Chapter 55

When I came to the foot of the medicine mountain, the carriage could no longer move forward, and it was necessary to enter on foot. Poxi got out of the car and looked around, the mountains in the distance were still high and dangerous unique to Bashu, and there were also trees in front of him, dense and prosperous.

Xuanyuan Daokang gave a medicine for Poxi to eat, saying that there was poisonous gas from Xuanyuan Wenmei in the mountain, and only after taking the medicine could he go smoothly. Perxi originally wanted to say that he didn't need it, but after thinking about it, he still didn't say much, he took the medicine like them, and he should be an ordinary person when he didn't have to.

Different from the forests around the Shu Palace, as soon as she entered, she felt the vigor of vitality, the coexistence of strength and weakness, this is what the dense forest should look like.

After a few hours of winding along the mountain path, I came across a house that looked clean and neat. What is particularly striking is that the house is enclosed by a fence, and the low fence is planted with some kind of same vine plants, with bright red leaves, and climbs over the half-man-high fence, making the whole house particularly conspicuous. As we got closer, a strong smell of smell came to my face.

When everyone was about to go in, the tiger cubs who were inseparable from Perxi screamed and refused to follow in, and stopped far from the door.

"Ah, I forgot, the little whites should be afraid of the smell of the "red leaf vine". Duguqing looked at the red-leaved vines around the fence and said.

Perxi is clear, after all, this is a deep mountain, Xuanyuan Wenmei is good at medicine, and the red-leaved vines planted should be used to drive away the invasion of wild beasts.

So, Duguqing asked Sun Mo and a few guards arranged by Win Zheng to wait outside the door with the tiger cubs.

Probably I heard someone outside, and a woman with a veil opened the door and walked out. She was not surprised to see the people standing at the door, there were not many people who could reach her door.

"Wen Mei, we've come to see you." Duguqing greeted the woman loudly.

"Come in." Xuanyuan Wenmei's cold voice came into everyone's ears.

When they all entered the main house, Perry looked at the furnishings of the house, which was roughly the same as he thought. She is used to seeing the pharmacy of a hundred miles of sorrow, and she is not surprised to see the bottles and jars placed in Xuanyuan Wenmei's room, and all kinds of medicinal materials.

Duguqing often comes, so he is familiar with pulling Poxi to sit down, looking at Xuanyuan Wenmei, and said with a smile: "Wenmei, let me introduce to you, this is the sister I recognize, called Poxi." After speaking, he said to Poxi: "This is what I said about the cold beauty, Xuanyuan Wenmei." ”

Po Xi and Xuanyuan Wenmei looked at each other for a moment, but neither spoke, but each nodded to the other.

"Sister, how is she?" Xuanyuan Daokang looked at the inner room and asked his sister.

Xuanyuan Wenmei looked at her younger brother, everyone couldn't see her expression, only heard her faintly reply: "Hmm." She looked up at Per Creek again and asked, "What are you here for?" ”

Usually Xuanyuan Wenmei does not welcome outsiders to come to Yaoshan to disturb her, but since it was brought by Duguqing and her younger brother, and seeing that Poxi gave people an extraordinary temperament, it was also pleasant to look at, so she didn't feel unhappy.

Po Xi was not hypocritical, took out a small bag from his waist, and after laying a white towel on the couch, he took out the medicine bottle containing "Danding" and poured the medicine on the white towel and asked, "I heard that this is a poison developed by Princess Xuanyuan?" ”

When Xuanyuan Wenmei saw the bright red "red top", there was a moment of anger in her eyes, but it quickly disappeared again.

"That's right, this is what I developed, but this medicine should have been destroyed by me, and there is no longer one in the world, how did you get it?"

"To tell you the truth, I traced the origin of this medicine for the death of my mother, and I don't want to be so coincidental that it was developed by the princess. So I want to ask the princess, who else can have this deadly poison besides you? ”

Xuanyuan Wenmei's eyebrows suddenly did not have an indifferent look, but instead there was a look of resistance to something. The wound in her heart that had healed seemed to have been broken open again. She thought she had said goodbye to the pain of the past, but she didn't expect that even the slightest thing related to him could still irritate her. But she knew very well that the irritation was not nostalgia, but anger.

She picked up the "red top" and said softly: "Indeed, this should be a poison developed by my late master, and before I destroyed it, it was also considered a top ten deadly poison in Bashu." ”

Ten years ago, before Xuanyuan Wenmei's master passed away, he passed on to her the collection of 100 poison prescriptions she had studied and written all her life, and then she studied day and night, and slowly became proficient in how to use the prescriptions in it. She even improved the prescription and developed more different poisons and corresponding antidotes.

"I've heard that you destroyed the medicine about three years ago, but it was found two years ago on the assassin who killed my mother. This proves that there are other people who have this medicine, but if it is not a medicine that came out of you, then who else can make this poison? ”

Xuanyuan's gentle hand unconsciously clenched into a fist, and said coldly: "It's Mo Shangxuan." ”

"Mo Shangxuan? How can that bastard have a prescription? As soon as Dugu Qing heard Mo Shangxuan's name, he was angry and came up unconsciously.

"It was my young and naΓ―ve ignorance who fell into his despicable trap and let him get the prescription from me." Xuanyuan Wenmei faintly laughed at herself.

"So, my mother's death is directly related to Mo Shangxuan?"

Perxi's gentle heart was infused with vengeful hatred at this moment. However, why did Mo Shangxuan send people all the way to Zhao to assassinate his mother, no, no, it should be to assassinate himself, his mother is just an innocent victim. She has nothing to do with Mo Shangxuan at all, what good is it for him to assassinate himself?

"I know that his cold-blooded ruthlessness has done a lot of hurtful things, but I didn't expect him to stretch out his hand so far away from Zhao Guo."

"But Wen Mei, how did you know Mo Shangxuan, and how did you know that he had done a lot of hurtful things?"

Duguqing has known Wen Mei for ten years, and at that time, the two met because of Xuanyuan Daokang, and they happened to be the same age, so they could talk better. Wen Mei was originally kind and lively. Until three years ago, he suddenly moved out of the Ba Wang Palace one day and came here, and since then he has only detoxified, not made drugs. Wen Mei never said what happened, and no one else could know.

"Sister, you burned the Hundred Poisons Prescription Set because of Mo Shangxuan, right?"

Xuanyuan Daokang looked at his sister with heartache, originally his sister and Mo Shangxuan had a marriage contract. But five or six years ago, he accidentally saw his sister arguing with Mo Shangxuan together, in which his sister asked Mo Shangxuan if he deliberately deceived the alchemy prescription of "Danding" from her, Mo Shangxuan did not deny it, and asked his sister to give her the recipe of the hundred poisons. In the end, my sister naturally didn't give it, and the two never seemed to have been in touch since.

He once thought that his sister would marry into the Shu Palace, but in the end it didn't happen what he thought it was, and he never dared to ask his sister what was going on, and now it seems that his sister should have some unquenchable hatred for Mo Shangxuan.

"After I cut off my relationship with him, he knew that I still had a set of hundred poison prescriptions left by my master, and when I was sure that I couldn't give it to him, I thought he would give up. Unexpectedly, three years ago, he sent someone here to try to steal it, and I realized that he had never given up on getting the Hundred Poisons Formula, so I burned the Hundred Poisons Recipe Set. If I don't burn it and get it by someone like Mo Shangxuan, the consequences will be unimaginable. "Xuanyuan's gentle and beautiful temperament has become cold, but his heart is still soft and kind.

"Princess Wenmei said that Mo Shangxuan did a lot of hurtful things, and she was disgusted with him like this, do you know what Mo Shangxuan did?" Perxi felt that Wen Mei might know Mo Shangxuan better than any of them.

"I thought I was going to be his princess, and he often came to me, and he was very gentle with me, promising to love me all my life and never fail me. At that time, I was only fifteen years old, and I already recognized him, so naturally I had no doubts. He knew that I had the ability to make poisons, and tricked me into helping him make poisons and antidotes with different levels of medicinal properties, and he said that he would not use them to harm people, but only occasionally came in handy. ”

Xuanyuan Wenmei sighed deeply and continued: "Until my eighteenth birthday, he took me to the Shu Palace in advance, saying that he would give me an unforgettable surprise, and when I passed my eighteenth birthday, he would immediately come to Badi to marry me. It was at that time that I found out that he had used a lot of poison to control many people, and I don't know how many people had died. Seeing the corpse tortured to death in the basement of his palace, I realized that I had indirectly helped him to kill so many lives. ”

Xuanyuan Wenmei remembered the picture of the pile of human bones she saw back then, and she was still disgusted, disgusted with Mo Shangxuan's cruelty, disgusted that her hands were stained with blood, even if it was not her own will.

"This Mo Shangxuan is really an evil devil, he wants to solve everything with poison, I really ......" Before Dugu Qing finished speaking, a clang came from the inner room and interrupted everyone's conversation.

Wen Mei and her younger brother glanced at each other, and got up anxiously and entered the inner room. Poxi and Duguqing also got up and followed, and saw a haggard-looking woman being helped up by the Wenmei sisters and brothers to lie down on the couch. Xuanyuan Wenmei helped her take the pulse, and after a while, probably no big problem, she warned the woman: "You are not suitable to stay and move around now, you need to continue to lie down for a while." ”

Perxi looked at the woman, as if she had seen it somewhere, and couldn't remember it for a while. On the contrary, it was Dugu Qing, who exclaimed after looking at it a few more times: "Isn't she Mo Shangxuan's favorite concubine Luo Ji?" How did she end up here? ”

Xuanyuan Daokang sighed and said, "She is the meticulous work I arranged by Mo Shangxuan's side a few years ago. "Luo Ji is one of the few meticulous works that Xuanyuan Daokang's father trained when he was alive, because loyalty is very important, so the previous Ba King only chose people who were absolutely loyal to cultivate.

Three years ago, when Xuanyuan Daokang asked Luo Ji if he was willing to sacrifice himself to go to the side of the King of Shu as a fine worker, Luo Ji responded without hesitation. But after entering the palace of the King of Shu, it is not easy to find out what the King of Shu is plotting, because without the order of the King of Shu, concubines like her cannot go out of their attic at will. So she has very little practical use, and she only knew about the existence of the basement when the King of Shu discarded her and asked Leng Ming to take her through the secret passage in the basement to the poison refining warehouse.

"Finesse? Didn't you say you wanted to avoid Mo Shangxuan and try not to provoke him? Why ......"

Dugu Qing only now found out that Xuanyuan Daokang was not as simple as he saw on the surface, he could quietly place the beautiful spy next to the sinister Mo Shangxuan for a few years, it can be seen that he is bothered to be the king of Badi.

"Although I don't know how Mo Shangxuan hurt my sister, I'm afraid that he will do anything to my sister again, plus Ba is weak, I can not provoke Mo Shang Xuan, but I always have to know if he has any plans to be unfavorable to Ba Di. It's just that I didn't expect to hurt her so far! ”

"The master doesn't have to feel guilty, it's Luo Ji's willingness." Luo Ji smiled weakly at Xuanyuan Daokang.

Po Xi frowned, how could things be so complicated, how could this inconsequential Luo Ji turn into a detailed work arranged by King Ba to the palace of the king of Shu. Looking at Luo Ji's tortured appearance, he was very sympathetic.

"Did Miss Luoji be tortured by the King of Shu because she discovered her identity?"

"No, he didn't find out my identity, he just abandoned me because he thought I couldn't get close to the brook girl, he was dignified in front of him, but he was actually moody in the aftermath, I was just a woman he was tired of, so it didn't matter if he threw me to the place where he was refining drugs to be a drug tester."

"Test poison, he refines poison, and he also tests poison with people?" Duguqing once again refreshed his cognition of Mo Shangxuan, I really didn't expect that human nature could annihilate conscience to such a point!!

"And how did you escape?" Perxi looked at Luo Ji, who was pale and couldn't even speak loudly. Since he was thrown into such an evil place, how could he get out so easily.

"It was Feng Daicheng who I contacted, and I told him that if I wanted to find Liu Chang and Tiger Boy, maybe the favorite concubine of the King of Shu could ask. Feng Daicheng thought I was helping you, but in fact, Luo Ji had disappeared at that time, and I wanted to find Luo Ji's whereabouts through Feng Daicheng. My people followed them to the place where the drug testers were held, and originally wanted to go in directly to save Luo Ji, but I didn't expect Luo Ji to be helped out. That's when he took Luo Ji back to Badi. Xuanyuan Daokang answered.

"That's right, it was Feng Shizi who found me in the place where the poison was refining and asked me if I knew where the underground mechanism of the Shu Palace was. And I knew, but I was already very poisoned at that time, and I could die at any time, so I asked him to help me out, and I told him. ”

Luo Ji talked too much, and she couldn't get up for a while, so she paused for a while before she continued: "Feng Shizi didn't dare to rescue me casually, because there were fewer people, and the King of Shu would soon know that someone was coming to me." It is indeed not easy for me to think, and if I escape, it is very likely that the king of Ba will be exposed to the things that have been planted by his side. I also heard Feng Shizi say that he was a friend to save King Ba, so I knew that it was the person who came to the palace of King Shu with King Ba that day, so I told him how to open the mechanism in the basement. ”

"Then how did you get out of that place freely, it shouldn't be easy to figure it out? Do you know the people who helped you? Perxi vaguely felt that something was about to come to the ground.

"No, I don't know, but he saved me, and he gave me a pill, saying that it would relieve my poison and let me find a way to save myself as soon as possible after I escaped. He said he would find a corpse that would take my place as a living person. There, bodies were everywhere, but it was not difficult to find. ”

"Yi Rong, is it ......" Dugu Qing thought of a person in a flash of inspiration.

"It's the uncle, the uncle should have discovered the secret of the Shu Palace, so he let others think it was himself, so that the King of Shu thought he was dead, he should be to find out more truth, so he has not shown up." Po Xi said with certainty, in this way, the uncle is indeed safe, and she can really rest assured now.

"Wow, Liu Chang, this guy, is so talented, I really didn't expect that he would be so scheming all day long, I thought I was really uncomfortable when he really died, but that would be ......" Thinking that he was obviously uncomfortable at that time, but he still had to be uncontrollable "rare" Mo Shangxuan, Duguqing suddenly regretted that he didn't burn the Shu Palace together.

"So, Liu Chang is not dead yet?" Xuanyuan Daokang looked surprised, he didn't expect this unexpected result.

"I forgot to tell you about this, I don't know who the one who died, anyway, it's not Liu Chang." Duguqing casually explained that everyone didn't care about the topic of whether Liu Chang was dead or not, because it had been determined that he was really not dead.

"No wonder he asked the people sent by King Ba to help deliver the letter to an inn in Phoenix Town, I think he should have informed you that he was still alive, and he knew that I helped you indirectly, so he also saved me by the way."

"It turned out that it was Ba Wang's person who sent the letter, and I wondered if the uncle had found some reliable person to help." Po Xi always thought that Liu Chang was still controlled even if he was alive, but he didn't expect that he had already had a free identity lurking inside the Shu Palace to investigate the news.

"Anyway, with Liu Chang's eccentricity, he will definitely be able to save the day, but we don't have to worry too much."

"Hmm!"

Poxi was worried, going around and around, and the clues went back to Shudi, and it was related to Mo Shangxuan, it seems that he had to be entangled with Mo Shangxuan, otherwise his mother's death would still not be able to get the result. Mo Shangxuan's conspiracy must also be smashed as soon as possible, otherwise when will so many people who are suffering be saved. If Mo Shangxuan's conspiracy succeeds, how can the people of Bashu and Shu survive under such a murderous master?