Book 31 - Chapter 4 – Great Method of Exchanging the Person (1/2)
Chapter 4 – Great Method of Exchanging the Person
On the pretext of his unfinished business with Lei Jiuzhi earlier, Xu Ziling parted co outside the Ver to look for Hou Xibai to help Kou Zhong, the fake doctor, treating Zhang Jieyu’s ‘incurable disease’
He pretended to walk along the Vermillion Bird Boulevard in the direction of Lei Jiuzhi’s hotel first tohis track He was just about to turn into a side street when Lei Jiuzhi hurriedly rushed over fro, wait up!”
Xu Ziling waited for Lei Jiuzhi to catch up before turning left into the alley, and continued on toward Xuan Ping Li
Lei Jiuzhi spoke in low voice, “I was scouting around in the Iht that I canized his fake face Somehow this kid has become a doctor, and went into the Palace to treat Li Yuan’s imperial concubine’s illness, but he doesn’t even knorite a prescription Fortunately, when I was following Lu shi+, I gained soe; otherwise, I don’t kno to help hi spoke heavily, “I bumped into him head-on in the Palace as well, but I was on my way to see Li shi+min”
Shaken, Lei Jiuzhi asked, “He didn’t see through your disguise?”
S replied, “That is still unknown; he ent matter Ay! This barrier is evenan illness”
Im is really s ’s illness is cold and hot, and I happen to have special experience in treating cold and hot fever I guarantee that with just several applications of theshook his head and said, “Her illness is not cold and hot fever; rather, she was poisoned by Yang Xuyan’s slow-acting poison Fen Jing San He is acting on behalf of Dong Shuni to clear away a for for Li Yuan’s favor”
When Lei Jiuzhi’s shock was over, his face turned white; he spoke with trezhan Hua [lit cup-of-(oil)-lantern flower] I blindly prescribed cannot be taken by a poisoned victim; otherwise it will speed up the toxicity in the qi and blood, which could cause that beauty to breathe her last”
Xu Ziling was shocked And then he made up his mind, “Let’s find Hou Xibai first to talk about it”
Raising his qi, he fleard The passers-by only saw a blur flashed past
Kou Zhong deliberately sat with his back toward Ke Dazhi’s table Sitting in front of the table, he borrowed paper, brush and ink frozhan Hua, Sheng Di [lit grow on earth], Honghua [safflower (Carthamus Tinctorius)], Chaihu [Chinese Thorowax (Bupleurum chinense)], Zhi Ganchao [roasted licorice root], Danpi [the root bark of the peony tree], Xiangfu [red nut sedge (Cyperus rotundus)] and otherwith their quantities, just like real prescription [Translator’s note: all these names are from the dictionary, I have no idea what they really are]
Sure enough, seeing the prescription, Chang He did not notice any difference from ordinary doctor’s prescription; his confidence doubled, but he still did not feel reassured “How’s thesesay the nan?”
Naturally Kou Zhong had no intention to answer While he was pretending to be thinking, stable, powerful footsteps ca Han with sojun, how are you? Are you off-duty today?”
Chang He stood up He pulled a chair for the Tujue young , please sit down!”
Ke Dazhi dutifully sat down; his sharp gaze fell onto Kou Zhong’s face, he s, the divine doctor that has just arrived in Chang’an?”
Kou Zhong had already restraint the divine light in his eyes assu a socially-aard, did-not-kno-to-behave attitude, he said, “It’s precisely Xiaoren, and Sire is …”
Chang He said in astonish’s information is indeed fast and abundant”
Ke Dazhi cheerfully replied, “It’s just because Xiaodi had just hness the Crown Prince]” And then, turning to Kou Zhong, he said, “Xiaodi is Ke Dazhi of Eastern Tujue What I admire the most is men with e After Mo Xiansheng cures Zhang Niangniang’s illness, Ke Dazhi will request the pleasure of enjoying so, he left with a s hated hier hidden within the s Jieyu’s illness, he was still grateful that he interrupted Chang He’s interrogation, helping Kou Zhong out of predica He returned to his seat Kou Zhong leaned over and whispered in his ear, “I still want to add so to the prescription Perhaps it would be best if Chang Ye could send sos listed on this prescription, and then we’ll study it together”
Chang He mused that how could he have any qualifications to study prescriptions with hi back to Xiaodi’s residence?” he casually asked
Shaking his head, Kou Zhong replied, “No! Sitting here,forth; I definitely will not leave”
The truth was that in his note, Lei Jiuzhi told him to stay here, to wait for hi He had no idea of his real intention; he had no choice but to agree
After listening to the whole story, Hou Xibai’s handsome countenance turned white “It’s bad!” he cried out, “I only kno to refine Fen Jing San, but not how to neutralize it”
Xu Ziling’s heart sank straight down; he said, “Since that’s the case, I will have to i to slip away before he tries to treat a dead person”
“Wait a h in tere, in ter work Is it possible for Hou Xiong to explain theSan? Let me take a look at it to see if I could spend a bit of effort”
Muttering to hi San’s two redients are extreenuity liesvariety of herbal medicines plus distillation method, until it is refined to the colorless, odorless state, which will redients’ poison counteracts each other and subdues the other’s toxicity, to such an extent as to change the property of the poison”
Lei Jiuzhi’s countenance changed; he said, “Just by listening to it, I know that this poison is very difficult to neutralize What are the twoproposed, “Can we use internal true qi to force the poison fro his head down, Hou Xibai said, “That is precisely the origin of the na-channel (medicinal) powder]; the poison transfor the channels If we rashly trans Buddhist and Taoist, two schools’ orthodox internal true qi into the channel, ould only intensify the toxicity, and thus producing the opposite of the desired result”
And then, turning to Lei Jiuzhi, he said, “The two rass (anybody re Jue Niu [sheep-horn twist] I happened to see Yang Xuyan grew these two kinds of highly toxic plant in his house, plus I saw traces of the plants being plucked, so I knew that he was refining Fen Jing San”
Stunned, Lei Jiuzhi said, “These two kinds of plant are highly poisonous, but they are only suitable to be applied externally, not orally The victim would immediately feel dizzy, with sharp pain in the throat and abdoan failure and even death Is it possible for Hou Xiong to explain the entire refinehteen different medicines and briefly explained the refinement process
Lei Jiuzhi suddenly stood up and said, “I need to personally ask Kou Zhong about Zhang Niangniang’s condition; perhaps I could really prescribe the rightSan’s toxicity”
Finished speaking, he hurriedly left Being left behind, Hou Xibai and Xu Ziling ‘you look atwith anxiety
Sitting there doing nothing, Kou Zhong hihtest bit of impatience Thisand were leaving He ca down the stairs