Chapter 735: Candle before the wind, lamp in the rain
Liu Mingzhi's master and servant quickly got off their horses, took the reins of their horses and hurried towards the gate of the Miao Village, which was more than a hundred steps away.
When the two of them and four horses were still twenty or thirty steps away from the village gate, four or five young Miao men suddenly ran out of the village gate.
Four or five young men looked at Liu Dashao and the two with cautious expressions, and surrounded them with Miao knives.
Liu Song hurriedly stood in front of Young Master Liu, pressing his right hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist.
"Master, be careful."
Liu Mingzhi glanced at the five Miao youths calmly, then raised his hand and patted Liu Song on the shoulder.
"Liu Song, don't be nervous, they are the protectors of the Miao village.
It is their duty as village protectors to be wary when they see strangers, and they have no ill intentions toward us."
Sure enough, when the Miao man standing directly in front saw Liu Mingzhi's calm reaction, he directly put down the Miao knife in his hand and punched Liu Mingzhi.
"Young Wu Sang has met your husband. May I ask if your surname is Liu?"
Liu Mingzhi put the horse's rein into Liu Song's hand, took two steps forward, and nodded to the young man named Wu Sang with a peaceful expression.
"Yes, sir, my surname is Liu."
When Wu Sang heard Liu Mingzhi admitting his surname, his expression suddenly became happy, and he hurriedly waved to signal to his companions around him to put down the Miao Dao in his hand.
"See His Majesty the Emperor in Wushan. Long live my Emperor."
"Wufeng."
"Wooden teeth."
"Lanshanzi."
"Muli."
"See Your Majesty the Emperor, long live my emperor."
Liu Mingzhi looked at the five people saluting him and immediately raised his hands in vain.
"No gifts, no gifts."
"Thank you, His Majesty the Emperor."
Liu Mingzhi raised his head and glanced at the village gate in the distance, then turned to look at the young man at the head.
"Wushanli, are you waiting for me on purpose?"
"Return to Your Majesty."
"In the mountains."
"Your Majesty the Emperor?"
"I came to your Miao territory this time to patrol incognito. You don't need to speak like an emperor.
I am a little older than you strong young men. You can call me Mr. Liu or you can call me Uncle Liu.
As for how to shout, you can decide for yourself."
Wu Shanli's face was startled, and he scratched his forehead in embarrassment.
"this."
"That's it."
"Yes, Your Majesty, no, no, Mr. Liu."
"Well, that's right. Just go on."
"Back to Mr. Liu, after Aunt Qinglian returned to the village, she told our elder that Mr. Liu, you would come to our village in a few days.
The First Elder was worried that Mr. Liu, after you arrived at our Miao Village, some unsighted guy would accidentally bump into you, so he ordered our brothers and others to wait behind the gate of the village day and night.
Our brothers and others have been waiting for several days in shifts, and now you are here, Mr. Liu."
"So that's it, thank you for your hard work."
Wu Shanli had a simple and honest smile on his face, looked at Young Master Liu excitedly, and shook his head hurriedly.
"No hard work, no hard work, we can see your majestic face, Mr. Liu, it's not too late to be happy.
That's right, Mr. Liu, please follow the villain in quickly."
"Okay, thank you for showing me the way."
"Yes, yes, Mr. Liu and this gentleman, please come to the village and invite them."
"Wufeng."
"Brother."
"Go and notify the Great Elder immediately and tell him that Mr. Liu has arrived."
"Yes, I'll go right away."
Just when Liu Mingzhi was about to reach out to stop him, the young man named Wu Feng had already run into the Miao village.
"In the mountains, in your Miao territory, I am just a guest coming from afar. You don't need to go to war like this."
"Mr. Liu, this is not the intention of a villain. The great elder told us brothers that when you arrive at our village, Mr. Liu, you must inform him as quickly as possible.
If we are negligent, the great elder will punish our brothers."
Liu Mingzhi looked at Wu Shanli's serious expression, smiled bitterly and nodded, not wanting to say anything else.
After entering the village gate, Liu Mingzhi habitually looked around the village.
"Sir, what are you looking at?
If you are curious about anything, just ask the villain directly, and the villain will definitely explain everything to you."
"Nothing, I'm just a little surprised at the current size of your village. It's several times larger than it was many years ago.
Let’s not talk about this for now, and take me to your Aunt Qinglian’s place quickly.”
"Yes, yes, Mr. Liu, please come this way."
Liu Mingzhi nodded slightly, turned around and looked at Liu Song, who stretched out his arm.
"Liu Song, gift."
"yes."
Liu Song hurriedly handed the brocade box in his hand to Liu Mingzhi's hand, and then took the horse's rein and walked towards the horse hitching post behind the village gate.
"Muya, hurry up and help that gentleman tie his horse."
"yes, Sir."
Around the time of drinking tea, Liu Mingzhi followed Wushanli and the others all the way to the outside of Aunt Qinglian's house.
"Mr. Liu, our brothers will not go in. If you need anything, just call us."
"Well, I'm done."
"Don't dare, please, Mr. Liu."
Liu Mingzhi walked towards the bamboo house not far away with the gift box in his hand, and immediately saw the busy figure outside the bamboo house.
"Yun'er."
The busy Qianying trembled slightly and hurriedly turned around to look behind her. There was no doubt that it was Qi Yun.
"Husband, you have finally arrived."
Liu Mingzhi looked at Qi Yun, whose pretty face was filled with excitement, and hurriedly raised his finger to his lips to signal.
Qi Yun instantly understood what her husband meant, covered her lips, and glanced sideways at the bamboo house behind her.
Liu Mingzhi walked towards Qi Yun softly and glanced at the stove next to the beauty.
"Yun'er, what is this?"
"Husband, I am making medicine at my grandma's house!"
"Lian'er, where are Sister Ya and the others?"
"Sister, Sister Lian'er and the others are in the room with my grandma."
Liu Mingzhi raised his head and glanced at the bamboo house a dozen steps away, stretched out his hand and pulled Qi Yun's sleeve and walked towards the corner next to the bamboo house.
"Yun'er, tell my husband, my mother-in-law, how is her health?
What did the doctors that the old man asked me to find for my husband say?"
Qi Yun glanced back at the door of the bamboo house and sighed softly.
"It's not ideal. After the doctors checked my grandmother's pulse, they all shook their heads and sighed.
Although they didn't say anything explicitly to the concubines, their reactions said everything."
Liu Mingzhi raised his head and glanced at the bamboo house a dozen steps away, frowning and sighing.
"How is Lian'er doing now? Is she in good health?"
"Sister Lian'er can forcefully control her emotions when she is accompanying my grandma, and then as soon as my grandma rests, she will shed tears after she comes out.
There is no major problem with her physical condition for the time being, but for several days in a row, Sister Lian'er has not had a good meal.
Especially in the past two days, she only drank a few mouthfuls of thin porridge at each meal and then finished it hastily.
If this continues, sooner or later the body will be unable to bear it.
My sisters have tried to persuade me several times, but to no avail."
"Oh, what a silly girl!"
"Husband, I and my sister discussed this in private without the knowledge of sister Lian'er, and they both have similar ideas.
My grandma’s physical condition is probably not caused by illness!”
Liu Mingzhi's body trembled, and he couldn't help but clenched his fists.
"It's not a disease!"
Qi Yun looked at her husband's frown, her pretty face nodded melancholy.
"Yes, it's not an illness, it's just that I'm really old.
Presumably Lian'er's sister also knows what is going on, but she is too stupid to believe it or admit it."
Liu Mingzhi handed the brocade box in his hand to Qi Yun's hand and casually took off the tobacco pouch from his waist.
After a while, Liu Mingzhi smashed the cigarette holder hard and spit out the light smoke in his mouth with a complicated expression.
"Yun'er, how long do you think my grandma can last?"
"I don't understand medicine and pharmacology, so I don't dare to talk nonsense."
Liu Mingzhi puffed out the smoke with a low expression, as if he had thought of something, and hurriedly looked towards Qi Yun.
"Mr. Sai Hua Tuo Sai, imperial doctor Chu Renxin, and the others have arrived?"
"Here we are, we are all here. Mr. Sai Hua Tuo Sai arrived four days ago, and Dr. Chu Renxin Chu arrived at the Miao Village two nights ago."
"Both of them have also treated my mother?"
"Yes, the two of them have already treated my grandmother one after another."
"How to say?"
"Do your best."
Liu Mingzhi blew out the smoke in his mouth, raised his hand and scratched the top of his head vigorously.
"There's actually nothing we can do about the two of them?"
"Husband, birth, old age, sickness and death are...but...
Oh, just look away."
"Mr. Sai, where are Chu Renxin and the others?"
Qi Yun raised her lotus-rooted arm and pointed towards the densely forested mountains in front of Liu Mingzhi's left side.
"Mr. Sai and the two of them stayed up until midnight last night to discuss, and went to the mountains and forests together early in the morning to collect herbs, and they haven't returned yet.
They have been up the mountain for a long time since my sisters got up, so we don’t know what they discussed last night.”
Liu Mingzhi followed the direction of Qi Yun's finger and turned to look at the Shiwan Mountain in the distance.
After staring straight at the lush forest for a long time, Liu Mingzhi retracted his gaze and leaned over the soles of his feet to knock out the ashes from the smoke pot.
"Let's go, let's go visit my grandma first."
"Why."
"Yun'er."
"Husband?"
"Don't say what our husband and wife just said in front of Lian'er.
Whether she knows something in her heart or not is her own business, so let's stop using words to put pressure on her.
I'm afraid that she won't be able to bear the pressure all of a sudden, and her body will be overwhelmed again."
"I know that I will not lie in front of sister Lian'er.
Even if you don't tell me, Deputy Director, my sisters have already discussed it in private.
In the past few days, I have been trying my best to comfort my sister Lianer!"
Liu Mingzhi pursed his lips and nodded, fastened the tobacco bag to his waist, and strode towards the bamboo house with high strides.
The couple talked softly as they walked into the unique bamboo house with a quiet environment.
"Sister, Sister Shan, Sister Lian'er, your husband is here."
Qi Yun's voice broke the silence in the room, and everyone sitting on the chairs by the window in the inner room subconsciously looked in the direction of the main hall.
"Husband?"
"Husband, you are here."
"Sisters, please meet your husband."
"My child Liu Yiyi."
"My child Liu Feifei."
"My child Liu Chengfeng."
"Meet daddy."
Liu Mingzhi waved his hand casually and walked quickly towards the bed in the inner room.
"No gifts, no gifts at all."
"Thank you, husband."
"Thank you, daddy."
Liu Mingzhi walked to the bed and looked down at the old woman with a sallow face and a withered face on the bed, a hint of melancholy flashed in his eyes.
"My son-in-law, Liu Mingzhi, pays homage to my grandmother.
My son-in-law is unfilial and he came late."
Qinglian's mother saw Mr. Liu standing at the head of the bed and saluting her. Her withered palms were pressed against the edge of the bed, as if she was about to stand up to salute her.
"Don't dare, your Majesty, get up quickly.
Old body, old body, see my emperor, long live my emperor."
When Liu Mingzhi saw Grandma Qinglian's actions, he quickly straightened up, stretched out his hands to support Grandma Qinglian's thin arms, and helped her lie down on the pillow."
"Mom, what are you doing, old man? How can an elder show respect to a younger one?
You are Lian'er's mother-in-law, and also my son-in-law's mother-in-law. It is my son-in-law's duty to give you gifts."
The old man leaned hard on the pillow, looking at the helpless Liu Mingzhi with his cloudy and dim eyes full of kindness, and gently patted the edge of the bed with his withered palms.
"Child, sit down,"
Liu Mingzhi nodded heavily, sat sideways on the bed, and gently grasped the withered palm of his old family member.
"Hey, son-in-law, thank you very much, mom."
"My child, after all, you are the king of my country and the emperor of my dragon.
You are the monarch and I am a subject.
After I give you a big gift, we will become family from now on."
"Mom, you old man is out of sight now."
"Child, this is not a rule, this is a rule.
As the saying goes, cough, cough, cough, there are no rules!
No matter how old I am, a woman who is about to die and whose life is not long, she still understands the principle that etiquette cannot be abolished."
"Mom, don't talk nonsense. You will definitely live a long life."
"My child, please stop comforting me. I know very well how my health is.
The only reason I can hold on until now is to take a look at my niece-in-law and my great-nephew!"
Liu Mingzhi's arm trembled, and he looked at the old man's sallow face with a sad expression, and was slightly afraid of hitting the old man's wrist.
"Mom, you will definitely live a long life."
Liu Chengfeng, who was standing next to Young Master Liu, knelt down on the bedside of the old man's bed, raised his hands and placed them on his grandmother's wrists.
"Grandma, my father is right, you will definitely live a long life.
You will definitely live a long life.”
The old man took his arm out of Liu Mingzhi's hand, raised his hands with difficulty and placed them on Liu Chengfeng's face.
"Good grandson, get up quickly, the ground is cold."
Liu Chengfeng's already red eyes became a little red and swollen again. He raised his hand to support the old man's wrist, and a trace of mist could not help but form in his eyes.
"grandmother!"
Sisters Liu Yiyi and Liu Feifei also knelt behind their younger brother Liu Chengfeng, their beautiful faces full of sadness.
"grandmother."
The old man caressed the cheeks of the three Liu Yiyi siblings one by one, and then turned to look at Liu Mingzhi.
"Son, how long will it take for my nephew and grandson to come see me?"
“Mom, it’s quick, it’s going to be quick.
Besides, no matter how long it takes for the two of them to arrive in Miao territory, you old man will be safe and sound."
When Qinglian's mother was about to say something, an old but powerful voice suddenly sounded outside the room.
"Young ladies, young master Chengfeng, I have returned from gathering herbs."
Liu Mingzhi looked happy and hurriedly stood up and walked towards the main hall.
"Lian'er, Yun'er, politely, you sisters will accompany your mother to meet Mr. Sai for your husband."
"Hey, my sisters know it."
"Master?"
"His Majesty?"
"I see you, Master."
"Old minister Chu Renxin is here to see His Majesty."
"Hurry up and get free gifts."
"Thank you, Master."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Liu Mingzhi glanced back at the inner room, took Sai Huatuo's wrist and walked toward the courtyard.
"Sai Lao, tell me the truth, how is my mother's health?"
Sai Huatuo looked at Liu Mingzhi's heavy face, sighed and shook his head while stroking his gray beard.
"A candle in front of the wind, a lamp in the rain!"