Minister Gu Ming can't take care of himself

Quietly observe in the quiet room behind.

When Xu Guanchen first came, he had already carefully touched the inside of the quiet room, and found no mystery, even the teacup was made of wood.

This quiet room was dug out by excavating rocks, and no bricks or walls were built, only a small transom was opened.

Taking advantage of no one, Xu Guanchen tore off half of his clothes, pulled the fabric into long strips, bit his finger, scribbled two words on it, wrapped it around the broken stones in the hole, and threw the stones out through the small air window.

Although the quiet room is not big, it is very high, and the transom is also opened high.Xu Guanchen was about to jump up and throw stones, but with shackles on his feet and hands, he tossed and tossed for a long time, but only threw one.

I'm afraid Jinling City is in chaos, but Xiao Zhi doesn't know that he is outside the city.

Then he heard noises outside, he straightened his clothes, climbed onto the couch and meditated, pretending to read scriptures all night.

He closed his eyes, and before he had time to open them a little bit, he heard a child calling him: "Little Martial Uncle."

He is a little Taoist boy who observes quietly and emptily.

Xiao Daotong put the food and a change of clothes on the table, approached him and called him again: "Little uncle."

Xu Guanchen slowly opened his eyes and asked, "What time is it?"

Xiao Daotong stepped forward, hugged his hand, and wanted to pull him to the front of the case: "It's almost noon, little uncle, let's eat something."

He pushed Xu Guanchen in front of the desk, lifted his clothes, and sat down in front of him.After arranging the meals on the wooden tray, the dishes and chopsticks were all at his hand.

Xu Guanchen hadn't eaten since yesterday afternoon, and by this time, a whole day had passed.

Xu Guanchen grabbed the bamboo chopsticks and paused.

Seeing his appearance, the little Taoist boy said, "Don't worry, little uncle, I cooked the food myself, it's no problem."

As he spoke, he took the bamboo chopsticks from Xu Guanchen's hand, ate some of everything on the table, and then handed the chopsticks back to him again.

That's all, we have to eat enough to talk about it.

Xu Guanchen took the chopsticks, took two bites unhurriedly, caught a glimpse of the little boy holding his face, watching him eat, very innocent, thought it over in his heart, and asked him casually: "Do you want to eat some together?" Son?"

Xiao Daotong shook his head: "No, there are still in the kitchen."

After a while, Xu Guanchen asked: "I've seen you before, do you recognize me?"

"I recognize it." Xiao Daotong nodded again, "In the spring of February, my little uncle came to the Taoist temple to worship, drew amulets, and helped me see the hexagram booth."

"At that time, I asked you why you were alone in the Taoist temple. Where did your master and senior brothers go? You said they went to travel in the clouds." Xu Guanchen smiled, "Now I will ask you again, what do you say?"

"I..." Xiao Daotong rubbed his hands, and said softly, "Three years ago, they all left, and a senior brother was left to take me with him. Two years later, that senior brother also left, and I was the only one left. Alone. They really... went out to wander."

"Is it?"

"Yes." Xiao Daotong nodded vigorously, "I was picked up from the snow by...another brother. There was a lot of snow at home before, and my parents were frozen to death. I was alone in the snow. It took me a long time to walk in the snow before I met my brother."

Xu Guanchen only pretended to be casually chatting with him: "What's your name? Do you have a Taoist name?"

"I'm a Taoist monk, and I don't have a Taoist name. My brother said that if I don't want to be a Taoist priest when I grow up, it will be very troublesome to return to the vulgarity. It's better not to be a Taoist priest first." The little Taoist smiled shyly, "I don't remember my name. , I only remember that my surname is Xie, and later my brother named me Xie Yuheng, and my brother said this name..."

Xu Guanchen's eyes darkened, and he put the bamboo chopsticks on the table.The name Xie Yuheng is very similar to Xiao Qi's style.

Xiao Daotong hurriedly said: "Little uncle, is it because I talk too much? You can eat more, if you don't like my name, I have a nickname, my name is Xiao Wu."

Xu Guanchen pursed the corners of his lips and asked, "This senior brother of yours is Xiao Qi?"

Xiao Daotong was puzzled: "What?"

"It's the one that brought me back last night."

The little Taoist nodded very lightly, and tried to defend and clarify: "Actually, the senior brother is very good, and of course the young senior uncle is also very good..."

Xu Guanchen said indifferently: "He is like this. He never cares about small favors and small favors. He plays tricks very cleverly. When he encounters big right and wrong, he becomes dizzy, and small tricks become unscrupulous." figure it out?"

"Senior Brother said that Junior Martial Uncle and him...were good friends in the past, weren't they?"

"We used to be very good friends, but we broke up later." Xu Guanchen looked calm, "If he doesn't come back, I will almost forget him."

"Why did the senior brother and the junior uncle break off friendship?"

Xu Guanchen's expression didn't change, and when he talked about the past, he was still very calm: "He slashed me from the back, pushed me out to others, and broke off the relationship."

Xiao Daotong let out an "ah" in surprise, and quickly closed his wide-open mouth again.

Xu Guanchen asked him a few more words, but he didn't know anything about the situation outside.Whether there is anyone outside the Taoist temple, where Xiao Qi went, and what happened to the old Taoist priest in the west courtyard, he also said that he didn't know.

Presumably someone told him not to say these things to Xu Guanchen when he came in, so he was very careful.

Xu Guanchen couldn't find anything useful to ask, and he didn't want to talk to him for fear of inadvertently hurting him, so he patted him on the head and let him go back.

Xiao Daotong took out the food, and came in with a copper basin unsteadily, asking him to wash his face and hands.

"The little uncle changed the clothes, and I took out the dirty clothes."

Xu Guanchen didn't want to bother him, let alone let others see that he was missing half of his clothes.Later, he couldn't refuse, and was afraid of arousing his suspicion, so he went around behind the screen in front of the couch, changed his clothes, folded them neatly, and then held out the clothes to him.

Not daring to tear off the strip of cloth from the hem of his clothes again, Xu Guanchen meditated while thinking about things.

……

I don't know how long it took, when the sky turned dark, Xiao Daotong came in again with food.

He arranged the dishes on the table, and went up to shake Xu Guanchen's hand: "Little uncle, it's time to eat."

Xiao Daotong leaned against him, and said obediently: "Xiao Wuyi couldn't hold the old clothes that my uncle had replaced for a while, and fell into the stove, burning half of the hem of the clothes."

Xu Guanchen was taken aback for a moment, and quickly realized that Xiao Daotong was trying to cover it up for him.

But Xiao Daotong quickly said again: "But it won't happen in the future, little uncle, I will be very careful in the future."

This is to tell him that he will not be able to cover it next time.

Xu Guanchen patted his head: "I know, I'm sorry to trouble you."

Xu Guanchen sat down before the case, picked up the bamboo chopsticks, and used something casually.

Xiao Daotong sat down in front of him and chatted with him like noon, seeing that he hadn't eaten much, he put down his chopsticks and hurriedly said: "Little uncle, the vegetarian food I made is not very tasty, but you should also eat more How about two bites?"

He touched his sleeve, and smiled innocently: "Little uncle, eat more, can I give this little uncle something?"

Xu Guanchen's eyebrows twitched, he thought that he had something important to give him, quickly picked up the chopsticks, picked up the porcelain bowl, and took two mouthfuls of rice.

Xiao Daotong pushed the dish in front of him: "Little uncle, eat more."

Xu Guanchen was half full, put down the bowl and chopsticks, and asked, "What do you want to give me?"

Xiao Daotong flicked his sleeves solemnly, took out a red plum from his sleeve, and put it in front of him: "Fruit after fasting."

Being coaxed by a little Taoist boy, Xu Guanchen was suddenly speechless.

Seeing his appearance, Xiao Daotong smiled: "There are still things."

"What else?"

He flicked his sleeve again, and took it out from the other sleeve—another red plum.

"And another post-fast fruit."

Having been tricked twice by a little Taoist boy, Xu Guanchen had a faint headache: "Who taught you tricks?"

"It was taught to me by the old Taoist priest in the west yard."

Yu Qingzi.Xu Guanchen's mind sank, and he quickly raised his eyes to look at him.

Xiao Daotong said with a smile, "I'm also going to deliver food to the old Taoist priest."

"so."

"The old Taoist said that he has done wrong things and violated the precepts, and he feels uncomfortable." Xiao Daotong said, "Just like the little uncle, he didn't eat anything and always meditated."

"I……"

"I still have to deliver meals to the old Taoist priest, so I won't accompany the little uncle." He packed up his things and was about to go out, when he suddenly turned around and said, "The old Taoist said, tonight is the little uncle...well, what?" I don’t remember the days when I was sick, it must be hard for my little uncle to go through alone, let me take care of my little uncle, if there is anything, I will come in by knocking on the stone door.”

It's a sick day.

He had taken the antidote half a month ago, and today happened to be the day when he fell ill.

Xu Guanchen nodded in agreement.

……

Xiao Daotong didn't leave for long, the moonlight came in through the small window, Xu Guanchen sat on the couch, the soft moonlight fell on him.

I don't know how long it took, Xu Guanchen recited the scriptures several times, and suddenly his heart hurts, his heart seemed to be tightly grasped by something, strangling him, making him breathless.

As before, after vomiting a mouthful of blood, he recovered for a moment.

It was dark before his eyes, he groped, got off the couch, knocked over the wooden teacup on the desk.

He shook his head, regained his composure, and pulled the quilt off the couch with his backhand.

cold.

Xu Guanchen didn't have much strength, even such a trivial matter as pulling the quilt took him a lot of effort.

His illness is divided into cold syndrome and fever syndrome, and every time he gets sick, he can only get over it, bathing in hot springs and sleeping on stone beds are just to make him feel better.

He was cold all over, curled up, hugged the quilt in his arms, and sat on the ground beside the couch.It was chaotic, and I didn't know how long I had endured it.

If you can just pass out and lose consciousness, it will be considered a relief.

It's a pity that although he is chaotic, he is still very sober.

Suddenly there was a loud bang at the stone gate, and light footsteps, someone came in.

He couldn't see clearly, and it was very difficult to even open his eyes, but he just shrank aside, shivering from the cold.

The man approached slowly and only asked him: "Do you remember what was cast on the gold plate in the alchemy book?"

Xu Guanchen leaned against the couch, shivering from the cold in summer.

Don't talk back, he can't even hear Xiao Qi's words clearly.

Xiao Qi pinched his chin and fed him a bright red pill.

The red pill can only relieve the symptoms temporarily, and the cold has to be overcome by himself.

But after taking the medicine, he temporarily breathed a sigh of relief.I can see the scene in front of me, but it's still a little blurry.

Xiao Qi patted his face: "Do you remember?"

Xu Guanchen avoided his hand and shook his head.

Xiao Qi also expected his reaction like this, sighed lightly, pinched his face, and asked him to turn his head to look at Shimen: "Do you still recognize him?"

Xu Guanchen was in a trance, and turned his head to look at what he was pointing at, but he still couldn't see clearly, only saw the man in black clothes, with a mask on his face.

Xiao Qi raised his chin towards that person, and ordered: "Take off the mask, and show the young man what he looks like."

That person seemed to have no other perceptions and feelings, only hearing Xiao Qi's words, the movement of taking off the mask was not redundant at all, after taking it off, he was still standing on the other side far away.

Xiao Qi still pinched Xu Guanchen's face, asking him to look at it.

Seeing the man's face clearly, Xu Guanchen was stunned, he didn't care about anything else, he took two steps forward, before he took two steps, he lowered his head, and spat out another mouthful of dirty blood with a "wow".

With tears in the corners of his eyes and blood in his mouth, he mumbled two words indistinctly.