Fan Zu'an's mind raced; he wondered if he had anything in his medicine box that could generate heat. The Ice Gu wasn't afraid of blood temperature; in fact, it seemed to enhance its vitality. However, external heat and light would quickly kill the Ice Gu.
By the way, there's "Kanli Sand" in the medicine box. This is what the ancients called iron powder that can generate heat.
When Fan Zuan first heard about "Kanli Sand" in this strange world, he thought it was a mysterious medicinal material, like Night-Shining Sand.
The result is iron powder that can generate heat, a concept learned in junior high school chemistry.
The definition of this thing's name is quite intriguing. In the Eight Trigrams, "Kan" corresponds to "water," while "Li" corresponds to "fire," indicating that iron powder can produce a fire-like state when it comes into contact with water, that is, it releases heat.
Fan Zu'an opened the medicine box as if no one else was there, took out the Kanli Sand, put it in a cloth bag, poured half a cup of tea into the bag, and the bag soon generated heat.
Zhao Yunwan picked up Li Xingran and saw the dark spots on Li Xingran's face. A surge of joy welled up within her; even if this girl grew up, her life wouldn't be smooth sailing. Unfortunately, she wouldn't grow up. A feeling of smugness washed over her; she thought to herself, "Who told you to be so blind to be born into the Li family?"
【You white lotus, you're the one with no taste! My parents are the best parents in the world, while your fate is still unknown! With me, Li Xingran, here, your evil schemes will definitely fail!】
Li Xingran was astonished; she could actually hear Zhao Yunwan's thoughts! Oh wow, is this what they call being blessed by a lucky charm?
Ah, Zhao Yunwan wants to fight her? Li Xingran felt she could already see Zhao Yunwan's fate.
Fan Zuan kept staring at Zhao Yunwan, who then took out a crystal box and said, "Grand Tutor Li, I really like this child, so I didn't bring any of the child's things. I'm just giving this novel crystal, which is sold by a foreign merchant, to your daughter."
Zhao Yunwan placed the crystal box in Li Xingran's hand, seemingly opening it unintentionally. The ice gu quickly burrowed into Li Xingran's skin.
Having achieved her goal, Zhao Yunwan put Li Xingran back into the cot.
Seeing that the Ice Gu had entered Li Xingran's body, Zhao Yunwan felt a surge of smugness: "Tsk tsk tsk, what a pity, little girl, you'll die soon. This Ice Gu will let you die peacefully. I really want to see Li Ting, a grown man, embracing your corpse and weeping! Oh well, what can I do? Your family is blocking my Ding'er's path! Don't blame me!"
[Ice Gu? Daddy, quick, push me out into the sun! Push me away as soon as I cry!]
Before Li Ting could, Fan Zuan placed the Kanli Sand on the arm where the Ice Gu had burrowed.
As soon as she was put down, Li Xingran burst into tears. Li Ting, disregarding social hierarchy, didn't even say hello and simply pushed his precious daughter into the yard.
"Father, let me bask in the sun. Zhao Yunwan planted an ice poison in me. If I bask in the sun within two quarters of an hour of it being planted, the ice poison will naturally die."
[This ice gu is extremely vicious! However, Lu Dacheng was only focused on research and didn't know that the ice gu is most afraid of light and heat. It was only later that Fan Zu'an told Lu Dacheng, and the ice gu was re-developed, accelerating its onset.]
"I'm only a few days old, and I've already suffered such a cruel fate! Father, you must avenge your daughter!"
Li Ting could no longer tolerate it.
Since we're going to break off relations sooner or later anyway, and they've already come to bully us at home, there's really no need to be polite to them anymore.
Fan Zu'an followed Li Ting into the courtyard. He was a modern man at heart, and a doctor at that, and his heart was always with his patients.
Li Ting felt relieved to see Fan Zuan there.
Upon entering the main hall, he adopted the air of a general. "Your Majesty, I still have to instruct His Highness the Crown Prince and have no time to entertain you here. You may stroll around the courtyard, but I hope you will maintain the demeanor and bearing of an Empress." With that, he turned and left the courtyard without bowing.
Upon seeing this, Xiao Sheng bowed to Zhao Yunwan and took his leave, then followed Li Ting to the martial arts training ground.
Only the butler, Liu Fu, remained standing guard at the door. Fan Zu'an had already pushed Li Xingran to his own courtyard to check if the ice poison had died inside her body.
It was really troublesome in ancient times. There were no diagnostic instruments, so we had to rely entirely on observation, listening, questioning, and palpation.
Fan Zuan thought to himself that it was fortunate he had a charlatan master who could tell Li Xingran wasn't going to die young just by looking at her face, and thus determine whether the Ice Gu was still there.
This is why Fan Zu'an has always wanted to avoid fame. In ancient times, without the protection of powerful families, he was just a drifter, and even a hundred lives wouldn't be enough for others to harm him.
Becoming sworn brothers with the most powerful general of the time was not a spur-of-the-moment decision by Fan Zu'an.
He saw the immense wealth of the Li family and the immeasurable future of the Crown Prince.
The Southern Chen Kingdom is going through a turbulent period. If he doesn't take sides now, he'll be dragged into that vortex later anyway. He'd be better off siding with the winning side, at least he can practice medicine peacefully afterward. Otherwise, he can just wait to lose his head!
Zhao Yunwan was in the main hall, still surprised by Li Ting's resistance to her.
For three years after returning to the capital, under the influence of her pillow talk, the emperor did not grant Li Ting any official position, and Li Ting never lost his temper.
She only held his daughter for a short while today, and she got angry? So he doesn't let anyone touch his daughter?
Fine, I'm already at their mercy anyway. Let you run wild for a few days, and I'll get my revenge eventually.
Xiao Ding and Xiao Yuyan stood beside the Empress, seemingly invisible in this war without gunpowder.
Li Xingran was also puzzled. The book clearly devoted the most attention to Xiao Ding and Xiao Yuyan, so why is Zhao Yunwan now the one with the most screen time?
Li Ting took Xiao Sheng to the martial arts training ground, but still made him squat in a horse stance, while he himself dragged his lame leg back and forth.
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