Chapter 265: Lingchi
"Girl, what do you know?" Liuying looked at her blankly, expressing her confusion, and at the same time exchanged a glance with Liuyun.
Liuyun also expressed his confusion, but the girl must have her own reasons.
"I know what caused the old master to be poisoned. Let's go to Fengyue Pavilion now!"
Su Wan was in a hurry to go out, but when she came out, she didn't know which way to go, and she had to ask Liuyun to lead the way.
On the way, she felt that she was walking too slowly, and almost jogged all the way to Fengyue Pavilion.
Fengyue Pavilion is still looking for something wrong, but there is no sign.
After treating the wound, Jiang Yu returned to his grandfather's side and stayed with him.
Su Mu and Sun Ling'er were talking about something at the door, and they caught a glimpse of a figure running towards them from the corner of their eyes.
"Wanwan?" The two spoke almost at the same time.
But Su Wan ignored them and pushed the door open directly, looking around for that damn Leng Tanxiang.
Sure enough, no one suspected the incense, because the old master had used this incense all his life without any problems. The old master must have sandalwood to help him sleep, so the whole house has been renewed, and only this cold sandalwood is left.
Jiang Yu and Jiang Yunhe heard the noise and looked towards the door at the same time, only to see Su Wan standing there panting.
Sun Beidou was holding a silver needle in his hand and looked at her helplessly.
"Girl, what's wrong with you? Why are you so anxious?"
"Remove the cold sandalwood incense. This incense was the cause of the old master's poisoning." Su Wan shouted, pointing at the incense burner in the middle of the room from which several wisps of smoke were rising.
Su Mu and Sun Ling'er also walked in. After hearing what Su Wan said, they looked in the direction of her finger.
Everyone seemed to be awakened by her words.
Yes, they only didn’t think that there was something wrong with the cold sandalwood. They ignored that this might be the hidden danger that had been lurking around the old master for a long time.
"Hiss... If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have suspected it. Maybe it really is related to this cold sandalwood!" Doctor Sun patted his head.
People tend to ignore things that they have long been accustomed to.
After Su Wan said that, Jiang Yu extinguished the incense in the incense burner and moved the incense burner outside.
Sun Beidou immediately took out a silver needle to test whether there were any poisonous ingredients in it.
"Doctor Sun, there's no need to look at it. This incense is fine. It's just the primer that triggers the poison on the sandalwood bracelet. That kind of poison must be successfully planted with cold sandalwood as the primer. Just coming into contact with the mother poison will not endanger a person's life. It will just make the body deteriorate, the resistance will be lowered, and it will be easy to catch a cold, thus shortening the lifespan. However, once combined with this cold sandalwood, from poisoning to death, depending on the strength of the poisoned person's physique, it will take as short as two years, as long as four or five years. The old master belongs to the latter.
If I remember correctly, this poison is a chronic one, called Lingchi. Its essence is just like its name, slowly wearing away your will and vitality, just like a prisoner being executed by Lingchi, dying in a long and torturous death.
This is what Su Wan said based on the original text's explanation. Because the name of this poison is special, she remembers it quite clearly.
Everyone listened to her explanation, thought about it carefully, and connected it with the changes that the old master had undergone in recent years. It was indeed as she said, his health was getting worse and worse, and in just four or five years he was at the end of his life.
But why does Su Wan know all this?
Su Mu frowned and looked at his sister. Su Wan felt his slightly inquiring eyes and lowered her head guiltily.
This matter is extremely urgent and involves human lives. She has no time to plan how to find excuses for herself. After all, how could a young girl like her who can't even recognize basic herbs know about this poison that even Dr. Sun doesn't know about?
Jiang Yu was also very surprised. How could his Wan Wan know so much?
However, he would not ask her or question her.
Seeing that she was still breathing hard, Jiang Yu walked up to her, grabbed her hand, and led her into the room.
"My hands are a little cold. Come in and warm yourself up. Don't stand in the wind."
Sun Ling'er and Jiang Yunhe also realized it belatedly. Why did Su Wan know it so clearly?
Su Wan followed Jiang Yu in, and the others followed in too. Only Doctor Sun was still squatting beside the incense burner, puzzled.
"Lingchi? I seem to have heard this name somewhere before."
As soon as Dr. Sun opened his mouth, everyone's attention was instantly shifted to him.
"Doctor Sun, have you heard of this poison?" Jiang Yu asked him expectantly.
"I seem to have heard of this name, but I'm old now, and this memory seems to be from a long, long time ago. I just can't remember it right now, but it just feels familiar for some reason."
Doctor Sun kept patting his head, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it.
But he changed his mind and walked towards Su Wan, asking anxiously:
"Girl, how did you know about this poison, and why do you know its properties? Since you know this poison is called Lingchi, do you know anything about the antidote?"
Instead of obsessing over where they had heard about the poison of Lingchi, it would be better to be realistic and ask Su Wan directly. She knew more than those of them who were completely in the dark.
Su Wan's heart skipped a beat. She couldn't let down her disguise as someone who traveled through a book. But what kind of reason should she come up with to be more convincing?
"I... I..." Su Wan hesitated for a long time, not knowing how to answer the question of how he knew about this poison.
In the end, it was Jiang Yu who rescued her:
"It's okay, Wanwan. I believe you. It doesn't matter how you know. Just tell me what you know. If you don't want to say it, don't say it. If you can save my grandfather's life, you will be the greatest benefactor of Fengyue Villa. Even if you don't know, you don't have to feel burdened. No one will blame you, okay?"
Jiang Yu silently held her hand tightly, and the tone of his voice was so gentle that it was sickening. It could be said that no one present had ever seen him like this before.
Love is such a great thing that it can reveal another side of a person.
"That's right, girl, you can say whatever you want to say, and don't say anything you don't want to say."
Doctor Sun also felt that his recklessness had scared people, and quickly agreed with Jiang Yu's words.
To be honest, with Jiang Yu's words and comfort, Su Wan felt less panicked and calmed down.
She began to recall how they detoxified the emperor in the original book.
"I don't know the specific solution. In my opinion, if you want to save the old master's life, you can feed him the blood from his heart every day, and take medicine to replenish his body's deficiency and blood and qi. This will effectively improve the old master's current pain, and should be much more effective than acupuncture. At least he won't be unconscious after waking up. But as for the real solution to this Ling Chi, perhaps you can go ask someone named Ye Qingwu."
Su Wan remembered that in the original novel, this method was thought up by the second brother, who had been sleepless for half a month and almost died suddenly. After this method was effectively improved by the emperor, the second brother finally fainted due to exhaustion and slept for a whole day and night.
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