After the hero goes crazy

Chapter 339 The Antidote

Inside the box was a pill the size of a longan. The medicine was purple in color, surrounded by a hazy layer of purple air, which looked extraordinary.

The moment Gu Huanzhi saw the medicine, his eyes lit up, and he immediately forgot Liu's reminder.

"It's this pill."

He sighed and reached out to take it:

"Sure enough, it is exactly the same as what my wife saw in her dream."

Su Miaozhen let go smoothly, and then Yao Shouning heard Yaohu's voice: "Assist Liu Bingzhou to deliver the purple pill successfully, and reward 'Unfeeling Kindness'."

"You have an 'unfeeling request', your request is unlimited, the more rude your request is, the more likely you will agree to the convenience—" At this point, it added:
"Even if this promise is against my will."

Su Miaozhen's face showed joy, but Yao Shouning's face was ashamed, and something bad happened in his heart: Your son is in danger!
As soon as the pill was handed over to Gu Huanzhi, he immediately wanted to go back and save Gu Hou's life.

Before he left, Liu Bingzhou reached out to stop him:
"Master Gu! Before taking medicine, you must think clearly."

The medicinal properties of the purple pill can be life and death.

In his opinion, if the purple pill really had the miraculous effect in the rumors, the vitality in the pill would have been sucked out when it 'saved' Su Miaozhen sober that day, and what is left now is probably all the 'dead' energy.

He is not afraid of trouble, even at the Yingtian Bookstore back then, he already knew the consequences, but as a father, he couldn't bear to see the Prime Minister go into a dead end, so he still reminded one more sentence before parting:
"Be sure to think clearly!"

"Thank you for reminding me, Mr. Liu." Gu Huanzhi stuffed the box containing the purple pills into his cuff, and said very calmly:
"I think clearly."

The door of Yao's house was wide open, and the lights inside were bright, but it was pitch black outside.

The rain was "crashing" and the wind was cold. Half of Gu Huanzhi's body was about to melt into the darkness, while the other half remained in the light:
"I appreciate your sincere feelings. Facing such an open-minded and sensible person like you, it would be very disrespectful to conceal you."

He half-stepped out of the door without looking back, just said lightly:

"I'm afraid this daughter of mine will not succeed."

When he said this, the only response to him was the sound of 'crashing la la' water.

No one dared to interrupt him to speak, and the damp moisture rushed towards his face, soaking the face of the Prime Minister.

His tone did not fluctuate, and he said calmly:

"I brought back this elixir just to reassure my wife."

As a father, he can't keep his daughter, and as a husband, he can't save his wife's life, but he knows Madam Gu's death is approaching, and he just wants to make her feel at ease before she dies, so that she doesn't die in peace.

After saying this, everyone in the Yao family was dumbfounded and didn't know how to speak for a moment.

Yao Shouning felt heavy in his heart, as if a big rock had been crushed.

"I really envy you, Mr. Liu."

Gu Huanzhi looked up at the night sky. Tonight's night was as black as ink, as if there was no light at all.

"All the fame and fortune in life are false, maybe surrounded by children, family harmony is true."

He made a wrong choice back then, and everything now is retribution—it's just that this retribution should be retribution on him, not on his Zhangzhu or his wife.

Gu Huanzhi took a deep breath, resisted the pain in his heart, and turned his head.

He looked at Yao Shouning.

The girl's eyes were moist and dark, with a kind of innocence that didn't understand the world, but those eyes were stained with a bit of sadness because of his words. She was still young and didn't know how to hide it, so she showed it straightforwardly. , showing her simplicity and sincere compassion.

This kind of tears is far more sincere than those who copy scriptures for others.

Gu Huanzhi's eyes were soft, thinking that when his daughter was young, she was just like the girl in front of him, but unfortunately now...

"Mrs. Yao, your daughter is really nice."

Because of the momentary eye contact, his heart softened, and he suddenly said:

"I can see that it is very destined. If my wife can survive this calamity, maybe I will like it when I see her. Then—"

When Mrs. Liu heard this, she was a little at a loss. She glanced at Yao Shouning, but saw that her eye circles and the tip of her nose were red, and she couldn't see how she got the favor of this Prime Minister.

Before she could speak, Gu Huanzhi sighed:

"Forget it, talk about it later."

During this short period of time, his exposed emotions were completely restrained, and he suddenly said:

"I heard that you and the Wen family are related by marriage, and Wen Qingzhe of the Wen family offended the emperor and was sent to prison?"

Mrs. Liu glanced at Liu Bingzhou, but saw that Liu Bingzhou didn't speak, so she nodded her head:
"That's true."

"Let the Wen family go to the prison to lead people tomorrow." He didn't say anything unnecessary, just reached out and put on the wet veil on the cloak again, and then stepped out of the room without hesitation.

There was a servant from the Gu family waiting outside, and they hurriedly went up to pick him up with an umbrella, but he strode forward without saying goodbye, his figure gradually blending into the darkness.

As soon as Gu Huan left, Su Miaozhen's face showed anger.

Even though she had already received the "unfeeling invitation" reward from Yaohu, when Gu Huanzhi got the elixir and offered to release the Wen family, she still felt that she was being taken advantage of.

It's just that no one pays attention to her at this time, Liu Shi is both worried and happy.

The worry is that the source of the medicine is unknown, and Su Miaozhen may still be haunted by evil spirits; the joy is that Wen Qingzhe finally escaped from the catastrophe and saved his life.

Liu Bingzhou looked at Gu Huanzhi's back and left. After a long time, he turned his head and said to Liu Shi, "You heard what Gu Huanzhi said, so send someone to tell the Wen family."

Things have not been easy for the Wen family recently.

Since Wen Qingzhe was arrested, Mrs. Wen had nowhere to ask for help, and often shed tears.

It happened to be a flood, and the family was in chaos. Thanks to the Yao family who sent some food and firewood.

Gu Huanzhi's words tonight are great news for the Wen family.

Liu Shi nodded.She didn't need to go there in person for such a matter, she just told Madam Cao to send someone to pass it on.

After dealing with these things, the people in the room had a weird expression.

She turned her attention to Su Miaozhen, and saw that one side of her cheek was red and swollen, and there were a few clear finger prints on the place where Yao Wanning had hit her earlier.

Although the girl was a bit scheming, she was still young and couldn't completely hide her feelings.

When Liu Shi looked at her, he could see the resentment, anger and unwillingness in her eyes, even mixed with a faint disdain.

And the others were either anxious or absent-minded, and seemed to have something on their minds.

Only now did Liu realize that the relationship between these children was not as close as she imagined.

"you--"

Liu Shi had a headache, opened her mouth, and Yao Wanning said first:
"Mother, Miaozhen bit Shouning."

"I didn't!" Su Miaozhen covered her face, and when she heard Yao Wanning's words, she immediately shouted.

Yao Wanning swept away her previous gentle appearance and said:
"You bite Shouning, everyone saw it with their own eyes." She turned her eyes to Yao Ruoyun and the others, Yao Ruoyun nodded without hesitation, even Su Qingchun nodded, Su Miaozhen felt even more anxious, and hurriedly said:

"I didn't bite at all!"

"Of course you don't admit it." Yao Wanning glanced at her contemptuously:
"You knew that there were guests at home at the time, but you were still making noise. Shouning wanted to stop you, so you pushed and shoved, and wanted to bite people."

"You wronged me!" Su Miaozhen had experienced how powerful Yao Wanning was in the past, and knew that she was not as easy to bully as she appeared on the surface, but she was still pissed off by her words at this moment.

"It's not for me that I sent the elixir, it's for my grandfather, for the Yao family!" Angry, she said without hesitation:

"If it weren't for the elixir I sent, Master Gu might not have accepted your love, and Wen Xianrong's father would have to continue squatting in the prison!"

She yelled out her inner complaint in one breath, and after she finished speaking, the room was so quiet that a needle could be heard.

Liu Shi looked at Su Miaozhen with indescribable shock in his eyes, which then turned into disappointment.

At the beginning, she thought that this niece was bewitched, but now listening to her talk, she found that she was not completely bewitched, and it was very likely that she was selfish in nature—the gentleness and carelessness shown earlier might be just a disguise.

"Don't say that either." Yao Wanning spoke out from her heart, glanced at Liu Shi without a trace, then pursed her lips, revealing a faint smile.

She changed her tone and became gentle and soft, saying:
"Miaozhen, whether this pill can really save people is still unknown. If you give it away rashly like this, if something happens after you take it, our family will accompany you in the accident."

"How is it possible—" Su Miaozhen couldn't understand her pretending, and said with a sneer:

"I……"

Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Mrs. Liu:

"Wanning is right."

For the first time since Su Miaozhen entered the capital, Liu Shi showed strength in front of her:

"It's about Gu Hou's life, how dare you give medicine casually? It's no joke that our Yao family has so many lives!"

"But Gu Xiang said, he—"

Liu frowned tightly and interrupted her:
"You talk about your face, how many days have you known this lord? Do you believe what he said?" The more Liu said, the more annoyed she became:

"Your mother was well-behaved and sensible back then, why did you do such a foolish thing?"

She regarded Su Miaozhen and her brother as her own, and she didn't think too much about it when she taught her a lesson, but as soon as the words fell, Su Miaozhen couldn't bear it anymore:
"Confused? My aunt feels confused about everything I do. Why didn't you tell Yao Wanning when she hit me?"

"You..." Her sharp rebuttal made Liu Shi startled, and Su Miaozhen said again:
"If I save Gu Hou, the credit belongs to everyone, and I don't get any benefit; if I can't save Gu Hou, I will be the one to blame, right?"

"I didn't—" Mrs. Liu didn't expect the child to be so extreme in his heart, he was at a loss for a while, and was a little speechless.

She raised three children, the eldest son is young and mature, obedient and sensible.The eldest daughter is also gentle and obedient, the younger daughter usually bickers about small things, but she is well-behaved in big things, and rarely contradicts her like this, this is the first time Liu has encountered such a scene.

"I think that's what my aunt meant."

Anyway, the words have already been spoken, Su Miaozhen simply vented the resentment in her heart.

She thought of 'past life and present life', made her even more angry, and said:
"You look fair and strict on the surface, but in your heart you might dislike me and my brother as poor relatives. Qingchun and I were arrested and imprisoned that day—if it wasn't because of my father—"

She opened and closed her mouth, a certain belief in Liu's heart collapsed under her accusation, and there seemed to be lightning and thunder in her mind, and she couldn't hear what she said at all.

Liu Shi kept shaking, wanting to refute, but didn't know where to start.

"Shut up!"

Liu Bingzhou shouted loudly!
There was Confucian power in his shout, it turned into some kind of wish power, suddenly Su Miaozhen's lips closed against her own will, and she could no longer speak out.

"Miss Biao, you know best how our wife treats you."

Mammy Cao watched for a long time, and finally couldn't take it anymore, and accused:
"The day you entered the capital of God, you intentionally stirred up trouble, made the Yao family's house restless, and sowed a wedge between the second young lady and his wife—"

She said that when everyone went to the general's mansion, Su Miaozhen provoked Liu Shi to ground Yao Shouning, which made Yao Shouning cry.

He also mentioned the imprisonment of the Su siblings:
"You should also be clear about the cause and effect of the prison. It is obviously because you deliberately concealed the case, which caused twists and turns in the case, so you went to jail. What has it to do with us?" Cao Mama hugged the trembling Liu Shi into her arms Seeing that the always strong Liu's complexion was livid at this time, and his eyes were fragile, he couldn't help feeling a little distressed, and even blamed:

"You said that your father has old friends with the Chu family, but it is not so easy to climb into the Chu family!" She gritted her teeth and said:
"In order to deliver a letter to the Chu family, my wife sold off a set of dowry from that year and spent most of the family's savings before finally making up the gift. Otherwise, how do you think the young master of the Chu family knew that you were imprisoned?"

Grandma Cao said in anger, she didn't give Su Miaozhen the slightest bit of face.

"The list of gifts at that time is still at home now, do you want to show you how much money was spent?"

"I..." Su Miaozhen was a little flustered by the words, and muttered.

Grandma Cao said again:
"What's more, back then your father had an affair with Mr. Chu—"

"Nurse!" Liu Shi came to her senses, and when she heard this, she quickly stretched out her hand to pull her.

Mammy Cao looked down at her, saw that there was water in her eyes, she shook her head, and signaled herself not to continue talking, Mammy Cao sighed for a long time.

"Oh, ma'am, if you don't tell her these words, how will she know?"

If it wasn't for Su Wenfang, with Yao Hui's personality and talent, how could he still not be promoted to an official position, and he is still only a commander of the Six Cities Army and Horse Division after ten years?
However, Mrs. Liu had already spoken, and Madam Cao didn't say anything about it, but said again:

"Although our family is not rich, we are well-off. If it wasn't for this incident, how could we be living so tight?"

After talking for a while, seeing Su Miaozhen's expression was in a trance, she remembered that she was not very old after all, so she endured it:

"That's why when the old man took out the banknote, the wife reached out to take it, not because of partiality!"

When Liu heard this, she realized that Su Miaozhen had said that Liu Bingzhou had given her money. After she saw it that day, the child might feel resentful and think it was unfair.

She said hastily:
"This money is only a temporary loan. There is really no other way. After peace, I will slowly save money and pay it back to your grandfather."

When she said this, the rest of the Yao family became very angry.

Su Qingchun's delicate face was flushed red, wishing he could find a crack in the ground and slip down.

He was angry with his elder sister for her extreme temperament, not knowing good and evil, narrow-minded, remembering bad things but not good ones; he was also afraid that Su Miaozhen would act impulsively and bring disaster to the Yao family, and the siblings would avenge their kindness at that time, so he didn't know how to calm this matter down.

"Grandfather—" At this time, he didn't dare to see his aunt, nor his cousins, so he had to ask Liu Bingzhou for help.

Liu Bingzhou touched his head and comforted him:
"Qingchun, don't worry, your sister is only blinded for a while, and she will understand."

When Su Qingchun heard this, he should have nodded, but he immediately thought of all the things in these days, and he was not sure in his heart, and even felt faintly ashamed of his sister's actions.

"Impossible, impossible—" Su Miaozhen was still shaking her head, her face was pale, and she murmured:
"How did that happen?"

"I don't believe it, it's obviously fake..."

"It doesn't matter if you believe it or not, I only do things with a clear conscience." Mrs. Liu shook her head, then said that it was getting late, and ordered Feng Chun to send the siblings out.

She felt wronged inexplicably, and she didn't want the juniors to see her expression of about to collapse.

Yao Shouning felt sorry for Liu Shi at the beginning, but after she noticed what Cao Mama said, it had a great impact on Su Miaozhen.

The fox face mask on the cousin's face seemed to be cracked, but a pair of fluffy paws covered her ears, as if to prevent her from continuing to listen.

It's just that on the right paw, there is a very obvious hand mark, with a purple air - that is the mark left by the 'River God' before.

This scar prevented the fox demon from performing its best, so that Su Miaozhen's ears were not completely covered, and she still heard Cao Mama's words.

The evil spirits could hardly trap her, two phantoms kept flashing on Su Miaozhen's face, one was a half-demonized face, the other was the face of a demon fox, but after a few breaths, the demon fox still had the upper hand, Su Miaozhen's face Red fluff resurfaced.

The struggle in her eyes disappeared, and finally turned into calmness.

"Auntie, I was wrong. I was talking nonsense. Don't be angry with me."

She apologized softly. If it was before, Liu would have coaxed her a long time ago, but now she feels that this niece is very strange. Hearing this, she just forced a smile, and comforted her:
"Don't think so much, go back quickly."

But Liu Shi knew in her heart that from then on, she might never return to the past towards Su Miaozhen.

Su Miaozhen didn't want to care about what Liu Shi was thinking, as long as she did her best, she would not say anything more after she thought she had done her best.

She went out to hold an umbrella, and after she left, Su Qingchun stood in front of Liu Shi with red eyes, and shouted timidly:
"aunt……"

"Silly boy, don't worry, I know you are a child, I won't be angry with you, don't worry, go back to sleep, get up tomorrow morning and read with your cousin."

She had a better impression of Su Qingchun, knowing that he was timid and cowardly, she said a few more words of comfort.

After saying this, Su Qingchun's complexion really improved, and he nodded heavily in response:
"Well, I'll work hard."

After the siblings left, Mrs. Liu also dismissed the other children.

After the people left, she stopped hiding her inner sadness and cried:
"I didn't expect Miao Zhenxin to think this way in her heart. At first, I thought she was just bewitched by evil spirits..."

She misses how she got along with Xiao Liu when she was young, and regrets that she was unable to lend a helping hand to her when Xiao Liu was alive, so she wholeheartedly wants her children to live in harmony with Xiao Liu's two children, looking forward to These cousins ​​can be as close as she was with Xiaoliu back then.

But who knows that people's emotions are not under the control of others. She and Xiao Liu's former sisters had a deep relationship. I am afraid that as the two grow up and get married, they have really passed away.

Liu Bingzhou watched this always strong daughter cry bitterly, he couldn't help but silently patted her on the shoulder, and she cried louder in front of her father.

……

When Yao Shouning and Yao Wanning went back, she frequently turned her head to look behind her sister.

The 'River God' stood behind Yao Wanning like a silent shadow, but he didn't expect that the ghost of the former Taizu, who had become evil, would take action to teach the fox demon at that time.

——This feeling is really weird.

"What are you looking at?" Yao Wanning couldn't help asking curiously when she saw her looking at him several times in a row.

Dong Kui, Qing Yuan, and Bai Yu were all there. Even though Yao Shouning had a lot to say, it wasn't the right time, so he shook his head and said with a smile:

"I didn't expect my sister to beat someone."

Thinking of the previous incident, Yao Wanning's cheeks flushed slightly, and then she felt a little embarrassed.

But then she became confident again:
"Who told her to bite you?"

She used to be physically weak and unable to move freely. Even if she felt sorry for her sister and was sometimes scolded by her mother, she could only speak a few words of comfort. Unlike now, she can personally protect her sister.

"Actually, she didn't bite me." Yao Shouning was happy when he heard that.

Yao Wanning just laughed:
"It deserves it." She added, "I wanted to hit her a long time ago."

"That day when she provoked discord, you went home and cried for a long time, and when you didn't have dinner, I wanted to beat her."

She looks gentle on the outside, but in fact she is extremely defensive in her heart, which is somewhat similar to Liu's.

Yao Wanning thought in her heart: If she wasn't afraid of something wrong with her stomach, she would still want to slap Su Miaozhen twice.

"What stomach—"

Yao Shouning's strength advanced at the beginning, and for a while he couldn't tell the difference between a real person's voice and a "heart voice", so he subconsciously asked a question.

"What stomach?" Her words were inadvertent, but Yao Wanning was quite frightened, thinking that she had said what was in her heart carelessly.

Fortunately, Mong Kui and the others also asked curiously:

"What kind of stomach do you have?"

"just--"

Yao Shouning was about to speak, when he realized that he might have said something wrong, and what he heard was Yao Wanning's inner voice.

My sister was very concerned about her belly, but she didn't say it out loud.

She turned her head to look at Yao Wanning, but under the dim light, she couldn't see her expression clearly, but she seemed a little nervous.

Yao Shouning became suspicious, and continued:
"I seem to hear someone's stomach 'cuckoo', is it not full?"

She randomly found a topic to go around, and Mong Kui didn't doubt that he was there, so she said quickly:
"Who says it's not? I'm really not full after such a fuss tonight."

Qing Yuan and Bai Yu also complained, everyone talked and laughed, and quickly put this little episode behind them.

Yao Wanning breathed a sigh of relief, but based on her understanding of Yao Shouning, she vaguely felt that sooner or later her secret would become invisible to her.

She bit her lip, feeling a little scared, but she also knew that she couldn't escape - she just felt a little guilty, after the Dong Chuang incident, she was afraid that the Yao family would be pointed at and hurt her relatives.

After all, it is a shameful thing for an unmarried girl to suddenly become pregnant.

If everyone knew the truth, they would love her, Liu Shi and Yao Shouning would definitely blame themselves, these were not what she wanted to see.

Let's wait a little longer...

……

Yao Shouning originally wanted to clarify the 'belly' matter with Yao Wanning. She always felt that her sister had concealed a major event, but she didn't know that many major events would happen after this day.

Gu Huanzhi complied with his promise, and Wen Qingzhe was released from prison on the same day.

The Wen family learned the reason and came to thank the Yao family.

But the purple pill that Su Miaozhen presented did not save Gu Hou's life.

In the evening, the death knell rang in Shendu City, which meant that the mother of the world was dead, leaving only the young fourth prince.

Fortunately, before the bell rang, Gu Huanzhi watched his wife, who had been with him for most of his life, leave first.

When he went to Yao's house to get pills, Liu Bingzhou persuaded him again and again, and at that time he already had an ominous premonition.

But he still wanted to gamble, but the final result was not satisfactory.

After receiving the elixir, Mrs. Gu, who had been lingering in bed for a long time, thought that her daughter was finally saved, and she was satisfied before she died, so she left with a smile.

Gu Huanzhi lost his wife and daughter one after another within a day, and became a real loner.

After the people in the city were bitten by mosquitoes, they were infected and festered one after another. Ordinary doctors could not cure such poisonous diseases, and many people died in this cold winter day.

At the beginning, the people in the general's mansion ordered people to collect the corpses, but later found that there were too many corpses to collect.

The wounds of these dead people were festering, and the unabated flood became a carrier of the virus, causing more people to be infected.

The situation in Yao Shouning's dream came true that day, corpses appeared everywhere in the city.

Emperor Shenqi announced to the world, declaring that he was willing to use Taoist spies as rewards to encourage everyone to collect the dead bodies in the city.

Hooligans and gangsters on many streets in the past came here like crocodiles smelling blood, taking this opportunity to wash away their past sins.

The city of Shendu gradually became chaotic, looting and crimes happened again and again, and the people suffered untold misery.

And at this time, the "Daming Palace" in the city suddenly announced that there was medicine to cure the mosquito's poison.

'Daming Palace' is not as popular as Qingfeng Temple in Daqing, but its background is not low - it was the Taoist temple built for him in Shendu City by Emperor Shenqi in order to win over Chen Taiwei.

It's just that most of the people who offer incense in this Taoist temple are high-ranking officials and dignitaries. These people don't want to drink alcohol, but they want to use the teacher of the state to ascend to the top.

It's a pity that Chen Taiwei has a cold temperament and rarely stays here. This 'Daming Palace' is just like his Taoist in name, and his shadow can hardly be seen.

After this disaster, they suddenly said that there was a way to save the people of Daqing, which attracted the attention of many people.

Zhu Hengrui and his wife were naturally very vigilant, and the common people were dubious at first.

Over the years, the status of Taoist priests has gradually improved, especially the Taoist priests of the 'Daming Palace', who are even more majestic than ordinary dignitaries when they go out, and many people are in awe of them.

The Daming Palace claimed that the detoxification medicine was provided by the national teacher. The national teacher did not seek profit, but only sympathized with the world, so he gave the medicine for free.

All of a sudden, many cash-strapped people came here upon hearing the news, and the entrance of the 'Daming Palace' was crowded with people.

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There are a lot more today, because my plot is going to get here, so I posted 7K words in one breath~~
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