Ancient Sword II Xie Lelianxin

Chapter 4

At dinner time in the evening, there were no empty seats in Zuixian Tower, and the waiters shuttled between the tables and chairs with cups and saucers in their hands. No one remembered the small disturbance near the store door ten days ago.

The Zhumen of Duke Dingguo's mansion was ajar, and servants would look around from time to time, but they didn't know that the little master who hadn't returned after time was standing at a corner not far away.It wasn't until the setting sun was dragged into the darkness, struggling to leave the last trace of gold on the corner of the double eaves, that the boy who had stood for a long time dragged his feet and turned around to leave.

Ji Xiang who welcomed the door said happily: "Master is back, today is later than usual, Madam is already waiting in the dining room." The lantern illuminated the pale face of the visitor, and Ji Xiang immediately said, "If you encounter something bad, don't take it to heart. Go, it's important to eat."

"...No, let mother eat first, I'm not hungry, I'll go to the study to read a book first." Le Wuyi avoided Ji Xiang's worried eyes, "Is Master here?"

"Hey, the young master said to invite Mr. Xie to come over. It's only been ten days, so we should wait." Ji Xiang lowered his voice, "Is there something wrong with the closing of the hall?"

"There is a patient... oh, I should be used to this kind of thing after being a doctor, but I just can't let go of this patient. If he can last until the master comes, maybe he can survive... oh, I'll go first." Le Wuyi waved his hands vaguely and hurried to the study.

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Ten days ago, Le Wuyi admitted the comatose patient in the street to the hospital. The oldest doctors were helpless. Le Wuyi refused to give up. After many attempts of acupuncture and herbal decoction, the patient's condition finally improved slightly. .Unexpectedly, that person fell ill again in the early morning of this morning, and when Dai Le Wuyi arrived at the rest hall, his cheeks were already sunken, like a pair of bony skeletons that had been sucked dry of flesh and blood and only remained wrapped in skin.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that it is hopeless.

The man was still alive, with a slight ups and downs in his chest, and occasionally heaved hoarsely. Le Wuyi gritted his teeth and asked him to take a large amount of datura flowers to relieve the pain.Several elderly doctors comforted him, he met you, he lived a few more days at least, and he passed away peacefully. After you look at the disease for a few years, you will understand that life and death are definite, and you can't force it... Look away Bar.

The man woke up on the verge of death, trembling his lips as if about to speak.Le Wuyi leaned forward and heard him say thank you Doctor Le weakly, and then asked: "It's so cold, is it snowing?"

It was a fine autumn day outside, and the sun shining through the panes fell on the man's skinny arms.Le Wuyi thought he heard it wrong, and when he was about to ask again, the man had already closed his eyes.He touched the patient's neck with trembling hands, only to feel a piece of ice.

The bookshelf was shaken, and with a "bang", several volumes of books fell to the feet like birds with broken wings.

The pain made Le Wuyi wake up. He picked up the booklet and smoothed out the creases, and couldn't help but trace the Junxiu handwriting on the cover—it was the collection of medical prescriptions copied to him by Xie Yi himself.

...Master.He bit his lip hard, but his vision was still gradually blurred.

In the past ten days, life and death were on the line, Le Wuyi was powerless to think about other things, until at this moment, those incisive strokes turned into needlepoints, piercing the long-suppressed mood.He stuffed the book back on the shelf, picked out a few more with a sniff, and returned to the desk at the end of the study.

After a long night, the tears of the candle were dried up, and the candle burst out the last candle.Le Wuyi's eyes flickered, and the surroundings became pitch black the next moment. He rubbed the back of his neck and opened the drawer for candles, but found nothing.

"Bang, bang."

Someone knocked on the study door.Le Wuyi shouted in the dark: "Ruyi, don't come in, put the food box at the door, go get some candles first."

The night returned to silence.

Le Wuyi was worried that Ruyi outside the door didn't hear clearly, so he simply got up and walked slowly towards the door in the dark.

With a creak, the door opened.

On the window sill behind him, a blue butterfly folded its wings.

"Oh, I told you not to come in. It's dark in the room, so be careful not to fall."

"No difference, it's me."

Le Wuyi stumbled and almost hit the bookshelf.

Candlelight overflows the gap between the spines of the book, diffuses over the warm wood grain, and illuminates the wide-open eyes in the dark.

"Master!" Le Wuyi ran towards the candlelight, and took the food box from the man, "Why are you so fast, did you drive overnight?"

"You called me by Yao Die, it must be because of a big event, as a teacher, you should come here." Xie Yi took out a medicine bottle from his arms and handed it to his apprentice, freeing his hand to touch his head, "Don't worry too much. You Since I was young, I have been weak and need to take medicine for recuperation every year. Since you don't have time to come this summer, as a teacher, I planned to go to give you the medicine. Remember to take it on time, so as not to miss the illness."

"Hey, I'm busy, so I forgot about it." Le Wuyi took the medicine bottle, scratched his hair and said, "I'm much stronger than before, and I haven't had a serious illness since I was ten years old. Um, The main reason is... the taste of this medicine is really weird, so you won't take it next year, right?"

Xie Yi narrowed his eyes slightly to look at him.Le Wuyi also knows that Xie Yi has always said nothing about this matter, and he just said nothing, so he rubbed his nose embarrassingly, and yelled loudly at the right time.His face immediately became hot, and Xie Yi, who was holding back a smile, pulled him back to the desk, and stretched out his hand to open the food box.

The hot air hits the face, the fragrance of rice and sweet-scented osmanthus pours into the nose, Le Wuyi blinks off the water drops on the eyelashes, but sees the box of sweet-scented osmanthus cake prepared for Xie Yi.He swallowed, and the glutton in his stomach let out a cry of hunger.

"Qing Jiao said that the sweet-scented osmanthus in the courtyard was stolen, but the picker found out with conscience, and secretly left a box of food in the ice cellar." Xie Yi picked up a piece of rice cake in the shape of a kitten and looked at it, "The shape is very cute, it should be Can compete with the same culinary skills."

Le Wuyi blushed, and couldn't help answering the wrong question: "How many flowers are still left on the tree, I clearly...that thief has obviously shown mercy and cherished the fragrance."

"Would you like to taste it?"

Xie Yi's eyes turned from the hot osmanthus cake to his apprentice's face.Seeing his playful expression, Le Wuyi was afraid that he was going to feed the sweet-scented osmanthus cake in his hand in the next moment, so he stuffed a piece into his mouth first, puffed up his cheeks and said: "It's quite delicious... well, master will try it too." Try it."

He stared at Xie Yi and ate according to his words, only then remembered the reason why Master came to Chang'an this time, he couldn't help but sighed heavily.

"Qing Jiao has already told me a little bit about that person's illness... Maybe there is another mystery, I have to listen to you again as a teacher." Xie Yi wiped off the debris from the corner of Le Wuyi's mouth, and passed the tea ceremony, "Slow down Eat, don't choke."

Le Wuyi blinked, took a few sips from Xie Yi's hand, and took another piece to eat: "I don't eat much at night, Master will use some... It was originally made for Master."

Xie Yi smiled: "Okay, it's no different from having a heart."

When the food box bottomed out, the man's symptoms were also finished.

"It's the same as thinking that when this person was first diagnosed, his pulse was stringy and strong, but his tongue was slightly thin and sunken, which seems to be a sign of deficiency of vital energy in the five internal organs?"

"Yes, his pulse condition and tongue quality are contradictory. When I saw him for the first time, I found it strange, so I pressed the meridians and viscera of his whole body. Except for the serious deficiency of energy, I couldn't see anything abnormal. The next day he Fainted in the street, I gave him Ziyangdan, Baihuadanshen and other great tonics, but the pulse condition is still getting weaker day by day, and this morning... it became a scattered pulse with severing energy, which cannot be cured."

Xie Yi pondered for a moment, then raised his eyes to see the pill cut open on the desk, and suddenly paused: "Where did this thing come from?"

"That patient gave it to me." Le Wuyi told the story of the man's encounter with the free clinic again, but seeing Xie Yi's expression changed, he couldn't help asking, "Is there something wrong with this medicine?"

Xie Yi dipped some medicinal powder on his fingertips and smelled it: "All medicines are tonics, which are harmless to people, but they can't cure the plague. If there is something strange, it's the person who gave the medicine..." He cut off the conversation and took a shot. Pai Le Wuyi's shoulder said, "You are not misdiagnosed."

"Then what's wrong with him? Why can the tonic delay his symptoms?" Le Wuyi frowned, "The free clinic doctor probably knows what's going on, it would be great if I could find her and ask her...Master, she can do such a thing The quality of the medicine is by no means unknown, have you seen this kind of green mark on the pill before?"

"maybe……"

"Who?"

Xie Yi changed his subject and asked where the patient's body was now.Le Wuyi said that in order to control the epidemic situation in Bozhou, those who died of sudden illness had to be transported to Yizhuang on the outskirts of the city on the same day, and cremated outside the city the next day.

"So, if you want to see that patient with your own eyes, you have to make an unannounced visit tonight." Xie Yi stared at the corner of the wall where the candlelight could not reach, with a faint shadow flickering in his eyes, "Master, I understand, just go and rest quickly." .”

"I'll go with Master!" Le Wuyi got up suddenly, and pressed his hand on the open book, "I just found a few cases of similar symptoms in Master's handbook, and I want to go to see again tonight." He said softly , "Let's go together, don't tell my mother."

Xie Yi raised his head slightly to look at him, his eyes flickering slightly: "Such a dirty place... No matter, let's go together. Please help me find a set of dark clothes for my teacher."

When the night approached midnight, two black figures suddenly jumped down from the outer wall of Yuefu.As soon as they settled down, one person took out something from his arms and handed it to the other.

Xie Yi took it, nodded his head and said approvingly: "It's really thoughtful, this ointment can protect the skin from the foul smell and poisonous insects... It's like it's already been wiped off?"

Le Wuyi responded, and Xie Yi took some to smear on his hands and face, and when he was about to return it, he was slightly taken aback——

Under the hazy moonlight, the young man was dressed in black, with overlapping necklines revealing a slender neck, which was so white that it caught the eye.

"Master, I know the way, I'll take you there." Le Wuyi took the medicine bottle, and suddenly heard Xie Yi say from behind, "Did you wipe the back of your ears too?"

"Behind the ears? Uh, I forgot. It's okay, just a little space..."

The person behind caught up and reached out to take back the medicine bottle.Le Wuyi sighed, and suddenly felt that the ear was caught by the cool fingertips, and the pinna was pinched and folded forward, revealing a small piece of delicate skin behind the cartilage.

Le Wuyi realized what Xie Yi was doing when the moist coolness hit him.The mint camphor in the ointment was originally intended to add a cooling effect, but now it has become a hot tongue of fire, licking the sensitive skin inch by inch.

"Cough, master, that... I'll do it myself!" Le Wuyi struggled to turn around, but was held down again.

"When you were young, you were bitten by a mosquito and pestered your teacher to apply medicine for you, but now you know how embarrassed you are..."

The warm breath touched the skin of the nape of his neck, and Le Wuyi froze instantly.He was afraid that Xie Yi would continue to tease him, so he obediently lowered his head and exposed the back of his neck, breathed heavily, and let him touch quietly.

"Be good, don't move." Xie Yi softly coaxed, his fingertips dipped in the ointment along the ear cartilage, carefully rubbed the earlobe, and even wiped around the cervical spine.Le Wuyi bit her lip to resist the itch, lowered her head to stare at the shadow on the bluestone board, her heart skipped a beat——

The figures of the two overlapped in one place, as if the man was hugging him tightly from behind.

"Okay. Same... same?"

"I, let's go." Le Wuyi's ears were hot, he snatched the medicine bottle and walked away, and then turned to look at the other party.

The moonlight was low, and the corner of the street where I stopped just now seemed to be surrounded by mist, illusory like a dream, but the road ahead was hidden in darkness, and the places I used to walk during the day suddenly became strange.The wind in the cold night rolled up the dead leaves and dust, and the joy of blowing it was like a pain in the cheek.

The hand was suddenly grasped firmly.

"It's no different, have you ever seen a fake corpse?" Xie Yi leaned closer and said Youyou, "I went back to the mountain once as a teacher, and met..."

Le Wuyi shuddered all over, widened his eyes and shouted angrily: "...I am already, not eight years old! Master, don't try to fool me again."

But after such a commotion, the road in front of him became strangely familiar again, and the young man was like a sail full of wind, pulling the man forward without any hesitation.