Chapter 014: First Acquaintance with Poison

Recently, everyone in the Lin Mansion has felt the change in the second miss. The little girl who used to be lively and noisy is now quiet all day long, and I don't know what I'm thinking. Everyone attributed the great change in the young lady's temperament to what happened on the day the princess got married, so everyone felt a little more disgusted with the princess.

As for Mingyue herself, because she was really embarrassed on her wedding day, she was very peaceful for a few days, and sat quietly in Meiyuan all day long, without leaving home. Tuo Zhilan made a big fuss that day, and Mrs. Lin saved a lot of worry when she ran the family.

Since the White Lotus Sect fought the Mid-Autumn Festival palace assassination case, it has died down and disappeared, as if the world has evaporated, and the theme of street talk has gradually changed direction. Lin Mubai is naturally happy to be idle, accompany his wife at home, write and paint, and be the enlightenment teacher of his youngest daughter, which also has a special interest in life.

Speaking of this little daughter Zhilanlai, Lin Mubai was still a little surprised while being proud. When I first taught my daughter to read and write, I found that she could never forget it, and she could do it once. Pleasantly surprised, he tried to teach his daughter to write, and she was able to write it once, and the writing was square, not at all like a child's font. This little daughter is a child prodigy! Although he didn't say anything, soon everyone in the house knew that the second lady was talented and intelligent, so everyone sighed, and those who had children often said, "Look at how talented the second lady is", to educate and spur their own children.

In fact, Zhilan didn't have the intention of earning the name of this "prodigy". She was just impatient to look at the words she already knew, and she had to pretend to learn them several times before she could remember them. However, being a "prodigy" can be regarded as a small satisfaction of vanity.

After dinner in the afternoon, Zhilan went to the study as usual. Lin Mubai hasn't arrived yet, so it's time to take a nap. So Zhilan walked around the study by herself. This study was built when Zhilan's grandfather, Lin Guangde, was young, and he named it "Yu Zhai" himself. "Foolish" but not "stupid", the collection here is so large that it can be described as a sea of books, covering a very wide range, even including some out-of-print ancient books. These books were collected by Lin Guangde and Lin Mubai, father and son, from all over the world one after another, and the area of "Yuzhai" has also been expanded again and again, and now it covers an area of more than two acres.

Zhilan had coveted these books for a long time, especially some of them, but she could only pretend to be playful and could not read them closely. She has only been literate for a few days, and her literacy progress has already been surprising, if she no longer has a teacher, I am afraid she will not be regarded as a "prodigy" but a "demon".

Going around and around, Zhilan turned to the shelf where the medical books were placed. Looking up at the books, she felt like she had gone back to the old days of soaking in the school library. Looking at it, a book called "Miao Jiang's Strange Talk" caught her attention. Judging by the name, this book should not be placed in the middle of a medical book. Suddenly, the word "Miao Jiang" crossed her head like a match - "Miao people are good at making poison". Eighty percent of this book is about drug production! Zhilan suddenly became excited, and her intense curiosity drove her to confirm her guess.

So Zhilan stood on tiptoe and stretched out her arms, enough, enough, enough...... Not out of reach. Zhilan, who was angry, couldn't help but stomp her feet, thinking that she was one meter seven tall at the beginning! Now it's less than a meter in size. Looking at the four words "Miao Jiang's Strange Talk" on the shelf, it was like a hook that hooked her heart, and she was even more eager to read this book. Looking around, Zhilan found that there was a chair against the wall, so she hurriedly ran over, moved the chair with enough strength to feed, stepped on the chair, and finally got the book. I flipped through it quickly, and sure enough, it was about the Miao people's Gu poison technique!

Zhilan's heart "thumped", and a thought came to her and she couldn't hold it down anymore - she wanted to steal the book. Actually, it's not stealing, is it? If she had grown up, she would have been able to read the books here casually. She's just a few years ahead of schedule.

Just as Zhilan was struggling with "stealing books", she suddenly heard a voice outside the courtyard, which was the gatekeeper Changgui speaking: "Master, you are here." When Zhilan heard this, she immediately made a decision, quickly hid the book in her dress, jumped off the chair, and ran quickly to the desk.

When Lin Mubai walked into the study, he saw his little daughter scribbling on paper with a pen. When I got closer, I couldn't help but laugh out loud...... It's really miserable, and it seems that she has no talent for drawing. knocked on her daughter's head with a fan, Lin Mubai said: "The weather is fine today, so you don't have to study." Let's go to the garden! With that, he took down the pen in Zhilan's hand that had been poked into a broom by her. So the father and daughter went to play in the garden.

When they were both gone, the room fell silent. Behind the heavy bookshelves, a figure quietly appeared. I saw this person standing in front of the chair that Zhilan had stepped on, looking at the row of books on the shelf, and did not move for a long time.

Since she got this book of "Miao Jiang Strange Talks" in the study on the day of the fight, Zhilan has been like a treasure, and she hides in the bed tent to read books whenever she has the opportunity. The author of this book was originally a practitioner of medicine, traveled all over the country, and then met a Miao girl, so he lived in the place where the Miao people lived for ten years, and knew all kinds of poisonous Gu techniques well, so he wrote this book in the form of notes and miscellaneous conversations. People who don't have a certain medical foundation can't understand this book. Zhilan snickered with a book, fortunately she was rooted. It's just that the herbs mentioned in the book and the like, she doesn't have them in her hand yet, so she can only read the book and get over it.

Peaceful days are always very short, no, I recently heard that Princess Mingyue fell ill. This illness is also common, it is an ordinary typhoid fever. It's just that the cause is a little intriguing, it is said that it is because Mrs. Lin deducted the food and clothing of Mei Yuan, and the weather has become cooler these days, but Mei Yuan has not added much quilt, causing the increasingly thin princess to catch a cold. That's it, the backyard struggle has always been like this, and there is nothing to be surprised about. It's just strange that the news that the princess was oppressed by Mrs. Lin and fell ill was actually heard from a vegetable seller when the servant woman of the Lin family went to the street, and the servant woman reported the news to Mrs. Lin when she returned. After that, everyone in the house wondered: Why is it that people in their own house don't know about things, but the streets and alleys are already talking?

Although the princess had a bad impression on everyone in the Lin Mansion, the people in the capital did not know about it. When such news spreads, it is a big blow to the reputation and image of the Lin Mansion. In particular, Lin Mansion still has some shops in the capital, and business has been affected.