Minister Gu Ming can't take care of himself

It was still raining heavily in the woods, and the carriage drove slowly in the rain.

Xu Guanchen jumped out of the carriage, knowing that he was too weak to run away from those followers, so he gritted his teeth, hugged his head, and rolled into the grass.

That place happened to be a slope, with heavy rain, covered by vegetation, leaving behind Xiao Qi and Yuan Ce.

It was a little far away to escape, Xu Guanchen hooked one hand tightly to the trunk of a tree to stop himself.

He stood up, his eyes blurred by the rain, and he wiped his face indiscriminately.

Only then did he see clearly that there was a cliff at his feet, and not far away was a rushing river, which was the river that Xiao Zhi and Xiao Zhi passed by on an outing in February.

The clothes on his body were soaked, he raised his eyes to look at the sky, the clouds were overcast, and the sky was getting dark.I'm afraid that Xiao Qi and Yuan Ce's subordinates are also looking for him everywhere, and they can't wait to watch the surroundings quietly.He cannot spend the night in the woods alone.

Xu Guanchen picked off a large piece of banana leaves to shelter from the rain, and broke off bamboo branches to make a stick, and walked in the forest with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

Afraid that Xiao Qi's people would find him, he dared not walk the mountain road, so he could only find his way in the forest.

He is not very familiar with this place either, but just now the wheels of the carriage got stuck in the mud, and when he got off the carriage, he took a look at it, and he didn't dare to be too obvious, so he just took a look.

This place is farther away from Jinling City, but closer to the Qiwu Mountain Palace, so he wanted to go to the Palace first.

To say that it is close is only in comparison.Of course, the most important thing is to go down the mountain first, if you can meet Xiao Zhi's people at the foot of the mountain, that would be the best.

The general direction is still recognizable, but because of the heavy rain and the dark sky, he had been ill for a long time a while ago, and it was very difficult to walk.

After a while, the rain gradually became lighter, but the sky was completely dark.

Xu Guanchen wiped his face again, and vaguely saw lights flickering in the distance.

This place is remote, maybe there is an Orion farmhouse, in order to save candles, the lamps are always turned on very late.

He took two steps towards the bright place in a trance, and suddenly realized that Xiao Qi's subordinates were looking for him with torches.

Leaning under the tree and thinking for a while, he thought that if he went on like this, he might die of illness on the way before reaching the palace, so he might as well try his luck in the past.

So he set up his bamboo stick again and walked to the place where the light was on.

This is the case in the mountains and forests. Looking at a very close place, in fact, it takes a long time to walk in a winding way.

After a long time, he came to a family near the foot of the mountain.

There was a room surrounded by a fence, Xu Guanchen secretly heaved a sigh of relief, and stepped forward in one go.

Suddenly, I saw two horses grazing in the field enclosed by the fence.

Xu Guanchen pursed his lips, slowed down, and only stopped in the back room.

I only heard the people inside say: "Our young master got angry and ran away from home. The family is looking for it. It is still raining heavily. If he comes to your place, please slow him down first, and the family will come."

Another person chimed in: "Our young master likes to play, and he owed a lot of money to the gambling shop. He ran away after being beaten twice by his brother with family law. We, the head of the family, regret it now. If we help find someone, We will definitely be rewarded as the head of the family."

Seeing that their words were true and not fake, the farmers naturally responded with a smile, and even helped to persuade them.

Xu Guanchen took half a step back, leaning on the bamboo stick and walking back.

This place is remote, and there is a dog that guards the house in the farmer's house.

It turned out that Xu Guanchen was drenched in the rain, and the smell of strangers on his body was washed away by the rain.When he was about to leave, the dog saw him and barked at him.

Xu Guanchen didn't dare to look back, but ran forward, hunched over, and hid in the grass.

The two people in the farmer's family felt something was wrong, rushed out to look, looked at each other, then turned and left.

He didn't dare to move, and bent over and hid for a while. When he raised his eyes and saw them walking back to the house, he groped forward, preparing to run away from the opposite direction.

After running for a while, he heard someone behind him saying: "There, chase."

……

When the rain turned light, there was a faint smell of blood in the Palace of Funing. When the old imperial doctor nodded and said that there was no serious problem, all the imperial physicians and alchemists who were waiting on him breathed a sigh of relief.

The curtains fell in front of the bed, Xiao Zhi was resting his eyes with his eyes closed, and the old imperial doctor helped him re-bandage the wound.Eunuch Xiao Cheng took a handkerchief and helped the old imperial doctor wipe off the sweat from his forehead.

Xiao Zhi waved his hand, telling everyone in the hall to retreat.Eunuch Xiao Cheng put two spices into the censer and withdrew too.

General Pei came out with the old imperial doctor and walked for a while before he dared to ask him: "Is it all right, Your Majesty?"

The old imperial doctor stroked his gray goatee: "This poison was modified by adding a few medicinal materials from the Northwest Fengshi. "

The old imperial doctor sighed, and continued: "Your Majesty is in good health, don't touch the wound, rest in peace of mind for a few days, and you'll be fine soon."

Take it easy for a few days.

Put simply.

General Pei was also in trouble, the little father-in-law couldn't be found, how could Xiao Zhi take care of him for a few days with peace of mind?

The two of them were talking, and Eunuch Xiao Cheng came up from behind and said softly: "Your Majesty said that the arrow wound was injured. Please don't tell anyone the old imperial doctor. If others ask, they will say that Your Majesty is seriously injured. , life is at stake."

The old imperial doctor also reacted and responded respectfully.

After sending the old imperial doctor away, General Pei turned his head and asked Eunuch Xiao Cheng, "What does Your Majesty mean? Leading the snake out of the hole?"

"Your Majesty said, spread the news that His Majesty is seriously injured and hangs his life. In a few days, the general will take the lead in person and lead all the officials to the altar to worship the heavens and pray for blessings. If someone else asks, they will also say that His Majesty is Seriously injured, let's see how Master Xu reacts."

General Pei thought for a while and nodded in agreement.

"Your Majesty has an arrangement, and I dare not disobey it." General Pei said, "I'm ashamed to say, it's because Xiao Jue and I lost Yuan Ce, that's why..."

Eunuch Xiao Cheng forced a smile, and comforted him: "I don't blame the general, Xiao Qi colluded with Yuan Ce and planned for another three years, it's not so easy to catch."

As soon as he spoke, Zhong Yao got off his horse on the other side of the palace road, and hurried over with a piece of paper in his hand.

Seeing General Pei and Eunuch Xiaocheng, they clasped their fists together and asked, "Is your majesty not seriously injured?"

"It doesn't matter." General Pei also told him, "When others ask, they only say that His Majesty is not good."

"Okay." Zhong Yao came all the way, panting, "Is it convenient for Your Majesty now? I have something important to report."

Eunuch Xiao Cheng went in to report, leaving the two generals Pei Zhong waiting outside.

The two looked at each other and sighed.

Zhong Yao scratched his hair in distress: "I don't know what happened to Ah Chen, he's been gone for almost half a month, right?"

General Pei also sighed: "Xiao Qi hid it tightly."

Eunuch Xiao Cheng came out soon: "Your Majesty let the two generals in to talk."

Kowtowing and saluting, Zhong Yao unfolded the paper that he had been holding in his hand all the time and showed it to Xiao Zhi. It was the map that Xu Guanchen had drawn for him before, and was hidden in the iron coupon of Dingguo Duke's Mansion.

The map was not marked originally, but Zhong Yao marked it with words.

"This is the picture Guan Chen drew for me before, and I suddenly understood it last night." Zhong Yao pointed to the lines on the paper and said, "This picture is full of lines, mountains and rivers are not distinguished. This is Yanwei Mountain, and this It is Yanbi Mountain, and there is another valley in the middle, which is Jingxianshui. This place is deep in the Yanbei Desert, and it is rarely visited by people."

Xiao Zhi glanced at it, then withdrew his gaze: "That's why Xiao Qi burned down the whole street and kidnapped him?"

Zhong Yao thought for a while, then nodded: "It should be."

"No." Xiao Zhi shook his head, "At first I also thought that he was for the army here, but later I realized that Xiao Qi wanted soldiers, and Yuan Ce could also be lent to him."

"Then this thing...is just a bargaining chip for him to increase his odds?"

"Yes." Xiao Zhi said, "If I die today from being shot by an arrow, his plan will be completed, and there will be no need for this thing."

General Pei asked: "Then what does His Majesty think?"

"The emperor was assassinated, so he couldn't afford to be seriously ill." Xiao Zhi lay down on the couch, "It will be better if uncle goes to worship the heavens and pray for blessings, and he needs to sit in a wheelchair to rest in Wushan Palace to recuperate. Isn't there that Master Xu in the court? Let that Lord Xu passed the news to Xiao Qi, let's see what he will do next."

Zhong Yao put away the map: "I'm thinking about this map, should I pass it on to Yanbei, so that people over there can take a look around Yanshan Mountain and Jingxianshui?"

"Feiyang and Diu Yuance have to check again."

Xiao Zhi pulled out the scriptures from the front of the case with his backhand, turned over, turned his back to them, and read a page of the scriptures.

……

The rainstorm was about to stop, Xu Guanchen dropped his bamboo stick and ran wildly in the woods.

In fact, he couldn't run fast, with shackles and iron chains hanging on his hands and feet, and his weak body could no longer support him, so how could he run fast?

Xiao Qi came up behind him on a horse and called him, "Guan Chen."

Xu Guanchen supported the tree, his legs gave way, and he almost knelt on the ground.I dragged my feet and walked two steps forward. There was a low cliff in front of me, and the river was still below.The river that went out in early February, because of the heavy rain, the water level of the river rose, and the current was very turbulent.

It turned out that after walking for so long, he didn't even get out of the river.

Xiao Qi also got off his horse behind him, taking advantage of Yuan Ce's failure to keep up, he dared to say: "Guan Chen, don't be angry, come here, I'll tell you. Yanbei only gave Yuan Ce temporarily, and after a few years I took it back. He was talking nonsense when he said that he would give you to him, I never said that. "

What he said was half true and half false, but Xu Guanchen didn't dare to believe him anymore, and just stepped back.

Xu Guanchen continued to back away, but Xiao Qi still explained the matter of Yanbei and Yuan Ce to him over and over again.

In fact, it is not because of this at all.

Xiao Qi wiped the rain off his face, and said: "Your brother and master are still in my hands, don't back down, come here."

Xu Guanchen also looked back, it turned out that he had already walked to the edge of the cliff, and the river was rushing under his feet, mixed with gravel.

Although the cliff is not high, there is a river below.Xiao Qi grew up with him, so he naturally knew that Xu Guanchen couldn't swim.If he jumped down and was swept away by the river, he would surely die.

While talking to him, Xiao Qi threatened him with Xu Wen and Yu Qingzi, while quietly moving in front of him.

"Let me go, Xiao Yuzhi is dead, you become the emperor." Xu Guanchen didn't want to die, looked at him calmly, and said indifferently, "I don't want to be your Minister Gu Ming anymore."

After he broke off friendship with Xiao Qi, he never saw him again. When we saw each other these few days, Xiao Qi always used words to provoke him, but he always kept silent.

Suddenly saying that, Xiao Qi was also stunned, nodded and said: "Okay, you come here first."

He refused to move, Xiao Qi said again: "Xiao Zhi is not dead, the bell did not ring in the city, the news received is that he is dying."

Xu Guanchen's expression was a little loose, but after he realized it, he still looked at him suspiciously.Xiao Qi had no choice but to raise his right hand in a gesture of swearing.

Xu Guanchen thought for a while, and said, "It's a repayment of the favor I begged for you in the past. You give me the antidote."

"Even if you get the antidote, so what? How do you put things..."

"Give it to me." Xu Guanchen lowered his eyes, "It's my return. I'll take the medicine and go back with you."

After all, he still understands Xiao Qi, Xiao Qi will not put such an important thing elsewhere, but will carry it with him.

He took out a small medicine bottle from his sleeve, extended his hand and handed it to Xu Guanchen.

Xu Guanchen reached out to take it, and said: "Yuan Ce is here, my brother should be nearby."

"He's also looking for you in the woods." Xiao Qi paused, "Yuan Ce has many martial puppets under his command... Yuan Ce also gave him orders."

"Let him come over."

Xiao Qi looked at him again, and seeing his firm attitude, he nodded: "Okay, I'll ask Yuan Ce to call him over, don't move."

When he turned his head, Yuan Ce also led his men to catch up.

Perhaps Xiao Qi was still a little afraid that Xu Guanchen would die, but Yuan Ce was not. Yuan Ce was just afraid that Xu Guanchen would run away and ruin his affairs.

Yuan Ce raised his hand to call for his subordinates, set up his bow and arrow, and said casually, "If you die, you die. I'm just joking. I don't really want a Taoist priest."

Xu Guanchen pursed his lips, and looked at him steadily: "Dingguo Gongfu's Danshu iron certificate."

Yuan Ce paused, but put down his bow and arrow.

"Since Xiao Qi promised Yanbei to you, Yanbei has a secret army. If you keep Yanbei, His Highness Yanbei will not be able to sit still. Xiao Qi originally wanted to tie me up for this purpose, so that he can counterattack Yanbei in the future." Xu Guanchen said, "Does your Highness want the iron certificate of the alchemy book from Dingguo's mansion?"

Yuan Ce obviously didn't know about it, he licked his molars with great interest, raised his eyebrows, and said to Xiao Qi with a smile: "What else? He's been with you for so many days, you don't even have this ask?"

He looked at Xu Guanchen again: "What do you want?"

"Let my brother come over."

"He will listen to you?" Yuan Ce clearly didn't believe it, raised his hand again, waved to Xu Wen who was standing between several martial puppets, and pointed to Xu Guanchen, "Go over to him .”

Xu Guanchen stuffed the antidote given by Xiao Qi into Xu Wen's hands, but looked at Yuan Ce: "I want to trouble Your Highness to have a word with my brother."

Yuan Ce smiled, he didn't move the puppet Xu Wen at all, and wanted to borrow his mouth.

Yuan Ce only said: "What do you want to say?"

"If my elder brother enters and leaves Dingguo's mansion, if there is no one in the land, please ask your highness to let my brother deliver the medicine to Dingguo's mansion." As long as Dingguo's mansion takes this thing, it will definitely be sent to the palace.

Yuan Ce still smiled: "That's all?"

Xu Guanchen looked into his eyes: "Just say this."

"Aren't you afraid that I'll go back on my word and ask him to change the medicine?"

"My brother... doesn't he just listen to His Highness? Doesn't he listen to everything His Highness says?"

"Okay." Yuan Ce told Xu Wen that sentence, and Xu Wen left quickly.

"I'm gone, when will you bring me Dan Shuhua?"

Xu Guanchen said firmly: "I will wait for my brother to come back."

It had just rained, and Xu Guanchen was standing on the high cliff. His Taoist robe was covered with mud spots, his sleeves and hem were scratched by branches, and his hair was scattered. He was very embarrassed, like a wandering Taoist priest in distress.

In the night when it has just rained, the clouds are scattered and the rain is coming, but the stars are always brighter.

The river water under my feet gradually became clear, reflecting bright stars.

The night wind blows, turning the yin and yang of the world around, turning it upside down into the appearance of a Taoist priest practicing Taoism, and the altar is a little clear.

The so embarrassed traveling Taoist priest seemed to have attained the Tao.

Between the heaven and the earth, the stars are crowned and the Milky Way is under the feet.

……

Xu Wen came and went freely by himself, his movements were quick, and he returned to Jinling City very quickly.Because Xiao Zhi deliberately designed Xiao Qi, the guards in the city had not been significantly strengthened, so he could easily climb over the city wall - he used to climb over the city wall to go out to play.

He put the things in front of Dingguo's mansion, and patted on the door vigorously to remind the porter.

He squatted on the wall of the opposite house.

In the past few days Xu Guanchen got along with him, regardless of whether he could understand or not, he just chattered about the family affairs with him.

He said that Lao Chai was no longer the housekeeper, and now he was just guarding the ancestral hall; he also said that there was a third younger sister, Xu Yue, in the mansion. Zhijie also talked about Xiao Zhi.

When Xu Guanchen talked to him, he seemed expressionless, but he was actually listening very seriously.He remembered everything Xu Guanchen said.

Xu Wen raised his eyes to see that the concierge opened the door and saw no one there. He was wondering when he looked down and saw a medicine bottle on the ground, but he didn't dare to move it, he just ran in and called for someone.

Soon, Lao Chai, who watched the ancestral hall, came out, and a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl also came out in clothes. After the two discussed it, they immediately sent someone into the palace to make an announcement.

Xu Wen looked at it for a while, but he didn't see any old people. He stood up and was about to leave. When he stood up, he saw a man riding a horse from the other side of the long street.

There is a curfew in Jinling City, and only people in the government dare to ride horses on the street at night.

Xu Wen took another look. The man was dressed in a blue eunuch uniform, and he was Cheng Zhijie.Wearing this clothes also gave him the appearance of a royal censor.

Feeling sorry, he took another look, but didn't dare to stay any longer, and left on tiptoe.

Eunuch Xiao Cheng didn't stay too long, took the medicine bottle and went back.

When the antidote was delivered to Xiao Zhi, the old imperial doctor had already seen it, and it was indeed the antidote.

The old imperial doctor said: "The poison on the arrow is from the wind stone in the northwest, but I have changed a few medicines. Although General Pei has an antidote, if you want to detoxify, there are actually three parts of the poison that cannot be detoxified. This is good. This medicine will definitely work."

Xiao Zhi was holding a thin-necked porcelain bottle in his hand, not knowing what he was thinking.

The old imperial doctor said again: "I just don't know where this medicine comes from..."

Xiao Zhi suddenly became angry, and threw out the medicine bottle as soon as he raised his hand, the people below rushed to look at it, thanks to the fact that the bottle was solid, it was not broken, only a corner was missing on the mouth.

He got up and sat in the wheelchair by himself.The servants removed the threshold of the hall for the time being, and seeing his pale face, they didn't dare to stop him, and let him go out.

Xiao Zhi's hands are full of calluses, some are from practicing swordsmanship, and some are from pushing the wheelchair before him.

He pushed the wheelchair out of the Palace of Funing, and first passed the Lantai in the palace.

Lantai is the place where the palace books are stored. When Xu Guanchen was still in the palace, he helped the copyists to copy books there.

It was still late at night, and only a few guards were at Lantai.Xiao Zhi stopped in front of the palace gate and asked them to pick out all the books copied by Xu Guanchen.

Then Lantai went into trouble, and as soon as Xiao Zhi put the candle on the case, he burned the books that Xu Guanchen had copied before.A wind blew up at night and burned to a nearby room where rice paper was stored.

The palace people put out the fire quickly, Xiao Zhi pushed the wheelchair and left again.

He himself didn't know where he was going, he just walked around the palace city randomly, and went in to take a look at everything he saw.

Passing by Zhenhe Palace in the early morning, on a whim, I also went in to have a look.

As soon as he entered, a smear of bright red draped over the skirt of his clothes almost burned his eyes.

Xiao Zhi suddenly became annoyed again, pushed the wheelchair forward, pushed down the hanger, the hanging dress fell to the ground, raised red gauze, and covered his eyes.

Xiao Zhi has always been calm because in the past he always felt that based on Xu Guanchen's friendship with Xiao Qi, Xu Guanchen should know how to protect himself obediently and wait for him to send someone to rescue him.

It's all right now, he got a bottle of antidote and came here, who knows what suffering he suffered in Xiao Qi's hands, so he came here in exchange for such a thing.

……

Jingxuguan and Jinling City go back and forth, even if Xu Wen is free to come and go alone, it will take a lot of time on the road.

In the early morning, Xu Wen came back.

At that time, Xu Guanchen was sitting on the edge of the cliff, meditating and reciting scriptures. The old god seemed to be there, and he must have read the scriptures all night, waiting for him.

Yuan Ce wanted to coax him to tell him where Yanbei's secret army was, but when Xu Wen came back in a blink of an eye, he said, "He's back."

Xu Guanchen raised his eyes slowly: "Your Highness, please ask my brother if the things have been delivered."

Yuan Ce then turned his head to ask Xu Wen, Xu Wen nodded, "I've delivered it."

Yuan Ce turned back to look at Xu Guanchen, so Xu Guanchen broke off a branch and drew three lines on the ground in front of him: "It's right here."

Those three lines are parallel to each other, and the drawing is really abstract.He was also scribbling, not really scribbling, after all, there were indeed three lines in the picture, he just...was a bit weak in drawing skills.

Yuan Ce frowned and looked at it for a while: "Where is this?"

Xu Guanchen smiled, and wiped off the three lines on the ground with his hands: "I don't know, I haven't figured it out yet." This is true.

The antidote was delivered, and such a group of people surrounded him with a cliff behind him, no matter how much he tried to run, he couldn't.

So Xu Guanchen stood up and gathered his clothes: "Let's go, I'll go back with you."

When I went back, I rode a horse, because they had trained the horses and knew how to listen to their whistles, so I wasn't afraid that Xu Guanchen would think about running again.

After the rain, the sun shines on the body through the gaps between the branches and leaves, and it is a little warm.

Xu Guanchen held the rein with both hands, and sat on the horse's back. He didn't need him to drive the horse, the horse would go with them.

Suddenly he closed his eyes, riding on the horse, fell to the side, fell off the horse's back, and fell in front of Xiao Qi's horse's hooves.

Xiao Qi asked the subordinates to go to see him, and the subordinates touched his forehead only to realize that he was badly burned.

Xiao Qi got off the horse, held his hand, and threw him onto the horse's back.He touched his forehead with his hand, and it was indeed burning badly.

No wonder, after such a heavy rain, and sitting on the cliff all night with the wind blowing, Xu Guanchen's body was weak, and he was afraid that he would die half of his life.

Xiao Qi suddenly thought, there is no need for Xu Guanchen to die, if he becomes confused and loses his memory, then it will be fine.