bookrandom Chapter 464 Strange
Chapter 464 Strange
Princess Lejia couldn't wait to pick up the wine glass in front of her and took a sip.
I've tried assorted fruit tea, but I don't know what assorted fruit wine tastes like.
Shen Huazheng took a sip of the hot wine and squinted her eyes in a good mood.
Because it is cooked with spices and fruits, a lot of alcohol evaporates and the taste of the wine becomes lighter.
What remains is a warm aroma and a light sweetness, with improved acidity.
The wine glides lightly and gracefully across the palate, rich and full-bodied.
The sour taste suddenly jumped onto the tip of the tongue, with a slight astringency.
When you savor it, you can feel its sweetness.
After the sour and sweet taste, the aroma of fruits, tangerine peel and spices follows, fresh and smooth.
Not only is it delicious, but it is not intoxicating at all.
Zhou Ying held the wine glass and tasted the mulled wine carefully.
The wine is warm but not strong, with just the right amount of sweetness and sourness.
After taking two sips, I felt my whole body warmed up.
No wonder Zheng'er said to drink this when the weather is cold. One cup will warm you up.
This mulled wine is really delicious and warms the body.
Yun Ruo drank the hot wine sip after sip and couldn't stop drinking.
It turns out that this flavor is created by adding spices and other fruits to wine. The sweet and sour taste is a bit like juice.
However, it is not quite the same as juice.
In addition to the fruity aroma, there are other flavors.
It is a complex aroma formed by the combination of fruit, wine and spices.
The various flavors are perfectly combined, layer by layer, with a wonderful balance between sour and sweet, and the fragrance lingers in the mouth for a long time.
Although the weather is getting warmer now, it is still quite cold at night.
If you can brew a cup to drink at night, it will definitely warm you from the inside out.
Shen Huazheng and a few others drank mulled wine, ate snacks on the table, and chatted from time to time.
Yun Ruo swallowed the grape milk soufflé in her mouth, feeling indescribably happy.
Xie Yanqing's biological mother died when he was very young, and General Xie never remarried.
Before Yun Ruo got married, the affairs of the Xie Mansion were handled by the housekeeper.
Now that Yun Ruo has married Xie Yanqing and become the only mistress of the Xie Mansion, all matters in the mansion will naturally be handed over to her for management.
Today was the first time since she returned to the Northwest that she was able to sit down and chat with friends and drink afternoon tea so leisurely.
It’s just like what Princess Lejia and the others said, you should take a proper rest when you are tired and not push yourself too hard.
Yun Ruo learned the term afternoon tea from Shen Huazheng, and she thought it was very vivid and appropriate.
Afternoon tea, just listening to it gives me a leisurely and comfortable feeling.
She decided that when she was at home, she would also develop the habit of drinking afternoon tea after waking up from a nap.
Just think of it as finding a gap in a busy day to relax.
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Ning Yu held the teacup and took a sip of tea.
For some reason, he always felt that this matter was not as simple as it seemed.
He looked at General Xie: "Old Xie, what do you think?"
General Xie has remained silent ever since he saw Lin Sheng being held in custody in the county government office.
Back in the barracks, he still looked thoughtful.
General Xie held the teacup and drank the tea slowly.
After listening to Zhang Yan's story, they went to see Lin Sheng who was imprisoned.
Lin Sheng was just like Wang Zhao at that time, with a dark face and sunken eye sockets.
It looks like neither human nor ghost.
It was as if the soul had long since left the body, leaving only a shell.
When Lin Sheng was asked questions, he was able to answer a few questions, but his words were always unclear.
He doesn't look like a sane person.
General Xie: "What was the situation like when you went to Pingyu Town?"
Although General Xie and his party realized that something was wrong in Pingyu Town when they were at the post station.
But they were in a hurry to travel and had no time to investigate carefully, so they just asked someone to search for some relevant information.
The people from the Dali Temple were there to investigate these cases, so they definitely knew more than them.
Ning Yu didn't expect General Xie to ask this: "The county magistrate of Leping County told me at the time that there hadn't been a missing person case in Pingyu Town for some time. But sometimes a good person suddenly goes crazy."
He put down his teacup and continued, "I've seen those who went crazy before. They all had it suddenly, and they returned to normal after a good rest."
As if worried that what he said was not clear enough, Ning Yu added: "I also saw Wang Zhao who attacked the post station at that time. His symptoms were the most serious."
General Xie looked at Ning Yu and said, "You mean, the other crazy people in Pingyu Town don't seem as serious as Wang Zhao?"
Due to the time constraints at that time, General Xie did not take a close look at what the other crazy people in Pingyu Town looked like.
He had only met Wang Zhao.
But from what Ning Yu said, it seemed that Wang Zhao's symptoms were much more serious than those of the people in Pingyu Town.
Ning Yu nodded: "Yes, we arrived at Pingyu Town first and immediately went to check on the townspeople who had attacked others. Except for Wang Zhao who looked like a ghost, the mental state of others seemed to be okay."
At that time, people from the Dali Temple found those people and asked them some questions.
The testimonies of those people were basically consistent. They had almost no memory of suddenly going crazy and attacking others.
Even if there are, they are rather vague.
But compared to Wang Zhao, other people not only speak clearly, but also can express their meaning accurately.
Ning Yu: "The imperial physician hadn't caught up with us at the time, so we couldn't figure out what was wrong with them."
This time, in addition to the people from the Dali Temple, Emperor Jingning also sent an imperial physician.
Ning Yu brought the people from Dali Temple and followed the clues all the way.
In order to save time, they rarely even stayed in post stations.
One of the imperial doctors was too old to withstand such torture.
Ning Yu asked the imperial physician and the guards to follow behind and reunite in Yuzhang County.
General Xie: "Did you find out anything?"
He knew that the Dali Temple had its own way of handling cases.
It is so easy to get the information they want from the mouths of these people.
Ning Yu: "They all have one thing in common, that is, they all saw strangers asking for directions before they went crazy. However, the people they saw were basically different. Some saw several young men, and some saw old men..."
At least from those confessions, it can be judged that it was a group of people who entered Pingyu Town and tried to contact the townspeople.
General Xie: "Are those outsiders just asking for directions?"
Ning Yu nodded: "That's right, the townspeople said that they just showed the way to those outsiders, and then they left. The townspeople also went to do their own things. But they didn't expect that they would behave so abnormally next."
General Xie tapped the table with two fingers. "That is to say, only Wang Zhao and Lin Sheng are in the same situation."
According to Ning Yu's words, the townspeople in Pingyu Town who had gone crazy later returned to normal.
Only Wang Zhao and Lin Sheng still look half dead.
Not only were their minds affected, but their bodies also suffered irreparable damage.
Speaking of Wang Zhao, Ning Yu recalled another incident: "At that time in Pingyu Town, we also found out something."
"About half a year ago, Wang Zhao became seriously ill. His family invited several doctors to treat him, but they all said that he could not be cured. The Wang family had already started preparing for his death, but then, somehow, Wang Zhao suddenly got better and looked like a normal person."
General Xie thought about the situation when Wang Zhao broke into the post station. It took three Northwest Army soldiers to subdue him. It didn't look like someone who had just recovered from a serious illness.
Thinking about it this way, the whole thing is weird.
Wang Zhao was already seriously ill at the time, so how did he recover?
How did he possess such terrifying strength?
Also, they all attacked suddenly and injured people, so why were the people in Pingyu Town in much better condition than Wang Zhao and Lin Sheng?
What’s even more strange is that the person who attacked the post station happened to be Wang Zhao, whose situation was the most serious.
Thinking of the strange medicinal fragrance that Zhang Yan said he smelled on Lin Sheng, General Xie's brows furrowed more and more.
The bailiff who subdued Lin Sheng at the time said that he did not smell any strange smell. After Zhang Yan was detained, no one else could smell it either.
They even specially asked someone to take Zhang Yan to see Lin Sheng, hoping that he could tell whether the smell he smelled at that time was the smell of medicine.
What’s strange is that Zhang Yan also said that he could no longer smell that smell.
Later on, even Zhang Yan couldn't tell whether the smell he smelled from Lin Sheng was real or not.
Or maybe it was just his illusion.
The doctor couldn't see any problem either.
So they didn't know whether Lin Sheng was affected by the drugs when he suddenly attacked and hurt people.
General Xie picked up the teapot and filled the cup in front of Ning Yu.
"When will the imperial physician arrive in Yuzhang County?"
Just because ordinary doctors can’t see any problem doesn’t mean the imperial physician can’t see it either.
This is also the main reason why Emperor Jingning specially appointed several imperial doctors to follow the people from the Dali Temple to the northwest.
Ning Yu: "They just left Pingyu Town yesterday and are now heading here."
He also hoped that the imperial physician could arrive in Yuzhang County as soon as possible, so that he could ask the imperial physician to take a look at Lin Sheng's condition.
The imperial physician has already been to Pingyu Town and met Wang Zhaohe and the townspeople.
It would be the most appropriate time to let them check on Lin Sheng's condition.
Furthermore, although the letter did not explicitly state it, the fact that the imperial physician and his team left Pingyu Town must have meant that they had acquired some important information.
Maybe with that information, all problems will be solved.