In the blink of an eye, it was the end of August, the summer heat gradually subsided, and after the end of the Five Nations Conference, everyone went back there, as if the previous lively days were just a dream.

The journey back to Qi is the farthest, in order to open up the trade route, Qi stayed in Chu for a long time, and was the last group to leave Chu.

Qin and Qi are separated by the Jin State, and the two countries do not have many exchanges, but the Qin State is interested in cooperating with the Qi State, the Qin State is southeast, the Qi State is west, the two countries have different landforms, and the products are also different, and they trade with each other, which is of great value.

The Xie family was still being suspicious of the more and more suspicious emperors, and on the other hand, they were reused by him, and the smile on Xie Ling's face became less and less, if it weren't for everyone to accompany him, his mentality would have to be distorted.

Xie Yun agreed to go back to Suyue for the New Year, and the Bai family began to prepare a gift for going back early in the morning, but they hadn't seen each other for ten years, they were all close relatives, and they couldn't wait to move the best things over, which was really exhausting.

In this way, the affairs in everyone's hands are carried out in a tense but orderly manner.

On September 10, the envoys of the Shang State traveled to the border of the Chu State, and they could enter the border of the Shang State in half a day.

Lian Yu and Ning Ming rode in front of the carriage, and suddenly heard a scream from Cui Yue's carriage, followed by the maid's surprise, "Miss, what's wrong with you." ”

The two glanced at each other, their hearts were not good, they hurriedly stopped the team, opened the curtain and saw that Cui Yue was spitting blood, her face was pale, her brows were about to be twisted together, and beads of sweat the size of beans were flowing down.

Ning Ming felt a pain in his heart, and hurriedly called the accompanying doctor.

The doctor came and checked her pulse.

Immediately knelt down, "The county lord is poisoned." ”

Ning Ming said, "If you are poisoned, you can solve it, what's the use of kneeling." ”

"The subordinates can only judge that it is poisoned, but they don't know what poison it is, and there is no way to solve it. ”

Ning Ming, who has always been good-tempered, couldn't wait to kick it over, and said with a hideous face, "Then find a way to delay, someone will always solve it." ”

The six princes looked at him from the sidelines, their eyes dim.

Cui Yue was in a painful daze, heard the conversation outside, and whispered Ning Ming's name in her mouth.

The maid suddenly shouted, "Lord Ning, Miss called you." ”

Ning Ming tried his best to hold back his anger, "Don't think of a way yet." ”

Approaching the carriage, looking at her appearance, he whispered comfortingly, "It's okay, we'll go back immediately, I'll let them go to the healer, you'll be fine." ”

I don't know if it's to comfort Farewell Cui Yue, or to comfort myself.

Cui Yue raised a little strength, shook her head and said, "It's useless, it must have been Sister Xie Yan's doing, she did it on purpose, calculated the time, let me look at Shangguo but can't go back, she won't leave me alive." ”

As he spoke, he spit out another mouthful of blood, Ning Ming knew that what she said made sense, everyone thought that Sister Xie of the Xie family, such a proud person, disdained to use pickling methods, but forgot that Sister Xie also hated Cui Yue, how could she watch her slip away in front of her.

Cui Yue raised a hint of a smile, "She is a real ruthless person, you have to be careful in the future, you must tell your cousin that she is more terrifying than Xie Ling." ”

Ning Ming's nose was sour, "Don't talk about her, don't talk, save your strength." ”

"No need, I don't want to die in the carriage, you take me out, I want to look at this piece of mountains and rivers that are about to belong to the Shang Kingdom. ”

Ning Ming picked her up with tears in his eyes and carried her to a big tree next to her.

Cui Yue leaned against the big tree, and Ning Ming kept spitting out the blood with her handkerchief.

It's just that after an hour or two, she is still alive, Ning Ming hurriedly said, "Maybe it's not a deadly poison, you hold on a little longer, and we will go back immediately and go to Shangguo to find our healer." ”

The six princes still stood aside and did not speak.

Cui Yue felt the pain like a knife in her body, and knew that it could not be an unfatal poison.

"Don't fantasize, she just doesn't want me to die easily and torture me. ”

After speaking, his nose also began to bleed, and Ning Ming remembered what the doctor said about bleeding to death from the seven orifices, and his heart suddenly panicked.

In the distance, an old man and a young man came, a young man, holding an old woman with white hair, who approached and saw the banner of the Shang Kingdom, and sighed in his heart.

Everyone's attention was on Cui Yue, so they didn't pay attention to these two people.

The old woman walked to the tree and said to Ning Ming and the others in a somewhat strange accent, "Is there any water?"

Looking at the two strange people, Cui Yue raised her hand, and Ning Ming took the water bladder around her waist and handed it to them.

The young man took the water bladder, and the old woman kept looking at Cui Yue.

Although he is a dying person, he can't be looked at like this, Cui Yue reluctantly turned his face away.

Ning Ming couldn't help but say, "Is there anything else going on with the old man?"

"Is she poisoned? ”

Ning Ming's eyes suddenly raised, his eyes terrifying.

The old woman was not afraid of him, "It seems to be true, I have a method that can save your life temporarily, are you willing to use it?"

Ning Ming didn't expect that in despair, there was suddenly a glimmer of hope, "What way?"

"The old body has a Gu, and it took sixty years to get this one, and the life is called 'devouring poison', which can absorb all kinds of poisons, but it will be born with the person who is detoxified, and the rest of his life needs to be fed with poison, but it is a foreign object after all, and it will eventually be due to the consumption of vitality, coupled with the hidden dangers that various poisons will be illuminated when they stay in the body, and the rescued person, about ten years, will still die, and then the Gu worm will die with it. ”

Ning Ming gritted his teeth and said, "In other words, you can only get ten years of life?"

"The physique is different, the lifespan is also different, and every time you feed the poison, it will be very painful, but at this point, it can be regarded as invulnerable. ”

Ning Ming still had to think about it, and Cui Yue had already weakly spoke, "What do you want in exchange." ”

The old woman said, "The old man is a Dian person, and I hope that if there is a chance, the noble person will protect the Dian people once in the future." ”

The sixth prince raised his eyebrows, and the Dian people, haven't they disappeared for many years? Why did they suddenly appear.

Although I have a stomach full of questions, it is not the time to ask.

Seventeen in the shadows, when the old woman said that there was a way to save Cui Yue, she was ready to kill the old woman, but she turned out to be a Dian person, the master They seem to have some cooperation with the Dian people, and the main thing of the Dian people is already on the way to Beijing, and killing this old woman by himself will not cause trouble for the master and them.

That's it, Cui Yue is looking for an opportunity to kill again, this person can't die.

Cui Yue raised her eyes and said firmly, "I promise you, there will be ten more years, it's already good." ”

The old woman sighed, took out a yellow-brown bamboo pipe from her personal place, and the young man on the side pulled out the short knife on her waist, picked up Cui Yue's left hand, and made an inch-long cut on her wrist, blood rushed out, the color was already a little wrong, you can know how fierce the toxicity is.

The old woman pulled the plug and put the hole close to the knife edge, and a Cui Yue's little finger was half thick and half long, and an almost transparent insect crawled out.

It should have smelled blood, or the smell of poison, and crawled over when he found the opening, and as soon as he touched the wound, he was already covered in blood.

In the blink of an eye, she climbed in, only to see a protrusion from the blood vessel on her arm, and quickly went up.

Ning Ming flipped his sleeves up, and he couldn't see anything anymore.

Suddenly, Cui Yue covered her heart, her whole face wrinkled in pain, and a mouthful of black blood spit out.

"The heart is the place where all blood returns, and it absorbs toxins on top of it. ”

Before Cui Yue fainted, she heard the old woman say slowly, "Don't forget what you promised me." ”

The old woman instructed Ning Ming, "Feed Hedinghong once every ten days, two dollars at a time, don't ask too much, the more you eat, the greater the consumption of your body, even if you are so half-full, it will be a little uncomfortable, and you can't get used to it." ”

Ning Ming understood the truth and said that he would pay attention.

Although the sixth prince had a lot of questions, he still asked him the one he wanted to know the most, "Why do you have to ask her to agree to that thing, instead of letting someone else." ”

"I, the Dian people, have been hiding for many years, the catastrophe has not been settled, you are all people in power, leaving a trace of good karma, but also leaving a way back for the Dian people, as for why she agreed, because she is a very noble person, what she promised, will definitely be realized. ”

The sixth prince was displeased, although Cui Yue was favored by the prince, but she was the prince, and this old woman actually felt that she was not as noble as Cui Yue.

Ning Ming said, "If the county lord does not die, there will be a blessing, what the old man said." ”

The old woman opened her mouth without a few teeth and smiled, and the young man opened Ning Ming's water bladder, poured half of the water into his own water bladder, and returned the water bladder to Ning Ming.

"The old body has said goodbye, remember to replenish the blood of this girl. ”

Ning Ming bowed and said, "Thank you for your help." ”

The Sixth Prince has little interest in this old fellow now, because he is also interested in another matter.

Seeing that Cui Yue had indeed fainted, the sixth prince whispered to him, "Do you care too much about Cui Yue?" ”

In order to avoid suspicion, it can only be said to be more obscure.

Ning Ming said, "Your Highness, don't speculate, the minister has no improper thoughts about the county lord." ”

After carefully cleaning her, he carried her back to the carriage and covered her with a blanket.

After checking the pulse, it was confirmed that the Gu worm was indeed used, and half of her heart was put down, just waiting for her to wake up, but she would have to count the days in the future.

The sixth prince had already mounted his horse, looking at Ning Ming with the light on his back, and he couldn't see his eyes clearly.

"Let's go back to the merchant country. ”

When she woke up and had arrived in Shangguo, she should be very happy.

Everyone was in a hurry to leave, and did not pay attention to the two Dian people.

Seventeen asked people to follow Cui Yue and his party to see the situation, and he took people to find the old woman.

After dark, the people of the Shang Kingdom did not stop, and it was not until the horses' hooves set foot on the land of the Shang Kingdom that the inexplicable atmosphere relaxed a little.

Naturally, this matter could not be known to others, and Ning Ming only said to the outside world that the county lord had suffered a plot, and he didn't know who had done it.

The Xie family can't say anything about the day, let alone the Shang Kingdom, if it is said that Cui Yue participated in the detailed work, the prince will not be able to clear the suspicion, and the internal affairs of the Shang Kingdom will not be able to continue.

And the Xie family, because of their favoritism, let the felons escape, they only dare to silence in private, and dare not publicize it, otherwise the prestige of the Xie family will also plummet.

One thought made the situation evolve to this day.

That day, He Zhou and Dusk Tianshen were more ruthless and killed Cui Yue, or Xie Ming, and killed him, or they found out Cui Yue's identity earlier, or ...... , they may all catch the ironclad evidence that the prince personally planned this matter, but for the sake of a Xie sister, they gave Cui Yue a chance to escape, and also gave the prince a way to turn the crisis into safety.