On the soft red hospital bed, a delicate body was unconscious and pale.
Gongsun was sitting on the edge of the couch, placing one hand lightly on the man on the bed, Hao Hao's wrist, while closing his eyes slightly, he was diagnosing the pulse.
Behind him, Ling Miaoyin, Xue Tianhan, Huo Yuanji, Tang Fengling, Bai Fan and others were all watching his movements with anxious expressions.
"Gongsun, how are you?" Finally, Tang Fengling couldn't bear it anymore and asked Gongsun.
I saw Gongsun gently lift Xuan Xihao's wrist, put it back under the quilt, stood up, breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a slight smile: "Fortunately, you sealed her eight extraordinary meridians in time and contained the flow of toxins. . Now as long as you take the antidote, you will be fine."
"Really? That's great!"
Hearing this, everyone breathed a long sigh of relief.
But not long after, Tang Fengling poked her head out the door and looked outside, and said, "Didn't you tell the director of Guanyi to go outside to get medicine? Why hasn't he come back yet?"
As he finished speaking, he saw a figure running hurriedly from the gate of the hotel.
Seeing this, Tang Fengling thought it was Yi Cheng who was buying medicine and she couldn't help but said happily: "Great! I'm finally back!"
"Xuan Xi! Xuan Xi!"
The figure outside shouted anxiously, and came to the room next to the bed where Xuan Xi was lying like a ghost.
At the same time, everyone in the room discovered that the person who came was not Yi Cheng, but Chen Yutian! !
"Xuan Xi..."
Looking at the pale beauty lying on the bed with her eyes closed, Chen Yutian's heart was filled with an indescribable bitter taste.
This feeling is called sadness.
Also called, self-blame.
If he hadn't let her come into contact with the old woman who complained about injustice, maybe she wouldn't be like this now.
On the way back, Chen Yutian thought about this more than once. He fell into deep self-blame!
At this moment, when he saw Xuan Xi lying unconscious on the bed, his inner self-blame reached its peak.
"Sorry..." He knelt on the ground, looked at Xuan Xi, and whispered.
"You don't need to say this..."
Suddenly, a hand gently patted Chen Yutian's shoulder, and an indifferent word echoed in his ears.
Chen Yutian was stunned for a moment, raised his head, and looked up along the hands on his shoulders. He saw a piece of snow-white robe sleeves. Behind the robe sleeves, there was a familiar pretty face.
Snowy and cold weather!
"You don't need to apologize. She was trying to protect the victim..."
He hesitated to speak, as if he had not finished speaking, but Chen Yutian obviously understood the meaning of his words.
He hesitated for a long time, finally stood up from the ground, and immediately nodded and smiled at Xue Tianhan.
Xue Tianhan also nodded slightly.
"Gongsun, how is Xuan Xi's injury?" Chen Yutian turned around and asked Gongsun.
"It's basically nothing serious. As long as you take the antidote, you'll be fine."
"Well, I understand."
Chen Yutian nodded slightly, a very obvious look of relaxation flashed in his eyes.
But then, he asked: "What about the antidote?"
"I've already found someone to buy it." Gongsun was saying when he suddenly saw another figure running in from the gate. As he ran, he shouted: "Sir, sir, I bought the medicine you asked for."
Then he saw a Yi Cheng trotting into the room and handed Gongsun a large bag of medicinal materials in his hand.
After Gongsun took the medicinal materials, he weighed them and asked, "Have you bought all the medicinal materials?"
Yi Cheng shook his head, "No. Sir, apart from the prescription you gave me, almost all the medicinal materials can be bought in pharmacies, but this Linglong grass is the only one. I went to several pharmacies but could not find it."
"Linglong grass?" Gongsun was slightly startled.
"Exactly."
Gongsun was surprised, "That shouldn't be the case. This Linglong grass is not a rare medicinal material. Why can't we buy it?"
"Younger ones don't know about this." Yi Cheng shook his head slightly and smiled bitterly.
Gongsun waved his hand and asked Yi Cheng to step down.
After Yi Cheng left, Gongsun said: "Since we can't buy Linglong grass, we have to go up the mountain to collect medicine. I have checked the local chronicles here before coming here. Linglong grass is quite common in the mountains, so it shouldn't be so common." Hard to find.”
"Oh? Really?" Chen Yutian said.
Gongsun nodded slightly.
Seeing this, Chen Yutian smiled, "If that's the case, then I'll go pick a few plants from the mountains and bring them back."
"You?" Gongsun was slightly surprised and looked at Chen Yutian, slightly suspicious, "Do you know what Linglong Grass looks like?"
"I don't know, but as long as you give me an illustration, it will be fine. Don't worry, I will definitely collect the medicinal materials." Chen Yutian said with a smile.
Gongsun looked at him for a long time, then nodded slightly, and then handed him a piece of paper, "This is the illustrated book of Linglongcao. You must collect the medicinal materials before tonight, otherwise the princess's life will be in danger." "
Chen Yutian nodded solemnly, then took the illustrated book and left the hotel.
He had already figured it out from the moment he stood up.
Xuan Xi was poisoned, and it had already happened. No matter how much he blamed himself, it was useless.
Apart from blaming myself, there are only two things I can do! Do your best to detoxify it and...
Arrest and bring to justice the butterfly that caused the poisoning!
Seeing Chen Yutian's leaving figure, several people in the room breathed a sigh of relief from the bottom of their hearts.
Since Chen Yutian went to the mountains to collect medicine in person, the matter of Xuan Xi's poisoning has basically been solved. Next, he only needs to wait for Chen Yutian to collect the last medicine and make an antidote for her to take. No problem.
"Then... next, it's time for us to take a look at what's in this purse."
After a while, Tang Fengling took out the purse stolen from Hua Butterfly.
Then, both of them were stunned!
The purse in front of me was completely pink, with a brilliantly blooming lotus embroidered on it. The lotus was white overall, but with a little bit of goose yellow dotting it.
The style of this purse seems quite... girlish.
"Uh... Fengling, are you sure... this was stolen from Huadie?" Ling Miaoyin looked at it for a while, with a slightly strange look on her face.
"It should be...right!"
Tang Fengling was also embarrassed at this moment, but she was still certain that except for Hua Die's purse, she had not stolen anything from anyone today.
"This flower butterfly...could it be..."
Thinking of Huadie's figure, which looked completely like a man, the strange color on Ling Miaoyin's face became even stronger, and there was even a hint of disgust that could not be concealed, flashing in his eyes.
"Forget it, no matter what it is, let's see what's in it first!"
In order to avoid further embarrassment, Tang Fengling opened her purse while Shuangxiu and Gongsun Sanshuang looked at them completely unaware.
There weren't many things in the purse. Apart from some broken silver, there were only a few folded pieces of paper.
Tang Fengling opened it and saw that the top piece of paper was divided into two rows. The upper row was basically full of names, while the lower row had some words such as "Twenty Wen" and "Three Liang" written on it. of words.
What's even more strange is that three of the names have been ticked with a red pen, as if they were making marks.
"This is……"
Seeing the contents on this piece of paper, Gongsun and Xue Tianhan's eyes suddenly flashed.
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The rain came very suddenly.
It was clear that the sky was clear just now, but in the blink of an eye, the sky was covered by large dark clouds, and the heaven and earth became dark!
Crack!
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning shot through the sky! Immediately afterwards, heavy rain came down in a thin torrent.
In an instant, rain covered everything.
Heaven and earth, wash it! !
Chen Yutian stood in the cave, looking at the pouring rain outside the cave, and breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, we found such a cave, otherwise, we would definitely be drowned.
With this thought in his mind, Chen Yutian walked towards the depths of the cave.
Judging from the situation, this rain may not stop for a while.
As Chen Yutian walked toward the depths of the cave, he looked around at the situation along the way. As he walked, he suddenly stopped.
For some reason, he always felt that what he saw along the way in this cave seemed... a little weird.
But what was so strange about it, I couldn’t tell for a while. It seems... just a feeling.
"Maybe... I'm too worried..."
Chen Yutian smiled self-deprecatingly, and then walked deeper into the cave.
However, when he came to the deepest part of the cave and saw the scene inside, he was suddenly stunned!
"This is……"
I saw two huge characters carved on the wall of the cave.
revenge! !
The handwriting is a little messy, and there is not just one group, but the entire cave wall is densely covered with these two characters.
It was as if there was a person holding a stone and writing these two words on this wall constantly to vent the overwhelming hatred in his heart! !
Yes, overwhelming hatred! !
From the writings all over the wall, he could clearly feel how profound this hatred was.
"Looking at the handwriting, it seems that... it was written by a woman..." Chen Yutian looked at the messy word "revenge" all over the wall and touched his chin slightly.
He could imagine a delicate woman standing in front of this stone wall, writing these two words over and over again. Every stroke and every painting she makes seems to contain the hatred in her heart! !
"Where does her hatred come from?"
Looking at the writing on the stone wall, Chen Yutian fell into deep thought.
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The strange piece of paper Tang Fengling found in Hua Butterfly's purse immediately attracted the attention of Gongsun and Xue Tianhan. After carefully reading the contents of the piece of paper, they immediately determined: that piece of paper should be the guest's. The missing page from the rural account book.
"There is a missing page in Kexiangju's account book..." Bai Fan looked at the two of them strangely.
"That's right, when I was investigating in Kexiangju, didn't shopkeeper Lin's abacus suddenly fall to the ground?" Xue Tianhan looked at Bai Fan.
"indeed."
"It was at that time that the wrong page was turned over in the account book, which happened to make us discover that there were traces of missing pages in the account book. But soon, shopkeeper Lin turned over the page again." Gongsun explained. .
"I see, so this page is the missing page of the account book?" Huo Yuanji was suddenly confused, pointed to the page of the account book on the table, and asked.
"good."
Ling Miaoyin asked: "But why is this piece of paper in Huadie's purse?"
Gongsun smiled bitterly and said: "This... I don't know either, but if you think about it carefully, since this piece of paper will appear in Huadie's purse, it is enough to prove that there must be a connection between Kexiangju and this killer."
Listening to Gongsun's explanation, Ling Miaoyin's eyes accidentally fell on the paper on the table. In addition to the page of the account book, there were two pieces of paper in Huadie's purse.
These two pieces of paper were also filled with names, but the difference was that there were five names on one of the pieces of paper, which had been crossed out with a red pen.
"Speaking of which... there is a very familiar name on this list!"
Bai Fan reached out and picked up the list with a vermilion cross, pointed at one of the crossed names, and said unhurriedly.
Everyone's attention was immediately attracted.
The name he was referring to was Li Ren.
"Li Ren? Isn't this... the name of the corpse we picked up?" Gongsun was shocked, and his expression suddenly changed, "Is it... could it be..."
"Yes." Bai Fan nodded, "It's very possible that this is a death list. Huadie, it's very possible that he is killing people based on this list."
Everyone was surprised! !
If so, then there are already five crossed names on this list, which means...
Four other people were also killed! !
"More than that, look at the other two names on this list, do they also look familiar?"
At this time, Xue Tianhan picked up the second list with nothing marked on it, pointed at two names in it and asked everyone.
After hearing his words, everyone looked over and saw the two names he pointed at, one was called Lin Ming and the other was called Wang Yun!
"Lin Ming? This...isn't this the name of shopkeeper Lin?" Bai Fan was slightly startled.
Gongsun nodded slightly, "That's right. And I remember the name Wang Yun. He seems to be the waiter, right?"
"Yes, that's indeed the name." Xue Tianhan nodded slightly.
Hearing this, Ling Miaoyin, who was confused at the side, finally understood what they were talking about.
"In other words, Lin Ming and Wang Yun, like Li Ren, are both from that inn?"
"good."
"But this is strange. They are obviously from the same inn, but why do they appear in two completely different lists? And it seems that the list is not a death list."
Ling Miaoyin raised her own question.
After everyone heard this, they all became suspicious of this.
It is indeed a bit strange, why do people from the same place appear in two different lists? Or is it that there are differences between the characters on these two lists that others are unaware of?
While Gongsun was thinking, he inadvertently lowered his eyes and saw the page of the account book in his hand. When he saw the ink marks on it, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind!
"Could it be..."
