Chapter 25: Poisoning
The atmosphere gradually became tense, and even the guests downstairs who were eating and drinking tea quieted down.
At this time, the shopkeeper's gaffe was serious, in case of a fight, it was his shop that was unlucky, and he immediately arched his hands to persuade him: "The two guest officers are angry, don't be angry, cough cough, this is not seen when you look up, why bother to hurt your anger for this little thing?"
The shopkeeper was a little out of shape, maybe he had a cold, and his words were mixed with coughing.
The swordsman on the stairs and Li Jiang were still confronting each other, each refusing to admit defeat.
In the middle of the sound, the young man let go of the hilt of his sword, his face was still disdainful, he supported the railing with one hand, and with a slight force, he jumped directly from the middle.
After landing, he didn't forget to look back at Li Jiang, as if to say, 'I remember you, you wait for me', and then turned his head and went straight out.
Li Jiang said lightly to the shopkeeper: "The boss should keep his eyes open when picking up customers in the future, don't bring anyone to the store, but not every guest is as good-tempered as me, and he teaches him to be a man for free." ”
The shopkeeper probably scolded his mother in his heart, and he could only nod with a smile on his face.
Who's calling customers God?
After dividing the rooms, several people went back to their rooms.
After Qinghe entered the door, he took a general look at the room, then threw the burden on the table, lay on his back on the soft quilt in a large shape, closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.
"Knock knock", there was a knock on the door, Qinghe got out of bed and opened the door, and the person who came was Mo Junqian.
With a smile in his eyes, he said to Qinghe, "Senior sister, can we talk?"
Qinghe's eyelids jumped imperceptibly: "What are you talking about?"
Mo Junqian seemed to be a little cramped: "It's just an ordinary chat, and it won't delay you for too long." ”
Qinghe met his sincere eyes, and the next moment he refused: "If it's a matter of cultivation, I have nothing to teach you, and if it's something else, I'm not interested in hearing it." ”
After saying that, he was about to close the door, but Mo Jun raised his hand to block the door: "It's not a matter of cultivation or anything else, it's a matter between you and me." ”
"Then I'm not interested in hearing it. ”
He smiled bitterly and said, "Don't you even give me time to speak? Or did you never treat me as a junior brother at all?"
Qinghe's tone was a little cold: "What about you, do you regard me as a senior sister?"
Mo Junqian didn't speak, the two of them were just one outside, and the other was inside.
There was a sudden sound downstairs, the two of them relieved their strength slightly, and they didn't care about the quarrel, and looked down from the position on the second floor, just in time to see the innkeeper fall to the ground.
Qinghe knocked on the other three's room, and then went downstairs to check on the shopkeeper.
The two came to the place where the shopkeeper was upside down, and Mo Junqian squatted down to probe his nose, but was stopped by Qinghe: "Be careful of poison." ”
Mo Junqian observed his face at this time, his face was pale, his lips were slightly purple, he was indeed poisoned, but his face was smiling, it looked like he had fallen asleep, and he did not have the slightest pain of being tortured by the poison, which was really weird.
Li Jiang soon arrived, confirming Qinghe's opinion.
Qinghe: "I just don't know what kind of poison it is, senior brother, you have a lot of research on medical science, do you have any clues?"
Li Jiang: "There are several poisons that can cause this symptom, and I can't see anything now, it will take time." ”
Gradually, people gathered around, and the chatter was a little noisy.
Li Jiang: "Let's carry him to the room first." ”
Mo Junqian came up to help, and before he could move, he heard a familiar voice outside.
"What are you doing, let Uncle Ben get out of the way, good dogs don't get in the way!"
The fierce appearance frightened the onlookers, and they immediately retreated to the side to make way out.
One bite is Uncle Ben, it is the sword cultivator who stood in the way before.
At first glance, he saw the shopkeeper on the ground, and his tone was still lacking: "Yo, is someone poisoned? Coincidentally, Uncle Ben has a panacea here, just to use it to detoxify you." As he spoke, he took out a bottle of pill from his bosom, took out one and was about to send it to the shopkeeper's mouth.
Li Jiang grabbed his wrist and said in a deep voice: "Do you know what kind of poison he has been poisoned in? If someone dies, you can't afford it!"
Jian Xiu violently broke free of his hand and mocked: "It's you again? I said why do you always go against me? Now it's you who are stopping me from treating and saving people, if someone dies, it is not me who is responsible, but you." ”
Li Jiang didn't take the previous dispute to heart, but at this moment, seeing the other party's disdainful attitude towards human life, he was really a little angry.
There are more and more onlookers, and the shopkeeper is still lying on the ground, which is obviously an unwise choice to do it at this time.
At this moment, a woman dressed in plain clothes rushed out of the room, grabbed the crowd and threw herself on the shopkeeper, crying: "What's wrong with you, don't scare me...... Wake up, master ......"
You can tell from the words that this is the proprietress of the proprietress .
The boss is now poisoned and fell to the ground, Li Jiang was afraid that she would move so much, and was a little worried that he would die on the spot before he could be rescued, and was trying to persuade him, but who knew that the sword cultivator took the first step and said to the boss's wife: "Don't be sad the boss's wife, he still has to be saved." ”
When the proprietress heard this, she hurriedly wiped away her tears and asked anxiously: "Childe, do you have a way to save our family?"
The sword cultivator unhurriedly took out the bottle of elixir again: "Oh, it's this bottle of magic medicine, which can save your life, and it only costs a thousand taels each." ”
"A thousand taels...... This is too expensive......" The people around couldn't help but gasp when they heard this sky-high price of elixir.
When the proprietress heard the other party's asking for a thousand taels, her eyes widened suddenly, but she looked at her own family again, and said ruthlessly: "Okay, as long as you can save my family, I will give you a thousand taels!"
Li Jiang couldn't help frowning, and stopped: "The boss lady can't be reckless, what poison in the shopkeeper is not known, and you must not use the medicine indiscriminately." ”
The proprietress is just an ordinary woman from a good family, everything is the master of her own family, at this time she only cares about saving people, and she doesn't understand anything else, as soon as she heard Li Jiang's words, she not only did not think about it carefully, but also blamed him: "Why are you like this? People are kind enough to save my family, why do you want to stop it? Don't you want my family leader to wake up? I see that you are humane and sanctimonious, maybe you are the one who poisoned you!"
As soon as these words came out, even Qinghe frowned, this woman has no defense, her ability to talk nonsense is not small, if she is planting, she will come as soon as she opens her mouth, be careful to sue you for slander!
The sword cultivator was smug on the side, and his eyes were provocative when he looked at Li Jiang.
Li Jiang stopped it to no avail, so he could only watch the pill enter the shopkeeper's mouth.
Said that it was too late, the pill was just put into the mouth, and before it had time to melt, I saw an afterimage in front of me, and the shopkeeper who had fallen to the ground was held up by a force, and a man in white slapped his palm to his chest, and a pill rolled to the ground, and then the man connected a few big points on the shopkeeper's body, and finally fell to the center of his eyebrows, a white light did not enter his mind, and then he gently flattened the shopkeeper to the ground.
The action is smooth and done in one go.
The man in white picked up the pill on the ground, walked in front of Jian Xiu, and said unceremoniously: "Your Excellency is a good thing to cure diseases and save people, but you don't know how to prescribe the right medicine, and use ordinary body strengthening pills to detoxify, saving people will eventually become harmful." ”
Jian Xiu snorted coldly, without the slightest shame of selling fake pills and being exposed, he snatched back the pills, turned around and pushed away the crowd and left.
There was no excitement to watch, and the people around gradually dispersed.
The man in white turned to Qing and made a fist salute to them, and said with some familiarity: "So you are here, I am looking for you everywhere." ”
Qinghe looked at the person in front of him, it was Zhuge Hongming's disciple, Luo Fan. They met once when they were fighting fires at the palace.
Although Li Jiang and Mu Dong didn't know him, they recognized Luo Fan's clothes that belonged to the Apocalypse Academy, and politely returned the salute.
Qinghe: "Why are you here, what are you looking for us?"
Luo Fan: "To be exact, it's my master who wants to see you." ”
Qinghe: "Dean Zhuge ?"
Luo Fan nodded: "The master is developing an antidote, and there are not enough people, so I want to ask the two of you to help." ”
Li Jiang said on the side: "Is it the antidote to this poison?"
Luo Fan turned his head to look at Li Jiang for a moment, and said: "That's right, there are a lot of poisoned people in the city these days, and the master began to develop an antidote after knowing it, but the process was cumbersome, and those people in the palace couldn't help, so they sent me to find a helper." ”
Li Jiang asked again: "Many people have been poisoned? Could it be that this poison is contagious? What kind of poison is this so powerful?"
Luo Fan: "It is a kind of poison called forgetting the soul, there is a faint fragrance, the toxicity is huge, the poisoned person has no change in his body at first, but he can feel a little excited, but after three or four days, he begins to cough weakly, afraid of cold, and infected with wind and cold, it is difficult for ordinary people to detect, thinking that there is no big problem, until after fainting, the toxicity is revealed." ”
Mu Dong, who hadn't spoken for a long time, helped the proprietress carry the shopkeeper on the ground to the stool, poked his shoulder with his fingers, and said, "Then why is there a smile on his face, it looks like he is not poisoned, but just dreaming." ”
Luo Fan patiently answered for him: "The poison of forgetting souls is like this, it will make poisoned people immerse themselves in beautiful dreams, drain their energy, and make them never wake up again." Without an antidote, they will be trapped in a dream for the rest of their lives, and I just clicked on his acupoint to stop the poison and slow down the spread of the virus. ”
Mu Dong looked at the shopkeeper's face, and it was really much better than just now.
Qinghe on the side frowned, she suddenly recalled the strange situation that happened to her on the night of the flower festival, and it seemed that she was also very excited, could it be ......
She jerked at Shen Xun, who nodded at her. Surprised and puzzled, it turned out that she was also tricked, but she had an aura to protect herself, how could she be poisoned?
Luo Fan: "So, the two sons and girls, can they enter the palace now?"
The words were said to Qinghe and Mo Junqian.
This is undoubtedly a good opportunity to enter the palace to find out the whereabouts of the Divine Bead.
Although I don't know what medicine is sold in Zhuge Hongming's gourd, since he took the initiative to send it to the door, let's make good use of it. So without the slightest hesitation, after Qinghe and Li Jiang discussed in Linghai, they entered the palace with Mo Junqian and Luo Fan.
Li Jiang watched them out of the inn, and suddenly his sleeves were pulled, he looked down at Shen Xun, who wrinkled his little face and said aggrievedly: "Why do they always forget my existence?"
Li Jiang was struck by this expression, and unconsciously raised his hand to touch the little head, but suddenly remembered something, pretended to be casual and withdrew his hand, and said perfunctorily: "Maybe you are too small, they didn't see you at all." ”
Shen Xun's face wrinkled even more.
Li Jiang said to Mu Dong: "Let's go, let's not be idle, let's go and find out who is poisoning." ”
Mu Dong answered and obediently followed.