Chapter 687 Overbearing Poison
Jiang Yao passed out due to excessive fatigue, still holding the urn tightly in her hands.
She has a bad temper, and since her sister's death, she has become even more isolated in her inner world.
Only when she was chatting with the Taoist priest could she show some vitality; the rest of the time she was like a cold statue.
Because the Taoist priest was an excellent doctor, Hu Xiner deliberately invited him to take her husband's pulse.
In the carriage, Hu Xin'er gently held the little girl in her arms, her eyes fixed on the Taoist priest with concern: "Excuse me, Taoist priest, how is the poison in my body?"
The Taoist priest said slowly, "The toxins accumulated in the past have deepened. It will probably take quite some time to eliminate them."
"Then how many years can my husband live? What medicine can cure him?" Hu Xiner asked hurriedly.
This is the issue that the couple is most concerned about. Doctor He once said that this poison is both strange and vicious. It lurks in the human body and is not obvious on a normal day. Once the poison takes effect, it will be the time of death.
Therefore, although Mu Qing did not show too many symptoms of discomfort since being poisoned, the couple was still worried.
This time when they returned to the capital, in addition to being coerced, the more important reason was to treat Mu Qing's illness.
Both of them had already prepared themselves for the possibility that there was no cure for the poison or that the medicine was extremely difficult to find.
Unexpectedly, the Taoist priest said in a somewhat strange tone, "And haven't you already checked her pulse? This poison isn't fatal. It was brought in from the womb. It will only leave black lines on Mu Qing's face."
"What?" Hu Xin'er was stunned.
Mu Qing also said: "Master, have you misunderstood? In addition to the innate poison, I have also been poisoned by another strange poison in recent days."
"Really?" The Taoist priest was a little skeptical. "Could it be that you were poisoned by the same poison both times? There's no remnant of the second poison in your body. Instead, the original poison has worsened."
Hu Xin'er thought for a moment and asked cautiously, "How about you take my pulse again?"
If it was the same toxin, there was no reason why Doctor He in Qingzhou City couldn't see it.
The Taoist priest shook his head: "The matter has been decided. What is there to wait and see? This poison is not fatal. You and your wife don't need to worry too much."
"This is completely different from what Doctor He said." Hu Xiner said with some embarrassment.
You should know that when Doctor He first took the patient's pulse, he actually said that this poison was fatal.
Doctor He is a well-known doctor in Qingzhou City, and the Taoist priest is a master of unique skills. He is a disciple of the hidden sect - Dao Sect.
The loyalty of both parties is trustworthy, but why do they give completely different accounts of the same thing?
Could it be that Doctor He was deceiving them? But what could the Lu family have that was worth him deceiving them? They didn't even pay for the consultation!
Seeing that the two of them were lost in thought, the Taoist priest didn't want to say anything more. He still had to go back and take care of Jiang Yao.
But just before getting off the carriage, he suddenly remembered something and turned around with a complicated look on his face: "You said that Doctor He is a famous doctor, but he diagnosed a different pulse?"
He paused and said, "If the doctor didn't make a wrong diagnosis, I know another possibility..."
Hu Xiner quickly asked him to sit back in the carriage and told him the story in detail.
What Taoist Master Yiqing said surprised them both: "Could it be that the original toxin in Mu Qing's body has absorbed the new toxin?"
"Is there such a strange thing in the world?" Mu Qing did not dare to be negligent since his own safety was at stake.
He was used to keeping all his emotions hidden in his heart, never revealing them to anyone other than Hu Xin'er. But the thought of his wife and brother being left alone in this world after his death made him feel very sad.
What was even more uncomfortable was that there was actually Yin Li standing next to him, staring at him with a fierce look.
想到心儿往后可能会另嫁他人，他已是心如刀割，而这个人还有可能是殷离这样的冤种，他真恨不得现在就去把殷离揍一顿。
However, the Taoist priest's words pulled him out of his thoughts.
The Taoist priest said slowly, "Everything in the world is interdependent and mutually exclusive, and so are poisons. I once heard of a strange story. It was about a patient who had been bedridden for years, dragging down his family. He couldn't bear it anymore and committed suicide by taking poison."
"But I didn't expect that the poison he used was called Gelsemium elegans, which counteracted the toxins in the body. In this way, it actually healed the body!"
It has always been said that medicine and poison are one. If two seemingly mild medicinal herbs counteract each other, they can kill people.
If two extremely powerful and opposing toxins are put together, they will cancel each other out.
Hu Xin'er had looked up relevant information when she was drawing comics, and nodded repeatedly upon hearing this: "I understand! So, the toxins in my husband's body have actually been alleviated by the poison? Then, should we find the recipe for that poison and use poison to treat Mu Qing's innate toxins?"
Mu Qing reminded: "The poison hasn't disappeared."
The Taoist priest shook his head: "Everything else is correct, but the two poisons Mu Qing took are not mutually exclusive, but rather compatible. It is precisely because his original poison was too overbearing that he treated the new poison as nourishment."
Hu Xin'er became nervous: "Will that still have an impact on his body?"
"That's natural," the Taoist priest nodded. "But the poison isn't fatal. No, it should be said that the poison in his body has almost no effect on him. He only retains the scars on his face and his domineering nature."
Hu Xin'er paused for a moment before finally understanding: "That means if the toxins in Mu Qing's body aren't removed, he might become immune to all poisons?"
Mu Qing was stunned for a moment and offered a different opinion: "Even if the new toxin was swallowed, there should be some residue, and it also strengthened the toxins I was born with, but why don't I feel it?"
The Taoist priest took a long time to explain it to them.
It turned out that after the toxins in Mu Qing's body absorbed other poisons, the lines on his face would expand again, and the color of the lines would become darker.
It was just because they were busy during that time that the couple didn't notice it and never thought about it.
"That is to say, I'm not actually poisoned!" Mu Qing suddenly opened his eyes wide and grabbed Hu Xiner's sleeve in a rare moment of loss of composure.
"Xin'er, did you hear that?" he asked incoherently. "I'm not poisoned. We don't have to separate anymore, and you don't have to marry anyone else. That's great! That's great!"
Hu Xin'er was also very excited, but when she heard his talk of marrying someone else, she couldn't help but roll her eyes: "Even if you die, I won't marry anyone else!"
She said viciously, "It's not easy to find such a gentle and virtuous husband, don't even think about running away!"
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