Zhang Ergou agreed and translated Li Shengjie's words into Japanese and told the assassin, but he was too afraid to move his gaze to the assassin's wound, let alone look him in the face.
After listening to Zhang Ergou's words, the assassin looked at the exposed white bones on his arm, was silent for a long while, and finally spoke, but his tone was much calmer.
After listening to the assassin, Zhang Ergou finally breathed a sigh of relief and said to Li Shengjie, "Young Captain, the assassin is willing to be summoned! He is willing to be summoned!"
Li Shengjie felt relieved after hearing this and immediately said, "Okay, first ask him what the poison he used is made of and how to neutralize it?"
Zhang Ergou talked to the assassin and reported back, "The assassin said that the poison he used was a secret drug from their sect. It was made by mixing the feces and corpses of humans, pigs, dogs, etc., waiting for them to rot and breed maggots, and then using the maggots that grew from them to make the poison. Anyone who is poisoned will rot and die after three or two days. Although this assassin is somewhat well-known in the sect, only the sect leader knows the specific method of making the poison, and it has always been said that there is no antidote for this poison, and once poisoned, one can only wait to die..."
"What! There is no cure?" Li Shengjie has spent quite a long time in Japan since he was a child, and he can understand a few words of Japanese. From the tone and content of what this Japanese pirate said, it doesn't sound like he is lying. If it is true as he said, is his father really going to die like this
Thinking of this, Li Shengjie panicked. His legs went weak and he sat down on the chair behind him, tears almost welling up in his eyes.
Qiu Yizi saw this and leaned over to comfort him, "Young Captain, don't panic. There is no way that any poison can't be cured. Even if what this pirate said is true, there is no guarantee that he is not knowledgeable enough and cannot understand all the secrets of the sect he mentioned."
After saying that, Qiu Yizi raised his head and said to Zhang Ergou, "Ergou, ask him which sect this person is from?"
Zhang Ergou agreed and asked the man a question in Japanese.
The assassin seemed to hesitate for a moment, and finally sighed and replied.
Zhang Ergou nodded and said, "Go back to the young master's house. He said he is from Sancun."
"What? Sancun family?" Li Shengjie stood up suddenly and stared at Zhang Ergou with wide eyes. "Ask them clearly and don't frame a good person!"
Zhang Ergou was originally short, and Li Shengjie's sharp eyes made him look three inches shorter. He quickly confirmed with the assassin and turned back to say, "Young Captain, he said it was from the Sancun family... If you don't believe me, you can look at the emblem on the lining of his clothes and you will know..."
After hearing this, Li Shengjie uttered an "hmm" and did not go to search in the corner of the assassin's robe. He also did not care that Qiu Yizi and He'er were still in the room. He said to Zhang Ergou and another sailor, "You must keep a good eye on this assassin. You cannot leave for a moment, and you cannot let him die in a short time." After that, he left the room without looking back.
Qiu Yizhi was also impatient, but she didn't expect that Li Shengjie, the young captain, would be so impatient. She quickly chased after him, grabbed him and asked, "Young Captain, what's going on? Why are you in such a hurry?"
Li Shengjie turned his head and said, "There may be eavesdroppers here. Lord Qiu, why don't you follow me to dad's room and I will tell you in detail." After that, he walked forward quickly.
Li Shengjie spoke in a firm and decisive tone. Qiu Yizhi had heard this tone once when he followed Li Shengjie to break out of the siege of the Japanese pirates. Just based on this decisive tone, Qiu Yizhi immediately determined that Li Shengjie was definitely not an ordinary person, so he followed him and finally arrived on this giant ship.
Therefore, after listening to Li Shengjie's words, Qiu Yizi thought that he must have heard some extraordinary news from the Japanese assassin, so he quickly asked He'er to go back to Wen Lingjiao first, and he quickened his pace and followed closely.
The two walked all the way to Li Zhi's room, gently pushed open the door, and saw Li Zhi barely supporting his body, half lying on the bed, reading a book in his hand. Although his complexion was better than before, he still looked pale and bloodless.
When he saw Li Shengjie and Qiu Yizi coming, he put down his book and greeted them with a smile: "Master Qiu is here to visit me again? Jie'er, why don't you go and pour tea for Master Qiu?"
Li Shengjie refused and went out to tell the sailors who were guarding on both sides to leave and not to eavesdrop outside the door. Then he came back in and closed the door tightly.
Seeing his son's unusual behavior and pulling Qiu Yizi over, Li Zhi knew that he must have something important to tell him, so he put on a serious expression and said, "Jie'er, didn't I tell you that your father is not in good health now? If you have any problems, you can discuss it with Old Cai and make your own decisions. Why did you invite Lord Qiu here? Did something big happen on the ship?" After saying that, he couldn't catch his breath and started coughing.
Seeing his father's frail appearance, Li Shengjie swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue and quickly sat down next to Li Zhi, stroking his back and saying, "It's nothing serious. The assassin just told me the composition of the poison..."
Li Zhi's eyes flashed with enlightenment, and he stopped coughing: "This is a good thing. Now that we know the composition of the poison, we can prescribe the right medicine. Maybe I can recover soon!"
"That's right... the assassin didn't explain it clearly, so I'm afraid it's hard to find the right treatment. He also said that there is no antidote for this medicine, which doesn't seem to be an exaggeration..." Li Shengjie said.
Li Zhi's hope, which had just been ignited, was extinguished by Li Shengjie's words, and the room suddenly fell silent.
But Qiu Yizhi said, "We can't trust everything the Japanese say. In my humble opinion, Mr. Lin Shuhan is quite knowledgeable in medicine. We should invite him here to discuss the matter first, and then invite famous doctors for consultation. There will always be some effect, and then slowly nurse the old ship owner back to health, and the old ship owner's injury will slowly heal."
After Qiu Yizhi finished speaking, seeing that Li Zhi and Li Shengjie had no objection, he opened the door to find a sailor to invite Lin Shuhan. Unexpectedly, the sailors at the door were all sent away by Li Shengjie. Qiu Yizhi shouted loudly for a long time before calling a sailor and asked him to go find Lin Shuhan.
Lin Shuhan arrived quite quickly, but after hearing what Li Shengjie said about the composition of the poison, he could not help but frown and whispered to Qiu Yizi and Li Shengjie, "You two, please excuse me to go outside and talk."
But Li Zhi said, "Mr. Lin, if you have anything to say, why don't you tell me in person? I am already old, I have enjoyed all the happiness and suffered all the sins. Even if I die now, I will have made up for my losses. Are you still afraid of death?"
After hearing this, Lin Shuhan couldn't help but praise: "The old captain can say such a thing that he doesn't care about life and death. He is a hero among men. Naturally, I can't treat him as an ordinary coward. Then I will say it clearly..."
Li Zhi felt warm at heart after hearing this and said, "I have no regrets in my life to have received these comments from Mr. Bansong. If you have anything to say, please speak directly, Mr. Lin."
Lin Shuhan nodded, stood up and paced a few steps in the room, unfolding and closing the folding fan in his hand two or three times, and then said: "In my humble opinion, everything in the world follows a cycle, and poisons are the same. No matter what kind of poison, as long as it can be circulated and excreted in the human body, the toxicity will naturally be eliminated. However, if it is really as the Japanese said, the poison that the old ship owner was poisoned with is difficult to eliminate..."
Lin Shuhan carefully considered his words and said, "The Japanese are too vicious in using poison. You should know that most poisons in the world, whether it is snake venom, bee venom, frog venom, scorpion venom, mandrake, or heartbreak grass, are always circulating in the body. Although the toxicity is different, as long as the right medicine is used and adjusted, there is nothing that cannot be eliminated. Even arsenic, which is an anti-heaven and unreasonable thing made by quacks in their spare time to make elixirs and medicines, is not completely impossible to eliminate. However, the poison used by the Japanese is actually made from feces and corpses. How vicious their intentions are!"
At this point, Lin Shuhan gnashed his teeth and said, "Feces and corpses are all at the end of their metabolism and can only be discarded. They can use these things to make poisons, and they even thought of using maggots to gather the poison. It's really crazy!"
Li Shengjie was so anxious that he had no time to listen to Lin Shuhan's curses. He interrupted him and asked, "Then Mr. Lin, how can we resolve this poison?"
After hearing Li Shengjie's question, Lin Shuhan's spirit immediately dissipated a lot, and he sighed, "After all, I am not very skilled in learning, and I can't think of any way to dissolve this poison. But young master and old master, don't be discouraged. If there is poison in the world, there must be an antidote. Moreover, this poison is made of ordinary ingredients after all, and there seems to be room in the medicinal properties to prevent the poisoned person from dying immediately. In my opinion, there must be an antidote in the world! But this antidote, I am afraid, only the person who poisoned the poison has it..."
Li Zhi also sighed after hearing this and said, "I have always been on equal terms with the Japanese pirates in my trade and have never kowtowed to them. It seems that in order to save my life, I have to break the rules. The journey to Japan is not short. Even if I set sail now, it will take three or four days with favorable winds and tides. I am afraid that my body can't support it..."
"Oh, that's fine." Lin Shuhan said, "Although the old captain is old, his body is much stronger than that of an ordinary young man. And the deceased Gu Erniang is indeed well versed in detoxification, and the antidote she prepared is very effective. If the old captain can take the medicine on time and pay attention to recuperating his vitality, I guarantee with my life that the old captain can last at least a month!"
"One month? Good! That's enough, that's enough!" Although Li Zhi was a very cunning man, when he heard that he might not die, his face suddenly flushed. He smiled and asked Li Shengjie, "Jie'er, now it's up to you. Go ask the assassin. Is he from the ninja sect in Japan? It doesn't matter if you can't find out. I offended the Oda family a few days ago. I guess it's most likely someone from Igali."
"No... No... Dad, he was not sent by Igali..." Li Shengjie said in a voice so soft that even he could barely hear it, "He just said that he was from the Sancun family..."
"What!" Li Zhi was shocked when he heard it. He even threw the book in his hand far away. "What did you say? He is from Sancun? Everyone knows that Sancun is the power of Maori. What is the relationship between Maori and me? If it weren't for the 1,000 taels of gold I gave him, he wouldn't be the head of the family today! What right did he send someone to harm me? This assassin must be slandering me!"
Li Shengjie believed what the assassin said based on his own judgment. However, his father's doubts shook his original firm confidence. He thought for a while and said, "Dad has some truth in what he said. However, this assassin was punished so severely, but he still thought of framing others. He is really a man..." (To be continued)