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In the old Lantern Festival, after Qin Zhonglu's visit, Mou Jianchun came back to the boat and had a big fight with Zhong Chongtang.

He was yelling at Su Shuichao, saying that he led people to chase around, and drove the remaining party of the Three Corpses to hide and couldn't find them.Zhong Chongtang asked him why he was looking for the Sanshimen, and told him not to provoke Tan Zhonglu.Then they started arguing, you said something louder than me, Zhong Chongtang was out of breath, and he didn't win the quarrel.

Mou Jianchun was still angry after winning the quarrel, and he didn't come when the medicine pack was exhausted, so he sent a little medicine boy to deliver the medicine by boat.The little drug boy Zhu Lv is not yet in the fifth grade, with beautiful eyes, thin lips and dark skin, he behaves and speaks upright, and he is not at all like his master Mou Jianchun.

Mou Jianchun came back after a few months, led Zhu Lv to board the boat and put down a pile of medicinal materials, gave Zhong Chongtang the pulse with a fierce face, and then asked Zhu Lv to make the medicine, and asked Chu Wu to boil the medicine.Zhong Chongtang saw several sharp tooth marks on the tip of one of his hidden fingers, most likely bitten by a snake, he grabbed his hand and questioned him, and the two had another big quarrel.

Zhong Chongtang was so angry that he refused to take the medicine, so Mou Jianchun asked him to kowtow to him on the fifth and sixth day to see if he would take it.Zhong Chongtang almost turned his back in anger, and Mou Jianchun added some tranquilizing medicine to him, and he fell asleep even more as a result.

It was already late autumn when Mou Jianchun came back, his hands were not injured, and Zhong Chongtang didn't scold him again.

Zhong Chongtang talked less, and he often smiled confusedly as if he couldn't think of what to say.Mou Jianchun sat beside him, put his hand on his wrist, and sighed leisurely.No one quarreled with him, but he was a little depressed. He looked up and saw the fifth and sixth day guarding the side, and asked, "How long has he been like this?"

"At the beginning of autumn, I caught wind and cold, and coughed for a few days, and then I stopped talking a lot." Chuwu said with a straight face, trying his best to speak carefully.

"It's been half a month." Mou Jianchun sighed deeply, and said, "It's been a year and a half since I treated him. After all, I'm not good at medicine. I tried everything I could to exhaust him, but it was just exhausting. The snake venom in his body cannot be removed, and the medicine to fight poison with poison can be drunk bowl by bowl, but it is just to exercise the body and energy, and it will be exhausted little by little. If it is not for his strong body and profound skills, he will die many times."

"Miracle Doctor Mou..." Chu Wu didn't know what to say, but just took Chu Liu's hand and held it tightly.

"I tested the toxicity of his wounds and tried to get to the bottom of it. I also selected several poisons and fed them to various poisonous snakes, but it still didn't work." Mou Jianchun raised his hand, gently rubbed the small scars with his fingertips, and said: "Maybe the poison he fed was different, or maybe the little black snake was different from ordinary poisonous snakes. I don't know where Tan Zhonglu found it. Anyway, it's not in the Weishui area."

"Miracle Doctor Mou, you can't go to Tan Zhonglu!" Chu Wu said anxiously.

"Delaying like this is not an option. He is about to collapse. The only way to get rid of the poison is to find the snake in Tan Zhonglu. She herself said that there is no antidote. I don't believe that she doesn't want an antidote. I just can't find her. Blame Xiao Su, that bastard! They refused to take me after chasing me, so what if I went to talk to Tan Zhonglu first! Everyone is hiding now!" Mou Jianchun said again After cursing, he stood up suddenly and strode out of the cabin.

"Old Mou," Zhong Chongtang called him, tilting his head, as if thinking hard with his head, and said, "Don't go."

"It's up to you now," Mou Jianchun turned his head and smiled, and said flatly, "Whether you are dead or alive, I will cure this poison, and if I can't, I won't be reconciled."

Mou Jianchun left the ship this trip and did not return for many years.Zhu Lv came on board the ship to deliver the medicines every two months, they were all prescriptions left by Mou Jianchun, and they were all terrible.Zhong Chongtang has good times and bad times, less and less awake time, more and more confused time.Zhu Lv had a discussion with Chu Wu, and when he was in trouble, he would increase the weight, and if he was more energetic, he would subtract some, and tried his best to deal with it.

It's just that Zhong Chongtang is still getting weaker and weaker day by day, and losing his mind day by day.

In the third year at Dingbo Lake, Mou Jianchun still hadn't heard from him, and he couldn't answer every time he asked Zhu Lv.Worrying for too long, but not so eager to get the result, Chu Wu sometimes thinks that Mou Jianchun may not be here long ago, and Zhong Chongtang can only leave so gradually, wishing that the time will be slower, and that day will never come again Come.

Turning to the sixth day of the new year, he is also five years old. Putting his birthday a day after his own would make him a few months older, but he grows fast. Although his face is thin and skinny like a monkey, he has always grown so heavy that he can hug him. If you don't move, it's big enough.

The sixth day of the lunar new year has become even more difficult to manage. The boat is full of chaos, provoking the osprey on the next boat.Li Heqing and the others couldn't control him climbing up the shore at every turn, and even wanted to take a boat around the lake. He had to be aggressive with Shen Weifu before he would be honest.On the fifth day of the lunar new year, I couldn't help shouting, so I threw him into the water and told him to swim.The fifth day of the fifth day taught him Fushui, so he also taught him a few moves. During the practice, the sixth day always watched him, and he also learned how to draw gourds. On the fifth day, he was afraid that he would fail in the practice, so he picked up the elementary skills and taught them. A few sets are just for physical fitness, even if Mr. Chongtang is awake, he can't stop learning at all.Chu Wu thought so, and still kept it from Zhong Chongtang and Su Shuichao.

Su Shuichao was busy with business, so he came less and less.

Suddenly Hongye practiced kung fu with Aunt Wei, and gradually came less and less.

The people in Dingbo Lake are still doing as usual, Jiao Zhongwang will come and see in a few days and ask if Mou Jianchun is back.He Junmei was still in the third house on the bank, and she looked over from the window several times a day.Xu Desheng made some pens for Chu Liu, and brought some old copybooks, and told him to practice calligraphy on the deck with dipping in water, without wasting any ink.

When the sixth day was not noisy, the fifth day taught him to read. The sixth day learned a lot of words, and the speech became more and more clear. Only the name "pig pot pot" refused to be corrected, and the fifth day had nothing to do.

The days passed by suddenly, from autumn to winter, from spring to summer, and then came the season of autumn rain and coolness.

On this day, in the light rain, a small boat passed through the center of the lake from the Kaishan Gorge, and slowly approached the fishing boat.There were two people standing on the boat, one big and one small, the young one was Zhu Lv, and the big one was unknown, with slanted eyebrows and phoenix eyes, high crown and plain robe, and a slender figure.As the boat approached, the man jumped onto the fishing boat lightly with Zhulu in his hand, and landed on the deck almost without making a sound.

On the fifth day of the lunar new year, he hurriedly glanced at the shore. Li Heyi, who was on duty, was not there, and he might have gone to talk to He Junmei.Immediately turned around to look back at the two of them, their faces were solemn, Zhu Lv was holding an oilcloth bag upright in his hand, it was not big.The older man brought Zhu Lv to the cabin, and said in a low voice, "I'm Wang Fengyu, and you're Chu Wu, right? We're here to deliver the medicine."

"...Where's Miracle Doctor Mou?" Chu Wu asked while letting them into the cabin.

"It's gone, all that's left is this medicine." Wang Fengyu said, kneeling beside Zhong Chongtang with Zhu Lv. Zhong Chongtang was still asleep. He glanced at Zhu Lv and told him to open the medicine bag.Both hands of Zhu Lv trembled slightly, with tears in his eyes, he still opened the medicine bag lightly, there were several pills inside.Wang Fengyu picked up one in one hand, supported Zhong Chongtang in the other, pried open the tooth and fed it into his mouth, following the changing gestures, he raised his chin and pushed it back, then pressed down with the edge of his palm against his throat, giving the medicine little by little. He went down, turned his head and asked, "How many pills do I have to eat?"

"I'll give him a pulse, and if there's no vision, feed him another one." Zhu Lv said.

"Success." Wang Fengyu took the medicine bag, moved it behind Zhong Chongtang, and told Zhu Lv to concentrate on calling for the pulse.

The fifth day and the sixth day both lay in front of them and did not dare to disturb them. They held their breath and looked at them carefully.Zhu Lv's head was covered with sweat, he was engrossed in his pulse and didn't hear a single movement for a long time.Wang Fengyu stared at Zhong Chongtang and looked again and again. Although he described it as skinny, he still looked like a man, and his beard was clean-shaven.Then he looked up and saw two children who looked after him day and night, and smiled with them.

"Is this medicine...rescue?" Chu Wu asked softly, trembling with every word.

"I don't know," Wang Fengyu said in a low voice, with a gloomy expression on her face, "I followed Mou Jianchun to track Tan Zhonglu around all over the past year, and let her know how many rare medicinal materials I could give her. No more trouble. We ran countless places together. Three months ago, Mou Jianchun ran away alone and disappeared. I searched all the places I passed by but couldn’t find him, and I couldn’t find him when I went back to his medicine hut. I waited until yesterday that he finally He showed up, took out the medicine bag without saying a word, fell to the ground and died. He died of poison. In the past three months, he probably found Tan Zhonglu, tested the poison and medicine himself, and finally made such a pair It’s just that he himself died, and he doesn’t even know how to take the medicine, so it’s really unknown whether he can save Zhong Chongtang.”

On the fifth day of the fifth day when he heard it, he burst into tears, not daring to make a sound, and cried silently, and the sixth day reached out to wipe him with his hand.Zhu Lv over there also sniffed, wiped his face, and said, "Hey again."

Wang Fengyu glanced at him, although he suspected that he was young, he was the only one among the living who understood Zhong Chongtang's injury the most, so he raised his hand and fed another one.Going back and forth like this, it took most of the day to feed a pack of five pills.Signaling the pulse and feeding the medicine are not strenuous things. On the fifth and sixth day of the new year, they just watched, but when the last medicine was fed, the four of them were exhausted.

Chu Wu tremblingly picked up a bowl of warm water, Chu Liu stood aside and gave him a hand to level it up, and Chu Wu fed Zhong Chongtang one spoonful at a time.

After that, the four of them had nothing else to do, they just sat around and stared at Zhong Chongtang together.

Li Heyi came back a long time ago on the shore. At first he bent down to look down, and then jumped off the boat and stood in front of the cabin to guard.Seeing it from a distance, He Junmei also came out of the room and stood beside Li Heyi.When it was dark, Jiao Chongwang, Li Heqing, Shen Weifu, and Su Shuichao all came, and suddenly Hongye followed Wei Pianle, and they all stood at the bow and stern of the boat. A fishing boat was full of people, all looking eagerly into the cabin.

If Xu Desheng hadn't strengthened the hull every year, these many people would have crushed the small fishing boat and sank it.

Zhong Chongtang still couldn't wake up, he struggled for a while in the middle of the night, his hands and feet trembled, and after a while there was no movement.Everyone's hanging heart was lifted up and then fell down, and there was no movement until dawn.

"Is there something wrong with me? I shouldn't have used the medicine like this?" Zhu Lu asked cautiously.

None of the people could answer him. This is the only antidote in the world, but no one knows whether it can be solved or not.Wang Fengyu sat aside and sighed, Chuwu hugged the sleeping Chuli and it was inconvenient to move, Su Shuichao approached, patted Zhu Lv carefully, and said, "No, I don't blame you."

Zhu Lv turned around and lay on his shoulder and began to cry.

A night passed, and a day passed, and Zhong Chongtang was still asleep, as if he would never wake up again.Su Shui left first towards the person called Hou's Mansion, and Wei Pianlu took Hu Hongye who was guarding Chuwu back.He Junmei glanced at Zhong Chongtang with dark circles under her eyes, walked away with heavy steps, and returned to the third house on the shore.

Jiao Chongwang sighed, discussed with Su Shuichao in a low voice, and went ashore.

In the early morning of the third day, Wang Fengyu left by boat, saying that she was going to find another miracle doctor.On the third night, Su Shuichao took Zhu Lv away, and told Chu Wu not to be discouraged before going to find a way.Sending them ashore on the fifth day of the lunar new year, seeing everyone dispersed one after another, their hearts were empty and they didn't know what to think. Before and after, they went back and forth, and finally laughed vaguely.

The rain that has been falling intermittently for the past few days has become heavier at night, and the ground is splashing, and a gust of wind is coming, and the cold rain is drenching. I woke up on the fifth day of the lunar new year, thinking that Zhong Chongtang had slept for three days, and I had to feed him again. He ordered to eat, don't starve.Lowering his head into the cabin, Chu Liu threw his arms around his waist and shouted in a muffled voice, "Zhu Guoguo!"

Stretching one arm back as far as it could go, she pointed it out to him.

Chu Wuyi looked up in a daze, but saw Zhong Chongtang sitting up straight and looking up at him, blinked, and shouted clearly: "Chu Wu."

Chu Wu threw himself forward and hugged them tightly, and Chu Liu leaned over to hug them together, both of them yelled loudly, Zhong Chongtang was confused for a while, but he just raised his hand and couldn't stop patting them.It took a long time to calm down on the fifth day of the lunar new year, and hurriedly told him about the past few days, and asked anxiously, "Mr. Chongtang! Are you okay?"

Zhong Chongtang didn't answer him, but asked Chu Wu to sit upright opposite him, and he held Chu Liu with one hand and rubbed his little head.On the fifth day of the lunar new year, he was a little confused and asked, "Mr. Chongtang?"

"Oh," Zhong Chongtang raised his head from the head of the sixth day, smiled slightly, and said, "on the fifth day, it's time to go."

On the fifth day of the lunar new year, he was in a hurry to ask questions, but Zhong Chongtang raised a paralyzed hand that had been useless for many years, signaling him to keep silent.The other hand still landed on Chu Liu's head, slipped down slightly, and rested on the back of his neck.

"This kid has a different background. When I brought him out of Yinjian Villa, I made up my mind. If anything happens to him in the future, it will be my fault. I will get rid of him with my own hands. He hasn't done anything good in the past few years." Time, but it’s all picked up time. I can’t look at him anymore, I have to leave it all to you. You must take him away, but, on the fifth day of the lunar new year, can you also take care of him for the rest of his life? Guilty? If you can't, I'll kill him now, so as not to embarrass you in the future." Zhong Chongtang said.

"Mr. Chongtang!" The fifth day of the lunar new year exclaimed.

Chu Liu half listened incomprehensibly, only seeing Chu Wu's nervous expression, looking up and trying to break away from Zhong Chongtang to find Chu Wu.Zhong Chongtang's subordinates worked harder and tightly grabbed the back of his neck, Chu Liu cried out in pain.

"After I die, it will be even more difficult for you to live. Staying in Dingbo Lake is not a long-term solution. Hou Kejing no longer needs to threaten the Zhong family with me, and he may not accommodate the descendants of the Sanshimen. Leaving Dingbo Lake is even more difficult. Dangerous, if you can't protect Chu Liu, you are willing to die together. But if he is captured by the Three Corpses, and he will do something wrong and kill others in the future, can you kill him yourself?" Zhong Chongtang's voice became more serious, and he asked questions relentlessly.

"Mr. Chongtang..." Chuwu cried so much that his face was twisted but he didn't shed any tears. He endured it, and at this moment he is not allowed to show weakness anymore, so he must answer.Chu Liu was still twisting under Zhong Chongtang's hands, crying out of fright, looking back and forth between the two of them.

"On the fifth day of the lunar new year, do you agree?" Zhong Chongtang asked again.

"I promise you! If Chu Liu makes any mistakes in the future, I will kill him with my own hands!" Chu Wu shouted loudly.

"Okay, then I'm relieved." Zhong Chongtang beckoned to him, and Chu Wu moved forward, hugging Chu Liu with one hand and tightly embracing Zhong Chongtang with the other.Chu Liu whimpered for a while, then nestled in their arms and calmed down.Zhong Chongtang raised his hand to pat the two of them, his gestures became more and more gentle, and finally he did not.

Since boarding this small boat three years ago, it has been swaying until now, and the three of them are still snuggling together in the end.

Chu Wu opened his eyes wide without a drop of tears. After a long time, Chu Liu shook his arm and said that his hand was numb.Only then did Chu Wu get up, helped Zhong Chongtang to lie flat, and asked Chu Liu to help him wrap up the body tightly, nail the four corners of the oilcloth to the board of the ship, and took a few boards to nail both ends of the cabin Keep it sealed.

Putting the sixth day at the stern, he braved the heavy rain to climb to the bow, lit a firecracker, and a star shone in the heavy rain.

He Junmei on the shore probably saw it. After a while, a fishing boat with a similar shape approached to the stern. On the fifth day of the lunar new year, the mooring was lifted, and the fishing boat slowly left the pier.The fishing boat behind filled in its place, and Shu Juan, the driver, moored that boat, jumped over to help steer the boat, and set sail on the fifth day of the lunar new year.

The fishing boat left the shore slowly and sailed towards the lake. When I looked back, I vaguely saw many people standing vaguely along the shore. It was raining heavily and I couldn’t tell which one was which. They all came to see Zhong Chongtang for a ride.

The boat passed through the Kaishan gorge, with mountains and rocks standing on both sides, and Li Heyi and He Junmei stood in the middle of the mountain, quietly watching them off.The boat entered the Weishui River, and then came to the river in heavy wind and rain. A big boat followed in the distance, and Wang Fengyu stood at the bow of the boat and waited.

Shu Juan got on the boat with Chu Liu in his arms, and then returned to the fishing boat to pick up Chu Wu, who shook his head and said, "Sink the ship."

Zhong Chongtang had confessed earlier that he would not be buried in his ancestral grave, so he might as well be buried in this Jianghu.The two jumped into the water and sank the fishing boat together. Seeing the river gurgling up, the fishing boat gradually sank and sank.After all, the fisherman's wife's boat could not be returned.

Shu Juan pulled Chu Wu to swim farther, so as not to be taken in by the torrent.

Chu Wu suddenly jumped into the water, as if deliberately following the sinking ship.Chu Liu leaned on the side of the big boat, saw him entering the water, and cried loudly: "Chu Wu brother! Chu Wu brother! Chu Wu brother——"

It was the first time I yelled these four words clearly, and the yelling echoed over and over again in the rain.

Shu Juan plunged into the water many times and couldn't find Chu Wu. Wang Fengyu hurriedly asked the boatman to go into the water to look for it together. Chu Liu shouted until his throat became hoarse.The water surface in front of the big boat suddenly turned into a wave, and Chu Wu poked his head out to pant heavily, drifting with the waves, looking up at Chu Six.