"Dad, could you go to the chicken coop and catch that hen?" Besides the people and the burrowing rats, the only other thing alive in the house is the old hen. Su Xingran had no choice but to try the hen; after all, there was no poisonous chicken, so it would be fine.
When Su Xingran called for him to catch a chicken, her father didn't ask why. He simply went to the chicken coop and quickly brought it back. Now that Ranran has caught the chicken, what should she do?
"Dad, catch the chicken. I'll feed it some soup so I can make sure it's the same as what I smelled." After Su's father had secured the chicken, Su Xingran took the half-bowl of soup she had just ladled out and placed it under the chicken's beak.
Smelling the aroma, the hen slowly dipped its head into the bowl and began to drink the soup, its beak opening and closing. After the chicken had drunk quite a bit, Su Xingran moved the bowl away. "Dad, hold it for a bit before letting it go."
Five minutes later, Su Xingran said, "Dad, let the chicken go and let it move around." Su's father removed his hands from the chicken, and it immediately ran off. Before Su's father could release the chicken, Su Xingran had already closed the door to the house.
The hen was running around everywhere, initially quite fast. Su Xingran and the others ate their dinner while keeping an eye on her. Gradually, the hen started to slow down, almost walking. After a while, she was walking unsteadily, staggering from side to side.
When Su's parents saw the hen like this, they were also a little nervous. Su Xingran looked at the hen and silently counted down in her mind. When she counted to zero, the hen fell to the ground and fainted.
When Su's mother saw the hen faint, she immediately became agitated. "Ranran, what happened? Why did the hen faint?" "Yes, Ranran, what's wrong? How did this hen just faint while walking around?" Su's father also asked.
Mom and Dad, at first I tested the soup with a silver needle, and the needle didn't change color, which meant there was no poison in the soup. Later I asked Dad to catch a chicken because I smelled a very faint, unusual aroma in the soup that didn't seem to belong to chicken soup. I thought that faint smell was very much like the smell of a sleeping potion.
I wanted to test it on a live animal to see if it really was a drug. Besides the three of us, the only other living thing in the house was the chicken, so I asked my dad to catch one and feed it soup. Now the chicken is unconscious, so the soup was drugged.
I suspect the people at the old house want to drug all three of us and then do something. The fact that they chose to deliver it around dinner time means they plan to act that night. The effects of sleeping pills vary; a mild one will wake you up in a few hours, while a strong one might take more than a day.
Judging from the hen's condition just now, and how quickly she fainted, the dosage was quite strong. If the three of us finish this pot of soup, we'll probably fall unconscious very quickly, and it will take a while for us to wake up. Sleeping pills are hard to come by these days, except for some doctors who can make them themselves. Those people at the old house might have someone helping them.
As for the person who helped them, I think it's possible that it's the same person who gave them the talisman last time. This morning, my grandma and aunt stopped me on my way to my master's house; they seemed to be testing me.
My parents and grandmother treat me like a lost soul. From the time I exposed Su Wenli for impersonating my savior, to their pressure on me to hand over my master to Su Wenli, I was consumed by rage and beat them up. Then my father came to demand the family division agreement. They think I... Things have changed so much. My parents aren't like they used to be, easily exploited.
Mom and Dad, just like we said last time, we'll play along. We'll pretend to have eaten the chicken soup and then pass out. Then we'll see what the people at the old house are up to, okay?
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