Practicing Medicine in Three Kingdoms

It was three days before Li Yinzhou actually faced Sun Quan. Fortunately, Wu Jun was mostly friends. Although there was no light or snow in the deep prison, he rested quietly for a few days and regained his spirit.

On this day, Gan Ning led him out of prison, and walked side by side with him through the long corridor of Ruxu prefect's mansion.

The sun after the snow blinds the eye mask, and the world covered in silver is white and quiet. Occasionally, small soldiers pass by on patrol, and a layer of white linen is put on the armor, and a row of different shades is stepped out in the snowy field. footprints.

As they passed by, they heard low voices discussing.

"General Lu Meng will be the new governor, right?"

"I heard that Duke Lu didn't recommend anyone, maybe it's someone else."

"My lord, the most important thing in recent years is our general, it must be..."

Before the words were finished, there was a whoosh, and the cold wind passed by his ears in an instant.

A blazing red suddenly floated into view.

Xiaobing's scattered eyes slowly gathered in astonishment, and he saw a bunch of red tassels hanging down in front of his forehead, exposing a sharp point of the spear with the wind, and stopped straight in front of the suddenly shrunken pupils.

Gan Ning raised his gun horizontally, staring at the past with unkind eyes: "Talk about the governor and general behind your back, are you courting death?"

The spear/spear seemed to be as violent as its owner, and the uncontrollable hostility trembled slightly at the tip, frightening the little soldier almost to a standstill, and he couldn't find half a word of explanation.

Just as Gan Ning was about to teach them a lesson, he felt a heavy weight on the gun. A thin but strong hand held the barrel of the gun and slowly pressed it down.

Li Yinzhou said: "They are soldiers brought out by General Lu, it is only natural to think about him, why bother with them."

Gan Ning put the gun back into his arms with a blank face, the wide scar on his nose twitched, and let out a vicious "tss".

The three soldiers immediately ran away like startled sparrows.

Li Yinzhou frowned and looked at the plain back, then looked back at Gan Ning: "Zi respect him..."

Gan Ning held the gun in his arms, looking at the wet road ahead with scattered eyes: "There is a letter from Lukou. I thought it was a policy against Cao Zhi, but I didn't expect it to be his funeral."

He suddenly cursed: "This Lu Zijing is so unkind. We agreed to take Beiyuan and drink a pot together, but he left alone, leaving this mess behind. I won't help him clean it up."

Lu Su's death is like an expected answer. In the past two years, his health has taken a turn for the worse. The scars accumulated in his youth are retaliating when he is old, and he has recovered all the illnesses owed over the years.Xu Shi had already had a premonition, but he didn't make much noise. He toiled in the position of governor until the last moment, and was not discovered by the soldiers until the next day.

When Li Yinzhou stepped into the house, there was silence.

Sun Quan sat alone in front of the case and faced the official document, perhaps because things were complicated and annoying, so he simply dropped his pen and closed his eyes for a rest.

Gan Ningtong said: "My lord, Mr. Li has arrived."

When the man arrived, before Sun Quan could respond, he quickly picked up his gun and left.

Sun Quan didn't open his eyes when he heard this, and the corners of his lips curled up flatly: "I heard that Zijing has something to tell you."

I haven't seen him for a few days, but his figure is much thinner, his already stern brows and eyes are even sharper, but his eyelashes are tightly closed, as if he is hiding some deeper emotions.

Li Yinzhou said: "Yes."

Sun Quan's eyebrows moved slightly: "Say."

Li Yinzhou rolled his eyes and said slowly: "Zi Jing said that he would rather you bear hatred for him, be afraid of him, and cultivate your own confidants. When he leaves like Gong Jin in the future, the lord can continue to hold the overall situation firmly."

These were the words entrusted to him by Lu Su before the death battle in Xiaoyaojin.

When they got together that day, he intended to use Li Yinzhou's mouth to give advice to Sun Quan. He didn't want the situation to change suddenly, Hefei suffered a disastrous defeat, and countless casualties had already taught the lord a bloody lesson in advance.

That's why Li Yinzhou didn't mention that, but he felt that Sun Quan should know more about those drunken chats.

Hearing this, Sun Quan's hand on the case slightly tightened, and his suppressed voice trembled faintly: "There are still more."

They chatted a lot that day, talked vaguely about the successor candidates, and laughed at the past when the lord was young. Now recalling them one by one, the breath with the smell of alcohol is still warm in their hearts.

A moment of silence.

Snow fell silently all over the window.

Li Yinzhou looked at the cloudy sky with falling snow, and finally said softly: "Zijing said that only ruthless people can be emperors."

Before Sun Quan was still in danger, his brows were deeply frowned, and his eyelids were tightly closed. Even though his eye sockets were red and his eyelashes were wet, he just closed his eyes heavily and for a long time.

Not a word.

Li Yinzhou walked behind Sun Quan and hid the wind and snow from the window.

Both he and Sun Quan are over [-] years old, and getting together and parting are just normal in life, but at this moment he still feels that the other party is still like that stubborn and paranoid boy——

Lu Su comforted him that the emperor was ruthless, so he really didn't want to cry, didn't want to be sad, and didn't want to disappoint him any more.

After Xue Momo got off for a while, the sky darkened again. After Sun Quan collected his emotions, he said hoarsely: "Then what about you, why did you hide the epidemic and act alone?"

In his view, Li Yinzhou rushed to the front line at the beginning with the words of entrusting Lu Su, and then went to Cao Dang alone because he was entrusted by him. Unexpectedly, he did not intervene in this matter, but Li Yinzhou made his own decision.

Sun Quan stared at this old friend whom he had met as a teenager.

After nearly 30 years of ups and downs, he didn't believe that the other party would really betray him, but he needed an answer.

Li Yinzhou lowered his eyes, and a distant scene flashed before his eyes. He thought of the tiger outside Lujiang City, and the tacit arrow shot by Sun Ce and Zhou Yu. General Bo Fu shot the tiger together, and the general asked Xiaoze whether it was the mountain fire or the tiger."

Sun Quan's eyes were fixed on his flat brows.

"Actually neither mountain fires nor tigers are scary. Tigers are ferocious but afraid of fire. Mountain fires can kill tigers, but they can also burn forests. It all depends on the intentions of the person using the fire." It was very peaceful, "I'm just a common man, I only wish there would be one less sick person in the world, that's all."

For Sun Quan, who had experienced the disastrous defeat of Xiaoyaojin not long ago, the temptation to defeat Cao Cao and prove himself was too great. If he had confessed the matter early, he might not be able to think calmly at all, and it would cause a catastrophe.

This is also the reason why Cao Cao dealt with it calmly at the beginning. He was right about Li Yinzhou, and even more right about Sun Quan.

Sun Quan frowned slightly, complex emotions flashed across his eyes, and he sighed helplessly after a while: "So, you still have to go to Sichuan?"

According to what he said, the epidemic spread from the Central Plains, and the borders will inevitably suffer.

Li Yinzhou thought for a while with his chin in his hands, but said: "I'm afraid someone has gone ahead of me."

Sun Quan narrowed his eyes, a little disbelieving: "...Cao Mengde?"

Can Cao Cao have such kindness?

Li Yinzhou nodded: "After all, he is still the prime minister."

The back-and-forth battle between him and Cao Cao seems to be Cao Cao betting on his cruelty and determination, but why isn't he betting on the world in Cao Cao's heart?

Now that I think about it, he didn't win this battle.

But Cao Cao was willing to lose.

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Time slowly turned a bitter page in the silent boiling of the medicine furnace.

Cao Cao really published the anti-epidemic prescription to the world.

The outbreak of the epidemic finally spread silently. Beiyuan, Xishu and Jiangdong put aside their years of entanglement for the time being, and used short-term peace to join forces to fight against the unprovoked disaster.

After the news of Lu Su's death spread, people all over the world wore white clothes. There had been no fireworks since March, and the whole world mourned for him. Even Zhuge Liang set up an altar in Chengdu to mourn his old friend.

This move was scolded by many Wu people. He was the one who borrowed Jingzhou in the early years, and he was the one who did not repay the loan. In the eyes of outsiders, he and Lu Su had already become their own masters, and they only had to tear their faces, so why bother to borrow it? This pretentious?

But Li Yinzhou knew that the strategy of dividing the world into three parts and joining forces to resist Cao was not so much the consensus of Sun Quan and Liu Bei, but rather the persistence of Lu Su and Zhuge Liang.Now a corner of this ideal that was supported has collapsed, and even Hui Jue is powerless to recover.

He can only use this to mourn his former comrades-in-arms and commemorate the persistence that cannot be continued.

……

In midsummer, the snow that lasted for several months gradually melted into a drizzle, washing away half a year of frost, revealing the dark soil, green and yellow grass buds and fallen leaves buried deep in the spring.In the courtyard, an old man in coir raincoat was bending over and slowly sweeping away the dead branches. The broom brushed the wet ground, making a rustling, rustling sound.

Melt snow trickled down the eaves.

There is a new letter from Wu Jun.

Lu Su's wife gave birth to a son on the day when the snow was melting. Because of her advanced age, Sun Shangxiang accompanied the delivery for several months and personally delivered the posthumous son for her.

Fortunately, God did not make things difficult for the old couple. The belated child unexpectedly landed safely, healthy and beautiful.

"Lu... Shu." Ling Tong leaned against the door with his gun in his hand, tilted his head and read the letter carefully for a long time, but still couldn't understand it, "What does Shu mean?"

Gan Ning also sneered, "Why did you choose a girl's name?"

It's rare that these two people didn't shout and kill, their eyes were all together, and each of them was puzzled over this somewhat soft name.

Li Yinzhou reached out to take the bamboo slip.

When they were young, their husband and wife had no children due to illness. Later, Mrs. Lu recovered from her illness, but they always lacked the fate of having children.The word "Shu" was a name that Lu Su had drawn up for the child before his death, and it had been a long-awaited one.

Li Yinzhou knelt down and wrote this word on the wet ground with a branch for the two to see.

"Shu is the sound of flowing water, and goodness is like water, so it has the meaning of tolerance, kindness, and beauty."

He only wishes to give future generations a peaceful water town, a carefree childhood away from war.

As he himself simply asked.

In this life, Lu Su worked conscientiously, but didn't work hard. He was a friend everywhere, but he was loyal. Many people felt sorry for him, but Li Yinzhou knew that his unfinished regrets in this life would eventually come true. I got what I wanted.

After listening to Li Yinzhou's words, Gan Ning lowered his eyes to see the water marks that gradually melted away.

The cold rain and fog blurred the small handwriting in a short while, and the snowmelt gathered water, which slowly dripped down the cracks in the stone slabs and landed on the new grass sprouts under the steps.

He sneered again.

"The snow has melted."

……

After the snow melted, this cold spring finally came to an end, and the frozen fighting spirit was slowly released with the warm sunlight.As far as Wu Di is concerned, the first thing is to elect a new governor to succeed Lu Su.

Lu Su didn't leave any last words, but Lu Meng had already been expected by everyone, and the army almost acquiesced that he was the next commander of the army, only Sun Quan's formal appointment was left.

In this cool July, Sun Quan, who had been undecided for a long time, finally decided on a candidate.

"Hey, look, the new governor is Lu... Yan Yan??"

Everyone was stunned by this decision.

——Strict, who is it?