frightfiction Chapter 261 Attack
Chapter 261 Attack
At this moment, Xu Qingzhao was lying curled up in a ball because of the pain all over her body. She was trembling all over, with some sweat on her forehead. Her hands were clenched into fists, as if every inch of her body was enduring unspeakable torment.
Huanxi didn't understand what was wrong with this person. She touched her forehead and didn't seem to have a fever. This was a bit like when she drank on an empty stomach in her previous life and then had stomach cramps.
"Qingzhao... wait for me... I'll find a doctor for you..." After she said that, she was about to leave. Xu Qingzhao reached out his hand with difficulty and held her back.
"Don't... don't go..." It seemed like it took a lot of effort to say this.
Ordinary doctors cannot diagnose this poison, and even if they do, it will be of no use.
Huanxi looked at her, stamped her feet, turned and left the room.
She couldn't just watch Qing Zhao endure it like this. She had to know the cause of the illness so that she could prescribe the right medicine.
Now, she couldn't just go to an ordinary doctor. Doctor He from Wenchuntang probably wouldn't be enough. But there was another doctor who was close to her...
Fortunately, the two families were not far from each other, and it only took Huanxi ten minutes to get to the escort agency.
"Miss Huanxi, is there anything wrong so late?" It was Tang Xiaoliu who opened the door.
Joy is too late to explain:
"Is Doctor Shen here? Someone in my family is sick, and I'd like to borrow Doctor Shen to see him."
"Yes, yes, in his yard, but I haven't seen him for half a month..."
"Brother Xiaoliu, please take me there. The patient at home is waiting anxiously."
Tang Xiaoliu was still wondering whether he should go to Furong Pavilion to inform his senior sister, but seeing that Miss Huanxi was so anxious, he took her to Doctor Shen's pharmacy.
The courtyard gate was closed, and Huanxi didn't care about being polite or not, and went straight up to knock on the door.
"Doctor Shen! Doctor Shen! Are you there? Are you asleep?"
Her voice was a little loud, and soon a skinny old man with a white beard came out.
"Miss Zhao, what happened?" He had never seen this girl so anxious, and thought something big must have happened.
"Doctor, my family has an emergency. Please come with me..."
This girl was usually a nice person, so Doctor Shen turned around and went back to the yard to get a large medicine box and followed Huanxi's footsteps.
The two left, and Tang Xiaoliu continued to stand there in a daze.
This person came and left quickly... Should I tell my senior sister?
Forget it, let’s just talk about it… Then he ran towards Furong Pavilion.
"Doctor Shen, he's in that inn..." She was so anxious that she should have gone to the inn to bring Shufeng along earlier. However, the distance was not far and it might be too late to bring Shufeng along.
Doctor Shen is old after all, and he was out of breath from carrying the large medicine box.
Seeing this, Huanxi took the medicine box, carried Doctor Shen on his back and rushed to the inn.
Doctor Shen, with his old bones, was able to carry himself so gracefully on the back of a young girl. But what was even more surprising was that this girl had so much strength.
His medicine box weighs at least 10 pounds. Even though he's old, he still weighs over 100 pounds. This girl is skinny, which is not bad...
When they arrived at the inn, they went straight to the upper room. After opening the door, Xu Qingzhao on the bed had fainted from the pain. It was almost midnight, and perhaps because he heard a noise, he slowly opened his eyes.
"Huanhuan..." Her voice was as small as a mosquito.
"Qing Zhao! How did you become like this!"
Lying on the bed, her exposed skin was covered with purple streaks, as if it had been strangled by many iron wires. It was no exaggeration to say that her face was completely unrecognizable.
Doctor Shen, who was standing by, knew what disease the person had before he even took his pulse.
He raised a trembling hand and pointed at Xu Qingzhao, asking in disbelief, "Who... who are you? How... did you get infected with this Gu?"
Huanxi didn't understand, how could this be another Gu?
Yu Yan was poisoned by a Gu, Pang Zhizhou was also poisoned by a Gu, and now how come even Xu Qingzhao is involved with this thing?
"Doctor Shen, do you know what this is?"
But Doctor Shen ignored her, walked to the bedside and began to take the patient's pulse. As time passed, his face became darker and darker.
The "Thousand Silks Life-Binding Gu" of the Dianyi tribe is a forbidden Gu, and there is only one in the world.
It was stolen by Xu Xingwan and used on Prince Yong in the capital.
Therefore, no one else in this world will be harmed by this forbidden poison.
Where did the person in front of me get this Gu?
"Even I can't cure this... This Gu is called Thousand Threads of Life. It strikes every fifteenth of every month. A person infected feels as if thousands of silk threads are wrapped around their entire body, causing them to have difficulty breathing and excruciating pain. But today is the second day of the Lunar New Year, so why would it strike?"
"What...what kind of Gu?" Huanxi was frightened when she heard it. What is this thing?
Doctor Shen sighed deeply.
He had been hiding for so many years, but he didn't expect to encounter this problem again.
The person in front of him... the more he looked at her, the more she looked like the child who looked like his daughter.
He had just taken the child's pulse. Although the child was dressed in boys' clothes, she was actually a girl.
Could it be... really?
"Girl, do you know who I am?"
After a while, he slowly uttered these words.
Huanxi was confused. Does this sentence have any special connection with Xu Qingzhao's illness?
"Are you the official doctor of the Pang's Escort Agency?" She could only answer hesitantly...
Doctor Shen shook his head, turned around, took out a row of silver needles from the medicine box, and told her to lay Xu Qingzhao flat.
"Qing Zhao...be patient, it will be fine soon..."
He took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat off Xu Qingzhao's head. The person lying on the bed was now gasping for breath due to the discomfort.
Doctor Shen raised the silver needle, and soon the person on the bed was pricked like a hedgehog.
Huanxi on the side seemed to feel the pain. Although it didn't prick her body, it didn't stop her from grimacing.
As the last silver needle was inserted into her acupuncture point, Xu Qingzhao fell into a deep sleep as if the power button was pressed.
"Is Doctor Shen okay?"
"No... She will have to endure this pain until tomorrow morning. These needles are to put her into suspended animation so she won't feel the pain."
Suspended death, commonly known as shock.
However, she really didn't understand the acupuncture point method of feigning death in traditional Chinese medicine. But the acupuncture movements of Doctor Shen just now were obviously several times faster, more accurate and more ruthless than those of Doctor Lu. It was obvious that he was not an ordinary doctor.
Coupled with the inexplicable question he just asked, Huanxi became even more certain that the person in front of him was a hermit master.
The small hermit hides in the woods, the great hermit hides in the city.
If he is really a master, why is he hiding in an escort agency and working as a doctor?
Huanxi had countless questions, but the person lying on the bed was more important now, and she didn't have the mind to care where the skinny old man came from.
"Doctor... I'm completely confused by what you just said... What's going on with her? Where did this Thousand Threads Life Gu come from? Is it curable? Is there an antidote?"
Doctor Shen didn't get bored by the long string of questions. He took a sip of tea and told her the whole story...