Chapter 179: Poison
Akabane quickly walked over to Donghua and squatted down. Seeing that she had her eyes closed, he used his hand to check her breath and found that she was still breathing.
"Has the doctor arrived?"
"Here we are. Treating the vomiting patient."
Akabane frowned, gently picked up Donghua and checked her injuries.
The dagger stabbed into his back and a lot of blood flowed.
Her usually rosy face was now pale and the situation was very urgent.
"Let the doctor come and see her first, and also let all the doctors in the city come over."
The people around him quickly brought a doctor over, looked at the knife wound, and said with an unpleasant expression: "It's very dangerous, take him back quickly, we can't remove the knife here."
Akabane handed Donghua to his followers and followed the traces left by his companions.
You must not lose her, otherwise, the lady will be in danger.
But when they chased him to a theater that had already been sealed off, there was no trace of the man.
When Akabane arrived, they were searching every place carefully.
Seeing this, he became anxious.
"What's going on? How did you follow?!"
The guards were also very anxious: "It was as if they were escaping underground. They disappeared in the blink of an eye."
Akabane thought of a possibility: "Secret passage, maybe there is a secret passage! Quickly tell the city guards to close the city gates, and send another team of soldiers over. Dig deep into the ground and make sure to find it!"
Akabane thought of a possibility and quickly mounted his horse and galloped away.
Zhuohua must know their secret passage.
When he arrived at the government office, it was freezing cold, but the new prefect was pacing back and forth in a sweat.
Seeing Chiyu coming, he seemed to have found his backbone, and hurried to meet him, whispering: "Has the Duke of Yong set out?"
Akabane glanced at him and said, "My lord, just do your job. I want to interrogate the spy Zhuohua."
The prefect grabbed him and said, "Oh, something more serious has happened now."
"What is it?"
"Poison, there is a poison spreading in the city."
Akabane looked grim: "The doctor on the scene has confirmed that the two people who vomited were not poisoned, but were given laxatives."
"No, it's not those two. It's that a few more people showed up behind them. The doctor has already found out that there is indeed an unknown poison in the porridge pot."
Akabane's face changed drastically: "You said that the porridge pot was indeed poisoned? But how can we be sure that it was a Gu poison?"
The prefect wiped his sweat, "The doctor in the prefecture recognized it and said it was a poison called Yin Snake Gu. The poisoned person will die within ten days. At first, they will vomit and have diarrhea, followed by bloating, fishy breath, high fever, until the whole body is ulcerated. There is absolutely no hope of cure. Moreover, this Gu is cruel and will grow many small Gu worms, which are contagious. Unless..."
Seeing him hesitating, Akabane became anxious: "Unless what?"
"Unless the person who made the poison gives me the antidote."
The person who made the Gu must be from the southern border of the outside world. How could they give the antidote if they used the Gu to harm people?
But now, the important thing is my wife!
"Find a way to find a witch doctor! We can't just wait here. If the disease spreads throughout the city, your life will be in danger."
Chiyu felt the seriousness of the matter. Without waiting for the bailiff to bring Zhuohua out, he quickly ran to the prison.
…
When Gu Huan woke up, everything she saw was unfamiliar.
I felt dizzy and the back of my neck hurt. I couldn't even turn my neck, so I had to look around.
I couldn't tell where I was, the room and the windows were pitch black.
It's already dark.
Gu Huan felt a little panicked.
Akabane didn’t catch up?
I wonder how Donghua’s injury is?
Was the patient cured?
Thinking about this makes me anxious.
Suddenly, hearing footsteps outside, Gu Huan quickly turned over and faced the bed, squinting her eyes and lying motionless.
The footsteps stopped outside the door, and another round of footsteps came closer from afar.
"Young Master, the poison has already taken effect. More than ten people have been infected. If we wait another five days, the poison in these people's bodies will split into two parts and soon infect more people."
Gu Huan was shocked.
They really cast a spell!
She recognized the voice as that of Lu Laosan.
"I understand. You go down first."
This is Ji Xuanyu's voice.
"Young Master!"
Lu Lao San was anxious: "Don't be so stubborn for this woman! She's married and has forgotten you. If you disobey the hall master for her again, I'm afraid he won't tolerate it anymore!"
"Don't worry about my business, just do your own thing."
"Young Master!"
Ji Xuanyu's voice was filled with forbearance: "You also said that she got married and no longer had me in her heart. So, who did she marry? Have you forgotten?"
"Ah? Oh." Lu Laosan suddenly realized.
"You mean to use her to force them to retreat?"
"Yes. It is said that Mu Junyan holds her at the top of his heart. I want to see if it is true or not."
"It's best that you think this way. The hall master will be here tomorrow, you really have to think it through."
"Just send the infected people to the Mu family army, and I will take care of the rest myself."
Gu Huan was so frightened that her whole body was shaking.
She was too naive.
Ji Xuanyu is no longer the brother Ji he used to be. He is not a good person now.
She was not sure whether she could persuade him to turn back.
She really became Mu Junyan's weak spot.
Mu Junyan had been waiting for and preparing for this decisive battle for a long time.
For this day, Mu Junyan lost his wife and children, and even couldn't take care of his mother. How could she let him give up all his efforts for her?
No, Mu Junyan will not give up this battle because of a woman.
The door creaked.
Gu Huan's body stiffened, her hands clenched tightly, and she pricked up her ears nervously to listen to the movement behind her.
The footsteps stopped beside the bed, and the candle on the bedside table was lit. Then, the bed sank.
Ji Xuanyu sat down and stared at the woman's back.
"Huan'er, are you awake?"
Gu Huan: “…”
She didn't know how to face him.
Tears overflowed and slid down quietly.
Ji Xuanyu looked at her slightly twitching shoulders, his eyes gloomy.
"If you wake up, just listen to me."
Ji Xuanyu couldn't help but reach out and touch her hair.
Gu Huan felt his touch and shuddered, turned over and shrank into the corner, staring blankly at the face in front of her with the silver mask.
Ji Xuanyu's hand stopped in mid-air. He smiled bitterly for a long while and whispered softly, "Huan'er is afraid of me?"
Gu Huan started crying before she could say anything.
Ji Xuanyu withdrew his hand: "How do you know I am Ji Xuanyu?"
Gu Huan choked up: "Yaoyao said this before she died."
"Yaoyao...I'm sorry for her." Ji Xuanyu murmured.
After a long while, Ji Xuanyu suddenly thought of something: "Did you hear everything we said outside the door?"
Gu Huan nodded, wiped away her tears, and said sincerely: "Brother Ji, there is still a chance, can you come back?"
"Look back?" Ji Xuanyu smiled.
"I can't go back." He stretched out his hands and waved them at her.
His tone was brisk: "My hands are stained with the blood of Daliang people. The Daliang people will not let me go. Especially Mu, Jun, and Yan."
Gu Huan hurriedly shook her head: "No. He promised me that he would give you a chance."
"Opportunity?" Ji Xuanyu smiled and shook his head.
Even if Mu Junyan gave him a chance to save his life, his adoptive father would not give him a chance.
The leader of Yifeng Hall is a hundred times more cruel and ruthless than him.
His hatred for Daliang is even deeper than his.
Gu Huan didn't care about anything else. She rushed forward and grabbed his arm. "Brother Ji, the conflict between the two countries cannot harm the people. They are innocent. Using such a despicable method as poison..."
Ji Xuanyu suddenly shook off her hand, his face changed suddenly, and a pair of blood-red eyes appeared under the silver mask.
He shouted sternly: "That's right, I'm a despicable person!"
Gu Huan was frightened by his terrifying appearance.
She trembled and cried, "Brother Ji, why did you become like this? Is it because of Aunt Pei? Is it because she pushed you off the cliff and almost killed you? It's all because of me! If it weren't for me, she wouldn't have done that to you. It's all my fault!"
Ji Xuanyu was upset by her crying, and gritted his teeth and said coldly: "Don't think you can soften my heart like this!"
He didn't want to see her heartbreaking look anymore, so he glared at her cruelly: "Don't even think about escaping!"
Gu Huan looked at his back as he walked away, and her heart suddenly turned cold.
Does he really want to use himself to threaten Mu Junyan?
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