Chapter 47: Poisoning

Seeing that it was time for lunch, Ran Qiunian didn't stay long, and was satisfied with Qingxi and followed behind Xiugu and went back to Zhuangzi together.

The three of them went directly to the small kitchen in the village, poured the two baskets of mushrooms on the table, and let Xiu Gu check them one by one.

Although these mushrooms contained two bamboo baskets, the baskets were not large, and the actual number was not much, and Xiu Gu picked out the poisonous mushrooms inside after a while.

Ran Qiunian sat aside and waited for Xiu Gu to finish reading, Qingxi handed her a clean handkerchief, wiped the mud on her hands, and poured another cup of tea.

Ran Qiunian drank slowly, and after watching Xiu Gu finish sorting the mushrooms on the table, she put down the tea cup in her hand and leaned over to ask curiously.

"How is it, Master Xiugu, did I pick more poisonous mushrooms or more from Qingxi?"

Qingxi looked at the rare childish Ran Qiunian with a smile, and looked at Aunt Xiu with some anticipation when she heard the words.

"Qingxi picks more mistakes." Xiu Gu glanced at the two piles of poisonous mushrooms that she picked out and threw away, and gave a number.

Hearing this, Ran Qiunian couldn't help but feel a little proud, looked at Qingxi and laughed: "Qingxi, you lost, you are willing to gamble and lose, you have to make me osmanthus cake to eat at night!" ”

"Yes, yes, Miss is the best."

Qingxi laughed and coaxed Ran Qiunian, who was full of joy.

"Hey, why did Qingxi pick so many mistakes? Looking at the two mushrooms are no different, why is this one poisonous and the other not poisonous? ”

After laughing, Ran Qiunian sat up straight, looked carefully at Qingxi's almost half-picked poisonous mushrooms, held two of them, and raised his head to ask Aunt Xiu.

"The appearance of these two kinds of mushrooms is very similar, Miss can take a closer look at the poisonous one, there are a few red spots on the side, this is called a red umbrella, it is very toxic, but it is colorless and tasteless after cooking into juice, if people eat it by mistake, they will fall asleep, do not eat or drink, and live for no more than three days."

When Qingxi heard this, he immediately gathered those poisonous red umbrellas together and threw them to the ground, and even those non-poisonous mushrooms that looked similar didn't dare to keep them.

"This red umbrella sounds really scary, miss, let's not eat these mushrooms, the slave is scared when she hears it, so let's throw it away."

Ran Qiunian was a little reluctant, she pointed to the ones she picked back: "I picked them all, wouldn't I have worked for a day in vain if I lost them." If you don't eat it, I can always keep this basket, right? ”

Ran Qiunian looked at Xiu Gu, her face was full of anticipation, she didn't like to eat mushrooms much, it was just the first time she picked it herself, and she wanted to try it.

Xiu Gu carefully checked the mushrooms left on the table and confirmed that there was nothing that could not be eaten, so she did not stop Ran Qiunian from thinking about leaving the mushrooms.

"Cook, make the mushrooms in this basket into vegetables and bring them to my house for lunch."

Seeing that Xiu Gu did not stop her, Ran Qiunian beckoned happily, handed the mushrooms in the basket to the cook, and ordered them to throw all the ones on the ground, and then left the small kitchen satisfied.

After Ran Qiunian left, the cook pointed to the poisonous mushrooms thrown on the ground and shouted to a thin woman burning the stove in the corner.

"The new kid, clean up the ground, throw the things into the ditch in the back mountain, remember to throw them away."

The thin woman's face was smeared with dirt from the stove ash, and she couldn't see her original appearance, so she didn't say anything, she slowly got up and went over to clean up, picked up the poisonous mushrooms in the ground, pocketed them with a cloth, and took them to the back mountain.

When she raised her hand to throw it out, she suddenly stopped, and the woman squatted on the ground, opened the cloth bag, picked up three or five red umbrellas from it, and secretly put them in her arms.

The words that Xiu Gu explained to Ran Qiunian just now, not only Ran Qiunian listened to it, but she also heard it clearly, the woman reflected her face covered by hair and stove ash through the water of the ditch, and she could vaguely see how delicate she used to be.

After Ran Qiunian had lunch in the house, she continued to learn archery with Xiu Gu.

After eating the wild mushrooms picked by himself in the mountains, I found that they were not much better than the ones purchased in the house, and Ran Qiunian lost interest after trying them.

But the mountains are indeed much more interesting than those on Zhuangzi, there are many places that attract Ran Qiunian, if you want to go deeper into the mountains, only Xiugu will follow, and grandmother will definitely not agree.

After Ran Qiunian practiced archery, he took a dip under the grape trellis in the yard, looked at the green mountains in the distance, and gradually felt that Zhuangzi was a little boring, it would be good if the eldest brother was there, Ran Qiunian flashed this idea in his mind.

"By the way, I can send a message to the eldest brother and the elder brother Qiubai, and call them to stay in Zhuangzi for a while."

Ran Qiunian hammered his palm, had an idea, got up from under the grape trellis, ran to the study to pick up a pen and wrote a letter to Xiao Yin and Ran Qiubai.

When eating with her grandmother at dinner, Ran Qiunian mentioned it to her grandmother, and seeing that her grandmother also readily agreed, Ran Qiunian sent someone to send the letter back to Ran's mansion, just waiting for the two brothers to accompany her on the Zhuangzi, and then they could go to the mountains to play together.

On the second day, the small kitchen prepared all the lunches for Ran Qiunian, just waiting for the last lotus seed soup to be boiled, and then it could be sent to the courtyard.

"Su Niang, what are you cooking there? Why don't you come over and help me watch the fire, I'll go drink saliva, and I know every day that it's delicious and lazy, I really don't know why the big brother recruited you to be such a lazy thing. ”

The cook scolded and went out, and the woman called Su Niang still walked under the stove with lotus seed soup without saying a word, and when the cook left, she turned back to the stove where she had boiled things before, and opened the small pottery urn that was covered.

There were a few boiled mushrooms floating inside, and a few red dots dotted around the periphery were the poisonous mushroom red umbrellas that were thrown out yesterday.

The woman scooped a small spoonful of red umbrella juice from the urn, turned around and poured it into the lotus seed soup on the other side, and then threw the urn with the red umbrella juice into the clutter pile in the corner.

When the lotus seed soup was cooked, the cook also came back from the outside, beckoning people to send Ran Qiunian's lunch to her house, and the lotus seed soup with red umbrella juice was being held by the cook in her hand, so that she could personally send it over to offer her courtesy.

Ran Susu stood in the small kitchen, watching the cook give Ran Qiunian the lotus seed soup that she had poisoned, and silently prayed in her heart, hoping that this time she would make Ran Qiunian disappear from this world forever.

"It's really getting hotter and hotter lately, it's so hot here in the summer resort, I really don't know what the house is like." Ran Qiunian wiped the sweat from his head, handed the bow and arrow in his hand to Qingxi, and after changing his clothes, he sat down at the dining table.

"Miss, let's drink a bowl of lotus seed soup first, the small kitchen is specially boiled for you, and it is the best way to relieve the heat."

Qingxi sent a cup of lotus seed soup on the table to Ran Qiunian, waited for a while, and then served it with ice, which was the most comfortable to drink at this time.

Ran Qiunian took a few sips and felt a little light, so he put it aside, raised his chopsticks and tasted the other side dishes.

After lunch, Ran Qiunian suddenly felt a little sleepy, so he canceled the archery practice in the afternoon, lay down on the bed, and took a nap.

After noon, Xiu Gu asked Qingxi to wake up Ran Qiunian: "You shouldn't sleep too long at noon, otherwise you will be more tired and you will be unable to sleep at night." ”

Qingxi nodded yes, turned around and went to Ran Qiunian's house to call people, but she didn't expect that she couldn't wake up the sleeping Ran Qiunian, she came out a little strangely and went back to Xiugu.

"Miss slept very deeply, she couldn't wake up, maybe she was tired from archery today, otherwise let Miss sleep a little longer, right?"

"Then I will call again in a quarter of an hour, and don't be too indulgent, or Miss will not be able to sleep at night."

Xiu Gu didn't think much about it, and told Qingxi to call someone for a while, so she went to the room to study the white stacked seeds that Ran Qiunian gave her before.

But who knew that a quarter of an hour later, Qingxi ran to her in a panic and called her: "Oh no, no, something is wrong with Miss, I can't wake her up no matter how I shout, Miss has never slept so well in the past, Aunt Xiu, go and see Miss!" ”

When Xiu Gu heard this, she dropped the things in her hand and went to Ran Qiunian's house with Qingxi.

"Miss, wake up."

Xiu Gu walked to Ran Qiunian's bed and gently pushed Ran Qiunian's shoulder. Ran Qiunian's breathing was steady, her eyes were closed, and there was no response.

Her face changed, and she reached out to probe Ran Qiunian's pulse, and her face became more and more heavy. Qingxi could only be anxious when she watched from the side, and when she saw that Xiu Gu took her hand off Ran Qiunian's wrist, she immediately asked.

"Aunt Xiu, what's wrong with her, Miss? Is it just because you're too tired that you can't wake up? ”

Qingxi still had the last trace of luck, but she shook her head when she saw Xiugu's ugly face.

"You go and call Doctor Chang from Zhuangzi, I look at the young lady, it seems that she has been poisoned."

"Poisoned? It's so decent, how could Miss be poisoned? Miss will be fine, how can this be......"

Qingxi couldn't help but be anxious, and Xiugu took Qingxi's hand and patted it.

"Don't panic first, the top priority is to call Doctor Chang, what kind of poison Miss has in, I have to confirm with the doctor before I can be sure. If it's poison, we can find the antidote, and while Miss is not deep in toxicity now, we must be fast. ”

Xiu Gu actually had some guesses about what poison Ran Qiu had in, but she couldn't be sure immediately.

Fortunately, Dr. Chang is the best doctor in this area, and he goes in and out of the mountains and forests all the year round to collect medicines and treat the people nearby, so he must know more about the poisons that will appear here than himself.

Qingxi's act of inviting Doctor Chang to Ran Qiunian's house also alarmed the old lady, and the two groups of people rushed to Ran Qiunian's bed one after the other. Seeing Ran Qiunian's eyes closed and unconscious, the old lady also turned red with worry.

"What's going on with my thoughts, how can a good person be poisoned? What did you all give her? ”

The old lady sat next to Ran Qiunian, waiting for Doctor Chang to diagnose Ran Qiunian's pulse, and couldn't help but ask.

"Old lady, don't be impatient, I see Miss Ran's pulse and symptoms of drowsiness, it should be poisoned by mushrooms, I wonder if Miss has eaten mushrooms picked in the mountains today?"