Li Zhang

Chapter 20

On July [-]th, the old lady went up to the mountain to pray to the Buddha, and almost failed to make it.

First, Zhao Qinan felt uneasy and spoke out early to dissuade him, and then Zhao Yushen suddenly went mad again.

The root of Zhao Yushen's illness was caused by falling from a tree back then. It happened frequently when he was young, but he has recovered a lot in recent years, and he hasn't had it again for two years.Mrs. Zhao thinks back and forth, and feels that Zhao Yushen offended Zhiqing and angered the gods. In addition, Li Zhang's incident disturbed her, so she insisted on going to Baoxiang Temple, and planned to stay for a few days. , pray for more blessings for the Zhao family.

Zhao Qinan couldn't stop him, so he could only send more officers and soldiers to escort him. While forcing Li Zhang to speak more tightly, he sent officers and soldiers to search the Ningyi border with a net in the name of hunting down rebels.

Li Zhang's injured hand was ravaged several times by him again and again. Not only was his nails pulled out, but he was also beaten again. The tailbone of his left hand was finally pinched off. scary.Doctor Zhang has made a conclusion that his hands are useless.

Zhao Qinan became more and more impatient, and felt more and more incredible.Li Zhang, who seemed weak, actually made it this far, which really shocked him and made him unbelievable.He grabbed Li Zhang's hair inquiringly, forcing him to look up.Li Zhang's face was covered with cold sweat and turned blue, even his lips were bloodless, and his eyes were surrounded by black.He kept his eyes closed, never shed tears like the first day, and never opened them again.Zhao Qinan was curious to know what he was thinking, and suddenly reached out to caress his face.

Li Zhang struggled a bit, the top of his head was in pain, and his hands were already numb from the pain.Zhao Qinan's hand slowly stroked along Li Zhang's cheek, which aroused goosebumps all over Li Zhang's body, and finally he couldn't help but opened his eyes.

Zhao Qinan stared at Li Zhang's eyes inquisitively. Although the focus was out of focus, those eyes were still dazzlingly clear and too deep to see through.

"Are you doing this for him? If he was really nervous about you, he wouldn't leave you alone."

Li Zhang was bitter in his heart, hating this inescapable reputation, but he couldn't defend himself at all, so he could only continue to remain silent.

Zhao Qinan continued to pat Li Zhang's face, and shook his head regretfully: "It is indeed not inferior to women's delicate and smooth, what a pity."

As he spoke, he went to his side and took out a dagger. The cold blade slid across Li Zhang's face, which unsurprisingly made him tremble.

"If this face is ruined, do you think he will still like you?"

The blade scraped lightly across his cheek, and Zhao Qinan looked into Li Zhang's eyes mockingly, but unexpectedly, he didn't see any panic, and his hand that was about to force stopped immediately.

"You are not afraid?"

Li Zhang shook his head, nothing moved in his eyes.

Zhao Qinan cut his forehead lightly in disbelief, blood flowed down, Li Zhang's eyes were still unmoved.

Zhao Qinan stared at Li Zhang, he couldn't control the hand holding the dagger, the blade went a little deeper, and the bright red liquid quickly slid down his pale cheeks, dazzlingly gorgeous.Li Zhang closed his eyes again, his tired and painful face was indifferent, and in Zhao Qinan's eyes, it was full of ridicule.He threw Li Zhang back to the ground in frustration.

"If you are so determined, I will fulfill you!"

Zhao Qinan was puzzled when he heard the news of Zhiqing's disappearance, but when he carefully asked about the situation at that time, he suddenly had a very bad feeling.He rushed into the execution hall a few steps, pulled Li Zhang's hair and asked fiercely: "Did Zhiqing be taken away by your people?"

In the past two days, Li Zhang had seldom been conscious, and Zhao Qinan grabbed his hair and shook it, making him feel nauseous.He heard Zhiqing's name in a daze, and his erratic consciousness came back.He tried hard to look at Zhao Qinan, staring at him unblinkingly as if wanting to confirm.

Zhao Qinan's eyes widened in disbelief: "You are...for her?"

Li Zhang smiled very lightly, his dull eyes lit up with a light, relaxed and satisfied.

Zhao Qinan was about to go crazy, he pulled Li Zhang's hair even harder, and asked hissingly, "Why?! What else did King Ning do?! When did it start?! Why Zhiqing? Why?!"

Li Zhang was twitched by the shaking, and before he lost consciousness again, his heart was peaceful.

When Wu Zijun and Zhang Yu found Zhao Qinan with the documents to arrest Zhao Qinan, he was sitting in the empty main hall, listening to the cries and sporadic screams of fleeing everywhere in the mansion, his face was as pale as if he was in a coma Li Zhang at his feet.Until now, he hadn't figured out why the situation, which was clearly a sure thing to win, suddenly turned into the current result.What was even more incomprehensible was what Li Zhang's appearance meant to him.

He wants to see Sima Yi.

Sima Yi didn't wait for Wu Zijun and the others to report, and came to Zhao Qinan by himself. Although he was still a little weak and haggard, his eyes were already cold and fierce. He just stood coldly in the room and asked Zhao Qinan to hold the sword. Zhang Yu's hand suddenly became weak, and it sank for a few minutes and pierced into Li Zhang's body. Zhang Yu was so startled that he was about to rush forward immediately, but was held tightly by Wu Zijun.

Sima Yi looked at Zhao Qinan coldly, paying no attention to Li Zhang on the ground.Zhao Qinan felt more and more flustered, and insisted on negotiating conditions with Sima Yi: "Let my whole family go."

Sima Yi sneered: "Why?"

"With... him!"

"If he is alive, the head of the Zhao family will commit a crime. If he is dead, the Zhao family will execute him immediately!"

Sima Yi spoke every word lightly, but Zhao Qinan was so frightened by the cold tone that he dropped his sword.

Zhang Yu took a few steps forward to pick up Li Zhang and rushed out. Sima Yi glanced at him faintly, his face became even colder and turned to ice.

"Tell me, what is Chengtong's arrangement?"

When Sima Yi left Beijing with a broken heart, everyone except Cheng Tong felt that the dust had settled.At that time, Chengjia had already controlled most of the voices in the court, and most of the officials in Dazhou and counties also expressed their allegiance, and the power of Chengjia was the same for a while.But Cheng Tong has always been worried about Sima Yi.

Fortunately, the road to Ningzhou where Sima Yi was going was dangerous, and the Miao people's rebellion broke out a few years ago, and the relationship between Han and Yi was extremely tense, so it was not difficult to kill Sima Yi without knowing it.

Although what happened later was beyond Cheng Tong's expectations, and the killers he sent failed to do what he wanted, but Sima Yi himself was very sick and was about to die.When Cheng Tong received the news, Sima Yi had already left Yizhou, which was controlled by the married lineage. Although Zhao Qinan, the governor of Ningzhou, was not from the married lineage of Zheng Miaohong, he could still understand the righteousness after understanding it.Besides, with his ruthless means of suppressing the Miao people, it is easy to deal with a sick King Ning.

But Sima Yi is not just Sima Yi.Mu Yan, the commander of his guards, has always been Emperor Jing's most trusted commander of the imperial army. He also has a group of loyal generals who have been passed down from the ancestors, and some of them are the commanders who are in charge of the main force of the imperial army.Since the beginning of the northern border war in Anping 23, Mu Yan began to investigate and contact the generals of all parties. He stayed in the army for a long time and confirmed most of the army information. General, laid the most solid backing for Sima Yi.

Therefore, when Zhao Qinan fully revealed his intention to murder Sima Yi, Jin Bai, who had already prepared for Zhao Qinan's weaker Jianning, joined forces with Ningzhou Captain Mi Zun, and prepared to stage a good show of inviting the king into the urn.However, Zhao Qinan's officers and soldiers searched vigorously but failed to find Sima Yi. Zhiqing, who was rescued by Wu Zijun and the others, spread the news that Li Zhang was imprisoned by Zhao Qinan.

Sima Yi has been treated by Jin Yi after Li Zhang announced the date of action.He was emotionally hurt and depressed, and he was exhausted in the summer, and he didn't have enough rest, which led to heat stroke. After he got sick, he was upset and dry, and he couldn't bear the treatment, which led to the procrastination of his illness.After avoiding the assassins and walking into the deep mountains and dense forests, and because of his weak body, he could not resist the erosion of the miasma, so he became more and more ill.Jin Yi had his own prescription for this. After acupuncture and medication, Sima Yi quickly recovered his clarity, and after a few days of rest and consolidation, he was basically cured.

After Sima Yi listened to Zhang Yu's report, he questioned Zhiqing carefully, and heard that Zhao Qinan tortured Li Zhang to find out his whereabouts, so he was not surprised, but he was very surprised that the officers and soldiers did not arrive so late.

Sima Yi then went straight to the official road and continued southward under the banner of King Ning.The desperate Zhao Qinan ordered the officers and soldiers to pretend to be Miao Min to intercept him halfway, but Mi Zun, who had been waiting for a long time, captured him in one fell swoop and confessed Zhao Qinan's conspiracy.Sima Yi immediately went straight to Yunnan without stopping, and after Zhao Qinan resisted for five days, Mi Zun captured the city defense.

Half a month later, Zhao Qinan was convicted of murdering the prince and was executed by Sima Yi on the spot.All the males and females of the Zhao family were sold into slavery.Mrs. Zhao was frightened when Zhiqing was rescued, and fell ill after returning home.When Mi Zun attacked Yunnan, the panic-stricken maid told her all the rumors she had heard, and passed away immediately. Later, things got worse and worse, and she finally couldn't make it through. After all, she didn't see the result of the Zhao family's downfall with her own eyes.

After Zhang Yu took Li Zhang out of the Zhao Mansion, he went to see Mi Zun's military doctor first. The military doctor shook his head when he saw Li Zhang's injuries.Seeing that Zhiqing was so shocked that he could not speak, Jin Yi sullenly asked Zhiqing to clean Li Zhang's wound, and at the same time searched for medicinal herbs and smashed them into mud, then applied them thickly to Li Zhang's hands, bandaged and fixed them.Then he carefully dealt with several serious injuries on Li Zhang's body. Seeing that they were all just flesh injuries, he felt relieved, ordered Zhiqing to cook some porridge, and took the medicine hoe into the mountain by himself.

Zhiqing watched the firepit sobbing, and glanced at Li Zhang who was still unconscious from time to time.Zhang Yu sat beside Li Zhang sullenly, deeply regretting that he did not insist on not allowing Li Zhang to enter the Zhao residence.Both of them blamed themselves deeply, and neither of them planned to speak.In the wooden house, apart from the occasional crackling of firewood branches in the firepit, there is only the sound of rice porridge rolling in the hanging pot.

The rice porridge gradually thickened with the unique bitter aroma of Ganoderma lucidum, Zhiqing had already stopped sobbing, filled a bowl, and stared at the mountains and forests outside the window, dazed again.

Li Zhang woke up in this quiet and comfortable atmosphere. After being dazed for a while, he saw Zhang Yu beside him covering his face with his hands, and called out "Big Brother" in a low voice.

Zhang Yu and Zhiqing were startled at the same time.Zhiqing ran to the bedside in a few steps, stretched out her hand but didn't know where to put it, endured not to cry, but finally couldn't hold back the tears, and dropped them heavily one by one.

Zhang Yu turned his head and quietly wiped away his tears, forced a smile and said to Li Zhang: "If you don't wake up, Miss Zhiqing should cry all her tears dry."

Li Zhang smiled apologetically, and Zhiqing finally couldn't help crying out loud.

Li Zhang raised his hand, wanting to comfort Zhiqing, saw the hand wrapped like a rice dumpling at first glance, remembered what he heard in Zhao's mansion, his eyes became brighter and darkened again.

Zhang Yu quickly persuaded him: "I just applied the medicine, so it must be like this. Are you hungry? Girl Zhiqing..."

Zhiqing quickly took the porridge bowl and fed Li Zhang a spoonful.Li Zhang has never eaten such a bitter porridge, and frowned bitterly to avoid it: "Bitter..."

Zhiqing burst out laughing with tears, and persuaded softly: "This is the bitterness of Ganoderma lucidum, it is good for brother's health."

Zhang Yu looked at Zhiqing quite unexpectedly. Zhiqing was as pretty as pear blossoms with rain, but she naturally showed no shyness at all. Li Zhang didn't hide anymore. I ate half a bowl in one bite.

When it was getting late, Jin Yi came back with the medicine basket on his back, and sat by the door sorting the herbs without saying a word.Zhiqing obediently went over to help, and Jin Yi picked it up while talking, explaining the medicinal properties and compatibility of the herbs one by one.He has been silent for many years since the disaster, but now seeing Zhiqing, the past that has been dusty for many years reappears one by one, and he is full of pity and love for Zhiqing.Seeing that Zhiqing was interested in medicine, he wanted to teach him all he had learned all his life. It seemed that only in this way could he relieve his guilt towards Song Qinghe.

He dug up a few perennial notoginseng just now, and asked Zhiqing to prepare the medicine and fry it. He picked the oldest one by himself, ground the juice, mixed it with other freshly picked herbs, and mashed it into a mud. For the bandage on Li Zhang's hand, wash off the old medicinal paste and apply a new one.Li Zhang was sober at this time, although there were cooling and pain-relieving herbs in the medicinal mud, his whole body was still convulsed by the pain, and he was sweating profusely.He was afraid that Zhiqing and Zhang Yu would be worried, so he didn't dare to struggle or shout, he gritted his teeth and endured, but he couldn't control the convulsions in his body, so stiff that even Zhang Yu could hardly suppress it.

Jin Yi has always been hard-hearted, seeing this he couldn't help feeling sorry for him, and said in a hateful voice: "Zhao Qinan is a thief, death is not enough to relieve his hatred!"

Li Zhang was worried all the time and wanted to confirm again, especially Jin Yi's judgment, so he took advantage of the good medicine to slow down his breath, and asked Jin Yi carefully: "My hand...is it... useless?" gone?"

Hearing this, Zhang Yu stared at Li Zhang in horror, seeing his cautious expectation, his heart sank suddenly, and he turned to look at Jin Yi as well.

Jin Yi sighed for a long time, but replied proudly: "If it is seen by others, yes! But with me, you will be fine!"

Li Zhang's eyes lit up immediately, and his gloomy face was full of life.Zhiqing stood in the shadow of the house, covered her mouth and began to cry again, but she was both happy and sad.

The author has something to say:

I still changed the type of the article, because the original intention was not to BL.It's just that this legend doesn't seem to be able to catch up...

It’s the first time I’m writing an original, and I’m at a loss, so let’s just leave it at that~

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