Chapter 3161 Let’s Chat Together
The guards and yamen runners of the Bai family also fell to the ground, holding their chests. Those with milder symptoms turned their heads a little further away from the foul smell, bent over and started vomiting violently with a "vomit" sound.
So the road, which already smelled bad, became even smellier.
Zhou Man took out his own mask from the medicine box and put it on. Zheng Gu also took out his own mask and gave the spare one to everyone.
Zhou Man looked over and said, "You actually have some spare ones. Next time I'll also prepare a few more cakes for you."
Zheng Gu said, "My wife prepared this for me."
Zhou Man gave him a thumbs up, then opened the medicine box and grabbed several herbs and handed them to Zheng Gu, "This is for our people."
He picked up a few more herbs and wrapped them in paper. "These are for them, but do we have any medicine jars?"
Zheng Gu looked at Zhou Man with an innocent face. Finally, Daji found a kettle in the belly of the car to boil water for Zhou Man to make tea.
The few guards who were still good went to collect firewood to boil water, or to carry their own people out...
By the time they carried their people to the side, the stench had almost dissipated and fewer people were vomiting, but most people were so weak in their limbs that they couldn't even stand up, let alone run.
The guards hesitated with the rope in their hands, "Brother Daji, do we still need to tie it up like this?"
"Tie them up!" Daji thought of what they had just discussed, his face darkening. "Tie them up tightly, so they can't escape even if they regain their strength."
Since they are planning to kill Zhou Man, why are they being polite?
"yes!"
Zhou Man first gave the guards acupuncture, relieving their symptoms before carefully recording their pulses. "Actually, this medicine could be improved. It should be able to alleviate the vomiting symptoms and make people lose their strength faster."
Guards: ...
The yamen runner was even more terrified and couldn't help but ask, "Master Zhou, could you prepare some antidote in advance next time?"
Zhou Man nodded repeatedly. "This is my negligence. I hardly ever use these medicines, so I gave the antidotes to others. Next time I have to bring some with me, just in case."
Although detoxifying herbs are very common, it is too troublesome to boil them on the spot when encountering a situation like this.
The yamen runners and guards swallowed nervously. Zheng Gu, while simmering the medicine over a fire, asked curiously, "Master, if you don't have any use for this medicine, why do you carry it with you?"
Zhou Man paused for a moment and said, "When I go out, I always want to be prepared, but I've been out so many times that I really haven't used this thing."
She defended herself, "They were in my travel bag. If they weren't so numerous, we wouldn't be able to defeat them. For a moment, I didn't even remember I had these things in my travel bag."
Zheng Gu didn't doubt it. Instead, he became excited, his eyes lighting up. "This is fate, Master. Isn't this kind of medicine common in the martial arts world? My father even lied to me, saying that the most common knockout drug in the martial arts world is very harmful. If used carelessly, it can easily make someone stupid or even dead."
Zhou Man: "...your father is not wrong."
Zhou Silang also came across knockout drugs while traveling for business and brought them back to show her. She had studied it and found that good knockout drugs all had this kind of problem, not to mention bad ones. If you take too little, it won't make you dizzy, but if you take too much, it can be fatal if you're not careful.
She said, "My stinking powder is actually a different kind of drug. When inhaled in very small amounts, it has a similar effect to knockout drugs. However, my drug is much safer than knockout drugs. Even if you inhale too much, you will only feel dizzy, vomit, and have diarrhea. Unless you are weak, you will not die."
If they can become bandits, how can there be any weak people?
It really does exist.
Daji asked someone to carry a man up, "Madam, please come and take a look. He seems to be dying."
This man was tied up and brought down from the mountain by Zhou Man and his men. He was now lying on the ground, twitching slightly from time to time. His face had turned blue, and it looked like he was breathing out more than breathing in.
Zhou Man was shocked. "Why is this man so seriously ill? Did you stuff the powder into his nose?"
Daji: "...I didn't, it's just that this person looks weak."
Zhou Man had already taken the needle bag and went over. He simply tore open his clothes to expose his chest and started injecting him.
After a few injections, his face was no longer as pale, but he was still twitching and unconscious.
Zhou Man felt his pulse, frowned slightly, and took his hand to examine it. He saw calluses on the side of his middle finger and the third section of his index finger, but the rest of his fingers were relatively smooth. He couldn't help but raise an eyebrow, "Scholar."
The scribes came to rob?
Daji also looked at the other person carefully, and after a while he said, "Madam, this seems to be the man the bandits call 'Mr. Fu'."
Zhou Man immediately felt around her body and finally took out a sachet. This was made for her by Jiulan, but the incense in the sachet was mixed by her herself.
Zhou Man placed the sachet on the tip of his nose and urged Zheng Gu, "Hurry up and boil the medicine. This guy can't die. He might be a big fish."
Even though she had some idea of why she was attacked, she still wanted a confession, and it would be even better if she had evidence.
When Zheng Gu heard this, he immediately fanned the fire hard, making it a little bigger.
Saving lives is like putting out a fire. There is no time to endure it slowly. Although the effect of the medicine will be a little poor, we must save lives first.
After the medicine was boiled, Zhou Man took half a bowl and let it cool down, then gave it to the "Mr. Fu" to drink. After his complexion looked a little better, he went to see the bandits who were left on the roadside.
Zhou Man walked forward, squatted in front of them and spoke to them, "Should I call you bandits or assassins?"
They lay weakly on their sides on the ground, staring blankly at Zhou Man. Finally, one of them, who was no longer so dizzy, said, "We don't know what you mean, sir. We just want to rob some money to spend. We are not assassins."
Zhou Man shook his head and said, "You already know who I am, and you still dare to rob me. You say you are not an assassin. Do you think I think with my big toe like you guys?"
The other party was too dizzy at the moment and couldn't think. He felt like vomiting as soon as he thought, so he could only look at Zhou Man with a pale face.
Zhou Man said to them, "You all call me sir, so you obviously know who I am and what I do. You want to kill me? How can you be so unreasonable? Don't you know that doctors are good at poisoning? I can't beat you, but I can poison you."
"Poison to death, poison to unconsciousness, poison to disability, it's all fine, I can choose. Why are you so stubborn?"
They were about to cry. They didn't know. Wasn't Zhou Man an imperial physician? Was she a miracle doctor? Why did she need to know how to use poison? Who had ever heard of her using poison?
Their medicine was not ready yet. Zhou Man looked at the time and felt that it was impossible to change location before dark. Daji had already asked people to set up camp nearby, so she was really bored and could only chat with them who had not yet been detoxified.
"I heard there's a poisonous aquatic plant in the south of the Yangtze River. Eating it can make you feel like you're in a dream, floating in the air without knowing why. Have you ever seen it?"
None of the assassins paid any attention to her.
She continued, "I haven't seen it either, but when I heard about it, I wondered if adding a few herbs to the recipe would make people feel as if they were seeing the most horrific things in real life. This is also hallucinations, but it's a controllable alternative hallucination, blah blah..."
Zhou Man was so excited chatting with them that she almost forgot about their medicine. It was not until Zheng Gu brought up the medicine pot that she realized their medicine was ready.
She stopped talking with some regret, and waved her hand generously, saying, "You guys take the medicine first, and we'll talk after that."
Assassins: ...
See you tomorrow, good night
(End of this chapter)
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