Li Zhang

Sima Yi knew that Ling Yuncong was not furious after he fled.He didn't even punish the guards who neglected their duties, but became extremely cold and stern when continuing to deal with the affairs of leaving the capital. Everyone was cautious and did not dare to disobey him in the slightest.

Three days later, Sima Yi sealed up the properties of the palace, leaving the pregnant concubine who was unable to travel long distances in the palace to be taken care of by Concubine Mi, and the other concubines also stayed in Beijing because of the difficult journey Feng Yu, and several servants who were close to him, left the capital and set off for the south amidst the pointing and pointing of the people who were onlookers.

It was midsummer, when the sun was blazing and the roads were smoky. To avoid the scorching heat, the convoy traveled at dawn and stayed at the end of the night. During the two hottest hours, they rested in the woods.Sima Yi was deeply affected by Ling Yuncong's incident. Although he kept his face silent, his pampered body couldn't withstand the intense heat of the journey, and he fell ill shortly after entering Yizhou.

Sima Yi's illness lasted for nearly half a month.When she was good, she was dizzy and short of breath, but when she was bad, she was hot and full of delirium, which frightened the attendant Feng Yu, and Dr. Li who came from Beijing was also helpless.In desperation, the group could only stop at a place called Yangjiaba and stay temporarily.

Surrounded by mountains, Yangjiaba is a small village and town, which has already entered the boundary of Ningzhou. Because it is the common market of several nearby villages, there is a short market and two more than other places. A simple inn, but still no brilliant doctor.After they bought a spacious house and settled in Sima Yi, they began to look for good doctors everywhere.

Soon, some well-meaning people advised them to go to Muyi Mountain to find a Miao doctor named Jin Yi.

Since Sima Yi opened the mansion, he has only accepted Young Master Meiji in the mansion, never recruited a magi.Now that he hastily left Beijing, Mu Yan went out and did not return, and Jin Bai went to Ningzhou to make arrangements.In the end, Duan Shijin and Fengyu were the only ones who could make up their minds about seeking medical treatment for Sima Yi.

Although Feng Yu simply asked for instructions when Sima Yi was a little better, but Sima Yi is a rich man after all, so condescending to go deep into the hinterland of a foreign race, after all, makes people feel uneasy.So I still went up the mountain to ask for it with a fluke mentality, but I refused to go down the mountain after all the good words.In the end, Duan Shijin was so angry that he tried to forcibly rob people down the mountain, but was injured by Jin Yi's poisonous needle.The group retreated back to Yangjiaba in embarrassment. Although the poison Duan Shijin was poisoned did not kill him, he tossed and tossed, day and night.

After such a commotion, it dragged on for more than ten days, and Sima Yi found that he didn't even have the time to understand.Only then did Feng Yu make up her mind to take Sima Yi up the mountain.

Because Duan Shijin made too much trouble last time, Feng Yu didn't dare to bring too many people, so he only took Li Zhang, Wu Zijun, and Zhang Yu, the top three members of the guard camp, and took turns carrying soft sedan chairs into the mountain.Fortunately, the road was found out a few times before, and the four of them found the wooden house where Jin Yi lived alone without much effort.

The wooden house is built on a small piece of flat land on the side of the mountain. There is a thin waterfall hanging on the cliff at the back. The splashing water drops in the sun are colorful and crystal clear, like pearls falling from the sky.Under the waterfall is a pool of clear water, as calm as a mirror and bottomless. The pool water turns into a bigger waterfall from a gap not far away.The sound of the water is booming, the rain and fog are light, and the sun above the head is folded, and a faint rainbow bridge is built beside the pool.

Seeing this, Li Zhang suddenly felt refreshed, and the heat and fatigue all the way disappeared.

They put down the soft sedan chair and were about to knock on the door, but the door opened by itself, and a dark and thin Miao man came out, with deep lines on his face, his real age could not be seen.He wore a turban and loose trouser legs, his short jacket was neatly tied up with a belt, and he had a hatchet stuck diagonally.

Feng Yu saw that he was about to bow a few steps forward, when the Miao man raised his head, he saw a pair of falcon-like eyes under thick black eyebrows, so cold that people dare not look directly at them.Feng Yu suddenly lost her mind in a panic, and by the time she regained her senses, Jin Yi had turned around and entered the room, closing the door tightly.

Feng Yu hurriedly stepped forward to knock on the door, and her voice was already crying: "Miracle doctor! Please save my master! Miracle doctor—!"

Jin Yi didn't seem to hear anything, and didn't open the door.Feng Yu begged and begged, finally couldn't bear it, and sat in front of the door crying.

Against the background of the sound of the water, Feng Yu's crying sounded very weak, full of sorrow and despair, and seemed even more lonely and insignificant in the silent forest.Li Zhang was sore when he heard this, thinking of his mother for no reason, and thinking of the many tears she shed for him, his heart was even more sour.

Amidst the rustling of leaves, Feng Yu was so tired from crying that she had already turned into a low cry.The guard beside the soft sedan stood with his hands down, staring blankly at the closed wooden door and Feng Yu crying softly, not knowing what he could do.

Unknowingly, the sun has turned to the west, and the chirping birds in the forest echo with the roaring water one after another, like a duet.The wind carries the moist coolness splashed by the waterfall, gradually sweeping away the sweltering heat of the midday heat.

Sima Yi, who had been leaning on the soft sedan chair, opened his eyes, looked at the unfamiliar environment, and didn't know where he was.He felt better, his long-drowsy mind was refreshed by the mountain wind, and he felt a sense of another world in a trance. The past faded away like ink stains, and he couldn't tell what he wrote or drew again. What.

He tilted his head slightly to listen to Feng Yu's cry, his eyes fell on Li Zhang, and he thought of Li Chen's tranquility and tranquility in the hustle and bustle of the night, and the unbelievable despair amidst the blood.He got up unsteadily, walked in front of Li Zhang, as if wanting to confirm something, looked at his face carefully, dissatisfied with his always lowered eyelids, reached out and raised his chin.

Li Zhang's downcast eyes slid to the side with the raised chin.Unwillingly, Sima Yi held Li Zhang's face with both hands, and stubbornly pulled Li Zhang's gaze back.

Li Zhang's eyes are still black and clear as in his memory, but they don't have the self-confidence, pride, stubbornness and bitterness in his memory. They are only uneasy and uneasy, threatening with fear, disgust and helplessness, flickering and constantly wanting to escape.

Sima Yi stared straight into Li Zhang's eyes, his thoughts seemed to be frozen, and he was stuck on that New Year's Eve over and over again. It was Li Zhang's stubbornness that refused to give in, and Feng Yu's sobbing became heavier This moment of bewilderment.He stubbornly wanted to dig out what was hidden deep in those eyes, and he leaned closer and closer to the head held by him, closer and closer to those eyes, until his nose was close to the skin.Li Zhang's somewhat disordered breathing due to nervousness seemed to have awakened Sima Yi. He stopped and continued to approach, smiled subconsciously, and gently kissed those eyes that were constantly trying to escape.

Li Zhang stood with his hands down in a daze, and closed his eyes in resignation as he watched the lips slowly approaching.Sima Yi's lips fell on the thin eyelids with a slight burning heat, which burned Li Zhang's eyes and made him involuntarily turn his head away.

Sima Yi raised his head in a bit of bewilderment, and looked at Li Zhang probingly, as if he didn't understand why Li Zhang avoided it, but asked kindly, "Why did you hide?"

"..."

"You don't like the king?"

"..."

"You really don't like it? Then... just forget it." Sima Yi's voice was full of disappointment, and he actually let go of Li Zhang.

Li Zhang was completely dumbfounded, he didn't understand what Sima Yi meant.

Sima Yi stopped looking at him, and walked unsteadily in front of Feng Yu who was also stunned, and stretched out his hand to support him.

"Why are you crying? This king will not die."

Sima Yi looked blankly at the wooden house behind Feng Yu, and after listening to Feng Yu's eager and pleasant explanation, he understood everything in front of him.He let go of Feng Yu, cupped his fists towards the wooden house, and said apologetically, "There is a genius doctor in the room, right? This king is ignorant in his illness, and he failed to control his subordinates. It's a sin to disturb the tranquility of the genius doctor. Since the genius doctor didn't want to, This king can't force it. Life and death are up to fate, so this king will take his leave and go down the mountain."

After finishing speaking, Sima Yi really bowed and walked unsteadily back and forth.

When had Feng Yu seen Sima Yi like this before, staring at him as if he saw a ghost, the lingering pain in his heart was torn into a bloody hideousness, the pain made him beat his chest and cry loudly, like Sima Yi was already dead.

Li Zhang heard the death-like tearing pain in Feng Yu's cry, and woke up in shock.He turned his head to look at Sima Yi who was being supported by Zhang Yu and Wu Zijun. Thinking of Sima Yi's unusual performance just now, his eyes flickered, and he gradually became astonished and unbearable.He walked to the wooden house, knelt down on both knees, facing the closed wooden door, and begged sincerely: "My lord's condition is strange, and he has been treated countless times, but it has become more and more chaotic, which caused his subordinates to lose their position and disturbed the genius doctor. The genius doctor didn't like it." As a Han official, Li Zhang presumes that he must have been bullied by the official in the past. The prince is the newly named King Ning, and he is the lord of Ningzhou. , and the divine doctor's love for saving each other, the prince will definitely remember it. Li Zhang dare not talk about kindness and fraternity, just ask the divine doctor to turn around, save the prince, and save himself."

"Help? Decades of grievances, how can you, a child with a yellow mouth, understand it!"

"How do you know you can't solve it if you don't try it?"

"Officials and officials protect each other, don't think that the people in the mountains and villages are ignorant! What's more, the Han family despises and hates the Miao people!"

"Please try to believe it once!"

"How do I know I can trust him?"

"...Because he is also a wounded person."

Jin Yi sneered: "I hurt the prince, wouldn't it be chopped up by you a long time ago!"

"...that's the person he likes."

Li Zhang didn't know what to say, but he thought it would be better to speak directly.No matter how ignorant he was, he had already seen the impact of Ling Yuncong's departure on Sima Yi.Although he was afraid of hating Sima Yi, he knew that he was not as impermanent and cruel to others as he was to himself, and he loved Ling Yuncong with extraordinary joy.He always avoided this matter because it was related to his cousin, and because he was innocently implicated because of his cousin.

Jin Yi understood when he heard the words: "Sad people..."

The room fell silent for a long time, Jin Yi recalled what he had seen before, and suddenly asked: "Isn't he in love with you?"

"of course not."

"Then he just...?"

"Li Zhang said that the prince is very sick."

"Oh! I'm afraid it's true and false."

"...Li Zhang is unknown."

"It's okay if you don't know. In this world, love is the most harmful poison, and there is no cure."

Li Zhang was speechless, but saw that the wooden door had been opened, Jin Yi was still cold and stern, but there was a touch of pity in the eyes looking down on Li Zhang, which made Li Zhang suddenly feel close, as if he was with his grandfather.

"Is he a good prince?"

"It will be." Li Zhang is also convincing himself at the same time.

"You like him? Like... like him?" Jin Yi pointed at Feng Yu who was crying so weakly.

Li Zhang shook his head: "No."

"Then why beg me for him?"

"Li Zhang just doesn't want to see people sad."

"It's a good one who doesn't want to see people sad..." Jin Yi raised his head, looked out of the mountain and said softly, "Jin Yi can't save his benefactor, not even his benefactor's children...Under nine springs, benefactors must be wounded." Let's see through your heart..."

Hearing this, Li Zhang knew that his guess was right, and hearing Jin Yi's painful voice, he didn't feel happy at all.He didn't speak anymore, just knelt quietly and waited.

Sure enough, after Jin Yi woke up from the memory, he said to Li Zhang in a deep voice: "Let me see your sincerity. Yunnan, Zhao Qinan!"

Li Zhang didn't know who Zhao Qinan was, but he heard the murderous intent in Jin Yi's words, hesitated, and asked, "Kill him?"

Jin Yi looked coldly at Sima Yi, who was approached by the guards again: "It's not too late to kill after finding out. But you must save someone first, otherwise, don't blame Jin Yi for doing nothing!"