Song Wan Yue sent Song San Xiao to the edge of the bazaar, watching his back in silence for a moment as he walked with the wind at his back, before she let down the curtain, “Go back to the school.”
In the backyard of the academy, Meng reassured the dean’s wife, “Yue’er is still young, so please don’t take it to heart if there is something unstable in his work.”
The dean’s wife had indeed been frightened by being locked inside just now. The resentment in her heart was there, she and the dean had more respect for the old man than their own parents, even if everyone in the world had a bad heart for the old man the two of them would not have it! Because of this, both the food and the tea had been prepared by her own hands over the past few days. Now, instead, this had become a reason to suspect her. Now that Meng had personally made amends to her, those grievances in Madam Dean’s heart immediately dissipated.
“Sister-in-law Madam is kind, Miss Song is doing this to help us, if the old gentleman doesn’t wake up, we won’t be able to run this academy.”
Meng saw her dissatisfaction, but heard her speak without expressing it, and knew that she said that she had figured it out, and nodded, “You’re right, as long as we can’t find out what poison the old gentleman had, the people in the academy will not be able to get away with it, and you and the dean are no exception, so ah, now let’s quietly think about it, is there anything wrong with the people and things you’ve come into contact with. ”
“Something wrong?”
The dean’s wife frowned in thought, thinking over what she had done since she got up in the morning until now, and was just about to shake her head when she suddenly added, “A strange woman came in the morning, brought here by Miss Song, saying that her stomach hurt and she couldn’t find the latrine in the front and came to the back.”
It came with Yue’er, so naturally there was no problem.
“Is there more?”
The dean’s wife shook her head, “I make fresh tea every quarter of an hour, and Qin Qian comes over and carries it over, without a second person pouring his hands in between, but Qin Qian ……”
The dean’s wife wanted to say that Qin Qian was also someone the dean trusted and could not have poisoned the old man, the dean had already interrupted him.
“He is the most suspicious, and has been taken to the court.”
“What?”
The dean’s wife was locked in the house not knowing.
Meng, who had heard Qin Qian’s name a few times from Sister Wu’s mouth and had not seen him in person, said, “That Qin Qian is indeed the most suspected, so I hope the people in the magistracy can ask something out of him.”
Song Wan Yue entered the house and her gaze fell on Gu Yi. If Qin Qian was related to the Wei Yuan Dart Bureau, their target should be Gu Yi, not Grand Great Grandfather, so what was the purpose of their attack on Grand Great Grandfather? Moreover, listening to Qi Ying’s words, they had only administered one type of poison, which was why they were sure that the person could wake up, so who had administered the other type of poison?
Gu Yi noticed her gaze and looked over, his clear eyes were filled with worry for the old man, “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing, I was thinking that it’s not so good for so many of us to surround Grand Great Grandfather, why don’t you accompany Master back and let him focus on developing an antidote, my mother and I will stay here and watch, if anything happens, we will have someone send you a message in time.”
“Miss Song is right, old sir is fine for now, I have to take advantage of this to go back and develop the antidote, the longer we delay, the worse it will be for old sir’s health.”
He had wanted to go back to work on the antidote as soon as he found out that the old man had been poisoned by two kinds of poison, but he was afraid that Song Wangyue would see what was going on, so he had waited until now.
Xu sat in front of the bed, her eyes blurred with tears as she watched the old man, not listening to a word they said.
“You go back, I’ll stay, I’ll send Grandma back when she returns.”
“That’s fine.”
Dr. Yao was already carrying the medicine box and couldn’t wait to go out.
“Xiao Si, you send him to the tavern, and by the way, ask the shopkeeper to send some food over.”
Xiao Si responded and accompanied Dafu Yao out, and only after he left the academy and got into the carriage did Dafu Yao dare to let out a long breath.
He had asked the shopkeeper to put it in the old gentleman’s food in advance, calculating the day when it would take effect today. The medicine was only to make the old gentleman fall asleep, and he would wake up naturally after he had slept for ten days.
When Xiao Si heard this, he also sighed along with him. What was a seamless plan had come to an accident, and in case the old man could not wake up, the young master and Miss Song ……
He did not dare to think about it.
The carriage turned to the mansion.
Dr Yao got off the carriage and hurried into the main courtyard and into the west wing.
Master Gu had been waiting for news from him, and seeing that he did not come to himself after entering, but instead went to the west wing, he was puzzled and immediately came out of the house and walked to the door, “What’s wrong?”
“Apart from the ten-day sleep we gave, someone else gave the old man a fifteen-day sleep.”
“What do you mean?”
Master Gu walked into the house incredulously.
Doctor Yao quickly flipped through the medical book he had brought with him, “Now two types of poison are pooling in the old man’s body, if they are not resolved in time, the old man does not know when he will wake up.”
“How could this happen?”
Master Gu was anxiously wandering around the house.
Doctor Yao had no time to pay attention to him.
“This is troublesome, if the old man doesn’t wake up by then, the young master he ……”
Dr. Yao’s hand flipped through the book, then quickly turned it up again.
……
The first time I saw the man, I was in the middle of a fight.
“Rice bucket! Idiot!”
When the county magistrate heard Sheriff Liu’s report, he pointed at him and cursed.
Sheriff Liu was scolded and did not dare to let out his breath, and only when the County Magistrate stopped did he dare to report in a soft voice, “In my humble opinion, he should be wrongly accused, otherwise ……”
“Bullsh*t!”
The county magistrate’s anger rose again, “If he was wrongly accused, could it be that the old man himself poisoned himself?”
Sheriff Liu did not dare to speak.
“Trial! Try again! If we don’t come out of the trial, you and I will both be out of luck.”
“It’s not that I’m not going to try, but we can’t use torture anymore, it’s a big deal, if people come from the capital they’ll definitely have to arraign him, if we get him killed, we can’t explain.”
The magistrate was full of anger and had no place to vent it, so he cursed again, “Why does the magistrate’s office have such a bunch of losers!”
……
At the same time, the Duke of Qi’s residence in the capital.
The letter was not addressed to him, only telling him that the old man would be poisoned recently and that he should take this opportunity to go to Qingping County and find out the identity of Gu Yi.
“Who sent this?”
The butler bowed, “It was stuffed through the door, and the concierge didn’t see who it was.”
The Duke of Qi read the letter over again and rose, “Prepare the carriage and go to the Third Prince’s residence.”
The Third Prince Chu Yi, son of Concubine Shu, grandson of the Duke of Qi.
The carriage was quickly prepared, and the Duke of Qi left his residence, got into the carriage and went to the Third Prince’s residence.
Hearing the report, the Third Prince personally welcomed him out, “Grandfather.”
“I have something to say to you.”