Chapter 33 Only the Qin family was not poisoned]
"Boss! Three people here are poisoned!"
"Boss! Here too, four... no, six people have fallen to the ground due to poisoning!"
When Chen Wu heard this, he became a little frightened.
It's not uncommon for some people to die from the hardships during the exile, but it would be difficult for him, as a duty officer, to explain the death on such a large scale!
If the county magistrate who was in charge of the detention could fabricate a charge and say that the prisoners were not dead but were released by him without permission, that would be a capital crime!
"What's going on? How come so many people are poisoned all of a sudden?!"
"Boss, I heard from their families that they probably ate the wild fruit from that tree over there, which is why they got poisoned. Boss, what should we do now? Should we send someone to find a doctor as soon as possible?"
After Yuan Xun realized something was wrong, he walked back and said, "It's probably too late to find a doctor now! Boss, I just checked on Miss Shen's sister and brother-in-law. They were probably poisoned by the same thing as these people. Miss Shen just gave them salt water to induce vomiting. Maybe that's a solution!"
Upon hearing this, Chen Wu quickly said, "In that case, you should quickly tell the poisoned family to boil salt water to induce vomiting!"
"But... salt is already scarce. Many families don't even have any salt. What can we do?"
Yuan Xun said, "I'll go ask Miss Shen if there is any other way!"
After saying that, he went over to ask Chen Fenghe.
Fortunately, Xiao Yunhao and Shen Qingxing did not eat much wild fruits, so after being fed salt water and inducing vomiting several times, they have now woken up.
Qin Mengyue hugged Xiao Yunhao, while Shen Yichuan hugged Shen Qingxing, both crying like loud trumpets.
Yuan Xun explained the purpose of his visit.
Chen Fenghe looked around and saw a few soapberry trees over there. She immediately said, "The soapberry trees over there, boiling soapberry in water, can also induce vomiting. Or you can reach your hand deep into the throat of the poisoned person and force them to vomit."
After hearing this, Yuan Xun immediately went back and told Chen Wu the method.
Chen Wu immediately sent officials and the prisoners who were not poisoned to either collect soapberries and boil soapberry water, or to tell everyone how to induce vomiting.
Soon, sounds of vomiting were heard in the camp.
Chen Fenghe calmly covered her mouth and nose with a piece of cloth. The smell was not very pleasant.
While taking care of Shen Qingxing and Xiao Yunhao, she looked around.
Due to the lack of food, more than thirty out of the fifty or sixty exiled people were killed, but only one family remained unharmed.
This family is the Qin family.
Chen Fenghe looked over and saw Qin Huanhuan looking at her with a gloomy expression.
Shen Fenghe turned around and asked Shen Yichuan, "Yichuan, tell me, who discovered that tree?"
Shen Yichuan replied, "Qin Ziming came over to tell Xing'er that he had found a wild jujube tree. We followed him to pick wild jujubes and found it. Qin Ziming picked two and gave them to Xing'er. But Xing'er didn't eat them. She picked some for Hao'er and herself..."
Chen Fenghe frowned slightly.
This is really... what a coincidence!
"Then, did Qin Ziming eat the wild fruit?" Chen Fenghe asked.
Shen Yichuan thought about it, shook his head and said, “It seems that I haven’t eaten it.”
Qin Mengyue was stunned when she heard Chen Fenghe ask this, and asked, "Fenghe..., do you suspect Ziming knew that this wild fruit was poisonous? No...that's impossible. As soon as Hao'er and Xing'er were poisoned, your second aunt came over and asked about it with concern, and even asked your second uncle to go and ask the officials to find a doctor..."
Chen Fenghe interrupted her and said, "Mother, did Second Aunt take the gold hairpin from you? She said she was going to ask the officials to take it away?"
Qin Mengyue was startled and asked stutteringly, "How...how did you know?"
At this time, Yuan Xun came over again to ask about the matter, and Chen Fenghe said, "Mom, let's talk about this matter after we rescue the people."
After a while, most of the poisoned people were rescued after vomiting, but there were still a few people who could not be saved because they accidentally ingested too much.
It was in the wilderness, and the police naturally could not help collect the bodies, so they threw the bodies into a valley and crossed out their names from the list of prisoners.
The relatives of these people cried breathlessly, but there was nothing they could do but watch their bodies exposed in the wilderness.
After everyone had almost recovered, Chen Wu ordered everyone to get up and move to a cleaner open space. Then he asked a few officers to go over and carry back the other wild boar.
Chen Shi ate some wild boar blood and woke up from his coma, but he was still very weak and his lips were white.
Chen Wu immediately ordered his men to shave the hair of the two wild boars and cut them into pieces.
Pieces of wild boar meat, fat and lean, were placed on the leaves. Even though they were raw, the exiled prisoners could only drool at the sight.
Old Lady Zhang watched from the side and said, "Oh, this wild boar meat looks so delicious! If I could eat a bowl of this red, fragrant braised pork, I would be willing to die immediately!"
Qin Jinzhong said impatiently, "Mom, who doesn't want to eat? This is what the officials hunted, can you share it with us?!"
Old Lady Zhang shrank her head, but still said, "Of course they won't share the food, but these are two wild boars that big, they must weigh at least 100 to 200 kilograms! Can they finish them all? Why don't you take out some of your own money and ask them to buy some?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Qin Lizheng and Qin Liqing spoke first.
"Grandma! Who has private money? If you want to eat, go buy it yourself!"
"That's right! You're already old, but you're still thinking about the little money in the hands of the younger generation!"
Old Mrs. Zhang was furious, but she didn't dare to say anything more.
Chen Wu came over and said to Shen Fenghe, "Miss Shen, the fact that we were able to hunt two wild boars this time is mostly due to your efforts. You also saved Xiao Shitou, so the bigger of the two wild boars is yours, Miss Shen. We'll keep the smaller one."
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