Chapter 65

: Between the courtyard walls, there is a passage that can only accommodate one person. There are dilapidated debris piled in the compartment, and Li Ji is hiding behind the debris.

He squatted in the corner, his whole body trembling, but in his hand he tightly held the machete that had cut people and was stained with solidified blood.

Hearing the approaching footsteps, Li Ji was like a frightened bird, his shoulders shaking violently. He stared at his bulging eyes, his eyes were scarlet, and a look of madness passed through him. At the same time, Li Ji was trying to see who was coming, with a ferocious expression on his face, which was funny and terrifying.

Xu Yi frowned: "It's you."

When he saw this person clearly, Xu Yi's mind instantly remembered who this person was.

Li Ji's lips moved quickly, as if seeing a life-saving straw, and his voice was urgent and hoarse: "Xu Yi."

His voice was too unpleasant to hear.

Even he was stunned when he heard his own voice.

Xu Yi looked at him expressionlessly, but in his heart he was wondering why he was here.

Logically speaking, if Li Ji killed someone, he should find a hidden place to hide, at least not on South Street. At this time, there are already several teams of government officials searching South Street. It won't be long before the police are coming to arrest people.

Li Ji didn't get a response from Xu Yi, but the tension in his body seemed to be relieved. His tense shoulders slumped slightly, and he murmured to himself: "I'll chop him, chop him three times, he will definitely die." "

Xu Yi: "Who is he?"

Li Ji's eyes moved and he stared at Xu Yi and said, "It's Doctor Sun, the doctor who treated your parents."

When he said this, Wanting to see if there would be another look on Xu Yi's face, Sun Shitong cured Xu Yi's parents to death, which was also Xu Yi's enemy.

But why, he only saw calmness on Xu Yi's face.

A kind of calmness that has nothing to do with oneself.

"Don't you hate him?" Suddenly, Li Ji asked with heavy breathing.

There was pity in Xu Yi's eyes: "Why should I hate him?"

"You should hate him, he is not a good doctor at all. You don't know, you don't know anything..." Li Ji grabbed his hair, feeling painful He cried and cried, "He always scolds me when no one is around. He is not satisfied with any job I do. He says I am stupid, stupid, and that I can't learn anything."

"Actually, he never thought about teaching me at all . , I worked as a handyman in a medical clinic for three years. He only allowed me to touch those medicinal materials. What effect did the medicine have? Why should I prescribe that medicine to the patient? I begged him hard to let me stay. When I came down, he asked me to leave in front of other apprentices..."

As he spoke, Li Ji huddled up and hugged his knees with his arms. He felt that he was so cold, why couldn't anyone else? Understand him.

"Xu Yi, you are so powerful, you won't understand me."

He lowered his head, and when he looked at Xu Yi's eyes again, something was different.

Xu Yi's eyebrows twisted slightly. From Li Ji's words, he could tell that he wanted to find a sense of identity in him.

In particular, the moment Li Ji looked at him, it seemed that he would go crazy if he just said, "Doctor Sun is not that kind of person."

Of course, Xu Yi didn't think Sun Shitong was a good person.

He understood why Li Ji wanted to kill him. When a person is suppressed to a certain extent, he will explode. No matter how kind-hearted a person is, he will have a dark side.

But understanding does not mean agreeing with this murderous behavior.

Xu Yi took a deep breath: "You cut him, why did you come to me?"

Li Ji became embarrassed. He bit his fingers and thought for a long time before speaking: "Xu Yi, if I hadn't cut him, you Will you accept me as...an apprentice?"

Xu Yi choked.

He looked at Li Ji with an extremely complicated expression.

"Why?"

Li Ji said with red eyes, "It's him. He asked me to keep an eye on you because he didn't want you to open a medical clinic on South Street. He knew that you concocted Xiaoshi Pills, so he became more and more displeased with me."

" Xu Yi, I didn't mean to kill him!"

"You have to believe me!"

He staggered up, still holding the knife in his hand, and wanted to pounce on Xu Yi.

Xu Yi didn't sense any malice in him, but he still took action, grabbing his wrist with a slight force. Li Ji let out a cry of pain, and the machete in his hand fell to the ground with a loud sound.

He said calmly: "Li Ji, you can still go to the Yamen and surrender. Maybe it's still too late."

"It's too late, it's too late..." Li Ji cried crazily with tears and runny nose mixed together.

Xu Yi sighed helplessly, let go of him, took out the handkerchief and handed it to him.

"Wipe your face."

Li Ji cried for a moment and looked at him doubtfully: "Aren't you afraid of me?"

Xu Yi: "Why should I be afraid of you? Can you kill people randomly?"

"I, I can't. ." Li Ji shook his head and said that he never thought he would have the strength to chop Sun Shitong.

Xu Yi did not witness that scene with his own eyes, so he could only sympathize with Li Ji's experience. He told Li Ji that since he had killed someone at that time, he should face himself and go back and surrender, or it would be a better ending for him.

Li Ji was stunned. He seemed to have listened, but he seemed not to have listened.

But he could tell that Xu Yi didn't want to accept him as his disciple.

He wiped his tears and nose, and the clothes on his body were covered with hardened blood. Li Ji couldn't wipe it off, so he asked Xu Yi, "Will you report me when I leave?"

Xu Yi shook his head.

...

Xu Yi entered the house and saw Ah Jin holding a knife in his hand and staring nervously in the direction of the door.

Seeing Xu Yi coming in, Ah Jin quickly put down the knife in her hand and trotted over: "Lang Jun!"

"Lang Jun, I heard you." Her little face tightened, as if she had made some kind of determination.

But Xu Yi was calm.

"A Jin, there is nothing to be afraid of. He has left here and will not appear again." Xu Yi looked at A Jin, who was frowning with worry, and smiled.

The person Li Ji killed was Dr. Sun, and the news soon spread in South Street.

Some people feel unfortunate for Sun Shitong. It is rare for an apprentice to kill his master, but it is not impossible. It was extremely unlucky for a kind-hearted person like Dr. Sun to meet such an ambitious apprentice.

But some people think Sun Shitong deserves it.

If he hadn't gone so far, how could Li Ji be so angry that he would kill someone? He must have pushed people to that point.

The two groups of people each had their own arguments and quarreled fiercely. They did not come to a conclusion. Instead, they got news from the notice posted at the city gate -

Li Ji had escaped from the city.

This result is unexpected by everyone.

For this reason, Pan Wenji, as a county lieutenant handling various criminal cases, was so busy that he had no time to go to his friend's house for tea.

Just because the opponent has a knife in his hand, no one dares to take it, and they just watch the person run away?

When Pan Wenji heard that this was the reason why the criminals escaped from the county, Pan Wenji was so angry that he couldn't even breathe.

He scolded the government officials who went to arrest Li Ji this time, and ordered them to go to the countryside to search everywhere immediately, and they must find him.

When Xu Yi learned the news, he was taking out the medicinal materials stored in the room and taking them to the yard to dry them again. He and Zhang Tiegou stood on the left and right next to the wooden frame. Zhang Tiegou said that even the villagers in Baili Village knew about this.

Zhang Tiegou: "My uncle was worried that criminals would come to the village, so he asked the villagers to fence the entrance to the village with a wooden fence, and two strong men would take turns guarding it every day."

Xu Yi: "He will not go to Baili Village."

"You . How do you know?" Zhang Tiegou wondered, "My uncle went to the county and came back and said that this criminal killed the doctor who taught him medical skills.

If such a vicious person cannot be caught, he will definitely become a criminal.

Xu Yi sighed, thinking about the probability that Li Ji would fall into the trap and become a bandit.

When Li Ji escaped that day, Xu Yi still softened his heart and showed Li Ji a way.

If they survive, they may have a chance to meet again in the future.

But it’s hard to tell other people about this.

Xu Yi changed his subject: "Do you want to read the Thousand-Character Essay?"

"Ah? How did you know?" Zhang Tiegou looked at Xu Yi in surprise.

Xu Yi said: "Besides this, is there any other reason why you came to me suddenly?"

Zhang Tiegou: "..." It seems that there is no other reason.

He scratched his head. He didn't expect that Xu Yi would think of the reason for his coming so quickly. He was still very hesitant.

It was too difficult for him to learn to read. Zhang Tiegou asked Xu Yi with a sad face: "Is it okay to only learn half of the book? Let me learn a thousand characters, which is too much."

Xu Yi: "..."

Thousand-character essays are the trend nowadays. Only by reading a thousand-character essay can one barely be considered "not a white man".

Xu Yi said quietly: "Although I really want to promise you, this is just like the bet we made before. A gentleman's words are hard to follow."

Zhang Tiegou was very sorry.

It can't be cut in half, and the question goes back to the beginning, whether he wants to read the Thousand-Character Essay.

Xu Yi asked him to think slowly, especially since there would be no chance to go back on the decision.

This time, Zhang Tiegou stayed at Xu's house for half a day. He tasted the chicken shredded noodles made by A Xu and was still unsatisfied.

He said that next time he comes over, he will bring two pheasants to A Xu.

A Xu whispered, "Can I bring a hare?"

Zhang Tiegou said without thinking, "Okay, I'll bring the hare as soon as I can."

After saying that, he asked A Xu why he wanted a hare.

A Xu replied to him: "I want to learn new dishes. Lang Jun said that you can't eat delicious food all the time. You need to learn how to match meals, because eating only one kind of food for a long time will cause problems in the human body."

Zhang Tiegou was speechless. Maybe it’s really time to read the Thousand Character Essay.

Otherwise, it won't be long before he even understands A Xu's words.

"If you have time to chat, why not come and help." Xu Yi looked at them, "There are still a lot of Xiaoshi pills to make. Brother Zhang, it's rare for you to come over, why not come together?"

Zhang Tiegou: "..."

He felt that Xu Yi's words No, he finally came here. Didn't he receive him with good tea and water? Why did he let him work?

But after seeing Xu Yi's glance, Zhang Tiegou subconsciously agreed.

When he started digging out the medicinal materials again, Zhang Tiegou gritted his teeth in relief. He must have read too little.

He forgot.

He has never read a book!

*

One day and two days...

As for the case of Dr. Sun's murder, the fugitive Li Ji has still not been arrested.

He seemed to have disappeared from the world. The villages and forests around the county were searched all over, but Li Ji could not be found.

Nowadays, the weather is getting colder, and the temperature difference between day and night in the wild is even greater. In the early morning, the dew hanging on the weeds on the roadside can condense into frost beads, and fewer and fewer people go up the mountain.

Xu Yi didn't go up the mountain anymore.

A Xu and A Jin put on Mrs. He's newly made cotton-padded jackets and robes made of soft cotton. They felt particularly soft and comfortable. After putting on their clothes, they happily took Xiao Huang and walked around South Street several times.

Neighbors who knew them all praised the clothes they wore.

But there were also times when he returned to the house and felt strange that Xu Yi didn't know how to run a house, so he treated the boys and girls he bought so well, so that they wouldn't be stolen by outsiders.

The thief didn't show up, but Ah Jin dared to refute Xu Yi.

Ah Jin looked at Xu Yi, pursed his lips and said, "Lang Jun, we have new clothes, we don't need to make new quilts."

Making quilts is a big job, and it can't be done casually.

The quilts that she and her brother were covering now were left behind by her parents in the Xu family. Xu Yi felt that the quilts had become hard after being used for a long time and were not very warm, so she thought of changing them into another bed.

As a result, the two little ones took the money and went to a clothing store to buy cotton. The cotton they bought was only enough to make Xu Yi's bed, and the remaining money was not spent.

"My husband is not short of money, but this is not how he spends his money. If my husband feels uncomfortable if he doesn't make us new quilts, then Ah Jin has a way and will not wrong himself."

Ah Jin said . He was very clear-headed and pointed at the extra basket of kapok and said to Xu Yi.

"This old cotton and new cotton can be beaten together and turned into new cotton. We only use this basket."

Xu Yi: "..."

What else Xu Yi could say, naturally it was because Got them.

Seeing that Xu Yi agreed, Ah Jin happily moved the cotton into the house. She was skillful and knew how to do needlework. She could use a needle to pick up and take apart the threads sewn on the outside of the quilt, so that she could replace it with new cotton. Use a stick to beat evenly and sew the thread again.

From this point of view, A Xu A Jin really does not need to make a new quilt.

Xu Yi left the house without paying any more attention.

When he came out, he saw a middle-aged man looking anxiously outside the yard. When he saw Xu Yi coming out, he shouted happily: "Doctor Xu."

Xu Yi raised his eyebrows and went to open the door for him.

The middle-aged man said quickly: "Finally, we found Doctor Xu. When my husband came home and found out, he asked me to come and invite you over."

As the housekeeper of the house, he was well-mannered when he went out. Small sedan.

It's a pity that this sedan is relatively small and can only accommodate one person. He came to invite Xu Yi for a consultation, so Xu Yi naturally came to sit in this sedan.

Xu Yi sat up with the medicine box on his back, and not long after, he shouted to get down.

He didn't know whether to laugh or cry. The sedan chair was so rocking that he almost vomited out his breakfast.

He doesn't sit in the sedan, but the middle-aged man walks with him.

At this time, Xu Yi was chatting with him and knew which hospital he was going to visit.

In addition to the four major family members in the county, they are the Xin family, the Xing family, the Tao family and the Tan family. In addition, there are also many families that look low-key but are actually upper-class families.

The middle-aged man was serving a master who was not from the county, but a county school teacher who came from the capital city to take up the post.

County Xuejiaoyu is the name of the academic official, who is in charge of worshiping in the Confucian temple and educating the students. He has the power of life and death over students, that is, scholars. If students behave inappropriately and have deficient moral character, he has the power to expel them from their academic titles.

Therefore, even if it is just an edict, its status in the county is not low. When those rich and powerful people saw him, they all had to treat him with respect, fearing that if they did anything wrong, they would ruin the future of the younger members of the clan.

The middle-aged man's surname is Fang, which is the surname of his master's family. Butlers from such educated families are almost always prostitutes and serve the master's family all their lives. Even their sons and daughters will find jobs in the master's house.

Butler Fang said: "My husband Xi Jing has been living in the village behind the county school since he came to the county to teach. Doctor Xu really doesn't want to ride in a sedan chair?"

Xu Yi said: "My leg strength is pretty good, Butler Fang, you don't have to worry about it. I'd better take the sedan."

Butler Fang waved his hand and said he could still hold on.

...

Although the county school is in the county seat, it is far away from the lively streets and markets and is located in the northern suburbs of the county seat. The northern suburbs have beautiful mountains and clear waters. Each courtyard in the county school has a different scenery. There is a bamboo forest in the back mountain, and there are stone steps after entering. Zhuangzi is halfway up the mountain, which is really quiet.

When we reached the foot of the mountain, Butler Fang was panting from exhaustion, sweating from exhaustion in the cold weather. Xu Yi persuaded him to take a sedan chair, but this time he did not insist on accompanying him.

When the bearers carried the sedan to the door of Zhuangzi, Butler Fang got off the sedan and went up to knock on the door.

When the boy who came out to open the door saw him, he called out "Uncle Fang" respectfully, and then said, "Just now Mr. Fang was still asking Uncle Fang, Uncle Fang, you are back, can you invite the doctor?"

After that, he Watching Butler Fang turn sideways and invite Xu Yi into the village.

The boy was stunned for a long time when he saw a man about his age. When he woke up, he saw that the man had already followed Butler Fang in.

"It's strange how Uncle Fang found a doctor of such an age."

He was not the only one who had this idea. Butler Fang took Xu Yi to the corridor behind the village, where he met Mrs. Qin in the backyard.

Mrs. Qin is the housekeeper of the east wing, and she is usually in charge of the eldest brother's daily life. However, the eldest brother has been in poor health since birth and could die at any time. As a housekeeper, she worked very cautiously, fearing that one day the eldest brother would fall asleep at night and die.

She has always been concerned about the appointment of a doctor in the house and would always ask questions.

At this moment, only Butler Fang came with someone, so she naturally wanted to stop him and ask a few questions.

Mrs. Qin asked, "Is this your new doctor?"

Housekeeper Fang said, "This is Dr. Xu, whom Mr. Lang asked me to invite." After answering the question, he asked Mrs. Qin, "Is Mr. Lang in the east wing?"

"It's in the east wing..." Mrs. Qin looked at the doctor behind him with a subtle expression, and whispered hesitantly, "Can this person treat a doctor? What if something happens to the eldest brother..."

Housekeeper Fang said coldly: "Mother Qin, be careful Say it."

Mrs. Qin smiled coquettishly and didn't dare to say any more. She just put the doubts on her face to her heart and felt that this matter must be known to the lady. It is related to the body of the eldest brother and cannot be messed with.

She walked towards the lady's yard. Butler Fang on the other side had already led Xu Yi into the courtyard door of the east wing.

There were two maids cleaning the yard. They stopped and saluted everyone they saw.

Butler Fang waved his hand for them to continue and took Xu Yi directly to the door of the main room in the east wing.

"Doctor Xu, I'll be back as soon as I go." After that, Butler Fang raised the curtain and went inside. Not long after, he came out again and called Xu Yi to come in.

"Lang Jun and eldest brother are both inside. Doctor Xu, please come in."

As soon as he entered the room, Xu Yi saw a child with a complexion as white as gel and pale lips sitting obediently on a chair. He was wearing a satin robe woven with dark patterns and a snow-white plush scarf around his neck. His short legs could not reach the floor. He swayed slightly and looked over with a pair of bright eyes.

The two looked at each other, and the child asked first: "Are you Dr. Xu?"

Xu Yi said: "That's right."

The child then said: "The people who came to see me before were all grandpas with white beards. You are so young. "Can you see a doctor?"

Xu Yi smiled and said, "It depends on what the disease is."

The child was still thinking about what to say, and a young man walked out of the screen next to him.

"Daddy." The child turned his head and shouted.

The young man looked to be in his early thirties, wearing a tall hat and a clear aqua green long-sleeved toga. He had no beard and had a gentle and elegant temperament, but he had the power of a teacher.

He first touched the child's head, then his eyes fell on Xu Yi and said: "I am Chu Liang, currently teaching at Yanting County School."

Xu Yi nodded and replied to him in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "My name is Xu Yi. The housekeeper of the mansion said that Fang Jiaoyu asked me to visit him, but this child? "

Fang Chuliang nodded and asked, "Dr. Xu, have you noticed any difference?"

"No." Xu Yi said, "I still need to consult."

Fang Chuliang sighed slightly in his conscience. The doctor who came before also said the same.

"Please."

Even so, he still held a sense of luck, if Doctor Xu could really see something else.

As a tutor, he has seen many geniuses who are extremely intelligent and outstanding since childhood. Therefore, when he saw Xu Yi at such a young age, even though he was surprised, he was more accepting than others.

Xu Yi opened the medicine box, took out the pulse pillow and placed it on the table, asking the child to stretch out his hand.

The child stared at his medicine box and suddenly asked, "Why do you have so many jars in this box? Are they all medicine?"

"Yes." Xu Yi looked at him with a smile.

The child sighed: "I smell a familiar smell. When I drank the Four Gentlemen Soup before, the Atractylodes macrocephala, Poria cocos, and licorice in it had this smell."

Xu Yi was slightly surprised. This child is indeed smart: "What else do you smell?"

The child thought for a while, shook his head, said it was too much, and felt dizzy from the smell.

When he said this, Fang Chuliang standing next to him was startled and asked quickly: "Brother Ci, what's wrong with you?"

"Dad, I'm just dizzy. I'll be fine soon." Fang Qiaoci shut up, not wanting to let him go. His father was worried.

Xu Yi saw this and raised his hand to check his pulse.

As soon as his hand touched Fang Qiaoci's wrist, his fingertips felt slightly cold, but judging from his clothes, this child was wearing a lot of clothes.

Wearing so many clothes on your body but your hands are cold is a sign of physical weakness.

Diagnosing the pulse carefully, the pulse is weak and tight, and the qi is thin and intermittent, indicating that the qi is blocked and not connected.

Xu Yi frowned and asked him to open his mouth. The child was not surprised. He had seen many doctors, so he quickly opened his mouth wide and exposed the tongue inside.

Xu Yi saw that the tongue coating was thin and white, which was also symptomatic.

He asked: "Do you usually have chest pain?"

"Well, sometimes the pain is so unbearable that I can't move my hands and feet and it's a bit cold." Fang Qiaoci said, then looked at Xu Yi and asked, "Can you also see that I Can't be cured?"

He hadn't finished speaking yet.

"Brother Ci..." Fang Chuliang shouted with a slightly trembling voice. He was so sensible and well-behaved, how could he not feel heartbroken when he saw him.

Fang Qiaoci comforted his father in turn: "Dad, I'm used to it. After drinking so much medicine, I'm not as uncomfortable as before."

Fang Chuliang: "It's because I feel sorry for you and can't find a good doctor to treat you. "

Fang Qiaoci shook her head and said it was not my father's fault, "It's because I was not born well, which has brought a lot of troubles to my father and mother. Don't be sad, or my mother will cry when she sees it."

Xu Yi looked at it . The father and son interrupted them and asked: "Can I take a look at the prescriptions prescribed by doctors in the past?"