Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Lost Dog
As soon as he talked about that group of visitors, Lao Wu immediately lost control of his emotions and shouted like crazy: "It's them, when I talk about them, I can't wait to eat their flesh and sleep their skin!" These turtle grandchildren have hurt me so badly. ”
The scolding rose up for a while, and even the bun that was originally tied on the top of the head was scattered because of too much excitement, and it hung down sparsely.
Looking at Lao Wu, who was hanging his head, Wen Ziqi smiled loudly, looked at the painting boat on the Wei River suspiciously, and said coldly: "Shouldn't you be ecstatic to see them?" How can it be hateful! ”
Old Wu Wenyan was stunned, looked up at Wen Ziqi, and said with a nervous expression: "Why are you ecstatic, they have hurt me so badly." I wandered around like a lost dog, and if it hadn't been for the pity that the young lady had taken me in, I would have been a pile of dry bones. After saying that, he glanced at Nangong Feifei with his eyes, and saw that her expression did not seem to be touched by his words.
"Because they're going to give it to you." Wen Ziqi pointed to the cigarette pouch in Lao Wu's hand and said, "Don't say it so badly, I guess you are pretending to be it." ”
After that, seeing that he looked around at Qin Keqing and Nangong Feifei, he said with a smile: "Have you noticed that he has been avoiding him as far as he is concerned." ”
Qin Keqing smiled slightly when she heard this, and said lightly at the corner of her lips: "Seeing that he wanted to delay time, I wanted to accompany him to act for a while." But I found that his acting skills really embarrassed me. ”
"You two are not tired, but I am tired, and I don't want to play with him anymore!" Nangong Feifei yawned and said lightly.
"Since the two girls are tired, then I don't think there is any need to consume it anymore." I saw that his eyes were shining, and he looked at Lao Wu with a murderous expression.
When Lao Wu heard this, his originally cloudy eyes suddenly turned around, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Miss, don't worry, I didn't say it right away." ”
"Oh, is it? Said it right away? The corners of Nangong Feifei's mouth curled slightly, and she said with a wicked smile: "Since it's almost over, can Brother Wen give my little sister a few thin noodles, so that I can listen to it?" Why did he hate those visitors so much? ”
Wen Ziqi glanced at Nangong Feifei with a smile in his eyes, and said slowly: "Since Sister Feifei wants to hear it, then I will wait a little longer for a cup of tea." ”
"It's easy to say," Lao Wu looked relieved when he heard this, and said with a long breath: "Didn't I say just now that I won a lot of silver from this group of visitors." I thought to myself that these fools from outside the gate probably didn't even know how many sides of the dice were, so they dared to go to the table. But who knew that this group of people would not admit defeat, and gave me a war letter, asking me to bet with him again tomorrow. ”
Wen Ziqi shook his head when he heard this, and said lightly: "There is no reason not to eat the fat meat delivered to the door." ”
"Brother Wen, what you said is so right," Lao Wu gave a thumbs up and said, "I'll tell you the truth, that's what I thought at the time, how could there be a reason to push out the silver sent to the door for nothing, so I agreed." ”
Qin Keqing, who was sitting on the side, smiled and said, "Now I probably regret this decision at that time!" ”
"It's not just regret," Lao Wu sighed, and then said: "The next day I came as promised, everything was expected, and they lost again. ”
"And then," Nangong Feifei glanced at him and asked coldly.
"Seeing that they are running around all the year round, if they lose nothing, what should they do with their wives and children. I said to them, don't gamble, nine out of ten bets, I'm not a cheat, but it's a real kung fu, so you should hurry back to the customs, don't spend it here, you can't win me. Seeing them slipping away, I couldn't bear it, and gave them a few taels of silver as a coil. ”
"I didn't see it," Wen Ziqi's eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked at Lao Wu with a look of surprise and said, "I didn't expect you to have a little conscience." ”
Looking at the floating clouds outside the window, Lao Wu raised his head and laughed, his laughter was full of helplessness: "It is this ridiculous conscience that makes me not a ghost or a ghost, if I didn't say this at the time, I patted my ass and left, I wouldn't have caused so much trouble." ”
"Maybe they deliberately lost to you the first two times." Qin Keqing said lightly.
"It's not that maybe, it's just," Nangong Feifei said with a smile: "Do what you like, this is a common trick, and it's not unusual at all." So before going to the table, he had already been investigated clearly. ”
"Worthy of being a young lady" Lao Wu hurriedly clasped his fists with both hands, and said with admiration: "Say the key point in one sentence." ”
"Don't be flattering here," Nangong Feifei was unmoved, and said with a cold face: "Hurry up and say, how did you get into trouble with them next." ”
"Yes, yes, yes." Lao Wu still smiled, and he was not embarrassed at all.
"Late at night, after the gambling game was over, I went to the restaurant to order a few side dishes because my stomach was empty, and I warmed a pot of old wine and wanted to eat it beautifully."
"Which restaurant?" Qin Keqing stretched out his hand to interrupt Lao Wu's words.
"It seems to be the Four Seas Inn" Lao Wu thought for a while, and said with an affirmative face: "Yes, it is the Four Seas Inn." ”
Nangong Feifei frowned, and said with a surprised expression: "Running from "Nanke Yimeng" to "Four Seas Inn" late at night, the distance in between is not close. ”
"Hehe, isn't this a win" Lao Wu's expression froze, and he said embarrassedly: "It's all car pick-up and drop-off, so it doesn't matter how far or near it is." ”
When Wen Ziqi heard this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, if the person in front of him was not controlled by "Dream Qingfeng", he would also be a well-known figure.
was lamenting the impermanence of the world, and Qin Keqing's voice suddenly sounded in his ears.
"Were they already there before you went, or did they show up after you went?"
Lao Wu gasped and said, "I don't remember this very clearly......"
"Huh?" Nangong Feifei's face tensed when she heard this, and she asked angrily: What did you just say? ”
"Oh, I remember, I went and they showed up not long after." Lao Wu thought for a moment, and said with an affirmative face: "Yes, I went first." As soon as I had finished my food and drinks, I saw a group of them appear at the door and walk straight towards me! ”
"Straight?" Qin Keqing looked at Lao Wu suspiciously.
"Yes, straight, come in through the door and walk straight in front of me." Lao Wu replied without hesitation.
A glimmer of light flashed in Qin Keqing's eyes, and he said coldly: "Understood, you can continue." ”
"They came to my table and thanked me again and again. Seeing that there was a cigarette pouch and pot next to me, he gave me a small pack of tobacco leaves, saying that it was to express his gratitude. ”
"Is this it?" Nangong Feifei stretched out her hand and pointed to the velvet pouch in Lao Wu's hand.
Lao Wu looked down and said, "Yes, that's it." The bearded man at the head also told me that outside their gates, when people are tired, they like to smoke two puffs of this cigarette, and the effect is excellent. I thought to myself that a bag of tobacco leaves would be worth a few dollars, so I didn't refuse. ”
"You are guilty of sin, and you cannot live if you do your own sin. If you weren't greedy for this little bargain, you wouldn't have fallen into this place. Nangong Feifei glanced at him coldly and said, "Go on, what happened?" ”
Lao Wu grinned a few times, and then said: "I still don't believe in evil a little, they say that it can relieve fatigue, I thought to myself, isn't it just a puff of smoke, it can also have this miraculous effect." So I smoked it in front of them. This puff of cigarette made me cut myself off. ”
"That's nature, do you think that "drunk breeze", the first poison in Mobei came for nothing? ”
"How did I know this was poison" Lao Wu shook his head while looking at the cigarette bag and pot in his hand and said: "I always thought that this kind of cigarette was just a big addiction, and I never thought that he was poisonous, what kind of poison is Brother Wen?" ”
Nangong Feifei, as a senior intelligence officer, naturally cares about how this poison is made. If you have this thing in your hands, you are not afraid of being bribed by others. But as far as she knew, there was no such poison in the rivers and lakes.
At this time, seeing Lao Wu asking, he followed Lao Wu's words and said: "Brother Wen, I don't dare to say that I know all about the poison in the rivers and lakes now, but I know seventy or eighty percent of it if I don't say anything." But why haven't you heard of this "drunken breeze" you said? ”
"You will never find the "drunken breeze" in the poison category. Wen Ziqi didn't think about it, so he said: "That's because he is actually a kind of cigarette, a kind of smoke that has been soaked in medicine." ”
"Drug soaking?"
"Yes, soak the tobacco leaves in this medicine and then dry them in the shade." Wen Ziqi pursed his lips and said slowly.
"It's that easy to make?" Qin Keqing looked at Wen Ziqi suspiciously.
"Strange huh! But that's just the way it is. Wen Ziqi smiled lightly.
Nangong Feifei frowned, and said slowly: "It means that what can really control people is this flavor medicine?" ”
"You can also say that," Wen Ziqi nodded and said, "But after it has been burned by tobacco, its effectiveness is more obvious." ”
"Understood" Nangong Feifei nodded, and said thoughtfully: "So there is no record in the rivers and lakes, because he can't kill people, so it's not poisonous." ”
"Yes, the witch doctors of Beiqiang generally use it to relieve cough and pain. It is said to work wonderfully, but we rarely use it here. ”
"Why is it rarely used?" Qin Keqing hurriedly asked.
Wen Ziqi smiled and said, "Because it's too precious, the size of a thumb will probably cost more than fifty taels." ”
"So precious? It's almost like gold. ”
"You're right, it's indeed called soft gold in Beiqiang."
"So what's it called to us?"
"Poppy"
"If it's a poppy, it's really not fatal" Nangong Feifei suddenly nodded with enlightenment and said, "But there's a problem, poppy addiction won't be like him?" ”
"That's because what we use in medicine is poppy husks and poppy seeds, while Beiqiang uses juice."
"Juice?" Nangong Feifei asked suspiciously.
"Yes, it is to take the juice, after flowering and fruiting, when the fruit is still green, find a sunny afternoon, gently cut the outer skin with a knife, or pierce the outer skin three or five places with a silver needle, do not damage its core, the next morning there will be juice overflow, and then scrape it with a bamboo knife into the porcelain, and dry it is soft gold."
When Lao Wu heard this, he finally understood what poison he had been in, so he hurriedly turned around and knelt in front of Nangong Feifei, knocked his head on the ground, and cried: "The old slave knows that the young lady is kind-hearted and bodhisattva-hearted, and the old slave is a dying person when he is old, and he also asks the young lady to help me detoxify." ”
Nangong Feifei looked at Lao Wu with an incredulous expression and said, "What did you just say?" I didn't hear clearly. ”