Chapter 114: Traveling back to ancient times to open a clinic 28: Family reunion...
It must be said that Gu Jingxing's health was still very good. An ordinary person who was injured in the lungs and underwent such a major operation would definitely have to go through a lot of trouble afterwards, but Gu Jingxing's recovery speed was quite fast. At dawn the next day, Shen Qian saw him open his eyes.
Shen Qian hurried forward, touched his forehead, took his pulse, and checked his vital signs in the system. Surprisingly, everything was normal.
"You're awake, how do you feel?" Shen Qian asked after the examination.
Gu Jingxing struggled to sit up, but was pushed back by Chen Qian: "Don't move. The wound was sutured with great difficulty. You have to stay in bed for the next three days."
Gu Jingxing lay back down obediently, not moving anymore, just looking at her.
"Thank you for saving me again."
Chen Qian was startled for a moment, then nodded. What he was talking about was the last time he invited her to go to Suchuan, when he caught a cold and had a high fever that night.
"No need to thank me. I still need your help in finding my mother and sister. Besides, this is what I should do as a doctor."
"Have you been guarding here all the time? Go back and have a rest." Gu Jingxing glanced at the light outside the tent, and after a quick thought he realized that she was tired after a whole day yesterday and had been working non-stop at night, so she must be exhausted.
"You're seriously injured. I can't rest until I see you wake up. Now that you're awake, you've passed the critical period. My disciples will take turns checking on you. I'm going to rest first."
Shen Qian said, and stood up.
She felt a little dizzy, probably because she was really tired, but after standing there for a while, she felt a little better. She should be fine after going back to sleep.
She was about to walk out of the tent when she heard someone calling her from behind.
"Shen Qian."
Shen Qian turned back: "Yeah."
"I'm very happy and fortunate that you can come."
If it weren't for her, it wouldn't have been so easy for him to kill Tuoba Lie. Even if he could kill him, it would have been difficult for him to escape unscathed.
Chen Qian just glanced at him and walked out of the tent.
At this time, the rosy clouds covered half of the sky. The battlefield outside the military camp had been cleaned up by the soldiers. The corpses were carried outside and buried, and the prisoners were escorted back to the capital overnight.
The news of Tuoba Lie's death soon spread back to the capital and also to the Beiyin Kingdom. Upon hearing the sad news, the King of Beiyin fell ill suddenly and became paralyzed on one side of his body. The whole of Beiyin was in chaos.
Finally, Queen Bei Yin ordered the troops to withdraw and return the occupied Chinese cities. She also ordered annual tribute to China. Emperor Yongtai was naturally delighted to hear the good news. He not only rewarded Gu Jingxing greatly, but also pardoned the sin of Gu Jingting, who had caused the defeat of the Northern Expedition Army due to his stubbornness.
As for the military commander Prince Yu, although Emperor Yongtai did not give him any reward, he had someone write him a separate letter containing various words of commendation written in his own handwriting.
This was very useful to King Yu. He had previously sent a secret letter to his father, reporting the previous battle situation, explaining Gu Jingting's various operations on the battlefield, and the conflict between the two brothers of the Gu family.
Unexpectedly, after this victory, my father also replied with a secret letter, and there was an intimacy in his words that had never been seen before.
Prince Yu Xiao Jinxiang has been smart since he was a child, much better than Crown Prince Xiao Jinchen, but his father likes his elder brother and is always indifferent to him. Perhaps his father has been training Xiao Jinchen as the crown prince from the very beginning, so naturally the two are treated differently in comparison.
This letter made King Yu feel the approval and love from his father for the first time in a long time.
This made his already restless heart even more active.
He originally wanted to find a way to deal with Gu Jingxing on the battlefield, but at this time, he changed his mind.
Gu Jingxing was just a military man. He was brave and good at fighting, but he had no ambition for a career in politics. This could be seen from the fact that he had no reaction to the emperor's reward.
Such people may not be interested in taking sides at all.
King Yu did not want to make enemies rashly. After all, what he wanted to pursue would naturally have many enemies. As long as Gu Jingxing did not block his way in the future and he got what he wanted, Gu Jingxing would still be the sharpest knife in his hand.
Eunuch Cao disagreed: "Your Highness, this General Gu is a man of deep thoughts, you must be careful. He has made a great contribution this time, but if he doesn't stand by you in the future, he will definitely become a stumbling block for you."
King Yu was at the peak of his power at the time, so he was not willing to listen and just said a few words to fool him.
Here, Gu Jingxing recovered quickly under Shen Qian's care. After the stitches were removed, he continued to apply the tissue-growing ointment developed by Jimin Pharmacy, and soon his wound healed to the point where even the traces were barely visible.
Even Wu Hen couldn't help but say after seeing it: "I have never seen such an effective ointment. This was actually developed by the girl herself. She is really amazing."
"I'll just say this here. Pass the order down. No one in the army is allowed to discuss Doctor Shen's medical skills, and don't spread it outside."
Wu Hen was a little puzzled, but as a well-trained subordinate, his answer was always: "Yes."
It was Gu Jingxing who explained himself: "If she is interested in fame and success, I will build momentum for her, but if she has no such intentions, fame will only become a burden to her."
"I understand."
During the time when Gu Jingxing was recovering from his injuries, he would personally ask his subordinates about the results of their search every day.
"If you can't find it in the mountains, then go to the nearby villages and ask. Be sure not to be too abrupt when asking, so as not to arouse suspicion."
Gu Jingxing even asked Wu Hen to look for it personally, for fear of missing any clues.
Finally, God helps those who work hard. After Beiyin Kingdom withdrew its troops and returned several occupied cities, Wu Hen, who was in charge of finding people, actually found the Tao Lingshu and her daughter whom he had been looking for among the surviving people in the city.
"Mrs. Chen, you really made it difficult for us to find you! We met before in Anrong, do you remember? I'm from the young lady's family." Wu Hen stepped forward and said.
After this period of fear and worry, Tao Lingshu was like a frightened bird. When he saw someone approaching, he was so scared that he quickly hugged his daughter in his arms.
It was Shen Zhuo who was braver and broke free from his mother's arms: "I recognize you! Are you Chief Steward Wu? Did my sister ask you to come and pick us up?"
Wu Hen nodded: "Yes, your sister is still in the military camp, do you want to go with me to see her?"
Chen Zhuo was so happy. She missed her sister very much during this period. Qingyang City was under siege and Beiyin people killed many people. She was worried every day, afraid that she would die under Beiyin's knife and never see her sister again.
When Tao Lingshu heard that his daughter was here too, he finally burst into tears: "Then... I'll have to trouble Manager Wu."
Chen Qian would look out from outside the military camp every day, hoping to be the first to know the news about her mother and sister. In fact, she had also guessed whether they had followed the crowd to hide in Qingyang City.
But this idea was quickly rejected by her and she refused to think in this direction.
I've heard that Qingyang City transports out the bodies of many murdered civilians every day. The city is like a living hell. If my mother and sister are really in there, I'm afraid they're in great danger...
That day, she finally waited for two familiar figures. Wu Hen went out on a horse, but came back in a carriage. Shen Qian's heart was pounding. Could it be that he really found him?
In fact, as a tasker in this world, Chen Qian originally did not have such deep feelings for her original mother and sister, but in the past few months of getting along, she could feel the feelings of her two relatives towards her. People are not plants or trees, so who can be heartless? At this moment, she also felt some of the excitement that her original self had for her mother and sister from the bottom of her heart.
The mother was still wearing her familiar plain dress as she walked down from the carriage holding my sister's hand. There were traces of weathering between her brows, and it seemed that she had been worried and suffered during this period.
Sister Chen Zhuo seemed to have grown taller than when she just left, but her originally round face had become much thinner now. When she saw Chen Qian, she ran over crying and hugged her.
"Wow, sis!"
Tao Lingshu also trotted over and hugged her.
Chen Qian's eyes were red as she hugged the two of them. She never thought that after they parted in Anrong City, their reunion would be like this.
It was Tao Lingshu who held back his tears first: "This is a military camp, let's go back to the tent and talk."
The mother, daughter and her two daughters returned to Chen Qian's tent and told him everything that had happened during this period in detail.
It turned out that on the day Qingyang City was broken, the carriage that the mother and daughter were riding in was attacked by the Beiyin Army. All the people guarding them were killed in the battle, and the coachman also died while trying to cover their escape.
Originally, Tao Lingshu wanted to hide in the mountains with his little daughter, but was targeted by several evil people. It seemed difficult for them to escape and they were afraid for their lives. At the critical moment, the mother and daughter were rescued by an old woman's guard and brought back to Qingyang City.
At that time, they just wanted to escape from here, so they followed the old woman into Qingyang City, but they didn't expect that it was the beginning of another nightmare.
The Beiyin army then began to attack Qingyang. After the city was broken, they hid in the cellar to avoid the first wave of searches, and later avoided the fire and massacre. When Tao Lingshu talked about this, tears kept flowing.
"I was terrified and hungry all day, so I soon fell ill. Fortunately, you taught Zhuo'er some skills to identify herbs. She took the risk and sneaked into a pharmacy, stole some medicine for me, and that's how I managed to survive until now."
In this way, Madam Shen took her little daughter to hide in the east of Qingyang City, and actually managed to hold on until the day when the city gate was opened.
"What's the name of the old woman who saved you in the beginning? I must go and thank her in person." Shen Qian said, holding his mother's hand.
Chen Zhuo then spoke, "That grandmother died of shock the day after the city fell. Many people who helped us were also killed by the Beiyin Army..."
Shen Qian stopped asking, thinking that his mother and sister must have experienced such a terrible thing and didn't want to talk about it anymore.
"It's all over. The terrible things are over. Now the world is at peace!"
Although Shen Zhuo had suffered and been frightened, he was still somewhat excited when he mentioned this matter: "We all heard in Qingyang City that it was General Gu who chopped off Tuoba Lie's head with a sword and killed him. If it weren't for him, I'm afraid we would have to endure it in Qingyang City for a while longer. Sister, you don't know that he is a great hero in the hearts of the people!"
Shen Qian was convinced of this, but she suddenly remembered that night when Gu Jingxing, with an arrow stuck in his back, said with a weak but firm voice, "If we don't kill him, the war will never end."
At that time, Shen Qian thought that this man was simply crazy. He could go against his nature and let the other party pierce his back with an arrow, injuring his lungs. At this moment, she suddenly understood that what Gu Jingxing saw in his eyes was not his old enemy, but the millions of Chinese people.
"He is indeed a hero." Shen Qian said sincerely.
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