Unfortunately, before he could finish speaking and before Shen Qiyin could reply, a series of hurried footsteps suddenly came from outside.

Then came the anxious, panicked voice of the young maid: "Second Miss! Second Miss!"

"A messenger from the Marquis of Wu'an's residence has arrived, saying that the Third Young Master Wei is seriously ill and requesting your immediate attention!"

An unexpected event interrupted their conversation.

Shen Qiyin hurriedly went to the Marquis of Wu'an's residence.

The night was deep, but Wei Heng's courtyard was brightly lit, with maids and servants kneeling all over the place.

When Marquis Wu'an and his wife saw Shen Qiyin arrive, they hurriedly explained the situation to her: "He was fine at dinner time, but the servants just came to report that Heng'er suddenly fainted!"

"Otherwise, we wouldn't have bothered sending the divine physician here at this hour."

"Please, divine physician, quickly examine Heng'er and see what's wrong with him?"

Shen Xiyin responded and went into the inner room.

Wei Heng was lying quietly on the bed with his eyes closed. Although his face was a little pale, he was much better than when Shen Qiyin first saw him.

Actually, on the way here, she had already guessed a bit about Wei Heng's situation.

When they took his pulse, their guess was confirmed.

When Marquis Wu'an saw that after she finished taking his son's pulse, she simply tucked his arm back under the covers without administering acupuncture or prescribing any medicine, he exclaimed in alarm, "Is there no cure?!"

"Stop talking nonsense!" Although the Marquis's wife scolded the Marquis of Wu'an in this way, she was actually not sure herself.

Seeing that they had misunderstood, Shen Qiyin quickly explained, "No, no, Young Master Wei is perfectly fine."

"If you were perfectly fine, why did you faint?"

Marquis Wu'an: "Are you sleepy?"

The Marquis's wife, unable to bear it any longer, went up and punched him as usual: "If you really can't control your mouth, Marquis, go stand outside for a while. Don't force your wife to hit you in front of outsiders!"

Shen Qiyin blinked, thinking to herself, "Hasn't this already been done?"

But Marquis Wu'an dared not contradict him. He quickly lowered his head, moved behind his wife, and dared not utter another word.

Lady Hou then continued the previous topic: "Please continue, Divine Physician."

"Oh, actually what the Marquis said just now wasn't entirely wrong."

"The young master suddenly fainted due to exhaustion."

"The reason he was so tired was that two medicines had reacted in his body."

"One of them is Wanqing Pill."

That was a life-saving item left by her master for the four of them.

One pill per person can cure all poisons.

The food her senior brother gave her that day was fake, but the food she gave Wei Heng was real.

On the very first day she administered acupuncture to Wei Heng, she fed him her own Wanqing Pill, just in case.

Because she needed to cure Wei Heng to save Chunsheng and her junior brother's lives, she absolutely could not allow him to make any mistakes.

In retrospect, her worries were not unfounded.

There's a strange wind blowing even inside the Marquis's residence, and it's probably quite strong.

The Marquis's wife, her face ashen, asked, "The divine physician just said there were two ingredients; what is the other one...?"

"poison."

"Wei Heng has been poisoned."

If an ordinary person were to be poisoned after taking Wanqing Pills, they would inevitably feel dizzy and need to rest for a few days. For someone of Wei Heng's physique, fainting was already a stroke of luck.

Although the Marquis's wife had already guessed about Wei Heng's condition after learning that "Wanqing Pill" was a miraculous antidote, she was still shocked and furious when she received a positive answer from Shen Qiyin.

"Who on earth wants to harm my Heng'er?!"

"Madam, don't worry. Fortunately, Heng'er is alright, which is better than anything else." Marquis Wu'an put his arm around her and comforted her gently.

After coaxing the Marquis's wife to go and look after Wei Heng, he strode out of the inner room. The chilling murderous aura emanating from him seemed to sweep over everything around him, making people afraid to look directly at him.

"check!"

"Let's start by investigating the food!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a figure in light blue robes strode quickly from the courtyard gate.

It's Ruan Xinghu.

Upon approaching, she said, "Father, I heard that my third brother is not feeling well, so I came to see him."

He is now fine.

"Then what is this...?"

"I don't know who poisoned him." Marquis Wu'an's eyes still burned with barely suppressed anger as he spoke of the matter.

Upon hearing this, Ruan Xinghu's expression instantly turned serious.

She is currently in charge of managing the household, and with such a major incident occurring, she cannot shirk her responsibility.

only--

“The servants would inspect the food prepared by the kitchen and send it over every day, and would even take samples to keep in case anything was lost.”

"Even the utensils are all from this room."

"Logically speaking, with such strict precautions, there should be no way that my third brother could be poisoned."

Before Marquis Wu'an could even speak, another person's voice suddenly rang out.

"Are you trying to shirk responsibility by saying that?"

Upon hearing the sound, Shen Qiyin looked over and saw a young man who looked to be about the same age as Xiao Yan. She knew that this man was Wei Xuan, the heir of the Marquis of Wu'an.

She thought inappropriately that it was already this late, yet the couple had arrived one after the other, so Wei Xuan probably hadn't stayed in Ruan Xinghu's courtyard tonight.

She had heard rumors in her past life that the two of them had a strained relationship. Could it really be true?

As if to confirm Shen Qiyin's suspicions, Wei Xuan kept talking as she entered the courtyard: "Mother trusts you and has entrusted you with managing the entire Marquis's mansion, but now such a thing has happened. Doesn't that mean you are incompetent?"

"If anything truly happens to my third brother today, I will definitely divorce you, you wicked woman!"

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