Just like Ning Yujin suddenly asked Mo Jingxiao to stop midway, and then opened her innocent eyes and said to him: "My dear, dear and lovely His Highness Prince Ding, can you do us a little favor? Really?
Yes, it’s a very small favor!”
Mo Jingxiao raised his eyebrows and looked at her fawning and cute look. He wanted to laugh, but had to hold back his smile: "What's the deal?"
Ning Yujin knew there was something going on as soon as she heard this. She quickly pointed to the cliff next to her and said, "Can you send me up?"
"What are you going to do?" It was so dangerous at such a high place, and Mo Jingxiao's tone clearly didn't want to help her.
Ning Yujin quickly explained: "Did you see that little red flower blooming on the cliff? I want it..."
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt his horse's back relax.
Mo Jingxiao pushed lightly with his toes on the saddle and almost jumped halfway to the cliff. With another strong leap, he reached the top of the mountain.
The time it took for him to pick the flower and return to the horse only took a few breaths, and Ning Yujin didn't even react.
"Give."
His hands were already big, and the calluses on his knuckles represented great strength. He had to be careful when holding the little red flower, lest he accidentally crush all the delicate petals.
Big hands and small flowers, this combination looks exceptionally harmonious and beautiful.
Ning Yujin felt that she should be moved, but she really couldn't be moved now: "Master Xiao, we know that you are very good at qinggong, and you come and go without a trace, but what I want is not this flower, but the whole plant.
Plant.”
This flower is called Huoshuang. The leaves are silver-white, but the flowers are bright red, just like a fire blooming on the frosty ground.
She had been looking for it for a long time, thinking that it would take some effort, but she didn't expect that she had gone through all the trouble and couldn't find it, so it took no effort at all to get it.
Mo Jingxiao put the red flower on her head and stood up to go there again: "Then I'll get it for you."
This time Ning Yujin caught him with clear eyesight and quick hands: "You'd better take me with you. I'm more professional in picking herbs. The grass is so delicate that even if the roots are broken, it won't survive."
There are specialties in the art industry, but Mo Jingxiao is not strong in this area, and he is not trying to be aggressive. He immediately hugged Ning Yujin and flew them up the cliff.
It didn't look too bad from the bottom of the mountain, but looking down from the top of the cliff, Ning Yujin felt dizzy.
Mo Jingxiao grabbed a raised stone wall next to him with one hand, and held Ning Yujin's waist tightly with the other hand. In this way, she could let go of her hands to pick medicine without worrying about falling.
To be honest, in such an environment, she felt guilty even if countless safety ropes were tied to her. But Mo Jingxiao has the power to make you believe that he can ensure that you are safe and sound.
Huoshuang was too delicate, so Ning Yujin carefully dug for a long time before finally completing the collection.
She pulled out a silk handkerchief and wrapped it up. After thinking for a while, she was worried about it and was about to take off her coat to protect the grass. Mo Jingxiao quickly stopped her.
"There is a box on the horse's back."
Ning Yujin was immediately overjoyed: "Haha, you really get what you want. I have a hunch that we will definitely find the missing villagers today!"
As soon as she finished saying this, she was probably too happy, and her whole body couldn't help but lean back.
Mo Jingxiao only used one hand to protect her. He was so frightened that he almost subconsciously reached out and pulled her back.
However, when Ning Yujin came back to her senses, her expression changed drastically and suddenly became serious.
Mo Jingxiao thought she was frightened, so he quickly asked nervously: "Are you okay?"
Ning Yujin raised her head and looked at Mo Jingxiao, and said word by word: "I know how they control those villagers."
"What?"
Mo Jingxiao's eyes suddenly darkened, and his phoenix eyes suddenly became solemn.
"It's smoke." Ning Yujin turned sideways slightly, pointed to a valley in the distance and said, "Green smoke."
It was unintentional at first, but the moment she raised her head, she happened to see it.
It is impossible for normal smoke to show this color. The problems she could not figure out in those empty villages suddenly became brighter at this moment.
Water has a diluting effect. Even if poison is poured into a well, it will be diluted by a large amount of water into a very weak poison.
In her previous life, when she was ten years old, she had this question and asked her grandfather if there was any basis for the ancient story about poisoning a village in a well.
At that time, his grandfather replied that the poison used was arsenic, the most commonly used poison in ancient times. Its poisoning dose is between 0.005 and 0.05 grams, and its lethal dose is between 0.1 and 0.2 grams. It takes
If you imagine that a person could drink so much arsenic in a sip of water, even if all the arsenic in the country at that time were bought and thrown into a small well, it wouldn't be enough.
So when Mo Jingxiao said that Murong Xuan thought the well water might be poisoned, she became suspicious.
Well water poisoning, unless there is a large pollution source nearby, and there were no chemical plants in ancient times, is most likely due to mineral pollution.
But if there were large heavy metal mines nearby and they had lived here for generations, it would be impossible for them to have problems just now.
The source of the poisoning misled Murong Xuan and confused her.
But at this moment, when I saw the strange poisonous smoke, everything suddenly became clear.
If it were smoke, this degree of diffusion would easily explain how the villagers were poisoned in large numbers.
Looking through her sunglasses in the direction of her finger, she saw a wisp of green smoke drifting out from deep in a valley.
The valley was hidden among the mountains. If they hadn't happened to be on the top of the cliff, they wouldn't have been able to see the smoke, and they didn't know when they would be able to find it.
Ning Yujin couldn't help but sigh: "Look, if I didn't look around when I was riding, I wouldn't have seen Huoshuang. If I didn't see Huoshuang, I wouldn't have gone up the cliff, and if I hadn't come up, I wouldn't have seen the poison
Smoke, then we may have to continue searching aimlessly. It seems that there is God's will in the dark, and this sentence sometimes makes sense."
But at this moment, Mo Jingxiao suddenly said: "What you said is comparable to God's will."
Ning Yujin suddenly felt embarrassed: "Oh, don't praise me, I will be embarrassed."
Mo Jingxiao held Shi Bi's hand and let the two of them float down. His words floated faintly in the air: "I hope it's not a crow's mouth."
"..."
Ning Yujin was instantly splashed with cold water.
But at this time, Ning Yujin had no intention of worrying about anything. She took the box and packed the fire frost, and the two of them immediately ran towards the direction they had just looked at.
"Speaking of which, I am a road fool and cannot recognize the road. Your Highness Prince Ding, do you recognize it?"
"You think everyone is as stupid as you!"
"Hey, who just praised me for being smart! You are a prince and you have a golden tongue. How can you be inconsistent in your words?"
"Well, you are the smarter among the stupid."
Ning Yujin was once again driven crazy by Mo Jingxiao's anger.