strange village

Chongmu was paddling back and forth on the ground with the small wooden stick, Dongyue stepped forward, without knocking on the door in a hurry, approached him and asked, "What are you doing alone?"

"Drawing."

"Oh? Let me see what is painted?"

He walked closer, looked down, and was amused, isn't the ground just a childlike graffiti?

Two small figures of about the same height are holding hands, and there is a dog-like beast next to it. The little figure standing in front is waving a sharp sword at the beast. Is he driving the beast away and protecting the people behind him?

This painting is about himself and Axi, right?

"Let me guess, this is you, right?" Dongyue said, pointing at the little man guarded behind her.

"Who is this one in front?? After he finished speaking, he looked at Chongmu expectantly.

"Is it your father?" Dongyue asked intentionally. The two little people were about the same size and dressed in exactly the same way, so it was impossible to tell who they were.

Chongmu shook his head, pointed to the little man holding the sword and said, "This is me," and pointed to the person behind him, "This is Axi."

"Oh?" Dongyue didn't expect it.

After thinking for a while, he said, "But look, Axi is a little taller than you, and he is dressed differently, and you don't have a sword either."

"I have the sword, Axi promised to make it for me." It probably refers to a child's toy.

Dongyue looked at Chongmu with longing in her eyes, and she understood in her heart that the little boy who was protected since childhood has also grown up, and there is someone he wants to protect.The corner of Dongyue's mouth twitched, but Zhu Yao frowned slightly, thoughtfully.

Dongyue stretched out her hand to him, and Chongmu handed him the stick knowingly.

Dongyue took the stick and brushed the ground a few times, and added two strokes to the painting. The little man holding the sword in the front had a scarf around his neck, which was quite similar to Chongmu's current dress. That, with a few shaggy locks added,

After he finished painting, he returned the little stick to others, and he smiled, as if he was very satisfied.

Chongmu lowered his head and looked helplessly at the graffiti of elementary school students who had no skills or aesthetic sense at all, touched his nose, and said against his will: "Well, it's quite similar."

After all, he painted most of them himself.

Speaking of this, Dongyue suddenly thought of something, narrowed her eyes, and walked over to Zhu Yao.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Yao asked seeing his face change.

Dongyue squeezed his palm and whispered, "I'll tell you later."

After that, the door of the room opened in response to the sound, which was the sign of Chongshi.

"It's you, are you here to get the medicine?"

Dongyue said a little later: "Ah, that's right."

"Come and pull up your sleeves and let me have a look." Chong Shizhao hung his glasses back on the bridge of his nose, and looked down at Dongyue's arm.

The bloodstains had solidified into scabs, which were slightly raised, and the redness at the edges had faded, and some were dry and whitish.

"Okay, no big problem, does it still hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt."

Chong Shizhao nodded, "The wound heals quickly if it's not deep, and I'll bring you some external medicine, you don't need to rub it."

He asked Dongyue to unbutton her shirt again. Dongyue glanced at the people around her, feeling a little ashamed, but she still unbuttoned it.

"Keep your hips stable, don't move, turn your upper body left and right to see if it hurts."

Dongyue did as she was told, "It doesn't hurt much."

"Does it hurt to turn over while sleeping?"

"It doesn't hurt."

"It didn't hurt the bones, so it's not a big problem. Let's take care of the congestion slowly. Think about it quickly. It's best not to eat it."

After finishing speaking, he sat back at the desk, wrote the diagnosis and medication records, and went inside to get the medicine after finishing writing.

The room is not big, but it is quite deep, and it is full of medicine cabinets. Taking advantage of Chong Shizhao's time to enter the room, Zhu Yao flashed to the back of the desk, and quickly flipped through the record book on the desk, page by page, at the same speed. Very quickly, Dongyue turned to the next page before she could read the content clearly.

Before Chong Shizhao came back, he put it back as it was, and stood behind Dongyue.

Chong Shizhao handed him a bag of medicine, and said: "You should be careful when you are young. If the sternum is cracked, it is not a joke."

Dongyue nodded repeatedly.

"Doctor Chong, did you find anything when you went out with Mo Tan yesterday?" Zhu Yao finally found a chance to speak.

Chong Shizhao was taken aback for a moment, and said, "We didn't make this trip to clear up the young master's suspicion. If we found anything else, it seems that there is nothing else. We only know that someone from the Chu family went to buy Mi Tuo Seng."

"Don't you know what that person looks like?"

"The guy was hesitating and couldn't speak. He said that he was a guest greeted by the boss. He was busy doing other things and didn't look up."

"What is that man wearing?"

"It's all black, don't mention it, he can't tell you the details, it's really useless, but when this man put his hand on the counter when he paid, he happened to see the family crest on the cuff, let me show you, that's it .” Chong Shizhao raised his cuffs to show them.

Dongyue took a look, and there was a diamond-like pattern embroidered on the edge of the dark cuff.

"However, there are too many people wearing clothes with family patterns, not to mention the master and all the wives, the young master and the young lady and the people around him, including me, the guys in the Chu family who have been in the Chu family for more than five years also have such clothes. So I can't say anything."

"Does it matter what the man bought?"

"Actually, it doesn't matter. The general external use is to pull out poison and eliminate rot. It's just that he and wolf's poison can't be used at the same time. The fact that the toxicity is aggravated is suspicious. If they are used differently, as long as they are not taken internally for a long time, there will be no serious problems."

"What about long-term use?"

"It will be poisoned."

"Will it kill you?"

"It can range from headache, insomnia, abdominal cramps, to severe anemia, jaundice, paralysis, mental abnormalities, and of course, severe poisoning will eventually lead to death."

"Then how long will it take to find out if you take it internally little by little?"

"It's hard to say. The initial symptoms of poisoning are not too obvious, and they are not too different from many common illnesses. You may think it's just physical fatigue or catch a cold, and ignore it."

"Then have you found out that anyone in your family has similar symptoms?"

Chong Shizhao was taken aback for a moment, and then said: "You have to think about it carefully." After that, he sat back at the table and flipped through the records.

After a while, Chong Shizhao said, "There's nothing unusual about it lately."

"Then what if it's not abnormal?" Dongyue quickly understood Zhu Yao's meaning, and continued: "If a person is not in good health, often suffers from insomnia, headache, anemia, weakness, and occasional abdominal pain, if he is poisoned, he can find ?"

"You mean... the second wife"

Zhu Yao said: "It's your job to care about the health of everyone in the Chu family. We shouldn't ask too many questions, but it's always good to be careful."

Chong Shizhao immediately understood and nodded.

After the two left, Chong Shizhao immediately packed up his things and went out.

Back at the residence, Zhu Yao saw Dongyue staring at the ground outside the window in a daze, and asked, "What did you think of just now?"

"I was thinking that the person who can make Ah Xi admit his mistake must have similarities with Ah Qing. If you want to say who looks the most similar, who else?"

"You suspect Chu Xuan."

"It can't be said to be suspicious, but after so many days, it seems that she is the only one who hasn't shown up at all, and she has no idea what she is doing."

"Chu Yunfan and Chu Qing should be clear about it."

"It's better not to talk nonsense, let's wait and see what happens," Dongyue continued, "But judging from what Chu Qing said before, he doesn't know his sister as well as he imagined."

"Even if they are brothers and sisters, they are grown up now, men and women are different, it is impossible to be intimate."

"Then...," Dongyue clapped her hands violently, and said, "I know who to ask!"