There was a crisp sound, and Wei Nong accidentally knocked the medicine bowl to the ground, and in an instant, it was already discolored: "What did you say?" The Queen's brother...... Passed away? ”

Lian Kuo said "um", with a solemn expression: "It's the Chu Heng who I replaced when I went to Yan Kingdom to treat Jinghou last year." ”

Chu Heng...... Chu Heng has passed away! Wei Nong looked at the broken medicine bowl on the ground, and was a little dazed for a while. She always thought that Chu Heng was fortunate to go to Jiang Guo, and she was ready to abide by her oath and not contact Chu Heng for the rest of her life...... But she didn't expect this to be the result.

In just a few years, the members of the Chu royal family, who were filial to their fathers and sons, and their brothers and sisters, passed away one after another, and Chu Cong was left alone, and he was really sparse!

Wei Nong slowly squatted down, trying to reach out to pick up the pieces on the ground, but his hands trembled, and he couldn't pick them up no matter what. Xiaoxin was quite worried when she saw this, and hurriedly cleaned up the mess on the ground for her, with a worried face: "Miss, are you okay?" ”

Wei Nong seemed to be still immersed in some kind of emotion, and there was no response at all, just stood up at a loss and looked at Lian Kuo: "Your master, when will you arrive?" ”

Lian Kuo counted the days in his heart, and replied: "At least five or six days, more than ten days." ”

Wei Nong nodded: "Okay, I'll wait here." Thank you. ”

Xiaoxin always felt that something was wrong with Weinong, but she couldn't say it, so she couldn't help but be more worried: "Miss, you ......"

"I'm a little tired." Wei Nong waved his hand at her: "I want to rest." ”

Xiaoxin didn't dare to say anything when she saw this, so she had to invite Lian Kuo out, cleaned up the fragments of the medicine bowl, and hurriedly turned off the lights after serving Weinong.

In the days that followed, Tinong began to become reticent again. The original cheerful temperament also disappeared suddenly, and except for walking around the post house every day, he didn't have the heart to look at the scenery outside, and he didn't talk to anyone anymore. And even Kuo doesn't know what he's busy with, he goes out every morning, and always returns to the post house in the evening.

Such days make Xiaoxin very unbearable, she is used to thinking about her thoughts in the Yanwang Palace every day, and now this sudden relaxation and relaxation always makes her feel a kind of apprehension and sorrow.

Fortunately, five days later, Lian Kuo handed her a big errand - cleaning up the garden.

It turned out that in the past five days, Lian Kuo was looking for a house. He thought that Wei Nong wanted to detoxify and cure his illness here, and thought that the post house was full of people and was not a place to live for a long time, so he asked the local officials to help him find a big mansion.

The house is newly renovated, and the tables, chairs and benches are all fully furnished, but there is no need to add some fine objects. Xiaoxin finally got a big thing to do, and every day she led a group of guards to the street to procure, from firewood, rice, oil and salt, to wick candlesticks, all of which had to be personally selected.

After being so busy for three or five days, the guards made the group turn around, and it was considered to have picked up the house. Wei Nong picked up a ready-made cheap one and moved in directly, and couldn't help but admire Xiaoxin's strong ability to do things and the quick results.

Coincidentally, on the third day of moving into this house, Lian Kuo's master arrived. Different from Wei Nong's imagination, he is not an old man with fairy wind bones, but in his early fifties, with a rickety figure and extremely simple clothes, wearing a blue cloth shirt that has been washed to white, it looks unsightly, and there is no cleverness.

It is such a person, but he is deeply relied on by the Jiang royal family and revered by the people, and he is the most prestigious Gu doctor in the four kingdoms of Kyushu, Lian Yong. Although there is a word "Yong" in his name, he is not mediocre, in addition to being good at poison and medicine, he is also good at divination, and he is highly respected and respected in Jiang State. And Lian Kuo is his most beloved disciple, and he has the true inheritance of the mantle.

On the day Lian Yong arrived, he diagnosed the pulse of Weinong and investigated the toxicity. Then he didn't show up for two days, closed the door with Lian Kuo to discuss the antidote method, and went to the 100,000 mountains again, collected a lot of medicinal materials, and caught a lot of poisonous insects. After tossing like this for more than ten days, the master and apprentice reappeared.

At this time, the time has entered the month of June.

"My master's detoxification method must be carried out after the ambush, the poison is the same as people, the hotter the weather, the more violent the poison, so that you can really activate the poisonous blood in your body. The antidote may sound scary, so don't ask too much, I'll prepare you with a lethargic herb to try to minimize your pain. Lian Kuo said.

Hearing this, Wei Nong just asked calmly: "What are the odds of winning?" ”

"Eighty percent." Lian Kuo didn't hide it from her: "All poisons are ferocious; All antidote is risky. But my master never misses, so don't worry too much. ”

"I'm not worried," Wei Nong seemed to be considering the wording, "I'm wondering if I should leave a last word in advance." ”

"Phew! How can the young lady say something depressing! Xiaoxin was in a hurry to listen and hurriedly said: "Even if you don't believe in yourself, you have to believe in the medical skills of even the divine doctor!" Your Highness sent you to detoxify, not to send you to death. ”

"It's me who lost my word." Wei Nong rolled up the sleeve of his left arm, looked at the purple line that had climbed up to his shoulder, and then asked, "When will the detoxification begin?" ”

"Three days later." Lian Kuo took out a list from his sleeve as he spoke, handed it to Xiaoxin, and instructed her: "Miss Miss's diet these days must be strictly in accordance with this list, but if she is allowed to eat more or less, she will have to worry about her life, understand?" ”

Xiaoxin nodded hurriedly yes, hurriedly took the list, swept her eyes, and was startled - half of the things listed on this list are medicinal herbs and half poisonous insects, and Xiaoxin has never seen them before. There were several poisonous insects among them, and she had never even heard of them.

Wei Nong's face changed after she got the list, and she guessed a few points in her heart, so she simply closed her eyes and smiled: "What kind of snake, insect, rat and ant?" Take the list away quickly, and don't let me see it. ”

Although Wei Nong said this, she still ate according to Lian Kuo's instructions for the next three days. Every time she saw Xiaoxin come in with a soup cup, she almost didn't look at it, and drank it all. After three days of eating like this, she only felt that her body was getting hotter and hotter, and the purple line on her arm was climbing faster, and she was about to jump over her shoulders and up her neck.

Finally, on the sixth day of the sixth month of June, as soon as the early morning came, Lian Yong and Lian Kuo, as well as the strange man they had seen in the post house that day, the three of them came to Weinong's residence together and began to prepare for the expulsion of drugs. The strange man was specially sent by Queen Jiang, on the one hand, he could participate in the detoxification, and on the other hand, he was also the envoy of Jiang Guo who came to condole, which could be regarded as giving Nie Xingji a face, and he had all the etiquette between Yan and Jiang.

And the guards sent by Nie Xingji were also like a great enemy, surrounding the entire mansion to the ground, lest there be a slight mistake. Xiaoxin was even more busy running up and down, but she didn't know what she was busy with.

Only the slight thick mood has no waves, and his expression is the same as usual. This calm was maintained until the hour of the hour, and it was not until after drinking the bowl of drowsy decoction that she took out a letter from under her pillow, handed it to Xiaoxin, and advised: "Everything is in case, if I die here in an accident, you will give this letter to Nie Xingji, and he will not blame you." ”

After that, he raised his eyes and looked out the window, with a gloomy expression: "Also, don't transport my body back to Jingzhou City, burn it on the spot!" If there is an opportunity, the ashes will be brought back to Fangzhou and sprinkled into the moat of Qingcheng...... This is my only wish. ”

Hearing these words, Xiaoxin was already in tears: "Why are you saying sad things again, you are so good, you will definitely live a long life!" ”

"I hope." Wei Nong smiled indifferently, took off his shoes and socks and lay down, and said to Lian Yong's master and apprentice: "No matter what the result is, I am grateful to the three gentlemen for saving their lives." ”

After all, Lian Kuo and Wei Nong have known each other, and they don't feel sad at this moment. Lian Yong and the strange man didn't have much expression, and after a few words of relief, they began to use the art of expelling poison.

Wei Nong felt sleepy for a while, and faintly heard what Xiaoxin said in her ears, but her consciousness was groggy and unable to react, and there was only one thought left in her heart-

If she can't wake up again from this sleep, she would rather meet Chu Li in her sleep, which can be regarded as a sweet dream and a well-deserved death.

Perhaps the heavens heard her prayer, and the moment she fell into a stupor, the dream finally rose and fell like a tide. In the haze, she seemed to be back to six years ago, back to that heart-rending past.

At the age of sixteen, she was personally sent to the state of Chu by Nie Xingji, endured the loneliness of leaving home and leaving for a foreign country, endured the pain of her lover becoming her own brother, and fended for herself alone in a foreign country, and no one cared about her.

If Chu Li hadn't appeared in time to save her, perhaps, she would have become a walking corpse.

How did she meet Chu Li? Wei Nong struggled to remember in her drowsy dreams, and in fact, she never forgot either.

It was the fourteenth year of Longwu of the Yan Kingdom, in August, two months after her arrival in the capital of the king of Chu. Originally, according to the intention of the king of Chu, he hoped that the two countries could marry as soon as possible, because the queen of Chu was in dire harmony and was anxious to see her beloved son get married. So, when she and Chu Li's wedding was decided, she began to prepare in a hurry, and the wedding date was set for August 20.

Everything went according to plan, she was placed in the Yuxiu Palace of the Chu Palace, and followed the teaching of Mama Xi every day to learn the etiquette in the palace, familiar with the clan classics and wedding ceremonies, and her life was like a pool of stagnant water, and her heart was like a dead ash.

But at the beginning of August, the queen of Chu still couldn't get through, which disrupted the prince's wedding plan. According to the customs of the Chu State, in the event of the death of Gao Tang, the man must be worried for three years, during which he is not allowed to get married, and the official must leave his post without pre-auspicious ceremonies; For members of the clan, the period of Ding Wei can be appropriately shortened, three years for the people, and three months for the clan.

As a result, the crown prince Chu Li had to serve three months of mourning, and the marriage was naturally postponed, and Wei Nong was temporarily relieved.

Since coming to Chu, she has been strictly abiding by the customs of Chu - not seeing men before marriage. Therefore, she didn't know what Chu Li looked like, and only heard the palace maids around her say that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was a humble gentleman with a jade face. But the description was so vague that she couldn't imagine anything in her mind.

Originally, she was so mixed, she was ready to see Chu Li on the wedding day. But as the winter moon approached, an accident broke this inherent custom, and she saw him early.