Chapter 64: Changing elbows and armpits
Li Ningluo also seemed to be frightened, and said to Chu Liuyan in a panic: "Miss Chu, I'll go and tell Wu Guogong to go." Then he ran out after Cui'er's figure.
At this time, many maids and maids who usually served Ma Xiuying ran over one after another, chattering, noisy, and disturbed by the cigarette butts of Chu Liu, who were as big as a bucket.
Chu Liuyan couldn't help but snort: "You wait and go out quickly, don't disturb me here to heal Mrs. Ma." ”
The maids and maids were suddenly silent, and a slightly bolder maid stepped forward and asked, "Miss Chu, do you want us to stay a few and fight." ”
Chu Liuyan originally wanted to keep a few people down, but later felt that it was useless to have too many people, and the method of curing poison in the notes left by his mother was quite peculiar, and it was really not suitable for people to see. Then he said: "No need, you can wait until you all go out, there is no need to wait in the house, but when you go out, close the door of the house, and don't let ordinary people in." ”
After listening to Chu Liuyan's instructions, although the maids were also very concerned about Ma Xiuying's situation, they did not disobey. He quietly pushed out of the house, closed the door, and then stood under the dripping eaves, waiting quietly, listening to the movement inside.
Chu Liuyan carefully turned Ma Xiuying around and leaned on his arm. Then he looked down at Ma Xiuying in the crook of his arm, and he saw a gray face, and looked at Ma Xiuying's eyelids, only to see that Ma Xiuying's eyes were slightly glowing with strange brown crystals.
Chu Liuyan suddenly thought of the "Hibiscus Crystal Flame Poison" mentioned in the Zha Ji left by his mother, and felt a chill in his heart, and he already knew in his heart that someone in the house had deliberately poisoned Ma Xiuying's life.
Among the people who pinched Ma Xiuying, there seemed to be some vague consciousness. Chu Liuyan understood that this was an opium paste abundant in a certain country adjacent to Yunnan.
It is said that opium paste is extracted from a poisonous fruit called opium poppy in the country, and if it is refined properly, the opium paste concocted is also quite effective in stopping diarrhea and refreshing the mind, and folk doctors cite it as medicine, which is quite effective for diseases such as dysentery and diarrhea. Once taken, diarrhea stops immediately, but the drug properties are quite difficult to control, and there are addictive drawbacks, so although the people have been used in medicine, ordinary doctors will never easily make it into medicine.
According to his mother's codex, Chu Liuyan can already determine that although there are not many poisons in the teapot, it is very powerful, but Ma Xiuying just drank a cup, the poison is not deep, it is quite easy to cook, and her life can be saved.
Chu Liuyan slammed a few palms at an acupuncture point on Ma Xiuying's back door, Ma Xiuying spit out a mouthful of black blood violently, but her face gradually turned a lot whiter. Seeing such a situation, Chu Liuyan knew that most of the poison that Ma Xiuying had just been poisoned by himself, and as long as he cultivated for a few days in the future, he would naturally be safe and sound.
Seeing a trace of residual blood on the corner of Ma Xiuying's mouth in a blink of an eye, Chu Liuyan got up and entered the side room, took a handkerchief for Ma Xiuying, and slowly helped Ma Xiuying, who was still unconscious, to wipe off the stains on the corner of her mouth.
After everything was ready, Chu Liuyan helped Ma Xiuying to the bed and gently served Ma Xiuying to lie down.
Chu Liuyan stood up, arrived at the place where the teapot was broken, squatted down, and looked at it carefully, wanting to see a trace of clues among the debris and tea stains that had been knocked over on the ground.
"How's Xiuying?" I heard someone shouting at the door.
"Qi Wu Guogong, Mrs. Ma doesn't know what to do, Miss Chu is in the house to help Mrs. Miss Chu told me not to let idlers in. A maid said with some fear between her words.
"Is the prince of my country also an idler?" Zhu Yuanzhang said with some anger.
"The slave is wrong, Wu Guogong asks for forgiveness." The maid who had just accosted her was a little trembling and lost her time.
Chu Liuyan knew that it was Wu Guogong Zhu Yuanzhang who had arrived, so he immediately stood up, only to see Zhu Yuanzhang rushing in straight and rushing in with Li Ningluo in stride.
As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang saw Chu Liuyan, he greeted and said: "Master Chu, what happened just now, Li Ningluo hurriedly rushed over, saying that Xiuying had an accident, and his father-in-law asked about Condensation for a while, but Condensation couldn't say clearly, so his father-in-law rushed over. What the hell is going on with Xiuying, what the hell is going on with her. ”
Chu Liuyan pointed to the bed and said, "Wu Guogong, Mrs. Ma is lying on the bed right now. ”
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he hurriedly walked to the head of the bed, did it, and looked carefully for a while, but saw that Ma Xiuying's face was pale and abnormal, and she was angry. Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked, and whispered a few times to the root of Ma Xiuying's ear, but Ma Xiuying, who was in a coma, didn't hear it and didn't react at all.
Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly grabbed Ma Xiuying's hand, put it on the vein, and carefully checked it for a while, and his intuition was that Ma Xiuying's was like nothing, even if there was, it was fast and fine, and her heart was beating fast, and she seemed to be exhausted.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang has dabbled in the way of medical science, after all, he is a layman, so when he saw such a pulse, the three fingers of his right hand on Ma Xiuying's wrist were also trembling slightly. Chu Liuyan, on the other hand, also became nervous, and his heart was so uneasy, if it wasn't for the bad pulse, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't have to be so panicked.
Li Ningluo on the side almost didn't react, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Zhu Yuanzhang turned his face back and asked Chu Liuyan: "Chu Junshi, Xiuying is my wife, and I also ask Chu Junshi to be able to save Jing's life like the last time he rescued General Chang Yuchun." ”
Chu Liuyan was confused by Zhu Yuanzhang's words for a while, and blurted out and asked: "Wu Guogong, Mrs. Ma's life is fine, why is Wu Guogong sad." ”
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard Chu Liuyan's words, he was slightly stunned, and asked with some hesitation: "Didn't Master Chu see that Jing's life might not be guaranteed, and wanted to comfort me." ”
Chu Liuyan smiled and said: "How can I talk nonsense with Wu Guogong, just now I have already removed most of the venom for Mrs. Ma, as long as Mrs. Ma cultivates with peace of mind for a while, she will be fine." ”
Zhu Yuanzhang said with some disbelief: "That's true, but when I took the pulse, I felt that if the clumsy pulse was absent, it seemed that there was a sign that my life was not guaranteed." How could this be. ”
Only then did Chu Liuyan understand why Zhu Yuanzhang's actions were so unexpected, so he said: "Wu Guogong is a little familiar with the way of Qihuang, but Mrs. Ma is not sick, but a strange poison, although most of the poison on her body has been broken by me, but some of it has gone into the blood, so it makes the pulse become so, which is not a big problem, as long as you adjust it properly and cultivate for a few more days, the pulse can be restored, and this abnormality can be eliminated." ”
Zhu Yuanzhang heard Chu Liuyan say this, although he was a little skeptical, but he remembered the previous time when Chu Liuyan was able to dispel public opinion and save General Chang Yuchun, who was helpless with the holy hands of the national doctor, and such wonderful skills were really shocking, and the holy hand of the national doctor was also admired.
Now that Chu Liuyan is so confident, it must be true that he said this. Since then, Zhu Yuanzhang's heart has calmed down a lot, as long as Ma Xiuying can not have an accident, even if this matter is dangerous, it is just dangerous, so naturally there is no need to worry too much.
Zhu Yuanzhang let go of the burden in his heart, and suddenly asked Chu Liuyan: "Master Chu, why did you get to this point today, and how did you get hurt." ”
Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's question, Chu Liuyan said: "After I left Wu Guogong today, I immediately came to visit Mrs. Ma, but I didn't expect Mrs. Ma to occasionally feel cold this morning and be bedridden, so I talked to Mrs. Ma at the bedside, and then Mrs. Ma's body was a little cooler, and her words were quite speculative. When I entered the alley, I only heard that Cui'er was outside and didn't know who she was arguing with, so Mrs. Ma took me out with me, only to see Condensation
The sister happened to be arguing outside the house, as if the condensation sister wanted to break into Mrs. Ma's residence. ”
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard Chu Liuyan say this, he looked at Li Ningluo on the side with some suspicion and asked: "Why do you want to break into Mrs. Ma's house, tell me quickly, if you can't tell the reason, the prince will never spare you." ”
Li Ningluo listened to Wu Guogong Zhu Yuanzhang's tone was extremely tough, knowing that Ma Xiuying's poisoning today had already aroused the anger in Wu Guogong Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, so he did not dare to fight against him head-on.
After thinking about it in his heart, he explained with a smile: "Wu Guogong, you are wrong to blame Ningluo, after Wu Guogong left today, Ningluo felt that it had been more than half a month since he passed the house, and he didn't go to Sister Xiuying's place to ask for a question mark, and he felt guilty, so he brought a few maids and maids here to invite Sister Xiuying's sister. ”
Zhu Yuanzhang originally thought that this matter must be a good thing done by Li Ningluo, so he stepped forward to question vigorously, but after listening to Li Ningluo's reasonable defense, he suddenly felt that what Li Ningluo said was not unreasonable, this is also human nature, not to mention coming to Ma Xiuying to ask for peace, this is really an irrefutable reason, logically speaking, I have to say that Li Ningluo is quite virtuous.
Chu Liuyan was close to this matter, and his perception was very different. This morning, I saw Ma Xiuying and Li Ningluo fighting each other, pointing at Sang and scolding Huai, and there was quite hostility between the words, naturally the two were enemies of each other, and they had the meaning of not getting along with each other.
However, they are all Zhu Yuanzhang's wives and concubines, and they have to be amiable in their faces, so naturally they are also looking at the face of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Duke of Wu, and saving Zhu Yuanzhang's face in front of his subordinates.
Whether it is Chu Liuyan or the maid in the house, they all see the discord between Ma Xiuying and Li Ningluo, but even so, they have to be jealous and admired for the two of them fighting for the wind with such impassive expressions.
As far as Chu Liuyan is concerned, he naturally doesn't want Ma Xiuying to fall behind, Xu Biyi is victimized by Li Ningluo, although it seems that it is not a conclusive thing at the moment, but there are quite a few things that have been involved with Li Ningluo, thinking about it carefully, after all kinds of affairs, it seems that there is a shadow of Li Ningluo.
All Chu Liuyan had already seen Li Ningluo's every move in his eyes and remembered it in his heart, wanting to get a glimpse of this woman's background. However, Li Ningluo is really not easy to deal with, and it is extremely secretive, even if Chu Liuyan takes great pains, he can't really see which way Li Ningluo is.
But fortunately, with the assistance of Ma Xiuying, I finally got a glimpse of the truth from Li Ningluo's blurted out.
Although Li Ningluo's unintentional mistake is quite important to Chu Liuyan, Li Ningluo is still extremely smart, and after saying that sentence unintentionally, he deliberately remedied it, and it seems that ordinary people seem to be able to know that Li Ningluo can learn about this matter from his father-in-law.
Chu Liuyan was a little suspicious, but there was no way to verify it at the moment.
Zhu Yuanzhang listened to Li Ningluo's defense, pondered for a while, and did not continue to ask, probably having accepted Li Ningluo's words.
"Master Chu, there is no need to mention this matter from now on, you just need to tell your national prince how Ma Xiuying was poisoned." Zhu Yuanzhang, the Duke of Wu, turned his head and asked Chu Liuyan unhurriedly.
Chu Liuyan heard Wu Guogong Zhu Yuanzhang ask this, and his heart was already half cold, knowing that his efforts to deliberately make Zhu Yuanzhang feel that this matter was very entangled with Li Ningluo had failed, Zhu Yuanzhang obviously heard Li Ningluo's justification, and felt that this matter had nothing to do with Li Ningluo.
Thinking of this, Chu Liuyan's heart couldn't help but sigh slightly.
It seems that Li Ningluo's ghost has changed, and it seems that it has fallen short to use this matter to fight this person, and now he can only seek other opportunities, and only when he has other suitable opportunities can he project Wu Guogong's suspicion onto Li Ningluo's body, but at the moment, it is useless to say more, and it is very likely to provoke Zhu Yuanzhang's disgust if he says too much, and it will ruin the big thing.
Chu Liuyan turned his mind to this point, and he no longer spoke to Zhu Yuanzhang about the doubts he found in Li Ningluo, and said lightly: "After Sister Li came, Mrs. Ma invited me and Sister Li to the house to pull the parents, and also instructed her maid Cui'er to bring the treasured best Biluochun to entertain guests. Unexpectedly, after Cui'er sent Biluochun to the kitchen to make tea, she brought it back, and Mrs. Ma saw that after Cui'er sent the tea, she asked Cui'er to clean up the tables and chairs. Then he took me and Sister Li to have tea. ”
Speaking of this, Chu Liuyan pointed at Li Ningluo and said, "What happened next, Sister Li also witnessed it with her own eyes, Wu Guogong might as well ask Sister Ningluo." ”
Zhu Yuanzhang heard Chu Liuyan suddenly say this, turned his head a little suspiciously, and asked Li Ningluo: "Ningluo, you will tell me everything that follows, you must not hide anything, if there is anything to hide, if I find out, I will not spare it." ”
Li Ningluo was also listening to Chu Liuyan's words attentively, but he didn't expect Chu Liuyan to change his words and fall on his own head, and he was a little surprised in his heart. Hearing Wu Guogong Zhu Yuanzhang's strict order, he didn't dare to slack off, so he replied to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Yes, after Sister Ma pulled me and Miss Chu Liuyan to sit down as guests, Ning Luo had a few words of quarrel with Miss Cui'er outside today, and Sister Ma didn't rest well, so she gave Sister Ma a cup of tea to apologize. But I didn't expect that I don't know why, after Sister Ma drank a cup of Biluochun, she said that today's tea tasted a little strange, and then fainted, I was at a loss for a while, but my sister's maid Cui'er accidentally knocked over the teapot, and the teapot was broken and there was something strange, and Miss Chu said that the teapot was poisonous. As soon as Cui'er heard this, she ran out and shouted for help, alarming all the people in the house. I went to find Wu Guogong, and then I came here with Wu Guogong. ”
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then said: "There is nothing special about the situation, the most suspicious thing at the moment is Cui'er, even if Cui'er is not the person who poisoned her, she should know something." Where is Cui'er right now. ”
Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang say this, Chu Liuyan didn't feel remorseful, but this matter had a lot to do with Cui'er, after all, this pot of superb Biluochun was brewed by her in the kitchen. Although Cui'er is Ma Xiuying's personal maid, looking at the situation of Ma Xiuying and Cui'er's master and servant, it is really like a mother and daughter, if you insist on saying that Cui'er poisoned people and wanted to murder the master and mastress Ma Xiuying, Yu Chu Liuyan is really a little suspicious. However, the matter has come to this point, and it is necessary to find Cui'er to come over to verify the situation today, and see where the business trip has caused such a terrible disaster. Fang Cai really shouldn't let Cui'er go easily.
Thinking of this, Chu Liuyan suddenly felt a little faintly worried in his heart, just now there was such a trouble, and the maids and maids who usually served Ma Xiuying all came in, but only Cui'er was missing.
Could it be that Cui'er is really as Wu Guogong Zhu Yuanzhang deduced, and she is the murderer of the main mare Ma Xiuying. But thinking about Cui'er's delicate and likable appearance in front of Ma Xiuying, Chu Liuyan didn't want to believe that Cui'er had the courage to do such a thing.
Zhu Yuanzhang shouted outside, sounding a little weird.
Chu Liuyan and Li Ningluo both looked surprised, not knowing what Wu Guogong Zhu Yuanzhang was doing.
Suddenly, there seemed to be two more people in front of him for no reason, Chu Liuyan looked at this person's face, some were familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it in a daze.
Suddenly shocked, one of them was a guard who was guarding the bamboo building under house arrest Xu Da in the courtyard of Wu Guogong's mansion that day, Chu Liuyan saw that these people were extraordinary, not under him, and when he saw it today, it was so. This person's elusive light skills seem to be above him. And the other person has no impression, obviously he showed up last time, and he looks at this person's light skills are also so wonderful, when the people around him are neck and neck. Wu Guogong does have a master under him.
I saw the guards saluting Zhu Yuanzhang of Wu Guogong and said, "Wu Guogong is called, I don't know what is important." ”
Hearing this, Chu Liuyan understood that the strange whistling sound from Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth was the code of contact.