Shan Honggu's house is half a city away from Yinlou. When Lu Anran arrived, the sunset was setting and the afterglow was red.
This was a courtyard upon entering. Lu Anran stood outside the gate and knocked, but there was no movement. Instead, the door was pushed open.
After hesitating for a moment and stepping in, from the corner of his eye, he could see the neighbors looking around.
Before she could speak, she could faintly hear muffled moans of pain.
Lu Anran stepped forward quickly, reached out and pushed the door open, and saw the woman lying on the ground, her body curled up, her hands covering her abdomen, her left face pressed against the ground, her hair wet with sweat.
"Honggu?" Lu Anran shouted.
The woman was probably in severe pain and was a little confused. It took her a long time to raise her head. When she saw it was Lu Anran, her eyes lit up: "...Benefactor."
After being tortured in prison, the woman's body became extremely thin, her cheeks were sunken, and she was as fragile as a Jiangnan willow that could break at any time.
Lu Anran stretched out three fingers to take a pulse. After a while, his brows slowly furrowed. This pulse...
He was obviously poisoned!
"What did you eat today?"
Hong Gu stretched out her trembling hand. Lu Anran turned his eyes and saw the things on the table, with a look of surprise on his face.
"Yes, there is someone here..." Hong Gu was suffering from abdominal pain and could not speak intermittently. "Thank you, my benefactor will come over today...today and give me a pill. He said...there are two pills on the table, one." ...One is the antidote, the other..."
A sharp pain hit her. Honggu's face turned pale and she whimpered. She bit her lip with her teeth, and bright red blood soon flowed out. She could no longer say the next words.
But Lu Anran could also guess that since Honggu didn't eat it easily, the other one could only be poison.
Looking at Hong Gu, who was almost fainting, Lu Anran looked extremely silent. From Hong Gu's words, it could be heard that the person who came was obviously targeting her, and Hong Gu claimed that she had been implicated and suffered an unreasonable disaster.
But she rarely makes friends on weekdays, and has almost never offended anyone?
Suddenly my heart skipped a beat.
Could it be him? !
Because he was unwilling to let himself go like this, he immediately came back with revenge. According to the onset of the poison, which was a quarter of an hour ago, the time was right.
But somehow I feel that such people are proud and will not use such roundabout methods.
Lu Anran was even more shocked when he picked up the two pills on the table.
It was not as the other party told Hong Gu, nor as he had guessed, the other poison was not an immediate fatal poison.
Lu Anran lowered his head and looked at the two pills in his hand, a struggle that ordinary people couldn't fathom appeared on his face——
The medicine on the left has powerful properties and can completely remove the poison from Honggu's body. The problem is that because the medicine is too strong, Honggu's body may not be able to bear it, and she will die during the antidote process.
The other pill has mild medicinal properties, which is exactly in line with Honggu's current physique. but! This medicine cannot remove toxins, it can only suppress them. It needs to be taken for life. No one is sure how long it can suppress toxins. And the body will gradually be worn down, lingering on the bed all year round, until the oil is exhausted.
Lu Anran's calm eyes remained motionless, unable to figure out the purpose of the person behind it. They said they were poisoning Hong Gu, but they were clearly targeting her.
Could it be...
The other party wanted her to make this difficult choice.
How to do it? What should she do?
Lu Anran closed her eyes and searched desperately in her mind to see if there was any description of this situation in the "Qianjin Pharmacopoeia". Soon large beads of sweat dripped down from her forehead and landed on her palms, moistening the lines on her palms. .
Honggu's voice had faded, and she could barely scream. There was only a groan of pain that overflowed from the corner of her mouth. Her eyes widened and she saw Lu Anran walking towards her. The sky was behind her, as if covering her. A layer of holy clothing.
"Do you believe me?" Lu Anran's voice was cold and gentle, like the first piece of snow falling on Honggu's ears in early winter.
Hong Gu bit her bleeding lip and was speechless, but she used her last bit of strength to nod her head.
Different from treating diseases, detoxification is actually fighting poison with poison. The dangers in this process can be imagined. However, Lu Anran is not a person who easily gets entangled, and she quickly made up her mind.
Instead of praying for an unknown future and struggling to live a life of survival, it is better to be simple, life is the splendor of life, life is worse than death, and it is better not to live.
Lu Anran twisted a silver needle between his fingers, looked at Hong Gu solemnly, and said: "You can even cross the death row. After this tribulation, you will definitely emerge from the cocoon and turn into a butterfly. Hold on, I will help you. "
In Honggu's mind, only this firm voice was like a ray of light that penetrated through all the haze and reached the bottom of her heart, causing her eyes to gradually gather faith.
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No one saw, but in the attic next to the small courtyard, two figures stood there, watching everything that happened in the room through the open window.
One of them laughed and said: "How about Panda, are you satisfied now?"
The middle-aged man in dark green brocade clothes, known as Pang Pangren, had a deep expression in his eyes: "He is more decisive than I expected."
The original man shook his head and sighed: "They say that the Lu family's daughter is ugly, vulgar, and shameful, so County Sheriff Lu hides her in his boudoir, but they don't want to think about it. If this is the case, how can County Sheriff Lu still love and treat her so much?" Like a treasure."
But it is true that the eldest lady of the Lu family is low-key. If it hadn't been for what she did at the execution ground a few days ago, who would have known that this eldest lady would be so stunning and stunning when she took action.
After sighing, the man said again: "Hey, Mr. Pangda, do you think her temperament is somewhat similar to Princess Wuyang?"
Pang Daren sneered: "The princess didn't need the antidote pills at all back then."
"Yes, what kind of person Princess Wuyang is, there is no one like her in the world."
Princess Wuyang, the legitimate daughter of the former Tian family, has amazing talents and is praised by everyone as the most talented woman.
Just the ending...
The two of them thought and fell silent at the same time.
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"When I took it out last year, there was still more than half of the box, but this year there are only a few left." Chun Miao looked at Lu Anran sadly while holding the jewelry box, muttering in her heart.
He wanted to ask something, but when he saw Lu Anran's profile face lowered by Chen Yang, he swallowed back the words that came to his mouth.
Taking advantage of a sunny day before the New Year, Chun Miao dug out the old things from several large boxes, drying what needed to be dried and throwing away what needed to be. The whole house was filled with the smell of spiritual herbs.
Lu Anran stopped writing after writing a few words, raised his head with a sigh, picked up the tea bowl and found that the tea was cold. Just when he was about to ask Chun Miao to change the pot, he found Chun Miao's voice coming from the door of the courtyard. He didn't know what to say. , suppressed slightly mysterious.
The yard was already full of things to dry, and the spring seedlings didn't even let go of the short holly plant. Several pages of paper fell on it, as if it was covered with paper winter clothes.
Lu Anran smiled, lowered his head and scanned it, his eyes fell on the paper, he tapped the two words on it with his finger, and murmured softly and softly: "King's Capital."
If the case at the execution ground was a 'letter of surrender', the test from Honggu's family would be the 'touchstone' given to her by the other party.
After ruling out the revenge of the man in black, Lu Anran quickly thought that if she succeeded in attracting the attention of someone from the royal capital, then the scene in front of her would be the 'examination room' specially arranged for her.
Lu Anran's heart suddenly became complicated. In the 'game' between her and the Wangdu people, Hong Gu became the victim of the pull between the two.
Chunmiao had come back with a smile: "Miss, why are you standing there in a daze? You see, the master has sent a lot of good things." He put down a bunch of good things in his hands, and clapped his hands with satisfaction, "Aunt You Er What’s more, now that the news about our young lady’s rescue has spread, it is said that the young lady is the Gerel of the entire Mengdu!”
Lu Anran's eyes twitched, and there was a flash of self-mockery in his eyes. What a bright light, it was just for his own selfishness, and in the end he left a trace of regret.
Chunmiao didn't notice the change in Lu Anran's mood. After sorting things and putting them away, she came out and thought of something. She came over and blinked: "Miss, there will be some fun in a few days."
Lu Anran handed the cold tea cup to Chun Miao and said nonchalantly: "What are you asking about again?"
Chun Miao went to change a pot of hot water to brew again, and opened a window to avoid the wind to disperse the smell in the house. When she opened the box just now, it was filled with the smell of the mildew-proof spiritual herbs in the box.
Spirit herb carries the word "fragrance", but the actual taste is difficult to describe.
"Hey, second brother, we're going to have more people soon."
Looking at Chun Miao's face looking forward to the good show, Lu Anran guessed: "Aunt Liu is here?" This aunt was still young and was brought into the family by Lu Wei three years ago. She was born in a famous actress and was better at drama than others.
Chunmiao pursed her lips to the right, squinted her eyes half-closed, and gloated: "Miss, you can't guess this time. The second master is planning to bring it back from outside. He doesn't dare to say anything now, but he followed me in private the day before yesterday. Our master needs to take a breath first, the others don’t even know about the old lady.”
Lu Anran suddenly realized that this was what Chun Miao and Aunt You had been talking about for a long time at the entrance of the hospital, "I can only accept one aunt."
"Where is the person!" Chun Miao raised her voice by half a minute, stretched out two fingers and shook it, "Buy one, get one free, in pairs!"
Only then did Lu Anran appear a little surprised, Chunmiao said proudly: "Miss, you don't even know that that woman is not a young girl, nor is she at the right age. She is alone with her daughter, and the child is several months younger than the second lady. "
"The second master doesn't know what he likes about this person. After meeting him a few times, he couldn't forget it. He insisted on bringing him to the Lu family. He originally wanted to take advantage of the good news that the second young lady entered Jixia Palace, but he was also afraid that the old lady would not accept her. If I agree, I plan to make a decision directly with our master, and then the second lady won’t have to make any trouble."
"But I feel that the Second Master did this unfairly. It will be our Master that the Second Lady should blame later on."
"And..." Chun Miao finally snorted coldly, "The master asked the housekeeper and Aunt You to come to that house. Guess what happened? Tsk, tsk, tsk, the girl from that family looked like her mother, but she looked like her. Second Master!"
"It's obvious that he was kept outside in the outer room. No one knew who he was when I met him later." Finally, Chun Miao concluded: "Pinch off the head of the green onion and pretend to be garlic!"
After talking for a while, Chunmiao continued to clean up the room until she dug out a pair of shoes from the bottom of the floor-standing cabinet next to Lu Anran's bed, "Hey, why are the toes open?"
Lu Anran surprised Chunmiao and looked over following the sound, but her body froze.
Chun Miao held a pair of tiger-head shoes, half the size of an adult's palm, with vivid tiger head and tiger brain embroidery, cute and childish.
Lu Anran walked over and picked up the tiger-head shoes. Chunmiao seemed to have done something wrong and whispered: "It's all my fault. I will take it to mend it."
"No need." Lu Anran gently touched the upper of the shoe with his fingers, his face was calm, his eyes were deep, hiding the ambiguity that he didn't express, "You go down first."
This pair of shoes is the only relic left by Lu Anran's mother to her. It not only embodies deep maternal love, but also brings Lu Anran an unsolvable mystery.
