Jiaohua

Chapter 1539: Learned by the Northern Yuan People

Lao Guo’s hearing was not very good. It was only after Aunt Zou went over and waved her hand in front of him that he slowly raised his head from the picture book.

Seeing the armor on Zhan Ning and Fan Yu, Lao Guo was startled. He quickly folded a corner of the page he was reading, closed it and put it on the long bench. He stood up and bowed to Zhan Ning and Fan Yu, then looked at Xia Zhaoyi with his bright eyes.

Aunt Zou went over and introduced them while making gestures.

Lao Guo's eyes widened and he said happily, "Miss A-Li!"

Xia Zhaoyi smiled: "I want to come and see if there is any letter for me."

While she was talking, Lao Guo stared at her lips without blinking and said hurriedly, "Yes, yes, yes! There are a lot of them, piled up! Come on! Miss Ali, please!"

Aunt Zou said, "Miss A-li, I won't follow you in. Lao Guo is a nice guy, but his hearing is a little bit bad."

Xia Zhaoyi asked, "Is his ear like this naturally, or was it injured?"

"He was injured. I heard from his son that a huge rock was thrown by the catapult of the Beiyuan Dogs and hit his house. He was crushed underneath. After he was dug out, his ears were not working well anymore."

Xia Zhaoyi nodded: "Okay, thank you Aunt Zou for bringing us here, you go and get busy first."

"Oh, Miss Ali, you are too polite. You are a hero who led the troops to protect us and killed the dog thieves for us. You don't have to be polite!"

"Come, come quickly!" Lao Guo warmly invited Xia Zhaoyi in.

Just from the furnishings in the room, it is impossible to tell that this is the contact location of some chamber of commerce.

Everything was very simple and the lighting was extremely poor. Only one side of the four walls was painted, and it was that awful dark gray earth paint.

After Lao Guo arrived at the inner room, he pushed open a wardrobe and a secret passage appeared. The height and width of the secret passage were sufficient. Together with Zhan Ning, Fan Yu and Liang Dechang, the three of them could walk side by side without any problem.

On both sides of the secret passage, there were earthen houses one after another. Some of them were empty, while others were filled with boxes.

In the third-to-last dark room near the end, Lao Guo handed the lantern to Zhan Ning, and he took out the key to open the box.

"They are all here. Some were delivered half a month ago, some ten days ago, and some three days ago."

Xia Zhaoyi stepped forward and found the bundles and letters inside neatly arranged.

"Thank you, Uncle Guo." Xia Zhaoyi said sincerely.

Lao Guo smiled and stepped aside: "Come on, carry it away."

"Yes!" Zhan Ning and Fan Yu stepped forward and each lifted one of the wooden boxes.

The wooden box was a bit heavy, but it was not difficult for two of them to carry it.

Xia Zhaoyi asked them to go ahead. She thought for a moment and turned to Lao Guo: "Uncle Guo, I know a little bit about medicine. Can I take a look at your ears?"

Lao Guo laughed: "My ears are still usable, it's okay, it's not a big deal!"

"Being usable and being useful are two different things. Uncle Guo, I can cure them. I have successfully cured more than one case."

Lao Guo was stunned and said, "Miss A-li, can you really read ears?"

"Ah."

"Well, I'll go wash it!" Lao Guo said happily, "I'll come find you when I'm done!"

Xia Zhaoyi smiled and said, "Okay."

Xia Zhaoyi went back to his place of residence first, while Xia Xingming and Xia Zhi came back early, saying that the locals were unwilling.

Zhan Ning said: "See, the second young lady is very foresighted."

Xia Zhi sighed, "It's just as the Second Miss said. They said that if the city is in such a mess, no outsiders will come, and the spies of the Northern Yuan Dynasty will not target this city."

Xia Zhaoyi smiled faintly: "Yesterday cannot be retrieved, the people who are still alive today are the most important. If you can't stay idle, you can help the neighbors repair their houses or make some tables, chairs and benches to kill time these days."

"Yes," Xia Zhi nodded, "By the way, we accidentally found out something. About a hundred miles to the east, there is a garrison called the Suzhen Army. There are about 8,000 people. They were originally militia, but the armies coming and going provided them with weapons from time to time, and they gradually became armed."

Xia Zhaoyi said: "More than 8,000 people, more than us."

Zhan Ning said, "Look, this is blood! Look at the Baiguang Township in Xizhou. They won't eat even when food is in front of their mouths. They insist on asking the army to help them. They deserve to be bullied by Song Zhiyi's Pingpi Army."

Xia Zhaoyi frowned slightly.

Janine shut up immediately.

The girl didn't say anything, but this subtle change in her mood made Zhan Ning immediately realize that he had said the wrong thing. How could he say that the people deserved to be bullied?

No one in this world deserves to be bullied.

Zhan Ning raised his hand and slapped himself.

But the silence didn't last long. Zhan Ning couldn't help but whispered again, "Second Miss, do you want to go and see that army? It's only about a hundred miles away, which is still fast."

Xia Zhaoyi shook his head: "We only have three days, which is not enough."

"Three days is enough."

"Not enough. I will be very busy in the next three days." "Busy with what?"

Xia Zhaoyi walked across the lobby and headed for the stairs: "There will be many people looking for me to see patients."

If she cured Lao Guo's ears, other neighbors would definitely come to visit her, so she went back to the house to prepare.

Zhan Ning and Fan Yu followed with the boxes and moved them into her second-floor residence.

Since she was leading troops on the march and had no fixed place to live, you can imagine how difficult it was to send a letter to her.

Jenning took out all the letters.

Shen Lie's letters and belongings were placed aside separately.

Those of Wang Fengnian, Yang Guanxian and Gao Zhou were placed on the top.

Yu Shiling, Wei Yaojun and others from Hejing were released in the second batch.

Du Xuan and those related to the Falcon Camp are below.

After that, letters were sent by other people, such as Zhuang Mengyao from Jiangnan, Cao Yijun from the attack camp, and Ying Jinliang from Tongdu.

These letters are easiest to organize. They should all be sent to Hengxiang or Hejing first. Xu Yinjun and Yang Guanxian have already packed them.

Zhan Ning opened the large package surrounding the letters and suddenly caught a glimpse of Nie Huimo's letter inside.

Zhan Ning's fingers froze a little.

The love confession letter he received in Hejing before appeared in his mind, and Zhan Ning got goosebumps all over his body.

He shook his head and thought, forget it, let’s just do business. He put Nie Huimo’s letters back on the shelf.

Zhao Ning, Mrs. Qu, and the fragmented letters were placed at the bottom by Zhan Ning.

Especially the fragmented letters. There were three letters from Zhao Ning and two from Mrs. Qu. The five letters combined were not as thick as one of the fragmented letters.

This thick letter was written in seven pieces.

Jenning simply put them all at the bottom.

Xia Zhaoyi was sorting out acupuncture bags and medical records.

She has two acupuncture bags, one is small and contains only the nine commonly used needles.

One is so large that it is usually kept in the medical box.

Soldiers in the army vary in size, and even if they have similar body shapes, the amount of body fat in their bodies will not be the same.

Each person has dozens of organs, so in addition to the nine commonly used needles in this large acupuncture bag, Xia Zhaoyi also specially matched other needles and corresponding needle handles, totaling forty-nine types.

Zhan Ning said, "Second Miss, the letters have been sorted."

Seeing the large and small herbs and medicine boxes in the medical records that Xia Zhaoyi was packing up, Zhan Ning said, "Eh, Second Miss, you also like to arrange them like this."

"......also?" Xia Zhaoyi turned his head away.

Zhan Ning said, "Well, four years ago, we were trapped in Juezhou, and General Ouyang led us to break out of the encirclement. During that time, we went around and accidentally intercepted a group of wounded soldiers who were about to be sent back to Sandao Donglu. That group of marching doctors had their bags filled with things like this."

Xia Zhaoyi looked down at his medical record, paused, and said calmly: "This arrangement was invented by my sister."

Zhan Ning was stunned: "Miss, original creation?"

"The medicine box is full of ointments, which are used to test the poison and effect after sampling. The usage of herbs is similar. She has loved going out alone since she was a child, sometimes to save herself, sometimes to save others, so this arrangement is a habit she has developed based on her many years of medical experience. I think she fell into the hands of the Beiyuan people, and the medical practice scroll was snatched away by them, and they learned it."

Zhan Ning gritted his teeth and said, "Damn you Beiyuan bastards! This is the eldest lady's invention, and they shamelessly used it!"

Xia Zhaoyi smiled and said, "It's also my sister's fault for not thinking it through. If she knew it was so useful, she should have spread the word in the Central Plains in advance. Instead, the barbarians in the Northern Desert learned it first."

Zhan Ning nodded: "Well, good things should be given to our family first!"

At this time, Fan Yu knocked on the door outside and said respectfully: "Second Miss, Uncle Lao Guo is here."

Xia Zhaoyi said: "Okay, I'll go down now."

Zhan Ning hurriedly said, "Second Miss, what about these letters?"

Xia Zhaoyi said as he packed up: "As usual, you read the letters from Zhuang Mengyao and Ying Jinliang first."

After saying that, Xia Zhaoyi hurried away with the medical box.

Zhan Ning scratched his head and looked at the pile of letters, his eyes resting on a few of them.

"Nie Huimo, please be normal this time..." Zhan Ning said to himself.

Then he added: "Otherwise, I'll ask General Shen to deal with you!"