Denghuaxiao

Chapter 203 Regret

 Two days later, something big happened at Shengjing Medical Clinic.

Cui Min, the envoy of Hanlin Medical Academy today, was accused of framed his colleagues and plagiarized medical prescriptions.

The Cui family was imprisoned overnight, and Cui Min's most trusted subordinate Cao Huai was also in great misfortune.

 When the news spread throughout Shengjing, everyone from officials to ordinary people were surprised.

Everyone in the West Street did not know much about what happened in the imperial city, but they had also heard about the good deeds of the Cui Yuan envoy who entered the Hanlin Medical Officer Academy as a commoner and compiled "Cui's Pharmacology" to benefit the world's medical industry and benefit all people. Now it is suddenly revealed that he is a **** with a human face and a heart of a beast—

""Cui's Pharmacology" was not written by him at all, but by his colleagues. This man is so shameless. He took credit from others and even put them in jail! Fortunately, the medical practice used him as an example for ordinary people to treat Look, you are worse than a beast!"

Hu Yuanwai stroked his long beard, shook his head and said: "Sure enough, one cannot be judged as a gentleman by a moment of praise; one cannot be judged as a villain by a moment of slander."

Sister-in-law Song spit out a handful of melon seed peels: "Speaking of which, the surname of the medical officer who was framed is Miao. He has the same surname as the old Miao on our street. They are both practicing medicine. I wonder if I have known him before. Maybe he is a distant relative?"

 As everyone said this, they turned to look at Renxin Medical Center.

Behind the medicine cabinet, Lu Zhuo was sitting at the table, lowering his head to sort out the medicine books. Doctor Miao was nowhere to be seen.

“Miss Yin Zheng,” Tailor Ge asked, “Why is your old Miao not here today?”

“There are two medicinal materials missing from the cabinet. Mr. Miao went to the medical clinic to buy more.” Yinzheng smiled and said, “I won’t come back until noon!”

 …

Miao Liangfang, who was talked about by everyone on West Street, is standing in front of Shengjing Prison.

The prison cell was cold and dark, with the bright and scorching summer sun blocked out, like two distinct worlds.

The jailer gave him a bronze medal, pointing in a certain direction deep in the prison.

Miao Liangfang took the bronze medal, thanked him, and looked into the depths of darkness. For some reason, he hesitated a little when it came to the end.

Cui Min is in jail.

It was revealed that he colluded with outsiders to frame him. Along with the fact that he had been the envoy of the hospital for many years, he had accepted bribes, secretly hid medical prescriptions, and leaked royal information as an imperial physician... all of them were serious crimes.

When you want to punish a person seriously, there are always many crimes.

He knew everything. Lu Zhuo asked him if he wanted to see Cui Min again. Maybe he would never see Cui Min again in the future. Miao Liangfang thought about it and finally came.

There is no point in discussing the past anymore. What he missed in the past ten years will not come back, but he still decided to see Cui Min again because he still didn't understand something and wanted to ask Cui Min for clarification.

The cane under his hand made a clear sound in the quiet prison. Miao Liangfang leaned on the cane and walked forward slowly and limpingly, and stopped in front of a cell.

 In the corner of the cell, there was a person huddled.

The long gown this man was wearing was stained, his head was lowered, and he was sitting against the wall without saying a word. When he heard the noise, he suddenly raised his head, and when he saw Qing Miao Liangfang's face, he couldn't help but be startled: "Is it you? "

"it's me."

Miao Liangfang put away his crutches, leaned on the prison fence, and sat down on the ground little by little.

Cui Min remained motionless and looked at him coldly: "Are you here to see my joke?"

Miao Liangfang shook his head.

 “That’s just for showing off.”

Cui Min raised his head, with a mean expression on his scarred face, "I haven't congratulated you yet. After setting the trap for so long, I finally got what I wanted. Now that I'm in this situation, I'm satisfied."

"Cui Min," Miao Liangfang looked at him, "I came here just to ask, why did you frame me in the Medical Officer's Hospital?"

Cui Min had a meal.

“It’s been more than ten years and I still don’t understand why you did this?”

Cui Min looked at the people outside the prison.

 In the gloomy prison, Miao Liangfang was sitting outside the cell. His clothes were rough and his expression was as peaceful as before.

　　It’s just that back then, he was in prison and he was outside prison. Ten years passed by in a blink of an eye. In the end, their positions were reversed, and they still reached the current ending.

Cui Min suddenly sneered.

 “Why?” he asked, “Don’t you know it yourself?”

Miao Liangfang frowned.

“Cui Min, you and I worked together as clerks in the drug store, took part in the spring examination together, and entered the Medical Officer’s Hospital together. After all these things in the past, I, Miao Liangfang, asked myself that there was nothing I could not do to you. Why did you treat me like this?”

"What should I do to you?" Cui Min looked at him: "Just because you asked me to take the spring exam and gave me the opportunity to enter the medical college, I should be grateful to you?"

He laughed: "Stop dreaming! You helped me just to fulfill your pretentious heroic dream. You have never thought about my situation at all. You only care about yourself and want to be the limelight!"

Miao Liangfang stared at him: "What did you say?"

Cui Min actually relaxed.

 He looked at Miao Liangfang with an expression that seemed to be crying and laughing at the same time.

"I said back then that I didn't want to take the Spring Examination or enter the Medical Officer's Hospital. I just wanted to live an ordinary life, but you insisted on dragging me to take the Spring Examination and ended up in that hellish place."

"You are a genius, you are a great genius. You can show off in front of the Queen Mother and be loved by the nobles in the palace. The powerful are afraid of the power of the Queen Mother. There are so many medical officers in the Medical Officer's Hospital who are dissatisfied with you. You can ignore it, but they dare not Touch you, but dare to touch me.”

“In those years, I blocked many open and secret attacks for you. If it weren’t for me, you would have been beaten to death!”

Cui Min looked at him contemptuously: "Miao Liangfang, you are too conceited. In fact, you don't understand anything. If ordinary people like us enter the medical hospital without background support and only have medical skills, it is just a job." Target for others."

 “Are you being bullied?” Miao Liangfang was stunned: “Why didn’t you tell me?”

"What's the use of telling you? You have already become the deputy envoy and care about all the people. How can you care about others. I am just your foil, to show how outstanding your talent is as an ordinary person, how amazing you are!"

Miao Liangfang said angrily: "Why do you think so?"

"Why don't I think so? If you had thought about me even a little bit, you wouldn't have recommended anyone else to the position of Vice-Chancellor!"

As soon as these words came out, the prison suddenly became quiet.

Miao Liangfang looked at him: "How do you know..."

"Of course I know."

Cui Min sneered, "This is what Concubine Yan told me herself."

The torches hanging on the walls of the prison were dim and cold without any warmth. They flickered in Cui Min's eyes, causing some pain in his eyes.

At that time, Concubine Yan had just entered the palace, and several concubines in the harem were fighting openly and secretly. Miao Liangfang, as the most prosperous deputy envoy, naturally became the target of Concubine Yan's wooing.

 The young and upright vice-president Yi Zheng refused Yan Fei's attempts to win over her, and the concubine took it out on Miao Liangfang's good friend Cui Min.

 He is also an ordinary person and has no background to support him. It is a sin to get close to Miao Liangfang. Concubine Yan randomly found an excuse to grab his pigtails and threatened to throw him into prison.

Cui Min knelt down and begged for mercy.

“Actually, why do you have to be loyal to Miao Liangfang?”

The woman in the high position casually allowed the palace maid to dye her hair, and threw a letter in his face, "He is going to be the envoy soon, but he is not even willing to recommend you to the position of deputy envoy."

“You make him your friend, but he looks down on you. Don’t you think it’s sad?”

 He reached for the letter tremblingly.

 The letter contained a recommendation from the deputy director of the Medical Academy.

He knew that Miao Liangfang was about to be promoted to the position of envoy, and he had sincerely congratulated him. He was secretly looking forward to it. Miao Liangfang became the envoy and the position of deputy envoy was vacant. With his friendship with Miao Liangfang, maybe This position will fall to you.

However, the truth is that the letter of recommendation recommended several other medical officers with considerable backgrounds, and his name was not among them.

 His friends deserted him.

It was quiet in the prison. Miao Liangfang looked at him and said, "I didn't recommend you because the position of vice-president depends on the results of the official assessment, and your results are not up to standard..."

"So?" Cui Min interrupted him: "What do you want to say? My medical skills are mediocre and cannot compare to a genius like you. After entering the medical hospital, I can't prescribe new prescriptions like you to please the Queen Mother, nor can I His performance in the official assessment was outstanding, so under your 'impartial' leadership, he was not even included in the list of recommendations. "

“Since I am incompetent and mediocre, why should I be admitted to the medical hospital? Giving people hope but telling others they are unworthy, Miao Liangfang, don’t you think this is too hypocritical!”

 In the empty prison, hoarse voices echoed in all directions, creating strange echoes.

Cui Min laughed sarcastically.

Who doesn’t want to climb up, who doesn’t want to be a master? How could there be so many geniuses in the world? He also struggled to memorize official medical books day by day. In the end, he was just behind others - those who studied in the Imperial Medical Bureau since childhood. He is simply incomparable to the medical officer. It is written in the book: Faintness and mediocrity can be limited but cannot be limited; those who do not limit themselves to be faint and mediocre, but are not tired of learning are those who are self-reliant.

 Fake, all fake.

 Diligence cannot make up for stupidity. It is simply impossible for a mediocre person to work his way up to a high position.

“So, you framed me for this?”

Cui Min smiled.

“Miao Liangfang, you could obviously help me, take one more step and make my life better, but you didn’t.”

“Since you haven’t thought about me, what qualifications do you have to ask others to think about you?”

Cui Min sighed: "You have medical skills, but you don't know how to use them. "Miao's Prescription" has no value in your hands. Its real value is not to benefit the world. No matter how great a person's benefit to the world can be, Go? Its real value is that it can be exchanged for wealth and future, and it can abandon those useless reputations and make people live a good life. "

 “This is the true meaning of the existence of "Miao's Good Prescriptions"."

Miao Liangfang looked at him quietly.

 “So, you’re living a good life?”

Cui Min had a meal.

 Over the years, he has reached the position of envoy, a higher position than Miao Liangfang. He also married a wife and had children, bought a mansion, and his study was more gorgeous and spacious than the entire drug store where he worked when he was young.

 The people who come and go are all high-ranking officials, and he has almost forgotten where he came from and the hard days in the past. Until now—

The Taishi Mansion abandoned him like a dog.

 Just because Taishi Mansion found a better replacement.

 He was actually not without any leverage. He knew Qi Yutai's epilepsy and could use it to threaten him. He even had such an idea in his mind, but it was quickly dismissed.

 Just because the jailer who came to deliver the meal "unintentionally" said a word to him.

　　It is said that his wife and children are suffering from cold in prison.

Just one sentence, no more resistance.

 He cannot threaten him because his wife and children are still in the other party's hands. Now his wife and children can still survive, but if he doesn't know what's good and what's good, he won't even be able to save his life.

His important things are in the hands of others, so he can only hold on to them.

Miao Liangfang asked him: "So, are you now a master of others?"

Upper Class.

Cui Min smiled bitterly.

He climbed up to a high place, but he was just a dog of the Qi family. He was called here and there and could be abandoned at any time.

 People like them are destined to be slaves.

　　"The value of human life is born in the womb." He raised his eyes and said calmly as if he was resigned to his fate: "There is no hope in this life. In the next life, I hope I will be reborn in a good fetus."

"Being humble and poor is not a disgrace to a scholar." Miao Liangfang shook his head: "Amin, no one can decide where they are born. It is not your fault or mine."

As soon as the word "Ah Min" came out, Cui Min was stunned for a moment.

 He looked at Miao Liangfang.

Miao Liangfang was sitting in front of the prison. Many years ago, the two of them were doing the same, sitting on the floor in the woodshed in winter, holding medical books and questioning each other, full of expectations for the days to come.

Time passed by quickly, and the young boy's hair on the temples had turned gray. He was imprisoned as a prisoner, and Miao Liangfang was also lame in one leg, and his personality had long since changed.

Cui Min lowered his head: "Now that you have been vindicated and have gone through such a big circle, what are your plans in the future? Return to the Medical Court to be your envoy?"

He laughed sarcastically: "It seems that this position is destined to be yours, and no one else can take it away."

 “I won’t go back to the hospital.”

"What?"

Miao Liangfang said: "I'm old and can't use my legs anymore. Over the years, Shengjing's medical record has changed a lot. The Medical Officer's Hospital is no longer what it used to be. I can't do much if I go back."

Cui Min stared at him strangely: "I thought you did this to get back the position of envoy."

"Actually, I have looked past what happened back then." Miao Liangfang said: "I was wrong in leaving the cooking of medicinal diet. As for you taking away "Miao's Prescription", in the final analysis, it will also benefit the world's medical workers and benefit the world. There is no need to chase fame for the actions of the people. If it weren’t for Xiao Lu’s efforts, I wouldn’t be entangled with you at all.”

 “Lu Tong?”

Cui Min frowned slightly, with a strange look on his face. After a moment, he said: "That's it."

"What?"

"It turns out that you are not the mastermind behind the scenes, but that girl. She stood up for you, but she chose to use this method."

He laughed with a strange look on his face: "A biting dog doesn't bark. When my dog ​​comes down and her dog comes up, it will bite off a piece of Qi's flesh and blood."

Miao Liangfang frowned: "What are you talking about?"

Cui Min closed his mouth, unwilling to say another word.

 The jailer outside came in and rang the brass bell to indicate that the visiting hour was over. Miao Liangfang stood up with crutches.

If we see you today, we should never see you again in the future. The decades-long grievances have finally been settled.

He took two steps forward and suddenly stopped again. He did not look back, but turned his back to the prison and said, "Amin, have you ever regretted getting to this point?"

 There is silence behind you.

 He waited for a moment, but no one responded, so he sighed softly and limped away on crutches.

After he left, there was no trace of anyone in the empty cell.

 The man huddled in the corner buried his head in his hands and remained motionless.

 After a long, long time, a slight cry came out from the palm of my hand.

 …

 Out of the prison door, the sun is shining outside.

The bright sunlight fell on people, and they were confused from darkness to brightness, causing Miao Liangfang to squint his eyes slightly.

He was walking slowly along the flow of people, leaning on a cane.

Over the past many years, he has been brooding over the injustice he carried. Every time he saw his lame leg, the original hatred, unwillingness and grievance would emerge in his heart.

Now that the great revenge has been avenged, the instigator has been imprisoned, and the truth has come to light, but he is not as happy as he imagined.

 On the contrary, it is empty.

Cui Min brought it upon himself, and he should have been pleased with the betrayer. However, when he saw the other party's miserable state in prison, Miao Liangfang felt no joy in his heart, only sighs.

 In the final analysis, he was indeed the one who pulled Cui Min into Chunshi, thus changing his life.

 Repentance is the medicine that cures illness, but it is more valuable to change it.

I wonder if Cui Min regretted it in the end?

 It’s a pity that there is no chance to correct it.

It is like completing a major event that has been pursued for half a lifetime, and I don’t know where to go next, and what is the meaning of life. Miao Liangfang felt lost and walked to West Street without realizing it.

Under the plum tree at the door, the young man was sweeping the fallen leaves with a broom. When he saw him coming back, he hurriedly greeted him: "Uncle Miao came back just in time. Sister Yinzheng bought grapes. Jingshui Town is extremely sweet. Hurry and try it -"

 “Taste something!”

Before Miao Liangfang could speak, Du Changqing leaned out from behind the medicine cabinet. The owner waved the cattail leaf fan with an impatient expression on his face, "The yard is full of medicinal materials that we just collected. Dr. Lu went out to give a diagnosis. There is only one person in this hospital." No, do you want me to take care of it alone? "Who is the owner?"

He cursed to himself: "Everyone disappeared so early in the morning, but when the money was handed out, they arrived more quickly than one after the other. Why, do I have the word "taken advantage of" written on my face? I have been so busy all day that I can't touch my feet. "Hey, there are so many things to do, why are you standing here? Work quickly and don't be lazy. Eat after you're done!"

Yin Zheng winked at him, indicating that Tianre's boss was not in a good mood either. Miao Liangfang stood on the same spot. For some reason, the sadness just disappeared without realizing it. The empty space in his chest seemed to be filled with something unconsciously, and he suddenly felt at ease.

　　He put his crutches on the ground and limped into the drug store amid the bustle of business, while saying something conciliatory.

 “What’s the noise, just come—”