After the rebirth, I became the darling of the tyrant

"Wait." Gu Chen said.He bowed to Zhao Zhongqi, "I heard that you are short of a snow lotus for medicine, and I can't find it anywhere. I have two plants in my hand. I don't know how to use them. Can you go instead?"

He took out a small box containing snow lotus from his luggage, opened it and handed it to Zhao Zhongqi.Zhao Zhongqi glanced at it, and couldn't help but move, showing a bit of hesitation.He looked at Xuelian, then looked at Gu Chen, and finally snorted through his nose: "Okay. Then it's settled, just see the doctor, and I'll leave after I finish the prescription."

Gu Chen nodded and smiled, "Naturally."

Zhao Zhongqi took the small box, handed it to the little boy beside him, and said: "I will leave for a few days to go to Shenjing and take care of the house. If there is a sick person, I will deal with it when I come back."

The little boy nodded obediently: "Yes, Master."

Zhao Zhongqi packed up his things, followed Gu Chen down the mountain, and asked as he walked, "Is the patient you mentioned a relative of yours?"

Gu Chen shook his head slightly: "No."

Zhao Zhongqi was a little surprised: "A friend?"

"...Neither."

"..." Probably unable to understand the relationship between these two people, Zhao Zhongqi changed the direction and asked, "How is his condition? Did he have any previous pulse cases? How many years has he been ill? Is there any swelling in his legs?"

Gu Chen was silent for a moment, then smiled wryly: "Actually, I don't know."

Zhao Zhongqi: "...then you are willing to run from Shenjing to Tongshan for him?!"

Gu Chen thought for a while, and decided to tell part of the truth: "Doctor Zhao, do you know that He Zhe, the eldest prince of Baiyi, has brought a mission to ask Dajing to marry His Highness Princess Chun'an?"

Zhao Zhongqi shook his head: "I don't know." He looked at Gu Chen suspiciously: "What?"

"Your patient is Hezhe's mother, the Xizhangyan family."

Zhao Zhongqi stopped immediately, with a deep disgust on his face: "You are from the imperial court!?"

"Yes." Gu Chen said, "If this marriage is successful, then the southern Hubei border will be peaceful for decades and there will be no wars. The premise is that you need your help."

"I'm a doctor, how can I help?" Zhao Zhongqi looked at him suspiciously, "You want me to take the opportunity of seeing a doctor and kill her?"

"You misunderstood." Gu Chen laughed, "If you kill her, it will only lead to war between the two countries. You just need to get a good medical treatment. This is your greatest help."

Zhao Zhongqi moved his steps again slowly, frowning, obviously thinking.Gu Chen knew that he was a little shaken, so he didn't rush him, and waited patiently for him to think clearly.After a long time, Zhao Zhongqi finally spoke.

"If what you said is true, of course I am willing to help." He said slowly, "but if you want to use me to kill someone, even if I die, I will not do it for you. I hope you clear."

"I understand." Gu Chen said, "Don't worry, it's really just seeing a doctor."

Zhao Zhongqi snorted softly, didn't speak any more, turned his head away.

The two quickly walked halfway up the mountain and saw Jiang Chong waiting there.When Jiang Chong saw Gu Chen, he breathed a sigh of relief immediately, and said with joy, "My lord."

"This is Doctor Zhao Zhongqi." Gu Chen introduced the two of them, "This is Deputy Commander Jiang Chongjiang."

Zhao Zhongqi bowed to Jiang Chong, and Jiang Chong hurriedly waved his hands to support him: "Hey, don't dare to do it, don't dare to do it."

The three of them followed the path all the way to the foot of the mountain, and it was still dark when they came out.Jiang Chong hired a small boat at the foot of Tongshan Mountain, helped Zhao Zhongqi get on the boat and said with a silly smile: "If we hurry up, we can leave the boundary of Tongshan Mountain before dark."

Gu Chen was a little amused: "You seem to want to go back to Beijing?"

"No." Jiang Chong scratched his head, "It's just that I want to eat the perch from Xifang. The perch from Zuihualou is really unique..."

Zhao Zhongqi was listening in silence, but at this moment he suddenly snorted, and interjected: "Vice Commander Jiang didn't know that Tongshan also had perch. And the taste is delicious, not worse than those in Beijing."

"Really?" Jiang Chong asked in surprise while untying the cable, his face was full of regret: "I knew I would buy two fish and bring them on board."

While speaking, the boat staggered to the center of the river.When a gust of wind blew, Gu Chen at the bow suddenly felt his feet tremble, and then the whole body of the ship suddenly tilted backwards, and the stern sank into the river uncontrollably.Jiang Chong quickly rushed over to check the situation, and then cursed.

"There are rabbits cubs chiseling boats!"

Before the words fell, there was a splash in the water. It turned out that the boatman who was rowing the oar dropped the oar and jumped into the water without looking back. Like a swift fish, it went far away in the blink of an eye. It's useless to let Jiang Chong jump on his feet and yell.

The boatman was running so fast, as if he knew the boat would sink.Alarm bells rang in Gu Chen's heart, he drew his long sword from his waist, and shouted at Jiang Chong: "Protect Dr. Zhao!"

"careful!"

A wave came violently, turning the boat over, and all three of them were thrown into the water.Gu Chen dropped his cumbersome things three times, five times and two times, and finally emerged from the water, and found that Jiang Chong had been thrown to nowhere, and Zhao Zhongqi was floating on a piece of driftwood not far from him. far away.About two feet behind Zhao Zhongqi, a masked man in black was swimming towards them with a dagger in his mouth!

"Doctor Zhao!"

In desperation, Gu Chen kicked his foot backwards. He didn't know what heavy object he stepped on. He jumped forward and struggled to grab the driftwood that Zhao Zhongqi was holding, which happened to block Zhao Zhongqi and him. Between that masked man.The masked man sank down and dived into the water, grabbed Gu Chen's leg with both hands, and pulled him down!

Gu Chen had no choice but to let go of the driftwood, and then sank into the water.Seeing that he had pulled Gu Chen down, the man wanted to float up after leaving him, and took the dagger out of his mouth with his right hand, and stabbed at Zhao Zhongqi.Gu Chen stretched out his hand to grab the opponent's arm, and the man stabbed him with a backhand. Gu Chen couldn't dodge in time, and there was a sharp pain in his right shoulder and neck, and a large amount of blood came up from the bottom of the water.However, he still didn't let go, but grabbed the man's wrist and twisted it forcefully, snatched the dagger with his hands, and then kicked him far away.

He was about to float up with the dagger in his mouth, when he suddenly noticed another black figure rushing towards Zhao Zhongqi's right front.He immediately swam over, barely stopped the man's dagger that was stabbing at Zhao Zhongqi, and wrestled with him.When the two were fighting fiercely, he only felt his head dizzy for a while. It was obvious that he had held his breath for too long and was about to reach his limit.

He gritted his teeth and forcefully made a knife. The dagger pierced deeply into the opponent's chest, but the man grabbed Gu Chen's front as if he couldn't feel the pain. No matter how Gu Chen hit his wrist, He never let go, and dragged Gu Chen down together.

The last small string of bubbles spit out from the corner of his lips, Gu Chen's eyes went dark, and he finally lost consciousness.

The first thing I felt was a sharp pain in my body.

Gu Chen suddenly woke up from the darkness, only to feel severe pain near his right shoulder, as if thousands of ants were gnawing on him, and he broke out in a cold sweat after a while.

"Don't move."

Someone pressed his shoulder, and Gu Chen recognized Zhao Zhongqi's voice.He opened his eyes and saw that Zhao Zhongqi was lowering his head and tinkering with his right shoulder. He was still dripping wet and his hair was still dripping, but fortunately there were no injuries on his body.

Gu Chen coughed a few times before speaking hoarsely: "Doctor Zhao, are you okay?"

"fine."

"Where's Jiang Chong?"

"I'm here." It was Jiang Chong's voice that answered him.He also looked very embarrassed, with water dripping all over his body, and a striking bloodstain on his cheek.He continued bitterly: "Damn, those bunnies chiseled our boat, and finally ran away when they couldn't beat them. They swam faster than fish."

It was only then that Gu Chen noticed that they had landed and were resting in a dry place on the shore.There was a bonfire in front of him, and the flames kept jumping.He looked around—here was a wilderness, and there was no one around except for the dry trees.

"How did we get ashore?" he asked.

Zhao Zhongqi glanced at Jiang Chong, but Jiang Chong hesitated for a long time without making a sound.Gu Chen asked "Huh?" suspiciously, and Jiang Chongcai said, "It was the inner court guards who rescued us ashore..."

"Inner court guards?" Gu Chen didn't understand what was going on for a while, "Aren't they the inner court guards in the capital? Why did they come here?"

"That..." Jiang Chong's eyes began to wander around, "... His Majesty sent you."

"..."

"At that time, besides me... His Majesty also sent a team of inner court guards to secretly protect you."

Gu Chen: "..."

Unexpectedly, his life was saved by Xiao Tingshen.

Gu Chen pursed his lips and turned his head to one side, thinking that he owed Xiao Ting a deep favor this time, but the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up.He himself didn't understand why, but a little joy burst out of his heart.

Perhaps because of his ups and downs, he suddenly coughed, coughing so much that his heart, liver and lungs seemed to be shaken out.Jiang Chong was taken aback by his appearance, and apologized again and again: "My lord, don't worry, your majesty won't tell you! Don't be angry, if something happens to you, your majesty will definitely cut me off... "

His loud voice could be heard within a ten-mile radius, and Gu Chen couldn't help but become angry, a blush appeared on his face, and he coughed harder: "...What nonsense!"

Jiang Chong: "But I..."

"Okay." Zhao Zhongqi finally couldn't listen anymore, raised his head and glared at him: "He coughed like this because he choked on water, it's nothing to do with you. I'm treating his wound, can I trouble you to go to the side first to cool off?" , don't make any more trouble?"

"……Oh."

Jiang Chong shut his mouth obediently, and squatted aside.Zhao Zhongqi pulled a few strips of cloth, and strangled Gu Chen's right shoulder hard, causing Gu Chen to gasp in pain.

"Call out when it hurts." Zhao Zhongqi said angrily, "What's there to bear?"

Gu Chen smiled weakly: "...it doesn't hurt."

Zhao Zhongqi glanced at him: "You can still laugh? Fortunately, you are lucky. Although the cut was deep, it didn't hurt your heart. Otherwise, you can still laugh with me here?"

"...Yes." Gu Chen was still smiling, "It's all right anyway..."

"It's okay?" Zhao Zhongqi strangled the bandage that was wrapped around Gu Chen again, "Do you know that you were no different from a dead person when they rescued you? You just lay there, bleeding and spitting water , I think if it is a little later, they will have to collect your body."

"But who are those people?" Jiang Chong couldn't help but interjected again, "Could it be water bandits? I heard that there are a lot of water bandits around here... Sigh, I didn't eat the perch, but got a bite instead."

Gu Chen also thought for a while in silence.In fact, he didn't think those people were like water bandits. How could water bandits not want money?They seem to be running for human life... they seem like assassins.

He and Jiang Chong and Zhao Zhongqi are so low-key, who would want to assassinate them?

However, he just kept the question in his stomach and didn't ask it out.The three of them were silent for a while, only the sound of Zhao Zhongqi tearing the cloth was left.After a while, he stopped: "Okay." Then he turned to Jiang Chong: "I'll show you if you need it on your face?"

"No need." Jiang Chong didn't care, "Small injury."

Gu Chen sat up, gathered his clothes, and moved his arms. Apart from some pain, everything was fine.So he smiled gently at Zhao Zhongqi: "Thank you, Dr. Zhao."

"It's all right?" Jiang Chong glanced at Gu Chen who was moving freely, and immediately respected Zhao Zhongqi: "Your medical skills are really good, where did you learn it? If I don't work in the court one day, follow me." Go and learn to make a living and earn a living..."

Zhao Zhongqi fiddled with the fire, and was silent for a moment: "My master is the imperial physician in the palace, and he has passed away."

"Oh...sorry...wait...the doctor...?"

"Well." Zhao Zhongqi said, "About 16 years ago, I was also an imperial physician in the palace. I was mainly in charge of... His Royal Highness's health."

Gu Chen paused for a moment, with a look of surprise on his face—Xiao Tingshen... was ranked seventh.