Time travel is risky, and love requires caution

Du Jingshan hurriedly went out to pick up the Seventh Princess. After Pei Chunfeng helped him settle the Seventh Princess on the couch, both of them stood nervously beside the couch, looking at the witch doctor with expectant and pleading eyes.

The great witch doctor said slowly:

"I just got back, I'm tired and hungry, you two go make a fire and cook first."

Pei Chufeng didn't say anything and dragged Du Jingshan, who hadn't reacted, to the open kitchen.

When I got to the kitchen, I was stunned. They had been eating the dry food they brought with them. Now I saw that there was nothing. A good cook cannot cook without rice. How can I cook this meal?

So, Pei Chufeng asked Du Jingshan to pick up some firewood nearby, while he went to the backyard. He remembered that when he was a child, he saw his master open a small vegetable garden in the backyard.

When he arrived at the backyard, he saw only weeds and it didn't look like a vegetable garden at all. Pei Chufeng dug in the weeds with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and finally pulled out a few sweet potatoes.

He returned to the kitchen and saw that Du Jingshan had not returned yet, so he went to fetch water from the direction of the stream he remembered. He had not been to the mountain for a long time. In the past two days, he had been accompanying two disabled people and did not dare to leave the house for fear of missing his master's return.

When he finally filled the large water tank in the kitchen with water, Du Jingshan finally came back with a large bundle of firewood.

Seeing that there were only a few sweet potatoes, Du Jingshan put down the firewood and turned to leave.

Pei Chufeng lit a fire, cleaned the pot and steamed sweet potatoes. When everything was ready, Du Jingshan came back holding a pheasant in one hand and two bamboo shoots in the other.

Pei Chufeng was surprised. He didn't expect that the gentle and refined Du Jingshan had such ability.

Du Jingshan asked Pei Chufeng to help him boil a pot of water while he went to the side to clean the pheasants.

While bleeding and plucking the pheasant, Du Jingshan carefully found several needles from the pheasant's body and carefully put them away. He was able to hit this pheasant thanks to the Seventh Princess. In order to thank him for helping to draw the design drawings of the foot-operated grinder, the Seventh Princess asked the blacksmith to make a set of flying needles and wrist guards for him, saying that they would be used for self-defense at critical moments, and asked him to help keep it secret. Du Jingshan felt that thanking him was secondary, and keeping his mouth shut was probably the most important thing. Over the years, Du Jingshan had helped keep secrets for many things, and he had long been accustomed to it, so this one was not a big deal.

Later, under the coaxing of the Seventh Princess, he secretly practiced flying needles with her several times. The Seventh Princess was weak, so the range and power of the flying needles were very limited. In addition, after throwing the flying needles, she had to pick them up one by one. After a few times, the Seventh Princess gave up. Then she coaxed him to help her soak each needle with poison, but it didn't have to be fatal, as long as the poison could make people unable to move for a while.

He disagreed at first, but he couldn't stand the Seventh Princess's persistence and finally gave in. He soaked her flying needles with some itchy medicine, and then gave the Seventh Princess a few antidotes and gave her many instructions.

The Seventh Princess felt that she had a magic weapon to protect herself, and that she could solve the problem once and for all, so she gave up halfway. However, he insisted on practicing flying needles seriously, not throwing a bunch of needles like the Seventh Princess, but practicing the accuracy and strength one by one. After a long time, he really gained some results, and this pheasant today was one of them.

Du Jingshan couldn't help but think of the Seventh Princess lying on the couch, and his hands unconsciously sped up their movements. He wanted to quickly prepare the meal and have the witch doctor treat the Seventh Princess.

The hot sweet potatoes and the fragrant pheasant and bamboo shoot soup were brought to the witch doctor. The witch doctor was very satisfied and invited Pei Chufeng and Du Jingshan to fill their stomachs together.

The chief witch doctor ate with gusto, but Du Jingshan had no appetite at all. His heart was entirely on the Seventh Princess. It had been many days since he had tasted anything and had lost a lot of weight.

He simply put down the bowl and chopsticks in his hands, filled another small bowl of chicken soup, went to the couch and fed it to the Seventh Princess one spoonful at a time.

After feeding the seven princesses, the chief witch doctor had almost finished eating.

Pei Chufeng went to the kitchen and brought a pot of tea to the witch doctor, then he cleaned up the dishes on the table. Du Jingshan also came to help.

The chief witch doctor drank tea while watching the two young men busying in and out. Finally, he set his eyes on the seventh princess. Gradually, he couldn't help but fall into memories.

When Pei Chufeng and Du Jingshan came back after finishing their packing, they saw the witch doctor in such a state and did not dare to disturb him. They just stood aside and waited quietly.

Du Jingshan finally had time to take a closer look at the layout of the room. The room was not small, and the furniture was simple. There was a big bed on the east side, a large bookshelf filled with bamboo slips and books, and several large wooden boxes. In the middle of the room was a very large table filled with various medicine-making utensils. The couch where the Seventh Princess lay was on the west side of the room.

After a while, the witch doctor sighed and said:

"You two come and sit down."

They obeyed obediently, and when they sat down respectfully, the witch doctor said:

"Just now, when you two were cooking, I checked her condition. She was poisoned by two kinds of poisons. Originally, these two poisons were not difficult to cure, but now they are mixed together. It may take some effort to cure them."

"I know that one of the poisons is cinnabar, but I am not well-educated and I really don't know the other one," said Du Jingshan.

"The other kind of poison came from me, so you naturally don't know about it." The witch doctor said lightly.

Du Jingshan and Pei Chufeng were so shocked by the witch doctor's words that they stood up with their eyes wide open.

The chief witch doctor continued to drink his tea leisurely under the stares of the two.

Du Jingshan was shocked and angry. Just as he was about to explode, Pei Chufeng asked:

"What do you mean, Master?"

"Where is the jade pendant I gave you before?" asked the great witch doctor.

"Disciple gave it to her." Pei Chufeng pointed at the Seventh Princess lying over there.

"I poisoned that jade pendant."

Pei Chufeng became more and more confused as he listened, and continued to ask:

"Master, why did you poison the jade pendant? If you poisoned it, why am I fine? Could it be... could it be the pill you asked me to carry with me?"

"Yes, as long as you carry that pill with you, it will keep you safe."

Pei Chufeng quickly took out the brocade box containing the elixir from his body, held it in front of the witch doctor with both hands, and said:

"I originally wanted to give her this elixir, but her pulse was strange, so I... I didn't dare to try it rashly."

"She is in a condition where she shouldn't take this pill. Her internal organs are damaged, and this pill can activate blood circulation. If she takes this pill, it will only make her condition worse, or even cost her life. Fortunately, you didn't give it to her. You can keep this pill for now."

"Master, but you...why did you poison the jade pendant?" Pei Chufeng asked again.

"It's a long story." The witch doctor obviously didn't want to say more. Pei Chufeng had no choice but to put aside his doubts for the time being. The most important thing was to cure the disease and save people, so he asked:

"Master, do you have any way to save her?"

"Who is she? She must be someone special to make you afraid to try anything rashly, right?"

Pei Chufeng was stunned for a moment, looked at Du Jingshan beside him, and didn't know how to answer for a moment.

Seeing Pei Chufeng didn't say anything, the witch doctor turned to Du Jingshan and asked:

"She is the daughter of Beiwei Chenfei?"

Du Jingshan was stunned and replied hesitantly:

"Yes."

"It's indeed her." The great witch doctor said to himself, and then smiled bitterly with relief.

Pei Chufeng asked curiously:

"Master knows the Seventh Princess?"

"We don't really know each other, and this is a long story, so it's more important to get treatment first."

When Du Jingshan heard that the witch doctor was willing to help the Seventh Princess, he was so excited that he was about to bow and thank him, but the witch doctor stopped him and said:

"You don't have to thank me so quickly. She has been poisoned for quite some time. Let's wait and see how she copes. First, tell me in detail about her symptoms and how to treat them."

So, Du Jingshan had a detailed discussion with the chief witch doctor about the seventh princess's condition. Du Jingshan spoke carefully and the chief witch doctor listened very seriously, nodding in affirmation from time to time and asking a few additional questions from time to time.

Seeing that it was inconvenient to disturb them, Pei Chufeng simply went out of the house to sweep the yard. His simple appearance did not seem like that of a prince of a country.