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Zhou Hao hurriedly put out the fire. Fortunately, < The Shen Nong's Herbal Classic > was only burned for a few pages.

He carefully opened the previously inflated page and found a rectangular bookmark hidden within it.

He took out the piece of paper and saw that it was covered densely with traditional Chinese characters. The words that it formed were also obscure Chinese characters.

Fortunately, Zhou Hao was born into a Humanities background, so his reading ability was not bad. He could basically understand what it meant.

Looking at the content on the paper, Zhou Hao realised that it was actually a poison recipe.

According to the paper, this poison was called "throat cutting powder". It could destroy the respiratory system of the poisoned person, making it hard for them to breathe. In the end, they would suffocate and die.

Other than the ingredients and the amount needed to concoct the "throat cutting powder", there was another sentence at the bottom of the paper, which said that it was "it is difficult for one's breath to last for three minutes".

This meant that a person who had been poisoned by the "throat cutting powder" wouldn't be able to survive for three hours.

He did not know how long the "three quarters of an hour" had actually passed, but he was certain that the person who had been struck by the "Sever Throat Powder" would not have long to live!

After putting down the paper, Zhou Hao carefully cut open every page of the《 Shen Nong's Herbal Classic》 with the blade.

Although it was not every page that held the proverbs, but as Zhou Hao got busier, he managed to find over fifty paper proverbs.

There were thirty-seven pieces of paper that contained prescriptions for various poisons. The other nineteen had records of methods or formulae for detoxifying individual poisons.

In other words, including the 'Throat Cutting Powder' from before, there were a total of nineteen poisons that had no antidote.

And these poisons that were hidden in the《 Shen Nong's Herbal Classic》, some could cause the skin on one's entire body to fester from pain, and some could cause one's heart to shatter and one's body to die from the pain.

Some could even cause a person's entire body to bleed to death. It was extremely cruel. Some can make a person disabled, or blind, deaf and mute, or hands and feet atrophy immobile.

Others are dizzying or hallucinogenic, like some of the psychotropic drugs in the West, with all sorts of effects.

Furthermore, Zhou Hao also discovered that there were several poisons that were concocted using medicinal ingredients that were recorded in the《 Shen Nong's Herbal Classic》 that were used to cure illnesses.

In other words, the different medicinal herbs combined together could be used as a cure and could also be used as a lethal poison.

Looking at this piece of paper, Zhou Hao thought to himself, it was said that Shen Nong tasted the Hundred Herbs, and the edible parts were placed in the bag on the left side of her body, being introduced to others to be eaten, used as medicine.

Those that couldn't be eaten were placed in the bag on the right side of the body, reminding people that they couldn't be eaten. These things that couldn't be eaten were naturally poisonous substances.

If not for Zhou Hao's intention to burn < The Shen Nong's Herbal Classic >, he would never have discovered that in this unique book, other than recording the cure for one's illness, there was actually a lethal poison recipe that killed people.

Even Dr Gongsun, who had kept the book for dozens of years, would not have thought of this.

Suddenly, Zhou Hao thought of something, and started to look through the books in the books.

He wanted to see if there was a recipe for "Hades' Laughter" in these pieces of paper, but he couldn't find it. It seemed that the recipe wasn't from here.

He spent the night memorizing all the pages and then burning them and wetting the pages of Shennong Herbs.

He wanted to see if there were any hidden content, and in the end, he gained nothing. Only then did he burn < The Shen Nong's Herbal Classic > and all the prophetic paper.

Zhou Hao thought, a kind of "King of Hell's Laughter" could cause so much trouble, he really couldn't imagine what kind of consequences it would cause if these toxic formulas were to be spread out.

After everything was settled, it was already dawn. Zhou Hao went downstairs to buy a newspaper and read it while eating at a nearby breakfast shop.

Regarding the other headlines in the newspaper, Zhou Hao did not even glance at them, and only looked at the financial page's information.

The Shanghai and Shenzhen indices have continued to fall sharply in recent days, with a large number of people being held in place, according to newspaper reports.

Seeing this, Zhou Hao could not help but sigh.

In the recent past, December 16, the People's Daily published an article by a special commentator, "Correct Understanding of the Current Stock Market."

Furthermore, since that day, the system of rising and falling board and T + 1 delivery has been put in place, and since that day, the domestic stock market has fallen for two days in a row.

By the end of December, the domestic stock market had dropped to a freezing point from its previous surge, and the people who had been driven into a frenzy by the surge in the stock market had also suffered heavy losses.

Zhou Hao had sold all the stocks in his hands before December 12th.

As a result, he became one of the few who reaped benefits from this crisis, and even Zhao Yuqin, who had been worried for him, was rejoiced.

At the same time, he was shocked by Zhou Hao's seemingly miraculous judgement towards the stock market.

With regards to the storm that was going on in the domestic financial markets, Zhou Hao only felt a little regretful as he looked at the sky that was getting brighter and brighter.

He mumbled to himself, "97 is about to arrive, and an even bigger storm is about to erupt."

After finishing breakfast, Zhou Hao brought the newspaper home. Upon entering the door, he saw Wang Xijun wearing a cowboy jacket, waiting for him inside.

When she saw Zhou Hao, she rebuked him: "Zhou Hao, where did you go? Didn't we have an appointment to go to Yining Park today? "

Zhou Hao slapped his forehead, "Oh, I'm going downstairs to eat breakfast."

He almost forgot that it was the weekend and that he had made an appointment with Wang Xijun and her to visit Yu Ning Park.

"Hurry up and change your clothes. I think Jianyin will be downstairs." Wang Xijun looked at the clock on the wall and said to Zhou Hao.

Zhou Hao hurriedly returned to his room to change. Although he had not slept the previous night, his body had long ago become different from that of an ordinary person's, and he did not feel the slightest bit tired.

After the two bid farewell to Yan Tong, they both went downstairs, just in time to see Situ Jianying walking in their direction.

Today, Situ Jianying was wearing a short denim skirt with black tights, showing her slender legs and a white woolen sweater. She gave off a pure smell.

"Zhou Hao, Xijun." She ran over and hugged Wang Xijun, "Xijun, you were very pretty today." As she said that, he also gave Zhou Hao a good look in the eye.

"You're also very beautiful." Wang Xijun also laughed.

Yu Ning Park was not far from here. The three of them were too lazy to take a taxi and directly walked over. On the way, Wang Xijun and Situ Jianying held hands and chatted as they walked.

On the other hand, Zhou Hao felt that he was being ignored, and took the opportunity to get close to the two of them from time to time, provoking the two girls' displeasure.

Yining Park tickets are not expensive, only 5 yuan per person, inside there are bumper cars, merry-go-round, pirate boats and other kinds of mobile games.

Because their family's circumstances were limited, Zhou Hao and Wang Xijun didn't have much chance to come here to play, so Situ Jianying became their temporary guide.

The three of them played the bumper car and the merry-go-round together, which made them very happy.

When he was riding the pirate ship, the timid Wang Xijun kept hugging Zhou Hao's arm and screamed repeatedly.

Situ Jianying, who was on the other side, also hugged Zhou Hao's arm. However, she was not afraid of this kind of game at all, she only wanted to get closer to Zhou Hao.

Taking the opportunity while Wang Xijun had his eyes closed and not daring to open his eyes, Situ Jianying suddenly wrapped her arms around Zhou Hao's neck and leaned over to kiss with him.

Zhou Hao was shocked at first. When he saw that Wang Xijun still had her head buried in her shoulder, not daring to open her eyes, he immediately started to kiss Situ Jianying deeply.

When the last two men saw this, they were extremely jealous of Zhou Hao.

He thought that this guy was an expert, hugging and kissing one another. Furthermore, the two girls were both so beautiful that any one of them could make a man go crazy.

When she got off the pirate ship, Wang Xijun saw that Situ Jianying's face was red. She thought that she was like him, frightened, and even acted like she was trying to comfort him.

Then the three of them sat on the Ferris Wheel.

This Ferris Wheel was located on the artificial lake in Yining Park. Looking from the inside, the scenery was extremely beautiful.

Seeing that there were people playing with their bikes on the artificial lake, Wang Xijun said to Zhou Hao, "Zhou Hao, let's also play with that later."

"Sure, but I won't save you if you fall into the water, and I can't swim myself." Zhou Hao joked.

Wang Xijun and Situ Jianying glanced at each other, then pounced towards Zhou Hao at the same time.

Waves of pink fists landed on Zhou Hao's body, and Situ Jianying said fiercely: "If we fall into the water, even if we die, we will drag you down with us."

Under the two girls' fists, Zhou Hao pleaded for mercy, but at the same time, a loud and clear phone bell sound came out from Zhou Hao's backpack.

When Wang Xijun and Situ Jianying heard the phone ring, they also tactfully stopped messing with Zhou Hao.

Zhou Hao took out a big brother from his backpack. These nine to six years' worth of mobile phones were still big brothers, they were far from being as light and easy as future phones.

This big brother was given to Zhou Hao by Zhao Yuqin. Zhou Hao didn't want it at first, because it was too inconvenient to carry around.

However, he needed to communicate with Zhao Yuqin frequently, so in order to contact him anytime, Zhou Hao could only accept.

But when he brought Big Brother to his ear, what came out from inside wasn't Zhao Yuqin's voice, but a male's voice that he didn't recognize.

"Are you Zhou Hao?" The tone of the other party was impolite.

Just from the voice alone, Zhou Hao could imagine that the person on the other side of the phone was arrogant and unbridled, so his attitude was not very friendly, "I am, who are you?"

"My name is Fang Guanwei." That person asked, "Did you buy an earthen factory from Xiang City and Gorgeous Village?"

Hearing Fang Guanwei's words, Zhou Hao started to ponder, "Could it be that those Japanese people are finally here to discuss the matter of buying land?"

Thinking of this, he said, "That's right, I bought a plot of land from the Shuohua Village to build a factory."

"Give me that piece of land. I'll give you two million." Fang Guanwei asked directly from the other side of the phone.