After a few days, the man's condition gradually stabilized, he picked a time when Huang Youbi and his apprentice were not around, and Shu Changfeng pushed Zhao Wujiu in to visit.
The man was stunned when he saw Zhao Wu Jiu: "Zhou… His Royal Highness Zhou?"
It is widely rumored in Beijing that King Zhou lives in a secluded place, and usually even the emperor and empress rarely see him, but he did not expect him to appear in the south of the Yangtze River, which is quite a remote place, which is really surprising.
But thinking of his bizarre encounter, it is not surprising that Zhou Wang can appear here.
He was about to stand up to salute King Zhou, but was stopped by Zhao Wu Jiu: "Master Yu is seriously injured, so you don't need to do much." This person turned out to be Yu Ang, the chief official of the Censor Station, and he was born with tough bones. The emperor trusts.
Yu Ang was already at the end of the road, and he almost could not save his life. After he was seriously injured and sobered up, he was extremely vigilant about the surrounding environment. He pretended to be dumb under the advice of Bai Shiqi. Sitting on a wheelchair with his legs stretched out, he still has the majesty of the past, and now he almost burst into tears: "Weichen still thinks that he is going to become a water ghost at the bottom of the river. I really didn't expect to be rescued by His Highness. It's really pitiful!"
He has even lost his official seal now, and he really wants to announce that he is an imperial envoy, without even a certificate.
However, Zhao Wu Jiu didn't want to take the credit of Bo Shiqi: "I don't dare to take credit, the one who saved you is the leader of the Cao Gang, Bo Shiqi. She has come to accompany you every day recently. Master Yu has known her long ago."
Yu Ang thought of the quirky young man who deliberately made him pretend to be dumb. Even in the face of adversity, he couldn't help showing a slight smile, and he coughed softly, "The gang leader Bai Shao is a cautious person!" Seven was purely deliberately harassing him.
"How could Master Yu be cut by someone and appear in the river?"
Yu Ang thought of the dangerous situation at the time, and his body shivered for no reason: "Wei Chen was ordered to go to Jiangnan to investigate the salt road, I am afraid that when I leave Beijing on the front foot, someone will send a letter from the back foot. The official ship I was on entered Lianghuai, and I encountered several groups. Water pirates, all the good players around me were damaged, and in the end even the official ship was scuttled.
Shu Changfeng was immediately shocked: "They dare?! They really want money, not life!"
Zhao Wu Jiu chuckled, "What's so daring about this? Master Yu encountered the water bandits, and then he has nothing to do with the salt transport envoy. Instead, the Yanhe guards will be reprimanded. As long as the salt transport envoy's fatness can be kept, It's not surprising to kill people to make money."
Yu Ang said with admiration: "After Wei Chen's death, any dirty water can be pushed on Wei Chen, and the crime is also pushed to the water bandits along the way as much as possible. If the government suppresses a few more bandits, it may be returned when they report it. If you can get the award from the top, when the DPRK and China send someone to investigate the Lianghuai Salt Road, the accounts that should be smoothed out have already been smoothed; or the next imperial envoy can be bought with rare treasures.
Zhao Changfeng: "Then why don't you buy Master Yu?"
Yu Ang smiled wryly, Zhao Wu Jiu explained on his behalf, "Master Yu has a reputation for being upright and upright, and he never accepts bribes, even if he is bribed with gold and silver, maybe it will become evidence in court, it is better to cancel the bribe at the beginning. The plan is to let him die directly at the hands of the water bandits."
"How cruel!" Shu Changfeng murmured.
Suddenly, a crisp voice came from outside: "Who is so cruel?"
The door was pushed open, and Bai Shiqi rushed in with a smile on his face, as if he had brought sunshine into the room. Seeing Yu Ang actually sitting, he shook his head: "I knew that these bullshit rules would hinder the patient's recovery. My lord, it took a lot of hard work for Huang to save you, and I said earlier that I would rest in bed, so don't waste the medicinal materials that Huang has worked so hard to collect!"
Yu Ang felt uneasy when she saw that she was speaking rudely, and hurriedly apologized to King Zhou: "Don't blame your Highness, Young Master Bai is outspoken, and he is also worried about the body of the lower official."
Zhao Wu Jiu thought: She has done all the rude things, can I still find her to settle the account? But Yu Ang defended her, but he showed that he was an outsider, which made him unhappy, and said: "In this case, wait for Master Yu to recover and then talk about it, if the royal father knows about the story of Master Yu's personal life, he will come up with another one. Send someone to Lianghuai, and then we will see you again." Pulling down Bai Shiqi's sleeve, he said in a friendly tone, "Seventeen, please don't make trouble in the room, affecting Master Yu's recovery, so let me go outside and play. "
Bai Shiqi jumped up to push his wheelchair, unaware of his displeasure, and complained with a smile: "Brother Zhao, go and see Ziheng, he just went fishing with me, but he didn't expect to fall into the quagmire. , turned into a mud pig, how embarrassed it is, you should teach him a lesson, so that he will not be disturbed every day!"
Zhao Ziheng was originally a handsome young man. He knew neither mallards nor fish. He would choose the most elegant way to go hunting in the mountains. Playing every day is very enjoyable, the body is strong, the skin is darker, and the actions are far from the elegant and noble son, and it is about to become a wild world.
He said that he was pretending to be Zhao Wu Jiu's servant, but now he can barely be regarded as a half-man of the Cao Gang.
Shu Changfeng helped Yu Ang to lie down, and tucked the quilt for him. Yu Ang grabbed his arm and asked in a low voice, "Xiaowei Shu, this is..." What's the situation
It is rumored that His Royal Highness King Zhou is stern and not very close to the important officials in the court. Even at the palace banquet, he did not hesitate to say anything to the officials who went to toast, but he really did not expect to be able to talk and laugh Yan Yan with a young man from all corners of the world.
Shu Changfeng couldn't help covering up for his master: "Master Bai is innocent and innocent, he has no heart, and he and His Highness meet each other..."
Yu Ang thought about it. Ordinary people would not dare to rescue people when they saw him being severely wounded. This young gang leader Bai is chivalrous. His Royal Highness Zhou Wang likes his ancient ways and warm-heartedness. Yi smiled: "Xiaowei Shu said that too." Who doesn't like simple and straightforward people these days? Especially those who fight with people in the DPRK all day long, prefer people who are simple-minded.
Outside in the yard, Zhao Ziheng was sitting in mud, and seeing Zhao Wujiu, he had to proudly show the results of the battle in the small wooden barrel: "The helmsman, come and see, the little one has caught two slippery and fat eel for you. Body." The little servant is used to it, and he has changed his name a lot recently, so that Huang Youbi's master and apprentice will not see the clue.
Zhao Wu Jiu pushed his wheelchair over, and when he looked down, there were indeed two fat eels in the small wooden bucket under his feet, and they were swimming around at the bottom of the bucket. As soon as he left the comfortable environment, he panicked and ran around in a panic, but the bucket was not. The bottom space is small, and they can only swim around entangled with each other.
The weather was getting colder, Zhao Ziheng's clothes were all wet, he sneezed twice in succession after sitting for a while, almost spit on Zhao Wujiu's face, he covered his mouth in fright and admitted his mistake, but he forgot the mud in his hands and covered it upside down. With a mouthful of mud, he smeared himself into a dirty monkey.
Bai Shiqi laughed in disgust, "Ziheng, does the mud taste good?"
How could Zhao Ziheng suffer, jumping up and chasing after her: "Is it delicious, you'll know if you taste it?" After chasing, he wanted to feed a mouthful of mud to Bai Shiqi, so that she could also taste the taste of mud.
How could Bai Shiqi sit still, jump up and run, the two of you chased me in the small courtyard, and they made a joke in the courtyard.
Both of them are teenagers with a playful temperament, and there is no slap in the face, Zhao Wu Jiu remembered something, looked down at his legs, feeling down.
In the past two days, Huang Youbi wanted to try a radical method because of the extremely slow effect of the treatment, knocking open the original wound and re-bonding, but it was very painful for the patient to regenerate the broken bone, so he hesitated to tell Zhao Wujiu again and again. If the injury is added, not only the original injury cannot be cured, but it may also lead to new symptoms.
Both the doctor and the patient know that this is a risky method, and this is the only way out of desperation.
Zhao Wu Jiu thought about this for a long time, opening and closing his eyes for the past two days was the time to fight immediately, he woke up in a cold sweat, it was really difficult for him to accept that he would be a waste person in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
The laughter of Zhao Ziheng and Bai Shiqi’s sparring resounded in the courtyard, Zhao Wu Jiu suddenly made a decision, when Huang Youbi came back at night, he made a decision: “Since there is no other way, I will accept the broken bone and continue it. technique."
Huang Youbi looked solemn: "Although this move is risky, it is 50% sure. It is better to try it than hopeless. If you agree with me, I will prepare the soup."
That night, Zhao Wu Jiu locked himself in the room without eating a single bite.
Zhao Ziheng finally caught the eel to make up for him, but Zhao Wujiu kept himself in the room, he was timid and cowardly, he dared not go in, so he instigated Bai Shiqi: "Cousin always treats you Tolerance, why don't you go?"
Master and apprentice Huang Youbi started busy after dinner, rummaging through the piles of medicinal herbs for dispensing, but they didn't have time to pay attention to them.
Bai Shiqi held the eel porridge and pushed open the door, the room was very dark and the lights were off, Zhao Wu Jiu was sitting by the window, he couldn't see his expression clearly, but his tone was very impatient: "Go out!"
"You can't get out with the porridge bowl in your hand, it will spill on me as soon as you roll it." Bai Shiqi didn't care about the 3721, he opened the fire box, lit the candle in the room, and even put his The wheelchair turned around, facing the bowl of eel porridge on the table: "Ziheng took a lot of effort to catch it, the food that is not usually eaten is the most nourishing, but Zhao Duozhu really doesn't want to try it? "
Zhao Wu Jiu had bitterness in his mouth and no appetite at all, he stared at the person in front of him, not knowing where the thought came, suddenly he grabbed her wrist and said stubbornly: "Seventeen, if I am like this, What can I do if I can't get out of my wheelchair for the rest of my life?"
Bai Shiqi listened to Zhu Shoumei talking about Huang Youbi's plan. With Zhao Wujiu's power in Beijing, he could not be cured, so he had to come to Jiangnan, so his leg disease may have little hope of being cured.
She took advantage of the situation and sat beside him, recalling as she recalled: "The brothers of the Cao Gang are all working on the water to make a living. If you lose your arms and legs and lose your labor force, you will be in a dire situation. However, if you have a little surplus when you are young, you can live a good life. When I was a child, I remember an uncle who had his leg cut off by a water bandit. His arrogance was also depressed for half a year. But then one day, he opened a blacksmith shop, relying on his arms to make a living. He was originally strong, and his arms were even stronger over time. When I was young, my father took me to visit He, also called him Uncle Gibbon."
Zhao Wu Jiu's arrogant son, but now she is compared with the poor and rude men on the Caohe River, if it was a disrespectful offense in the past, but now he actually listens to it: "Uncle Gibbon?"
"Yeah, his surname happens to be Yuan, and he quite likes this nickname." Bai Shiqifu laughed again: "Don't say it, Uncle Yuan's kitchen knives, axes, iron pots and other things are extremely durable. , is famous in the local area. If you have any weapon you want to fight, he can fight it as long as you draw it. The last time I went to see him, I joked that he entered the wrong profession when he was young and should not go to the Caohe to seek a living. , you should open a blacksmith's shop."
-If a person can be open-minded enough to joke about the past, it means that he has come out of the predicament of losing his legs.
Zhao Wu Jiu felt all kinds of emotions in his heart, all the words stuck in his throat, he was about to say something, but he was stuffed with a bowl of eel porridge by Bai Shiqi, and he was scolded politely: "Zhao Duozhu The family is rich in the world, even if the whole body can't move, who dares to neglect? I really should take you to see the brothers on the Caohe with broken legs and broken arms. After seeing their lives, you will cherish your own life, not here Lamenting the misery of my situation."
Zhao Wu Jiu: "..." What an unpleasant guy!
"Hurry up and eat it while it's hot!" Bo Shiqi urged him to eat, while talking about some interesting things on the Caohe, but the details were all the pleasures of suffering. For example, after someone was disabled, his wife was involved Xiao Ruan eloped with his lover, not to mention eel porridge, even white rice porridge could not afford it, and even if he got a bowl of wild vegetable porridge, he could even sit on the street and share it with beggars.
The stories of all kinds of unlucky people in her mouth were really tragic and funny, Zhao Wu Jiu unknowingly put a bowl of eel porridge into his stomach based on other people's stories, she also asked: "Do you think he is unlucky? Unlucky?"
"It's very unlucky." Zhao Wu Jiu was being hypocritical by these unfortunate people, but he was a little embarrassed, as if it wasn't a big deal to be unable to stand up for the rest of his life: "But how do you know about so many unfortunate people? "
Bai Shiqi sighed at the suffering of the leader of the gang: "You don't know, there are always brothers in the gang who are disabled every year. These people don't know how to be frugal on weekdays. In order to make them feel a little worried, I always organize a group of people to visit the elderly in the gang every New Year. It is called sending warmth. In fact, it is to let them be more mindful and make more plans for their future, so as not to fight Don't fight for your life, lose money without blinking."
Zhao Wu Jiu was curious: "Is it effective?"
Bai Shiqi sighed: "I don't dare to say the effect, but now I'm taking my brothers out of the boat, and some people laugh at me for being cowardly and timid!" It's not easy to keep a record of safe boating and no accidents.