Chapter 198

It was snowing outside, and the house was warm with a fire. There were many people coming today, and the room was filled with banquets. Although it looked crowded, no one cared.

The guests who came in one after another were wrapped in the cold. They took off their cloaks and hung them aside. Xu Yi warmed ginger tea for them and asked them to drink a bowl first.

In the kitchen, A Xu and others brought out the prepared dishes such as steamed mandarin fish, fish in black bean oil, braised mandarin fish and crispy mandarin fish one after another.

When everyone saw the delicious fish dishes on the table, everyone present was not polite and ate the fish with their chopsticks casually.

While drinking and drinking, Pang Boyi was extremely envious.

He wanted to secretly ask A Xu to pour him a drink, but before he could drink it, Xu Yi caught him in the act.

"Sir, I told you that you are abstaining from alcohol for the past few months." Xu Yi politely replaced the wine glass in his hand.

Pang Boyi showed his temper: "My health has improved a lot these days, why can't I drink alcohol?"

Xu Yi smiled and said, "Sir, you still have to listen to the doctor."

Pang Boyi hummed twice and did not argue with him. He took a sip from his teacup and asked, "Did you deliver the fish for Lieutenant Pan?"

"I did." Xu Yi nodded.

Pang Boyi looked at him and said nonchalantly: "He is going to Fuzhou to take office in early spring. You said last time that he was going to Guangdong and Guangxi. If you have the chance, you can pay him a visit then."

Xu Yi smiled slightly . He lowered his eyes and said: "Sir, I have very little contact with Captain Pan,

so I'm afraid it's inappropriate to disturb me so presumptuously." Pang Boyi said: "What's wrong with you, I'm afraid you don't want to cause trouble. Okay, I won’t let you cling to anything, so just send me a letter.”

Xu Yi smiled and said, “It’s up to you, sir.”

The two of them stopped talking, and Xu Yi picked out a delicious piece of fish without delaying it. steamed mandarin fish meat for him.

Pang Boyi took a bite and didn't smell any fishy smell. He only tasted the deliciousness of the fish. He also wanted to eat crispy mandarin fish, but Xu Yi said that this fish was not suitable for him, so he put small pieces in his bowl. He is not allowed to do it again.

Pang Gamei: "..." How could he suspect that this kid took the opportunity to take revenge?

After everyone finished eating the fish, they said goodbye to Xu Yi one after another and went home.

Yu Qiulin and the others were also tired. They had eaten and drank enough to make them sleepy. Xu Yi sent them out of the house without leaving them to discuss tomorrow's affairs. He watched them get on the donkey cart and leave before turning back to the house.

"Everyone's gone?" Yan Quyue sat in front of the dressing table, taking off the hairpin from her bun. When she saw him entering the room, she said, "Axu has prepared bath water for you, please wash up quickly. "

Xu Yi nodded, walked behind the screen, and went into the side room to wash up.

When he came out of the side room, Yan Quyue was lying on the warm bed wearing a plain white underwear. She was drowsy and when she heard Xu Yi coming out, she said softly: "Xu Yi, please wipe my back. "

She added: "I want the sweet-scented osmanthus flavor."

That was the sweet-scented osmanthus that Xu Yi asked Ah Xu Ajin to pick when he came back this year, brewed sweet-scented osmanthus stuffing, and made a batch of sweet-scented osmanthus paste.

This osmanthus cream is different from the osmanthus facial cream in the rouge shop. It is mainly used to rub the body.

As a body lotion, it has a pleasant fragrance and is not overpowering. If you apply it on your body overnight, you will still have a faint body fragrance when you wake up the next day.

Yan Quyue likes this fragrance, and since she started using it, she never likes to use other fragrances again.

Xu Yi sat on the bed, opened the osmanthus ointment, took a spoonful and emulsified it in the palm of his hand, then applied it to Yan Quyue's lower back, and rubbed it upwards little by little.

The warmth in the palm of her hand hit her, and Yan Quyue hummed comfortably.

Xu Yi rubbed her neck and pinched the skin above it. He kept moving his hands, slowly increasing the force, and said with a smile: "You have some meridians blocked here. It will hurt when you rub it, so be patient. "

When am I afraid of pain?" Yan Quyue muttered.

The next second, she couldn't help shouting: "Hey, it hurts so much."

Xu Yi laughed and said, "I told you, it will hurt a little."

"I dance my sword every day, how come my meridians are blocked?" After Yi finished kneading, she pulled Yan Quyue up from the bed and put on her inner clothes. She shook her neck and looked at Xu Yi.

Xu Yi pondered for a while and said, "

Don't learn from female celebrities." Yan Quyue was so frightened that she stopped practicing female celebrities when she heard that it was because of her practice of female celebrities that the meridians in her neck were blocked.

"It's not like you have to learn female red." Yan Quyue excused herself, "After all, you can't even recognize the little yellow I embroidered. How can I master such female red?"

Xu Yi said shortly He smiled and agreed with her excuse.

He just learned it, but he only embroidered the mold, and Tiger King's ears were not yet finished.

After the two joked, they remembered what happened at dinner today. Yan Quyue turned over, lying lazily on him, and asked him softly: "Pang Guanren, why did you ask you to give fish to Pan County Lieutenant?"

Xu Yi raised his hand and lowered it to the lady in his arms. Yan Quyue didn't even know about many of the things he had encountered in the past.

When he thought of this, he told Yan Quyue about the causes and consequences.

"There is some coincidence here. At that time, my husband had a headache and wanted to find a doctor in Yanting. It was through the hands of Pan County Lieutenant that he found this doctor." Xu Yi said slowly.

Yan Quyue raised her eyebrows and asked with a smile: "The doctor can't be you, right?"

"It's me." Xu Yi raised the corners of his mouth, with a thoughtful look in his eyes, comparing him with Pang Boyi and Pan County Lieutenant. Things come to light.

...

After the spraying of medicine on the tent organized by Xu Yi was completed, the day came for the Xing family to open a free clinic.

The free clinic arranged by the Xing family was still outside the City God's Temple. On that day, Xu Yi took A Xu and A Jin on a donkey cart, and Erqing drove the car to the City God's Temple.

Ahead, Wu Guanshan arrived ahead of him. He and his apprentice stood outside the donkey cart waiting for someone. When they saw Xu Yi, they came over to them.

"I was worried that you wouldn't come. I asked again yesterday and said that you would come, so I felt at ease." Wu Guanshan said with a smile, and then took Xu Yi aside to talk.

Xu Yi walked side by side with him on the road and said: "I have been busy making cold-repelling pills recently, and I didn't bother to send you a message."

"You are busy, and I have been busy for a while." Wu Guanshan said, thinking of A patient he treated a few days ago.

The patient's condition was special, and it involved a hidden disease. In addition, the family kept asking him to hide it. Even if Wu Guanshan wanted to discuss his condition with Xu Yi, he could only give up.

But when he saw someone today, he thought again of the official named Tao.

Seeing hesitation on his face, Xu Yi asked him what happened, "If you have something, it's okay to just say

it." Wu Guanshan sighed and said, "It's hard to talk about."

Xu Yi squinted his eyes and held the hand warmer. His hands and fingers lightly rubbed the copper wall back and forth: "Did you encounter some difficult patients?"

"It's a bit difficult." Wu Guanshan did not reveal too much. He frowned and hesitated again and again, and then couldn't help but said to Xu Yi, "The patient was completely wiped out, with several liters of blood flowing out. I tried to save his life, but for some reason, the area was rotten and necrotic, with a constant stench."

When Xu Yi heard this, he thought of Wu Guanshan's visit to Tao that night. Home, a ridiculous and funny idea came to mind.

Is this what the Tao family of Ertiao Street wants to hide?

If this is the case, then the Tao family man really deserves it. It is a pity that Madam Liang cut her wrists and committed suicide, but there is no place to announce it.

Xu Yi said with a calm expression: "When Brother Wu was treating this patient, did he check that he suffered from other diseases?"

Wu Guanshan shook his head and said: "The pulse condition is quite damaged, and the root is rotten. I won't be able to argue for a while. "

There is no way to prove it. It is more likely that the syphilis he carries has not yet broken out and has not been revealed."

Xu Yi looked forward and said slightly indifferently: "If that place is rotten, it will be fatal if it is not cured."

"Yes." Wu Guanshan sighed, not noticing that Xu Yi's eyes were wrong. He was still there. Wu Guanshan said worriedly, "I have asked this family to hire another doctor, but his family seems to be hiding something and has been slow to find another doctor."

Wu Guanshan was worried. If he continued to delay, the patient might be in danger.

Hearing this, Xu Yi looked at Wu Guanshan, who knew nothing about it, and said pointedly: "I would rather hide it than ask another doctor. Brother Wu, don't you think there is something fishy here?"

Wu Guanshan's eyebrows jumped and he lowered his head. He asked in a voice: "What's strange?"

Xu Yi smiled: "At ordinary times, the person who has been stripped of his power is just asking for a way to survive. He wants to ask for it but is afraid of being known. I'm afraid there are other reasons."

Wu Guanshan heard He analyzed it like this and didn't know what he thought of. In the cold weather, a thin layer of cold sweat broke out on his back.

When he thought about that night, he was suddenly asked by the Gu family to save someone, and he heard the mother-in-law's cry coming from the dark room next to him. The cry was shrill and incompatible with the other people who were looking panicked.

If there really was something hidden, someone in the Gu family died the next day and Madam Liang committed suicide.

At that time, there were rumors circulating in the streets. Soon a government official went to inquire about the situation and found out that it was not a homicide.

Looking back now, the injury of the elder man of the Gu family and Mrs. Liang's suicide were too coincidental.

Seeing his thoughtful look, Xu Yi stopped talking.

"It's getting late, Brother Wu, it's our turn." Xu Yi reminded.

Wu Guanshan suddenly came back to his senses. Unexpectedly, they had arrived at the free clinic.

Outside the free clinic, there were already many people waiting to see a doctor. Wu Guanshan didn't think much about it and started to provide free medical consultation for the patients wholeheartedly.

...

At this time, the Gu family's main room.

There was a jujube tree in the courtyard outside the Gu family's big house. After that day, the jujube tree suddenly withered and died within a few days.

After that, the atmosphere in the Gu family's main room became more and more gloomy. The servants and girls did not even dare to breathe loudly for fear of upsetting their master.

Gu's mother fell ill in bed for several days because of her son's incident. At this moment, she had a nightmare and woke up. She got up in a panic and shouted: "Juan'er, Juan'er."

Juan'er ran in from outside. Half-kneeling in front of the couch, he helped Old Mrs. Gu get up.

Mother Gu grabbed her hand and asked with a green face and fangs: "Brother Sheng, are you awake yet?"

Juan'er was startled by the expression on Old Mrs. Gu's face. She turned pale and hesitated: "Alright, alright? " She's not awake yet, old lady, do you want the doctor to come and take a look?"

Gu's mother fell down on the bed. In just a few days, she had aged by more than ten years, and she looked like an old woman who had been laid to rest.

"Where's Yinqiao?" Suddenly, she thought of something and asked.

Juaner pursed her lips and whispered: "Sister Yinqiao is guarding Brother Sheng."

After hearing this, Gu's mother's face finally softened a little, and she said: "Go and invite Doctor Wu."

"Hey!" Juaner gasped and hurriedly came out of the big house. Before she reached the side door, she saw a frivolous-looking young man coming towards her direction.

That was the second husband of the Gu family, his name was Gu Feng.

Gu Feng was the son of the second wife's concubine, not Mrs. Gu's biological son. This time something like this happened, the second wife was the happiest person behind the scenes.

As long as something happens to Gu Sheng, the family business can only be inherited by the second wife. The second wife gave birth to two boys and three girls. Compared with the first wife, there is a natural difference.

Gu Feng had been hoping that something had happened to Gu Sheng, so when he saw Juaner's hurried look, he stopped her.

"Master Feng." Juaner bowed and saluted.

Gu Feng asked with a smile: "Where are you going?"

Juaner pursed her lips, not daring to look at Gu Feng's gaze on her, and whispered: "The old lady ordered me to find Doctor Wu."

"Doctor Wu." Ah..." Gu Feng pretended to pause and said slowly, "Are you confused, old lady? Dr. Wu has been invited to a free clinic. He can't come to our house to treat his elder brother at the moment."

Juan'er panicked, Gu. Feng took the opportunity to hold her hand and touch it, and said with a smile: "Sister Juan'er, are you going to be confused too?"

"I, I didn't." Juan'er blushed slightly.

Gu Feng was not afraid of being seen by others. He leaned over and said in Juan'er's ear: "Now that eldest brother is lying motionless, why are you still thinking about eldest brother? If this person wants to move his eyes upward, he should look at it. Look at the person in front of you."

Juaner raised her eyelids shyly and looked at him with a soft voice: "Second Master Feng, please stop teasing Juaner."

Gu Feng asked back, "Why am I teasing you? If you don't give up, old lady." Do you have to be dragged down for the rest of your life?"

As he said this, he got closer and when he saw Juan'er didn't resist, he knew it was done.

"Although you are a good person, if you don't agree with the old lady, you will still be betrayed." Gu Feng raised her chin and said charmingly, "If you follow me, I will give you a good place to go, and I will ensure that you are better off than living half-dead by following me. The people are strong.”

Juan'er bit her lip and looked at him timidly: "Second Master Feng, what do you want Juan'er to do?"

...

In the room, Gu's mother waited around, but couldn't wait for the doctor to come. She held on He got up from his sick body and came out with crutches to see the situation.

Unexpectedly, there was no one outside the courtyard, and all the attendant girls who had served before were nowhere to be seen.

Mother Gu called several times, but no one answered.

She was so angry that her chest heaved and her vision went dark. She almost fell to the ground. She quickly held on to the wall and moved little by little to the next room. The room was quiet except for Gu Sheng's painful moans from time to time.

"Son, my baby." Mother Gu couldn't help but shed tears when she saw him in such pain, "My poor baby, why are you so miserable, why did you find a poisonous woman and didn't say anything about it? You've caused such misery..."

Gu's mother cried and came to the bedside, holding Gu Sheng's hand, but as soon as she got closer, she could smell the stench seeping out of the quilt.

It was probably because the smell was so bad that Gu's mother couldn't help retching.

"Where are the people?" Gu's mother yelled angrily, "Where is that bitch Yinqiao?"

She shouted several times before a rough woman carrying water came in. Seeing Mrs. Gu, she panicked She shouted in a panic: "Old lady, why did you get up?"

Gu's mother sneered: "If I didn't get up, I wouldn't have seen you treat my baby like this."

The mother-in-law felt that she was wronged, and she She is just a pee and poop person. She does all the dirty work on weekdays. The two big girls say they are here to take care of people, but they don't even bother to twist the handkerchief.

"Old lady, you have wronged me. Didn't I just go to get hot water for the old man?" the rough lady explained with her head lowered.

Gu's mother covered her nose with a handkerchief and asked in a cold voice: "Where have those two dead girls Yinqiao and Juan'er gone?"

"Miss Yinqiao went to cook medicine." The rough lady replied, "As for Juan, "My dear, I haven't seen anyone."

Mother Gu calmed down after hearing this, but the smell lingered in the room, like the smell of rotten meat that had been corroded for a long time.

Gu's mother felt disgusted and worried about Gu Sheng's wounds. It can be seen that when the rough lady lifted up the quilt and was about to clean Gu Sheng, Gu's mother quickly averted her eyes, her hands shaking with fear.

The rough lady endured the stench and sighed when she saw how rotten the place was.

"Old lady, it's going to be bad!"

the rough lady shouted, almost causing Gu's mother to die on the spot.

She suppressed her energy and went outside with a trembling cane. Juan'er, this bitch, was of no use. She asked the housekeeper to find Dr. Wu.

"Where is the housekeeper?" Gu's mother asked a concierge.

The concierge shook his head in fear: "Old lady, the housekeeper is out."

Mother Gu's heart skipped a beat, thinking of the second roommate who usually looked at her with eager eyes, and she felt a little panicked.

"Where's Second Master Feng? Did he go out too?" Gu's mother asked with a worried look on her face, suppressing her anger.

This time, the concierge pointed to the second room and said, "Second Master Feng is in the study. He said he has some account books to read, so please don't disturb him."

Gu Mupi sneered coldly, "Looking at the account books?" He must be thinking about his big house's account books.

She was running around in ashes at home, and now no matter how stupid she was, she should have figured it out. In the past few days since she had been ill, Gu Feng had already made the decision in the family.

For the people below, the Gu family has no children and has become a rootless person. It is almost impossible to take over the Hui family's property. Although Gu Feng was born to his aunt, his wives and concubines were very proud of themselves and gave him two brothers and three sisters. Not to mention, he is still a healthy person. No matter what, the family business will always fall. On his head.

Thinking of this, Gu's mother stumbled back to her room, with two lines of tears falling faintly.

It's over, it's over for her and her son...

...

The snow cleared the next day, and there was a thick layer of frost on the ground.

After the meal, A Xu took a shovel and removed the ice cubes on the courtyard floor one by one. Xu Yi was about to go out later. The ground was very slippery. He shoveled for half an hour, but only half of it was removed.

When Xu Yi came out, he saw that he was so tired and asked him to rest.

"Lang Jun, if the ice is not shoveled away, it will easily slip and fall." A Xu frowned and continued to wave the shovel in his hand.

Xu Yi raised his eyebrows: "Go to the kitchen and get some salt, sprinkle it on and wait for a quarter of an hour, and the ice will melt naturally."

A Xu was shocked: "!"

How luxurious it would be to use salt to remove ice.

He shook his head like a rattle and would rather work harder than use salt.

Seeing that he was reluctant to let go, Xu Yi ignored him. He called Erqing and Ajin and asked them to follow him out.

Halfway through the journey, Xu Yi thoughtfully asked Er Qing to change the way: "Go around Ertiao Street."

Upon hearing this, A Jin looked at Xu Yi: "Lang Jun, do you want to inquire about the Gu family? "

Xu Yi was stunned for a moment, then shook his head.

"Do you remember that I said that the eldest son of the Gu family may be suffering from Hualiu disease?" he asked.

Ah Jin nodded quickly. She remembered it too well. She still grudges about Madam Liang's incident and regrets that she didn't persuade her more at that time.

The disease that Lady Liang contracted was most likely transmitted to her by her husband. But there was no news about it in the Gu family, and they obviously hid the matter.

"Mr. Lang, do you think this Lady Liang did not commit suicide?" When Ah Jin said this, he was so shocked by his own words that he covered his mouth.

"If it's his murder, I'm afraid I won't be able to hide it from Pan County Lieutenant." Xu Yi looked at her with a complicated expression.

What is this girl looking at in her head?

Ah Jin scratched the back of his head, knowing how scary his idea was.

The donkey cart passed by Ertiao Street quickly. Xu Yi lifted the curtains of the cart and saw that the door of Gu's house was tightly closed, and the white lantern hanging above it had long been removed.

After walking a little further, we saw Gu's tofu shop.

The workers in the tofu shop were still busy in dire straits. Xu Yi saw an aristocratic young man with a handsome face carrying a beautiful female envoy into the tofu shop.

Xu Yi silently looked away. It seemed that the Gu family was about to change.

...

A few days later, it snowed heavily in Yanting.

The Xing family's free clinic was closed, so Xu Yi didn't have to get up early to go out, so he lit a fire in the house and ate small taro.

The room was filled with the aroma of roasted taro. There was a copper pot on the fire with boiling hot water. Xu Yi threw in red dates, longan, citrus aurantium and other items and let them cook slowly in the pot.

There was a small stove next to it, with a clay pot on top. There was half a can of milk in it. Xu Yi asked A Xu to pour the black tea that had filtered out the tea leaves into it, and then added salt to make a simple version of salty milk black tea.

In winter, it is really refreshing to have such a sip of hot milk tea.

After a while, the pot on the fire gurgled with fragrance, filling the whole house.

Everyone was busy with their own business. In the corner, A Xu was teaching Erqing how to calligraphy with the "Thousand Character Essay". Ah Jin, holding a medical book, was trying to cure the flower fistula syndrome that Xu Yi had recently taught her.

As for Yan Quyue, she was sitting on the chair next to Xu Yi, carving something with a carving knife in her hand, and she would glance at Xu Yi from time to time.

Xu Yi was peeling off the roasted black skin of the taro. The meat inside was delicate and glutinous, exuding a rich fragrance.

After peeling it off, he handed it to Yan Quyue to eat.

Such a peaceful and harmonious scene did not last long, and soon there was a knock on the Xu family's door.

Mrs. Lin put down her embroidery booth and ran to open the door. There was a teenage boy knocking on the door.

He is Doctor Wu's apprentice at Miaoshou Hall.

It was freezing outside, so Mrs. Lin invited him in to talk.

When the apprentice saw Xu Yi, he first bowed and then expressed his intention.

He came to invite Xu Yi to go to the Miaoshou Pavilion. He said that there was a difficult patient coming to the Miaoshou Pavilion. The patient's condition was very critical.

"Doctor Wu said that the patient told you about his condition before. Now he comes to the hospital, but he is afraid that he is not alive." The apprentice followed Wu Guanshan's words and elaborated, "But this kind of condition is rare. Doctor Wu said that he had asked the family for permission and wanted to ask Doctor Xu to come and observe the diagnosis and treatment. "

The implication was to tell Xu Yi that this patient's situation was special and he was asked to gain experience and take a look at it. Can you save people?

Xu Yi realized who this person was, he frowned and thought for a moment, then agreed.

However, if he wants to go, there will be more than one person.