When we left Tianquan Peak and returned to Beishan New Hospital, it was completely dark. Compared to the bright lights in the other four courtyards, the fifth courtyard is completely dark. The only two bright windows in a circle of houses made the whole yard even more eerie.
Huo Ying hadn't even returned to the room yet, and was sitting quietly in the dark courtyard with no one else around. Lu Ping and Zi Mu entered the courtyard, and he still sat in the darkness without making a sound. It wasn't until the two of them walked up to him that he raised his head.
"Your medicine." Lu Ping held the medicine bag in front of him.
"I almost made a mistake." Zimu said casually, and then saw Lu Ping looking at him with a very strange look.
"What?" Zimu was puzzled.
"Don't make any noise..." Lu Ping reminded him.
"Ouch!" Zimu gave himself a mouthful. Because this incident was very dramatic, Zi Mu's mind was filled with thoughts of confiding. Jin Qi's request in the pharmacy was very simple. He accepted it casually, but didn't take it seriously. It was revealed very easily at this time.
"What's going on?" Huo Ying naturally asked at this time, and Zimu wanted to kill himself in frustration. If we don't say anything at this time, will Huo Ying let them go?
"I promised you, keep quiet." In the end, Lu Ping honestly stated their promise.
"The pharmacy got the wrong ingredients?" Huo Ying guessed it directly. After all, he was once the first disciple of Yuheng Peak, and he knew very well what each peak managed and cared about. The medicine, the mistake, the silence, this information was enough for him to deduce what happened.
"Yes..." Zi Mu replied casually, but received Lu Ping's silent gaze again.
"I'm leaving first." Zi Mu burst into tears, his mouth really moved faster than his mind. Is this how Ming Zhi Po was able to reach the sixth heaven first? He rushed back to his room desperately, leaving Lu Ping and Huo Ying alone in the courtyard.
"No wonder." Huo Ying said to himself, "It is a serious mistake to make the wrong medicinal materials."
Lu Ping was silent.
"But is it intentional or unintentional?" Huo Ying looked at the medicine bag in Lu Ping's hand.
If Zimu was still here, he would definitely tell Huo Ying even if he made a mistake. It didn't have much impact, and it didn't turn the prescription into a poison to dispel Huo Ying's doubts. But Lu Ping just remained silent without saying a word.
"Put the medicine here." Huo Ying gestured. Lu Ping placed the medicine bag on the ground next to Huo Ying.
"Is there anything else?" Lu Ping asked.
Huo Ying shook his head.
"Go and rest." He said to Lu Ping, while he looked up at the stars.
Tianquan Peak.
The pharmacy inventory, which is conducted every day by the first disciple himself, has ended. The students in each room had already left. After closing the door of the last pharmacy, Jin Qi was the last to leave. Everything is as usual. Except for the few students who were expelled from the dispensary and were notified, others did not know what happened in the evening.
Along the mountain road, Jin Qi walked slowly towards his residence, smiling and greeting every Tianquan Peak disciple he met along the way. There are four hundred and sixty-one disciples on Tianquan Peak. He knows every one of them. Not many people know this.
When he returned to his residence, closed the door and turned on the light, the smile on Jin Qi's face had been wiped away. He sat quietly at the desk, took something out of his arms and put it on the table. It was the medicine book in the fourth room that was consulted today.
The medicine book was opened and turned to the page they checked today: the medicine replenishment record from two days ago. Among them are small thistles and green thorns.
All signs pointed to a mistake by the pharmacy, and that's how he handled it. But what he really saw in his heart was not like this.
Yan Ge...
Jin Qi has been thinking about this name and this person.
As the second prince of the Qingfeng Royal Family, Yan Ge has been extremely intelligent since he was a child. As he grows older, he becomes more and more popular in the Qingfeng Empire. Over twenty. From the government and the public to the people, there was gradually discussion, and they all felt that Yan Ge was more capable of inheriting the Qingfeng Empire than the eldest prince Yan Ming.
Two years later. Twenty-two-year-old Yan Ge came to Beidou College.
At this time, in the Qingfeng Empire, the call for abolishing the eldest son and establishing a young one was even louder. Yan Ge was sent to Beidou Academy, which really seemed to be here for gilding, laying a more solid excuse for abolishing the eldest son and establishing a young one.
However, this time. But it’s only fourteen years. The second prince Yan Ge, who had been away from the court for a long time and was practicing in the mountains, was almost forgotten by the world.
Gold plating? Abolition of elders and creation of young ones?
At this point, those who still cannot understand the meaning are probably just ignorant children.
Yan Ge, this is considered an exile. From this point of view, Beidou College is an extremely safe and reliable place of exile.
Is he willing to be treated like this by Yan Ge?
This is what Jin Qi is pondering. Yan Ge Tianquan Peak comes frequently, so naturally he has a lot of dealings with him. Jin Qi recalled the various behaviors of Yan Ge he came into contact with during this process, but in the end, he could not see any unwillingness in Yan Ge. Because he had never felt any desire or ambition from Yan Ge, even when he came to Beidou College in the guise of fame, and the whole world thought that this was the prelude to the Qingfeng Empire's elimination of elders and establishment of younger ones.
However, he couldn't see anything wrong with Yan Ge, but it didn't let Jin Qi lift his doubts about Yan Ge, because there was a clear fact that was always placed in front of him.
Two days ago, Si Fang had thistles and green thorns repaired.
The moment this record was found in the medicine book, Jin Qi was shocked.
Because he knew very well that it had been manipulated, because he kept the records of every day in each room's medicine book very clearly in his mind. Because he had an extremely lazy teacher who never remembered things and asked casually what he needed to know. Jin Qi remembered everything just to facilitate Chen Jiu's inquiry at any time. At the same time, in order to protect Chen Jiu's face, he would never show this in front of others. No one knew that he had such a precise grasp of the herbal medicine room.
So Jin Qi knew clearly. Two days ago, there was absolutely no replenishment of thistles and green thorns. This record in the medicine book was temporarily inserted. As for why it was at this time—flicking forward one day in the medicine book, there is a record of the use of green tattoos. The reverse addition naturally needs to happen after this, otherwise it will be easy to expose flaws.
Jin Qi calmly, based on this tampered record, expelled everyone who had been on duty in the past two days from the medicinal food room. This is what he would do under normal circumstances. He doesn't want to show any abnormality, so as not to alert others. If the other party wants to conceal the truth, then he will cooperate with the other party and pretend to be deceived.
He signaled everyone to keep quiet, but in fact it was not really to protect the face of Tianquan Peak. Compared to this, what he discovered was even more terrifying: Tianquan Peak and even the medicinal kitchen had been infiltrated. At this moment, Jin Qi had no idea who was trustworthy.
The students on duty today are highly suspicious. At that time, he was the only one who had the conditions to temporarily arrange the situation where Xiaoji and Qingqi were mixed up in the medicine box, and tampered with the medicine book. With that guy's ability and skills, these things can be done.
But maybe, there was another plan, or maybe the replacement of the medicinal materials had other intentions, or maybe Yan Ge also entered by mistake, and ended up breaking this arrangement that might have another agenda?
For a moment, Jin Qi couldn't figure out how big a network this would be. In short, someone was planning something behind the scenes. He didn't know how many people would be involved.
The only people he can completely trust at the moment are the two brats who were kicked out of the fifth academy after just entering Beidou Academy...
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It seems like it hasn’t been mentioned in the update yet? May 23, 1 pm, Hangzhou, Xinhua Bookstore Qingchun Road Book Shopping Center full-time signing event. It has been mentioned on Weibo and Weixin. I forgot whether it was mentioned in the update. If not, I will mention it again. If it is mentioned, I will mention it again... (To be continued.)
