Chapter 19 Chapter Eighteen

Every day after dinner, Li Dong will calm down and study medical books carefully under the lamp. This is a good habit he developed when he was studying with Dr. Xue. The reading process usually lasts for two to three hours.Today, when he was looking at the place of concentration, someone knocked on the door suddenly, and at the same time, someone shouted in a panic: "Doctor Li! Doctor Li!" Li Dong's heart shuddered, knowing that someone was going to the doctor in an emergency, so he hurried over and opened the door.To his surprise, standing at the door was the little monk Huitong who guarded the tomb of the undead together with Deping.

"Doctor Li, go and have a look quickly! Something happened to my master and the others!" The little monk gave a general overview of the whole situation in a panic.Since two people had the same symptoms at the same time, Li Dong immediately realized that the possibility of food poisoning was very high.He packed up the medicine box, took the antidote, and followed Huitong to the place where the incident happened. In Huitong's narration, only Deping and Jin Zhenyu appeared abnormal, but when Li Dong rushed to the hut, he was shocked by the scene in front of him: five people were lying or lying down, lying on the ground in disorder, struggling in pain Then, the filth was vomited all over the place.The most serious ones were Deping and Jin Zhenyu, their faces were sallow, their eyes were slightly closed, and they didn't even have the energy to moan.

Knowing that the situation was critical, Li Dong rushed forward immediately, put his hand on Deping's veins, and asked anxiously, "What did you eat just now?" became the key of the key. Although his body was suffering from painful torture, Luo Fei already had a rough judgment on the cause of the poisoning in his mind while waiting for rescue. He pointed to the teapot on the table and reminded Li Dong, "There... That 'clean heart tea'!" Deping was already very weak, but when he heard Luo Fei's words, he tried his best to open his eyes wide, and at the same time nodded slightly to show his approval.

Li Dong quickly came to the table and poured the remaining tea and tea leaves on the table with his backhand.Then he frowned, carefully looking through the soaked tea.After a while, he seemed to have discovered something, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he blurted out excitedly: "That's right, that's right! That's it!" Luo Fei and Meng Shaohui glanced at each other, knowing that they could be rescued, there was joy in their eyes.Deping and Jin Zhenyu's breathing was weak and they were unable to react.Only Zang Junyong was humming while looking up and down at Li Dong, wondering what he was thinking.

At this time Li Dong hastily opened the medicine box, took out a syringe and several bottles of medicine.Then he knelt down on one knee and injected the antidote to Deping, Jin Zhenyu, Meng Shaohui, Luo Fei and Zang Junyong in turn.Then he picked up the oil lamp again and walked out of the house quickly. The hut was suddenly dark, only the groans and gasps of the five patients could be heard one after another.Huitong stood on the side tremblingly, at a loss. That injection of antidote was indeed effective, not long after, Luo Fei felt that the pain in his abdomen was slightly relieved, but his body was still limp and unable to lift his strength.After a while, I saw the oil lamp flickering, and Li Dong came back from the bushes.

As soon as he entered the room, Li Dong put the oil lamp on the table and told Huitong loudly: "Hurry up and boil a pot of hot water, and prepare some clean teacups!" Huitong agreed, and started to work in a hurry.Li Dong brought a handful of plants in his left hand to the light, squinted his eyes and carefully selected them.Although it was warm and cold outside at night, there was a fine layer of sweat beads on his forehead, mixed with a few smudges and mud prints. It seemed that he had suffered a lot from collecting these plants. It was winter, and the plants had lost all their leaves, leaving only bare branches and some shriveled pods.Li Dong was carefully peeling off the pods one by one, took out the oblate fruit inside, and put them on the table next to the oil lamp.

After Huitong boiled the hot water, Li Dong's work also showed results: the collected small particles had gathered into a pile the size of a cup lid.He breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the few people lying on the ground, and his eyes became a little more sure. Here Huitong found a few clean teacups and placed them on the table.Li Dong picked up a cup lid, pressed the particles into powder one by one with the smooth back, and then he divided the powder into five parts evenly, and put them into the teacups respectively. After finishing these, Li Dong lifted the kettle from the stove and filled five cups with boiling hot water.Then he called Huitong together, and served the five cups of "hot tea" to the five poisoned people.

Before Li Dong could open his mouth, everyone knew his intentions and took the teacups one after another. Although the water was boiling hot, they still poured the whole cup of water into their stomachs as quickly as possible. At this moment, Li Dong freed his hands, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said with emotion: "Okay. The lives of the few of you are saved now." "What's the reason? It's so powerful?" Luo Fei just recovered a little, and then showed his policeman's nature again. He knew that the answer was already in Li Dong's heart. Li Dong rummaged through the pile of residual tea in front of the table for a while, then returned to Luo Fei with the oil lamp in his hand, and showed his left hand under the light.I saw two pieces of tea leaves sticking to his palm, both in the shape of oval pointed ends, five millimeters wide and two centimeters long. Under the dim light, they faintly showed a dark brown color.

"The plant on the left is very common on the island. The locals call it bitter vanilla. It is often picked and added to the tea. The tea brewed in this way has a special fragrance. Although it tastes bitter at the entrance, it has an endless aftertaste. , many people like it very much, of course, some people hate it." Luo Fei recalled the situation when he drank the "Purifying Heart Tea", it really smelled good, but it tasted extremely bitter, but he didn't taste it carefully, so he swallowed it.But he knew that the bitter herb was by no means the cause of the poison.

Sure enough, Li Dong continued to explain: "The plant on the right is rare. It usually only grows in the valley where the back is damp. I'm afraid not many islanders know about it. I learned from Dr. Xue." When I was a doctor, Master once explained this kind of thing to me in detail. Its common name is 'beautiful eyes', and it belongs to the alfalfa family. It is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish the difference between it and bitter vanilla." Luo Fei took a closer look and found that there were subtle differences between the two leaves.The leaves of bitter vanilla have fine jagged edges, while the "beauty eyes" are relatively smooth. He nodded thoughtfully: "Then the toxicity is caused by the 'beauty eyes'?"

"It's not accurate to say that." Li Dong shook his head noncommittally, "Because the 'beauty's eye' itself is not poisonous, but the ingredients contained in its leaves will chemically react with the amino groups in the tea leaves at high temperature, forming a Highly toxic substances are enough to kill people. When I was studying medicine, someone was poisoned by mistake. At that time, I learned how to detoxify with Master. The injections only played the role of analgesia and strengthening vital functions. The real detoxification is the herbal medicine I collected later—that is, the glass of water you drank. Speaking of it, you are really fateful. This kind of toxicity is very strong. If you don’t vomit and detoxify in time, you may be in suspense. gone." Luo Fei thought about it, he had indeed walked back from the gate of hell, and couldn't help but say with some trepidation: "So, it's possible that the tea maker mistakenly picked the 'beauty eyes', which almost caused a catastrophe." I was also guessing whether someone deliberately poisoned, but the situation was not clear, so I didn't say it directly, so as not to cause panic and random suspicion among everyone. Li Dong lowered his head, seeming to be planning something in his heart, then he turned his head and asked Deping, "Where did this tea come from?" Deping seemed to be the most poisoned, and he was still very weak at this moment. He didn't answer directly, but just looked at Huitong with his eyes. The little monk said timidly, "This... I bought this from Grandma Wang this morning." Speaking of Grandma Wang, everyone here knows this person except Luo Fei and Meng Shaohui.She runs some small and odd businesses, one of which is to add bitter herbs she picks to the tea and sell it to the islanders who love to drink this kind of tea. "If this is the case, I have to go to Grandma Wang to see if there is something wrong with her leftover tea." As a doctor, Li Dong has a professional sense of responsibility for the health of the island residents.Before leaving, he told those who had not fully recovered from the poisoning: "You guys, it's best to rest for a day or two and drink as much water as possible. By the way, Officer Luo, if you have anything to do with me, You can come to my house and find me in two hours." Luo Fei noticed that when Li Dong said the last sentence, there was deep meaning in his eyes, and he knew it in his heart, but on the surface it was still as if nothing had happened.After Li Dong left, Hui Tong was naturally busy cleaning up the messy house.The five recovered slowly, and after about half an hour, even Deping, who was most poisoned, could sit up. There are quite a lot of strange things about what happened just now, Luo Fei began to organize his thoughts at this time, trying to solve some of the mysteries. "Why did you two come to participate in the sacrifice?" He first asked Jin Zhenyu and Zang Junyong. "I am the head of the village. What happened on the island recently made me unable to rest my mind. I heard that Monk Deping was going to perform a religious service, so I came here. Alas, I also want to be at ease." After Jin Zhenyu finished talking about his situation, he Pointing to Zang Junyong, "He came because Xue Xiaohua died in the cave, and wanted to get rid of the bad luck." "I didn't come if I knew it earlier. I almost lost my life here." Zang Junyong looked a little annoyed, "It's getting worse and worse. What's the use of offering sacrifices to the dead? Now I insist on my opinion again, these things, It's all the fault of the living!" "You have no respect for the dead, and you will be punished sooner or later." Deping responded coldly to Zang Junyong's words, "Isn't it a kind of warning for everyone to escape this time?" Jin Zhenyu also looked at Zang Junyong with dissatisfaction at this time, and seemed to be quite critical of his words and deeds. "What's wrong? I have my own life in my hands, so I don't believe in these things!" Zang Junyong was uncompromising. He stood up while talking, and seemed to have fully recovered. After a "hum", the man who was known as the bravest person on the island left on his own. The hut fell into an embarrassing silence. After a long time, Deping sighed and asked Luo Fei: "Officer Luo, tell me about you, you who don't believe in ghosts and gods at all, why are you here?" "I want to come." Meng Shaohui took the initiative to answer, "I want to come to worship my mother who died in the tsunami." "Oh." Deping nodded without saying anything.Then, perhaps because of the exhaustion from recovering from the poisoning, or because he felt some kind of helplessness, he closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.