael of white aconite, one tael of cinnabar, water flies through, one point of dried ginger, one point of bubble lie, three points of aconite, peeled sharp umbilicus, soaked dry lie, half a tael of scorpion. Sweating after boiling green onion wine is effective.

That Lang Zhong looked at the prescription and was greatly impressed: "Thanks to the guidance of the immortal doctor, the mouth is suddenly opened, and the immortal dares to ask the immortal doctor!" After speaking, he bowed and bowed, extremely humble.

"There is no need to be formal, the people of Chongxu Mountain are down, passing by your place, hearing about the rest of the people's encounters, deeply sympathetic, and doing their best. He saw that although this Lang Zhong's medical skills were mediocre, he was also humble and dedicated, and he had comprehension as soon as he was enlightened.

Mu Hong has always been indifferent to fame and fortune, and he is not shocked by humiliation, he introduced himself lightly.

"Could it be that you are the Lingnan Luofu Mountain Chongxu real person Mu Shen Doctor? The little doctor Zheng Xuandao, the immortal doctor came to the shelter to teach the golden prescription, and the three lives are lucky!" Zheng Xuandao has practiced medicine for three generations, and he has long heard of the medical ethics and medical skills of the Shen Doctor, but he didn't expect to see the real face, Zheng Xuandao was particularly surprised.

"Your Excellency Lao is the one who has been injured in the rest of the staff, and I will be able to return after I finish my visit in January. First take the medicine according to the prescription, the dosage is appropriate, and wait for me to come back after a month to see the after-effects. With that, he turned and left, and returned to the tavern.

Ximen Luoyan was deeply impressed by Dr. Mu's medical skills and medical ethics, and his eyes widened and he was impressed. She followed behind Dr. Mu and didn't say a word, and her brother's condition, which she was worried about all the way, would be cured.

The four of them finished eating a pot of scissors noodles, drank horses to make up forage, and continued north, arriving in three more days.