Chapter 4 Suzhou Wei
Two days later, Jing Chuan took Zhang Jian to Suzhou Wei. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Originally, he planned to go all the way to Zhangye and go south after staying for a few days, but Zhang Jian's condition worsened and he needed medical treatment, so Jing Chuan had no choice but to take him to Suzhou.
Zhang Blade's lower body began to fester, and he also launched a high fever, and his life hung by a thread. Jing Chuan knew that the pursuers behind him would catch up immediately, but it was important to save people, and he couldn't care so much.
Jing Chuan has a friend in Suzhou Wei, named Chen Mai, who understands medical skills and is a friend of life and death with Jing Chuan. After Jingchuan entered the city, he took Zhang Jian to see Chen Mai.
Chen Mai was originally a native of Guizhou, grew up in a family of Miao doctors, and his father Chen Shuiquan was a Miao doctor, proficient in herbal medicine, and saved countless people. He was nurtured by his father since he was a child, followed his father to collect medicine and cure diseases, and inherited his father's profession at the age of fifteen and became a Miao doctor.
Southwest Miao Village, the art of multi-poisoning, killing people invisibly, terrifying and abnormal. Chen Shuiquan is a famous doctor in the local Miao village, highly respected, but also jealous of the villain. In the process of going out for treatment, he was given a rare Gu technique by a traitor, and he couldn't be cured by all means, and finally died.
At that time, Jing Chuan was ordered by his master Chen Danian to go to Guizhou to run errands, suffered a knife wound, and fainted in the mountains and forests when passing through Miao Village. It happened that Chen Mai went up the mountain to collect medicine and found Jing Chuan, so he took it home for treatment and saved Jing Chuan's life. Jing Chuan was grateful to Chen Mai, although he was fifteen years older than Chen Maiyi, but when he saw that Chen Maiyi was young and old, there was righteousness between his eyebrows, and he talked heroically, so he married him as a brother in life and death.
Knowing that Chen Maiyi's father was killed by a villain, Jing Chuan repaid Chen Maiyi's life-saving grace, so he helped Chen Maiyi find the murderer, cut his hand, and avenged Chen Shuiquan.
The people of the southwest Miao village have not been civilized since ancient times, and they will take revenge if they have revenge, and they will never give up until the descendants are extinct. And that murderer was from a very powerful local family with a tradition of Gu Clan, and after Jing Chuan killed him, his clan came to seek revenge. Jing Chuan knew that he could not stay in the southwest for a long time, so he persuaded Chen Mai to leave and go to another country. Chen Maiyi had no support, and he had no intention of staying in his hometown, so he left Guizhou with Jingchuan and became a traveling doctor, walking all over the world, treating diseases and saving people, and later moved to Suzhou Wei in the northwest and stayed temporarily. Jing Chuan went to Jiayuguan this time, and met Chen Maiyi in Suzhou Wei, and was very happy. Zhang Jian was seriously ill, so Jing Chuan took him to Chen Mai and asked him to help heal.
After Chen Mai checked Zhang Blade, he came out and said to Jing Chuan: "This child's lower body has ulcerated, and it is difficult to treat. ā
Jing Chuan said: "Brother must save his life, this is the blood of my third brother." ā
Chen Mai nodded: "Brother, don't worry, I will do my best, but this kid is hurting his internal organs now and needs a medicine, I don't have it here, you have to find it." ā
"What medicine?"
"This medicine is called Purple Lotus, like a lotus, the petals are fleshy and thick, purple, growing on the banks of the Kunlun Mountain Flood River, it is very rare, if the elder brother can pick the medicine, this child will still have hope. ā
Jing Chuan said, "Okay, I'll pick it." ā
"I can only save his life for three days, and my brother will be back as soon as he gets the medicine. ā
"Rest assured, brother, I will be back in three days. ā
Jing Chuan thought that Ma Dai would definitely bring someone to catch up, so he said to Chen Maiyi: "In order to save this child, I killed Ding Man, the leader of the sand gang in Feiyun Town, Ding Man has a very secret relationship with Ma Dai, the commander of Jiayuguan, and Ma Dai must have brought someone to chase me at this moment." Brother, keep this child hidden, and wait for me to return. ā
Chen Mai said: "Brother don't worry, the child will be taken care of by me, and it will be fine." ā
Jing Chuan clasped his fists at Chen Maiyi: "Brother Lao, I'll go!"
Just about to leave, Chen Mai stopped Jing Chuan: "Brother is slow, you can ride my horse, it knows the way." So saying, he walked over to the stables and pulled out a black steed. The horse was very tall, black, muscular, and unruly in his eyes.
When Jing Chuan saw it, he said, "Good horse!"
Chen Mai said: "This is a horse from the Western Regions, walking in the desert, fast as lightning, just recognizing people, my brother is careful to control it." ā
Jing Chuan walked towards the black horse, and when the black horse saw the living approaching, he barked, restless, and his nose was blowing. When Jing Chuan walked in front of it, it raised its front hooves and twisted its head to run. Jing Chuan grabbed the bridle, pulled it in front of him, and stared at the horse's eyes with puffed eyes, and the horse looked at it for a while, then tamed, calmed down, and lowered his head.
Chen Mai said with a smile: "My brother is really not a mortal, my horse can't be tamed by ordinary people, my brother will let it obey at a glance!"
Jing Chuan said: "Brother has won the prize, it is enough to train the horse with his eyes, the horse is afraid of the wicked." ā
The two of them burst out laughing.
After chatting a few words, Jing Chuan stepped on his horse and left the city.
Not long after Jingchuan left the city, Suzhou Wei implemented a strict ban on the whole city, and it was strictly forbidden to enter and leave casually. Officers and soldiers were sent to guard the gates of the city, and the entry and exit personnel were strictly checked, and more than a dozen men with knives were seized when they entered the city.
After Chen Mai heard the news, he was faintly worried: "Is it that Ma Dai from Jiayuguan has come to hunt down his brother?" After thinking about it, he felt that it was wrong: "My brother just killed a few bandits, and he didn't anger the official family, although the bandit leader has something to do with Ma Dai, but he won't alarm the whole city so much, could it be because of other things?" Chen Mai was worried and worried about Jing Chuan.
In addition to setting up checkpoints for strict investigation, officers and soldiers also went door-to-door to investigate, and Chen Mai's home was also investigated.
When the three officers and soldiers broke into Chen Mai's courtyard, Chen Mai was boiling medicine in the courtyard.
Chen Mai recognized one of them, Zhu Yong. Zhu Yong had hemorrhoids before, and sought medical treatment everywhere, but he was not cured for several years. Later, when he met Chen Mai, Chen Mai cured his illness with only a few doses of medicine, and did not take any money from him. Zhu Yong was very grateful to Chen Mai, so he often sent some pastries and other things to Chen Mai. Chen Mai saw that he was loyal and willing to talk to him.
As soon as Zhu Yong spoke, he was open-mouthed, as long as he knew, he would say it. Chen Maiyi knew a lot of things about Suzhou Wei from Zhu Yong, some of which were relatively confidential. Zhu Yong is not wary of Chen Mai and is willing to talk to him about this, so he often comes to chat with Chen Mai.
When Zhu Yong saw Chen Mai, he stepped forward and said, "Master Chen, my door has been ordered to search." ā
Chen Mai asked, "What happened?"
The other two soldiers were about to enter the house to search, but Zhu Yong shouted to stop them: "Hey, don't mess with the things in Master Chen's house, you can't afford to pay for it." ā
Zhu Yong is a petty official, with more than a dozen people under his command, and he usually likes to play prestige in front of others, so he roars at the soldiers under him.
When the two soldiers heard this, they immediately became respectful and entered the house carefully.
Chen Maiyi asked Zhu Yong: "Brother Zhu Yong, why is the whole city banned?"
Zhu Yong lowered his voice and said: "Wei Guozhong, the secretary of the military department, is coming to Suzhou tonight, so the whole city is strictly prohibited, and he also ordered to conduct door-to-door investigations, and all those with suspicious deeds and knives must be arrested and interrogated." ā
Chen Mai was puzzled, so he asked: "The military department is here, why do you want to mobilize the army so much, Suzhou Wei is a frontier city, isn't it common for people to carry knives?"
"You don't know about Master Chen," Zhu Yong said, "I heard from above that this military secretary is very powerful and is the emperor's favored minister, you said that he is such a big official, can he not strengthen his vigilance when he comes to a remote place like ours?"
Chen Maiyi was originally worried that the ban was related to Jingchuan, but after hearing Zhu Yong say this, he was relieved. But I thought that Jing Chuan might not know about it, and if he came back, he might be arrested. Chen Mai then asked Zhu Yong: "How long will Shangshu of the Ministry of War stay in Suzhou this time?"
Zhu Yong shook his head and said, "I don't know about this, but looking at the formation this time, it seems to be a very important matter." After Zhu Yong finished speaking, he added, "What is the master asking for?"
Chen Maiyi was taken aback by Zhu Yong's sudden question, and hurriedly said: "It's nothing, I'm thinking that every time the court officials come to Suzhou, the lives of our ordinary people will be alarmed." ā
Zhu Yong said: "No, we don't want them to come, it's hard to serve!" Then he immediately lowered his voice, put his mouth to Chen Maiyi's ear, and whispered, "But Master Chen, let's just say these words casually, don't say them easily, otherwise you will cause trouble." ā
Chen Mai smiled and said, "What my brother said is very true, I know this." ā
A soldier came out of the house and reported to Zhu Yong: "Report, there is a person inside. ā
When Zhu Yong heard this, he glanced at Chen Mai and said, "Master Chen, I'll take a look." So saying, he went into the house.
Chen Mai's heart, which had just calmed down, began to worry again, and she also followed into the house.
Zhu Yong stared at Zhang Jian who was lying on the bed and asked Chen Maiyi, "Master Chen, what is this?"
Chen Mai said: "This is my friend's child, who has hemorrhoids and plague, and is dying, so he sent me here." ā
As soon as Zhu Yong heard that it was hemorrhoids, he remembered himself at the beginning, and suddenly became a little frightened, and said: "Hemorrhoids, plague, then we have to treat them quickly! Hemorrhoids are not a minor disease! If it weren't for Master Chen, I'm afraid I wouldn't know where I would be now!"
Chen Mai said: "Brother is polite, it should be." ā
Zhu Yong saw that it was a child and there was nothing to ask, so he turned around and scolded the two soldiers behind him: "You are also making a fuss about a child, what to check, let's go, let's go elsewhere!"
The two soldiers were submissive.
Zhu Yong lowered his voice and said to Chen Maiyi: "Master Chen, okay, let's go, I won't bother you for treatment." ā
Chen Mai said: "Brother walk slowly. ā
Zhu Yong left with two soldiers.
Chen Mai was relieved to see them leave. He looked at Zhang Jian who was still asleep, and silently read in his heart: "Brother, you have to be more careful." ā
That night, the commander of Suzhou Wei ordered a curfew, no one was allowed to go out, and those who violated the order were beheaded.
Chen Mai heard the sound of troops running quickly through the street, and soldiers stood on both sides of the street. It didn't take long to hear the sound of horses' hooves and the sound of carriages passing by, and from the hurried and chaotic sound, it seemed that Wei Guozhong, the secretary of the military department, came to Suzhou Wei this time, and it was by no means a simple inspection, but there might be something more important.