Chapter 231: Antidote
The next day, before dawn, Chu Tiankuo got up.
There was an alchemy room on the mountain, and he went directly to the alchemy room to refine an antidote pill for Xingnong.
Songbai assisted him, while he personally controlled the heat.
Refining pills was actually not difficult, it didn’t require any spiritual power, as long as there was a prescription, the order of the medicinal herbs was known, and the heat was mastered, it would be fine.
Actually, it was also possible to detoxify by decocting medicinal herbs and drinking them, but drinking the medicinal soup was bitter, and the medicinal soup did not last as long as pills, so doctors thought of making the medicinal soup into pills, which was both convenient to store and carry, and patients could eat them on the journey.
By daybreak, the pills were ready, a total of two.
Chu Tiankuo had just put the pills into a jade bottle when he felt movement in the space.
With a thought, Xingnong came out.
Chu Tiankuo handed her the pills: “Take one after breakfast. Give the other one to Aunt Shen.”
Xingnong took them and said in surprise, “You’ve already refined them so quickly? Did you get up very early?”
Chu Tiankuo said casually, “It’s my usual schedule. Have breakfast first, then take the antidote after you’re done, so as not to hurt your stomach. Eating the Firefly Fruit will give you a burning sensation. Having food in your stomach can alleviate that burning sensation.”
There were many things to do today, and he would probably be busy all day, so he naturally made the antidote for her early.
At this time, Songbai walked into the alchemy room: “Master, breakfast is ready.”
Chu Tiankuo took Xingnong’s hand: “Let’s go, let’s eat.”
Breakfast was set on the stone table under the pavilion by the cliff. Although it was a bit chilly in the early morning of the second month of the lunar year, Xingnong would be taking the antidote later and her body would feel hot, so this temperature was just right.
Moreover, the view from the top of the mountain in the early morning was spectacular, with the sea of clouds rolling in the distance!
As long as Chu Tiankuo was here, he would have his meals here, even on rainy days. The scenery on the top of the mountain was different every day because of the ever-changing sea of clouds, and it was never tiring to watch.
If he didn’t have so much on his shoulders, he would also like to live in seclusion here with her, watching the clouds roll and the sun rise and set, the flowers bloom and wither every day.
After Xingnong finished her meal, Chu Tiankuo gestured for her to take the antidote.
Xingnong poured out a red pill and swallowed it.
As soon as the pill entered her esophagus, she felt a burning sensation, as if her entire esophagus had been scalded by boiling water, with a burning pain.
Chu Tiankuo had been paying attention to Xingnong’s condition. Seeing her frown slightly, he held her hand with one hand to comfort her, while the other hand rested on her pulse to check it: “Is it very uncomfortable?”
Xingnong shook her head: “No, it’s just a little burning sensation, I can still bear it, can I drink water?”
Chu Tiankuo nodded: “Bear with it for a while, you can’t drink water yet, wait for the effect of the medicine to force the cold poison out of your body, then the feeling will pass.”
Xingnong nodded and didn’t say anything more. She felt very hot, a kind of heat she had never experienced since transmigrating into this body!
Slowly, beads of sweat appeared on her skin, tiny at first, just a little moist, then gradually turning into bean-sized beads of sweat.
These beads of sweat were ice cold.
Chu Tiankuo took out a clean cloth and carefully wiped the sweat from her face.
The sweat came faster and faster, and soon Xingnong’s clothes were soaked through.
Xingnong’s skin also slowly became fairer. At first, it wasn’t noticeable, but as she sweated more and more, it became obvious.
At first, when Chu Tiankuo wiped the sweat for her, his hand and Xingnong’s face were two different colors, a bit obvious, his hand was whiter than Xingnong’s face.
Now his hand and Xingnong’s face were almost the same skin color.
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Chu Tiankuo’s hand rested on Xingnong’s pulse again to check it. After a while, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly: “The detoxification is almost complete, bear with it a little longer.”
Xingnong looked at his hand resting on her pulse, her own hand had become much fairer! Even now her hand was whiter than his.
And she wasn’t so hot anymore, and she was sweating less.
After another quarter of an hour, Chu Tiankuo felt that Xingnong’s sweat was already warm, her skin was no longer icy cold, and her whole little hand was warm. He wiped the sweat from her forehead and said with a smile: “Okay, the poison has been completely removed, do you still feel uncomfortable? Is the burning sensation still there?”
Xingnong shook her head with a smile: “No more. My whole body feels warm and comfortable!”
It was windy on the mountain, so Chu Tiankuo took out a cloak and put it on her.
Xingnong stretched out her hands and looked at them, then touched her face: “Have I become whiter? More beautiful?”
Chu Tiankuo only then looked at her carefully.
The faint morning light fell on the girl, her skin as white as snow, her delicate cheeks as if dyed with the glow of dawn, her eyes curved, a faint smile on her lips, a kind of beauty to the extreme!
Chu Tiankuo couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment. He couldn’t help but lower his head and gently peck her cherry-like red lips, nodding with a smile, his eyes full of doting, his face full of tenderness, and praised generously: “The beauty that overturns countries and cities, as beautiful as a celestial being, the most beautiful scenery in the world is not even one ten thousandth of you!”
He raised his hand and tucked the strands of hair that were stuck to her face because of the sweat behind her ear.
Xingnong was satisfied!
She was finally a stunning beauty again!
“I want to look in the mirror!” With a thought, Xingnong immediately took out a colored glass mirror.
Chu Tiankuo didn’t agree with this, he snatched the mirror from her hand and put it back into the space: “No hurry, go wash up and change your clothes, don’t catch a cold.”
Xingnong glared at him, but thinking that he still had things to do in the capital, she said, “I’ll go wash up now, Senior Brother, you can go back first if you have something to do! I’ll go down the mountain after I’m done washing up!”
“Okay.”
It was getting late, Chu Tiankuo still had to attend the morning court session, so he didn’t wait for Xingnong to finish washing up and went directly back to the Eastern Palace from the silver bead space.
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When Xingnong returned home, the whole family was up. Only Shen Ruoxi and the Jin Kingdom Emperor were in the courtyard. Xinghui had already gone back to the academy, and Madam Gu and Xingqing had also gone to the workshop to work.
“Mother! I’m back!” Xingnong deliberately shouted loudly, lest the other party didn’t recognize her.
There was no other way, one white covers three ugliness, it was indeed true!
Now that she was fair, she was simply breathtakingly beautiful, causing fish to sink and geese to fall, the moon to hide and flowers to shame, making both gods and mortals envious, and the world to lose its color!
She was even mesmerized by herself!
Shen Ruoxi was watering the vegetables, and the Jin Kingdom Emperor was chopping firewood. Hearing this, they both looked up at the same time, and then froze!
Shen Ruoxi: Who was that peach blossom fairy at the courtyard gate? Why did she look a bit like her Xingnong?
A surge of joy welled up in the Jin Kingdom Emperor’s heart. As expected, his daughter was the most beautiful in the world! She was originally the most beautiful dark-skinned beauty in the world! Now she was even more breathtakingly beautiful, as beautiful as a celestial being!
But he quickly grasped the main point: “Xingnong, your poison has been cured?”
He was surprised, how could it be so fast?
Counting the days, didn’t Chu Tiankuo only return to the capital yesterday?
Could it be that he really found the Firefly Fruit in the Qi Xiong Mountain?
Shen Ruoxi was stunned: “What poison?”
