Chapter 62 Antidote Pills
Erfeng stood at the courtyard gate, looking south for the thirteenth time.
"Strange, half an hour has passed, why hasn't Miss Nan Ke returned yet?"
He grabbed a passing servant at random.
"Did you see a little girl, about seven or eight years old, go into the kitchen?"
The servant scratched his head. "I think I saw a young girl heading towards the bamboo grove."
Erfeng stared wide-eyed in surprise.
The Purple Bamboo Grove is north of the Prince's Mansion. How could Miss Nan Ke have gone there?
The next second he suddenly jumped up and shouted, "Oh no!"
He strode back.
"Something's happened, Your Highness! Miss Nan Ke has run into Master Gui Liu's courtyard. Could she have been poisoned by Master Gui Liu?"
The legendary healer Gui Liu is a master of both medicine and poison, but he has an eccentric personality and hates being disturbed.
Anyone who enters the courtyard without his permission, regardless of their status, will be poisoned.
As for what kind of poison to use, it's all random; whatever you have on hand, you use, completely disregarding whether the other person lives or dies.
Such a cute and adorable little girl, what if she were poisoned to death...?
Erfeng said urgently, "Your Highness, why don't you go and take a look?"
Shen Cong didn't speak, but glanced sideways and nodded his chin.
Erfeng followed his gaze and looked outside, so shocked that his jaw almost dropped to the ground.
Li Nanke stepped over the threshold with her hands behind her back and waved to him with a smile.
"Uncle Erfeng, I'm back."
Behind her followed an old man with messy hair and beard, who was none other than the legendary healer Gui Liu who lived in Zizhuyuan.
Gui Liu was carrying a bucket in each hand, his lips almost stretched to his ears.
Bending over, her voice was so gentle it could kill a mosquito.
"Little girl, where is the water?"
Li Nanke pointed to the wooden basin placed under the ginkgo tree.
"Just put it next to that wooden basin."
Gui Liu carried two buckets of water to the ginkgo tree, put them down, and then looked at Li Nanke with a smile.
Li Nanke rolled up her sleeves, revealing a section of her fair and delicate wrist, and squatted down to scoop water into the basin.
"Hey, leave it there, I'll do it."
Gui Liu quickly picked up the bucket and poured half of the water into the wooden basin.
Then he squatted down, picked up the blanket that was soaking inside, and pointed to the mud stains on it.
Is this the place?
Li Nanke reached for the blanket and smiled.
"No need, Grandpa. This is something the Prince ordered me to do. I should do my own thing. Let me wash it."
"No, no, let me do it."
Gui Liu chuckled and insisted on brushing.
Li Nanke refused and pulled the blanket back.
"No, I have my own principles. Since I promised Your Highness, I must keep my word."
Gui Liu awkwardly put down the blanket, stood up, put his hands on his hips, and glared at Chen Cong under the eaves.
"Shen Cong, do you have no humanity? Making such a young child wash the blanket, this is abuse!"
Shen Cong sat up straight and glanced at Li Nanke.
His eyebrows twitched slightly, and a mocking smile curled at the corner of his mouth.
"Does poisoning someone give you any humanity?"
Gui Liu's expression changed, and he jumped up like a frog.
"You...you're talking nonsense."
Li Nanke, who was diligently scrubbing the blanket, looked up and stared wide-eyed at him.
"You poisoned me?"
A smile immediately spread across Gui Liu's equally ashen face, his right thumb and forefinger pinched together.
He explained very carefully: "I... I just squeezed a pinch of the poison, really just a pinch. Believe me, it won't endanger your life, it will just make you itchy and cause rashes."
"I really didn't mean to. I thought someone had broken in and was disturbing me while I was preparing the antidote."
As he explained, he hurriedly pulled a small white medicine bottle from his pocket.
He poured out a red pill and handed it to Li Nanke.
"Why don't you take the antidote first?"
He stared longingly at Li Nanke.
Li Nanke thought for a moment and concluded that the poison must have been administered when the man flicked his sleeve in the pavilion.
She puffed out her cheeks and looked at the red pill with suspicion.
"Could this be poisonous too?"
Gui Liu quickly shook his head, "This is an antidote pill I made myself. It can cure all poisons. I swear, it really doesn't contain any poison."
"Really? I don't believe it."
"Oh, I'm telling the truth."
Gui Liu turned and pointed at Er Feng, "You, tell her, is this the antidote pill I personally prepared?"
Erfeng's mouth was so wide open that an egg could almost fit inside.
His eyes kept darting back and forth between Li Nanke and Gui Liu, as excited as a badger leaping about in a melon patch.
Heavens above, earth below, is there anyone who can tell him what is going on?
That's Master Guiliu, the legendary healer who can bring the dead back to life and heal the wounded!
He was always the one being respected, begged, or flattered by others; he was never the one flattering others.
Is he... trying to please Miss Nan Ke?
"Uncle Erfeng?"
Erfeng snapped out of his daze and nodded repeatedly.
“These are indeed the antidote pills personally prepared by Mr. Guiliu. We also gave your mother these antidote pills yesterday. They can cure most common poisons on the market.”
Li Nanke's eyes lit up.
"real?"
Erfeng nodded and lowered his voice, saying, "It's absolutely true. Countless people outside have tried their best to get Mr. Guiliu's antidote pills at high prices, but they still couldn't get them."
Li Nanke's eyes lit up even more.
If Mother could carry these pills with her at all times, wouldn't she no longer be afraid of the Song family's schemes?
She stared at the pill in Gui Liu's palm, sighed, and reached out to take it.
Then he carefully put it into the purse he carried with him.
Gui Liu asked, puzzled, "Why aren't you eating? Aren't you afraid of being poisoned?"
Li Nanke blinked her big eyes and shook her head.
"There's only one. I'm taking it back for my mother. Oh, I wish there were two more."
As he spoke, his eyes fell on the small white bottle in Guiliu's hand.
Gui Liu glanced down at it and immediately shoved the small bottle into her hand.
"Here, it's all for you."
Li Nanke looked troubled. "This isn't a good idea, Grandpa. Preparing the medicine must be very hard work for you..."
"It's easy to put together, take it all."
Gui Liu didn't give her a chance to refuse and stuffed the entire small bottle into her purse.
Erfeng, standing to the side, was already numb from watching.
The Ghost Willow Detoxification Pill, which costs a hundred taels of silver and cannot even buy one pill on the market, was given directly to Li Nanke by Mr. Ghost Willow.
And they give it away so eagerly, as if they're afraid the other person won't accept it.
He scratched his head and whispered, "Your Highness, did Miss Nan Ke cast a curse on Mr. Gui Liu?"
Shen Cong gently stroked the hand warmer, his gaze fixed on Li Nanke thoughtfully.
Seemingly sensing his gaze, Li Nanke took the antidote pill and turned to ask Shen Cong.
"If I wash the blanket clean, can I then discuss serious matters with the Prince?"
Shen Cong nodded.
Li Nanke squatted down and began washing the blanket.
Gui Liu squatted down beside him, scratched his head, tugged at his hair, and spoke cautiously.
"Little girl, what you just did...?"
"Grandpa, I'm brushing the blankets and I don't like being disturbed."
"Okay, go ahead and swipe it, I'll wait."
Gui Liu scratched his head and obediently squatted down beside Li Nanke, looking like a frog that had fallen into a well and was waiting for someone to rescue it.
Erfeng could no longer suppress his curiosity.
If we don't ask, he'll go crazy.
He squatted down on the other side of Li Nanke and whispered, "Miss Nanke."
"My nickname is Ke'er. Uncle Erfeng can call me Ke'er."
Erfeng quickly corrected himself, "Ah, Miss Ke'er."
Li Nanke smiled sweetly and asked curiously, "Why is Uncle Erfeng called Erfeng? Do you have an older brother named Dafeng?"
Erfeng scratched his beard and chuckled.
"No, my older brother is called Zhang Feng, my name is Zhang Erfeng, and I have a younger brother named Zhang Sanfeng."
"I protest."
Gui Liu moved forward, forcefully pushing Er Feng aside with half of her buttocks.
She stared longingly at Li Nanke.
"Didn't you say you don't like being disturbed? Then why are you talking to him and not me?"
He pointed at Erfeng with his finger, clearly dissatisfied.
Li Nanke smiled sweetly, revealing two dimples.
"Because Uncle Erfeng is a good person, and you are a bad person. My mother said that you shouldn't talk to bad people when you go out."
Ghost Willow......
He only added a pinch of poison, so how did that make him a bad person?
"And what about him?"
He angrily pointed at Shen Cong.
"He's not a good person either, so why are you talking to him?"
Li Nanke tilted his head and glanced at Shen Cong, then grinned.
"Your Highness..."
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