Chapter 118: All my efforts were in vain, the poison was cured just like that
Everyone in the Zhou family was ruthless to her, and Liu Mingyue was ungrateful to them. She didn't want to care about the life and death of the Zhou family, so she was about to leave.
She saw the housekeeper paying another doctor a consultation fee, and a thought flashed through her mind. The dowry she brought to the mansion was limited, and it would eventually run out. If she wanted to continue to have no worries about food and clothing in the mansion, she had other expenses that she was afraid she couldn't hide.
"It's not just a nice word. I can let this doctor detoxify you. However, there is no free lunch in the world. If you want to save your life, you have to pay for it." Liu Mingyue looked like a rogue and rubbed his hands at Madam Zhou.
"Liu...Princess Princess, we are all family. What's the point of talking about money? Wouldn't it be awkward?" Zhao Yinlian spoke while trying to suppress her discomfort. Her voice was weak and powerless, and no matter how noisy the room was, her words could not be heard.
"I've finished what I'm saying. Do you want to detoxify? Think carefully." Liu Mingyue spread her hands and didn't intend to change her mind. If it wasn't for the fact that she had another job, Liu Mingyue would have just turned around and left. She didn't care whether these people lived or died.
"You!" Old Madam Zhou was so angry that she choked. But the feeling of being poisoned was not pleasant, so she had to give in. "How much is the consultation fee?"
Liu Mingyue looked at Bai Ziyu and asked in a low voice: "How much did the herbs cost for the detoxification pills you just gave me?"
"Eight taels of silver." Bai Ziyu didn't know what Liu Mingyue wanted to do, but he still lowered his voice and answered patiently.
Eight taels of silver is not a lot for a wealthy family, but a slightly poorer family cannot even afford eight taels of life-saving money.
Liu Mingyue nodded, and after a brief thought, she looked at Old Lady Zhou and her group: "You want his antidote pills, fine, but Old Lady and Madam Zhao will each need 300 taels, and Aunt Bai and Zhou Xiaoxiao will each need 100 taels, what do you think?"
Everyone in the Zhou family stared in disbelief, not knowing whether to say that Liu Mingyue was crazy or was so obsessed with money that she was mad.
When Liu Mingyue offered to buy her life with money, they thought it was just the expensive consultation fee, but they didn't expect that she was the one asking for money openly.
"Are you confused? We are all family. Even if you want to charge a consultation fee, why should it be so expensive? Even hiring an imperial physician doesn't cost three hundred taels!" Old Madam Zhou leaned on the back of the chair and raised her finger tremblingly to point at Liu Mingyue, "You, you want..."
After all, the people in the Zhou family still needed Bai Ziyu's treatment. When the curse was on the tip of her tongue, Old Madam Zhou swallowed it back.
"Am I crazy about money?" After taking the antidote, Liu Mingyue's spirit and energy have been mostly restored, and she has the strength to speak.
She looked at Old Madam Zhou and the others, whose faces were almost twisted into a ball, leisurely and not in a hurry, waiting patiently for their answers.
For a long while, the old lady did not answer. Liu Mingyue shrugged, motioned Guihua to help her, and was about to leave with Bai Ziyu.
Seeing that Liu Mingyue was truly so ruthless, Old Madam Zhou reluctantly said, "Here! A total of eight hundred taels of silver. Steward, quickly go get eight hundred taels of silver notes and give them to her!"
Just saying the words "eight hundred taels" made Old Madam Zhou feel pain in her heart. She thought about the banquet for Zhou Baili's wedding, which cost less than two hundred taels, and yet Liu Mingyue took away eight hundred taels so easily.
"One pill can detoxify you." Bai Ziyu distributed the pills to the women in Zhou's mansion. After they took the pills and the medicine took effect, Bai Ziyu put away the medicine bottle. Since he had decided to save people, of course he had to be serious.
Liu Mingyue glanced at the butler, took the eight hundred taels of silver from him and put it into her purse: "I'll take it. Goodbye."
After the payment and goods were paid, there was no need for them to stay any longer, so Liu Mingyue decisively took Bai Ziyu and two maids and left.
After getting on the carriage, Liu Mingyue took out the silver bills from her purse and began to count them happily.
"Eight hundred taels, that's enough to tear off a piece of meat from the Zhou family." Liu Mingyue held the banknote and smiled so much that her mouth almost reached her ears.
Bai Ziyu has never lacked money, but money is just like something outside of his body to him, and he couldn't help but laugh at Liu Mingyue's money-grubbing look.
It's hard to believe that Liu Mingyue is so greedy for money, yet she can still tolerate him eating for free at Zuixianlou all day long, and he drinks so much good wine.
Seeing Bai Ziyu looking at her and smiling, Liu Mingyue readily took out four hundred taels of silver notes and gave them to him: "These are for you."
Holding the four hundred taels of silver note, Liu Mingyue felt a little guilty. It was Bai Ziyu who cured the disease and saved lives, and the medicine was also given by him. As for her, she was just taking advantage and getting several hundred taels of silver for nothing.
"I'm not short of money, you can keep it. Didn't you deliberately cheat the Zhou family out of it because you thought it would be useful?" Bai Ziyu pushed the money back into Liu Mingyue's arms and smiled helplessly.
He actually didn't do anything. It was not difficult for him to detoxify ordinary poisons, and he only gave a few pills.
"The one who understands me best is none other than Ziyuer!" Liu Mingyue patted Bai Ziyu's shoulder and accepted all the banknotes without hesitation.
"Today is the day of Madam Liu's funeral. We can just have a meal and the matter will be settled. How could she be poisoned? I just gave you a look, but you didn't mean to pursue the matter. Could it be that you were the one who poisoned her?"
It's no wonder Bai Ziyu thought so. If Liu Mingyue deliberately cheated the people in Zhou Mansion out of money, she would have to make a plan. Otherwise, where would she get the eight hundred taels of income today?
"You guessed wrong once. The poison was not given by me. As for the 800 taels, it was a sudden idea. I just borrowed someone else's power. There will be excitement to watch in the Zhou Mansion."
Liu Mingyue snorted coldly. When she was poisoned, she guessed who had poisoned her.
Aunt Zhao was beaten to death, how could Zhou Qianqian not hate everyone in the Zhou family? Liu Mingyue saw through it but didn't say anything.
When the poisoning occurred, Liu Mingyue paid close attention to the people at the table and found that only Zhou Xiaoxiao was fine. She was very cunning and deliberately did not say a word to let the people in Zhou's house investigate it themselves.
"Oh, so that's why you left after removing the poison, because you wanted to watch them fight each other?" Bai Ziyu suddenly realized.
Liu Mingyue's eyes were a little cold at first, but after hearing what Bai Ziyu said, she was amused: "Divine Doctor Bai's words are becoming more and more pleasant to the ears."
Inside Zhou Mansion.
Old Madam Zhou ordered the food to be taken away, and then asked someone to check the food and the kitchen.
Having failed to poison the people in Zhou's mansion, Zhou Qianqian returned to her residence with a gloomy face.
"All my efforts were in vain, but the poison was just detoxified like this?" Zhou Qianqian slammed her fist on the table, feeling extremely angry. She thought that the poison could kill one or two people!
She was the only one who was not poisoned at the banquet, but no one suspected anything. Others just thought that she had no appetite and could not eat because her biological mother had just died and her mother's funeral was simple, and she happened to escape the disaster.
Zhou Qianqian used to just follow Zhou Baili around and do things to sow discord between them.
Aunt Zhao had never played any tricks, except for being domineering in front of Zhao Yinlian. As the daughter of Aunt Zhao, Zhou Qianqian had not learned any clever tricks.
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