Posthouse.
Yang Zhilan has not returned yet.
But Su Xian and Zhou Wei were overjoyed.
Because they have understood the toxicity of this poison and its mechanism of action, as the saying goes, if you know yourself and the enemy, you will win every battle, and they finally took the difficult first step.
This poison is colorless and odorless, and ordinary silver needles have no effect on it.
People who are poisoned will not show any abnormality. Its incubation period is as long as half a month. If it is not triggered within half a month, the poison will naturally be cured.
The triggering condition is sulfur, or to be precise, the smell of sulfur. It only takes a tiny bit to trigger a toxin attack.
After the poison takes effect, it will not kill people. It is relatively mild, but it only leaves people awake and unable to move.
But under special circumstances, if everyone is unable to move, it can also bring fatal consequences!
In addition, this poison also has a characteristic, that is, it can only remain in nature for two days before it is absorbed by the human body. After two days, the poison will naturally dissipate.
"Brother, there is hope. Now there is hope. We can finally detoxify!"
Zhou Wei was dancing with excitement.
Su Xian still sat still, holding the medical book in his hand, and glanced sideways at him:
"Junior brother, why are you excited? We have only discovered the toxicity of this poison, and have not yet developed an antidote. There is still a long way to go."
Zhou Wei's dancing body froze, and he laughed dryly: "Senior brother has received the master's true inheritance and knows the toxicity. Are you afraid that you can't develop an antidote?"
"That's right." Su Xian nodded.
Suddenly, Zhou Wei looked up at the closed doors and windows and said, "Nvxia Yang is back."
Su Xian was shocked. He put down the medical book and stood up to greet him. He had a hunch that Yang Zhilan must have found some incredible evidence!
After a few breaths, the door was pushed open, Yang Zhilan jumped in, closed the door and walked to Su Xian, saying, "Sir, I'm back."
"You came back just in time." Seeing her calm expression, Su Xian knew that the night exploration went quite smoothly, so he stopped talking nonsense and asked directly: "Have you found anything?"
"There are two major discoveries..."
At the moment, Yang Zhilan started to talk about it, first talking about "Emperor Liao ate poisonous midnight snacks".
After hearing this, Su Xian frowned and fell into deep thought. After a few breaths, his eyes suddenly lit up: "That's it, that's it!"
Zhou Wei scratched his head and asked from the side: "Senior brother, why is this so?"
"I knew that Brother Nalan would not turn bad easily! Now, as long as Brother Nalan is still on the same side as us, we can work together to find out the real mastermind!"
"In this way, my previous efforts will not be in vain, and the hard-won peace between Liang and Liao will also be protected!"
"Well, that's great...this news is as toxic as finding that poison."
Zhou Wei finally understood and glared: "Nvxia Yang means that Emperor Liao didn't know that the food was poisonous? Was he also kept in the dark?"
Yang Zhilan said expressionlessly, "Not bad."
"Hiss... How is this possible?" Zhou Wei still didn't believe it. A man was scratching his head and scratching his head. He wanted to refute this point of view, but the facts were right in front of him, and he couldn't find a suitable explanation for the moment.
Su Xian asked again: "Zhi Lan, you just said there were two major discoveries, what is the other one?"
Yang Zhilan calmly replied: "That poison comes from the water source, and it is very likely that the mastermind behind the scenes has poisoned all the wells in the imperial city..."
"Poisoning the well..." Su Xian frowned and fell into deep thought, then his expression became serious after a while:
"Brother Nalan is not the mastermind behind this, which is certainly a good thing, but if the real mastermind cannot be found out, there will be endless troubles!"
Zhou Wei immediately made a suggestion: "Brother, if Emperor Liao is innocent, we can tell him about the matter. He is the emperor, and it should be more convenient to investigate."
Su Xian thought about it carefully and finally shook his head:
"No, the mastermind behind the scenes is extremely cunning and agile. If we tell Brother Nalan, Brother Nalan will definitely take action. If he makes any move, he will definitely alert the enemy!"
"My goal is to completely uncover the mastermind hiding in the dark, to completely eliminate the hidden dangers between Liang and Liao, and to eliminate them all at once, so we must not alert the enemy."
Zhou Wei asked again: "Then what should we do next?"
Su Xian said:
"Brother Nalan's registration ceremony will be held in ten days. I guess the masterminds behind the scenes will take action during the registration ceremony and expose their fangs!"
"Ten days is not a short period of time, it is enough for us to uproot the masterminds and those who are plotting against Daliang!"
"And our entry point is the well in the imperial city."
"At the same time, the development of the antidote cannot be left behind and we strive to succeed within ten days."
Zhou Wei thought of another question:
"But senior brother, when we visited the Imperial City this afternoon, we discovered that the well is extremely well protected, open in all directions, and guarded by dedicated personnel. I'm afraid it's not that easy to check."
Su Xian smiled meaningfully, seeming to be wise: "I have a solution to this problem, junior brother, don't worry."
Zhou Wei hurriedly asked: "What plan?"
"Junior brother, don't ask, I will know tomorrow... It's already very late today, you all should go back and rest, and recuperate before talking." Su Xian was calm and collected.
At the moment, everyone went back to their houses to rest.
Early the next morning.
After getting up and having breakfast, Zhou Wei was still thinking about the question from last night: "Brother, what plan do you have? I thought about it all night and had no idea."
Su Xian glanced at him and said with a smile: "No wonder you have some dark circles under your eyes... Let's not say so much first. Let's go see Emperor Liao first."
"Meet Emperor Liao? Why?" Zhou Wei hurriedly followed Su Xian.
"..."
The regulations of the Liao Palace were generally similar to those of the Central Plains Dynasty.
There is also a main hall in the palace where the king and his ministers discuss politics, called the "Dazheng Hall".
Next to the Dazheng Hall, there is a side hall.
At this time, Emperor Nalanjie of Liao Dynasty was in the side hall.
There was another person in the side hall who was confronting Nalanjie, and the atmosphere was tense.
This person is none other than Nalan Yan. The only person who dares to confront Liao Emperor is Nalan Yan.
Two siblings are quarreling!
"Yesterday, why didn't you go out of the city with me to welcome Brother Su?" Nalan Jie sat on the dragon chair with a very ugly face. Thinking of yesterday's embarrassment, he felt like slapping Nalan Yan across the ear.
"Huh." Nalanyan didn't answer, turned sideways and held her head high.
"We had agreed to go out of the city together to meet Brother Su, but you broke the appointment. Do you know how embarrassed I was yesterday? The emperor almost lost his face. Fortunately, Brother Su understands the righteousness..."
Nalanjie continued to scold him with a dark face.
Nalan Yan remained unmoved, holding her head high and arrogant. When she heard that Nalan Jie had lost face, she even glanced sideways and disdainfully, as if to say, "You deserve it."
"Yan'er, what on earth do you want to do?"
Nalan Jie took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in his heart. No matter what, Nalan Yan was his only blood relative. Even if he had a headache again, he had to calm down.
