something wrong

Nothing happened overnight, but the next day when Yan Qitong closed his eyes for a long time and Ren Sangzi tossed her face, when he opened it again, his face was almost stuck on the bronze mirror.

Hongjing is not on the mountain, and the things used on the mountain cannot be compared.For example, the bronze mirror in front of him is not much better than the mirror in his own place, and his eyebrows and eyelashes can be clearly distinguished.Yan Qitong took a selfie in the mirror, he really admired it.

The beautiful face in the mirror was completely changed by Sangzi's magic hands.Yan Qitong used to have a pair of apricot eyes, and the eyes are majestic immediately, but now Sangzi has painted them on the corners of the eyes, dragging a little phoenix-like brush; the original eye sockets are also slightly deep, but Sangzi has drawn them under the covering skin After filling it in, the three-dimensionality disappeared, but her eyes appeared narrower and longer.This change in eyebrows and eyes gave people the feeling that they had changed immediately.Under Sangzi's careful conditioning, Yan Qitong's complexion is very well maintained. She never wears makeup powder, but she is better than others' bright beauty. Now, Sangzi's hands have turned her into a somewhat haggard white.

Yan Qitong frowned and looked at herself in the mirror. This face, which she was still somewhat displeased with, looked a little closer to Sangzi's sick face now.

Sangzi nodded in satisfaction: "Well, that's fine." In order to make this mask, she slept a little late last night and woke up early this morning. Tired. "I'll take a nap, call me in half an hour." After she said that, she washed her hands and lay down on the bed with her clothes on.

Yan Qitong looked around, she had seen a large stone sundial that used the shadow of the sun to determine the time, but she didn't know what to use to determine the time.For the so-called half an hour, she always felt that Sangzi was just talking casually.

Just having nothing to do, Yan Qitong searched in the room, found both paper and pen.So she rubbed some ink and drew an hourglass diagram of the kind she knew.

There is no clock to determine 24 hours a day, and it is always specious to know what time it is all day long.For people who are accustomed to accurate time, this is undoubtedly painful.People here are used to it. Just by looking at the sun outside, they can roughly tell the time, but Yan Qitong has tried many times and can't tell the difference. She may not even be able to tell the difference between east, west, and north.This lack of common sense used to not affect life, but now it will undoubtedly always make you uncomfortable.

She is a person who is very precise about time. She has been very strict since the time of studying, so she has developed a small habit. Even if she doesn't look at the clock, she can read silently for 1 seconds within a minute.

So she wanted to make an hourglass, not a complicated one like the ones here, but a simplified version.At least it is possible to determine the approximate length of the so-called half an hour.

Of course, there is no transparent glass here, and the material needs to be found elsewhere, and the quicksand inside must also be specified.How to connect the upper and lower necks, how much space is appropriate, just scribbling like this, Yan Qitong suddenly realized that a long time had passed, maybe half an hour had passed, and she hurriedly went to wake up Sangzi.

Sangzi got up and went to the window to look at the sun outside, nodded and said, "Let's go."

Yan Qitong was a little scared for a moment, did he really feel that he had counted this half an hour?Do you have to develop instincts yourself?Could it be that I would become a person from here, or from Hongguo, without knowing it?Could it be that sooner or later she will forget who she really is, where she came from, and how different she is from here.

If the hourglass is still in his mind, Yan Qitong seems to have heard the sound of fine sand slowly sliding down as time goes by, piled up into a future that he does not want to see and will be turned upside down.

Just because of this thought, Yan Qitong was taken away in a daze.It wasn't until she came to the gate of the imperial palace that she barely blinked and woke up a little.

Naturally, the guards in the imperial palace were more stringent, but Yan Qitong handled it with ease when he saw Sangzi.She took out a waist card, which looked like pure gold under the sunlight.The soldiers guarding the city let them in after seeing them, until Yan Qitong went in, and heard the private desires of the soldiers behind him.

"Isn't this the gold medal bestowed by the emperor? It is said that there are only a few people in Hongguo... who is she?"

"Little young man, you are still young, there are many things you don't know..."

"Don't rely on the old to sell the old, who the hell..."

Who is it.Yan Qitong looked at Sangzi who was leading the way in front of him, and thought the same in his heart.The emperor's imperial gold medal?She is really capable. This Jingchai woman who bows her head on the mountain all day to get medicine, how can she see how powerful she is at the beginning.I don't even know her age.

It should be no more than 30, but then again, here, a [-]-year-old woman is enough to have a group of children, so why is she single?

Also, this imperial palace is so big, just following Sangzi's left and right turns, she was already dizzy.Not only that, but he also encountered several patrolling guards along the way, and was stopped for questioning. Naturally, Sang Zi responded with the gold medal.Other than that, I didn't meet any princesses or empresses who came out to play, otherwise it would be something new to watch.

Finally, I finally came to a plaque, and the quaint "Taiyuan Hospital" was right above it. Before entering, it seemed that I had returned to the mountain of my hometown, and a smell of medicine came oncoming.

Sangzi, however, took a deep breath and smiled faintly, as if tasting the best tea in the world.

Yan Qitong was just about to follow Sang Zi to lift his legs and walk in when he suddenly heard a light and crisp sound of "cracking" inside, as if it was the sound of breaking porcelain. word, get out.

Yan Qitong shrank his neck, as if the words were addressed to himself, but seeing that Sangzi only paused for a moment, he quickened his pace and walked in.

There is a large open yard facing you, but there are no flowers or plants planted in this yard, and bamboo plaques full of herbs are neatly spread out in the sun.There was a corner where there was no drying of things, but a lot of people stood there with their backs to Yan Qitong and the others, so it was not clear what happened for a moment.

As soon as they entered, they heard someone pleading inside: "My lord, my lord, please forgive me this time, I won't dare to do it again next time." Those people were divided into two , someone walked out quickly from inside, and someone knelt behind and crawled all the way.

The person walking in front wanted to turn around and say something, but suddenly saw the two of Sangzi standing not far away, and immediately stopped.The person kneeling behind just bowed his head and begged for mercy, but he didn't pay attention to this, and suddenly jumped at the feet of the former, and immediately hugged him tightly like grabbing driftwood.

Someone else also noticed this, and immediately exclaimed:

"Sangzi, but Sangzi is back?"

Sangzi walked up to the person who was standing still, knelt down on both knees, and made a big salute: "Master, the apprentice is back."

Her master is Cao Xiuchun, the envoy of the imperial hospital.

If you don't know Cao Xiuchun, you may think she is a woman, but she is actually a tall man with a height of eight feet.He looked down at the fragile man in front of him, and asked lightly, "Why aren't you dead yet?"

Yan Qitong stared angrily, and stood behind looking at this burly middle-aged man.Even if she doesn't know much about Sangzi, at least she knows that this is a reunion after a long absence.Sangzi has already done such a grand ceremony, how can anyone come up and ask such a question.

Sang Zi straightened up slowly, and smiled on her back: "Master is not dead, how dare this apprentice die first and not serve you old man."

Cao Xiuchun laughed loudly when he heard the words, squatted down, and helped Sangzi up.He turned his head and snorted coldly to the person who was still holding his legs tight: "You are lucky today, if you meet my apprentice coming back, you will be fined for half a year's salary, if I hear that you shoddy and filled your own pocket , I will never forgive you."

After finishing speaking, he lifted his leg and kicked the man a few feet away, knocking over several bamboo plaques, the man fell to the ground in a panic, clutching his chest and coughing.

The people behind Cao Xiuchun gathered around and asked Sangzi where he had been these few years, why he was so thin, how his face was so bad, etc. Cao Xiuchun waved his hand, and his voice was like a bell: "You guys They all went away, Sangzi is my apprentice, if you haven't answered my question yet, it's time for you to talk too much."

Those people were already familiar with Cao Yuanshi's temperament, so they left with a smile on their face.

When the crowd dispersed, Cao Xiuchun turned his eyes to look at Yan Qitong behind Sangzi, and said coldly: "Don't come with me."

When they arrived at Cao Xiuchun's infirmary, after they were seated, Cao Xiuchun stretched out his hand, and Sangzi also gave it away, and the master felt the pulse for the apprentice.

After a long time, Cao Xiuchun's face turned as dark as the bottom of a pot: "The root of evil is still in your body, hidden like a gossamer, but hidden, what's the use of you coming back?"

"Master doesn't miss me, so why bother to send someone to ask me." Sang Zi withdrew his hand, and slowly put down the armband, "Don't tell me, Jin Yunke went to find me, it has nothing to do with you."

"That's right," Cao Xiuchun replied, "I don't have time to look for you, and I can't control your life and death. Although his illness is strange, it can't be cured. It just happens that your blood is endlessly cold, and it's his blood." Nemesis. If a person wants to survive, he will naturally try to find ways. If he can’t find you with his family’s financial resources, it’s useless for me to find you;

"Master doesn't even think about looking for me," Sangzi smiled, "I really want to end the relationship between master and apprentice."

Cao Xiuchun said expressionlessly: "Since you will die, the relationship between master and apprentice will naturally be broken. There is no difference between sooner and later. If I knew that you would die in front of me, I would not have taken you back to the Imperial Hospital .”

A few years ago, Sangzi had heard such words, and she was really sad at the time, she treated Cao Xiuchun like her own father, but when she was seriously ill, he spread his hands, saying that there is no one in this world who can cure your poison, even if you I can relieve it myself, but in the end I can only wait to slowly die of cold.

So she left Hongjing and went away to live in seclusion in the mountains.In fact, it was also because she knew that if she got sick, it would hurt the people around her.When she first got sick, dozens of people were affected by her and died in the middle of the night.She followed Cao Xiuchun to practice inner strength and mental methods since she was a child, and it took several years of hard work to save her life.The deaths of those people were suppressed by Cao Xiuchun, and he spent thousands of dollars to silence everyone.Afterwards, the master and the apprentice prepared all the good medicines and escaped several times of life and death, but in the end they couldn't find a way to get rid of the root cause.

Therefore, she had no choice but to leave.Otherwise, suicide is the only way left.

Cao Xiuchun said to her back then, if you are going to die, you must die soon, lest I worry about it.Otherwise, find an uninhabited deep mountain forest and live alone.From now on, you don't need to let me know your life and death, I just pretend that I don't have you as an apprentice.

But how could Sangzi seek death? She thought that maybe she was tired, and she was getting more and more tired. Maybe it was time to find a place to rest.

And this rest lasted for four years, and then Baoqiao brought Yan Qitong here.

At that time, she thought that the master really wanted to cut off the righteousness, but now she suddenly realized that maybe she just didn't know the master well enough.Although the master still uttered bad words, it didn't sound like the words that would make people so sad now, but he just couldn't bear it, couldn't bear to see his surprise when he saw him for the first time, and his despair after he felt his pulse.

Sangzi turned to look at Yan Qitong, and was about to speak, but was interrupted by footsteps.

The sound of hurried footsteps stopped in front of Cao Xiuchun's infirmary, and someone knocked on the door and said, "Master Cao, someone from Zeguang Palace has come, saying that it is the empress who summoned Dr. Sangzi."