Mountains and rivers are waiting for you to return

Chapter 171: Mechanism Wooden Box
Ju Liancheng was placed in a room in the third area of the underground city.

When Pei Nai and others rushed there, Ju Liancheng was still in a coma and the doctor was applying medicine to him.

The thorns pierced through his clothes and pierced into his flesh, causing more than twenty wounds. The venom turned the areas around the wounds purple and the blood vessels black.

The doctor did not detoxify him, but only cleaned the wound and bandaged it.

Seeing them coming in, one of the doctors put down the medicine, sighed, and said to them: "The poison of the Yuji vine can only be cured by the Jieyou Pills. There are only six Jieyou Pills in the Valley Country. After the Wu clan broke into the Steel City, the medicine warehouse was not moved in time, and the six Jieyou Pills were burned. You can only hope that there are Jieyou Pills left in the outside world to save Master Ju's life."

No wonder they sealed the deep well and only opened it on rare occasions when collecting herbs, and the process was extremely cautious.

How could such a poison be without an antidote?

"What is the Worry-Relieving Pill?" Pei Nai asked Zhang Sheng in confusion.

Zhang Sheng also frowned when he heard what the doctor said.

The entire Valley Kingdom feels guilty towards Ju Yan. Ju Yan is the benefactor of the Valley Kingdom. Now Ju Liancheng is poisoned and the antidote has been destroyed. How can Zhang Sheng not be anxious?
Hearing Pei Nai's question, Zhang Sheng replied, "It is a pill made by a witch doctor in the Valley Kingdom two hundred years ago. Most of the herbs in it are now extinct. It can cure all common poisons in the world, and most of the strange poisons. Therefore, this pill has always been regarded as one of the national treasures of the Valley Kingdom."

"Do you know where the external world's worry-relieving pills are?" Gu Jinheng looked at Ju Liancheng lying on the bed and asked lightly.

Zhang Sheng recalled, "I heard that the witch doctor made a total of twelve worry-relieving pills. In the past two hundred years, three were used up. Two were given as state gifts to a small country in the West and East respectively over a hundred years ago. The other one was given as a gift by my father to his best friend. No, to his best friend's daughter."

Gu Jinheng has used the magic energy of Dandao to try to detoxify Ju Liancheng.

But the poison was not in Gu Jinheng himself. He could only temporarily slow down the spread of the poison but could not completely eliminate it.

He asked, "Do you know the name of that close friend?"

Zhang Sheng shook his head. "I just remember that more than 20 years ago, he said he wanted to go to Tianyao."

After hearing this, Gu Jinheng suddenly looked at Pei Nai.

Pei Nai's forehead twitched suddenly, and he asked, "Does your father like to use mechanical treasure boxes as gifts?"

Zhang Sheng nodded, "It's a habit. It takes some thinking to solve the mechanism."

"Has he ever thought about what to do if the recipient can't open it?" Pei Nai continued to ask.

Zhang Sheng was puzzled and said, "No way? That treasure box is not difficult to open. With a little thought, it's easy to open."

"Maybe we met an idiot." Han Ruize listened to their conversation nearby. Combined with what he heard when he was a child about Pei Nai receiving a wooden box but being unable to open it, he was able to guess the reason.

Zhang Sheng was even more confused, "What do you mean?"

"Is your father's best friend named Pei?" Pei Nai added.

Zhang Sheng suddenly realized, "You mean the wooden box with the mechanism is in your hands?"

Pei Nai nodded, "Yes, if Uncle Zhang didn't carry the mechanical wooden box around to give away people all day long."

"That's great!" Zhang Sheng said excitedly.

Pei Nai continued, "But the wooden box containing the worry-relieving pills is still in the Duke Duan Ding's mansion in Chaoyang."

She looked at Gu Jinheng, because she had been away for ten years and was not sure where the thing was stored at the moment.

"It's in your cabinet. I kept it safe." Gu Jinheng replied.

The dignified Lord Tianyao Duanding could even remember an ordinary thing of his deceased wife clearly.

Besides, the wooden box looked ordinary, but it was obvious how much he cared about Pei Nai, which made the people around him look at him with deep meaning.

Pei Nai nodded and asked Zhang Sheng and the doctor, "Can the poison in Ju Liancheng's body last until we return to Chaoyang?" "We have a medicine that can suppress the poison. If he boils and consumes a bag of it every day, he will be fine for at least three months, and the poison will not spread to the heart." The doctor did not look up and continued to treat Ju Liancheng's wounds. "I'll prepare it later."

"That's good." Pei Nai replied.

No one had any objection. At this moment, someone knocked on the door and came in. It was someone from the Valley Country.

The man bowed to everyone and said to Zhang Sheng, "Young Master, we have prepared all the herbs according to the prescription given by Lord Luo. The number of tail daisy flowers has also been counted and there is enough for now. We are ready to start brewing. I would like to ask Lord Gu Duan Ding to take a look and confirm whether it is the same as the antidote provided by the poison witch hunter Lei Lai Weng."

Zhang Sheng looked at Gu Jinheng and said sincerely, "Master Gu..."

Gu Jinheng nodded before he finished speaking, and said to Pei Nai, "Then you can rest here and wait for me to come back?"

"Okay." Pei Nai responded.

Gu Jinheng gave the doctors a few more instructions, asking them to treat Pei Nai's arm wound again after applying the medicine to Ju Liancheng.

After finishing the instructions, he left with Zhang Sheng and others. Han Ruize and others also had military affairs to deal with.

Pei Nai waited for a while, and when the doctor finished dealing with Ju Liancheng, he came and applied medicine on her.

Afterwards, the two doctors also left the room, leaving only her and the unconscious Ju Liancheng. Pei Nai leaned back in her chair and concentrated.

After a long time, the noise outside gradually became noisier.

Pei Nai even heard two women passing by and whispering, one of them said: "Have you heard? The poison killed millions of people because of Princess Miyun of Kunjin City and Grandma Axun's maids."

When the words reached Pei Nai's ears, Pei Nai was confused. Where did these words come from?

Princess Miyun of Kunjin City should be the daughter of the City Lord of Kunjin City mentioned by Zhang Sheng.

When she was young, she was abducted by the Wu cavalry and taken to the Wu palace. In order to save her and other trapped girls, the Valley Kingdom exchanged resources for them.

Because the Valley Kingdom only exchanged for girls from their own country, when Huyan Weizhao learned about this, he had a quarrel with Zhang Sheng and others at the entrance of the Twenty-One Domain.

But these girls are also victims. Why do we say that they have killed millions of people?

Pei Nai simply stopped resting and went out to check the situation.

The two women who were discussing the matter had gone away.

Pei Nai was too lazy to chase after them to ask, and when he glanced around, he saw many people rushing back and forth in a hurry.

Tianyao's army lined up in an orderly manner and ran towards the fourth district in the east.

Are Han Ruize, Shao Liran and others preparing to assist the Valley Kingdom in taking back the fourth district?
There were guards guarding the door of Ju Liancheng's room, so Pei Nai walked towards the place where the medicine was made, asking for directions as he walked.

After walking through about six or seven blocks, we came to an empty square where we saw several rows of medicine stoves and sacks of herbs, neatly arranged and piled on the ground.

At this time, the alchemists had already begun to prepare the antidote for the poison. The area around District 3 was filled with a strong and bitter smell of herbs.

There were many newly relocated wounded soldiers on the other side of the square, probably the injuries they suffered during the initial defense when District 4 was invaded.

Gu Jinheng and the others were also here. The people from the Valley Country were holding booklets and reporting something to Luo Yuanying and his subordinates.

Luo Yuanying's men were leaning over a high table, taking notes with pen and paper.

Gu Jinheng had obviously controlled the Dandao divine energy in order to avoid excessive pressure affecting the wounded, but Pei Nai could still feel his extremely unhappy mood from the pressure all around him.

Zhang Sheng was also near him, and his face wasn't looking very good either.

(End of this chapter)