Spring River Flower Moon Night: Set of 2 Volumes

Chapter 67 The Undead Medicine (3)
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"Didn't we look at it last night? The box was clearly empty!" Wang Zijin was even more surprised.

"Zi Jin, haven't you heard of Cao Cao's 72 suspicious tombs?" Fei Xiao took a sip of tea and replied leisurely, "Humans often spend the most effort to hide things that they cherish. Master Cheng also followed the example of the ancients. There are many boxes buried in the room, Qingling and I unlocked the door last night and sneaked in, only to discover this secret."

"Since what was stolen was a counterfeit medicine, how could Master Cheng be so anxious that he couldn't get sick?"

"It's probably due to my old eyesight, and I misread it for a while." Feixiao stroked her long hair triumphantly, raised her eyebrows and smiled, "Besides, there is really an elixir, so why has there been no movement for so long? I think it's probably because the thief missed it for a while. , stole the counterfeit medicine, and now I don’t know where to hide and regret.”

He was probably planning a second theft!When Wang Zijin thought of the conversation he overheard last night, his heart tightened.

"Fei Xiao, I made a big discovery last night, let's take a step to talk."

"Oh? What kind of thing is it? Don't let me hear it. Did Zijin see some beauty again?" But before Fei Xiao nodded her head in agreement, Qing Ling approached her with a playful smile.

"Why do you only think of beauties when I say something?" Wang Zijin said angrily, "Can't I find any clues?"

"Hahaha, because you only have the best eyesight when you see beautiful women!" Qing Ling laughed loudly with her hands clasped, shaking her head and said, "As for weekdays, most of them are blind."

Wang Zijin was so angry that he almost carried his back. Just as he took a sip of tea, he saw Fei Xiao snapping her fingers at the servant who was standing with her head bowed.

"After a night of investigation, I have found the location of the elixir. Can you trouble the old lady to gather everyone in the stone house? I have something important to announce!"

"My lord, are you serious?" The servant immediately became ecstatic, "Madam is old, we can't let her mood fluctuate any more."

"If we speak half a lie, there will be a thunderbolt that day." Qing Ling promised swearingly on the side.

Wang Zijin looked at his upright and serious face, and sighed repeatedly.Could it be that the thunder gods in the sky have all gone to take a nap?He obviously lied more than the truth, how could he still be unscathed so far?

So an hour later, everyone gathered in the backyard, Mrs. Cheng, leaning on crutches, tried her best to come to preside over the overall situation.

The prince came in several times to find an opportunity to tell him what he saw and heard last night, but due to time constraints, Qing Ling never left, so he was unable to speak.

"Zi Jin, I'll get the medicine later, do you have anything to tell me?" Fei Xiao asked curiously when she saw that he seemed to have something on her mind.

"It's okay." Wang Zijin waved his hands, looking at the group of people heading for the stone house under the scorching sun, he wondered, "Why don't you see the girl from this house?"

"Sure enough, the country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change." Qingling didn't miss any chance to laugh at him, and said, "The girl from the Cheng family hasn't left the cabinet yet, how could she show her face so easily?"

"By the way, is this Cheng family girl born crazy?"

"It doesn't seem to be..." Qing Ling tilted her head and pondered, "It seems that when she was 15 years old, because of anti-marriage, her heart was stagnated, she couldn't turn around for a while, and she went crazy overnight!"

From this point of view, this girl is very high-spirited, and she doesn't seem like a thug.Wang Zijin was even more confused when he thought of the conversation he overheard in the medicine garden last night.

He was frowning and thinking, but he heard the sound of jingling keys ringing in his ears. When he looked up, he saw a servant bending over to open the door in front of the stone house.

The stone house also faded its horror in the bright sunshine, and the weeds in front of the door were overgrown with lush greenery. At first glance, it looked like the hut inhabited by the aliens described in the book.

"Young masters, please come in." The servant opened the door for everyone, only to see the narrow and dark corridor, which seemed to be filled with lingering dust.

"My lord, you really didn't lie to me?" Seeing that the truth was about to be revealed, Mrs. Cheng pulled Feihong's cuff excitedly and said, "If it fails again this time, I really can't bear it anymore..."

"Madam, please don't worry." Fei Xiao smiled brightly and strode forward, "I will definitely not disappoint you."

He stretched out his white clothes, walked to the iron gate in a few steps, stretched out his hand and pushed gently, and the heavy iron gate unexpectedly opened in response.Seeing that he opened the solid iron door so easily without using a key, everyone was dumbfounded for a moment.

Sure enough, there is no gate in this world that can stop him, Wang Zijin shook his head and sighed, and followed Fei Xiao into the room of Tibetan medicine.

"People think that the medicine is hidden in this box." Fei Xiao pointed to the stone slab that was pried open the day before and said, "Actually, it is just a realistic cover, the real medicine is still in the room!"

"Ah? How did you know, my lord?" Mrs. Cheng and all the servants were confused, not knowing why.

"Because of the location." Qing Ling quickly added, "The location of that stone slab is a 'kan', and when we entered yesterday, we found that the house was built very upright, and there was a Eight Diagrams hanging in the alchemy room. Master Cheng has put a lot of thought into Feng Shui."

"That's right." Fei Xiao raised her eyebrows and smiled, and quickly walked to another corner of the room, pointing to the stone slab under her feet with a folding fan, "There should also be a medicine box under here."

"Go and dig, what are you doing standing there?" The old lady was so excited that she ordered the servants.

Immediately, a person rushed up and pried open the stone slab a few times, revealing a brown medicine box.

"Great, really great!" Mrs. Cheng opened the wooden box excitedly, and saw a white and shiny wax pill lying in the crimson flannelette, "I finally found the medicine..."

"Ma'am, don't be in a hurry." Fei Xiao looked at the tearful madam and said, "This may not be the real medicine, it may be another trap."

Seven

"Ah? It's fake again?" Mrs. Cheng's smile froze on her face immediately, with tears dripping down her face, she was very embarrassed.

"If I'm not mistaken, there should also be a medicine box buried under the corner over there."

"That's right, there are the same thing under the four corners!" Qingling echoed, "This is a trick of suspicion, but we can't guess which one is the real elixir."

"But, but, why do you say that the stolen medicine is fake?" Mrs. Cheng asked curiously, "You don't know the medicinal materials, so you have no way of judging."

"Because the stolen medicine was buried in the 'kan' position!" Qing Ling said convincingly, "The 'kan' position has the meaning of yang sinking into yin, and the meaning of danger is added to danger, so Mr. Cheng will never put the real The medicine is buried here."

"Then, where is the real medicine?"

"The wooden box that was dug out just now is the 'li' position, which means separation and separation, and what was buried should not be the real medicine." Fei Xiao paced in the small stone room thoughtfully, "so, the only one who represents the celestial phenomenon The 'dry' bit, most likely to conceal the elixir of immortality."

"Fei Xiao, don't be a fool." Wang Zijin scratched his head anxiously, "Quickly tell me where is the 'dry' position?"

Fei Xiao walked to a corner of the room, turned her head and smiled at everyone, "The 'dry' position is right where I am standing now!"

Everyone saw that he was full of confidence and his posture was free and easy, and the boulder that had been suppressed in his heart for a long time suddenly fell to the ground.Mrs. Cheng wept again with joy, clasped her hands together and kept chanting Buddhist scriptures.

Later, the servants dug at the place where Fei Xiao pointed out, and they dug out another wooden box, which was still wrapped with gold rims, which was quite different from the previous three.

"This time it must be the medicine of immortality." Mrs. Cheng opened the lid of the box tremblingly, and saw a vermilion wax pill inside.

The wax pill was the size of a chicken egg, and in the brilliant afternoon sun, it emitted a crystal-clear light like agate.

"Ma'am, it's better not to jump to conclusions now." Seeing that Mrs. Cheng was about to leave, Fei Xiao hurriedly took a step to stop her.

"Why? Saving a life is like putting out a fire. Now that I have found the medicine, I must take it for the master immediately."

Fei Xiao's face darkened, her handsome face was covered with frost, and she said word by word: "We just hypothesized that it is the real medicine, but there is no conclusive evidence."

"But, but it is so different, with a glamorous appearance..."

"Fei Xiao is right!" A flash of inspiration flashed into Wang Zijin's mind, and then he spoke to stop him, "There are so many people in this world who are beyond gold and jade, and among them are ruined, let alone a pill? You can't just take a red wax pill." Conclusion!"

"Then, what should we do?" Mrs. Cheng looked at Feixiao in confusion, then at Qingling, her old hands were tightly clutching the gold-encrusted wooden box, at a loss.

"For the present plan, the only way is to keep these three pills in a safe place for the time being, and then send the servants to invite a skilled pharmacist to come over. We will know if they are true or not."

"That's a good idea..." The old lady hesitated, "However, where should I hide the medicine?"

"It's hidden in this stone house." Fei Xiao looked at the airtight Tibetan medicine room, raised her eyebrows and said with a smile, "The so-called most dangerous place is the safest, and the thief would never think that the medicine is still hidden in the lost room." place."

Wang Zijin looked at Fei Xiao's face full of chatter and laughter, and an ominous premonition arose in his heart.

For foreign thieves, Fei Xiao's idea is of course good!But in case the thief is an insider, especially if he has a full set of keys, no matter how strong the stone house is, it will still be like something in his bag!

"Okay, Mr. Hu, this medicine that puts our family's hope in it will be left to you for safekeeping."

Mrs. Cheng stretched out her hands that were wrinkled like tree bark, and held the gold-encrusted box respectfully in front of Fei Xiao.

As soon as Prince Jin returned to the guest room, he hurriedly closed the door and said nervously, "I overheard two people talking in the medicine garden last night, as if they were the ones who stole the medicine."

"Oh?" Fei Xiao was tired from tossing and drinking tea, lazily leaning on the chair, "What did they say?"

"One person has a complete set of keys, and the other is a woman, vaguely a member of the family, and she stole the keys."

"Very good, very good." As soon as he finished speaking, Qing Ling kept nodding with a smile on her face, with a smile in the corner of her eyes, as if thinking of something interesting.

"What's the good?" Wang Zijin became furious when he saw him, "You insist on hiding the precious medicine in the stone house, aren't you giving gifts to thieves?"

"Zi Jin, calm down." With a smile in her phoenix eyes, Fei Xiao said to him softly, "Have a good rest, go to sleep, the matter will be resolved soon."

"Why sleep?" Wang Zijin was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, pointing at Qiankun Langri and hopping, "The sun is still so high, it's only been a few hours since I woke up, why are you going to sleep again..."

But before he could say another word, Qing Ling smiled at him, stretched out a slender hand, and gently shook his nose.

"What are you doing..." He asked curiously, and suddenly felt drowsiness flooding him like an overwhelming sea, drowning him instantly, causing him to fall headlong on the bed, and fell into a deep sleep.

"Qing Ling, you are so straightforward." Fei Xiao looked at the sleeping Prince and stuck out her tongue, "I still want to explain to him."

"It's useless to talk about it." Qingling smiled with her hands behind her back, "Tonight, he will know everything by himself. If I tell him in advance, it's hard to guarantee that I won't be so scared that I can't sleep!"

"Speaking of sleeping, I'm also a little tired." Feihong stretched lazily, and went out to her room, "Last night I struggled all night, I don't know how the net we cast will end. What kind of fish did you catch?"

"You won't be disappointed." Qingling followed him out, and slowly closed the door for the prince to enter the room. In the silence, only his clear voice echoed, "Then, it must be a big fish!"

Outside the window, the sun is shining brightly, and the kingfishers are contending, just like the eyes of the sea before the storm. In the peace and calm, stormy waves are brewing.

Eight

That night, Wang Zijin was woken up from the bed by Fei Rou, and saw Fei Rou, who was like a spring flower, staring at him fixedly, unable to hide her flirtatious air.

"Zi Jin, there is a good show tonight, do you want to watch it?"

"What's a good show? Of course we have to watch it!" Wang Zijin knew something good was going to happen when he saw his eyes. He hurriedly jumped up from the bed, put on his robe and left.

"Come with me, don't make a sound." Fei Xiao's footsteps were silent, like a wild beast hunting in the dark field, leading the way lightly and swiftly.

Wang Zijin also tried his best to keep his footsteps light, and the two walked out of the room one after the other, escaping into the dark night.

After walking for an unknown amount of time and going around a few times, Wang Zijin finally knew that Fei Xiao was taking him to the stone house.

"Did my words make you restless today?" This discovery made him proud, "That's why you have to guard overnight?"

"Actually, whether you say it or not, I will lie in wait all night." Fei Xiao turned her head and smiled at him, "The medicine is fake, but it is just a bait to lure the snake out of the hole."

"What?" Wang Zijin screamed in shock, "Three! Are they all fake?"

"That's right, that's the pill that Qingling and I found overnight. The vermilion one is just an ordinary Dahuoluo Pill, but the wax pill was tampered with by us."

"You were also the ones who buried the pills under the stone slab?"

"Who else but us?"

"Then he made up a bunch of nonsense to deceive people and lure us into being fooled?!" The more Wang Zijin said, the more he felt that he was so naive that he would actually believe these two liars.

"You can only deceive your enemy if you deceive your friends first." Seeing that his face was blue, Fei Xiao hurriedly comforted him, "And you don't know now? The person who stole the medicine is still kept in the dark, so what's the point?" angry?"

Wang Zijin was speechless at what he said, so he could only follow behind him.

Yelu covered her body and soaked the loose corner of her robe.When the two approached the stone house, they found a blue figure standing by the door, whose figure was like spring water, flowing endlessly, waving at them eagerly.

"You guys are finally here." Qing Ling quickly ran two steps, pulled Wang Zijin into the bushes, and said nervously, "It's almost time, it's better to be careful."

"Are you sure the person who stole the medicine will definitely come tonight?"

"Of course, during the daytime, Feixiao and I have made everyone known, if he doesn't come tonight, he's too stupid!" Qing Ling stuffed a wooden stick into his hand, "Hold this, you can defend yourself .”

"Hey! Then where are you going?" Wang Zijin asked with a wooden stick.

"I'm in charge of guarding the back of the house, and the gate will be handed over to you and Feixiao." After saying that, Qing Ling jumped out of the bushes lightly, and disappeared into the shadow of the dark night in a flash.

Prince Jin was the only one left, squatting nervously in the bushes.Fei Xiao didn't know where he was going, and in this silent night, he was only accompanied by the lonely chirping of autumn insects and the soft rustling of grass and trees.

Unexpectedly, this squatting was in the middle of the night, not to mention people, I didn't even see a cat.He simply sat on the ground, looking at the bright moon above his head, feeling sorry for him.

I think he has studied hard since he was a child and devoted himself to learning. Although his qualifications are not high and he did not enter the court of the emperor, he never imagined that one day he would be reduced to the field of sneak attack and plotting.

But before he finished his thoughts, he heard a rustling sound of stepping on the grass, as if someone was approaching lightly.

Who will come?In the middle of the night, most of them are either rape or robbery.

He couldn't help short of breath, trembling all over, and tightly grasped the wooden stick in his hand.

I saw a figure, looking left and right, sneaking over, looking at the tall and thin figure, it was vaguely a young man.

Seeing that there was no one around, the man took out the key from his waist and began to open the door with a clanging sound.But he was not as proficient as the servant, and he opened the door clumsily after trying several times in the dark.

Wang Zijin was so nervous that his whole body was shaking like a sieve, which made the surrounding branches rustle.

"Who's there?" The man seemed to sense someone, and turned his head to look in the direction of the prince.

"Brave thief! How dare you steal medicine in the middle of the night!" Wang Zijin jumped out of the bushes with a stick in his hand.

"I said Zijin, why are you so stupid?" At this moment, a clear voice sounded in the darkness, "After he enters the door, lock the outside door, even if he grows wings, he won't be able to fly away La! Now we have to work hard to catch him!"

Seeing that the prince was not alone in ambush, the man ran towards the courtyard.

"Where are you going!" Wang Zijin chased after him for the first time, waving a stick.

But the man seemed to be very familiar with the route, and after turning a few turns, he left Prince Jin far away.

(End of this chapter)