In June of the fifteenth year of Zhengqing.
The heat of early summer slowly enveloped the entire Qingyun Continent. Allow
Li Gang left from a farmhouse. He lowered his head and tidied up his medicine box, while telling the patient’s mother who came out: “Don’t get wet for seven days, change the medicine for the wound three times a day, and boil three bowls of water to make a bowl of decoction for oral administration.” , eat after drinking the medicine, the meal should be light, not greasy and colored, otherwise the wound will not heal easily and will leave scars.” Sickness
The patient's mother hastily agreed, then rubbed her hands awkwardly, and took out a small piece of silver from her sleeve with difficulty: "Doctor, this consultation fee..." Rong
Li glanced at the silver fragments that had been touched until the water chestnuts were round, and said with a smile: "Keep it, the little girl suffered a serious crime and was injured on her face, when the injury is healed, buy her some delicious tonics. "sick
The patient's mother's eyes turned red immediately: "Thank you doctor, thank you doctor!" Rong Rong
Li waved his hand and said goodbye.
On the way back, Rong Li took the bullock cart of an old man in the village. The old man was smoking a pipe, seeing how young he was, he asked with a straight face, "Isn't the little doctor from our Guyong Mansion?" Rong Li
Li nodded: "I'm from Kyoto, and I'll stay here for a while."
Han smiled: "It's lucky to have you today, otherwise the daughter of the old Liu family would be dead, and you also waived their consultation fee, you are really a good person." Rong
Li Dao: "Even if I hadn't come, Ms. Liu would not have died. I don't know. The one who was not seriously injured was just focusing on the face and bluffing people."
The old man smoked his cigarette again: "Old man Liu wants to exchange his daughter for ten taels of silver so that his son can marry a wife. If the face of the daughter of the Liu family is ruined, the ten taels of silver will be gone. This child was thrown out, and you saved her face, didn't you just save her life?"
Rong Li frowned upon hearing this.
The old man said: "The plague in Huizhou, the earthquake in Kunzhou, the severe drought in Dingzhou, we in the north have not had a good life in the past two years. Seeing that the crops are getting more and more dry, not only old man Liu, but many people in the village have started to sell their children. If you sell your daughter, you can't live on."
Rong Li didn't say a word, Dingzhou was severely drought, and it was precisely because of this that he came to Dingzhou to travel as a doctor. Recently, the people of Dingzhou have indeed had a hard time. old
Han quietly lowered his voice again, and said: "I heard that this drought is a bad luck from the heavens. The heavens are dissatisfied with the current emperor as the emperor, and give the people of Qingyun Kingdom a hard time...""
uncle. "Rong Li said displeasedly: "It's better not to say such disrespectful words. "old
Han smiled flatteringly: "Little doctor won't go to the government office to sue my old man, will he?"
Li said with a stern face, "I won't sue, but if the uncle often tells people like this, it will inevitably leak the news, and it is not impossible for the government to catch him and kill the chicken to make an example."
Han was really scared when he heard this: "I'm just talking nonsense, everyone else is saying that... okay, okay, I won't say it, I won't say it anymore."
On the road ahead, the old man really calmed down, but Rong Li's complexion became more and more unhappy. ten
Five years ago, when Rong Jindong first ascended the throne, rumors about the new emperor's tyranny and brutality arose one after another, and finally settled down. In the past two years, due to constant disasters in various places, the saying "the emperor is not merciful, the Dao cannot tolerate it" , prevailed again. this
These words were spread by some bull-nosed Taoist priests at the beginning. They used the holy name to bluff and deceive, and used the reputation of the emperor to pull the banner. Later, seeing the constant natural disasters in the north, these rhetoric were slowly accepted by the people, and finally spread to the streets and alleys, as if where a drop of rain was missing, where a grain of grain was missing, they all belonged to the Ninth Five-Year King The pot is because the heavens see that the emperor is not good, so they give them less money for the people.
However, the common people care about the weight of a catty and a half. In the past two years, Rong Li has traveled around the world and listened to the voices of the people, and he sighed more and more that "the emperor is not easy".
Returning from the village to Fucheng, Rong Li went directly to Qingletang. At that time, the white-haired Wei Chou in the shop was instructing the little Yaotong to cut the medicine. When he saw him come back, he said hello.
Rong Li put down the medicine box, rolled up his sleeves, and entered the counter to get busy.
After busying for a while, Wei Chou suddenly came over and stood beside Rong Li.
Rong Li looked at him puzzled. Wei
I took out a letter.
Looking at the signature on the letter, Rong Li raised his eyebrows: "What's wrong?"
Chou sighed: "This was sent from Beijing a few years ago, and it was written by Zhong Ziyu to me. We have always communicated once every two months. I haven't returned to Beijing for Chinese New Year this year, and I haven't seen him, but he The letter, but it has been broken for six or seven months.”
Rong Li frowned: "So?"
Chou asked: "When you left Beijing, did you see him? Is he okay?"
Rong Li lowered his head and said: "I saw what he was doing, he was doing well in prison, except for Chou Chou, who in the family would go to him if he had nothing to do?"
I was a little sad: "I don't care about him during the Chinese New Year..." Rong
Li's attitude was indifferent: "If you are worried, send a letter to ask Chou Chou."
Chou shook her head: "I asked, but she never replied. I heard that she is not in Beijing now."
Rong Li also remembered that Chou Chou didn't seem to be there.
During the Chinese New Year this year, Chou Chou took part in the capture of the Twelve Wolves in Tianpeng Village, and made great contributions by doing so. After she sent Gu Chao away from Beijing in mid-January, around February, she joined the Third Battalion of Zhengemen, Went to Anzhou, cooperated with the governor of Anzhou to deal with a cross-border trafficking case, now she should still be in Anzhou, and has not returned to Beijing.
Rong Li said: "Zhong Ziyu is going to jail well. Nothing will happen. Even if something happens, someone will always send you a letter. Isn't your name written in the column of his relatives? If he dies, the bones will be sent to you. here."
Wei Chou waved his hands wildly: "Hey, hey, hey, don't say such unlucky words, he is healthy and healthy, what kind of bones are you sending?"
Then what are you worried about. "
Wei Wei was just worried, so he stared at Rong Li: "Aren't you going back to Beijing next month? When you get to Beijing, help me take a look. Whether it's good or not, send me a letter and tell me how he is. "
During the Chinese New Year this year, Rong Li was caught and criticized by his grandmother, who said that he was not filial at such an advanced age, and ended up nagging a lot, probably meaning that your uncle did not get married because of his health No, I'm afraid of hurting a good girl from a good family, but he is strong and strong, so why don't he get married! In the end, after talking about it, it became an order to him, before the middle of the year, he must go back to Beijing, and then she will recruit a few promising girls to give him a blind date! Allow
Li She finally agreed because of the majesty of his elders. No, just last month, his grandmother sent a letter, reminding him that he must arrive in Beijing before August!
Since you want to go back, it's not impossible to stop by to see Zhong Ziyu. Allow
Li casually said "um", which was considered to have accepted Wei Chou's request.
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In July, Rong Li set off to return to Beijing. On July 19th, he arrived in Beijing ahead of schedule. outside
Grandmother came from Fengzhou, and she didn't arrive until the first or second day of August. Rong Li came back early, so she simply went to Qingletang for a consultation.
After sitting in the clinic for two days, he remembered that he wanted to see Zhong Ziyu, so he went to Jingzhaoyin Yamen again.
In the end, he was told that Zhong Ziyu was not allowed to visit. Allow
Li didn't understand, and broke up with the head of the prison: "It has always been possible to visit, why not suddenly, he is not a death row prisoner."
Zhong Ziyu was a prisoner on death row at the beginning, but later he was honest and responsible, and with good luck, he caught up with several waves of amnesty, and now his sentence has been reduced to 21 years. He has been in prison since the first year of Zhengqing, and he has been in prison for 15 years. It's only five or six years before they can be released. prison
He shook his head: "Although he is not a death row prisoner, he is a serious criminal and cannot be visited."
Rong Li frowned, and wanted to ask again, but not far away, the newly appointed Master Jing Zhaoyin Hu hurried over. Allow
Li saw this Mr. Hu and saluted him.
Mr. Hu was sweating profusely. He came over and took a look at the head of the prison. The head of the prison nodded to him, and he was relieved. He smiled and said to Rong Li: "My son wants to see Zhong Ziyu. He made a big mistake and was punished, and now, he is not allowed to visit, and the little princess of the palace also knows about it." Ugly
Chou knew it, but Chou didn't say anything about it. according to
Li said that if something happened to Zhong Ziyu, Chou Chou would definitely tell the whole family. For some reason, this little girl was very close to that Zhong Ziyu. Allow
Li was a little displeased: "Master Hu may tell me what mistake he made."
"This...it's really hard to say." Master Hu said, he stepped in front of Rong Li without a trace, and made a gesture of seeing off the guests to him: "My lord, don't make it difficult for me to step down from office." Rong Li
Li sullenly, did not move.
Lord Hu finally gritted his teeth: "If my son really wants to know, why not go to the palace and ask the emperor?"
This matter is actually related to the emperor
Rong Li was rather curious.