Mu Zhiming is very thoughtful, he never decides something because of reckless impulsiveness.
Therefore, he was never afraid to argue with others: "If you can find out what the poison is, you will be able to verify whether Dr. Kuang's conjecture that the tea is poisonous is correct, and you will also be able to find out the solution to the poison, and you can even follow the vine to find the poisoner. Yan, you are a general, how can you not be cautious?"
Gu Heyan frowned and thought for a while, then said, "It's not just about refining blood, you can send tea here to test for poison."
"It's too late." Mu Zhiming replied decisively, "You left early in your previous life, so I don't know that the next year's spring equinox will be the day when the emperor dies. If the emperor really died of poison, it would be less than three months from now. Even if we rush back to the capital day and night, send people to send tea here, and then spread the news back to Beijing after identifying the poison, the journey will take more than two months, and the blood refining will only take one day. You'll know what the poison is."
Gu Heyan frowned in thought.
Mu Zhiming didn't say any more, he knew that Gu Heyan could understand his decision and the benefits.
After a long time, Gu Heyan raised his head: "Blood refining, will it not endanger life?"
"No." Mu Zhiming answered quickly, "Just a few days off."
Gu Heyan reluctantly agreed: "Okay."
Mu Zhiming breathed a sigh of relief and stood up: "It's getting late, rest."
Gu Heyan: "There is one more thing."
Mu Zhiming: "What's the matter?"
Gu Heyan stretched out his hand towards Mu Zhiming, with the palm facing up, in a succinct manner: "Medicine."
Mu Zhiming froze all over, his eyes moved down because of his guilty conscience, and his mouth was still struggling: "What medicine? I don't understand what you said."
Gu Heyan: "Aphrodisiac."
This time, it was clearly stated.
Mu Zhiming silently took out the white porcelain bottle containing the rich aroma liquid from his arms and handed it to Gu Heyan. The little boy who knew the book and the ceremony seemed to be caught by his strict parents when he was young and frivolous. , blushed, too embarrassed to say what to say.
Gu Heyan asked him, "Why did you buy this medicine?"
"People, people have seven emotions, six desires, and six desires." Mu Zhiming said stammeringly, "I just thought... Occasionally this will help to cheer up... It's harmless... As long as I drink this medicine, I can indulge with you for a night, You don't have to bear it anymore, you can only accommodate me every time... He Yan?!"
Before he finished speaking, he saw Gu Heyan open the cork of the porcelain bottle, then took the medicine outside the house and poured it out.
Gu Heyan went back to the house and washed his hands with clean water in the copper basin. He said, "This medicine is all three-point poisonous. It's not necessary between you and me."
Mu Zhiming: "Isn't it really necessary? But I... want to make you happy."
Gu Heyan looked at Mu Zhiming and said word by word, "You are willing to accompany me, it is a joy that can't be compared to anything else in my life."
Mu Zhiming was stunned for a while when he heard the words, and then sighed: What does it mean to be silent is already a blockbuster.
Gu Heyan said the love words without knowing it, and then calmly said "rest," and then walked to the bed to clean up the quilt.
Mu Zhiming's eyes turned slightly, he slowly moved to Gu Heyan's side, and took out another white jade box the size of a copper coin and the shape of a petal from his arms: "Heyan, I actually have another box."
Gu Heyan: "..."
Seeing that he stretched out his hand to take it, Mu Zhiming hurriedly closed his palms and clasped them together with Gu Heyan's fingertips: "Wait, General, don't worry, this is not aphrodisiac."
Gu Heyan: "What is it?"
Mu Zhiming rolled his eyes and smirked: "You'll know if you use it."
Gu Heyan withdrew his hand: "I won't use things that are harmful to you."
Mu Zhiming put the box of ointment into Gu Heyan's hands, put his hands on his shoulders, and whispered a few words to him, about the purpose of the box of ointment.
Gu Heyan: "..."
Mu Zhiming continued to tease: "After I detoxified in the afternoon, I took a nap for a while, and now I am in good spirits and not sleepy."
Gu Heyan: "..."
Mu Zhiming sighed with a bitter face, pointed to the frosty moonlight in front of the window, and asked, "General, let me ask you, what is that bright clear light?"
Gu Heyan: "...Moonlight."
"No." Mu Zhiming said, "It's my loneliness that has been broken to the ground."
Gu Heyan: "..."
General Gu hesitated for a moment, then lowered his head and kissed Mu Zhiming, who was holding back a smile, hooked his tongue into his mouth, and sucked and tasted it carefully.
The three words of the old place, the ministers and concubines are tired of saying
The next day, Mu Zhiming woke up in a daze and felt that his body was dry and neat, except for a little soreness, no other discomfort.
Gu Heyan asked for hot water and wiped his body for himself.
Mu Zhiming looked around, Gu Heyan was not in the room, but his warmth remained in the quilt.
"Where did you go?" Mu Zhiming murmured softly, sitting up and stretching.
It was only after he finished speaking that Gu Heyan walked into the house with hot rice porridge.
Gu Heyan put his breakfast on the wooden table, walked to the bed, caressed his cheek, and asked worriedly, "Is there any discomfort?"
Mu Zhiming rubbed the palm of his hand and said with a smile, "The general treats me so gently, why can I be uncomfortable?"
Gu Heyan was relieved when he saw that he was talking and laughing very energetically.
After breakfast, the two went to find Qu Qianning.
Qu Qianning stared at the two of them with akimbo: "Have you thought about it? Refining blood?"
Mu Zhiming bowed and saluted: "There is a laborer, the master of the valley."
Qu Qianning looked at Gu Heyan: "You agree with him to refine blood? Would you not persuade him?"
Gu Heyan: "I thought twice before doing it."
"Well, wait, I'll call someone to prepare." Qu Qianning didn't hesitate, prepared everything for half an hour, and then led Mu Zhiming and Gu Heyan into a cave behind Muzhai.
At first glance, this cave is known to be artificially carved. The walls of the cave are flat, and candlesticks are embedded every five steps on both sides, and a lit candle is placed on the candlestick.
In the depths of the cave, there is a flat ground about the size of a room. There are three one-person-high candlesticks on the left and right. In the middle is an arm-wide black iron square tripod. The surface of the tripod is engraved with twisted and weird patterns. Saw the words 'Valley of a Thousand Poisons'.
Grandma Shangguan was standing beside Fang Ding and looked at them kindly.
"Come here, stand here." Qu Qianning called Mu Zhiming to Fang Ding, took out a silver dagger, baked it back and forth three times with a candle, then cooled it in ice water, wiped off the water droplets with a clean towel, and finally Hand it to Mu Zhiming: "Cut it."
Mu Zhiming took the dagger and asked cautiously, "Master Shaogu, where should I cut my body?"
Qu Qianning answered impatiently, "Anywhere, as long as there is blood."
Mu Zhiming nodded clearly and pressed the silver dagger to his palm.
Gu Heyan said quickly, "Don't hurt your palm, it hurts and it's hard to heal."
Mu Zhiming then put the dagger against his forearm and looked at Gu Heyan.
Gu Heyan nodded.
Mu Zhiming gritted his teeth and cut a hole in his forearm with a silver dagger. The red blood slowly overflowed from the wound, slid across Mu Zhiming's palm and fingertips and fell into the black iron square tripod.
After a while, the blood in Mu Zhiming's wound coagulated, and the bleeding speed became slow.
Qu Qianning looked at Grandma Shangguan and waited for her to express her position. Grandma Shangguan didn't say anything, just stared at Fang Ding quietly.
Qu Qianning then said to Mu Zhiming, "If the blood is not enough, cut it again."
Gu Heyan frowned.
"Okay." Mu Zhiming nodded, the dagger pressed against his arm again, took a deep breath and calmed down, the knife fell from his hand, and there was another bloodstain.
The second bloody mouth gradually condensed, and Mu Zhiming's lips were already white, but Grandma Shangguan still didn't speak.
"Cut again." Qu Qianning said.
Gu Heyan's calmness was gradually fading, and he stopped it sharply, his tone was as cold as ice: "No way."
Qu Qianning asked back: "What? Do you want him to have his first two bloody cuts in vain?"
Mu Zhiming's hand holding the dagger trembled a little. He clenched the dagger in his hand hard and cut a third bloodstain on his arm.
This time, he cut especially deep.
Bleeding and falling into Fang Ding, Mu Zhiming remembered his previous life, and he kept cutting his wrist with his knife in the same way.
It was cold and numb back then, not as painful as it is today.
Even though it hurts today, I have never felt any fear in my heart.
Mu Zhiming raised his eyes and looked at Gu Heyan, seeing that his eyes were full of unease and distress, Mu Zhiming smiled at him reassuringly, indicating that he was fine
At this moment, Shangguan's mother-in-law said slowly, "Enough."
Gu Heyan rushed to Mu Zhiming's side in a single step, holding his arm with trembling hands, trying to stop the bleeding for him.
Qu Qianning had already prepared, and handed the gauze, hemostatic powder and blood-replenishing pills to Gu Heyan one by one: "Wrap it up and take him out to rest. This pill is to be swallowed with warm water and taken once every three days."
After thanking him, Gu Heyan bandaged the wound on Mu Zhiming's arm and took him back to the stilted building.
Mu Zhiming lost too much blood, was dizzy, cold and sleepy. He lay on the warm and soft bed, and fell asleep after a while.
After waking up, it was already dark outside, Mu Zhiming turned his head to look, and found that Gu Heyan had been guarding him by the bed.
After waking up, Mu Zhiming felt a lot of energy, and quickly said, "I'm fine."
"The arm..." Gu Heyan asked worriedly, "Does it hurt?"
Mu Zhiming rolled his eyes and smiled: "Kiss me and I'll tell you."
Gu Heyan: "..."
Gu Heyan leaned over, his lips pressed against Mu Zhiming's slightly cool lips, and he licked and licked gently. After a while, the still white lips glowed with water and an ambiguous red.
"Cough cough cough!!!"
Suddenly, there were several contrived coughs from outside the door.
The two separated hastily.
Mu Zhiming sat up and saluted the person: "Master Shaogu."
Qu Qianning walked in, holding a wooden plate in her hand, and on the plate were all kinds of porcelain vases, she put the wooden plate on the table, pulled a wooden stool and sat down: "I know what is in you. poisoned."
Mu Zhiming: "Master Shaogu, please clarify your doubts."
Qu Qianning: "This poison is called ghost ivy poison, which is not precious, but very few people use it in the rivers and lakes, and few people can identify it. The reason why it is rare is because this poison is chronic and takes a long time to attack, at least it needs to be taken. After half a year, only those who take it will develop symptoms."
Mu Zhiming asked, "What are the symptoms?"
Qu Qianning: "First, there are symptoms of wind-cold, and then the headache is unbearable and cannot get up from the bed. If you stop taking the drug at this time, the body of the person who takes the poison will recover slowly, but if you continue to take it, it will take less than three months. Seven orifices bleed and died violently."
Mu Zhiming suddenly felt horrified.
Because the symptoms described by Qu Qianning are exactly the same as the symptoms of the emperor's illness!