Liangzhou, Anding County, Pengyang County
After walking for a day, everyone in the second room of the Qin family was too tired to move.
"Daddy - daddy -" The child's sick and uncomfortable moans sounded in the shabby thatched house.
Mrs. Cai touched her daughter Qin Yun's hot forehead and said to her husband, "Erlang, please hug the child." The child was uncomfortable and kept calling for daddy.
Qin Yan wiped his face, then went to the broken window to grab a handful of snow and rubbed his hands. Then he put his hands on his body to warm them, and then reached out to hug his daughter.
He patted his daughter on the back and coaxed, "Yun'er, be good, dad is here."
He knew that he cared less about his daughter these days, but he couldn't help it.
Qin Yan hugged his daughter's small body and buried his face. Not two days after his father's death, the imperial edict of condemnation was issued, and his family was escorted and exiled to Pingzhou on the spot. Even the bones of his father Qin Yue could not be sent back to Chang'an, so they had to choose a place with open scenery in the north and bury them. The Qin family... would come back to beg for the bones in the future.
Today, he, his wife, his mother, and his fourth sister-in-law are on the road with their five children, the oldest of whom is only seven years old.
It was freezing cold, but he was a grown man, and the safety of his three women and five children all fell on him, so he had to tighten his nerves.
In addition, the fourth brother and sister were raising two children by themselves, so he had to pay more attention to those two children. They were not only his nephews, but also the only bloodline left by his two younger brothers. He could not let them have any Lost. His three children can only make his wife and mother worry more.
This change happened so quickly that they had no time to prepare.
Fortunately, the eldest brother had made preparations and made corresponding arrangements. Now Ma Jin has brought twenty or thirty brothers to protect them openly or covertly.
But the help Ma Jin and the others provided was very limited. They could only provide some help secretly, such as secretly giving them some food or warm clothes, and protecting their safety. . But the main dangers they faced were bad weather and the environment, which they could do little to help.
Every day, adults like them not only have to carry their own luggage, but also have to carry or drag at least one child on their backs and walk in the snow. It is really hard.
It was more than four thousand miles from the northern border to Pingzhou. He really didn't know whether their group, especially the children, could reach Pingzhou in one piece. He was under so much pressure and was suffering inside.
At the beginning of the escort, they also took care of things and gave the escort and officers a lot of benefits. In the end, they just got the convenience of not being shackled. This convenience is almost non-existent. There were so many children in their group, as well as women and elderly people, so the other party was not afraid of him running away at all. He can't run either.
In fact, Wu Yasi also has some idea about the secret protection of Ma Jin and others. He respects the Qin family for resisting foreign enemies in the northern border for many years and their contribution to the northern border. In addition, Ma Jin and others have not done too much, so he also Just turn a blind eye.
Now that the child was sick and there was no medicine, Qin Yan asked Wu Yasi for help. He knew that it was impossible to ask a doctor, so he could only ask them to get some herbs to try. Ma Jin and the others couldn't help.
In this area of the northwest, there are originally few doctors, and since they are now in the wilderness, it is not always possible to find a doctor within a radius of one or two hundred miles.
Ms. Cai broke off the herbs given by Wu Yasi and put them into a broken clay pot to boil. While adding fire, she asked her husband, "Do we really want to give Yun'er this concoction?" She didn't know whether the herbs were suitable for her. Be applicable.
Qin Yan didn't say anything. If possible, he really hoped to find a doctor to prescribe medicine for his daughter instead of using medicine randomly.
Ma Jin was also very depressed at this moment. He knew that the daughter of the second master's family was in critical condition at the moment, but he also sent people out to look for her. There was really no doctor in the area thirty or forty miles away.
At this moment, two people came towards him quietly. Sensing the movement, Ma Jin quickly turned around and found that the people coming were Zhou Da and a brother he brought with him. He was very surprised, "Why are you two? Others Woolen cloth?"
"It's me, the others are elsewhere. How is the situation here with Second Master?"
"The situation is normal. Now the second master's daughter has a fever. By the way, why are you here? If you go north, what will happen to the prince?"
Zhou Da replied, "The prince has other arrangements. We are of little use there, so he asked us to go north to assist you. Now it seems that the prince's concerns are justified. You really can't take care of people."
"Zhou Da, what do you mean?" They are also very anxious when their children are sick, okay?
"Literally, don't say anything, just quietly deliver the medicine to the second master." With that said, Zhou Da pulled off the wooden hairpin from his head. Before leaving, Mr. Liu quietly sent this to him, telling him that it contained pills to treat the child's cold and fever, which could be used if necessary.
After Zhou Da took off the wooden hairpin, he identified the scratches on it and cut it with a dagger, revealing a peanut-sized pill inside.
"Okay, hide the medicine like this. Zhou Da, when did you become so smart?"
Zhou Da said arrogantly, "I've always been smarter than you."
"Go ahead and lie to the devil!" Ma Jin snorted angrily, and then said, "Just wait for me, I will send the medicine to the second master first."
After Ma Jin left, Zhou Da called his deputy, "Tell me how you usually take care of the second master and the others?"
Qin Yan took the medicine quietly sent by Ma Jin and was surprised to learn that Zhou Da went north. This medicine was prepared by his sixth brother and sister who he had never met before.
After Ma Jin left, he quietly scraped some powder with his fingernail and put it into his mouth. After a quarter of an hour, when there was no reaction to the poison, he fed the pills to his daughter. The couple then took care of their daughter for half a night, and her fever finally subsided. The two of them breathed a sigh of relief, their hearts full of gratitude and curiosity for their six younger siblings.
As for Zhou Da, when Ma Jin came back from delivering the medicine, he received a look of contempt from him.
Ma Jin was confused. Looking at his deputy, he was lowering his head in shame.
Zhou Da: "Is this how you take care of people?"
if not? They also know that they cannot take good care of them, and they are very anxious. The key is that the second master and the others are under the supervision of the guards and guards, and they are not allowed to deviate.
Ma Jin explained the difficulties here, "Among the guards and officers, other people can say that there is a sharp head named Lin who used to be under the Fourth Master. He was punished by the Fourth Master for violating military regulations. The other party has always been He holds a grudge, is very picky, and is not easy to talk to."
"If we were more helpful, he would deliberately torment the second master and the others, and the young master would even be whipped by him." This was one of the reasons why they were restrained.
Zhou Da sneered, finding fault? Still love to torment people? Isn't he afraid that he has a long life?
Zhou Da's deputy naturally understood what his boss was sneering at.
They had heard that before the Crown Prince and others joined them, there was a guy named Zhao Long, who was also a deputy superintendent. He was also very difficult to deal with. Before he met them, he was dead. He was so dead. It was so quiet that no cause of death could be found.
Why, when the officers were escorting the prisoners to the place of exile, only one of the prisoners was allowed to die, but the escort was not allowed to die? The officer must die?
"You guys, as stupid as pigs, are just going to watch the young master being whipped?"
Ma Jin's eyes widened, "Who are you scolding? You can do it, come on."
"Okay, I'll do it, I'll do it! Just hold your neck and wait and see." Zhou Da spoke boldly.
"What are you going to do?" Ma Jin asked.
"You'll know later." Zhou Da gave it a try.
