Chapter 243 The Box in the Wall
Wang Ye seemed in pain, with blue veins on his forehead swelling and his eyes turned red. He tried hard to break free from Jingwen's hand. "Listen to me, you are still young, so why not abort the child now. If you have the care of the Crown Princess, you will definitely be safe in the palace. But if you have this child in your belly, you will have no other way out except to escape from the palace and live a displaced life."
"It's okay, really, I'm not afraid of a displaced life. It's enough for me to be with you."
Jingwen panicked and grabbed Wang Ye's hand and begged carefully: "Didn't you say you can take me to a small place where no one knows? Then you go out to see someone's medical treatment and I'll cook for you at home. We don't seek wealth, but only warmth. This is the case? Isn't this okay?"
Her voice was already trembling with humble pleading, and tears in her eyes were already overflowing.
"Jingwen, don't do this. I'm not worth your contribution to me. You should have a better future." Wang Ye tried hard to break free from her hand, but he realized at this time that a woman's strength could be very strong, so great that he could not get rid of it even if he tried his best.
"No, I have paid, I have paid without reservation. You know, I don't want anything better for a better future, I want to be with you. I am not greedy, I just need to be with you, will this not work?"
Jingwen grabbed the man in front of him tightly. He was not handsome and could even be said to be ugly. However, she just liked him, liked to see his seriousness when he focused on lectures, liked to see his confidence when he was diagnosed and treated, and liked to see his loving eyes when he touched himself.
"But, but..." Wang Ye couldn't speak.
"Are you afraid that I can't escape from the palace because I am a female doctor? It doesn't matter, the Crown Princess said that she will help us find a way. Moreover, even if we can't walk out of the palace openly, the Crown Princess will find a way to send me out of the palace. You must be worried about this, right?" Because of this, Jingwen seemed to have caught a life-saving straw. She hoped that Wang Ye would think so. He was just worried, not that he didn't want her anymore.
"This is one, but there is another." Wang Ye sighed deeply. He couldn't bear to see Jingwen so humble, nor could he stand her begging like this. He originally thought that his heart could be as cold as ice and as hard as a stone, but in fact, he appeared from Jingwen's tears, and he was still a flesh and blood person.
It turns out that the feeling of loving people is that the heart will hurt when you see her tears.
Wang Ye smiled bitterly, it turned out that his heart would still hurt.
Wang Ye no longer tried to break free, but his hand was released. He stretched out one hand to wipe the tears from her face. "I also thought I could finally live like a normal person, even if... but God still didn't want to let me go. I can't live this year."
"What, what do you say, how is it possible? Where are you feeling uncomfortable? I beg the Crown Princess to show you that her medical skills are so magical, and she will definitely make you okay." Jingwen looked Wang Ye up and down in panic, but she did not find any discomfort in him.
"No, it's not like this." Wang Ye pulled Jingwen and sat down together, "Don't be afraid first, I'll tell you slowly."
Seeing that Jingwen had indeed become quiet, Wang Ye spoke again, "I was poisoned, but I haven't found the antidote yet. If I haven't found it before New Year's Eve, I'll die."
"You are poisoned? Let Doctor Tang show you that he is not from the Tang family of the poisonous sect, and he should be able to detoxify."
"It's useless. He can't cure this poison. Moreover, don't tell anyone else about me, the Crown Princess, and Tang Zhongchun, it's not OK."
"Why?"
"Since I can't solve it, why bother them to worry? Moreover, I will find another solution. Maybe in a few days, I will find the antidote."
"Really?"
"Really, if I could live, who would want to die? I will definitely find a way." Wang Ye promised gently.
Jingwen burst into tears and smiled and gently touched Wang Ye's arms.
*
In the yard, Mo Xiao had already piled up a big snowman, Caoguo's eyes, carrot nose, lips made of two big belly skins, one hand is a snow-sweeping shovel, the other hand is a clothes rail.
"You are so ugly, not as good as mine. You actually use your big belly skin as your lips, as if you are poisoned, ugly, ugly, too ugly." Tang Zhongchun walked over, looked at him and shook his head.
Jingwen, who had just walked out, was stunned and looked at Wang Ye who was a foot away. His lips were indeed a little dark. So, he was really poisoned. If the poison he said was true, then the antidote would not be found. Jingwen felt ache in his heart. Who actually poisoned the imperial physician? What kind of poison was actually Wang Ye had no choice. Moreover, he also determined that the imperial physician Tang of the Poison Sect and the Crown Princess who had superb medical skills had no choice?
"Hey, Jingwen, you're out." Mo Xiao saw Jingwen and Wang Ye appearing one after another, and Jingwen's face still had a faint smile. She felt relieved and walked over and took Jingwen's hand, "Let's go and see Tang Zhongchun's. He said he was beautiful, so I don't believe it."
Mo Xiao pulled Jingwen away. Wang Ye looked at the snowman that Mo Xiao piled. It was really ugly, but he knew that she must be very happy.
His memory drifted to a long time ago, in the distance, another place was almost snowing. Except for the coldest days, there was a layer of snow on the distant mountaintop. The girl who liked snow always looked at the distant mountaintops, but the mountain was too high and the road was too dangerous, and no one dared to let the girl go up the mountain. Four young men, who were about the same age, discussed it together, and sneaked out after dinner until it was almost dawn. They finally reached the place where there was snow on the top of the mountain, put a large bag with sacks, and then walked down the mountain desperately. In order to hurry, they almost didn't look at the road, their faces fell and their arms were scratched, but the bag in their hands was tightly held tight and never loosened.
It was already dawn and they had also rolled home. The beautiful little girl looked at them with surprise. They opened the bag like a treasure, but the snow had melted half. They all tied their heads one by one, but the little girl smiled and pinched a little snowman with the remaining snow. The little snowman melted in a moment and turned into a pool of water, reflecting the girl's face that was smiling red.
He thought that if that were the case, it would be good to live a lifetime, but the life of waiting for someone to give him an antidote reminded him that such a life belongs to someone else and he cannot live.
This year, he didn't even need to wait like this because the man was dead, but he didn't tell him where the antidote was.
*
As the end of the year approaches, Mo Xiao is getting more and more idle, but the flowers are blooming, but they are getting busier and busier. Sometimes, Mo Xiao has gone out before he gets up and comes back when he falls asleep.
On that day, Hua Jingkai finally said that there was nothing wrong today and she had to spend the whole day with her wife. As a result, after having breakfast, she was called out to the palace by the prefect of Tianjing.
After supper, the flower scene came back with a little bloody smell.
"What's wrong?" Mo Xiao asked.
"Do you remember telling you last time that the Qian Mansion was burned?"
"Remember, what's wrong?" It's related to the Qian Mansion again? Mo Xiao was stunned.
"Well, this time, a tramp's body was found inside, but it was not burned, but was killed by someone. The weapon was a stone in the garden. But who would kill a tramp in an abandoned house?" Hua Jingkai was very confused.
"Will it be that the homeless men competed for territory and had the wrong move during the fight. When the others saw someone dead, they scattered?"
"There are no traces of other people who have lived on the scene, and there are no traces of many people fighting. Judging from the time when the corpse died, it was after heavy snow. Logically speaking, if other homeless people fought, at least there should be footprints on the snow. However, there was no other person except the footprints of the dead."
"It's not a ghost when it's blue and white."
"It's really a rumor among the people, saying that the Qian Mansion is haunted. Except for the homeless man who has no place to go, everyone else walks away quickly."
"Is there no clue at all?" Mo Xiao asked again.
"It's not that there is no place. The scene of the deceased did not appear. I found some suspicious things in the burned house. It was burned, and it seemed that someone had stolen into the Qian Mansion to search for something. Although the man was very careful, he still left a flaw."
Hua Jingkai took out a piece of paper from his arms and unfolded it in front of Mo Xiao.
"Look, this is the fresh fingerprint I took off from the door as you mentioned before. I compared it. It was not the deceased, and I always thought the fingerprint looked familiar, so I deliberately asked someone to go to Sanyang County and got the fingerprint of Eucommia placed in the clinic. I compared it and guess what the result is?"
"It's Du Zhong!" Mo Xiao was shocked. He didn't catch him at that time. He thought he had escaped from Beijing, but he turned out to be hiding in Beijing and actually ran to Qian Mansion to search for things.
"So, the homeless man must have seen Eucommia udon, so he was killed to silence him. Eucommia udon is so hateful. He first killed Niuko and then Miaolin. Now he doesn't even let go of a homeless man." Mo Xiao slapped the table in anger.
"But, what else did he do when he went to the Qian Mansion? He has already obtained all the poison, medical, and art books?"
"I understand, he should be looking for an antidote. At that time, Imperial Doctor Qian said that he used poison to control Eucommia ulmoides and let him use it obediently. This poison must be taken once a year. I think Imperial Doctor must not find clues to the antidote in the poison book, so I took the risk of going to Qian Mansion to search to see if Doctor Qian left a ready-made antidote."
After Mo Xiao finished speaking, he suddenly stood up, "I have a way!"
*
On the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, heavy snow fell from the sky.
The year has not arrived and it is very cold, but Dongzhi Street is very lively today.
The original Qian Mansion, the imperial doctor Qian's mansion was given to the prince as a villa by Emperor Huashun. The prince converted it into a medical museum, which has been completed today. To celebrate the completion of the celebration, the prince ordered the imperial chef to cook ten tables of banquets, and placed them on Dongzhi Street outside the door, inviting neighbors nearby to come and have a meal.
As soon as the big red tables and chairs were placed, people around came around. At first, they didn't dare to sit down. Later, some older people were brave enough to sit down. There were really some pretty little palace maids who brought the dishes and served the meal. When the others saw that, hey, no one was rushing to entertain them. Who wouldn't like such beautiful things? So there were more people sitting here. When someone started, the others squeezed over to find a seat to sit.
Mo Xiao and Hua Jingkai arrived before the banquet started.
"The prince and the princess are here!"
The eunuch who accompanied him sang.
Everyone was panicked and was about to get up and kneel down to pay their respects when they heard the eunuch singing: "The princess and princesses are exempted from the courtesy of all the neighbors and people. Please sit in your place with peace of mind."
Mo Xiao and Hua Jingkai entered the main seat in the middle of the main entrance. Not long after they entered the seat, they saw a person presenting a box with a large lock on it.
The people below started talking.
"Do you know the origin of that box?"
"I heard that it was found from the wall during reconstruction. The box was made of fine iron, and the lock was a nine-hole chain lock."
"That must be the one who stayed behind. Imperial Doctor Qian has been an imperial physician for more than ten years. Those who can let him see a doctor are all powerful figures. The rewards have never been stopped all year round. I'm afraid there are priceless treasures here."
"I think it's not just a reward. You think that Doctor Qian has always collected rare medicines from Luotian, even thousands of years of fish glue. This box that has been collected so closely is probably a more precious medicinal material than fish glue."
"Well, it makes sense, it makes sense. Fortunately, it fell into the hands of the Crown Princess. The Crown Princess is kind-hearted and will definitely make good use of these medicinal materials."
"Yes, yes, the Crown Princess, that's our great benefactor."
People's discussions came into the ears of a middle-aged man with a weird appearance. He seemed to suddenly think of something, and looked at the box in front of the crown princess with a hot light in his eyes.
Dongzhi Street has been lively for the middle of the night, and finally, even the banquet that I was reluctant to leave was when the food was cold.
Mo Xiao fiddled with the box for a long time, but now he can't open the box without a key.
"Forget it, let's take it back to the palace and study it slowly." Hua Jingkai suggested.
“Okay.”
So Mo Xiao brought the selves box to the palace together.
It was getting deeper at night, and Mo Xiao hugged Hua Jingkai and entered a sweet dream. The tall palace wall rolled into a black shadow. He seemed to be familiar with Yongfu Palace. He did not hesitate for a moment and finally arrived at the locked warehouse.
The lock is the most common type of lock. When the man in black stirred the universal key in his hand, the lock opened with a snap. He seemed to smile on his face covered with black scarf. He slipped in gently and then closed the door. He easily found what he wanted to find on the shelves, a small box made of fine iron. Just as he opened the door with the box in his arms, someone who was absolutely impossible to appear at the door appeared at this time.
"Eucommia, long time no see!" Mo Xiao looked at the man in front of him coldly. Yes, he was Eucommia. Although she was covered in a black scarf, she recognized her at a glance.
Chapter completed!