He Ruixue snorted and laughed, "Gambling is not like smoking opium. Once you stop smoking, you will feel uncomfortable all over. What is there that he can't endure?
If Wu Xifang really didn't care about him, would he still spend money to gamble after being hungry for a few days? I'm afraid he would have quit long ago."
But Luo Guoqing is really a piece of shit. The premise of turning love into hate is that the two people have been together before. Just because the other party did not satisfy his imagination, he interfered and destroyed Wu Xifang's family. He is a vicious villain.
Afterwards, he appeared as a savior, and he could gain the other party's dependence and admiration with just a little effort, and in the end he didn't have to take any responsibility. He was really a toad pretending to be a frog, ugly in appearance but good at playing.
"This news is very important to me, thank you for your hard work."
He Ruixue counted out twelve large black tens and handed them to him. "Here, this is the activity fund for this year, ten dollars a month. Don't refuse. You have to spend money to find someone to get information or ask someone to do something for you. I can't let you pay for it in advance. Keep it."
Fang Wanggui was also straightforward. He took the money and put it in his pocket, then said in a deliberately pinched voice, "Thank you very much, sir. The rest is all my reward."
He Ruixue waved her hand, "Take them all away, stop disgusting me."
After laughing and joking for a few words, Fang Wanggui's expression changed again, and he looked at her hesitantly, "Your niece has been asking about the Niu family recently. Old Zhao is very tight-lipped and doesn't want to talk to her. Should I..."
"No need. She just acted on a whim and lost interest after a few days. How did you know that Niu Jiajia wasn't Niu Baoguo's biological daughter?"
Genetic testing doesn't exist these days.
"I saw it with my own eyes. Niu Anjia was holding Niu Jiajia in the yard playing. She blurted out 'Dad' and scared me. I thought Niu Baoguo's ghost had returned."
Children have sharp eyes and can always spot something fishy. "Who knew Niu Anjia would carry her back to the house as if nothing had happened? I leaned over to the window and listened. He told Niu Jiajia not to call him dad outside, but only inside."
"What if she just misses her dad and is looking for someone to rely on?"
"Humph, just based on the fact that they look even slightly similar, there must be something fishy going on. Niu Jiajia doesn't look much like Niu Baoguo, so she probably takes after Niu An's mother."
Niu Anjia has been in his thirties and still hasn't found a wife. It's not that he doesn't want to, but everyone in the yard has some speculations about the mess in his family. How can they bear to see a pure and innocent girl marry in?
Don’t compete for favor with your mother-in-law at that time. Don’t be so disgusting.
So every time he asked for a matchmaker, the people in the yard would disrupt it. Later, they formed a tacit understanding and just took turns to do it.
In front of the woman, he deliberately slandered Niu Anjia, saying that he had a bad temper and liked to beat people, and was so stingy that he didn't let his family have enough to eat. He also said that he was thinking of finding a father-in-law with good conditions so that he could go to his daughter-in-law's family to ask for money every day in the future. In short, he hit the other party's sore spots and described them vividly.
Some people didn't believe it and went to other people's homes to ask. Everyone gave the same answer. When they heard about Niu An's family, they shook their heads. In the end, the results of the inquiries were all similar.
It was rare for the courtyard to be so united. The Niu family already had a heavy burden, with a stepmother and a bunch of children to support. Generally, girls from better-off families would not consider him.
After a few times, even if the person who was interested in marrying him had a very bad impression of him, they would not come back after just one visit.
In the end, the matchmaker was too lazy to come to the house, and Niu Anjia himself seemed to have noticed something. In the past few years, he has not interacted much with the people in the courtyard, but has concentrated on staying at home and living with Zhong Guilan.
"I also heard that Zhong Guilan had an IUD." Fang Wanggui said shockingly.
He Ruixue widened her eyes, but then she thought it was normal. She was actually not very old and was at the right age to have children. If she really gave birth to a child, it would be a sensational news.
The two exchanged gossip and left one after the other.
Fang Wanggui arrived home first and saw Liu Huixin touching the medicinal herbs he had hung out to dry, her eyes full of curiosity.
He didn't step forward to stop her, but waited until she withdrew her hand before reminding her, "Be sure to wash your hands before eating. These herbs are poisonous."
Liu Huixin nodded and blinked. Her father had taught her to identify medicinal herbs and also said that some medicines are poisonous, but he had never let her come into contact with truly poisonous herbs.
"Doctor Fang, why do you need so many poisons? They shouldn't be used normally. My father said that curing illnesses and saving lives is a doctor's duty."
Fang Wanggui took her to wash her hands, thought for a moment and said, "Learning medicine to cure diseases is to save others, while learning poison is to save yourself. Doctors must have a kind heart, but they must also not lose the means to protect themselves."
"Only by understanding the properties of poisons can we know how to detoxify them and save more people. Besides, even highly toxic herbs can still have miraculous healing effects if used properly."
She nodded, half understanding, and stared at the Five Poisons sunbathing below with an interested look on her face. "Then can you teach me?"
"OK."
Fang Wanggui was a little surprised. "But the task your father assigned to you is very heavy, right? Can you handle it?"
Liu Huixin nodded firmly, "It's okay, I'll take the time to come and ask you, I won't fall behind in my studies, thank you for teaching me."
Fang Wanggui touched her head, "It's just a simple matter. Let's start by identifying the medicinal herbs. This is Phytolacca scabra, also known as mountain radish. Both the fruit and the rhizome are highly poisonous. Most people might mistake it for ginseng and eat it, causing abdominal cramps...
This is the fruit of the Datura plant. In fact, the whole plant is poisonous, and the fruit is particularly poisonous, almost enough to kill a cow.
This is called castor, and the fruit is castor beans. Children between the ages of four and seven can be poisoned and die if they take less than seven seeds."
"What about adults?"
"About 10 pills, but if you want to harm people, Monkshood is the most convenient and common one. Its roots can be used to make rat poison, and just half a sip of the extracted juice can kill a person. People in Meng Province use it to kill wolves and drive away wolf packs.
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