Chapter 202: Undoing the poison
After hearing Wen Li'er's words, everyone was even more surprised.
What role did the Wen family play in the tragic massacre of the Nangong family?
Wen Li'er felt a little guilty.
When she was a child, she found that her parents had hidden a box on the beam of the house.
She moved several times and each time she would pack up the small box and take it away, but she never opened it. Her parents also did not allow her and her brother to open it.
She was so curious that when she was nine years old, she took advantage of her father being at work and her mother being out of the house, and asked her brother to climb up the beam and secretly bring down the box.
Both the brother and sister read it, and found that there were eighty-one volumes of "Medical Questions" hidden inside.
Unexpectedly, just as the brother and sister casually flipped through the book, their father came home. He happened to be on a half-day break that day.
When her father saw that they had moved the box, he beat her and her brother with a bamboo stick and told them not to tell anyone about the "Medical Questions".
When Wen Li'er thought about this, she felt a little pain in the palm of her hand.
More than half an hour later, Wen Tingkuan arrived at the Su Mansion.
He first exchanged greetings with Yan Shi, and then paid his respects to Minister Su and his wife.
The secret guard had obviously told him the general situation. When he came over, he had a package on his shoulder, which contained the Nangong family's secret treasure book "Medical Questions".
"Dad." Wen Li'er stepped forward excitedly.
Wen Tingkuan saw that his daughter looked pale and asked her if she was feeling unwell.
Wen Li'er did not hide it from him and told him that she was poisoned.
Upon hearing this, Wen Tingkuan hurriedly opened the package.
"Miss Ziyun, these are the secret treasures of your Nangong family. They were entrusted to our Wen family for safekeeping before your father passed away. Now, more than 20 years have passed, and I can finally return them to you. I can finally put my mind at ease."
Nangong Ziyun immediately knelt down and kowtowed to him.
"Ziyun will never forget Lord Wen's great kindness and generosity."
Wen Tingkuan hurriedly helped the man up. "Your father was an extremely remarkable doctor. He saved countless civilians. My Wen family was one of those he treated. It is an honor for our Wen family to have been able to keep the secret treasure book for the Nangong family for so many years."
Nangong Ziyun wiped away her tears. She had a lot of doubts in her mind, but it was not appropriate to ask them now.
"Lord Wen, please explain the reason to me in detail later. Now, let's find a way to cure the 'mother sterility' poison."
"Thank you, Miss Ziyun."
"Medical Questions" has eighty-one volumes. It would take an indefinite time to find it all relying on one person's words.
So, everyone in the main hall acted together.
The only sound in the entire main hall was the rustling of pages turning.
Seeing everyone's focused and anxious expressions, Wen Li'er's fear gradually subsided.
A quarter of an hour later.
Wen Li'er pointed to a certain page in the book and asked Nangong Ziyun, who was sitting across from her, "Miss Ziyun, come and take a look. Is this it?"
Nangong Ziyun quickly put down the book in his hand and walked towards Wen Lier.
When she saw the page Wen Li'er was pointing at, she nodded.
“That’s exactly it.
She quickly read through the detoxification method and breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's not difficult to cure this poison."
Upon hearing this, the others also breathed a sigh of relief.
Qi Yao asked, "Ziyun, do you need any precious herbs? We have quite a few in our warehouse. I'll go get them myself."
Nangong Ziyun nodded, and it was indeed necessary to use some precious medicinal herbs to force the poisonous insect to move away.
There are several other auxiliary things that need to be prepared.
She handed the written note to Qi Yao, who hurried to the warehouse, took the necessary herbs to the kitchen, and prepared them himself.
Other things that Nangong Ziyun needed were also prepared and sent to the main hall.
In the main hall, Nangong Ziyun said to Yan Shi, "Your Majesty, we need to send someone to bring the eldest prince over."
Everyone was puzzled.
Nangong Ziyun explained: "We need the blood of the infected mother's other close relatives as a guide."
Wen Li'er was startled and asked anxiously, "Miss Ziyun, how much blood do you need? Will it have any effect on Xiaoxiao's body?"
If that were the case, she couldn't hurt one child for the sake of another.
Nangong Ziyun shook her head: "Please rest assured, Imperial Concubine. Each time, two drops of blood from the eldest prince will be needed. This will take about three times, a total of six drops of blood. It won't be a big problem."
Wen Li'er breathed a sigh of relief, and Yan Shixu ordered Zhang Sicheng to go to the palace in person to bring Xiaoxiao over.
Zhang Sicheng took the order and left.
He was good at martial arts, and it didn't take him long to bring Xiaoxiao to the Su Mansion.
Xiaoxiao was carried all the way and flew with his little face flushed with excitement.
As soon as he saw Wen Li'er, he opened his arms and asked for a hug.
Yan Shixu took him from Zhang Sicheng's arms, and Xiaoxiao tilted his little head back and called daddy.
Nangong Ziyun stepped forward, held Xiaoxiao's little hand, and gently rubbed the middle finger of his right hand.
Xiaoxiao just thought she was playing with him, and he grinned and smiled happily at this beautiful aunt.
Yan Shixu turned his little head and nodded imperceptibly at Nangong Ziyun.
Nangong Ziyun took the opportunity to quickly prick Xiaoxiao's middle finger, then squeezed out six drops of blood and poured them into a cup.
Xiaoxiao's little body trembled when it was pricked. It took him a while to react before he started sobbing.
“Ouch…it hurts…”
Yan Shixu blew on him and comforted him for a long time before he finally coaxed the little guy into silence.
When removing the poison, you need to take off your clothes.
Qi Yao brought the prepared medicine over, and personally led Wen Li'er and Yan Shixu to a side room. The others were waiting outside.
Wen Li'er drank the medicine and followed Nangong Ziyun's instructions to take off her outer clothes, lay straight on the bed, and lifted up her inner clothes to expose her belly.
Nangong Ziyun took out her silver needle and said to Wen Lier, "Royal Concubine, you will have a stomachache later. Please be patient."
Wen Li'er was so scared that she didn't dare to look, and Yan Shixu comforted her.
Nangong Ziyun poured the blood in the cup into Wen Li'er's belly button, about two drops, and then pierced Wen Li'er's ten fingers with a silver needle.
Wen Li'er was in so much pain that she broke out in a cold sweat.
Nangong Ziyun lit the Lingyi grass in the bowl and asked Yan Shixu to take it and place it under Wen Lier's ten pierced fingers to smoke.
Originally, Wen Li'er only felt the pain in her fingertips.
Slowly, she began to feel cramps in her lower abdomen, just like before.
Yan Shixu would occasionally pull out his hand to wipe the sweat off her cheeks.
Nangong Ziyun stared at Wen Li'er's belly button without blinking.
Qi Yao held the lamp at the side so that Nangong Ziyun could see more clearly.
In the middle of the process, new blood was added to Wen Li'er's belly button twice.
After waiting in agony for nearly an hour, Nangong Ziyun finally saw changes in the blood in Wen Lier's navel.
She opened her eyes wide and watched carefully, and with the tweezers that had been prepared in her hand, she quickly and accurately grasped a slender beige insect and pulled it out.
The insect, which was originally only the size of a grain of rice, has grown a lot. It is now one-third the length of a finger joint, but it is still very thin.
Nangong Ziyun quickly placed the poisonous insect on the tweezers onto the candle flame and burned it.
The poisonous insect struggled and twisted its body.
Finally, after waiting for about half a minute, the insect was burned into a black silk thread. When it was pressed on waste paper, it turned into black powder and was completely dead.
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