In the dark night of the mountains in midsummer, the temperature is much lower than during the day. The moonlight is a bit hazy and there are no stars. The sky is not pure black, but black with infinite deep blue, stretching far away.
There were two fires at the front and back of the tent, which drove away the cold air and moisture from the surrounding area. The surrounding area was warm and soon attracted the sleepiness in me.
I was able to sleep in the tent but couldn't, and now I want to sleep but can't. I smiled bitterly.
I sat outside the tent, trying my best to keep my eyes open and resist the sleepiness that frequently came over me.
Suddenly a gust of wind came, causing the flames on the fire to sway uncontrollably. I suddenly noticed that there was a black shadow on the ground. It looked like it was hiding behind the tent and looking at me through the tent.
The wind rustled in the jungle, the flames floated here and there, and the black shadow appeared and disappeared, which scared away my sleepyhead.
I looked back suddenly, but there was nothing behind me.
I walked around the tent behind me again and found nothing.
Am I dazzled?
There must have been something there just now. I didn't give up, so I took a torch and searched around.
At this time, I felt something crawling behind me. When I turned around and took a look, I was quite frightened.
I saw Xiangyu crawling on the ground, with disheveled hair, muttering something in his mouth, as if he was speaking English.
The person who was hiding behind the tent and looking at me just now didn't say it was her, right?
Is she sleepwalking again?
However, it feels like Xiangyu's current state is a little different from the state she was in when she was sleepwalking last night. It seems that she is conscious at this moment.
Just like now, after she discovered me, she stood up, grinned at me, and spoke a foreign language that I didn't understand.
"Xiangyu," I couldn't help but shout when I saw her walking over with a stupid smile on her face.
However, she seemed not to hear it and kept mumbling.
Suddenly, all the smiles on her face disappeared, her eyelids blinked a little heavily, she didn't speak, she stood unsteadily, her lips turned purple, and her pupils dilated slightly.
This situation is very similar to poisoning!
I felt nervous and hurriedly walked up to support Xiangyu who was about to faint.
Her body was very hot, she must have had a fever, but her hands and feet were cold.
The noise we made woke up Zhang Jisheng and Wang Zhishui. After they came out of the tent, they were a little overwhelmed when they saw Xiangyu in this state.
"Stephen, Professor Wang, let's carry her back to the tent. She seems to have been poisoned."
Xiangyu was on the edge of unconsciousness and her body was limp. The three of us struggled to carry her back to the tent.
"It's really a state of poisoning." Wang Zhishui looked at Xiangyu's dilated pupils and turned around and asked: "Jisheng, I don't know if it's food poisoning. I'll induce vomiting for her first. You guys hurry up and make a cup of strong tea.
Tea can quickly dissolve toxins in the intestines and stomach."
Zhang Jisheng hurriedly found the tea leaves, opened a few bags and soaked them in the kettle.
Wang Zhishui pinched Xiangyu's face with one hand, then put the other hand into his mouth and pressed Xiangyu's tongue. He pressed it a few times. Xiangyu made a "wow" sound and took the compressed biscuits he had eaten at night together with the stomach acid.
Spit it out.
While Xiangyu was still conscious, we fed her the tea.
After she drank the water, she didn't know whether she was tired or fainted, but she closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Wang Zhishui went back to his tent to change clothes. Zhang Jisheng and I were cleaning up the vomit in the Xiangyu tent. Both of us looked bad.
Gradually, sleeping Xiangyu's breathing calmed down, and her body temperature gradually returned to normal, which relieved our anxious expressions.
"Zhou Cang, what happened just now? Why was Xiangyu poisoned?" Wang Zhishui came back after changing his clothes and stood at the door of the tent, looking at me suspiciously.
Obviously, he is doubting me.
"I don't know either. I was keeping vigil and felt someone behind me, so I saw her coming out." I explained.
"We eat roughly the same thing. It's impossible for her to be poisoned but not for us." Wang Zhishui was still staring at me. Obviously, he didn't fully believe what I said.
"Where's the old gentleman?" Zhang Jisheng suddenly stood up and walked toward the old man's tent.
At this time, Wang Zhishui and I realized something was wrong at the same time. There was a lot of noise from the fuss just now, but the old man never showed up.
"Not in the tent!" Zhang Jisheng suddenly said.
About half an hour later, the old man still hadn't come back, and some of us were already a little uneasy.
"We still need to look for this person." Wang Zhishui said: "Zhou Cang, Jisheng, let's go separate ways, but don't go too far. If you can find him, come back quickly."
"Okay." My stepson and I nodded at the same time.
I was responsible for the southwest direction of the tent and searched for about ten minutes with a hernia lamp. There was no sign of the old man, so I returned to the tent. Wang Zhishui and Zhang Jisheng had not returned yet.
I looked at Xiangyu. He was breathing evenly and seemed to be fine. I sat in front of Xiangyu's tent and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Xiangyu’s symptoms just now are very much like being poisoned by datura. Because this plant is very common in my hometown, you can see it in the streets and even in the smelly ditches. It is a medicinal material and has
It has the effect of removing blood stasis and analgesic, but it is also a poison, so it is basically used for external application. Its toxicity mainly excites and then inhibits the central nervous system. The manifestation is that the poisoned person goes crazy first and then becomes stunned. This symptom is similar to the one just mentioned in Hunan
Yu’s symptoms are very consistent.
However, along the way, I didn't find any datura flowers in the mountains. The compressed biscuits I had for dinner were baked by me and they were absolutely safe.
Thinking of this, I walked into the tent, opened Xiangyu's kettle, and smelled it first. There was no peculiar smell.
Looking through the thermos pot, I really can't see anything unusual inside.
So, I went back to my tent and took out a milky white and transparent disposable raincoat.
I spread out my raincoat and poured the water from the kettle onto the raincoat.
Sure enough, the water showed a faint light green color. I took a closer look and saw that there seemed to be one or two small vein-like residues. I could see that they were indeed the veins of Datura datura.
Someone really poisoned Xiangyu.
Since only Xiangyu has this symptom, there cannot be a problem with the water source, so this is the only possibility.
After being poisoned by Datura, the poison lasted only a short time, so someone probably secretly mixed Datura's juice into Xiangyu's water while we were boiling water after dinner.
Who could it be? Zhang Jisheng, Wang Zhishui, the old man, or someone else?
I was guarding Xiangyu by the tent and fell asleep without realizing it.
I don't know how long I slept, but I was woken up by a sound. Zhang Jisheng and Wang Zhishui came back, and Zhang Jisheng was carrying the old man on his back.