Chapter 44: Burning Heart Grass
I saw that the golden phoenix waved its wings, bringing up a strong wind, and a bright path of light opened up in the pitch-black middle collar, "Master, go back along this road!" Remember Feng Lin, the tenth day of the winter month, save me. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Time is running out, the master ......" said, Jin Feng's body gradually faded away again, and disappeared into the darkness.
I ran back along the path of light, and the darkness was gradually eroded behind me. I ran sweating, this road is still endless, I secretly scolded my mother in my heart, when I came, I didn't feel so far! What bothered me even more was that the road was gradually disappearing, and I was startled and quickened my pace and ran forward like crazy.
Just as I was overwhelmed by the fact that the road was about to disappear, I heard someone calling me from afar, one after another.
"Lingxue ......"
"Lingxue, wake up quickly!"
"Lingxue ......"
It sounded familiar, and I followed his voice step by step.
I don't know how long it took, I felt my body slowly recovering, moved my fingers, and slowly opened my eyes, the strong light came instantly, shaking my eyes very uncomfortable, I closed my eyes for a while, and when I opened them again, I got used to the light, and my mouth was bitter, as if I had drunk a lot of bitter medicine.
Sunlight spills into the room through the panes, creating warm spots on the floor. I moved, I felt that my body was heavy, something was pressing, my eyes moved down, and a cold and detached handsome face came into view, a pair of good-looking sword eyebrows were locked, and the eyebrows were full of tiredness. Ouyang Zhi sat on the edge of the bed, most of his body was pressed against me, and he was sleeping soundly at the moment.
He wouldn't have been here all night, would he? I raised my hand slightly to smooth his tightly knit brow, but my fingers stroked it, and then my brow locked deeper. Dense fine sweat also broke out from the tip of his nose, and he kept muttering in his mouth: "Don't." Don't go ......" or something like that.
What did he dream of in his dream, his brows were so tightly furrowed. Looking at Ouyang Zhi like this, I felt a little distressed, but I immediately thought of the purpose and conspiracy behind him, my eyes were cold, and I quickly withdrew my hand.
Xu is movement was too large, waking up Ouyang Zhi, he slowly opened his sleepy eyes, and his first reaction when he saw me was first joyful, but it was quickly covered up by his usual indifference. The voice was a little hoarse and asked, "Wake up!" Is there anything wrong with it? ”
I shook my head, looked at him still on top of me, and pointed, "You ......"
Ouyang Zhi reacted at this time, awkwardly got up from me, and stood tall in front of my bed, blocking the warm sunlight behind him.
I had a lot of questions to ask him, but before I could open my mouth, I heard him say, "Are you hungry?" I'm going to get some food. Seeing me nod, he turned and left the room. I was really hungry and felt like I had slept for a long time. Lying on the bed waiting for a little boring, looking at the sun outside the window is very good, I lifted the quilt to get up, but found that my body was so weak that I couldn't use my strength at all, I struggled for a long time, and finally stood up swaying by the bed frame, as soon as I let go, my head was a little dizzy, and my legs fell straight forward.
Ouyang Zhi had just stepped into the house with food, and when he saw that I was about to fall to the ground, he hurriedly put the tray in his hand on the table, and rushed forward to support me in three steps and two steps. The tone was full of care.
I was not annoyed by him drinking like this, but laughed, "I've been lying down for too long, and I've thought about it, but my body doesn't obey." When Ouyang Zhi heard this, he glared at me angrily, helped me to the table and sat down, and sat down opposite me, and put the food in the tray in front of me the same, a bowl of white porridge and two light side dishes. I looked a little unhappy, I thought I was hungry enough to eat a cow now, and he actually gave me this, so I'm sick too.
Seeing my expression, Ouyang Zhi picked up a porcelain bowl and handed me a bowl of white porridge for me, explaining: "You are weak, so you have to eat light." ”
Although I was not happy, but I couldn't help being hungry, I took the porridge, the faint aroma of rice came to my nose, I swallowed my saliva, scooped up a large spoonful of porridge and sent it to my mouth, the polished rice was soft, and the rice fragrance slipped into my throat between my lips and teeth. If I was really hungry, everything was delicious, and spoonful after spoonful of rice porridge entered my stomach, and soon, a bowl of porridge was at the bottom. In the meantime, Ouyang Zhi gave me a few dishes, and handed me a second bowl of porridge, I asked Ouyang Zhi while eating: "Why are you back, aren't you going to leave for seven days?" ”
He gave me a chopstick dish, and Fang said, "I forgot to take something important." "I heard something wrong with his tone, he could have put something important in the palace, and he didn't bring anything with him when we came! Although I was puzzled, I didn't ask any questions, and with what I knew about him, I was afraid that someone would get angry if I asked him again.
"Ouyang Zhi, how long have I been asleep? What about the fluffs? I asked.
Ouyang Zhi raised his eyes and glanced at me, his expression was a little complicated, and he replied to me coldly for a while: "You have been poisoned by the heart burning grass and have been asleep for three days and three nights. He glanced out the window again, and then said, "I'll ask Su'er to inform the emperor that you are awake, and hurry up and cover the veil after eating." After that, he gave me another chopstick dish.
"Heartburn grass? What poison it is, never heard of. How could I have fallen for this poison? I asked in surprise. I haven't eaten anything for the past two days! Either to the palace banquet or to the queen mother's dinner, everyone ate the same as mine that day, it could not be that I was the only one who was poisoned, and I couldn't figure out what the problem was. So I carefully recalled the situation of that day, I only realized that I was unwell after I came back, and the dinner was eaten with the queen in my palace, so there should be no problem, and the queen mother was there...... I suddenly remembered the snack. Only I have one more plate of steamed chestnut cake with osmanthus sugar than others, is this the problem?
The dim sum was specially ordered by the queen mother, could it be that the queen mother wants to harm me? No, it is absolutely impossible, not to mention anything else, I have only met the queen mother for the first time, even if it is because of the matter of Concubine Zhen, the queen mother does not need to do this, and there is no reason to harm me. What's more, he was so stupid as to be so blatant in front of his royal brother and queen in his own palace. It's not the queen, she is interested in befriending me, and she doesn't have that much courage. Who could that be?
Ouyang Zhi seemed to sense that I might have thought of something, poured me a cup of tea, lowered it, put it in front of me, and said, "The poison is in the cup of tea you drank." ”
When I heard this, I almost squirted out of the mouthful of porridge in my mouth, "What? It's tea. Shouldn't it be that plate of steamed chestnut flour cake with osmanthus sugar? Everyone drank tea, why was I the only one who was poisoned? "I threw a couple of questions in a row. I thought it was a problem with the dim sum, but I didn't expect it to be the tea that everyone was drinking.
Faced with my questions, Ouyang Zhi poured himself a cup of tea without hurrying, took a sip, and then said: "Burning Heart Grass is a strange poison that grows in extremely cold places, and the poison of the poisoned person has a slow onset, some after a few hours, and some may also take a day or two, according to the physique of the poisoner. From the beginning of the heart, it burns like a fire all over the body, and if there is no antidote within five hours, the body will gradually burn with fire, and the heart will burn until it is exhausted and die. Hence the name. This poison is colorless and tasteless, and it is not easy for ordinary people to detect. Originally, your cup of tea was fine, but this poisoner was clever enough to smear the poison of the heartburn grass on the edge of the lid of the cup, and when you used the tea lid to open the tea leaves and drink tea, the poisonous juice seeped into the tea, and you didn't know it. ”
I was shocked to hear it, but it wasn't over yet, Ouyang Zhi continued: "And the person who poisoned him used the extra plate of steamed chestnut cake with osmanthus sugar as a cover, if someone detects it, the first thing that everyone thinks of is the same as you, which is the problem of that plate of dim sum." But there was indeed a problem with that dim sum, and the dim sum was tampered with, and there was a lot of arsenic. ”
I feel that my heart is in my throat, and there is actually a burning heart grass and arsenic, and I feel a chill in my heart, this person's vicious means are to kill me, and I have made preparations with both hands, under the double protection, I am certain to die. Another question flashed in my mind, "Why didn't the arsenic attack immediately?" I asked Ouyang Zhi.
"Because the toxicity of the two is suppressed by the poison of the heart-burning grass arsenic, the arsenic does not attack so quickly." After Ouyang Zhi finished speaking, the chill in my heart rose little by little, it was only six or seven days since I came back, who had such a big grudge against me. I went through everyone in my mind, ruled out the possibility one by one, and finally there was one person left - Concubine Zhen.
Since the first day I entered the palace, I formed a bond with her, and then I fought against her several times, and insulted her in public that day, presumably she hated and poisoned me, so she poisoned me to death. My eyes were cold, the porridge bowl in my hand was heavily placed on the table, thinking of her refining Gu to the queen, a trace of hatred flashed in my eyes.
"The emperor has sent someone to investigate this matter thoroughly, so don't follow it anymore. Fortunately, you died this time, and the poison of that person was light, and the poison of arsenic was somewhat restrained, so you escaped. But immediately, Ouyang Zhi's attitude changed, "You said you Feng Lingxue!" It's only been a day since I left, and you've made yourself look like this, it's not fun to die once, and you want to die a second time, right? His emotions suddenly became excited, and his face was a little colder than usual, "Feng Lingxue, this seat warns you, your life is mine, please give me some pity." ”
I was a little stunned by what he said, this person was fine just now, how can he change his face faster than the sky! I nodded stunned, I lost any appetite, and my strength recovered slightly, so I pulled up the robe that was placed on the hanger not far away and put it on my body, covered the veil and said to Ouyang Zhi: "Okay, I will be careful in the future, the sun is so good, go out for a walk with me!" ”
Ouyang stopped breathing, but still helped me up and walked out. The relationship between me and him seems to have begun to change a little subtly, but in any case, I have not forgotten that we were only brought together because of a transaction, and nothing else should be thought of.