Seven years have passed. It has been seven years, at least longer than three years of travel - or three years of running away. Hearing these three words again is no better than when I just realized that I have no breath. Shocking.
Here, Ye San Geng's thoughts began to flood again, and he turned back to seven years ago. Because his mother was killed by the Bai family in Jiangnan, which was hostile to the Ye family, Ye Sangen, who felt uncomfortable, started to travel around the world for the first time under the persuasion of his family. The boy, who was only 16 or 17 years old, met a girl from Loulan by chance. He rescued Zhuang Yuan from the caravans roaming the Western Regions, the Loulan girl whom he had such a crush on that he wanted to issue a betrothal letter.
It was just by chance that he had a conflict with the caravan. He once guarded the capture camp in Ruoqiang and massacred dozens of horse bandits. Later, because Zhuangyuan was humiliated by the caravan again in the capital, he rushed thousands of miles directly to attack the caravan. stronghold.
Thinking of how young and frivolous he was, he felt a little ashamed at this time, but compared to
With the word "Afurong", it is obvious that the things those young and energetic people did are not worth mentioning. That was a chronic poison recorded in the records that killed people and destroyed their families.
Naturally, I have heard my brother mention those old things. Ye Xiayou is also familiar with some of the episodes that happened in the love between Ye San Geng and Zhuang Yuan, and what he is thinking about is not the miscellany of barnyard records that he has read before. History, but also about the group of horse bandits who called themselves caravans once transported drug to Beijing.
That year, in the middle of the night, the transfer station for caravans transporting drugs was destroyed, and drugs from the far west were not allowed to enter the Central Plains.
The Zhou Dynasty naturally hated this product, which looked very bright and tasted very good, but the finished product was addictive and made people become as thin as wood after eating it for a long time. Many rewards were given behind the scenes.
Recalling the past, he naturally knew the dangers of this thing, and Ye Xiayou's eyes were filled with a little shock.
Naturally, I don’t know about the past events that were forbidden to be mentioned by the imperial court. After all, in a sensitive place like the Western Region, a young master from a prince’s family with a different surname in the dynasty massacred forty or fifty people. This kind of thing is naturally the most taboo thing for the imperial court, even if the other party is Because of the gray area and the difficulty of clearly distinguishing right from wrong, the caravan cannot be solved in this way privately.
Therefore, General Ling was extremely confused by the expressions of the siblings in front of him. According to his understanding, this thing developed by his master was not something that anyone could understand on Monday.
At least it is widely cultivated in Fuying, and it is still not accessible to lower class people. General Ling, who was familiar with the cultural inheritance and history of the Great Zhou Dynasty, did not think that such a mysterious thing would be recognized by others.
Because of the shock, his already weak body was a little shaken. He held the cell door in the middle of the night and turned around. After taking a few breaths, he calmed down the anger in his heart and asked,
"Aphrodisiac?" There was no doubt that he had the general's order but he still wanted to figure it out, and said: "I will tell you the specific details and how to detoxify them when you let me out of the city." I think he was so angry that the fingers holding the cell door were already wet. Bai, in the middle of the night, his tone was also trembling,
"Do you know the dangers of this thing?" At that time, Zhuang Yuan was also forced to inhale drug by horse bandits, but it was definitely not Nan Kezi as the general ordered now. It was also that one, but he remembered clearly, just one or two. This time, that girl from Loulan was really like an ant eating her bones. Just from the Western Regions back to the capital, even after midnight, she couldn't stop her poison even after midnight.
It took two or three months, and he had to go through all the famous doctors in the capital before he was completely recovered. After that, for half a year, Zhuang Yuan was listless and so weak that he could not stand still.
How could Ye Sangen, who knew it well, not be afraid of this kind of thing? General Ling still didn't realize the seriousness of the problem, and said in a very tight tone: "Send me out of the city, and I will tell you everything." Ye San was even less angry and smiled instead. He lifted up his injuries and let him take a few big breaths, and supported Ye San. Xia Youcai just barely managed to avoid sitting down. He chuckled twice,
"Do you still have this thing on you?" Obviously General Ling didn't want to answer.
"Brother Yi." He called in the middle of the night,
"Search him." When Jiang Yi handed a packet of oil-paper packets that were almost in powder form into his hands at midnight, a familiar fragrance hit his nostrils. This was not something he had seen in the abandoned guarding camp of Ruoqiang Tun Military City that year. That kind of thing, remembering what my sister, Wang Jiang and Qi Moyan said about Lan Li, including Lou Gui and Yan Yan, I am afraid that this thing called Nan Ke Zi is more than a hundred times more toxic than afurong.
As soon as I thought about it, I suddenly remembered that when I saw Lan Li at the city gate that day, I smelled a fragrance in her carriage. I didn't expect it at the time after so many years. Now that I think about it carefully, it was clearly the fragrance of aphrodisiac.
"How many times have you used it for Mrs. Lan?" Naturally, he still ignored the late night question. General Ling didn't say anything at this time, obviously he had guessed something.
Feeling the tremor coming from his brother's arm, Ye Xiayou knew that this thing had touched upon the past that his brother least wanted to mention, so he said: "Go back first, this matter is a bit beyond expectation." He took a few breaths again. , the anger in my heart has not gone away, and on the third day of the night, I tighten my grip on the bag of powder called Nankezi, and turn around to leave.
General Ling looked at the backs of the three people and still didn't understand what he said wrong. Looking at it like this, weren't they afraid of being involved?
... Everything that has happened in the past month, except for the coincidence of meeting Han Youyu in Lixia City, started from accidentally going up to the watershed, or Jiugong Yan from Fuying on the watershed planned to clamp down on this big river. The key point on the water is either the Fuying Protestant Church involved in Wudang Mountain. At present, a general who has not appeared in more than ten years appears in Phoenix City with a chronic poison such as aphrodisiac that he has not heard of for a long time. One after another, Each piece of it made Ye San feel like he was being pushed from behind.
A few days ago, I met Song Li, a knife-catcher whom I had known since childhood. He brought news from the capital that an unidentified mysterious person besides the current saint and the show-stopping old man of his family was also looking for him. Himself, this made Ye San feel even more like he had fallen into a trap, so much so that he even jokingly suspected that Han Youyu's appearance was deliberately done by someone.
Otherwise, how could I go to Wudang and encounter such things? Ye San even took a secret look at her sister, who was supporting her but actually relying on her own ability to move. She even began to wonder if everything starting from the end of the year was planned by this blind woman.
After all, after leaving Lixia City in Yuzhou for the first time, it was Ye Xiayou who proposed to go to Wudang. It was just a fleeting thought, but not to mention the vastness and mystery of such a layout, many of the unexpected events were unexpected. Ye San couldn't believe that even her thoughtful sister could not have predicted the Nine Palaces on the watershed. Yan, as well as the Fuying Protestant Church's various plans to enter the Zhou Dynasty, including all the unpredictability in Phoenix City, not to mention that when they came to Phoenix City, two Yamatos had not yet made their private decisions to the two of them. No matter how smart he is, how can he predict everything in advance and even put himself in jail?
Just thinking about Ye Xie's behavior when he first arrived in Phoenix City, Ye Xie You didn't even have the slightest bit of impatience with the Phoenix City where the two people he most annoyed in his life were, and it made Ye San even more restless. .
As his mind wandered, such complicated and trivial causes and effects seemed to explode in his head. Ye San even had a splitting headache. As expected, thinking about things was not his specialty at all.
He raised his hand and tapped his forehead. He simply didn't go back to the bedroom at midnight and rested in the yard. It has been rainy for several days, but the sun is shining brightly today. The moist smell in the air is indeed refreshing. A poet from the previous dynasty once passed by Fenghuang Mountain after the rain and wrote
The poem "Phoenix Mountain clears up after rain, the water and wind are clear, and the sunset glows brightly", although it is not yet time for the sunset to come out, the gentle breeze is also comfortable.
It's just that after everything was settled, the changes that occurred again in Phoenix City made people feel uncomfortable no matter what.
Because he had to go to the prison and missed lunch time, Jiang Yi went to the kitchen to find a few plates of light pickles, and some bean paste that he had made separately for midnight, and brought them all to the yard. The brothers and sisters also took a few days This is the first time we sit together like this.
But it’s really not a peaceful meal. Looking at the two siblings in front of him who had their own worries, Jiang Yi really didn't understand why he was like this after going to the prison. If he hadn't stayed outside and listened to all the conversations inside, Jiang Yi would have suspected that he was being raped. The Fuying man in the prison came up with some excuses.
In fact, there was a reason that Jiang Yi didn't know very well, so he asked: "What are Nankezi, Datura, and aphrodisiac? The first time I heard about it, was it that small bag?" It was obvious that he had escaped from the world. For more than ten years, the Ming Dao Tomb has always been about inheriting the legacy of the ancestors and forging swords to establish the world. I have never heard of these uncommon things.
In the middle of the night, Ye Xiayou took out the oil paper package in his arms and threw it on the stone table. Ye Xiayou, who only took a few bites of side dishes and then put down her chopsticks, was obviously worried. Her thoughts were not as complicated as those of her brother. Of course, , if she knew that her brother would think of her like this, she would be angry and funny.
Naturally, he connected everything he saw and heard in this month from beginning to end. The ingenious Ye Xiayou could also guess that whether it was Protestantism or this thing called Nankezi, it was no longer purely aimed at Taoism. In other words, it is impossible for any one of the three families to target his own family.
General Ling's attack on Lan Li, whether it was a deliberate back-up or an unintentional use, has shown that the matter is not as simple as targeting his family.
Ye Xiayou didn't believe that the three members of the family of General Ningzhiyu and General Zheng were really bold enough to plot against the Ye family, a very important person in the dynasty.
If you boldly connect the issue of Protestantism with Nan Kezi - after all, the effect of Nan Kezi on Lan Lilou Gui Yanyan is exactly the same as the effect of the two Taoist priests Zhang Jiuping and Shi Gandang in Wudang Mountain after their minds were controlled. It's just like taking a shot - how can this not make people think about something?
Hearing the question from her uncle's cousin, Ye Xiayou gathered her thoughts and stopped thinking about these things that really bothered her. She said, "This is the first time I have heard of Nan Kezi, but according to the general's order just now, It is not difficult to understand that it is grafted with datura and aphrodisiac. It must be a more powerful hallucinogenic herb. Datura is not common in Dazhou. I also read it in the overseas secret book "Bencao Tuyi". I have seen it once in a book. This kind of medicinal herb is not very common in the country. The overseas volume of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" once said that three thousand miles southwest of Kunlun, there is a country called Gandhara. Its people are black and have strange powers. They live in groups in the mountains and are called Lan. Bini, there is a beast in the mountain. It eats countless big rocks every day. It is called Kakuma. Its jaws touch the sky and the earth. Its saliva drops and grows grass called Mannaro, which can paralyze Kakuma. A master of medical skills in the previous dynasty once said that Mannaro Datura is Datura. Although it has never been introduced to China, it is also a sedative medicinal stone that pharmacists dream of. The name of aphrodisiac may not be common, but there are records in the previous dynasty that it was so addictive that people were in tears and their limbs were exhausted. Lifting, that is, the white blade is thrust in front, and the leopard and tiger press behind, but they can only bow their heads and suffer death, without being able to move a little. Therefore, those who have eaten opium for a long time will have their shoulders hunched and their necks shrunk, and their color will be withered and emaciated, just like a sick man.' It’s all prohibited by law. Although it’s not common in Dazhou, it still has a familiar name, which is Wu Xiang, which is extracted from aphrodisiac.”
