Chapter 109 Coming for Him

Qu Zhiwen hurried over to check Zhu Liu's pillow, and indeed found the twenty taels of silver hidden inside the pillow.

It was small pieces of silver. Apart from the fact that they were fairly new, there was nothing special about them.

However, after Qu Zhiwen asked his subordinates to inquire, he learned that Zhu Liu's family was poor and it was impossible for him to have such a large amount of silver in savings.

If we look at it from this point of view, what Zhu Liu said should be true.

It is true that someone found him, gave him some silver, and asked him to poison everyone with gallstones by washing dishes, causing them to be poisoned. However, that person deceived him, and even his name and background were false.

It was that man. He was indeed a hunter and hated the mining and coinage here, which prevented him from making money by hunting. He was resentful, so he wanted to make trouble. However, when he talked to Zhu Liu, he lied about his name in order to avoid being held accountable.

Or did that person make up all these lies and simply come to cause trouble? If so, what was his reason and was he instructed by someone?

With such doubts, Qu Zhiwen found He Yanxiu and told him all the situations. "What do you think about this matter, Lord He?"

"It seems that Lord Qu and I have become thorns in the eyes of others."

He Yanxiu's eyes were dark. "Anyone who can take out twenty taels of silver just to cause trouble is certainly not an ordinary person, nor is he a person who is desperate because he has no way to make a living. He simply thinks that if you and I can open a mine and mint coins here, we will be rewarded, so he is just looking for trouble to make things difficult for you and me."

"If that person had better luck and caused many people to die of poisoning due to eating gallstones, it would be a serious matter and we would definitely report it. If such a big mistake was made, we would definitely be reprimanded. Whether we can keep our official hats is another matter."

Hearing this, Qu Zhiwen's face darkened. "I had this guess just now, but I wasn't sure. Now that I hear what Lord He said, I feel that it is true."

"But this person is so despicable. If he wanted to kill me, he could just find an opportunity to kill me and silence me. Why did he go to so much trouble and involve so many innocent people?"

It is fortunate that Zhu Liu was timid and did not follow what that person said and put down so much gallstones.

Otherwise, there would be corpses everywhere here.

That's a living life!

Qu Zhiwen didn't dare to think about whether he could accept it if something like that really happened.

"If they kill you and me, someone new will replace us, and they might be more difficult to deal with than us. They won't do that. It will only make us lose our fighting spirit, and they will also take the opportunity to kill the chicken to scare the monkey, so that others can see."

He Yanxiu said in a low voice, clenching his sleeves again and again, "These people are far more ruthless than we thought. If they fail this time, they will have other plans next time. We need to be cautious and strengthen our defense."

"Your Excellency is right." Qu Zhiwen raised his chin, indignant. "Since ancient times, good has always been defeated by evil. I just don't believe they can really cover the sky with one hand!"

"Don't worry, sir. I will increase the number of staff and have people pay attention to every detail. Don't let such a thing happen again!"

Especially in the territory of his Hedong Prefecture! "Thank you for your hard work, Lord Qu." He Yanxiu cupped his hands, the gloom on his face becoming even darker.

As he said, this matter was probably not aimed at the mine, but at the people.

If they were coming for Qu Zhiwen, he had no idea what to do, but if they were coming for him...

Then he knew what was going on.

He Yanxiu clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.

Su Yujin hardly slept a wink all night.

Since arriving here yesterday, he has been busy diagnosing and prescribing medicines, and also carrying out emergency treatment for people poisoned by alum. After the medicine was obtained according to the prescription, he watched it being boiled and told people to feed the poisoned people the medicine, and then checked the detoxification status.

The poison was not serious, but only taking decoction to detoxify it was like taking a thread away. After taking the decoction three times in one night, the man's symptoms were alleviated a little. After taking the medicine several times during the day today, the condition of the poisoned man has almost stabilized.

Su Yujin took the pulse of many people again, confirmed the extent of detoxification, and wrote a new prescription, reducing the amount of some detoxifying herbs, and ordered people to get the herbs and boil them again.

After those people started working as she said, Su Yujin finally breathed a sigh of relief, drank two cups of tea and took a break.

"Miss." Ai Cao brought the bowl over, "Miss, you have been busy since last night and have not even had a good breakfast. You only had a cake to fill your stomach. I just borrowed the big stove to cook a bowl of noodles for you. Although my cooking skills are not as good as yours, it is hot after all. I also cut some shredded pork into it. Miss, have a bowl first."

"Okay."

Su Yujin had been busy for a long time and was indeed tired and hungry, so she just took the bowl from Ai Cao's hand.

Ai Cao is not a good cook, but she often does tasks like rolling noodles and dumpling skins on weekdays, so the noodles she rolled are thin and chewy, which makes up for the poor taste of the fried shredded pork.

And it is indeed as Ai Cao said, the best thing is that it is a hot bowl.

After eating this hot bowl of shredded pork noodle soup, Su Yujin felt as if all the fatigue in her body was gone and she felt very comfortable.

Seeing Su Yujin finish the bowl of noodles, Ai Cao was very happy and her worries disappeared. "I'll scoop another bowl for the girl."

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"Give me a bowl too." He Yanxiu walked over.

He hasn't had a proper meal yet.

"If you are hungry, I will make you a bowl of rice."

Although He Yanxiu's sense of taste has not fully recovered, she is extremely picky about the taste of food. She can barely accept Ai Cao's cooking, but He Yanxiu probably can't eat it.

"No need." He Yanxiu stopped Su Yujin who was trying to cheer herself up, "Just eat a few bites. You've been working hard all night, so you should take a break."

Su Yujin's face had turned pale, and he really couldn't bear to let her eat even more just to satisfy his own appetite.

Seeing He Yanxiu say this, Su Yujin was really tired, so she went along with it and asked Ai Cao to help He Yanxiu and her bring the noodles over.

Ai Cao called Xing'an together and brought two bowls of noodles and some pickled side dishes.

There were two more poached eggs in each bowl of noodles.

The two of them sat on low stools and slurped noodles around a low table.

Su Yujin had already eaten a bowl of noodles and originally wanted Ai Cao to give her another half bowl, but Ai Cao was worried that she would not be full, so she still gave her a full bowl of noodles.

Even though Su Yujin was full, there was still half a bowl of noodles left in the bowl.

Ever since I started watching "A Dream of Red Mansions" a few months ago, I have been addicted to it and cannot extricate myself. I really like Wang Xifeng more and more.

Speaking of Dream of the Red Chamber, guess why I ranked the male protagonist second and called him Er Ye? 　　 　 (End of this chapter)