Chapter 169: Antidote? Poison?
Gongsun Xian was such a shrewd person, he immediately sensed that something was wrong, he glanced at He Linwan, and then squinted slightly at the white jade medicine box in He Linwan's hand: "But there is a problem with this medicine?"
He Guanglie's face changed when he heard this, he walked over quickly and directly snatched the box in He Linwan's hand, and asked Wei for a handkerchief, wrapped a pill in his hand, carefully examined it, and put it under his nose to smell it, and when he wanted to lick it and taste it, Gongsun Xian shouted in disgust: "He Laosan, you shut up for me! If the medicine is okay, how do you tell me to eat it after you lick it!"
He Guanglie glanced at Gongsun Xian: "It's a matter of life and death, you are poor and fast! It's like you haven't eaten Lao Tzu's saliva!"
Gongsun Xian was shocked, trembling and pointing at He Guanglie and said, "You, you, you, what are you talking about!"
He Guanglie grinned, revealing a triumphant scoundrel: "After you designed to frame Lao Tzu for peeing in Lord Li's wine jug, Lao Tzu spit in your tea for a month!"
Gongsun Xian thought about it for a while, and then grabbed his throat and retched on the bed.
He Guanglie: "Hahahaha-"
Wei, He Linwan: "......"
He Linwan took the medicine box back from He Guanglie's hand, sat down at the table, and she took out a dagger and cut the four pills in the box in half one by one. Discovering He Linwan's movements, Gongsun Xian and He Guanglie also looked at it.
"What's wrong?" He Guanglie leaned over and looked at the pills and said suspiciously.
He Linwan carefully inspected it and said, "Generally speaking, if the medicine is deliberately packed in a jade box with excellent color. In addition to being used as a gift or as a reward from above, there is another reason, that is, after the medicine is refined, its certain medicinal properties need to be maintained with a jade box. ”
Hearing this, Gongsun Xianyan patted the bed board and said, "Well, that makes sense! Looking at people like Doctor Sun, it doesn't seem like they would be extravagant enough to use a jade box to hold medicine." ”
He Guanglie touched his chin and said, "What if it's really because the medicinal properties in this antidote need jade to maintain?"
He Linwan shook his head: "I have seen the list of medicinal materials listed by those imperial doctors before, and their medicine is only a difference in proportion with Doctor Sun's medicine, which Doctor Sun also agreed with after reading their prescriptions before. None of those herbs have any medicinal properties that need to be preserved in this way. ”
After He Linwan carefully compared, he used a dagger to pick out half of the pills and cut them finely, until he found some small black particles in them, because the pills were brown, these particles were only slightly darker than the color of the pills, and the particles were not large. So it's hard to spot.
He Guanglie reached over and wanted to take it in his hand and look at it carefully. He Linwan hurriedly blocked his hand: "Father, don't touch it." ”
He Guanglie frowned and just wanted to speak, but suddenly blinked his eyes and stared at those small particles and said suspiciously: "I seem to have seen these things move just now?"
He Linwan wrapped the remaining three pills with a handkerchief, and then chopped up the pill that found unknown particles and packed it separately in the jade box. Close the lid tightly.
He Linwan got up and handed the three pills wrapped in handkerchiefs to Gongsun Xian. He smiled and said, "These three should be antidotes, yes." ”
After Gongsun Xian took it, goosebumps appeared on his arms. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said to He Linwan: "Girl, are you sure? It's a living human life! If you die, you can't come back!"
He Linwan thought for a while and sighed: "Uncle Gongsun, I'm just guessing, how can I be sure?" But if you take this antidote, you still have at least half of the chance of survival, if you don't eat it, you will definitely die." ”
Gongsun Xian immediately looked at He Guanglie beggingly: "Ah Lie!"
He Guanglie still didn't have He Linwan's cold heart, he said: "If you don't eat it yet, I'll send someone to find Doctor Sun back!
Wei also frowned and asked, "Ah Wan, how do you know that only one medicine has a problem, and the other three are fine?"
He Linwan took out the paper bag wrapped in three candied fruits: "Because there are only three candied fruits given by Doctor Sun, with Doctor Sun's one-eyed style, the real antidote should be three, and the fourth one is afraid that someone will steal it in." ”
"What the hell is that poison? No, if you really want to poison me, you'll lose all three antidotes. You saw something moving in there just now, aren't you dazzled?" Gongsun Xian asked He Guanglie.
He Guanglie rolled his eyes: "Are you old and dizzy?"
Gongsun Xian couldn't help but set his eyes on He Linwan: "My daughter knows a lot, do you know what it is?"
Although He Linwan was already nine points sure in his heart, he still said in an uncertain tone: "I guess it may be Gu, I heard that some Gu worms feed on jade." ”
"Yo he! Who has such a big enmity with Lao Tzu!" He Guanglie felt that it was wrong after speaking, and pointed at He Guanglie and said, "No, who has such a big enmity with you!
He Guanglie looked puzzled: "How do I know! Besides you, have I offended anyone?"
He Linwan interrupted the impending quarrel between the two very predictably: "The purpose of using Gu should be to control, so who is the one who will attack will automatically appear one day, so we don't have to speculate at this time." ”
He Guanglie and Gongsun Xian glanced at each other and stopped talking.
He Guanglie sent people to look for the whereabouts of Imperial Physician Sun, but as expected, he did not find it, and even the medicine boy of Imperial Physician Sun was missing. Doctor Sun has always been the head of the dragon and does not see the end, so his disappearance did not arouse any suspicion, not to mention that he also left a note in his residence, saying that he had something to go out and let people not find him.
He Linwan didn't tell Zhao Yingchuan about it, no matter whether the Zhao family didn't know about it or it was premeditated, or even Zhao Yingchuan was calculated, He Linwan decided to pretend not to find out that there was a problem with the medicine and wait and see what happened.
That night, He Linwan sat alone in the room, on the table in front of her was the white jade box containing Gu, the jade box emitted a soft halo under the orange candlelight, He Linwan stared at the box quietly and didn't know what he was thinking.
He Lin sat all night, and when the candles on the candlestick burned out and went out, she didn't move until the morning dawn appeared outside the window, and the rooster crowed three times.
He Linwan finally stood up, walked to the bookcase, took out the pen and ink, laid out the paper, and hung his wrist for a long time before putting a pen on the white paper: "The box contains 'Solving Jun Worries', although it has been hit by the mother Gu, but it has not been taken by anyone within seven days, the mother Gu has lost its effect." You can take the blood of the person who is the mother's body every day, feed the Zi Gu in the box for three days, and then choose a Zi Gu and feed it alone for seven days to make it a mother Gu, the mother serves the mother Gu, and the child body serves the Zi Gu. From now on, the offspring must not go against the mother's wishes, otherwise it will endure the pain of gnawing bones and eating the heart, and if the offspring has murderous thoughts about the mother's Gu, the intestines will be pierced and rotten to death. If the mother dies, the offspring cannot live alone. Those who have become descendants can no longer be 'relieved' by others. “
After He Linwan finished writing, he looked at his handwriting and was stunned for a long time, and then added a sentence at the end one by one: Wangjun thinks twice, so that he can do it himself.
He Linwan sealed the written envelope, wrote two more letters, and by the time she was done with these, it was already bright outside.
Chunxiao came in to serve He Linwan to freshen up, and couldn't help but be startled when she saw He Linwan sitting in front of the small bookcase, still wearing yesterday's clothes.
He Linwan packed the three letters and the jade box and handed them to Chunxiao: "Send them to the dock for me and hand them to a ranger named Cui Yan." ”
Chunxiao was stunned, and couldn't help but ask: "Girl, send it to the dock?
He Linwan and the Zhao family were all through He'antang Pharmacy, and occasionally they needed help with something, and they also entrusted the shopkeeper of He'antang Pharmacy, Chunxiao is now familiar with He'antang's shopkeeper and guys.
He Linwan shook his head: "This is to be sent to the capital, not to follow the path of the Zhao family." After a pause, He Linwan instructed again, "The stakes are very high, you go in person." ”
Chunxiao learned that this was entrusted with an important task, and immediately straightened her spine and nodded seriously: "Don't worry, girl, it will be delivered!"
Because He Linwan told Gongsun Xian and He Guanglie that they would personally deal with this Gu, they just asked a question afterwards and threw it away.
He Guanglie wanted to ask Gongsun Xian to wait until the deadline was approaching, if Imperial Doctor Sun did not show up, the Imperial Physician would not have time to prepare the antidote before taking the three antidotes.
But Gongsun Xian is not a timid character, and never plays cards according to the rules, in the morning after getting the antidote three days later, after breakfast, he wiped his mouth and said in a very casual tone: "By the way, I have finished eating the three pills, and I did not feel any discomfort, it should be the antidote." ”
He Guanglie was stunned when he heard this, and suddenly got up: "What did you say?
Gongsun Xian took a sip of tea comfortably: "I ate it." ”
He Guanglie couldn't believe it: "Eat all three?"
Gongsun Xian smacked his lips: "Well, it's really bitter!"
He Guanglie was so angry that he rushed up and lifted Gongsun Xian's collar: "Didn't you ask you not to eat it yet? Will you die if you wait? Will you die? Ah? Will you die? Why don't you tell us before you take it! What if there is a problem with the medicine!"
Gongsun Xian wiped the spit on his face, and said angrily: "I want you to agree to take a pill? Are you my father or my mother? Lao Tzu is a man who stands up to the sky, and he hesitates to take a pill, do you think about this is Lao Tzu's style of doing things with your ass?"
……
He Linwan silently cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks used by Gongsun Xian, and walked out without caring about himself.
As the days passed, Gongsun Xian's body gradually improved, and the swelling and bruises on his face slowly faded and began to return to his original contours, and Doctor Sun's antidote took effect.
Seeing that Gongsun Xian was about to be exposed if he impersonated him again, He Guanglie lay back on the bed aggrievedly and became himself. And Gongsun Xian picked a good day and left the He family for nearly two months. (To be continued.) )