novelraw Chapter 680: 664: This Poison has No Cure
Chapter 680: 664: This Poison has No Cure
Chapter 680: Chapter 664: This Poison has No Cure
The thick, fishy blood dripped into the porcelain bowl, Qin Liuxi frowned, took the golden sore medicine Teng Zhao handed over, casually sprinkled some on Quan Jing’s wound, and then took the bowl.
Quan Jing still hadn’t fully regained his composure. Watching her slice her finger to draw blood and sprinkle medicine to stop the bleeding, his pupils shrank slightly.
No sooner had the golden sore medicine been sprinkled on it than the blood slowly stopped.
Quan Jing looked towards the porcelain bottle in Teng Zhao’s hand, his eyes gleaming. Such a fine medicine, if used in the military, would save so many soldiers’ lives.
Teng Zhao noticed his gaze and said with a blank face: “Don’t even think about it, it’s very expensive, beyond the military salary.”
Quan Jing’s face flushed: “…”
Wang Yuqian also saw the condition of Quan Jing’s finger and looked at Teng Zhao’s medicine with some envy, asking: “How expensive is it?”
“The kind that’s only sold at Changsheng Hall, you tell me how expensive that is,” said Teng Zhao as she casually placed it back on the desk, not speaking further, only looking towards the bowl in Qin Liuxi’s hand. With such thick blood and so foul a smell, what kind of poison could it be?
Wang Yuqian thought to himself, seeing how casually you put it down, you don’t seem to consider it expensive, but indeed, medicine from Changsheng Hall wouldn’t be used in the army.
The pharmacy from that place is notoriously expensive. How could it be used massively in the military?
Quan Jing also knew, so he held himself back and watched as Qin Liuxi rubbed a drop of blood on her fingertip, then brought it to her lips, he immediately called out to stop her: “Junior Temple Master, you must not.”
Qin Liuxi looked up: “Why not?”
“The blood is filthy,” Quan Jing said.
Qin Liuxi laughed: “You think I’m planning to taste the poison blood?”
Uh, isn’t that it?
“Not to that extent yet,” Qin Liuxi said sternly, instructing the person who came in from outside: “Go catch a rat, the Store Manager is always out of sight, do you plan to slack off without doing any work?”
Wei Xie was humming a tune, just getting back to the shop, when he got a directive from Qin Liuxi, he let out an “Ah, you’re here.”
Qin Liuxi glared at him.
Wei Xie felt somewhat guilty; he had acquired a flesh and blood ‘paper body’ and it was his first time coming to Li City, so naturally, he was eager to go out and about.
He had left early in the morning and only just returned, caught by the Boss for slacking off, how could he not feel guilty?
“Aren’t you going?”
Wei Xie turned around immediately, it was just a mere rat; he would catch it right away.
But as soon as he stepped out, he paused, hold on, as a Store Manager with a scholar’s background, and with workers in the shop, why should he be the one to catch such dirty creatures?
Wei Xie really wanted to go back and argue, but remembering that he got caught slacking off, he felt he didn’t have a leg to stand on. If he went back to argue, wouldn’t she instantly turn him into a paper man on the spot with a mantra?
Never mind, he refused to stoop to the level of a petty woman!
Wang Yuqian came back to his senses and said: “This shop still has a Shopkeeper? And he’s wearing a flower hairpin, what a hobby!”
Wei Xie quickly returned, pinching a rat’s tail between two fingers, gently shaking it, making the rat dizzily spin around, squeaking miserably—a bleak life for a rat.
“What’s the use of this thing?” Wei Xie walked up to Qin Liuxi, looking at Quan Jing with disdain, “What disease does this bag of bones have? Oh, poisoned, aren’t you?”
Quan Jing blinked his eyes, hoarsely asked, “May I know how to address the shopkeeper?”
Wei Xie’s folding fan snapped open in his hand, waving it, he pointed at the inscribed words on the fan: “My surname is Wei; just address me respectfully as Wei Jun.”
“Manager Wei.” Quan Jing greeted him with a smile and clasped hands.
Wei Xie: “Stop smiling, with no two ounces of flesh on your face, the smile looks both stiff and ugly.”
Quan Jing’s smile froze at the corners of his mouth.
His servant Quan An stood behind him, somewhat indignant. This store, from top to bottom, had tongues more poisonous than the poison afflicting their young master.
Qin Liuxi didn’t stop her movements while they were talking, directly infusing a drop of poison blood into the mouth of a rat, then threw it to the side and rinsed her hands with water.
The rat just tried to scurry away, hadn’t fled far, its body stiffened, and the limbs twitched; it fell to the ground and barely moved.
Indeed humans are cruel, a rat’s life, merely a pill!
Qin Liuxi looked at it, then addressed Quan Jing: “The poison you are afflicted with has turned you into a Poisoned Person, if used well, you would be a great lethal weapon.”
Quan Jing looked at the motionless rat, revealing a bitter smile, could he do without such a compliment.
“How did you get poisoned? Do you know the source?” Qin Liuxi’s fingers touched his wrist to feel for his pulse; upon feeling it, her brow furrowed, the pulse was jumping too slowly, if one didn’t examine it closely, it was nearly undetectable.
She changed her pulse diagnosis method, one hand performing a mantra, utilizing the Taisu Pulse Method, with her eyes slightly closed, she said: “Father dead, mother driven into madness, five blood relatives, brothers and sisters, three men two women, the eldest brother died in battle at twenty-one, second brother at eighteen… ”
Qin Liuxi slightly paused here, opened her eyes, seeing Quan Jing’s shocked expression, continued: “At the age of ten, you barely escaped death, entered the battlefield at fifteen, and at sixteen, nearly lost your life again, at twenty…did you sustain this injury fighting the Turkic?”
Quan Jing swallowed, subconsciously touching the wound above his left chest: “Did you inquire about all this?”
Qin Liuxi chuckled lightly: “Being a stranger, why would I inquire about you? Taisu Pulse Method can determine a person’s status, fortune, and misfortune, I just used this Face Reading to deduce your fate. However, it appears that while noble, your life is fraught with disasters, even your family…”
She was silent for a moment, this was the fate many generals would face, engaged in battlefields, half their lives already lost, the remaining half, up to heaven’s will.
The Quan family might dominate the northwest, but it’s built upon the bones of many from the Quan family.
Quan Jing didn’t expect her knowledge came from Face Reading, said: “You’re right, I was poisoned at that time, the arrow was smeared with potent poison, even using Detoxification Pills on the spot couldn’t overcome the poison’s dominance, for over a year, have seen numerous famous doctors, even the Poison Lady known in the Martial World couldn’t cure it, only suppress it temporarily, Wan Bai is the disciple of Poison Lady, my Quan family paid a heavy price to keep me alive… cough cough.”
“The life is temporarily saved, but it’s merely dragging out a miserable existence. The poison has spread throughout your body, turning all your blood into poison blood, not to mention it’s corroding your internal organs. I suppose when it’s unbearable, your organs are all tearing and burning, the pain in your bones as if being gnawed by ten thousand ants, right?”
“Do you know what this poison is?”
Qin Liuxi shook her head: “I don’t know. But I can smell something in the blood, named Red Flame Ant, and there is also tree sap from Blood Sealing Throat. Red Flame Ants are found in the desert, the Turkic to the west have a Black Desert where these highly toxic ants reside. Coupled with the deadly poison of Blood Sealing Throat, that you’re still alive means the Detoxification Pill you took must have been really good, otherwise, you’d be lining up for reincarnation long ago.”
“It was the Hundred Poison Pill that can solve a hundred poisons, but it’s useless against this one,” said Quan Jing in a faint voice. “The Hundred Poison Pill only prevented me from dying on the spot, but this poison named Bone Erosion has been slowly corroding my body, just as you described it, dragging out a miserable existence.”
Wang Yuqian shivered, saying, “Cousin, do you think this poison on He Qi can be cured?”
Everyone’s gaze sharply turned to Qin Liuxi.
Qin Liuxi toyed with the porcelain bowl, her voice cold and thin: “This poison is incurable.”