Chapter 43: If You Are Left with Nothing, It Is Time to Leave

Yun Chu can go back to Chang'an to study at Simen Academy soon, which is a good thing.

Fang Zheng will soon go to Yutian, a city that was not severely damaged, to serve as a seventh-rank garrison commander.

He Yuanshan died, but his son was qualified to inherit his career and write his official name on the tombstone - Xuanjie Deputy Lieutenant. If he was more shameless, he could also be promoted to a higher rank and write a rank like Wuqi Lieutenant. The court would not pursue it. After all, the person is dead, and the face that should be given should still be given.

The dead people feel that they have not lost, and the living people also feel that they have not lost. This is the confidence that the Daguanling Yamen can still be happy and not gloomy until now.

Yun Chu even believes that even if the ghosts of He Yuanshan and Liu Xiong are here, they will sincerely congratulate Fang Zheng and Yun Chu.

Fang Zheng killed a surprise and became the Daguanling of Qiuci again. He was waiting for Liang Jianfang to kill all the Turks in the Chuyue tribe before he went to Yutian to take office.

Yunchu was dismissed from his job in the Daguanling Yamen, so he had to report to Liang Jianfang's military medical director as an eighth-rank doctor.

Before leaving, Yunchu and Fangzheng went to the mulberry forest again and dug out all the gold buried by He Yuanshan and others.

They planned to let Fangzheng cast all the gold sand into various ordinary utensils, and take them back with Yunchu when he returned to Chang'an and give them to their families.

Neither Yunchu nor Fangzheng had any intention of beating the gold. In Fangzheng's words, this was not his mother's gold, but human life. If you bite it, you will bleed. This kind of gold, except for He Yuanshan and his family, will not attract ghosts. If others use it, there may be retribution!

That's right, it's the word retribution.

Nowadays, these two words are very popular in the Tang Dynasty. After Master Huiyuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty reorganized the retribution system, it finally blossomed in the Tang Dynasty, and the Pure Land Sect founded by Master Huiyuan also became the most important Buddhist cognition in the Tang Dynasty.

The knowledge of Pure Land Buddhism that Yunchu knew was not from the past, nor from the old monkey, but from the documents of the Daguanling.

The officials of the Tang Dynasty also had ideological education and heroic models. Arousing the sense of shame and honor of officials was also a very important part of the official documents.

It was just a little obscure, not as shameful as in later generations.

The affairs of the Daguanling Yamen had been completely handled. Yunchu would then return to the doctor of the Imperial Medical Bureau to report his position. After the report was completed, he could temporarily stop his official duties and go back to Chang'an to study with the admission notice of the four schools given by Fang Zheng.

Fang Zheng treated Yunchu very well. Not only did he spend 20,000 yuan to buy the miscellaneous medicinal materials that Yunchu got, but he also provided him with 20 camels.

He also kept telling Yunchu that as long as there was an opportunity to make money, he must not miss it. Once he returned to Chang'an, he would have to spend money to move his feet. There was no such loose money-making channel as in the Western Regions.

Only when you have enough capital can you really enjoy the benefits of Chang'an. If you don't have money, staying in Chang'an is suffering. It's better to stay in the Western Regions.

When leaving Qiuci, Yun Chu didn't want to look back.

However, after leaving the gate of Qiuci, his eyes never left this dilapidated city and Fang Zheng standing on the gate.

In these short two and a half months, some people were promoted, some died in the war, some left, and some stayed.

Only this city, except for becoming a little dilapidated, seems to have no changes that can make people remember it.

The battlefield that just experienced a fierce battle is now the safest place on this land. Not to mention robbers, even wild animals are unwilling to easily enter this place with a lot of food.

A vulture that was circling in the air, waiting for an opportunity to eat a bite of carrion, fell from mid-air with a scream of "quack".

Yun Chu put away the bow, pulled the reins, rode the horse and led the camel team to continue to move towards Laoshan.

After the Tang people came to the Western Regions, they all had the habit of naming places, just like Yun Chu named the lake Grasshopper Lake. The name Laoshan was given by Liang Jianfang.

The reason for naming Laoshan is that he has besieged the Turks of the Chuyue tribe on this isolated mountain.

According to the inside information that Yun Chu got from Fang Zheng, Liang Jianfang has no intention of letting these Turks go.

Of course, Fang Zheng's information must have come from one of his brothers-in-law, and the credibility is very high.

Yun Chu didn't know if there was water on the mountain, but it was highly likely that there was no water. It was heard that tens of thousands of Turks were besieged on the isolated mountain. In the past half month, no one knew how they would live.

The mare that Yunchu rode had a bad temper. When passing by the vulture that Yunchu shot down, she stepped on it with her hoof without hesitation, causing its intestines to burst and flow out on its feet. This made the mare very dissatisfied. She shook her hoof and threw it under the camel's feet. Then, the camel's huge paws stepped on the vulture into a meat pie.

After walking for two days and two nights, Yunchu finally saw Laoshan, which was isolated in the Gobi Desert, in the early morning of the third day.

At this time, Laoshan, where there was no tree, was emitting thick black smoke. It seemed that the Turks did not surrender.

Yunchu didn't know why these Turks still insisted. The sun was scorching in the Gobi Desert at the end of July. It was difficult for people to survive for three days without water. I really don't know how they persisted for sixteen days.

There is only one reason for refusing to surrender - the surrender conditions offered by Liang Jianfang made these Turks feel that it is more comfortable to die in battle.

Yun Chu had no sympathy for the current fate of the Chuyue tribe. He had led the Chuyue tribe to herd sheep, horses, cattle, and camels on the fertile grasslands in the southern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains. It was a good job.

He only needed to pay 5,000 sheep, 500 cattle, 300 horses, and 100 camels to the Anxi Army Chief Lu Dake stationed in Yutian every year, and he could lead his Chuyue tribe to live a good life under the protection of the Anxi Army.

But he had a brain attack and wanted to follow Ashina Helu, the traitor, to rebel, and killed Shan Daohui, the envoy sent by Lu Dake to comfort him.

Originally, this was just an internal matter of the Anxi Army. The chief Lu Dake had contacted his own people in the Chuyue tribe and was ready to kill Zhu Xie Guzhu, the leader, and cut off his head and send it to the emperor far away in Chang'an.

The matter had been discussed almost completely, and the distribution of benefits had been discussed long ago. As a result, Liang Jianfang, the general manager of the Gongyue Road, who was looking for Ashina Helu for a decisive battle, heard about this, and the Chuyue tribe could not surrender.

If 30,000 soldiers went out of the pass without killing a few enemies and taking some enemy heads to show their military merits, this was something Liang Jianfang could never tolerate.

Originally, in Liang Jianfang's plan, he used the Chuyue tribe as a trap to lure Ashina Helu's entire army to follow up so that he could solve all the problems in one battle.

As a result, after losing a city of Qiuci and paying a heavy price, Ashina Helu broke camp and ran away overnight after hearing that the Chuyue tribe was surrounded. Half a month was enough time for people to run a thousand miles.

Yunchu signed up to join the baggage camp and met his direct superior He Bingshu He Yizheng as soon as possible.

This was an old doctor over 40 years old. People in the Tang Dynasty generally looked old, especially after growing a half-foot-long beard on their chins. Yunchu believed that he was 60 years old.

His temples were gray, his ten fingers were slender, his nails were white, and his hair was gray but well-nourished and clean. Just these two hands made Yun Chu full of respect for this old doctor. At least, he really looked like a doctor.

Clean! It was the original form of a doctor.

Yun Chu never believed the story that those sloppy, dirty and unkempt old men suddenly jumped out to save a dying person and then claimed to be a world-famous doctor.

Sure enough, as He Yizheng entered the second hall, there were also several strong boys with a height of eight feet and a waist circumference of almost eight feet boiling and picking medicine. Everyone was very busy.

Yun Chu didn't understand why the medicine boys of the doctor's family were all of this size, instead of the boys of those rich families, who had red lips and white teeth and delicate bodies like women.

When he saw a boy carrying a wounded person on his back and two wounded people under his arms walking in from outside, he understood a little.

The boy of the doctor's family is not only responsible for carrying the wounded, but also has to follow the doctor into the mountains to collect herbs from time to time, and also has to protect the doctor's life.

Since there are so many responsibilities, those boys who are only suitable for warming the bed for scholars are naturally not suitable.

The huge courtyard is filled with the fragrance of medicine, and there is no dust on the ground. The most important thing is that there is a faint sour smell in the air. The rooms here should have been fumigated with willow water and vinegar.

From the moment they met, Doctor He did not say a word to Yun Chu. With the arrogance unique to experts on his face, he just gestured to Yun Chu to follow him.

When Yun Chu saw Ding Dayou lying naked on a linen sheet, and then looked at the wounds on his body that were as dense as fish scales, he understood why this proud doctor brought him in.

Despite such a serious injury, Ding Dayou still acted very calm. Seeing Yunchu looking at his wound, he waved his hand and said, "I hit the knife net set by the Turks. Sew it up for me quickly."

The wound on Ding Dayou's body was very fresh. After being cleaned, the rolled skin and flesh were healthy pink, which was very suitable for immediate suturing.

Doctor He just watched coldly and still said nothing.

Until Yunchu took out his special curved needle, and then took out a small gourd filled with willow branch water. Yunchu used a small iron hook to fish out a piece of silk thread from the willow branch water, put it on the curved needle, and began to sew Ding Dayou's wound.

Ding Dayou had too many wounds on his body. Yunchu started sewing at noon. When he finished sewing, the sun had already set. There was nothing he could do. Some wounds were deeper and needed to be sewn more than two layers.

When Yunchu finished his work, Doctor He pulled the thread ends that Yunchu deliberately left outside and said, "Is this for easy removal?"