Huaihua Hutong is next to Canyi Street. Most of the people in the Hutong are engaged in dyeing and weaving. They often open their doors to welcome visitors, and close their doors at night to enjoy themselves. There are also many workshops that supply certain cloth shops on a regular basis. .
That's why as soon as you walk into Huaihua Hutong, you can see new cloth fluttering in the wind on the low walls on both sides, the bitter smell of boiled dyes and the sound of machine guns faintly wafting in the air. Seeing them approaching, the women in the clothes in the yard laughed softly.
A girl who knew Ah Chun shouted from a distance, "Silly Ah Chun, is your brother recovered from his illness?"
Ah Chun nodded vigorously, tugged at Yu Jinnian's sleeves to show them, and said, "Be good, be good! He will cure brother."
The girls giggled, but they didn't really care about Ah Chun's illness, they just wanted to see Ah Chun's stupidity for fun. A courageous and lively lady ran out to stop Ji Hong with a newly woven gorgeous fabric, and said with a smile, "My lord, let's pick and choose, double palace silk, it's so pretty!"
Seeing this, the other girls rushed over one after another: "What are you buying for your house? I also have it in my house. It looks better!"
Ordinary silkworm cocoons are made by one silkworm cocoon, while double cocoons are produced by two silkworms. The silk cloth made of such double cocoons is double palace silk. Shuanggong silk thread ends are messy, thick and knotted, so the skills of women who draw silk and weave are quite high. And because of its unique texture, the price is slightly more expensive, so it is very popular among the ladies of your family.
The girls blocked their way, Ji Hong looked at the shiny red silk cloth in one of the girls' hands, actually reached out to touch it, and twisted it between his fingers, as if he was really thinking about what to do. Don't buy it.
The girl selling cloth urged: "Buy it, buy it! Make a dress for the lady at home!"
Ji Hong raised his eyes and took a look. The boy's skin was fair and tender, and his stature was slightly small, so he was very suitable for wearing red. But now is not a good time to pick a cloth, he held the young man who was also surrounded, and said as he walked forward: "Sorry, there is no lady in the next house."
Yu Jinnian followed: "I don't want it, I don't either... Thank you, thank you, but I really don't want to..."
The girls scattered angrily, and they had already walked a long way. The girl behind looked at the hands they held tightly, and then realized it, and shouted persistently: "It doesn't matter if you don't have a wife! Give it to your little girl!" Young master, buy a suit, it looks good too!"
Ji Hong glanced at Yu Jinnian, and said, "They are very discerning."
Yu Jinnian didn't understand, he asked in confusion, "What did you say?"
Ji Hongman said casually, "It's nothing."
Yu Jinnian looked at him puzzledly, had no choice but to give up, and then turned to ask Ah Chun, who was walking beside them, "What's wrong with your brother?"
Ah Chun looked up at the sky, but his mind was not clear at all, he couldn't even understand his own affairs, and it was even more difficult to explain what other people looked like, so he struggled for a long time It was only then that he figured out how to speak, and said: "Brother, he is very hot. He kept saying that his head hurts a few days ago. Ah Chun rubbed him, but it didn't help..."
"My brother hid the money. Ah Chun didn't have a lot of money. I invited a doctor to look at it and spent it all. But my brother didn't heal. He vomited all over the place afterward. He wet the bed last night. Ah Chun washed the money. A quilt that has been around for a long time…”
The boy's mouth was pouted, and he seemed very unhappy about washing the quilt.
At the same time, after hearing the young man's description, Yu Jinnian also became serious, his expression was solemn, he was lost in thought, and he couldn't help but pause.
Ji Hong also stopped slowly and asked, "What did you think of?"
"Damn it!" Yu Jinnian's face changed, and he ran forward. After taking a few steps, he realized that he didn't know the door. He came back and dragged Ah Chun away, and said in a hurry, "I was careless, Ah Chun, let's go , your brother is not good!" Ji Hong wanted to step forward, but was ordered by Yu Jinnian: "Go over there carefully, I don't want to save two patients there!"
Ji Hong: "..."
When Ah Chun heard that his brother was not good, he was so frightened that he wanted to cry, but he still remembered that his brother was important, so he suppressed it, and ran ahead while wiping his eyes, showing Yu Jinnian the way.
Turning into an alley deep in Huaihua Hutong, the second door at the beginning is Ah Chun's house. Yu Jinnian ignored the etiquette, pushed the door and went in. He was surprised that this small house didn't look very good from the outside. Open the face, it turns out that there is a cave inside, and the entrance is a not-so-small courtyard, in which there is a narrow path paved with stone slabs from the gate to the main house, with flower ponds on both sides, and various flowers and plants planted in the pond, Shan Yu Jinnian knew each other Yes, there are peacock grass and cyclamen.
But there are more chrysanthemums, big and small, covering the whole garden, pink dimples and golden clothes, fragrant and dewy, so spectacular.
Yu Jinnian sighed deeply, but he didn't have time to take a closer look, so he hurried forward first.
Pushing open the door of the patient's room, he smelled a rotten smell, as if it was the smell of clothes and quilts that had been soaked for many days. Yu Jinnian subconsciously held his breath, but Ah Chun beside him didn't feel it, and ran in directly. He rushed to the bed, shook the figure on the bed, and called out: "Brother, brother! Ah Chun is here to find a doctor for you again! Get up and ask the doctor to take a look."
Yu Jinnian changed his tone and hurriedly followed in to check.
He first noticed the long sword hanging on the bedpost next to the man, and before he was surprised for a while, he didn't even see the appearance of the man on the bed, the other party suddenly stood up and tilted his head, and vomited on the floor.
Ah Chun hurriedly took a towel to wipe his face, but just after wiping his face here, there was the sound of dripping water falling on the edge of the bed. The source of the trace—it was the man who had passed urine. The silly boy didn't think it was dirty, and was about to wipe it off in a hurry when his brother's neck stiffened suddenly, and the right half of his body twitched.
In Yu Jinnian's heart, the alarm bells rang out, and he immediately walked over and held the man's forearm with one hand. As soon as he touched the man's arm, he felt hot, so he immediately went to test his temperature—it turned out to be a high fever. Then he went to look at his eyelids, but the room was too dark to see anything clearly, so he looked around and shouted: "Ah Chun, Ah Chun, bring the lamp!"
After calling several times but the light did not come, Yu Jinnian looked back and saw Ah Chun slumped on the ground, as if he was frightened stupid by the man's sudden onset of illness. Yu Jinnian stretched out his foot and kicked him lightly, raised his voice and said, "Ah Chun, take the lamp!"
Only then did Ah Chun come to his senses, and crawled to the table to get the candlestick, lit it tremblingly and handed it to Yu Jinnian, crying and asking, "Is my brother going to be okay? Is my brother going to die?"
The candle lamp is small, and the brightness is not enough, and it is impossible to calm down after being made such a fuss by the silly boy. Yu Jinnian held the lamp closer, and ordered the boy sharply: "Shut up, don't cry."
Ah Chun covered his mouth violently, tears dripping down his face, his pretty and delicate face was wrinkled all over the bun folds, he promised while crying: "Ah Chun don't cry, Ah Chun is good. As long as you give After my brother was cured, Ah Chun will never cry again..."
"Can you see me?" Yu Jinnian held up the lamp and patted the man's shoulder, "Look here."
After twitching for a while, the man finally calmed down again. He just stared blankly at the empty front, his right hand trembling slightly. After a long while, he slowly moved his eyeballs, looked at Yu Jinnian, and opened his eyes. He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but couldn't.
Fortunately, although he had a high fever, he still had some reactions, so it wouldn't be the worst. Yu Jinnian's heart sank a little. He casually touched the pen on the table, lifted the man's quilt, and scratched the side of the man's foot with the back of the pen, and saw the five toes of the man's right foot spread apart. , obviously a positive sign. As for the left hand and foot, they are weak and weak, unable to lift even if they want to.
He felt his pulse again, checked his tongue, Yu Jinnian's face gradually darkened, and the ominous guess in his heart really came true - this person might have viral encephalitis.
"He hasn't eaten for a few days, and hasn't been born for a few days?" Yu Jinnian asked.
Ah Chun held back crying, recalled it carefully, and whispered uncertainly: "A few days ago, I was able to sit up and eat soup, but yesterday, no, it seemed like the day before yesterday, and I would vomit just about anything I ate. God didn't…”
Yu Jinnian asked, "What's your brother's name?"
Just as Ah Chun was about to answer, he heard someone gently knocking on the courtyard door. Yu Jinnian looked out through the crack of the window and saw that Ji Hong was looking for him. The man entered the courtyard and looked down at the flower ponds on both sides, frowning and stopped for a moment , and then walked quickly towards the house.
When Yu Jinnian saw him coming, his tense heart finally had some room to breathe. He hurriedly called Ji Hong twice, asking the man to help.
- This person has a red tongue with yellow greasy fur, rapid and slightly slippery pulse, which should be a sign of phlegm-dampness in the upper Mongolian and stagnation of pathogenic heat in the lower part, and there may be signs of turbulent weathering and fire. Go its internal heat, vent its turbid phlegm.
Ji Hong walked from the small hall of the bedroom in three steps at a time. Yu Jinnian was thinking about where to start to treat this person, when Ji Hong who walked nearby swept away the wind on his sleeves, and the warm feeling all over his body disappeared without a trace There was no shadow, replaced by a frightening and lonely air, he stood straight beside the bed, condescendingly looking down at the man who was sick and smelly on the bed, his eyes gradually narrowed dangerously.
"Ji..."
Hearing a clang, Ji Hong suddenly pulled out the sharp sword hanging by the bed. Ah Chun instinctively felt the fear, but still turned around and jumped in front of Ji Hong, but was slapped away, fell to the ground, and then saw the man who overthrew him suddenly point the long sword in his hand at his brother , and shouted: "Jing Zhong!"
The man was already so sick that he was unconscious, but at this time he woke up faintly and saw the figure beside his bed. Not only was he not afraid, but his eyes were wet, he arched forward stiffly excitedly, stretched out his hand in the void, and barely grasped it. Twice, his face was full of salty tears, and he yelled something, it sounded like: "Second Young Master, Second Young Master..."
After being called "Second Young Master" by him twice, Ji Hong's hands trembled slightly, he gritted his teeth and said, "A person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, unfaithful and unrighteous, what face do you have in this world!"
As he spoke, he waved his sword to chop.
Yu Jinnian has never seen such a furious Ji Hong. He thought that Ji Hong was always as indifferent as ice. Even when he was happy, he would just tug at the corners of his mouth slightly, and when he was angry, he would only frown slightly and purse his lips, as if he was indifferent. A scentless and colorless white orchid on a high mountain. But Ji Hong with this appearance was obviously beyond Yu Jinnian's comprehension, causing him to be stunned for a moment and forget to move.
When he reacted, Ah Chun, who had been lifted off the ground, had already got up from the ground, suddenly rushed up again, stretched out his hand and pushed Ji Hong's sword away, then stood up to protect Jing Zhong, hugged Jing Zhong's neck with both hands, and buried him. Weeping muffledly on his neck: "You are not allowed to touch brother, brother is Ah Chun's treasure!"
The young man's thinking is simple, and there is only one straight string in his mind. At this moment, he hates Ji Hong who pointed his sword at Jing Zhong, and also hates Yu Jinnian who came with Ji Hong: "Go, brother doesn't want you Zhi..." But he was also very scared, just now the blade cut through his palm, he knew it hurt, but he didn't know what to do, who to ask, and he didn't dare to look back at the point of the sword pointing at them, He could only kneel in front of the bed, hugging his brother without losing his hands.
On the bed, Jing Zhong's eyes sometimes converged and sometimes scattered, and he called "Achun" or "Second Young Master" vaguely in his mouth.
Because the silly Ah Chun rushed out suddenly, Ji Hong failed to stab Jing Zhong with his sword as he wished, and was pushed desperately by Ah Chun again. The sword shook Ji Hong's arm and almost lost his aim. He stopped in front of him, fearing that if he trembled a little more, the sword blade would cut off the boy's ears.
There was a cold light on the sword, and Yu Jinnian suddenly came back to his senses, his eyes narrowed slightly, he looked at Ji Hong at the other end of the long sword, and said, "...Are you going to cut me too?"
"Jinnian? I—" Ji Hong was stunned, terrified in his heart, he hurriedly moved his sword away, and took two steps closer to check if the young man was safe, but before his hand could touch the young man, Yu Jinnian took a step back to hide opened.
The room was so quiet that only Ah Chun's low sobbing could be heard.
It was originally here to treat illnesses and save lives, but this incident made it very embarrassing.
Yu Jinnian turned around to check on Jing Zhong's situation, and tried every means to coax Ah Chun aside, then took a pen and paper from the table, trembled in front of Ji Hong with a gloomy face, and said, "What kind of grievances do you have? What's the point of bullying a man who is dying? He is my patient when I see him. You want to kill my patient in front of me. What's the matter?"
Ji Hong held the long sword and held it tightly. When he looked over, his eyes showed a kind of indifference that he had never shown to Yu Jinnian before. He said in a deep voice, "If I say, he is my enemy. , you want to save too?"
Let him die, he really can't do it. Yu Jinnian lowered his eyes and sighed, "I... want to save."
"Okay, Yu Jinnian." Ji Hong said coldly and word by word, he threw the long sword in his hand, stretched out his hand to grab the pen in the young man's hand, and spread the paper on the square tea table.
I don't know when Ji Hong only called him by his first name, but today he called him by his full name and surname, which caused Yu Jinnian to feel inexplicable panic and strangeness, as if Ji Hong was not calling him himself. He didn't dare to look directly into Ji Hong's eyes, so he stared at the ground beside his feet and called out the name of the medicine—this prescription was Xiaochengqi Decoction flavored: "Rhubarb two cents, Magnolia officinalis, Citrus aurantium, Jiangxia each One money two... "
Ji Hong raised his sleeves and waved lightly, and wrote with a pen, flying like flying clouds and flowing water.
Give up writing and leave.
"Ji Hong..." Yu Jinnian murmured, but the man didn't respond, and he didn't stop until he reached a corner of the flower pond. He stared at Ji Hong's back for a while, and then came back to check the prescription—this is Ji Hong's most unrestrained writing that he has ever seen, so elegant that it doesn't seem like his rigorous and self-sufficient style at all.
Yu Jinnian folded the prescription and handed it to Ah Chun together with the silver: "Do you know how to get the medicine? Follow this prescription, go quickly, don't delay for a moment."
Ah Chun struggled: "But brother said, you can't just spend other people's money..."
"When your brother recovers from his illness, I will ask him to return it to me." Yu Jinnian pushed Ah Chun, "Okay, let's go!"
Ah Chun nodded vigorously, then ran to grab the medicine.
At this time Yu Jinnian looked into the courtyard again, and Ji Hong was no longer there. Startled in his heart, he hurriedly chased outside, cocking his feet to look around, but if he really wanted to chase out, he was really worried about Jing Zhong in the room who would go into convulsions at any time—he had been practicing medicine for many years, past life and present life Together, he had never encountered such a tangled situation.
Going after Ji Hong is irresponsible to the patient; if he doesn't care about Ji Hong, he feels choked and uncomfortable.
Yu Jinnian hesitated left and right in front of the bedroom door, feeling as if his chest was being pressed down by a big rock, making him unable to breathe.
While struggling like this, he glanced up, and accidentally saw that the door of the west wing, which had been closed before, seemed to be opened a crack, and there was some faint light shining through it, like candle flames that were constantly jumping. Yu Jinnian just thought, this courtyard is only lived by Jing Zhong and Ah Chun, it is too spacious, what is the use of so many empty rooms
When he woke up again, he had already reached the door of the wing room before he knew it.
A gust of cold wind came in and opened the slightly open door even wider. Yu Jinnian was standing outside the door. Through the crack, he could see the scattered structures in the room—it turned out to be a sacrificial hall full of candlesticks. , in the middle there is a table, which lists several plates of snacks and current fruits and vegetables.
There is only one solitary spirit seat in the hall, and it looks a little lonely in the huge room.
But at this time, a straight and slender figure stood quietly in front of the tablet, with his back to Yu Jinnian, his hands hanging by his sides, looking at the direction of the tablet, looking more lonely than ever Desolate, as if even the cold wind could pass directly through his body.
Yu Jinnian stood at the door in a daze, and didn't move for a long time. Such a big man towered over the door and dragged into the long shadow, so naturally he had already revealed his secrets.
Ji Hong knew that Yu Jinnian was standing there, but he still didn't turn his head. He let him stand at the door and let the wind blow. He couldn't help but tilt his head slightly when he heard the young man "sneezing" and holding his nose and twitching vigorously. , looking back at him faintly.
It's just that this look shook Ji Hong's heart. He knew that Yu Jinnian was easy to soften his heart, and he had no distractions in his mind, but he tried to force the young man to make a choice between him and the patient. The result of the decision was clearly that Yu Jinnian won, but at this moment, the young man showed such a disappointed and sad expression on his face, as if it was not Ji Hong who was abandoned, but the young man himself.
Why bother, it's just a loss for both sides, and no one has benefited. What's more, how can Yu Jinnian be blamed for what happened more than ten years ago.
"Well, I didn't mean to peek at you..." Yu Jinnian clasped his hands and clenched them uneasily. Seeing that he didn't respond, he hurriedly took two steps back and turned to leave, "I know you're not happy, so I'm leaving now, it doesn't hinder you My eyes, don't be angry." He moved his feet on the spot, and said, "It's very cold here, don't stand for too long—"
"Come back." Ji Hong interrupted him suddenly.
"Ah?" Yu Jinnian was taken aback, then walked back like a thief, "What's the matter?"
Ji Hong paused, and finally moved half a step away, revealing the whole picture of the spiritual tablet enshrined on the stage. He stood sideways, with half of his face hidden in the darkness, and he couldn't see the expression on his face. He stretched out his hand to Yu Jinnian: "Didn't you always want to know about me?"
Looking at the white and slender hand, Yu Jinnian shrank his neck and said timidly: "Actually, it's not very special... I want to know..."
But Ji Hong said: "Then come in and find out."
"...Oh, okay." Yu Jinnian took two steps forward and crossed the threshold. Although he didn't know who was enshrined on the spiritual throne, he was nervous and timid for no reason, so he kept walking forward with his head depressed, not even looking at the corner of the blue brick on the ground. Fortunately, Ji Hong's hand was about to help Give him a hand, otherwise he would have to kneel on the ground and give a big gift before he even walked in front of the futon.
Before his tripped knees could stand still, he heard Ji Hong's soft voice coming from his ears.
"The gift doesn't have to be so big. Just look up, this should be my second brother."
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Ji Gongju: I am not happy today because I haven't kissed Niannian.