[Lu Xiaofeng] Man Lou Lemon Fragrance

Shuzhong, Medicine King Valley

When she was in Yaowang Valley, Luo Qingning always got up very early, because she had to go to the kitchen to help the snail girl cook.

The snail girl's surname is Tang, and her name is Tang Qin.She passed out outside Yaowang Valley three years ago. Luo Qingning rescued her. Since then, she has been responsible for the meals of Master and herself, but she never sees Master. She always appears quietly when it is time to eat In the kitchen, within an hour, a table of delicious food appeared on the dining table.Luo Qingning felt that Tang Qin must have liked Master, that's why she stayed in Yaowang Valley for three years. She found Tang Qin hiding in the turret several times and peeping at Master.

Maybe Miss Tang's character is too boring, so Qingning decided to help her. Although Luo Qingning mentioned her to Qiao Mingyu many times, Qiao Mingyu always had that flat expression, as if what Luo Qingning told him was A sparrow that landed on the ground, or a rabbit that accidentally went to the wrong door occasionally.

When Luo Qingning entered the kitchen today, Tang Qin had already prepared breakfast, a pot of hot jujube porridge, a few dishes of side dishes, and a few steamed buns.

Luo Qingning greeted Tang Qin politely: "Ms Tang, good morning."

Tang Qin replied, "Morning."

"Miss Tang is still so cold, and Master seems to have become even colder towards me. I haven't seen him for two years and I haven't seen him thinking about me. Could it be that Master is angry?"Angry that I haven't been back to see him in two years?Master shouldn't be such a stingy person, or is he in menopause? Luo Qingning looked at Tang Qin's back, slightly dazed.

After breakfast, Qiao Mingyu began to check Hua Manlou's eyes, while Luo Qingning squatted down with a small notebook, listening and taking notes, so serious.

Qiao Mingyu pressed Hua Manlou's eyes and said, "How do you feel?"

Hua Manlou shook his head: "I didn't feel anything except the sense of oppression."

Qiao Mingyu: "I will give you acupuncture at the three acupoints Cuanzhu, Waiming, and Jingming. If you have any abnormalities, please let me know."

Huamanlou: "Okay."

Qiao Mingyu: "Qing Ning, go to my room and get my set of silver needles."

Luo Qingning put away the notebook in her hand and hurriedly said, "Yes, Master."

Qiao Mingyu's room was just like his own, very neat and clean.Luo Qingning went to the shelf of medical books familiarly, and took down a set of silver needles wrapped in cloth from above. Just as she was about to turn around, an envelope fell from the top of the shelf. The envelope was very neat and there was no writing on it.

Luo Qingning picked up the envelope, twisted it with her fingertips, there seemed to be some flakes inside, 'Is it some precious medicinal material? ', Luo Qingning curiously opened the envelope, and there were only two withered and yellow leaves inside. 'Leaves?What did Master do with the leaves in the envelope?Withered and yellow leaves?Why do you feel familiar? Where have you seen it? '

When Luo Qingning was wondering, Qiao Mingyu's voice sounded: "Qingning, what are you doing? Can't you find it?"

Luo Qingning hurriedly put the envelope back to its original place, and said, "If you find it, come here."

Qiao Mingyu took the silver needles, pulled out a few skillfully, inserted a few needles steadily, and said, "How is it?"

Hua Manlou frowned, and said, "It seems to be a little sore, and the back of the head is a little numb."

Qiao Mingyu nodded, picked up a pen and wrote a prescription on the rice paper beside him, and said: "I think your brain seems to be a little stagnant, I will prescribe a prescription for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and you will take it after a dose of medicine." , I'll take another look."

Hua ManLou cupped his hands: "Thank you, Senior."

Luo Qingning hopped and ran over to take the prescription from Qiao Mingyu's hand. Qiao Mingyu stretched out his hand, and the medicine was firmly held in his hand.

Luo Qingning showed a flattering face: "Master, just let me take a look, I want to learn."

Qiao Mingyu looked stern, and said, "No need, these are some basic prescriptions for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, nothing special."

After finishing speaking, Qiao Mingyu put the prescription on her body, walked into the medicine stove, and handed it to Tang Qin.

Luo Qingning looked at Qiao Mingyu's walking figure, and said, "Master and Miss Tang are so close now, what happened during the two years I was away?"

Luo Qingning's tone was pitiful like a puppy abandoned by its owner, and Hua Manlou chuckled.

Outside the Valley of the Medicine King, in the forest

Luo Qingning took Huamanlou to walk in the mountains. Since Huamanlou came, every time he went out to collect herbs, he would always accompany her, which made Luo Qingning's heart always sweet.

Huamanlou: "The air here is pure and the climate is pleasant, it's the most suitable for recuperating. It's a pity that Lu Xiaofeng didn't come, otherwise he would definitely like it here."

Luo Qingning was digging a herb at this time, she stopped swinging her hoe, and said: "It's a good thing that Lu Xiaofeng didn't come, my master buried several jars of good wine in front of the bamboo building, if he came, wouldn't it be all for you?" Steal it."

Hua Manlou smiled and said, "Indeed."

"what---"

While the two were talking, a scream came from the side.

Luo Qingning got up quickly: "What's the sound?"

Hua Manlou listened carefully, and said, "Someone may have been attacked in the forest, over here."

When Luo Qingning and Hua Manlou arrived, a man dressed as a woodcutter had fallen to the ground and died. There were two small holes in his neck, and blood was oozing out.

Luo Qingning pressed around the small hole and said, "It looks like I was bitten by a snake, right on the neck."

Hua Manlou frowned slightly as he listened to something.

Luo Qingning: "What's wrong?"

Hua Manlou: "Before we came, there were other people here."

Luo Qingning wondered, "Could it be the woodcutter's companion?"

Hua Manlou shook his head: "This person is very good at qinggong, and he disappeared the moment we arrived."

Luo Qingning looked at the woodcutter's body, and said, "Let's send his body to the village below the mountain, where it will be eaten by wild animals."

Hua Manlou nodded, took a step forward, picked up the corpse on the ground, and followed Luo Qingning down the mountain.

Shuzhong, a small village

After Luo Qingning and Hua Manlou handed over the corpse to the village chief, the village chief immediately called the wizard in the village. The wizard wore a feather mask and a small dead bright red snake was wrapped around his neck. The snake corpse seemed to have been specially treated. At first glance, it looks lifelike.

The wizard placed the woodcutter's body on the erected altar. On the altar stood a thick wooden stake. On the wooden stake was carved a bright red snake.

The wizard chanted some incomprehensible spells next to the woodcutter, and sprinkled some chicken blood and rice grains on his body. Around the altar, some women and children from the village gathered, and they knelt down on the ground with pious faces.

After the sacrifice was over, the wizard took the woodcutter's body into a deep cave, and Luo Qingning followed suit out of curiosity.

The cave had obvious signs of being smashed, and there were torches hanging on the wall, showing the whole picture of the cave to Luo Qingning.

The wizard put the woodcutter's body on a flat bluestone slab. Looking along the wall, from the bottom to the top, there are protruding bluestone slabs layer by layer. A dead body, the body is not decomposed, and the face is lifelike.

Luo Qingning said in surprise: "These are..."

"Who?" The wizard turned around and looked at Luo Qingning.

Luo Qingning was taken aback for a moment, and she seemed to see confusion in the wizard's eyes the moment he turned around.

Luo Qingning bowed politely to the wizard, and said, "I didn't mean to offend, I was just curious, master, please forgive me."

The wizard said coldly: "I'm not a master!"

Luo Qingning took Huamanlou and walked a few steps forward, and stood three steps in front of the wizard: "My name is Luo Qingning, I came out of the Yaowang Valley, and this is Huamanlou."

The wizard nodded and said, "The Valley of the Medicine King? I haven't heard of it."

Luo Qingning looked at the obvious contempt in the wizard's eyes, and the corners of his eyes twitched.

Wizard: "But since it's related to medicine, come and see what kind of poison they have been poisoned."

'Poisoned?Isn't it snake venom? Luo Qingning took a few steps forward curiously, and stood still in front of the bluestone board. The corpse on the bluestone board did not suffer any serious trauma. The fatal thing was the two small red spots on the neck. The corpse was obviously dead. For a while, his limbs became stiff, and the skin around the little red spot was black and blue. Obviously, the snake that bit him was very poisonous.

Luo Qingning looked at several corpses along the bluestone slab, and said in surprise, "They were all bitten to death by snakes?!"

The wizard nodded and said, "Not only them, but all the people in this cave died from being bitten by a snake."

Hua Manlou suddenly said, "Are all the wounds on the neck?"

The wizard shook his head and said: "The wounds of the first few people were in other places. They did not die immediately, but fled back to the village. I was a witch doctor in the village, but I have never seen such poison. There is no solution, we can only watch them die."

There was deep self-blame in the wizard's tone, his eyes were slightly red, and he slammed his hands on the stone wall fiercely.

Wizard: "According to those who escaped back, what bit them was a small fiery red snake, the body of which was no bigger than the thickness of a thumb. In order to develop an antidote, I went up the mountain alone to search for it, and finally... I found one. , but it's dead."

The wizard's hand touched the little snake wrapped around his neck.

He continued: "Later, I found that these snakes seemed to have become smarter. They only picked people's necks to bite, and those who were bitten were killed immediately. I found many corpses of people who were bitten to death by them in the mountains."

"The strangest thing is that the corpses of these people were placed in the mountains like this. They were neither eaten by wild wolves, dogs, nor gnawed by insects and ants. Some of them even died for several years and their faces remained unchanged. "

"People in the village say that this is the sin of the snake god. These people suffered this disaster because they offended the snake god. The village chief specially built an altar and this cave to extinguish the snake god's anger."

Hua Manlou listened to the wizard's description, and said, "It's not that snakes have become smarter, it's people. It's obvious that these snakes are specially trained to kill people."

Hua Manlou turned to Luo Qingning's direction and said, "Qingning, do you still remember that when we met the woodcutter's corpse today, I said there was someone there?"

Luo Qingning was slightly startled, and said: "The appearance of that man is not a coincidence at all, he is checking the position of the snake bite wound, so as to make sure whether his training has achieved results!"

Hua Manlou nodded.

Luo Qingning pressed the stiff corpses with her fingers, and said, "If Hua Manlou said it, these snakes must have been raised in a special environment since they were young, and they were fed with special medicinal materials to grow up. big."

The wizard thought for a while, and said urgently: "If we find the person who raises the snake, we will be able to find a way to cure the snake's venom!"

Luo Qingning nodded and looked at the wizard: "Where did you find it?"

The wizard looked excited, and rushed out of the cave: "Follow me!"

The wizard took Luo Qingning and the others to a river where the water was clear and some dragonflies would land on the water from time to time.

Pointing to a bush by the river, the wizard said, "That's where I found it. After that, I come here every day to see if I can meet one or two."

Luo Qingning looked in the direction of the river and said, "If you go further in, you will arrive at the Valley of the Medicine King."

Under the leadership of the wizard, Luo Qingning and Hua Manlou were in charge of both sides of the river.

Luo Qingning walked along the river, and saw a layer of dried red snake slough on a rock by the river bank.She went on and found a snake slough at the bottom of a clear water. 'Did these snakes swim out along the current to kill? '

Just as Luo Qingning was wondering, a red shadow suddenly flashed in front of his eyes, a small snake as thick as a thumb was swimming quickly along the water, like an arrow leaving the string.

Luo Qingning shouted: "It's in the water!"

Hua Manlou and the wizard rushed to the water's edge when they heard the sound, and the wizard didn't even want to reach into the water, trying to grab it.

However, due to the resistance of the water flow and the slippery nature of the snake itself, the wizard finally watched him slip through the cracks of his fingers and disappear into the cracks in the rocks beside him.

The wizard raised his head slightly, looked at the direction the snake was swimming in, pointed at it, and asked, "What is that place?"

Luo Qingning's expression darkened, and she said, "Yaowang Valley."

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