After hearing Xia Chengxuan say that he wanted to exchange something for Xia Chengyi's antidote to Jue Country, Mei Yuanchen thought it would be Tanzhou or Binan. After all, the imperial court posted a notice asking for the medicine and the reward offered had reached 100,000 gold. The price of the antidote must be more than ten times that. "In addition to the city, what else could it be?"
The people of Jue country are at peace.
Mei Yuanchen never expected that what he was talking about was actually a war between the two countries.
When he was in Zhizhitang, Duanfuzi taught him "Twelve Strategies for Defending the City", which was in line with the strategy of "defending by attacking". Using the threat of war to ask for the antidote from Jue's country seems like an attack but actually a defense, and it also seems like a defense but actually an attack.
Mei Yuanchen was surprised when he heard Xia Chengxuan say: "Dream Demon. Taoist Master Qingxuan said that what makes Yiyi sleepy is a poison called 'Dream Demon'."
Qingxuan was a young man who suffered a tragic fate. Fortunately, he was saved by Taoist Wu Shi and was able to join the Zhenwu sect. He devoted himself to studying martial arts until he was thirty years old, and then he traveled around the world under the order of his mentor to seek destiny.
In the past forty years, Qingxuan traveled to thousands of mountains and rivers in various countries, and experienced anecdotes from the north and the south. His breadth of vision was rare in the world. The famous doctor in the capital didn't know the poison of the "dream demon" that no one knew about, but he recognized it with just a fingertip.
Not only did he diagnose the cause of the trouble, he even prescribed the three herbs needed for detoxification.
The difference here is nothing like cloud mud!
"Dream demon?" Mei Yuanchen muttered softly, as if trying to search for relevant information from his memory.
There is a coast thousands of miles long in the southwest of Jue Kingdom. There are mangrove forests in the silt deposits near the sea. Several rare species of poisonous beetles live in the mangroves. The carapace colors of these poisonous insects come in different shapes and sizes, but regardless of species, male or female, they all have a long cone-like thorn on their head.
Those poisonous beetles are called dream monsters.
There is a pair of venom glands under the abdomen of the dream bug. When it encounters an enemy, it will spray a mist of venom. When people and animals smell it, they will feel like they are falling into a cloud and dreaming. They will be confused and sleepy and difficult to wake up. It is a famous strange insect in the southern region of Jue Kingdom.
However, this insect is not only extremely rare in number, but also only inhabits hot sea mudflats that are inaccessible to humans. It also has a great temper. Once caught, it often dies soon after. However, incidents of incubus bugs hurting people still happen from time to time. Because they are different from ordinary insects and snakes in their toxicity, those accidents are often widely spread among the people. However, there are very few people, even older fishermen, who have actually seen them.
As for Dahua, not to mention having seen it, only a handful of people know that it exists.
Normally, there are only three to five drops of venom from a dream bug. After smelling it, a person will fall asleep for only a few hours. When the venom inhaled into the mouth and nose dissipates with breathing, he will wake up and there is no danger of his life.
However, the poison that Xia Chengyi was exposed to was made by collecting, cooking and refining the venom of thousands of dream bugs, and soaked chopsticks in it to hide the poison. When eating, the dream poison enters the mouth and throat through chopsticks, is mixed with chyme, enters the blood vessels through the intestines, and finally penetrates into the internal organs.
Of course it cannot be excreted naturally if it is so deeply implanted.
If the poison cannot be detoxified, it will harm the host day and night if it is dispersed in the body, causing the person to become exhausted and haggard and die.
"If we fail to gather the century-old black ginseng, blood cistanche, and blue gentian before September, I will start a war with Jue Kingdom and force Duanmuyu to hand over the antidote." Xia Chengxuan gritted his teeth and said coldly, "If he doesn't give it, I will Rob!"
After hearing this, Mei Yuanchen didn't know what to say.
He was very lucky that Xia Chengyi had a good brother. However, I naturally remembered that once a war started, life would be devastated and the casualties would be countless. The scene after the battle with the Shatuo people outside Suzhou City is still vivid in my mind. The piles of corpses, the smell of corpses wafting for miles, the wailing of the sky and the earth, the white flags covering the sky and the sun... .The most miserable thing in the world is this.
If given the choice, Mei Yuanchen really doesn't want to go through another war in his lifetime.
What's more, now that Dahua is in decline, there is no guarantee of victory in a war with Jue. If a king with a different surname from Shatuo, Xueguo, Xianma or Dahua takes the opportunity to cause chaos, the situation will be extremely dangerous and difficult to control. Mei Yuanchen has always known that Xia Chengxuan is by no means a aggressive and reckless person. On the contrary, he knew that his sworn brother was extremely tolerant and manipulative, and he was willing to do this just because he loved his sister so much.
He is afraid of losing her.
He was protecting her at all costs.
"Chengxuan, I will try my best to find these three things." Mei Yuanchen patted his shoulder and promised softly, "Yiyi is not only your sister, but also my adopted sister. I will not let anything happen to her. Even if Searching to the ends of the earth..."
Even in front of his brothers, he still dared not call Xia Chengyi his "beloved one".
The tangle between them is really hard to describe in words.
"Time will not wait for me!" Xia Chengxuan interrupted him with a low growl, with tears in his eyes, "I have asked someone to check, and this poison will be released within a year if it is not cured. By then... we will not So much time.”
Time limit?
"within one year?"
This was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue, causing Mei Yuanchen to tremble slightly. He never imagined that there would be one year left to cure the poison.
I originally thought that Qingxuan had collected the dream demon's poisonous blood into Xia Chengyi's palms, and with Yun Xiaoyang regulating it, even if the poison could not be cured for a while, his life would still be safe. Although the three medicines are not easy to obtain, with Xia Chengxuan's power and his own efforts, it is only a matter of time before he can gather the century-old black ginseng, blood amaranth and blue gentian.
"One year..." Mei Yuanchen was a little confused for a moment and kept mumbling and sighing.
Only then did he understand why Xia Chengxuan was willing to provoke a war between the two countries in exchange for the antidote to the dream demon.
"Although the world is heavy, I only have one sister. I would rather lose everyone in the world than lose Yiyi."
Seeing Xia Chengxuan's determined expression, Mei Yuanchen finally calmed down a little.
"There are still many things, let's sit down and talk about them."
Xia Chengxuan glanced aside and walked straight to the stone pavilion in the courtyard.
