Lamp Flower Smile

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

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

The Cui family was imprisoned overnight, and Cao Huai, Cui Min's most trusted subordinate, suffered 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 bastard with a beastly face and a heart——

""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!"

Mr. Hu 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."

Mrs. Song spit out a handful of melon seed peels: "Speaking of which, the medical officer who was framed is named 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?"

Everyone said this and 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 isn’t your old Miao here today?”

"There are two medicinal materials missing from the cabinet. Mr. Miao went to the medical clinic to buy more." Yin Zheng said with a smile, "I won't be back until noon!"

…

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

The prison cell was dark and cold, and the bright and scorching summer sun was blocked out, creating 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 the darkness. For some reason, he hesitated a little when it came to the end.

Cui Min was imprisoned.

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

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

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

There is no point in discussing the past. 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 hobbled, stopping in front of a cell.

In the corner of the cell, a person was 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 Yaofang shook his head.

"That's just to show off."

Cui Min raised his head, with a mean look 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 Court?"

Cui Min paused.

"For more than ten years, I still don't understand why you do this?"

Cui Min looked at the people outside the prison.

In the gloomy prison, Miao Liangfang sat 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 as clerks in a drug store together, took part in the spring examination together, and entered the Medical Officer's Hospital together. After everything 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 you gave me the opportunity to enter the Medical College, I should be grateful to you?"

He laughed: "Stop dreaming! You are helping 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 shine!"

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

Cui Min relaxed instead.

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. It was you who 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 arrows 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 talents and how amazing you are as an ordinary person!"

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 someone else to the post of Vice President!"

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 swayed 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 concubine, naturally became the target of Concubine Yan's wooing.

The young and upright vice-president Yi Zheng refused Yan Fei's advances, and the other party took it out on Miao Liangfang's good friend Cui Min.

He was also an ordinary person and had no background support, so it became 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 expecting that Miao Liangfang would become the envoy and the position of deputy envoy would be vacant. With his friendship with Miao Liangfang, maybe This position will fall to you.

However, the truth is that the recommendation letter 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 do you want me to enter the medical hospital? Giving people hope but telling others they don't deserve it, 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? Where can there be so many geniuses in the world? He has also memorized official medical books day by day, and in the end he is just behind others - those who have been in the imperial medical bureau since childhood. He can't compare to the medical officer who learned from him.

It is written in the book: Faintness and mediocrity can be limited or not; those who do not limit their dullness and mediocrity but are tireless in learning are those who are self-reliant.

Fake, all fake.

Studying hard 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 chuckled.

"Miao Liangfang, you could obviously help me. One more step would have made 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 Prescription"."

Miao Liangfang looked at him quietly.

"So, you're living a good life?"

Cui Min paused.

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 in his childhood.

The people he interacted with were all high-ranking officials, and he had almost forgotten where he came from and the hard days of the past. Until now——

The Taishi Mansion abandoned him like a dog.

Just because Taishi Mansion found a better replacement.

In fact, he was not completely without leverage. He knew about 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 "accidentally" said a word to him.

He said that his wife and children were 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 were held in other people's hands, so he had no choice but to hold back.

Miao Liangfang asked him: "Are you a master of human beings now?"

Upper Class.

Cui Min smiled bitterly.

He climbed up to a high place, but he was just a dog of the Qi family. He could be called back and forth and 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 pregnancy."

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

As soon as the word "Amin" 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 thing, 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 life had 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 Officer's Hospital and 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'm not going back to the medical 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 already looked away from what happened back then." Miao Liangfang said: "It was my mistake to leave 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 pursue 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 Huan?"

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 smiled with a strange look on his face: "Dogs that bite don'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 bell to indicate that the visiting hour was over. Miao Liangfang stood up with crutches.

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

He took two steps forward and suddenly stopped again. Without looking back, he 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 person huddled in the corner buried his hands in his palms and remained motionless.

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

…

When we walked out of the prison door, the sun was shining outside.

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

He used a cane and walked slowly along the flow of people.

Over the past many years, he had been brooding over the injustice he had 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.

Instead, it was 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.

After all, he was indeed the one who pulled Cui Min into the spring trial, 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?

Unfortunately, there is no chance to correct it.

It's like completing a major event that I have been pursuing for half a lifetime, but 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 boy 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 disappeared unknowingly. The empty space in his chest seemed to be filled with something, and he suddenly felt at ease.

He put his crutches on the ground, limped into the drug store amidst the hustle and bustle, and said in agreement.

"What's the noise? Just come -"