Chapter 61 10. Flowing water

Luoyang. A group of five people came to the gate of the city, and the guard stopped them: "What are you doing?" A young man in coarse clothes and peasant attire supported the person on his back: "I am a carpenter outside the city. My wife is sick and I have to go to the city to get medicine." The guard looked at the wood and the woman on his back. The woman was wrapped in a blanket as if she was shivering from the cold, and her exposed arms were pale. She really looked sick. "Who are these people?" The guard frowned and looked at the two men and a woman behind him. The two men were both handsome, and there was a woman who was not small. She didn't know if she had acne or a pimple on her face. Leprosy, he lowered his head in embarrassment.

"This is my wife's family." The young man's magnetic voice was a little impatient. The small, handsome man behind him squeezed him secretly, and whispered to the guard with a bitter face, "Brother, my eldest sister got chickenpox and infected my second sister, please help me." An ingot of broken silver was stuffed in his hand. The guard took the silver, and when he heard "chickenpox" again, he immediately waved in disgust: "Go, go!" There was a cloud of sand and dust on the road, and hundreds of strong men were chained and staggered forward. The leader shouted on horseback: "Hurry up!"

A soldier next to him beat the young man severely with a leather whip: "What are you dawdling about! If you delay the fortification of the Eastern Capital, you will not be able to afford it even with ten heads!" "Officer, we haven't had a full meal for three days..." Some of the weaker ones couldn't bear it, and pleaded weakly. A whip lashed the speaker's face, and the person immediately rolled over in the dust. The "lady" who was being carried by the young man froze all over, with blue veins showing on the back of her white hands.The woman next to him who had chickenpox secretly pressed his hand, and a stone flew towards the beating soldier.

"I can't finish the work today, don't think about eating, I don't even have to drink water!" The soldier kicked him: "Get up!" Before he finished speaking, he suddenly yelled "Aiyo" while touching the back of his head: "Who? Who is sneaking up on me?" The people all around are walking, and everything is as usual. The wounded was covered in blood, and he got up staggeringly. Amidst the soldiers shouting and cursing loudly, the team moved forward. On the side of the road, several plainclothes soldiers looked at each other and quietly disappeared around the corner.

The faces of the people in Luoyang are full of fear and anger. A butcher slashed at the pork with a knife: "I keep arresting people. Three of my four brothers have been arrested, and one of them died on the construction site. If this continues, life will be impossible!" The old man next to him was crying: "The Emperor Xiudong is in Luoyang, he has captured all my sons, and even his thirteen-year-old grandson, I don't know when he will die from exhaustion..." "I heard that the Wagang Army is about to attack Luoyang!" Someone said in fear: "It's either hard labor or war - will there be a day of peace?"

The winter rain chilled people's hearts, and several people rushed into a ruined temple. The young man put down the "lady" on his back and took off the cloth towel that wrapped his head. While Ye Fangting was shaking off the rain on his body, he raised his head in amazement: "General, you look good in women's clothing..." Jun Wuyi has lost a lot these days, but her slender figure wearing a woman's sarong is still a bit nondescript. If there is no blanket wrapped around her body, it will be difficult to deceive the world. Tang Xiaotang's face was full of pride: "Xiaoye, look at me—Merry Tang."

She imitated Su Changshan's calm and relaxed manner, walked a few steps, and moved to Jun Wuyi's side: "Beauty, give Young Master Tang a smile—" "Image." Shen Zhu opened her paw. Ye Fangting laughed out of breath: "Look at Su Tong, his face is gone! His acne is gone!" Su Changshan showed a gesture of "I don't want to see you" speechlessly, and Pingping said to Jun Wuwu: "The current situation of the court has nothing to do with you, don't be too sentimental." Jun Wuyi silently turned his head away, the rain outside the temple splashed mud, one by one puddles swirled in the rain curtain.

Shen Zhu held a blade of grass that he didn't know where he got, and laughed when he heard the words: "Lady, your pulse was too fast just now, did you get angry? Not to mention that you are now a wanted criminal secretly wanted by the imperial court. Your legs—" Su Changshan said in a deep voice, "I'm going to Rongfu tonight." "Rong Mansion must be under surveillance, so don't act rashly." Jun Wuwu disagreed. "I will be careful." Su Changshan put the blanket on his cold knees: "After all, it is a wealthy family in Luoyang, so the court will be more or less scrupulous; since it is a secret wanted, even if someone is watching, it will not dare to let go. Martial arts can handle it."

"I'll go too!" Tang Xiaotang leaned forward. "No need." Su Changshan said simply. "But do you recognize 'Liu Shui'?" Tang Xiaotang blinked her eyes innocently: "'Liu Shui' is the name of the medicine given by our genius doctor—although the Rong family does have this medicine, it is not called by this name. Don't look at it I—I, no, will, tell you." The two figures, one in front and one behind, disappeared into the dusk. It was getting dusk, and there was a soft rustling sound outside the ruined temple, and it seemed to be just the sound of wind sweeping fallen leaves.

Shen Zhu spat out the blade of grass in his mouth: "Who?" A figure came out slowly from behind the ruined temple, knelt down with a sword in hand. Ye Fangting had just changed Jun Wuyi's clothes, and quickly wrapped Jun Wuyi in a blanket again - poking her head out to see the face of the visitor, she suddenly lost her voice: "Commander Zhang?" Behind Commander Zhang, hundreds of soldiers quickly assembled into teams—— "General! The emperor ordered the two guards on the left and right to divide into 20 groups. They searched for the general in Chang'an, Luoyang, Sichuan, Wuxi and other places for many days. The imperial decree has ordered that the general return to the court safely." Commander Zhang kowtowed deeply. go.

Ye Fangting pulled Commander Zhang aside vigilantly, and asked in a low voice, "The old emperor has sent so many people to look for my general?" "Thieves are everywhere, there are no generals in the court, and the emperor misses you and the general day and night." Commander Zhang said happily: "Eunuch Gui said that the emperor can't sleep at night, and he sighed, 'If the general is in the court, my heart can be at ease'. This sentence is the first It spread throughout the court within two days—the emperor spared the general's crime, and the army secretly dispatched by the court took the protection of the general's safety as the top priority." Seeing that Ye Fangting was skeptical, Commander Zhang added another sentence: "The emperor said that the crime in Fengzhou was committed by Su Zhuangyuan, and the murder and robbery have nothing to do with the general." "*@￥%#..." Ye Fangting suppressed his curse. "Ye Bubu." Shen Zhu snorted lightly, following the direction of his finger, Ye Fangting found that there was no one of Jun Wuxin in the temple, and the wheelchair was gone! "Where are my generals?" Ye Fanging was stunned. "Didn't you see that the temple has a back door?" Shen Zhu spread his hands. Rong Mansion, the door is closed. Although the rain had stopped, the night was dark and the air was filled with the smell of damp rotting wood.Su Changshan and Tang Xiaotang quietly jumped onto the roof. Su Changshan paused for a moment, and an inexplicable uneasiness hit his heart.There was no sound around, he gathered himself together, and took Tang Xiaotang to the bedroom with the lights on in the mansion. A pale pale moon squeezed out of the clouds, and in the dim light, a pair of gloomy eyes were looking at their backs with a sneer. The candles in the room were still burning, and Rong Yi was sleeping soundly wrapped in the quilt. "Rong Yi..." Su Changshan lifted a corner of the quilt, pushed his shoulder, Rong Yi opened his eyes in a daze, and was startled: "You—who are you..." "Shut up." Su Changshan signaled him to keep quiet. Rong Yi was so frightened by the ugly girl who suddenly appeared in front of the bed that he lost all sleepiness, he stopped his beating heart, rubbed his eyes and looked again—— "You...you are Su Tong! How did you make it like this?" Rong Yi's jaw almost dropped, and the handsome Su Lang actually pretended to be an ugly girl with chickenpox, followed by a handsome young man. Su Changshan explained the purpose of his visit in the simplest words. Rong Yi thought for a while, stroked his chest and said, "No problem, no problem, fortunately this medicine is available in Rong's house! ... Father passed all the treasures in the family to me and Sui Xin - this matter, I should have I discussed it with Suixin, but since she has no intention of using it, she will definitely agree!" He hurriedly got up in his nightgown: "If you are not at home, I have to find out where the medicine is." He scratched his head and scratched his ears and thought for a long time, then turned around anxiously: "But where to put it, I really don't know..." Su Changshan supported his forehead with a headache, this Mr. Rong is a well-known confused king—— Opening the hidden partition in the wall, Rong Yi moved out all the things inside. He put all the rare gold, jade and antique vases on the ground, but he couldn't find anything like medicine. At this time, only a "pop" sound was heard, and a vase was broken on the ground. Tang Xiaotang innocently looked at the lost hand, oh no, the broken vase was kicked by the wrong foot, and she looked up - Su Changshan and Rong Yi were only looking for the key, and ignored her at all, she was also happy to relax, sitting on the carved wooden chair Come down and rest. The two were digging their heads into the search, when a faint scent wafted into the room, Su Changshan shouted in a deep voice: "Shut your breath!" A black shadow flashed outside the window. Su Changshan jumped to the window to chase after him, and just pressed the window lattice with his hand to turn over, a tingling pain came from his palm - it turned out that a lot of broken porcelain had been placed on the window at some time, Su Changshan frowned and pulled out the pieces, but saw When his palms turned black—the suffocating pressure on his chest, he knew he was poisoned. It was only when I was looking for medicine that I focused on it, so I was careless for a while. The other party obviously planned carefully to get this plan right! Tang Xiaotang's martial arts and reflexes are not as good as Su Changshan's. If he hadn't been sitting on a chair, he would have been fascinated by the drug immediately. Only Rong Yi, the one with the best martial arts skills among the three, looked at the situation in front of him in puzzlement: "You... what's wrong with you?" While speaking, he suddenly covered his head, curled up and rolled on the ground in pain! "Rong Yi!" Su Changshan stepped forward to help Rong Yi, but his eyes suddenly went dark, and he also fell to the ground.I saw Rong Yi struggling on the ground like crazy for a while, then suddenly he raised a dagger and stabbed at Su Changshan! "Su Tong!" Tang Xiaotang exclaimed in his ear.Su Changshan's consciousness was a little slack but not completely lost. It seemed that a medicine was stuffed into his mouth. After a long while, his hands and feet were finally able to move, and Tang Xiaotang squatted in front of him in his blurred vision. "... How are you?" Su Changshan struggled to sit up, but Tang Xiaotang suddenly swayed, and he held her back, but his hands were wet. Following the dampness, Su Changshan's hand trembled as if scalded by boiling water—it was a dagger. A dagger was stuck in Tang Xiaotang's vest. "Little Tang!" Su Changshan shouted, and quickly turned her shoulders over, Su Changshan suddenly couldn't say a word—— "..." Tang Xiaotang still smiled brightly: "I know this injury will lead to death. But for that person, he will only feel a little sad when I die... and he will be so sad that he will hurt when you die. My own..." The dagger was stuck in the heart, her back was full of surging blood, and she lowered her head powerlessly: "Vase..." Following the direction of her finger, there is an inconspicuous gray vial among the fragments of the vase. "That is 'flowing water'..." Su Changshan was as stiff and motionless as a sculpture. "I didn't expect...that I would die in Luoyang." Blood began to gushes profusely from her lips. "What do you have to say that you want me to bring to Jun Wuyi?" Su Changshan said slowly. "The first time I saw him, I liked him..." Tang Xiaotang's eyes suddenly burst into tears: "...but he is such a serious person... If I let him know that I like him, the love in his heart The burden and sadness must be ten times greater than mine..." "Don't tell him...don't let him know..." Tears flowed from Tang Xiaotang's dying eyes: "Promise me one thing..." "You say." Su Changshan's voice didn't change, because the grief was as hard as a rock. "I just checked your pulse, you have been poisoned by the 'sacrificing heaven' poison, there is no cure for it... unless there is a master who is willing to help you force the poison out within twenty years, you will die soon... Speaking of the urgent point, she panted heavily: "If I knew you had been poisoned, I would never save you. If his current body forced the poison for you, it would be very difficult to live...don't let him force the poison for you... ..." Tears and blood mixed together on the girl's delicate chin: "You, promise me...you are Su Lang, there must be a way to make him give up." If the only way to survive is to lose a friend; then, she would rather have that person have nothing. As long as there is life, there is hope.He is so warm and can heal himself. On the mountain, she saw the mystery in the soup, so she didn't pick up the spoon: only when she lost, could she go down the mountain, go to Luoyang with Jun Wuyi, and accompany him to find medicine—she saved someone just now because she didn't want him to be sad ;Now she begs for help, just so that he can survive. Smart as Tang Xiaotang, who can see through the world's tricks, but can't see through his own...love tribulation. A spoon boiled with Coptis chinensis tastes bitter; a spoon boiled with salt water tastes salty. Bitter as love, salty as tears— "……You promised me……" Su Changshan closed his eyes: "I agree." Tang Xiaotang laughed and wept: "Shen Zhu can't cure him, because—" The voice stopped suddenly, and her arm fell to the ground. "Father! There is noise in the room, what's going on?" The doll's voice came from outside the door. Rong Yi, who was unconscious on the ground, rubbed his head and opened his eyes. He didn't know why he fell to the ground in embarrassment, and then looked to the side, only to see the young man in Su Changshan's arms covered in blood, and suddenly screamed in fright: " He... what happened to him?" Su Changshan slowly pulled out the dagger from Tang Xiaotang's back - the blood-stained dagger was made of platinum, with the word "Rong" painted on it with a silver hook and iron. Rong Yi looked at the dagger with a pale face, looked down at his blood-stained hands, and suddenly sat down on the ground in fright. "Father!" The voice of the baby outside became more and more anxious: "If you don't open the door again, I will kick the door!"