Prosperous Concubine

Chapter 494 The Mu Kingdom’s Mansion is Destroyed (1)
The doctor pulled out the silver needles stuck in the chests of the students, and brought out streams of black blood. Looking at the silver needles that were stained black, the doctor sighed heavily: "Return to Shizi Xiao, the students have been poisoned too deeply, I'm afraid they won't be able to return." sky."

Xiao Qingyu calmly took out a few pills and handed them to the doctor: "These are detoxification pills, give them to take and see if it works."

"Yes!" The doctor took the pill and stuffed it into the mouths of the students. They were on the verge of death, and the doctors were helpless, so they treated the dead horse as a living horse doctor, and used the pill as a last-ditch effort.

The students took the pills, and the black blood in the seven holes stopped flowing, and the bruises on their faces gradually receded. After two cups of tea, they coughed a few times, and slowly opened their eyes. Their faces were very pale, and their eyes were very haggard. , but the poison has been removed, and there is no fear of life.

The doctors gently helped them to sit up, feeling their warm body temperature, amazed!

Mu Yutang saw that the students who had woken up were fine, and walked slowly towards the guest table where the meals were placed.

A student from Mengyao Academy saw Xiao Qingyu and said politely, "Xiao Shizi!"

Xiao Qingyu hummed lightly: "Why do you come here to eat?"

Most of the students of Mengyao Academy lived in the capital, and those who came to study from other places also rented a small courtyard, brought a book boy or a maid, and the nanny took care of the food and daily life. When eating out, they either went to restaurants or taverns. I rarely come to this inn where people live.

"In order to practice for the students who failed the exams and returned to their hometowns." There are many talented students living in Yunlai Inn. They can't get into Mengyao Academy, so the students in the academy come to them to discuss. Once they come and go, everyone becomes friends.

In the early morning, there will be an examination to release the rankings, and the students who failed the rankings are going to go home. Those who are on the rankings, they come to see them off, but unexpectedly, all of them are poisoned.

"Who proposed to see you off, or who invited you to Yunlai Inn?" Xiao Qingyu's voice was flat, as if asking casually.

"At that time, we were looking at the rankings together in front of the Tribute Academy, and then those who failed the rankings said they wanted to go home, and we came to see them off, so it was someone's suggestion, invitation..." The student said sullenly.

Xiao Qingyu hummed inaudibly, and the obsidian-like pupils contained endless profundity: the real murderer was very smart and cunning, and he poisoned the students without leaking anything.

Mu Yutang stepped forward and said leisurely, "I've tried it, the poison in the dishes is much lighter than the poison in the soup."

Xiao Tianling looked at her puzzled: "What does this mean?"

"It means that the poison was not directly put into the soup or vegetables, but in the water. When the vegetables were washed with water, a small amount of poison was stained." Mu Yutang smiled softly, and glanced at Lin Mo and the others: "This A few students were able to survive because they only ate relatively dry vegetables and did not touch or drink soup."

"Lin Mou did what the girl said just now. He only ate the vegetables and didn't eat the soup." Lin Mo's voice was weak, but his eyes were as clear as a spring.

"We also... didn't drink the soup." The students spoke one after another, affirming Mu Yutang's guess.

Xiao Tianling looked at the shopkeeper: "Where did you get the water from?"

The shopkeeper's body trembled, and he stammered, "Caomin...there is a well in the backyard...the water used for eating and bathing is drawn from there..."

"Guests wash their hands and faces, and they also go to the well to fetch water. There are more customers coming and going today, and there are at least ten or twenty people who have touched the well. It's hard to say who the murderer is." The shopkeeper's face was full of helplessness.

Xiao Tianling looked at the students' shoes, and there were indeed a little bit of light yellow mud on the soles of more than a dozen people. The corner of his mouth curved into a meaningful smile: The real culprit is indeed a smart man.

When the officer saw Xiao Tianling, Xiao Qingyu didn't even intend to ask any more questions, and hurriedly took the conversation: "Shopkeeper, have you ever bought the three-step rat poison?"

"Buy... bought..." Fearing that the officials might misunderstand, the shopkeeper hurriedly explained: "Just after the autumn harvest, it is the time when rats are rampant, and rats occasionally appear in the warehouse where vegetables are stored. Three steps down."

"Then how much did you use in the three steps?" The official asked according to the procedure, recording while asking.

The shopkeeper recalled carefully: "Caomin only put the bait twice to poison the mice, and used a quarter of it!"

"Really? But there is no drop of the medicine in your medicine bottle." The official took the small light green porcelain bottle found in the utility room, pulled off the lid and turned it upside down, without even a drop of medicine juice flowing out.

The shopkeeper looked at the empty porcelain bottle, his eyes full of shock: "This... this... how is it possible... Caomin didn't poison, really didn't..."

The officer looked at his pale face, and sighed softly: "Shopkeeper, your rat poison fell into the well of your house and poisoned the students who were on the gold list to death. Gui, please come with us to the prison in Shuntian Mansion, if you are really wronged, we will return your innocence."

Seeing that the official came forward and took the shivering shopkeeper to leave, Mu Yutang said lightly, "He is the shopkeeper of the inn. He has no grievances with the students, and he expects the students to make money. Why poison them? ? He is not a murderer, and it is useless for you to catch him. The most urgent thing is to find the real murderer, so as to comfort the souls of the students."

Mu Yutang's reasoning was understood by the officials, but: "There are so many people in the capital, and the murderer's methods are relatively sophisticated. The lowly officials will not be able to find out the real murderer in a short while."

Mu Yutang smiled softly, and looked at the shopkeeper: "The people living in your inn are all students, right?"

The shopkeeper was in despair, seeing that Mu Yutang wanted to clear up his grievances, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly replied truthfully: "Yes, yes, the students rushing for the exam are full, and the Yunlai Inn hasn't had any other guests for many days. "

Mu Yutang smiled: "People from the capital seldom come to the inn to eat. The diners served by Yunlai Inn today are all students. The person who came into contact with the well and then poisoned it was none other than one of the students."

As soon as this remark came out, the audience was in an uproar. The student poisoned the student to death, which is too unimaginable.

It took a long time for the official to react. He looked down at the No. 4 scholar who died of poisoning, Tan Hua, No. 6, No. [-]... His eyes suddenly froze, and all the dead were outstanding students. The poisoners were really vicious: "Now There are thousands of students in the capital, and it will take a lot of time to check each one."

"Don't be so troublesome!" Mu Yutang looked at the food on the high table: "The food in the morning is safe and sound, but the food poisoned to death now means that the poison was poisoned before lunch. If I guess correctly, the food in the inn The chef in the kitchen only started cooking after the students returned to the inn..."

"That's right, that's right, the students came back to the inn together in a large group, and they ordered the food on this table together." The shopkeeper responded anxiously, and a little hope ignited in his panicked eyes.

(End of this chapter)