Chapter 15: The Dungeon
Mo Yan was brought to the lobby again.
"Mo Yan, after the verification of the pharmacy, that bear bile is indeed a white bear golden bile, your credit is not small, tell this mansion, what reward do you want?" Gui Zhifu asked with a smile.
"I don't want any reward," Mo Yan said, "Foreman Dou asked me to come to Yichang Mansion just to let the adults see that they are desperate to get back the bear bile, so that they can give their family some more silver taels so that they can live in the future." ”
"Well, this government will naturally consider it," Gui Zhifu nodded, "At a young age, you know how to take credit and not be arrogant, it's rare, I don't know what you plan to do in the future?"
"Go home. ”
"Where do you live?"
"Dali, Yunnan. Mo replied.
Gui Zhifu instructed: "Come on, take Mo Yan to the account room to receive twenty taels of silver, and then go to a nearby inn to rest, and send someone to the dock to board the ship." ”
His guards took Mo Yan and left.
Yan'er turned out from behind the screen, nodded and said, "My lord, it's really him." ”
That night, Mo Yan and Yi lay on the bed in the inn and couldn't sleep, the things entrusted by Pharmacist Fu on his deathbed had been completed, and he was about to embark on the road back to his hometown, but I don't know what happened to Mr. Xia, can he leave the Wushan Gang safely?
A sweet smell wafted in from the crack in the door of the inn room, and Mo Yan suddenly shook his spirit, this smell seemed familiar...... It was too late for him to get up, and he felt that his limbs were sore and he didn't obey the call, and only his mind remained awake.
The latch of the door was opened, and two big men in black came in lightly, grabbed Mo Yu from the bed and stuffed it into a hemp bag, and then carried it on his shoulders and threw it into a carriage outside. Mo Yan vaguely heard someone saying in his ears: "Carefully searched, all the things of this kid must be brought." ”
The carriage had stopped walking for about a stick of incense, and someone carried the sack to a clipper, which docked at the pier of Guandu at dawn.
In the lobby of the Wushan Gang, someone untied the sack and let Mo Ji out.
Mo Yan rubbed his eyes and looked over, the Xue steward was sitting on the chair looking at him with a smile, and his burden was on the case, which had been untied.
"Well, little apprentice of Xia Bashan, your name is Mo Yan, right? Steward Xue said with a smile.
Mo Yan didn't squeak and looked at him silently.
"Okay, let me ask you, where is the secret recipe for healing the young gang master?"
"The secret recipe?" Mo Yan thought for a while, as if he suddenly realized, "It turns out that it is the secret recipe, and I can memorize it in my mind." ”
Steward Xue was excited for a while, got up and said eagerly, "Read it to me." ”
"Okay, five coins of gastrodia, one point each for Qianghuo, ginseng, cinnamon, atractylodes, ephedra, and almonds, one aconite, and decoction in water. Mo Langlang recited.
Steward Xue's face turned dark when he heard this, but then he put on a smiling face, and said with a pleasant face: "That is not a secret recipe, but the gastrodia soup in the Ming Dynasty's "Miraculous Recipe", think about the others. ”
"No, this is the medicine that was fried for the young gang master, is his illness cured?"
"He's dead. Steward Xue said coldly.
"What about Mr. Xia?"
"If you don't tell the secret recipe, you will have to take the same sin as Shabashan, you know?"
"That's what Mr. Xia told me. Mo had an innocent look on his face.
Steward Xue lowered his face and picked up the two bamboo tubes in the baggage: "What is this?"
"I was frightened when I was collecting medicine in Shennongjia, and I was sick for almost a year. ”
Steward Xue pulled out the plug and sniffed it, then dipped his fingers in some powder and put it in his mouth and licked it: "It turned out to be a turtle shell, the taste is salty into the kidney meridian, what kind of medicine is this, a strange smell." ”
It turned out that he didn't recognize the Hundred Worm Warehouse, Mo thought to himself.
Steward Xue picked up the dzi again, looked at it and knocked it on the case, making a metallic sound as crisp, he frowned and asked, "What is this?"
"It's a lot of fruit that fell from the tree, and the mountaineers carved it as a chess piece, and I picked up one at random. "Mo Yan doesn't seem to care.
Steward Xue thought in his heart, the news from Yan'er, this kid followed the guards to Shennongjia and was scared of a serious illness, these two bamboo tube herbs and the secret recipe of the Seven Absolute Veins should have nothing to do with it, and his words did not seem to be suspicious, and this matter seemed to need to be considered in the long run.
"Come on, put him in the dungeon first. Steward Xue commanded.
Mo was taken into a cave in the courtyard with his baggage, and went down the stone steps to a stone room, where the iron gate and copper lock opened, and he was pushed in.
It took a long time for his eyes to get used to it, and in the faint light of oil, he saw two people lying on the straw mat, with their hair disheveled, their beards shoulder-length, and a stench emanating from their bodies.
Mo Yan was taken aback when he looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but lose his voice: "Mr. Xia!"
Xia Bashan was skinny, his eyes were deep, and he slowly opened his eyes: "Are you Mo Remnant?"
Mo Yan had tears in his eyes: "It's me, Mr. Xia, it turns out that you still haven't slipped away." ”
Xia Bashan smiled bitterly: "Life should be like this, what can the husband say." ”
"Who is that person?" Mo asked in a low voice.
"It's the Miao Hall Master. ”
Mr. Xia sighed, sighed, and roughly recounted what had happened since Mo Yan left.
That night a year ago, Xia Bashan watched Mo Yan disappear into the darkness in a hurry, and then poured out the medicine jar that Steward Xue had poisoned, and re-cooked a new jar of gastrodia soup, and put all the old gastrodia that Mo left to him, thinking that if this medicine continued, the young gang leader of Tianming should be fine. Since Steward Xue and his wife want to kill the young helper, it is impossible to prevent it, "the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall", he is an outsider, there is no need to wade into this troubled water, he must try to leave after dawn.
He took the boiled medicine and sent it to the inner hall in person, and watched the maid feed the young helper spoonful by spoon, then he was relieved, and then sat on the chair until dawn broke in the east.
In the early morning, the young gang leader vomited several times in succession, and a small half basin of black bruises, and then his face gradually became ruddy, and the person also woke up.
Where did Mo Yan get this kid from, and he was so effective, Xia Bashan was secretly surprised in his heart.
"Mr. Xia, I'm hungry and want to drink some porridge. The young helper sat up and said.
Xia Bashan personally went to the room to fill some porridge, and watched the maid serve the young gang leader to devour it, so he said: "Young gang master, your illness is no longer serious, Xia Mou is now going to Badong County to grab a few good tonics, and he only needs to recuperate for a few days to recover." ”
The young helper was grateful: "Then there is Mr. Laoxia." ”
Xia Bashan hesitated for a moment when he left the room, and finally decided not to tell him about the conspiracy between Mrs. Min and Steward Xue to poison him.
Xia Bashan ran all the way to the Guandukou wharf, anxiously looking for Mo Yan, but he was never seen. There is no way, it will change later, and it seems that only I will go on the road first. Just as he was about to board the passenger ship, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves behind him, and it turned out that the Wushan Gang had caught up.
"Mr. Xia, Mrs. Min, please go back immediately. "The blue-faced old man at the head turned out to be the master of Miao Hall.
"Master Miao, please tell Madame that Xia is about to go to grab medicine for the young master, and he will come back as soon as he finishes it. Shabashan prevaricated.
"Hmph, Xia Bashan plotted to kill the young gang leader, take it for me. The Miao Hall Master said with a sinking face.
His men stepped forward and pushed Shabashan off the boat, and escorted him all the way back to the helm. When he was brought into the inner hall to catch a glimpse of the young gang leader's charcoal-like corpse, he knew that he was done this time.
Steward Xue asked him angrily: "Xia Bashan, you, a quack doctor, killed the old gang leader back then, and now you have harmed the young gang leader, and you plan to slip away like last time, is your apprentice Mo Yan already escaped first?"
Xia Bashan thought that it was a death anyway, it was better than the surname Suo, so he sneered in his mouth: "The young gang master's condition is no longer serious, and he got up this morning and drank a bowl of porridge.
"Shabashan, what do you mean by strangeness, if you have something to say, you might as well say it clearly. Hall Master Miao said with a frown.
"The young gang leader died of the five poisonous hearts, Xue is in charge, you also know medicine, is Xia right?"
Steward Xue's face changed slightly, he coughed dryly twice, and said, "Xia Bashan, you are responsible for healing the young gang master, and it is difficult to get rid of it no matter what." As for the suspected poisoning, Xue must conduct a detailed inquest before it can be conclusive. Someone came, and first put Shaba Mountain into the dungeon. ”
stayed in the dungeon for two days, and on the third night, the Miao Hall Master was also carried in, and his hands and feet were broken.
It turned out that there was infighting in the gang, and the Miao Tang Master suspected that someone had indeed poisoned the old gang leader and the young gang leader, while Mrs. Min and Steward Xue accused him of conspiring with Xia Bashan to kill the young gang leader. Later, the government came to conduct an autopsy, and it was Lord Guiqi of Yichang Mansion who personally brought him to investigate, and the conclusion was that the cause of death was not poisoning, but improper treatment.
"Why do you want to break the tendons and veins of the Miao Hall Master?" Mo Yan shuddered.
"It's because I'm afraid of the old man's true martial arts," the Miao Hall Master who was lying in the corner suddenly said faintly, "I didn't expect Mrs. Min and them to secretly collude with the Gui Governor's Mansion, poison the wine, and steal the tendons and veins while the old man was unconscious, and throw them into this dungeon." The reason why the old man was not killed was that there were many friends among the masters of the Wushan Gang, and Mrs. Min needed to get rid of them one by one before she would attack the old man. ”
Mo Yan remembered that on the night of the Bashan Hospital, the master of the Miao Hall showed his hand to close the door in the air, which surprised him extremely at the time, it was probably what kind of Xuantian Gong was.
"Mo Yan, you have grown taller, and you are much stronger, and you have been walking for almost a year, why did you catch them again?" asked Xia Bashan.
After Mo Yan told that after he escaped, he told a rough story about following the guards of Yichang Mansion into Shennongjia to hunt the white bear, but concealed the matter of meeting the mountain ghost mother and son and collecting the real medicine, as he told the prefect Gui, try not to say anything if it is not necessary, this is his principle.
The master of the Miao Hall couldn't help but sigh: "It's a big fate to endure such ups and downs at such a young age, but it's a pity that you can enter this dungeon, I'm afraid you won't be able to get out alive." ”
"Yes, Steward Xue didn't kill Xia, he also wanted this secret recipe to heal the Seven Absolute Pulses, once the secret recipe was successful, Xia's death time would come. Xia Bashan smiled bitterly twice, and then asked about the origin of Lao Tianma.
Mo Yan told the process of Cangshan collecting medicine and discovering Lao Tianma, and when he talked about how Zhao Hongru of Xinglintang lost face, both of them snickered.
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