Miao Zhen said with joy, and sighed when Lin Rong asked the lady of the monarch: "Yes, I heard that she was only sixteen years old when she died. She didn't even have the whole body, and her husband's family refused to Funeral. Even at this time of year, we can only erect a memorial. What a pitiful man, his youth is gone like this."
After hearing this, Lin Rong became even more relieved, thinking, since they are having funerals, they must think that they are dead, and this is the best thing. From then on, there was no Princess Wuyang Cui Shiyi in the world, only the little Taoist priest Miao Xuan in the Taoist temple.
She became seriously ill in the first month of last year. Because her medical skills made others jealous, the pharmacies and hospitals in the county refused to sell her any medicine. She was so sick that she couldn't stand up. She had no choice but to pawn the rubies and jade pendants that she had plundered from Lu Shen's body, and then she reluctantly replaced them with a pair of medicine. Forget about the ruby, although it is valuable and owned by rich families, the jade pendant is really special. It has the emblem of the Lu family of Yongzhou engraved on it. If someone is interested and sees it, I don't know what kind of lawsuit it will cause. She originally wanted to leave this Taoist temple, but in this troubled world, where could she find shelter?
Lin Rong was quite worried about this. When he heard the news of the funeral in Yongzhou, he unconsciously put a smile on his face and nodded: "Yes!"
Lin Rong was ill and died once. In this Taoist temple, he lived in poverty and worked hard every day, but he didn't have the erratic feeling like being in a dream when he just traveled through time.
She didn't smile often, but when she smiled, her pale face was tinged with a hint of crimson, and her eyes were a little gloomy. Miaozhen was stunned and slowly said: "The Emperor of Han Dynasty is heavy on color." I miss Yu Qingguo, and Yu Yu has been unable to ask for it for many years. If I meet Miaoxuan, I won’t be unable to ask for you..."
Seeing her teasing, Lin Rong was not annoyed but nodded: "Well, what the senior sister said is that my skin is indeed not bad."
Miao Zhen sighed, stretched out her hand to pinch Lin Rong's face, and smiled: "I'm really not ashamed."
The two were talking and laughing when they suddenly heard a cough. They turned around and saw Master Taiyuan Zhenren standing at the door with a sullen face. He hurriedly knelt down and said, "Master! I know my mistake, please forgive me."
Master Taiyuan looked serious and said, "Straighten your body straight and don't tilt it!"
The two hurriedly knelt straight, sat upright and bowed, and said softly, "Yes!"
Although Taiyuan Zhenren is strict and old-fashioned, he does not get angry with ordinary things. He walked in and took out a fold of yellow paper from his sleeve: "This is the elixir that Daxuan Qingguan will ask for next month. You two will go tomorrow." Go down the mountain and prepare all the medicinal materials, and then take care of the alchemy furnace, don't miss anything."
The two of them said hello, took the yellow paper respectfully, bowed and left.
Taiyuan Zhenren originally came from a wealthy family. Due to her frailty and illness since childhood, she became a nun before she got married. She was a decent person, and she was cared for by her old friend, so she was able to live a clean life. Because he was innocent, he didn't even look down on things like refining elixirs. He only read and wrote poems on weekdays, leaving all his secular things to his disciples to take care of.
Lin Rong unfolded the yellow paper, read it, recalled the extracurricular books he had read about Taoist alchemy, added and deleted some, and was busy until midnight, then put it on the table and got up to go to bed.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she fell into a daze, she heard faint cries outside the window. After listening carefully for a while, she recognized that it was a new handyman in the temple, a girl who was only thirteen years old.
Lin Rong thought that the little girl had been bullied by the people in the audience, so she put on her clothes and was about to open the door to comfort her: "Stop crying, who bullied you?"
Who would have thought that speaking out so rashly frightened the little girl hiding among the flowers and trees, and the stone in her hand suddenly fell to the ground: "Who?"
Lin Rong replied: "It's me!"
The little girl was already tense. When she saw Lin Rong, she immediately cried and kowtowed to her: "Master Miaoxuan, I didn't mean to wake you up, I didn't mean to wake you up..."
Lin Rong looked over under the moonlight and saw the little girl's wrists were all green and black, and said in surprise: "Did you just hit yourself with a stone?"
Chapter 50
When the little girl heard Lin Rong's exclamation, she quickly put down her rolled sleeves to cover her bruised wrists, and said in a panic: "I didn't accidentally hit it, I'll leave now... I'll leave now... "
As he said that, the little girl stood up and slowly backed away. As she backed away, she lowered her head and admitted her mistake to Lin Rong: "I'm disturbing the real person, I'm disturbing the real person."
She couldn't see anything when she was squatting. When she stood up and was only wearing a close-fitting undershirt, Lin Rong immediately noticed her slightly bulging belly. Blood was flowing down her trouser legs, and soon it was dripping. After shedding a small puddle, she remembered the nausea and vomiting scene of this girl a few days ago and stopped her: "You...you have it?"
The little girl was originally afraid of being known, but at this moment Lin Rong pointed it out. Her legs went weak and she fell to the ground, but she kept arguing: "No, no, I didn't, I didn't."
Lin Rong yelled and quickly helped her up, and put it on her wrist. Her pulse seemed to be flowing smoothly, and it was obvious that the pulse was slipping. "Get up quickly."
The little girl asked Lin Rong to help her into the room. She drank a cup of hot tea. Then she regained her composure and knelt in front of Lin Rong: "Please be kind and merciful, please save my life. I don't want to." Die...I don't want to die..."
The little girl was already scared out of her wits. Lin Rong asked briefly and then answered everything. This little girl's parents were gone. Master Taixuan saw that she was pitiful so he allowed her to work as a handyman in the temple. She had food, clothing and one hundred pence a month. However, the years in the mountains were cold after all. This little girl occasionally went down the mountain to run errands for the women's crowns, and met a man from a silk shop. Every time he gave her some handkerchiefs and flowers, the two of them started to have a relationship. When the guy saw that she was pregnant, he refused to admit it and pushed her away. He also said, "I'm not clean, and I don't know whose baby it is. It fell on me, but I promised to kiss her."
At this point, the little girl covered her handkerchief and burst into tears. For a moment, she didn't know whether it was sweat or tears on her face. She sobbed and said intermittently: "The master of the temple is the most severe. If he knows about my scandal, he will definitely drive me out." . If a person like me is kicked out, I will freeze to death in the snow this winter. I know that I have done something wrong, and the real person treats me well. I beg the real person to buy me a pair of tire slipping pills and save me. One life.”
Lin Rong sighed. This little girl was only thirteen years old. In modern times, she had just entered junior high school. Looking at her pale and tender face, Lin Rong really couldn't say no. He nodded silently and checked her carefully again. He saw that the girl's belly was covered with purple marks made by herself with stones, and her lower parts were not covered. bleed.
Finally, Lin Rong washed his hands and asked, "How many days have you been bleeding?"
The little girl timidly said: "It's been seven days! It started to flow less, not even a small cup, but gradually it became more in the past two days. Just now I hid in the flowers and trees, and hit it with a stone seven or eight times. This time There’s a lot of talent flowing out.”
Lin Rong took out three feet of cotton cloth from the cabinet, handed it to her, and said: "If the bleeding is not clean, you will suffer in the future, and you will still have to take a pair of abortion pills. You can rest here tonight, and tomorrow I'm just about to go down the mountain and bring you some medicine. Please don't go out for a few days to walk around or work. I will tell the senior sister in charge that you are sick and need to stay in bed for a few days."
The little girl cried silently after hearing this, and knelt on the bed and kowtowed to Lin Rong: "You are a great benefactor, I will definitely build a shrine for you and offer incense every day."
Lin Rong shook his head, said nothing, hugged another quilt, and headed to Senior Sister Miaozhen's place in the back corridor.
Miaozhen was drowsily asleep, but she still moved her position inside and muttered: "Why are you squeezing me at this time?"
Lin Rong replied: "Can't sleep."
Miaozhen turned over after hearing this, rubbed her eyes, and smiled: "Did you dream about your senior brother?"
Lin Rong rolled his eyes at her, ignored her, gathered the quilt and turned his back. Miao Zhen said: "When you were recuperating in Shuiyue Temple, you were so feverish that you fell unconscious. The master ordered me to take care of you at night. I listened to you talking nonsense all night. In addition to calling you mom and dad, I called you senior brother. The fever will be gone by morning. At that time, I heard you read Lu again... Lu Sheng or Lu Shen, is your senior brother called Lu Shen? Does he treat you well? "
I don't know how many times Miaozhen mentioned this, but Lin Rong covered it up. But the more Lin Rong didn't say anything, the more curious Miaozhen became. She leaned over and said, "Tell me, now that you have become a nun, what are you still holding on to in these worldly relationships? Is this your senior brother Lu Shen?" I didn’t grow up with you since childhood. If you know medical skills, you must be brothers and sisters who studied medicine together. If he treats you well, why doesn’t he come to find you? "
Lin Rong said dryly: "No! Go to sleep. You have to go down the mountain early tomorrow morning. If you whisper something, let the senior sister in charge know and punish you again."
Miao Zhen turned around angrily and muttered: "My hair gets fried when I mention him. What kind of hatred can these brothers and sisters have? You don't even mention it?"
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Xiaoxuanqing Temple is built on the top of the mountain. The trees on the mountain are green and moist, and it is shrouded in clouds and mist all year round. It takes at least two or three hours to go to Qingzhou below the mountain. Therefore, before dawn, the two men set off in a donkey cart.
Unfortunately, the donkey was really an old donkey with a stubborn temper. When it reached the middle of the mountain, it couldn't move away no matter how hard it was driven away.
The two of them sighed, and had no choice but to take the old donkey to a nearby mountain stream to eat grass and drink water. After a good meal and a rest, the old donkey was willing to walk slowly down the mountain. Just such a delay, it was already past noon when Lin Rong and the two arrived at Qingzhou City. Miaozhen slapped the old donkey angrily: "It's all because of this stubborn beast. It's only this hour, and we have to go back at night." ?”
Lin Rong then laughed: "If this donkey wasn't stubborn, would it still be a donkey?"
The materials required for making alchemy had been booked with the store a long time ago, and they were all acquaintances. Lin Rong and the others only came to see if they were of suitable quality and if they were passed off as good ones. The shopkeeper smiled and nodded: "Don't worry, Taoist priests, our shopkeepers are honest. We are the only ones in Qingzhou City who have such fine cinnabar, cinnabar, and sulfur."
Refining alchemy was related to Xiao Xuan Qingguan's livelihood. Neither of them dared to be careless. They counted it carefully before paying the money.
Lin Rong was thinking about getting medicine for the little girl, and found an excuse to send Miaozhen away: "Senior sister, please eat something and rest for a while. Maybe I didn't recover from my illness last time, and I have some night sweats these days. I will go and get some medicine." Take the side medicine."
The two of them went down the mountain all the way. Miao Zhen was tired for most of the day and nodded: "Then you go ahead. If you get late, the drug store will be at the door. I'll just wait for you at the roadside noodle stall here. Come on, hurry up." Go and come back quickly."
Lin Rong nodded, thinking that he would not be able to get the medicine for preventing pregnancy, so he could not dress up like a Taoist priest wearing a hibiscus crown and a green feather skirt. He took the baggage, changed into another green shirt in the donkey cart, and combed his hair. The man, with his hair in a bun and a curtain hat, walked slowly towards the medicine shop. The drug store was a small shop with only one doctor and a clerk cutting medicinal materials. It was very deserted. When someone came, the clerk lowered his head while cutting the medicinal materials and asked, "Does the girl want to see a doctor or take medicine?"
Lin Rong took out a few prescriptions from his sleeves and handed them over: "Take the medicine, three pairs each."
The clerk took a look at it. The first two prescriptions for replenishing qi and blood were fine, but the second prescription for a tire-absorbing medicine didn't dare to make up his mind. When he looked at Lin Rong, his eyes changed: "Girl, this is Don’t take tiger and wolf medicine indiscriminately. If you are not careful, the mountain of blood will collapse, and even the miracle doctor Hua Tuo will not be able to save you."
At this time, except for the women in brothels, no women bought abortion pills. After giving birth, there were many drowned and abandoned babies, but few were willing to spend money to induce abortion.
Lin Rong said calmly: "I know, just follow the prescription and take the medicine."
Seeing Lin Rong's determination, the clerk turned around and shouted behind the screen: "Mr. Huang, you have to take a look at this prescription, otherwise I won't dare to take the medicine."
Mr. Huang was an old man in his fifties. He was dozing off. Hearing this, he yawned and said, "Come in."
These small drug stores have to read the prescription before prescribing medicine, for fear of killing people, getting into lawsuits and being blackmailed. Lin Rong had no choice but to take the prescription, go around the screen, and sit down in the clinic: "Old sir, there is no need to check your pulse. If something goes wrong, it has nothing to do with the pharmacy."
Mr. Huang was short-sighted, so he put the prescription in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, and said: "I have changed the three herbs of peach kernel, schisandra chinensis, and cinnamon cinnamon. They are milder, and they are pharmacologically sound." He then advised: "I Seeing as you are still in good health and from a good family, you were born as a child, so why do you have to suffer the misfortune of having a miscarriage?"
Lin Rong had no choice but to make nonsense: "Old sir, I have my own reasons. It's not that I am evil-minded and insist on taking the life of this fetus. It's actually that the father of this child already has a wife and refuses to marry me and refuses to recognize him." This child. As a woman, it’s hard for me to support myself. If I really can’t support this child, please ask the old gentleman to help me.”
This is the first time that Mr. Huang has encountered such a thing since he sat in the restaurant. He opened his mouth wide and was too shocked to say a word. Naturally, he couldn't persuade Lin Rong anymore. He stroked his beard and shook his head and sighed. After a long while, he said to Call the guy outside: "Xiaowuzi, give this lady the medicine according to the prescription!"
After shouting four or five times, it was quiet outside and no one answered. The doctor was so angry that he slapped the table and stood up: "Little Wuzi, where did you go to hide away again?" He walked around the screen and came out of the corridor of the inner room. , while wondering: "What time of the day is this? Why is it so quiet on the street, even the sound of hawking is gone?"
He opened the curtain and came out, and saw dozens of armored soldiers on both sides of the hall, holding swords and standing solemnly. Among them was a young man in black clothes and brocade robes, who was sitting with a sullen face. He was undoubtedly Lu Shen.
Looking to the side, he saw that his assistant, Xiao Wuzi, had been gagged and forced to the ground, unable to make any sound.
Doctor Huang was startled and cursed: "Who are you, trying to be strong men here in the clear sky?"
Lu Shen was holding the tea, without even looking at it, and waved his hand: "Fork it down."
Immediately, two sergeants came up, gagged the two people in the drug store, and escorted them out of the door. Doctor Huang refused to accept it at first. He struggled a lot, received two blows on his neck, and lay on the ground.
While he couldn't help crying out in pain, he saw that the streets had been cleared out at some point. In the usually bustling market, there were now only sergeants standing at three steps, one post, and five steps.
The inner consulting room is some distance away from the outside, and there are many medicine stoves that are boiling medicine. When the fire is strong and the gurgling boils, and the attention is not outside, so many soldiers in black come unknowingly. Black armor, Doctor Huang exclaimed in his heart: It is the armored bodyguard of the Yongzhou monarch!
Lin Rongben was packing up prescriptions when he heard the old gentleman shouting outside. He hurriedly walked around the screen, opened the curtain and came out.
Chapter 51
In fact, the news of Lin Rong's arrival in the city at noon had already been sent to Lu Shen's desk.
When Shen Yan went in to report, Lu Shen was shouting at the generals of Qingzhou: "You have 40,000 soldiers and horses, but you let the Xiongnu with thousands of horses come and go freely, as if entering an uninhabited country, burn, kill, and loot, and then march away, I will betray you." Well, what kind of crime should I do if I betray the people?"
The Xiongnu going south to invade border towns has been a common occurrence since the previous dynasty. If the two armies were to face each other openly and openly, the Qingzhou generals would naturally not take the thousands of Xiongnu in their eyes. However, these Huns had no fixed whereabouts and did not dare to go to important towns like Qingzhou, so they went to rob the counties and towns below. After only three or four days, they returned to the grassland and were nowhere to be found. They had all kinds of strength but nowhere to use it.
In addition, in the past year, the Yongzhou army went south and won many battles. The prestige of Jiangnan was spread directly to the government and the public, and it was likely to equal the world with Luoyang. Naturally, the Xiongnu did not dare to invade at will, but this year the Xiongnu was infected with the epidemic. Many cattle and sheep were killed, and they did not care about the reputation of the Yongzhou Army.
The county magistrate sent someone to risk his life to report the news. By the time the reinforcements arrived, all the Huns had withdrawn without a trace. The guard general Feng Yifei who led the army was a leader among the younger generation in Yongzhou. He had never experienced such humiliation. He immediately chased for three to four hundred miles and killed 1,500 horsemen before returning to Qingzhou. I thought that even if it was not a great achievement, it would be a crime, but I didn't expect that I was punished for a long time.
The generals knew Lu Shen's temper, and they knelt down while being trained. They didn't dare to argue even a single word, and they all muttered in their hearts: If my lord is so angry, could it be that the war in the south is not going well, and that he is angry with us?
Feng Yifei, who was the only one who went to pursue him, was young and energetic. He couldn't stand Lu Shen's words and immediately clenched his fists and said, "My lord, please lower the bid by 5,000 troops. If you fail to bring back the head of the Xiongnu Chanyu, , the final general vowed not to return the army."
Lu Shen snorted coldly and was about to deal with Feng Yifei. Duke De shook his feather fan and sat aside. Seeing this, he quickly interrupted: "My lord, Shen Yan has been waiting outside the meeting hall for a long time. I think he has something important to report. It's better to call him in first, so as not to delay anything. .”
Shen Yan is Lu Shen's personal manager. When he came to Qingzhou these days, Lu Shen only told him one thing. The secret was unknown to others, but Duke De was able to guess a thing or two. He immediately stood up and held his hands in his hands: "My lord, please leave."
Lu Shen glanced at it and saw Marquis Shen Yan in the corridor. He waved his hand and acquiesced: "You will step aside first. We will discuss this later."
The generals filed out, and Shen Yan and others had all left. Then he came closer and reported: "Your Majesty, Madam entered Qingzhou from the north of the city at noon..."
Before he could finish his sentence, Lu Shen abruptly cut him off: "What madam? She is the bitch of the Cui family!"
Shen Yan's scalp was tight and he really didn't dare to call her that. He continued: "When Mrs. Cui... Cui... entered the city, she was accompanied by the female Taoist priest Xiaoqing Xuanguan. She was dressed as the nun of Shuiyue Temple said. The female crown."
When Lu Shen heard this, he immediately sneered and pressed the tiger talisman he was playing with: "A monk?" The words that the woman said before jumping off the cliff were still in his ears. Lu Shen felt a faint tingling in his temples when he thought about it. "A monk?" Humph, is there such a cheap thing in the world?
Shen Yan glanced at Lu Shen's expression, and then reported: "The two of them went to the merchant's store to buy some cinnabar. The people who followed reported back that my wife sent away the Taoist priests who were traveling with her, and changed into a secular woman's dress to go. Get medicine from the drug store.”
After Shen Yan finished reporting, he stood silently. He waited for an unknown amount of time before listening to Lu Shen's instructions: "Order two hundred black armors." Although he didn't say where he was going, except for the drug store where his wife went, there was no other one. place.
The black-armored guards were well-trained and cleared the street in just a moment. When Lu Shen sat down at the medicine shop, Lin Rong was talking to Mr. Huang without realizing it.
Lu Shen's ears were very good and he heard Lin Rong's words in the clinic clearly. He could still sit still at first, but when he heard the woman inside saying things like "pregnancy" and "getting married", she gritted her teeth and sneered, almost I want to crush the tea cup in my hand.
People like him have kept their emotions and anger secret since elementary school. The angrier they get, the calmer they become. He puts down the tea cup and taps the table with his fingers, as if he is listening to a play by the water in his spare time.
Marquis Shen Yan was beside him. Unlike Lu Shen, he didn't hear what was said. Seeing Lu Shen's cold face at first, but then he started laughing. He was shocked and knew: Madam is going to suffer a lot today. .
Mr. Huang opened the curtain and went out. Lin Rong also stood up and sorted out the prescriptions on the table. Then he heard Mr. Huang yelling and cursing. At first, he thought he was someone who came to make trouble, so he inevitably made a fuss. Who knows? After saying this, there was no sound. He knew something was wrong, something must have happened outside, so he hurriedly opened the curtain and came out.
It was dusk at this time, and Lu Shen was sitting by the window again, his whole body hidden in the golden sunset light.
