The secret guard hesitated secretly and hadn't made a move yet. Li Le only saw him pull out a dagger. He was so scared that he immediately asked, "Wait, you're going to stab me with a dagger?"
Are you really not afraid that Zhao Xuan will die? This must be an assassin sent by the enemy country.
Li Le just stared at him and said, "Use a needle."
Thinking that this group of people might not have the golden needles in their hands, and that the head of the secret guard seemed a little stupid as he actually took a dagger, Li Le had no choice but to do it himself and pinch Zhao Xuan's philtrum to see if he could wake him up.
After pinching him like this for a long time, Zhao Xuan actually woke up. However, his throat was injured due to the mercury-containing medicine he drank, and he had difficulty speaking. Li Lezhi did not intend to let him speak, and only said, "It's good that you're awake."
He helped Zhao Xuan up, took the bowl from the head of the secret guards, and moved to Zhao Xuan's side and said, "Drink."
Hearing this, Zhao Xuan held the bowl in his hand. Before he could take it, Li Lezhi had already tilted the bowl and poured the liquid into Zhao Xuan's throat bit by bit, without giving Zhao Xuan any chance to ask any questions.
The egg white was cold and not tasty. Zhao Xuan felt uncomfortable, but Li Lezhi forced him to drink up the egg white in the bowl mouthful after mouthful.
At the end, Zhao Xuan couldn't drink any more, so he grabbed Li Lezhi's wrist and asked him to stop, saying in a hoarse voice, "I feel a little full."
Zhao Xuan felt his physical condition. He knew better than anyone that something had happened to his body and he was poisoned again.
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His eyes stung, his throat hurt, and even his abdomen was in pain. But after drinking a bowl of something he didn't know what it was, his abdominal condition got much better, and even the pain in his throat was alleviated a little.
But he could also feel that these things could not really cure the poison in him, they could probably only delay it and try to save his life.
Zhao Xuan reached out and touched the white cloth on his eyes. He pulled it off, and there was still a faint light in front of his eyes.
I can see things, but I can't see clearly.
Li Le just stretched out his hand and waved it in front of him, and asked, "Can you see it?"
The slender fingers waved in front of him. Although it was a little blurry and unclear, Zhao Xuan nodded and said, "Yes."
Just wanting to see clearly is a little difficult. Everything seems to be covered with a layer of cloth, and it is not very clear, but it is not to the point where you can't recognize things. It is just that it is impossible to see the words on the memorials clearly in the future.
Zhao Xuan clenched the white cloth in his hand and asked a question, "Is it that person?"
Zhao Xuan didn't say it explicitly, but only he and Li Le knew about Lu Sheng.
Li Le only heard him say something inexplicable, then realized who Zhao Xuan was talking about, and hummed lightly.
The person who did it this time was indeed Lu Sheng.
The other party must have been hiding in the dark early on, observing for a long time, and finally found the right opportunity to poison Zhao Xuan while they were away.
Seeing that Zhao Xuan looked pretty good, Li Le pushed the remaining egg white in front of Zhao Xuan and said, "Drink some more."
Zhao Xuan wanted to decline politely, his hand on the edge of the bowl, but before he could say no, he heard Taoist Li not allowing any refusal, saying in a calm voice: "If you're too full, you should vomit to detoxify."
“…”
In order to detoxify, Zhao Xuan had no reason to refuse. Under Li Lezhi's gaze, he drank the rest and was completely nauseated.
Li Le just made way and took the bowl away. While Zhao Xuan was cleaning out the toxins, he gave him a bowl of egg white. Drinking more and vomiting more would eventually clear out the remaining mercury in his body.
Without modern medicine, Li Lezhi didn't know whether this method was reliable or not, so he could only try it as a last resort. At least drinking more egg white would be fine. However, in addition to egg white, it seemed that he could also drink milk, but Yizhou City was busy at the time.
Compared to this, Li Le only found that the eggs in the kitchen were also used up. The bowl just now might be all the eggs in stock. Since it has come to this point, Li Le only had no other choice, so he asked someone where to buy milk. Although the milk production is very small, wealthy families can still buy milk to drink.
Li Lezhi sent someone to inquire and found a store selling milk. He bought some and brought back a large basin full of milk, which he put into a jar and took back. He then filled two large bowls and brought them to Zhao Xuan's room.
Because he was out, Zhao Xuan's side had already packed up, but Zhao Xuan's face was pale, with his fingers on his stomach.
Li Le only took out two large bowls of milk and placed them next to Zhao Xuan.
Zhao Xuan looked up in confusion.
Li Le only said: "Egg white and milk have the same effect, they can eliminate the slight toxins in your body. There are no eggs in the kitchen, so I bought them for you. Drink it. After you finish these two bowls, there is more in the kitchen."
When he heard that there was more in the kitchen and that he had to drink the two big bowls in front of him, even Zhao Xuan, who had been expressionless all this time, had a distorted and pale face after hearing this.
Who could have imagined that this time the poisoning did not involve any bitter medicine, but rather it was like a never-ending funnel, constantly irrigating him, which was simply a form of torture.
Now, Zhao Xuan only wanted to find that Lu Sheng and feed him the same poison, so that he could taste the pain he had suffered.
But in order to detoxify, Zhao Xuan had no room for refusal, and he also believed that Li Le would not have any intention of harming him.
He lowered his brows, picked up the bowl and drank the milk. He vomited several times after drinking it. Zhao Xuan was completely weakened.
Li Le just guessed it was about the same. The doctor he had invited happened to arrive, so he asked the doctor to take a look at him to see if there was any problem.
After taking Zhao Xuan's pulse, the doctor looked at his face again and hesitated, not daring to say anything.
Seeing this, Li Le called the doctor aside, stood at the door and asked in a low voice: "Doctor, what's the situation?"
"This..." The doctor stroked his beard and peeked inside. Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, he walked a few steps closer and whispered, "To be honest, sir, the patient here is weaker than an ordinary person. He has internal damage and external illness. Although I don't know which miracle doctor has helped him to remove the toxins, that thing is harmful to people. Although he seems to be fine now, he needs to rest and not overwork himself. Otherwise... even gods can't save him."
The doctor lowered his voice and whispered the last four words, then sighed and said, "I can only prescribe some medicine to strengthen his body and replenish his energy now. It all depends on his luck in the future."
Li Le only knew the severity of the poisoning this time, and he also knew that the current approach was the best. Zhao Xuan's future depended on his fate.
Secondly, his divinations might not be necessarily accurate, and the so-called two years might be a miscalculation. His apprentice hasn’t grown up yet, and Li Lezhi still doesn’t want anything to happen to Zhao Xuan.
Compared with other princes, it would be better for everyone if Zhao Xuan sat on the throne.
Li Le simply took the prescription written by the doctor, and went to boil the medicine himself. After the medicine was ready, he placed it in front of Zhao Xuan.
When the medicine was delivered to him, the head of the secret guards planned to try it on Zhao Xuan first to avoid any further accidents.
Zhao Xuan stopped him from doing this and said, "Zhao Da is not doubting the Taoist priest. He is just afraid that he has failed to protect me and will make the same mistake again."
"I believe the Taoist priest will not harm me," Zhao Xuan said this while looking at Zhao Da, the leader of the secret guards.
Zhao Da obediently put down the medicine, but he couldn't help but look at Zhao Xuan with worry in his eyes. He knew that Taoist Li was trustworthy, but... even if Taoist Li personally prepared the medicine, there was a chance that he might be poisoned.
He couldn't bear the consequence of His Highness being poisoned again.
Zhao Da's move also made Li Le worried. He began to recall whether there was anything unusual when he was making the medicine, and whether Lu Sheng was hiding in the kitchen when he turned his back.
If the other party had used mercury, there was no way he wouldn't have known about it, but if they had used some other poison, he couldn't guarantee it.
Li Le saw that the medicine was about to enter his mouth, so he immediately stopped it and said, "Don't drink it, wait for me to count it."
If the poison was really committed, Zhao Xuan would be in trouble.
Zhao Xuan put down the medicine bowl and set it aside. He felt a little nervous because of the two of them and sat there quietly waiting for the result.
After Li Le finished calculating, he breathed a sigh of relief and nodded slowly, "No poison."
Everyone present was relieved, and Zhao Xuan also took the medicine and drank it. After drinking it, he asked, "What is the situation in various places?"
This matter was handled by Zhao Da.
Zhao Da took out all the collected data, held them in his hand, paused for a moment and then said slowly: "The people in Tianshi and Tianshan counties are slightly dissatisfied and have not been relocated. The remaining counties have no objection."
"There are rivers in Tianshi and Tianshan counties, so it's normal for the people to be afraid."
Zhao Xuan said this specifically for Li Le to hear, to explain it to him.
Li Lezhi knew about Tianshan and Tianshi counties, but he didn't know that the two counties were connected by rivers. Judging from the overflowing rivers, it was no wonder that the people of the two counties wanted to flee, but it was not safe to migrate now.
Fortunately, the rain is about to stop.
After Zhao Xuan realized that there was no major problem, he rubbed his eyebrows and closed his eyes to rest.
Li Le just saw it and left quietly.
Except for Li Lezhi and others, Jiang Ruming was unaware of Zhao Xuan's poisoning. After arranging the affairs of Yizhou City, he was choosing a good place to perform a ritual. Now it was raining, and he couldn't choose an open space outside, so he finally chose the tallest pavilion in Yizhou City.
That was the Sanqing Pavilion, where the Three Pure Ones were enshrined. Performing rituals there would surely be twice the result with half the effort. After Jiang Ruming selected a good place, he sent someone to ask Li Lezhi about it.
Li Le only knew that the place where the rituals were held was in Sanqing Pavilion, and he was somewhat interested in it. He walked towards the Sanqing Pavilion with an umbrella. After he saw the Sanqing Pavilion, he once again sighed at Daliang's belief in Taoism. The Sanqing Pavilion was actually located in the central area of Yizhou City, and this pavilion had twelve floors, making it the tallest building in Yizhou City. Standing at the door, he could smell the fragrance inside.
Li Lezhi walked in and found it was very spacious. There was a wooden statue of the Three Pure Ones in the lobby. Going upstairs, Li Lezhi did find the place, but looking at the statues of the Three Pure Ones on the first floor, if he wanted to stand on a high place and then go upstairs to perform rituals, it would be like stepping on the feet of the Three Pure Ones.
Moreover, according to Li Le's observation, there is no place for him to perform rituals above the twelfth floor. In this building, there is space for people to walk on each floor, but there is no place above the Three Pure Ones. He can be inside or outside, but not in the middle.
Therefore, it is better to perform the ritual on the first floor so as not to offend the Three Pure Ones.
He guessed that Jiang Ruming had never been to Sanqing Pavilion, otherwise he would not have mistakenly believed that a forum could be held on the top floor of Sanqing Pavilion.
Although there is a tiny error here, Li Le is still satisfied with performing the ritual in Sanqing Pavilion. With Master Sanqing watching over him, he can get twice the result with half the effort.
It was also his first time to perform a ritual, and he didn't know if it would be successful. Fortunately, he calculated that the rain would stop that day, otherwise he would have never learned how to perform a ritual when he came to Yizhou.
After all, he was just a student majoring in fortune-telling, and the art of performing rituals was learned by other senior brothers and sisters.
He hasn't touched it yet.
Logically, they all seem to have to learn a little bit. As for him, probably his teacher thought that he couldn't even learn the basics and was too lazy to add another course for him, which would mean he would fail one more course and it would be a delusion for him to graduate.
If I tell anyone...I'm afraid his teacher will tell everyone, so don't even call yourself his student when you're away from home.
What Li Lezhi hadn't expected was that before five days were up, Yizhou City could no longer hold on. The water in the river was about to overflow. If they waited one more day, Yizhou City would be flooded.
For a moment, Li Le's pupils shrank slightly, and he had no idea what to do. How could it happen so suddenly that the river was about to overflow? Could it be that this river could not flow downstream and provide some relief for Yizhou City?
Li Lezhi came to the river and saw with his own eyes that the water was only five or six centimeters away from overflowing. In their budget, the water level would never rise so fast. Only two days had passed, and there were still three days left. If the rain did not stop, in another day, the river embankment would not be able to hold back the water, and Yizhou would be flooded sooner or later.
Jiang Ruming was also terrified, and hurriedly asked the people around him, saying solemnly: "What's going on? Why did the water level rise so much?"
The others looked at the water level, speechless. They were all panicking. This was not what they had expected. Originally, the river could hold out until the ritual three days later. Now, were they all going to die in Yizhou?
For a moment, these people couldn't help but blame Jiang Ruming. He could have saved his lives by letting people move, but he chose to wait in the city. The rain would stop in three days, but before it stopped, they were the ones who died in Yizhou.
But no one dared to say such words at this time, not even someone dared to mutter a word.
Some people wanted to blame Li Lezhi for everything, wondering why he couldn't even predict that the river would overflow. But when they looked up and saw Li Lezhi's figure and those indifferent eyes, they remembered the supernatural powers of this man and that he was said to be one of the Three Pure Ones.
In Daliang, Sanqing is a huge mountain in the hearts of the people of Daliang. No one dares to disrespect Sanqing. Therefore, after thinking about it in his heart, this person was afraid that Li Le would hear it and he would be blamed by Sanqing, so his face was distorted and he looked like he was crying.
This person didn't dare to say anything, and someone hiding in the crowd sneered and said, "I heard that Taoist Li of Daliang is very good at fortune-telling. Could it be that Taoist Li didn't figure it out?"
When this sentence was spoken, everyone frowned and looked over. Li Le also looked over curiously. From the tone of this person, he was not from Liang. Could it be Lu Sheng? That person was an assassin, and he dared to show up in broad daylight.
But when he really saw that person's face, he felt a little disappointed. The person who came out to question him was not Lu Sheng, but someone else sent by Prince Yin.
"Who are you?" Jiang Ruming looked over with an unfriendly expression and narrowed his eyes slightly. Someone actually dared to doubt Taoist Li's ability at this time. This was shaking people's hearts and the person should be punished.
This person must not be from Daliang.
Damn it, they actually let someone get close to them, and this person followed them all the way.
No one else noticed that something was wrong with this person. If he had bad intentions towards them, they would all be eaten by the fish.
"It doesn't matter who I am. Instead, you should think about how to save Yizhou City," the man turned to leave, and then, when no one expected it, he turned and rushed towards Li Lezhi.
The dagger hidden in his sleeve appeared, and he rushed towards Li Lezhi. When he came in front of him, he said viciously: "Since your prince is not here, I will not lose anything if I take your life."
This man had no intention of living at all. He rushed to Li Lezhi, grabbed Li Lezhi's arm with one hand, raised the other hand, and wanted to stab Li Lezhi's heart. He threw his whole body towards Li Lezhi, and the momentum made Li Lezhi take a few steps back.
His right foot was already suspended in the air, stepping on the water, and the dagger pierced into his heart. The dagger only pierced through Li Lezhi's clothes, but he didn't expect that when he wanted to go down again, he encountered an obstacle, as if blocked by something hard.
This man was also very agile. He put away the dagger and swept it towards Li Lezhi's neck. Unfortunately, he rushed towards Li Lezhi and knocked him into the river, without giving Li Lezhi any chance to steady himself.
Li Le only thought of the turning of his dagger at the moment when he was about to stab him in the heart. He raised his head as much as he could, away from the man's dagger, not even daring to move his Adam's apple.
The dagger left a scratch on his neck, a shallow mark that bled a little. The raised hair was cut off when the dagger passed by.
Li Le only looked at the falling hair with his peripheral vision. He could see how sharp the dagger was. He didn't think about anything else. He could hear the people on the shore shouting anxiously to save him.
When he was about to fall into the water, he wanted to hit the man but failed, so he would not give up. At that moment, Li Le only thought of the method of using a rabbit to kick an eagle. He grabbed the man with his backhand, grabbed his arm, and exerted all his strength, using his waist and abdomen to curl up his legs as much as possible, and then kicked the man hard between the legs.
The blow was so painful that the man loosened his hand instantly and almost couldn't take the dagger in his hand. This blow also completely separated him and Li Lezhi. Li Lezhi sank into the water, narrowed his eyes slightly, and held his breath.
He tried hard to think, since this man dared to attack him by the water, and came towards Zhao Xuan, and knocked him into the water, he must be someone who is familiar with water, and his water skills are not worth mentioning compared to the other party.
Li Le swam towards the shore without any hesitation. Fortunately, when Zhao Xuan went to learn swimming before, he also remembered this matter. He cramd and went into the water more often to practice it. He didn't expect that it would come in handy at this time.
Li Le just observed the man with his peripheral vision while swimming, and saw that the man was curled up not far away, glaring at him fiercely, and swimming towards him with difficulty and uncoordinatedness. It seemed that the kick he had just given him had hit the man's vitals, so it was no wonder that the man couldn't move his legs in the water.
He was lucky. If he hadn't kicked accurately, the man could still swim and was not injured. He was no ordinary fish in the water. It would have been easy for him to kill him in the water.
Li Le only swam to the shore. At this time, the people on the shore had not left yet. When he emerged, he saw Xiao Wu. Li Le just stretched out his hand, and Xiao Wu immediately grabbed him and lifted him out of the water with a little internal force.
The book passed by him. Li Le just wiped away the hair stuck to his face and stared at the person in the water. The person was one step behind him. Seeing that he had not been caught up, he was slowly diving into the water. Li Le saw him and there was no way he could escape.
Without any hesitation, he asked Xiao Wu: "Bow and crossbow."
He took the crossbow, pointed it in the direction of the water, and squinted his eyes. The scene that could be seen with the naked eye was some distance away from where the person was actually. However, people were not fish. They were larger and the range of the arrows was wider. Although he could not kill the person with one shot, as long as the person was wounded by the arrow, it would be difficult for him to escape from Liang State.
Li Lezhi didn't want to kill anyone. His wet fingers pressed on the trigger. Killing the other person made him feel guilty, but he could still cause a little harm to the other person in return for the other person's attempt to kill him.
Therefore, Li Le narrowed his eyes and calculated the distance. He did not shoot towards the man's heart, but towards the man's legs. Seeing that the man turned around, he instantly shot an arrow at his butt.
That person knew that place, but he didn't dare to turn around to block it. Even the other party didn't have time to block it with a dagger.
Secondly, even though his butt was injured, he was still able to swim out alive. If it were somewhere else, that person would not wait for death and would definitely fight to the death.
If it wasn't him who died, it would be someone else.
Li Le fired the crossbow. Although there was resistance from water, the crossbow had been improved and had incredible power. This time, it hit the bull's eye, and everyone could see the diluted blood.
The previous scene happened again. All the officials beside the river except Jiang Ruming shrank their necks, especially those who had secretly blamed Li Lezhi in their hearts and were afraid because he was Sanqing. They squeezed their legs together, fearing that Li Lezhi would come at them again.
They really didn't expect that Taoist Li looked like a white lotus, indifferent and detached, but when he took action, he was absolutely decisive. It was a clean and neat move. The hand that shot the crossbow did not shake at all, nor did he hesitate. He was a ruthless person.
Think about what they had thought before. They were really tired of living and were trying to provoke the King of Hell.
They were all frightened and behaved very well.
Compared to the past, everything is now perfectly coordinated and Li Le means what he says without any ambiguity.
After Li Le put away his crossbow, he glanced at the official. His body tensed up. When he saw this scene, he thought of his behavior just now, which seemed a little inconsistent with his status.
Li Le just looked up at the sky, pretending nothing had happened. He stood there quietly without saying a word, waiting for Jiang Ruming's arrangements.
Jiang Ruming was waiting for him to make arrangements, and all of a sudden, the river became quiet.
Li Le saw that they were silent. Could it be that they were frightened by him? He asked puzzledly: "Why are you not talking? Jiang Ruming?"
Jiang Ruming looked as if he was being called by his superior. He immediately said seriously, "I was wondering why the water level in the river rose. Sima, tell me."
The person Jiang Ruming called was the Sima of Yizhou, who had complained about Li Lezhi in his heart. This time, it was as if the King of Hell called his name. He stammered and couldn't say anything. He barely thought of something and said, "I am thinking about how to catch the thief. Don't worry, Taoist priest, I will never let the thief escape and will definitely catch him and put him in jail."
He heaved a sigh of relief only after Li Lezhi's eyes moved away. Under the protection of others, he wiped the sweat off his face.
He was really scared to death.
At this time, another person stood up and said, "Sir, I think the rising water level is related to the upper reaches of the river."
The secret guard hesitated secretly and hadn't made a move yet. Li Le only saw him pull out a dagger. He was so scared that he immediately asked, "Wait, you're going to stab me with a dagger?"
Are you really not afraid that Zhao Xuan will die? This must be an assassin sent by the enemy country.
Li Le just stared at him and said, "Use a needle."
Thinking that this group of people might not have the golden needles in their hands, and that the head of the secret guard seemed a little stupid as he actually took a dagger, Li Le had no choice but to do it himself and pinch Zhao Xuan's philtrum to see if he could wake him up.
After pinching him like this for a long time, Zhao Xuan actually woke up. However, his throat was injured due to the mercury-containing medicine he drank, and he had difficulty speaking. Li Lezhi did not intend to let him speak, and only said, "It's good that you're awake."
He helped Zhao Xuan up, took the bowl from the head of the secret guards, and moved to Zhao Xuan's side and said, "Drink."
Hearing this, Zhao Xuan held the bowl in his hand. Before he could take it, Li Lezhi had already tilted the bowl and poured the liquid into Zhao Xuan's throat bit by bit, without giving Zhao Xuan any chance to ask any questions.
The egg white was cold and not tasty. Zhao Xuan felt uncomfortable, but Li Lezhi forced him to drink up the egg white in the bowl mouthful after mouthful.
At the end, Zhao Xuan couldn't drink any more, so he grabbed Li Lezhi's wrist and asked him to stop, saying in a hoarse voice, "I feel a little full."
Zhao Xuan felt his physical condition. He knew better than anyone that something had happened to his body and he was poisoned again.
"Master Li, can this poison be cured?"
His eyes stung, his throat hurt, and even his abdomen was in pain. But after drinking a bowl of something he didn't know what it was, his abdominal condition got much better, and even the pain in his throat was alleviated a little.
But he could also feel that these things could not really cure the poison in him, they could probably only delay it and try to save his life.
Zhao Xuan reached out and touched the white cloth on his eyes. He pulled it off, and there was still a faint light in front of his eyes.
I can see things, but I can't see clearly.
Li Le just stretched out his hand and waved it in front of him, and asked, "Can you see it?"
The slender fingers waved in front of him. Although it was a little blurry and unclear, Zhao Xuan nodded and said, "Yes."
Just wanting to see clearly is a little difficult. Everything seems to be covered with a layer of cloth, and it is not very clear, but it is not to the point where you can't recognize things. It is just that it is impossible to see the words on the memorials clearly in the future.
Zhao Xuan clenched the white cloth in his hand and asked a question, "Is it that person?"
Zhao Xuan didn't say it explicitly, but only he and Li Le knew about Lu Sheng.
Li Le only heard him say something inexplicable, then realized who Zhao Xuan was talking about, and hummed lightly.
The person who did it this time was indeed Lu Sheng.
The other party must have been hiding in the dark early on, observing for a long time, and finally found the right opportunity to poison Zhao Xuan while they were away.
Seeing that Zhao Xuan looked pretty good, Li Le pushed the remaining egg white in front of Zhao Xuan and said, "Drink some more."
Zhao Xuan wanted to decline politely, his hand on the edge of the bowl, but before he could say no, he heard Taoist Li not allowing any refusal, saying in a calm voice: "If you're too full, you should vomit to detoxify."
“…”
In order to detoxify, Zhao Xuan had no reason to refuse. Under Li Lezhi's gaze, he drank the rest and was completely nauseated.
Li Le just made way and took the bowl away. While Zhao Xuan was cleaning out the toxins, he gave him a bowl of egg white. Drinking more and vomiting more would eventually clear out the remaining mercury in his body.
Without modern medicine, Li Lezhi didn't know whether this method was reliable or not, so he could only try it as a last resort. At least drinking more egg white would be fine. However, in addition to egg white, it seemed that he could also drink milk, but Yizhou City was busy at the time.
Compared to this, Li Le only found that the eggs in the kitchen were also used up. The bowl just now might be all the eggs in stock. Since it has come to this point, Li Le only had no other choice, so he asked someone where to buy milk. Although the milk production is very small, wealthy families can still buy milk to drink.
Li Lezhi sent someone to inquire and found a store selling milk. He bought some and brought back a large basin full of milk, which he put into a jar and took back. He then filled two large bowls and brought them to Zhao Xuan's room.
Because he was out, Zhao Xuan's side had already packed up, but Zhao Xuan's face was pale, with his fingers on his stomach.
Li Le only took out two large bowls of milk and placed them next to Zhao Xuan.
Zhao Xuan looked up in confusion.
Li Le only said: "Egg white and milk have the same effect, they can eliminate the slight toxins in your body. There are no eggs in the kitchen, so I bought them for you. Drink it. After you finish these two bowls, there is more in the kitchen."
When he heard that there was more in the kitchen and that he had to drink the two big bowls in front of him, even Zhao Xuan, who had been expressionless all this time, had a distorted and pale face after hearing this.
Who could have imagined that this time the poisoning did not involve any bitter medicine, but rather it was like a never-ending funnel, constantly irrigating him, which was simply a form of torture.
Now, Zhao Xuan only wanted to find that Lu Sheng and feed him the same poison, so that he could taste the pain he had suffered.
But in order to detoxify, Zhao Xuan had no room for refusal, and he also believed that Li Le would not have any intention of harming him.
He lowered his brows, picked up the bowl and drank the milk. He vomited several times after drinking it. Zhao Xuan was completely weakened.
Li Le just guessed it was about the same. The doctor he had invited happened to arrive, so he asked the doctor to take a look at him to see if there was any problem.
After taking Zhao Xuan's pulse, the doctor looked at his face again and hesitated, not daring to say anything.
Seeing this, Li Le called the doctor aside, stood at the door and asked in a low voice: "Doctor, what's the situation?"
"This..." The doctor stroked his beard and peeked inside. Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, he walked a few steps closer and whispered, "To be honest, sir, the patient here is weaker than an ordinary person. He has internal damage and external illness. Although I don't know which miracle doctor has helped him to remove the toxins, that thing is harmful to people. Although he seems to be fine now, he needs to rest and not overwork himself. Otherwise... even gods can't save him."
The doctor lowered his voice and whispered the last four words, then sighed and said, "I can only prescribe some medicine to strengthen his body and replenish his energy now. It all depends on his luck in the future."
Li Le only knew the severity of the poisoning this time, and he also knew that the current approach was the best. Zhao Xuan's future depended on his fate.
Secondly, his divinations might not be necessarily accurate, and the so-called two years might be a miscalculation. His apprentice hasn’t grown up yet, and Li Lezhi still doesn’t want anything to happen to Zhao Xuan.
Compared with other princes, it would be better for everyone if Zhao Xuan sat on the throne.
Li Le simply took the prescription written by the doctor, and went to boil the medicine himself. After the medicine was ready, he placed it in front of Zhao Xuan.
When the medicine was delivered to him, the head of the secret guards planned to try it on Zhao Xuan first to avoid any further accidents.
Zhao Xuan stopped him from doing this and said, "Zhao Da is not doubting the Taoist priest. He is just afraid that he has failed to protect me and will make the same mistake again."
"I believe the Taoist priest will not harm me," Zhao Xuan said this while looking at Zhao Da, the leader of the secret guards.
Zhao Da obediently put down the medicine, but he couldn't help but look at Zhao Xuan with worry in his eyes. He knew that Taoist Li was trustworthy, but... even if Taoist Li personally prepared the medicine, there was a chance that he might be poisoned.
He couldn't bear the consequence of His Highness being poisoned again.
Zhao Da's move also made Li Le worried. He began to recall whether there was anything unusual when he was making the medicine, and whether Lu Sheng was hiding in the kitchen when he turned his back.
If the other party had used mercury, there was no way he wouldn't have known about it, but if they had used some other poison, he couldn't guarantee it.
Li Le saw that the medicine was about to enter his mouth, so he immediately stopped it and said, "Don't drink it, wait for me to count it."
If the poison was really committed, Zhao Xuan would be in trouble.
Zhao Xuan put down the medicine bowl and set it aside. He felt a little nervous because of the two of them and sat there quietly waiting for the result.
After Li Le finished calculating, he breathed a sigh of relief and nodded slowly, "No poison."
Everyone present was relieved, and Zhao Xuan also took the medicine and drank it. After drinking it, he asked, "What is the situation in various places?"
This matter was handled by Zhao Da.
Zhao Da took out all the collected data, held them in his hand, paused for a moment and then said slowly: "The people in Tianshi and Tianshan counties are slightly dissatisfied and have not been relocated. The remaining counties have no objection."
"There are rivers in Tianshi and Tianshan counties, so it's normal for the people to be afraid."
Zhao Xuan said this specifically for Li Le to hear, to explain it to him.
Li Lezhi knew about Tianshan and Tianshi counties, but he didn't know that the two counties were connected by rivers. Judging from the overflowing rivers, it was no wonder that the people of the two counties wanted to flee, but it was not safe to migrate now.
Fortunately, the rain is about to stop.
After Zhao Xuan realized that there was no major problem, he rubbed his eyebrows and closed his eyes to rest.
Li Le just saw it and left quietly.
Except for Li Lezhi and others, Jiang Ruming was unaware of Zhao Xuan's poisoning. After arranging the affairs of Yizhou City, he was choosing a good place to perform a ritual. Now it was raining, and he couldn't choose an open space outside, so he finally chose the tallest pavilion in Yizhou City.
That was the Sanqing Pavilion, where the Three Pure Ones were enshrined. Performing rituals there would surely be twice the result with half the effort. After Jiang Ruming selected a good place, he sent someone to ask Li Lezhi about it.
Li Le only knew that the place where the rituals were held was in Sanqing Pavilion, and he was somewhat interested in it. He walked towards the Sanqing Pavilion with an umbrella. After he saw the Sanqing Pavilion, he once again sighed at Daliang's belief in Taoism. The Sanqing Pavilion was actually located in the central area of Yizhou City, and this pavilion had twelve floors, making it the tallest building in Yizhou City. Standing at the door, he could smell the fragrance inside.
Li Lezhi walked in and found it was very spacious. There was a wooden statue of the Three Pure Ones in the lobby. Going upstairs, Li Lezhi did find the place, but looking at the statues of the Three Pure Ones on the first floor, if he wanted to stand on a high place and then go upstairs to perform rituals, it would be like stepping on the feet of the Three Pure Ones.
Moreover, according to Li Le's observation, there is no place for him to perform rituals above the twelfth floor. In this building, there is space for people to walk on each floor, but there is no place above the Three Pure Ones. He can be inside or outside, but not in the middle.
Therefore, it is better to perform the ritual on the first floor so as not to offend the Three Pure Ones.
He guessed that Jiang Ruming had never been to Sanqing Pavilion, otherwise he would not have mistakenly believed that a forum could be held on the top floor of Sanqing Pavilion.
Although there is a tiny error here, Li Le is still satisfied with performing the ritual in Sanqing Pavilion. With Master Sanqing watching over him, he can get twice the result with half the effort.
It was also his first time to perform a ritual, and he didn't know if it would be successful. Fortunately, he calculated that the rain would stop that day, otherwise he would have never learned how to perform a ritual when he came to Yizhou.
After all, he was just a student majoring in fortune-telling, and the art of performing rituals was learned by other senior brothers and sisters.
He hasn't touched it yet.
Logically, they all seem to have to learn a little bit. As for him, probably his teacher thought that he couldn't even learn the basics and was too lazy to add another course for him, which would mean he would fail one more course and it would be a delusion for him to graduate.
If I tell anyone...I'm afraid his teacher will tell everyone, so don't even call yourself his student when you're away from home.
What Li Lezhi hadn't expected was that before five days were up, Yizhou City could no longer hold on. The water in the river was about to overflow. If they waited one more day, Yizhou City would be flooded.
For a moment, Li Le's pupils shrank slightly, and he had no idea what to do. How could it happen so suddenly that the river was about to overflow? Could it be that this river could not flow downstream and provide some relief for Yizhou City?
Li Lezhi came to the river and saw with his own eyes that the water was only five or six centimeters away from overflowing. In their budget, the water level would never rise so fast. Only two days had passed, and there were still three days left. If the rain did not stop, in another day, the river embankment would not be able to hold back the water, and Yizhou would be flooded sooner or later.
Jiang Ruming was also terrified, and hurriedly asked the people around him, saying solemnly: "What's going on? Why did the water level rise so much?"
The others looked at the water level, speechless. They were all panicking. This was not what they had expected. Originally, the river could hold out until the ritual three days later. Now, were they all going to die in Yizhou?
For a moment, these people couldn't help but blame Jiang Ruming. He could have saved his lives by letting people move, but he chose to wait in the city. The rain would stop in three days, but before it stopped, they were the ones who died in Yizhou.
But no one dared to say such words at this time, not even someone dared to mutter a word.
Some people wanted to blame Li Lezhi for everything, wondering why he couldn't even predict that the river would overflow. But when they looked up and saw Li Lezhi's figure and those indifferent eyes, they remembered the supernatural powers of this man and that he was said to be one of the Three Pure Ones.
In Daliang, Sanqing is a huge mountain in the hearts of the people of Daliang. No one dares to disrespect Sanqing. Therefore, after thinking about it in his heart, this person was afraid that Li Le would hear it and he would be blamed by Sanqing, so his face was distorted and he looked like he was crying.
This person didn't dare to say anything, and someone hiding in the crowd sneered and said, "I heard that Taoist Li of Daliang is very good at fortune-telling. Could it be that Taoist Li didn't figure it out?"
When this sentence was spoken, everyone frowned and looked over. Li Le also looked over curiously. From the tone of this person, he was not from Liang. Could it be Lu Sheng? That person was an assassin, and he dared to show up in broad daylight.
But when he really saw that person's face, he felt a little disappointed. The person who came out to question him was not Lu Sheng, but someone else sent by Prince Yin.
"Who are you?" Jiang Ruming looked over with an unfriendly expression and narrowed his eyes slightly. Someone actually dared to doubt Taoist Li's ability at this time. This was shaking people's hearts and the person should be punished.
This person must not be from Daliang.
Damn it, they actually let someone get close to them, and this person followed them all the way.
No one else noticed that something was wrong with this person. If he had bad intentions towards them, they would all be eaten by the fish.
"It doesn't matter who I am. Instead, you should think about how to save Yizhou City," the man turned to leave, and then, when no one expected it, he turned and rushed towards Li Lezhi.
The dagger hidden in his sleeve appeared, and he rushed towards Li Lezhi. When he came in front of him, he said viciously: "Since your prince is not here, I will not lose anything if I take your life."
This man had no intention of living at all. He rushed to Li Lezhi, grabbed Li Lezhi's arm with one hand, raised the other hand, and wanted to stab Li Lezhi's heart. He threw his whole body towards Li Lezhi, and the momentum made Li Lezhi take a few steps back.
His right foot was already suspended in the air, stepping on the water, and the dagger pierced into his heart. The dagger only pierced through Li Lezhi's clothes, but he didn't expect that when he wanted to go down again, he encountered an obstacle, as if blocked by something hard.
This man was also very agile. He put away the dagger and swept it towards Li Lezhi's neck. Unfortunately, he rushed towards Li Lezhi and knocked him into the river, without giving Li Lezhi any chance to steady himself.
Li Le only thought of the turning of his dagger at the moment when he was about to stab him in the heart. He raised his head as much as he could, away from the man's dagger, not even daring to move his Adam's apple.
The dagger left a scratch on his neck, a shallow mark that bled a little. The raised hair was cut off when the dagger passed by.
Li Le only looked at the falling hair with his peripheral vision. He could see how sharp the dagger was. He didn't think about anything else. He could hear the people on the shore shouting anxiously to save him.
When he was about to fall into the water, he wanted to hit the man but failed, so he would not give up. At that moment, Li Le only thought of the method of using a rabbit to kick an eagle. He grabbed the man with his backhand, grabbed his arm, and exerted all his strength, using his waist and abdomen to curl up his legs as much as possible, and then kicked the man hard between the legs.
The blow was so painful that the man loosened his hand instantly and almost couldn't take the dagger in his hand. This blow also completely separated him and Li Lezhi. Li Lezhi sank into the water, narrowed his eyes slightly, and held his breath.
He tried hard to think, since this man dared to attack him by the water, and came towards Zhao Xuan, and knocked him into the water, he must be someone who is familiar with water, and his water skills are not worth mentioning compared to the other party.
Li Le swam towards the shore without any hesitation. Fortunately, when Zhao Xuan went to learn swimming before, he also remembered this matter. He cramd and went into the water more often to practice it. He didn't expect that it would come in handy at this time.
Li Le just observed the man with his peripheral vision while swimming, and saw that the man was curled up not far away, glaring at him fiercely, and swimming towards him with difficulty and uncoordinatedness. It seemed that the kick he had just given him had hit the man's vitals, so it was no wonder that the man couldn't move his legs in the water.
He was lucky. If he hadn't kicked accurately, the man could still swim and was not injured. He was no ordinary fish in the water. It would have been easy for him to kill him in the water.
Li Le only swam to the shore. At this time, the people on the shore had not left yet. When he emerged, he saw Xiao Wu. Li Le just stretched out his hand, and Xiao Wu immediately grabbed him and lifted him out of the water with a little internal force.
The book passed by him. Li Le just wiped away the hair stuck to his face and stared at the person in the water. The person was one step behind him. Seeing that he had not been caught up, he was slowly diving into the water. Li Le saw him and there was no way he could escape.
Without any hesitation, he asked Xiao Wu: "Bow and crossbow."
He took the crossbow, pointed it in the direction of the water, and squinted his eyes. The scene that could be seen with the naked eye was some distance away from where the person was actually. However, people were not fish. They were larger and the range of the arrows was wider. Although he could not kill the person with one shot, as long as the person was wounded by the arrow, it would be difficult for him to escape from Liang State.
Li Lezhi didn't want to kill anyone. His wet fingers pressed on the trigger. Killing the other person made him feel guilty, but he could still cause a little harm to the other person in return for the other person's attempt to kill him.
Therefore, Li Le narrowed his eyes and calculated the distance. He did not shoot towards the man's heart, but towards the man's legs. Seeing that the man turned around, he instantly shot an arrow at his butt.
That person knew that place, but he didn't dare to turn around to block it. Even the other party didn't have time to block it with a dagger.
Secondly, even though his butt was injured, he was still able to swim out alive. If it were somewhere else, that person would not wait for death and would definitely fight to the death.
If it wasn't him who died, it would be someone else.
Li Le fired the crossbow. Although there was resistance from water, the crossbow had been improved and had incredible power. This time, it hit the bull's eye, and everyone could see the diluted blood.
The previous scene happened again. All the officials beside the river except Jiang Ruming shrank their necks, especially those who had secretly blamed Li Lezhi in their hearts and were afraid because he was Sanqing. They squeezed their legs together, fearing that Li Lezhi would come at them again.
They really didn't expect that Taoist Li looked like a white lotus, indifferent and detached, but when he took action, he was absolutely decisive. It was a clean and neat move. The hand that shot the crossbow did not shake at all, nor did he hesitate. He was a ruthless person.
Think about what they had thought before. They were really tired of living and were trying to provoke the King of Hell.
They were all frightened and behaved very well.
Compared to the past, everything is now perfectly coordinated and Li Le means what he says without any ambiguity.
After Li Le put away his crossbow, he glanced at the official. His body tensed up. When he saw this scene, he thought of his behavior just now, which seemed a little inconsistent with his status.
Li Le just looked up at the sky, pretending nothing had happened. He stood there quietly without saying a word, waiting for Jiang Ruming's arrangements.
Jiang Ruming was waiting for him to make arrangements, and all of a sudden, the river became quiet.
Li Le saw that they were silent. Could it be that they were frightened by him? He asked puzzledly: "Why are you not talking? Jiang Ruming?"
Jiang Ruming looked as if he was being called by his superior. He immediately said seriously, "I was wondering why the water level in the river rose. Sima, tell me."
The person Jiang Ruming called was the Sima of Yizhou, who had complained about Li Lezhi in his heart. This time, it was as if the King of Hell called his name. He stammered and couldn't say anything. He barely thought of something and said, "I am thinking about how to catch the thief. Don't worry, Taoist priest, I will never let the thief escape and will definitely catch him and put him in jail."
He heaved a sigh of relief only after Li Lezhi's eyes moved away. Under the protection of others, he wiped the sweat off his face.
He was really scared to death.
At this time, another person stood up and said, "Sir, I think the rising water level is related to the upper reaches of the river."
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