novelE2F #485 - It's cold
#485 - It's cold
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Lu Jing picked up the key, thinking that Grandmaster Honglian was going to play another riddle with him.
Unexpectedly, this time the key was engraved with a line of small characters, which seemed to be a serial number, and a name was marked behind it.
Okay, if there are no accidents, this should be a key to a money house, used to open the safe.
However, Lu Jing thought about it, and it seemed that he had never heard of any money house in the capital called Teda. Could it be a money house in Huzhou, or Meizhou?
Lu Jing was not very familiar with these two places, so he could only ask someone to inquire about them for him first.
Among them, Huzhou was naturally handed over to Wen Xiaochuan, after all, the Wen family belonged to the local snakes of Huzhou, as for Meizhou... If Lu Jing remembered correctly, Xia Huai's father seemed to be the Tongpan of Meizhou.
In this way, all Lu Jing had to do was wait for news.
After doing all this, Lu Jing vaguely felt that he seemed to have forgotten something.
What exactly was it?
Lu Jing thought for a while, right, Han Shan Ke seemed to have said that the poison pill he had promised to refine for him was almost ready, and the first batch of pills could be handed over to him in the next two days.
Thinking of this, Lu Jing was so excited that he couldn't sleep.
Counting it, he and Wen Xiaochuan had been out for four days, so Han Shan Ke's poison pill should also be out.
And Lu Jing's secret power cultivation was about to break through again, becoming a Second Palace cultivator.
This batch of poison pills was like a timely rain, coming just at the right time.
Of course, the most important thing was the corresponding poison prescription. As the saying goes, it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him fish. With the poison prescription and the stable income from ginseng planting, Lu Jing could purchase medicinal materials and try to refine poison pills himself.
After all, although he didn't have the time to learn alchemy, if he just imitated and refined one kind of pill, Lu Jing should still be able to learn it.
So the next morning, as soon as the sky was slightly bright, Lu Jing couldn't restrain his excitement any longer and ran to Jinghu Valley early, heading towards the small valley where Han Shan Ke was located.
As a result, Lu Jing was stunned as soon as he arrived there.
Because the usually deserted small valley was actually full of people today. Among those Lu Jing recognized were Old Blind, Wine Ghost, Gambling Ghost, Ding Liu and others. Besides them, Young Marquis was also there.
In fact, almost half of the people in Jinghu Valley had come, and everyone's faces looked very serious.
And the wild boar A'Bao was lying listlessly on an open space, humming and groaning there, not even willing to roll in the mud pool. The whole person, no, the whole pig was visibly thinner.
Lu Jing felt a chill in his heart when he saw this, and blurted out, "Did that guy Han Shan Ke run away?"
But why didn't he hear Xia Huai say anything about what happened in the academy these past few days when he went to find her last night.
Lu Jing panicked even more when he heard him say this, "What's going on? Did Han Shan Ke contract some kind of disease? Is there nothing Ding Divine Doctor can do?"
Young Marquis didn't explain anything, just took a deep look at Lu Jing, "I heard that you've been running to his place a lot recently. It seems that you have a good relationship with him. Since that's the case, then go in and say goodbye to him."
Lu Jing walked into the valley quickly with the last glimmer of hope, came to the tree where Han Shan Ke usually slept, thinking that even if Han Shan Ke was about to die, he should at least be able to write down the poison prescription he had promised him before he died... right.
But what Lu Jing didn't expect was that Young Marquis's so-called farewell was actually a farewell to the remains!
Yes, that's right. It had only been less than four days since Lu Jing last saw Han Shan Ke. Four days ago, Han Shan Ke looked ethereal and lively.
Lu Jing never would have thought that the next time the two of them met would be a permanent separation.
Han Shan Ke was lying in a pear blossom wood coffin, his face didn't look good, as if he had eaten something unclean and had a stomachache. A painful expression remained on his already bloodless face.
"He was poisoned to death by the pills he refined himself." Young Marquis said word by word.
Even though Lu Jing was already so shocked that he couldn't speak, he couldn't help swallowing when he heard Young Marquis's words, and squeezed out a few words from between his teeth, "What pills?"
"I don't know." Young Marquis said, "I don't have much research on pills, I only concluded this after seeing him fall beside the alchemy furnace and keep扣ing at his throat before he died."
After a pause, Young Marquis added, "However, I have already taken the remaining pills in the alchemy furnace to Ding Divine Doctor. If you want to know, go ask him yourself."
Lu Jing's mind went blank when he heard this, and he subconsciously turned around to leave, but was stopped by Young Marquis again, "By the way, the spirit rack has just been set up. Did you bring any sacrifices?"
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"Forget it, looking at you, you probably wouldn't have thought that this kind of thing would happen. Go seventy steps east, there's a pear tree. Pick two pears and put them on the spirit rack on the south side. That's considered doing something for Han Shan Ke."
Lu Jing nodded and picked the pears according to what Young Marquis said and placed them on the spirit rack.
After that, he hurried to Ding Divine Doctor's place.
Lu Jing's mood was very complicated now. On the one hand, Han Shan Ke's sudden death shocked him and even made him unable to accept it. He hadn't figured out how to face this matter, and then he heard Young Marquis say the cause of Han Shan Ke's death, so Lu Jing felt a bit of guilt in his heart.
He felt that he was inseparable from Han Shan Ke's death, because the latter was likely poisoned to death while refining pills for him.
Although Han Shan Ke's own improper operation accounted for the majority of the responsibility, if Lu Jing hadn't asked him to help refine poison pills, he would probably still be playing his mortal cultivation game.
In addition, Han Shan Ke was also implicated in the recent turmoil caused by Dongxuan's master and apprentice, and as a result, he died in a blink of an eye. Could it be too coincidental?
But looking at Han Shan Ke's body in the coffin, Lu Jing didn't know what tricks he could still play. This was different from the headless corpse that Jiang Lei had created back then. This time, Han Shan Ke seemed to be really dead, and according to Young Marquis, he had been dead for more than a day.
It seemed that there was no hope of him coming back to life.