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Chapter 145 Half a step is too much

The Xu Family Villa is famous in Changqing, a wealthy family in Changqing. When it comes to the Zhong family and the Zhou family, there are always people talking about it. But when it comes to the Xu family, no one will doubt the name of the richest man in this place.

As soon as I entered, I saw strange flowers and plants everywhere. There was also a strange white peacock standing on the rockery not far away.

The maid next to Miss Xu said, "There are many paths and countless pavilions in the villa. Please follow closely to avoid getting lost."

Then he said to Zhan Yuan, "This lady has never been to Changqing, has she?"

Zhan Yuan said honestly, "This is indeed my first time here."

Huancui asked again, "How is the scenery here?"

She said, "There is a lot of water, much more than the water system in Liangzhu. We came by boat all the way."

"Oh, did you stay in Liangzhu, Kyoto?"

Zhan Yuan didn't see the disdain on her face, nodded and said, "Stay for a few years."

"Compared to Liangzhu, how is Xujia Villa?"

"Magnificent," she said.

Huancui continued, "Look at those white peacocks. They were raised by our young lady. I'm afraid you won't find these rare birds and animals anywhere else in the entire Nanling."

Gou Yue's brows were about to explode when she heard this, but Li Xianchen shook his head and smiled slightly, "Your child won't suffer, don't worry."

"Are you talking about the white peacock?" Zhan Yuan asked.

"Yeah, have you seen it elsewhere?"

"Well, I saw it."

Huancui naturally felt that she was bragging, "Absolutely impossible. Did you see it in Liangzhu?"

"Yes, there are many in the palace, and we even raised a few white deer before."

When Huancui heard this, she bit a hard stone and immediately closed her mouth. After a moment, she thought of something, "Are you a palace maid?"

Zhan Yuan said, "It doesn't count."

"Then you are—"

"That's enough, Huancui, you are so rude." Xu Luochuan stopped her.

Arriving inside the villa, she pointed at a middle-aged man with a goatee and said, "General Manager Gu is an old man who has watched me grow up since childhood. He is very familiar with the villa. If you need anything, you can come to him."

After hearing this, Manager Gu stepped forward and saluted, saying exactly what he said.

Miss Xu took Gong Bucheng to visit her father, while the others were taken by Manager Gu to the guest room.

"this way please."

This is no longer on the ship. Zhan Yuan and Gou Yue no longer have to squeeze into a room, and they no longer have to sleep opposite Li Xianchen every night.

After recognizing each other's houses, several people stayed there at night.

Just as Gou Yue was about to close her eyes, there were a few light clicks outside the window, and she stood up, "Why did you come to me so late at night without sleeping?"

Li Xianchen leaned out of the window, "Of course I came here when I had something to do. What is the purpose of our trip?"

"Didn't you want to help Gong Bucheng treat Miss Xu and then help him break off the engagement?"

Li Xianchen said, "Thank you for remembering and following me."

"where to?"

Li Xianchen suddenly stopped, turned over and walked into her room, "If you don't go through the front door, why don't you climb through the window?"

Gou Yue put on her coat and was about to light the candles, but he stopped her, "No."

"What? Talking in the dark?"

Li Xianchen said, "Do you know what kind of disease Miss Xu has?"

Gou Yue was puzzled, "Didn't you check her pulse yet?"

"I haven't felt her pulse yet, but I have already guessed what happened to her from Gong Bucheng's description."

"If that's the case, wouldn't it be enough if you just treat him?"

He smiled helplessly, "It's not that easy."

"Even if you can't cure it, then the palace will be unlucky if I don't believe you."

"She's not sick, she's poisoned."

Gou Yue asked, "What kind of poison did you get?"

Li Xianchen pointed at her feet. She didn't understand, "What do you mean?"

"There are many exotic flowers and plants here. Did you notice them when we came in?"

"I saw it. There are quite a few. There are not so many weird flowers and plants in the palace."

"I suspect that Xu Luochuan was poisoned by more than half a step."

She had never heard of it before, and the face of the junior sister flashed before her eyes. If she were here, she would have heard it with all the books she had read, "What is more than half a step?"

"Half Steps and More is actually a mixture of milkvetch and Motuncao, added with the juice extracted from the five poisons, and then fired it. Then it was soaked in 50-year-old daughter's red. The altar was opened in the spring three years later, and the poison taken out was Half Steps and More. After drinking it, people will gradually become very weak, and they will be out of breath even if they take even half a step, so it is called half a step more. There will also be a red crescent shape on the tip of the index finger and behind the ears."

Gou Yue recalled the flowers and plants that had just come in, "I seem to have indeed seen Medogweed. It's strange. This kind of weed only grows in the south of Beichu and the west of Ruozhi. It is rare in the Central Plains, and it is humid here. Medogweed should be difficult to grow. That’s it.”

Li Xianchen said, "So someone deliberately made this poison."

"Don't you think it's strange? The Xu family grows vetch and modon themselves, and the poison Miss Xu was poisoned is very similar to what you just said. Why would they poison their own children?"

Li Xianchen seemed to have the answer, "I couldn't understand it at first, but after staying with you for a while, I seemed to understand a little bit."

"Tell me."

"The answer lies in the antidote."

Gou Yue dozed off in the dark with her forehead half propped up. She had indeed become more and more tired recently, "What is the antidote to half a step?"

"It's a local herb from Changqing, called peony and phoenix foot, and only freshly picked ones that haven't dried up can be used as medicine."

"What a strange name."

"It's actually a type of peony root, but it looks like a chicken foot, so it's nicknamed Phoenix Foot."

"You know the antidote. It will be given to them tomorrow. As soon as Miss Xu's poison is cured, we will leave here."

Li Xianchen said, "It's not that simple. There is only one place in the world where these herbs are abundant."

"Don't tell me it's Ruozhi or the Royal Court of the North, which is thousands of miles away, otherwise it will take a lot of time to go back and forth."

He said, "Of course not. The feet of Peony and Phoenix are in the forest of Xu Family Villa."

"How do you know?"

"When my master was still here, we once passed by Nanling Changqing. At that time, we sneaked into the forest to get some herbs."

"What, you steal other people's medicinal herbs?"

He was a little embarrassed, "The Xu family's herbal medicine is famous in Nanling. They have all kinds of rare herbs. My master is a doctor and his priority is to save people. Let's get some herbs from them."

Gou Yue raised her eyebrows, "Yes, when a doctor steals, can it be called stealing? It's to save lives and heal the wounded, so it can only be called taking."

"Don't worry about those old sesame seeds and rotten millet things. We are talking about business now."

"You can tell me, I didn't stop you."

"Now if we want to get the antidote, we have to go to this organ forest."

"It doesn't matter if you go there. There's no place in the world that I can't go to. Besides, you've already been there once, so what are you afraid of?"

"I was still young when I went in. After so many years, I have almost forgotten what it was like inside. Although I roughly remember where some of the herbs are, and I heard Gong Bucheng say that the Xu Family Villa was once destroyed by fire. It was burned down, and other places were rebuilt. Only this forest of traps, because of the many traps, no one dared to go in. From the outside, it still looks impregnable, but I don’t know what it’s like inside.”

She dozed off and said, "Okay, I understand. What you mean is that you don't dare to go, so you asked me to go, right?" "What did you hear?"

"Then do you dare to go in by yourself?"

"I have already said that those mechanisms may have been damaged after the fire. It is different from before. If you make a wrong step or even have a slight disturbance, a mechanism somewhere may be activated."

"Is there any wind blowing in the forest?"

Li Xianchen didn't understand, "Why are you asking this? It's not airtight there, it's naturally windy."

"Well, that's fine."

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is, if the wind can go in, I can go in too. Give me the picture of the peony and phoenix's feet, and I'll look for it."

"Are you crazy?"

Gou Yue was the last person to see anyone showing off, "You stayed up late at night, didn't you ask me to help you solve your problem?"

He said, "I'm here to discuss it with you, not asking you to solve it for me."

"Okay, don't say any more, I'm so sleepy that I can't even open my eyes."

Li Xianchen took her arm and said, "To be honest, I didn't want you to go in for me."

The night wind blew by, and Zhan Yuan turned over in bed. There seemed to be a pair of eyes always staring at her in the villa, and she still couldn't sleep in the middle of the night.

She put on some clothes casually, looked for her aunt's room in the yard, opened the door gently and went in. As soon as she entered, she whispered, "Aunt, are you asleep?"

No one answered.

My aunt is always tired these days, I think she fell asleep.

Li Xianchen left Gou Yue's room and saw the little girl Zhan Yuan opening Gong Bu Cheng's door like a thief in the moonlight, "What was she doing in his room?"

Forget it, young people have so many ways to play.

Zhan Yuan entered the room and closed the door, all at once, the lights were turned off, and her aunt seemed to be asleep.

She touched over and touched the edge of the bed, just in time to touch her aunt's shoulder. She heard her aunt sigh, "I'm sorry, aunt, did I wake you up?"

My aunt didn't say anything, but turned over and moved inside.

She was so kind and even made room for her, "Auntie, I'm coming to bed."

Zhan Yuan got into her bed and lay down, "I always feel that this villa is eerie. Auntie, do you feel it?"

Seeing that her aunt ignored her, she whispered softly, "Are you sleepy?"

Auntie nodded.

She stopped talking and fell asleep leaning on her aunt's shoulder. Half asleep, she seemed to see her aunt open the door and go out.

She was so sleepy and the quilt was so warm that she didn't even bother to ask her aunt if she wanted her to accompany her when she got up for the night.

She slept until dawn. Seeing that her aunt hadn't come back yet and there were no clothes for her in the room, she put on a coat when she got up last night. She dozed off and went back to her room to wash and dress.

When she came out again, she saw her aunt opening another door and stretching at the door. Zhan Yuan's mind boomed, "Aunt?"

Gou Yue heard Zhan Yuan calling her and turned around, "Good morning, are you hungry?"

But she asked, "Aunt, why are you here?"

"Is this girl too sleepy?" Gou Yue said, "I slept here all last night, and we came to the villa together. Have you forgotten?"

Zhan Yuan turned around again and looked at the room where she came out this morning. At this time, Gong Bu came out of Li Xianchen's room as if he had just gotten up.

Gou Yue pointed to Li Xianchen's room, "How did you get out of his room?"

Gong Bucheng said, "Oh, last night Li Xianchen said he had something to ask me. We talked for a long time and then fell asleep."

Gou Yue nodded, "Where is he? He's not up yet?"

"We talked too late last night. He didn't fall asleep until dawn."

Gou Yue went back to her room to get Chang Ning and prepare to practice her sword in the morning.

She was about to ask Zhan Yuan to come with her, but when she came out, she saw Zhan Yuan walking away behind Gong Bucheng.

"This girl, didn't she hear you when you called her?"

The kite couldn't keep up with the palace and apologized one after another, "I'm really sorry. Did I scare you last night?"

Gong Bucheng just pretended not to hear, "What do you want to eat in the morning?"

"I didn't mean it. I thought it was my aunt's room."

Gong Bucheng said, this silly girl, he already pretended not to know, she had to admit it.

Gong Bucheng had no choice but to remind her, "I don't know what you are talking about, Miss Yuan."

"How could it be? I obviously..." She then realized that Gong Bucheng was helping her cover up. If an unmarried man and woman slept together, she would lose her reputation.

"Thank you," she said.

Gong Bucheng breathed a sigh of relief, "Is the wound better today?"

Zhan Yuan said, "It's much better. All the wounds have scabs. When they are cleared, the scabs will probably fall off."

"I heard from Li Xianchen that you'd better not eat spicy food. The fish we ate yesterday seemed a bit spicy. Is your face okay?"

Zhan Yuan said, "It's okay, just a little, it's nothing."

When Li Xianchen was sitting at the table, everyone was eating almost everything. His eyes first rested on Gong Bucheng, and then on the kite.

Zhan Yuan couldn't raise her head when he looked at her, and thought to herself, he wouldn't know the joke last night. How could this happen? He didn't see her sneaking into Gong Bucheng's room. Could it be that Gong Bucheng told him?
Gong Bucheng saw her secretly glancing at him and immediately became anxious, "I didn't say anything."

Gou Yue took a mouthful of wontons, swallowed it and said, "What did you say?"

Gong Bucheng couldn't explain it, and it didn't matter if he didn't explain it. He was at a loss for a while.

Zhan Yuan said hurriedly, "I know."

Gong Bucheng didn't seem to be that kind of person. He would use this as a reason to threaten her. She must have thought too much. How could Li Xianchen know what happened last night.

"What do you know?" Gou Yue was confused by their conversation.

Li Xianchen gave her a piece of pickled mustard with chopsticks and said, "Eat, eat more."

"I want to eat. I can pick it up myself. You will come wherever I need it."

"When are you going?" Gou Yue asked Li Xianchen.

Li Xianchen said, "It has nothing to do with you, you don't need to go."

Gou Yue clicked her tongue twice, "Can you handle it yourself?"

"I……"

"[-]% sure, how many percent do you have?"

Li Xianchen was asked by her and said forcefully, "[-]% sure."

Gou Yue smiled, "You know it's so funny when you feel guilty, you know?"

Gong Bucheng asked, "Where are you going?"

Li Xianchen said, "It's not us, it's me. She won't go."

Zhan Yuan said, "Where on earth are you going? You guys are so talkative."

"Children, don't meddle in other people's business." Gou Yue brought her a spoon and asked her to drink another half bowl of porridge.

After a while, Manager Gu came here, greeted a few people and said, "Miss, please go ahead."


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