() "I have indeed spent a lot of money to find medicine for the king, and I hope you can understand in the next painstaking work."

These are Goofy's exact words.

The medicine is a liquid in a ceramic bottle, which is somewhat cloudy in color and has a pungent smell.

Witchmane found three people to test the medicine, and found that it was not poisonous.

Witchmane was eager to find an excuse to detain the person and wait for further clarification of the specific effects of the medicine before talking about anything else. Gao Fei said that he had opened a new business house in Fangfang City, and he rarely went out, and the national teacher could send someone over to inform him if he had something, and he would be there with him.

The medicine offered by a stranger could not be directly used by the King of Pigs under any circumstances.

Witchmane didn't take this matter to heart, and only arranged for people to secretly monitor Goofy, and at the same time strictly check whether anyone leaked the news inside and outside the palace.

She has always valued the rules and that if there is no evidence, you cannot convict someone on suspicion alone. Although Goofy was surprised to learn the secret of King Feng's serious illness, she subconsciously thought that it was the result of spending a lot of money to buy off the palace guards. After all, there is no impermeable wall in the world, not to mention that Goofy is a businessman, spending more money on a certain aristocratic status, in Wu Mane's opinion, this is the truth of the matter.

That night things changed.

News came from the palace that the king suddenly became seriously ill, coughing for several hours and couldn't stop, with a lot of blood in the phlegm, the sorcerers in the palace were helpless, and the queen urgently summoned the great master into the palace to discuss countermeasures.

Witch Mane hurriedly went, and prescribed medicine according to the previous prescription, but the king of the pig did not get better after eating it, and now the symptoms are much worse than before, coughing out of breath, and his face is pale, as if he may not be able to get up at any time, so he kicks his legs.

Witchmane had nothing to do about it, and in line with the idea that a dead horse was a live horse doctor, he ruthlessly gave the suspicious medicine that Gao Fei had just offered to King Pig.

Anyway, he is a dying man, and on the premise that all means are exhausted, no matter how slim the hope is, he can't let go.

This is indeed a miracle medicine.

After drinking it, the cough symptoms were significantly reduced. He struggled to drink some water and fell into a deep sleep. When I woke up again, it was already dawn.

There is such a wonderful thing in the world, Witchmane has never heard of before.

He hurried back to the National Teacher's Mansion and sent someone to call Gao Fei to eagerly inquire about the source of this medicine.

The answer was the same as before: from the southern part of the continent. As for more relevant information, Gao Fei was tight-lipped, and he refused to reveal a single thing about him.

This happened almost at the same time as the mass invasion of the Niu people. If it were in normal times, Witchmane would have been furious and ordered Goofy to be arrested and tortured. However, the Crazy Tooth was defeated in a row, and the eldest prince Shaya, who rushed to Crazy Tooth City after getting the news, also lost the royal city and was beheaded.

This news shook the entire pig clan, the hearts of the people up and down the fangs city fluctuated, the queen who learned the bad news became demented, and later determined that she really became crazy, the palace was ruled by the princess, and the physical condition of the pig king became significantly better because of that medicine, witch mane thought about it again and again, and decided to let go of Gao Fei for the time being, and first put the stability of the order and various affairs in the clan in the first place.

His own son died, an entire branch was annexed by other tribes, and two terrible news came one after another, and the condition of the pig king, who had just improved slightly, worsened again. As a last resort, Witchmane could only take out the medicine that Goofy had offered again.

It's all happened in the last few months, and away from the memories, Witchmane got out of his state of mind and returned to reality.

Looking at Gao Fei, who was sitting opposite with a respectful expression, she suddenly lost control of her powerlessness.

A dignified national teacher, Witch Mane can calmly face hundreds of thousands of pious worshippers, and with just one look, there are countless believers of gods who are willing to die for her. There is a proverb among the northern barbarians: the patriarch owns our bodies, and the shamans own our souls. From this point of view, within the Pig Clan, the Witchmane has a higher voice than the Pig King.

A national teacher who can decide the life and death of countless people with a single sentence is helpless against a small businessman?

It's not funny at all.

Forcing himself to calm down his thoughts that were stirring up again, Witchmane looked at Goofy with calm and indifferent eyes: "That medicine is very effective against the king's illness...... Say, what do you want? ”

No one in the world is willing to take out the money in his pocket and give it away for free. Witchmane understands the principle of "exchange of interests".

Goofy's smile is charming, every muscle on his face moves at just the right angle and position, and the corners of his mouth are long and large, like a circus clown, but he only needs to apply oil paint on his face, and he can get a funny effect by using bright red lipstick to expand his lips in an exaggerated way.

"Great Master, I have no intention of offending your majesty." He sat upright, his hands flat on his lap, and smiled: "I heard that the national teacher of the lion clan knew you in your early years, and he had a very good relationship?" ”

Witchmane looked flat and nodded slowly. It's no secret that many people know it.

"I hope you can write him a letter." Goofy's smiling voice sounded pleasant and comfortable, mixed with flattery: "I'm a merchant, and I want to expand my business to the lion tribe." Hehe, it would be great if I could get the help of the Lion Clan's national teacher. ”

Just for business?

Witchmane subconsciously didn't believe Goofy's statement at all, she frowned slightly, and asked as casually as possible, "What business are you going to go to the Lion Clan?" ”

"Peat." Goofy replied quickly, without thinking.

Witchmane's mind suddenly appeared as a familiar black mass.

"Peat can also be sold for money?" Her brow furrowed even deeper.

Witchmane knew that the Lion King was pushing for currency reform, and that the entire Lion Clan was using the newly minted metal currency. This new mode of trade originated in the white kingdom of the South, and the Leon Clan Master Witch Condition also wrote to him several times inviting him to Roaring City to discuss trade cooperation between the Leon Clan and the Pig Clan.

She could understand Goofy's desire to expand his business in Leo territory.

But peat...... Can this thing really be sold for money?

Goofy was shrewd, he saw what she was thinking through the cloudy old eyes of the witch mane, so he smiled: "Business is business, I don't need to lie and deceive people." If you don't believe it, you can only write this part of the letter. ”

There are a lot of incomprehensible things in this world.

Witchmane thought for a few seconds, then decided not to dwell on the issue, and instead asked about his concern: "I can agree to your request, but the medicine ......"

Before he finished speaking, Gao Fei reached out and took out a small cloth bag from his coat pocket, opened it in front of the witch's mane, and took out three delicate porcelain vases the size of adult fingers from inside.

Each bottle is exactly the same size as the previous one.

"It's hard to trade with white Southerners, and all the medicine is here." Gao Fei said seriously: "I have already sent people to the south to continue looking for this medicine, please forgive me, this will take time." ”

After hesitating for a long time, Witchmane sighed secretly: "Okay......"

She had no choice.

The current situation of the pig people is very serious.

The cattle people in the north are eyeing each other, and the steel teeth and crazy teeth are wiped out one after another, and their appetite will definitely not be satisfied, and it will not be long before a new war may break out at any time.

The queen has gone mad.

This is a strange thing: according to the court steward, it was the news of the defeat of the Mad Fang and the killing of Prince Sandtooth that spurred the queen to go insane. But the maid beside the queen said that the princess sent someone to bring dinner that night, and the queen did not know it, and after eating it, she was delirious and babbling nonsense.

Witchmane did not order a thorough investigation. She knew that even if this kind of thing was investigated, it would not do her any good, and it would make the chaos worse.

As long as the king is alive and can preside over government affairs, it is the greatest guarantee of stability.

Of course, he is already old, especially if the first in line to the throne dies, and it is especially important to identify a new heir as soon as possible. Not just any prince can become a king, Witchmane also has her own favorite candidates, and she, like the queen, does not like the young princess, and she does not want to see an ignorant child sitting on the throne, controlled like a puppet by the princess who is consumed by power.

As long as the pig king lasts for another year, all problems can basically be solved.

The medicine offered by Gao Fei could not cure the disease of the pig king, but it could have a significant alleviating effect.

No one had ever dared to force Witchmane to compromise in this way. It feels terrible, she's already murderous about Goofy.

Come to think of it, at least not for now.

Communication with white Southerners is not something that just anyone can do.

For the time being, spare his life and let him continue to deliver more medicine.

Isn't it just a letter, he wants to start a peat business in the territory of the lion clan, and he has fulfilled his wish.

This time next year, I'll cut off your head, peel off the skin, cut off all the flesh, soak it in potions, and finally hang the elaborate skull on the wall as a permanent collector's item.

……

Half an hour later, Gao Fei left the National Teacher's Mansion with a letter from Witch Mane.

He knew that someone was following him, but he didn't care, and walked around the street slowly, walking back to his mansion in Fangs City at the speed of a walk.

The inner room is a closed chamber, and a temporary passage has been dug underneath that can be exited in case of emergency, and the exit is located at the back of the side street, two hundred meters away, where there is a cloth shop opened by the deer people, which is another temporary station used as a camouflage.

Hot water has been prepared in the clay pot, Gao Fei closed the door, put a piece of cotton cloth into the basin and soaked it, and then covered the face with the temperature of the wet cloth, and baked it back and forth three times, each time for two minutes, and when the face appeared when the fingers touched the wet sticky feeling, then wiped it vigorously with a towel, so washed several times, the waxy yellow skin completely disappeared, revealing a white face.

Apply a special plant juice to the face to create an excellent camouflage effect.

Many women in civilized times are proficient in makeup, and they have deeply discovered the essence of the phrase "sows become sables". Tianhao was curious about this, so he followed the tutorial on the Internet for a while. It's purely just to change your appearance with makeup, not the terrible women's clothing boss in your habitual thinking.

In this barbaric era, no one understands the term "makeup", and "transfiguration" is more appropriate.

Goofy picked up a polished metal mirror and smiled with satisfaction as he watched the familiar face of Pingjun appear in the shiny mirror.

Take off your clothes, change into a dusty coarse cloth outfit, put on a pre-prepared wig, and rub your face with a special ointment...... After a whole set of procedures, the noble and arrogant businessman disappeared, and a middle-aged man with a rickety figure, a face full of "poverty", and a hunger in his eyes appeared.

When he left the inner room and walked out of the gate of the house, Pingjun saw two men standing on the opposite corner, they had been staring in this direction, and they also saw themselves, but they didn't react.

That's the man sent by the national master Witchmane to keep an eye on.

Pingjun didn't say anything, silently turned to leave, and walked in the direction of the Fangs City Gate in the distance.

……

A few days later, Pingjun returned to Rock City.

He brought back news that pleased Tianhao.

The medicine had been successfully delivered to the palace of the Pig Clan, and although the national master Witch Mane was suspicious of this, he did not interfere with it for various reasons.

Everything is going according to Tianhao's plan.

He had long known that the pig king was seriously ill. Pingjun's intelligence bureau is pervasive, and the beautiful man's plan, coupled with the amount of food and cloth that is too much to refuse, can easily get the maids around the queen and the princess.

Who can stop the double offensive of love and money?

Although Tianhao is not a professional doctor, judging from the symptoms of Pig Wang, he is very sure that it is tuberculosis.

In civilized times, the misuse of antibiotics has led to the development of resistance to various germs, and health authorities around the world have been troubled by this. In desperation, they could only invest heavily in the research and development of higher-grade targeted drugs, and "fighting germs with viruses" was a popular saying in the pharmaceutical industry at that time.

The asteroid hit the earth and destroyed the world, did the disease-causing bacteria also die out with the previous generation of humans?

The answer to this question cannot be found in the old woman.

Tianhao could only follow his own guesses, and vaguely felt that it was very likely.

Germs, like humans, need to be in the right environment to survive.

Without a sufficient number of parasitic targets, there can be no large-scale survival.

The old lady said: The northern barbarians are the pre-constructors of the previous generation of human beings in order to deal with the crisis of the earth's resources. Increasing the size of human beings and replacing scale with giants. This kind of genetic modification is no different from that of an artificial human.

Perhaps antibiotics are effective in inhibiting pathogenic bacteria in the body of the pig king.

Of course, it is also possible that he did not have tuberculosis, but some unknown disease with similar symptoms.

It's all based on speculation.

Tianhao has only one purpose to keep the pig king alive, to live on the premise of alleviating the symptoms of illness, but not healing.

He has at least another year to live.

The civil strife of the Pig Clan is not a good thing for Tianhao, and it cannot generate benefits for Rock City.