Denghuaxiao

Chapter 257 Extra (Yun Niang): Past Events Like Clouds

When she was born, she had a birthmark on her back.

The birthmark looks like a auspicious cloud. Everyone congratulates the Mo family on the addition of their baby. They believe that this child will be blessed in the future.

So she grew up in everyone's expectations.

She was very smart and intelligent when she was young. She could recognize 100 words at the age of three, started reading medical classics at the age of five, and could identify various medicinal materials at the age of eight. By the age of ten, she could try to prescribe medicine for the minor illnesses of ordinary people.

Her grandfather, Mo Wensheng, was an imperial physician who was very popular among the nobles in the palace. However, his family had few children, so when he saw that she was interested in medicine, he taught her step by step.

She studies very well.

Gradually, her family had higher and higher expectations for her, and her grandfather decided to send her to study at the Imperial Medical Bureau after she reached the age of 15.

She appeared happy on the surface, but in her heart she was disdainful.

The gentlemen in the Imperial Medical Bureau were old-fashioned and only knew how to follow medical principles from books. When it came to medical books, she had memorized as many as they did. For her, listening to their teachings was a humiliation.

She had many strange ideas and was particularly interested in poisons. Her grandfather always strictly stopped her, thinking that she was reckless and impetuous and did not know how to practice medicine prudently.

She sneered.

My grandfather was an imperial physician in the palace, and he prescribed medicine for the nobles in the palace for many years. If he cured the nobles, it was a good thing, but if he failed to cure them, he might lose his head, or even bring trouble to his family. The imperial physicians were more conservative than each other in prescribing medicine, and they had no idea about the secrets of using medicine, let alone using poison.

She pretended to obey but secretly planted poisonous weeds in the yard.

Until her grandfather found out, he threw away the centipedes and poisonous snakes she raised, and repeatedly warned her not to do it again. He punished her by making her copy a book facing the statue of Shennong. She copied halfway and tore up the paper and pen in annoyance.

She just likes to make poisons, what's wrong with that?
What’s wrong is that there are always so many useless and annoying rules in this world.

She bumped into a beggar on the street and threw a piece of silver to him. The beggar was grateful and kowtowed to thank her. She looked at his dirty face and suddenly an idea came to her mind.

She gave the beggar a freshly made poison.

The medicine would not kill a person, but would only make him mute for a few days. The little beggar did not know what it was, but seeing that she was dressed in silk and satin, he did not suspect anything and swallowed it.

She told the child to go back to the temple and wait. Three days later, the child came back, and his throat was indeed hoarse. He said that he had been unable to speak for the past few days.

She was delighted.

So she got a better way to test drugs. There were many poor families in Shengjing. After all, rabbits and mice were different from living people, and the same poison might not work. She tried it on the maids and girls in her courtyard, and got one beautiful poison recipe after another.

When she reached the age of marriage, her grandfather sent her to study at the Imperial Medical Bureau. She ranked first in every examination and her reputation even spread to the Imperial Academy of Physicians. Later, another doctor tested her with a difficult and complicated disease that could not be cured. She calmly wrote down a prescription, and the patient took it for a period of time and was cured. This made her famous.

She took the opportunity to ask her grandfather not to go to the Imperial Medical Bureau.

This time, my grandfather agreed.

A "genius" granddaughter who doesn't have to go to the Imperial Medical Bureau can always bring more honor to the Mo family in Shengjing City.

She was also satisfied that she finally didn't have to waste her time on those pedantic medical dogmas.

Practicing medicine is different from studying. If you have not personally seen a large number of patients and symptoms, you cannot become a master of medicine just by reading a few medical classics and pharmacology books. However, she had a large number of "medicine people" to try out, and her "medical skills" improved by leaps and bounds.

Her medical skills were getting better and better, but she was getting older. Her father wanted to arrange a marriage for her, but she refused. However, her father, who had always been mediocre, was particularly persistent in this matter.

"A woman should get married when she reaches a certain age. Do you want to be a doctor in the future?"

She knew what her father was thinking.

He was mediocre and was suppressed by his grandfather, but he had an outstanding daughter. If it was a son, it would be fine, but she was a girl, which made him look even more incompetent.

A father may also be jealous of his daughter and want to lock her up in the inner house to highlight his status.

He can indeed decide his marriage based on his parents' orders and the matchmaker's words, and his grandfather cannot say anything about it.

So she poisoned him.

The medicine was administered little by little, without anyone noticing, and no one could detect any signs of the disease. Even her grandfather did not notice anything was wrong. Her father died before she was engaged, and according to the rules, she had to observe mourning for a year.

When burning paper money, she knelt in front of the coffin in plain white mourning clothes, with her head lowered and a sad face, but when she raised her hand, she hid the smile on her lips.

No one in her family noticed, she became happier and devoted herself to developing new poisons. She had more and more prescriptions, but the more she did so, the more she felt that her knowledge of poisons and pharmacology was far from enough.

The traffickers found poor children for her everywhere, and with just a little money, they could buy the tools for testing drugs. She hid them in a secret room and let them test the poisons. Who knew that one of them was the illegitimate son of a doctor in the Ministry of Justice?

The truth was revealed.

Grandfather looked at her in disbelief, and vomited blood in anger: "Rebellious girl! Beast!"

She laughed, "Medicine and poison are both good. The poison recipes they obtained may benefit the world in the future. Those beggars are as insignificant as grass. It is worth it for them to die like this."

"Snapped--"

Grandfather slapped her.

She stared back coldly.

"Go away." The gray-haired old man lowered his head dejectedly, his tone more tired than ever before, "Run far away and don't come back."

Grandfather wanted to send her away.

She was the most talented heir of the Mo family, and she was brought up by her grandfather. But she couldn't bear it. She hid in the dark and watched the whole Mo family go to jail. She was supposed to be taken away by the people arranged by her grandfather, but she couldn't bear to leave the poison scripture she wrote and wanted to go back to the mansion to get it back. She was discovered and had to throw away the oil lamp and set a fire. She locked the maid who was traveling with her in the fire and escaped. The maid died and became a charred corpse. Her grandfather identified it as her, so Mo Ruyun died in the fire.

There will never be another Mo Ruyun in the world.

She left Shengjing wearing a veil and taking the money given by her grandfather.

A young woman, living alone, always attracts criticism. Those who have bad intentions towards her eventually disappear quietly.

Poison is the most wonderful thing in the world.

She traveled to many places and finally settled down in Luomei Peak in southern Jiangsu.

It is a beautiful mountain. In winter, the mountain is covered with white snow and red plum blossoms, which are full of love and affection.

She took in sixteen children one after another, all of whom were young children from poor families. Children were weak and most sensitive to poisons. She used the newly made poison on them, but unfortunately the children's bodies could hardly hold on. They died within a few months, and the oldest died within half a year. They had to be buried in the grass behind the thatched hut.

There was a hard-to-find medicinal herb near Changwu County. She went to collect the medicine and accidentally encountered a plague in the county town. The county magistrate's son paid a high medical fee, which made her very satisfied. What made her even more satisfied was that she received the seventeenth gift there.

Xiao Shiqi is different from the previous sixteen. When a major epidemic broke out in Changwu County, four members of her family fell ill one after another, but she was the only one who was safe and sound. Her physique was special, and she was the best container for poison.

She brought Xiao Shiqi back to Luomei Peak.

Xiao Shiqi is smart, gentle, and efficient. More importantly, she is educated.

Xiao Shiqi always secretly read the medical classics and pharmacology books she casually threw in the room. She found them very interesting.

Little Seventeen was also very determined. The sixteen before her did not survive more than half a year, but she had the strongest will to survive and was able to struggle through a day every time.

It was like casually dropping a seed on the ground, not knowing what kind of flower would bloom. She hoped it would be a poisonous flower, the most gorgeous and colorful, and she could give all her poison sutras to it, so that after she died, there would be someone in the world who would accept her legacy.

Unfortunately, Xiao Shiqi is different.

This child is very smart, but sometimes very stupid. She gave Xiao Shiqi many opportunities to kill herself, but it was a pity that Xiao Shiqi never thought of it. Once her old injury relapsed and she suddenly fainted, Xiao Shiqi actually boiled medicine for her.

In fact, Xiao Shiqi could take the opportunity to kill herself, or threaten herself to give her the antidote.

But this kid didn't.

At that moment she understood that Xiao Shiqi was a different person from herself.

She was about to die. The fire at the Mo family destroyed her skin and face, and she had been using poison to maintain her appearance over the years. However, her body, as a container, was about to break, and she had to start dealing with her funeral.

The poison sutra and prescription must be buried with her. This is the thing she cherishes most in this world.

A better burial place would be at Luomei Peak. She liked this place with its floating clouds and mist and unique scenery.

The only one left is Little Seventeen.

This medicine man, the seventeenth medicine man who should have been buried in the grass long ago, had lived in the mountains for so many years. She watched him carrying the medicine basket down the mountain, thinking about how to arrange the ending for Xiao Shiqi.

She was unmarried and had no children. If she had a daughter, she might be as old as Xiao Shiqi. Unfortunately, the other party was too soft-hearted. She wanted him to become the same person as herself and inherit her legacy, so she arranged a game for Xiao Shiqi.

So he arranged for Xiao Shiqi to "kill" her personally.

This child is very smart, she can think of using her own blood as a medicine. At the last moment, she was looking at her tears, but she was very happy.

If there is a first time to kill someone, there will be a second time. People who take the initiative to kill others cannot be doctors anymore.

Xiao Shiqi is extremely talented. He has studied poison and pharmacology with her over the years and should not be buried.

She should be like herself, traveling to many places and meeting many people in the future. People and things in the world are just containers of poison. There is no need to pity or sympathize with them. Just do what you like.

In one's life, one should always do something that he or she likes.

Just like herself.

This is obviously more fun than living a dull life of taking care of a husband and children.

Her eyelids became heavier and heavier. She heard the sobbing of Little Seventeen from beside her. She looked at this sad child and felt a little funny. Suddenly she remembered that she had been on the mountain for so long and had not asked the other person's name. She wanted to speak, but found that more blood was flowing from the corner of her lips and she could no longer speak.

Forget it, if you don’t know, then you don’t know.

After all, she was almost forgetting her own name.

Her name...what was her name?

There were many clouds and fogs in the mountains, and the misty white was like the vast waves. She could faintly hear people talking in it.

It seemed that there was a white-haired old man holding a little girl with pigtails in his arms sitting in the yard, teaching her to write stroke by stroke.

"Out of the east gate, there are women like clouds. Although like clouds, I don't think of them..."

"Oh, it's well written. As the teacher said, auspicious clouds will descend on the Mo family!"

The laughter gradually faded away, leaving only the fresh traces of ink on the paper.

It was two slightly immature, crooked words——

Like clouds.