Chapter 412 The Secret of the Notebook Revealed
After getting in the car, they quickly left the chief's residence. Shen Qingran closed his eyes and rested, feeling a little tired.
The vehicle slowly moved through the streets where the crowds were gradually increasing.
After a long time, I heard the driver's voice.
“Comrade Shen, we’re here.”
Shen Qingran rubbed his eyes in confusion.
"Thank you, and thank you for your trouble."
“You’re welcome.”
Shen Qingran opened the car door and got out, stretched himself, and moved his shoulders, neck, hands and feet.
He let out a long breath.
"Shen Qingran, you are really happy. Huo Tingxiao is not here, and you have a car to pick you up when you go out. Who have you hooked up with?"
Shen Qingran couldn't help but frown as she listened to the sarcasm from the woman walking towards her.
"Sun Nianzhen?"
Sun Nianzhen looked at Shen Qingran's face, which was still pretty even though she was pregnant, and felt as uncomfortable as if she had been scratched by a cat.
"Shen Qingran, look, I'm back. Are you angry?"
Shen Qingran looked at her and subconsciously took two steps back.
Is this person mentally ill?
She instinctively classified the other person as a psychopath.
Sun Nianzhen looked at her actions and suddenly became annoyed.
"Shen Qingran, what are you noble about?"
Shen Qingran became more certain that the other party was sick and turned around to leave.
Sun Nianzhen grabbed his arm directly.
"Shen Qingran, why are you leaving? You seem to be relaxed and living a good life."
"Have you ever thought that Huo Tingzhou is about to die!"
Shen Qingran's pupils shrank slightly.
But it didn't show on his face at all.
"What does it have to do with me?"
Shen Qingran shook off her arm and wanted to leave. Sun Nianzhen didn't expect that she didn't care about Huo Tingzhou's life or death.
"Shen Qingran, it's a good thing that Huo Tingzhou ran out of the hospital in the rain just to tip you off."
"You didn't see the look on his face. It was really disgusting."
"But he has been trying his best to protect you and asked people not to hurt you. How pitiful."
"But you don't seem to care at all?"
Shen Qingran's eyebrows moved slightly unconsciously, "Sun Nianzhen, get out of the way, or I'll call for help."
Sun Nianzhen let go of her hand and watched Shen Qingran turn around with a smile.
“Shen Qingran, Huo Tingzhou is indeed insignificant, just a fool, but what about Shen Chaoxi’s thing?”
"It doesn't matter?"
"Huo Tingzhou admitted that the thing was with him. I thought that a man like him would desperately want to protect you."
"Tell me, is that thing in your hand?"
Shen Qingran listened to the words and turned to look at Sun Nianzhen who was smiling.
"What do you know?"
Sun Nianzhen's smile was somewhat strange.
"Shen Qingran, if you want to know why, come with me."
Shen Qingran frowned and looked at the other person, then took a step back.
Instead, he laughed, "Sun Nianzhen, do you really think this method will work on me?"
"I really want to know why, but are you qualified?"
Sun Nianzhen's face instantly turned pale and red, and then red and white, and finally she said angrily, "Shen Qingran, you are looking for death."
Shen Qingran sneered, "I don't care what you want to do or where the things are, but I won't go to you!"
Sun Nianzhen felt a mouthful of blood stuck in her throat.
I'm so angry.
Seeing Shen Qingran enter the Huo family's old house, he stomped his feet.
What a cunning woman.
Shen Qingran walked in, her heart already trembling.
Another person knows about Chen Chaoxi's things.
It’s still Sun Nianzhen.
She felt a chill down her spine and walked through the door.
Mother Shen rushed over directly.
"Ranran is back?"
Shen Qingran nodded, somewhat absentmindedly.
"Mom, where is Tingxiao's dad?"
Mother Shen pointed to the backyard, "It's still in the back, there are quite a few people, you don't look very well, do you want to go and have a rest?"
Shen Qingran shook her head, "Mom, I'm going to find Ting Xiao's father and ask him something."
Mother Shen supported her, feeling very distressed.
"Why don't you take good care of yourself?"
Shen Qingran turned around and said soothingly, "Mom, I'm just a little hungry. Can you give me something to eat?"
"What's good or bad? Are you being polite to your mother?"
Mother Shen’s eyes were red, “I’ll go right away, you wait.”
Shen Qingran watched Mother Shen leave and walked towards the backyard.
Huo Jianyuan was seen standing where the dead rat was thrown.
"dad."
Huo Jianyuan turned his head and looked over.
"Qingran? Why are you back?" Huo Jianyuan hurried over, holding half a map in his hand, "How is the situation over there, Chief?"
"The leader is out of danger." Shen Qingran walked straight to Huo Jianyuan, his business a little heavy, "Dad, Huo Tingzhou is in trouble."
"What? He's not in the hospital?"
Huo Jianyuan felt like his head was about to explode. His youngest son was completely clueless and something happened to him when he was so busy.
"Sun Nianzhen told me." Shen Qingran spoke very quickly and recounted what had happened.
Huo Jianyuan's face was serious. "Okay, I understand. Kid, you go upstairs and rest first. I'll find someone to look for him."
Shen Qingran nodded. She really didn't want to care about Huo Tingzhou's affairs at all.
I don't want to care at all.
Huo Jianyuan watched her leave with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
What is this child hiding?
Shen Qingran was also considering whether to say it.
They both turned their heads at the same time.
"Dad, do you have anything to ask me?"
Huo Jianyuan glanced at her and said, "Qingran, tell Dad, is there anything else you were not comfortable telling me before?"
Shen Qingran nodded. She knew that with Huo Jianyuan's experience, he would be able to see it.
Unless he doesn't ask.
Shen Qingran bit her lower lip and said, "Dad, shall we go to the study to talk?"
Huo Jianyuan smiled and nodded.
The two went to the study.
Shen Qingran closed the door and poured Huo Jianyuan a glass of water.
"Dad, drink some water."
Huo Jianyuan said lovingly, "It's not easy for you to take care of yourself. You don't have to be polite to Dad. Just sit down and talk."
Shen Qingran thought about it.
"Dad, I am hiding something from you. This is what happened."
Shen Qingran told the story of Shen Chaoxi.
He recounted the story of Huo Tingzhou being attacked.
She also repeated everything Huo Tingzhou had said to her.
Only by ensuring that Huo Jianyuan has full access to information can we ensure that this matter can be resolved quickly.
After hearing this, Huo Jianyuan became much more serious.
In a deep voice, "The notes left by your grandfather should not be ordinary research notes."
"I guess those people must have some major conspiracy."
"You know medical skills, have you read those contents?"
Shen Qingran nodded, "I have carefully read the contents, there is really nothing special about them, they are just some medical notes and experiences, I can't see any difference at all."
Huo Jianyuan's eyes were fixed.
"Can you show it to me?"
Shen Qingran hummed, "I'll go get it from the room."
Soon Shen Qingran brought the notebook.
Huo Jianyuan looked at the tattered notebook and his eyes twitched.
I opened it and took a look.
Huo Jianyuan's fingertips stroked the yellowed pages of the notebook, and the edges of the words were a little blurred.
Shen Qingran watched him flipping through the book over and over again, not knowing what he was going to do.
"What's wrong, Dad?"
"Look here." Huo Jianyuan suddenly stopped on one of the pages. Platycodon grandiflorum soup?
Next to the prescription was written in tiny calligraphy: "For lung abscess with pus, it is better to roast it with honey instead of frying it."
Shen Qingran took a look and said, "There's nothing wrong with this recipe..."
Huo Jianyuan smiled and said, "Kid, you are looking at the prescription, I am not looking at it."
After hearing this, Shen Qingran lowered her head and looked at the page of paper.
It was as if something that was covered was revealed.
“This word seems a little different?”
Huo Jianyuan nodded. "From the looks of it, it should have been quite a few years since then."
“But it certainly wasn’t written in one day.”
Shen Qingran looked at the ink color of the two words "蜜致" which was slightly different from the other words.
Frankly speaking, "ordinary prescriptions will not emphasize the details of preparation, unless..."
She took the book and looked at it, flipping through it.
"What is hidden?"
Huo Jianyuan nodded. "No wonder you didn't know. This is something we encounter very often."
"This is a secret code written with a special potion." Huo Jianyuan pulled out a silver hairpin from the pen holder. He heated the tip of the hairpin over a lighter and then slid it across the paper, but no color appeared.
Huo Jianyuan thought for a moment and asked, "Did your grandfather leave you any special signals or hints?"
Shen Qingran was a little confused.
This grandfather is not his own grandfather, but the real Shen Qingran’s.
When I smelled it for a while, I was really confused.
"Dad, let me think about it."
Shen Qingran closed her eyes and recalled the memories left by the original Shen Qingran.
When Shen Qingran closed his eyes.
The smell of mothballs and wormwood in the notes became clearer and clearer.
My memory was brought back to the rainy season when I was seven years old.
Shen Chaoxi squatted on the bluestone slab in the backyard of the pharmacy, stirring the dark brown liquid in the earthenware jar with a bamboo stick.
Raindrops dripped down the eaves, and the old man walked in from outside wearing a straw raincoat.
"Why are you being naughty again?"
"Ranran doesn't have it, what is this, grandpa?"
The old man took off his raincoat and looked at what she was stirring.
"Ranran, watch grandpa perform magic."
He pulled out a piece of white paper from the table next to him.
I used a bamboo stick dipped in the liquid in the clay pot to draw a plum blossom on the paper.
Shen Qingran leaned over to take a look. There were only wet marks on the paper.
It has a strong honey aroma.
"Grandpa, is this the acacia honey from the autumn pear paste?"
"Just the tip of your little nose."
Go and memorize the text obediently.
"There will be a surprise when the sun comes out."
After a long time, the sun came out.
Shen Qingran jumped and skipped to her grandfather's side.
"Grandpa, are you okay?"
The old man smiled and stuffed the dried paper into her hands.
He stuffed another candy into her apron pocket and said, "Remember, this plum blossom needs to be soaked in water three times and rubbed with wormwood leaves three times before it can bloom into a real flower."
At that time, Shen Qingran just thought it was a joke from the old man.
The child was playful and didn't pay any attention.
However, three days later, when I was drying the medicine, I saw the piece of paper.
The drizzle wet the paper.
I saw the outlines of several plum blossoms appearing on the clean white paper.
There are fine lines on the edges of the petals.
It looks especially good.
"Grandpa, why is this?"
The old man scratched her little nose with a smile.
"This was given to Grandpa by a very powerful god. Honey water can be used to write, and mugwort can be used to make things appear. When Ranran wants to write a letter to his parents in the future, he can use this to write secretly, okay?"
Young Shen Qingran nodded, not quite understanding.
Shen Qingran opened her eyes and she understood.
Sophora japonica honey is invisible ink, mugwort juice is the color developer, and the brown liquid in the earthenware jar is a potion made from twenty-one Chinese medicinal herbs.
If it weren't for Shen Qingran's childhood memories, she would probably never be able to solve it.
"It's honey and mugwort!" Shen Qingran's voice was a little deep.
Huo Jianyuan nodded and said, "I'll have someone prepare it."
Soon someone delivered the things.
Shen Qingran quickly prepared a potion that could show the effect according to the method in his memory.
Shen Qingran diluted the locust flower honey with water in proportion, dipped a cotton swab in it and gently applied it on the words "honey-roasted".
Then he took the liquid filtered out from the crushed dried mugwort.
Slight shaking.
When the wormwood juice came into contact with the characters on the notebook, something vague suddenly appeared on the paper.
“It seems to be a word.”
Shen Qingran quickly wrote it down.
Then, start looking through each page carefully.
The light red ancient Chinese character “魂” (hun) appeared below the two characters “蜜致” (mi zhi).
Shen Qingran suppressed his heartbeat and evenly applied the mugwort juice to the area with the strange text.
More words appeared one after another: "Seven leaves and one flower can heal a broken soul vein."
Shen Qingran found it a bit mysterious. How could this be possible?
What are these things for?
Huo Jianyuan didn't understand either.
The two looked at each other.
Huo Jianyuan handed the note to Shen Qingran. "Qingran, this thing must have an important role."
"I thought, why don't we find someone to make a fake one."
Shen Qingran's eyes suddenly lit up. Yes, the secret is these invisible words.
These contents are actually nothing.
Shen Qingran nodded. "Then I'll trouble you with this matter, Dad."
Huo Jianyuan: "I know quite a few people who specialize in making old things look old, and they can make this thing at least 90% good."
After the two of them discussed it, Shen Qingran finally remembered it.
"Dad, what about Huo Tingzhou?"
Huo Jianyuan also realized it and almost forgot about it.
"It's okay, I'll make the call."
At this time, the forgotten Huo Tingzhou had already brought his people to the house that Huo Jianyuan rented for him.
"Bring me the key to the attic."
Huo Tingzhou felt the gun behind his head.
My palms were sweating from nervousness.
"The key is in my room."
"Let's go get it."
Huo Tingzhou hummed, "The second one."
The man kicked the door open with a bang.
"where?"
Huo Tingzhou pointed to his desk, "Over there."
The person behind the man obeyed and walked over, opened the desk and looked through it.
Got a key.
“Found it.”
A look of joy appeared on the man's face.
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