Chapter 270 Daughter-in-law, Good Night

Li Yin nodded in response: "Daughter-in-law, how did the drug get added to the food without being discovered?"

"Grind it into powder and sprinkle it into the grain." She took a sip of the soup and expressed her thoughts.

"But if the rice has been washed, will the medicine flow away with the water soon?" Li Yin scratched his head, if it was powder, it would have been washed away.

Xu Yuan paused, why didn't she think of it before, then this overturned her previous thinking.

If this medicine was not ground into powder, what else could be done?
"Xia Hua, take some of the food I brought from Master Qian and soak it in the water." She had to study further.

Xu Yuan got up and went out with Xia Hua to look. When the grain was poured into the water, it didn't wash out white water like ordinary rice, but the water was crystal clear.

"Xia Hua, go get our own rice and put it together to see if there is any difference." Xu Yuan stared at the water for a while, there was no other abnormality, but there was no rice water.

She took a silver hairpin she had before, and stretched it in to test it out. The hairpin had indeed changed color.

She frowned. If the rice couldn't be soaked into white water, it must have been soaked in water. Maybe... the medicine was soaked in poisoned water...

"Li Yin, bring that medical book and let me read it again." She raised her voice and called Li Yin to come over.

He took the medical book and turned to the previous page and handed it to Xu Yuan. She carefully followed the explanation of the medicine and read it again, and finally found something.

It says that a small amount of drugs can cause hallucinations, but what happens if a large amount of drugs are used, it doesn't say that.

Xia Hua brought her own rice from the kitchen and re-soaked it in a clean basin. Gradually, the water turned white.

"Daughter-in-law, why is this rice like this?" Li Yin pointed to the clear rice water, "Is this the one who was tampered with?"

"Well, go and find Chen Fan." Xu Yuan ordered, "Leave these two basins of water there for now, and don't move them."

Xia Hua went to find Chen Fan, while Chunyue put the two basins of water in the corner and put them away.

Xu Yuan looked at the herbs in the medical book, thought carefully about the things she had seen in modern times, and all the medicines she had seen in ancient times, and confirmed that she had never seen them before.

Not long after, Chen Yan followed Chunhua over, with a little excitement on his face: "How is it? Have you found the problem?"

Xu Yuan nodded and led him to see the changes in the two basins of water.

"What do you see wrong?"

"Has this clear pot been tampered with?" Chen Yan looked at the one on the left, "Besides, it should have been soaked more than once." Otherwise, even a little rice water wouldn't come out.

"Well, I suspect it's this kind of medicinal material." Xu Yuan handed him the medical book, "The servant must have died in a hallucination. When he died, the expression on his face was very peaceful and there was no pain. This kind of medicinal material , just enough to cause hallucinations."

"I'm going to find out the source of this medicinal material?" Chen Yan had already guessed what Xu Yuan was looking for him for.

"Yes, secretly ask, is there any pharmacy in the city that sells this kind of medicinal material, and it needs to be in large quantities."

"Okay, I'll send someone to ask now." He wrote down the name and appearance of the medicinal material, "If we find the medicine shop, can we be sure which family is trying to frame us now?"

"Not necessarily. This can only find out people who are related to the murderer. The medicine may not be given by someone from the pharmacy."

Chen Fan nodded, because he was a little anxious.

"You send someone to ask first. Tomorrow, I want to go to Master Qian's house to confirm something." Xu Yuan stretched herself, she needs to rest, and the night is already dark.

After Chen Fan stepped back, Xu Yuan washed up and went to bed.

She is really tired today, she went to bed late last night, got up early today, and has not been idle all day, she is already extremely tired.

Chunyue and Xia Hua carefully put away all the medical books in that place, and then Li Yin went to bed and lay down beside Xu Yuan.

Xu Yuan had already fallen asleep, and she seemed to be in a deep sleep.

He pursed his lips, and carefully leaned up to kiss her forehead: "Daughter-in-law, good night."

What Xu Yuan wanted to find out from Master Qian was to judge whether the drug's properties were the same as those stated in the medical book if it was taken in a small amount.

She roughly explained the situation to Master Qian and asked him to call all the cooking women who had cooked before.

It is written in the medical book that this kind of medicinal material is not only edible, if the smell is accidentally inhaled, it may also produce hallucinogenic effects.

When these cooking women cook, the medicine evaporates from the water vapor, which must have been affected a little bit.

"I want to ask you, did you find anything unusual when you were cooking the day the accident happened in Qian's house?" Xu Yuan glanced around, and these four or five women didn't look like liars.

"Yes, it's a little different." One of them was the first to say, "I steamed the rice that day. It's strange to say that I just steamed it for a while that day, and I felt very dizzy, so I told her..." She Pointing to the woman standing next to him, "The two of us changed, let her watch, I went to wash the vegetables, and I didn't know anything after that."

"What about you?" Xu Yuan looked at the woman who was pointed at just now.

"I also went in for a short while, and felt dizzy, but the two of them were not in the mansion that day, and I couldn't ask others to watch, so I filled up the firewood, went to sit outside the kitchen, and then somehow I just fell asleep, and I think the servant must have seen me fall asleep, so he went in and ate food..." The woman sighed.

"Master Qian, can you hear something strange about it?" Xu Yuan asked people to step back first, and turned to Master Qian who was on the main seat.

"On the same day, both of them became dizzy due to cooking..." Master Qian pondered for a moment, "You mean that the medicine can also work through breathing?"

"Yes, it's just that the two people didn't inhale much gas, so they were able to save their lives." Xu Yuan was even more sure in her heart that the medicinal material she found in medical books was this kind of poison.

"Have you found this medicine?"

"Well, I have already sent people to investigate, and I believe there will be results in a few days." Xu Yuan stood up, "The specific results may not come out in a few days."

"It's okay, as long as you can find clues, it's a good thing." Master Qian nodded. His family has been unstable recently. A few days ago, he just dismissed a servant, and now another one died...

"The folk girl stepped back first, I want to go and see Wanwan." Xu Yuan didn't bother to go and see Wanwan when she came back these few days, and she hasn't seen her for more than half a month.

"Wanwan behaves very well in the house. My master praises her all day long, but she is much better than my naughty son." Master Qian smiled, "I will ask my servant to take you to see it."

(End of this chapter)

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