ladybug

Chapter 51

Title: Killing Things

Summary: Jiangnanchun is heartbroken, and the people of Tingzhou have not yet returned

On March [-]th in the second year of Yongxi, the evening of Ching Ming Festival. "Go and grab this Qingjin Huatan Soup and eat it for five days." I put the silver needle that had been acupunctured on this patient back into the cloth pouch and put it in my arms.I told the patient to drink up the tea in the teacup in one gulp.Inside, Zhang Zhengdao said: "Doctor Li, your acupuncture silver needles are left in Jishitang. I will overdo it for you tomorrow." At that time, Shen Yao turned his back to the entrance of Longquan Lijishi Hall, and said, "Father will leave the camp to fight Tanzhou immediately, Li Ping, I'll take leave to say goodbye to you."

How long will it take to hurt the spring and hurt? It has been romantic since ancient times.While putting away my things, I said, "Okay, I'm going back to Chang'an next month."

A beautiful woman, sobbing, hid her face and broke into Jishi Hall.She wore pearl hairpins, a light crimson cross-necked narrow-sleeved dress, and a white skirt. The skirt and beige embroidered trousers under the skirt were torn to pieces, revealing part of her smooth calf.Two cuts on the leg were bleeding.I quickly helped her sit down and asked Wei Yan: "Wei Yan, bring me the Jinchuang medicine." Wei Yan opened the medicine drawer and handed me the Jinchuang medicine and gauze.I sprinkled the medicine on the wound on the beautiful woman's calf, and asked, "What's wrong, ma'am?" I escaped." The Yuan family?Widow's self-proclaimed?

She lowered her hands covering her face and straightened her skirt.The makeup on her face was washed away by tears, she was embarrassed and pitiful.She said, "You are Dr. Li Ping from Chang'an, right?" I bandaged the wound on her leg and said, "Yes." She said, "Dr. Li is very skilled in medicine, and he has only been in Jishitang for three months. Everyone in Lizhou city knows everyone. Usually there is this knight guard Wei Yan by his side, right?" I shyly said, "That's a bit of a myth." Wei Yan said: "Yes." Bai Zhi said : "My money was robbed, this silver bracelet will be used as a consultation fee first." She returned the silver bracelet on her left wrist with her right hand.Shen Yao, who was standing at the door, said: "It is said in "Records of Customs and Customs" that Miao people always wear a pair of jewelry. Why didn't Madam wear it on her right wrist?" Bai Zhi's right wrist was as white as snow, so she did not wear it.

Bai Zhi said: "The other silver bracelet is on my only daughter's ankle. She was sent to Miaoyu in the 12th year of Shenglin. If she is still alive, she will be ten years old now. I wear this to remember her." I Said: "This silver bracelet is of great significance to Madam, so don't give it to me." Zhang Zhengdao said inside: "Doctor Li said that if you don't need to pay for the consultation fee, you don't need to pay it." Five doctors on duty and three assistants came out of my eyes When I went out, one of them said, "Doctor Li, you are the last one to go back. Let's go earlier today." I said, "Well, earlier today."

Bai Zhi smiled sweetly: "Doctor Li is kind." There was a smile on her lips, while Shen Yun Cuidai still had all kinds of worries on her brows.She said pitifully: "Doctor Li and the knight-errant Wei Yan please take me home. I am a weak woman, and I will not be able to run away if I encounter robbers again." Shen Yao helped her get up and leave the Jishi Hall, and said to me: "Li Let me go with you. I will leave today, and I don’t know when I will return to Chang’an.” Zhang Zhengdao locked the gate of Jishitang from the inside, and said, “Doctor Li, see you tomorrow.” I said, “Okay.” Then I asked Bai Zhi, "Madam, do you want to call a carriage?" Bai Zhi shook her head, "My house is less than five miles away from Jishi Hall to the south. It's not easy to call a carriage at night, let's walk." Shen Yao said: "When I helped Madam to get up, I found out that Madam doesn't know martial arts. Can you walk five miles?" Bai Zhi said: "Yes, I walked a long way when I was 17 years old, and five miles is nothing." The four walked together guided by Bai Zhi.

The swallows have not returned on the Ching Ming Festival, and the night is quiet and cold, like autumn.Bai Zhi walks like a weak willow supporting the wind, I untied the belt around my waist, handed her the cloth shirt on my body, and said: "It's cold at night, madam, if you don't want to give up, you can put the cloth shirt over the skirt." She said: " Thank you, Dr. Li." She tied my cloth shirt around her waist to keep out the wind, and the hairpin on her head still didn't move when she walked.As soon as my body warmed up, Wei Yan put his black shirt on me, and at the same time said to Bai Zhi: "Everyone is a lady." Bai Zhi admitted softly: "When I was young, my family could barely be called a rich family in Jiangdong, and we were strictly controlled when we were sitting, walking, and walking."

After walking south for half an hour, Bai Zhi led us to stop in front of a big lonely house.The house smelled of mud brick and had obviously just been built.The dark black iron gate is full of style.Wei Yan pointed to the opposite side and said: "Separate the altar, let's start gambling." Across the river, far diagonally opposite, there is indeed the Tianyi Jiao Lizhou branch altar, and the second floor is brightly lit.I said: "The God of Gamblers starts the game, but he never tires all night long." Wei Yan agreed: "I'm not afraid of being tired." Bai Zhi knocked lightly on the black iron gate.I told Wei Yan: "A while ago, Tan Qing said that he didn't know who could buy a large piece of land. This time, I know that my wife is from a wealthy family in Jiangdong, so it's no problem to buy this piece of land." Wei Yan nodded: " Yes." Bai Zhi explained with a light smile: "The purchase of this large piece of land is not all the money of the mother's family. The first husband sold salt after marriage, and he also left a small fortune."

The black iron gate opened slowly, and two servants held oil lamps and said in unison: "Ma'am!" The courtyard was pitch-black and quiet.

Shen Yao said goodbye: "Ma'am, we will go back when we get home." Bai Zhi turned sideways: "Come in and sit for a while, I should take the consultation money from Dr. Li anyway. I don't know martial arts, and I'm always a little scared when I'm in the dark. Man, I'll be lazy when I'm not here, and I don't light candles next to each other." We couldn't refuse and let her in.She clapped her hands, and the two servants bowed, and then lit the lanterns in the corridor in the courtyard one by one on the left and right sides.The dark red lanterns swayed with the cool spring breeze, revealing that the courtyard turned out to be a shallow pool with a cobblestone path in the middle leading to the main room.The two servants finished lighting the lamps, went out through the black iron gate, and closed the gate outside.Bai Zhi led us into the hall.In the center of the main room is a huge and abrupt cypress table, with six high-back chairs, two on the left and the rear of the table.Bai Zhi pointed to the chair with her palm and said, "Please sit down." I sat in the back, Wei Yan sat on the left, and Shen Yao sat on the right.I wanted to sit forward, but unexpectedly the chair was firmly planted on the ground and could not be moved.Bai Zhi said: "I'm going to collect the consultation fee and make a pot of tea for the three of you." I stood up embarrassedly and said, "I've had too much tea in the evening, so I don't know where I can get Xiao Gong?" Bai Zhi said timidly: " It’s on the east side of the courtyard.” I went out of the main room with Bai Zhi, she went to the left, and I went to the right to go to the toilet.

Come back after using the toilet.Bai Zhi was still wearing the light crimson spring blouse, and she had changed into a brand new beige skirt, standing with her head bowed on the cobblestone path.On such a night, such a weak and helpless woman, standing coldly in the water that is colder than ice, who can she confide to with all her sorrows?

I walked over to comfort her: "Madam, if you have any troubles, you might as well confide in Qingfeng Jingshui. My ears were forgotten in the house when I went out."

"I just think about my husband late at night." Bai Zhi said, with tears falling into the shallow pool, "Sheng Lin 15 years ago, he also went out to Chang'an on such a spring night. Before leaving, he told me that he would take Chang'an with him. The peony in full bloom came back. I said you brought it back and it was shriveled. He said he must bring it for me to see. I am 35 years old this year, but recalling the past is like yesterday." She chuckled and wiped it away. With tears on his face, most of his pitiful expression disappeared, and then he said quietly, "It was the cypress coffin that he came back. Jiangnanchun is heartbroken, and the people of Pingman Tingzhou have not returned."

It turned out that I was worried that I left and never returned.I was relieved: "If he is still here, he probably hopes that Madam will not be so sad."

"Well," Bai Zhi led me in, "Go in and sit down, the tea is already on the table. It's Ruilong tea from Lizhou, I don't know if Dr. Li likes it or not." I said, "Ah, that's a tribute tea." Tea. I haven't had any."

I went back to the room and sat down on the high-backed cypress chair. Sure enough, there was a jug with four cups, a paper crane and two white papers on the table.I touched the cypress high-backed chair, and kindly reminded Bai Zhi: "My master and his patients usually use cypress coffins for funerals. Madam's table and chairs are made of cypress wood, which is not very auspicious." Bai Zhi just said: "Xie Li The doctor reminded me, I know. Cypress wood is the most suitable for everything in this house.” She poured a cup of tea with me and asked, “How is it?” The teacup was steaming, and I took a mouthful and got up to put it back and said: “ The tea smells mellow." Bai Zhi pushed me back into the chair, took the teacup and said, "As long as the doctor likes it, I'll do it."

Wei Yan on the left said: "Don't move." Shen Yao's face on the right was livid: "Li Ping, don't get up."

"Yes, don't move, and don't throw hidden weapons." Bai Zhi said with a smile, "Have you ever played on a seesaw?"