Chapter 187 Why the Deliberate Poisoning?
Upon hearing this, Madam Min was immediately shocked. "What happened? Wasn't Doctor Mu trying to detoxify them? How could this happen?"
"Where is Madam Mu? Quickly send her to the estate to check on her."
Ajiu quickly replied, "Doctor Mu has already gone to the estate with Wenxiu."
"That's good." Madam Min was slightly relieved, but then frowned. "How could the poison suddenly take effect? And so many people at the same time? When we returned to the city a few days ago, didn't Doctor Mu say that the children were all fine?"
Ah Jiu said worriedly, "Madam, I want to go to the estate to see the children and find out what happened."
Madam Min nodded. "Alright, go ahead."
“Then what about the old lady’s side…” Ajiu hesitated.
At this moment, Zhen Huan, who had been hiding in the tree, lightly landed on the ground and revealed herself. "Go ahead. I'll be here with the Grand Madam."
If he hadn't actually jumped down from the tree, she wouldn't have known he was actually hiding there.
Although she had seen Zhen Ran suddenly appear out of nowhere more than once, Min Qiao was still startled by her at this moment.
She patted her chest and urged Ajiu, "Go quickly."
Ah Jiu left, and Zhen Huan was just about to turn around and hide.
However, before she could hide herself again, Madam Min called out to her.
"Stop hiding, just stay by my side."
"Don't think of yourself as a bodyguard. I don't have that many dangers around me that I need to guard against."
As she spoke, she pointed to A Shuang and A Qi beside her, "From now on, you can just follow me around openly, just like them."
He was genuinely taken aback for a moment, reaching out to touch the hideous scar on his face, but ultimately shook his head resolutely. "A-Jiu is strong; she can overcome any technique with sheer force. Wen-Xiu is skilled in light footwork; she's an expert at escaping."
"What I excel at is concealing my whereabouts, striking unexpectedly, and killing with one blow."
“Madam, let me be your bodyguard. Only in this way can I take the enemy by surprise when you are in danger. In a direct fight, I am far inferior to Ajiu and Wenxiu.”
She spoke sincerely, but Madam Min still noticed her gesture of touching the scar on her face.
I'll ask Dr. Mu to take a look and see if he can prescribe some medicine to remove the scars.
If she remembered correctly, it was Dr. Mu who treated the scar on Min Yuexi's forehead.
In less than a month, there are virtually no scars left on Min Yuexi's forehead.
Dr. Mu can treat Min Yuexi's scars. I wonder if he can even treat facial scars?
Sigh, such a pretty young girl, disfigured like this. No wonder she likes to hide herself.
In the end, he really did manage to conceal his form.
However, when Madam Min looked up at the tree again, she found that it was indeed no longer in the tree.
As for where it was hidden, well, Madam Min searched the courtyard several times but couldn't find it.
So, while waiting for news from Zhuangzi, Min Qiaoshi turned the search for Zhen Huan's whereabouts into a game to pass the time.
Whether in the yard or inside the house, she couldn't find Zhen Huan anywhere.
But no matter when, as long as she calls out Zhen Huan's name, Zhen Huan always appears in front of her immediately.
But after Zhen Huan disappeared again, she searched for the place where Zhen Huan had appeared, but couldn't find anything!
That's really strange!
Just as Min Qiaoshi and Zhen Huan were having a great time, Ajiu arrived at the estate.
When she arrived, Doctor Mu was already preparing an antidote for the poisoned child.
In addition to the fifteen children mentioned earlier, eight more have been infected with the poison.
Except for a few who were a little older and had slightly better physical condition, everyone else suffered from the poison!
The few people who hadn't yet developed symptoms were now helping to take care of the children who had.
Wenxiu was helping Doctor Mu brew the medicine.
"Dr. Mu," Ajiu asked bluntly, "has the poison you ingested in the organization before flared up?"
Doctor Mu said solemnly, "Yes and no."
Ajiu frowned. "What do you mean by that?"
Dr. Mu explained, "It was indeed caused by the poisoning in their bodies. However, it was not a natural poisoning, but rather someone deliberately poisoned them, inducing a collective attack of the poison in their bodies."
"Not only that."
"Under normal circumstances, the toxins in your bodies will return to normal after two hours. They will not recur until the same time next month."
"You should know this best."
Doctor Mu looked at Ajiu.
Ajiu nodded. After escaping the organization, she endured the suffering on her own for several months. Later, when the Grand Madam discovered her, she was given potent tonics to detoxify her. From then on, the pain she experienced when the poison flared up became less and less severe, and the duration of her attacks became shorter and shorter.
The poison in her body has been mostly neutralized, and she can no longer feel any symptoms of poisoning.
"However, someone poisoned them. This not only triggered a mass poisoning of them, but also exacerbated the toxicity in their bodies, making the pain during their poisoning indefinitely longer."
"It can be said that the added poison was intended to make them unable to bear the pain and commit suicide."
Ah Jiu's eyes and brows were filled with anger. "So, from the moment the poison took effect, they were suffering in agony the whole time? Until they couldn't take it anymore and committed suicide? Or did someone give them an antidote?"
As soon as the words left her mouth, Ajiu's eyes widened, and she looked at Doctor Mu in horror.
Dr. Mu had clearly thought of something as well.
The fact that someone could administer such a non-lethal yet insidious poison to children indicates that they knew what kind of poison the children had been given and also knew the children's origins.
Is this all aimed at her?
Or were they here for the old lady?
Was it to lure her out?
Or is it targeting the Grand Madam?
Ajiu was trembling all over. She knew that if this matter was not handled properly, it would definitely bring trouble to the Grand Madam.
"Dr. Mu, can the children's lives be saved?"
Just moments ago, Doctor Mu was filled with worry, but upon hearing this, he immediately raised his chin and said, "No problem! There's no poison in this world that I can't cure. Saving my life is a piece of cake!"
Seeing Doctor Mu's confident expression, Wen Xiu, who had been silent, couldn't help but complain, "If Doctor Mu is so amazing, why can't he cure all the poison in all of our bodies at once?"
Dr. Mu choked. Could she say that the poison in their bodies was, in a sense, poison, but also not truly poison?
How is she supposed to explain this to them?
Seeing Dr. Mu's embarrassed expression, Ajiu quickly changed the subject and asked, "When can Dr. Mu cure them?"
Doctor Mu glanced at the medicine simmering in the stove. "One bowl of medicine will be effective. It's just that there are quite a few people, so we'll have to brew several batches."
"That's good." Ajiu looked at the sky; it was still early.
"I'll go find the two children and ask them. Once I've found out the details, I'll go back and report to the Grand Madam."
With that, he quickly went to find the other children.
Ah Jiu called out two children who hadn't yet shown signs of poisoning and questioned them.
One of them was Donggua, who had previously led people to fish with pebbles.
When Ajiu asked who they had seen, what they had eaten, and if there had been anything unusual in the past few days, they were immediately intrigued.
Donggua spoke up first, saying, "Chen San and the others have come back."
"Chen San?"
"It's the one who led the group away before."
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