mtlumby2d Chapter 402 An unexpected surprise
Chapter 402 An unexpected surprise
The Plum Valley is lush and green in summer and is a good place to escape the heat. In the dark red attic, Hong Ah, dressed in plum-red silk and with his black hair scattered, sits in front of a bronze mirror in a daze. His androgynous face is still as handsome as a flower, and the plum blossom mark painted with cinnabar on his forehead makes him even more charming and beautiful.
The man standing behind Hong'a wore a loose black robe, and his long hair fell to his waist. However, his hair was not as black and thick as Hong'a's, and there were a few silver threads in his hair. He was handsome and lazy. He was combing Hong'a's black hair gently with a wooden comb, when he suddenly heard the report from the shadow man outside the door. His hands stopped:
"Mucheng, Sanxiu Pharmacy?"
"Yes, my lord, the medicine shop has been located in Mucheng in the southern border for decades. The owner of the medicine shop, Sanxiu, is a famous doctor with excellent medical skills in the area within a hundred miles." The person outside the door responded.
"They are amazing. They chose to stay in Xiyue Country instead of going far to seek medical treatment. They really don't take our Shadow Sect seriously!" Youmei sneered, and his eyes showed a fierce murderous intent. However, as soon as he finished speaking, the person who reported outside the door continued hesitantly:
"Master...Master, I have heard a piece of news... but it is not confirmed yet and it is hard to tell whether it is true or not. I don't know whether I should tell you or not?"
"You've already opened your mouth, and you're still asking whether you should say it or not?" Youmei's cold eyes swept towards the dark shadow outside the door, and a deep voice sounded slowly, with displeasure in his tone.
“Please forgive me, sir. Although this news has not been confirmed, we have to be cautious, which is why I am in a difficult situation.” The dark shadow outside the door was so frightened that he knelt on the ground in a hurry and explained in a trembling voice.
"Stop talking so much. You might as well just say it directly. But has the doctor found a cure for the flower bite poison?" Youmei continued to comb Hong'a's hair. There was some impatience in his words but his hands were still gentle.
"Not yet, but I heard that the owner of the medicine shop, Sanxiu, has some connection with the king."
"What? Prince?" Youmei's heart tightened when he heard it, and the strength in his hands also increased unconsciously.
"Ouch..."
Hong Ah couldn't help but let out a cry of pain because her scalp was pulled. Youmei then reacted and hurriedly put down the comb and gently rubbed her scalp. Then he turned to ask the shadow outside the door:
"How are they related?"
"I heard that Sanxiu was the master of Prince Zong's late mother, Concubine Leng. Although Concubine Leng had very little contact with her master after entering the palace, when Concubine Leng died of illness five or six years ago, Prince Zong was seriously injured on the battlefield and was dying. It was Sanxiu who saved him." The shadow outside the door replied immediately.
"If this is true, it will be difficult for Yingmen to take action." Youmei frowned and said to himself after hearing this.
Prince Zong is now the prince most trusted by His Majesty, and he commands a large number of troops, so Yingmen cannot afford to offend him.
"Are we just going to let them go? But Sanxiu is a skilled doctor. If the poison of Hua Bite is cured by him, then the plan of the Lord will be..."
"Stop talking too much!" Before the shadow outside the door could finish speaking, Youmei interrupted with a gloomy face and a cold voice.
The black shadow, still kneeling on the ground, was frightened again and quickly slapped himself in the face.
"Hehe..." Perhaps because of the loud and crisp slapping sounds outside the door, Hong'a, who had been sitting in front of Youmei in a daze, suddenly laughed involuntarily.
Seeing Hong Ah's long-lost childlike laughter, Youmei swept away his previous gloom and irritability, and couldn't help but laugh along, then turned around and ordered outside the door:
"Keep fanning, don't stop!"
For a moment, the crisp sound of fanning the face in the attic was accompanied by feminine laughter. Youmei looked at the person in front of him with a beautiful smile and occasionally let out a few doting and deep laughs.
Outside the quiet city of Lianzhou, on the hillside of a hidden mountain, there are several wooden houses connected to caves. This is where Mr. Zisang lives in Lianzhou. Si Yao and the other two took a horse-drawn carriage for several days to get here.
"What a coincidence, Miss Si Yao, you're late. The master took those two boys out again half a month ago." At this time, there was only an honest old man guarding the wooden house. He warmly welcomed Si Yao and others into the house, poured tea for them, and then smiled at Si Yao.
Mr. Zisang liked quietness, so he seldom entertained guests in his wooden house. Si Yao had been here before and was favored by Mr. Zisang, so the old man saw it and naturally greeted Si Yao with a smile.
"Did the sir mention where we're going this time?" Si Yao sighed secretly, and then asked with some expectation.
"Oh, Miss Si Yao, don't you know your master? I'm afraid even he himself doesn't know where he is going!" The old man waved the palm-leaf fan lightly and smiled helplessly.
"Sister Si Yao, what should we do now?" The three of them lowered their eyes in disappointment when they heard this. Cai Yi couldn't help but frowned and muttered to Si Yao.
"Miss Si Yao, what brought you here this time?" The old man also saw the difficulty on the three people's faces, so he asked again with concern.
"To be honest with you, Uncle Shui, I came to find Mr. Zisang for a friend. She is now poisoned but the herbs in the antidote cannot be found all at once, so I wanted to ask you if there is any other way." Seeing the old man asking, Si Yao raised her eyes and replied to him.
"Oh, sir, your calculations are so accurate!" Si Yao had just finished speaking when the old man stroked his long beard on his chest and laughed.
"What does Shui Bo mean?" Si Yao was confused for a moment, so he asked again.
"Before he left, the gentleman had a fortune-teller tell him that someone might come to ask for medicine recently."
"Mr. Zisang is so good at predicting things. He is truly a hermit!" Xiaolu couldn't help but smile with joy when he heard it.
"He lived to be 120 years old and was a cultivator. He was proficient in more than just medicine!" The old man Shui Bo winked at Xiaolu and smiled cheerfully.
"One hundred and twenty years old? Doesn't that make him a god?" Caiyi widened her bright eyes in surprise and sighed with her mouth half covered.
"Hahaha, sir, you are indeed half a god!" Shui Bo laughed even more heartily, but when he saw Si Yao still looked a little sad, he stopped smiling and turned to her and said, "I wonder what kind of poison Miss Si Yao's friend was infected with?"
"The poison from the flower bite." Si Yao replied.
"The poison from flower bites should be cured with flowers. We have to collect twenty kinds of flowers and mix them together. There is no other cure." Upon hearing this, Shui Bo frowned and shook his head and sighed.
"Mr. Shui also knows medicine?" Without waiting for Si Yao to speak again, Xiao Lu couldn't help but ask curiously.
"I'm not an expert in medicine, but I do have some interest in poisons. I've been following you for more than ten years and have learned a little about them." Shui Bo waved his hand and said modestly.
Xiaolu glanced silently at the cup of tea he had just finished drinking, and secretly rejoiced in his heart: Fortunately, Shui Bo is a kind-hearted person.
"Oh, I remember now!" In the silence, Shui Bo suddenly shouted in surprise, stood up suddenly and continued to Si Yao: "Although there is no antidote for the flower bite poison here, Mr. did prepare a bottle of medicine to delay the poison in his early years. After all, such a strange poison from the Western Regions is hard to find in the Central Plains, and the medicinal materials for the antidote are hard to find, so Mr. spent a lot of energy to make this medicine to temporarily save his life. But it has never been used, and I don’t remember where it is now. Please sit down, I will go to the medicine room to look for it."
As Shui Bo spoke, he turned around and walked out. Si Yao and the other three were extremely happy to hear this. This was truly a pleasant surprise!
After waiting for a long time without seeing Shui Bo coming, Xiaolu and Caiyi could not sit still and got up to look around. They came to the inner room and saw that this place looked like a medicine room. The beams were hung with strong-smelling medicinal herbs, and a huge "Inner Canon of Medicine" was hung on the north wall.
"This picture is really interesting. There are buffaloes plowing the fields, children sitting on wheels and playing, and I wonder what the woman is doing? And what is the strange thing that child in the middle is doing?" Caiyi didn't know what the picture was and couldn't recognize the meaning of the words on the picture, so she asked Xiaolu curiously.
"This is the Neijing Diagram, which is made according to the acupuncture points of the human body. It is a Taoist health-preserving method, and uses the Taoist alchemy classics to explain the circulation of the human body's internal organs, the Ren and Du meridians, and the twelve meridians." Although Sanxiu Pharmacy also has the "Nei Jing Diagram", Xiaolu does not have a deep understanding of it, so he can only give a simple summary of this sentence.
Caiyi couldn't even read a few words, so how could she understand what Xiaolu said? She could only stand there with her mouth half open, feeling very embarrassed, and didn't dare to open her mouth to ask any more questions.
It was not until the sky gradually darkened that Shui Bo came out of the medicine room with a white medicine bottle. After lighting the candle in the room, he handed the medicine bottle to Si Yao and instructed: "Take one pill each on the first and fifteenth day of each month. There should be enough for two years in this."
"Thank you, Mr. Shui." Si Yao bowed to Mr. Shui gratefully, and then said, "How about I just take one year's supply..."
"No, just take them all just in case. We'll prepare some more when you come back and have time." Before Si Yao could finish, Shui Bo waved his hand and smiled, then looked at the darkness outside and said, "It's getting late. Let's stay here tonight. Will it not bother your friend?"
"It won't delay, I'm just afraid of causing trouble for Shui Bo." Si Yao also smiled slightly.
"If it's you, don't bother. I'll go prepare the food!"
Shui Bo smiled disapprovingly and hurried back to the kitchen. The three of them didn't want to sit around doing nothing, so they followed him to help.