Black ginseng, also known as bamboo ginseng, is produced in Zhilin County in the far north of Dahua and in the eastern region of Snow Country. It is a rare perennial herbaceous medicinal plant.
The "Compendium of Herbal Medicine" written by the medical sage Li Yuanzhen states: Its stem is three feet high, its crown is like an umbrella, its leaves are like palms, in fact it is like ink, its roots are like bamboo, and it accumulates one section every ten years; its nature likes yin and cold, summer and autumn The leaves fall and branches grow in spring and winter. They often lie under the snow layer and are hard to find.
Cistanches is a medicinal herb unique to Shatuo. It is cold- and drought-resistant and often parasitizes on dry grass in sand dunes, deserts and Gobi. Its stems are one foot tall and shaped like a pine tower, with tile-like fleshy scales covering the tower's body. There is a top-quality Cistanche cistanche. Its shingle-like flesh scales are blood-colored. After the fruit is dried, the whole body is as crystal clear as amber. It is extremely rare and can be said to be unique.
As for the blue gentian written at the end of the letter, Yun Xiaomeng only found out about it after consulting the elder of Jishitang who came with him on this trip.
"According to the ancient books of our sect, there is a sea snake that lives on the sea cliff in the southeast of Jue Kingdom, named 'Blue Dragon'. The best thing to identify this sea snake is its red eyes and blue hard armor. According to It can reach up to two feet in length and weigh over a hundred kilograms. It can climb mountains and dive into the sea. It moves like lightning and is extremely poisonous. Its gallbladder can be used as medicine and has the effect of bringing the dead back to life."
After hearing this, Yi Qilin, Zhan Ming, Zhan Wei, He Zan and others in the hall all looked shocked and solemn. Everyone has a wide range of knowledge, but these three things are so rare that everyone has not only never seen them before, but they may not even have heard of them.
A majestic middle-aged man sitting at the head of the hall was silent. Mei Yuanchen calmed his breathing, stood up and walked in front of him. He said seriously: "General Ran, since the poison in Yiyi's body can only be cured by these three things, No matter how hard they are to come by, I will still try to find them."
The middle-aged man looked sad and looked haggard. He shook his head and sighed: "How can the beautiful youth of Ripples suffer so many misfortunes? The emperor is unfair, the emperor is unfair! As an uncle, I didn't take good care of her. What will happen if we meet under the Jiuquan in the future? Go and see her parents!"
Before he finished speaking, tears fell first. It was obvious that he didn't have much hope in finding these three things and had already prepared for the worst.
The person speaking was none other than Xia Chengxuan's brother and sister's uncle, Ran Jingru's elder brother, and the only son of Duke Ran Jieting, General Dahua White Horse Ran Jiangong.
After Zhao Qianming betrayed the country and surrendered to the enemy, King Duan, who was appointed regent, abolished the establishment of the generals stationed in the north, separated the second-rank White Horse General from General Zhilin, and made Tige the first-rank subordinate, temporarily taking over the defense of northwest China. As for the reason, the official explanation is that Ran Jiangong has served as a local general for many years, has done solid military affairs, and has been promoted through military service; a deeper consideration is that King Duan deliberately wanted to make up for the loss of strength in the Prince's Palace after the loss of Xia Mu, so as to ensure that the new and old At the turn of events, Xia Chengxuan was able to gain a foothold in the capital.
How much does anyone know about what that wise old man did behind the scenes for this country?
Later, Xia Chengxuan unexpectedly rose to prominence, unexpectedly won the battle for the throne, and ascended the throne as emperor. As the first maternal uncle of the current dynasty, Ran Jiangong was naturally promoted from the first-rank white horse general to the first-rank official. He controlled the military generals of the four counties of Shengjun, Anxian, Zhubei and Binghu, and was in charge of the defense of northwest China. Together with General Zhilin, General Pinan, and General Chunan, they became Dahua's new four "four generals".
That night, Xu Xigong led his men to devise a plan to kill Feng Sanxi, the general on duty at the military camp in Ruozhou, and incited more than 40,000 generals in the camp to rebel, and then led the army toward the city gate to kill. Unexpectedly, the White Horse Army, which had originally moved to Jinzhou Camp, received Xia Chengxuan's secret order in advance and temporarily changed its route to Ruozhou Prefecture to help Xia Chenghuan.
Coincidentally, when Gu Xiuping's men lost the city gate, Ran Jiangong led the white horse army to kill Xu Xiaoyi's remaining troops in time, and guarded the city gate. Then, together with Gu Xiuping's troops and the Shenshao Battalion, they attacked the rebels in Ruozhou City from both inside and outside.
In this rebellion, in addition to more than 5,000 people of the Xu family who were killed during the uprising, there were still an unknown number of people who either followed Xu Xiaoyu and took advantage of the chaos to escape from the city, or abandoned their troops and armor and abandoned their identities and fled into private houses. In addition, there are more than 3,000 members of the Xu family who were tied up due to injuries or who were arrested and imprisoned before they could escape. As for how they will be punished, they still await the decree of the capital.
Although Mei Yuanchen said he was not discouraged, he was not sure at all in his heart. Seeing Ran Jiangong choked with sobs, he had to pretend to cheer up and stepped forward to comfort him: "My master is here in the capital. Even if Yiyi can't cure the poison for a while, it won't work." Don’t worry about your life. No matter how hard it is to get black ginseng, blood cistanche and blue gentian, it’s just a matter of one day sooner or later.”
Thinking of Xu Suye's entrustment when he came here, he turned around and said: "General Ran, Yuan Chen has a good friend with extremely high martial arts skills. If I can get his help in this search for medicine..."
"Is this Xu Jinye from the Xu family?" Ran Jiangong interrupted, "If he is willing to help you find the medicine, all his mistakes will be forgotten!"
He has been here for four days, and everything about the Xu family has been cleared up. He knows that Xu Jinye has not participated in the rebellion. According to the law, he is only guilty of consecutive sittings, and whether he should be punished or not cannot be determined by his words. If Xu Erzhou is famous in the world, it will be beneficial and harmless to get this help.
After hearing this, Mei Yuanchen showed embarrassment and kept silent for several breaths, looking like he had failed.
Ran Jiangong thought for a while and said to everyone: "Now that we know the origin of these three things and Jiangong's doubts have been solved, I am really grateful. I will thank you tomorrow. Okay, noon is approaching, so I won't delay your meal." "
As soon as these words came out, Yi Qilin and others thanked each other and retreated.
After the crowd dispersed, Ran Jiangong said to Mei Yuanchen in a warm voice: "I know that you were engaged to Yiyi when my sister and brother-in-law were alive. Although many things happened here that delayed the wedding ceremony, from the bottom of my heart, I I treat you as my nephew. Now it's just you and me, just like Ripples, just call me 'uncle'. I see you just stopped talking. What do you want to say? There is no one else around now. I want to Say whatever you say."
During his lifetime, Xia Muchao was in charge of the court. In addition to his own intelligence and wisdom, he also had four most capable assistants: Du Chong for family management, Hu Xiwei for military affairs, Mei Siyuan for salt management, and Ran Jiangong for military management. He always had few reservations about the four of them, and they were extremely close to each other. Moreover, Ran Jiangong is also the eldest brother-in-law of Prince Jia. With this relationship, matters such as marriage will not be hidden from each other.
"Uncle!" Mei Yuanchen called softly with warmth in his heart.
Ran Jiangong's smile grew stronger, he patted his arm gently and praised: "What a good boy!"
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Seeing Yun Xiaomeng and others returning to the courtyard, Xu Suye came up with a cane and found that there was no figure of Mei Yuanchen in the crowd. He couldn't help but look disappointed, and hurriedly caught up and asked: "Palace Master Yun, where is Yuanchen?" ? You went together, why didn’t you come back together?"
Yun Xiaomeng glared at him and cursed fiercely: "Get away!"
Xu Jinye swallowed quickly, swallowed everything he wanted to say, and then used a walking stick to avoid Zhang Yu.
He was indeed seriously injured in two battles with Zhang Suiguang and the fourteen elders of the Salt Gang. However, the severed hands and feet now were not injured at that time, but because he had offended Palace Master Yun inexplicably after waking up. It was broken by several kicks from others.
"You deserve it! If I didn't beat you to death, it would be a sign of respect for Qingxin." Xu Jinye went to ask for an explanation bitterly, but was rebuffed back.
What else can he do? He still can't beat Li Qu. What can he do? Just accept his bad luck.
The generals of the White Horse Army needed a place to rest, so the various sects had to move around and freed up twenty small courtyards. However, Su Xin Gong was a woman, and it was inconvenient to share the house with other sects. The Yufeng Escort only bandaged the seriously ill Xu Jinye and sent him to "Yunchi". Yun Xiao was ordered by his disciples to carry him to Chai. house and left him a small room there.
Xu Jinye didn't care that the original master's son was reduced to living in a woodshed. He put his walking stick aside and sat at the entrance of the garden. This is the only way to go to the "Menting". Mei Yuanchen has to pass through here when he comes back, so he will wait here.
