Traveling through the Republic of China, I married a dead person

It was a conflicting feeling. It was a good thing that Zi Yan returned safely, but Su Bai couldn't feel at ease because of how Zhou Beiwang interrogated Wang Yutian.

She was anxious to see Zi Yan, but she couldn't leave at this moment.

She calmed herself down a little. In fact, she shouldn't be anxious. The key to the matter lies with Zhou Beiwang, which she cannot control. As for asking Zi Yan about what happened, asking her a little earlier or later would not change the outcome.

The reason for his outburst just now was, firstly, out of concern for Zi Yan's safety, and secondly, a counterattack against the Third Concubine's provocation in front of the county magistrate.

Furthermore, he discovered that the eldest young lady's authority was still at its maximum value. Once he got angry, everyone in the Kong Mansion fell silent.

After toasting the county magistrate, Su Bai didn't even eat the food that the eldest lady had put on the plate for him. He left the main room on the pretext that he had to take care of other guests, and the third concubine and the eldest lady continued to entertain them.

Su Bai hurried back to the backyard and asked Zi Yan about the whole process.

Unexpectedly, Wang Yusi was so cunning. After Zi Yan put the poisoned dishes on the table one by one, Wang Yusi actually asked Zi Yan to stay and eat with him.

At first, Zi Yan thought he was just lustful and wanted to pester her, so she made the excuse that she was busy at home and could not accompany him for dinner, and said that the eldest young lady would come to accompany him for dinner in person another day.

But he threw down his chopsticks and said, "Will the eldest young lady accompany me to dinner? Will I have another meal after this one?"

As he said that, he asked Zi Yan to take a bite of each dish and swallow it before leaving.

In desperation, Zi Yan had to take out the gun from her body, but she didn't expect that this guy was prepared. He overturned the table and rushed over to grab the gun. Zi Yan fired in a panic. Zi Yan, whose arm had been caught, fired six shots but failed to hit him. Instead, he took the gun away from her.

After Wang Yutian snatched the gun, he pulled the trigger at Zi Yan, but there was no bullet in the gun.

Zi Yan took the opportunity to escape, and Wang Yutian chased after her.

Just as he ran out of the Xiankelai Inn, he was bumped into by several soldiers rushing in. Zhou Beiwang also ran out of the Confucius Mansion with a gun in his hand.

Without saying a word, they took both of them back to the camp headquarters.

Zi Yan was taken to Zhou Beiwang's office. She was neither tied nor bound, but a soldier was assigned to watch her.

After a while, Zhou Beiwang came and asked Zi Yan to go back to the Confucius Mansion first.

Zi Yan wanted to say something, but Zhou Beiwang stopped her and didn't let her say a word.

This is what happened.

"Where is the gun?" Su Bai asked a stupid question in a daze. The gun was taken away by Wang Yutian, and now it must be in Zhou Beiwang's hands. It has returned to its original owner.

Well, this way, there will be no shortage of witnesses and evidence.

Zi Yan knelt down in front of Su Bai with a plop: "Madam, it's all my fault. I didn't get it done properly!"

Before Su Bai had the time to help her up, she kowtowed quickly and got up by herself, and took out the unused arsenic from under the cabinet in the main room.

"What are you going to do?"

"Madam, if I die, you can put all the blame on me. I only ask for one thing..."

"You bastard, I won't agree to anything you say!" In a desperate situation, Su Bai didn't know which great god helped him, but he kicked away the arsenic that Zi Yan was about to put into her mouth.

But it was still a little too slow, and a small amount of arsenic still entered Zi Yan's mouth.

The ingredient of arsenic is arsenic trioxide, which Su Bai is very familiar with. Using dimercaptopropanol to detoxify is the most effective and fastest method.

Not to mention this era, even in modern times, it is impossible to get the antidote in a short period of time.

The only option is first aid.

"Vomit quickly!" Su Bai asked Zi Yan to spit out the saliva in her mouth together with the arsenic that she had not swallowed yet, and then he began to give her a lot of water, and used two fingers to dig her throat to spit it out, then gave her some more water, and then spit it out again.

Su Bai ran out of the door, called a servant, asked him to find some salt and milk, and then asked the kitchen to get a steamed bun and throw it into the stove to burn it.

"What is this for?" the servant asked in confusion.

"Just do it when I tell you to, and do it quickly, otherwise I'll kill you!" The young lady showed her power again.

The salt was brought quickly, and Su Bai added the salt into the water, letting Zi Yan continue to drink and then spit out.

"Madam..." Zi Yan said weakly, "It would be more painful to die like this than to die from drinking arsenic."

After a while, the servant brought the burnt steamed buns.

No milk.

This is not surprising. Milk back then did not contain preservatives, unlike modern milk. You could buy a box and keep it at home for a year without going bad.

Su Bai forced Zi Yan to chew the burnt bun slowly and eat it, leaving the core of the bun unburnt and not letting Zi Yan eat it.

Zi Yan finished eating the steamed bun while complaining.

"Madam, actually..." She wiped her mouth: "I don't think I swallowed the arsenic. Only a little bit went into my mouth, and I spit it out a long time ago."

This sentence made Su Bai laugh.

Since it has entered the mouth, it is inevitable that some of it will enter the esophagus without being noticed, so these measures are still necessary.

However, after hearing what Zi Yan said, Su Bai felt relieved. Even if he had taken arsenic, it was only a very small amount. Combined with his fierce operation, he should be fine.

"Tell me, what do you want me to do for you?" Su Bai was also sweating from exhaustion. He sat on the chair and gasped for breath.

"I'm not dead..."

"Tell me if you're not dead yet, then go die after you've said it. I won't stop you this time!"

Zi Yan's home is in the countryside of Longxing County. Her family is very poor. Her mother recently developed lung disease. Someone has examined her and the doctor said it is tuberculosis.

She heard that this disease could be fatal, so she wanted to ask the eldest young lady to help her find a good doctor to treat her mother.

Pulmonary tuberculosis is pulmonary tuberculosis. Before the invention of streptomycin, this disease was almost synonymous with a terminal illness.

For Su Bai, treating the disease is not a problem, but she needs medicine, and making the medicine takes some time.

After listening to Zi Yan's description of her mother's condition, it should be the early symptoms.

"This disease is contagious, so don't go home recently. If the matter at the Kong Mansion can be resolved safely, I will help you find a solution." Su Bai said to Zi Yan.

The villagers were afraid that his parents would get sick, so they built a thatched cottage for them at the foot of the northern mountain of Siling Mountain, and the old couple moved into the cottage.

However, the villagers were kind enough and they even collected a lot of food for Zi Yan's parents.

Zi Yan has an older brother. In order to prevent their son from being infected, his parents do not allow him to visit them in the hut.

"They are just waiting to die!" Zi Yan started crying.

She also knew that her father, who had always been with her mother, must have been infected with the disease at this time.

"Why are the ghosts crying? I can cure this disease!" Su Bai said with a straight face.

"Really, really?" Zi Yan knelt down in front of Su Bai again with a plop.

"If you don't get up, I won't care!"

Zi Yan then stood up and said that when she first saw the young lady, she had a feeling that she would be the benefactor of her life.

"You're so sweet, who did you learn this from?"

"I am telling the truth. If I tell even a single lie, God will punish me..."

Su Bai stopped her from swearing: "If this disease is not an emergency, I can really cure it."

Then he changed the subject: "That also requires me to survive."