Zhou Tong stopped, his eyes narrowing slightly.

The light was dim, and he could still see the color of the blood, because it was a bit glaring.

He felt his heart beat faster and faster under his palms, causing his hands and arms to tremble, and his shoulders to tremble until his entire body.

His face turned unusually pale, and he looked as if he had been seriously ill in such a short period of time.

He was poisoned, and it was a rare poison.

It was so quickly judged that this poison was rare because his Qing Priest was the best place in the world to use poison.

He had seen and used more poisons with his own eyes than ordinary people had eaten in their lives.

He didn't know, the faint light in his squinted eyes kept passing at high speed, looking back on the past time, although there was no clue, he still quickly determined who poisoned and when, because these do not need evidence, only need to go backwards in time and grasp some details.

The other party should still be in place, but he didn't turn around, because the first thing to think about at this time is to leave.

He took a towel from his sleeve to wipe the blood from the corner of his lips and continued to walk forward, quickly disappearing into the darkness.

After a while, a slight sound sounded in the darkness, and the lights on the stone wall came back to life, reflecting the pale face with folded sleeves, and the face had traces of muddy water drying up,

He crouched down, dipped his hand in some blood, and sniffed it in front of his nose.

The black stained blood emitted a faint fishy smell on the sharp, cold, knife-like fingers.

Satisfied, he followed his breath and continued to chase after him, and soon disappeared into the darkness.

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These tunnels under the Yamen of the Qing Officials are as complex as spider webs, very complicated, and beyond imagination long, they can directly lead to a far place, if they can, if they are placed in normal times, Zhou Tong will stay underground for a longer time, detour more roads, and set up more mechanisms to ensure absolute safety.

Not today, he's already poisoned.

This kind of poison was completely different from the poisons used by the Qing Officials, it did not specifically target the meridians or the star aperture or the sea of knowledge, but spread between the organs like a handful of sand, with a rough and even rough feeling, and even reminded him of the vast wilderness in the north.

This is something that is so close to nature that the Holy Light Technique may not be able to cure it. But he is one of the people who are the best at using poison in the world, and his ability in this regard can be called a great master, even if he has not seen this poison before, he knows which side to start with - to deal with this poison, he can only use medicine, and it must be herbal medicine. Even in Zhou's prison, those herbs were hard to find, and luckily, he knew that there was a place that was quite well stocked, and even more fortunately, it was the place he was going to be.

Walking through the wet and cold and incomparably long alleyway, I don't know how many turns he turned, the terrain was no longer flat, but arched diagonally upward, he continued to walk first, came to the end, his hands accurately reached into a certain gap in the wall, lifted the formation, and then opened the mechanism, with a slight force forward with both hands, pushed open a door, and left the darkness.

A bright sun awaited him outside the door, and a face as gentle and touching as the sun.

The sun came from the sky above the courtyard, and the gloomy snow clouds were blown away by the wind at some point, revealing a porcelain-blue sky, and the warm winter sun appeared in his sight. The gentle and touching face belonged to a beautiful young woman.

Seeing this piece of sunshine and the young woman's face, Zhou Tong suddenly felt that his body became warmer and calmer, and the unconcealable worry and anxiety between the young woman's eyebrows and eyes made his chest become hot, this kind of emotion that is completely different from fear and disgust is what he needs the most in his life.

The young woman helped him out of the tunnel, and then, with some difficulty, closed the tunnel and restarted the mechanism.

This mansion is not big, and it is not exquisite, but whether it is the black eaves and walls, or the green bamboo fence, all the details reveal the word tranquility.

When Zhou Tong designed this mansion himself, he pursued this kind of thing, and he always believed that tranquility had the taste of home.

This mansion was his home, the real home, the last place where his tired body and heart soaked in venom for countless years could rest peacefully.

Only by returning to this mansion can his mood be truly calm and relaxed.

In order to be safe, to keep this secret, to be in rare peace and not to be disturbed, Zhou Tong is very cautious and careful in running this mansion.

No one knows here, whether it is the most loyal subordinate in the Qing Officials Division, or Cheng Jun and other Eight Tigers, the Holy Queen Niangniang doesn't know.

The only person who knew about the mansion's relationship with him was now dead.

Every time he returned to this mansion, across the green bamboo, listening to the sound from the courtyard next door, Zhou Tong would always think of something.

Over the years, Xue Xingchuan has hoped that he can treat Xue Mansion as his real home, but how is this possible? Not to mention the frightened eyes of those servants and juniors in Xue Mansion when they look at him, it is impossible just because of his surname Zhou, his brother doesn't want his surname, he always wants it.

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In addition to the magic handsome, Zhou Tong probably kills the most people in this world, I don't know if it's because of this, he is also the most afraid of death. In addition to this mansion, he has several secret strongholds in Kyoto, but those places are not as safe, important or comfortable as this place for him.

Because this mansion has a gentle and touching woman who truly respects him, and more importantly, he hides many precious things here, such as some extremely rare medicinal herbs. A large part of these medicinal materials were secretly sent by him to take them from the Hundred Herb Garden, and some of them were given to him by the Tianji Pavilion at the beginning.

He took the steaming towel and put it on his face, wondering if it was irritating his lungs by the heat, and coughed several times dullly.

When I took off the towel, there were already a few more black blood on it, and it looked like a flower drawn in ink, which was not real and a little scary.

The woman was very uneasy, but Zhou Tong seemed very calm and calm, and asked her to polish the ink first, while he closed his eyes on the chair and meditated, as if he was savoring something.

He was savoring the poison in his body that smelled of the wilderness.

I don't know how long it took, but he opened his eyes, walked to the desk in front of the window with the support of the woman, lifted the brush, and waved it like calligraphy, which was extremely chic.

The paper was dripping with ink, but the handwriting was very clear, not cursive, but a prescription.

It is very clear which herbs to use, how many bowls of water, how to decoction, what fire to use, what furnace, what charcoal, what water, how to filter the medicinal juice, and when to add spars.

When the woman saw his expression, she knew that it should be all right, and she was relieved, took the prescription, and went to the back kitchen to decoct the medicine.

Something like this had happened several times before, and she had experienced it.

There is no mistake in the type or amount of medicinal herbs, and the action of the raw stove is very skillful.

I don't know when, a palace beauty appeared next to the medicine stove, and the fire of the furnace illuminated her face and reflected her incomparably beautiful eyebrows.

This palace beauty is very beautiful.

In fact, over the years, she has been considered the most beautiful woman of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The woman calmly decocted the medicine, and the movements of dispensing the medicine and filtering the residue were very stable, as if she didn't see this palace beauty.

The palace beauty put something in the medicine jar.

The woman was still as if she had not seen.

The room was silent, save for the gurgling of soup in the medicine jar.