Chapter 163 The One Who Cracked the Chess Game
When Jiuge heard about such good tea, her eyes flickered at Jiuyu and she said tenderly, "Brother, I want to drink it too."
"You haven't recovered yet. This tea is cold in nature. You can't drink it. When you recover, I'll make it for you." Jiuyu saw her pout, her eyebrows were gentle, and she pinched her cheeks: "Be obedient."
Jiuge lowered her eyelashes, held the boiled water and drank a bowl.
"This is snow mist tea. The top of the peak is always surrounded by clouds and mist, and a few wild tea trees grow there. When a layer of snow accumulates in winter, you can pick them. The snow water on the tea leaves is collected in a clean jar and used to make this unique snow mist tea." Jiuyu put away the tea bowl in front of Su Wan.
Su Wan raised her eyebrows: "What a taste."
"There are only one or two taels of tea a year. I don't have much here. I'll leave the tea for this winter for you." Jiuyu washed the bowl and sat opposite Su Wan: "Madam Gu, can you give me back the bracelet? I'll give you something new."
He took out a sachet from his sleeve and placed it in front of Su Wan.
"This is a herbal bag that can wake up the mind and relieve fatigue. If you wear it for a few days, you won't feel tired and weak anymore."
Su Wan stared at a sachet with a white crane embroidered on gray cloth on the table. The faint herbal fragrance was very pleasant.
Something flashed quickly in her eyes, and she took out the bracelet from her sleeve pocket and placed it in front of Jiuyu.
He said: "This bracelet is something your mother gave to you brothers and sisters. I can't take away what others like."
Su Wan picked up the sachet, untied the bag, and took a closer look at the herbal bag inside. It was indeed as effective as Jiuyu said, without any other harmful substances, so she hung it around her waist.
Jiuge saw that her brother and Su Wanjie had a good relationship, and she was very happy. She couldn't help thinking that it would be better if Su Wanjie didn't get married. It would be more perfect to be her sister-in-law.
"Brother, are you going to return to secular life?"
Jiuge hoped that her brother could have his own happiness, instead of living a hard life in the Taoist temple.
"We'll talk about it when the time comes." Jiuyu didn't give a definite answer.
Jiuge stopped asking, knowing that her brother had his reasons.
"How do you arrange Jiuge?" Su Wan asked.
"She stays in the Taoist temple." Jiuyu stood up and bowed to Su Wan: "During this time, Ge'er has troubled you to take care of her."
"I like Jiuge very much, you don't have to be polite." Su Wan stood up and said: "I will retire after my success, and I won't disturb you two brothers and sisters to talk about private things."
The brother and sister sent Su Wan out of the Taoist temple.
Su Wan went down the mountain and got on the carriage. She opened her hand, and there were two pieces of tea leaves in her palm, which were the bowl of tea she drank. She looked at it for a long time, but didn't notice anything wrong.
Taking off the sachet from her waist, Su Wan poured out the herbs inside and fell into deep thought.
Jiu Yu would not give her the sachet for no reason, and specially brewed snow fog tea for her to drink. This kind of snow fog tea is not a simple tea, but a medicine that is beneficial to the body.
Otherwise, why did he not refill her cup after she expressed her attitude when there was a pot of tea, but took the bowl away instead.
Jiu Ge's body was obviously well-maintained, and it was just a cup of tea, which would not have any effect, but he refused.
Su Wan guessed that the crux of the problem was the bracelet. She discovered the secret of Jiu Yu poisoning the emperor, so Jiu Yu gave her a bracelet, and then quietly gave her a medicine to induce the poison to get rid of her.
She found Jiu Ge and sent it back to him, so Jiu Yu gave her a bowl of snow fog tea, which solved the problem left by the bracelet?
Otherwise, how could he take back something that was given away?
Su Wan sighed. Jiu Yu was a master of poison, and he knew that she was a doctor, so he gave her things without leaving any traces, making it hard to guard against.
If she hadn't wanted to win him over, Su Wan wouldn't have accepted his bracelet.
She thought of something, her lips curled up, and she put the remaining tea into the sachet.
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Jiu Yu stood at the door of the Taoist temple and watched Su Wan leave. He told the Taoist boy to spread a word in the temple, and then took Jiu Ge back to the dormitory. He raised his hand to close the door, and his eyes fixed on his blackened nails.
He remembered that the only brief contact with Su Wan was the tea bowl.
Jiu Yu was not annoyed, but a faint smile appeared in his eyes.
She was warning him.
He sighed slightly. Su Wan's reaction was too sensitive. She would guess any of his actions. Even if she didn't give her a cup of snow mist tea today, Su Wan didn't notice the problem with the bracelet for the time being. When she saw the medicine, she would notice it, right?
Jiu Yu thought that this cup of snow mist tea didn't save Su Wan, but saved himself.
He wanted to poison Su Wan, and he had to use something that was mutually reinforcing and mutually restraining.
Su Wan poisoned him, and even though he was alert, he was still easily fooled.
"Brother, what happened to your hand?" Jiuge screamed.
After a while, Jiuyu's hand turned black and it hurt like a needle.
"It's okay, brother will cure it."
Jiuyu endured it and didn't show any abnormality. After settling Jiuge, he went into the pharmacy and began to diagnose the poison Su Wan had given him.
Two hours later, the pain in Jiuyu's hand became more and more severe, and cold sweat dripped down his forehead. He put the refined pill in his mouth and swallowed it.
"Bang——"
Jiuyu fell to the ground, his stomach and intestines were in pain, and his face was pale.
"Brother! Brother! What's wrong with you?" Jiuge pushed the door open and saw Jiuyu sweating profusely. He was so anxious that he wanted to cry: "Are you not feeling well? Sister Su Wan is very powerful. I will ask her to treat you."
Jiuyu smiled bitterly. Medicine and poison are inseparable. Su Wan has superb medical skills and is also first-class in using poison.
Based on the symptoms, he thought it was Xuanyun poison and used the antidote according to the formula for Xuanyun poison, but it aggravated the poison.
Jiu Yu felt a sweet taste in his throat, so he swallowed it, fearing that Jiu Ge would be frightened.
"I'm fine." Jiu Yu supported Jiu Ge to stand up and pushed Jiu Ge's hand away, "I'll go down the mountain."
"Brother..."
"Don't follow me, I'll be fine." Jiu Yu told the Taoist boy to watch Jiu Ge, and he walked slowly to the door, ready to go down the mountain to find Su Wan and sincerely apologize to her.
As soon as he walked out of the Taoist temple, he saw Qi Liu standing at the door.
"The eldest lady gave it to you." Qi Liu threw the medicine bottle in his hand to him.
Jiu Yu held the medicine bottle and pursed his thin lips. After a while, he whispered: "You apologize to Madam Gu for me, and I will definitely come to apologize in person another day."
Qi Liu glanced at Jiu Yu's blackened hand, "The eldest lady said that you should be more obedient, which is her reward." After saying this, he quickly went down the mountain to meet Su Wan.
"The eldest lady, I gave him the medicine." Qi Liu reported.
Su Wan said, "Hmm," with a hoarse voice from waking up from sleep, "Let's go back home."
Qi Liu sat on the shaft of the carriage and drove the carriage.
Su Wan threw the sachet wrapped around her fingertips out of the carriage window, and it fell to the ground.
After a while, a group of people walked out from the green shade of the mountains.
Xie Wuya stopped and picked up the sachet on the ground. Seeing the white crane embroidered on it, he thought of the words from Zhimiao Temple. The person who cracked the chess game was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, wearing a gray sachet embroidered with a white crane on her waist.
He ordered his followers behind him: "Go and check who just left the mountain."