"That's right." Han Jun confirmed Pei Xuanqing's guess. He added, "Not only me, but many Dark Forest Guardians have also been cured of the poison by joining my master."
Pei Xuanqing laughed self-deprecatingly, "No wonder the Dark Forest Guards haven't been able to find any information about the gang of thieves or the woman holding the child after searching for so long."
"After talking for so long, I just proposed to cooperate with Lord Pei. I wonder what Lord Pei thinks about it?" Not wanting to talk about those things, Han Jun brought the topic back to cooperation.
"Besides Qiansi's antidote, what else can I get? What do you need me to do?"
"Besides the antidote for Qiansi, Lord Pei might be able to directly take the position of Marquis Huai'en. As for what I want you to do? Of course, it's to lend a hand to my master."
"It seems your master is quite influential and has big ambitions!"
"Of course my master comes from a prominent family. As for his ambitions? He's just being forced by the royal family, just like the rest of us."
Pei Xuanqing smiled and said, "It seems your master has also been poisoned by the pulling silk."
"That's right." Han Jun admitted again, "But my master is well versed in pharmacology and he cured the poison of the silkworm long ago."
"Could it be that the detoxification is related to those women and children?" Pei Xuanqing intended to continue to trick Han Jun.
"I don't know about that. You asked so many questions, and I answered many of them for the sake of our old friendship. I wonder if Lord Pei is willing to cooperate?" Han Jun was not fooled and brought the topic back.
"This is no small matter. Commander Han, please allow me to think it over carefully before giving you an answer."
"Then when you've figured it out, come and take your wife back. By the way," Han Jun continued, "I'd also like to trouble Master Pei to inform Master Shen about the cooperation. His wife is currently staying with Madam Pei."
Pei Xuanqing smiled and said, "I will."
"But rest assured, my Lords. To show our sincerity, we will not let your Madams suffer any injustice."
"Thank you!"
After the Han army left with their men, Pei Xuanqing signaled to several subordinates who had been secretly deployed. After receiving the order, those subordinates chased after the Han army.
However, as the former commander of the Dark Forest Guards, Han Jun quickly shook off the following Dark Forest Guards.
On the other side, seeing the children in the women's arms, Wan Xueying curiously went forward to check, and she immediately noticed something was wrong.
"What's wrong? What's wrong with these children?" Shen Yu noticed the change in Wan Xueying's expression and asked.
"I'm afraid these children are all poisoned." Wan Xueying replied with a heavy heart.
"Where are the women?"
Wan Xueying shook her head and said, "Their condition is still unclear." The reason why those children were judged to be drugged people was because their faces were either yellow or blue, which clearly showed that their livers were severely damaged.
"Let Pei Xuanqing's people investigate." Every profession has its own expertise, and Shen Yu doesn't intend to waste time on this.
It was already late at night. Shen Yu, the man brought by Pei Xuanqing, asked Wan Hesu to take him to the reserve camp to rest, while Pei Xuanqing and his wife followed Shen Yu and his wife back to the Shen family.
In order to appease Xue Lingyue, Wan Xueying stayed with Xue Lingyue while Pei Xuanqing had a secret conversation with Shen Yu.
"Do you have anyone you suspect?" Wan Xueying asked Xue Lingyue privately.
"Who else could it be?" Xue Lingyue sneered, "At this juncture, the person who can do this is most likely Ji Rongshan." After all, only if she dies can Ji Rongshan become Pei Xuanqing's legal wife.
"So what are you going to do?"
Xue Lingyue smiled bitterly, "What else can I do? It all depends on what my husband means."
"What if Lord Pei wants to settle the matter peacefully?" Since Pei Xuanqing accepted Ji Yun's plan, he would probably just let it go this time and fight for some more rights for himself.
"I don't have a better way, I can only endure it." Xue Lingyue knew very well that the Ji family would be useful to Pei Xuanqing, unless the Ji family no longer held military power.
"Don't be too hard on yourself." This was someone else's family background, so Wan Xueying couldn't get too involved. However, there was one thing she felt she needed to remind her of. So she said, "You'd better pay attention to your maid Qiuying."
"Qiuying, what happened to Qiuying?" If Qiuying hadn't been smart enough to find Xueying, she probably wouldn't have been able to come back until now.
"I always felt that some of her actions were very strange when you were arrested." I didn't think so at the time, but the more I thought about it afterwards, the more I felt something was wrong.
Logically, Qiuying should have stayed where she was, looking for Xue Lingyue, and then sent a fast-running guard to ask her for help. But she didn't. Furthermore, when the so-called pregnant woman asked for help, she, a servant, didn't help her, so why did she let Xue Lingyue, a master, do it?
Yes, at the beginning, the person was running towards Xue Lingyue, but what did the fake pregnant woman do after that when she had to travel such a long distance to find a doctor?
Furthermore, shouldn't Qiuying have gone to check on Xue Lingyue the moment she was knocked unconscious by the fake pregnant woman? If that were the case, the fake pregnant woman should have first dealt with Qiuying, the stumbling block, if she wanted to take Xue Lingyue away. How could she have come to ask for help out of the blue?
All the signs seem unreasonable.
Meanwhile, in Shen Yu's study, Pei Xuanqing and Shen Yu were discussing confidential matters. They each assigned their trusted confidants to guard the area.
"Do you have anyone you suspect?" Shen Yu and Wan Xueying started in the same way.
"Yes." Pei Xuanqing nodded. "If it was just a guess before, then this time it should be almost certain."
"Can you tell me something?" After all, Shen Yu didn't know much about the Dark Forest Guards.
"If I'm not mistaken, Princess Shuhua's consort and son were not dead. It's possible that even Wan Qingling's disappearance was part of Princess Shuhua's consort's plan. It was just that something went wrong that led to Wan Qingling ending up in the Wan family."
If my guess is correct, the biggest mistake is probably that Princess Shuhua's husband did not expect Princess Shuhua to go looking for someone, and accidentally gave birth on the way.
"Why is that?" Shen Yu asked curiously.
"Do you remember what I told you before? Children born from those poisoned by the Thread-pulling Poison often die young. So why is Wan Qingling fine?" This was the biggest flaw. Not only did Wan Qingling not die young, she was actually alive and well.
"You're saying that Princess Shuhua's husband had already cured the poison of Qiansi, so the child he and Princess Shuhua had was fine?"
"That's right." Pei Xuanqing nodded again. "I suspect he was afraid that the emperor would find out he had already cured the poison and bring about his own death, so he faked his own death with his son. After all, the matter of Qiansi has far-reaching implications. If anyone, especially the Dark Forest Guards, knew that Qiansi could cure the poison, the consequences would be disastrous."
So if Lian Zong knew about this, Princess Shuhua's husband would definitely die.
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