Early the next morning, Wen Yulan ran over alone and delivered a large bowl of steaming poached eggs. This time, Wei Xinyong did not ask, she took the initiative and said: "Mother made it for my eldest brother, and I will also give a copy to my husband." "
The Gu's house where the Wen family stayed was not far from the empty small earthen house where Wei Xinyong was housed. If it weren't for the mountains and trees in the middle, it could be seen from the doorway. So at this moment, at the bottom of this bowl of poached eggs, you can still see a little bit of powdered sugar that has not completely melted. There are three eggs floating in the clear and bottomless soup. It looks smooth and delicious. Slowly, Wen Yulan serves it. Wei Xinyong could not help but swallow his saliva from time to time, and even Wei Xinyong, who was in a bad mood, felt that he had a strong appetite.
He took a deep look at Wen Yulan: "How is your brother's injury doing now?"
Wen Yulan swallowed secretly, forced herself to turn her head away from looking at the bowl of poached eggs, and said, "I'm still having a fever now. Dad said it will be fine as long as the fever subsides."
She was young and didn't think it was a big deal. But Wei Xinyong understood that this meant that it would be difficult to deal with the fever if it could not be overcome.
These days, even among the children of high-ranking families, many have died due to the heat, let alone in this mountainous place.
Come to think of it, Wen Zhiqi and Wen Yulan didn't seem worried about their eldest brother in the past two days. It was probably because their parents didn't tell them in detail and just said it didn't matter.
Wei Xinyong looked at Wen Yulan, who was mostly thinking about the poached eggs but trying not to show his salivation. Suddenly, he remembered that when his father and sister passed away, he was actually at the same age and ignorant. Understand. Although after finding the letter from his biological uncle, he had an instinctive hatred for Wei Qi and his son, but it was not very strong at the beginning.
It was not until he became sensible several years later that he realized what he had lost.
There is no cure for such irreparable loss in this world.
At least Wei Xinyong doesn't think there is any way to cure it, and revenge is just a relief. The emptiness and pain in his heart can only be engraved but cannot be healed.
"Don't you need it, sir? It's getting cold." Seeing that he remained silent, Wen Yulan reminded, "Mother asked me to take the bowl back later. Dad brought some people back this time, and the bowls at home are not very good. enough."
Wei Xinyong came back to his senses, got up silently, and took a clean pottery bowl from the house. It turns out that all the utensils he had here were sent by Qiu's children. Now Qiu's place is short of bowls. He had no intention of going back. Even if this family had some intentions, they treated him well.
After giving Wen Yulan two poached eggs and coaxing her to eat them, Wei Xinyong waved her hand and asked her to go back.
Wen Yulan was secretly happy to have eaten the poached eggs, but she was also worried that if she ate something that was supposed to be given to Mr. Wei, Mr. Wei would think she was a greedy child. Some of them went away in fear.
After she left, Wei Xinyong walked out and stared at the rolling mountains in the distance.
It's just that when he thought about things, he unconsciously thought of the eldest son of the Wen family.
"Ji Qubing should be in the imperial capital or the capital at the moment, probably being pulled by Wei Changying. I heard that since the eldest son was able to reach Chishu Ridge from the countryside of Yong County... I heard Yu Lan said that the two places are not close... I think even if he is seriously injured, he will not be injured. He can still survive for a while. If he can get Ji Qubing's diagnosis and treatment, he will be cured." Wei Xinyong smiled to himself, "But what does this have to do with me? I don't know where to go now. , Do you have to go back to the imperial capital for the sake of a villager you don’t know?”
Shaking his head, he thought again, "Both Wen Yaozi and Qiu are still willing to give things to an outsider like me. This shows that their eldest son's injury should not be irreparable, but Ji Qubing may not be needed. Could it be that this Can’t the world survive without the Ji family?”
Thinking of this, he basked in the sun with peace of mind.
While basking in the sun, Wei Xinyong's vision suddenly went dark, and he fell down from the shabby bamboo chair...
When he regained some consciousness, he felt a buzzing in his ears, as if someone was speaking not far away, but he couldn't hear anything clearly. I thought to myself: "Am I wrong? This Wen Yazi has actually known my identity for a long time, so he did something in the poached eggs and wants to exchange me for ransom?"
This thought turned around, and he fainted again.
When he woke up again, he couldn't open his eyes. He only felt that he was on a carriage.
"It seems like this is really the case." Wei Xinyong sighed inwardly, feeling a sense of lethargy and decadence.
The carriage turned, and he soon fell into sleep again.
It wasn't until he woke up for the third time that he really woke up and opened his eyes, only to see the eight-treasure tent above his head, the famous fragrance of water on his nose, and the tiger slave beside the bed, who was wiping tears of surprise and almost sobbing: "Sir, are you awake?"
"Yeah." Wei Xinyong is not merciless to this confidant who he grew up with since childhood, and he also knows that Hu Nu must be the one who is most concerned about his disappearance these days. Although he was not ready to return yet, when he saw the haggard appearance of the tiger slave and his eyes were red, he sighed in his heart and felt that when things had reached this point, there was no point in asking for it anymore, so he could just live like this. .
He drank the medicine under the service of the tiger slave, and was about to ask the tiger slave how much ransom Wen Yazi asked for, when there was a knock on the door.
"It must be Captain Mo and Captain Zhao!" Hu Nu stood up. He knew that Wei Xinyong didn't know who Captain Zhao was. Before opening the door, he explained, "Captain Zhao is the Xiliang Army looking for the young master in Panzhou. The leader.”
After the two people entered the door, they were very happy to see that Wei Xinyong was awake: "Young Master is finally awake!"
Wei Xinyong said a few perfunctory words to them, and then asked why she appeared here? After all, there was a strange outsider like Captain Zhao, so Wei Xinyong wanted to ask directly about the ransom, so he changed his question.
As a result, the tiger slave was the first to say: "It's all thanks to Captain Zhao. Zhao Qian knew that we were looking for the young master, but he secretly ordered that after finding the young master, he should be delivered to him first! As a result, we didn't dare to reveal the young master at all. Characteristics! Or did Captain Zhao discover that Wen Yaozi of Yong County suddenly captured the county town and stole the treasure of the city's traditional Chinese medicine store, a 500-year-old wild ginseng! That Yong County medicine store is an industry of the Su family in Qingzhou. How dare the refugees make up their minds? Captain Zhao knew that Laoshan ginseng was the main ingredient in the medicine used by the young master, so he sent people to keep an eye on Wen Yaozi, only to find that he had gone to Chishu Ridge... Only then did he discover the young master!
Wei Xinyong frowned and said, "Then what did Wen Yazi say?" So Wen Yulan lied to him? The so-called giving Laoshan some poached eggs to herself has nothing to do with building virtue for her big brother, but was it deliberately said by the Wen family in order to stabilize herself? He even deliberately involved the Qingzhou Su family to make himself owe this great favor
Such an enthusiastic little girl was just a cover in the end, and he felt a little angry in his heart.
"Wen Yaozi was also shocked." It was the Hu slave who took over the words again, crying and laughing, "I didn't know until I went to Chishu Ridge that Captain Zhao only guessed half of it right - Wen Yaozi shot down Yong County, he snatched that old mountain ginseng to save his son! Fortunately, the young master was really in Chishu Ridge, otherwise..."
He wiped away tears and said, "I know it was Wen Yaozi's wife and children who saved the young master. Captain Zhao gave them a batch of food and grass. After sending the young master back to the imperial capital, I will make another trip to thank them!"
Apparently he thought Wei Xinyong asked Wen Yaozi to do some favors for his savior.
Hu Nu was also worried that Wei Xinyong would go back to thank his benefactor in person, so he tactfully cut off his plan.
Wei Xinyong was silent for a moment and said, "Then how did I fall into coma?"
"Young Master has not recovered from his illness earlier. He has been living outside these days with no caring person to take care of him. How can he not get into trouble?" Speaking of this tiger slave, he started talking angrily, "Young Master is not feeling well, and I know that too. But no matter how uncomfortable the young master is, he still has to take care of his body! If Captain Zhao hadn't figured it out this time, I couldn't imagine how long it would take to find the young master! It's rare for Chishuling to go outside for several years! "
Captain Zhao has no friendship with Wei Xinyong. He came to Panzhou just to take orders from Shen Zangfeng. Seeing that Wei Xinyong was awake now, he wanted to go back and report to Shen Zangfeng, but he had no intention of listening to their deep love between master and servant. of the process. So he took advantage of this and laughed and said: "This is Master Wei Liu's own destiny. What does it have to do with the official? Oh, Hu Nu said that Master Wei Liu needs Laoshan ginseng for medicine, so the official sent people out to find it. Now I don’t know if I’ll repay you, so I’ll go check it out first?”
"Thank you, Captain Zhao." Wei Xinyong nodded to him. Captain Zhao cupped his hand and left.
Mo Binwei did not leave, but frowned and looked at Wei Xinyong: "I heard that Yaozi's wife said that you woke up in Chishu Ridge a long time ago, but why didn't you ask someone to find us?"
A helpless smile appeared on Wei Xinyong's pale face, and after a moment she said: "Let's talk about it later?"
"We'll talk about it later. You should take good care of yourself first." Mo Binwei looked at him for a moment, then finally withdrew his gaze and said in a deep voice.
After he left the door, Hu Nu wanted to say something, but Wei Xinyong sighed: "We'll talk about it later!"
"...Yes!" The tiger slave could only swallow the words that came to his lips.
Wei Xinyong rested for several days in the small county town closest to Chishuling, and after using several tubes of Laoshan Ginseng, the doctor thought that his condition was temporarily stable and he could go on his way.
This news made both Captain Zhao and Mo Binwei relieved.
They were not only worried about Wei Xinyong's health, but also worried about Zhao Qian - Zhao Qian was already moving towards Yong County. Of course, Yong County was still a little way away from the small county where they temporarily settled. The problem is that Zhao Qian is threatening the movement of hundreds of thousands of refugees. How can a county be able to completely absorb it
Even if he can eat it, Sakon still can't be affected
Although Zhao and Mo were both armed with fine cavalry, they were not necessarily afraid of Zhao Qian, but with Wei Xinyong who was not easy to move, they were at a loss.
Even though Zhao Qian should not want to conflict with the court for the time being, the feeling of trusting his life in the hands of others is definitely not what Zhao and Mo thought.
So as soon as Wei Xinyong was considered ready to go, they immediately prepared a car and hired people as quickly as possible.
But just when they were ready to set off, the spies came to report unexpected news... (To be continued)