Ming Dynasty 1566

Chapter 48

Tan Lun was stunned by his outburst, and after a long time, he slowly said: "I made a mistake in saying this, but you have no conscience in saying this. I was the one who invited you to Chun'an. You are here If you risk your life, you are really going to offend the court. When you start to investigate, I, Tan Lun, was the first person to sit! At that time, King Yu couldn't protect you or me. It's not about fear, since the day you left, I made an agreement with my family and prepared a house for the old lady. If you lost your life and I went to jail, I asked my family to take the old lady, Mrs. Zun, and Ling Ai to live in my house. One day Prince Yu will really If I take over, I can have another chance to speak. I dare not say anything else. It is still possible to ask for a posthumous posthumous posthumous title for you, an order for the old lady, and ask the court to provide you with a salary to support your family. You don't believe me, do you?"

Hearing his explanation, Hai Rui calmed down a bit: "I believe all of this. You just shouldn't have brought them here without consulting me." He scooped up a ladle of water and poured it on the ground.

Tan Lun splashed water and approached him, and said in a low voice, "I picked them up to arrange a big event for you. Do you want to hear it?"

"No." Hai Rui continued to splash water.

Tan Lun: "This is the thing that makes the old lady happiest, you have to listen to it."

Only then did Hai Rui's hand stop there again, looking at Tan Lun, seeing his solemn expression, it was of course his mother who asked, "What can make my mother happy?"

Tan Lun: "I have a way to let her old man have a grandson. Will he be happy about this?"

Hai Rui was stunned for a moment, and then his expression turned ugly again: "Tan Lun, you should understand what I am after ten years of acquaintance. I don't like to make jokes like this. It's strange, especially don't tell me."

But Tan Lun was very serious: "You don't believe in God or medicine? You have heard of the famous Li Shizhen and Li Taiyi, right?"

Hearing this name, Hai Rui's expression immediately became solemn: "The Li Shizhen who opposed the emperor's belief in alchemy in the palace?"

Tan Lun: "By the way, it is this person. Isn't he a strange man?"

Hai Rui: "Can you invite him here?"

Tan Lun: "It was invited by Hu Butang. The original intention was to invite him to help the victims of the plague here. I talked to him about you in Suzhou, and he agreed. He is willing to prescribe some prescriptions for you and your wife. I'm not sure about it, but Qicheng can light an incense for you in Haimen. I did this for you with all my heart."

Hai Rui's expression gradually eased, and he appreciated it in his heart, but he avoided the topic: "It's a great thing to have him here to rescue the victims. When will Doctor Li arrive?"

Tan Lun: "The one who came overland with me has arrived."

Hai Rui: "Where is it?"

Tan Lun: "When I entered the county office, I saw your sick victims and stayed there. They were probably checking the epidemic situation at this time."

"What are you doing!" Hai Rui threw the ladle into the bucket, "Take me to see him quickly."

The regulations of the county government, in addition to the second hall of the lobby, there are yards and buildings on both sides of the county magistrate's book and the clerks of money, grain and punishment, which can usually provide food and accommodation for dozens of people.Now these places have been vacated, and the victims of the severe epidemic live in the houses, and the victims of the milder diseases lie on the mats of the pergola in the yard.At this time, there was a moonlight, and a few lanterns illuminated it, adding to the scene of "my people are sick".Fortunately, there were two large iron pots in the yard, under which a raging fire was boiling medicine, which made the yard a little angry.

Li Shizhen had her hair tied up and only wore a long gown, without any followers, so she walked slowly among the patients in the courtyard by herself, sometimes stopping to look at the patients on the ground.No one knew him, and no one wanted to know him, so he walked slowly to the two pots where the medicine was boiled.

Beside the cauldron are several large bamboo baskets, each containing medicinal herbs.Li Shizhen stretched out his hand and picked up a handful of herbs from one basket to look at, and then picked up a handful of herbs from the other basket to look at.Then he asked the person who was sitting by the pot and stewing the medicine: "Where is the doctor?"

That man was the head of the prison.Since there were no prisoners in the prison at this time, he asked Hai Rui for the job of making medicine, in order to atone for his crime.It was a hot day, and it was a big fire, guarding hundreds of patients. It was miserable after a few days. At this time, he was sweating profusely and full of irritability, so he turned to Li Shizhen: "Wait and wait for the medicine. , where hundreds of people are sick, the doctor will look at them one by one."

Li Shizhen: "I ask where is your doctor?"

Prisoner Wang looked at him, not in the mood to get angry with him, so he told the officer who made the medicine: "Give him a bowl of medicine and let him go."

The steward who made the medicine picked up a bowl from the side, scooped out the soup medicine from the cauldron with a bamboo spoon and poured it into the bowl: "Take it."

Li Shizhen took the bowl of medicine and poured it on the ground: "This medicine is not edible, call your doctor."

"Where did the bastard come from, how dare you pour the medicine used in the yamen!" Wang Laotou stood up suddenly.

Li Shizhen: "Which medical book says that medicine in the yamen is not allowed to be spilled?"

"Come and make trouble!" Prisoner Wang's usual ferocity reappeared, and he said to the officer who made the medicine, "Pull him out, hand it over to the brothers outside, and ask who told him to make trouble."

The officer: "Master Six, Master Haida said, don't care about these disaster victims at this time, just ignore him."

"The more you let the more you face. I'll take care of things. Pull them out!" Wang Laotou drank, grabbed the bamboo spoon from the guard's hand and threw it into the pot. He didn't expect the hot soup splashed by the thrown bamboo tube Pained and jumped up, feeling pain and annoyed, grabbed Li Shizhen by the collar, "Go, go out with me!" Grabbing him, he walked outside.

Hai Rui and Tan Lun walked in from the gate of the side courtyard.

"Master is here!"

"master!"

"Master!"

Under the moonlight and lantern light, the patients in the yard saw Hai Rui and Tan Lun walking in, and they all sat up and greeted Hai Rui.

"Lie down, everyone lie down." Hai Rui said hello and walked through the shed with Tan Lun.

The head of prison Wang was walking towards Li Shizhen by the collar. Tan Lun was startled when he saw him. He was about to scold the guard, but Li Shizhen stopped him with his eyes.

Seeing Hai Rui, prison chief Wang bent down and saluted Li Shizhen with his hand still holding Li Shizhen: "The Taizun came just in time, these people are really lawless."

Hai Rui asked prison chief Wang, "What's the matter?"

Wang Laotou: "Tai Zun said well, 'The people can let them do what they want, but they can't make them know'. The better Tai Zun treats these people, they will not know what is good or bad. Just this person, how dare to use what Tai Zun gave him? The medicine has been spilled. Taizun said how to get rid of it?"

Hai Rui frowned immediately when he heard Wang Laotou's nonsense, but when he looked at Li Shizhen, he was shocked immediately, and said to Wang Laotou, "Put your hands down."

Prisoner Wang still refused to let go: "It doesn't matter if he poured the medicine, and he said that you always used the wrong medicine. This is clearly inciting the victims to make trouble. Your Majesty, you can't spare him!"

Hai Rui shouted, "Let go!"

Prisoner Wang let go of his hand, and looked at Li Shizhen bitterly.

Hai Rui clasped his hands in front of his chest: "Dare to ask, sir, are you the imperial physician?"

Watching Hai Rui salute this person, Wang Laotou was startled, raised his throat, and looked straight at Li Shizhen.

Li Shizhen neither returned the salute nor answered the words, but shook her head.

Hai Rui was taken aback, then looked back at Tan Lun, "Isn't he Doctor Li?"

Tan Lun knew that these two were weirdos, but he didn't expect this episode to happen again when they met. At this time, Li Shizhen's gaze stopped him, so he stood there noncommittal.

Hai Rui looked at Li Shizhen: "If you are sick, don't make trouble." Then he looked forward.

Wang Lao let out the breath that was stuck in his throat, and immediately leaned over to slap Hai Rui: "Who is Tai Zun looking for?"

"You don't care who I'm looking for." Hai Rui was still looking around, "You just said nonsense that 'the people can let them know what they want', when did I tell you? Doing something for the people is not enough. Be patient, if you don’t want to brew medicine here, you can go back. If you dare to talk nonsense about the saint’s words in the future, just slap yourself.”

Prison Wang made a big fuss about it, and replied embarrassingly: "I understand." He replied and hurriedly walked towards the medicine pot.

Hai Rui said to Tan Lun again: "It should be in the house inside, let's look for it inside." Then he continued to walk forward.

Tan Lun let him walk forward alone, and met Li Shizhen's eyes, both of them stood there, looking at Hai Rui who was still walking forward at the same time.

"Did you ask someone to follow Doctor Li?" Hai Rui thought that Tan Lun was still with him, so he asked along the way, but there was no answer.Then he stopped again, and when he looked aside, he realized that Tan Lun was not there. Turning around, he saw Tan Lun standing with the man just now under the moonlight and lantern light, with a faint smirk on his face, and he immediately understood.Startled, he hurriedly turned around and walked away.

"Zi Li, this is Imperial Physician Li?" Hai Rui looked at Li Shizhen and Tan Lun at the same time.

Tan Lun nodded.

"I asked you why you didn't say it just now?" Hai Rui immediately raised his hands to Li Shizhen again, "It's too rude, Imperial Physician Li forgives me."

Li Shizhen just arched his hands together, but said: "Do you value the imperial physician so much?"

Hai Rui was taken aback.

Li Shizhen: "I am no longer an imperial doctor. Haizhi County will not call you that in the future."

Hai Rui looked at Tan Lun, and then turned to Li Shizhen: "Okay. From now on, I'll call you Mr. Wang, don't call me County Magistrate, just Gangfeng. Sir, please go to the back hall to rest for a while. "

Li Shizhen: "You didn't ask about that matter just now, and now tell me to go to rest?"

Hai Rui was startled, and then replied: "People from the Gongmen are used to oppressing the common people, and offended Mr., I will ask him to come here now to plead guilty."

Li Shizhen: "Who cares about this with you? Your medicine is wrong, and you have to change it quickly."

Hai Rui was startled: "No way. All the medicines I use are for relieving heat and clearing away heat, and they are all taken according to the prescriptions in "A Thousand Gold Prescriptions."

Li Shizhen: "You dare to make medicine for so many people with a copy of "A Thousand Golden Prescriptions". No wonder Tan Lun said that you are full of courage. You are really courageous. Arrange a room for me quickly Call your subordinates, I will re-prescribe, and tell them to re-apply the medicine immediately."

"I'll arrange it immediately." Hai Rui replied respectfully.

Tan Lun looked at Hai Rui and smiled strangely.

Until the time of the ugly card, the moon rose to the mid-heaven.After finishing their work with Li Shizhen, Hai Rui and Tan Lun returned to the back hall, took off their shoes at the door, and entered the room barefoot. Both of them were a little tired, so they sat down on the chairs.

"How is Mr. Li?" Tan Lun looked at Hai Rui.

Hai Rui: "Those who are capable have a temper."

Tan Lun smiled: "Have a bigger temper than you?"

Hai Rui: "I'm not as capable as him."

Tan Lun: "I'm relieved. Today there is Mr. Li who is more tempered than you, and tomorrow there will be an old lady who is more tempered than you. I have invited these two people, and I can go."

"Are you leaving now?" Hai Rui stood up.

Tan Lun: "I'll tell you some things when I want to meet up. Time is running out, so I'll talk to you about the important ones."

Hai Rui made a serious face and sat down again, staring fixedly at Tan Lun.

Tan Lun: "Changing rice to mulberry has led to the current situation, which was unexpected by the strict party, even the emperor. They want to annex the people's fields to make up for the deficit of the national treasury. They can't do it anymore. The national policy has been established. Changes, someone has to take the blame, the shortfall has to be made up, and someone has to be stabbed."

Hai Rui: "The strict party has harmed the country and the people for 20 years, and it's time to fall."

(End of this chapter)