There was a cool breeze coming from behind, and Xiao Chen, who was lying on the main bunk of the official post office, slowly opened his eyes.
"Can't you use a hot towel to wipe my injury? This cold water is a bit too cold." Xiao Chen turned around and looked at Duan Tianming, who was holding a towel next to him, and said dissatisfied.
"Okay, okay, I'll change the hot water for you right away." Duan Tianming said hurriedly.
There were bursts of steam coming from the wooden basin next to it.
The towel in Duan Tianming's hand was simply a hot towel that was almost hot to the touch. When he rubbed it on Xiao Chen's back, he actually said it was too cold. How much of the anger in his body had been lost?
Duan Tianming felt anxious in his heart.
But Xiao Chen couldn't tell him the true extent of his injuries, so he could only try to deal with it with words.
The entire back was in pieces, and the bones inside could almost be seen at the shoulders.
According to the current situation in Gongchang Mansion, which only has dry food to eat, who knows how long it will take to recover naturally.
"Have you wiped it clean? If it's clean, quickly apply our Dongchang's healing medicine on me. I've been lying on the bunk here for a whole day, and the government office still has no clue. I'm really anxious to death." Xiao Chen
He couldn't help but complain.
"Over at the government office, there are soldiers guarding Longyou Road. There won't be any problems. And Gong Changwei's rebel army has also been captured. You can rest assured and heal your wounds." Duan Tianming glared a little angrily.
He glanced at Xiao Chen.
Even though he was injured like this, he was still thinking about Gongchang Mansion. He was born to worry about his life.
"How is Tongzhi Wei going out to survey and build water conservancy projects today?" Xiao Chen asked again with his head resting on his arm.
"What we are inspecting today are all places slightly closer to Gongchang City. If we want to build the water conservancy project in place, we still need to complete the entire topography of Gongchang Mansion and plan it in a unified manner."
"This water conservancy project is not a small project, and our disaster relief funds will definitely not be enough. If we start the project in a hurry, we can use Wang Kuan's property first. In a few days, Dingxihou's house will be ransacked, and it should be enough to give to Gongchang Mansion
Water conservancy projects have been built."
"Don't think about anything, just lie down and recuperate. As for other things, we'll make plans after you recover." Duan Tianming wet the towel in the hot water basin and started to rub it on Xiao Chen's body again.
Wipe your back.
"In view of the armament situation inside Nanshan, we can mobilize some of the soldiers guarding Longyou Road to guard it. As for the landslide at the mountain pass, organize manpower to dig out and find the corpses inside. This is a major crime against Dingxi Hou."
"Shut up." Duan Tianming couldn't bear it anymore, and slapped Xiao Chen's thigh with his right hand: "Do you know your injury? Sleep well these days and don't think about anything. The muscles in your back are cracked.
Let’s heal first. Gongchang City will not be the same after all these years without you, Xiao Chen.”
For a moment, Xiao Chen was speechless.
The truth is indeed irrefutable, but Xiao Chen's silence is because this is the first time Duan Tianming has become angry at himself.
Moreover, not only did he get angry, he actually took action.
The palm that was placed on my thigh just now is still aching.
His back was seriously injured and he was beaten by himself, which is somewhat unjustifiable.
"I have arranged for people to take care of the things you mentioned. Just now, several brothers shot and killed a wild boar and returned. You have been eating wild boar every day for the past few days. Please recover as soon as possible. We will clean up the entire Gongchangwei."
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"Oh, I was just injured. I was beaten and scolded by others. However, considering that there is wild boar meat every day, I don't care about it." Xiao Chen complained "grievingly"
Fan, resting his head on the back of his hand, slowly closed his eyes.
"You care about me, but you care about me. If your injury can't be cured, why do you care about me? Just lie down and I'll go out to get the healing medicine." With that, Duan Tianming slowly walked out of the room with the basin in his hand.
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Hearing that Xiao Chen was injured, Xiao Lizi, who went out to survey the terrain with the government office and magistrate Wei Li, carried his wooden box containing pens, inks, paper and inkstones and ran to the official post in a hurry.
I happened to see Duan Tianming coming out carrying a basin.
"Chief Duan, where is Xiao Chen? Where is Xiao Chen?" Xiao Lizi said out of breath with his face flushed.
"In the house." Duan Tianming said smoothly.
Xiao Lizi opened the door and rushed in.
Hearing the sound of the door, Xiao Chen thought it was Duan Tianming who had walked in. He stared at the back of his hand, gritted his teeth and said, "So fast? Please apply some medicine on me gently, my back hurts so much."
Looking at Xiao Chen's bloody back, Xiao Lizi couldn't help but shed tears.
"Why are you so stupid? You use your flesh and blood to deflect their gunpowder arrows. Are you going to die?" As he said this, he started crying.
"Little Lizi?" Xiao Chen opened his eyes, "There are people's houses all around. Do you think I want to resist these gunpowder arrows?"
"The people's life is life, but your life is not life? Brother Wang is no longer here, and you still don't know how to cherish yourself. If anything happens, I, I..." Xiao Lizi couldn't help crying again.
Made a sound.
"If I hadn't been distracted, these gunpowder arrows wouldn't have hurt me. Come on, tell me how you went out to find water today?" Xiao Chen steeled himself and tried his best to smile.
Before Xiao Lizi could reply, Duan Tianming's voice came from outside the door: "Ignore him and let him have a good rest. Help me and we'll put medicine on his back."
Hearing Duan Tianming's reproachful words, Xiao Chen let out a long sigh and lay on the back of his hand again.
Three days later, at noon.
Duan Tianming walked in with a large bowl of fragrant wild boar meat.
"The wild boar meat here tastes really good. It makes me salivate and I don't know how much I swallowed." With a smile on his face, Duan Tianming put the meat bowl in Xiao Chen's hand.
"If I don't eat, I won't eat. For several days, every meal has been wild boar. I'm really tired of it." Xiao Chen turned his head to the side in disgust.
At first, when I was treating the prince's leg disease in Dongchang Prison, he had tiger bone soup three times a day.
Although he is only a member of a thousand households in Dongchang and cannot be compared with the status of the prince, he is still a small leader of Dongchang.
It’s true that during this period of time, I only know how to eat wild boar meat every day, but I don’t know how to hunt a black bear, wild deer, etc., to give myself a change of taste.
As if he had seen through Xiao Chen's thoughts, Duan Tianming chuckled: "Although your back is seriously injured, it only hurts the muscles and not the bones. The biggest feature of this wild boar meat is that it grows meat quickly.
Don't be picky, just eat it while it's hot."
With that said, Duan Tianming sat in front of Xiao Chen, took out a gourd that was only two inches high from his arms, and opened the stopper on it.
He took out a small paper bag from his arms and opened it, revealing the white powder inside.
After hesitating for a moment, he poured the powder into the gourd.
Suddenly, a "squeaking" sound came from the gourd, and bursts of white smoke came out of the gourd, mixed with a foul smell.
Xiao Chen was startled and quickly turned his head to look.
He even poked his nose and sniffed the familiar "stinky" smell in the air.
Duan Tianming held the medicine gourd in one hand and covered his nose with the other. He looked at Xiao Chen with disgust: "You have been injured, and your hobbies have changed a lot. You have become so fond of this stench."
Xiao Chen didn't answer, and slowly closed his eyes, greedily inhaling the unpleasant stench, but his thoughts had already returned to more than ten years ago.
When I got along with my "old guy" for more than a month, I could smell this "stench" every day.
It was food for two: a half-pot filled with the special flavor of a smorgasbord of various meats.
Although he lived in a ruined temple, Xiao Chen would never forget this special smell of meat.
Slowly opening his eyes, Xiao Chen looked at the small gourd that was still faintly emitting white gas: "Where did you get these things?"
"This morning, I met Wang Zhongzhen, the owner of Jingcheng Zhongzhen Inn, on the street. He heard that you were injured, so he gave me this gourd and medicinal powder, saying that mixing the two has miraculous effects."
"You said it's Wang Zhongzhen, the owner of Zhongzheng Inn? Why did he come to Gongchang?" Xiao Chen looked wary as if he smelled something.
The smell of this medicine is that of the master's pot of stew. Now, it appears in Wang Zhongzhen's hands. Is he the same person as the master?
