choke element

At dusk, Chen Zixin sat under the eaves. He was very sleepy and his head drooped.

Those who arrived in Kaicheng in the same group as him were either accountants or doctors. There is no place to use them yet, and Yin Chang doesn't take care of it. As long as they don't stay away from the post house for nothing, they can just go shopping around.

When Chen Zixin took over the task of exploring the northern country from his brother, he never expected that he would go all the way to Korea on the other side of the sea. In the past few days, he had been surrounded by a sense of novelty. It was clear that the architectural shapes inside and outside the posthouse were no different from those in the Han Dynasty, which aroused his interest and stopped to study for a long time; not to mention the many exotic customs.

As a scholar, this is inevitable. Today, he walked more than a dozen times from Neli Gate to a small area at the foot of Centipede Mountain. He happily copied many plaques and inscriptions, and also got to know a few servants serving in the official residence. It was a pity that these people neither spoke the Chinese language nor read, so Chen Zixin could not communicate with them normally.

Among the people who accompanied Yin Chang to Kaicheng, only a few could speak Korean, and they were not close to Yin Chang. There's nothing we can do about this little omission, after all, it's the first time for everyone.

Chen Zixin returned to the library in the evening. After the excitement passed, he felt very sleepy, his legs seemed to be filled with lead, and he yawned continuously after eating.

Except for Chen Zixin and others, no one held a lamp or moved around in the guest house. Several nearby courtyards with human voices are inhabited by his companions who followed Yin Chang to Kaicheng.

A single courtyard is not large and can only accommodate a dozen people at most. There are actually eight doctors here, all of whom became friends during training on the island. At this time, a doctor took out mugwort, lit it, smoked it in the courtyard, and then sat on the steps to enjoy the cool air. A few people talked about some techniques of looking, hearing and asking, and the formulas of monarchs, ministers and envoys, watching the sky change from dim to dark.

The courtyard door was suddenly pushed open.

Dr. Ding walked in and said in a deep voice: "My boss has something for us to do... there is a patient! Let's go out and bring the medicine bag and ask for the big ones!"

The doctors who were chatting had long been accustomed to obeying his orders. They stood up one after another, and Chen Zixin also broke out of his half-asleep state.

In a somewhat confused state, Chen Zixin vaguely felt that Dr. Ding's state was very different from when he was on the island.

On the island, Dr. Ding is a famous doctor from Yixian County. He is like the elder brother of many doctors, accompanying everyone through the difficult moments of training. But when everyone arrived in Goryeo, the nearly fifty-year-old brother became more and more proactive, and he seemed to have put in some effort into the situation in Goryeo.

Who knows whether what he told about his family background is true or false?

But he is not an ordinary doctor by any means, and he cannot come to Korea just to respond to the recruitment and get some money!

Thinking of this, Chen Zixin was horrified and surprised. But the instinct he had trained on the island in the past few months still made him quickly pack up his clothes and get the medicine he carried.

After Chen Zixin and others arrived at Licheng Port, they learned that the cargo shipped with the ship contained a large number and complete range of drugs. According to the owner, these are all for sale. In addition, because he has to host a polo match in Kaesong, it is inevitable that he will encounter many injuries caused by collisions between horses and horses. The doctors in the team will definitely be very busy by then, and most of the medicines prepared in advance will be used.

But no one expected that the first medical visit to Korea would be at night.

In less than half a moment, Chen Zixin was ready, and eight people, including Dr. Ding, filed out.

Outside the courtyard, there were carriages and guards leading the carriages. Those guards were all acquaintances from training on the island, and one of them was clearly an officer who was in charge of training at that time. Somehow, he became an ordinary guard here...

Chen Zixin shuddered violently. He didn't dare to say anything, so he lowered his head and got into the carriage again.

The carriage set off, with several men in gray robes leading the way.

The direction of the vehicle's travel was not the main road to the museum, but turned into an alley from the beginning, and there was silence wherever it passed. The vehicle drove for a while, and Doctor Dai couldn't help but ask: "What's going on? Where are we going? The whereabouts are so secretive, there won't be any hindrance, right?"

"My boss personally ordered me. He said that a nobleman from the Koryo Kingdom paid a high price and asked us to go overnight to treat the injuries and recuperate the Khitan knights he summoned. Ahem, the reason why we came here is to stay in Ma It doesn’t matter if you save people during a football competition...it doesn’t matter if you practice your skills a few days in advance.”

"What do you mean? The polo match started early?"

"...You don't know. Recently, in order to perform well in the polo competition, the nobles of Goryeo have been recruiting exiled Khitans and Jurchens everywhere, even those who came from the hard labor camp. You know the hard labor, who Isn’t it hard to get injured after a trip in? In order for these people to be effective, can’t they seek medical treatment?”

"But why did this matter come to our boss? In the vast city of Kaicheng, there is no doctor that you are familiar with?"

"In places like Korea, there are very few reliable doctors, and there are many wandering swindlers. And just at noon today, all the medical clinics and pharmacies in the city were closed down, and all the doctors were arrested!"

"Huh? How can you do this?"

"This has really come to this! The noble man can't conjure up a doctor and medicine out of thin air, can he? He had to rush here to beg our boss, so that we can talk it out..."

Next to the route of the carriage, separated by a high wall, a dog barked suddenly. The accompanying man in gray robe quickly ran to the courtyard wall and threw something in, and the dog stopped barking.

The guard riding a horse outside shouted in a low voice: "Quiet!"

The doctors in the car immediately became as quiet as chickens.

The wheels rolled over the dirt road, occasionally vibrating. The vehicle continued to travel for about half an hour, passing through two city gates that were supposed to be closed, and arrived at a remote manor.

When Chen Zixin got out of the car, an unpleasant smell rushed into his nose. It was the smell of sweat mixed with the smell of ulcerated wounds or rotting flesh and blood, mixed with the aroma of wine and meat and the smell of powder.

Taking a few steps deeper into the manor, Chen Zixin saw, by the light of torches, many people in dirty and ragged clothes, sitting or lying in disorder, scattered throughout the courtyard.

Some of them were injured, some looked sick, but none of them seemed to care, as if there were more injured beasts than people.

Not far in front of Chen Zixin, a Khitan man with long scars on his face and a rotting stench began to hold the iron rod in his hand and danced twice. The insects and flies who were interested in the smell of blood and stench Then he was startled and flew up. There was a person next to him, with a face as lean as a ghost, and an abnormal red color on his cheeks. His breathing was rapid, and the eyes he looked at the medical officers were frighteningly fierce.

Doctor Ding, who was the first to get off the bus, stood in the crowd and hesitated: "Our boss never said there would be so many people! Didn't he say before that the number of people who needed treatment at Zhuangzi at Shuikou Gate was only two hundred?"

He took two steps in the crowd, looked at the physical condition of some people in the back row, and couldn't help but said: "Are you kidding me? Your Majesty, this is... where do you find so many sick people? These? How many of us can ride horses and compete in competitions? It takes more than a day or two to diagnose and treat them! This is different from what we promised before! No, no, we have to go back!"

"Please stay here to diagnose and treat the Khitan warriors. Your lord, please go over there. We will explain it to you in the future."

A dignified Goryeo civil servant with long beard came out slowly, waving his hand as he spoke, and the gate the car passed through was immediately closed.