Guo Huben's five men rode warhorses, and after the warhorses rushed to the front of the mule cart, Guo Huben turned his horse's head and shouted at Wu Da and the two traversers.
"Everyone, please return to the city, the Lord of Ulsan-kun Castle wants to see the Overseas Exotics!"
After Wu Da's mule cart was surrounded by five warhorses, his body began to tremble, not knowing what law the three of them had violated to be chased and blocked by the Huben soldiers of the Lord of Dacheng City, after hearing Guo Huben's more courteous words, Wu Da's uneasy emotions only gradually calmed down. He turned the mule cart to follow the Huben soldiers' warhorses back to Dacheng.
Wu Da kept asking Guo Huben for information along the way, trying to figure out what Ulsan-kun had summoned them for.
Wu Da set asked for half a day before learning from Guo Huben, whose eyes had been staring at Zheng Yuming, that Guo Huben had received an order from Wei Shen, the householder of the Azure Mountain Monarch, asking him to bring people to chase Wu Da and his party back with all due speed and bring the two overseas foreigners to the Azure Mountain Monarch's Dacheng mansion to meet with the city lord.
"Chu Chaohui, if anything goes wrong, think of a way to get out and go to Nambu to take my wood away." Zheng Yuming's heart was uneasy, not knowing whether it was a blessing or a curse that the supreme ruler of Dacheng had summoned them, and his heart was planning for the worst.
After wearing to this world, this world most let him hang up only wood, as for the Chu Chao Hui who had kidnapped him, Zheng Yuming felt that it was not his turn to worry more, the person who could steal the treasure from the hands of the Golden Triangle drug lords and escaped, still afraid of escaping from the small Dacheng?
"What do I care about a dog." Chu Chaohui slightly raised his eyebrows towards Zheng Yuming and flatly refused Zheng Yuming's dying trust (dog).
"..." When Zheng Yuming saw Chu Chao Hui rejecting his plea so unflinchingly, he couldn't help but take his eyes and glare for a moment.
"I want to manage also only you!" The corner of Chu Chao Hui's mouth tugged and suddenly came to Zheng Yuming's ear and whispered this.
Chu Chao Hui's dark eyes flickered with a glint of light, and Zheng Yuming met this kind of sight, and for some reason, he only felt that his face was hot and his body was stiff and uncomfortable.
Wu Da's mule cart, escorted by five high headed horses, drove to the outside of Ulsan Jun's city lord's residence, Ulsan House is the largest and most majestic house in Dacheng, such a building is opulent in Wu Da's eyes, but in the eyes of the two crossers it is too general, but it is just dozens of stone houses, except for the main gate which is more lofty and imposing, letting the two people look at it more, the rest of the building and the furnishings inside the house are just too ordinary, a color of gray and dull.
Entering the Ulsanjun mansion, Wu Da was left in the outer courtyard, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui were led by Guo Huben to a high house, a sixteen or seventeen year old mute slave came forward and led the two into the high house, in the middle of the hall of the high house on the soft couch sits a man in his forties with a beautiful beard, the man's cheekbones are very high, a pair of eyes covered in blood, which are flickering with a refined light.
"The two of you have drifted from the sea to the southern port of Ulsan?" This middle-aged man was Wei Sheren, the closest minister of the Ulsan King.
"Yes, it is precisely my brother who drifted here from ten thousand miles overseas." Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui stepped forward to salute the middle-aged man.
"The son of the merchant Wu Mu was saved by you?"
"Not bad, it was the medicine of our hometown that we carried with us that reduced the fever." Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui looked at each other, could it be that someone in the Ulsan Monarch's residence also had a bad cold?
"There is a patient in the Jun Mansion, I wonder if the two foreigners have a good medicine to save him?" Wei Sherren looked normal, but his words were characterized by a hint of anxiety.
"Is it also a cold with a high fever?" Zheng Yuming asked in a low voice, this Wei Sherman don't take their antipyretic medicine as a cure for all diseases.
Wei Sherman hesitated, before the patient's situation and Zheng Yuming said in detail.
It turned out that the patient of the Junfu suffered from the strange disease of alternating hot and cold, not only cold and hot but also sweating, suffering from this disease has been more than half a month.
After listening to what Wei Sheren said, Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming looked at each other, and in unison they said 'swinging'. Malaria is malaria, an infectious parasitic disease caused by Plasmodium, known in Chinese medicine as "positive malaria" and "warm malaria".
The former time and space of the Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi had this disease, was cured by the French missionary Hong Ruohan with Cinchona Cream, Cinchona Cream is quinine, is the treatment of malaria medicine, Zheng Yuming villa happened to have a few versions of last year's purchase of quinine western medicines, is the base of the flowers and trees of the mosquitoes and insects bite got the pendulum of the workers with the leftovers. This time to arrive in the city, Zheng Yuming all kinds of western medicine have brought some, which has a version of quinine western medicine.
Zheng Yuming found that version of quinine western medicine from his backpack, picked three capsules with his fingers and handed them to Wei Sherman, telling Wei Sherman to peel the capsule open and give half of the powder to the patient, three times a day at meal times.
Wei Sherman took the capsule and carefully viewed some, beckoned to call the mute slaves to bring the two men to the side room to rest, saying that they are grateful to the two men for offering a good medicine, to entertain them, in fact, it is a house arrest for the two men to wait for the western medicine to take effect.
Wei Shen held quinine western medicine into a bedchamber, bedchamber bed couch lying a early twenties thin young man, this person is the Lord of Dacheng City, the second son of the King of the Kingdom of Wu, Uisan Jun Ji Guang.
"Your Excellency, the good medicine from the overseas wonders has been found." Wei Shen waved his hand for the bedchamber attendant to go down, and hurriedly walked over to the bedchamber himself, handing the three capsules in his hand to Azure Mountain Jun.
"Father Wei, the medicine is quickly given to me, you stay away from me, don't get infected with malaria." Azure Mountain Jun's face was flushed and trembling, when he saw Wei Shen approaching, he quickly waved his hand to signal Wei Shen to stay away from him. Wei Shen is Azure Mountain Jun's mother's family, from the birth of Azure Mountain Jun, Wei Shen on the side to take care of, after twenty-one years of wind and rain, the two privately like father and son, when no one, Azure Mountain Jun always call Wei Shen as father.
"My lord, I'm afraid I've got malaria, I'll take this medicine first."
Wei Shen retracted his hand, turned around and walked to the tea case, broke open the capsule, and dispensed half of the powder into water and drank it.
"Father Wei..." Tears glistened in the eyes of the Azure Mountain King, Wei Shen always stood in his way time and time again, and this time, he took the medicine first on his own, not out of fear of being infected with malaria, but in order to help him test the medicine. Although he had found out that Wu Da and those two overseas people did not have any relationship with the Wu King's Palace, Wei Shen was still careful and refused to give the people within the Wu King's Palace any chance to plot against his Prince Guang.
After Wei Shen had taken the medicine for half an hour, he found that there was nothing strange in his body except for the very bitter taste of the medicine in his mouth, and only then did he brew the rest of the powder from the capsule in hot water and serve it to Ulsan Jun.
Ulsanjun's malaria makes the medical doctors in the residence helpless, the malaria condition is getting worse and worse, in desperation, yesterday evening, Wei Shen asked people to secretly invite all the medical doctors in the city of Dacheng to the residence one by one, hoping that some of these medical doctors have excellent medical skills and can save Ulsanjun.
To Wei Shen's disappointment, the medical skills of these healers are not as good as those of the doctors of the royal family, and they can't even think of the terminal illnesses of this era. Wei Shen, in despair, grumpily issued a martyrdom order, so that if the Ulsan ruler is unfortunate, all of these healers will be martyred.
Once the order for martyrdom was issued, the cries of the healers rose, and one of them, a healer surnamed Xu, pounced on Wei Shen and recommended two overseas foreigners to him, claiming that these two overseas foreigners were in possession of good medicines and could surely save the king of Ulsan.
Xu is the doctor who was invited to Wu Mu's house to save his son's life, Xu has diagnosed Wu Mu's son must die, do not want to follow the summoning of Huben to come to the Ulsan Jun on the way, ran into the housekeeper of Wu Mu's house, Cui Fu, the Cui Fu, the first time he saw Xu, a quack, saying that Xu sells his name to make a reputation and make a mess of the diagnosis, was determined by him that must die of the Wu family's young master has already been saved by the two overseas people, already He said that the young master of the Wu family, whom he thought would surely die, had been rescued by two overseas people and was out of danger. Dr. Xu was puzzled and wanted to stop and ask for clarification, but the Huben of Ulsanjun's residence did not allow Dr. Xu to delay and urged him to move quickly.
Now their own lives are at stake, doctor Xu also do not care about things true or false, like a drowning man grabbed a straw, do not care if this straw can save him, first grabbed and said, then recommended to Wei Shen Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui when the two men's medical skills blowing up on the ground without, the sky is there.
Wei Shen heard, immediately sent people out to inquire about Wu Mu's son, soon his men came back with the news that Wu Mu's son was indeed saved by two overseas people, the two overseas people are now living in the inn.
This news for Wei Shen was simply the break of dawn in the dark night, the light before the dawn, and immediately sent Huben soldiers to the inn to look for the two overseas exotics. From bringing the Dacheng healer to Junfu to see the doctor, to investigate where the overseas people live, it was already the next morning, Guo Huben was ordered to the inn to summon the two, Wu Da and Zheng Yuming, Chu Chao Hui has already left the city, Guo Huben panicked with his men chased to the outside of the city to intercept the three people back.
Ulsan Jun's illness has been concealed, in addition to Jun's residence close waiters and healers, outsiders simply do not know that the Lord of Dacheng City is hanging on by a thread, so Wu Da set to ask Guo Huben, Guo Huben knows nothing, and heartless only focus on watching the cynicism.
In one of the side rooms of the gentleman's mansion, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui were sitting on their knees facing each other next to the tea case. From the solemnity of the attendants in Ulsanjun's mansion, and the looks and movements of Wei Sheren, the two of them judged that the one who got sick would only be Ulsanjun. Thinking of Azure Mountain Jun's honorable status, Zheng Yuming began to worry, after all, both of them are not doctors, the Lord of Dacheng City's illness is like a pendulum, what if it is not? The good medicine will turn into poison.
"Don't worry! The guards in this Jun Mansion are at most two dozen people, I am carrying two magazines of bullets on me." Chu Chao Hui end Xiang in front of the wooden lacquer tea set, heart muttered that this wooden lacquer tea set has no that Rongxin can be preserved until after a thousand years and become a rare antique.
Zheng Yuming stared at the calm and collected Chu Chao Hui, this person was planning to give one round of ammunition to each of those two dozen guards? Chu Chao Hui's pistol could be loaded with fifteen rounds at a time, two magazines of bullets would be thirty rounds.
"If anything goes wrong, you just run towards the west side of the courtyard, there are stables there." Chu Chao Hui put down the tea set, and his face began to look positive.
"What about Wu Da?" Obviously Chu Chao Hui had observed the situation along the way when he entered the mansion, and probably had a plan in his heart to deal with the untoward. Zheng Yuming believed in Chu Chao Hui's plan to get away, but remembering Wu Da in the outer courtyard, Zheng Yuming's heart was uneasy, having spent a few days with Wu Da, he had already developed feelings for this ancient man.
"Let's talk about it when the time comes, I can only take care of you." Chu Chao Hui frowned slightly, he is now a bare-bones commander, take away Zheng Yuming no problem, and then save Wu Da is not insurance, Wu Da want to not want them to save is still in between, after all, Wu family small and medium-sized are in the local area, he is willing to drag a family with two strangers in the end of the world is very much a question.
"Hey, aren't we being too pessimistic? Maybe the medicine will cure us, and when Ulsan-kun gets well, he'll be happy and reward us with hundreds of Dacheng cloths." Zheng Yuming thought of the worst and thought of the best, anyway, the two were bored being locked in the side room unattended.
"You're just thinking about a hundred pairs of Dacheng cloth?" Chu Chaohui had a mocking face.
"Eh, it might be possible to curry the valley!" Zheng Yuming suddenly realized that there might be hope to beg for the piece of resting place they needed the most.
Zheng Yuming stored hope in his heart, in the waiting more and more feel the time is difficult. Wei Sherman seems to have forgotten these two overseas foreigners, from the mute slave to bring them to the side room and then did not appear again, only before dark, the mute slave for the two people served dinner, dinner is a person a bowl of soybeans, two pieces of white boiled meat, a white boiled fish, a bowl of boiled cabbage.
Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui out of the valley for three days, no which day to eat to eat comfortably, this time and space of the staple food is not boiled wheat is boiled soybean, meat and vegetarian dishes do not pay attention to cooking, all boiled, like to a boiled world. The most excessive is this time and space people only eat two meals a day, like today, noon was invited to the House of Jun, until the evening to supply them with food and drink.
The food was no longer eye-catching, and the two could only stuff it into their mouths with their eyes closed, as their stomachs were already protesting with hunger. After dinner, the mute slave packed away the utensils without a word, Zheng Yuming tried to talk to him, but the mute slave did not respond at all.
"A city lord's mansion is actually making use of a deaf-mute!" Zheng Yuming felt strange, a deaf-mute couldn't hear, wouldn't it be inconvenient to use such a disabled person? Why was such an inconvenient slave instead picked to serve Azure Mountain King in close proximity?
"These attendants are only mute but not deaf." Chu Chao Hui's observation ability was ten times better than Zheng Yuming's, and he had long ago realized that these mute slaves had sensitive ears and gentle movements, and it looked like they had been specially trained.
"Isn't deafness connected?" Jung Yuming felt something was wrong.
"They should not turn out to be deaf or dumb." Chu Chao Hui shook his head, the society of all evils.
"Are you saying they were muted the day after?" Jung Yuming's eyes widened.
Chu Chao Hui nodded, his eyes looked out towards the door, where there was a shallow silhouette, someone was avoiding the door to listen. Chu Zhaohui and Zheng Yuming speak Mandarin, in this era is still hu dialect, both northern hu dialect, Wu people simply do not understand.
"This god damn society." Zheng Yuming muttered.
There are many uneducated people who can't write, and very few who can't speak but have sensitive ears. The ruling class needs close attendants who can keep secrets, and people who can't speak or write are reassuring to them because such people can't deliver news to the outside world, and in order to fulfill such a need, they simply create slaves who are only mute and not deaf to be their attendants. These attendants had their tongues cut out.
Wei Sherman did not appear all night, and the mute slave did not enter their room again; Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui both dealt with the night on the futon with their clothes together, and when the sun rose in the east, footsteps sounded outside the door of the side room.
Chu Chao Hui had just pushed the sleepy Zheng Yuming awake, when Wei Sherman pushed the door in.
"Two foreigners, Uisan-kun has an invitation." Although Wei Shen had more blood in his eyes, his face was overflowing with joy, for Azure Mountain Jun was no longer hot, no longer cold, and sweating very little by the time the sky had just dawned. Conscious of his great vigor, as soon as he woke up, Ulsan-kun asked to meet the two overseas people who had saved his life.
Ulsanjun Ji Kwang was the neatest born ancient man Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui had seen, with a slender figure, about 173 centimeters, clean-cut features, a head of ebony hair draped over his shoulders, and fair skin with a pale face.
Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui made a great salute to the City Lord of Dacheng who was half lying on the bed.
"Don't be polite, show the two of you your seats." Ulsan-kun owed his presence on the tatami bed, waved his hand for the two men to be excused, and asked the attendant to bring seats for the two men, two wooden stools.
When Azure Mountain Jun saw the appearance of Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui, there was joy in his eyes, both of them had extraordinary looks and outstanding temperament, Azure Mountain Jun's heart gave birth to the desire to make friends, and he was even more curious about the overseas homeland that the two of them were talking about. For him, that is the magical place, surprisingly easy to cure malaria, to know, malaria in the Great Qin, basically is a terminal disease, very few people can be cured.
In the face of Ulsan-kun's inquiries, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao-hui recapitulated those told to Wu Da, and these unheard-of overseas anecdotes were listened to with great interest by Ulsan-kun.
"My lord, it's time to drink the medicine!" Wei Shen kept in mind Zheng Yuming's three times a day feeding hour.
Azure Mountain Jun looked at the medicine that was brought to him and frowned slightly, this medicine was good medicine, it was just a little too bitter. After drinking the medicine, Azure Mountain Jun hurriedly stuffed some candied fruit into his mouth to neutralize the bitter taste.
"Your Excellency, you need to rest!" Wei Shen saw that Azure Mountain Monarch still wanted to talk to the two overseas people, so he hurriedly stepped forward to stop them; Azure Mountain Monarch's health had just improved, so he had to recuperate more.
"Mr. Wei Shen is just nagging!" Ulsan Jun was full of helplessness, but did not blame, obediently accepted Wei Shen's advice to prepare for rest, and before going to sleep, he instructed Wei Shen to treat the two saviors well on his behalf.
Zheng Yuming followed Wei Shen out of Azure Mountain Jun's bedroom, his heart was filled with loss, why did Azure Mountain Jun only verbally thank the two of them and not give something practical? What he and Chu Chaohui needed most was for Azure Mountain Jun to give practical thanks.
Zheng Yuming's depression was dispersed by Wei Shen's words after he exited the Ulsanjun dormitory.
"Two foreigners, as a thank you for saving my son's life, the Ulsan Monarch's Mansion will reward you with ten thousand pounds." Wei Shen was extraordinarily kind to these two overseas people today.
"Ten thousand pounds?" Zheng Yuming's heart quickly converted, wow, 500 pairs of Qingcheng cloth, fifty or so mule carts, this is a big fortune! However, the cloth and mule carts are not as important to them as the valley.
Ulsan-kun woke up in the night and was surprised to hear that the two saviors did not want money or silk, just a place to live. "How many farmers are there in that little valley?"
"There is not a single farming household." Wei Shen was also surprised at that time, to know, the aristocrat fiefdom is good or bad is to see how many farmers on the land, there are farmers can be collected taxes, there will be income, there is no farmers bounty is a waste of time, is no income fiefdom.
"These two overseas foreigners are truly gentlemen, possessions are not in their eyes, in that case, we can't let them suffer, let's allocate Nambu to the two foreigners along with the valley." Ulsanjun's finger scratched on the sheepskin map of Dacheng, and the two or three hundred farmers of Nambu thus became the serfs of Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui.