withered prosperity

Wei Heng called him several times before Yan Hai came back to his senses.

"Mr. Cuiwei." Wei Heng looked at him in surprise, "What's wrong with you?"

"I'm fine." Yan Hai put down the empty medicine bowl in his hand. "Have you seen that fish carcass? What do you think it is?"

"I think..." Wei Heng organized his words: "It's not a natural creation."

"What do you mean?" Yan Hai looked at him suspiciously.

"I took a closer look, and there are traces of connection between the two forefeet of that fish."

"Two?" Yan Hai thought for a while: "I remember four."

"Yes! But there are no traces of the two behind." Wei Heng said solemnly: "This is also what I can't figure out."

"You mean, the fish got two claws and someone put the other two on it?"

"The order is wrong. Someone should have attached the front claws first, and then the fish gave birth to two hind claws. Because the two bones at the back are not yet hard, it obviously hasn't grown for too long."

Yan Hai was silent for a while.

"What do you think of Pei Buyi and Xue Changdu?"

"I didn't explain this to them. The scars on the joints are very faint, and you can't see them normally, and..." Wei Heng frowned: "The marks are also unusual..."

Yan Hai looked up at him.

Wei Heng nodded to him.

"This is really strange..." Yan Hai suddenly laughed: "You said I brought a few people with me at the beginning! How do you feel now, I brought out the whole island?"

"But Mr. Cuiwei, let me remind you that this fish may have lived in this lake for a hundred years, but it has been dormant at the bottom of the water all year round, so it has not been noticed. Besides..." Wei Heng asked a little nervously: "I heard Say, a colorful bead was cut out of that fish's body?"

"That's right, there is." Yan Hai nodded: "But it turns into ashes when it sees the wind."

"In your opinion, is it the one in Huayu Pond..."

"It's absolutely impossible." Yan Hai interrupted him.

"But you have to know that the method of connecting limbs is almost exactly the same as that used on the island. Since there was such a method on land a hundred years ago, the divine orb..."

"I will take this matter to heart." Yan Hai interrupted him again: "Xiao Wei, I have to trouble you again."

Knowing that Yan Hai didn't want to talk anymore, Wei Heng shut up.

"Mr. Cuiwei." But he still said seriously: "About your body..."

"You helped me feel the pulse before. Didn't you say that the pulse is quite stable?"

"Although I don't know what method you used, but according to your current situation, there must be hidden dangers." Wei Heng showed a worried look: "You have been unwilling to tell the truth. Poison backlash..."

Yan Hai pressed his fingers on his lips and made a silent movement.

"Life and death are destiny, just look at the present!"

Hearing what he said, Wei Heng sighed helplessly.

"Governor Xue, did you find out?" Yun Ji asked, "Did Wei Heng do anything special about his condition?"

"Wei Heng doesn't seem to understand the poison on Mr. Yan's body. The medicines he uses are all for warming the meridians, not for detoxification." Xue Changdu replied: "He is very cautious no matter how much he uses. I haven't noticed any harm so far. unusual."

"Although my junior brother's medical skills are fair, he is far less meticulous than Governor Xue, so Wei Heng still has to ask you to look into it for me."

"Pavilion Master Yun is too polite, this is the duty of an inferior official." Xue Changduan hurriedly bowed and agreed: "But please ask Pavilion Master to drive me, I will never dare to resign."

"I don't have an official position, Governor Xue doesn't need to be so polite."

With Yun Jixu's help, Xue Changdu only felt an invisible strength to lift him up, with a surprised expression on his face.

Before he could express his admiration for Yun Ji's martial arts, Wei Heng walked in with an empty medicine bowl.

"Master Yun Pavilion, Governor Xue." Wei Heng nodded to them as a salute, with the same dull expression on his face.

"How is Yan Hai?" Yun Ji asked him.

"The situation is stable and there is no serious problem." Wei Heng said in a flat tone, "We can only nourish the vitality first, and slowly try to detoxify."

"Then I will entrust it to you all." After Yun Ji said this, he turned his head and looked outside the door.

A burst of hurried footsteps came from a distance.

"It's not easy?" Yun Ji obviously recognized who it was.

Sure enough, the next moment, Pei Buyi appeared outside the door.

"Master, brother! Are you there?" The expression on Pei Buyi's face was indescribable, as if in a dream.

"What's the matter?" Yun Ji couldn't help frowning when he saw that he was sloppy and had that unpleasant stench coming from his body.

"I made a new discovery about that fish." He hadn't had a good rest for several days, and his eyes were bloodshot. "Those two claws were picked up by someone!"

Yun Ji didn't understand.

"Connected?" Xue Changduan understood immediately: "Are you talking about the same as connecting limbs?"

Pei Buyi nodded vigorously.

"It's impossible." Xue Changjuan immediately denied this statement: "Even if it is to connect your own broken limbs, you have to try it at the right time and place, not to mention that the claws and the body of the fish are obviously not the same kind of creature. There is no similarity between the meridians and bones, so how could it be possible to continue."

"Even if it wasn't connected, it grew by itself, so is it reasonable for the fish to have claws?" Pei Buyi said smoothly: "I checked its claws carefully, and one of its front claws was close to the body. In some places, there are very fine traces, obviously not caused by congenital growth."

"The world is so big, maybe there is such a creature in a place we don't know." Xue Changshou expressed his opinion: "Mr. Pei, you have not rested for several days and nights, I think you should take care of it first." It’s not worth the loss if you collapse from exhaustion.”

He said it tactfully, but what he meant was that Pei Buyi might be too tired and dazzled, so he missed it.

Pei Buyi would not be able to hear it normally, but now his mind was spinning so fast that he understood it.

"If you don't believe me, we can analyze it in detail." He grabbed Xue Zhangduan and dragged him towards the door: "If it's man-made traces, we can certainly find them."

Xue Changshou had no choice but to hastily confessed to Yun Ji and was dragged away by him.

"Doctor Wei doesn't seem to be interested in this matter." Yun Ji looked at Wei Heng who had already walked to the medicine cabinet during the two of them arguing.

This medicine cabinet was just sent over by someone from the palace. Not only did it have a complete range of products, it even contained many rare and good medicines.

"I am born dull, and I need to be very focused on everything, and I can't pay attention." Wei Heng raised his hand and opened the upper drawer, and took out some medicinal materials. "I can't do enough to help people see a doctor, so I don't care if the fish has legs or not."

Wei Heng rolled up his sleeves as he spoke, preparing to grind the taken medicinal materials into powder.

"Doctor Wei, is there anyone else in your family?" Yun Ji suddenly changed the subject and asked such an irrelevant question.

Wei Heng originally thought that he would ask about Yan Hai, and even forced himself to tell about Yan Hai's situation, but he did not expect this to happen.

He stopped what he was doing, looked at Yun Ji in surprise, and replied after a while: "My parents are gone, and I have no other relatives. I only have my wife and children in my hometown."

Yun Ji looked at the red thread tied around his wrist, and gave a soft "oh".