"If you eat corpse poisonous grass, your hands and feet will become rigid?" She looked at Liu Ruhai beside her.
"Poisoned." He nodded, "The poison enters the meridians. If you don't detoxify in time like the young master, you will often die within a few days. After death, you will look like a zombie. But - people who are too poisonous and in good health will die in life.
My limbs are already stiff and my movements are poor."
Having said this, he looked at her carefully. There were occasional small skylights in the tunnel, which seemed to be opened in a remote part of the temple. The moonlight came in and the cold branches were dancing. She had a calm face, as if Master Miaolian in the underground was completely normal. She actually told him:
"I told Chen Ming that the medicine should not be taken and should be reported to the Marquis."
He didn't show his surprise. She didn't seem like someone who cared about Marquis Nankang. Or maybe she hadn't seen through Marquis Nankang yet? Song Chengming didn't care at all.
He held a bright-cornered lamp, and the dim yellow light shone on the granite steps, and also reflected on her face. He looked carefully, and there was no trace of tenderness or sadness in Cao Xiwan's eyes. It seemed that he did not think of Song Chengming, the Marquis of Nankang, when she mentioned herself
He put his big coat in front and stepped onto the tunnel entrance: "What about my situation? It seems to be different from the young master's poisoning?"
"A master who has never been born before." He laughed, "How can he be on the same level as a child?"
"You are right." She nodded carefully.
"Is the same true for Niu Lu?" He smiled, guessing that it was probably not her, so he asked.
"It's not me. Didn't you see the corpse poison grass in the corridor of the palace wall? He may have taken the poison and killed himself. When he went crazy, he stabbed himself to death." She explained kindly, but what she said surprised him.
Then the eunuch took poison by himself? committed suicide?
"Ghost Thorn is the fourth level of cultivation, but at the third level, you will go crazy. Have you forgotten? I have seen several people die like this when they are crazy." She gestured to commit suicide.
"..." Liu Ruhai didn't say anything for a while.
Is this the truth!?
If you think about it carefully, this is indeed the way it should be.
"Only I know about this. And -" she lowered her voice and sounded mysterious, "Niu Lu'er has dealings with the Lou family."
"..." He couldn't hold it back, "Really?" Aren't you jealous of Mrs. Hou?
She glared at him.
He thought that she was implying that the eunuch in the palace was secretly practicing Netherworld magic and eating corpse poisonous grass without permission. In fact, the eunuch might have heard some secret magic from Mrs. Hou's natal family.
"I'll check again." He muttered. She rolled her eyes.
Liu Ruhai stayed with her, feeling that she was in a relaxed mood when she arrived at the temple. He held a bright-horned lantern and waited with her at the tunnel entrance, waiting for the temple owner, Master Hui Ming, to leave the courtyard.
He heard the clanging sound of iron rods, and heard the strange sound of gold and iron coming from deep in the tunnel.
It seems that the master of Huiming Temple is closing the iron gate with his own hands.
He thought to himself, is this the bet she made with him?
He saw corpse poisonous plants everywhere in the corners of the ground and walls, in the dark and damp places.
And deep underground, there is a dying old nun.
Cao Xiwan had known about this herbal medicine for a long time, so she would not be poisoned easily and would stop taking the medicine by herself.
As for her becoming seriously ill and disabled, it was definitely not due to poisoning.
He suddenly raised his hand: "Check your pulse."
"..." She thought for a moment and then quickly reached out her hand to make this kid convinced that he had lost.
He closed his eyes and checked his pulse deeply.
The master of Huiming Temple walked out of the tunnel and stepped out of the room. He saw the golden mist in the moonlight, as hazy as gauze, Lady Cao raised her bright wrist lightly, and Liu Ruhai stood in the yard to diagnose her pulse.
When the two returned to the courtyard, it was the third watch and there was a path of silver frost.
The temple slave knocked on the door to report. Under the corridor of the temple in the front hall, the driver was tying up his carriage.
"It has never snowed again. The snow melts quickly, so we can still walk on the official road."
"Okay, thank you." He looked at Cao Xiwan, who was taking out pieces of silver and putting them next to the medicine stove for expenses.
She didn't seem to change her mind and insisted on rushing back overnight.
Liu Ruhai looked at the moon mist outside the window. He set off at this hour and entered the nine gates of the capital at dawn.
The temple slave resigned. He closed the door and turned around. Before she could speak, she said, "My father has the "Yuan Family Medical Book" in his hand. He doesn't read it very much. Just go and ask him for it."
"I don't dare to invite you." He smiled, "Master Tai, you also take corpse poisonous grass?"
"I don't know about this, she never mentioned it. I only know that she usually takes Luohan Golden Pill." She pointed to his chest, "The prescription is in your needle bag."
He was stunned, and quickly lowered his head and took out the embroidered needle bag from his arms. In the bag was a gift of eight hundred gold needles.
He carefully touched the interlayer. Sure enough, there was a prescription written on thin white silk, called Luohan Zijin Huoluo Dan.
He couldn't help but be overjoyed. It wasn't that he hadn't noticed the layer just now, but he didn't expect it to be the elixir used by Master Miaolian.
She looked at the boy and said, "It is written in the medical books of the master's wife that the Mongolian master used to collect various poisonous herbs into the elixir of longevity.
But the slave who ate it was half dead and half disabled. I never thought of eating the immortality pill from my wife. Maybe it was someone who had killed someone." She sat cross-legged on the kang, with lights in her eyes, "
You see, Shitai and I know each other, and I won’t be poisoned.”
She expected that when she met Master Tai at this hour, Liu Ruhai would not be able to tell that Miao Lian was seriously ill and her whole body was stiff.
She even learned a long-standing secret from her master's mouth.
In the Yuan Palace of the previous dynasty, there were occasionally masters practicing Nether Art, but they were often short-lived and disappeared silently after a few years. The world thought that the masters were living in seclusion or fleeing with Emperor Yuan beyond the Great Wall.
Now she knew that those people were fellow disciples of Master Miaolian and were also trained by the Mongolian master. They ended up being seriously ill just like Master Miaolian. They had no idea of their unique skills and could only hide their figures underground.
They and they are the twelve Buddha statues.
Merely cultivating will lead to such an outcome.
Liu Ruhai unfolded the white silk under the lamp and took a closer look, and found that in addition to the Zijin Arhat Pill prescription, there was a second prescription.
Unfortunately, I stopped writing only half of it. It seems to be the elixir of longevity, and I added a few sentences later: "Liu's medical book contains the other half of the prescription. I was lucky enough to see it when I was young, but I cherished it but did not remember it."
He glanced at her with a smile, and she immediately knew that what was written on the white silk must be related to the Immortality Pill.
"Want to see it?" Liu Ruhai asked.
"...take a look?" she said politely.
He handed it over, and she immediately took it in her hand, swept it under the lamp, and looked at him silently: "Do you have a prescription for the elixir of longevity?"
"Half. Otherwise, why would the palace invite me?" he asked.
She looked very friendly, handed the white silk back, smiled and nodded, and didn't ask anything else.
Liu Ruhai always knew that she had deep thoughts, and he would never guess it. At most, he knew that she was scolding him in her heart, but he was still not sure why she wanted to open a shop with him. Let alone other things?
If you want to fight with her, you can't do it without touching the city and keeping your temper.
The two of them packed up, and he carried the yellow wooden medical box that was always on his back. She actually didn't go back empty-handed. She packed up a package and put it on her back. There were a lot of things but not heavy, because the package was full of medicinal materials.
While he was laughing, they went to the front temple and took a bus together.