Chapter 42
Chapter 42
In the past few days, Chu Yuntian's whole body exudes the aura that strangers should not enter. Those who know the inside story dare not provoke him, and Mrs. Chu shed tears every day.
Fang Su has been missing for three days.
On the morning of the fourth day, Ding Sheng hurried into Chu Yuntian's study.
"General, someone has inquired about Xiao Wu."
Hearing this, Chu Yuntian stood up abruptly, walked quickly to Ding Sheng's side, and asked hastily, "Where is it?"
"Liuzhou."
"Liuzhou?" Chu Yuntian frowned. Liuzhou is very close to the northwest, where there are Tartars all year round, and it is not peaceful. There are people in the court who have been asking the emperor to send people to eliminate those Tartars, but now the Holy Majesty only cares about the present. The peace of the city has always refused to agree, what is this Xiao Wu going to do in that turbulent place.
"Have you found out?" Chu Yuntian continued to ask.
"General Qi, someone in the local area has seen Xiao Wu's image and said that he has seen this person in a farmyard."
"Okay, go to Liuzhou immediately."
"General!" Ding Sheng was stunned for a moment, and then immediately said: "Liuzhou has never been peaceful, I'm afraid it's not appropriate for you to go there in person, just in case you meet tartars..."
"So what." Chu Yuntian glanced coldly at Ding Sheng, and then strode out the door.
Chu Yuntian went to ask for an order, this time he didn't go directly to the emperor, he went to the prince, who was the former three kings.Although the three kings were canonized as princes, they only issued an edict, and the ceremony will not be held until after the year, so the princes at this time still live in the original three princes' mansion.
At this time, not long after the new year, the prince was resting at the mansion.Chu Yuntian hurried to the Three Kings' Mansion, and the guards at the gate of the Three Kings' Mansion saw General Chu and hurried up to greet him.
"General Chu." The guard saluted.
"En." Chu Yuntian nodded, and said expressionlessly, "I want to see the prince."
"General Chu please wait a moment, the younger one will go in and report."
Not long after the guard entered, the steward of the Three Princes' Mansion came out. When he saw Chu Yuntian from afar, he called affectionately: "General Chu."
When Chu Yuntian saw the housekeeper, he nodded and prepared to go to the Prince's Mansion.
"Wait, General Chu." The housekeeper hurriedly followed behind and stopped Chu Yuntian.
Chu Yuntian frowned impatiently and said, "I want to see the prince."
"General Chu, don't be impatient." The old housekeeper saluted with a smile and said, "The prince has been caught in the wind and cold for the past few days, so it is inconvenient to see guests."
"Am I missing too?"
"The crown prince said that no one will be seen except His Majesty." The old housekeeper bent over and replied respectfully.
As soon as Chu Yuntian thought about it, he knew that the prince must have come up with this idea because he was afraid that those officials would take advantage of the New Year to get close.Back then, the Nine Kings and the Seven Kings had offended the Emperor because of forming a party for personal gain. The Crown Prince was his new favourite, and there were many people who wanted to curry favor with him. He probably thought of this method to avoid suspicion.
"I see." Chu Yuntian nodded, since he couldn't walk through the main entrance, he had no choice but to...
Chu Yuntian detoured around the back alley of the Three Kings Mansion, and while no one was paying attention, he flew up to the backyard of the Three Kings Mansion with a single effort.
At this time, there was no one in the backyard, Chu Yuntian took a look, and then went to the third prince's room as he knew the way.
It was not the first time that Chu Yuntian used this method to meet the three kings. Along the way, he carefully avoided the servants and touched the prince's room.
He had just flashed into the courtyard when someone shouted, "Who is it!"
Chu Yuntian appeared boldly, and said to the man, "It's me."
It turned out that it was the prince's personal guard at this time. He looked at Chu Yuntian, then bowed and said, "General Chu."
"En..." Chu Yuntian nodded at him, then looked towards the third prince's room and said, "Where is the prince, I want to see him."
The guard glanced at Chu Yuntian and said with some embarrassment: "The crown prince said, no one will be seen."
"I know, I didn't come through the main entrance."
"That doesn't work either." The guard glanced at Chu Yuntian hesitantly and said, "The prince said, especially you, he won't see you."
At this moment, Chu Yuntian's patience was almost at an end. He pushed away the guards blocking the way and prepared to go directly to the Three Kings. This was also because he was eager to save Fang Su. Otherwise, with Chu Yuntian's prudence, he would not have done such a disrespectful thing. Come.
"General Chu." The guard did not expect that Chu Yuntian would directly break into the prince's room.
But when Chu Yuntian opened the door and looked, the prince was not in the room.
"Where's the prince?" Chu Yuntian didn't know that his tone had taken on a stern tone.
The guard was questioned by him and said in a slightly lowered voice: "Where the prince has gone, I really don't know."
Chu Yuntian originally planned to come to the prince and ask him to persuade the emperor to send him to Liuzhou to wipe out the Tartars, but judging from today's situation, the prince is clearly avoiding him.
"Excuse me, excuse me." Chu Yuntian hastily dropped this sentence, and was about to leave.
Seeing that Chu Yuntian was about to leave, the guard remembered what the prince had told him, and said to Chu Yuntian again: "General Chu, the prince said that if General Chu intends to face the saint directly, please go to the thatched cottage in the suburbs first."
Chu Yuntian nodded, then left with a shake of Qinggong.
Fang Su was tied up by that strange man for a whole day, and it was only at night that his legs were still swollen. Fang Su felt that his bones must have cracked. In this cold weather, he would definitely leave his legs in the future. Painful old problem.
Fortunately, the man didn't think about freezing Fang Su to death, so he made a bed for him in another room at night.
The weather was fine that day, and the weird man was not at home. Fang Su limped to the yard and found two pieces of firewood to make a simple splint to fix his injured leg.
Fang Su wanted to run away at first, but when he was not limping, he didn't know if he could walk to the city smoothly. Now that he was injured, he couldn't run away, in case he was caught by that strange man.
Fang Su thought to himself, it was not a simple broken leg.
After tying the legs, Fang Su's face turned pale from the pain, and all the money on his body was taken away by the strange man.
He limped and was about to go into the house, but he didn't expect that just as he stood up, he suddenly fell to the ground and passed out.
Fang Su lay on the ground for a while before waking up. The ground was very cold. He supported himself, but his legs couldn't make any effort, so he had to kneel on the ground with one foot, and slowly moved towards the room while lying on the ground.
When Liu San pushed the door and came in, he happened to find Fang Su lying on the ground and crawling forward. With a frown between his eyebrows, he walked over silently, and hugged Fang Su who was on the ground.
Fang Su exclaimed in shock, seeing that the strange man had returned, he was even more frightened and dared not speak.
After putting Fang Su on the chair, Liu San looked at his legs and said, "You know how to bandage?"
"I, I said that I am a medical student..." Fang Su replied weakly.
The man looked Fang Su up and down, and said, "You said you were a medical student, so tell me what disease I have."
Fang Su also looked at Liu San in front of him, and he found that not only did he not cough these days, but his complexion improved a lot.
"You, you are not sick, you have suffered internal injuries..."
The man raised his eyebrows and said in a hoarse voice: "I have a little eyesight. I didn't suffer from internal injuries. I was framed by an adulterer and went mad and injured my internal organs. Since you said you are a doctor, if you can take care of me, I'll let you go."
"This..." Fang Su hesitated.
"how?"
"Well, I haven't been seen by anyone formally yet. Besides, I'm injured and can't move around. I can't take care of you myself. How can I take care of you? What's more, there should be a shortage of medicinal materials in this village. I did it on purpose. Powerless."
Seeing Fang Su say this, Liu San felt a little surprised, thinking, does this person really have the ability to heal himself?
In fact, Fang Su was out of luck here. The most important thing to be a doctor is clinical experience. Although Fang Su doesn't have much experience, the master he recognizes—Old Doctor You, he has come into contact with many cases.
The old doctor You couldn't help contacting a lot of cases, he sorted out all these cases, and gave a box full of books to Fang Su. Fang Su read them for several months without sleep and food, and happened to meet Liu San in this situation. of.
But Fang Su didn't really see a doctor, so he didn't dare to agree to it for a while, but the condition given by the other party was too tempting: he would be free if he was cured.
In fact, thinking about it the other way around, if Fang Su really cured him, wouldn't it mean that his medical skills would allow him to open a small clinic?
Fang Su struggled in his heart,
"If you can really treat me, these are not problems." Liu San replied calmly.
"Okay, if you can solve those problems, then I will try." Fang Su gritted his teeth and agreed.
"If it can't be cured, I'll kill you." Liu San said these words in a hoarse voice, and Fang Su couldn't help shivering.
I don't know if Chu Yuntian sent someone to look for me, Fang Su wanted to cry, but at this moment he missed Chu Yuntian very much, and even hoped that Chu Yuntian would find him in the next second and take him back to the general's mansion to give him a good reprimand. Go to hell with any dream of opening a small medical clinic!
To live, only to live well is the most important thing.
Chu Yuntian returned to the mansion, found a fast horse, and drove to the small thatched cottage on the outskirts of the city.
When he got there, the prince was sitting alone in the small courtyard of the thatched cottage, brewing a pot of tea leisurely, and his hidden guard was standing beside him. When the hidden guard saw that it was Chu Yuntian, he silently retreated. go down.
Chu Yun went straight to the prince when he got off the horse.
"Too..." Before he could finish his words, the prince stretched out his hand to stop him.
"Come, Yun Tian, have a cup of tea with me."
Chu Yuntian glanced at the prince, silently put the whip into his belt, walked over and sat down in front of the prince.
Next to it was a steaming teapot, and the prince was slowly washing two teacups in his hands.
Then he unhurriedly poured a cup of hot tea for both of them.
"Taste quickly, this is rewarded by the emperor, I haven't had time to drink it yet."
Chu Yuntian suppressed the restlessness in his heart, took a sip from the teacup without taste.
"Tsk~" The prince glanced at Chu Yuntian and said, "Yuntian, Yuntian, this cup of tea has been ruined by you just like that."
Chu Yuntian put the teacup in his hand on the table, couldn't help it, and said: "Prince, I have something to discuss with you this time."
The prince did not answer his words, but picked up the teacup, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it lightly, then took a sip and sighed: "Good tea."
Chu Yuntian couldn't help clenching his fist with his hand on the table.
The prince swept his eyes lightly, and then said slowly, "General Chu, I don't know how long you have known me." Although the third prince has been decreed to be the crown prince, the canonization ceremony has not yet been held, so Verbally, he usually regards himself as a prince and never takes the identity of the prince, which the emperor appreciates very much.
"Three years..."
"Three years, three years ago, this king was just a down-and-out prince who was not favored, and General Chu was the most popular person in front of the emperor. Thanks to General Chu's love, he stood by my side." The three kings said, holding a teacup and drinking Take a sip of tea.
"The world is unpredictable." The third king shook his head lightly and said: "Who would have thought that this king is now the crown prince, and General Chu was banned and dismissed by the emperor, and he was completely neglected."
Chu Yuntian remained silent and did not speak.
The prince sighed, and continued: "Yuntian, it is not easy for you and me to come to this day. I don't know why you are looking for your father, but since you didn't go directly to the palace but came to my palace first. Wang Fu, it means that this matter is still a little tricky for you, do you want to convince the emperor through me?"
Chu Yuntian nodded.
"I think that the recent incident in which the wife of the general's mansion was hijacked by my servant must have been heard by all the dignitaries in the capital. You want to face the saint because of your wife."
"Exactly."
"But your wife has news."
"I found traces of that servant in Liuzhou."
"Liuzhou... no wonder." The crown prince smiled and said, "You want to ask me to meet the saint so that the emperor will send you to Liuzhou to fight the Tartars?"
"Exactly."
"Yuntian, Yuntian." The crown prince shook his head and said, "You clearly know that the most disgusting thing about today's majesty is to let him clean up the tartars in Liuzhou, but you let me touch this Nilin on the first day of the new year. You have considered the consequences."
"This matter is neither big nor small. If the emperor thinks that I have just named the crown prince and wants to be regent, what will he think? My canonization ceremony has not yet been held, and the position of crown prince has not yet been established. Steady, Yun Tian, we should not go against the Emperor at this time."
Chu Yuntian's fist tightened and then loosened, then he sighed and said, "It's because I didn't think carefully, so it's hard for you."
The crown prince thought that Chu Yuntian had already figured it out, but unexpectedly he changed the subject and continued, "I will ask for an order to go to Liuzhou myself."
The prince put the teacup heavily on the table, and said in a stern voice: "Chu Yuntian, don't you understand what this king is saying?"
Chu Yuntian stood up, saluted the prince and said, "Prince, I have to go."
The prince also stood up. He took two deep breaths and said, "It's not that you are not allowed to save your wife. With so many masters around you, don't you have a few trusted subordinates to do this for you?"
"I have to go through this myself."
"You... Chu Yuntian, I don't know that you are still such an infatuated kind. Isn't your wife a man? What the hell are you doing here? Let alone when did you have this habit of cutting off your sleeves? .”
"It doesn't matter whether he is a man or a woman. He is my wife, so I have to save him."
The crown prince glanced at Chu Yuntian, and said in a somewhat unpleasant tone: "I have a slight interest in you, the general's wife, and I don't know what kind of strange person is so fascinated by our great general Chu that he doesn't even care about his future. "
Hearing the prince's words, Chu Yuntian couldn't help being startled, the prince was actually interested in Fang Su.
This is not a good thing...
Chu Yuntian frowned, but his expression was firm. Seeing that he couldn't persuade him, the crown prince waved his hand and said, "Go as long as you want, I won't help you. When you anger the emperor in the future, look at us After so many years of friendship, I will collect the corpse for you."
Chu Yuntian knew that what the prince said was angry, so he didn't care, and rode back to the general's mansion after leaving.
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