In the carriage.

Zi Yan put her fingers on Li Qingyuan's wrist, and soon her brows furrowed.

"Your pulse is unstable. Have you been feeling unwell in the past few days?" Zi Yan asked.

"Sometimes I feel dizzy and fall asleep easily, but there's nothing else." Li Qingyuan was shocked.

"Something's still wrong, wait a minute."

Zi Yan took out a small package from behind, and took out a silver needle and several jade boxes.

This whole set was learned from Yu'er.

Before Yu'er returned, except for those methods that required the saint's special physique and skills to practice, she had no secrets about Gu magic.

Zi Yan's understanding is extremely strong. Among the few people, she is the most outstanding in cultivation. In terms of talent in Gu technique, even Xing Yuan cannot match her. She is the only one who can learn from beginning to end.

The main reason is that voodoo is too complicated and requires too much learning. If you don't have an excellent memory and a lot of patience, you will probably become dizzy and find it difficult to continue.

Zi Yan stirred the silver needle into the powder in a jade box, then lifted it up and hung it on Li Qingyuan's wrist.

"Don't move your hands." Zi Yan said.

"Don't worry, Mr. Jiang, I won't move."

"Okay, bear with it!"

Zi Yan flicked her wrist, and the silver needle quickly pierced into Li Qingyuan's wrist, and then quickly pulled out the silver needle.

The head of the silver needle soon appeared a faint patina-like color.

"You've been poisoned." Zi Yan said.

"Gu? I've been poisoned!" Li Qingyuan was a little confused when he heard the word Gu at first, but he soon remembered what exactly a Gu was.

There were rumors about the Miao border in the south and the evil methods of the Black Lotus Sect. When these rumors reached the north, ordinary people became dismayed upon hearing them.

How could he have thought that one day he would be poisoned?

"A few days ago, when you took over as the head of the family, you were not poisoned yet. The time when you were poisoned should be very recently. Think about it for yourself, have any strangers or unfamiliar people come into close contact with you?" Zi Yan collected.

He picked up the silver needle and asked.

"When it comes to strangers... let me think about it." Li Qingyuan began to think about the people he had contacted in the past few days.

"In these days of integrating family affairs, the people I come into contact with are either the six elders or the core members of the family who are loyal to the head of the family. Logically speaking, there shouldn't be any problems."

Li Qingyuan murmured to himself.

During this period of time, he worked intensively. After becoming the head of the family, he had too many things to do, and he came into contact with a lot of people, but basically he didn't have close contact with them.

Only a few people have real close contact with him.

Suddenly, he thought of someone.

Wu Ji...could it be her?

He still has several concubines. After all, he is the second son of the Li family. No matter how lonely he is, he will definitely have several concubines.

These days, he was too busy to pay attention to his concubines. There was only one he favored, and that was Wu Ji.

But he didn't know whether it was her or not.

"Let's investigate this matter after we get back."

"Fortunately, the poison you have is not particularly troublesome. It is just a common chronic insect poison. After today's matter is finished, I will remove it for you." Zi Yan said.

"Thank you, Mr. Jiang."

Li Qingyuan opened his mouth to express his thanks, but felt extremely uneasy in his heart.

As soon as the words "insect poison" came out, no matter whether it was serious or not, it was enough to send chills all over his body.

He had heard a story. There was once a young boy who was poisoned. For many days, his family did not know about it. The boy became very greedy and would eat the food of several people in one meal.

The boy's family was poor, and his mother felt that he was wasting food too much. During lunch, when she saw the boy eating his third bowl of rice, she became completely angry. She reached out her hand and slapped the boy on the head.

Who would have thought that the boy's head was slapped off his neck.

There was no blood on the broken neck, only countless strange insects squirming.

Later, everyone found out that the boy had been poisoned a long time ago, and his head and neck were eaten away by the poisonous worms.

This story was widely circulated in Sixiang City. When Li Qingyuan heard it, he was very frightened. Now that he thought that he had also been poisoned for several days, he couldn't help but wonder if there were many poisons in his head and neck.

Are the worms eating?

Will his own brain be eaten out?

When he thought of this, Li Qingyuan's heart couldn't help but accelerate.

"Don't worry, your poison is not serious, so you still can't trust me?" Zi Yan said calmly.

"Why can't I trust Mr. Jiang? In fact, here in Sixiang City, there are stories of poisonous poisons spreading everywhere, and I can't help but panic." Li Qingyuan sighed. In front of Zi Yan, he didn't have to worry about his face or say anything.

Enough.

"That's it. I'll go investigate when I get back."

Zi Yan thinks there is a problem. How come there are stories about poison poisoning people circulating in Sixiang City? I am afraid it was released by someone with intentions. What is the purpose?

Originally, if it was just about Li Qingyuan, Zi Yan wouldn't have to worry too much about it, but Zi Yan still has one more important thing to do when she stays in Sixiang City, and that is to find her younger brother.

So, there was something special about a city as big as Sixiang City that she couldn't ignore casually.

The carriage was moving very fast along the way. Zi Yan half-squinted his eyes and said nothing, while Li Qingyuan was restless. He couldn't rest assured when he thought that there were bugs in his body.

But he didn't dare to show it, lest Zi Yan feel that he didn't trust her.

When the sound of horse hooves could be heard in the distance, he put aside his thoughts and said, "Young Master Jiang, are you here already?"

"Yes, we'll get off here."

Ziyan opened her eyes.

After leaving the carriage, a large number of soldiers appeared on the road ahead.

The soldiers of the Li family and the Ji family turned around together this time, but not all of them, probably only one third.

In the front are Ji Lianqi and Li Qingyan. They have received rewards from the court and have returned home in glory.

Seeing Zi Yan, Li Qingyuan and a group of others, they both got off their horses and dismounted.

"Meet Mr. Jiang."

"Meet the master."

Ji Lianqi only saluted to Zi Yan, while Li Qingyan saluted to Zi Yan first and then to Li Qingyuan.

"No more gossip, you two know the plan, right?" Zi Yan said.

"Young Master Jiang, we are all ready." Ji Lianqi and Li Qingyan said.

"Okay then, let's go to Yuanchunfang in the south of the city." Zi Yan said.

"Why go to Yuanchunfang in the south of the city?" Li Qingyuan was confused.

"Don't ask yet, you'll know when you get there," Zi Yan said.
Chapter completed!