Chapter 203 Regrettable

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 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 robbed others of their work and even put them in jail! Fortunately, the medical practice used him as an example to treat ordinary people. 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 Miao 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 colluded with outsiders to frame him, and that he had accepted bribes, secretly hid medical prescriptions, and leaked imperial information as an imperial physician over the years since he had been the imperial envoy. All of them were serious crimes.

When you want to seriously punish someone, 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 anymore. What he missed in the past ten years will never 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 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 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 official hospital, without background support and only 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 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 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 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 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 he had lived in 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, called here and there, ready to be abandoned at any time.

People like them are destined to be slaves.

"The nobility of a person's life is determined in the womb." He raised his eyes and said woodenly as if he had accepted his fate: "There is no hope in this life. In the next life, I hope I can be born into a good family."

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

When the word "Amin" came out, Cui Min was stunned for a moment.

He looked at Miao Liangfang.

Miao Liangfang sat in front of the prison. Many years ago, the two of them did the same thing, sitting on the ground in the firewood room in winter, holding medical books and questioning each other, full of expectations for the future.

Time passed quickly. The young boy's hair had turned gray. He was imprisoned and Miao Liangfang also had a limp. Things had changed a lot.

Cui Min lowered his head: "Now that your grievances have been cleared, and you have gone through so much trouble, what are your plans for the future? Go back to the Medical Officer's Office to be your Director?"

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

"I won't go back to the Medical Officer's Office."

"What?"

Miao Liangfang said: "I am old, and my legs are not working well. In recent years, the medical records in Shengjing have changed a lot. The Medical Officer's Office is no longer the Medical Officer's Office of the past. There is nothing I can do if I go back."

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

"In fact, I have already let go of what happened back then." Miao Liangfang said: "I left the cooking of medicinal food, it was my fault in the first place. First. As for you taking away the Miao family prescription, in the end, it is also a move that benefits the world's medical workers and the people, and there is no need to pursue fame. If it weren't for Xiao Lu's efforts, I wouldn't have entangled with you at all. "

"Lu Tong?"

Cui Min frowned slightly, his face was strange, and after a moment, he said: "So that's it."

"What?"

"So you are not the mastermind behind the scenes, it's that girl. She stood up for you, but she chose to use this method. "

He laughed, with a strange look: "The dog that bites doesn't bark. My dog ​​comes down, and her dog goes up, and will bite off a piece of flesh and blood from the Qi family."

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

Cui Min shut up, unwilling to say another word.

The jailer outside came in and rang the copper bell, indicating that the visiting time was over. Miao Liangfang stood up with the crutches.

We met today, and we should never see each other again in the future. This decades-long grudge has finally come to an end.

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

There was no sound behind him.

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

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

The man huddled in the corner buried his hands in his palms, motionless.

After a long, long time, a slight sob came from his palms.

…

Walking out of the prison gate, the sun was shining outside.

The bright sunlight fell on people, and they were at a loss from darkness to brightness, which made Miao Liangfang squint his eyes slightly.

He walked slowly with his crutches along the crowd.

For many years, he had been worried about the injustice he had carried. Whenever he saw his lame leg, the hatred, unwillingness and grievance he had felt at the time would emerge in his heart.

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

Instead, he feels empty.

Cui Min deserves what he deserves, and he should feel happy for the betrayer. However, when he saw the other party in a miserable state in prison, Miao Liangfang felt no joy in his heart, only sighing.

After all, it was indeed he who dragged Cui Min to the spring test, thus changing his life.

Repentance is the medicine to cure the disease, 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 he has been pursuing for half his life. He doesn't know where to go next, and what the meaning of life is. Miao Liangfang felt lost and walked to West Street without realizing it.

Under the plum tree at the door, the waiter was sweeping the fallen leaves on the ground with a broom. Seeing him coming back, he hurriedly greeted him: "Uncle Miao is back at the right time. Sister Yin Zheng bought some grapes. The well water is so sweet. Come and try it--"

"What are you trying to taste!"

Before Miao Liangfang could speak, Du Changqing leaned out from behind the medicine cabinet. The boss was fanning himself with a cattail leaf fan and looked impatient. "The yard is full of freshly harvested herbs. Doctor Lu is out for consultation. There is no one in the clinic. Do I have to clean it up by myself? Who is the boss?"

He was still cursing: "I don't know where they went in the morning, but when it comes to paying the monthly salary, they come one after another. Why, do I have the word "sucker" written on my face? I am so busy all day, and there are so many things to do. Why am I still standing here? Hurry up and work, don't be lazy, eat after you finish! No one is worry-free..."

Yin Zheng winked at him, indicating that the boss was not in a good mood because of the hot weather. Miao Liangfang stood there, not knowing why, the melancholy he had just felt disappeared without him noticing, the empty space in his chest seemed to be constantly filled with something, and he suddenly felt steady.

He slammed his cane on the ground, limped into the medicine shop amidst the chaos, and responded.

"What are you arguing about? I'm here——"