kvmb Chapter 188 Side Effects
Chapter 188 Side Effects
Lu Yangyang quickly changed her clothes and hurriedly went out.
Mid-Autumn Festival is a day for family reunion across the country. Renxintang was closed today. Lu Yangyang rarely saw Renxintang so quiet. She quietly slipped in through the side door and found Wen Yu's courtyard.
Wen Yu was disheveled, with dark circles under his eyes, and was lying on a large wooden table covered with various bottles and jars.
"Master?" Lu Yangyang called out to him cautiously.
There was no reaction from the smell.
“Master!” Lu Yangyang reached out and patted him on the back.
Wen Yu slammed his hand on the table and shouted excitedly, "I know! I know what it is!"
Lu Yangyang was startled by his frenzied appearance and silently took a step back.
Wen Yu turned around, excitedly grabbed her shoulders and shook her, his dark eyes shining with an unusual gleam: "It's the Mind-Bewitching Datura! It's the real active ingredient in the Heart-Nourishing Pill from Qinglian Temple. I've tried many different ratios, but they were all a bit off, until I found the Mind-Bewitching Datura, and it finally worked! It finally worked, hahaha!"
Hearing this, he burst into laughter.
Lu Yangyang understood what he meant and was also very excited: "I was just about to ask you that, but what is the Bewitching Mandala? I've never heard you mention it before?"
Lu Yangyang was supposed to have a day off today. Wen Yu had told her before that she didn't need to come over during the Mid-Autumn Festival. She only came because she was thinking about the medicine. She didn't expect it to be such a coincidence.
Wen Yu's excitement finally subsided a little. He pulled Lu Yangyang to sit down at the table and showed her his experimental results: "Bewitching Datura is also a type of Datura flower. Datura can be used as medicine or to kill; it's an ingredient in sleeping potions. However, different varieties have different effects. The special effect of Bewitching Datura is that it can slowly stimulate the body's potential in a short period of time, bringing the body back to its best state. To put it another way, it's like consuming life force in advance to maintain the best condition. In addition, Datura itself has sedative and analgesic effects when used in medicine. After taking it, it can relieve many physical pains. As long as the dosage is carefully controlled, a strange effect can be achieved, which is neither fatal nor harmful."
As Lu Yangyang listened to his description, she felt increasingly uneasy: "Any medicine that prematurely depletes life has side effects. Wouldn't that...?"
“That’s right. No matter how precisely the dosage is controlled, there will be side effects. So over time, it will lead to dependence, because no one can accept their condition getting worse and worse. Once you stop taking the medication, it won’t be noticeable in the short term, but after a few months, the consequences will definitely show up quickly. It will cause rapid aging, and the meridians in the head will also be affected, resulting in a disordered state. In mild cases, it can cause unbearable headaches, and in severe cases, it can lead to madness and death,” Wen Yu said with a serious expression.
Lu Yangyang's eyes widened, her face filled with disbelief.
She suddenly remembered something and hurriedly told him about the Qinglian Temple Heart-Nourishing Pill from yesterday. Then, her voice trembling, she said, "So, could it be that they believe in the principle of 'you are what you eat,' so they added a child's brain marrow to the original formula, thinking it was the purest essence..."
Wen Yu's face contorted in disgust, and he turned away, retching a few times. "Ridiculous! Utterly ridiculous! Absurd! Utterly absurd!"
Lu Yangyang quickly got up and poured him a glass of water.
Wen Yu's expression softened, and he said with lingering fear, "I have traveled the world and seen corpses everywhere and cries of agony all over the land. There have even been cases of people exchanging children to eat during famine years. I have also heard of wealthy people eating placenta. But this is the first time I have ever heard of such an absurd practice as using brain marrow as medicine."
Lu Yangyang's expression was also very unpleasant, and so was hers.
She had a difficult childhood, but there were more good people around her. If it weren't for the occasional help from the villagers, she didn't know if she could have survived.
She had witnessed countless acts of wickedness, but she never imagined that such horrifying methods existed.
Lu Yangyang sighed deeply.
The master and apprentice sat side by side, deeply moved.
After a while, Lu Yangyang finally remembered the important matter. "Master, please quickly compile a list of what you found so I can take it to His Highness the Crown Prince. Now that this case has been exposed, even though we have arrested Shangshan Fairy and Qinglian Master, there's no guarantee that someone won't actually believe this method is effective and secretly imitate it. If that happens, it would defeat the original purpose of making this case public."
Wen Yu raised an eyebrow in surprise: "You little girl, you're not that old, but you've thought things through quite thoroughly. You don't need to explain; His Highness the Crown Prince sent someone to see me yesterday, instructing me to find out the harmful effects of this medicine. He even suggested it might contain banned substances, which is why I thought to look for similar drugs. I finally found one! But I never expected this medicine would actually..."
Lu Yangyang slapped her forehead. She had been so anxious that she had forgotten that His Highness the Crown Prince was always thorough in his actions. How could he have missed such an important issue? Compared to His Highness the Crown Prince, she was still too naive.
It seems the Crown Prince received the prescription yesterday, but felt something was off about it, so he asked someone to find Wen Yu for help.
So she felt relieved.
but……
Lu Yangyang looked Wen Yu up and down: "Yesterday I sent someone to tell you to go to Chunfang Pavilion, but you didn't go?"
She then remembered that she had tried to find someone to help her yesterday, but she probably didn't succeed.
There was another thing she forgot about while she was busy. She caught A Liang at Qinglian Temple yesterday, but forgot about it after she got back. She even made an appointment to meet Xiao Dong at Chunfang Tower!
Wen Yu touched his nose, glancing elsewhere: "You can't blame me for this. The message you relayed was so fake, saying you got beaten up at Chunfang Pavilion. With your strength, enough to kill a pig with one punch, none of those good-for-nothings in the brothel could beat you. I knew as soon as I thought you'd need a doctor, so I picked two young doctors and sent them over. Then, then I was too busy last night and forgot to ask..."
Lu Yangyang was utterly speechless.
"You didn't sleep at all last night, did you?" Lu Yangyang asked, looking at his dark circles.
Wen Yu yawned: "Now that you mention it, I remember. The things are on the table. You can pack them up and take them to the Crown Prince yourself. I'm going to sleep now, I'm so sleepy."
After saying that, he turned his head and lay down on the soft couch next to him, and fell asleep immediately.
Lu Yangyang: "..."
Resigned, she went over and covered him with the thin blanket he had left aside. Then she went to the table to organize the things he had worked on all night, carefully put them away, and then quietly left Renxintang.
She didn't go to the Crown Prince, but instead found Yan Yue, gave him the items, and asked him to pass them on, because the Crown Prince would definitely not have time to see her at this time.
Then she went to the vicinity of Chunfanglou again. Chunfanglou had been sealed off, and no one could pass through the entire alley. She glanced at it from afar and then went to the place where she had met Xiaodong yesterday.
When Xiao Dong saw her, his eyes lit up immediately, and he rushed over quickly: "You've finally come! I thought you'd forgotten!"
Lu Yangyang was very embarrassed: "I found Ah Liang yesterday, but I was busy and forgot to come over. I'm sorry."
Then he gave Xiao Dong two more pieces of silver from his purse.
Xiao Dong took it and said with a grin, "It's alright, it's alright, but I do have something to tell you! Didn't you ask me to investigate that Ah Liang?"
Xiao Dong leaned closer to Lu Yangyang and whispered mysteriously, "He has a powerful figure behind him."