The beauty in palace costume walked to the window, looked at the sunshine in the courtyard, and remained silent.
The sun fell on her face, but it couldn't bring much warmth, and there was always a lingering indifference and haggard under the beautiful eyebrows and eyes.
The kitchen is very quiet, and the picture is very strange, just like this, it is slowly continuing and fermenting in the sunlight.
After an unknown amount of time, the medicine was ready, and the woman dipped the medicine pot into the ice water prepared in the basin with both hands, waiting for the medicine to cool down.
Like Zhou Tong, the beauty in palace costume is also very good at spiritual mysteries. The woman couldn't see her by the window, probably because she was fascinated by the illusion created by her.
In the end, the woman raised her head and looked at her, proving that all this is not illusory, but real.
The beauty in the palace costume leaned against the window and waved her hand lightly, signaling that everything was going on as usual.
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It is impossible to drink the medicine juice after it is completely cooled down, otherwise it will lose some of its potency, and the medicine bowl brought in front of Zhou Tong is still emitting a thick hot mist.
Zhou Tong was a little intoxicated by the hot feeling brought by the hot mist, which made him feel full of vitality, but when he drank all the medicine juice in the bowl, he was a little dissatisfied because the medicine juice was hot. His palate and gums—not to blame the woman, but dissatisfied with his own state of mind—are a little too anxious.
It didn't get blistered, and it was still a little uncomfortable, so he licked it with his tongue.
There is a slightly sweet feeling on the tip of the tongue, a bit like the taste of rust.
Knowing that it was the smell of blood, he couldn't help frowning slightly, took a mirror from the table, and looked at it.
He didn't find anything abnormal, except that the gums were slightly swollen and bleeding.
The taste of blood gradually disappeared, and what was left was the bitter taste of the concoction. He grabbed two sugar-coated peanuts from the plate, threw them into his mouth, and chewed carefully.
Since he was very young, he was afraid of taking medicine because the medicine was too bitter, so every time he took medicine, he would prepare some sweet and greasy snacks in advance.
While chewing sugar-coated peanuts, he thought about what happened to him today.
Xue He has led soldiers in the northern snowfields for many years, so it is only natural that he can get this kind of poison, but just now in the underground prison, how did he get the poison
Do you want to poison yourself to death, avenge Xue Xingchuan, and make the world feel that this is the reincarnation of heaven and retribution
The problem is that it is not so easy to poison oneself to death.
A sneer appeared on the corner of Zhou Tong's lips, and his cold eyes showed a little more complacency.
The sugar-coated peanuts are delicious, the only problem is that they stick to the teeth. He took out a refined silver toothpick and continued to think about his thoughts while picking his teeth.
It is very likely that Xue He has escaped from Zhou Prison at this time, but that doesn't matter. Although the world is big, there is no place for the Xue family.
Zhou Tong looked over the window and landed on the courtyard next door, thinking that after the matter was settled, Xue He must be arrested as soon as possible, and then poisoned to death, slowly.
He had already thought about which kinds of poisons to use, which would make Xue He's death the slowest and most painful.
A slight click sounded in his mouth, interrupting his rambling and pleasure-filled thoughts at this time.
One of his teeth was broken, down to the root, lying quietly in his palm, the stubble was covered with blood and stains, it looked very hideous.
Looking at the broken tooth, Zhou Tong's body that had been warmed for a while became cold again.
He was silent for a while, picked up the mirror and took another look.
Just a glance, it is thrilling.
His gums had turned purple-black, and his teeth were so loose that they could fall out when a gust of wind blew gently.
The increasingly clear and unbearable pain coming from the broken tooth made his body tremble again.
He just wanted to pick out the sugar stains between his teeth, but he pried out a tooth.
The tip of the delicate silver toothpick has completely turned black, like charcoal, which is shocking.
It's all an illusion, he told himself.
He is really experienced in things like using poison. He believes that he has absolutely no misjudgment. Even if his detoxification method cannot completely remove the toxins in his body, he can definitely temporarily suppress those toxins, and then he will have A lot of time, slowly solve this problem.
But why did the poison in the body not only not be suppressed after drinking the medicine, but instead become more terrifying, eating into the teeth
Zhou Tong couldn't figure it out, and was silent for a long time.
Until this time, he still didn't think that there was no problem with the medicine he used, but there might be problems during the decoction process.
He never suspected women.
He took out two precious pills, put them into his mouth, and swallowed them directly into his stomach, temporarily suppressing the outbreak of poison.
He felt dizzy and dizzy at this moment.
If it wasn't for his dazzled eyes, how could he have seen the woman walk to the door of the small courtyard.
On the woman's arm is a bundle made of floral blue cloth.
That baggage is very small and simple, and it cannot hold too many things.
Yes, of course, he has bought so many valuable things for her these years, how can such a small burden be pretended to go away.
So she couldn't be preparing to leave, she couldn't be preparing to abandon herself, it couldn't be something wrong with her, it couldn't be her poison.
Then it is true that my eyes are dazzled, the poison is so powerful that it even makes me hallucinate.
Zhou Tong said this to himself, and then stood up from the chair.
There is a distance of about ten feet between the room and the main entrance, and the courtyard in the middle is full of sunlight.
He and the woman looked at each other from a distance across the sun.
The woman looked calm, gentle and peaceful, and gave a little blessing, just like saying goodbye to him every time, except that she was saying goodbye today.
It turns out that all this is not an illusion.
Why? Zhou Tong didn't ask, because he clearly knew that there would be countless reasons for this, but since he hadn't discovered it before, why bother to discover it now.
The cruelest thing in the world is when you don't want to know the answer, someone will tell you the answer.
"She doesn't like you, she never liked you."
The beauty in the palace costume walked outside the door and said to him, "She's just afraid of you, that's why she didn't dare to leave."
Why are you not afraid today? Of course it was because he was going to die.
Zhou Tong was not surprised by her appearance.
In fact, he couldn't figure it out at this time. It wasn't that his medicine didn't work, but that someone had injected another poison into that medicine.
From the moment he wanted to understand this, he knew that someone had come to this small courtyard, and he even knew who that person was.
The person who knows you best is of course not your relatives, otherwise Xue Xingchuan would have died so miserably, and almost exposed his corpse to the wilderness after death.
The person who knows you best may not be your enemy as the book says, because you will always be vigilant against the enemy and take a lot of precautions in advance.
The person who knows you best may not necessarily be your friend. It is beautiful to be the same as before, but you spend too little time together, and the distance between the two cities is too far. When you meet, you always drink, recall the past, and look forward In the future, it will be difficult to have the opportunity to talk about some very detailed things by scolding the former teacher and the current court.
So the person who knows you best is often your partner at work.
In the day-to-day work that lasts for many years, it is very difficult for you not to know each other. You will drink a lot of wine together and talk about many details. Remember things very clearly, so that you may use them at any time in the future. For example, he knows which box lunch you like the most, you know which noodle he likes the most, he knows which leader you hate the most, you know which channel he likes the most, he knows how many girlfriends you have talked with over the years, You know how many boats he has stepped on this month. On the morning of the second day of Christmas Eve, you may even come out of the same convenient hotel and smile at each other, because the company can get the most suitable hotel in this convenient hotel. the agreed price.
Logically speaking, Zhou Tong does not have a partner at work, because the Cleaning Department is a very special yamen, directly responsible to the Empress Tianhai, and does not need to deal with anyone in the court. Cheng Jun and other Eight Tigers and Tiqi are all him subordinates, but there are always some special existences in the world, such as this beauty in palace costume.
Holy Empress Tianhai relied on Xue Xingchuan, Tianzhu, Xu Shiji and other generals to control the Great Zhou army, but she controlled the court and then ruled the hundreds of millions of people in the Great Zhou mainly through two people, one was Zhou Tong, and the other was of course Mo Yu.
They are the right-hand men of the Holy Empress Tianhai in the court. Many people have privately denounced them as colluding traitors. They have worked together for many years. The strong will of the military, this kind of tacit understanding has always played a very positive role.
Because of this tacit understanding, they understand each other very well.
Zhou Tong knew the rebellious heart and unwillingness hidden in the deepest part of Mo Yu's heart, and even faintly noticed her thoughts about someone. Mo Yu knew his well-hidden fear of the Holy Empress and this small courtyard full of sunshine, so she found this place today, and then delivered the most fatal blow to him.
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Watching Mo Yu walk in from the door, Zhou Tong calmed down very quickly, even faster than he thought. In the past few days after the change in Tianshu Mausoleum, he has been asking the Cleaning Department to track down or confirm her whereabouts in the south, or because of this, he has already psychologically prepared to see her in the capital.
He said to Mo Yu: "I knew you would definitely return to the capital, but I never thought it would be now."
Mo Yu asked, "Why?"
Zhou Tong said: "Since you know very well, you will definitely die when you return to the capital."
Mo Yu looked at him and said, "I don't really care about this, as long as you can die before me."
Zhou Tong didn't know that Chen Changsheng had said very similar words not long ago.
He looked at Mo Yu and asked, "Are you coming back to avenge your mother?"
"I don't have such ability, and you are not my enemy, because you don't have such qualifications."
In Mo Yu's view, he is just a dog raised by the mother: "I am the dog who came to punish her for the mother."
Zhou Tong was silent for a while, then said, "How are you going to punish this dog?"
Mo Yu said: "Put it in a pot to stew? I think it seems good."
Zhou Tong looked at her and said seriously: "You don't have to be that rabbit."
"I don't mean to cook you to death. I'm just not as experienced as you in torturing people. I can only think of boiling you to death."
Mo Yu looked at him and asked seriously, "Do you have any other good suggestions?"