Chapter 207: Initiative
Tian Chu was a little surprised. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
At the beginning of spring, the three ancestors and grandsons of the Protector Mansion had returned to the capital, and Zhang Bi, as the steward of the palace, naturally wanted to accompany him. It's only been a long time, why did you come to Guizhou again?
He thought about it, and immediately asked people to push back a few urgent matters at hand, and Han Qing led Zhang Bi in.
Zhang Bi was full of sideburns, and at first glance, he didn't even have time to freshen up and waited outside the door.
Tian Chu and the Protector Mansion have been closely intersecting for more than half a year, and they are all cold-eyed on weekdays, so they naturally understand that this family pays attention to the rules of etiquette, and whether they know guests or servants in the house, if there is no special reason, there will never be this kind of situation where they knock on the door and ask to see if they are not in order.
Tian Chu immediately knew that something was wrong, and he didn't talk nonsense, and asked straight to the point: "What happened to the house?" ”
Zhang Bi saluted and told the story of the attack on Zhou Qin in the Hui Garden, explaining: "The doctor in the Hui Garden and the medicine envoy in the palace all said that the source of the poison came from the miasma in the south, and the old lady specially ordered me to come to the doctor to ask for medicine to see if I could find a way to detoxify." ”
Tian Chu heard that Zhou Qin was severely poisoned, although it was temporarily out of danger, but if the residual poison was not clear, it would cause great damage to his body, his heart tightened, and he hurriedly asked, "What are the symptoms now?" Where to find medicine? You have no clue what to do if you are delayed? ”
Zhang Bi said: "The villain will leave a few people to visit around Guizhou and Yongzhou, and the rest of the subordinates will be brought to Jiaozhi, because the assassin is Jiaozhi, and there should be people in the other country who know this poison." ”
Tian Chu couldn't help frowning, and said: "Go to Jiaozhi, go back and forth for at least a month, the Protector is now busy dealing with the size of the Shenglong Mansion, even if he is in a hurry, he can't pull away, you want to find a Jiaozhi person to recognize the poison, have you brought the source of the poison here?" ”
Zhang Bi said: "Break half of the dagger that stabbed the girl and bring it over." ”
As he spoke, he took out something heavily wrapped in a buttercloth from his bosom and handed it to Tian Chu.
The dagger was sealed very tightly, Tian Chu opened it carefully, and a fishy smell rushed to the end of his nose, and the blood on the tip of the knife was already black, revealing a bit of miserable green.
He thought for a while, called Han Qing over, and said, "I remember that among the group of captives who came from Jiaozhi, there are several of them who are the imperial doctors of Li Qiande and Yilan, you go to investigate, and if there is indeed a fact, bring people over." ”
Han Qing responded and left.
Tian Chu escorted the captives into Beijing, and in addition to the royal family and important ministers, the rest were skilled craftsmen, treasures and beasts, which were the life money that Yilan's mother and son offered to the Great Wei. Cochin produces a variety of medicinal materials such as nootropics, cloves, nutmeg, sand kernels, and produces precious fragrant woods such as agarwood and sandalwood.
After a short time, Han Qing led several people in prison uniforms and shackles on their hands and feet into the door, and said to Tian Chuyu: "There are a total of six Jiaozhi witch doctors and healers sent to the capital, all of them are here. ”
The witch doctor and the healer knelt on the ground and knocked their heads on the ground, not daring to say more, nor daring to move.
Tian Chu put the dagger in his hand in front of the kneeling man on the ground and asked, "Do you recognize what kind of poison this is?" ”
These people used to treat the Jiaozhi royal family, and they were also called nobles in the country, but now they have become prisoners, and everyone is more attentive and active than usual in order to save their lives, and several people rushed to the dagger and studied it carefully.
After a while, one of the older men raised his head and said boldly, "Ask the prime minister to fetch a few live birds." ”
Tian Chu looked at Han Qing, and the other party immediately retreated, and after a while, he went to the street to bring a few chickens and ducks back.
Several doctors carried daggers and made a few small cuts in the abdomen of chickens and ducks to observe the reaction of the raw birds. After more than half an hour, they each prescribed their own prescriptions, and referred to each other, and finally the older person handed it to Han Qing, and said to Tian Chu: "Xianggong, there are three hundred snake and ghost pills in the medicinal materials for Huang Wei this time, take one of them, turn them into water, feed them into it, and grab this medicine to decoction, soak these two raw birds in the medicine basin, spend the night, and tomorrow will be fine." ”
He was afraid that his statement was not detailed enough, which displeased the son of this powerful family, so he hurriedly explained: "This is a kind of centipede poison, this kind of centipede is huge, likes to eat poisonous snakes, if ordinary people encounter it, they will die in their hands, fortunately, there are snake ghost pills in the royal family of Jiaoguo, which is dedicated to the poison of centipedes, with this prescription, it does not take one night to detoxify." ”
Tian Chu bowed slightly, and asked again: "If you are poisoned for a few months, can this medicine still be useful?" ”
The healer shook his head again and again, and said, "If you are bitten by this centipede, don't say a few months, it will be a great blessing if it can last for a few days." After finishing speaking, he looked worried, "I don't know which nobleman in Guizhou City was poisoned by this?" ”
Tian Chu didn't stop him, let Han Qing take everyone down, turned his head to Zhang Bi who was standing aside, and said: "I will separate these medical officers from Jiaozhi, and send a few people to Jiaozhi to find the protector of the country, you don't have to worry about Guizhou and Yongzhou, I will arrange someone to find an antidote, you just need to take these Jiaozhi witch doctors and healers, and bring the snake ghost pill and Jiaozhi to supply the medicinal materials day and night, go back to Beijing first, and solve the poison of the girl in the house first." ”
Although Zhang Bi knew that Zhou Qin's injury was important, Tian Chu's explanation made him startled, and hurriedly asked: "The prince used the tribute without authorization, and used the prisoners alone, if it is known, how can he be impeached?" If this recipe is really useful, why don't I ask the recipe and bring it back to the capital to equip it myself? ”
Tian Chu suddenly looked displeased, and said: "If the prescription is not right, or the symptoms are different, what is wrong with your girl, can you be responsible?!" ”
Zhang Bi was choked speechless by these words, he turned his heart sideways, anyway, if something happened, it was Tian Chu who carried it, not the Protector Mansion, since Tian Chu didn't mind, what else did he care. So he didn't say anything more, nodded, saluted Tian Chu, thanked him, and went out with Han Qing.
Tian Chu stared at the people below and wrapped fifty snake and ghost pills, and asked those witch doctors to bring all the medicinal materials that could be used, and arranged for his trusted personal soldiers to follow Zhang Bi and the others on the road with the healer. He ordered his subordinates to prepare hundreds of fast horses, enough for two horses and one person, or even three horses and one person, to ensure that they could send people to the capital as soon as possible, and then turned his head to take care of the rest of the horses.
He first wrote a secret letter to the Empress Dowager Tian, and he didn't hide it, but generously said that the Protectorate Mansion was kind to him, Zhou Yanzhi had saved his life, not to mention, Zhou Yan also helped him earn a lot of money, and when there was a food disaster in Guizhou, it was all thanks to Zhou Qin's methods to calm down, and now that something happened to this girl, he really couldn't stand idly by.