The group of people went there cautiously, but after arriving, things went very smoothly.
In just two days, Shangguan Yuan left Jifeng Mountain with a group of Liu family army cadres.
There were only fifteen people who returned to Beijing together, and Liu Jiajun, who had more than 1,900 people who joined Huwei camp, could not go with them because he was returning to his hometown to visit relatives.
Before leaving, Lu Fang came to see them off and gave Qianru and Shangguan Yuan a surprise.
An Tai appeared in front of them wearing a bamboo hat and a smile on his face, and gave them a pair of handmade bamboo flutes as a wedding gift.
Qianru had mixed feelings, both happy and worried. She was afraid that An Tai would not be able to bear the news about Liu, An Qianwen and An Qianya.
But after all, paper can't cover up the fire. He will know everything once he returns to the capital.
Instead of watching him being suddenly teased and ridiculed, it would be better to apologize first and prepare him mentally.
Fortunately, An Tai's reaction was quite calm when he found out.
In the evening, everyone camped on the roadside to rest.
Suddenly, a rare mirage appeared on the horizon.
The picture contains snow-capped mountains, grasslands, and forests, which are spectacular. There is something covered in white fur on the edge of the forest that is bent over and does not know what it is doing.
Although they could only see a vague back, everyone excitedly concluded that it must be the legendary white ape.
After a while, another white-furred thing ran over carrying the prey.
He behaves like a human being, but his whole body is completely white, and his long hair completely hides his face.
Everyone thought that this must be a savage who was isolated from the world.
Only Liu Ang didn't think so. He said he was not a savage, but had been poisoned.
Suddenly, the situation changed and the mirage disappeared.
Everyone was still not satisfied, so they went over to ask Liu Ang for advice.
"Old General, have you been to the place in the mirage?"
"Of course." Liu Ang recalled bit by bit while stroking his snow-like silver whiskers.
At that time, he was about eighteen or nineteen years old. During an expedition to Beidi, he went deep alone, lost his way, and encountered several orcs.
Just like in a mirage, it is all white and covered with long white hairs.
The nails are like wild beasts, sharp and long.
Orcs are not beasts, but because they came into contact with a lot of poisonous stones, their bodies have changed. They look a bit like beasts, but they still live like humans.
"Grandpa, are you making this up? It's such an interesting story, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"Even dad, I haven't heard you say that either."
"This is absolutely true. The reason why I didn't say it was because there was something hidden."
The story was only halfway through, but Liu Ang stopped talking. Everyone could not bear to do it, and they all said he was bragging.
"I never brag, I just feel a little embarrassed when I mention it."
At that time, the general Tulu who led the army thought it was a rare beast and ordered people to hunt it down, skin it and eat its flesh. The method was very cruel.
As a result, the soldiers who ate the flesh of the orcs began to grow white hair within a few days, and the hair all over their bodies gradually turned white.
During the half-month period when they were lost, more than 300 soldiers transformed into beasts, including General Tulu.
The whole army was in panic, and ended up killing each other and losing without a fight.
Only Liu Ang and dozens of soldiers were left.
After escaping from trouble, they reported the incident and were ridiculed by the entire army. General Qiu Xia punished them with eighty sticks and hung them in the sun outside the military camp.
It was not until a wandering sorcerer named Nanshan Weng passed by, heard about the incident, and begged Qiu Xia for mercy that they were pardoned.
Qiu Xia thought that the rare goods might be a good place to live, so he allocated five hundred troops to Liu Ang and asked him to go with Nanshan Weng to search for the orcs.
They found a tribe near the snow-capped mountains and found the orcs there.
Although they didn't understand the language, the orcs made signs with their hands and told them that a meteorite fell from the sky and hit the snow-capped mountains, triggering an avalanche and causing many transparent red stones to appear.
After the women and children in the village were exposed to it, their bodies gradually began to behave strangely. After drinking water soaked in red stones, their bodies would also turn into beasts.
They hid all the red stones they found in the cave and prohibited anyone from touching them, so no one turned into beasts again.
Nanshan Weng is a warlock who studies immortality and has been collecting meteorites from the sky.
On the pretext of treating orcs, he took a few red stones from the cave, mixed them with medicinal materials and poisons, and tempered them. After more than a month, he turned the red stones into something as dark as jade.
The orc put the black jade in his mouth every night and fell asleep. After half a month, the white hair on his body began to fall off, and he gradually returned to his normal human form.
The people in the tribe regarded Nanshan Weng as a god and kowtowed and worshiped him.
At the same time, Nanshan Weng also discovered that the skin of the cured people, young and old, was as tender and smooth as a baby's, and even their original chronic diseases were cured.
Nanshan Weng thought he had found the secret to immortality.
So he tested the stone himself, and found that the tempered stone could not completely remove the toxin, and would relapse after a while.
Liu Ang led his troops back, but unexpectedly Qiu Xia's entire army had been wiped out.
One more thing is worse than one less thing, so he did not report the matter or mention it to anyone.
"Is it any wonder we haven't heard this story?"
Pang Yu suppressed a weird smile on his face, which made everyone laugh.
Liu Ang suddenly grew a long face and said solemnly: "This is definitely not a fabrication. Forty years ago, I met Nanshan Weng again. However, he had changed his name. He called himself Medicine King and lived in seclusion in Xiyue Mountain."
"It turns out that the old general made up the story of Nan Zhongyu, the former king of medicine. No wonder it is so legendary, haha!"
Liu Ang repeatedly emphasized that this was indeed the case, but no one believed it, so he got angry and turned his back and ignored them.
Everyone then gathered around An Tai and asked him to talk about Nan Zhongyu.
"Nan Zhongyu is a strange man. It is said that he lived for more than a hundred years, but he still looked like he was thirty or forty years old when he closed his eyes. More than 20 years ago, when I was the county magistrate of Dao County near Xiyue Mountain, I heard an interesting story
rumor"
Rumor has it that an imperial physician surnamed Wen in the previous dynasty was poisoned by a strange poison while he was treating people. His hair and eyebrows turned white overnight, his body aged rapidly, and he was helpless. He sought help from the Xiyue Mountain Medicine King Nanzhong Yu's family.
Nan Zhongyu couldn't find a way to detoxify for a while, so he stuffed the medicinal stones that had been refined in the elixir furnace for decades into Dr. Wen's mouth and asked him to hold them in his mouth to suppress the poison.
At the same time, he drank the blood of Imperial Physician Wen, tested the poison on his own body, and studied the theory of poison behind closed doors.
Unexpectedly, the antidote was not prepared, but instead he made his legs wide open.
Is this dead?
Everyone was a little disappointed.
"Don't worry, how could King Yao die so easily?" An Tai smiled and stroked his beard, and said slowly: "However, his disciples all thought he was dead."
At that time, Nan Zhongyu's face looked haggard, like a rotten tree. He had no breathing or pulse, and even his body was cold.
His disciples buried him as a matter of course.
Doctor Wen thought that he had killed Nan Zhongyu, so he committed suicide by hanging himself from the rafter.
Half a year later, a child ran down the mountain and dug up Nan Zhongyu's grave despite everyone's obstruction.
A corpse that had been buried for half a year not only did not decay, but became very fresh, with a ruddy complexion, smooth skin and tender flesh, as if it were alive.
The man didn't know what kind of pill he stuffed into Nan Zhongyu's mouth.
His hands, feet, and eyes actually moved, and then he opened his eyes and spoke as if he were alive.
"I have found a way to detoxify my master. Where is Imperial Physician Wen?"
Everyone present was shocked and frightened. No one dared to say anything. Only the child digging at the grave sighed: "Master, he committed suicide due to guilt six months ago."
After hearing this, Nan Zhongyu looked up to the sky and sighed: "I was supposed to save people, but I ended up harming them. I have no shame in surviving in this world."
After speaking, he passed away suddenly.
"This is just a fairy tale!" Liu Ang laughed when he heard it, and turned around to correct it, "These are all lies made up by Nan Zhongyu's disciples in order to cover up the fact that they killed their master and compete for the secret book."
However, Shangguan Yuan somewhat believed that the scene of Nan Zhongyu's resurrection from the dead described by An Tai was exactly like what he saw when he dug up the grave of An Xingdao's daughter.
He even thought that maybe that woman would come back to life if she took just one of the pills in the story.