At the eastern foothills of Cuihua Mountain, the atmosphere in the valley where the Li family rested became very solemn because of Li Xuanba. Li Xuanba coughed so hard that his face flushed, and finally he coughed up blood and fainted.
In this regard, the most anxious ones are undoubtedly Dou, the mother, and Li Jiancheng, the eldest brother. Li Jian, in particular, grabs a handful of his hair with his hands from time to time, clenching his fists, and his face is full of regret. He looked as if he had committed a huge mistake, and occasionally looked at the woman in yellow shirt sitting cross-legged on the grass with Li Xuanba in her arms with guilt in her eyes.
The woman in the yellow shirt is Li Yuan's wife and Li Jiancheng's mother, Dou; Dou is the granddaughter of Emperor Wen of Zhou Dynasty, Yuwen Tai, and the daughter of Dou Yi, the Duke of Shenwu County. Her mother is Princess Xiangyang of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. She was raised in the palace in her early years and was married to her uncle, Emperor Wu of Zhou Dynasty, Yuwen Yong. Love. Dou grew up in the palace and was familiar with politics, loved reading history books, and was good at calligraphy. When she was six or seven years old, when she saw her uncle neglecting Queen Ashina, who was married from the Turks, she quietly persuaded Emperor Wu of Zhou: "There is still peace in all directions. The Turks are still very powerful. I hope my uncle will consider the common people, suppress his emotions, and treat my aunt well. As long as the Turkic Khanate is here to help, neither Nan Chen nor Northern Qi will cause you any trouble."
Emperor Wu of the Zhou Dynasty, Yu Wenyong, initially thought that she was just whispering about the children and didn't take it to heart at all. However, he doted on his little niece and pretended to listen carefully. However, when he heard that his niece had such an opinion, He was immediately shocked and immediately responded with a serious attitude. In the end, he accepted her advice and his attitude towards Queen Ashina changed greatly.
Dou Yi knew that his daughter advised Emperor Wu of Zhou to raise her as a politician, and he also heard her crying when Yang Jian usurped Zhou and ascended the throne, "I only regret that I am not a man and can't save my uncle's family from danger!" So he was very worried and made a request to his wife, Princess Xiangyang: "This girl is so talented and beautiful. She should not be promised to others. She should be looking for a virtuous husband."
"Xian" has several meanings, but the "Xian" Dou Yi refers to is undoubtedly kind and honest. Apparently, after seeing his daughter's domineering side, he felt that ordinary men or men with the same temperament could not control her, so he I plan to find her a husband who is kind, honest, honest, and obedient, instead of a husband who is also arrogant, otherwise this marriage will not last long.
Later, she married the "honest, honest, and obedient" Li Yuan, and gave birth to Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, Li Xuanba, Li Yuanji, and Li Xiuning to her husband. However, although Ms. Dou now has a nineteen-year-old eldest son, she is actually only thirty-eight years old. She is beautiful and radiant. Time seems to be particularly gentle and partial to her. Not only does she not have a single wrinkle on her eyebrows, she also looks beautiful. Even her figure is slim and graceful, and she doesn't look like she has given birth to four sons and one daughter.
But at this time, Mrs. Dou's expression was dull, and two lines of clear tears were streaming down from the corners of her eyes. The clothes on her chest were already wet with Li Xuanba's vomited blood and her tears; her eyes were extremely empty, and her red lips were already wet. The blood she bit out showed how nervous and worried she was at the moment. The whole person seemed to have lost his soul, staring stupidly at the son in his arms, reluctant to blink.
Ms. Dou has always felt guilty about the children she raised at home. She could actually take care of her children at home, and there was no need to follow Li Yuan around, but she couldn't worry about Li Yuan.
She was worried mainly from two aspects: on the one hand, Dou had grown up in the palace, and her uncle saw that she had extraordinary political talent. Instead of suppressing it, he tried his best to teach her; after hearing and witnessing her political talents, She was even more intelligent than Li Yuan. When she saw her "honest and honest" husband working as an official, she was afraid that her husband would be deceived and suffered a loss, so she went to work as a staff officer. On the other hand, Li Yuan was more lustful. If Li Yuan liked women, that would be fine. The key was her husband. It seems that because she was too strong, she lost confidence in women and was afraid of women. Then she listened to someone who was bewitched by Qian Dao, and contracted the bad habit of raising "book boys" in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. So Dou supervised her and tried hard to make her husband Change evil and return to righteousness.
Li Yuan changed his ways, but the children he raised at home didn't even know their biological parents when the couple came back to "visit relatives." Only then did Dou realize that although she had saved and helped her husband, her children had "lost" their parents. She was condemned in her heart for this, and worked hard to improve her relationship with her children. However, children cannot get close to their more powerful mother at all. When they look for their mother, they turn to Wan instead of her.
Don't be petty
Yes, even Li Jiancheng, who understood her, treated her like an ordinary elder. He was polite and respected. But that was not the attitude and emotion a son should have when facing his mother. On the contrary, it was like... He treats his superiors in a formulaic manner, and this kind of attitude and emotion is not what Dou needs.
She has returned not long ago, and the only thing she can do is try her best to meet the children's requirements, hoping to slowly turn things around. And this time Li Xuanba was like this because of her guilt, need to make amends, and motherly feeling.
Due to his congenital deficiencies, Li Xuanba became frail and sickly, had insufficient blood and went into "shock" at every turn, so he stayed at home. However, as he grew older, he yearned for the outside world. This time he begged Mr. Dou to see him. Look at the Zhongnan Sacred Mountain, which is so close but far away to him.
Mrs. Dou originally felt that she owed her children, but Li Xuanba grew up like this mainly because she was a mother, which made her feel particularly guilty about whether Li Xuanba could survive. This time, she really couldn't bear to refuse her thin son's request, and she thought that Cuihua Mountain in Zhongnan was not far away, and as long as the carriage and horses drove slowly, it shouldn't be a problem, so she ignored the objections of Li Jiancheng, Wan Shi, and Li Xiuning. Agree to Li Xuanba's request.
Then, Li Xuanba, who was not good at walking and was not suitable for jolting, was jolted into this state.
There was no doctor accompanying the Li family this time, and there was no village or shop here, so everyone was at a loss. Li Jiancheng learned some medical skills because of Li Xuanba, but his medical skills were not very good. Li Xuan Ba was unconscious and couldn't tell how he was feeling. How could he save him? Just when everyone was resigned to their fate and hoping that Li Xuanba would survive, a deep and steady voice suddenly sounded: "Is there anyone here who is sick? Can you let me take a look?"
Everyone followed the sound and saw a middle-aged man, a middle-aged Taoist priest, and a young man walking quickly this way.
The middle-aged man is dressed as a secular person and wears short shorts for easy movement. This man is tall and dark-skinned, but he is full of energy and righteousness, which makes people feel heartbroken. When he walks, he is as fast as a shooting star. As light as a raccoon cat.
The middle-aged Taoist priest has clear eyebrows and a jade-like appearance. His slender body is dressed in a light Taoist robe that fits well. He carries a sword on his back. Judging from the hilt exposed on his shoulder, the sword looks extraordinary. In addition, he also carries a baggage. It seems that he is about to travel far. Although he was walking quickly, his steps were so leisurely and calm.
Behind the two men was a young man with a jade-like face and sword-like eyebrows. This young man was wearing a samurai uniform, carrying a spear that was taller than himself, and a large bow. Judging from his appearance, he is somewhat similar to a Taoist priest, and he also carries a baggage.
Seeing that the three of them were in high spirits and that they were all skilled in martial arts, several dead men of the Li family spontaneously formed a defensive formation.
Mrs. Dou was already devastated, but after hearing that reassuring voice, she couldn't help but cheer up. She got up from the ground with Li Xuanba in her arms. She glanced at the middle-aged man walking in front of her, her eyes filled with confusion. It was like being attracted by a magnet and could no longer move away.
This middle-aged man was coming from the side. He was carrying a large medicine basket full of medicinal herbs on his back, a medicine hoe in his hand, and a gourd that seemed to contain medicine pills on his waist. The words just now were obviously spoken by this middle-aged man.
"Are you a doctor?" Seeing this doctor, Dou and Li Jiancheng felt like they were seeing a savior. However, just as they were about to speak, a young boy came over first.
This little boy was about ten years old. He was strong and handsome. He was wearing a white satin brocade robe and holding a horizontal knife to block the path of three strangers. This was Li Yuan and Dou. His second son Li Shimin.
The middle-aged man nodded: "Exactly!"
Li Shimin asked in a skeptical tone: "Can you do it?"
Naturally, the middle-aged man didn't care about a child. He smiled bitterly and said directly to Li Jiancheng who ran over, "Can you let me see the patient?"
Li Jiancheng pondered for a moment, thinking that he had no enemies, and then said to the gathered dead soldiers: "You can disperse on your own and do whatever you have to do."
The dead soldiers slowly dispersed, but they did not go far and were still guarding them where they could rush to the nearest rescue. Li Jian
Feeling so confused that he had no intention of understanding them anymore, he turned around and took his younger brother from his mother's hand, and held him in front of the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man hurriedly came over, put his hand on Li Xuanba's pulse, carefully checked it for a moment, opened his mouth and looked at the tongue coating, stretched out his hand to scrape a little on the tongue, put it to the tip of his nose and smelled it, raised his head and said : "The mother of this child was born with deficiencies and lack of Qi and blood, so she became pregnant with him, and this disease was directly reflected in the fetus." At this point, he looked at Mr. Dou, then at Li Jiancheng, and said solemnly: "What's more important is that the child was not born naturally, but the mother ate something poisonous, which caused him to give birth prematurely. This is also because the child and his mother were destined to be together, otherwise the child would have been stillborn, one dead and two dead. However, despite this, But the poison that was aimed at him was left in his body. After giving birth, he continued to use strong medicine to prolong his life, which caused the symptoms of overexertion."
Although the middle-aged man said it more politely, Dou, Li Jiancheng and other elders all heard the man's secret accusation. He accused the child's parents of not wanting the child. When they confirmed that they were pregnant, the mother would eat it. A large amount of abortion drugs were given, but Li Xuan was blessed with great fortune, and no amount of poison could kill him. But despite this, after he was born, he was still suffering from diseases and poisons. For him, it would have been better for him to be poisoned to death early in his mother's body.
Mrs. Dou burst into tears when she heard this. She tried her best to suppress her emotions and said in a trembling voice: "Please, sir, save my son."
Although the medical skills at this time were not as good as those of later generations, doctors, some people from well-off families, and powerful families who had their own doctors all knew that mothers needed good health and care after childbirth, and it was not advisable to get pregnant and give birth immediately. Otherwise, at least a child with congenital deficiencies or defects would be born, and more seriously. One corpse and two lives.
However, after giving birth, it is very easy for a mother to become pregnant with the next child. This is what happened to Ms. Dou. Not long after she gave birth to Li Shimin, she soon became pregnant with Li Xuanba. For the sake of herself and her child, Ms. Dou did not Planning to get Li Xuanba, the unexpected product. However, as the middle-aged man said, Li Xuanba has great destiny and cannot fall no matter how hard he tries.
When the couple created a human, they were very happy, but what they did at that time and what Dou did after that had to be shouldered by poor Li Xuanba. In fact, in addition to the torture caused by Dou's weirdness, Li Xuanba was not much better off with the extremely ugly Li Yuanji.
It is said that a son does not despise his mother for being ugly and a tiger is poisonous for his son. The converse is also true. As a mother, there is no reason to despise her own flesh and blood. However, the Dou family is quite different. When Li Yuanji was born, Dou She felt that Li Yuanji was too ugly and did not want to raise him. After just one look, he had Li Yuanji thrown away. Fortunately, Chen Shan, the maid who was ordered to throw him away, was kind-hearted and secretly took Li Yuanji back and raised him secretly. So that Li Yuanji did not die in infancy. However, the old saying "lost in the east and reaped in mulberry" applies to Li Yuanji. Although he does not have good looks, he is born with great power. Although the Dou family dislikes him, Li Yuan not only does not dislike him, but is very fond of him. She liked this ugly son who was born with supernatural powers and had the appearance of a fierce general. Not only did he persuade Dou to raise him, but he also hired a famous teacher to teach him martial arts.
Of course, people's moods will change with the passage of time and changes in the environment, and Mrs. Dou is no exception. She cares about Li Xuanba now; compared with Li Xuanba, Li Yuanji is miserable. Although he lives After he was born, his father and brother also liked him, but because of his terrible appearance, he is still despised by the Dou family and has not been recognized and taught by his mother.
Hearing this, the middle-aged man glanced at Mr. Dou and asked the Li family to find a blanket and spread it on the ground. He asked Li Jiancheng to put Li Xuanba on it. Then he untied Li Xuanba's shirt and saw that Li Xuanba was in the north. There were more than a dozen pus-filled pustules the size of walnuts. The opening and closing of these pustules was very strange. They were not the usual blood-red color, but a sinister black color.
"Brother Xie, what do you think?" The middle-aged man watched for a long time and asked in a deep voice to the middle-aged Taoist priest who squatted down to watch.
The middle-aged Taoist priest, whose surname is Xie and whose given name is Hong, is a descendant of Xie An, Xie Xuan and Xie Shi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He became a monk and practiced Taoism at Sanqing Temple in Zhongnan Mountain. He lived a secluded life with a pure heart and few desires. He was a famous man in Guanzhong who was proficient in many hundred things. Yang Jian and Yang Guang, Taoist priests in the family, repeatedly recruited him to serve the country. However, he had no intention of pursuing an official career and lived a happy life like a wandering cloud and wild crane. The young man was his nephew Xie Ke and Xie Yingdeng.
As for the "middle-aged man" who treated Li Xuanba, that was even more unremarkable.
His name was Sun Simiao. Although he was not well-known in the Sui Dynasty now, he was known as the "King of Medicine" in later generations. He looks like a middle-aged man, but he is actually sixty-six years old.
Xie Hong was friends with Sun Simiao, who was proficient in the common sayings of hundreds of schools of thought and was also a man with excellent medical skills. At this time, when he saw that Li Xuanba's relatively intact skin was also bright red, he shook his head and sighed: "Brother Sun, in my opinion, this The child's condition is not optimistic. He is just trying to maintain his life. The only way to remove the abscess is to give him a glimmer of hope. However, this treatment carries great risks. If the abscess spreads, it will be difficult for gods to cure it."
Sun Simiao nodded silently. Li Xuanba's condition was very dangerous. He could use medicine to stay alive. However, this would kill Li Xuanba's final chance for treatment. The best way is to, as Xie Hong said, remove the malignant sores and then treat them with medication. If successful, Li Xuanba can avoid premature death and grow up like an ordinary child.
But as Xie Hong said, "surgery" is relatively risky. If the sore spreads, it will be difficult for gods to save him. If you just use strong medicine, it will not be a problem to keep him alive for a few years. After that, then Death is certain.
When he revealed his identity and told the plans and consequences one by one, Dou and Li Jiancheng, as the patient's family members, were in a dilemma and had no choice.
"My brother is the son of the Duke of Tang, and his status is extremely respected. How can I take such a risk and allow unknown people like you to experiment?" When everyone was silent, a clear boy's voice sounded next to him, but it was Li Shimin. He glared angrily and said to Sun Simiao rudely.
Sun Simiao was eager to learn and had extensive knowledge. He was proficient in Taoist classics at a very young age and could talk to great sages about Lao and Zhuang's theories. He was called the "Holy Boy" by Dugu Xin. However, he later became ill and often asked for medical advice. Treatment cost a lot of family money, so he decided to practice medicine when he was eighteen years old. He was "quite enlightened in medical skills, so he benefited many of his neighbors who were suffering from illness, both at home and abroad." Over the years of practicing medicine, I have encountered all kinds of patients and their families.
After listening to Li Shimin's words and seeing that Dou and Li Jiancheng were silent, he kept his expression and said calmly: "As a doctor, you should treat the disease, not the person. All sick people should be treated like doctors." There is no distinction between high and low among close relatives. As for the danger, it does exist, and the danger is extremely great. However, the method of treating people must distinguish between priorities, long-term and immediate. The mild cases should be treated with medicine, the severe ones should be treated with gas, and the mild cases should be treated with substances. Those who are in danger should be treated with miracles. This child's old illness has relapsed and he is now at the point of making a life-or-death decision. He should be treated with miracles."
Li Shimin said angrily: "What you said is to belittle Qiqing. If something happens to me, can you afford it?"
"As a doctor, if I don't dare to treat patients because I am worried about killing them, then why should I practice medicine or be a doctor?" Although Sun Simiao was defending Li Shimin, he was actually responding to Dou, Li Jiancheng and others who were silent.
Li Shimin shouted: "If something unexpected happens, can't you pay for my brother's life?"
Sun Simiao said calmly: "As a doctor, I will do my best to treat patients, but a doctor's life is also life. My life is not superior to others, and I will not be inferior to others. If I have to pay for my life because I can't cure the patient, I absolutely cannot do it. of."
"Mr. Sun said it well!" Xie Yingdeng next to him couldn't help but praise aloud. Sun Simiao's last words came to his heart. He is both Xie Hong's nephew and Xie Hong's apprentice, and he follows his uncle everywhere. , saved many people. He felt that real doctors should respect life as Sun Simiao said. Only those who respect and revere life know how valuable life is and can do their best to treat every patient. But if a patient dies in his own hands because he does not value or respect life, then this kind of doctor is a heinous murderer.
Sun Simiao bent down and took Li Xuanba's pulse again, then turned to Mrs. Dou and said, "Madam, your son's condition is serious and there is no time to delay. You don't want your son to die young, right?"
Although Li Shimin was young and mature, he was still a child after all. When he saw that Sun Simiao ignored his threat and actually played with his younger brother, he suddenly became furious. He pulled out the horizontal knife with a clank, pointed at Sun Simiao and said: "You..."
With a sound of "Pa!", Mrs. Dou slapped Li Shimin on the face. Li Shimin was so slapped that stars appeared in his eyes.
The tender face quickly swelled with a slap mark that was visible to the naked eye. It was obvious that Mr. Dou did not mean it, but was really hitting him.
"Mr. Sun, please do your best to remove the malignant sores on my son." At this time, Mrs. Dou had already thought about what kind of person Sun Simiao was. She knew that although he was not famous, he was highly praised by famous doctors such as Chao Yuanfang. She was afraid. The second son was young and ignorant and continued to offend the savior, causing him to walk away in anger, so he slapped the second son hard, who didn't know the importance of it. This was also an explanation to Sun Simiao.
Sun Simiao bowed to Mrs. Dou, immediately took off the bamboo basket, prepared medicinal materials and equipment, and planned to start treatment.
Li Shimin held the knife in one hand and covered his face with the other, looking at his mother who always doted on him in disbelief. However, Mr. Dou was so confused that all his thoughts were on Li Xuanba. How could he have time to pay attention to his health? son?
Li Shimin felt that he was not wrong at all, and his mother had never said a harsh word before, so Dou's sudden slap made him feel aggrieved countless times more than a naughty child who was often scolded. He " "Wow!" he cried out, dropped the sword in his hand, turned around and ran away.
"Mom, do you want someone to follow you?" Li Jiancheng next to him looked at Li Shimin running further and further away, and asked his mother uneasily.
Mrs. Dou glanced at Li Shimin who was running along the mountain road, and her heart palpitated inexplicably, but she still shook her head: "Erlang is spoiled by me and you Aye, it's good to let him calm down for a while."
Even so, Dou still sent five dead soldiers to follow him.
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When several men in green robes in the hidden jungle saw this scene, they all breathed a sigh of relief and smiled. One of them whispered: "You will not survive if you do it yourself. The big deal is decided!"
