Chapter 237: The Frost of the Soul and a Pot of Wine
After about half a cup of tea, the shopkeeper of the restaurant was carrying a small and refined vegetable box with bamboo carved painted gold. He walked to the door and handed it to Xiao Anzi, and said helplessly: "I am a guest when I enter the door, and I am my parents for food and clothing. But I still have to pack up the side dishes scattered on the ground, so I have to work hard to get the guests. You, turn right and send it to Xinglin Bai Herbal Medicine Store."
Xiao Anzi took the vegetable box, turned around and handed it to Ke Yue behind him, with a embarrassed face and said with a wry smile: "The foolish man's legs and feet are not flexible, so let his daughter go!"
After saying that, he lowered his head and pulled the little girl's hand, and said angrily: "Let's go, go home with me, and make trouble again next time, be careful of my broken legs."
Then, the three of them followed out of the restaurant.
"She is still a child, so don't punish her when she gets home. Besides, is there something wrong with the waiter?"
The shopkeeper saw the timid little girl, which was very pitiful, and followed everyone behind him and whispered to love.
The three of them stepped out of the threshold and walked towards each other. Ke Yue deliberately slowed down and walked north alone slowly.
It was only a dozen steps away from the gate of "Apricot Forest Hundred Grasses", and I met the waiter who was rushing back quickly.
The waiter saw Ke Yue holding the vegetable box, hurriedly stopped, bowed and said, "Miss, I'm working hard, let's go and deliver the dishes in the medicine shop! I accidentally frightened my little sister and felt very guilty."
"You'd better go back to the store to greet the customers. The girl was just off the way, thinking about going to Xunhua to grab a pair of herbs. It's a slight effort, so there's no need to be humble."
When Ke Yue saw the waiter, she was not restrained, smiled and said softly.
"Ah~, the girl doesn't know. The pharmacy suddenly closed half a month ago and went out for no reason the next day. Manager Hua left without saying goodbye, and there was no trace of the store. The helpers in the store were also replaced. In a mess, what big things happened? The neighbors also said long stories, but there was no accurate news."
The waiter replied in surprise, with a hint in his words.
"It's okay. I'm a little wet and cold. I'm free and have nothing to do, so I'm going to try my luck."
Ke Yue took the conversation lightly, looking very familiar with the world.
The waiter went with the flow and stopped insisting. He took a few steps and turned around and instructed: "In troubled times, be careful in words and actions. You can hand over the food box to the pharmacy shop in front of the door. Go and pick it up in the afternoon."
When I arrived at the horse tying stake in front of the medicine shop, the "Weiwu" spy who was pretending to beg here yesterday and in the morning was gone.
"I can't guarantee that I've sneaked into the pharmacy to eat? I wonder if these people are drinking? Is the poison in the wine effective?"
Ke Yue thought to herself, her nervous heart was beating wildly, speculating about the situation in the drug shop at this time.
When it was proposed last night, Ke Yue wanted to take sweat medicine while drinking, and then she fainted, and then quietly entered the medicine shop and opened the dark room.
The one-armed old man disagreed. He believed that if he wanted to use sweating medicinal wine to charm several people with martial arts at the same time, the sweating medicinal medicine must be large, it is difficult to operate when poisoning, and the medicinal properties are slow. If someone from "Wu Wei" uses silver needle to test poison, or someone with deep internal skills, once he is aware of it, he can self-exercise and detoxify and have the opportunity to issue an alarm.
Then, all this will be wasted and all actions will be ruined.
In order to be safe in action, the old man took out his secret poison—poison.
There are three major poisons commonly used in the world: poison wine, arsenic, and crane red; this poison is at the top and turns into the wine without color and taste, so it is hard to prevent. The medicine is fast, and the poisoned person is almost incurable.
It is said that 白 is a kind of bird of prey in ancient times, with a slightly larger body than an eagle, and a loud and shrill sound. He lives by eating poisonous snakes. The "Yu Bu" used by Taoist priests to imitate their actions when catching snakes.
Therefore, the whole body is extremely poisonous, especially feathers. Any stream that has been bathed in poison will become a huge poison. Once people or birds drink it, they will be poisoned and die, and the death will be tragic.
Thinking of this, Ke Yue hesitated for a moment and raised her eyes alertly to patrol the drug shop.
The one-armed old man dressed up as a grandfather and grandson begging for food across the pharmacy. He nodded slightly to show his head in front of her eyes.
The old man's resolute and fearless eyes cheered up the girl Ke Yue, calmed her mind, and accelerated her pace.
As he stepped onto the steps at the door, Ke Yue stood and listened carefully, but it was abnormally quiet inside. He let out a long breath and raised his hand to pull the door, but suddenly he realized that the door was hidden.
Someone would like to ask why a staircase is built at the entrance of a shop for medical treatment and medicine? It is very inconvenient for patients to enter and exit. In fact, this wide step is to prevent the waterproof stones from flowing into the store in summer. The threshold is relatively low, so it is not easy to trip over customers entering the store, and it is more convenient to enter and exit.
Ke Yue pushed the door and walked into the medicine hall with a slight hand and feet, but there was no one there. There was a shrine placed against the wall, enshrined in the Medicine King God.
There are a row of carefully carved rosewood medicinal cabinets on the other two walls, with a connecting table in front. There are several pairs of stools on the table, and two chairs and stools on the side of the table.
She knew that Manager Hua had passed away, but she seemed to be able to feel his breath at this time when she was in the pharmacy.
Just as she was watching around, a gust of wind passing by with the aroma of strong wine floated through the back hall, but she didn't smell the noise of drinking, which made her feel strange, so she walked slowly towards the back hall to find out.
The layout of "Xinglin Baicao Shop" is very exquisite, and it is the classic pattern of "front shop and back shop". The front hall takes the pulse and asks for consultation and sells herbs; the back hall is a workshop for processing and making medicinal materials. The front hall is connected by a long corridor, and the overall color is quaint, simple and atmospheric.
After walking around the screen in the back hall corridor, I just stepped into the back hall and saw a ragged man lying beside the door, curled up and fell to the ground face down, with a pool of blood and vomit flowing under my head.
Ke Yue put down the food box and went up to look carefully. This person was the secret spy who pretended to be a beggar under the horse stake in front of the door. He bent down and reached out to find his breath, and he was already dead.
"What awesome poison wine!"
Ke Yue saw the powerful effect of poison for the first time, and couldn't help but secretly call herself a surprise. Her steps quickly moved in, and bursts of disgusting, with an unpleasant sour smell and bloody smell coming to her face.
Looking up, seven or eight men fell under the square table where the herbs were processed. Their bodies were covered with messy herbs and vomit mixed with black blood, and they were in a mess and very disgusting.
Several pieces of wine bowls and two silver needles for testing poison were scattered on the table, but the food was neatly arranged and there was a slight white breath. It can be seen that the toxicity of poisoned wine was fatal in an instant. Some poisoned people fell to the ground and vomited blood before they could even put down their wine bowls.
Ke Yue didn't dare to be negligent, so she stepped forward quickly, carefully picked up the wine jar, filled an empty wine bowl on the table, then took out the yellow ribbon hidden in her arms, dipped it in the wine bowl, and then deliberately threw the yellow silk to the ground.
The book secretly stated that her simple plan to frame the blame and falsely laid a foreshadowing for the later arrogant "anti-sex youth stormtrooper".
Then, he rushed back to the medical consultation desk of the medicine hall, grabbed the pen and ink, and hurriedly wrote the four words "Today's closing". Before the ink was dry, he held the letters in his hand and flew towards the gate.
Ke Yue opened the door, leaned over and patted the page around, reached out and put the letter on the door, and waited for the one-armed old man next to the door to take the opportunity to flash into the pharmacy.
Ke Yue inserted the door bolt, and the two looked at each other and smiled, and walked straight to the medicine cabinet where the secret room was hidden.
Chapter completed!