Make a long-term worker as an old attack

After dealing with trivial matters in the yamen for a while, Niu Geng looked at the work at hand that was finally coming to an end, and heaved a sigh of relief.Taking a brief look at the letter in his hand, although the writing on the letter was crooked, at least Niu Geng could recognize what it was.He picked up the brush and wrote a big "Good" on the letter paper.It was sealed in an envelope, sealed with wax, and immediately sent out by the messenger officer.

Almost all the rebels in their group came from poor families. It was very rare for someone like him who could know a few words. It was even rarer for someone like Zhang Xuan who had read the Four Books and Five Classics since he was a child, and who knew the way of Confucius and Mencius at his fingertips.Therefore, the communication of letters between them often does not pay attention to the details, and it is enough for the other party to understand.

Niu Geng rubbed his shoulders to finish the rest of the work in one go. For him, the work of reading letters and writing was much more tiring than farming and fighting.

After slipping back and forth in the hall of the county government office, Niu Geng looked at the moon hanging on the treetops just now, calculated the time, and finally ran to the backyard, took the horse and ran out.Before leaving the Weibei City Gate, he also bought a lot of food and gadgets.

Although Old Chen had already told Niu Geng the trick to come in, walking in the poplar forest at night was more tiring than during the day, and the dense fog in the forest was much thicker without the penetration of the sun. Niu Geng took the antidote plug to plug his nostrils , After a lot of tossing, I finally came back to this simple little courtyard.

Xiaobai stood guard at the gate of the courtyard, when he saw him coming, he retracted his bared teeth, and walked around the burdock without barking.Niu Geng knew that this dog had a sharp nose and that the things in his bosom couldn't hide him, so he took out a greasy paper bag from his bosom, tore off a piece of meat with bones and threw it to him.

Sure enough, Xiaobai didn't follow him, and went after the meat.Niu Geng entered the courtyard in the dark. In the two huts in the front and back of the courtyard, there were only some lights in front of him. Someone was talking vaguely. Talking to the old man with a white beard.Old Chen was sitting on another kang, fiddling with a basket of dark things in his hands.

"Brother Niu Geng, you're back!" Seeing Niu Geng coming, Xue Zhaoqing was so excited, his eyes curled up with a smile, and if it wasn't for Old Chen, he would have pounced on him.

"Humph~" The old man snorted angrily: "I haven't come to see you after walking for so long, why, you don't want to care about throwing this delicate and expensive young master at me?"

"Uncle Chen, there are too many things outside and I didn't take care of them. You have worked hard to take care of Qing'er these few days. I bought something for you. You should always make up for it." As he said, Niu Geng took out the bag from his cloth bag. Two oily paper bags as big as palms came out, and the delicious meaty smell could be smelled from a long distance away. Burdock opened the paper bags and handed them to Old Chen. chicken!

Old Chen smashed his head and mouth, his eyes almost flew out, Niu Geng took the plate from the small table on the kang, spread it for the old man, and put it on the table in front of the old man.

"Hmph, I bought these two roasted chickens, and they still look good." Old Chen's hands were full of oil, and he had no manners at all, and he was still muttering something in his mouth.

Niu Geng took out another oil-paper bag from his bosom, took out a roast chicken with a missing leg, and handed it to Xue Zhaoqing: "Xiaobai at the door stopped me from entering, so I gave him a chicken leg, this is for you, several times Didn't you eat well?"

"It's okay, I'm used to eating plain food." After receiving a piece of skinless chicken torn off by burdock, Xue Zhaoqing ate it sweetly.

"Hey, hey, you two, it's just a roast chicken, do you need to feed it?" Old Chen tore the chicken with one hand and took the medicine basket with the other: "Big man, come here and help me continue the whole medicine. He ate well there and couldn't escape."

Niu Geng turned around and took the medicine basket, looked down, but was stunned.

He will never forget the densely packed dark green pieces in this basket, and it is this thing that caused him and his mother to be displaced—Qing Dai!

Xue Zhaoqing saw that Niu Geng was standing there, motionless, his eyes were wide open, but he didn't look anywhere else, just stared at the basket of herbs in a daze, and asked, "Brother Niu Geng, what's wrong with you?"

"Qing'er...this medicine..." Before Niu Geng finished speaking, the old Chen who loved medicine like his life didn't care about eating the roast chicken, and said, "What's wrong with this medicine? What's wrong with the good Qingdai? Big man , do you still recognize it?"

"I know... my mother and I were kicked out of Xue's house because of this thing..."

"What?" Xue Zhaoqing was stunned, put down the roast chicken in his hand, grabbed the burdock, and looked at the medicine basket in his hand. At that time, he had just come back from the outside and knew that burdock had been driven away, and he was overwhelmed. Rational, coupled with the incitement according to the text, he had no chance to ask the whole story of the accident between Niu Geng and his wife, plus his father restrained his feet, and the servants of the family kept secret about Niu Geng and his wife. One person can tell him which medicine Aunt Niu changed and how she changed it.

But now he carefully turned over the indigo daisies in the medicine basket, and carefully recalled the medicinal materials that he put down when decocting medicine with his grandmother. It was because the color of Qingdai in this medicine basket was a little darker than what he remembered.

"Uncle Chen, I have the impression that the indigo daisy at home is lighter in color than this one. Will the color of this medicine affect its efficacy?" Xue Zhaoqing asked.

"Of course I will. The indigo daisy I have here is soaked in other medicines and then dried out. The efficacy of the medicine is a little better than that of the best color in the pharmacy. In the pharmacy, it is common to have dark green indigo. That is from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The ones produced in the area are considered top-grade, and the light green indigo daisy is usually produced in the Guanzhong area in the northwest of our country. The climate here is not suitable for the growth of medicinal herbs, and the efficacy of the indigo dais produced here is naturally much worse. .”

"Is there any difference in the medicinal dregs from the two kinds of Qingdai?" Niu Geng asked suddenly after hearing what Old Chen said, as if he suddenly remembered something.

"If there are no other darker-colored medicines in this pair of medicinal materials, the medicinal residues boiled in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are usually purple-black, while the medicinal residues boiled here are light green."

Purple black, light green... Niu Geng's heart was like a mess. Old Chen's words were exactly the same as what the doctor said in the front hall at that time. His mother told him, so he would not remember it wrong.For so long, he always thought that it was Jinfeng who bribed the doctor to force the two of them away, but now it seems that this is not the case. If the old lady did drink the medicine decocted from Qingdai, which is not effective, then it is Who changed the medicine, harmed the old lady, and planted it on the two of them by the way?

"That's right, I remember that when I decocted the medicine for grandma with my own hands, the remaining medicine residues were all purple-black." Xue Zhaoqing said, playing with Qingdai in his hand.

"Qing'er? What did you say?" Niu Geng couldn't help being taken aback when he heard Xue Zhaoqing's words.

"Grandma's medicine, the medicine dregs are all purple-black."

"Isn't it light green?"

"No, in the last period of time, I decocted the medicine with my own hands, fed the medicine with my own hands, and poured out the dregs of the medicine with my own hands."

"How could it be..., during the time you left, Jinfeng said that my mother replaced the good Qingdai, filled it with defective products, and showed the doctor the leftover medicine residue, who said the color was light green. , it was because of this that my mother was determined to change her medicine."

"Impossible!" Xue Zhaoqing said decisively: "I can see the purple-black medicinal residues clearly, and I have poured all the medicinal residues into the gutter next to the kitchen. Where did Jinfeng get the medicinal residues for the doctor to see?" ?! It is clear that she found the defective Qingdai from nowhere, decocted it according to the doctor's prescription, and then showed the newly decocted medicine dregs to the doctor. This girl can't be seen in the old lady's room on weekdays. You have the guts to be like this!"

"But, but who put in the fine Qingdai that was dug out of my mother's room? Ever since the old lady left, Jinfeng has never been to the kitchen in the backyard."

"That's not easy, just find someone else." Old Chen Tou listened to the two of them while eating meat, as if he was watching a play, and interrupted abruptly: "A girl, no one dares to give her Backing up, what ability does she have to dare to frame her like this? Besides, the ability to frame her is very poor. If the young master was at home at that time, all the lies would be exposed immediately. You two go out. Moreover, if your mother really intends to change the medicine and sell it, why does she keep hiding the changed Qingdai in the house? It would be better not to sell it quickly? This is really the head of the family, just think about it for a while It’s something that you can figure out, just drive people out like this, hey, the lives of the long-term workers and the mother-in-law are really cheap~”

After hearing this, Xue Zhaoqing knew that he was talking about his father, his face blushed, and he immediately became embarrassed.Seeing his embarrassment, Niu Geng knew that he was uncomfortable, so he immediately took the medicine basket back and said, "It's all over, and the master must have been deceived by other people's rhetoric. It's pointless to think about it now." Yes. Qing’er, the water is cold, I’ll boil some hot water for you.”

As he said that, he was about to go to the kitchen to boil some more footwashing water for Xue Zhaoqing, but Xue Zhaoqing grabbed his sleeve with a small hand and pulled him to prevent him from leaving: "Brother Niu Geng, this can't be like this, we Xue Zhaoqing The wrong thing done by the family has harmed Aunt Niu and you. You go back with me, and I have to give you justice. And..." Xue Zhaoqing bit her lip and continued: "Now I also know Auntie's true temperament, My father's self-willed personality will inevitably not be used by her to make more mistakes. Now, I still think of something in my mind. Caixing's sister-in-law once told me that when I ran into Tian Degui and my aunt in the garden. At the time, I didn't take it to heart at all, but now that I think about it, it's probably true..."

"There is another thing, the old man reminds you, whether a serving of medicinal residues is freshly boiled, an apprentice who has studied medicine for a few years can tell at a glance, it is impossible for the doctor to tell whether the medicinal residues are new or not." Old, but he didn't say anything. If he was bought by others, your master would be really in danger." Old Chen said it calmly, but it was really creepy in the ears of the two of them.

Xue Zhaoqing held Niu Geng's arm tightly, his eyes were full of anxiety and nervousness, his small mouth was tightly pursed, but he didn't say a word.

Niu Geng knew that he wanted to go back, but he couldn't open his mouth to beg him to take him back to the place where they hurt their mother. Xue Zhaoqing was full of contradictions and embarrassment, he couldn't understand.

"Qing'er, don't worry, wait for me for a few days, and I will take you back." Niu Geng looked into Xue Zhaoqing's eyes, and said in a low voice, every word in his words was powerful and unquestionable.There was a smile on Xue Zhaoqing's face, and he wanted to throw his brother Niu Geng on the bed, but there was an old man with no eyesight, sucking the remaining chicken bones.

Xue Zhaoqing kissed Niu Geng fiercely on the face, and old Chen turned his head away with a look of disgust, but at least he didn't say anything sarcastic this time.