female catcher

Chapter 125 Doctor Liu's Secret
One afternoon in Xijing in early summer, Xia Chu sat in Liu Huaishi's yard with the task of investigating suspicions and interrogating confessions, but unexpectedly, he heard a story that seemed only found in dramas.

Liu Huaishi's family was poor, his father passed away very early, when his mother remarried, she thought he was a drag, so she found an old man and asked him to be an apprentice.To say he is an apprentice is actually to send him to the old doctor.

The old doctor has no children, Liu Huaishi has been taking care of his life, and when he was older, he started to practice medicine with him to help him, and the old doctor also gave him medical skills and pharmacology.Liuhuai is really talented in the way of Qi and Huang, and he is also hardworking, and has accumulated some reputation at a young age.

When the old doctor passed away, he gave him his small clinic. He was obsessed with his profession, and he had no parents to take care of it for him, so the marriage has been delayed.Until one day he went to see a wealthy businessman, and after a few visits, the wealthy businessman found a matchmaker to come to his little daughter's door to say kiss her.

When Xia Chu heard this, he quietly looked at Liu Huaishi. Although he is old now and his hair and beard are a little gray, it can be deduced from his facial features that he looked good when he was young. The young man has an unhurried attitude, even if he is a little poor, it is not surprising that there will be women in the boudoir who will break his heart.

Even now, with a stable temperament and a straight body, he still looks like a handsome uncle.

"At that time, I was all focused on medical skills, and I didn't realize that I had no interest in women." Liu Huaishi smiled wryly when she said this, "I also had selfish intentions at the time. I was planning to open a pharmacy at that time. First, the profit from buying medicine can improve life, and second, I also have the ideal of helping the world and saving people. Some poor people come to me for medical treatment. I prescribe prescriptions but they can’t afford the medicine. If I have a pharmacy, I can be more flexible. .”

The person who came to propose marriage was a wealthy businessman from a wealthy family, Liu Huaishi weighed it and agreed.The rich merchant's daughter also really loves him, and although she is not married, she has already helped Liu Huaishi spread the medicine.

When everything was going well, Liu Huaishi got married.The happy day of life in the bridal chamber became Liu Huaishi's nightmare, and it was only then that he became aware of his problems.The delicate and young bride, who was full of love for him, could not arouse Liu Huaishi's interest at all.

Perhaps looking back, that night was not Liu Huaishi's nightmare, but just the beginning of the nightmare.

At first, Liu Huaishi's wife didn't think there was any problem. Although her husband didn't touch her, he treated her pretty well and respected her like a guest.But after a long time, Liu Huaishi finally told her the truth after his wife made noise and questioned her again and again.

But his wife didn't understand, there are many masculine men, but they still get married and have children, marry wives and take concubines, why Liu Huaishi doesn't even want to touch her, she thinks everything is his excuse That's all.

"I feel that I am sorry for her, I owe her, everything is my fault. I also want to live like other people, but I can't. Those days are very tortured, but due to the secular world, we seem to be We can only keep torturing each other behind closed doors like this, I don’t know when it will be a head.” Liu Huaishi recalled, his face still seemed to be tired from that time.

Those days will come to an end after all, otherwise there would be no Liu Huaishi who is now in Xijing.

The change of things probably happened on such an early summer day when a young scholar came to his pharmacy for consultation.Liu Huaishi can still accurately describe what happened that day even 20 years later.

The scholar was wearing a washed half-worn light blue long cloth shirt. He was thin and pale, but his eyes were gentle and spirited.He walked into the pharmacy from the bright sunshine, walked in front of Liu Huaishi, and then walked into his life.

In Liu Huaishi's words, although this scholar named Fang Shi was thin and thin, he felt that his life was lit up and had a different color.

Not all love has to be presented in a blazing manner. There is a kind of feeling that is so humble that it is cowardly, and it is probably Liu Huaishi.He took good care of Fang Shi's body, and carefully maintained his relationship with him, not daring to reveal it, not daring to overstep the rules.

No matter how strong his love is, how cautious he is when getting along, as long as he can see him and listen to him, it seems that he can grow old forever as a friend.

But the woman he never knew, his wife, smelled something strange from his inadvertent trance and smile.

Liu Huaishi's eloquent narration suddenly stopped here, and Xia Chu felt a little sad when he saw the expression from full of warm memories to sad.

She should have guessed what was going to happen, and what was going to happen had already happened.

"I thought the endless quarrels were the worst, but in fact, quarrels are really nothing. If I can foresee the future, I would rather let her continue to quarrel with me for the rest of my life." Liu Huaishi said slowly.

His wife's behavior has always been very dull, Liu Huaishi who has never paid attention to her feelings is completely unable to detect what is hidden under this plainness, he thought that his thoughts were hidden as well as he thought.

Fang Shi's condition suddenly took a turn for the worse, Liu Huai was so anxious that he looked through medical books for him, looking for prescriptions.But after drinking one after another of medicines, his condition continued to deteriorate, and he was powerless in less than a month.

When Liu Huaishi was dying, Liu Huaishi went to see him, Fang Shi's eyes no longer had that gentle expression, he held Liu Huaishi with his skinny hand, his eyes filled with tears, as if he had a lot to say, but in the end He just called his name silently.

That kind of overwhelming sadness is like falling into a frozen lake in the cold, with no strength to breathe or cry.He thought that was the worst pain that life could not bear, but unfortunately it was not.

The most painful thing was when he knew that Fang Shi's death was caused by his wife, and it turned out that he was the one who really killed Fang Shi.The deep love but can't ask for it will make people crazy, such as his wife, such as Liu Huaishi.

His wife thought her enemy was Fang Shi, but in fact her enemy had always been Liu Huaishi.

Knowing the truth, Liu Huaishi and his wife completely tore apart their faces, and his wife did it even more thoroughly.She first spread the relationship between Liu Huaishi and Fang Shi everywhere, and then said that Liu Huaishi deliberately put Fang Shi to death because she hated Fang Shi's entanglement.

Her identity made her words very credible. In anger, Fang Shi's family led people to smash up Liu Huaishi's pharmacy, and dragged him to the yamen.

Charged with murder.

If Liu Huai had died at that time, he would have died like that.Fortunately or unfortunately, at that time Jincheng's parents and officials were honest and honest, and Liu Huaishi's murder evidence was not sufficient, so he was imprisoned for a period of time, and he was released after being punished for minor punishments.

Liu Huaishi's wife also exhausted her mental strength and affection, and Yizhi and Li finally ended the years of torture between them.Liu Huaishi lost everything, the medical clinic he inherited from the old doctor, the pharmacy he managed with care, the reputation he had accumulated over the years, his ideal of helping the world and saving people, and his loved ones.

He became the joke of others after dinner, Jincheng no longer had a foothold for him.

"There was a time when I really wanted to die, but after that time passed, it didn't really matter whether I lived or died." Liu Huaishi said, "I changed my name and left Jincheng to become a wandering doctor. Let’s live like that. Ten years ago, when my boss went out to buy medicine, I was seriously ill. I happened to pass by and rescued him. He thought my medical skills were good, so he took me to Xijing and placed me in Guangji Hall. My life has stabilized. "

Liu Huai sighed tiredly, and his voice returned to the flat tone, "If you don't come, I might take these things into the coffin, but since you are here, if I don't say anything, I'm afraid you will investigate Be more careful. After all, I have been charged with murder. If it spreads out, people will not know what happened after this, and they will not care whether I am wronged. I don’t care, but my boss is a good person, and I am kind. , I don’t want to burden Guangjitang. Now that I’m confessing this, I hope you two can understand.”

Xia Chu nodded to express his understanding, "Did you really go to Yuanping Mountain on the first day of April?"

"The first day of April is actually the anniversary of Fangshi's death. There is a pine forest at the foot of Yuanping Mountain. Fangshi loves pines and cypresses the most. They say that pines and cypresses are not afraid of the cold winter, and are evergreen in the wind and snow, so I go back every year. It rained that day, and I was at the gate of the city. I met Zhang Renqing, the steward of the German class, he went to Guangji Hall for consultation, we said hello, if you don’t believe me, Xia Butou can ask him.”

"Does your boss know about these things?"

Liu Huaishi shook her head, "I don't know. In the past, my boss saw that I was lonely and wanted to propose a marriage for me. I just said that I miss my dead wife and have no intention of remarrying. As for love and marriage, I don't think about it anymore in this life."

"Then you and Zisu are..."

"Zisu..." Liu Huai smiled, "Listen to him read a poem, and talk to him about essays and dramas." He paused, slightly raised his head, "He looks very similar to Fang Shi , but it wasn’t him after all.”

Xia Chu had a sore nose, and he almost cried.

She used to think that Dr. Liu was a bit cold-blooded, but thinking about it, he was once hot, almost burning herself to ashes.It's not that there is no emotion, but it has already passed away with Fang Shi's death.Huai Shi, is it just Huai Shi, missing Fang Shi?It's a pity that blind medicine can't cure this yearning that has lasted for many years.

Xia Chu glanced at Xu Lu, but Xu Lu had already stopped writing.

After silently drinking a few sips of tea and calming down for a while, Xia Chu slowly withdrew from Liu Huaishi's story.

"Doctor Liu, there is one more thing I want to ask."

"Please tell me, as long as I know, I won't hide it."

"I remember when you were in Guangji Hall, you said that you once consulted Mrs. Yu, but how about recently? Have you asked Mrs. Yu?"

Liu Huai said: "Not recently, but Mrs. Yu's health is not bad. What's the matter?"

"That's right. According to our investigation, Mrs. Yu had been pregnant for nearly two months when she died. Did you know about this?"

"Pregnant?" Liu Huaishi listened, her expression can be said to be quite astonished, "Isn't it?"

Xia Chu blinked, and felt that Liu Huaishi's reaction was not right, so he quickly leaned forward, "Why do you say that?"

Liu Huaishi stepped back a little, avoiding Xia Chu's gaze, and frowned, "I'm just surprised."

"Why are you surprised?" Xia Chu continued to ask.

Doctor Liu thought for a while, seemed to have calmed down a bit, and said to Xia Chu, "Aren't you surprised when you found out this news?"

In a word, push Xia Chu back.Xia Chu nodded resentfully.Unexpected, they were also very surprised at the time, Liu Huaishi seemed to have no problem with saying this, but she just felt weird.

(End of this chapter)