Xiao Nanhui walked over, picked him up, and set him aside. After all the twists and turns of the day, her patience had long since run out, and she didn't even bother to say a word.
This day seemed to be particularly long, and everyone was particularly silent. The three of them gathered around the stone pillar, staring at the square box on it, but no one moved for a while.
No one is stupid. The previous example of Mr. Zou being half-dead is still there. No one knows whether there is a mechanism in the box and where the mechanism is.
After a long time, Zhongli was the first to speak.
"If you two don't mind, I'll do it."
Hao Bai swallowed his saliva: "Are you sure you want to do this?"
Zhongli's face remained calm: "No problem."
It's okay? It's okay too?
"Wait a minute." Xiao Nanhui subconsciously grabbed Zhong Li Jing's wrist.
The other person's wrist was a little cold, but the skin was very delicate, so she quickly let go of it the next second.
Zhongli actually raised an eyebrow and looked at her. Xiao Nanhui hesitated and said, "Although you can get the relic, this poison is really strange. I see that Master Hao is only making the medicine according to the family's ancestral recipe. I'm afraid he can't guarantee that it will cure ten out of ten people. Look at how miserable Zou Sifang is. What if... I mean, what if he can't be cured? Wouldn't that mean he'll lose his life?"
She didn't know why she blurted out these words. This person knew her identity and might be a threat, but she just felt that no one should take life lightly.
Hao Bai on the side rarely said anything, but he agreed with Xiao Nanhui's statement.
There was a moment of silence in the room. Zhongli actually looked at Xiao Nanhui with a strange look, and after a moment he withdrew his gaze. "I saw how aggressively Master Yao tried to snatch the flower. He didn't really care about his life. Why are you trying to persuade me now?"
Xiao Nanhui was choked and speechless. The other party no longer paid attention to her and had already reached out for the ordinary box.
The copper lock buckle opened with a "click" and the lid of the box opened with a "creak".
Xiao Nanhui held his breath, but saw nothing happened.
A square jade seal as white as jade lay quietly in the box.
The jade seal is the jade seal.
Zhongli Jing picked up the jade seal with her fair hands and turned it around deftly in her hand.
"It seems that we are still a step late."
Xiao Nanhui was stunned for a moment, somewhat confused: "What do you mean by late?"
Hao Bai, who was standing by, didn't seem surprised at all. He held his chin and continued, "I got the box one step later than others."
Xiao Nanhui was a little bit surprised, staring at the flawless jade in the other person's hand, not daring to look away: "Could it be that this is..."
Zhongli's tone remained calm, showing no sign of frustration at the miscalculation.
"Yes, this is fake."
Xiao Nanhui grabbed the jade box on the stone pier and examined it from top to bottom. "Impossible! I personally took it from Zou Sifang. Until Ding Weixiang came to see me, I never let go of this box..." Xiao Nanhui's face collapsed when he thought about the pain he had suffered today for this small box. Unless...
"Unless the imperial seal that Zou Sifang handed to me this morning was a fake!"
Xiao Nanhui was stunned by his own deduction. It turned out that Mr. Zou still hadn't figured it out! He was hiding something selfish behind the scenes. They were almost fooled.
Zhong Lijing looked at Hao Bai, who seemed to be in a trance, and suddenly asked, "What do you think, Master Hao?"
Hao Bai seemed to have not expected to be called out, and said vaguely: "There are so many people at the festival, no one can say for sure about such things."
"I'm not asking you how it was swapped, but whether you also think this jade seal is a fake." Zhongli paused, then lowered his eyes. "But now it seems that Master Hao knew it all along."
Hao Bai was stunned, then realized that he had been tricked. After thinking about it, he felt that it would be okay to say it now. If he didn't say it, it would easily arouse suspicion.
"I knew for sure that the jade seal didn't look like this, so as soon as I opened the box, I realized it was a fake."
To Xiao Nanhui, these words sounded like lies.
"How old are you? Even your grandfather may not have seen the jade seal, let alone you?"
Hao Bai's face showed that familiar tangled look again: "This is a long story. I have never seen this thing in person, but someone in my ancestor has seen it, and I have seen the text that records the appearance of this jade seal, and several of them do not match the one I have now, so..."
Did someone in his family see it? Wasn't he a quack doctor? Why would a quack doctor's ancestor have seen the imperial seal?
Xiao Nanhui was just feeling a little strange when there was a noise at the door. Ding Weixiang walked in, followed by a figure. It was the Shrike who had returned.
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