Chapter 120 Poisoning



Jiang Muyu tried to coax Tangtang for a while but failed. Finally, he couldn't persuade her anymore and decided to leave the house.

Liang Qingchen took them to a villa in the capital, where there was a large garden with an artificial lake and a large green lawn, which was perfect for releasing paper ibis.

Jiang Muyu specially brought a piece of thick cloth, chose a shade of a tree to put on the grass, and put out some snacks and food, making it look like a picnic.

The wind and sunshine in August were both very gentle. Jiang Muyu sat under a tree, drinking tea leisurely, with Nanxing sitting beside him.

Nanxing has changed a lot these days. She is less sharp than before and more gentle. At this moment, she looks ahead without saying a word.

Not far away, Liang Qingchen was teaching Tangtang how to release the paper ibis into the sky.

Tangtang had short legs and ran slowly, and she couldn't get on the track several times, which made her feel a little frustrated.

Liang Qingchen patiently advised: "Tangtang, don't be impatient. Let's slowly put it up against the wind. As long as we try a few more times, we will succeed."

"All right."

Tangtang tried a few more times and finally released the paper iris into the sky. She danced with joy and said, "Sister Nanxing, come and see, I succeeded!!"

Nanxing smiled, stood up and walked towards her.

After a while, Liang Qingchen walked away and came back with a new paper iris, "Zhao Zhao, you have to put this one up."

Jiang Muyu's lips twitched when she saw the paper ibis with a square cartoon character showing its big buck teeth when smiling. She always felt that there was an indescribable sense of incongruity in seeing this thing here.

However, she was surprised to find that Liang Qingchen's painting skills were unexpectedly good, and he could draw something she had never seen before in a very realistic way.

Liang Qingchen handed the paper iris to her. She looked at the funny pattern on it and smiled, "The prince is really good at everything he does."

"Of course." He said without any modesty.

"It really can't stand exaggeration."

Jiang Muyu stood up, rolled up her sleeves, let out the line, and ran forward against the wind. The paper ibis flew up little by little, and she slowly let out the line, and the paper ibis swayed and rose against the wind.

She released it in one go, feeling quite proud of herself. She looked at Liang Qingchen and raised her eyebrows, "How is it? Awesome, right?"

Liang Qingchen smiled, walked over to her and touched her head, "Great."

Jiang Muyu looked up at the paper ibis flying higher and higher, and suddenly felt a little emotional, "It should be free, but the string is in someone else's hands, so I can only let it do whatever it wants."

"Where does all this sadness come from? Once it leaves the line, it will not only fall and be smashed to pieces, but even the basic value it was created for will not be reflected."

"Emm...straight man, put it away yourself." Jiang Muyu put the paper iris in his hand, turned around and was about to leave.

Liang Qingchen subconsciously grabbed her wrist.

Jiang Muyu turned her head and suddenly felt dizzy. A warm feeling came from her nose. She thought something was wrong and raised her hand to touch something, which was covered in blood.

"Zhao Zhao!" Liang Qingchen no longer cared about the paper eagle and threw it casually, then caught her staggering body.

Jiang Muyu's eyes went dark and he passed out.

Liang Qingchen immediately picked her up and ran towards the carriage, "Yun Xuan!"

Yunshan immediately stepped forward and said, "Master, have you forgotten? Sister Yunxuan was just sent to the General's Mansion by you."

"Damn it!" Liang Qingchen stepped onto the carriage, opened the curtain and went in, put Jiang Muyu into the carriage, put a soft pillow behind her neck, and wrapped her tightly with the thin blanket in the carriage.

Then he walked out and ordered, "Yunshan, go take care of the children and wait for news from the king! Xu Lang, ride the horse, go to the secluded residence in the bamboo forest."

"Yes." They both said at the same time.

Xu Lang jumped onto the carriage, pulled the reins, and whipped the whip, "Drive!"

Liang Qingchen sat in the carriage, picked up Jiang Muyu, let her lean on his arms, wiped the blood from her nose with a handkerchief, and looked at her gradually pale face, feeling worried.

What happened? She seemed to be feeling unwell lately. It didn't look like a common cold, but more like... someone had poisoned her?

He frowned, and a sharp light flashed in his eyes.

Xu Lang whipped the horse and the carriage sped along, and soon stopped in front of a small gate.

"Master, we're here."

Liang Qingchen got off the carriage holding Jiang Muyu, and did not dare to stop at all. He kicked the door open and walked quickly inside.

Xu Lang looked at the shaky bamboo door behind him and felt a headache: "I have to pay again."

In the main house, Heather was lying on the imperial concubine couch, supporting her head with one hand and holding a teacup with the other, listening leisurely to the leisurely music of the piano.

The sudden loud noise frightened him so much that his hands trembled, his body swayed, and he rolled off the couch.

"Ouch! Who is the bastard disturbing my peace!" He stood up, holding his waist and supporting himself on the ground.

"Heather!"

Hearing this familiar voice, he shuddered and looked over with a grumble, "Why are you......" again

When she saw him holding someone in his arms, she hurried past him and went straight to the bed inside.

His intuition told him that something had happened!

He didn't care about anything else and followed in. Seeing Jiang Muyu's pale face and purple lips, he took out a golden box from the shelf beside him without asking any more questions, took out a black pill from it, stuffed it into Liang Qingchen's mouth, and said, "Find a way to make her eat it."

Liang Qingchen didn't hesitate at all. He went to the table outside, picked up a teacup, poured a glass of water, put the pill into his mouth and chewed it for a few times. Then he pinched Jiang Muyu's cheek to make her open her mouth, and force-fed her the pill with the water.

Heather Ye, who was standing by, was feeling her pulse. When she looked up and saw this scene, she was not impressed at all. Instead, she thought Liang Qingchen was such a man that he dared to chew such bitter medicine directly.

Jiang Muyu couldn't swallow it because it was so bitter. He blocked her mouth and prevented her from spitting it out. After struggling for a while, she finally swallowed it. He even forced her to drink two gulps of water. The bitter taste in her mouth lingered and her face turned even paler.

Liang Qingchen frowned and asked, "What kind of medicine is this?"

"Detoxification pills can temporarily suppress the toxicity in her body."

"She was poisoned?"

"You can't see it's so obvious? Your lips are almost black."

"What kind of poison?"

"It's being checked right now." Heather waved her hand and said, "Please ask the family members to wait outside and not disturb the doctor's consultation here."

Normally Liang Qingchen would always sneer at him, but now that the situation was urgent, he seemed to have turned off his sharp tongue and went out obediently.

This was beyond Heather's expectation. She looked at Jiang Muyu lying on the bed and said, "You are so stubborn. You have been hanging on this crooked tree for so many years."

After taking her pulse, he leaned over and stretched out his hand to pry open Jiang Muyu's eyelids to check, then opened her mouth and took a look, and he came to a conclusion in his heart.

Heather walked out, went to the other side of the table, wrote a prescription, handed it to Liang Qingchen, and said, "Take this prescription to Baicao Pavilion and get the medicine directly. Pick up a few more herbs and bring them back. Give her one set a day. Drink it for six consecutive days."

"Okay." Liang Qingchen took the prescription and went out.

Heather went to the cupboard and took out a pair of silver needles, picked up a porcelain bowl, took out a needle, pierced her fingertip, squeezed a drop of blood into the cup, and began to bleed her.

Not long after, Liang Qingchen came back with a medicine jar in his hand.

Heather was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why did you even bring me the medicine jar?"

"Didn't you ask me to bring the medicine directly over?"

"I asked you to get the medicine, not to bring the jar over."

"Oh, will the medicine be more effective if it's fresh out of the pot?"

"Not really." Heather took out a bowl, snatched the medicine jar from his hand, poured a bowl, and said, "Go and feed it to her."

"Um."

Liang Qingchen walked in with the medicine bowl and saw Jiang Muyu's fingers wrapped in gauze. There was a cup filled with dark red blood on the ground.

He frowned, said nothing, sat on the edge of the bed, helped Jiang Muyu up from her coma, and fed her a whole bowl of medicine, spoonful by spoonful.

This time she was much more obedient and drank it all.

After feeding the medicine, Liang Qingchen walked out of the inner room and saw Shi Nanye sitting at the table drinking tea. He knew that the poison in Jiang Muyu should no longer be a big deal.

Heather looked at him, pointed at the medicine jar on the table, and said, "This medicine jar must also be charged. It's five hundred coins each. Don't shirk your responsibility."

"Yeah." Liang Qingchen put down the empty bowl and sat down opposite him. "What kind of poison did she take?"

"It's not a special poison, it's a more common poison called ophiopogon."

"Peach with bamboo?"

"Don't underestimate this plant. It looks beautiful and is easy to grow, but its flowers, leaves, and stems are all poisonous. Just one leaf of the plant can kill a child."

Liang Qingchen's brows were tightly furrowed. "Someone around her actually wants to kill her."

Heather said, "It seems she hasn't told you yet."

"What?" He looked puzzled.

"In fact, poisoning by the licorice tree will not cause nosebleeds, but because there is another more terrible poison in her body, it stimulates the reaction more violently."

"Another kind of poison?" Liang Qingchen paused, "She knows about this herself?"

"Yes, she knows it very well." Heather knocked on the table and said, "In fact, when I knew she didn't tell you, I thought for a moment that I should help her keep it a secret. After all, this is also the patient's privacy. But I thought about it and felt that if she was asked to investigate this matter alone, it would take her a long time to find out. By then, she would lose her life before the matter is fully investigated. If you help, maybe we can get twice the result with half the effort."

He was silent for a moment before asking, "What is the other poison?"

"It's a kind of insect. Someone has placed a worm inside her body..."

Liang Qingchen interrupted him and asked, "Are you talking about the mother-and-child snake poison?"

"Uh... you know?"

"I've heard a little bit about it."

Heather immediately became alert, "I understand why she didn't tell you. She doesn't trust you enough."

Liang Qingchen pursed his lips, "I know."

"Brother, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but you keep pretending to be deep and profound every day. It's ok to hide it from outsiders, but you even hide it from your bedmate..."

He paused, sighed and said, "Although, she had another man in her heart before, but she was not in a clear mind at that time. Now she has returned to normal, you should put your worries aside."

"Just knowing she's back makes me more concerned."


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