In the afternoon, after Xiao Yu fell asleep, Su Lingyue went to Baicao Garden.

"Uncle Lu, you have taught me a lot about how to make poisons and antidotes. Can you teach me how to poison someone in person without them showing up, like in the storybooks?"

Su Lingyue looked at Doctor Lu with anticipation, hoping to learn a few powerful poisoning techniques from him, so that when she stayed by Xiao Yu's side, she could protect herself and not be a burden to him.

Doctor Lu stroked his beard and poured a basin of cold water on her. "You also know that it is a sketchbook. In the sketchbook, one can poison someone in front of them without leaving any trace. Killing someone without leaving any trace requires martial arts skills. You definitely can't do it!"

"Is that so?"

Su Lingyue's bright little face was filled with disappointment, and she continued to fiddle with the pills on the table dejectedly.

Suddenly, she added, "But last time, I saw a woman easily knock out a group of people in public without anyone noticing."

Hearing Su Lingyue's words, Doctor Lu also became interested, "Tell me in detail."

Su Lingyue recounted the incident of Ling Ling knocking out the Japanese envoy's men that day, and also told Doctor Lu about Ling Ling taking her pulse yesterday.

"Uncle Lu, her medical skills are so good, I want to ask her to come and check the prince's pulse in two days."

Worried that Doctor Lu might misunderstand, Su Lingyue explained, "It's not that I don't trust your medical skills, but everyone has different knowledge and opinions. I wonder if she knows something that we don't. Even if there is a glimmer of hope, I don't want to give up."

Doctor Lu stopped collecting the herbs, sat down at the table, stroked his beard and said approvingly, "Why would I mind, old man? Your idea is right. There is no limit to medical skills. Everyone has different knowledge and insights, and different methods of using medicine. It is right to learn from the strengths of all schools."

His face darkened, and he continued, "The prince's situation is different. His body is already weak. If the bad guys take advantage of the opportunity to do something, it will be worse. So before you confirm that he is a good person, you must not let outsiders know the prince's true situation. Do you understand?"

Su Lingyue looked at Doctor Lu and nodded seriously, "I have thought of this, so I haven't told her about the prince's condition yet. I just invited her to come to the mansion in two days to play. Then I will take the opportunity to observe him carefully. At that time, Uncle Lu will also come to help take a look?"

Doctor Lu nodded and said, "I am very pleased that you can think so carefully. Bring her here when she comes. I also want to have a discussion with her."

After hearing what Doctor Lu said, Su Lingyue felt much more relieved and began to concentrate on studying how to poison.

Su Lingyue was rubbing the pills, and suddenly an idea came to her mind. "Uncle Lu, I have an idea. How about poisoning my silver needles and hairpins?"

Doctor Lu thought for a moment and said, "Forget about the hairpin, but what if you accidentally hurt yourself and the two Cai girls? You can try the silver needles, but you have to keep them separate from other silver needles and don't make a mistake."

"This is easy to handle!"

Su Lingyue's clear eyes sparkled with excitement. "Just ask Caidie to make me two needle bags of different colors."

"If the hairpin can't contain poison, then put the antidote in it! It can save lives in case someone is accidentally injured."

"There are rings and necklaces filled with poison in the sketchbook. I'll find someone to beat them up someday!"

Su Lingyue couldn't help but admire her own intelligence. She fantasized about becoming a little poisoner. If a bad guy dared to come over, she could easily knock him down with a raise of her hand. It would be very impressive at that time!

While she was immersed in her own imagination, Doctor Lu beside her spoke.

"People only have one life. The job of a doctor is to save the dying and the wounded. You hold the weapon of life and death in your hands, unless you are sure that the person is really a heinous criminal. If not, once you take someone's life, there will be no regrets! At that time, you will be tortured by guilt for the rest of your life!"

Doctor Lu's words were like enlightenment, awakening Su Lingyue who had forgotten everything else.

I indeed forgot this just now.

Looking at Su Lingyue's tense face, Doctor Lu said earnestly: "I know that you are a kind-hearted girl and would not kill people for no reason, but sometimes what we see with our eyes is not necessarily true. What if you want to regret killing the wrong person?"

The person is dead, so regret is of course useless.

"You can bring one or two kinds of poison to protect yourself. Don't be polite when you meet a big villain. At other times, you can use drugs that are not so poisonous, such as drugs for sleeping pills, muscle softening powder, etc."

Hearing Dr. Lu's heartfelt words, Su Lingyue's eyes couldn't help but become moist.

Thinking about it carefully, Su Lingyue did feel that her previous thoughts were terrible.

My thoughts at that time had already ignored the lives of others.

"I'm sorry, Uncle Lu, I was wrong." Su Lingyue sincerely apologized for her previous thoughts.

Doctor Lu nodded and said lovingly, "You are a good and kind child, but you have too little experience. I am just telling you my experience so that you won't go down the same wrong path."

"Has Uncle Lu ever killed someone accidentally?" Su Lingyue asked curiously.

Doctor Lu shook his head and sighed, "It's not me, it's my apprentice."

Doctor Lu told a story that had happened before.

That was more than ten years ago, when Doctor Lu was just a traveling doctor. He traveled among mountains, rivers and lakes with his apprentice Liu Hua to save people.

Liu Hua is an orphan whose parents were killed by bandits when he was a child. His parents desperately stopped the bandits to give Liu Hua a chance to survive. At that time, Doctor Lu happened to pass by and poisoned the bandits to death.

However, Doctor Lu was still a step too late. Liu Hua's parents were too seriously injured and eventually died.

Doctor Lu thought that Liu Hua was also alone, so he accepted him as his apprentice, taught him medical skills, and took him to practice medicine and save lives everywhere.

Perhaps because the tragic death of his parents at the hands of robbers when he was a child had such a profound impact on him, as Liu Hua grew older, the hatred in his heart grew more and more intense.

He began to devote himself to developing various poisons, each more toxic than the last and with more cruel methods of killing.

Doctor Lu also advised her, but Liu Hua could not let go of the hatred in his heart.

Fortunately, after years of careful teaching by Doctor Lu, Liu Hua does not kill innocent people indiscriminately. However, when he encounters robbers, he will use all the poisons he has developed on the robbers.

It seemed that the more miserable the robbers were, the happier he was.

Doctor Lu tried to persuade her, but Liu Hua was already blinded by hatred.

One day, something finally happened.

That day, Doctor Lu and Liu Hua passed by a village together. A robbery had just happened in the village. Upon hearing the news, Liu Hua, together with the officers and soldiers, began to look for the robbers.

Until they found a farmyard, the black-clad robbers hurriedly escaped from inside.

Liu Hua didn't say anything and shot the robber with a poison needle.

The poison used was the Heart-Eating Powder. The poisoned person would experience severe heart pain for half a minute, and finally die from vomiting blood.

Originally, it was the robber's due punishment that was used on him, but who knew that the robber was not a real robber.

The robber hid in a farmer's house, captured the farmer's child and used him as a threat, forcing the farmer to change clothes with him in order to divert the officers and soldiers away.

Unexpectedly, he met Liu Hua as soon as he went out, and then was poisoned by Liu Hua's Heart-Eating Powder.

The farmer's child saw his father struggling in pain, so he bit the robber and took the opportunity to run away.

As soon as he came out, he knelt in front of his father's struggling body in pain, begged Liu Hua to save his father, and told him the whole story.

Liu Hua was shocked.

Only then did he realize that his extreme thinking had killed the wrong person.

"What happened next? What happened to Liu Hua and that child?" Su Lingyue asked with a frown.

"I don't know." Doctor Lu sighed, "Later, Liu Hua gave the farmer some detoxification pills, but the Heart-Eating Powder was too toxic and was completely useless."

"He kept mumbling about some useful medicine somewhere, and then he found a carriage. When I arrived, he had already taken the farmers and children away, and there has been no news since."

Doctor Lu had a deep sense of guilt on his face. "If I had not used poison to kill the robber, but knocked him unconscious and handed him over to the government for trial, I wonder if Liu Hua would not have used poison to kill people so easily."

"After all, I raised him. I searched for him for many years but never found him. Then I went to the North and became a military doctor, hoping to save the dying and the wounded, accumulate merits for Liu Hua, and forgive his sins."

Listening to the story of Doctor Lu's apprentice, Su Lingyue's emotions were surging and she couldn't calm down for a long time.

It is hard to say whether I would have done the same thing as Liu Hua in the future if it had not been for Doctor Lu's remarks.

Whether it was unintentional or not, Liu Hua eventually killed an innocent person and made the child an orphan like him.

Looking at the grief-stricken Doctor Lu, Su Lingyue comforted him softly, "Uncle Lu, Liu Hua must be alive and well somewhere, atonement for what he did. He may be living a good life with the child just like you, and teaching the child the principles you taught him."

After hearing Su Lingyue's words, a relieved smile appeared on Doctor Lu's face, which was full of traces of time.

"Girl Yue, you are right. Liu Hua is a good boy. He must be living well somewhere."

Su Lingyue looked at Doctor Lu with gratitude from the bottom of her heart and said in a deep voice: "Uncle Lu, thank you for your words. I will definitely keep your teachings in mind."

Doctor Lu patted her shoulder with relief and said, "Good girl, I believe you can do well."

In the end, Su Lingyue gave up the idea of ​​carrying a lot of poison and chose sleeping pills and muscle softening powder.

There are also silver needles tempered with poisonous snake venom.

But she had promised Dr. Lu that she would never use it unless it was absolutely necessary.

These are enough for her to protect herself, but she still needs to consider the method of drugging.

Su Lingyue still hoped that she could do it and administer the drug without it being visible.

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