Chapter VII: Popular Science
Descending the mountain, Yilin looked around blankly and left Hengshan, she didn't know what she should do or where to go. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
After being in a daze for a while, Yi Lin remembered the explanation of the head of Dingxian that this time she was not going down the mountain to run aimlessly, but with a task. Three tasks, the first one, to go to Fujian once in three months, to send a letter to a martial arts senior for her. The second, to find the whereabouts of the orphans of the deceased, you can find clues from the predecessors of the martial arts. The third is to go to Huashan, Hengshan, Songshan, and the remaining four factions of Taishan Wuyue Sword Sect to show their faces and brush their sense of existence.
Rummaging through the package, there were two thick sets of new clothes, dry rations, some daily necessities and a small bag of broken silver, as well as a rudimentary map.
So, let's go to Fujian, Yilin looked at the map, identified the direction, and set off.
After walking a few dozen steps, she stopped and looked at the sword in her hand, although it was not heavy, it was still holding it...... So tired, think about it, she directly tied the sword to the package and carried it on her back. Anyway, she is a little nun, and it is estimated that there is no bandit who does not have long eyes to rob, even if she encounters danger, she can run away with her light skills, and if she can't run away, she can show her strength by responding to the enemy with her palm.
If she can't run away, and the palm is not an opponent, at that time, it means that she can't keep her hand and it is a matter of life and death, even if she doesn't want to hurt anyone, she can only use the sword.
Therefore, her sword is really - if you don't have a sword, you will see blood...... Well, it wasn't planned, but the first night was dark in the barren mountains and forests, and it was not safe to travel at this time, so I had to barely find a place to spend the night. So the first time her sword was unsheathed, it was used to chop wood, but fortunately, Yilin's strength was ingenious, and she used internal force to protect the sword body, otherwise this sword would become potholes in a few days.
Yi Lin sighed, lit a fire to get water, baked a steamed bun and nibbled on it, looking at the starry sky at night with a melancholy face.
Next time, you must ask about the distance, she is not a real nun with a pure heart and few desires, so why treat herself badly when she goes out. When you are in a hurry, you can stop at the inn when you see the time, and the time is not in a hurry anyway, and you have to boil water to take a bath every day, and it is easy to stink if you don't wash it all day. When she was in Hengshan, she had a private bath tub and boiled water for bathing every day.
She has a small internal strength, and she is not afraid of a little cold, but she is afraid that there are parasites in these rivers and the like, and the current medical conditions are so poor, she still endures it for a day.
After half a month, Yilin sadly found that there was not much money left.
Uncle Dingxian prepared a lot of plates, not to live in the best rooms, not to eat those exquisite dishes, but also to buy some fruits, get some souvenirs and the like, these money can be used for a long time. It's just that Yilin has never had a hard life in her previous life, although she is not rich when she comes to Hengshan, but the things in Hengshan are also complete, and she has never worried about money, so she naturally does not want to live that kind of tight and dirty life.
Besides, the delicate body of the daughter's family is different from the man's body, and there are so many days every month, if you don't eat and drink well, supplement good nutrition, and do a good job of personal hygiene, you will suffer if you are not careful.
has to find a way to make money, how can she, a civilized person who is hundreds of years ahead of this era, be stumped by just a little money...... After a night of deep thought, Yilin realized that something was wrong. There is a saying that half a step ahead is a genius, and a step ahead is a madman, she doesn't know how many steps ahead of people of this era, if she does something that is out of line with the times and eye-catching...... It's better to keep a low profile.
She still prefers to live those peaceful days, survive a year, and when she returns to Hengshan, she can continue to live a free and easy life of rice worms. Half a month has passed now, that is, one of the twenty-fourths, and the time of twelve months has passed in the blink of an eye.
Secretly cheering herself up, Yilin weighed her little money bag, and if she could hold on for a few days, she was about to walk into the inn.
"The food is poisonous! this is a black shop!" There was a loud shout from the inn, Yi Lin suddenly stopped, in this kind of place where there are no villages and only a lonely inn, Yi Lin was already more vigilant and cautious, and she was even more vigilant at the moment.
However, although Yilin is not bold, her art is not low, if she is bent on escaping, there are not many people in this river and lake who can catch up with her.
With a little curiosity, he looked into the inn.
At this moment, in the inn, there was a tense atmosphere, and a young woman in a strong suit stood on a stool, holding a silver needle, and Yi Lin could see that the tip of the silver needle had turned black.
There were quite a few guests in the inn, and in the upper right corner a table of dart walkers, armed with swords, staring at the woman. A few people at the adjacent table, seeing that they were passing merchants, did not dare to come out, and carefully observed the expressions of everyone. There are also a few people, who are from the rivers and lakes at a glance, and immediately spit out the food in their mouths when they heard the words, clenching the hilt of their swords, ready to make a move at any time, and are staring coldly at the shopkeeper.
Among the people, there are two more special, it should be said that they are more special in this environment.
Everyone else was like a great enemy, only the blue-shirted young man at the table and an old man with a few gray beards were still eating slowly, as if they were not worried about the poison in the food.
The shopkeeper was quite bold, or relied on, and said unhurriedly: "This store has been on the ground for ten years, and it is convenient for people to be in this place where there is no store before or after." Not to mention how much merit this is, after all, you pay the bill, I collect the money, it is a transaction that you are willing to buy. But in the past ten years, the reception of martial arts heroes, wealthy businessmen and distinguished guests does not know how many, and there has never been a situation of poor reception, and the shopkeeper has not done a thing that ignores his conscience. You little girl, with one word, will ruin the inn's ten-year reputation, and may even harm people's lives, which is really too deceitful. ”
The woman in the strong suit raised her eyebrows and raised the silver needle in her hand: "I don't care what reputation you have, and who you have received, poisoning the food and harming people's lives, such a black shop, it is still unbelievable? This girl will eliminate the harm for the people today!"
As soon as the words fell, the woman in the power suit screamed, and the long sword was unsheathed and pointed directly at the shopkeeper.
Other people in the rivers and lakes also stood up one after another, and the sound of metal friction sounded loudly, and it seemed to be a fight. At this time, a Buddha call came from outside the door: "Amitabha." "The sound is endless, crisp and thick, and the hearts of the people in the rivers and lakes are awe-inspiring, so profound!
Everyone looked out, but it was a bald little nun.
After Yi Lin observed, she immediately understood what was going on, and she couldn't laugh or cry.
In order to avoid a bloody case caused by eggs, she had to come out and ask the woman in the suit, "Do you still have a silver needle?"
The few people who held the sword didn't understand Yilin's intention, so they didn't dare to do it for the time being, and Yilin had a beautiful and gentle face, which was easy to give people a good impression and would not give people any sense of oppression. The woman in the suit nodded, and took out a silver needle bag, which contained dozens of silver needles of different lengths. Yilin took out one, reached out and broke the egg on the table, pierced the white part with the needle, and pulled it out, the color remained unchanged.
The little nun's strange behavior attracted everyone's attention, and the woman in the power suit changed her expression even more, staring at the silver needle in Yilin's hand.
"The silver needle test for poison cannot be regarded as a complete mistake, for the common people nowadays, if they want to harm others, arsenic, colorless and odorless and can be bought from the pharmacy is indeed the most common poison. The principle of silver needles turning black when exposed to arsenic is that due to technical limitations, arsenic production inevitably contains a small amount of sulfur, while silver will turn into silver sulfide when it encounters sulfur, and silver sulfide is black. Yi Lin looked around, and saw that the people around her were listening carefully to her popular science, there was no accident, people in this world have an extraordinary thirst for knowledge, and if they are ignorant, they want to know more, not to mention this kind of knowledge that may save lives.
Sometimes, a few pieces of secret knowledge can be used for a lifetime, or even make a living from it.
"However, we should not be superstitious about the silver needle test, which has great limitations. There are thousands of deadly poisons circulating in the rivers and lakes, only a few can really be tested with silver needles, and more need to be distinguished from the color and fragrance, and there are still not many colorless and odorless poisons. And what can make the silver needle black is not necessarily poison. Yi Lin said and picked up the egg yolk, and then inserted the silver needle: "For example, the egg yolk, the egg yolk also contains a small amount of sulfur, and once it encounters silver, it will also form silver sulfide." Yi Lin pulled the silver needle out of the yolk of the egg, and in just a few breaths, the silver needle turned black.
After finishing speaking, without waiting for the result, Yilin walked to the counter: "Shopkeeper, I want an upper room." ”
What to eat, Yilin can still be reluctant, and if the conditions are not good, she can also boil it if she eats steamed buns. But for the requirements for accommodation, at least it should look clean and tidy, at least the quilt should not smell, at least there should be no suspicious marks on the sheets. Her requirements are actually not high at all, but she needs to spend a lot of money on accommodation, which is the gap between the times.
"Okay. The shopkeeper smiled gratefully at Yilin, although he is not a person who is afraid of things, but he always values harmony in business, and he naturally has a good impression of Yilin who speaks for him, and immediately asked Xiao Er to lead her to the best room.
Before Yilin left, the blue-shirted young man who calmly ate and watched the play walked to the table of the woman in the power suit, and looked at the woman in the power suit who still had doubts in her eyes - in fact, the poison was in the egg yolk, and the little nun and the black shop were in a gang or something. He twisted the egg that was broken by Yilin with his right hand, tore it in half, ate it in a few bites, and nodded: "It tastes good, the eggs are very fresh." ”
Saying that, he ate all the rest, clapped his hands, walked behind Yi Lin, bowed down and said: "In Xia Liu Mingyue, I have studied medicine for more than ten years, and I also found that the use of silver needle poison testing method in ancient medicine is limited, and sometimes it is not effective, and sometimes some non-toxic things can also make it black, and it has no effect on the strange poisons in the rivers and lakes, so I have to abandon it." Listening to your words today, I realized that the truth of the silver needle test for poison is the result of silver encountering sulfur in poison. Come to think of it, in ancient times, the people were simple and simple, there were very few poisons, and the method of testing poison with silver needles was sufficient. Nowadays, people's hearts are like those strange poisons, which can no longer be poked out by a mere silver needle, which is sad and lamentable. ”