Since Zhang Baizhao's residence was determined, Wu Daoming and the others decided not to scatter and squat in many places, but instead the three of them took turns to monitor the Touren's Mansion, and the next day it was Wu Shuang's turn, and Wu Daoming responded not far away; while Ding Yu broke away from the three of them to act alone under the pretext of wanting to find out the news; as for Zhang Changshun, he stayed at the inn because he was worried that he would be recognized by the people of the million-dollar trading house.

After leaving the inn, Ding Yu first went to the Han merchant settlement in the south of the city, bought some bottles and cans in the grocery store, a small package of needlework, and then left the furnace city, after avoiding the eyes and ears of pedestrians, he exerted light skills all the way to the foot of Zheduo Mountain, outside a valley where there was no sunlight.

On the outskirts of the valley, the ground is covered with all kinds of flowers and plants. Ding Yu picked the kind of grass with small purple red flowers, broke off the leaf stems and smeared them on the back of his hand, and after trying several kinds of purple flowers in a row, he finally had a feeling that the skin on the back of his hand was numb.

He uprooted the whole plant and squeezed out a little juice from the broken fibrous roots and applied it to the back of his hand, and sure enough, the numbness felt a lot stronger. He nodded in satisfaction, this was one of the targets he was looking for, Drunken Horse Grass.

Drunken horse grass is a common poisonous weed in Tibet, the stems and leaves are erect, there are purple-red flowers in summer and autumn, after cattle, horses and livestock eat, they will have numb mouth and tongue, salivation, staggering, mental trance, similar to drunkenness, if used for a long time, it will also be mildly addictive, just like alcohol addiction.

Back then, Wan Chunliu practiced medicine in the Valley of the Wicked, and often had to heal all kinds of poisonous wounds, and did not do less things such as cutting flesh and digging sores, scraping bones and curing poison. But Guan Erye had Hua Tuo's hemp boiling back then, and Wan Chunliu was in the Western Regions, but it was not easy to obtain the medicinal materials of the Central Plains. Therefore, after studying a large number of Tibetan medicines according to local conditions, he prepared a kind of anesthetic with Tibetan poisons as the main medicine, called Drunken Toadsan.

When Ding Yu followed Wan Chunliu to study medicine, he had seen with his own eyes the effect of drunken toad, whether it was taken orally or into the bloodstream, it could make people lose consciousness quickly, and they would not wake up even if they were disemboweled.

There are two main medicines for drunken toad, one is the drunken horse grass that can be seen everywhere in Tibet, and the other is not uncommon, it is a toad crisp collected from a kind of Tibetan poisonous toad. This poisonous toad has a black back and a red belly, there are three blue markings on the neck, it likes to be shady, it often hides in the dark stone crevices and soil nests, feeds on poisonous insects and decaying plants, and the venom glands on the back and neck can secrete milky white venom, that is, the toad, which has a strong sedative and analgesic effect. After mixing and blending toad crisp with drunken horse grass juice, plus several auxiliary medicines, it is drunken toad.

After Ding Yu shaved more than a dozen drunken horse grasses, he plucked and washed the roots, put them in a stone mortar, and let them be exposed to the sun to concentrate the root juice. Then he went into the dark valley, carefully searched for Tibetan toads between the cracks of the mountains and rocks, and when he found one, he pinched his hind legs with one hand and scraped the back of the Tibetan toad with a knife with the other, and in a short time he had collected twelve toads.

At this time, he smashed the roots of the half-dried drunken horse grass, filtered the dregs with a fine linen, and mixed the remaining thick juice with the toad, and put it into a small porcelain bottle, which became a crude drunken toad.

Back in the city, Ding Yu didn't show any abnormality, as usual, he communicated with Wu Daoming's brothers and sisters after dinner, and saw that the two of them still made no progress, and strengthened his determination to do it tonight.

Late at night, Da Xitou Mansion.

The husband in the distance had just reported four o'clock, when suddenly, a heart-rending cry tore through the silence of the night—"Go to the water!"

More than 100 servants came out of the house in a mess, and sure enough, they saw the light on the other side of the firewood room, but fortunately the firewood room was far away from the other houses, and the fire would not spread for a while. The leader of the organic spirit began to organize everyone to find water and sand to extinguish the fire, some people went around looking for wooden barrels and sacks, and some people ran back to wake up their sleeping roommates, and it was extremely chaotic for a while.

Zhang Baizhao and the Xiong brothers were awakened soon after the fire, and the three of them walked out of the guest room and were a little overwhelmed when they saw this messy scene.

At this time, a servant approached and said to Zhang Baizhao: "I'm really sorry, I don't know who carelessly took the water to burn the firewood room, which frightened the three distinguished guests." In order to prevent the fire from spreading to the guest room, the steward specially asked me to take the three distinguished guests to the west side of the front yard for temporary shelter, and when the fire improves, please return to the room to rest. ”

Zhang Baizhao couldn't see the servant's face clearly in the dark night, and only vaguely saw the black fireworks marks on his face, but what he was wearing was indeed the servant dress of the Touren's Mansion, so he didn't think much about it, went back to the room and packed up the important things, and followed the servant to the open space on the west side to wait, and the servant confessed, and went back to the firewood room to put out the fire.

The Tourenfu was indeed well-trained, and more than 100 servants and local soldiers patrolling the night quickly extinguished the fire. The servant who had returned from extinguishing the fire saw Zhang Baizhao and the three of them standing in the open space on the west side, so he walked up and said, "Three distinguished guests, the fire has been extinguished, please go back to the room to rest." ”

The three of them nodded in agreement, and after returning to the room, they poured a few glasses of water, chatted and sighed a few words while drinking, and gradually fell asleep again.

When only the sound of the three of them breathing evenly and smoothly remained in the room, a hand reached out from the beam, and then three sewing needles with long threads shot out from between the fingers, inserted into the three people below, and then pulled back again. However, the strange thing is that the body was pierced and pulled out by sharp needles, but the three people did not even react at all.

After a while, there was still no movement in the room, a figure dressed in black fell from the beam, cautiously walked to the three beds, and blocked the three acupoints one by one, at this time, he breathed a sigh of relief: Zhang Baizhao, I finally caught you!

This man in black is naturally Ding Yu. In the middle of the night, he rushed to the headman's mansion with the things he had prepared during the day, first captured one of the servants, knocked him down, changed his clothes, and went to the firewood room to set fire. When the fire broke out, he shouted "go to the water" in the Tibetan language that he had tortured, alarming the people in the front yard in order to create chaos.

At this time, he painted his face with black charcoal, made it look like he had just come back from fighting the fire, ran to the guest room, and led Zhang Baizhao and the three of them out of the room. Then he excused himself to continue to fight the fire, but in fact, he turned around and sneaked into the room of Zhang Baizhao and others.

After entering the room, he first drank the drunken toad that he had prepared during the day, and then jumped on the beam, used the breathing technique, hid in the shadows, and waited for Zhang Baizhao and the three to return.

His breathing technique was figured out when he studied the technique of feigning death and resurrection, and he could actively suppress his heartbeat and breathing to a very low level, but the disadvantage was that he could not move, otherwise his heartbeat and breathing would immediately return to normal, but as long as he was still, let alone a first-class master, even a super-first-class master might not be able to detect him.

The reason why he was sure that Zhang Baizhao and the others would return to the room was because he carefully chose the target of arson: he needed a fire to drive Zhang Baizhao and the others out of the room, but he never wanted the fire to break out and make the entire Touren Mansion sleepless all night. Therefore, he chose the firewood room, which stored enough dry firewood to ensure that the fire was large enough, but at the same time, the firewood room of the Touren's Mansion was not connected to any building, and it could also ensure that the fire would not spread to other places, and it would not take long to extinguish it.

After the fire in the firewood room was extinguished, the servants of the Touren's Mansion saw the guests standing in the open space, and naturally came forward to persuade them to go back to the room to rest, but there was no need for Ding Yu to arrange this. And Zhang Baizhao and the others got up at night, they were already prone to dry mouth, and after watching the fire for a long time, they would naturally go to drink water when they returned to the room, and the drunken toad was naturally taken by the three of them. (To be continued.) )