The male educated youth quickly confirmed that they had been poisoned by laxatives, which were placed in their respective thermoses. After Yun Huaying checked and confirmed this, she said, "You had diarrhea because you drank the water with the laxative. You then drank water, and then had diarrhea again. That's why you collapsed and couldn't get up."
The captain's face was as dark as ink: "Who filled your hot water last night?"
"We boil a pot of water and each of us fills our own."
Qiu Shiyan came back for lunch at noon. Looking at the people lying in bed, he asked them, "When you went to fill the water yesterday, did you just fill it up and take it away?"
"yesterday..."
They were all exhausted and thought for a long time before one of them answered them, "We didn't go to fill the water tank together. We went separately. When Li Bin and I went to fill the water tank, the water wasn't boiling yet, so we put the kettle on the cabinet and went back five or six minutes later."
"I went there alone. I heard the water in the kitchen boil, so I went to fill it up a minute or two later. But when I got there, the water wasn't boiling. I also put the kettle aside and waited for Li Bin and the others to finish filling it before I went to fill it up."
Yang Min stood outside the door, listening, and spoke loudly into the house: "I was the one who boiled the water last night. I only shouted once, and then I fetched water to take a shower."
"I'm sure of this. Yang Min went to take a shower first. I filled my own cup with boiled water and didn't call you. When I came out, I happened to see Qiu Shiyan go in to fill his cup. I don't know what happened afterwards." Yin Mei continued.
Wang Huiyu and the other person struggled out. Now, leaning against the door frame with a tired look on their faces, they shouted at the top of their lungs, "It must be that bitch Liu Xiu. Several of us from the Chinese medicine department had a quarrel with her last night. She has motives of revenge against us."
The others were thinking the same thing. Tao Jiao said with a bitter face, "Liu Xiu has been going to the county town every day these days. She didn't even come home to sleep the night before yesterday, and she came back yesterday with a lot of things we haven't seen before. I heard Yun Zhiqing say yesterday that her cousin probably wasn't a good person, so it's possible she could get the laxatives."
Yun Huaying, standing at the door preparing medicine, said, "You were all poisoned by a laxative. Even an ordinary barefoot doctor could tell. All of you who have argued with her have been poisoned. The blame is squarely on her. Even if there's no evidence, she can't clear herself even if she jumps into the Yellow River. If she can't produce evidence, the team will definitely give her a serious warning, and her good days will be over. Is she really stupid enough to do such a thing?"
"If it's not her, then who is it?" Wang Huiyu frowned.
"I didn't say it wasn't her. There's a possibility that she was the one who did it, but I also think it's possible that someone else used her to take revenge. After all, that possibility exists."
Everyone present had some brains, and her analysis was correct. Liu Xiu was indeed a hateful person. He had quarreled with them countless times in the more than one year since he came here, but each time it was just verbal abuse.
As for the drugging incident this time, she did have a motive, and she should have been able to get the laxatives, but without evidence, we can't accuse her of that.
So many people at the educated youth camp were drugged. This was a serious matter for the team. Fortunately, it was a laxative this time. If it were arsenic next time, many lives would be lost. Zhao Xuelin took this matter very seriously and immediately launched an investigation: "Call all the educated youth here."
"Liu Xiu and Liu Ping are not here. They went to the county town."
The two key people were not there, and no one knew their exact whereabouts. The captain asked again: "Do you usually have any conflicts with Liu Ping?"
Everyone at the Youth Hostel looked at Wang Huiyu. Seeing this, Wang Huiyu felt a little embarrassed and confessed honestly, "I had a few arguments with Liu Ping yesterday. I couldn't stand her behavior. I called her a fence-sitter and tore her apart. I pointed out that she was always hanging around Liu Xiu to suck her blood..."
The captain knew Liu Ping a little. Although she didn't talk much and always followed Liu Xiu, she was actually very cunning. She was indeed chasing Liu Xiu to curry his favor and suck his blood.
"When you scolded her, were all of you from Chinese medicine present? Were you just watching the fun?"
No one spoke, silence tantamount to consent.
They had suspected Liu Xiu before, but now their guess had changed. Even though no one had said it clearly, everyone's target of suspicion had shifted to Liu Ping.
The investigation at the Educated Youth Institute was the team leader's responsibility, so Yun Huaying and the others would not participate. She prepared the medicine and gave two doses to each of the Chinese medicine practitioners. "Take one now, and then take another in four hours. You'll be fine by night."
"Yun Zhiqing, thank you for your hard work. We will express our gratitude to you later." Qiu Shiyan expressed his gratitude on behalf of everyone.
Yun Huaying nodded, said nothing more, and left with the small medicine bag.
Lin Shan and Jiang Yuan did not make any noise here and followed her away. They did not say anything, but in fact they had the same guess as everyone else. However, everything requires evidence, and they would not talk nonsense without evidence.
As soon as they arrived home, the Wang Dazhuang brothers came with small wooden buckets to deliver the goods.
Yun Huaying brought over a wooden basin and asked them to pour all the goods into the basin. She asked them, "Did you weigh them?"
"No."
They had never done business before, and they didn't tell their families when they returned. They just brought the goods over.
Yun Huaying estimated and said, "It should be a little over two kilograms. I'll give you one dollar, is that okay?"
Wang Dazhuang chuckled: "One dollar, isn't that a bit much?"
When they came before, they guessed that it might be only about fifty cents, so the two brothers agreed that if it was fifty cents, they would each take twenty cents and use the remaining cent to buy candy.
"I don't know the price either, so I'll give you one dollar."
Even though there weren't many eels in the bucket, it wasn't easy to catch them. The two kids estimated that they couldn't catch so many even if they spent a whole day digging in the fields.
The Wang Dazhuang brothers were very happy to get the money, and they skipped back home carrying the wooden bucket.
The eels were temporarily kept in the basin. Seeing that the two of them had started working with wool again, Yun Huaying went back to her room to get the cloth bag and said to them, "I'm going to the Han family to ask Grandpa Han something."
"Okay." Lin Shan nodded.
When she came over, Han Zheng was sitting at the door, mending his pants with an embroidery needle. He was stunned when he saw her coming: "Huaying, why are you here?"
Yun Huaying raised her eyebrows, her eyes falling on the embroidery needle in his hand, a rare look of strangeness on her face: "You can also mend clothes?"
"I learned it in the army."
Han Zheng smiled. He joined the army when he was sixteen. They often had high-intensity training, and it was common for clothes and pants to be torn. The barracks were basically full of men, so it was impossible to often ask the wives of soldiers for help in mending their pants, so he learned to sew by himself.
Yun Huaying looked down at the stitches he was sewing. They were very even, almost like they were made on a sewing machine. She praised him, "This is much better than mine."
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