Chapter 328 Sulfur Disfigurement, Who is the Real Culprit?

The military compound was jolted awake early the next morning by a piercing wail.

"Murder! The heartless quack doctor has murdered someone!"

The sound came from the gate of the compound; it was high-pitched and thin, like a hen being strangled.

In the Gu family's courtyard, Su Yue was sitting under the grape trellis, holding a small beaker, adjusting the pH of the new product.

Hearing this noise, her hand did not tremble; the glass rod touched the beaker wall, making a crisp sound.

"Sister, it's that Zhu Cuihua again."

Chen Xinyue ran out of the kitchen, holding a spatula in her hand, looking furious.

"Why is this guy like a leech? He was slapped in the face yesterday, and he's back again today?"

Su Yue put down the beaker and slowly took off her rubber gloves.

"A cornered dog will jump over a wall; this is its last-ditch effort."

She stood up and patted off non-existent dust from her skirt.

"Let's go take a look. They've already set up the stage; it would be impolite of us not to go and support them."

A crowd had already gathered at the entrance of the compound.

They were packed up three or four times, completely blocking the road.

In the very center of the crowd, Zhu Cuihua sat on the ground, holding a young woman in her arms.

The woman was wearing a homespun floral jacket, her hair was disheveled, and she buried her face in Zhu Cuihua's arms, trembling all over, crying terribly.

"Everyone, come and see! This is what happens after using that 'pearl cream'!"

Zhu Cuihua grabbed the woman's hair and forcibly lifted her face to show it to the people around her.

"hiss--"

A collective gasp of astonishment rippled through the crowd.

That face was truly unbearable to look at.

His whole face was swollen like a steamed bun, all red and covered with tiny rashes. Some parts of his face had broken open and were oozing yellow fluid.

It looks creepy.

"This is my cousin, Li Xiulian! Yesterday, she kindly bought a bottle of the cream that Su Yue sells, saying it could whiten skin. And what happened?"

Zhu Cuihua slapped her thigh and cried out in despair.

"I applied it all night, and this is what I look like this when I woke up this morning! It's going to ruin my face!"

"That heartless Su Yue added poison to it just to make dirty money! She's going to ruin the reputation of all military families!"

That's very inflammatory.

Those military wives who were initially happy with the pearl cream are now starting to have second thoughts.

After all, it's something you put on your face.

If I were truly disfigured, my life would be over.

"This...this is terrifying!"

"Could there really be a problem? I used it yesterday and it felt fine."

"That's just a matter of time! The poison hasn't taken effect yet!" Zhu Cuihua chimed in immediately upon hearing the discussion. "My cousin's skin is delicate, so she reacts quickly. You tough-skinned folks, just wait, you'll all be rotting in a couple of days!"

The crowd began to stir.

Some people subconsciously touched their faces, their expressions showing horror.

Some people even took out the pearl cream they had just bought yesterday but hadn't been willing to use yet, as if they were holding a hot potato, wanting to throw it away but unwilling to part with it.

"What are you all doing here?"

A clear, cold voice cut through the crowd; it wasn't loud, but it carried a penetrating power.

The noisy crowd fell silent for a moment and automatically made way for them.

Su Yue, wearing a light blue long dress with a white coat over it, walked over unhurriedly with her hands in her pockets.

Chen Xinyue followed behind her, carrying a first-aid kit, her face also serious.

When Zhu Cuihua saw Su Yue, it was like enemies meeting; their eyes were filled with intense hatred.

She jumped up from the ground and pointed at Su Yue's nose, cursing.

"Su Yue! You murderer! How dare you show your face!"

"Look what you've done to my cousin! Pay up! If you don't pay me a thousand yuan today, and kneel down and kowtow to admit your mistake, this isn't over!"

Su Yue didn't even lift her eyelids.

She completely ignored Zhu Cuihua's finger that was about to poke her face and walked straight to the woman named Li Xiulian.

“Raise your head.”

Su Yue's voice was flat and emotionless, but it carried an irresistible sense of command.

Li Xiulian shuddered and instinctively tried to shrink back.

"Why are you hiding? Are you feeling guilty?"

Su Yue bent down, took out a pair of medical rubber gloves from her pocket, and slowly put them on.

His professional demeanor silenced everyone around him.

“I am a doctor. If there is a problem with my product, I will take full responsibility. But if you don’t cooperate with the examination, then you have something to hide.”

Li Xiulian felt suffocated by that aura and looked to Zhu Cuihua for help.

Zhu Cuihua rolled her eyes and thought to herself, "Since my face is already so badly rotten, it's irrefutable evidence. What's there to be afraid of?"

"Let her see! I refuse to believe she can turn black into white!"

Zhu Cuihua gave Li Xiulian a push.

Li Xiulian then shakily raised her head.

Su Yue moved closer.

A pungent smell assaulted my nostrils.

Although the other party deliberately sprayed cheap floral water to try to cover it up, that peculiar rotten egg smell was all too familiar to someone studying medicine.

Su Yue didn't speak, but stretched out her gloved fingers and gently scraped the skin behind Li Xiulian's ear.

A thin layer of yellow powder clung to my fingertips.

You wouldn't notice it at all if you didn't look closely.

"Oh."

Su Yue straightened up, took off her gloves, and casually threw them into the trash can next to her.

"Su Yue! What are you laughing at! People are in this state and you can still laugh!" Zhu Cuihua shouted again upon seeing this. "Everyone, be the judge! This is a capitalist's daughter who doesn't care about the lives of ordinary people at all!"

I'm laughing at your stupidity.

Su Yue turned around, took a beaker from the first aid kit in Chen Xinyue's hand, and poured some water into it.

Then I took out a pH test strip.

"Zhu Cuihua, if you want to extort money, you should at least do your homework, shouldn't you?"

Su Yue dabbed the test strip on the yellowish fluid seeping from Li Xiulian's face.

Everyone craned their necks.

The test strip, which was originally yellow, turned dark red in an instant.

It was blindingly red.

"What...what does this mean?" asked a literate woman standing nearby.

"Strongly acidic".

Su Yue held up the test strip, facing the crowd.

"My Pearl Aloe Vera Cream's main ingredients are aloe vera juice and pearl powder. Aloe vera is slightly acidic, and pearl powder is slightly alkaline. After neutralization, it is close to neutral and very gentle."

"But what's on Comrade Li Xiulian's face..."

Su Yue threw the test strip at Zhu Cuihua's feet.

"This is a chemical burn caused by a mixture of high concentrations of raw sulfur powder and acidic liquid."

"sulfur?!"

An uproar erupted in the crowd.

These days, everyone is familiar with sulfur. In rural areas, it's used to fumigate rats or to treat severe scabies.

That stuff is extremely irritating; it can burn off a layer of skin if you apply it to good meat.