Chapter 1 The wind and rain of that year
In the fifteenth year of Xuanqing's reign, Zhuxitang, Qinglu County.
It was early summer and it was not yet hot. Pink roses covered the courtyard wall, layer upon layer, scorching like brocade. A few branches stuck out of the wall. The evening breeze blew by, and the flower branches swayed in the wind, creating wisps of fragrance.
In the evening, smoke curls up from the cooking pots, and the aroma of food fills the yard.
There is a swing frame under the rose flower wall. A girl is sitting on the swing. She is wearing a new shirt, with cloth strips tied around her eyes, covering her eyes. The swing is gently swaying, and the old woman next to her is holding the swing carefully. , for fear that she would fall.
The girl sniffed and said to herself: "My mother-in-law is the most partial. She makes braised pork for the miracle doctor grandpa again."
The old woman patted her head gently and said with a smile: "Doctor Yang likes to eat braised pork the most. He will go to Beijing in a few days, and he won't be able to eat it when he arrives. Before setting off, your mother-in-law will of course make a few more meals so that he can eat enough.”
The girl raised her sparkling little face and asked curiously: "Isn't there braised pork in Beijing?"
The old woman chuckled: "Doctor Yang often says that the braised pork cooked by your mother is the best he has ever tasted."
The evening breeze blew slowly, and the smell of braised pork became stronger and stronger. The girl reached out to touch the cloth covering her eyes. There was a cool medicine bag under the cloth.
When the old woman saw it, she took her hand away forcefully: "Don't touch it. Doctor Yang said it will take three days to take it off."
The girl asked: "Grandma, can I see it in three days?"
The old woman smiled and narrowed her eyes: "Yes, I will definitely do it. Then my grandma will be able to see the whole yard of roses."
When the girl was still in her infancy, she had a high fever that persisted. Although the fever subsided later, she also lost her sight. The family was worried about this and searched for famous doctors to no avail.
Therefore, her parents, family, flowers, plants and trees are all based on imagination. In this colorless world, she has become a habit.
It wasn't until her father brought Dr. Yang's grandson home that she realized that her eyes were not incurable.
The little girl didn't know where Doctor Yang's grandparents were from, nor why they came to Qinglu County.
She only knew that the Yang family's carriage fell into the river, and her father led people to rescue them. The carriage and the servant died, and the grandfather and grandson were seriously injured.
My father was a good man and took the grandfather and grandson to his home for a temporary stay to recuperate. This stay lasted for more than half a year.
In return, Dr. Yang treated the girl's eye disease after she recovered from the injury. Now it's at the last moment. Today, Dr. Yang will give the girl acupuncture for the last time. He only has to wait three days to remove the medicine pack on the girl's eye. Whether it is cured or not will be known. .
And just this morning, someone came to Zhuxitang and found Dr. Yang. After seeing the man, Dr. Yang told his father that he was going to the capital.
After dinner, Dr. Yang said to his father: "Oh, I didn't expect to live in Qinglu for more than half a year. It's been a hard work for your family. Now I have to trouble you to take care of Xiaoqiu for me for a few days until I come back from the capital. , and came to pick him up.”
Doctor Yang's grandson Yang Qiu was just eight years old. After recovering from his injury, he went to study in a private school dozens of miles away. It wasn't that there wasn't a private school nearby, but because this private school not only taught reading, but also taught martial arts. He had just recovered from a serious injury, and learning some martial arts could strengthen his body.
Hearing what Dr. Yang said, my father quickly said: "Doctor Yang, you are too unreasonable. You healed my little girl's eyes. You are a great benefactor to our family. Don't worry when you come to Beijing this time. On the first and fifteenth day of every lunar month, , I will take your grandson home and ask my wife to cook him a table of delicious food to replenish his health.”
Doctor Yang thanked him again, took out a letter, and said to his father: "I will go to the capital in three days, so I will not go to the private school to see him. Please give this letter to him for me."
My father was about to take the letter when a small white hand suddenly appeared in front of him: "Give it to me. I'll keep it for Brother Xiaoyang. My mother said that my father was careless. What if he loses the letter?"< br>
Dad was helpless. Although he was a little embarrassed by his daughter, facing his only daughter, he couldn't bear to scold him and could only smile and shake his head.
Doctor Yang laughed heartily. He liked this family and this cute little girl very much.
He thrust the letter into the girl's hands: "Okay, then I'll leave it to you for safekeeping."
Upon seeing this, my father hurriedly said: "Why is this happening? She is still a child."
Doctor Yang smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, it's not an important letter, just a few words of advice."
The girl took the letter. The letter was not thick and light. She said with a smile: "Don't worry, Grandpa Miracle Doctor. I will definitely give the letter to Brother Xiaoyang."
Grandma came over and took the girl's hand: "Okay, stop making trouble, Grandma will take you to bed."
"I didn't make trouble, I really didn't."
The childish voice was getting farther and farther away, and the girl was taken to wash up by her mother-in-law.
She has slept with her grandma since she was a child. She likes her faint soapy scent.
After washing, grandma sent the girl to grandma's room. Grandma smiled and said to grandma: "You have been busy all day, go and have a rest."
When grandma went out, grandma helped the girl take off her clothes and put on her pajamas. However, she saw the girl fumbled and took out a letter from the clothes she took off.
Grandma said hurriedly: "Whose letter is this? Where did you get it from? Give it to Grandma."
As he said that, he was about to take the letter.
The girl hid the letter behind her back with her two little hands and shook her little head: "If you don't give it, I won't give it. This is a letter from Brother Xiaoyang. Grandpa, the miracle doctor, asked me to keep it. I won't damage it. Grandma will go out first. I Hide this letter until Grandma comes in again.”
Although she knew that her granddaughter would not lie, grandma still went to ask daddy. When she found out that it was indeed the letter that Divine Doctor Yang had asked her granddaughter to deliver, grandma stopped caring about it and let them go their own way with the matters between the children. Bar.
Before entering the house, grandma knocked on the door and asked with a smile: "Have you hidden it?"
"Grandma wants to tell you if the little rabbit is well hidden."
Grandma laughed and said: "Have you hidden the little rabbit?"
"Hidden, Grandma can come in!"
Grandma entered the room and saw her little granddaughter lying on the bed, smiling at her with her little face twisted.
She no longer knows where the letter was hidden.
Grandma smiled and shook her head, took off her shoes and went to bed, blew out the small lamp on the bedside, and lay down next to her little granddaughter.
"Grandma, the family living at the foot of the mountain is quarreling again. The father of that family is stealing from the widow. Grandma, can the widow also steal?"
"You little guy, why do you even know this? That family lives so far away. Who did you listen to?"
"Listen to what the little sparrow said, that family always quarreled, and the swallows stopped building nests in his house."
Grandma laughed, but didn't care. She was really a child, and she was talking in childish words.
Grandma patted her little granddaughter and hummed an unnamed song. Sleep came over her, and the girl's consciousness began to blur. A faint fragrance floated in, not the scent of soap locust from Grandma's body.
The girl said: "Grandma, it smells good, can you smell it?"
Grandma yawned and patted her gently: "The room has been smoked with mosquito coils, and the smell has not dissipated yet."
The girl wanted to say, this is not the smell of mosquito coils, Grandma, your nose is blocked again.
But her eyelids seemed to be extremely heavy, and she fell asleep after murmuring a few words.
The girl was awakened. She had always been a heavy sleeper. Once her father took her to see a doctor. The road was bumpy and the mule cart was bumpy, but she slept all the way and when she woke up, she was already at the doctor's house.
But today she woke up, surrounded by darkness, the sound of chaotic footsteps, the friction of clothes and bamboo leaves, this was not her home!
A strong arm was wrapped around her waist, and she was held by the man's arm and walked hurriedly through the bamboo forest.
Although the girl grew up in Zhuxitang, due to her eyesight, she rarely had the opportunity to go out except to see a doctor. However, she knew that this place must be far away from her home, and there were no commercial buildings near her home. bamboo forest.
Although she is still a child, her blindness gives her an extraordinary sense of smell and perception.
She smelled the blood on that man!
This is not the smell of killing chickens and fish, this is human blood. She had smelled this smell when Dr. Yang's grandparents were injured. This is the smell of human blood!
She reached out and groped, and her hand was cold and hard, but there were winding lines. She groped along the lines inch by inch. She didn't know what they were, but it scared her.
Where is this?
She slept with grandma, but now, where is she, where is grandma?
Just as she was about to call out to Grandma, a strong hand fell silently on her head, and she fell into chaos again.
The man holding her breathed a sigh of relief. The drug was so powerful that he didn't expect the little girl to wake up midway, almost making her cry.
A man's voice came from not far away: "Ah Si, why did you come here?"
The man named Ah Si hurriedly said: "I found a child under the bed. It seems that the old woman was not stunned and hid the little kid under the bed when she heard the noise."
Ah Si was talking and kept walking, getting closer and closer to the man in front of him. The man asked: "There is another one? That's right. There was a little blind man in that house. I said why didn't I see him? He strangled him to death. ”
Ah Si said: "Strangle to death, and go to the west after falling asleep like her parents."
The man opposite smiled and said: "No wonder the Lord always said Ah Si was careful. If it weren't for Ah Si, I would have almost missed one alive today."
Ah Si hurriedly said: "Second Brother is overly praised, and there will be no survivors. At most, Ah Si will go back and kill the people. Ah Si will save himself effort."
He didn't want to continue this topic anymore, so he raised the girl high and said: "A blind man will suffer while he is alive. He will die early and be reborn. Go find your parents."
As soon as his hand loosened, the girl's body was thrown into the pit dug in advance. When it fell, it was warm and soft. Under her body were her parents and relatives who had just died.
Several people worked together to fill the hole and trample the new soil firmly with their feet.
"Ah Si, you are the most attentive. Please stay and clean up the aftermath, so that people here will think that their family left with Yang."
"Ah Si takes the order!"
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Several people got on their horses. Ah Si waved to them, looked back at the new soil that they had trampled on, turned around and ran in the direction they came from.
On a starless and moonless night, darkness surges like a tide.
Ah Si returned to the deserted courtyard, opened the doors and windows, and dissipated the remaining smell of drugs and blood. He arranged the furnishings in the house and even washed the blood stains on the bricks.
Finally, Ah Si locked the door and walked away.
The courtyard was quiet and peaceful, and only the frightened night bird that flew away knew that there had been a killing here.
When the sky was getting dark, it started to rain. The rain hit the bamboo leaves, washed away the dust, and covered all the secrets in the misty rain.
Ah Si raised his face, letting the cold rain fall on his face.
He liked this feeling, as if it could wash away the filth from the inside out.
At this moment, his heart felt peaceful and peaceful, and he thought of that little girl.
Instead of killing her like a relative, he buried her alive while she was unconscious.
Ah Si believes that letting the murdered person die without pain is a good deed every day.
Ah Si's mood suddenly became joyful. Sure enough, doing good made people happy. The rain was getting heavier and heavier. Ah Si decided to go back to the place where the body was buried to take a look and put a few stones on top to prevent the grave from collapsing and exposing the body.
Ah Si has always been as careful as his hair.
In this mission, no one can be seen alive, no dead body can be seen, so that everyone will think that the doctor and the family who took him in are not dead, they just traveled far away.
Ah Si ran in the rain, passed through the bamboo forest, and came to the place where the body was buried.
But what he saw in front of him surprised him. A pit now appeared in the place where it was flattened. There were four corpses in the pit, and the girl who was supposed to be lying on top was missing!
As if Ah Si fell into an ice cave, could it be that the girl woke up and crawled out on her own?
But Ah Si quickly denied this possibility. It was impossible. It was impossible for the girl to crawl out by herself.
Ah Si lit up the fire and searched carefully around. On the soaked ground, there were paw prints and drag marks left by wild dogs.
It seems that hungry wild dogs dug up the body buried in the soil in search of the scent, but I don't know where they dragged the girl.
Ah Si's heart sank. It would be fine if the girl was dead after being buried alive, but what if she was not dead?
If the master knows about this
Ah Si shuddered. He remembered the last person who was ordered to be executed by his master because he failed in his mission
The rain gradually stopped, white fish belly appeared in the east, the dark clouds quietly disappeared, and there was not much time left for Ah Si.
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He gritted his teeth and buried the body again as quickly as possible. This time he placed a few stones on top of the corpse pit, so that he would not have to worry about the corpse pit being washed away by the rain.
After doing all this, Ah Si began to search around for traces of the wild dog and the girl, but those traces disappeared in low-lying areas. Ah Si searched for a long time, but found nothing.
The sky was bright and the bamboo leaves washed by the rain were full of green. Several horses were riding from far to near. The sound of horse hooves alarmed several wild dogs in the bamboo forest on the roadside. The barking of dogs was mixed with the cry of children. In this early morning It's particularly harsh in the mountains and forests.
"Listen, there is a child crying."
The knights on the horse reined in their reins one after another, and all looked at the young boy who was protected by them. The young boy was still a child, only eight or nine years old, and was looking towards the bamboo forest where the cry came from.
"Go and have a look!"
The childish voice carries an irresistible majesty.
Before they finished speaking, the group of people had already turned their horses and headed towards the bamboo forest.
Several wild dogs surrounded a little girl with bruises in the bamboo forest. When they heard the noise, the wild dogs bared their teeth and roared, eager to attack. The young boy waved his hand, and the followers showed their swords and rushed towards the wild dogs!
The leader of the wild dog, whose nickname is Heizi, was once a domestic dog. Although he was often hungry, he still loyally guarded the house and the courtyard.
One day, the owner took a freshly sharpened knife and wanted to kill it for meat. Heizi ran away and wandered in the mountains and forests. He had a younger brother, a wife and children, and he began to care about him.
People will be afraid of death once they have concerns, and so will dogs.
And Heizi can't forget the knife in his master's hand, it's his nightmare.
At this time, the cold light in the hands of the followers stung Heizi's sensitive heart. He let out a wail from the depths of his soul and ran towards the depths of the bamboo forest!
Heizi doesn't want to die.
The younger brothers were so shocked that they ran wildly after Brother Heizi, ignoring the little girl who could talk to them.
The wild dog disappeared from sight, and the little boy snorted disdainfully. He sat upright on the horse, looking down at the little girl lying on the ground. An attendant walked over and picked up the little girl. The little girl was frightened and cried. Can't stop.
The young boy frowned and said to his entourage: "She is seriously injured. Please ask around along the way to see if there is any doctor."
The entourage responded, and they got on their horses and continued on their way. An hour later, they finally found the doctor in a village. The little girl had already fainted from the pain.
An attendant carried the little girl into the house. The doctor showed it to the little girl. He looked up out of the window seemingly inadvertently. He saw the tall horses, the saddle that was worth a lot of money, and the clothes on the horse. The gorgeous young boys were all telling him one thing, these were some rich passers-by.
The doctor looked at the little girl again. The little girl's clothes were in tatters. She obviously didn't belong to these people. In all likelihood, she was picked up on the road.
He cleared his throat and said: "This little girl is blind and her bones are broken. Even if I reattach her bones now, it will take a hundred days to break her muscles and bones. She must be able to give birth and be healthy. It is absolutely impossible to travel long distances." ”
As soon as the doctor finished speaking, two silver ingots fell on the table in front of him.
The doctor swallowed his saliva. Ten taels of silver ingots, a full twenty taels! .
An impatient voice came from a follower: "Since she can't rush on her way, let her recuperate at your place. Is the money enough?"
The doctor's eyes fell on the sword on the attendant's waist, and he hurriedly moved his eyes away: "Enough, enough."
The attendant nodded and said: "Help me ask around to see if there is any missing child nearby, or wait until the child wakes up and ask her where her home is."
The doctor hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I was born and raised here, and I am very familiar with this place. I will definitely be able to send this little girl home safely."
The entourage was satisfied, gave a few more instructions, and then left.
Xiao Zhen rode forward without looking back, and soon left everything that had just happened behind him.
This place is still more than a hundred miles away from Bai Feng City. He sneaked out from home. At this time, the people sent by his parents to find him may have entered Wu. There is not much time left for him. He must arrive as soon as possible. Bai Fengcheng, see with your own eyes what your cousin looks like.
In recent months, Xiao Zhen has been having the same dream over and over again. In the dream, a man led troops to kill him, but someone blocked the sword for him and died in his arms.
The man who wanted to kill him called himself his "cousin," but the man who died in his arms called him "brother."
As we all know, his mother is Princess Jiayi, his father is the consort Xiao Jingyan, and he is the only son in the family. He has no younger brothers at all.
Xiao Zhen originally didn't believe this dream, but not long ago he met his cousin Zhong Zhanbo and accidentally discovered that Zhong Zhanbo was somewhat similar to the cousin in the dream, and Zhong Zhanbo's father Zhong Ziyang was also one of his cousins. .
Zhong Ziyang has not been to the capital for many years. Therefore, Xiao Zhen has no impression of Zhong Ziyang, his cousin. He heard that Zhong Zhanbo looks like his father. Therefore, Xiao Zhen decided to come to Baifeng City to see with his own eyes who Zhong Ziyang is. Not the cousin who wanted to kill him in the dream.
So Xiao Zhen took advantage of Princess Jiayi and Prince Consort Xiao to stay in the temple, and quietly left the capital with several of his guards.
At the entrance of the village, the doctor watched the group of people leave the village and let out a long breath.
"It hurts so much." The little girl woke up from a coma. The pain hit her and she started crying again.
The doctor took out a small porcelain bottle, poured out some medicinal powder, dissolved it with warm water, opened the little girl's mouth and poured it in.
The little girl soon fell into coma again, and this time she couldn't wake up for a few hours.
The doctor looked carefully and found that although he was blind, he had a cute and delicate face. This was the kind of child Wang Guaizi wanted.
The doctor was a little proud. He deceived the attendant. The little girl seemed to be seriously injured. In fact, except for two broken ribs, the rest were all skin injuries. Of course, except for the eyes, the broken ribs should be in the Caused by hitting a hard object while dragging.
He deliberately said it seriously because he wanted the group to keep the little girl.
However, the doctor did not act rashly. It was not until evening, when he was sure that those people would not come back, that he asked his son to call Wang Guaizi.
"Old Wang, didn't you ask me to help you find some children with disabilities? There happened to be one today, a little blind man."
Half a month later, Wuji View on the outskirts of Beijing.
"Your Highness, the people sent out have returned."
Prince Zhao Xian stood up excitedly and "looked" in the direction of the sound with a pair of dull eyes.
"Mr. Yang has arrived in the capital? Hurry up and announce that he is here to diagnose and treat the orphans. Hurry!"
Eunuch Liu moved his body with difficulty, moving to a position where the objects thrown by Prince Xian could not hit him.
Ever since the prince suffered from an eye disease, he hid in Wuji Temple under the pretext of praying for the emperor. As several imperial doctors were helpless, the originally gentle prince became more and more irritable. In recent days, the prince has become completely blind. , he started to lose his temper, and every day someone was beaten to a bloody head.
Eunuch Liu gritted his teeth and said bravely: "Your Highness, Mr. Yang, the miracle doctor. Yang said he didn't want to go to Beijing and ran away overnight."
Nothing hit him. Eunuch Liu touched his head to the ground. The surroundings suddenly became quiet, so quiet that he could hear his own heartbeat.
After a long time, Prince Xian's voice sounded again: "It's impossible. The Meng family is kind to Yang Wei. Yang Wei won't run away. This must be a misunderstanding. Maybe the old genius doctor Yang couldn't wait and went to Beijing on his own to pick him up." His men went astray."
Eunuch Liu wanted to say: It was not only Yang Wei who escaped, but even the family that took Yang Wei in was missing. The door was closed, and there was no gold or silver in the house. It seemed that the whole family had fled.
Thinking about Yang Wei, he was framed when he was in the Imperial Hospital. If Master Meng hadn't interceded for him, the grass on Yang Wei's grave would have been greener for more than ten rounds.
After finally escaping from death, how could he return to the capital again?
But Eunuch Liu didn't dare to say anything, so he could only swallow the words that came to his lips.
But soon, with the arrival of his father-in-law, Lord Meng, Prince Xian had to believe that Yang Wei was really missing!
The people sent by Mr. Meng sent back news that Yang Wei and the family named Shi were all missing. It was said that the Shi family went to other places to treat their daughter's illness, and Yang Wei also accompanied them.
What a joke!
The daughter of the Shi family is blind, and even Yang Wei cannot cure her eye disease. Which doctor in the world can cure it?
Talking about going to other places to seek medical treatment is all nonsense!
Yang Wei refused to go to Beijing and was worried that he would harm his savior, so he fled with Shi's family!
This time, the prince did not get angry. He curled up like a child who made a mistake and kept talking to himself
The East Palace blocked the news of the prince's eye disease, and only said that the prince prayed for the emperor for a hundred days at Wuji Temple. However, the hundred days were about to pass, and the imperial doctors were still helpless, and the people sent out to look for Yang Wei were no longer there. Send back the message.
However, the secret of the layer-by-layer blockade still spread like wildfire. A few days later, the streets and alleys of the capital were all talking about the same topic——
The prince has become blind!
This topic spread from the streets to the court. How can the prince of a country be blind?
The civil and military officials were divided into two groups. One group begged the emperor to abolish Prince Xian and replace him with another prince; the other group believed that the top priority should be to inform the world of famous doctors to treat the prince instead of establishing another prince.
The two factions each held their own opinions and expressed their own opinions, which caused a headache for Emperor Xuanqing, who was already in poor health.
In the Wuji Temple, the prince appeared to be in a depressed mood. He drank to drown his sorrows without caring that he was still in the Taoist temple. He became extremely drunk and was found dead in his sleep the next day. The imperial doctor diagnosed that he died of heart disease caused by drunkenness.
The Crown Princess Meng, the chosen attendants Lu and Sun hanged themselves to death. In the chaos, the three-year-old grandson Zhao Yuan fell into the water and died.
Emperor Xuanqing was shocked to hear the bad news and fell ill.
In the autumn of the fifteenth year of Xuanqing, Emperor Xuanqing appointed the second prince Zhao Yu as heir apparent. The three children of the former prince Zhao Xian, except Zhao Yuan who died in infancy, the remaining two daughters were brought into the palace to be raised.
In the same year, Emperor Xuanqing ordered people to build a Taoist temple on Cuiping Mountain, two hundred miles away from the capital, called the Palace of Longevity.
In the summer of the 16th year of Xuanqing, the longevity palace was built.
A month later, Emperor Xuanqing passed the throne to the Crown Prince and became the Supreme Emperor himself.
Soon after, the Supreme Emperor left the palace and went to the Longevity Palace to cultivate immortality.
The following year, the new emperor changed his reign to Yongjia, and was known as Emperor Yongjia in history.
Emperor Yongjia worshiped his late brother Zhao Xian as Emperor Xiaokang, and Meng as Queen Xiaokang. Zhao Xian's two daughters were both named princesses.
Emperor Yongjia's move was highly praised by both the government and the public.
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