Upon hearing this, Prime Minister Lin could no longer contain himself: "Impossible? What is impossible?!"
"So it was Song Ruoan who put croton seeds in the congee, causing my daughter to become like this?"
His eyes shot towards He Yunce like sharp arrows, filled with thunderous rage: "Lord He! You said that no matter who the real culprit is, you will put righteousness above family ties!"
"Now, it is your wife who has harmed my daughter. Tell me, how do you intend to deal with her? I will not let this go!"
Upon hearing this, Song Ruoan truly began to feel fear. She gritted her teeth and confessed to what she had done:
"I was the one who added the croton oil. I just wanted to play around with my sister, but I never expected Lin Miaoxin to accidentally eat it. Other than that, I didn't do anything, and I didn't harm Lin Miaoxin!"
Song Ruoan spoke through tears, her body almost drenched in cold sweat. The disdainful looks from the crowd had ruined the reputation she had worked so hard to build, and she was filled with regret.
"I know medicine, and I treated Miaoxin. How could I possibly harm Miaoxin?"
"Physician Li, tell me quickly! Is the poison in Miaoxin's body unrelated to croton oil? Someone must have poisoned Miaoxin! The culprit is someone else!"
Physician Li nodded in agreement: "That's right. If it were just because of croton, she wouldn't be in this state. Miss Lin must have taken other poisons, and in large quantities, accumulated over time."
Hearing Song Ruoan's sobs, He Yunze's heart ached, and he broke out in a cold sweat as he spoke to Prime Minister Lin:
"Lord Lin, please calm down. Ruo'an treated Miaoxin before, so even if she didn't do anything special, she still deserves credit. She didn't mean any harm in this matter. Since the poison was accumulated over time, the person who poisoned her must be in the Prime Minister's residence. The real culprit is someone else!"
Song Xizhi stood quietly to the side, watching the two of them covered in sweat, his tone playful:
"Your sister has been treating Miss Lin for so long, she should know Miss Lin's health well. Do you have anyone you suspect?"
After she finished speaking, Song Ruoan stammered for a long time, but Prime Minister Lin, savoring the deeper meaning in her words, suddenly came to his senses.
"Strange! Song Ruoan, since you know medicine, and you've been taking Miaoxin's pulse every day for the past ten days, why didn't you discover the large amount of toxins hidden in her body!"
"Not only did you not notice it before, but you are also helpless now that the disease has flared up. Do you even know any medicine?"
When Song Ruoan's medical skills were mentioned, the ladies who had been treated by him looked at each other with doubt in their eyes.
“Song Ruoan’s medical skills are superb and cannot be faked; we have all been treated by her.”
He Yunze nodded firmly: "If Ruo'an treated me personally, wouldn't it be tantamount to murdering her husband if her medical skills were fake? That's absolutely impossible."
Hearing He Yunze's confident words, Song Xizhi, who was watching the show from the sidelines, couldn't help but laugh.
She lifted her eyelids and gave a look to the bronze figure in the distance. The bronze figure understood and silently left.
Marquis An Ding suppressed the metallic taste in his mouth, lowered his eyes to look at Song Ruoan kneeling before him, rubbed his temples, and then said:
"I will deal with Song Ruoan's croton oil causing Lin Qianjin's diarrhea severely to uphold family values."
"As for the poison in Lin Qianjin's body, I will investigate it in detail. However, the imperial physician said that the disease has a long history. I would like to ask the Prime Minister to return to his residence and investigate this matter carefully, and take a two-pronged approach."
Upon hearing this, Prime Minister Lin remained silent for a moment before regaining his composure. He scooped Lin Miaoxin up in his arms, struggled to his feet, and said, word by word:
"If the perpetrator is from the Lin family, I will not let him off easily. If he is from the Marquis's family, I ask that Your Excellency tear him to pieces."
Before he could finish speaking and before the Marquis of Anding could reply, he saw Qing Tong throw a man, bound hand and foot, into the crowd.
"My lord, I found this person in a corner of the manor. He was acting suspiciously, carrying a bundle on his back, and was trying to escape from the manor."
The legendary physician Qihuang had wanted to escape for a long time, but he was caught red-handed by Qing Tong. Now he was being thrown out again, as if he had just been caught.
The renowned physician looked at Lin Miaoxin in Prime Minister Lin's arms in horror, drenched in sweat. He kept repeating, "Don't arrest me, I don't know, I don't know!"
Madam He stared at the face of the renowned physician Qihuang, a hint of doubt appearing on her face: "You look unfamiliar. I don't think I've seen you before. Which courtyard do you work in? And why did you run away so nervously?"
He Yunze immediately recognized the face of the legendary doctor Qihuang.
"Isn't this the teacher who taught you bookkeeping in our courtyard?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Song Ruoan grabbed He Yunce's hand tightly and shook her head at him with a pale face.
A sense of foreboding arose in He Yunce's heart.
But then he heard Song Xizhi speak calmly: "This person looks familiar to me. Does he look like the servant who serves by my sister's side? My sister always takes him with her when she goes out."
Song Xizhi's words awakened the memories of many ladies, and Madam Sun pointed to the renowned physician with sudden realization:
“I know! This is the servant who serves Song Ruoan. I saw this servant running around her when she treated me before.”
"But why would a servant, if he has done nothing wrong, run away with his belongings?"
Feeling the suspicious gazes of everyone on him, He Yunze looked at Song Ruoan in confusion.
But Song Ruoan was already stiff all over, drenched in sweat, with empty eyes and trembling lips, unable to utter a single word.
Seeing Song Ruoan's guilty look, Old Madam He was furious. She pointed tremblingly at the figure of the renowned physician Qihuang:
"Search! Search! Find out exactly where he got this!"
The servants from the Marquis's residence were very quick; in no time at all, they untied the ropes binding him and searched his body.
A major discovery was made very quickly.
"Madam, we found several thousand taels of silver notes in the inside pocket of his clothes, along with a packet of some unknown powder."
The servant handed the powder to Physician Li, who first smelled it and then took a small sip.
After tasting the ingredients, his expression changed drastically: "This medicine, this medicine is the culprit that caused Miss Lin to vomit blood!"
Physician Li's words were like a bolt from the blue, shattering Song Ruoan's reason and leaving her face as pale as a sheet of paper.
"Impossible... This is absolutely impossible..."
Marquis Anding stood up from his chair immediately, but Prime Minister Lin was even faster.
He rushed forward, his voice trembling with rage, and kicked the renowned physician in the chest: "Who ordered you to do this! Who ordered you to poison my daughter! How did you do it!"
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