On the way back to Yanshan Residence, the mother and daughter, Qing Lingyi said: "The people who attacked the general's mansion earlier at night began to assassinate me again some time ago. General Cheng wanted to investigate, and it was this deputy general who took the initiative to ask for help and went there alone. Yokokawa.”
Qing Yan glanced slightly, "Hengchuan?"
Qing Lingyi nodded his head.
I have come to live in Yanshan Mountain.
"Give way! Everyone, give way! Madam and the general go through first!"
Many soldiers in the courtyard came after hearing the news. Wu Liang opened the way and escorted the two of them to the study.
While still outside the door, Qing Lingyi smelled the smell of blood.
In the room, Si Rujian was sitting on a chair. He was much thinner than when he left Suidu, his clothes were shabby, and he was tired.
Ji Fanzhi held a plate of Poria cake in both hands, looked at him with a worried expression, and whispered, "Master, please eat another piece."
"Madam is here!"
Si Rujian just raised his hand to pick up a piece of pastry. As Wu Liang's voice sounded, he immediately put it back and stood up, "Madam..."
Qing Lingyi responded and asked, "You are injured. Is Doctor Xin here?"
Si Rujian seemed stunned for a moment, not expecting that she would care more about this.
Beside him, Cheng Yang smiled at the right moment and said, "I've already asked someone to invite you."
"That's good."
Qing Lingyi breathed a sigh of relief.
It's one thing to find out something, but it's another thing to be injured and bleed. If something happened to Si Rujian because of what he did for her, she would have a bad conscience.
"Okay, Madam is here," Cheng Yang signaled, "You can speak now."
Si Rujian responded.
He straightened his expression and said truthfully: "When I arrived in Hengchuan, I went to Yuzhang Mountain first. Sure enough, there was a weapons workshop in a secret place at the foot of the mountain. The bows, arrows and swords produced in it were all the same as those used by the assassins who attacked my wife. In addition, there is a secret room in the weapons workshop, which is a place for mixing medicines. The strange thing is that there is only one medicine in it. "
With that said, Si Rujian took out a bloody handkerchief from his arms.
The veil opened, revealing a piece of wood the size of the tip of a little finger.
"I only stole this small piece, which is the raw material for their medicine." Si Rujian said.
Qing Lingyi spread his palms and said, "Let me take a look."
Si Rujian carefully placed the handkerchief and wood into her palm.
Qing Lingyi brought her nose close and smelled it.
She frowned.
"How?" Qing Yan asked.
"This smell," Qing Lingyi smelled it again, "is a very strange kind of wood. It seems like..."
She couldn't tell.
At this time, there was movement outside the door.
Qing Lingyi turned around distractedly and asked, "Is Doctor Xin here?"
"It's not Dr. Xin, it's your master and me."
Yu Mo put his hands behind his back and Shi Shiran stepped into the study.
Qing Lingyi asked with a smile: "Master, why are you here?"
"Aren't you pregnant?" Yu Mo said. "As your master, I am not allowed to check your pulse every once in a while to see if everything is okay with you."
Then he motioned to him, "Come, sit down and give me your hand."
Qing Lingyi tapped Si Rujian on the chair with his chin and said, "Master, he is injured. Please help him take a look first."
Yu Mo glanced at Si Rujian.
"He was injured because of me." Qing Lingyi added.
Yu Mo then nodded, "That's okay."
He rolled up his sleeves and walked in. On the way, he noticed something in her palm. He paused and asked, "What are you doing with the evil wood?"
Qing Lingyi was stunned: "Oxious wood?"
She opened her eyes wide and looked at her palm, "Is this...the wood used to produce vicious poison?"
"Yes," Yu Mo smiled, "I have only taught you the pulse after poisoning and some possible antidote methods. Indeed, I have never shown you the real evil wood. You can't smell it. Do not blame you."
Qing Lingyi's thoughts were confused.
Yokogawa.
Last time, Jiang Meng mentioned that the evil poison came from Hengchuan.
Master once mentioned that he and his senior brother passed by Yokokawa and heard about the detoxification method.
Now the weapons used by those assassins come from Yokogawa.
Why are the people who want to kill her and the people who want to kill Cheng Yang related to Yokokawa?
How many secrets are hidden there?
"You kid, your vitality is so depleted, you haven't slept for six or seven days...you have injuries on your waist and abdomen. You are really desperate."
Qing Lingyi looked over and saw that Yu Mo was rolling up his sleeves and feeling Si Rujian's pulse.
After finishing speaking, he withdrew his hand and said: "But there is no fatal injury, and the problem is not serious. I will give you some medicine later and drink the medicine for a few days, and it will be fine."
Si Rujian held back a sentence: "Thank you very much."
Qing Lingyi folded the handkerchief again, wrapped it with the evil wood, and asked: "Vice General Si, did you find anything else in Hengchuan?"
Si Rujian said seriously, "There are many Huyan clans living in Hengchuan."
Hearing this, Qing Yan raised his eyelids.
"Those Huyans consider themselves ordinary people and have learned the Liang dialect. But I am from the north, and I can hear their accents. What's more, each of them is very vigilant, and I can feel the murderous aura in them. With the black clothes The assassins are very similar.”
Cheng Yang sneered, "In other words, those assassins in black are indeed from Hengchuan."
Qing Lingyi continued, "But why are Huyan's killers in Hengchuan? Hengchuan is in the southeast of Liang State, so far away from Huyan's."
Cheng Yang looked at her, "Divert your attention and reduce your suspicion?"
Qing Lingyi thought thoughtfully, "Maybe you are cooperating with someone in Yokogawa?"
Idiom raised his eyebrows, "If there is such a person, then he is the one who poisoned me."
Qing Lingyi agreed very much, "That's right."
The two of them go back and forth and have a tacit understanding of reasoning.
"By the way, there's also this."
Si Rujian remembered something and took out something from his arms.
It is a jade plaque, palm-sized, carved with complex patterns.
Qing Lingyi took it again and looked at it carefully, "This is not the writing of Liang Guo."
"Huyanyu," Si Rujian said, "I originally tested a Huyan clan, but he found out the clues and wanted to kill me. I killed him instead and found this from him. But it was also because I killed someone, The situation was too big, so we had no choice but to leave Yokokawa and rush back.”
Qing Lingyi comforted him, "You have done a good job, Deputy General. Thank you for your hard work during this period."
Si Rujian felt a little relieved.
Ji Fanzhi took the opportunity to pass the Poria Cake forward and said, "Master, please have another piece. You haven't eaten for several days."
"Okay." Si Rujian obediently picked up the cake and put it in his mouth.
Qing Lingyi was still looking at the jade plaque.
She had never learned Huyan language and didn't understand what it meant.
"King's tent guard."
Right behind him, Qing Yan spoke slowly.
Qing Lingyi was stunned and turned around, "Mother?"
Qing Yan raised his chin towards the jade plaque in her hand, "What is written on it is the guard of the royal tent. The person the deputy general killed was the guard around King Huyan."
