Practicing Medicine in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 64 A Dose of Heart Medicine

Mrs. Pei took a hastily closed "Zuo Zhuan" from Wu Yi's hand, leaned on the door railing, casually flipped through the passage that Wu Yi skipped just now, and began to read aloud, with a soft and crisp voice like a plate of jade beads falling to the ground. .

"I love uncle Duan, and if I want to establish him, I urgently ask Duke Wu to grant him permission. When Duke Zhuang ascends the throne, please make him..."

Amidst the sound of repeated recitations, the warm spring sunshine came in from the door, just before the long curtain that Li Hong put down, clearly cutting a line of light and shade.

Occasionally, there was a slight breeze to lift the corner of the curtain, revealing the dark corner of the bed rail inside. Wu Yi couldn't help thinking of Li Hong who was shrouded in darkness on the sickbed, and wondered whether those bright eyes like morning stars could still shine through. This is the last cloud in his life.

Pei's light voice was like a petite swallow flying into the hall, jumping over the obscure words in the classics like splashing water, and finally settled on the sentence "If you do many unrighteous actions, you will die yourself, Aunt Zi Waiting for it", and then, like a string snapped suddenly, fell into a sudden silence.

Li Hong's vain voice was like a mist that could not be grasped, slowly drifting out from the gloomy inner room: "Why don't you continue reading?"

"Because I don't like how the story ends."

Pei closed the book with a bang, his eyes flashed across Wu Yi's face who was standing sideways, his smile soaked in the spring light was as delicate as a new apricot blossom, dazzling so dazzling.

And this delicate apricot blossom seems to be trying to climb through the thin curtain, bringing the infinite scenery outside into the dark world inside.

Wu Yi couldn't help but feel his heart move. He originally thought that Pei Shi, as Pei Yuan's younger sister, should be a hidden thorn in Li Hong's side, but now it seems that Pei Shi doesn't feel at ease being a thorn in the side of Empress Wu. Chess pieces, on the contrary, have to act according to their own will.

After a while, Li Hong asked in a low voice, "Why don't you like it?"

Mrs. Pei also replied in a slow tone: "Although Uncle Gong did many injustices and got his own retribution, but Wu Jiang treats the eldest son harshly, is he a mother worthy of filial piety? I don't like this "mother and child as before" ', so I only like to read it until Zigu treats it, and I can't read it any more."

"Do you think that once the love between mother and child is severed, they can't get back together...cough cough..."

She seemed to be stumped by this question, but she quickly regained her composure, and turned to look at Wu Yi: "Wu Yi, I heard that you are the most outstanding student in the same class, dare to ask, if the heart is broken, can you still be able to do it?" What about sewing it up?"

Wu Yi understood the outer string of her words, and quickly continued: "A broken mirror is reunited, and there are still cracks left, not to mention that the human heart is not copper and iron, so it is impossible to return to its original state."

"But I remember that when Princess Yiyang fell insane, it was your master Shen Hanshan who said that hearts can be changed."

Pei's embroidered shoes under the long gauze skirt moved a step in. The good manners brought up by the women of the aristocratic family did not even show the tip of the shoe, only the corner of the skirt embellished with pearls trembled slightly, revealing the young princess. The secret love in my heart.

Standing outside the curtain, she finally plucked up her courage: "If I exchange a complete heart for His Highness's broken heart, will His Highness accept it?"

There was a moment of silence in the curtain, and this question was obviously beyond Li Hong's expectation.

Before Li Hong could answer, Wu Yi had left obediently, and gently closed the wide open door.

Before taking three steps, he bumped into Shen Hanshan who came to ask for his pulse after three poles in the sun, Wu Yi hurriedly stopped him outside the gate of the courtyard.

Shen Hanshan raised his eyes and took a look, then understood the key point, and knocked on Wu Yi's head with a smile: "You haven't improved your ability to study medicine, but you have a hand in making connections. I think you should change your career early."

If this can be changed, Wu Yi would like to take off his apprentice clothes immediately, even if he is a farmer who goes to work in the fields, it is better than being worried in the deep palace.

In contrast, the Luoyang Palace is indeed a good place to recuperate. Without the catkins flying all over the city in mid-spring in Chang'an, a few new flower trees have been planted, and the flowers of one tree after another reveal a sense of happiness. A few strands of bright light fell on the well-trimmed lawn, depicting the bright loneliness of the ground.

Just as they were joking with Shen Hanshan, they heard the door creak, Mrs. Pei helped Li Hong, and walked out slowly from the door.

"If you don't come out for a walk, you will let down such a beautiful spring." Li Hongchao and Shen Hanshan's master and apprentice smiled slowly, the warm sun reflected on their pale paper face, and it was rare to see a tinge of blood.

Pei took the opportunity to ask Shen Hanshan: "Will His Highness the Crown Prince come out and walk around, will it be good for the illness?"

Shen Hanshan walked over quickly, bowed to the prince, then half-kneeled on the ground, carefully picked up his wrist as thin as a bamboo pole, cut his pulse, and smiled slightly at Li Hong: "Although the disease of passing the corpse is a chronic disease, But thinking about it, the prince’s heart disease has already been cured, so of course it will be beneficial and not harmful.”

Pei's face turned red, Shen Hanshan was also an old man in the palace, this half-joking remark hit her heart, how embarrassed she was.

But Li Hong didn't seem to understand, he only raised his eyes to look at Rongrong Chunguang, and from a distance, the young man under the flower tree also looked back at him, there was no lack of encouragement in his eyes.

His heart suddenly warmed up, as if a gloomy corner in his heart, which was not as bright as spring, was suddenly illuminated by this glance.

"Come and read to me when you have time later." He said this to Wu Yi, "If you don't know the words, I'll just teach you."

It was rare that he was willing to come out for a walk, and Wu Yi didn't want to dampen his good mood, but Pei's smile faded, as if he himself was being let down by unintentional people.

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The following days are like the flowing clouds in the southern zenith, slowly and calmly accumulating changes.

On this day, Wu Yi just finished reading in front of Li Hong's door, and was quietly dragged to a corner by Mrs. Pei, as if he had something to say.

It was rare for her to show a shy expression, a look that hesitated to speak, and hesitated for a long time before she opened her mouth and said: "You imperial physicians...do you have...the medicine in the room, in the room."

Wu Yi was taken aback by her bold question, and looked around, no eunuch or maidservant passed by.

Although this palace is sparsely populated, there is always the eyeliner of Empress Wu. Pei's affair with the crown prince is obviously an accident that Empress Wu herself did not expect. Elder brother is also a weapon without warmth and emotion, how can she be allowed to have other ideas?

"Don't worry, God knows this matter, you know and I know." The Pei family and Shen Hanshan's master and apprentice gradually became acquainted, and they didn't avoid suspicion. Make him extinct?"

Wu Yi almost couldn't laugh or cry, what happened in the room is what you like, Li Hong is already terminally ill, as a doctor, can he still force a young couple to have fun?

What's more, Li Hong has always been soft-hearted and kind, even if he coughs, he is afraid of infecting others, so how can he be intimate with others.

"The prince treats you like a confidant, don't you even want to help me with this little help?" After all, Mrs. Pei is a little younger, unable to calm down, and she is not thoughtful, "I know that the prince doesn't have me in his eyes, but he still has me With a few years of life, you know best, you can't let him have a child, and give me... give me a thought?"

Wu Yi shook his head resolutely: "The medicine in the room is as strong as tigers and wolves. If it is used on the prince, it may aggravate his condition. If you are thinking of His Royal Highness, you must not take such an evil path."

Pei's left and right are just young women, and they really can't save face to beg Shen Hanshan, who is older than this, so they can only pin their hopes on Wu Yi, who looks gentle and easy to talk, but he didn't expect to be rejected so unhesitatingly by the other party. When there is a funeral, you are about to cry.

"Actually, you are already very remarkable." Wu Yi had no choice but to coax her like peace, "If it weren't for you that day, His Royal Highness might not be willing to walk out of that door. Although the disease of passing corpses is difficult to cure, you have already cured it. To heal the scars on his heart, this is something that even an imperial doctor like Master can't do."

"You don't have to forgive me, but I wasn't the one who coaxed him out." Pei raised her bright eyes slightly, and looked at Wu Yi, who was slightly taller than her, "I opened the curtain to go in that day, and saw him sitting by the window watching from a distance. Looking at you, I knew at that time... I knew what he was going out to see."

Pei's words were like a thunderbolt, which hit Wu Yi's ears. It rumbled for half a day before he slowly calmed down amidst the beating heartbeat.

It's not that he hasn't watched those messy TV series, and there are indeed many conjectures about Li Hong's sexual orientation, but Wu Yi never thought that among the men who entangled with Li Hong in the wild history, it is very likely that About to add his name.

"The Crown Princess really misunderstood." Wu Yi quickly clarified that he didn't want to leave such a bizarre mark in the history books, "The villain and the Crown Prince are definitely not the kind of relationship you think. The people are caring like family."

These words are by no means flattering, false explanations, Li Hong's various opinions about how he treats people and things are seen in his eyes, this young man who has won the hearts of the people is by no means a person who is biased for his own selfish desires, not to mention the clear relationship between him and Li Hong Innocent, there is really no personal relationship.

Pei Shi nodded blankly, as if it wasn't Wu Yi who convinced her, but she herself who convinced herself in her heart.