Zhu Da often went around the county town and got good news and bad news.
The good news is that Xiandezhuang turned the entire Cheng County upside down and could not find the whereabouts of Lin Sui'an and Hua Yitang.
The bad news is that Qiu Hong went to Qiu County Magistrate's house and asked the magistrate to issue a wanted notice, listing Fang An, Mu Tang, Fang Ke and others as wanted criminals.
If the wanted order is successfully issued, he, a dignified county clerk, will become an accomplice harboring a wanted criminal.
Zhu Dachang sighed in his heart, "What a shame." He quietly walked back to the county government office, entered the back courtyard of the government office, entered the main house, turned around and closed the door.
The room was full of water vapor. Eta in the northeast corner had commandeered his wind stove, tea cauldron, tea grinders, chaluo seeds and other items. The cauldron was boiling with an unknown black liquid. The boiling water bubbles bulged and burst, and the boiling was indescribable. The spicy smell smelled like Linili's smelly socks that hadn't been washed in three months.
The handsome face of the Persian boy was submerged in the black steam, and blue light flashed frequently in his eyes, strangely like a wolf.
Fang carved his bookshelf and bookcase in the northwest corner, and the books on the shelf were all piled on the floor. They were replaced by dozens of small porcelain bottles, three inches high, with red wax seals, and densely packed weird numbers on the bottles. Ke sat in front of the desk, grinding medicinal powders, weighing herbs, and blending strange medicinal powders together. In the small wooden box on the desk lay two colorful glass bottles, padded with cotton cloth, which looked very precious.
Zhu Dachang pinched his nose and glanced at Ita, then moved to Fang Ke's side, "Doctor Fang, how is the antidote?"
Fang Ke silently raised his head and stared at Zhu Dachang silently. His dry and cold facial features clearly formed a big character: Get out!
Zhu Dachang had been an official for many years. If he had any experience, he could only say, "Those who know the current affairs are heroes." He immediately understood the spirit, retreated to the window in despair, and looked at the sky with his hands behind his back.
The rain that had been falling for more than a month finally stopped, and a layer of red light appeared at the junction of the mountain and the sky. Then, that light slowly transformed into dark red, lavender, cyan blue, and navy blue. blacken.
Fires ignited on the street outside the county government office. Xiandezhuang contacted the Taoist priests from Longshen Temple to go down the mountain to help. Zhu Dashang knew that tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.
"Lieutenant Zhu County, Doctor Fang, Ita, let's have dinner first." Mu Xia entered the room holding the tray and placed the six dishes and one soup on the tray one by one.
Since the house was occupied, Mu Xia's cooking skills have become the only comfort in Zhu Dashang's gloomy life. After taking a sip of the mutton soup, his limbs felt relaxed.
Eta served the dark tea soup, and Fang Fangfang drank it without changing his expression, and smacked his mouth with unsatisfied thoughts. Zhu Dachang didn't dare not to drink it, so he drank it hard. The happiness brought by the mutton soup disappeared immediately, and he couldn't help but feel heavy. Sighed.
Fang Ke picked up a piece of bamboo shoots and stewed chicken and asked, "Master Zhu, how do you like it?"
Zhu Da often put down his chopsticks, clasped his fists and said, "There is no news about Lieutenant Huaxian and Lady Lin yet."
Fang Ke nodded, "No news is good news."
Ita stared at the delicious mutton soup, worried that she would not be able to eat it. Muxia plucked at the roots of the vegetables, but had no appetite either.
Fang Ke drank half a bowl of buns in one breath, "Those two guys are not fuel-efficient lamps. One is extremely smart and the other is superb in martial arts. They will never starve themselves. If you are starving, you will definitely be hungry when they come back." Distressed."
Ita sniffed and ate the buns while Mu Xia stuffed her mouth full of vegetable roots with red eyes.
Zhu Dachang: "Where is Mr. Jin Xiaolang?"
Fang Ke: "Don't worry, he will show up as soon as the meal comes."
Before he finished speaking, Jin Ruo rushed in like a gust of wind, grabbed his chopsticks and swept away half of the table. Zhu Dachang was so frightened that he quickly picked up his chopsticks and snatched two bamboo shoots.
"The master of the Dragon God Temple, Xuan Mingsanren, suddenly announced his retreat. I went to the Dragon God Temple to watch. There was a roaring noise in the temple, and people were panicked. I don't know what was going on. That guy Yun Zhongyue is really unreliable, and he can't even tell a fart." Jin Ruo stuffed the chicken leg into his mouth, twisted and pulled it, and only the chicken bones were left. Zhu Dachang was amazed when he saw it.
"The total number of Taoist priests and guards in Xiande Village in the city is five times that of our county government and delinquents. They are currently under the full command of Qiu Hong. I also went to see the outside of County Magistrate Qiu's house. It was heavily guarded. Not even a fly could be seen. I can't get in." Jin Ruo glanced at Zhu Dachang and said, "The gate of Simianzhuang is closed. Is your mother okay?"
"I am also the chief clerk. They don't dare to do anything to Simian Village." Zhu Dachang said.
Jin Ruo nodded and asked, "How is the progress of Dr. Fang's antidote?"
Fang Ke drank another half of the bowl of buns and burped, "The progress is very slow, I need talisman water."
Jin Ruo scratched his head, "This is too difficult."
"Or - there are cases." Fang Ke looked at Zhu Dachang, "For example, a patient who is poisoned by Fu Shui."
Zhu Dachang: "Eh?"
The next moment, Fang Ke grabbed Zhu Dachang's wrist with lightning speed. Zhu Dachang was so frightened that he breathed a sigh of relief when he realized that Fang Ke had only checked the pulse, but he saw that Fang Ke's fingers were loosening and tightening on the pulse door. His brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and his whole heart became anxious again.
Suddenly, Fang Ke sighed heavily.
Zhu Dashang's face turned pale with fright, "I, I, I, can I still be saved?"
"What a pity," Fang Ke glanced at Zhu Dachang faintly, "You were not poisoned."
Zhu Dachang: "..."
Is this person a doctor? ! Why does he feel so disappointed that I'm not poisoned? !
"It would be great if we could have a poisoned patient come to our door now." Fang Ke said.
Zhu Dachang: "..."
This person is not a doctor, but a demon from hell!
Jin Ruo sighed, "It would be great if the person named Hua said this."
Zhu Dachang: "What, what do you mean?"
Jin Ruo grinned, "Because that dude has the best crow's mouth in the world."
Mu Xia: "Good things don't work, bad things work."
Ita: "Shiro is mighty."
Zhu Dachang: What’s so powerful about this? !
"The main book, the main book, the main book is broken, it's broken, it's broken!" Lin Nili rushed over, pointed outside and exclaimed, "Your mother-in-law is here!"
Zhu Dachang jumped three feet high, "What?! Stop her quickly, don't let her in!"
Lin Nili: "I've already stopped him, but -"
"Get out of my way! If you delay my business, you will all be left with nothing to eat!"
A roar of a Hedong lion shook the sky, and Mother Zhu rushed into the courtyard with great momentum. The bad guys behind her did not dare to approach and hid far outside the courtyard. Zhu Dachang did not even bother to put on his shoes, and ran out with only cloth socks on, "Auntie ,Don't--"
Mother Zhu slapped Zhu Dachang aside and walked to the door of the main house without any obstruction. Fang Ke, Yita, Mu Xia and Jin Ruo all raised their heads and looked at Mother Zhu who was like a vajra glaring, and they were all stunned.
Zhu's mother took a long breath and said, "Doctor Fang, you are here as expected. That's great."
Zhu Da often staggered over and said, "Ah, Aniang, how do you know——"
Mother Zhu glanced at Zhu Dachang, "Although you don't have much ability, you will never watch your friends fall into danger. If there is anyone in Cheng County who is willing to defend Doctor Fang, it is you."
Zhu Dachang's eyes were red, "Auntie..."
"Okay, what do you look like crying?!"
Fang Ke coughed lightly, stood up, rolled up his sleeves and bowed, "I wonder what important matter Aunt Zhu has to find Fang?"
Mother Zhu solemnly clasped her fists, "I know that Dr. Fang has superb medical skills, and I am here to ask Dr. Fang to save my life!"
Jin Ruo, Mu Xia and Yita's eyes widened. Zhu Dachang was stunned and thought to himself:
This whole nest is full of crows’ mouths!
The patient is a mother and son. The son's name is A Niu. It is the little boy who suddenly fell ill on the day of worship at Longshen Temple. This time, his mother Qiu Sanniang also fell ill.
Even with Jin Ruo's "living map" leading the way, it still took some effort to avoid the searches of Xiandezhuang and Longshen Temple and send Qiu Sanniang and A Niu to the county government office.
When Fang Ke saw Qiu Sanniang and her son, their condition was no longer optimistic. They were both lying on the bed, their eyes were closed, their faces were pale, their lips were purple, their hands and feet were cold, their breathing was weak, and their bodies were shaking slightly. Opening their eyelids, the whites of mother and son's eyes were tinged with blue, and their pulses were extremely rapid.
Fang Ke immediately made a diagnosis: "It's the poison of the Dragon God Fruit!"
Mother Zhu was shocked: "Dragon God Fruit? Impossible! Dragon God Fruit grows on the south bank of Longshen Lake. Longshen Lake is a holy land in Cheng County. Except for the annual Dragon God Festival, the people in Chengxian County never dare to go to Dragon God. It’s a lake, not to mention that the Dragon Gate of Nancheng that usually leads to Longshen Lake is not open either.”
Fang Ke measured the temperature of the mother and son's necks with his fingers, and added, "To be precise, they were poisoned by the Dragon God's Talisman Water."
Zhu's mother was so shocked that she couldn't speak.
Fang Ke glanced at Zhu Mu, as if he wanted to say something, then swallowed it, walked to the medicine table, picked up a white porcelain bottle, thought for a moment, and took the two glazed bottles in the wooden box together. First, pour out two green pills from the white porcelain bottle and put them into the mouths of Qiu Sanniang and her son respectively. Then put the newly refined white fragrant pills in the glass bottle into the tea cup, let Mu Xia melt with warm water, and feed them carefully. Two people in the population.
Mother Zhu suddenly realized: "I remember this fragrance. It's the smell of Mu Tang. He said it's called Water Bath Silver Toad, which has the effect of calming the mind and calming the energy. This fragrance saved me once today."
Fang Ke frowned, stepped forward and pinched Zhu Mu's veins for a moment, then sighed softly, "The water-bathed silver toad is the antidote...it's just as I expected."
Zhu Dachang suddenly understood, and his face suddenly turned pale, "Mo, could it be that grandma's heart palpitations are also..."
Fang Ke: "Aunt Zhu's heart palpitations are indeed caused by the poison of Fu Shui."
Mother Zhu: "How is that possible?! All the people in Cheng County have drank Fu Shui. Fu Shui is our life-saving medicine!"
Fang Ke's deep and bottomless eyes burst out with a cold chill, "Fu Shui is not a life-saving medicine, but a life-threatening poison!"
"Are you okay?" Lin Sui'an asked.
"No, no, no, it doesn't work." Hua Yitang replied.
Lin Sui'an couldn't laugh or cry. Ever since they entered the secret passage, Hua Yitang had been getting closer and closer. At first, he just held her hand, then he turned to holding her wrist with both hands, and now he is like a large sloth. Holding her arms, shivering as she walked.
Lin Sui'an even suspected that if there was any trouble, he would be able to jump on her. He couldn't help but sigh: "All men in the world are ashamed of being timid. Even if they are scared to death, they will never admit it. With your posture, it is said that Aren’t you afraid of being laughed at by others when you go out?”
"I haven't done anything harmful or harmful. I'm just afraid of the dark. What's there to be ashamed of? They laugh whenever they want, it's none of my business. How can those sanctimonious guys guess that my Hua family's maverick mind and magnanimity "-" Halfway through, he suddenly took a breath of cold air, and the whole human cat came behind Lin Sui'an, "Wha, what's the sound?!"
Lin Sui'an held up the luminous pearl and looked at it, and said helplessly: "You stepped on a stone."
This person is really saying the toughest words and doing the most cowardly things.
Hua Yitang breathed a sigh of relief, shrugged his shoulders, shrank his neck, and rolled his eyes around. He noticed that Lin Sui'an always used night beads to illuminate the walls on both sides from time to time, and wondered, "Why do you need to look at the walls on both sides? "
"Last time when I and Yun Zhongyue were exploring the secret passage of Dragon God Temple, we found that the mechanism of Dragon God Temple was located on the wall of the secret passage." Lin Sui'an said, "I always feel that the secret passage here is different from the secret passage of Dragon God Temple. The secret passage is somewhat similar.”
Hua Yitang suddenly fell silent, and even moved half a step away, but only half a step. Lin Sui'an concentrated on exploring the road and didn't pay attention. After a while, Hua Yitang suddenly said:
"Who is more beautiful, me or Yun Zhongyue?"
Lin Sui'an's men were unsteady and almost threw Ye Mingzhu out.
"ha?"
Hua Yitang stopped talking again, and his nose wheezed, sounding like - angry?
I don't know if it was Lin Sui'an's illusion, but he seemed to smell a sour vinegar smell.
Lin Sui'an couldn't help laughing, "I have never seen Yun Zhongyue's face clearly, so I can't evaluate it."
Hua Yitang hummed twice.
"Okay, okay, Shirou Kaiya is the most gorgeous and gorgeous person I have ever seen, okay?"
Hua Yitang hummed twice more, nudged over and continued to hold Lin Sui'an's arm.
As expected, he was just a middle-school kid. Lin Sui'an smiled secretly.
The secret passage is deeper than imagined. It was originally a ghastly journey, but was interrupted by Hua Yitang. While chatting, they actually reached the end, and there was a faint light in front of them.
Lin Sui'an put away the night pearl and protected Hua Yitang with one hand. He turned his body sideways in a defensive posture and slowly moved forward. The light source became larger and larger. It was a narrow hole with uneven edges and artificial Due to the traces of digging, the two of them did not dare to venture in. They squatted down at the entrance of the hole and looked out.
Outside the cave entrance is a spacious natural cave, more than ten feet high. There is a circle of torches hanging on the cave wall. The swaying firelight reflects the dense stalactites on the cave roof, like an inverted black jungle.
Directly in front stood dozens of rows of five-tiered solid wood racks, as tall as a person. On each level were shiny small gourds, sealed with red wax, at least several thousand of them.
Hua Yitang gasped: "It's the talisman water from Dragon God Temple!"
Lin Sui'an signaled him not to make any noise and to listen carefully. The cave was empty and silent, and he could only hear the hum of the wind blowing through the stalactites and the squeak of burning torches.
There were no human steps or human breathing.
Lin Sui'an felt relieved and pulled Hua Yitang out of the cave and walked forward along the Bogu shelf. Hua Yitang fished out a gourd and was overjoyed. The gourd was full and he hurriedly put it in his arms.
The group of Bogu racks soon came to an end. In front of them were dozens of rows of embroidery racks, which were as tall as one person. One-third was empty, and the other two-thirds were hung with embroidery of flowers, birds, and landscapes. The embroidery work was rough and had no artistic value. , Hua Yitang recognized it at a glance, it was the embroidery from Simianzhuang, and several of the embroidery were his improved embroidery samples.
All embroidery is wet.
The two looked at each other, and continued forward beyond the group of embroidery racks. Suddenly, more than thirty large dyeing vats appeared in front of them. There were brackets hanging on the vats and ropes hanging on them. The shape looked like a simple crane, and some of the shelves were empty. Yes, there are dripping embroidery hanging on some shelves, and more than half of the dye vats are filled with embroidery.
Hua Yitang came forward and smelled it, took out the gourd in his arms, pulled it out, smelled it, hurriedly plugged the lid, pulled off two pieces of clothes and stuffed them to Lin Sui'an involuntarily, he also covered his mouth and nose, and whispered The voice said, "The smell of the liquid in the dye vat is very similar to the talisman water in the gourd."
Lin Sui'an was shocked, covered his nose and said, "You mean they use talisman water to dye cloth?"
Hua Yitang took another look and said, "These talisman water has no color and is not for coloring. I guess that after the embroidery is fully soaked in talisman water and then dried, the toxicity of the talisman water will adhere to the embroidery, and then it will be transported and sold. "
Lin Sui'an: "..."
Good guy! Being law-abiding limited her imagination.
Hua Yitang: "The stock of talismans and embroidery stored here far exceeds the purchasing power of Cheng County. Their buyers should be in Guangdu - no, not only Guangdu, but also Yangdu, Yidu, and even Dongdu He Andu, oh my, it’s incredible!”
Lin Sui'an raised his eyebrows: Oops! This deal is great! "
The two looked at each other with burning eyes for a moment, and smiled tacitly.
Hua Yitang: "As expected of me, Silang of the Hua family, I can't stop my luck."
Lin Sui'an: "It's really shit luck."
The two tied their clothes under their noses and moved separately. Lin Sui'an found three more passages. Based on the rough mark identification technique he learned from Jin Ruo, he determined that the middle door had the most people and should be the safest. exit.
Hua Yitang walked around the edge of the cave twice and said with a smile: "Sure enough, they prepared kerosene to keep the torches illuminated."
As he spoke, he threw a jar of kerosene. Lin Sui'an flew out rocks and smashed the jar. The kerosene sprayed out like a fountain. Hua Yitang laughed out loud. He did the same thing, and five or six jars of kerosene flew up into the air and dissolved again. When the oil rain falls, the rain and dew are spread all over the cave, which is very fair.
Lin Sui'an flew up the wall, pulled out a torch and landed on the ground. Waiting in front of the cave exit, Hua Yitang walked up to him in a swagger. The two looked at each other and smiled. Lin Sui'an stretched his arms and threw the torch far away to the center of the cave. .
Burn it! :,,
