Doctor Xu walked into the room and saw a mess on the bed. Xu Feng curled up the quilt and curled up in He Tingzhou's arms, already so tired that he fell asleep. He Tingzhou was only wearing a middle coat, and there were some red marks on the snow-white skirt, it was obvious that the wound that had just healed was not getting better.
Doctor Xu was so angry that his beard blew up, and he said heartbrokenly: "The brat refuses to take the medicine, so you just force it into it? Why did you make it bloody like this? How long will it take for your injury to heal? No matter how good it is Martial arts can't stand such a toss!"
He Tingzhou's expression was cloudy and uncertain, he didn't know what he was thinking, and after being nagged by Dr. Xu for a long time, he didn't say a word.
Doctor Xu then continued: "What's more, that Gu worm has entered your heart veins, it seems that you can't get it out, the taste of ten thousand worms eating your heart..."
He Tingzhou waved his hand, interrupted him and said, "Okay, come here for treatment."
Miracle doctor Xu's wealth and life were also in his hands, so naturally he didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly took out the wound medicine.
But He Tingzhou carefully removed Xu Feng's hand from under the quilt, and said, "Look at his hand first."
Xu Feng's hands were tied for a long time before, and there was a bruise on his wrist, but it was not too serious, and it couldn't be compared with He Tingzhou's chest injury. But he insisted on letting Doctor Xu apply medicine to both of Xu Feng's hands before he untied his clothes to treat his injury.
Xu Feng didn't sleep well, so He Tingzhou hugged him and didn't let him go. In this position, Doctor Xu changed his wound medicine and bandaged the wound again.
After finishing the work, Dr. Xu wiped the sweat from his forehead, and exhorted and said: "Fortunately, there was only a little blood this time, and the wound was not opened, but there must be no next time, otherwise no one will be able to save you. gone."
He Tingzhou didn't take it seriously, just looked at Xu Feng in his arms, and asked: "If he keeps refusing to take medicine... what will happen?"
"Not only can the injury on the right hand not be healed, but it may even be life-threatening."
"You told him that too?"
"certainly."
He Tingzhou touched Xu Feng's temple hair, and said to himself: "He really doesn't want to live anymore, does he?"
He only stared at Miracle Doctor Xu, and felt a chill on the back of his neck. How dare he answer at this moment? Really didn't even dare to let out the air.
Fortunately, He Tingzhou didn't ask him to answer, and then asked: "If he is willing to treat his wound well, how long will it take for you to heal his hand?"
"This hand has been treated for more than half a year, and I estimate that it will be cured in another two months."
"Two months..."
He Tingzhou looked out the window and suddenly smiled. It's just that there was no smile in his eyes, instead he looked sad, and said, "In two months, it will be Mid-Autumn Festival again."
Xu Feng fell asleep all night and didn't wake up until the next morning. He woke up and found that he was still lying on He Tingzhou's bed, while the man was leaning on the soft couch beside him, flipping through a book in his hand. He wore an outer garment, and his hair was casually tied with a golden crown. The window next to him was half-opened, and some tiny petals were blown in by the breeze, falling sporadically on his hair, giving him a suave look.
Hearing the movement on the bed, he raised his head to look at Xu Feng, and said softly, "Are you awake? Do you want to eat something?"
It was a completely different person from yesterday.
But Xu Feng still remembered the humiliation he suffered yesterday, hated and feared him at the same time, looked around, looking for something that could be used as a weapon.
Seeing that he didn't answer, He Tingzhou asked someone to bring in a bowl of porridge. The porridge had been cooked a long time ago and had been kept warm on the stove, and it was still piping hot when it was brought in.
But Xu Feng didn't even look at it, let alone eat it.
He Tingzhou looked at him and said, "What? Are you afraid that I will poison the porridge?"
Xu Feng thought to himself, if it was really poisonous, he would be willing to eat it in one go.
He Tingzhou seemed to see through his mind, and said: "You refuse to take medicine or food, it seems that you want to die with all your heart."
Xu Feng's mouth was astringent, and he said, "I deserved to die four years ago."
When I met this man for the first time, the sword didn't destroy his hand, but took his life, so there were not many things like this later.
He Tingzhou's eyes trembled violently. He lowered his head as if to cover up, looked at the words on the page, and said, "Well, although you don't care about life and death, there are always people in this world who make you miss? I remember you have a master? Presumably there are others. Young fellow disciples, right?"
Xu Feng felt a chill down his spine when he heard this, and asked, "What do you want to do?"
"If I order someone to capture them and kill them one by one in front of you, do you think you will take medicine?"
Xu Feng was so angry that he rushed down from the bed. But his body was already weak, and he hadn't eaten anything, his legs were so weak that he had no strength, and he fell to the ground as soon as he got out of bed. He felt pain all over his body, he stared at He Tingzhou with gritted teeth, and shouted: "Don't touch them!"
Can't tell whether to scold or beg for mercy.
He Tingzhou leaned on the couch, watched him struggle on the ground for a while, then got up and walked to him, stretched out a hand to touch his face, and said: "See? You are like this, even you don't care about it." people can't protect them."
Xu Feng closed his eyes and said, "You kill me."
But He Tingzhou said: "I heard you said last time that you still have a long-lost brother?"
Xu Feng suddenly opened his eyes again.
A little smile appeared on He Tingzhou's pale face, and he said in a low voice in the same tone he used to coax him to take medicine: "You heal the injury on your hand well, and I will let you brothers meet... What do you think?" ?”
Xu Feng's mind went blank for a moment. After a while, he raised his head in a daze, and squeezed out a few words from his throat: "Impossible."
"With the power of the Palace of Bliss, why is it so difficult to find someone? I took the seat of the palace lord because of..." He Tingzhou coughed a few times, as if he had been standing for a long time and couldn't hold on, but He still stretched out a hand to Xu Feng and said, "Let's get up first and then talk."
Xu Feng ignored him and just asked, "Did you really find my brother? Where is he now?"
He Tingzhou didn't answer, just kept looking at him with his hands outstretched.
Xu Feng had no choice but to hold his hand. With all his strength, He Tingzhou pulled Xu Feng up from the ground, then leaned on his arm and said, "Help me back to the bed."
In fact, it was only a few steps to the side of the couch, and he could reach it by himself. Xu Feng held his breath in his heart, but in order to find out his brother's whereabouts, he forced himself to bear it and helped him walk over.
He Tingzhou leaned back on the soft couch, closed his eyes for a while, and then said: "He is in a very safe place now, as for the future, it depends on your performance."
Xu Feng didn't know if it was because of the Gu worm, which made his legs limp, as if he was stepping on clouds, and he couldn't tell if he was still in a dream. But even in his dream, he didn't believe what He Tingzhou said so easily.
"How do you prove that that person is really my brother, not that you just found someone to fool me?"
He Tingzhou still closed his eyes, and said slowly: "Your parents are both surnamed Chen. Your family originally lived in Xinyang County, Jizhou. Twenty years ago, there was a severe drought in Jizhou, and your parents died of the disease one after another on the way to escape. , and later you wandered with your brother Dianpei for a while. Your zodiac sign is a dragon, and your birthday is the seventh day of September. Your brother is six years older than you. When you two separated, you were only four years old... "
Listening to Xu Feng's eloquent story, it seemed to be true, but he was still young when he separated from his elder brother, so he couldn't remember many things clearly, so he couldn't tell the truth from the fake.
Seeing that he was hesitant, He Tingzhou said: "I will leave this matter to Liu Yue. If you don't believe me, you can ask her here."
Compared with He Tingzhou, Xu Feng naturally believed in Liu Yue more, and he was about to go out to find someone right away.
But He Tingzhou stopped him and said: "Wait a minute, eat the porridge on the table first."
Xu Feng stood still.
He Tingzhou said: "You haven't eaten all day, do you want to run out and have another fall? Eat quickly, otherwise your brother may also starve."
Xu Feng was pinched by him, so he couldn't think about it, so he had to sit at the table obediently and drink porridge.
While watching him eat, He Tingzhou asked someone to find Liu Yue.
Liu Yue was very good at observing words and expressions, once she entered the room and saw that the pair of enemies were not making a fuss but were sitting peacefully, she couldn't help smiling, and asked: "What is the palace master's order?"
"A few days ago, did I ask you to find someone?"
Liu Yue was taken aback for a moment, and said, "Was the palace master referring to...?"
"It was twenty years ago, during the severe drought in Jizhou... the one who got separated..."
Only then did Liu Yue understand, she glanced at Xu Feng who was sitting beside her, and said, "It's true."
Xu Feng hurriedly interjected: "What happened later? Did Hall Master Liu find it?"
"After all, it was twenty years ago. My spies had to go through a lot of hard work before they found the person the palace master was looking for."
"Where is the other person?"
"This..." Liu Yue rolled her eyes and said, "I dare not open the secret letter sent by the spies privately, so I handed it directly to the Palace Master. I'm afraid only the Palace Master knows where he is."
He Tingzhou nodded, waved her back, and asked Xu Feng, "Are you trustworthy now?"
Xu Feng is still dubious. Looking at Liu Yue's appearance, it doesn't look like she colluded with He Tingzhou, but her words are secretive, and it seems that there is something else hidden. Although he was looking forward to the reunion with his brother, he was afraid that this was just a scam, and he would be happy again in vain.
After all, how can there be such a coincidence in this world that if you say you want to find someone, you will find it? Whether that person is real or not, I am afraid that only when he really sees him can he be sure.
Xu Feng had already finished his porridge at this time, and because of the thoughts in his heart, his spirits became better, and he asked, "When can I meet my brother?"
A smile appeared on He Tingzhou's face, and he said, "Take today's medicine first."
As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeves, and said, "I asked Dr. Xu to come in and make medicine."
Seeing that his wrists were still wrapped in white gauze, Xu Feng immediately turned his eyes away and said, "No need, those medicines... I hide them under the pillow."
He Tingzhou was startled when he heard the words, then raised the corners of his mouth, with a look of joy in his eyes, and said, "I thought you had already thrown it away."
Seeing him like this, Xu Feng felt uncomfortable, and asked, "You ordered the National People's Congress to take a lot of trouble to find my brother, just to let me heal the injury on his hand?"
"Otherwise, why else? As for why I did this, you should know in your heart, but you just dare not think about it, let alone believe me."
Xu Feng remembered his big brother Zhou, and felt even more sour in his heart, and asked: "This time... have you lied to me again?"
"No."
After talking for a long time, He Tingzhou seemed to be very tired, pressed his hands tightly on the couch, and said with all his strength: "Brother Feng, I will never lie to you again."
Of course Xu Feng would not believe his words. He has already been fooled once, how can he fall into it easily again? But for the fact that He Tingzhou found his brother, he had some confidence.
Maybe it was because he secretly hoped that this was true, that his elder brother was really alive, and that the brothers would be reunited soon. Even if it was fake, He Tingzhou was just tricking him into treating the wound on his hand, not tricking him into murdering and setting fire, so it doesn't hurt to give it a try.
So Xu Feng found out the medicine and ate it.
He Tingzhou was still worried, so he called Dr. Xu to come over and feel his pulse.
Doctor Xu had tormented the two of them so much that when he checked the pulse, he didn't have a good face, and said with a straight face: "Fortunately, the medicine was taken in time, and if it takes a few days, even I can't save it. If you don't act so foolishly, take care of yourself." Listen to my words and heal the wound, the wound on this hand has already healed."
Xu Feng knew he was wrong, so he lowered his head to listen to his lesson, not daring to refute a word.
He took a few doses of medicine, and with Dr. Xu recuperating his body, his complexion improved in a few days, the Gu worms in his body were suppressed, and his hands no longer hurt.
During this period, He Tingzhou sent someone to pick up Jinshu who was far away in the Palace of Bliss, and he still served Xu Feng. Jin Shu has been with Xu Feng for three years, and has always been loyal to him. When he met him, he almost cried, sniffling and said, "Master, I will never see you again."
Xu Feng couldn't laugh or cry, so he had to comfort him for a while.
With Jin Shu at his side, Xu Feng seemed to have returned to the days when he was in the Palace of Bliss. He Tingzhou is still recuperating from his injuries, so it's not easy to come here, so he often finds him to accompany him for dinner, and sometimes asks Xu Feng to read to him.
If Xu Feng is not happy, He Tingzhou is not angry, just casually said: "The weather is getting colder, I don't know that the people who serve your brother are not doing their best, have you added some clothes for him?"
Xu Feng was so angry that he wanted to throw the book on his head. But for the sake of my elder brother, I had no choice but to hold back the book and read it to him sentence by sentence. Xu Feng read seriously, and when he finished reading, he looked up and saw that the man had fallen asleep leaning on the soft couch.
He was more pleasing to the eye when he was asleep than when he was awake. The thin lips were slightly pursed, the bridge of the nose was straight, and the afterglow of the setting sun fell on his face, making that side face quiet and handsome, but his face was still a sickly pale. When Dr. Xu changed his dressings, Xu Feng was by his side several times, knowing that his injuries healed very slowly, especially the wound on his chest, which never healed over and over again.
Xu Feng looked at him with the book for a while, then got up and walked out of the room. After a while, he came back again, picked up a coat on the bed, and threw it at him regardless of whether it would wake up the sleeping person, and then he really left.
Compared with He Tingzhou's injury, Xu Feng's hand obviously healed faster. When autumn came, his right hand was able to hold chopsticks.
Xu Feng himself didn't expect this day, he held the pair of chopsticks in a daze, until his hands lost strength, and the chopsticks rolled to the ground.
He Tingzhou came over and picked up the chopsticks, held them in his hands and looked at them, as if he was looking at Xu Feng's hands, and then directly threw two banknotes to Dr. Xu, which made Dr. Xu smile happily.
Xu Feng was also very happy. Now he regrets that he refused to take the medicine at that time, and his own life and death are nothing, but if his brother is really alive and knows that he doesn't cherish his body so much, how much he will feel distressed.
Xu Feng's hand got better, so he began to think about when he could meet his brother again. According to Dr. Xu, after this month and another round of medicine, his hands will be fully recovered, but even though the tendons are connected, he needs to practice hard to be as flexible as before.
Although there was only more than a month left, Xu Feng still couldn't wait any longer, and when he was having dinner with He Tingzhou, he inquired about his brother's affairs on the sidelines.
"My brother has been tall since he was a child, is he taller than me now?"
"He is six years older than me, isn't he already married?"
"Do I have a sister-in-law?"
"Do you have a nephew?"
Of course He Tingzhou would not disclose the news to him for nothing, pointing to a table of dishes and said: "Pick up vegetables."
And Feng is not allowed to use his left hand, he must pick up vegetables with his right hand. Xu Feng knew that if he refused, he was afraid that his brother would not have enough to eat and wear warm clothes, so he had to hold the chopsticks with his right hand. In fact, he has secretly practiced many times in private, but after all, his right hand has been useless for too long, and his movements are really clumsy. However, He Tingzhou deliberately made things difficult for him, he wanted to eat fish tails for a while, and Sixi meatballs for a while, and it was difficult to hold everything.
Sweat oozes from Xu Feng's forehead, and after losing one fish tail and three balls, he finally puts the last ball into He Tingzhou's bowl.
He Tingzhou was not in a hurry to eat, he just smiled and said, "Continue."
Xu Feng succeeded once, and the rest went much smoother, and he picked up several dishes one after another. He Tingzhou would answer a question for every one he picked.
"It's taller than you."
"No."
"No."
"nothing."
Xu Feng was very surprised, and whispered: "He looks like my mother, so he should be born well, why hasn't he married yet at this age?"
He Tingzhou said: "Perhaps he has been looking for you all these years."
Xu Feng asked: "Really?"
But He Tingzhou didn't answer. His eyes were slightly lowered, so that people could not see the expression on his face clearly, but with a movement of his chopsticks, he put the ball that Xu Feng had given him back into Xu Feng's bowl.
Xu Feng froze for a moment, holding the bowl at a loss as to what to do. Later, thinking that I had already eaten his blood, and I was not short of the food he picked up, I took a few mouthfuls indiscriminately, and regarded it as a meal.
From then on, He Tingzhou liked to order Xu Feng even more, and told him to do this and that all day long, whether it was serving tea and water, or arranging dishes, in short, he must use his right hand. Not long after that, Xu Feng was no different from ordinary people when using chopsticks.
After this month was over, and at the beginning of the month, after taking another round of medicine, He Tingzhou found a sword for him to try. Xu Feng's right hand hadn't held the sword for a long time, and it felt extremely heavy when he first started holding it, and he couldn't even lift it. But because He Tingzhou was watching from the side, he didn't want to lose his momentum, he raised his sword forcefully, and swung the sword crookedly.
This sword has no rules, it can be said to be full of flaws, if you fight against others, you may not even be able to stab a piece of your sleeve, but to Xu Feng, the meaning is extraordinary. He gritted his teeth, flipped his wrists, stumbled and used the whole set of sword skills, and finally staggered when he retracted the sword, and swung the sword on the ground.
But no matter what, he finally finished using the sword.
Xu Feng's heart was agitated, he wiped the sweat from his forehead, turned his head to find the familiar figure, and blurted out a sentence: "Brother Zhou, I can use a sword with my hand..."
He saw clearly the person behind him, and the voice suddenly disappeared.
He Tingzhou stood under the tree with his hands behind his back, the breeze gently blew the corners of his clothes, so pretty.
But not his brother Zhou.
He Tingzhou was also looking at him.
The two of them didn't speak, they looked at each other quietly for a long time, finally Xu Feng turned his eyes away first. The joy in his heart seemed to be quenched by a basin of cold water, and he suddenly felt disheartened. He threw the sword away, rubbed his sore wrist, walked over and said, "My hand has been healed, can I see my brother now?"
He Tingzhou stared at his hand, with a difficult expression on his face, and said, "Whether this injury is healed or not will be determined by Dr. Xu."
Xu Feng turned around and went to look for Dr. Xu.
Dr. Xu was nestling in the room counting the bank notes, when Xu Feng came in and interrupted him, he was very unhappy. But when he saw He Tingzhou walking in behind him, he immediately laughed again. Recently, Xu Feng's injury has been recovering well, and He Tingzhou's money was thrown out in large quantities, which made Doctor Xu so happy that he didn't even want to go home.
At this time, he naturally took Xu Feng's pulse carefully, looked over and over again at the injury on his right hand, and finally asked Xu Feng a few questions, stroked his beard and muttered: "The tendons have been extended. It's over, and the body is fine, and it's just one last step before you're done."
Xu Feng asked: "Do you want to take out the Gu worm?"
"That's right, this Gu worm is a sacred object for healing and life-saving, but it's very rare. It took me a lot of hard work to find it." Doctor Xu whispered with a painful expression on his face, "The male Gu can't be taken away." Come out, it can only be wasted in vain, now only this female Gu is left."
Xu Feng's heart moved, and he raised his eyes to look at He Tingzhou.
He Tingzhou didn't look at him, but asked Miracle Doctor Xu: "How to take out the Gu worm?"
"Don't worry," Master Xu gave him a white look, and said, "This Gu worm has not penetrated into the heart veins, so it's very easy to take it out, and it won't cause any trouble."
Said to Xu Feng: "I will prescribe another dose of medicine in a few days, you just take it."
Xu Feng hesitated to speak. But because He Tingzhou was present, he didn't ask anything after all, and just nodded in response.
In the next few days, Xu Feng has been busy practicing sword. He had just recovered from his hand injury, and his right hand lacked strength, and he couldn't practice many sword moves well, but when he started to pull the sword flower, he was already very imposing.
After autumn, the weather gradually became colder, He Tingzhou's injury could not see the wind, so he set up half a window, watched him practicing sword in the room, and sometimes gave some pointers, but Xu Feng practiced hard, most of the time he didn't Go talk to him.
When dreaming back in the middle of the night, Xu Feng still occasionally dreamed of Zhou Yan, but he kept his mouth shut, and never mentioned the word Big Brother Zhou again, whether in or out of the dream.
A few days later, Dr. Xu finally made up the medicine, boiled it himself, and served it to Xu Feng to drink. The medicine was black and thick like ink, with an unpleasant fishy smell, Xu Feng raised his head and drank it holding his breath. Not long after, he felt a stir in his stomach, and he opened his mouth to spit out black water.
Doctor Xu had already prepared the bamboo tube for the Gu worms, and lit a thin stick of incense. Not long after the scent dissipated, a small worm crawled out of the black water. The worm was colorful, but the head was emerald green. Because it had been in Xu Feng's body for half a year, it was a circle bigger than the last time I saw it, wriggling unsteadily, which made Xu Feng feel sick again.
He Tingzhou hurriedly drove out Miracle Doctor Xu who had recovered the Gu worm. He poured a glass of water for Xu Feng to rinse his mouth, then took out a box of ointment, looked at the centipede-like scar on Xu Feng's hand, and said, "This is medicine for scars."
The whip wound on his own face has faded away, which shows that the medicine from the Palace of Bliss really works.
Xu Feng didn't answer it, and said coldly, "No need."
He Tingzhou gently put the box of medicine on the table.
Xu Feng asked him: "When do you plan to let our brothers meet?"
He Tingzhou said, "Apply the medicine first."
Xu Feng was much threatened by him, and he didn't bother to bargain, so he picked up the box of ointment and rubbed it on his hands indiscriminately.
He Tingzhou couldn't see it, so he grabbed Xu Feng's wrist and applied medicine to him himself. While applying the ointment, he rubbed the old wound and asked, "Does it still hurt?"
Xu Feng didn't feel the pain a long time ago, and now he was holding his right hand, but his wrist felt a little itchy. He lowered his head and said nothing, He Tingzhou said: "In a few days it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival, after the Mid-Autumn Festival is over, I will let you... meet your brother."
Xu Feng secretly counted the days and knew that the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, so he naturally looked forward to being reunited with his relatives during such a festive season. Hearing what He Tingzhou said at this time, he felt extremely disappointed, and asked, "Why don't you let me see him during the Mid-Autumn Festival?"
He Tingzhou had finished applying the medicine, but he didn't let go of Xu Feng's hand. He could hold it for a while, and said, "Because you're going to eat with me that day."
Xu Feng was stunned.
He Tingzhou took a deep look at him, and before he could say no, he continued: "From now on, every Mid-Autumn Festival, you can get together with him, but this time, can't you accompany me?"