"So that's the case." Fu Ciyi said, "We have to let him in."
"Yeah." Yan Funing nodded.
Long Yi was walking in front, but before he even stepped into the courtyard, he was stopped by Nanny Li.
"Your Majesty cannot enter!"
"This prince is here to see his own princess, why can't he come in?"
Long Yi was about to get angry again, but then he thought of Wanyou who was inside. If she heard him scolding others, it would ruin his image, so he turned his head to signal the people following behind him.
Only then did Nanny Li see her own master and young mistress coming around the corner.
"Master, Madam, he..."
Fu Ciyi nodded, indicating that Long Yi could enter.
Only then did Nanny Li lower her head and stand aside.
Long Yi hummed and walked in. When he looked up, he saw Wanyou sitting in the main house with lifeless eyes. He felt distressed.
She couldn't see it. It was usually like this, she just sat there in silence, not even having any fun.
Crossing the small courtyard, Long Yi quickened his pace.
The distance was close, and Wan Niang's hearing was better than that of an ordinary person with normal sight. She immediately tilted her head alertly: "Who?"
"It's me, Long Yi."
Wan Niang fumbled to her feet and shouted, "Madame Li."
Nanny Li came trotting over: "The old servant is here, and the young master and the young mistress are here too."
Wan Niang finally calmed down and reached out towards the door: "Ci Yi, Fu Ning."
"Mom." Yan Funing called out.
The couple walked behind, and even though they quickened their pace, they were still overtaken by Long Yi.
He held the wooden box with one hand and held Wan Niang's hand tightly with the other.
The touch of the hand was different. This person's hand was dry and warm, with a thin layer of calluses on the palm. Wan Niang was so scared that she quickly retracted her hand, but was held tightly by Long Yi.
"My son and daughter-in-law are here. As a prince..."
Before she could finish her words, Long Yi interrupted her: "Wanyou, I've brought the antidote."
"Antidote?" Wan Niang's face darkened. She pulled her hand back, not knowing where she found the strength. "You finally admitted that you poisoned me?"
"That's ridiculous! If I were the one who poisoned him, why would I bring the antidote?"
Long Yi placed the wooden box on the table and opened it directly.
Fu Ciyi and Yan Funing both stepped over the threshold, supporting Wan Niang on the left and right.
Long Yi turned around and asked: "Try each bottle, or check them out?"
Fu Ciyi lowered his voice and said to Yan Funing, "You really guessed it right. Given his personality, he will really try out bottle after bottle."
"It's better for us to be careful." Yan Funing also said softly.
Long Yi smacked his lips. "Is it appropriate for you to discuss this in front of this king?"
"No matter what you decide now, you must see the antidote with your own eyes."
Fu Ciyi spoke in a low voice, raised his chin, and motioned Yan Funing to go and check.
Yan Funing glanced at Long Yi and slowly walked to the table. She saw more than ten wooden boxes in front of her containing bottles and jars of various sizes.
"There are so many antidotes right before our eyes, and some poisons don't even have antidotes. This shows how many poisons there are in Prince Jin's Mansion."
These words made Long Yi choke.
The fact seemed to be like this, and he had nothing to say. He just raised his hand and said, "You check it out."
Yan Funing took out a bottle, opened the cork, and did not get close to it. She just fanned it gently with her hand.
By doing this step by step, seven bottles were selected and set aside.
"Are these useful or useless?" Fu Ciyi asked.
"It's useless. These are common antidotes, such as antipruritic and anti-laughing drugs."
Yan Funing's eyes fell on the remaining antidotes. She opened them one by one and checked them, but she couldn't be sure what the antidote was.
"What about these?" Fu Ciyi asked again.
Yan Funing said frankly: "I don't know either."
Long Yi was already getting impatient. "Why bother?" He pointed at Nanny Li standing nearby. "Just use her to try the antidote."
Although Nanny Li didn't understand.
But her intuition told her that such a mission was dangerous and she couldn't retreat in a hurry.
"No, what if the antidote is made by using poison to fight poison, and besides, Nanny Li is not poisoned." Yan Funing objected.
Wan Niang was supported by Fu Ciyi and walked to the table: "Fu Ning, what do you want me to do?"
"Mother, the difficulty lies in the fact that we only know the consequences of the poison in your body, but we don't know the name of the poison." Yan Funing raised her eyes and looked at Long Yi. "And Prince Jin didn't even ask what the antidotes were for."
"Then I'll take it back and ask."
"No need to ask." Yan Funing suddenly thought of something and said it directly, "If the antidote in the box can cure my mother's poison, then the owner of the antidote is the person who poisoned her. So I guess the antidote is not inside."
"What the Yan family girl said makes sense, but there are a few bottles in there that I took secretly, and the owner of the antidote is unknown." Long Yi said.
"Which bottles?" Fu Ciyi asked.
"The bottles with their stoppers wrapped in red cloth." Long Yi raised his chin.
Yan Funing frowned, pondered for a moment, and ordered, "Madame Li, go get some fresh pork slices."
"Okay." Nanny Li walked out quickly.
A moment later, she came back with a tray with a piece of fat meat with skin on it.
Yan Funing opened the remaining antidotes one by one, including the bottles with stoppers wrapped in red cloth, and poured a little of the antidote on the pork skin.
In just a moment, the skin in two places turned black.
Yan Funing pointed to the two corresponding small bottles and said, "This contains poison, not an antidote."
The cork of the bottle was wrapped in red cloth.
"What else do you have to say?" Fu Ciyi tried to grab Long Yi's collar, but he split it open with a palm.
If this person came to feed the mother the antidote at night, she would be poisoned to death immediately.
"I asked them about these beforehand, and they said they were antidotes. I didn't ask them for them right away, but I was cautious and took them secretly at night." Long Yi was furious. "Could it be that they temporarily replaced the antidote with poison?"
"Just keep making it up." Fu Ciyi said coldly, "You've caused my mother to lose her memory and become blind, and you still want her to die?"
"If I didn't do it, then it wasn't me." Long Yi raised his voice. "If I really wanted you and your son's lives, I could have sent someone to kill you right now. Why do you have to come to my house again and again, not only being humiliated and insulted, but also having the nerve to come again?"
"Who knows what you are thinking?" Fu Ciyi didn't believe it at all.
"Stop arguing." Yan Funing said softly, "From my observation, there is only one bottle of antidote that might be of some use to mother."
Upon hearing this, the father and son both went to the table.
"Which bottle?" Long Yi asked.
Yan Funing picked up a small blue and white porcelain bottle and said, "This one is probably for relieving headaches. If you take it, there won't be any side effects." She looked at Fu Ciyi and said, "Husband, I want my mother to try it."
Before Fu Ciyi could answer, Wanniang nodded first: "I'll try, I do have headaches often."
Yan Funing looked at Fu Ciyi again, and seeing that he nodded, she poured out an antidote for her mother-in-law.
Wan Niang put the antidote into her mouth and drank a glass of water.
"Is it useful?" Long Yi asked.
"It won't take effect that quickly. It'll probably take a quarter of an hour." Yan Funing said calmly, "Let's wait a while and see if there's any other reaction to the pork."
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