Gu Chen responded loudly, with a reverberation of ecstasy in his voice.
"..." Han Changmu held his forehead.
This Gu Chen, wasn't he just asked to catch a living creature? As for being so cheerful, was it too long since he had fought or bickered with anyone, was he suffocated?
Within a moment, Gu Chen ran over as if he had picked up a treasure, holding high a skinny black scorpion. The scorpion twisted and swung between his fingers, but the tail hook never touched his hand.
He raised his hand with a smile: "A Yao, how about this."
Yao Yao pursed his lips and felt a chill.
If she wants to hit someone, don't stop her.
Didn't they just let them eat the morning food? Why did they catch a poisonous scorpion to disgust her? Even catching a mouse would be better than a scorpion.
She took a deep, difficult breath and said in the calmest tone possible: "Press the scorpion into the water ladle and let it drink a few more sips."
"Okay." Gu Chen didn't hear the anger in Yao Yao's tone, and responded happily, pressing the scorpion firmly into the water ladle.
Han Changmu sighed and couldn't figure out what was so happy about doing this kind of thing. How could Gu Chen be so happy.
The scorpion struggled violently in the water, its pair of sharp pincers and several short legs flapping non-stop. Water splashed to the ground and quickly seeped into the soil.
Seeing that Scorpion was almost drunk, Yao Yao nodded and motioned to Gu Chen to take out Scorpion and put it on the ground.
The scorpion was soaked wet, and when the bright sunlight hit it, it actually showed a translucent and strange light.
Several people gathered around the scorpion, staring at it intently, as if they were looking at something rare.
The scorpion seemed to be holding on after drinking enough water. Even its crawling speed slowed down a bit. It staggered a few times, then stopped and turned around.
Several people looked at each other in confusion. No one had ever raised a scorpion before, so they didn't know what a scorpion would look like after drinking enough water.
After resting for a moment, the scorpion climbed up crookedly, dragging a twisted water mark on the ground, like the steps of a drunken person.
Gu Chen opened his mouth and said in surprise: "Is this wine or water? Did this Scorpion drink too much? Why did he get up so drunk?"
Yao Yao only felt that there was something wrong with the water, but he couldn't figure out what the problem was, and he didn't expect that there would be such a big problem in the water.
Han Changmu frowned tightly, his face so gloomy that water could drip from his face.
An idea flashed through his alarm clock, and he thought of a poison he had seen in ancient books, and suddenly felt something was not good.
With a calm expression on his face, he gave a series of instructions: "Wang Xian and Chen Gui, go to the wine shop and look at Sabao and his party. Remember not to eat the food or water in the wine shop for the time being. Yao Yao, go tell Officer Xu and ask him Don’t use the water here for now. Gu Chen and Meng Sui Gao, you two find a way to fish out some rocks from the bottom of the water. Remember, try not to get your body wet. "
Several people claimed it and started working on their own.
Meng Suige and Gu Chen went to find something to salvage stones.
Han Changmu stood in the morning breeze with his hands behind his back.
The wind blew through the clothes, making a hunting sound.
He pursed his thin lips and stared slightly.
There is something strange about this matter. If his guess can be confirmed, this unsolved case can be inferred.
Meng Suige and Gu Chen came over with two nets, lay down at the water intake, fished up several nets of stones from the bottom of the water, and dumped them all on the ground.
These pebbles had been soaked in the water for who knows how many years. They had been polished by the spring water and were round and smooth. They fell to the ground and rolled all over the ground.
The sunshine in late autumn is lonely but gentle, flowing slowly on the stones, rising up into a colorful glass-like brilliance.
Han Changmu found a branch from somewhere and fiddled with it in the pile of stones.
Seeing the stones scattering away, his eyes narrowed slightly, giving off an icy cold light.
Han Changmu squatted down and looked at the small black dots half-hidden in the fine sand, densely squirming.
Meng Suige and Gu Chen also came over, and when they saw these little bugs that were like pockmarks, they felt a chill in their hearts.
Gu Chen frowned and said in surprise: "The spring water is quite clean. How could there be such dirty things at the bottom?" He looked at the crystal clear spring water. Not to mention small fish and shrimps, even aquatic plants Not one tree grew, and I kept thinking more and more confused: "The water is really clean, there are no aquatic plants or duckweeds, how do these insects survive?"
Han Changmu breathed a sigh of relief: "This bug is not originally in the water, but someone put it in deliberately."
Meng Suige was startled. He remembered something and turned to look at the scorpion.
The scorpion danced wildly for a long time, and was so tired that it collapsed on the ground. It poked it with a branch and moved it. If it didn't poke, it wouldn't move. At the end of the poke, it stopped moving.
He was a little frightened. This spring water was much more powerful than wine. It could actually make scorpions go crazy to the point of exhaustion. If a person drank it, although they would not go crazy to death of exhaustion, they would at least be paralyzed from exhaustion. In the end, they would not be able to fight back.
Han Changmu also noticed the movement of the scorpion, and felt his teeth and bones were cold. He ordered Gu Chen to invite Xu Guardsman and others to come over and explain the matter clearly.
As soon as Gu Chen took a few steps away, he saw a tall, slender figure running towards him.
He rushed to greet her and asked urgently: "A Yao, what's wrong? What happened?"
"Crazy, crazy." Yao Yao ran out of breath, her forehead was covered with fine sweat. She didn't bother to wipe it off, and ran to Han Changmu, panting heavily, but her expression did not show any panic: " Young Master, I arrived a little late. Most of the garrison troops had already gone to the morning meal. Some people had already started to show symptoms of drunkenness. However, Xu Guardsman, because he didn't sleep well last night, didn't go to the morning meal. He caught up on his sleep and escaped the disaster. He already knew the news and was pacifying the frantic garrison."
Han Changmu's face turned cold, as if covered with a thin layer of frost, and he said coldly: "Let's go and have a look."
As soon as I entered the fort, I heard the commotion of people.
The dancing shadows were imprinted on the ground, making people dizzy.
Han Changmu stopped and stood at the door looking at the situation inside, his heart sinking to the bottom inch by inch.
He had calculated everything, but he missed this move. He didn't expect that someone would poison the spring.
Xu Xiangli had already got the message and came out to meet Han Changmu.
Han Changmu looked at the increasingly bright sunshine outside and the gloomy fortress. Without waiting for Xu Xiangli to say anything, he stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation: "Guard Xu, I discovered something strange at the water spring. Let's go and have a look together. "
Xu Xiangli frowned. The lawsuit was already on his forehead. He never expected that just after he fell asleep, the soldiers under him would go crazy. What on earth was going on.
He was puzzled. In desperation, he grabbed Han Changmu's hand and said sincerely: "Han Changshi, what on earth is going on? You must help me as my brother."
Yao Yao, who was following the two of them step by step, stumbled and almost laughed.
This man's face didn't turn red when he kissed her. He was very talented and thick-skinned.
Han Changmu didn't have as many tricks as Yao Yao. Hearing Xu Xiangli's words, he knew that he was helpless and worried. He nodded calmly: "Don't worry, Officer Xu, this matter is related to the stability of the border. I will definitely not let it go."
The two of them talked and came to the spring.
Gu Chen and Meng Sui were still guarding the pile of bugs.
The pile of bugs left the water, squirmed for a moment, and then became motionless, mixed in the fine sand, like a thin layer of ash.
Xu Xiangli pointed at the thin layer of black ash, frowned slightly, and said in surprise: "What is this." In a blink of an eye, he saw whether there were dry water stains next to him, and his heart suddenly became clear: "This is, all the strength from the water Fished out?" He paused slightly, but his voice calmed down, but his anger burst out unabashedly: "Someone poisoned the spring."
Han Changmu sighed softly. He was a very shrewd person. He nodded: "Yes, this kind of insect is parasitic on a flying insect called tsetse fly. When it comes out of water, it can spit out a colorless and odorless insect." The venom cannot even be tested with a silver needle, but eating it will make people crazy and helpless. Although they will not die from exhaustion, they will lose their physical strength. They will not be able to fight back or resist in the face of attacks. In the end, they can only be slaughtered. ."
After the words fell, Han Changmu and Xu Xiangli both felt their hearts sink.
They all thought about the death of the Baima garrison and the Changle County garrison. There were so many strange things that they couldn't figure out before, but when this weird bug surfaced, they were all solved.
With this insect, not to mention a group of Turks, even these few people can hang these defenseless garrison soldiers under the tree.
Xu Xiangli felt heavy in his heart. He thought that the soldiers who had followed him for many years had died in the hands of these inconspicuous insects without their horse-leather bodies. He wanted to curse in anger. He endured it again and again, and said: "Han Changshi Now that we know how powerful this insect is, there is a cure for being poisoned."
Han Changmu racked his brains and searched in his mind for a long time, pieced together and came up with a
It's a barely feasible method, but I don't know how effective it will be. If it doesn't work and instead kills living people, then he has committed an evil act.
He thought about it for a long time: "I have only seen a few recipes in books, but I have never used them, and no one has tried them. I don't know how effective they are."
Xu Xiangli is a bright-sighted person. After hearing this, he understood that Han Changmu had some scruples, fearing that he would complain instead of helping. Moreover, it was related to the Fengsui garrison. The matter was serious and could not be understood with a few light complaints. , if he fails, he will be impeached by the censor, and his future will be cut off.
He said solemnly without thinking: "Since Brother Wei asked you to help me, I can trust you. Just do it. Brother Wei will bear all the consequences."
Han Changmu didn't really want Xu Xiangli to bear anything, he just wanted to say a word. He nodded and called Yao Yao over.
