Chapter 48 Chapter Forty-six

Seeing that he was so scared, Yan Wei couldn't help laughing, and said, "It's okay, I have medicine here." Hearing this, the man immediately came to life as if he had been blown by a breath of fairy air. He opened his eyes and said, "Where is it?! Give it to me!" Yan Wei pursed her lips and smiled, took out the miasma-eliminating sachet she made earlier from her bosom, untied the sealing rope, poured the medicine powder into the palm of the man, and said to him: "Rub your hands together a few times, The plague can be removed." The man rubbed each other vigorously for a while, still feeling uneasy, and said, "Give me some more!"

Yan Wei had no choice but to pour out the rest of the medicine powder to him, and said: "Before eating, wash your hands carefully, and you'll be fine." Seeing this scene, the person who entered the room asked anxiously, "Am I okay?" Yan Wei smiled and said, "You haven't touched the corpse, it doesn't matter. Looking at the corpse, it has been dead for five to seven days. Even if there is an epidemic, it should be gone." Everyone looked at Zhao Lei, waiting for him to make up his mind. Zhao Lei pondered for a moment, then said: "Not far to the south, there is a village, let's go there and spend the night!"

Yan Wei asked, "Why don't you go directly to Fancheng?" Zhao Lei said: "Yang Guo has a curfew order, you don't know that, now that we go to Fan City, the city gate has already been closed, so we can only sleep outside the city." Yan Wei wondered: "Don't you have a letter to celebrate the festival? It's sending salt to Changyan Pass again. Can't it be called opening the city gate?" Zhao Lei laughed and said, "Do you think Qijie is a tiger talisman? Either it's urgent military affairs, or the princes and nobles can't open the city gate in the middle of the night."

Hearing this, Yan Wei's heart tightened, thinking that that day when Young Master Su sent the three of them out of the city in the middle of the night, and Huaidu, the capital of the country, did not know what tricks he had used to successfully open the city gate, I'm afraid he would do something shocking, breaking the law and breaking the law. Otherwise, he wouldn't hurt himself. If he didn't hurt himself, I'm afraid he couldn't cover it up, right? Car, continue to march in the night. After walking for another hour, I could see the silhouette of a small village gradually approaching under the moonlight.Unlike the previous village, this village is brightly lit.

I just heard someone in the car behind say: "Why is this village so lively? Is it the sacrifice of the Qiu Society?" Another voice said: "Isn't it too early? The time is wrong..." The former person retorted: "The wind is different for ten miles, and the customs are different for a hundred miles. Maybe this is the day here in Qiushe." Then came the voice of a third person: "It would be the best if it is a sacrifice, with wine to drink and meat to eat!" Zhao Lei smiled, raised his whip and urged the horse to speed up towards the village. As soon as you enter the village, you will see a yard with a mat shed in the center.There were torches all around the mat shed, and there was a big stove emitting white gas, and several people were busy running back and forth.There is no drum music, no singing, and no smell of wine and meat. Instead, there is a faint smell of medicine.

A group of people got out of the car and approached the mat shed, only to see two rows of people lying in the mat shed, men, women, old and young, as many as twenty people.The smell coming from inside the shed was sour and filthy, mixed with strong medicinal smell, Zhao Lei couldn't help but cover his nose with his sleeves. Yan Wei stared blankly at a busy gray-clothed figure in the shed, and blurted out: "Father!" The gray-clothed man turned around. He was in his forties, with a beard and a pale face. It was Yan Changchu, Yang Guo's famous doctor. When Yan Changchu saw Yan Wei, he was also stunned, and quickly opened his arms.Yan Wei threw herself into her father's arms like a tired bird throwing herself into a forest, and buried her face in his father's chest, sobbing.

Yan Changchu gently stroked Yan Wei's shoulder, without saying a word, just quietly waiting for her to calm down. After a while, Yan Wei looked up at her father, with tears in her eyes, but a smile on her lips. Yan Changchu smiled and said, "Okay, I'm fine...can you help me?" "En!" Yan Wei nodded vigorously. Yan Changchu said: "The people in that row, you help pour the medicine down, I will take care of this row, pay attention to see if the pulse is stable, and call me if there is any abnormality." Yan Wei nodded in response: "Yes!" Then she rolled up her sleeves, cleaned her hands, and got busy.

The father and daughter worked hard for half an hour before they settled everything properly.Yan Changchu gave the night watchman a few more detailed instructions before he and Yan Wei returned to the lower place. It was the side room of a family staying overnight. There were two rooms inside and outside. There was a stove in the outside room. Yan Wei had already been hungry for hours, but she couldn't eat anything, she just tapped her lips with the chopsticks, pouted her mouth, and blinked at her father. Yan Changchu took a sip of porridge and said with a smile, "If you want to ask anything, just ask."

"Why did you sneak away without saying hello!" Yan Wei's tone was a little annoyed, but it was more coquettish. Yan Chang Chu said: "I received the king's secret order to investigate the case of the poisoned son Yan. I originally planned to leave in a few days, but suddenly I received a tip and had to pursue it, so I left in a hurry." Yan Wei wondered: "Ah?! There is such a thing! So does the King think Li Qichen is the murderer?" Yan Changchu smiled and said: "Naturally, anyone with eyes can see how Li Qichen treats Young Master Yan. How could he be the real murderer?"

Yan Wei said anxiously: "But, but... why did the king still put Li Qichen in prison? Why did he still want to imprison him?" Yan Chang said: "Not being a murderer doesn't mean you're innocent, and even if you're not guilty, it doesn't mean you don't need to be punished..." Yan Wei looked puzzled, and pouted: "I don't understand... Is it like what he himself said, he was in charge of the inner court guards, and he was responsible for the son's poisoning?" Yan Changchu said: "This is one of them." Yan Wei asked: "Is there a second, third?"

Yan Changchu nodded, but remained silent. Yan Wei said anxiously: "What is that...you tell me quickly!" Yan Changchu said slowly: "In the past six months, you must have gone through a lot of things, and you should think more about things and think deeper. Things in the world don't just divide into good and bad things, and people in the world don't just divide into Good guys, bad guys, loyal and treacherous ministers..." After hearing this, Yan Wei blinked her eyes in confusion. Yan Chang Chu said: "Someone can poison and kill the young master in the forbidden palace. The poison is unheard of. The person has no trace, and there are no clues. If you are a king, are you afraid?" Yan Wei nodded: "Scared." Yan Chang Chu said: "Now that a person is caught and he is said to be a murderer, if you are the real murderer, will you come out to harm others again?" Yan Wei thought for a while, and said, "No, since someone is topping the vat, you have to restrain yourself for a while. If you come out to harm someone again, wouldn't it prove that the person who went to prison is not the murderer? This will set you on fire." Yan Changchu said: "Exactly! Putting Li Qichen in prison and making him the real culprit can make the real culprit restrain himself a little bit, and buy some time for the investigation." Yan Wei said angrily: "Since you say that, it's just a show, so there's no need to subject him to that kind of torture..." Yan Zhang Chu said: "If you don't act fake, how can you win people's trust? What's more, the king is already dissatisfied with Li Qichen, so he just took the opportunity to punish him..." Yan Wei wondered: "How do you say that? I heard that Li Qichen and his black-clothed servants are the king's closest vassals. They have repelled Jiang Guo's assassins many times, and the king never avoids them when he goes to the toilet or takes a bath." Yan Chang Chu said: "Alas! The closer you are to the subject, the more suspicious you will be... Just like sand can be in the palm prints, but not in the eyes..." Yan Wei heard her father's sigh, thinking that he was also a doctor in the inner court back then, and now he is idle in the countryside, this sigh must be a reminder of the past, and it is a feeling, right? Yan Changchu continued: "The third thing... is that Li Qichen and Young Master Yan got too close, and Young Master Yan respected him as a teacher, which is too much..." Yan Wei retorted: "It's not that Li Qichen wanted it himself! That young master Yan learned swords from him, but he wants to treat him like a master, so what can he do?" Yan Chang Chu said: "This is not only about 'rituals', but also about 'feelings'. Young Master Yan is the most talented adult son, both civil and military, upright and courteous...he is the best candidate to inherit the throne. But...Young Master But Yan obeyed Li Qichen's words and respected him like an elder brother, but this was a big worry..." At this point, Yan Changchu's voice became obviously lowered, as if infinitely sad. Yan Wei frowned and asked, "What worries?" Yan Changchu cleared his throat, as if he wanted to cover up his gaffe, and continued: "If the king is a hundred years later, son Yan ascends the throne, and with the respect that son Yan has for Li Qichen, wouldn't this Li Qichen become a person with power over the government and the people? King Quan Isn't falling aside a hidden worry?" Yan Wei was stunned, thinking about it, it was indeed the case, but neither she nor Li Qichen seemed to have thought about this level.Thinking of the situation of Gongzi Cong and Du Wang, it seems that they are quite similar.Does it mean that when a man grows up, he always needs someone like an older brother to guide him?Thinking of myself and Lu Jin, women seem to be quite different!Everyone discusses with each other, discusses and shares together, rather than one person listening to the other. Yan Wei thought too far, her eyes wandered far away, and she didn't answer the words.Yan Changchu also stopped and drank the porridge in the bowl. After a while, Yan Wei asked, "Is there any other reason?" Yan Changchu nodded slowly, and said: "After the rebellion of concubines and slaves, the servants in black in the palace were selected from the children of the nobles. They entered the palace at the age of thirteen, and were sent to various places as officials when they were eighteen. Li Qichen was seventeen. After defeating Mu Xuanshi, he became famous in one fell swoop, and soon became a Weiwei, commanding the black-clothed servants. It has been several years now. Groups of black-clothed servants learned martial arts and swords under his guidance, and took him as their teacher. After serving in the palace, They were scattered all over the place, and many of these people have become rising stars and pillars in the officialdom. It can be said that if Li Qichen raises his arms and sends him away, maybe half of these people will support him..." Yan Wei said in shock: "Isn't this too bizarre? Could it be that Li Qichen would pull them to rebel? He is not such a person!" Yan Zhang Chu said: "What kind of person a person is, you can't usually see it. You have to go through major events to see a person's true temperament... Although this matter is a bit absurd, it is still a hidden worry. Li Qichen's official position Although he is low, he is always by the king's side day and night, and there are so many disciples scattered all over the country to control the general affairs of Yang Guo. It can be said that he has no power but has power. Country root. After all, Jiang Guo’s surname Jiang withered, and the surname Long stole the country, and Yin Jian is not far away..."