Back in the room, red beans served breakfast, but Cui Pu had no appetite.

"Still angry about what happened last night?" asked Mu Jiaojiao in a low voice.

"What do you say?" Cui Pu snorted angrily.

Mu Jiaojiao shook her head helplessly, and glanced at Hongdou, who hurriedly retreated with someone.

Seeing this, Cui Pu couldn't help but clench his chopsticks: "What do you want to do?"

"What, are you still afraid that I will do something to you?" Mu Jiaojiao laughed.

Cui Pu immediately turned his head again.

Mu Jiaojiao sighed: "Actually, before I finished my words yesterday, you rushed out without a head. Now that we're sitting together again, I think I'd better finish talking. ”

Cui Pu's heart moved, but his face was faint: "What else do you have to say?"

"This Gu in me actually has an antidote. ”

Is there an antidote? Cui Pu immediately became excited. That little disdain and little tsundere couldn't pretend anymore, so he quickly asked: "Really, tell me what the antidote is, and I'll ask someone to find it now!"

"The antidote is very simple, there are only five flavor medicines, but none of them grew in our New Tang Dynasty. Mu Jiaojiao said lightly.

Cui Pu's smiling face immediately stiffened. "Nothing?"

"Nothing. Mu Jiaojiao shook her head.

"So, what should I do?"

"So, over the years, my father has been away all the year round, claiming that he is doing business, but in fact, the real purpose is to search for those medicinal materials. Until now, he had found four of them, and only one thing was left, called Persian Artemisia, which was said to be only available in places inaccessible to Persians, so he went there again a year ago. ”

"After you became ill last year, your father-in-law came to see you and said that he was going to Persia, so he went there to find you the last antidote?" Cui Pu asked as if to verify it.

Mu Jiaojiao's head was bright.

Cui Pu hurriedly let out a long breath. But then his face was full of anxiety: "Are you sure that your father-in-law can find this antidote when he goes to Persia this time? If he can't find it, what should he do?"

"If you can't find it, you can't find it! I'm seventeen years old now, which means that Daddy has spent seventeen years searching for these herbs, but he has only found four of them. It took almost four years to find a medicine. So logically speaking, it should take him another four years to find that medicine. Mu Jiaojiao said disapprerovingly.

"Four more years?" Cui Pu exclaimed, "How can ......you do that?

"I'll be fine. Mu Jiaojiao said suddenly.

Cui Pu's eyes darkened, and Mu Jiaojiao held his hand: "I'll really be fine." I've survived the past sixteen times, and this time it won't be a surprise. ”

"But as you said, the symptoms will be much worse this time than last time. The previous seizure had already tormented you like this, and now this time it's three times as much as before......"

"Then I'll be fine. You have to be convinced of that. Mu Jiaojiao clenched his hand and insisted.

Cui Pu closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

When he opened his eyes again, his eyes were already full of determination: "That's right, I want to firmly believe this! You will definitely be able to carry it until the day when your father-in-law finds the last medicine!"

"That's the truth!" Mu Jiaojiao nodded hurriedly, and then handed the chopsticks into his hand, "Now, let's eat!"

Cui Pu took the chopsticks and immediately devoured them.

After going to the yamen to deal with official business, he saw that there was nothing to do in the afternoon, so he greeted Wang Qiqilang and a few people, and quietly slipped to a medical hall not far from the county ya.

At this time, Doctor Chang had just seen a patient and was writing a prescription. When he saw Cui Pu coming, he immediately smiled and said: "The county lord is here, which really makes Peng Shen shine!

"When I came to the medical hall, I naturally came to ask Doctor Chang to treat you. Cui Pu said.

"Please ask the old man to treat the disease?" Doctor Chang smiled, "County master, are you looking for the wrong person, right? Isn't your wife's medical skills more clever than the old man?

"Healers don't heal themselves. ”

Hearing Cui Pu's words, the smile on Taiyi Chang's face disappeared. "What do you mean by this, county master?"

"Do you remember what you found last time when you went to the old mansion with Guo Tingshi to meet us a few days after August 15?" Cui Pu only asked.

Doctor Chang thought about it, and immediately his face changed.

"Is the time again?"

Cui Pu bowed his head, and bowed to him in a proper manner: "Now, only Chang Taiyi has some understanding of this disease." When the time comes, when the clumsy Jing becomes ill, I hope that you can be present and help her a little bit. ”

"Rokuro-kun, I understand what you mean. Don't worry, when the time comes, I will definitely go to your mansion and do my best to help the sixth young lady tide over the difficulties!"

When Cui Pu heard this, his heart was a little calm, and he hurriedly saluted him again and thanked him without mentioning it.

A few days passed in a blink of an eye, and it was August 15.

Originally, today was a small festival, and Cui Pu naturally told the yamen to rest. He didn't go out early in the morning, he stayed by Mu Jiaojiao's side, and his eyes were always on her, as if he was afraid that her illness would attack immediately.

Mu Jiaojiao was stared at by him uncomfortably. "It's close to the time when I'm going to have this problem, and it's still early! You're in such a hurry now, it's making me nervous. If you let the Gu worm wake up early and make trouble for me until tomorrow morning, then you will all provoke it!"

When Cui Pu heard her say this, he hurriedly turned his head: "Okay, I won't bother you now." You can rest first, and then I'll talk to my brother. ”

It's just that when he was with Cui Hui, he didn't have a match when he spoke, and obviously his soul was not here. Cui Saburo was very helpless.

In the evening, Imperial Physician Chang came to them slowly with a medicine box. Cui Pu couldn't stay outside anymore, so he took him to see Mu Jiaojiao under the pretext of taking him, and he returned to Mu Jiaojiao.

The three of them drank tea and talked, time passed little by little, and seeing that it was close to the time of Jiaozi, Cui Pu and Chang Taiyi both became nervous.

Mu Jiaojiao found out, so she got up and said, "It's almost time, I think I'd better go to bed and lie down first!"

"Well, you'd better lie down first...... I'll accompany you!" Cui Pu nodded hurriedly, and led her back to the inner room.

Mu Jiaojiao and Yi were lying on the bed, and Cui Pu sat at the head of the bed, squeezing her hand tightly with one hand, and her body began to tremble slightly.

Mu Jiaojiao patted the back of his hand: "You relax first, maybe the matter is not so serious." What I told you before were all remnants of manuscripts that my father had searched elsewhere, and I had to piece them together and add my own understanding to come to such a conclusion. Maybe I'm wrong!"

"I've never believed you could go wrong in this regard. Cui Pu said in a deep voice.

Mu Jiaojiao stopped talking.

She slowly leaned into his lap, her hands clasping his arms tightly.

Cui Pu didn't speak anymore, but his eyes stared at her for a moment.

I don't know how long time has passed, but I saw Mu Jiaojiao, who was still meekly curled up beside her, suddenly stiffened, and immediately trembled violently.

This was just the beginning, and her trembling was already much worse than the last time he arrived! And immediately a large stream of blood flowed from the corner of her lips, and the amount of blood was much more than the last time!

She was right, this time the attack was at least three times as severe as the last one!

Cui Pu's heart tugged, and he hurriedly hugged her into his arms. Hongdou also hurriedly went out and shouted: "Doctor Chang, lady, she is sick!"

Doctor Chang hurriedly walked in. Seeing Mu Jiaojiao's symptoms, he pondered for a while, and then took out a black pill the size of a little thumb nail from the medicine box: "Feed this to the Sixth Young Lady to eat." Just stuff it into her mouth without dissolving. ”

Red Bean quickly did as he was told.

Doctor Chang took out another set of golden needles, pulled out the longest one and pricked it into Mu Jiaojiao's body.

Cui Pu hurriedly held him down: "Imperial Doctor Chang, do you really know how to rescue?"

"Liulangjun, although the old man's medical skills are not as good as the sixth young lady, he has also practiced medicine for decades, and he has also seen with his own eyes how the master rescued that person, and the old man also helped the master fight many times. Although I have not encountered such a patient in these years, the old man has always kept the master's manuscript at hand, and he even looked through it a few days ago. Isn't it because the old man has experience in this area that you invited the old man to come this time?"

When Cui Pu heard this, he quickly let go of his hand: "I'm sorry, I was too much just now." You go ahead. ”

Imperial Physician Chang raised the needle again and slowly pierced it into Mu Jiaojiao's heart. Then, a second, a third, a fourth......

He pricked more than 20 needles in a row, all of which were concentrated in the area of Mu Jiaojiao's heart, and all the needles were submerged, leaving only about half an inch of needles outside, which looked terrifying.

After these needles, Mu Jiaojiao's trembling was indeed relieved, but the blood at the corner of her mouth was still flowing.

Cui Pu saw it in his eyes, and only felt as if it was his heart that was gnawed by Gu worms—no, now he would rather be the one bitten by Gu worms! After all, he was also a man, and his body was much better than hers. She has been tortured so thin, and this time the disease is so bad, can she bear it with such a delicate situation?

With that thought, he slowly tightened his grip on her.

"Xiao Jiaojiao, you bear with it, bear with it again. I promise, this is the last time you will suffer such a sin. Next time, I won't let you be tortured by this broken worm again. At least before today next year, I'll dig this worm out and break it into pieces!"