Sister Li and I were both surprised. We didn't expect a person who was deeply trained in Western science to be so passionate about the mysterious Chinese medicine.

I seemed to remember something and couldn't help but ask: "Brother Hui, you just said that the crystal layer on the box is a mixture of corpse fluid and rotten wood. I see that you didn't touch it with your hands just now, and you didn't look at it much either.

Close your eyes and smell it with your nose. Did you judge it through your sense of smell? But I can't smell this layer of crystals. Does it have any special smell?"

This time it was Sister Li who asked me in surprise: "How could you not smell it? This layer of crystals does have a very special smell."

"I don't have a cold or rhinitis, but I've never smelled it," Sister Li and I argued.

Yang Hui listened to our argument with a smile and didn't say anything. He just stood up from the sofa, took out a bottle of crystals from a cabinet, then walked up to me, carefully opened the bottle, and then asked me to put my nose close to the bottle.

, he used his hand to stir up the air at the mouth of the bottle, gently stirred it towards my nose a few times, and asked me if I smelled anything.

I remembered that in middle school, the teacher used this method to make us smell toxic gases. But I couldn't smell any smell.

Yang Hui walked up to Sister Li again, asked her to smell the bottle in the same way, and asked her if she smelled anything. Sister Li's answer was affirmative: "I did, and it was very strong."

I was surprised. Is there something wrong with my sense of smell?!

I knew that the reason why Yang Hui suddenly took out this bottle for us to smell must be because he was preparing to explain something to us, so he didn't rush to ask questions.

Sure enough, Yang Hui put the bottle back, then calmly sat on the sofa and started his "teaching":

"Do you know what I just smelled for you two? It's cyanide, which is one of the most poisonous poisons in the world. If cyanide reaches a certain concentration, it only takes 1/5000th of a second to kill a person. However,

Don't be nervous, the concentration I just smelled for you is extremely small. Do you know why one person can smell this cyanide smell just now, but the other can't? This is because about 50% of people in this world,

You are born with this ability, and this ability is hereditary, just like some people can roll their tongues, while others cannot.

Of course, if a forensic doctor, or an ordinary person, has this ability, it is very good, and sometimes it can even save your life.

For example, in the United States, a famous "Halloween horror incident" occurred - on Halloween of that year, someone actually mixed cyanide into candy and distributed it to others. Nine people died from poisoning. But three received

They did not eat the poisonous candy because they smelled the cyanide in the candy, and one of them quickly reported the case. These three people are the ones with this kind of smell ability."

After listening to Yang Hui's explanation, I suddenly understood - Yang Hui and Sister Li have an innate advantage over me in terms of smell. This is because their inherited sense of smell is stronger than mine.

I joked and said, "It's over, if I get such poisonous candy, I will definitely die, because I don't have the sense of smell you two have."

After we finished speaking, the three of us laughed.

I admire and like Yang Hui more and more. He is so knowledgeable, not only so, but also so humorous and approachable. This is what we call a "niceguy" in English.

After talking about the sense of smell, Yang Hui suddenly thought of something and asked Sister Li and me, "Have you ever read the county annals of our county?"

Sister Li and I both shook our heads, county annals? I'm afraid those things are all in classical Chinese. We're not studying history, so why do we read that?

The less we understand something, the more interested Yang Hui seems to be in telling us:

"I've seen it, don't you know? In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, there was a strange man named Gao in our county. Because he was blind, everyone called him Blind Gao, but no one knew his real name.

Why is this tall blind man said to be a strange person? First, because although he is blind, he is indeed the most famous "swordsman" within hundreds of miles around at that time. What is a swordsman? In fact, he is someone who helps people avenge or fight.

They are kind of like gangsters.

The fact that he is still able to fight despite being blind shows that he has great martial arts skills, but he does not necessarily rely entirely on hearing to judge the opponent's attack like in martial arts novels. He has a very smart strategy, only going out at night to act or fight with others.

Hiding during the day. This will weaken the visual advantage of normal people.

The most surprising thing is that his sense of smell is extremely sensitive. It is said that his sense of smell is comparable to that of a dog. Therefore, his way of understanding the world is very different from that of ordinary people. He relies on his sense of smell to understand the world.

.For example, he can tell exactly what time it is by just lifting his nose and smelling it. Because the 'earth energy' is different at different times, even for ordinary people, if they cover their eyes completely, they can tell exactly what time it is.

You can smell that the air is different at midnight and during the day.

Relying on this special ability, he became a feared swordsman in our area.

At that time, the Qing army had just entered the pass, and the world was in chaos and chaos. As a Han Chinese, of course he supported the Ming Dynasty. So when the Qing army occupied our area, he and seven or eight other swordsmen with strong martial arts decided to assassinate

The highest ranking military general of the local garrison.

In a dark night, they took action.

However, due to various reasons, the assassination plan did not go smoothly. They were exposed in advance and were discovered by the Qing army. After a desperate fight, two swordsmen were hacked to death by the Qing army. The remaining swordsmen finally broke through and ran out. These

The swordsmen were all locals. They felt that they were familiar with the terrain, and since it was so dark, it shouldn't be too difficult to escape successfully.

But what I didn't expect was that the Manchus were used to hunting, so they actually used hunting dogs to track these swordsmen. They regarded the swordsmen as prey. This was terrible. The hunting dogs had such a strong sense of smell, so their olfactory tracking ability was even more

Surprisingly, no matter how much the swordsmen ran, turned, or detoured, they could not escape the pursuit of these hunting dogs.

From a current scientific point of view, the more nervous you are and the faster you run, the stronger your scent will be, and the easier it will be for hounds to track you.

In the end, these swordsmen were all chased down one by one by the Qing soldiers with hunting dogs. Some were hacked to death with random knives, and some were bitten to death by hunting dogs. Only Blind Man Gao managed to escape.
Chapter completed!