The emperor's uncle is the only favorite: the mysterious doctor's crazy concubine is going

Chapter 349 New Shop
  Following Shen Zhuoxi's words, Wang Mazi glanced at the well in the yard and said with a wry smile: "This well used to have water. After the chaos in the previous dynasty, the underground water channels were dug to lead to the moat."
  "Since then, water has never passed through it and it has become an abandoned dry well. We use water from the well behind the alley."
  "No water is allowed for washing and cooking. We are far from the well, so it is extremely inconvenient to carry water. Alas!"
  Shen Zhuoxi glanced at the water in the basin and said, "You mean, not only your family, but also everyone in this area fetch water from the well behind?"
  Wang Mazi nodded: "The culverts at the bottom are all together. The front and back are dry and useless. Only the well behind the alley entrance remains."
  Shen Zhuoxi hummed and said, "There's nothing strange in the yard lately, right?"
  Wang Mazi shook his head: "There is nothing abnormal. It is the same as before. If there is an abnormality, it will be easier to handle. The key is that nothing has changed. The only thing that has changed is the knot that has appeared on our family."
  As he spoke, he noticed something. He took a few steps closer and asked seriously: "Second Miss, you just asked about the well. Could it be that the pimples on our bodies of unknown origin are related to the well water?"
  Before the matter was found out, Shen Zhuoxi couldn't say anything, lest word spread and it would alert others.
  She smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. I just asked you casually while watching you washing clothes in the yard."
  "Oh." Wang Mazi sighed without thinking, "This disease is really weird. We are all saying privately that this is a disaster from heaven. This world is going to be in chaos!"
  Shen Zhuoxi interrupted him and said: "The emperor hopes for peace and prosperity. It is not easy to say these words carelessly. If someone from the government hears it, trouble will definitely occur."
  Wang Mazi responded with a smile.
  Shen Zhuoxi looked around to make sure there was nothing abnormal. He came out of Wang Mazi's yard and went directly to the location of the well he mentioned.
  It was almost noon, and there were four or five people standing in line with buckets at the well to fetch water.
  Shen Zhuoxi and Jing Muling watched from the entrance of the alley, but did not approach. They waited until everyone had finished drinking water before going over to take a closer look.
  There was nothing special about the well. Apart from a wooden shed built to shield the well from the wind and sun, it was completely bare. Not even a tree was visible.
  The well must be old, and there is a thick layer of moss growing near the wellhead.
  Shen Zhuoxi glanced inside. It was deep and pitch black except for a little sparkle on the water.
  "Fetch water and bring it up." Shen Zhuoxi told Huizhi.
  Huizhi fetched a bucket of water, brought it to Shen Zhuoxi and said, "Miss, the water looks quite clear, you can't see anything!"
  Shen Zhuoxi said nothing, took out a handkerchief, dipped some water in it, and sniffed it under his nose.
  This square handkerchief was for spare use, and there was no incense on it, but Chen Zhuoxi smelled a hint of sweet-scented osmanthus from it.
  Although it was the season when sweet-scented osmanthus was in full bloom, she raised her head and looked around, but found no trace of the sweet-scented osmanthus tree around.
  To be on the safe side, Shen Zhuoxi didn't say anything clearly and said to Hui Zhi, "Try it with your handkerchief."
  Eizhi imitated her method, dipped a handkerchief in water, and smelled it under her nose.
  "Huh?" Hui Zhi seemed to have discovered something, but was not sure. She smelled it several times and asked strangely: "Why does it seem to have a faint floral fragrance?"
  "Did you smell it too?" Shen Zhuoxi took a deep breath and said, "As we guessed, the problem really lies in the well. Someone dropped something inside."
  "It's just that I can't be sure what's in the water right now, and staying here will arouse suspicion. You go to Wang Mazi and ask for a bottle. Let's go back with some well water to try."
  Jing Muling didn't speak the whole time. He always felt that there were a pair of eyes staring at them in the dark.
  But when he looked around, he saw nothing.
  This feeling didn't disappear until I got on the carriage.
  Shen Zhuoxi noticed something was wrong with his expression and whispered, "Did the prince discover something?"
  "Do you ever feel like you're being watched?" Jing Muling opened the curtain of the carriage, looked outside, and said, "I've had this feeling since we went to the well."
  "But there was no one around. Zhengyang even looked around and didn't find anyone else."
  Shen Zhuoxi shook his head and said, "I was focused on the well and didn't find anything. Is the prince worrying too much?"
  "Impossible." Jing Muling lowered the car curtain and said, "To kill the enemy on the battlefield, you need to be very alert. Even if you are not on the front line, you still need to maintain this sensitivity."
  "There was definitely someone paying attention to our movements in the dark just now!"
  Shen Zhuoxi frowned and said, "Who would watch every move at the well? Could it be the person who drugged him?"
  Jing Muling shook her head: "We don't know yet. Zhengyang continues to investigate. There is definitely a problem in this area."
  Shen Zhuoxi held the kettle in his hand and said, "The purpose of those people is unknown. The first thing we need to do is to check the water. The poison in the water is not yet known, so we need to find out as soon as possible."
  Jing Muling sent Shen Zhuoxi back to the Taishi Mansion, and Shen Zhuoxi closed the door and began to study the doorways in the water.
  It wasn't until dark that she found out the clue - there was not a single poison in the water, but a slightly poisonous grass that could make people pimple, called cinnamon herb, so named because it has the same scent as osmanthus!
  It is precisely because of this that the water has a faint smell of osmanthus!
  From the beginning, she was looking in the wrong direction, so no wonder it took her half a day.
  Huizhi had been standing guard at the door. When she opened the door, she breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Miss, have you found out?"
  "Yes." Shen Zhuoxi rubbed his swollen eyebrows and said, "Someone has poured cinnamon and herb juice into the water. I will make an antidote in a while. You can throw it into the well at night without anyone noticing."
  Huizhi nodded, and then became confused again: "I have heard of the cinnamon herb you mentioned before, but it doesn't exist in Shengdu at all!"
  "So, if you want to find out who is behind the scenes, you have to follow this line of investigation!" Shen Zhuoxi didn't want to understand what happened, and said, "Let's wait for the news to come back from the prince."
  The news about Jing Muling came before dark. After checking around, there was indeed a newly opened pharmacy in Shengdu. It was just a street away from Renxintang. The place was not big.
  There are quite a few pharmacies in Shengdu, big and small. Soon after Renxintang reopened, it overwhelmed other pharmacies with a rapid momentum, even several time-honored ones were outclassed.
  These days, some pharmacies are closing one after another. I didn’t expect that some pharmacies are opening new ones!
  "There are people who are eager to open a medicine shop." Huizhi paused and said, "The news from the prince said that the owner of the medicine shop is not from Shengdu. No wonder."
  "Could it be that the people at the drug store deliberately poisoned him?" Shen Zhuoxi frowned, feeling that the matter was not that simple: "Let's keep an eye on it first."
  Huizhi responded, waited for midnight, and quietly poured the antidote into the well water.
  Just as Shen Zhuoxi expected, the next day, there was news that this weird disease was disappearing.
  And the people who got better took the medicine prescribed by the new shop!
  (End of this chapter)