On the way to Dongzhou, Rong Su studied the route map.

There is a gray area between Dongzhou and Zhongzhou.

This place is neither under the jurisdiction of Zhongzhou nor Dongzhou.

The main place where mining takes place is the mining town.

When talking about the mining town, we have to talk about its former glory.

The mining city used to be a small continent, but it gradually declined under the rule of the last ruler, especially because this ruler loved to make bets with others.

Just ten years ago, the king made a bet with a young man that if the young man could increase the annual revenue of the mining city tenfold, he would be willing to hand over the mining city to him.

At first, the king was just mocking the young man's arrogance, but the young man was not afraid at all and even faced the challenge head-on.

In the end, the loser was naturally the king. The young man not only used his intelligence and talent to increase the mining city's annual profit tenfold, he even personally dug out the most famous jade - Dushan jade.

Dushan jade cannot be mined anywhere else but in mining cities. Many royal relatives of different continents would spend a fortune just to see it.

The king naturally had to accept the defeat because he made the bet with the young man in front of the people of the entire continent and could not go back on his word.

From then on, the mining town changed hands.

"But that's not right. A mining city is a place rich in ore. According to this theory, it must be a very valuable place. The three continents are also eyeing it covetously. Why hasn't any continental country plundered it and taken it for themselves?"

Gu Yuer raised such a question, which would actually be confusing for anyone.

Everyone wants to occupy such a valuable place, but no one dares to start a war to plunder it. Why is that?

"A hundred years ago, the ancestors of Mining City signed a thousand-year peace agreement with the founding rulers of the Three Continents. Mining City can trade with the Three Continents, but it must not become a city of any country. If that continental country were to seize this place, it would be a disaster for the entire world."

Shen Peiqing spoke expressionlessly, as if these things were very normal to him.

But it's also true that Shen Peiqing has been studying government affairs since he was a child and has read a lot of history of the continental countries. He must be familiar with these things.

However, Rong Su crossed his arms and said sarcastically, "However, I didn't expect that the ruler of the Three Continents would actually abide by the agreement and refrain from annexing that coveted territory. It seems they are very honest."

Gu Yu'er also agreed with Rong Su's statement and nodded repeatedly in agreement: "Yes, they are indeed very honest."

Shen Peiqing glanced at Rong Su lightly, then retracted his gaze and spoke calmly, without a trace of emotion in his tone: "No. The mining city is a huge temptation for every continent. There is no continent that doesn't want it. Now they seem to be inactive, but in fact they have been taking action behind the scenes for a long time. As for why they didn't break the agreement in person, they were just waiting for an opportunity."

Rong Su knew what he said. She said that just to test Shen Peiqing's current views on the current situation. She wanted to know whether he would be unfamiliar with these things after not being exposed to them for so long.

Shrugging, Rong Su curled the corners of her mouth and glanced at Shen Peiqing: "I think, perhaps the three continents are afraid that if the agreement is torn up and war is launched, they are afraid that this peace will be destroyed. While the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman will gain. Among the three continents, one will always lose."

Shen Peiqing was a little surprised to hear such remarks coming from Rong Su. He couldn't help but look at her deeply, thinking to himself, this crazy girl is very good at judging the situation. She is only keen on studying medical skills, but she also studies this.

Gu Yuer sat next to Rong Su, looked at Shen Peiqing opposite her, then looked at Rong Su beside her, and she suddenly found that she had no say at all.

Then he looked at what his brother was doing. He was just reading quietly, but he would look up at Sister Rong from time to time. Otherwise, he didn't express any opinion.

Suddenly, she became a little anxious. My dear brother, when will you be able to marry Sister Rong?

What a blockhead!

Rong Su didn't know how anxious Gu Yuer was. She no longer wanted to discuss the situation with Shen Peiqing. After all, she was not a politician, and there was no point in talking about this.

Before I knew it, the sky outside had set again.

Dusk fell, but suddenly the carriage stopped urgently, and Stone's voice was heard outside.

"Big brother! Are you okay?"

Seeing that something might happen, they all got off the carriage immediately.

They saw a man dressed simply, even a little dirty, with a blue face, falling right in front of their carriage.

Shitou was already squatting beside the eldest brother, reaching out his hand to feel his pulse. He looked a little solemn and it seemed that he couldn't tell anything.

Then Shitou looked at Rong Su and Gu Yun with a serious expression: "Doctor Rong, Doctor Gu, this elder brother's illness is very strange. I really can't figure it out."

After hearing this, Rong Su and Gu Yun looked at each other, and then they both walked to the eldest brother's side at the same time.

Rong Su squatted down first, took out a handkerchief and put it on her brother's wrist, then reached out to take his pulse.

This time, she couldn't help but open her eyes wide, a little surprised, raised her head and looked at Gu Yun: "Gu Yun, take a look. I don't know if I took the pulse wrong."

It was obvious that the situation was very serious. Gu Yun did not delay and quickly squatted down and took his brother's other hand to take his pulse.

Gu Yun's face also became solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "He was poisoned. It's a mineral poison that seeped into the blood."

Hearing that Gu Yun's judgment was the same as hers, Rong Su looked at the eldest brother again. His face was blue, but his lips were white. She reached out and lifted his eyelids, and there were bloodshot in his eyeballs.

"A Su, the symptoms of this poison are not recorded in medical books." Gu Yun's handsome face was filled with worry.

It's like this, there are few records in medical books on how to treat mineral poisoning, but she still wants to give it a try. Acupuncture may be able to wake him up first, and then find a way to suppress the spread of the poison, and then find a solution later.

"I want to try acupuncture to see if it can help him wake up first." Rong Su put forward her idea.

Gu Yun respected Rong Su and nodded, "Okay. What do you need me to do?"

She thought for a moment before she spoke: "Please help me warm my silver needles over the fire."

"Okay." Gu Yun didn't ask why, he just started doing it.

Everyone gathered around Rong Su to watch. When they heard that she was going to use acupuncture to save someone, Shen Peiqing and Shitou stepped forward to help Rong Su move the big brother onto the carriage first.

Afterwards, Gu Yun also helped her heat the silver needles with fire.

Rong Su held the silver needle and began to concentrate on inserting it into every acupuncture point of her elder brother. Every time she inserted the needle into an acupuncture point, a bead of sweat would appear on her forehead.

At this time, Gu Yuer would take a handkerchief to wipe her sweat.

Time passed by little by little, until the big brother's fingers moved slightly, Rong Su breathed a sigh of relief, feeling like he was snatching someone from the King of Hell.

After she inserted the last silver needle, her brother's eyelids began to move. At this time, she knew that he had woken up. She took his pulse again and found that the pulse was at least not very weak, but the poison was still there.

The silver needles were pulled out one by one, and soon after that, the eldest brother finally woke up.

When he saw them, a look of horror appeared on his face. Then Gu Yun introduced them to him, and the eldest brother calmed down from his surprise.

"My name is Daniu. Thank you for saving me. I thought I was going to die on the road."

A look of worry appeared on Da Niu's somewhat dark face.

Rong Su put away the silver needles one by one, then turned to look at Da Niu and asked, "Do you know that you have mineral poison in your body?"

After hearing this, Daniu didn't show any surprise. Instead, his expression was tinged with sadness. He covered his face with his hands and said in a dull voice, "I know. But I'm unwilling to die like this. I left the mining city because I wanted to go somewhere else to find a doctor who could treat this poison."

"But I didn't expect that I would faint on the road. I thought I would die." When he said the following words, Da Niu's voice was heavy and hoarse.

After thinking for a moment, Rong Su continued to ask, "Tell me how you were poisoned. Perhaps I can help you force the poison out. After all, it seems that the poison hasn't completely penetrated your bloodstream yet."

Upon hearing this, Da Niu was instantly shocked. He raised his face from his hands and looked at Rong Su excitedly: "Really?"

"You tell me first whether it's true or not." Rong Su's tone turned a little cold.

Hearing that Rong Su seemed unhappy, Da Niu immediately put away his excited expression and began to seriously explain why he was poisoned.

It turns out that the mining city has recently unearthed a rare jade called copper mica, which is a jade that is more beautiful than jadeite. Compared with the preciousness of Dushan jade, copper mica is rare.

In order to dig out more copper mica, the city lord recruited many people as miners.

Daniel is one of them.

When the miners went to the mining area to dig mica, they never imagined that they would have health problems after just a few days.

It starts with mild dizziness, then they feel like vomiting after eating a little, then they faint, start coughing violently, and some people even vomit blood. Finally, they become seriously ill and die.

"These terrible symptoms only affected one or two people at first, so everyone thought they were working too hard. Because the city lord paid generous wages, everyone worked very hard."

"But who would have thought that one day, people would begin to fall ill one after another, and some even found that their neighbors had also started to suffer from the disease after returning home."

"The doctor the city lord hired couldn't figure out what was going on, but he gave everyone a frightening explanation: the disease was contagious!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's face became solemn.

Shen Peiqing looked at Da Niu and asked seriously, "So, you escaped? If there really was an infectious disease spreading in the mining city right now, the city lord would have sealed off the city."

When asking this question, Da Niu's expression was obviously a little unnatural. Seeing that everyone was looking at him with a scrutinizing look, he had to lower his head and admit it.

"Yes, I escaped. The mining town is now closed. But if I didn't escape, I wanted to live, and I wanted my brother to live, so I came out to find hope of survival."

As he said this, he looked at Rong Su, knelt down and kowtowed to Rong Su while crying.

"Doctor, please, please save me and my brother!"

"But have you ever thought that if you escape, you will also bring the disease with you, and you will implicate innocent people." Shen Peiqing seemed to strongly disapprove of Da Niu's actions, staring at Da Niu with a cold expression.

When Daniu saw Shen Peiqing's expression, he looked like the ruthless King of Hell, with a cold and intimidating look in his eyes.

After seeing it, he couldn't help but feel fear. He trembled slightly unconsciously and quickly lowered his head, not daring to look directly at Shen Peiqing.

Rong Su felt that Shen Peiqing's current blame on Da Niu was completely useless, so she calmly said, "I need a few herbs. Can you all help me find them? There's one that's quite hard to find. I only remember its name, but I've forgotten what it looks like. It's called Ou Cao Gen."

Long before Shen Peiqing was interrogating Da Niu, Rong Su had already taken out a pen and paper and wrote down the names and appearances of several herbs and handed them to Gu Yuer.

"I'm a grassroots, I know." At this time, Yulan, who had been silent for a long time, spoke. She looked at Rong Su timidly and spoke.

Seeing that it was Yulan, Rong Su's expression became calmer. She said softly, "Since you know, then you can go find Ou Caogen. Yu'er, I'll leave the rest to you and Gu Yun."

Gu Yuer smiled and patted her chest: "Okay! Brother, let's go!"

As she spoke, Gu Yuer reached out to pull Gu Yun, and the two siblings left the carriage together.

After the brothers and sisters left, Yulan also left.

Daniel felt a little uncomfortable sitting there, then he stood up and said, "I'd better go out. I'm afraid I might pass the disease on to you."

Rong Su did not stop him. Although the poison in Da Niu's body had not yet reached the point where it could be contagious, since he wanted to stay out, then he could stay out.

Shen Peiqing crossed his arms across his chest and chose to remain silent with an expressionless face.

Seeing that none of them tried to keep him, Da Niu lowered his head and got off the carriage silently.

After Danniu left, Shen Peiqing looked at Rong Su, a little tentatively: "I'm finding you increasingly difficult to understand. Are you starting to become nosy?"

She understood the meaning of Shen Peiqing's words. Wasn't this a subtle ridicule of her? But Rong Su didn't respond. She said calmly, "Do you think I would do something useless?"

This rhetorical question made Shen Peiqing stunned. He frowned and stared at her. What was this crazy girl planning?

But in a moment, he figured it out again, staring at her and saying, "Are you trying to get into the city through Daniel?"

Seeing that he had reacted, Rong Su looked at him with a look that said you are quite smart. This made Shen Peiqing laugh in anger. Who is this crazy girl looking down on?

"Going into the city is one thing. I'm also very interested in studying this poison." Rong Su said softly, and then began to take out her silver needles and wipe them clean one by one with a handkerchief.

He didn't expect Rong Su to explain to him. He was a little surprised. Looking at her lowering her head to wipe the silver needle, her beautiful profile was tinged with a bit of quiet beauty. At this moment, there was no tit-for-tat or sarcasm between them. He hoped that this moment could stop.

That's what he thought.

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