Chapter 16: We're Even
As soon as it was dawn in the morning, Nian Nian and I packed our luggage, asked the innkeeper to help call a carriage, dragged the two of them to the carriage by the way, and immediately rushed to the master's bamboo house.
"Master! Brother! "From afar, I saw the master and senior brother drying medicine in the yard from the carriage window, not to mention how happy I was.
"Weiwei!" When they heard my voice, they strode to the door and saw a carriage coming towards them.
"Senior sister, you're back!" My brother rushed forward and helped me out of the car.
"Master, brother, let's talk later, save the people in the car first." I said anxiously, for fear that something bad would happen to them after staying up all night.
"People?" The senior brother and the master looked at each other strangely, but they didn't dare to stop what they were doing, and helped the two into the room.
"Master, they're poisoned, but I don't know how to solve this poison?" Although the master showed me a lot of books on detoxification with poison, I had never seen a poison with such symptoms in this book.
"This is the poison of the Western Regions, and we don't see it here." The master frowned, this poison should be difficult to solve.
"Master, what can I do!" I was a little worried, and although I didn't like him, I didn't want him to die like that.
"Tell the master first, what is the relationship between these two people and you!" The master looked at me seriously, in fact, the master also has a solution, but the method is a little dangerous, he wants to consider it.
"This time my sister asked me to go home because of my marriage, when my father died, the emperor promised me a marriage contract with Yan Mo, the king of Chen, but I hadn't seen him before, and I didn't want to marry so I ran back, but I didn't expect to save him on the way." I have some mixed feelings.
"He is betrothed to you? So are you marrying or not marrying? The master looked at me and wanted to get an answer from my mouth.
"I don't want to get married, but I don't want him to die either." My eyes were a little hesitant, in fact, he gave me a bad impression, and he only had to visit the Qinglou.
"Moreover, in the mountains three years ago, they also saved us...... "I lowered my head and didn't dare to look at the master."
"Alright then, I'll figure it out." The master seemed to see the pause in my eyes, turned and walked towards the study.
"Senior sister, do you really want to marry him?" My brother looked at me differently than before, and was a little sad.
"I don't know, I don't want to marry, but I don't dare to resist." When I said this, I lowered my head a little weakly.
"I ......," the senior brother stopped talking.
"Forget it, I'll go see the master and see if there's any way to save him." In fact, my senior brother already liked me at that time, but he felt that if he married King Chen, he might be better married to him.
"Does the master have a solution?" The senior brother asked the master anxiously.
"Yes, I want the blood of the virgin and the twelve flavors of poison to be boiled together." The master frowned.
"This ......" Hearing this senior brother's hesitation, he didn't want me to get hurt in order to save that person.
When the senior brother entered the master's study, I actually followed, and when I saw the master ask me like that just now, I knew that with the master's person, he must have a solution, but he had some concerns.
"It's okay, I'll save it!" I pushed open the door and looked at the somewhat stunned master and brother with a determined look.
"Okay!" The master felt that he had already known it, and he knew that it was useless for him to say anything when he looked at me with a firm look in his eyes.
After entering the room, the master and the senior brother, after the medicine stove brazier and various medicinal materials were ready, asked me again: "You have to think that bloodletting is a little painful, and the amount required is a little too much, and it will hurt your body a little." ”
"You've figured it out!" I don't want to owe him.
"Bloodletting! What blood, I'll ......" Niannian grabbed me in horror, she didn't want me to be hurt, even if she was usually afraid of pain and scared to death, she wanted to replace me.
"Niannian, don't you listen to me!" I pretended to scare her with a serious face.
"Miss......" Niannian's eyes were red, and tears rolled down in a big way.
"It's okay, stupid thoughts, the master knows the measure, don't you still believe the master?" Seeing that I insisted on thinking about it so much, I had to stand next to it with red eyes, and I didn't dare to look at it.
The master told me to lie down, cut a bloody hole on my wrist, and the blood fell into the medicine jar dripping, ticking, ticking, and slowly I gradually felt a little weak, my head was a little dizzy, and my eyelids were getting heavier and heavier.
"Du Ruo, hurry up and stop her bleeding and bandage!" The master looked at me distressedly.
"Silly girl!" My brother's heart ached, both because I was injured and because I saved him.
After stopping the bleeding and bandaging me, my brother carried me back to the room, put me on the bed, gently covered me with a quilt, and went out to boil me blood and qi medicine.
"Thank you for the rescue!" After Yan Mo endured the pain and opened his eyes, he saw a white-bearded old man guarding the bedside, he knew that this should be the master I was talking about, and he was grateful.
"The poison on your body has been resolved, stop at the injuries on your body, just rest for a few days." The master looked at him with some seriousness. The master didn't know what kind of person he was, and he didn't want me to get hurt because of him.
"The person you should thank is my junior sister!" Du Ruo was a little angry and stared at him.
"Who is this?" Yan Mo looked at Du Ruo, not knowing why he said this.
"My name is Du Ruo, and I am Weiwei's senior brother!" Senior brother said angrily.
"You said thank you junior sister, what's wrong with her?" Yan Mo was a little confused.
"See for yourself!" He pointed to the next room, and walked out with the master, who went back to the study, and the brother went to decoct the medicine for me.
"Lord Wang!" Seeing that Yan Mo endured the pain on his body and wanted to get up, Qingge immediately went over to support him. He had just woken up, but the injuries on his body were better than Yan Mo's.
"Let's go and have a look." He didn't know why, but he was a little worried about me.
Walking into the room, Nian Nian glared at him vigorously, he looked at me on the bed, his face was slightly pale, lying quietly, not like he usually yelled at him.
"What's wrong with her?" Yan Mo changed his usual appearance of eating people, and asked with some worry.
"It's not to save you, Miss has released a lot of blood, woo ......" said and cried as he said.
Hearing Niannian's cry, I slowly opened my eyes and found that he was looking at me worriedly, and Niannian was crying silently.
"Don't cry, I won't die, just rest for a few days." I motioned for her to come and help me sit up.
"Are you alright?" Yan Mo looked at the bandaging place on my wrist.
"It's okay, we'll settle off from now on." He saved me, I saved him, and I don't owe him anything else......
"......" he looked at me, his eyes were a little complicated, and he didn't know what to say.
"Senior sister, drink medicine." The senior brother walked in with the medicine.
"I'll do it!" He ignored his senior brother's eyes that he wanted to kill, and took the medicine, no! It's a pill.
"I'll do it myself!" I took the medicine and drank it in one gulp.
Man! Curiosity is always high, and I'm curious why he's here? Why would anyone hunt him down? He is a prince, who has such courage.
In the afternoon, my situation eased a lot, and I basically felt like I was fine, so I went to the main house to find him and want to talk to him.
"Is there something wrong?" When he saw me come in, his tone was much better than before.
"Are you getting better?"
"It's fine"
"Let's stay here for now, the master is very good, wait until the injury is better before leaving, otherwise there will be another attack on the way back." Out of kindness, I kept him.
"Okay." He looked at me in some surprise.
"You and Qingge will stay in my room at night, and I will live in one room with Niannian." I kept my head down, all my thoughts.
"Just ask if you have anything! I owe you my life, I remember! "He doesn't know when his opinion of me has changed.
"Why are you here, it's not like you're following me." I can't figure it out.
"No, today is my mother's death day, and I came to see her." His eyes softened, and he looked a little sad.
"I'm sorry," I suddenly reacted to myself that I shouldn't have asked.
"It's okay, it's not far from here, I'll go see her in the evening......"
I didn't dare to ask anything else, just looked at his injuries and went back to the room, it turned out that this person who usually looks like a cannibal also has his own fragile side, and my opinion of him has changed a lot.
"It's so late, your injuries are not healed, I'll go with you!" In the evening, he left Qingge and went alone, and I took the lantern, brought some food, and drank and chased him out.
"No, I'll just go by myself."
"Don't be reckless, I won't eavesdrop, I'll stand farther away!" I'm afraid that he won't be able to walk steadily, and he will get hurt and cause me trouble.
"Okay." He said weakly, feeling very bad.
I walked behind him with a lantern, and I watched him walk at a very steady pace, but I didn't dare to reach out to help him, after all, we didn't know each other too well.
"You be careful......"
After walking for a while, a tombstone appeared in front of me. I didn't want to disturb him, so I put the lamp on the nearby tree, put down the drinks and food, and went to the side under the tree to wait for him.
It was pitch black on all sides, and in addition to the chirping of insects, there was the occasional cry of an owl, which was also so terrifying that I couldn't help but hold my hands in front of my chest and shiver.
"If you're afraid of the dark, come here." I couldn't hear his tone in the night.
I silently walked over to the lighted place and sat down, so that I was not so scared. He knelt down at the grave and drank, and although I knew it was not good to drink now, I did not dare to say anything.
"I'll tell you about her!" He was a little drunk, and his tone was very low.
"Ahh ...... "I'm a little shocked, did he tell me?" But there was no one else around.
"Hmm."
"She is a very gentle person, I remember that she is very beautiful, my father has a good relationship with her, the year before my father ascended the throne, when I was eight years old, she committed suicide, but I know, she won't, and then Mo Yueli raised me, she has her own son, and she always shows more love for me in front of my father." He picked up the flask and took another sip, wiping the corners of his mouth with his cuffs.
"For so many years, I have been investigating the cause of my mother's death, I know that the poisonous woman did it, but I have no evidence, I have to obey her, she never let me see my mother, this time the person must have been sent by her......" he said, his eyes full of anger, and he dropped the wine bottle.
"If people don't know, unless they do it, one day she will be punished as she deserves." I comforted him at a loss.
"Let's go, it's time to go back......" I helped him up, took the lantern, and walked towards the bamboo house.
On the road, he fell crookedly, his steps were vain, and I hugged him several times when he wanted to fall, and the first time I was hugged like this, my heart beat wildly.
When I got back to the door, Qingge came over to hold him up for me and brought him back to the room.