Hearing this, Song Zihua breathed a sigh of relief, called the eunuch to carry the medicine box and immediately followed Qi Kuan to Kunning Palace. When they got there, before he could salute, Xianyue had already held the pill in her hand and looked at it for a long time.
He handed it over and said, "Look, what kind of medicine is this?"
Song Zihua bowed to take it, closed his eyes and smelled it carefully, then said: "This medicine contains skullcap, realgar, platycodon and other ingredients, but not all of them, there are some that I can't smell." After that, he asked: "This medicine.
Where did the empress get it from and what effect does it have?"
Xianyue gave a general account of Xia Qing's suspicions and said: "I found this medicine from the palace of Concubine Hui with great difficulty. I suspect that this is the source of Yongyan's strange disease; if I argue,
Once we find out the ingredients of this medicine, we should be able to prescribe the right medicine to cure Yongyan's strange disease."
Song Zihua nodded, and after sizing up the medicine in his hand, he said, "Could you allow me to break this medicine into pieces and examine it carefully? Otherwise, I really can't identify the ingredients of this medicine just based on the smell."
Qi Kuan frowned, leaned over and said in Xianyue's ear: "Master, Concubine Hui is a thoughtful person. She has several pills hidden, and she may have counted them. If she breaks the pills and cannot put them back, once she
If you look closely, you will find that someone has moved, and then Zhichun will definitely be the first person she suspects."
Even if he didn't say it, Xianyue still thought of this question, "Mr. Song, have you copied the same pill?"
Song Zihua thought for a moment and said: "It is not a problem to imitate a pill of the same color and size. The only trouble is the smell. Therefore, before the ingredients of this medicine are completely analyzed, I cannot give you a definite answer. At most, I can only say
, you can make a similar pill, and as long as Concubine Hui doesn’t separate it and smell it carefully, you won’t find it.”
Xianyue thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll do as you say." With Xianyue's permission, Song Zihua asked Jinping to get a small red lacquer tray, put the medicine in it, and then took out another
Use a small silver knife to scrape off some of the medicine.
However, when the small silver knife touched the pill, Song Zihua's eyes showed a look of surprise. It was strange that the pill was so hard that the blade could not cut into it. He had been practicing medicine for decades and had never seen any medicine.
So hard.
This aroused Song Zihua's curiosity even more, and he added a little more force, but still could not break the pill. When he used 70% of the force, the pill was finally broken open by the silver knife, but it was not broken.
It is in the form of powder, but like an eggshell, it breaks apart piece by piece, and inside it is a thin strand of hair.
Everyone who saw this scene was stunned and couldn't figure out what was going on. At this moment, the thin hair suddenly started to move, stretched and crawled, and then the front end of the hair actually
He lifted it up, as if he was looking at Song Zihua.
Song Zihua has been studying medicine since he was a teenager, and it has been a full forty years now. He has never seen such a weird thing. What is this, a hair or...
Before he could finish this thought, the strand of hair suddenly shot towards him. Instead of crawling like before, it shot like a sharp arrow on his cheek, and then quickly went to his mouth and nose.
Crawling.
Song Zihua reacted very quickly, immediately raised his hand, and used the back of the silver knife still in his hand to press the "thin hair" tightly to prevent it from advancing even half an inch.
Even so, half of the thin hair had penetrated into Song Zihua's nostrils. If it had been a little later, the whole body would have penetrated into it.
The thing as thin as a hair struggled desperately, but unfortunately it could not escape the shackles of the silver knife. After a while, it seemed to have lost its strength, and its slender body drooped down, including the part that had originally been drilled in. It also came out.
But Song Zihua did not let go of the silver knife, and still held it tightly. After a while, the thin hair started to move again, and the struggle was more fierce than before. It took half a cup of tea to struggle, and then he finally
It gradually weakened and hung motionless on the back of the knife.
Song Zihua still didn't dare to let go immediately. He didn't see it moving again until a cup of tea had passed, and then he said to Jinping: "Go and get some cotton from my medical box."
Jin Ping was stunned by the strange and terrifying scene just now. It took him a while to realize what he was doing, and he hurriedly got the cotton, then divided it into two balls and stuffed them into his ears according to Song Zihua's words.
After Jinping returned to its original position, Song Zihua said again: "For the sake of safety, please ask the Queen to withdraw from the palace." Without waiting for Xianyue to say anything, he said again: "Don't worry, I deserve what I get."
Seeing what he said, Xianyue nodded and walked out of the main hall with Jinping and the others, leaving only Song Zihua in the hall. After the hall door was closed, Song Zihua slowly let go of the silver knife. Before that, another one
He covered his mouth and nose tightly with his hands to prevent that thing from coming back to life. He plugged his ears with cotton for this reason. He didn't dare to let such a weird thing get into his body.
Fortunately, nothing happened as he was worried about. The thing was always hanging on the back of the knife, and it looked like it was completely dead.
But Song Zihua still didn't dare to relax. After all, what happened just now was so terrible that even he, who was used to seeing countless strange diseases, was horrified.
After cutting the thing into several sections with a silver knife, he opened the door of the palace and invited Xianyue and the others in. Seeing that Song Zihua was fine, Xianyue breathed a sigh of relief and said with lingering fear: "Emperor Song, what was that just now?
What is this thing and why is it so weird?”
"I haven't had time to take a closer look." After answering like this, Song Zihua asked Qi Kuan to fetch a Western tribute convex lens. Using this lens, objects can be magnified several times, allowing people to see more carefully.
When observing the thing that had caused unspeakable panic to them not long ago through a convex lens, Song Zihua discovered that there were eyes and mouthparts at one end of it, and its body was like an earthworm, one after another, showing a deep...
The brown-to-black thing looks just like hair at first glance.
Seeing that he remained silent, Jin Ping couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Song, this... what on earth is this, and why is it in the pill?"
Her words reminded Song Zihua, who took the broken pills and looked at them carefully. After a while, he said in a deep voice: "If I guessed correctly, this thing should be a kind of poisonous insect."
"Gu insect?" Xianyue was startled, and a dusty past event came to mind again with Song Zihua's words, and she said in horror: "You mean, this medicine is the same as the method used by Qiao Yan'er to harm me back then, it's both a poisonous insect?
"
Song Zihua shook his head and said: "Gu is just a general term. I heard Tao An mention it before, and it can be roughly divided into thirteen types, each of which is extremely terrifying. The empress was infected with the malnutrition bug back then, and its appearance was similar to that of the poisonous bug that I used to have.
I have seen it with my own eyes. It is completely different from the one in front of me. It should be another kind of Gu insect. I don’t know what it is specifically."