Lu Jing picked up the key, thinking that Master Honglian was going to play some riddles with him again.
Unexpectedly, this time the key was neatly engraved with a line of small characters, which seemed to be a row number, and a name was also marked on the back.
Well, if nothing else, this should be a bank key, used to open the cash box.
However, Lu Jing thought about it and found that he had never heard of any bank named TEDA in the capital. Could it be that it was a bank in Huzhou or Xizhou?
Lu Jing was not very familiar with these two places, so he had to ask someone to help him find out first.
Among them, the Huzhou side was naturally given to Wen Xiaochuan. After all, the Wen family was a local leader in Huzhou. As for the Yizhou side... Xia Huai's father seemed to be the general judge of Yizhou if Lu Jing remembered correctly.
In this case, all Lu Jing had to do was wait for news.
And after all this was done, Lu Jing felt vaguely that he had forgotten something.
What is going on?
Lu Jing thought for a while, and by the way, Hanshanke seemed to have said that the poisonous elixir promised to be refined for him was almost ready, and the first batch of elixirs could be handed over to him in the next two days.
Lu Jing was so excited thinking about this that he couldn't sleep.
Doing the math, it has been four days since he and Wen Xiaochuan left home this time, so the poisonous elixir for Han Shanker should have been released.
And Lu Jing's secret power cultivation is about to break through again and become a monk of the second palace.
This batch of poison pills can be said to be a timely rain, coming at just the right time.
Of course, the most important thing is the corresponding poison recipe. As the saying goes, teaching a man to fish is worse than teaching him to fish. With the poison recipe and a steady income from growing ginseng, Lu Jing can purchase medicinal materials and try to refine the poison pill himself. .
After all, although he didn't have time to learn alchemy, if he just copied a cat and made a single elixir, Lu Jing should still be able to learn it.
So early the next morning, just after dawn, Lu Jing could no longer contain his excitement and ran to Jinghu Valley early, heading towards the small valley where Hanshanke was.
As a result, Lu Jing was confused as soon as he got there.
Because there were actually a lot of people in the previously deserted little valley today. The people Lu Jing knew alone included the old blind man, the drunkard, the gambler, Ding Liu and others. In addition, the young Marquis was also there.
In fact, almost half of the people in Jinghu Valley came, and everyone's faces looked serious.
The wild boar Abao was lying listlessly in an open space, grunting there, and even unwilling to roll out of the mud pool. The whole person, no, the whole pig actually lost weight visibly to the naked eye.
Lu Jing felt a chill in his heart when he saw this, and blurted out, "Did that Hanshanke guy run away?"
But why did he go to Xia Huai last night and didn't hear about what happened in the academy these days?
The young Marquis also shook his head when he heard this and said, "Hanshanke didn't run away. As long as [Jizi 212] is here, we paper figures will never be able to leave the academy in this life."
"Then why are you here at his residence? If I remember correctly, that guy doesn't like to deal with people very much, right?" Lu Jing asked doubtfully.
"You are right. Although we are not familiar with him, after all, he is also a member of Jinghu Valley, and we will always come to see him off." The old blind man didn't know if he thought of his injuries. , let out a long sigh, and felt a little sad that the rabbit was dead and the fox was dead.
Lu Jing became even more panicked when he heard what he said, "What's going on? Has Hanshanke contracted some serious disease? Is there nothing Dr. Ding can do about it?"
The young Marquis didn't explain anything, but just took a deep look at Lu Jing, "I heard that you always ran to him during this period. It seems that you have a good relationship with him. In this case, let's go in and talk to him. Let him say goodbye."
With the last glimmer of hope, Lu Jing quickly walked into the valley and came to the tree where Hanshanke usually slept. He thought that even if Hanshanke was about to die, he should at least be able to write down the poison recipe promised to him before he died. Come down...
But what Lu Jing didn't expect was that the so-called farewell of the young marquis was actually a farewell to the body!
Yes, that's right, it had only been less than four days since Lu Jing last saw Hanshanke. Four days ago, Hanshanke seemed to be full of fairy spirit and lively.
Lu Jing would never have thought that the next time the two of them met again, they would be separated forever.
Hanshanke was lying in a thin pear wood coffin. His face looked gloomy, as if he had a stomachache after eating something unclean. There was still a painful expression on his pale face.
"He was poisoned to death by the elixir he refined." The young Marquis said word by word.
Even though Lu Jing was so shocked that he couldn't speak, he couldn't help but swallowed when he heard what the young marquis said, and almost squeezed out a few words through his teeth, "What pill? "
"I don't know." Mr. Xiao Hou said, "I don't have any research on elixirs. I only came to this conclusion when I saw him lying next to the alchemy furnace, and he kept grabbing his own throat before he died."
After a pause, the young Marquis added, "But I have already shown the remaining elixirs in the alchemy furnace to Divine Doctor Ding. If you want to know, you can ask him yourself."
When Lu Jing heard this, his mind went blank, and he subconsciously turned around to leave, but was stopped by the young Marquis, "By the way, the spiritual frame has just been set up, have you brought any sacrifices?"
"…………"
"Forget it, judging from your appearance, you probably wouldn't have thought that something like this would happen. There is a pear tree seventy steps east. Pick two pears and put them on the memorial shelf to the south. This can also be regarded as a tribute to Hanshan Guest. Did something.”
Lu Jingding nodded, picked the pears and placed them on the spiritual stand as the young marquis said.
Then he hurried to Doctor Ding.
Lu Jing's mood is very complicated now. On the one hand, Han Shan Ke's sudden death shocked him and even made him unable to accept it. Before he could figure out how to face this matter, he heard the young Marquis talk about Han Shan Ke again. The cause of death made Lu Jing feel a little guilty again.
He felt that he was inseparable from Han Shanke's death, because the latter was probably poisoned while making elixirs for him.
Although Hanshanke's own improper operation accounted for most of this, if Lu Jing hadn't come to him to help him refine the poisonous elixir, he would probably still be playing with his mortal cultivation.
In addition, there had just been a rebellion between Dongxuan's master and his disciples, and Hanshanke was also involved, but he turned around and died. Isn't it too much of a coincidence?
But Lu Jing looked at Hanshanke's body in the coffin and wondered what other tricks he could pull off. This was different from the headless corpse Jiang Lei had created. Hanshanke looked really dead this time. And according to Mr. Xiao Hou, others have been cold for more than a day.
It looked like there was no hope of living again.
