The students had taken the college exams for two consecutive days and were already exhausted, so Gu Jiayue discussed with the other two teachers who led the team and they unanimously decided to stay in Juzhou City for another night. After they had enough rest, they would set off for Taohua Village early the next morning.
Lin Yi arrived in Juzhou about half an hour later than Zheng Qinghe.
He looked truly miserable. When Lu Yao lifted him off the horse, his hair was a mess, a few strands stuck to his forehead, his eyes were bloodshot, and his long blue cloth gown was stained with dust, with mud on the cuffs.
It seems that being a doctor is a very hard job.
"Why did Chief Jiang Shan call me here so anxiously? What happened?" Lin Yi rubbed his eyes and panted. "Hero Lu didn't explain clearly. He just pulled me out of bed and ran out. I thought there was another plague outbreak. I was so scared that I didn't even put on my shoes properly."
Lin Yi stretched out his left foot, which was completely bare. He didn't even have time to put on socks.
Jiang Luli glanced at Lu Yao, what a reckless man!
He sighed. Gu Jiayue's dependence on and closeness to Zheng Qinghe just now made him feel very uncomfortable, but if he were asked to just ignore Gu Jiayue, he couldn't do it. "Jiayue had an accident a few days ago and lost two years of memory. Can you help her find out what happened?"
Lin Yi's attainments in poisons and medical skills are indeed deeper than those of ordinary doctors.
When Gu Yuchuan was poisoned, everyone thought he had fallen and hit his head, but he was the only one who saw it was poisoning. Later, he and Xiao Fuzi studied the medical book given by Gu Jiayue, and his medical skills improved a lot.
Hearing Jiang Luli's words, he instantly came to his senses and quickly walked over to Gu Jiayue, saying urgently, "Let me take your pulse."
Gu Jiayue did not refuse, nor did she ask "Who are you?"
After listening to the conversation between Jiang Luli and Lin Yi, she had already guessed that the doctor in front of her was someone she knew.
She obediently stretched out her wrist, her eyes falling quietly on Lin Yi's face with a bit of curiosity.
Lin Yi received her gaze and subconsciously met her gaze, but was stunned for a moment.
Gu Jiayue's eyes were too innocent, like a little girl who had never experienced the world, pure and without any impurities.
But the Gu Jiayue he knew was always calm and decisive. Although she looked weak on the outside, she had ideas in her eyes.
It was too incongruous to have such a look on her face.
"Relax, don't be nervous." Lin Yi withdrew his thoughts, placed his fingertips on Gu Jiayue's pulse, closed his eyes, and frowned gradually.
He took an unusually long time to take the pulse, longer than the dozen doctors yesterday combined, and occasionally adjusted the position of his fingers.
The pulse is sometimes sinking and sometimes floating, with a feeling of stagnation.
After taking the pulse, Lin Yi took out a silver needle from the medicine box, disinfected it, and gently pierced Gu Jiayue's fingertip, then took a drop of blood and dripped it into a transparent glass cup.
He walked to the window with the cup in his hand and looked carefully at the sunset.
The sunlight shines through the cup, and you can see very fine light red silk particles floating in the blood.
Then he took out a piece of white jade from his arms, smeared the remaining blood on the silver needle on the surface of the jade, took out a small porcelain bottle from the medicine box, poured out a little transparent liquid and dripped it on it.
But after a moment, a dark red line gradually appeared on the jade, winding and spreading like a thin thread.
"Gu Jiayue is indeed poisoned." Lin Yi put away the jade and said with certainty.
Hearing this expected answer, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief.
At least we know the cause of the disease, which makes it much easier to treat it.
"Do you know what kind of poison it is? Is there any way to cure it?" Jiang Luli stepped forward.
He really couldn't stand Gu Jiayue looking at him with strange eyes, and he couldn't stand her being on guard against him everywhere, treating him like a stranger.
Zheng Qinghe standing by also clenched his fists, his eyes flickering.
He was extremely conflicted.
He hopes that Lin Yi can find the antidote and restore Gu Jiayue's health; but he is also afraid that after she regains her memory, she will be cold to him again and return to her previous attitude of keeping people at a distance.
Lin Yi shook his head and put the glass and jade back into the medicine box, his tone filled with regret. "This poison is very strange. I have never seen it in medical books. The ingredients are very complicated and there is no way to solve it right away. But don't worry, give me a few days and I will try to study it. Maybe I can find a breakthrough."
None of the doctors in Juzhou City could tell that Gu Jiayue was poisoned. Only Lin Yi diagnosed it. Before the academician of the Imperial Hospital in Kyoto and Xiao Fuzi arrived, they could only rely on him.
The rooms in the inn were already full of students, so Zheng Qinghe could only take Lin Yi to the prefectural government office to stay.
He originally wanted to have Gu Jiayue live with him at the government office so that he could take care of them more easily. But Jiang Luli said, "The children have just finished their exams and are relying on Principal Gu. If she stays at the inn, they will feel more at ease."
Zheng Qinghe gave Jiang Luli a meaningful look.
As a man, how could he not understand Jiang Luli's thoughts?
But he was not in a hurry.
Now that Gu Jiayue remembered him, he had seized some of the advantages.
As long as she doesn't recover her memory, she has a better chance than Jiang Luli.
He walked up to Gu Jiayue and spoke softly. "Jiayue, rest in the inn first. I'll pick you up early tomorrow morning and take you to the best breakfast in Juzhou City."
"Okay." Gu Jiayue nodded slightly.
After seeing off Zheng Qinghe, Lin Yi and their group, only Gu Jiayue and Jiang Luli were left in the inn lobby.
The lanterns in the hall were already lit, and the warm yellow light reflected on Jiang Luli's face, making him look even more lonely.
"Jiang Shan Chang, it's getting late, you should go upstairs and rest." Gu Jiayue spoke first, her tone a little restrained, and she subconsciously took half a step back.
Jiang Luli looked at her, his lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he just sighed: "I'll take you back to your room."
"No need to bother!" Gu Jiayue quickly refused, her eyes a little evasive. "My room is just around the corner from the stairs. I can go up by myself." After saying that, she bowed slightly to Jiang Luli, turned around and walked quickly towards the stairs, her steps so fast as if she was running away.
She always felt that there was something hidden in Jiang Luli's eyes, which made her a little scared and she didn't dare to be alone with him.
After returning to the room, Gu Jiayue closed the door immediately and inserted the bolt.
She walked to the table, poured some water and drank it in one gulp.
The cold water slid down my throat, calming my pounding heart a little.
She walked around the room again, and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that there was no one hiding under the bed or behind the cabinets.
To the left of her room was the staircase leading to the third floor, and to the right was the inn's utility room, which was usually used by the innkeeper to store sheets and bedding, so it was quite quiet.
"Can you hear me?" Gu Jiayue sat on the edge of the bed and asked softly to the air.
He lowered his voice very low, for fear of being heard by people outside.
At this moment, deep in his consciousness, the system was floating aimlessly, and the white light ball was shaking intermittently.
Upon hearing this, it stopped instantly. The ball of light trembled slightly, and looked uncertainly at Gu Jiayue, who was lying dead beside him. "Host, is she... is she talking to us?"
"That shouldn't be the case, right?" Gu Jiayue also sat up, frowning. "We hid well enough, and you even turned on the shielding function. Logically, she shouldn't be able to hear us talking."
"Yes, yes!" the system quickly agreed, and began to float around in the consciousness space again. "She must be talking to herself, not to us."
I felt relieved because I had done a good job of hiding.
"Don't be confused, I can really hear you talking." Gu Jiayue looked at the air, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but rise slightly.
This ball of light looks quite cute when it's in a panic.
The system's light ball exploded instantly, and the originally white light ball suddenly turned into colorful colors.
The red, yellow and pink lights kept flashing alternately, like swaying colorful lights.
It flew quickly towards Gu Jiayue and hid behind her. The ball of light was still trembling slightly: "Host! She can really hear us talking! What should we do?"
Gu Jiayue was speechless and rolled her eyes in her mind: "You are a system from an advanced civilization, what are you afraid of? She can't do anything to you."
System: "I don't know! I just feel guilty!"
Gu Jiayue rolled her eyes at this useless system and then said, "Are you talking to me?"
Well, she felt guilty inside, after all, she had occupied someone else's body for two years without their permission. Now that their original body had returned, she had to hide in their brain like a mouse.
Although she didn't do it voluntarily, she wanted to leave this place but couldn't. However, she felt inexplicably guilty, as if she were a thief.
"Yes." Gu Jiayue sat in the chair, her palms slightly sweaty. She was also very nervous, but she had a feeling that everything would be revealed. "Don't worry, I'm the only one in the room. No one can hear our conversation."
"Is there something you want to know? If I know it and can tell it, I will tell you without reservation." Just consider it as atonement.
"Who are you? Why are you in my body? Have you been controlling my body for the past two years?"
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