The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#550 - flaw

As usual, Lu Jing also asked Butcher He about his whereabouts before he lost his memory.

Butcher He said that he spent most of his time at the butcher shop because He's Butcher Shop was the most popular butcher shop in Lingyang County, so it opened every day before dawn.

He would be busy until all the meat was sold out, and by that time it would be almost sunset. Butcher He would usually choose to have a few drinks in his own yard, and then go to nearby villages to buy pigs and sheep.

Lu Jing then asked Butcher He if he had ever been to the Zhang residence, and received a negative answer. As for Zhang Yuanwai's young wife, Yue Ru, Butcher He had never even heard of her.

In other words, there was no intersection between the two.

Butcher He also didn't know Old Madam Liu, Ma Bancheng's mother.

As a result, Lu Jing's plan to use the common life trajectories of the three people to circle the location of the strange object was also ruined.

However, Lu Jing did not give up. After leaving He's Butcher Shop, he quickly went to the Ma residence again.

Upon learning that Yang Daoshi, who had saved him yesterday, had come to visit again, Ma Bancheng didn't even bother to put on his shoes and rushed to the door in a hurry, shouting as he ran, "Yang Daoshi, where is Yang Daoshi?!"

"Good morning, Master Ma..." Lu Jing was still greeting Ma Bancheng when the latter grabbed his arm.

"Don't talk about these nonsense. Daoist Ma, my old mother fainted again not long after you left yesterday! She hasn't woken up until now. Please give her some more elixir."

Lu Jing was not surprised by this. Yesterday, he used his profound internal energy to nourish and dredge Liu's meridians, which improved her complexion, but this was only temporary.

Internal energy is not a panacea that can cure all diseases, especially for an elderly person like Liu, whose meridians throughout her body have atrophied, its effect is even smaller.

In fact, with her physical condition, even if Lu Jing used his internal energy to regulate her every day, she would not live for more than half a month.

However, Lu Jing still used his internal energy to save Liu's life, mainly because his internal energy was worthless and had to be consumed anyway.

Seeing his old mother wake up again, Ma Bancheng was also relieved, but after what happened yesterday, he also knew that Liu's body was only temporarily better, and she would faint again at any time.

So he was also thinking about how to keep this Daoist Yang in Lingyang County forever. He wondered if a Taoist temple would do the trick?

Just as Ma Bancheng was considering what price to use to impress Lu Jing, he didn't expect Lu Jing to speak first, "Master Ma, may I ask if your residence has a place for decocting medicine?"

Ma Bancheng's spirit was shaken when he heard this, and he thought that Lu Jing had some new elixir to decoct for his old mother, so he immediately said, "Daoist Yang, please wait a moment, I will have someone clean up a room for you so that you can decoct medicine specifically."

"No need, no need, I just need to borrow a fire," Lu Jing waved his hand, "I don't want a new room."

Seeing that Lu Jing's tone was firm, Ma Bancheng didn't insist anymore and asked someone to take Lu Jing to the place where he usually decocted medicine.

After arriving there, Lu Jing drove out all the maids who were originally prepared to assist him, as well as the others in the room, leaving only himself behind.

Although some people felt strange about this, they didn't think much about it. They just thought that Lu Jing didn't want his prescription to be leaked out, and there was nothing valuable in the room where the medicine was decocted, so no one had any objections.

After closing the door, Lu Jing first started the fire, but he didn't have any medicine to decoct. He came here just to see if he could get any clues from here.

Speaking of which, it was Ma Bancheng who reminded Lu Jing when he asked him for the elixir before.

Judging from Liu's physical condition, she had obviously been ill for a long time, but nothing had happened before. Could it be because a miraculous doctor had prescribed her a powerful prescription to stabilize her condition?

However, the miraculous doctor later disappeared for some reason, just like the child Yue Ru. The traces he left in this world were also erased.

As a result, Liu lost the prescription and her condition began to deteriorate.

Similarly, the situation was the same with Butcher He. The person who taught him the pig-slaughtering skills disappeared, and Butcher He also forgot what that person had taught him.

This also explains why he can still slaughter pigs now, but he is no longer as clean and efficient as before.

This is because his years of experience in slaughtering pigs are still there, but the most important technique has been forgotten by him.

In addition, this also solved another doubt of Lu Jing's, which is why Liu, Yue Ru, and Butcher He had no interaction.

Because these three people were not the main people who came into contact with the strange object, but the people who were affected after the main person disappeared.

The reason why Lu Jing borrowed the medicine decocting room from Ma Bancheng was also to confirm his guess.

He didn't expect to find the prescription here, because this kind of item directly from the main person is almost impossible to exist in this world, but it seems that the ability of the strange object is not perfect.

What Lu Jing is now looking for in this medicine decocting room is similar indirect evidence.

As a result, a quarter of an hour later, he did have some gains.

Lu Jing picked up a few pieces of dried medicinal herbs under the stove, and then found some medicinal dregs in the corner of the other side. It was estimated that someone had accidentally overturned the casserole and left it behind when decocting medicine a month ago.

Lu Jing took a little and wrapped it in oil paper, and then found some licorice and Malva nut from the medicine box on the other side, and sprinkled some into the boiling water on the fire at will.

He went out and told the two maids next to him to feed Liu the soup when it cooled down, and then drifted away.

After leaving the Ma residence, Lu Jing immediately found a pharmacy, spent twenty taels of silver, found the most experienced pharmacist in the pharmacy, and asked him to help identify the ingredients in the dried herbs and medicinal dregs.

When the final result came out, Lu Jing learned that one of the dried herbs was very rare, and the old pharmacist couldn't identify all the herbs in the dregs because it had been too long.

However, he has been selling medicine for so many years and is familiar with most prescriptions, so he can guarantee to Lu Jing that this prescription is not an ordinary prescription, at least their pharmacy has never filled this prescription.

To be cautious, Lu Jing later ran all over the other three pharmacies in the city, and the answers he got were the same, and Lu Jing also initially figured out what abilities the strange object he was going to deal with this time had.