Chapter 23: Temptation
Shan Honggu's house is half a city away from the silver building, and when Lu Anran arrived, the sunset was already slanting, and the afterglow was red.
This is a courtyard that you entered, Lu Anran stood outside the gate and knocked, but there was no movement, but the door was pushed open.
After a moment of hesitation and stepping in, the peripheral eyes could be seen looking at the surrounding neighborhood probes.
Before she could speak, she faintly heard a suppressed moan of pain.
Lu Anran stepped forward quickly, stretched out his hand and pushed the door, and saw the woman lying on the ground, her body curled up, her two hands covering her abdomen, her left face pressing against the ground, and her hair was wet with sweat.
"Honggu?" Lu Anran shouted.
The woman estimated that the pain was terrible, and she was a little confused, and it took a long time to raise her head, and when she saw that it was Lu Anran, her eyes lit up: "...... Benefactor. ”
After being tortured in prison, the woman's body was very thin, her cheeks were sunken, and she was as fragile as Jiangnan wicker, which could break branches at any time.
Lu Anran stretched out three fingers to take the pulse, and after a while, his brows slowly furrowed, this pulse ......
It's clearly poisoned!
"What did you eat today?"
Honggu stretched out her trembling hand, Lu Anran turned her eyes, and when she saw the things on the table, her face was surprised.
"Yes, someone came over to ......" Honggu's abdominal pain was unbearable, and her speech was intermittent, "Say yes, benefactor today...... I'll come over today, feed me a pill, and say...... Say two pills on the table, one ...... One is the antidote, the other is ......"
A sharp pain struck, Honggu's face turned pale, she whimpered, her teeth bit her lip, and soon bright red blood flowed out, and she couldn't say the rest of her words anymore.
However, Lu Anran could also guess that since Honggu didn't eat it easily, the other could only be poison.
Looking at Honggu who almost fainted, Lu Anran's face was extremely silent, and she could hear from Honggu's mouth that it was obvious that someone was targeting her, and Honggu called herself involved and suffered an unjustified disaster.
But she rarely makes friends on weekdays, and she has hardly offended anyone?
Suddenly, my heart jumped.
Could it be him?!
Because he was unwilling to let himself go like this, he immediately retaliated back, and according to the onset of the poison, that is, a quarter of an hour ago, the hour could also be matched.
But I inexplicably feel that such a person is proud, and will not make such a roundabout means.
When Lu Anran picked up the two pills on the table, he was even more shocked.
It's not as the other party told Honggu, and it's not as I guessed, the other one is not a poison that kills people immediately.
Lu Anran looked down at the two pills in his palm, and a struggle that ordinary people couldn't fathom appeared on his face-
The medicine on the left is fierce and can completely detoxify the poison on Honggu's body. The problem is that because the medicine is too strong, Yihonggu's body may not be able to bear it, and she dies in the process of antidote.
The other one is mild, which is just in line with Honggu's current physique. But! This medicine cannot remove toxins, it can only be suppressed, it needs to be taken for life, and no one can be sure how long it can restrain toxins. And the body will gradually be dragged down, lingering on the bed all year round until the oil runs out and the lamp runs out.
Lu Anran's calm eyes were motionless, and he couldn't think of the purpose of the person behind him, saying that he was poisoning Honggu, and it was clearly her.
Don't......
The other party originally wanted her to make this difficult choice.
How? What should she do?
Lu Anran closed her eyes, desperately searching her mind to see if there was a description of this situation in the "Qianjin Pharmacopoeia", and soon the beads of sweat the size of beans on her head dripped down and landed on her palm, wetting the lines of her palm.
Honggu's voice had gradually weakened, she could barely scream, only a painful hum that overflowed the corners of her mouth, her eyes spread out, and she saw Lu Anran walking towards her, and the light of heaven was behind her, as if she was covered with a layer of holy clothes.
"Do you believe me?" Lu Anran's voice was cold and gentle, like the first snow in early winter, falling on Honggu's ears.
Honggu bit her bleeding lip and couldn't speak, but she focused her head with the last bit of strength.
Different from curing diseases, detoxification is actually fighting poison with poison, and the danger in this process can be imagined, but Lu Anran is not an easily entangled person, she quickly made up her mind.
Instead of praying for an unknown future and struggling to live a life, it is better to simply be born, life is the splendor of life, life is better than death, it is better not to live.
Lu Anran twisted a silver needle with two fingers, looked at Honggu solemnly, and said: "You can even cross the death row, after this catastrophe, you will definitely be able to break the cocoon and turn into a butterfly, hold on, I will help you." ”
Honggu's mind was muddy, and only this firm voice, like a light, penetrated through thousands of haze to the bottom of her heart, making her eyes gradually gather faith.
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No one saw it, and above the attic next to the courtyard, two figures stood there, watching everything that happened in the room through the open window.
One of them laughed and said, "How about the huge man, are you satisfied now?" ”
The middle-aged man in the dark green brocade coat, who was known as a huge man, had a deep look in his eyes: "It's a decisiveness that I didn't expect." ”
Originally, the man shook his head and sighed: "It is said that the daughter of the Lu family is ugly, vulgar and shallow, and unsightly, so Lu Junshou is hiding in the boudoir, but why don't they want to think about it, if this is the case, how can Lu Junshou still be pampered and regarded as a treasure." ”
However, it is true that this eldest lady of the Lu family is low-key, if it weren't for her actions on the execution ground a few days ago, who would have known that this eldest lady would be so amazing and brilliant as soon as she made a move.
After sighing, the man said: "Eh, don't you think that her heart is a little similar to Princess Wuyang?" ”
The huge man snorted: "The princess didn't need the antidote pill back then. ”
"Yes, what a character Princess Wuyang is, it is difficult to stand out in the world."
Princess Wuyang, the daughter of the former Chaotian family, has amazing talent and is the first talented girl praised by everyone.
It's just the end......
The two of them thought, and fell silent at the same time.
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"When I took it out last year, there was still more than half a box, and this year there are only so many left." Chunmiao held the jewelry box and glanced at Lu Anran sadly, muttering in her heart.
I wanted to ask something, but when I saw Lu Anran fall on the side of my face under the morning sun, I swallowed back the words that came to my mouth.
Before the advent of the New Year's Festival, it happened to be a sunny day, and Chunmiao turned out the old things in several large boxes, which should be dried and thrown away, and the house was full of the smell of spiritual herbs.
Lu Anran stopped writing a few words, looked up with a light breath, picked up the tea bowl and found that the tea was cold, and was just about to open his mouth to call Chunmiao to change a pot, but found that Chunmiao's voice came from the gate of the courtyard, and he didn't know what to say to people, and he lowered it slightly mysterious.
The yard was already full of sun-dried things, and Chunmiao didn't even let go of the dwarf holly, and there were several pages on it, as if she had dressed it in a paper winter coat.
Lu Anran smiled, lowered his head and swept over, his eyes fell on the paper, his fingers tapped the two words on it, and he whispered softly in his mouth: "Wang Du." ”
If the case of the execution ground is a 'petition for nomination', the temptation of Honggu's family is the 'touchstone' given to her by the other party.
After ruling out the revenge of the man in black, Lu Anran quickly thought afterwards that if she succeeded in attracting the attention of Wang Dulai, then the scene in front of her would be the 'examination room' specially arranged for her by the other party.
Lu Anran's heart suddenly became complicated, and the 'game' between her and Wang Duren, Honggu became a victim of the pull between the two.
Chunmiao had already come back with a smile: "Miss, why are you standing there in a daze, you see that the master asked someone to send a lot of good things." Holding a bunch of hands in his hands, he clapped his hands contentedly, "Second Aunt You also said, now that our young lady has saved people, it is the whole Mengdu Geril!" ”
Lu Anran's eyes moved, and a touch of self-deprecation flashed in his eyes, what kind of light, but with his own selfishness, and then finally left a trace of regret.
Chunmiao didn't pay attention to Lu Anran's change in mood, and after sorting things and packing them up, she came out and thought of something, and came over and winked: "Miss, there will be a lot of excitement in a few days." ”
Lu Anran handed the cold teacup to Chunmiao, and said unconcernedly, "What are you asking about again?" ”
Chunmiao went to change a pot of hot water to rebrew, and opened a window sheltered from the wind to disperse the smell in the house.
The spirit vanilla has a fragrant word, and the actual taste is difficult to describe.
"Hey, the second room, it's about to be added."
Looking at Chunmiao's face watching the show, Lu Anran guessed: "Aunt Liu has it?" "This aunt is still young, she was incorporated into the government by Lu Wei three years ago, Hua Dan was born, and her drama is better than others.
The corners of Chunmiao's mouth twitched to the right, her eyes narrowed halfway, and she gloated: "Miss, you can't guess this time, it's the second master who plans to bring it back from outside, but he doesn't dare to make a noise now, but the day before yesterday he privately took a breath with our master, and the others don't even know about the old lady." ”
Lu Anran had an epiphany, this is the harvest that Chun Miao and Aunt You Er had been chattering at the gate of the courtyard for a long time just now, "It's just an aunt." ”
"Where's a person!" Chunmiao's voice was half a minute higher, and she stretched out two fingers and shook it, "Buy one get one free, in pairs!" ”
Lu Anran was a little surprised at this time, and Chunmiao said proudly: "Miss, you don't know, that woman is not a young girl, and she is not in her prime, she is alone with her daughter, and the child is a few months younger than the second miss." ”
"The second master doesn't know what to look at, and after meeting a few times, he never forgets it, and he has to lead the Lu family to the people, so he took advantage of the good thing that the second lady entered the Jixia Palace, but he was afraid that the old lady would not agree, so he planned to find our master to make a decision directly, and the second lady would not have to make trouble at that time."
"But the slave maid thinks that the second master is not authentic in this matter, and the second lady should complain about our master when she turns around."
"And ah......" Chunmiao finally sneered coldly, "The master asked the housekeeper and Second Aunt You to go to that door, guess what, tsk, that girl looks like her mother for one point, and seven points for the second master!" ”
"It's clearly the outer room that is kept outside, and when I see that person in the future, no one knows." In the end, Chunmiao summed up: "The green onion pinched the head and filled it with garlic!" ”
After talking for a while, Chunmiao continued to clean up the room until a pair of shoes came out from the bottom of the floor cabinet next to Lu Anran's bed, "Ah, why did the toe of the shoe open?" ”
Lu Anran startled Chunmiao, followed the voice and looked over, but her figure froze.
Chunmiao is holding a pair of tiger head shoes, half the size of an adult's palm, the tiger head and tiger brain embroidery vivid, cute and cute, full of childishness.
Lu Anran walked over and picked up the tiger head shoes, Chunmiao seemed to have done something wrong, and said in a low voice: "It's all slaves and maids who are not good, and slaves and maids take them to make up for it." ”
"No need." Lu Anran's fingers gently stroked the upper of the shoe, his face was calm, his eyes were deep, and he hid the obscurity of not complaining, "You go down first." ”
These shoes are the only relics left to her by Lu Anran's mother, which not only condenses the deep maternal love, but also brings Lu Anran an unsolvable puzzle.