[Three Kingdoms] Burning incense and sacrificial wine

Cui Song didn't know what Yuanniang was thinking, and when he saw a familiar face, he immediately got off his horse and chatted with each other.

I haven't seen her for more than ten years, except that Yuanniang's appearance is more mature and stable, and there is no obvious change from before.

She warmly entertained Cui Song and others, and invited them to settle in the village, where they were served delicious lamb chops and cheese.

During the banquet, when she heard that Ma Yulang and Ma Jun were now working as deputy in the affairs of the ordnance manager, Yuan Niang was quite emotional:

"I misunderstood Mr. Ma in the past, but fortunately, Cui Lang discerned the whole story and did not make a big mistake."

Those who took the lead in demanding that Ma Yulang be dealt with were more or less ashamed.

They once used verbal and physical violence to hurt a half-old child without evidence because of anger.Later, although the truth came to light, many people were annoyed by their words and deeds, but the damage had already been done. Ma Yulang, who was regarded as a demon, did not want to stay in their tribe anymore. leave.

In the years when wars and disasters coexist, a half-grown child takes another baby away from the protection of the ethnic group, which is almost equal to a narrow escape.

These tribesmen may have various human shortcomings, but most of them are kind-hearted people, and they have always been worried about them.Now, after hearing from Cui Song that Ma Yulang and Ma Jun are safe and have a place to work, they finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt lucky for it.

Different from the previous generation who had experienced the events of the past and had crux of heart, the young lady and husband fully demonstrated their openness and hospitality.

More than half of the trilogy and guards around Cui Song were dragged away by them to dance, and even the frail physician was dragged away, leaving only an old and kind physician to stay with Guo Jia, always paying attention to his physical condition.

The "handsome" unparalleled Diao Chan was naturally included in the list of doctors who were dragged away.

Diao Chan was taken away, leaving only Hua Tuo, who pretended to be a demented person, left alone.Seeing the crowd singing and dancing, Hua Tuo drank a few sips of sheep cheese, put the lamb chops in his pocket, and tiptoed away from the crowd, and ran to the back mountain——

He had been here before, and knew that there were many rare herbs on the mountain behind, so he had to go and look for them to see if there was anything that could help Guo Jia's headache.

After Hua Tuo left without a sound, Yuan Niang asked someone to fetch the treasured spirits, and wanted to offer a toast to Cui Song and the others.

Cui Song stopped the tribal gentleman who was pouring wine for Guo Jia, and said to Yuan Niang:

"Fengxiao is not suitable for drinking, please ask Xu Song to do it for you."

Yuan Niang hurriedly asked what was going on.

Cui Song knew that Yuanniang was a human being, so he roughly talked about Guo Jia's illness, saying that this illness needs to be avoided.Then, he took advantage of the opportunity to ask if there were any wild vegetables nearby, and he was going to dig some to make Guo Jia more vegetarian.

Guo Jia, who has been eating boiled cabbage and boiled sliced ​​meat for several months without seeing any oil or wine: ...

He euphemistically expressed his protest: "Once in a while, it doesn't matter."

The pottery cup held by Cui Song made a "creaking" sound.

Guo Jia immediately changed his words: "However, 'for the sake of the mountain, it will fall short[1]'. A gentleman should be self-disciplined, and Jia must never touch such a thing that hurts the body."

The abnormal sound of the pottery cup disappeared immediately, Guo Jia's complexion did not change, his eyes drifted over the wine jar, and he sighed regretfully in his heart.

Yuan Niang almost laughed.Fortunately, she knew the seriousness of it, and she was deeply worried about Guo Jia's illness, so she put aside the joke and said to Cui Song:

"Amaranth has been growing rapidly in the past few days. Every day in the village, we will go up the mountain to pick amaranth and use it as a condiment for wheat porridge. Everyone doesn't like this amaranth. There should be a lot of it in the kitchen, so I asked someone to cook it and bring it here. .”

So he asked his assistant to go to the kitchen to tell the cooking girl to add amaranth, waiting for it to be used urgently.

The deputy went to the kitchen to deliver the message.

The cooking lady responded repeatedly, walked to the bamboo basket containing amaranth, and took out a large handful.She was about to scoop up water to wash, when she suddenly "huh".

"Why does the root of this amaranth grow barbs?"

I went to look through the bamboo basket again and found that all the dishes were like this.

At first glance, these vegetables are no different from the amaranth we eat on weekdays, except that there are a few more barbs at the root.But Pao Niang has been picking leeks for more than ten years, and she has never seen a leek with barbs. She was a little surprised, so she found the young lady who went up the mountain to pick vegetables today, and asked her:

"Where did you pick this dish?"

The little lady said: "It's at the foot of the side road in the back mountain."

The cook couldn't help scolding her: "Stupid! Didn't I tell you earlier that amaranth likes heat and not cold, and only grows on the top of the mountain and the south of the mountain. These are not amaranths you picked, you picked so much for nothing."

The girl refused to accept it and said: "This dish looks exactly like amaranth, why not?"

"Exactly the same? There are barbs at the root of this vegetable, how can it be called 'same'?"

"People have beauty and ugliness, and so do amaranths. These are just a bit uglier... Presumably because of the lack of light, they are different from the amaranths next to them."

The cook said angrily: "You still dare to talk stubbornly? Today the leader is entertaining distinguished guests, so you can't be neglected. Hurry up and grab the basket, and run to the top of the mountain to pick some. If you want to delay the leader's order, you will see me!"

The little girl was scolded, and carried the basket to the back mountain angrily.She looked up at the winding slope, rolled her eyes, and said to herself, "Whether you go to the top of the mountain to pick it or to the south of the mountain, you have to go over mountains and ridges... Those vegetables are clearly the same as amaranth, why bother?" Seek far away?"

So I came to a remote corner at the foot of the mountain, and picked amaranth with thorns again.

"Just take it back like this, you will definitely be scolded... yes!"

The young lady wiped off all the barbs on the "maranth", and then smoothed the roots. After making sure that these vegetables were no different from ordinary amaranth, she put them into the basket.

She waited at the foot of the mountain for a while, seized the time, and returned to Liaozhai with the basket, panting, and handed the "maranth" to Pao Niang.

……

Not long after, a plate of low-key, light amaranth leaves was brought to the table.

Under Cui Song's "friendly" gaze, Guo Jia stretched out his chopsticks to pick up two slices of amaranth, chewed a few mouthfuls, and swallowed it immediately.

After he swallowed it, he showed a little doubt, took another chopsticks of amaranth, put it in his mouth and tasted it carefully.

"There seems to be something wrong with the taste."

"It's probably overcooked. Even if the taste is not good, Feng Xiao has to finish it all."

Even though he said so, Cui Song also picked up a chopstick of amaranth and put it in his mouth to taste regardless of Guo Jia's obstruction.

"It seems to be the same as usual?"

It should be said that boiled wild vegetables all have the same taste?

Guo Jia failed to stop Cui Song from picking up vegetables, seeing that he insisted on tasting, he quickly grabbed his hand:

"Don't swallow it, there is something wrong with this dish."

However, Cui Song had already swallowed it, and blinked at him suspiciously and innocently.

Guo Jia took the chopsticks and touched the plate twice, but found nothing unusual.

Yuan Niang said: "I'll try it."

She also picked up a chopstick and put it in her mouth: "This is indeed the taste of amaranth, and there is nothing wrong with it."

Two other people nearby also tasted this dish, and they all said that it was the same as the usual boiled amaranth, with the same texture and taste.

But even so, it still can't shake Guo Jia's doubts.

Yuan Niang asked: "Is it because the taste of this dish is so bad that Guo Lang can't swallow it?"

"That's not the case..." Guo Jia was about to speak again when Cui Song grabbed his sleeve.

Cui Song said to Yuan Niang:

"Feng Xiao's appetite has been poor recently, and it's difficult to swallow. I heard that Yuan Niang just mentioned 'hot spring', is it nearby?"

Hot springs are hot springs, which have certain benefits for health.

Yuan Niang heard the words, immediately gave the specific location, and said: "So that's the case. The hot spring has the effect of invigorating the spleen and appetizing. Why don't Guo Lang go soak in the hot spring first, warm up the spleen and stomach, and then eat. "

Cui Song originally wanted to take Guo Jia to soak in the spring after finishing his meal.Although Cai Cai's words were not lies, more than half of them were to change the subject.

But since Yuanniang mentioned the effect of invigorating the stomach and eliminating food, he thought it would be a good choice to take a dip in the hot spring before meals, so that his close friends could eat more food—so he said sorry to Yuanniang, declined to lead the way, and Guo Jia went together.

It is said to be a "hot spring", but it is actually not that hot. It is slightly lower than ordinary hot springs, and it is still within a comfortable temperature range.

Cui Song and the two took off all their clothes and lay down beside the spring, chatting while soaking in the spring.

"What's wrong with that amaranth dish just now?"

Based on Cui Song's understanding of Guo Jia, although he is informal, he is not a casual disrespectful person.If it wasn't for the fact that there was something wrong with that dish, he wouldn't be able to question it in front of the host... After all, the host made that dish because of their needs. Behavior is no ordinary faux pas.

Since Guo Jia said that there was something wrong with that dish, there really was something wrong.

Guo Jia walked up behind Cui Song, took a piece of armband and rubbed Cui Song's back: "It just doesn't taste like amaranth, but rather..."

"Like what?"

"A herb."

Cui Song was about to ask what kind of herb it was, when the force of rubbing his back suddenly disappeared from behind him.

"Did you rub it? It's my turn to rub Feng Xiao..."

He turned around, but there was no one behind him.

Cui Song was startled for a moment, then his face changed suddenly, and he sank to the bottom of the pool suddenly.

At this moment, Yuan Niang, who was having a feast in the camp, and the two girls beside her frowned and held their foreheads, and fell down from dizziness.

There was an uproar among the singing and dancing crowd, and Diao Chan and other doctors immediately ran to Yuan Niang and the others to feel their pulse.

Yuanniang's daughter, Nianniang, cried in panic, "Ren Lang, what happened to my aunt?"

Diaochan frowned and said nothing, opened the whites of Yuanniang's three people's eyes, and said solemnly: "Poisoned."

Everyone in the tribe gasped when they heard this.

"How is it possible? How could the leaders be poisoned?"

Diao Chan inspected the food on the table, and when she saw a plate of "amaranth", her eyes paused for a moment, she took a bite out of her chopsticks, and spit it on the handkerchief:

"This is not amaranth, this is the soul-severing grass, which is highly poisonous—where did you get it from?!"

The people of the tribe looked at each other in blank dismay, suspicious and terrified.

Diao Chan looked around, her complexion changed drastically:

"Where are Marquis Cui and Marquis Guo?"

At this time, Hua Tuo, who heard the commotion, didn't bother to hide his identity, hurriedly left the hillside and pushed aside the crowd:

"What happened?"

Diao Chan said urgently:

"These three people have been hit by the Soul Severing Grass! Marquis Guo and Marquis Cui are missing—"

The tribal girl standing next to him realized it at this moment, and immediately said: "Guo Lang and Cui Lang went to the hot spring, and it's not that they disappeared..."

Hua Tuo's face changed drastically after hearing Diao Chan's first sentence, and he stared at the plate of "amaranth" on the table.

Soul Severing Grass, this is the highly poisonous grass that he mistakenly swallowed back then, which almost killed him.

Only one plant of this grass can kill a person, but these people actually treat it as a wild vegetable and put it on the food plate?

He asked angrily:

"Did Cui Song and Guo Jia eat this plate of soul-severing grass?"

The girl sitting near the main seat had a face as white as paper, and stammered, "I ate... I took a bite or two."

Hua Tuo rushed to the hot spring immediately.The attendants changed their faces as if they had just woken up from a dream, and followed Hua Tuo to the hot spring.

Diao Chan, who was still there, gritted her teeth, suppressed the worries in her heart, took out three detoxification pills from her sleeve, and asked everyone to help Yuanniang and the other three take them.Then he calmly took out a few plants of herbs from the capsule, and began to pound the potion for detoxifying the soul-breaking toxin.

When Hua Tuo and others arrived at Hot Spring, they did not see Cui Song.

I went down to the spring to look for it, but I couldn't see half a person.

……

But Cui Song found out that Guo Jia was missing, and immediately sank into the water.

He grabbed Guo Jia, who was inexplicably fainted, and was about to take him ashore, when suddenly his mind went blank, his consciousness went blank, and he couldn't even use his hands and feet.

Just a second before he passed out, he tightly grasped Guo Jia's hand with his last strength, interlocking his fingers...

……

"Heartbeat is normal, breathing is normal."

"His mouth is opening. He is not in a deep coma. Immediate gastric lavage."

It seemed that someone was whispering strange words in his ear.

Cui Song's consciousness cleared up for a moment, and fell into a noisy mist again.

After an unknown amount of time, he opened his eyes and found that his eyes were a familiar white, and the air was filled with the smell of disinfectant.

He sat up abruptly, not having time to relieve the dizziness caused by the haste, and looked around.

When he saw a familiar figure on the hospital bed on the right, Cui Song couldn't help but rubbed his eyes, looked at the familiar figure again, and looked around at the layout of the modern ward, his face was dull.

After a long time, he called out in an unbelievable low voice:

"Bong Xiao...?"

As if hearing his call, the person lying on the next bed slowly opened his eyes...

The author has something to say: there are extra stories!There is also a special episode!There is also a special episode! (Say important things three times)

This chapter is just the main perspective ending.The ending of the world line, other branch lines, and various modern life are all placed in the episode.

Finally... not easy, a little excited.

In the past two years, my family banned me from using computers due to my frequent health problems, and all kinds of troubles in the third dimension, which caused the update of this article to be extremely erratic... Although it is force majeure, it is indeed my fault.I sincerely apologize to everyone.Fortunately, with everyone's support, I finally survived the worst two years and climbed back to the end of the daily update.

Thank you all!Once again, I’m sorry to everyone who is squatting in the pit, one mouthful per person, thank you very much! (Well, there is also a side story...crying)

ps: I agreed to finish it on the same day as my dear [email protected] Yimeng Yunke, but because of my scumbag hand speed, it was more than ten minutes late (crying), so disappointing (beating the floor)

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"[Three Kingdoms] Quietly Waiting for Good News" Author: Ji Yucheng Fan

"[Comprehensive] A person with supernatural powers who don't want to inherit the clam company is not a good king" Author: Ji Yucheng Fan

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[1] The 8 characters come from "Shangshu".