After not seeing each other for half a year, Shen Hao was shocked by Tang Qingyuan's current appearance. Is this the same Mr. Tang who once shocked Licheng with his majesty?
There is almost no blood on his face, and his eye sockets are sunken. His cheeks are also very sunken. His hair is white and his forehead is covered with wrinkles. Just looking at his face, you can tell that Tang Qingyuan has lost a lot of weight and looks older than half a year ago. At least twenty years old.
The most intuitive thing about a monk's strength is that it is reflected in the physical body. Even though most of the monks in the Jingjiu Dynasty did not specialize in physical training, their bodies were still far stronger than ordinary people. Those in the lower realm of the God-Gathering Realm age extremely slowly and can ignore most of the illnesses in the world.
What happened to Tang Qingyuan?
Shen Hao opened the door and came in. The Tang eldest son brought him a chair and sat down. After that, everyone else in the room consciously left. Tang Qingyuan even ordered his family members to deploy a covering circle to cover the bedroom.
"We haven't seen you for half a year, why have you changed your appearance?" Although Shen Hao was joking in his words, there was no smile on his face because he could sense that Tang Qingyuan's aura was very chaotic, and even his cultivation seemed to be lower than before. He has grown a lot, and now he is probably only at the fifth or sixth level of the God Gathering Realm, right? ! Tang Qingyuan was originally a master at the eighth level of the God Gathering Realm!
Retrograde in cultivation? !
This is not as simple as "getting sick". The cultivation of monks is their core foundation. Unless they are seriously injured that damages their foundation, or they fail to break through, it is extremely difficult to regress.
"Haha, where is this? If you wait another half a year, maybe it will become more serious, and maybe your hair will be bald. After all, I am already very old... my cultivation level is down. His lifespan is no longer stable, and he will probably have to be buried in a year or two."
Tang Qingyuan's voice was very weak, and he obviously wanted to laugh, but it seemed like it was very difficult to even move his lips. He had to take a breath halfway before finishing the next half of the sentence.
Shen Hao's frown deepened, and he could tell that Tang Qingyuan knew his situation and had anticipated the worst possible situation. With Tang Qingyuan's age, as long as his cultivation level falls, his life span will be wiped out as long as he falls to the God Gathering Realm.
"Is it an injury?"
"It's poison. A kind of erysipelas with an unexplainable name. I've been poisoned for half a year. I've tried all my methods. I have no complexion. The true energy is dissipating all the time. I can't hold it anymore. My sea of consciousness is getting slower and slower, and my soul is also dull." There are no signs of landline, and several alchemists and doctors who have come to see me say that there is basically no cure."
poison? Is there any erysipelas in the world that can damage the foundation of a monk's cultivation? !
Shen Hao then asked: "You usually live in a thousand households, how could you get into such trouble? Who would give you such a strange poison?"
"Just muddle along?" Tang Qingyuan rolled his eyes, glanced at his mouth and said, "If I really just muddle along, I wouldn't be like this. I'm still careless and unprepared."
"Isn't it convenient to tell you why? I heard before that you are still investigating the case where I was assassinated last time, and you even had a conflict with Kuang Shengyuan. Isn't it because of this case?"
"Haha, are you asking this if you want to save me or help me avenge you?" Tang Qingyuan's eyes narrowed and he looked at Shen Hao.
"The relationship between you and me is no better than others. I can't do anything without saving you. I don't know if I can save you, but I must try. If I can't save you, it's not impossible to avenge you, but it depends on what I can do. We can't handle it." Shen Hao didn't make any false claims, he spoke very honestly and didn't make any big claims for Tang Qingyuan.
Tang Qingyuan seemed to smile even more happily when he heard this, and said: "Forget saving me, so many doctors are helpless, what can you do? There is something on the table over there, you can take a look at it, and it will count as an acquaintance between you and me. Just a heads up.”
In fact, Tang Qingyuan was very happy that Shen Hao could come in person today. Now he is waiting for death at home. The world is so cold and desolate. It is very rare for Shen Hao to still remember his old days now. As for other things, Tang Qingyuan is not in a hurry to speak now. He will ask Shen Hao to meet him when he really wants to let go. better. It's nothing more than taking care of the Tang family's children. I don't think Shen Hao will refuse.
Shen Hao stood up and took over a copper bar that Tang Qingyuan said was placed on the table next to him. When he got it, he actually needed his waist card and soul wave to open it. This was Xuanqing Guards' usual protection against secret orders.
After unfolding it and looking at a few rows, Shen Hao raised his head and looked at Tang Qingyuan and said, "Are you sure that the man who died in the Yamen prison was King Jing's inner guard?"
"Yes. Although the man died in the local government prison, the body was left behind. I found someone to make a clay statue based on the face of the body, and recorded all the traces on the body that could be regarded as characteristics. Then he asked people to go to the imperial city to investigate.
It's good luck. I used to have a good friend who is now in charge of the roster in the local government office in the Imperial City and has helped a lot.
The royal internal guards are also selected from the army, and they are all trained since childhood. After these people enter the internal guard training, although there are no documents stored in the local yamen, they will first join the army before entering the internal guard. After joining the army, their families will be involved in the reduction and exemption of money, food and taxes. These need to be handled by the local yamen, so it will Leave some clues.
Combined with the age and appearance of the corpse, if you check the records in one city after another, you can always find a matching roster. "
This is a very stupid method, so stupid that if Shen Hao didn't run it through his mind carefully, he wouldn't have thought that he could check people's heels like this. Because there are too many and too detailed, it takes a lot of time not to mention, and it is easy to miss them, resulting in nothing in the end. After all, the royal guard was selected at a very young age, and the corpse was obviously not young, so the time on both sides The gap can easily make the appearance difficult to distinguish.
"So I am very lucky, otherwise I would definitely not be able to find anyone." Tang Qingyuan also sighed, and then continued: "Later, I reported the news to Kuang Shengyuan, hoping that he could report it to Mr. Jiang. Because it involves King Jing, and with It was related to the important case of assassinating Xuan Qingwei. But Kuang Shengyuan wanted to suppress the news, saying that the current situation was chaotic and it was not appropriate to involve Xuan Qingwei in the "big exam" of the royal family. He said that he would wait until the situation stabilized in the future.
I had a fight with him about it. Then he hung him up.
As a result, I still felt angry and went to a restaurant for a drink. Haha, I got poisoned. Moreover, the poison was strange. I only realized it three days after the incident. I invited many doctors to no avail. I didn’t dare to speak out for fear that they would kill me if they saw that I was unwilling to give in. So I am living on my last breath until today. "
Shen Hao nodded. He believed that the main reason why the other party did not kill Tang Qingyuan directly was that he did not want to cause trouble for the life of another deputy Qianhu of Xuanqing Guard at this juncture. It would be safest to poison him and kill him slowly.
Shen Hao closed the copper bar, looked at Tang Qingyuan who looked ashen and said, "If it's just poisoning, maybe I can really save your life."
