I heard my brother is a tyrant

Ever since he took the medicine from Xu Langzhong, Ye Chu felt better, he could eat a few more mouthfuls, and he didn't feel so afraid of the cold in winter and spring.

She was afraid of drinking soup and medicine since she was a child, but she was weak and easy to get sick. She remembered that every time she took medicine in the past, her brother had to coax her for a long time.Besides, she was already thin and weak, and she couldn't eat after a bowl of bitter medicine.Xu Langzhong is smart, so he just gave her herbal diet, or made small pills, which were not bad.

The apricot flowers by the courtyard wall had just bloomed, and the east wind was getting warmer. Ye Chu finally changed out of his thick cotton clothes and put on a silk jacket.

This morning, the family was at home, when suddenly a villager came to say that some strangers had come down the mountain, claiming to be looking for Old Man Ye, and they were waiting at the entrance of the village right now.

Ye Fu then said that he would go and have a look, Ye Ling raised his foot and ran away after hearing this, He told Ye Chu and Ye Hui to go back to the room first.

"Don't be afraid, Ah Chu. You know you're waiting at the entrance of the village when you come to look for someone. You shouldn't be some bad person." Ye Hui laughed.

Ye Chu wasn't really afraid, but felt that his uncle, aunt and cousin were very sensitive to strangers, and they had to be on guard every time someone went up the mountain, probably more vigilant.

The two cousins ​​sat in the room, and after a while, they heard voices in the courtyard, and then Mrs. He knocked on the door and came in, and said with a happy face: "Ah Chu, it was sent by your brother. A personal letter, you go out to meet?"

Ye Chu had always disliked strangers, so when he heard that his elder brother had called him, he couldn't care less and hurriedly got up and went to the main room.As soon as he entered, he saw a fair-skinned middle-aged man talking to Ye Fu.

Ye Chu was planning to see her, but when the man saw her coming in, he hurriedly got up and left his seat, bowed to the end, bowed respectfully, and said: "Little Chang Shun, I have seen the girl."

The other party's age is about 40 to [-] years old, Ye Chu is young, no matter how he went through this battle, he felt a little embarrassed, he gathered himself together and hurriedly replied: "You are free, did my brother entrust you with a message? coming?"

Unexpectedly, the man knelt down with a plop, and said on the ground: "The young lady is about to be too small. The young one is Master Ye's servant, and he was ordered to take the young lady to Beijing."

As he spoke, he presented a letter with both hands.

Ye Chu removed the wax seal and unfolded the letterhead.My brother's letter was never long, and this time it was only a few short sentences. My brother said that he had settled down in the capital and had a family business, so he asked her to go to the capital for a reunion.He couldn't get away now, so he sent this servant named Chang Shun to pick her up, and if he had anything to do, he could just tell him.

Ye Chu read the letter back and forth twice, and raised his head in disbelief: "Can I go to the capital to find my brother?"

Ye Fu smiled and said, "Yes, I'm glad to celebrate, you brothers and sisters can finally be reunited."

"Uncle, we are all going to reunite with the family. Brother said, uncle, aunt and cousin will go together." Ye Chu held the letter paper full of joy, and then remembered to ask Chang Shun, "You called him Master Ye just now, Is my brother an official, and what kind of official is he?"

"Lord Ye...is an official." Chang Shun said after consideration, "You will know when the girl goes. When the girl arrives in the capital, the lord must tell the girl himself."

Ye Chu nodded, and couldn't help but smile proudly: "Let me just say, what kind of person is my brother, he will definitely be able to make a name for himself and make great achievements. Three years ago, he left home and said that he was going to seek a future and earn money. A family business allows me to live a good life, and he will never break his promise in this world if he promises me anything."

"That's right, he's a huge family business now." Ye Hui murmured.

Ye Ling glared at Ye Hui forcefully, Ye Hui shrank her neck and quickly closed her mouth.Fortunately, Ye Chu was only happy with the letter, and probably didn't pay attention to what she had to say.

Ye Fu then asked them to pack their luggage for the next few days and prepare to leave.After hearing this, Ye Chu asked again: "My brother said that the journey will take about two months. Should we go by boat for such a long journey?"

Chang Shun hurriedly bowed and replied: "Miss, the younger one has brought a boat and accompanying maids and servants, and is now waiting on the wharf outside Luzhou City. You don't need to bring anything more, everything in the capital is prepared for you." Well, the ship has also prepared daily necessities for the girl, everything is complete, the girl only needs to bring the important things with her.”

Ye Hui gave her a hug and said, "You don't need to worry about these things, we just need to pack our luggage."

Ye Chu agreed, took the letter and went back to the room with Ye Hui.For a while, she didn't have the heart to pack her things. Sitting there, her heart was surging, mixed with sweet and sour, sorrow and joy, and her heart had already flown to the capital.

She hasn't seen her brother for three years.

No matter how nice her uncle, aunt and cousin were to her, they always felt like they were not her own home.For Ye Chu, there is absolutely no one in this world who can replace his elder brother.

The small courtyard of the Ye family was full of joy. To celebrate, He cooked a few more dishes for lunch, stewed a chicken and grilled a fish.Today's fish is a carp just caught in the river, fresh enough and fat enough, with a layer of snow-white grease on the belly of the fish, it is slippery and soft in the mouth, but not greasy.He's craftsmanship is really good. The fish is salty and sweet, fresh but not fishy.

Ye Chu had a small appetite, but he ate a large piece of fish belly with the rice, and drank half a bowl of soup.

Mrs. He ate and thought about the next meal, and told Ye Fu: "Remember to buy another perch tomorrow. We, Achu, love to eat fish and shrimp. When we go to the capital, the capital is no better than here. I'm afraid it's not very convenient to eat perch. I'll make it for you a few more times in the past two days."

Ye Fu wholeheartedly agreed.

Holding the bowl, Ye Hui laughed and said, "Mother, we are going to take a boat and go up the river all the way. We have to be on the boat for so many days, and you are still worried about the lack of fish to eat? I think we should take the fish first in the next two days." Kill and eat all the chickens at home, you can’t take them to the capital anyway.”

He himself couldn't help laughing.The next day, I killed two more chickens. In the morning, I cooked chicken noodle, and at noon, I stewed a wild mushroom wolfberry chicken soup, and the other made sesame oil chicken.

The family was busy preparing their luggage, and some villagers and neighbors came to congratulate and see them off.After noon, I suddenly heard that a team of officials had come to the village.

The small mountain village has always had few outsiders and is generally isolated from the outside world. The sudden arrival of a team of officials inevitably shocked the villagers.

"Why are there still officials here?" Ye Fu put down the things in his hands and turned to go out.

The He family waited at home with Ye Chu and the three of them, and soon heard a big event from the villagers: the emperor summoned Xu Yuanzhi to Beijing.

Xu Yuanzhi is exactly Mr. Xu's name.When the edict was issued to the state capital, the magistrate knew that there was a Banshan Village under his rule that didn't even have a proper place name, and that there was such an important person in the Banshan Village, the imperial physician personally called by the emperor.

So Master Zhizhou hurriedly sent someone to invite him, saying that he had set up a banquet for Imperial Doctor Xu in Fucheng.As a result, the guards managed to inquire and ask the way all the way up the mountain, but when they reached the entrance of the village, they were blocked by people, and then they were chased away by the newly appointed Doctor Xu.

What a coincidence, Mr. Xu is going to Beijing too?

Ye Chu couldn't help feeling surprised that Langzhong Xu, who had been taking her pulse and making pills for her these past few months, was actually an imperial physician.She didn't know anything about these officials, imperial physicians, etc., so she asked Ye Ling, is the imperial physician greater than the official Zhizhou?

"That's not true." Ye Ling said with a smile, "I go to know the state from the fifth rank. Generally speaking, the imperial physicians should be the eighth rank. According to the rank, the Zhizhou is higher than Mr. Xu. But who is the imperial physician? But those around the emperor, such local officials as Zhizhou, don’t know how many times they can see the emperor in their lifetime, so when he meets Imperial Physician Xu, why don’t they try to curry favor with him.”

"I don't know what grade my brother is." Ye Chu said.

Ye Ling laughed and said, "Ask him yourself when you meet him."

Just as he was talking, Ye Fu and Xu Yuanzhi came back together.Xu Yuanzhi was still working in the medicine garden just now, wearing wooden clogs, carrying a bamboo hat, half of his robe tucked around his waist, he didn't look like an official at all, he was more like a farmer.

As soon as he came in, Mrs. He came forward to congratulate him with a smile, and the sisters of the Ye family also came to congratulate him.

Ye Chu also said with a smile: "Congratulations to Imperial Physician Xu. No wonder your medical skills are so good. I heard that the Emperor personally summoned you to the Imperial Hospital?"

"Hey, I'm ashamed to say that this old man was an imperial physician more than ten years ago. Even though the sage never gave up, he still thinks of me. This time, he was just called back to Beijing."

Xu Yuanzhi said that because he was the imperial physician used by Emperor Sejong more than ten years ago, he was tabooed by the succeeding Emperor Yanshi, so he escaped from the capital under the pretext of being seriously ill and dying. There are many ways to pretend to be dead when you are sick.

Xu Yuanzhi said: "It's a coincidence, I'm going to Beijing now, and I happen to be traveling with you, and we need to take care of each other."

He hurriedly smiled and said: "That's great. I'm still worried. This journey is thousands of miles away. Ah Chu's body is weak. What if she feels unwell on the way. With you, we can rest assured on this journey. .”

While talking, He looked at Ye Chu, and seeing her bowing her head thoughtfully, she quickly asked with a smile, "Ah Chu, what are you thinking about?"

Ye Chu just thought it was really a coincidence.

The events of the past two days have been one after another, and there is always a sense of unreality, as if they are still in a dream.She was in a trance at the moment, and when He suddenly asked her, she couldn't help being a little embarrassed, and said with a smile: "I didn't think about it, but I haven't been on a boat for such a long time. It is said in the poem that 'the sound of apes on both sides of the strait Can't stop, the light boat has passed ten thousand mountains', the poet travels a thousand miles in a day, but we are so slow."

If you hurry up, can you see your brother sooner?

Everyone present laughed, and Xu Yuanzhi explained to her: "To return a thousand miles of Jiangling in one day, he went down the river with a light boat and fast boat, and then sailed in a smooth wind, and there is also a journey of hundreds of miles a day. We This road goes up the river, sailing against the current, and the river travels only fifty or sixty miles a day. In the middle, it may be necessary to change to a land route. The carriage can be faster, but it is also more bumpy, and it is not as comfortable as taking a boat."

Ye Fu hurriedly comforted her and said, "The spring is just right along the way, and the scenery along the banks of the river is so beautiful. You are young, so it's a good time to see people's customs and customs along the way, and gain a lot of knowledge."

Ye Chu saw that others looked at her with smiles, and knew that he was too eager, so he couldn't help being a little embarrassed, so he pulled Ye Hui to leave.

As soon as she left, the faces of the four people in the room changed, and their expressions became solemn.

"This time, the girl should have a great fortune." After a long time, Mrs. He sighed softly.

Ye Ling said: "Then we will prepare separately and set off in three days. When we arrive on the boat, we will still take care of the girl. Ye Hui and I will guard the girl closely, and we must ensure that one person stays close to her. The rest of the people leave him alone and often It doesn’t matter whether it’s the people who are obedient or the accompanying secret guards, as long as they are on the periphery, they are not familiar with her at the moment, so no one should be allowed to approach the girl privately.”

Xu Yuanzhi and Ye Fu nodded in understanding, Xu Yuanzhi got up to leave, and Ye Fu also got up to send him out.

Mrs. He still sat there, hesitated again and again, and said hesitantly: "It will be very different when I go to the capital. Your Majesty doesn't know how to arrange the girl, whether to make her a righteous sister princess, or let her enter the harem." ... Miss is so ignorant of worldly affairs, shall we... first reveal something to her?"

Ye Ling said: "You also know that there is a big difference, this is something we should talk about."

"But..." He Shi paused, sighed softly, and struggled, "The girl grew up so big, she was raised by Your Majesty's side in the early years, and His Majesty was only a teenager at that time, and the dragon dived in the wild, hiding, and the girl I have little contact with outsiders. In the past three years, we have hidden the girl here, and we have been raised as if we were isolated from the world. How does she know the sophistication of the world, and how has she ever seen people with sinister hearts! What is the place in the capital, and what is in the palace? place, the girl is only 12 years old..."

He said: "I also know that His Majesty treats the girl differently. This arrangement of going to Beijing is meticulous and careful, and it really hurts the girl to the core. It's just that the world is impermanent, and today is different from the past. He is now The Nine-Five Supreme is the emperor of the whole world... The girl has called me my aunt for three years, and she has no other relatives.

"You have exceeded the norm." Ye Ling reminded softly.