"Brother, I'm anxious—"
Huo Qinghong got up suddenly and looked at Huo Weilou pitifully. Huo Weilou frowned and waved his hands, but his gaze was still on Sun Zhao. Huo Qinghong's expression relaxed, and he walked out with the brocade box in his hand.
Eunuch Fu greeted him at the door, "My son—"
Huo Qinghong waved his hand, "Don't worry about me, father-in-law, I have a stomachache."
Huo Qinghong ran away in a hurry, Mr. Fu knew that he was used to recklessness, so he shook his head and didn't care about it, but just as he turned around, he saw Bo Ruoyou walking in front of him, Bo Ruoyou looked at Huo Qinghong leaving with some worry Direction, "Eunuch, do you want to go and have a look?"
Eunuch Fu smiled and said, "Your Majesty is no longer a child, it's fine."
Huo Qinghong's unbearable expression still appeared in front of her eyes, Bo Ruoyou shook her head and said, "Elder-in-law, you'd better follow along to have a look, just now I saw Shizi's expression of distress, I'm afraid it's not as simple as being anxious."
She looked solemn, and Eunuch Fu looked suspiciously, and then glanced at the direction Huo Qinghong was leaving, and hurriedly followed, Bo Ruoyou's brows and eyes were full of worry, I just hope it's not what she guessed.
Turning around, Huo Weilou looked at her, "Why?"
"Seeing that the son is a little uncomfortable, I asked my father-in-law to go and have a look."
Huo Weilou frowned slightly, and didn't ask any further questions for now, and continued to say to Sun Zhao: "Let's not talk about anything else, your yamen is working harder today, go and investigate first, it's just a few people, it's all right, if this thing is really spread widely, And there are a lot of people who have been deeply poisoned, so the matter is much more serious than we thought."
Sun Zhao got up quickly, "Okay, since that's the case, then I'll go back to the yamen to recruit people."
Huo Weilou responded, and Sun Zhao just left.
Huo Weilou got up and walked to the door, frowned and looked at the courtyard door, there was a clean room in the main courtyard, but Huo Qinghong just left the main courtyard, he frowned, feeling a little uneasy in his heart for some reason.
After standing still for a while, Huo Weilou couldn't help walking out. As soon as he reached the gate of the courtyard, he saw Mr. Fu walking towards them anxiously. inappropriate."
Huo Weilou frowned, "What is he doing?"
Eunuch Fu quickly said: "The son is not in a hurry, he went to the guest house, and at the moment... is lighting the things he brought..."
Huo Weilou's eyes suddenly changed, and he immediately followed Eunuch Fu to the guest house not far away. The guest house here is always ready, and it was originally the place where Huo Qinghong came to the Hou's mansion to rest. As soon as Huo Weilou walked outside the main entrance, he smelled With a faint sweet smell, his face turned cold, and he stepped inside. As soon as he entered the warm pavilion, he saw Huo Qinghong lying on the couch.
The brocade box was opened, and he was holding a thin copper sheet with gold ointment on it, and he lit a lamp, and at the moment he was using the flame on the lamp to smoke the copper sheet, and the gold ointment Wisps of smoke were emitted from the heat, and he sniffed the smoke as if fascinated.
"Huo Qinghong!" Huo Weilou yelled heavily, and strode forward, before Huo Qinghong could react, he snatched the copper piece from his hand, and fell heavily on the ground with a slap!
Huo Qinghong was intoxicated, but his hands were suddenly empty. He raised his eyes slowly and looked for a moment before he recognized the person. When he saw Huo Weilou, a trace of fear finally appeared on his face, but he couldn't help but Stretching out trembling hands to touch the brocade box again, "Brother... I... My last time, I'm uncomfortable..."
Huo Weilou picked up the brocade box and handed it to Eunuch Fu, then said with cold eyes: "Didn't you say that you haven't used gold ointment these days?"
Huo Weilou still wanted to question Huo Qinghong, but he didn't have the energy to listen to him. His eyes followed the brocade box in Eunuch Fu's hand, and he was busy getting up and down from the couch, wanting to get the brocade box back. Huo Weilou saw He shook his arm and pushed him onto the couch, "You answer first!"
Huo Qinghong's forehead was covered with cold sweat, his face was also pale, his eyes were glued to the brocade box, even though Huo Weilou was angry, he still couldn't hear Huo Weilou's question clearly, his face was impatient, and he even wanted to Huo Weilou went to grab the brocade box.
"I... I feel bad, brother, let me smell it first..."
He stood up again, and came straight towards Eunuch Fu. Eunuch Fu had already seen that something was wrong, and while stepping back, he persuaded, "My son, what is this good thing? You should listen to Lord Hou first. Don't keep thinking about it."
Huo Qinghong didn't care what he said at all, his outstretched hands trembled violently, and even his face began to twitch, "Eunuch, give me... give me... I'm really uncomfortable..."
Seeing that he was so hard to control himself, Huo Weilou felt even more angry, and he pulled Huo Weilou back again, "Hold me, I told you that this thing is poisonous, and you should never touch it again, you don't understand My words won't work?"
Huo Qinghong was shaking non-stop, cold sweat dripped down in big drops, the corners of his eyes started to turn red because of Huo Weilou's constant blocking, his breathing was short but urgent, as if he would be out of breath in the next moment, "Brother, I know... I really know, my last time, you let me touch me for the last time, I feel so uncomfortable, I really feel so uncomfortable, big brother... "
Huo Qinghong's tone was filled with pleading, and he held on to Huo Weilou's hand. Seeing that he was silent, he was even more anxious to cry. Although Huo Qinghong has been blamed by him a lot these years, he is not yet so pitiful. At that time, Huo Weilou scolded for a moment, and a trace of intolerance arose in his heart. He stood still while Huo Qinghong grabbed himself.
"Are you addicted? As long as you don't touch this thing, you feel uncomfortable?"
Tears welled up from the corners of Huo Qinghong's eyes, and his voice became hoarse, "Brother, I'm really uncomfortable, like a hundred ants devouring my heart, let me touch you for the last time, as long as I don't touch you again for the last time, okay? Big brother, please big brother..."
Huo Qinghong begged bitterly, while Bo Ruoyou and Eunuch Fu were shocked. Although Bo Ruoyou had seen Hu Changqing and Han Ming, he had never seen what a person looks like from sobriety to poisonous hair However, the word "addiction" that Huo Weilou said just now seems to express the true meaning of this poison. Addiction, once addicted, will be a hundred times more uncomfortable, but compared to those, this thing is more poisonous, it seems to be able to control the body and mind of the addicted, making it difficult for them to lose control...
"Brother, please, let me touch it again, the last time..."
Seeing that Huo Weilou remained silent, Huo Qinghong suddenly knelt down. Tears streamed down from the corners of his eyes, forcing him to cry bitterly. He grabbed Huo Weilou with one hand, and smashed his heart with the other, as if Seeing his pitiful appearance, Eunuch Fu on the side couldn't help it, "Master Hou, why don't you just give the son a chance, what the master wants to ask, we have to wait until the son is better." Ask, if this continues, the old slave is afraid that something will happen to the son."
Huo Weilou's expression was extremely cold, while Huo Qinghong seemed unable to support himself, and now he was crying and limp on the ground, his eyes changed a few times, and finally he couldn't bear to look away, "Give it to him."
Eunuch Fu immediately stepped forward, and wanted to help Huo Qinghong up first, but he didn't expect that Huo Qinghong couldn't get up, and came to snatch the brocade box in his hand while still lying on the ground, he climbed a few more steps to pick up the copper piece on the ground , when pouring the gold ointment from the jade bottle, he even spilled a lot because his hands were unsteady. He looked at the spilled gold ointment with distressed face, but he didn't care about anything else, climbed onto the couch and went to the candle Make up.
When the white smoke came out, he hurriedly moved closer and inhaled vigorously into his nostrils. After five or six inhalations, the painful expression on his face was relieved. He exhaled contentedly, half lying on the desk. On the ground, he held the copper piece like a child with no ambition at all, and sucked it for a while, with a confused and foolish smile on his face.
Huo Weilou had only seen this scene at the Han family a while ago. He never expected that his worries would become a reality. He had a handsome face, and the gaze he looked at Huo Qinghong was even more frightening. Huo Qinghong, who was about to be scared out of his wits, didn't notice his surroundings at this moment. He greedily inhaled the smoke, and smelling the smell, Huo Weilou also felt a little inexplicably anxious.
He turned around and left the warm pavilion.
Eunuch Fu was worried, so he stayed by Huo Qinghong's side to take care of him. Bo Ruoyou followed Huo Weilou out. The comfort he had earlier was useless now, because everyone could see that Huo Qinghong was deeply poisoned.
Huo Weilou called the servants of the Hou's mansion, and ordered: "Call Ming Guilan, and then go to the palace to invite the imperial doctor."
The attendants went away in response, Huo Weilou clenched his fingers tightly, his face was quite cold, and Bo Ruoyou stood beside him and said softly: "Hou Ye calm down, everything in the world always generates and restrains each other, neither fatal nor fatal." There is always a way to eliminate the poison, but His Royal Highness will have to suffer a bit."
At this point, she said softly: "What Hou Ye said just now is very true. I never thought that the most deadly thing about this poison is not the hallucinogenic and maddening effect when ingested, but the addictive effect. Brothers of the Han family This is the case, and the same is true for Hu Wu’s works, because he can’t do without this thing, so he spends gold and silver continuously to buy it. When I went to Hu Wu’s writer’s house in the morning, he had already sold all the valuables in his house.”
Hearing what she said, Huo Weilou felt the heaviness in his heart dissipate a little, but he still felt furious. When he saw Han Ming earlier, he felt that this kind of poison was terrible. Now that he saw Huo Qinghong in such a state, he felt even more Wan Jian was like a heartbeat, he said coldly: "It's addictive, and the price is comparable to gold. It's really a lucrative business."
The yamen's report is still in the future, but he seems to have seen that this lucrative business will cause the capital and even the entire Zhou Dynasty to fall, and he can't help but feel a little chill in his heart.
He turned his eyes to look into the room, "If he touches the poison again this time, there will be another time."
Huo Weilou had expected that the last time Huo Qinghong said would never happen, "He has a willful temper, and I don't control him too much, but since childhood, as long as I get angry with him, he will restrain himself, but now even My words don't work either, if I had known this, I should have been stricter with him, and he wouldn't have been infected with it."
Huo Weilou's voice was low, with a deep sense of self-blame. Bo Ruoyou had never seen him like this before, so she couldn't help but stepped forward and stood in front of him, "This matter has nothing to do with Lord Hou. It's still early to find out, but Now I don’t know much about this poison, so I don’t have a clue, once I know how this substance becomes addictive, there will always be a way to quit addiction.”
Her eyes were particularly concerned, Huo Weilou looked at her for a moment, his brows and eyes finally relaxed a little, Bo Ruoyou said again: "Young Master Youming, there are many imperial doctors, they will definitely be able to help."
Huo Weilou sighed, "I only hope so."
As he spoke, he raised his hand and pinched the center of his brows, because the sweet smell wafted out from the room, and he felt a little uncontrollable irritability in his heart. Seeing that he seemed uncomfortable, Bo Ruoyou hurriedly asked, "What's wrong, Master Hou?"
Huo Weilou put down his hands, met her worried eyes, hesitated for a while and said: "I used the gold ointment he sent last time."
"What?" Bo Ruoyou's complexion changed, and she couldn't help but grabbed Huo Weilou's hand. Her fingertips landed on his pulse gate, trying to ask for his pulse, but Huo Weilou held her back and smiled wryly. , "I'm fine."
Seeing that she tensed up as if she was facing a big enemy, he didn't believe his words, so he said: "When I used this thing that day, I only felt that it could refresh my mind, and I also wanted to know what it was that he praised so much. After using it, I was really refreshed immediately, but I felt weird. At that time, I also had the idea of using this thing every day in the future. This thought made me vigilant. I didn’t think too much at that time, I just felt Too beautiful and illusory, it hurts people, so I only used it once."
"When did Lord Hou use it? Did you feel unwell afterwards?"
"Just two days ago, I didn't become addicted. It can be seen that this thing can't make people addicted once. It's just that I smelled the sweet and greasy taste just now, which made me feel a little dry in my heart."
Bo Ruoyou said worriedly: "That's because this thing is weirdly poisonous. Although one poisoning is not serious, it will definitely cause damage to the body. Master Hou will never touch this thing again."
Huo Weilou naturally agreed, and felt that her palms were sweating, so he couldn't help comforting her, "Don't worry, even if these things are delivered to me, I will be tactful, I don't like things that make people addicted."
Bo Ruoyou couldn't help showing resentment, "Hou Ye's words just now are really scary. If Hou Ye is also poisoned by this poison, I really don't know what to do."
"How could it be?" He could see her nervousness in his eyes. In such a situation, he might not pay attention to the comfort and concern of others, but she was different. What happened to Qinghong.
Huo Qinghong's whole head was slumped on the couch, his face was still full of satisfaction, and the gold paste on the copper plate had been dried, and the smoke was less. When Huo Weilou saw him like this, his brows stretched Couldn't help twisting it again, and stepped forward to look down at him again.
Huo Qinghong just started to wake up, when he saw Huo Weilou standing in front of him, he was taken aback, recalling what happened a while ago, his expression changed a few times, he got up with a grunt, and then shrank to a corner of the couch.
"Big... big brother..."
Huo Qinghong was terrified, his eyes were full of panic, Huo Weilou looked at him for a moment, then sat down, put away the brocade box and handed it to Eunuch Fu, "You said it yourself, just now is the last time."
This statement immediately made Huo Qinghong's face pale as paper, but how dare he argue at this time, Huo Weilou looked at him in a leisurely manner, "Tell me, when did you start using this thing? How many times did you feel that you couldn't do without it? Body What happened? I think you've lost weight, and it's not as normal as you said."
Huo Qinghong knew that this matter could no longer be kept secret, and this thing is poisonous, this time the matter might be very serious, so he replied in a low voice: "I got this thing a month ago, the first time I tried it was with Feng Ye and the others were at a Zhuangzi outside the city. At that time, they felt that they were in high spirits after using this thing. Later, I brought it back. At first, I didn’t use it every day, but I remembered it after two days. I used it again myself, and at that time I felt that since I have this good thing, why not enjoy it every day?"
"Now that I think about it, something is wrong after using it up and down ten times. One day I went out without this thing with me, but suddenly I thought about it. My heart beat violently, my hands trembled and my body was sweating. I just thought it was I neglected to practice martial arts on weekdays, and my body was very tired, so I went home and used this thing. After using this thing, I immediately felt that the uncomfortable feeling was gone. At that time, I was still thinking, this thing is really a god , it can be effective immediately.”
"Later, I didn't go out often, but I felt sleepy every day, but the strange thing is that even if I smell this thing, I feel that my whole body is alive again, and I feel that this thing is powerful , also at that time, thinking that this thing would be very useful to my eldest brother, so I sent this thing over. I can't explain other things, that is, people tend to be sleepy and weak, and a little irritable and irritable, but I can use this thing every day. Things, I can't feel the discomfort beside..."
"It's just that I've been using it more and more frequently in the past two days, and I feel that something is not right in my heart, but when I think of the feeling of being in a celestial being brought by this thing, I feel that it is nothing to use more frequently, at most I can use more gold. It's just silver."
As he spoke, he said aggrievedly: "I didn't know this thing was poisonous. If I knew, I would definitely come to the Hou Mansion and tell my brother. I didn't think too much about it. It's not good to drink too much, but my father likes to drink alcohol." , I think I may really like this thing too much recently, but maybe it will fade after the excitement—"
"Then you know now? People who drink alcohol will not think of being abnormal when they leave the wine. You just knelt down and begged me, do you remember?" Huo Weilou stared at him like a sword.
Huo Qinghong shrank back a little, his face was white and red for a while, he obviously remembered it, but he seemed to remember the uncomfortable feeling, and for a while he said slightly red at the end of his eyes: "But brother, I was really uncomfortable, I was uncomfortable just now I'm going to die, are you really not allowing me to use it again? I don't know when I will suffer next time, but I don't want to experience it anymore, brother, you should find someone to detoxify me soon, I I don’t want to be like that ghost!”
Although Huo Qinghong is a reckless person, he was a little bit proud since he was a child. Now that he is sane, he naturally knows that the scene of kneeling and begging is too ugly, and the heart-wrenching taste is even more so. Nightmare.
Huo Weilou saw that he had not yet reached the place where he could not distinguish between right and wrong, and his voice was soft, "I have ordered people to invite Gui Lan to come over, and I have also ordered people to enter the palace to invite imperial doctors, as long as you are obedient, I will naturally make people detoxify you. "As he spoke, he paused, "It's just that this detoxification won't be so fast. Since I said it was the last time, I will treat it as the last time. I won't be soft-hearted when I feel uncomfortable next time. Wanton, but this time, you have to hold back yourself."
Huo Qinghong's eyes were full of fear, and Huo Weilou said again: "Before you detoxified, you lived in the Hou's mansion. When the poison is detoxified, and then go back to the Duke's mansion, you also know your parents. They are more important than me." My heart is a hundred times softer, you grand son of Huo Guogong, do you want to be controlled by that poison for the rest of your life?"
Huo Qinghong shook his head, "I don't want to, but..."
But he was also afraid, but facing Huo Weilou's serious expression, he didn't dare to say that it would be good if Huo Weilou didn't scold him for being infected with such a weird thing.
Huo Weilou also instructed Eunuch Fu, "Purchase some things here, and send a few people to take care of him. Without my order, you are not allowed to leave the Marquis Mansion. If he is disobedient, just tie him up."
Eunuch Fu was very distressed, but he also saw how powerful the poison was, so he responded immediately.
Huo Weilou looked at Huo Qinghong, "I didn't want to give it to you just now, but seeing that you couldn't listen to what I said, I will give you my last chance. Now that I have explained everything clearly, if you are not firm in your heart, I can use any method."
Huo Qinghong was terrified when he heard that, he glanced at the sinking sky outside, inexplicably felt that the days ahead for him would also be dark, and at this time, Ming Guilan had arrived at the Hou Mansion.
Ming Guilan was one of his own, Huo Weilou told the cause and effect of the incident, Ming Guilan was also very surprised, "This thing is so poisonous?!"
Huo Weilou nodded, "I know you don't understand this thing, but Hong'er is like this now, you need to use some methods to detoxify him."
Ming Guilan's face immediately became serious, they talked for a while and then asked for pulse, Ming Guilan asked Huo Qinghong's daily routine, at the end, his expression was quite serious, apparently he had no clue yet, Bo Ruoyou couldn't help but feel sorry for him Huo Qinghong asked for his pulse, but he only looked at the pulse condition, but he couldn't see any abnormalities, and soon, the imperial physician also arrived.
Facing the imperial doctor, Huo Weilou didn't say much, but simply explained the toxicity of the substance, the imperial doctor who came was surprised, but after hearing about it, he was also at a loss, the prescription he prescribed was also warming and tonic. Seeing this, Huo Weilou had no choice but to make him go home first.
At this time, the night has shrouded, and the whole Hou Mansion is brightly lit tonight, Huo Weilou sat in the Nuan Pavilion and said: "It seems that we need to see more patients, just see him, and no one knows how this toxicity comes from." thing."
To know more about the patients, they had to wait for the yamen to report. Bo Ruoyou was also worried that the incident was serious, so he stayed there temporarily, and when it was time for Kuaizi, Sun Zhao hurried to the Hou's mansion.
He held a roster in his hand, and as soon as he sat down, he reported: "Master Hou, what is recorded on it is only the place where gold ointment is sold in the east of the city. We have not had time to investigate the west of the city. There will be clues tomorrow, in addition to this, we have also asked more than a dozen families who bought this thing, and tomorrow we can come to check one by one whether there is any sign of poisoning."
After Sun Zhao finished speaking, he wiped his sweat, "Although I haven't come to the door yet, the officials already feel that something is not good, because they sold a lot of gold paste, and they started selling it after the year, and it is already April. Well, in four months, the first wave of people who bought gold ointment, I am afraid that they have already been extremely poisoned."
"Especially people who buy the most expensive gold ointment, people who sell things say that this thing is the worst, most of it goes to brothels, and it is used as an aphrodisiac for fun. This thing will not really aphrodisiac, but after smelling it It makes the blood surge quite exciting, and it will inevitably have some effect of adding to the fun, and the slightly better ones will have some hallucinogenic effects, and the top-grade ones are even better. This thing will be inseparable after being used a lot, but I don’t think it’s so inappropriate.”
Huo Weilou's heart suddenly sank. This was the worst outcome they expected. He pondered for a while, and immediately ordered someone to prepare the car, and said to Sun Zhao: "You come with me to the palace, this matter needs to be resolved. Your Majesty."