Chapter 10: Residual Poison
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The heavily armed Jinwu guards broke through the door, and the soldiers with long swords went straight to the chamber, the sword light rose and fell, and the woman on the bed died instantly, and blood splattered everywhere. A vicious officer grabbed Wang Yuan from the bunk and roared with a cruel smile: "If you dare to harbor the assassins, there will be no mercy!" Then he drew his sword and stabbed Wang Yuan in the chest.
Wang Yuan opened his mouth and shouted, struggling desperately, but he couldn't make a sound, and he didn't have the slightest strength on his body, watching the long sword penetrate his body.
"Ahh Wang Yuan woke up screaming, bounced up from the ground bunk, gasped and looked around in a hurry, his body was drenched in sweat.
The room was quiet, the firewood was burning, the dry wood made a slight crackling sound in the stove, and the clay pot above the stove was steaming, exuding the fragrance of porridge and rice. Only then did Wang Yuan realize that it was just a dream of Nan Ke just now.
Wang Yuan looked at the bed in the corner, and saw that the injured woman was leaning on the head of the bed and looking at him in surprise, although the light in the room was dim, he seemed to be able to see the woman's eyes shining.
Wang Yuan shook his stiff body and said softly, "I had a nightmare." ”
The woman's slight voice came, "I think so." ”
The rice porridge on the stove was rumbling, and it was about to overflow, Wang Yuan hurriedly took down the crockpot and put it on the ground, turned his head and asked, "Is the girl hungry?" Let's eat something. ”
"I'm not hungry." The woman shook her head, but there was a strange sound of 'grunt', obviously the sound of gastrointestinal peristalsis, and the woman was a little embarrassed and hung her head speechless.
Wang Yuan said with a smile: "I said no, but my body is very honest." So he put half a bowl of rice porridge on a wooden spoon and put it aside to cool, and then took the sesame cakes he bought and put them by the fire to bake.
"Drink some porridge and eat some bread, it's good for you."
The woman silently watched Wang Yuan busy with his work, and suddenly said softly: "Thank you, son." ”
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "Don't point your sword at me and shout and kill, I'll thank God, but thank you is not necessary." ”
The woman snorted and turned her head silently, Wang Yuan smiled, stood up and walked to the tight window hole covered by a straw curtain, and gently opened a gap to look out; A dazzling ray of heavenly light came in with an icy cold wind, illuminating a corner of the Burrow. Wang Yuan shivered and looked out, the courtyard outside the house was white, the snow was still falling, and the ground had accumulated half a foot of snow, and there was silence all around.
"The snow is so heavy, it seems that it won't stop for a while, with such a big snow, the Jinwu guards and horses should not come to search for the time being, they can't find traces, unless it's a door-to-door search." Wang Yuan whispered as he restored the straw curtain on the window to its original state, and tied it firmly to the wooden wedge below with a straw rope.
"Today is the Shangyuan Festival, they will not search from house to house, but will strengthen patrols on the streets." The woman whispered.
Wang Yuan delivered rice porridge and cakes to the woman and said, "Eat." ”
The woman struggled to move her body and tried to sit up, but after trying hard for a long time, she finally gave up out of breath. Wang Yuan noticed that half of her body didn't seem to be able to use her strength at all, so he smiled and said, "Forget it, you better don't move, if you don't mind, I'll feed you a few bites." ”
The woman's face flushed, and she shook her head again and again: "No, no, no." ”
Wang Yuan was already sitting on the edge of the bed, scooped the porridge with a wooden spoon and slowly brought it to the woman's mouth, the woman hesitated slightly, but still opened her mouth to eat the porridge.
The room was quiet, and the woman ate the porridge from Wang Yuan's hand, and suddenly both of them felt a little inexplicably embarrassed. Wang Yuan felt like a little daughter-in-law who was serving her husband, and the woman seemed to be at a loss because she was being fed by a strange man. After occasionally making eye contact with Wang Yuan's eyes, he immediately moved his eyes away.
Wang Yuan deliberately played a game of eye contact with her, retaliating for her previous rudeness, and then gradually became a little unscrupulous in his eyes, until the woman's face showed an angry look before she gave up proudly. However, this look also made the woman's appearance clear. Although the green silk is scattered, although the face is haggard and pale, it is difficult to hide the beauty of the woman. Under the curved eyebrows, a pair of starry eyes are as bright as stars, a small and cute nose and mouth, and two small pear vortices on the cheeks.
Wang Yuan didn't take a closer look when he rescued her back last night, he was very flustered at that time, and he was not in the mood to see her appearance, at this moment, he was close at hand in the face of such a beautiful woman, and he couldn't help but feel a little strange in his heart, in the past month, this is the first time he has seen a real Tang beauty; Although the eldest sister of the Huang family is also good-looking, she is an immature little girl after all.
In the wonderful atmosphere, after eating half a bowl of porridge and a piece of cake, the woman closed her eyes and shook her head to indicate that it was enough, Wang Yuan also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly found that he was also sweating on his forehead, and he didn't feel a little funny.
"Girl, how does your wound feel?"
The woman shook her head slightly and said, "I don't know, the wound is very painful." ”
Wang Yuan brought half a basin of hot water and said, "Do you want to wash your face and clean up?" It might feel a little better that way. ”
The woman suspected that Wang Yuan had other intentions, but as a woman, she paid the most attention to her neat appearance, and when she saw her messy hair and smelled the smell of blood on her body, she realized that she must be sloppy at the moment, so she nodded in agreement.
Wang Yuan fetched a basin of hot water but didn't do anything, until the woman took the initiative to ask him for help, then he stepped forward and moistened the hot water with a cloth towel, and carefully wiped the woman's head and face clean. Wang Yuan's hand touched the woman's delicate skin from time to time, and the woman frowned a little at first, but soon seemed to resign herself to fate.
Half of the woman's body was a little numb, like a puppet at the mercy of others, Wang Yuan felt that something was wrong, afraid that the wound had worsened, and after wiping the woman, Wang Yuan frowned: "Girl, please forgive me for offending." I need to check your wound and I think something isn't quite right. ”
After the woman freshened up, she was obviously in a much better spirit, and said softly: "This matter is not busy, Engong, the slave has not thanked you for saving me, the slave has been disrespectful to you before, please don't take it to heart." ”
Wang Yuan smiled: "Of course I won't take it to heart, otherwise I will throw you out of the house." ”
The woman smiled and said, "Lang Jun is a kind person, he won't do that." Dare to ask Engong's surname? ”
Wang Yuan said: "The surname is Wang Mingyuan, and there is a Fang Ding in this workshop." ”
"It turned out to be Wang Gongzi, the slave's surname is Li, his name is Xin'er, the family is twelve, and the engong can call the slave twelve mothers."
Wang Yuan arched his hand and smiled: "Hello Twelve Niang, you don't need to be called Engong, everyone in Yong'an Fang calls me Wang Erlang, and you call it that." ”
Li Twelve Niang bowed her head slightly and said, "Hmm...... It's okay, Second Brother Wang, Nu Tang asked suddenly, since you know that the slave is chasing and killing for the soldiers and horses of Nanya, why did you save me last night? Aren't you afraid of being implicated? ”
Wang Yuan smiled: "How can I not be afraid? In fact, I regretted it when I got back last night after I rescued you. But when the girl opened her mouth to ask for help, and her life was on the line, how could I stand idly by. ”
Li Xin'er nodded slightly, bit her lower lip and asked, "Since you regret it now, why didn't you hand over the slave to Jin Wuwei?" Jin Wuwei may give you a reward. ”
Wang Yuan tilted his head and smiled: "How much reward can I have?" ”
"I don't know, but at least there is always a reward."
Wang Yuan slapped his thigh and said, "Oh, I knew that there was so much bounty, I should have handed you over, I made a mistake, a mistake." ”
Li Twelve Niang's face was angry, but she suddenly realized that this was just Wang Yuan's ridicule, and her face sank and said: "Second Brother Wang, the slave is talking to you seriously, can you also talk to the slave seriously?" ”
Wang Yuan smiled slightly: "What does the girl want me to say?" If you save it, you save it, do you have to have some reason? Although I Wang Yuan is a grass people, but I have the heart to help the weak, last night the girl was seriously injured and fell under the wall, Jin Wuwei is coming, I have a heart to help the weak to rescue you, it is such a simple thing. ”
Li Twelve Niang sighed, nodded slightly, frowned and thought for a moment, and suddenly said, "Second Brother Wang, do you know who the slave is?" Aren't you worried about saving a poor man? ”
Wang Yuan said: "Naturally worried, then can the girl tell me if you are a murderer?" ”
Li Twelve Niang tilted her head and said, "So what?" Isn't it? What's the difference? ”
Wang Yuan nodded and said, "That's right, since I have saved you, it makes no difference between yes and no, I hope you are not." To be honest, I regret it now, I blame myself for my impulsive behavior last night, and all I can think about now is how to end it. Looking at the battle of Jin Wuwei last night, I guess you must not be an ordinary person, maybe I really got into trouble. I just want you to heal your injuries quickly and get you out of here before you are discovered. ”
Li Twelve Niang stared at Wang Yuan for a moment. He said softly: "I'm causing trouble to Second Brother Wang, don't worry, I will leave as soon as my injuries improve." It's just that in the current situation, I'm afraid it won't get better for a while, and the wound on my shoulder is badly swollen, accompanied by numbness, as far as I know, this is a sign of poisoning. ”
"Poisoned?" Wang Yuan was taken aback.
"Yes, the Jinwuwei patrol cavalry likes to use black aconitum to quench arrows with slow poison, which is their unique method of chasing down criminals, and I was poisoned by this poison last night. When he woke up, the slave pulled out a poisoned arrow and ripped off the poisonous flesh around the wound, but he could not remove it. If the slave guessed correctly, you should have cleaned the slave's wound with wine last night. It's just that...... It's just that you have a good heart, but you are doing you a disservice, you don't know how to clean the wound with wine, but you accelerate the spread of poisonous gas. So when I woke up just now, I felt numb in half of my body, and that's something to do with that. ”
Wang Yuan sighed, stunned, he didn't expect that he had a good heart and actually did something bad, no wonder when he treated her wound yesterday, he found that the flesh and blood around the wound were blurred, but it turned out that Li Twelve Niang had taken some poisonous flesh by herself. However, he was self-defeating, allowing the residual poison to run faster, causing the injury to worsen.
"This ...... That's a ...... Hey, I'm so confused. Wang Yuan blamed himself.
"Second brother Wang blames himself, this is Jin Wuwei's evil methods, you are a good heart, and it has nothing to do with you."
"So what now? Is there a way to detoxify? You write a prescription, and I'll go to the market to buy medicine for you. ”
Li Shiniang shook her head slightly and said: "This poison is not for people's lives, Jin Wuwei uses this poison to arrest criminals, which will make people's bodies gradually lose the power of action, and they will be arrested." I had an antidote to this poison, but unfortunately I didn't carry it last night. Naturally, there are antidotes available in pharmacies, but you can't grab them. ”
Wang Yuan said: "You mean that once you go to grab the medicine and dispense it, it will be discovered by people?" ”
Li Twelve Niang nodded and said, "Yes, and even if you catch the medicine, you have to boil it here, the medicine has a strong taste, and it will definitely be emitted." This Yong'an Fang must now be a key monitoring place for Jin Wuwei, isn't this taking the initiative to expose his whereabouts and attract them to arrest him? ”
Wang Yuan nodded slightly and said, "What you said is very true, so what should I do now?" ”
Li Twelve Niang was stunned for a moment, then suddenly sat up at the head of the bed violently, struggled to raise her body and saluted Wang Yuan, Wang Yuan hurriedly stepped forward and said, "What is this doing?" ”
Li Twelve Niang exerted too much force, gasping for breath, calmed down for a moment and said: "Since Engong saved the slave's life, he will save it to the end." The slave wants to ask Engong to help me invite someone to come here, and only this person can detoxify the slave and save the slave out. Engong helps the slave this time, and the slave will be repaid in the future. ”