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Chapter 40

Title: Enter Yutan City

Summary: No matter how terrified people are, there will still be fireworks all over the world

Liang Zeren asked, "Is Wang Fengji in Yutan City now?" Guo Bing said, "He is, and he lives in his Jiedu Mansion in Yutan City. It's not far from my prefect's mansion. Are you going to find him?" Liang Zeren looked around at the refugees around him and said, "Yes, I want to persuade Wang Fengji to open a warehouse to release grain. There has never been a famine in Wangzhou, and he can use old grain to help the refugees who came from Ezhu."

"Well, I have learned in Taixue that the southern plains around Yutan City implement a three-cooking system of wheat, rice, and sweet potatoes. The next season of rice will be harvested by the end of September. People in Wangzhou have no shortage of food. Yes. Wang Fengji can clearly open a position." Shen Lian said, I was about to interject that I had to go to Yutan City to get medicine for Wei Yan, and he said, "Besides, I promised Li Ping that I would go to Yutan City."

Wei Yan said: "Let's go." Guo Bing said to Liang Zeren: "Master Liang, if you don't give up, go to Yutan City and stay with the other three knights in my Zhizhou Mansion." I shook my head: "My name is Li Ping, He's a doctor, so he doesn't know martial arts." Liang Zeren said: "Okay, thank you Mr. Guo for your kindness. But the gate of the city has not been opened, and among the five of us, only Shen Lian's martial arts can still be used, so I don't know how to get in."

Shen Lian smiled: "Master Guo, please yell a few more times. Master Liang is about to lose face. Let's go, go to the city wall."

Liang Zeren and Shen Lian were in front, and Wei Yan, Guo Bing and I were behind, walking towards the city wall.The refugee was hit by Wei Yan with a stone just now, so he didn't come up to get in the way.I probed Wei Yan's forehead with burning hands, and when I was confused, I said to Guo Bing: "I have entered the city, so I won't go back to the prefecture with Mr. Guo. I will go to the medical clinic to get medicine first." Guo Bing, the magistrate of Wangzhou, said: "Jade Tancheng is 170 miles long and has 15 million households. It is the second largest city in the Mao Dynasty, second only to the capital. Can you find the way when you first come? Zhizhou is not far from the north gate of the city. When you go back, I will send a carriage to take you to the doctor If the location of the medical center has not changed, I can find it." Guo Bing said: "The five big medical centers in the city are all time-honored and their locations have not changed. When have you been to Yutan City? ?” Liang Zeren said at the front: “Doctor Li must have come to Chang’an when he was [-] years old with Wang Huaiyuan, the imperial physician. You were patrolling the counties below Lizhou, and you were not with me.”

At the bottom of the wall, Shen Lian's nine arrows were still inside the city wall.The first shot was one foot above the ground, and the height of ordinary people would not exceed six feet, and no one could move the arrow he shot up.Shen Lian asked: "Master Liang, are the documents still with you?" Liang Zeren said: "Yes, I will wrap them in oiled paper and hide them next to my body before leaving." Shen Lian said: "Then Master Liang, go up first, so that you and the defenders can communicate Know your identity." Liang Zeren nodded, and Shen Lian said: "Master Guo, Lord Liang, you have offended!" With Longquan on his back, he grabbed one in each hand and climbed up the arrow ladder, Guo Bing shouted in midair: "It's an old friend! Don't shoot the arrow , don’t shoot the arrows!” It really took a toll on my throat.

After a while, Guo Bing poked his head out from the crenelation of the city wall, and Shen Lian immediately came down to lift Wei Yan and me up the city wall.The city wall was one foot and eight feet wide, and the guards surrounded it.Liang Zeren showed the document, and Guo Bing said to a person who looked like the leader of the team: "Go and tell Wang Fengji that Mr. Liang is an official in the same dynasty as me. He is not a rebellious party from the Tianyi Sect, let alone a refugee from Ezhu." The soldiers dispersed. On the top of the wall, I saw the densely packed refugees below, and I didn't know how many there were. I said with emotion: "I'm afraid there are tens of thousands of refugees below." Guo Bing said: "More than [-]? The defenders in the city roughly counted and reported that there were [-] refugees underneath." Refugees." Liang Zeren sighed again: "There are so many people displaced." Guo Bing led us down the city wall unimpeded.There was a carriage and two servants waiting under the city wall. As soon as Guo Bing went, the servant said: "Master Guo was taken away by the strongman. The mansion is very worried, and he can't go out of the city, so he has to wait under the city." Guo Bing turned around and said, "Get in the carriage first, go to the fork in the branch road to the medical hall, and let Dr. Li go down." Shen Lian said: "Longquan is covered with dust, do you have a towel?" Yes." The five of us got into the carriage.In the car, Liang Zeren said: "Master Guo, after putting down Dr. Li, send me to Wang Fengji's Jiedu Mansion." Shen Lian said: "I will protect Master Liang." Guo Bing said: "Master Liang, if Wang Fengji doesn't want to see you What about it?" Liang Zeren frowned: "That's right, I went to persuade him to release food, and he probably doesn't want to see him." Shen Lian said: "If he doesn't see you, I have another plan." Liang Zeren asked: "What plan?" Shen Lian Slightly smiled: "Break in."

I wondered: "Break in?"

"Breaking in is also a plan. What does Lord Liang think?" Shen Lian pulled out the Shuanghan Longquan from behind, took off the towel hanging on the carriage wall and wiped it repeatedly.Liang Zeren said: "Okay, let's break into the Jiedu mansion!"

Guo Bing said: "I'm still a civil servant in Wangzhou, so I can't turn my back on Wang Fengji. I'll go back to Zhizhou Mansion when I get to the gate. Master Liang, do you want a dagger for self-defense?"

Wei Yan who was next to me interjected: "It's useless." I asked Wei Yan: "You and Mr. Guo go back to Zhizhou Mansion and wait for me to get the medicine?" He said: "Yes." Shen Lian said: "I don't know how to fight." Not only can a person hold a dagger for self-defense, but it is even more dangerous if someone snatches the dagger." Liang Zeren said: "Yes, I have seen Wei Yan snatch the dagger in the Valley of the Wolf." Guo Bing was surprised: "You guys came out of the Valley of the Wolf alive! "

"Thanks to the two knights Shen Lian and Wei Yan, but there is a son of an old man..." Liang Zeren suddenly felt sad.

At the fork, I got off Guo Bing's carriage alone, and called another one to go to the largest medical clinic.The horse-drawn carriage is speeding, and the two sides gradually evolve into green brick and tile houses, with stone slabs on the ground, and the shouts of hawkers come and go, reminiscent of the ancient city.When I arrived at the Xinglin Guang Medical Center at noon, I walked to the side of the pharmacy and asked the person in the shop: "One or two each for pine knots and sumac, two coins each for Yahunu, Bianlei, Achyranthes bidentata, red-headed grass, and Shihuanglian. Yanjielian, Yexianghua, cinnabar root, Ziqingteng, and Zoumafeng each cost a penny. Make six pairs." While grabbing the medicine, the man said, "One tael of silver." I took out the silver and paid.In addition to hanging gourds on the left like Hemu Medical Hall, this medical hall also has a wooden fish hanging down on the right.I asked, "What is the hanging wooden fish for?" The medicine catcher said, "It's a fish talisman. The fish is healing. After the patient comes to my Xinglin, all diseases will be healed and there will be no disease or disaster." I thought to myself When I go back to Chang'an, I will hang up another one in the Hemu Medical Center.While he was dispensing medicine with a small dustpan, passers-by with swords, guns, swords and halberds passed by from time to time on the road, and even half-grown boys carried kitchen knives in their hands.The last time I came to Yutan City, it was not like this. I asked, "Why are people panicking in the city?" The drug catcher said, "You don't know that there are [-] refugees outside the city? The prayers of the Four Temples of Wangzhou often bring Wangzhou points." The strong men in the altar went to help. There were only [-] defenders on the city wall, and it only took a long time for the refugees to attack the city and take Yutan City. Naturally, everyone who can carry weapons has brought them. Your medicine is ready." I said: "That's all for the Four Temples. How do you know that you are bringing a strongman from the Wangzhou sub-altar?" He handed over the medicine and said, "No matter if it is a strongman, he still has to come to our medical center for treatment and chatting when he is injured."

"Hu Pai!" With a loud shout, a group of women gathered in the teahouse opposite Xinglin Guang Medical Hall to play mahjong.No matter how panicked people are, there will still be fireworks all over the world.I took the medicine, went to the side of the road and ate a bowl of sweet and spicy rice with rice to satisfy my hunger, and then called a carriage back to Zhizhou Mansion.