Sensation and senses regained in the sweltering heat, and the scent of Canaan in the air was a little too strong.

The subtle sound of the charcoal fire crackling in the charcoal basin was reassuring, and I slowly moved my hand to my undulating chest, and only then did I feel that my body wrapped in a thick quilt had somehow become a layer of sticky cold sweat. However, when he raised his waist slightly, there were bursts of unbearable pain in his body from all over his body.

"Return to Hotaru?" Xu listened to my pain and groan, and a quiet female voice walked briskly from one wall to the other in the outer room. There was a cool and refreshing touch on my forehead, as if someone was holding a handkerchief soaked in warm water and carefully wiping my sweat for me. "You're awake... How does it feel, but does it still hurt badly? ”

"-Wanqiu?"

I was confused, but my eyes opened to see the soft face of Wanqiu lying beside my bed. I let her gently take my hand and place it on her flawless cheek, and then I realized that my hand was so cold and stiff. "Why are you here, I... How could I, Duan Ming-how is Duan Ming! ”

"Duan Gongzi is very good, and he is sleeping peacefully in my room right now."

Wan Qiu saw that I was once again in pain because of the sudden excitement, and hurriedly smoothed my chest in distress and gently, "You were carried back by two masked men in black in the early morning. It's just because I got up early and happened to bump into them, and they really don't have anyone else to entrust, so they have the right to ask me to take care of them. ”

"The man in black... You mean, the axe and the axe? "My mind was so dizzy that I still couldn't remember anything after I fell unconscious that night in Lianyue Mountain." How did they know... So, what about Aunt Hua? Does Aunt Hua know about my injury? ”

"Don't worry, since Ji Sarong was seriously ill and went out of the building to recuperate, no one took care of the Taopinlou business, and Aunt Hua has been very busy. Since you and Duan Gongzi were sent back to the present this morning, she hasn't been able to take a break back to the back building to rest. Now that the time has passed, I only say to my head that you are not feeling good today, and you should rest early. ”

Wanqiu's smile was peaceful and beautiful, which made people feel calm and reassured, "As for the names of the two who sent you back, I seem to have heard Duan Gongzi mention it in the morning, but I didn't pay attention to it at the time, and I don't remember it." ”

"What—has Duan Ming woken up?"

"Yes, you were all unconscious when you were sent back. It's just that those two men in black didn't worry about handing you over to me, and they wanted to wake you up and ask you what you mean. However, you were so injured that you were so exhausted that you couldn't wake up no matter how you screamed, so they woke up Duan Gongzi. ”

Wan Qiu said eloquently, "Duan Gongzi is also extremely weak, but he is alert and asked me a lot about you. I didn't get all of them right, but I did earn his trust. Lest I arouse suspicion, I put him to sleep in my room. Before resting, he also told me to go and catch a lot of medicinal herbs for him that will help you two heal your wounds. This is not difficult for me, after all, I take medicine and pretend to be sick every day these days, but when Lang Zhong comes, I just ask him to prescribe an extra prescription......

Wanqiu was right, Aunt Hua did agree to my request that day not to let Wanqiu open the door to pick up customers. It's just that this girl entered the building as an oiran, and her body deed is worth a fortune, but it is not said that it can be redeemed. In order to gain time to find another way, Aunt Hua followed Ji Sarong's method and applied the wrong medicine to prolong the time of Wanqiu's illness.

It's just that although this method can calm the complaints of the benefactors in the building, and it can also prevent the people in the building from noticing the clues, it has suffered Wanqiu's own body in the end.

Reflecting the dim candlelight in the pavilion, I saw that her originally full and delicate porcelain doll-like cheeks had been slightly sagging and sunken, and the dark blue under her eyes had faded layer by layer, and even her complexion had become more or less dull from the original bright peach blossom. The whole person is like a fragrant peony that has been beaten by severe frost, and it is beautiful, but it has lost its original incomprehensible charm.

"That being said, it's just that you're suffering too much." I said distressedly, "You were hurt by Ji Sarong's calculations." This disease belongs to a family of daughters, and the daughter's family is the most uncontaminated. The man who dispensed you medicine is good to talk to, you tell you to add an extra pair of medicine, and you will give you a pair of medicine without asking. If you want me to say, it's also a little measured, you drink the medicine he prescribed for you is really risky, in case one day he boils the medicine by half a minute, or adds something more to it by mistake, how good is it to sit on your body with this abrasive symptom! ”

"You, it's really hurt this time, you don't have the courage to say it in the past, and your mouth has become trivial."

Wanqiu snorted and laughed, still holding a handkerchief in her hand to wipe the sweat on her forehead for me over and over again, "I know that my body has to suffer a little now, but it is still better than the other sisters in the building who open the door to welcome guests." Two days ago, I listened to the gossip of the older sisters in the building, and I realized that this line of work is also full of dangers! If you are unlucky and pick up unclean guests, you will be infected with a hidden disease in just one night. It can range from ulceration and sores to life-threatening. I didn't know about these before, but now that I think about it, I am really fortunate to have met such a noble person as you in such a smoky place. ”

Seeing that Wan Qiu sighed more and more as she spoke, I was afraid that she would remember the past with Chu He and hurt again, so I immediately interrupted: "If you want me to say, I am the one who is fortunate in three lives." Yesterday, I thought I was going to die, but I never expected to be saved by Duan Ming - you don't know, he is a very reliable friend, and he was with me before you came to Taopinlou. Even my martial arts were taught by him...... Later, the two of us were defeated by our opponents, and we were sent back to Taopinlou unconscious, and we had to take care of them so carefully. Otherwise, I'm afraid that I would have died under the sword of that madman, and I would have burned to death in my bed with a high fever last night. ”

"Okay, what do you do?" Wanqiu glanced at me complainingly, but her expression couldn't hide her worry, "It's just that I really can't imagine what kind of dangerous thing happened to you yesterday?" I originally saw that Duan Gongzi's saber was very majestic, and I thought that his martial arts were not bad. Dare you provoke a peerless master, and you almost lost your life? ”

"That woman is truly unfathomable."

The red-clothed figure as terrifying as a demon appeared in front of me, and my body with a high fever couldn't help but shiver again, "You only look at Duan Ming's sword majesty, but you don't know that the woman who wants to kill us has made the weapon even more powerful, it is actually a golden, indestructible long sword!" It's just that the sword is strange, and her martial arts moves are also very evil—she can actually use that sword to throw out the fierce sword qi that has been formed, which has caused Duan Ming and me to suffer so much...... I don't think she's a human, she's a terrible ghost who comes out of the underworld to ask for people's souls, it's really terrifying. ”

I was so focused on my memories that I almost didn't see the look of horror on Wanqiu's face as I spoke. Her narrow willow eyebrows twitched, as if she had imagined the picture I had described. Seeing me looking at her suspiciously, she hurriedly concealed the tightness of the muscles on her face, but her expression was still clearly shocked.

"There are still such powerful moves in the world..."Wan Qiu withdrew the veil that had lost the residual heat on my face, and said in a trembling voice, "If that's the case, you and Duan Gongzi, Gui Ying, it's better for you to go out of Kazhou City less in the future......"

"This is natural." I looked at Wanqiu with concern, "But what I said scared you, Wanqiu, why do you seem to be scared?" ”

"Oh... It's okay. Wanqiu hurriedly responded, but a drop of cold sweat seeped from her sideburns. She wiped her face with a handkerchief a little embarrassed, "It's true that I've seen your injuries in the morning, and now I've heard you tell you about your injuries, so I can't help but feel a little chilled——"

- Knock knock, Wan Qiu was caught off guard, and was startled by the sudden sound of slamming the door. She seemed embarrassed, blinked her big bright and beautiful eyes and smiled awkwardly at me, and then asked who it was, and her voice was still intoxicating and graceful.

"Girl, it's me." Outside, Lang Lang heard the voice of the maid in Wanqiu's house, "The slave maid has brought you medicine." ”

Wanqiu let out a low sigh, and Lianbu moved lightly and went outside. But after two sentences, she lifted the curtain again, holding a tray with two white porcelain bowls in her hand: "One bowl is ginger soup to ward off the cold, I asked the people in my room to make it; A bowl is a good medicine for consolidating the foundation and peiyuan, and it is Duan Gongzi's recipe. It's all yours, get up and drink it while it's hot. ”

"Ahh

"—I also have two bowls of identical medicine in my house at the moment. It's just that he has worked a lot more than you before, and he hasn't woken up yet, and his own henchman is waiting for him to serve. ”

Wanqiu seemed to understand my stunned expression staring at the hot air of the medicine bowl in her hand, and sat back on the edge of the bed and said to me gently, "Duan Gongzi and I are very good. You, right now, just obediently drink these two bowls of bitter medicine, and then cover the sweat of the quilt firmly, and then sleep until noon tomorrow. ”

I looked at Wanqiu's beautiful and determined smile, and in my heart I was fed two steaming medicinal soups by her, and changed into a new and dry quilt, and listened to her go outside and carefully instruct her maid to keep today's affairs absolutely secret, and there was no other concern in my heart. His eyes were closed, and he let himself be slowly drowned out by the intense sleepiness that surged over his head.

I didn't wake up until I was asleep.

When I opened my eyes, although my body was still sore, my spirit was very full, and it was very different from the first time I woke up after the injury last night. When the little girl saw me get up and come out, she happily called someone to come in and take the food that had been on the table for the morning back to the small kitchen and bring it back to the kitchen.

At the door of the room, all the talents came out, and Duan Ming's figure jumped in happily.

"Duan Ming, you're here!" I saw that he was in high spirits, and it was obvious that the injury was fine, so I couldn't help but feel overjoyed, and I stood up with a vague step and pulled him to the front of the desk and sat down, saying, "How are you, is the injury still serious?" When you wake up, come and see me, and don't say lie down for two more hours to rest and rest......"

"It's okay." Duan Ming waved his hand and chuckled repeatedly, seeing that I was full of energy, he was also relieved and happy, "Why did you forget that the injuries of the two of us were originally impartial and half-pointed." You have been lying in the snow and ice for so long last night, and you can walk as usual today; I'm a tall man, what is there to worry about? ”

"That's right, it's just that we were really hurt last night. In particular, although these two sword wounds did not bleed, they were much more painful than the injuries I suffered in the night robber's mansion that day, they were really evil...... "I said with palpitations, "In the end, it is your medicine that works." I just drank one last night, and when I got up this morning, not only did the high heat subside, but even the true qi in my body seemed to have been replenished by two or three percent! ”

"Where is the elixir, but it's just a recipe for soothing the meridians. This morning, before midnight, I got up to meditate and exercise, and you and I both recuperated and breathed, and recuperated with half the effort. ”

Duan Ming smiled peacefully, then frowned slightly, and said with layers of ripples in his eyes, "It's just that when I talk about this injury, I really have to be shocking." I remember that last night the woman was dressed in scarlet, and the saber in her hand was all covered in gold—gold was the softest thing, and it was the most unsuitable for forging swords. And this one is more than five feet long, wide and thick, to say the least, it is one hundred and eighty pounds. It is really appalling that the blade of such a stupid sword can be so fierce, and that woman can still dance it steadily and fiercely, without any difficulty...... Yes, that woman, she is even more terrifying than her sword, I have walked in this river and lake for nearly ten years, and I have never seen such a move - infuse the sword with pure yang true qi, and throw it in the shape of a sword, flying for several zhang without reducing or dispersing, and can hide the poisonous ......"

"- Possession of drugs? You say that the sword qi in us is poisonous! "I counted down my hairs, and the wounds on my lower abdomen and arms ached faintly." Wouldn't we—"

"—Rest assured. This poison is just the poison of the gold that the true qi enters the sword and comes out again, and it is brought out from the sword. Although the onset of toxicity is violent and painful, it is not a strange poison that is difficult to solve. We just need to eat more eggs, fish and shrimp in the past two days, drink more soy milk and milk, and I believe it will be resolved by itself. ”

"Well... In this way, the woman is not a bad thing. I breathed a long sigh of relief, and my hands inadvertently stroked the burnt black flesh of my lower abdomen, which was still hard and slightly convex, as if it had been roasted by a fierce fire, and said, "No wonder this wound hurts so much, and it doesn't bleed like an ordinary wound, there is such a mystery." ”

"Compared to the various hidden weapons of our Tail Sect's Red Flame Banner, she uses poison like this, but it is indeed above board." Duan Ying shook his head in a deep voice and said, "It's just that how can you not be ruthless in your methods?" Such a fierce and pure yang true qi is a fierce sword type. If you change to an ordinary person, you are afraid that you will lose your life if you are hit by a sword. It's just because you and I are martial arts practitioners, with true qi to protect the body, plus double the vitality and resistance, we can barely endure the heart-wrenching pain of gold poison entering the body, so we are fortunate to pick up my life! ”