The tip of Mo Fengying's nose twitched slightly, trying to smell the medicine man's breath. Seeing Mo Fengying's nose move, Song Ci tensed up subconsciously, not daring to be overly emotional.
Mo Fengying couldn't help being a little disappointed that she didn't smell the medicine man's breath.
At this time, the woman in the Cantonese couple spoke. She said, "Then why is Nangongxian's bow and arrow in Mo's house? We broke up, and her bow and arrow are still here, so it doesn't make sense."
Mo Fengying forgot about the medicine man for the time being, and calmed down her disappointment before speaking in a cadenced manner: "The year after Nangongxian returned to the capital, the emperor was critically ill. I heard that there was a strange beast in Shu, and the blood of that strange beast had improved With the effects of medicines, flesh and blood have miraculous effects, which can heal people who have been suffering from chronic illnesses, and the heart can even bring dying people back to life!"
"The emperor sent guards to look for strange beasts, but they searched for several months without success. At that time, Nangongxian was the most trusted soldier of the emperor, so the emperor ordered Nangongxian to lead a team into Sichuan to look for strange beasts! The emperor's order is hard to break, Nangongxian then led a group of people to go deep into Shu, found the ancestor, and went with him to find strange beasts."
"Nangongxian and his ancestors searched for two or three months in the area of Sichuan, and finally found the strange beast in a deep mountain. In order to take down the strange beast, Nangongxian fought hard with the strange beast, and finally killed the strange beast. The strange beast died, but it was also seriously injured and died."
"The ancestors buried Nangongxian's body in our family's cemetery for the sake of their love, and sent a pill made from the heart of a strange beast to the imperial capital. After taking the magic medicine, the emperor came back to life and fully recovered! The emperor bestowed a plaque with the words "Mo Family in the Land of Shu, the Holy Hand of the Country"! And Nangongxian was posthumously granted the posthumous title of Great General, and the descendants of the Nangong family will all enjoy the glory brought by Nangongxian, and fight for the country from generation to generation!"
Mo Fengying stepped onto the high platform and gently stroked the bright red bow and arrow. This sword, which was born and died with Nangongxian in the Southern and Northern Wars, has long since become a weapon full of soul. Hundreds of years have passed, and the Sun Chaser Arrow is still intact, exuding a cold atmosphere under the night light.
"The ancestors will never forget Nangongxian. Before he died, he personally placed Nangongxian's weapon Sun Chasing Arrow here, and it became the treasure of our clan!"
Mo Fengying tried to pick up the bow and arrow, but the bow and arrow did not move at all.
Mo Fengying seemed to have expected this to happen, and there was no embarrassment on her face. She said: "After the ancestor passed away, this bow and arrow also sealed itself. No one in this world can pick it up again."
For six hundred years, it has been enshrined here like this, absorbing the brilliance of the sun and the moon, waiting for the return of its master!
Everyone felt sorry for Nangong Xian's ending, and admired Zhu Rijian's loyalty to him. But Song Ci and Song Fei looked at each other after listening to the story, and they both saw suspicion in each other's eyes.
But there are so many people here that it is inconvenient for them to talk, so they can only communicate after the exam is over.
The exam time was approaching, and Song Ci stood at the 17th position according to the code. After waiting for more than ten minutes, the invigilator came.
There are five invigilators in total, and those five wear uniform invigilators. Behind him, the door of the Shensi Building opened, and five invigilators held incense, and solemnly and respectfully bowed three times to the statue of Mo Liansheng in the Shensi Building.
Ancestor Mo is the belief of this group of people, and the way of worship is like believers worshiping gods.
Behind them, the younger generations of the Mo family also paid homage, and it was embarrassing for foreigners to stand, so they followed suit. Mo Liansheng is a sage of medicine, so there is nothing wrong with paying homage to a sage of medicine before the exam.
After the tedious worship ceremony, the invigilator looked back and reminded all the candidates: "All candidates, follow me upstairs, the idlers, etc., are waiting outside the house!" After finishing speaking, the invigilator took the lead to step into the Shensi building.
Hearing this, Song Ci turned around and made a gesture of goodbye to Song Fei. Song Fei said something with her lips, but Song Ci couldn't hear it, but she guessed it. Song Fei was saying, "Just do your best."
Song Fei leaned against the stone platform on the square, and she watched Song Ci and the others enter Shensi Building, and when the gate was closed, she turned her head to stare at the Sun Chasing Arrow on the stone platform.
She remembered the story Mo Fengying told before, her eyes were full of mockery.
Mo Fengying's story is simply nonsense!
Song Fei believes that the so-called search for the "strange beast" is just a shocking scam from beginning to end, the purpose is to trick the medicine man Nangongxian to Shu, kill her and take her heart!
And the person who intentionally spread the rumor that 'a strange beast is in Shu' is the one who knows the identity of Nangong Xianyao and wants to use her life to achieve his own goals. This person is probably Mo Liansheng!
At that time, Mo Liansheng wanted the world to recognize his medical skills, so he had been waiting for an opportunity. Later, the emperor was critically ill, and the cunning and cruel Mo Liansheng knew the opportunity had come.
What else can prove medical skills better than bringing the emperor back to life
Therefore, he spread rumors of "strange beasts" to lure Nangongxian to Shu, and then pretended to accompany Nangongxian to find the strange beasts. And Nangongxian and Mo Liansheng were a couple who had loved each other, so what if Nangongxian was a female general, she was a woman after all.
And women, once they are poisoned by emotion, they seldom have time to be rational.
Nangongxian trusted Mo Liansheng with all her heart, so she would naturally trust Mo Liansheng with her back.
And then Mo Liansheng waited for the right time, took advantage of Nangongxian's inattention, stabbed her in the back, took her life, gouged out her heart, and then used her heart to refine "Fengchun Pill", and presented it to the emperor in the palace , Bringing the emperor back to life.
He also successfully won the reputation of "Mo family in Shu, the master of the country" bestowed by the emperor.
This Mo Liansheng's plot was really perfect!
Song Fei could suddenly understand why Song Ci's heart ached every time she saw the Sun Chasing Arrow, because in this world, apart from the murderer Mo Liansheng, only Nangong Xian's side weapon, the Sun Chasing Arrow, knew the injustice suffered by its master!
The master died unjustly, but the murderer has a great reputation, accepting the worship and respect of the descendants from generation to generation, how can Chasing the Sun Arrow have no resentment!
Sun Chasing Arrow, which accompanied its master Nangongxian to fight against enemies, has long since become a powerful weapon. After the master died, the Sun Chasing Arrow absorbed all the hatred and resentment of the master. After hundreds of years of immersion, the Sun Chasing Arrow has become an evil weapon!
No wonder the first time Song Ci saw this sword, she said that a woman was crying, and shed tears uncontrollably.
Song Ci went upstairs with the other candidates, all the while thinking about the story Mo Fengying told earlier. Her opinion, like Song Fei's, is that 'Looking for Strange Beasts' is a deliberate scam.
After she figured out Mo Liansheng's position in the deception, she suddenly had goosebumps all over her body, and her back felt chilly.
people
Song Ci found a place to sit down, but she was still distracted, until the invigilator began to explain the content and rules of the exam, Song Ci put away all her thoughts and concentrated on listening.
"In this first exam, what we want to assess is the ability of the candidates to distinguish the medicinal materials. Every candidate will be blindfolded when taking the assessment. Everyone can only distinguish the medicinal materials from the sense of smell and touch. name."
"Candidates are required to accurately state the name of each medicinal material, as well as the efficacy and growth environment of the medicinal material. The more medicinal materials that are answered correctly, the greater the hope of winning, and vice versa."
"In the first assessment, there are a total of 80 candidates. The elimination system will be adopted, and 30 candidates will be eliminated in the first round. Please seize the opportunity."
"The exam is fair and just, and there is absolutely no favoritism or cheating. Now, the candidates whose names I have called will consciously stand out, step forward, and accept the assessment!"
As soon as the content of the assessment was announced, many people's faces changed, especially the students who did not have enough medicinal materials, they directly gave a bitter face. Everyone is not blind, but blindfolded to identify medicinal ingredients, this Mo family is really perverted!
This kind of assessment method is very unfair to foreign students, because they have almost never done special training in this area. But the Mo clan is different. Their elders have all taken the exam. Even if they can't cheat for their children, they can still share their exam experience with the children.
With the experience of their parents first, this group of children must have received special training since childhood. When foreigners compete with Mo people, they can only be crushed.
Song Ci also showed surprise. He didn't expect the start to be so difficult. But she quickly regained her composure. At this point, there was no point in worrying.
Let's take a step and look at it.
"Number one, Wang Zhigang."
Wang Zhigang is a foreign student, in his forties, and the director of a famous Chinese medicine hospital.
Wang Zhigang stepped forward and was blindfolded.
Song Ci noticed that Wang Zhigang was a little nervous and his fingertips were trembling. The invigilator assistant randomly selected 20 kinds of medicinal materials from the countless medicinal material libraries for Wang Zhigang to identify. You know, there are more than 10,000 known Chinese medicinal materials in the world, and 20 kinds of medicinal materials are randomly selected to test candidates. This is really abnormal!
The comrade frowned when he touched the first medicinal material, because he realized that he was the blind man who felt the elephant. He knew that he was touching the root of a certain medicinal material, but he didn't know what kind of medicinal material it was.
Wang Zhigang carefully identified the smell of the medicine through his sense of smell, and then gave an answer uncertainly: "Chonglou?"
The invigilator did not answer.
Wang Zhigang didn't know what to do, so he explained the medicinal effect and growth environment of Chonglou, and then went to touch the second medicinal material.
This time, Wang Zhigang was even more at a loss.
What are these things
Wang Zhigang guessed a few answers, and the further he went, the deeper his frown became. By the time of the tenth medicinal material, Wang Zhigang had let himself go and started talking nonsense. "This is Star Grass. It smells bitter. Taking this medicine can improve eyesight, and you can see how many stars there are in the sky at night."
Song Ci: God damn can see how many stars there are.
The invigilator is also a black thread.
When Wang Zhigang finished the exam, both the invigilator and Wang Zhigang himself breathed a sigh of relief.
Wang Zhigang had already accepted the fact that he was going to be eliminated. He grabbed the blindfold and looked at the herbs in front of him, and found that they were all common herbs. Just because you are blindfolded and nervous, you acted really badly.
Noticing the gloomy faces of the invigilators, Wang Zhigang shook his head, with a complex and fragile tone, and said in a self-defeating manner, "I'm going to study Western medicine this time when I go back."
Chinese medicine made him bald day by day, and he was haggard. His belief in Chinese medicine successfully collapsed at this moment.
The invigilator comforted him dryly: "You are excellent, really, don't give up on yourself."
After finishing speaking, he picked up the list and shouted: "No. 2, Liu Quanneng."
Hearing this name, Song Ci wanted to laugh.
Liu Quanneng is a Chinese medicine doctor in his thirties. He is a teacher of Chinese medicine, and his family has opened a Chinese medicine clinic for several generations. But it was also the first time for Liu Quanneng to face such a perverted assessment, and the answers to the questions were all based on guesswork, but there are thousands of medicinal materials, which is not as simple as random guessing in the English test ABCDE.
He answered indiscriminately and rarely got it right.
As ambitious as his name is, the performance of the answer is as poor as it is.
Song Ci watched his colleagues being brutally kicked away one after another, and immediately admired Mr. Long. No wonder Mr. Long has been proud of being in the top three in the Mohist assessment all his life. He really has the confidence to be proud.
But when they were assessed on the twelfth, these foreign students finally saw the light. Number 12 is the 50-year-old uncle. Out of the 20 medicinal materials, he answered about 13 correctly, which is relatively excellent.
After him, other foreign students still performed badly.
Soon, it was Song Ci's turn.
"Number 17, Song Fei!"
When calling Song Fei, not only the invigilator cast a concerned look at Song Ci, but even the students from the Mo family behind him looked curiously at the legendary genius.
I don't know that Song Fei's attainments in Chinese medicine seem to be as deep as her in virology.
The young genius 'Song Fei' who has attracted much attention got up, and she walked to the examination platform with confident and calm steps.
The moment her eyes were blindfolded, Song Ci felt flustered. She touched the stone on her neck. It was the stone that Han Zhan brought back to her after a business trip, and she designed it into a necklace.
After touching the stone, Song Ci felt as if Han Zhan was by her side, and her chaotic heartbeat gradually calmed down.
"I'm ready."
Hearing that Song Ci said it was ready, the assistant invigilator placed the medicinal materials on the table in front of Song Ci. The assistant handed the first herb to Song Ci, and the invigilator said to her expectantly, "You have a minute and a half to give the answer, Song Fei, think it over before answering."
Hearing the reminder from the invigilator, Song Ci nodded. She moved her nose in the air, and smelled a cool and pungent smell of medicine.
Song Ci didn't even touch the medicinal material, so she said with certainty: "This is cool lotus grass, which smells like mint. It grows in a cool hillside area. The smell is cool and irritating, but it is a kind of poison that can make people produce Tingling. But this drug is also an antidote, and it has a good relief effect on people who are poisoned by anesthesia."
Seeing that Song Ci accurately stated the name and efficacy of the medicinal material just by smelling the smell, not only the invigilator nodded appreciatively, but the Mo family students behind him also showed surprised expressions.
This is a strong enemy!
The second medicinal material was presented to Song Ci. This time, Song Ci smelled a smell similar to Houttuynia cordata, but the smell was slightly different from Houttuynia cordata.
Song Cining thought for a while, then replied without hesitation: "This should be a mimosa. It grows in the soil where Houttuynia is concentrated. Because it is close to Houttuynia, it has the smell of Houttuynia. Mimosa is real. The smell should be sweet and greasy, this fruit is a kind of anti-heat medicine, dry the fruit and grind it into powder, take it with water, it can save heat stroke patients.”
The invigilator nodded again, and then presented the third medicinal material.
A total of 20 herbs, Song Ci only hesitated for a moment when facing the last one.
The smell of the medicinal material is very unique, very faint, and can hardly be smelled. Song Ci moved forward, put his nose close to the medicinal material, thought for a moment, and then said: "This is a kind of foot called a forest bird. Soak the dried feet in medicinal wine to strengthen the yang."
After speaking, Song Ci took the initiative to take off the blindfold and glanced at the thing. It was indeed a strangely shaped animal foot. Judging from its appearance, it was indeed the sole of a bird.
The invigilator didn't announce the score on the spot, but nodded in satisfaction to Song Ci, and Song Ci knew that his performance passed the test. She breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and walked back to her seat, but she didn't see the invigilator behind her looking at each other with surprise in their eyes.
Sitting among the crowd, Mo Fengying stared at the back of 'Song Fei' rather surprised. She had heard about Song Fei a long time ago, and knew that he was a virus expert. Together with Mr. Fu Hanshen's team, she developed an antidote to the Ebola virus.
Before that, Mo Fengying only regarded 'Song Fei' as a potential opponent who needed attention. But at this moment, after watching 'Song Fei''s answering performance, Mo Fengying pulled 'Song Fei' from potential opponents to the list of 'strong opponents'.
(end of this chapter)