Xiao Yunchen raised his cup and took a sip. The middle-aged man smiled and said, "Sir, you are very polite. According to the rules in northern Jiangsu, you have to drink the whole cup to show your sincerity!"
Seeing this, Li Sisi interrupted, "My husband really isn't good at drinking. I'll drink this wine for him." As she said that, she was about to get the wine glass.
Xiao Yunchen held her hand and said softly, "My lady, no."
He turned to look at the man and said gently, "I'm new here and I don't really understand the customs of your northern Jiangsu. I'll offer you a glass of tea instead of wine."
Another man at the table laughed and joked, "The young lady is really protective of her husband. But today is a big day, how can we not drink a little wine?"
The man stood up and said with a smile, "Come and try the Zheng family's special peach blossom wine. It's sweet but not intoxicating."
On the other side, no matter what Xiao Yunchen said, the man was eloquent and would not let Xiao Yunchen go. He insisted that he drink the white wine and drink it all in one gulp like him.
Li Sisi's eyes rolled, and she simply took the full glass of peach wine poured by the man and stood up. "It seems that my husband really doesn't intend to give you face. Please be magnanimous and don't bother with him. Come on, I'll drink with you."
The man looked at the peach blossom in Li Sisi's cup with a disdainful expression on his face: "It's understandable that the young lady feels sorry for your man. But when it comes to drinking, it's still the man and my man who should drink. It's not proper for a woman to drink with a man."
When Li Sisi heard this, she became furious.
You are so shameless!
Xiao Yunyu, who was still peeling shrimp, chuckled, "Didn't the housekeeper say this was the seat of honor? Why are all these random people being led here?"
The person who was trying to persuade him to drink suddenly changed his expression and said angrily, "This young master's words are too vulgar. This drinking table culture..."
Before he could finish, Xiao Yunyu chuckled again.
"Drinking table culture? Comparing the Book of Songs or couplets? If you put it that way, my brother will be interested." He looked at Xiao Yunchen and grinned, "Right, brother?"
Xiao Yunchen was a little stunned.
The phrases my eldest brother said most often since he was a child were "He is not my brother" and "I don't have a younger brother".
Now she actually calls him "brother"?
Xiao Yunchen immediately responded: "Big brother is right."
The man snorted coldly and said in a very unhappy tone: "Today is a wedding banquet, not a poetry gathering!"
Xiao Yunyu glanced at him lightly and said in a drawn-out tone, "So you're an uneducated person..."
Hearing this, the man, who had just been able to suppress his anger, could no longer suppress it. He slammed the table and said, "This kid is really arrogant..."
The man hadn't finished speaking.
Xiao Jinhe suddenly burst into tears.
Li Nian quickly put down the soup spoon and asked softly, "Are you feeling unwell somewhere? Tell mother."
As she spoke, she hurriedly checked Jinhe's face.
"Mother, it hurts... Jinhe, it hurts so much~~wuwuwu..."
Li Nian couldn't see Jinhe's symptoms for a moment.
[System, quickly help Jinhe check, what happened to her? ]
The system busy tone sounded for a while. [Ding! After system inspection, the host's daughter has been poisoned.]
[What?!] Li Nian’s heart suddenly sank.
Seeing that she looked a little strange, Xiao Yunyu suddenly became nervous: "What's wrong with Jinhe?"
Li Nian replied in a deep voice: "Poisoned."
After hearing this, everyone at the table immediately put down their chopsticks.
The two people who were chewing the food didn't know whether to spit it out or not, but they didn't dare to swallow it. Finally, they covered their faces with their wide sleeves and quietly spit the food in their mouths onto the ground.
Li Nian quickly asked the system, "Quickly exchange the antidote for me. I need the antidote."
[Ding! Antidote exchange successful, deduction from host...]
Li Nian didn't have time to listen to what the system said next. Anyway, she had so many points that she couldn't spend them all in a lifetime.
When Xiao Yunyu heard Li Nian's words, he looked flustered.
"I'll take Jinhe to find a doctor and come back to settle the score later!"
"No need." Li Nian pushed away Xiao Yunyu's outstretched hand, "I have the antidote."
"Your pill is too big. Jinhe can't swallow it..."
As Xiao Yunyu was speaking, he saw Li Nian take out a transparent glass bottle and put it into Jinhe's mouth.
She coaxed him softly, "Drink it quickly, and the pain will go away."
Although Jinhe is a little naughty, she always listens to what her mother says.
The little girl opened her mouth and drank the slightly bitter antidote, and her eyebrows were wrinkled with bitterness.
After drinking the medicine, the pain in her body gradually dissipated, but the little girl was too young and her resistance was still a little weak, so she closed her eyes in a daze.
Li Nian asked the system to check her body again, and the results showed that she was normal, just a little weak.
At this time, Shopkeeper Liu had already come over, his face full of nervousness and worry.
This little girl is currently the only granddaughter of Marquis Xiao's family, and her father is a perverse prince. If something goes wrong, I'm afraid that everyone at today's wedding banquet will not have a good ending.
Thinking of this, Shopkeeper Liu became even more panicked: "Sir, how about I go get a doctor? Even though the poison has been removed, you'll definitely need to recuperate."
Li Nian held Jin He and stood up: "I will take Jin He to see a doctor first, you stay and investigate who poisoned her!"
She glanced at the others.
Everyone was fine except Jinhe who was poisoned, and there were only a few kinds of food that the little girl could eat.
It is obvious that the person who poisoned the food had a clear target.
"Okay, you go with your sister-in-law and take Xiaobai and the others with you." Xiao Yunyu restrained his violent emotions and gave instructions with a frown.
"Well, I'll go first." Li Nian walked out holding Jinhe.
Li Sisi protected Li Nian, and Xiaobai followed behind them.
Shopkeeper Liu hurried back home to arrange a carriage, and the group headed to the largest pharmacy in the city.
"Zhao's Pharmacy?"
Hearing Xiaobai's puzzled tone, Manager Liu immediately explained.
"The owner of this pharmacy is from a family of imperial physicians in the capital, the direct descendant of the Zhao family. He is currently residing in northern Jiangsu with his wife. Not only are their medical skills the best in the city, but they also have the most comprehensive range of medicinal materials."
Li Nian looked at Xiaobai suspiciously; "Is he talking about Zhao Ju?"
Xiaobai replied: "Yes."
Then he murmured to himself in confusion, "But where did Zhao Ju get a wife? Didn't Su Muyan run away from her marriage?"
Li Sisi exclaimed, "So I wasn't wrong that day, it was Su Muyan!"
She looked at Li Nian and said, "Hasn't Su Muyan been missing since she ran away from her marriage? Could she have been captured and imprisoned by Zhao Ju?"
Li Nian was thoughtful: "Zhao Ju is indeed capable of doing such a thing."
Li Sisi's eyes widened, her face full of gossipy curiosity: "Fuck, this is the real version of forced love!"
Li Nian looked at Shopkeeper Liu and asked, "Are there any other doctors in the city? They are competitors of the Zhao family."
The shrewd shopkeeper Liu immediately understood that it seemed that they had some grudge against the Zhao family.
He immediately replied respectfully, "Yes, it's the Anfu Pharmacy across the street."
"Then let's go to Anfu Pharmacy." As he said that, Li Nian carried Jinhe and walked towards the opposite side of Zhao's Pharmacy.
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