novelden Chapter 358 He Wants to Poison You
Chapter 358 He Wants to Poison You
Qin Qiong looked at the kitten with a sincere and lovely face. The kitten looked at her for a while, finally nodded, jumped onto the table beside her and sat down. Obviously, it was waiting for Qin Qiong to come and write.
"No, can't you write it yourself? Or conjure it up or something?"
Qin Qiong said this in a somewhat dishonest manner.
The kitten looked at her quietly...
The Art of War by Sun Tzu consists of thirteen chapters. If written according to modern people's concepts, this book is too economical with words. If the author were to write like this in the 21st century, he would starve to death. This is not a book, but a poem in its entirety.
However, the way of expression of the ancients was different from that of modern people. Their words were concise but their meanings were profound. Therefore, Qin Qiong used to read mostly annotations. She was a lazy person and for many things she just ignored them after knowing the principles. Therefore, she had never actually read the original text of "The Art of War".
Now, Xiaoyan refused to move, so she had to start writing herself.
Qin Qiong does not need the whole chapter, only the last two chapters, namely "Fire Attack" and "Use of Spies".
But it took a long time to write even so, because Xiaoyan was memorizing the original text, which was all in classical Chinese, and Qin Qiong didn't know the identities of many words, so he wrote it slowly and for a long time.
Just as they finished writing, Doctor Wang came outside. He came to call Qin Qiong to eat. I guess he sympathized with Qin Qiong's feelings and asked Qin Qiong to eat with him, saying that the food would be better.
However, Qin Qiong was busy copying books, so he said through the door that he couldn't eat now and would talk about it later.
"That old man wants to see you about something," Xiaomao suddenly said after Doctor Wang left.
"Yeah, maybe he wanted to comfort me."
Qin Qiong was still looking for typos as he spoke, then picked up the cup to drink some water.
"No, he wants to poison you."
"puff--"
Qin Qiong spat out a mouthful of water.
"What? How do you know?"
Qin Qiong was a little confused. This didn't make sense. Her presence didn't bother Doctor Wang at all. And, yesterday, she narrowed her eyes...
It's impossible. If that fat woman goes back and speaks loudly, she will be dead in a moment. Even if we want to settle the score with her, we should have come here last night instead of poisoning her today.
"His hands smelled of poison, and he came to call you to eat with him. Does he want to die like you? But why does he want to die with you?"
Qin Qiong rushed out before Xiaomao could finish her words. She lived very close to Doctor Wang, and their rooms were diagonally opposite each other in the same yard. She broke open Doctor Wang's door in a few steps. Sure enough, Doctor Wang was so scared that the bowl in his hand fell onto the table.
"What..." Doctor Wang opened his eyes wide in fear.
"Don't eat! The food is poisonous!"
Qin Qiong went up and held his hand and whispered.
Doctor Wang was no fool either. He immediately took a few steps back and threw away the chopsticks in his hand.
Qin Qiong looked at the food on the table carefully. To be honest, she couldn't tell.
Doctor Wang at the side suddenly took out a silver needle, walked over carefully, and slowly tried it in the food on the table.
After a while, the needle finally turned black.
"It's amazing," the old man murmured.
"how?"
Qin Qiong knew it was poisonous, so he was not bothered by the needle changing color, but he was a little surprised by the tone of the old man's voice. This old doctor actually looked very emotional.
"The person who poisoned you was very skilled, look."
The old man whispered to Qin Qiong: "I've tried it. It's fine to eat any one of the dishes alone. But if you eat a bite of each dish and add this rice,
"This poison is well-prepared. Even if you eat less of one dish, it won't work. In other words, if one person eats all the dishes and the other eats less of one dish, then only the person who ate all the dishes will die, and the other person will not."
"It's amazing that someone could come up with such a brilliant combination."
Looking at him like that, Qin Qiong felt that it was a bit unnecessary for him to run over to save him just now.
"Do you know who wants to harm you?"
"Do you know who poisoned me?"
Both people asked each other at the same time.
Qin Qiong was stunned, and immediately felt something was wrong, so he asked again: "What do you mean? Do you think this poison was given to me?"
"Of course, I've been in this palace for several months, and this has never happened before. Also, I told the palace servant who delivered the food boxes yesterday to send more. You should come and eat with me. Look, there is a dish called blanched cauliflower in it that I never eat."
The old man rolled his eyes at her and said.
"Oh...Is that so? Well, I'm sorry for getting you into trouble!" Qin Qiong was a little embarrassed.
Suddenly, Qin Qiong's heart moved.
"That's fine. You can't poison me anyway. But you're in trouble. Think about it carefully. Who is this person who would use such a sophisticated method to poison you? This person is not someone that ordinary people can hire."
The old man narrowed his eyes and whispered to Qin Qiong.
"hey-hey"
Qin Qiong smiled, shrugged and said with a wry smile: "I don't know either. I only realized how important I am yesterday."
Doctor Wang looked at her, put away the silver needle, walked to the door, looked outside, closed the door, and walked back.
He whispered to Qin Qiong: "Now, the only one who can save you in this palace is the emperor. You should go and ask Eunuch Xi for help. He was the one who reminded me of your daughter's incident yesterday. I think..."
"and many more"
Qin Qiong interrupted him immediately: "You mean that Eunuch Xi came to tell you about me and my little daughter, right?"
"Well... I think so. Otherwise, as a general manager, he can't get around us no matter how far he walks in this palace."
"Really?" Qin Qiong thought to himself.
Doctor Wang saw her like this, thought for a moment, and then gently approached Qin Qiong and said, "In this palace, besides the emperor, the only person who matters is the empress dowager. You went to see the empress dowager the day before yesterday... Are you okay?"
Qin Qiong looked at the old man and slowly sat down. She was much better now. The original master's mentality had left her a lot. She was now the "loved" sect leader again.
Anyway, now when you mention that girl to her, it’s no longer so heart-wrenching, but a kind of anger caused by a deep sense of guilt.
Qin Qiong slowly thought about the connection between the events...
Eunuch Xi's reminder to her that day and his reminder to Doctor Wang this time showed that he didn't know that something had happened to Qin Qiong in the Empress Dowager's palace.
However, that Eunuch Shun was different. First of all, when she performed hypnosis on the emperor the second time and during the day, it was this Eunuch Shun who was there, so...
"What are you thinking?"
Doctor Wang also sat down next to her.
"Nothing, I just..."
Qin Qiong was just about to say something to fool him, when suddenly she saw some black, potato-like things on Doctor Wang's table.
"what is that?"
She pointed at the things inside and asked Doctor Wang.
Doctor Wang was startled, and immediately ran in to collect the things, saying, "It's nothing, just think about yourself first."
"...Ha!" Qin Qiong laughed when he saw him like that: "No need to collect it, I know what it is"
"You, what did you say? You know this medicine?"
Doctor Wang asked her a little incredulously.
"Black Root Gold, or black gold root, it seems to be also called Black Maca, right?" Qin Qiong said.
"You, how do you know each other?"