The night finally lasted until dawn.

Chi Linglong woke up like a dream, and she suddenly felt as if she was continuing to have the dream that made her feel suffocated.

In the dream, she floated smoothly like a rootless duckweed, and her clothes swayed in the water like seaweed; The long hair flows and dances with the floating aquatic plants. It was a beautiful scene, but she only felt cold.

Yet she was awake, as if she had never slept. She clearly heard all the movements in this space: Biyue moved the ice basin out of the inner room, Mother Jiang came in again and touched her hands and feet, and the sound of gongs and the deep shouts of the watchmen sounded outside......

When Biyun ran into the inner room with her skirt and sweating profusely, Chi Linglong had already opened her worried eyes, saw that the girl was in a hurry, and said to her urgently, "Aunt, girl, Liu Zhenniang came to talk back just now, and the medicinal herb that the girl was looking for didn't have any large and small pharmacies in Yizhou City." Not only not, but the shopkeepers and doctors of various families also said that they had never even heard of it. ”

Chi Linglong listened to Biyun's twittering report, but before she could recover from her trance, she looked at Biyun blankly for a long time, and it took a while to react to what Biyun said.

Biyue couldn't wait to ask, "No?" How could there not be? Isn't it just medicinal herbs? Yizhou City is so big, merchants from all over the world gather, goods flow from all directions, and there is no shortage of imported goods, how can there be only one lack of medicinal materials? ”

Although it was still early in the morning, the weather was hot and humid as if it was about to start a thunderstorm, although the two ice basins were set aside indoors, it was quite cool, and Biyue's face was also flushed at the moment; Biyun was already afraid of the heat, and even her clothes were soaked with sweat all the way over, she wiped the sweat of her head with her sleeve, and said with a flushed face, "I don't know either." Last night, I explained this matter to Liu Zhenniang as the girl instructed, and Liu Zhenniang immediately sent someone to inquire. There was not a penny of money to be made, and all the large and small pharmacies went through, but there was still no news after the whole night. The doctors said that they had only heard of the frost rhodo, and had never heard of the decanter grass. ”

A boulder fell from the sky in Biyue's heart, and she was a little out of breath since last night, and now her face was a little blue. Could it be that this thing is really as the girl said last night, lacking a taste of medicinal herbs, and she can't even survive for two days? Biyue's lower lip was bitten and bleeding.

Chi Linglong lay on the bed without the slightest sense of loss, what was expected, but the result really came out, and she was still a little incompetent.

The poison in her body has a very nice name, called "Beauty Sleeps Late in Spring", and also has an alias - "Three-day Nightmare"; The effect of this poison happens to be a combination of these two names.

The ulceration of the whole body is only an outward feature, and what will really kill people happens to be the nightmare of three nights of sleepless after poisoning. That nightmare can collapse people's spiritual threads to the extreme, and as soon as people fall asleep, they will start to recall the most painful things they have ever experienced, and expand that pain in the dream by a hundred times; In the end, the poisoned person will have a nervous breakdown, die in his sleep, or become a mad and stupid fool.

Such a sinister and strange poison has a lot in common with the poison in the cold young man who poisoned her in Wan'an Temple before.

- They all have a femme fatale-like name; They are all recorded in detail in the "miscellaneous books" left to her by Ning!!

In other words, these two poisons actually come from the same family!

Let's assume that maybe that teenager had been poisoned with this poison before?!

Chi Linglong rubbed her temples with a headache, saying that this was not the cold young man's temptation to her, and she didn't believe it herself.

With his mind spinning, Chi Linglong had already guessed the young man's premeditated plan for eight or nine points. I think that when the young man returned her bracelet at first, he did kill her, and wanted to cut her off silently; However, it happened that she had studied the art of poison treatment, and recognized the poison of peach blossom drunkenness in his body, thinking that after she was forced to promise to detoxify him, the young man still did not remind her of the poisoning, and did not give her the antidote, most likely also wanted to try her skills, to see if she was trustworthy, and to consider how much of her ability was in it.

It's just that she doesn't care if she does poison on others, and she doesn't feel uncomfortable. But to find a sense of zài in her, no matter how good Chi Linglong's temperament is, she can't help but be angry; What's more, she herself is not a personality who will suffer a secret loss and not fight back, she not only will repay her eyes, but she will also be good at giving back to her in the other way, really treat her as a daughter of the boudoir who is powerless and can only be at the mercy of others? Snort, it's too much to underestimate a woman's vindictiveness.

Chi Linglong sneered, and then cheered up and asked Biyun, "Is Liu Zhenniang still waiting outside the mansion?" ”

"Yes." Biyun nodded hurriedly, "The slave maid explained to her last night, and asked her to come and report before opening the city gate this morning, whether she found the medicinal materials or not." The slave was afraid that the girl would have any other instructions, so she didn't let her go, and she was still waiting outside the west gate of our house for people to enter and exit. ”

Chi Linglong nodded, frowned and said, "You go out and sue her in a while, and let her pack her things and prepare to enter the mansion in the next two days." After a pause, he said, "If her daughter is left unattended, she will also be brought into the house together." ”

According to the memories of "Chi Linglong" in her previous life, Liu Zhenniang is quite successful in talking and doing things, and she also has plans in her heart, and it is just right to stay to help her now. And after all, she is a girl in the Hou Mansion, and it is too unwise to often deal with people outside the mansion, and it is easy to give people a handle, so it is better to give Liu Zhenniang a serious identity and take her into the mansion. It won't be long before the nails around her will be pulled out one by one, and it's time to train her own people.

After Biyun left, only her and Biyue were left in the inner room. Because she was "seriously ill", Jiang's mother even prevented even mosquitoes from flying in Qinglan Courtyard, but all food and clothing must pass through her hands before they can be delivered to her.

Chi Linglong knew in her heart that this "allergy" really had nothing to do with the people in the house, but Mother Jiang didn't know, and Chi Linglong wouldn't tell her the truth, so she could only smile wryly and watch Mother Jiang act wantonly in Qinglan Courtyard, and even stirred up the lake in the entire Hou Mansion to be a little unstable, but she didn't even dare to mention the slightest opinion.

Right now, Mother Jiang is taking care of her breakfast in the big kitchen, and after thinking for a while, Chi Linglong finally made up her mind to explain to Biyue, "You go to Qingyun Hall for me." "Qingyuntang is her nominal father, the courtyard where Chi Zhongyuan, the biggest boss of the entire Zhongyong Marquis Mansion, lives alone, Chi Zhongyuan lives here for at least half a month in January, and it can be said that the most heavily guarded place in the entire Hou Mansion.

As soon as Biyue heard Chi Linglong's order, her body trembled fiercely uncontrollably. If you want to see Hou Ye, Bi Yue would rather roll around in the oil pot than face the arrogant and loyal Marquis.

Chi Linglong was already in poor spirits, and when she saw Bi Yue's crying face, looking like she was about to die, she couldn't help but laugh out loud, and snorted in a dumb voice, "Look at your cowardice, my father doesn't eat people." ”

It's not a cannibal, but Hou Ye's eyes, like knives, can kill people Ling Chi! Biyue wanted to squeeze out a smile, and worked hard to hypnotize to prove that she was not so afraid of Hou Ye, but after all, she felt that she should not force herself.

Chi Linglong confessed two sentences, Biyue stiffened her face, and repeated it stumblingly to write it down. Seeing her like this, Chi Linglong couldn't help but say again helplessly, "Come on, it's time for breakfast soon, is it possible that you still want to wait in Qingyun Hall for a while?" At this point, Chi Linglong rubbed her temples with a headache again, and urged: "Go quickly, those sisters in the family will definitely come over to 'visit' me after breakfast, and they really can't be at peace for a moment." I'm still counting on you to come back and act with me, so let's go and come back quickly. ”

Biyue stomped her feet, gritted her teeth, and went to Qingyuntang with the generosity and tragedy of the wind and the cold, but in a quarter of an hour, she came back with a white face, her legs swinging, and a stiff smile.

Chi Linglong didn't ask much, and directly asked Biyue to go to breakfast first, and sent her away. However, it was said that in Qingyun Hall, the personal guards who were dressed in black light armor and were about thirty years old turned around and entered the study in Qingyun Hall after seeing Biyue's figure away.

He bowed to the man standing by the window, his movements were meticulous and sonorous, "Master Hou, news from Qinglan Courtyard." ”

The man standing by the window, although he was close to his age, looked to be just over thirty. He has a long figure, wearing a long robe with blue patterns and auspicious clouds, and his hair is only covered with a mutton fat white hosta, looking at the back, he is just an ordinary elegant scribe, and his face is thin and handsome, but his narrow eyes seem to have thin ice in them, which will not melt for thousands of years.

The saluting sergeant didn't hear any reply, and he didn't care, but he continued to report, "The fifth girl just asked the girl to pass a word, saying that she asked Hou Ye to help find the ...... of Guilin grass" Before the word "grass" fell, there was a piercing sound in the study where porcelain fell to the ground and was broken, but it was the man called Hou Ye by the sergeant, and the tea cup in his hand fell off and fell to the ground.

The green jade sunflower petal warm porcelain tea set cracked into pieces, the tea splashed on the ground, the emerald green tea leaves adhered to the floor, the dull sunlight shone in, and the water stains seemed to be slowly plated with scarlet under the gaze of the sergeant......

The sergeant's heart beat violently, it was the first time he had seen him lose his temper after serving Hou Ye for many years. However, after all, he didn't dare to raise his head, and the sergeant could only bite the bullet and say the second half of the sentence again, "The girl said, said, there are still two days." ”

The summer is scorching, but the study is cold as if it has pressed down a snow-capped mountain that has not melted for thousands of years, and the cold and silent atmosphere is like a sword Huo Huo is fighting with a sharp edge, let this sergeant serve by the side of the Zhongyong Marquis for more than fifteen years, it is not the first time to see such a battle, but he is still so frightened that he can't breathe.

After a long time, a light and waveless voice came from the study, and he simply said one word, "Check." ”

The voice did not have the slightest fluctuation of emotion, but just this one word, the killing aura was instantly diffused, as if carrying a violent bloody rain, as if the rolling thunder was close in front of him, and the compelling abuse and killing made the sergeant who bowed down to report under the silence of the cicada couldn't help but kneel on one knee, gritted his silver teeth, and responded with a slight trembling "Yes." ”