The two galloped their horses, and the Taozhou military camp appeared on the distant horizon. Seeing it was close at hand, they smelled a pungent smell of medicine.
When the horse-fighting team got closer, they saw a large pot cooking medicinal materials at the entrance of the military camp. Two fireworks soldiers were holding an oversized spoon and stirring the boiling medicinal material soup.
Then the soldiers lined up urged: "Are you ready? Can you drink?"
Li Linhuai felt that the scene of cooking medicine like this was a bit familiar. After thinking for a while, he remembered that he had followed the princess to the Song and Qing medicine shop. Whenever there was a high incidence of diseases in Chang'an City, the medicine shop would cook a large pot of medicine like this and sell it to Chang'an at a low price. the people of the city.
Dismounting from the horse together with Wang Zhongsi, Li Linhuai asked: "What are you doing?"
"Come on, young general, we are cooking medicine!"
The cook explained: "The miracle doctor brought by King Anxin from Lingzhou said that soldiers are most likely to contract typhoid fever when marching in winter, so they prepared medicine packs to prevent typhoid fever every day, cooked several large pots and distributed them to the soldiers."
"After drinking this soup, my body feels warm and I am not so afraid of the cold. Although this medicine is a bit unpleasant to drink, it is very effective. I am looking forward to drinking a bowl of it."
The waiter who recognized Li Linhuai and Wang Zhongsi scooped up two bowls of concoction with a large spoon and handed them over: "The two young generals just came back from outside. It's freezing cold today. Please drink two bowls to warm yourself up."
Li Linhuai hated the bitter taste of the concoction the most. When he saw Wang Zhongsi not even blinking an eyebrow, he happily picked up the big bowl and drank it all in one gulp. If he resisted, it would be a joke.
When he was in Chang'an City, he had made an agreement with the princess that only the princess would know the secret of his sweet tooth.
So Li Linhuai picked up the medicine bowl without changing his expression and took a big gulp. Only then did he find that the medicine was not as bitter as he thought, and after the slight bitterness, there was a sweet aftertaste.
It’s not that hard to swallow!
Li Linhuai hurriedly drank the rest of the concoction and felt hot all over when he returned the bowl to the cook.
"The method of preparing medicine by the miracle doctor in Lingzhou is the same as that of the Song and Qing medicine shops in the capital."
When Li Linhuai and Wang Zhongsi stepped into the military camp side by side, they thought deeply: "If there is a chance, Linhuai would like to meet the miracle doctor from Lingzhou to see if he is related to the Song and Qing medicine shops in the capital."
Although Wang Zhongsi did not have much interaction with Li Sixu in the capital, Li Sixu was Emperor Xuanzong's favorite princess.
When he and she visited Zending Temple and Qiwang Villa, they had fought side by side, so they wanted to set up some obstacles for the Fourth Young Master of General Zuo Yulin's mansion who was plotting against his imperial sister.
Naturally, he would not tell him that the miracle doctor from Lingzhou might be the person with whom he had an agreement.
Wang Zhongsi smiled and said nothing. After a while, he secretly chuckled: "Well, you will have a chance to see him..."
When Li Linhuai and Wang Zhongsi returned to the military camp, Li Sixu was treating Shuofang's deputy military governor Li Kailuo's leg injury.
Looking at the young miracle doctor who skillfully administered acupuncture to him, Li Kailuo couldn't help but chatter: "Watching the young miracle doctor administering acupuncture, this general suddenly thought of someone."
Li Sixu's hand holding the silver needle paused for a moment, and continued to apply the needle on him without changing her expression.
"Who did the general have in mind?"
"That tenth princess with amazing talent and beauty!"
Li Kailuo told Li Sixu: "Her acupuncture technique is similar to the acupuncture technique used by you, the miracle doctor. She can also flick the needle into the acupuncture point, and her medical skills are superb."
Li Sixu thought her little vest was going to be exposed!
However, Li Kailuo continued: "However, there has been no news from the princess since she left the capital seven years ago for a medical trip. I heard that she followed Princess Yuzhen to Qingcheng Mountain in Shu. When this battle is over, if this general If you are destined to come back alive, go to Qingcheng Mountain on Jiannan Road to meet her."
"The general will be safe and sound."
Li Sixu was very touched to be remembered in this way.
She twisted the silver needle and said, "It's just that the princess the general mentioned was the Qingcheng Mountain in the Shu region that he went to seven years ago. Maybe she would have left long ago by the time the general found her?"
"Then you still have to go!"
Li Kailuo insisted: "Even if the princess is not in Qingcheng Mountain, the eldest princess who is practicing in Qingcheng Mountain must know where she went to travel to heal."
Li Sixu was calm and composed, and her men kept moving: "Is the general thinking about the little princess very much? Why do you have to turn around to Qingcheng Mountain to see her after you finish fighting Tubo?"
"It's my son Linhuai who is thinking about her!"
Li Kailuo always felt that the little miracle doctor in front of him had a familiar feeling, which made people feel close to him.
Why did I mention the Tenth Princess without realizing it?
If he continues to talk and exposes the Linhuai child's affection for the princess, without knowing the princess's feelings, wouldn't it damage the princess's reputation?
Li Kailuo coughed hurriedly and turned the topic back to the treatment of injuries: "My general's old cold legs are the root cause of the disease that the late emperor suffered when he confronted the Khitan in the battle of Shi Lengjing."
General Zuo Yulin said that my son is thinking about her in Linhuai. Even though Li Sixu was calm and composed, a faint smile still appeared on the corner of her mouth.
Just so as not to show any flaws, she quickly suppressed her smile.
Li Kailuo suddenly mentioned the battle at Lengjing, and Li Sixu hurriedly followed his words: "Axu heard that the battle between the general and the Khitan was extremely brutal, but was it so?"
"Yes, that battle was extremely brutal!"
"The winter on the grassland is freezing cold. After arriving in Youzhou, the commander-in-chief Sun Quan was eager to regain the Yingzhou occupied by the Khitan. Although General Wu Keli warned against it and said that if he attacked from far away alone, he would be defeated, General Sun still insisted on ordering me to lead the army. With four thousand cavalry as the vanguard, he led the main force to follow and march north."
"It's just that the chief of the Xi tribe, Li Dayu, is very good at using troops and is not a vegetarian. In addition, he was outnumbered and the Khitan had a geographical advantage. This general was quickly defeated."
"How can I, a man from the Tang Dynasty, be afraid of death when I go into battle to kill the enemy? It's just that this general never imagined that when I was desperately killing the enemy at the front, the coach Sun Quan saw that I had failed in the first battle, but he refused to help me. Instead, he saw that the momentum was not good. Leading troops to retreat."
"The commander is greedy for life and afraid of death, so naturally the soldiers' morale is shattered, giving Xi Bing an opportunity to take advantage of it!"
I don't know whether it was because Li Kailuo felt numbness and pain in his legs when Li Sixu was performing the acupuncture, or because he was trapped in memories, but his eyes were red and swollen.
"In that battle, the corpses of our generals, Li Tang, piled up in a mountain, and as far as the eye could see there was a mountain of corpses and a sea of people. My son Zunzhi tried to save me, but he was stabbed hard from behind by General Xi Jun and died."
Li Zunzhi?
Li Sixu remembered that he seemed to be Li Linhuai's eldest brother.
She remembered that Eunuch Yang mentioned that Li Kailuo's family was full of loyalists, and Li Linhuai's three brothers all died fighting on the border.
She always thought that all the men of the Li family died in the battle with Tubo.
It turns out that his eldest brother Li Zunzhi died in the battle with the Khitan?
The dead are gone!
Li Sixu didn't know how to comfort him for a moment!
"Axu's medical clinic in Lingzhou has received veterans from Shuofang and Hexi. I heard them talk about the hidden story of the Battle of Guolengjing."
