Chapter 125 Su Yue's Scheme (Part 1)
The night in Dongyou, mixed with the dampness of rain, makes people feel cold to the bone.
The Third Prince's Mansion is destined to be turbulent tonight.
Because it had just been reported that the third prince had been poisoned again, after diagnosis by Miss Su Yue, it was determined that arsenic had been added to the five-red soup.
Before in the kitchen, when Su Yue was making the Five Red Soup, almost everyone had more or less participated in the preparation of the Five Red Soup, so all the people in the kitchen were summoned to the outside of the Third Prince's room and knelt on the ground.
"Hey, who on earth is it? After being quiet for a while, why did they poison us again? They are trying to kill us!"
A cook saw that the Third Prince's door was closed, so he complained quietly, and the people around him heard it and echoed:
"Yes, after the Third Prince was poisoned, he was extra careful about what he ate. I heard that it was Miss Su who made the soup this time. Plus, Miss Su knows some medical skills. I didn't expect that the thief would dare to commit the crime against the wind!"
"Hey, I don't know what happened to the Third Prince this time. The Third Prince is kind-hearted, so please don't let anything happen to him!"
Someone sighed softly, causing the people around him to feel worried as well.
The Third Prince was rarely picky about food. He would eat whatever they cooked and never scolded them for their taste. He also had no complaints about their monthly salary.
Working as a cook for the Third Prince, life is comfortable.
I just don't know which bastard poisoned the third prince again and again. Isn't this ruining their comfortable life?
Then the people who were kneeling turned around and started cursing the person who poisoned the food.
After all, the Third Prince is kindhearted and cherishes the lives of ordinary innocent people. If it were any other family, they would kill all the people in the kitchen rather than let the thief go.
The man kneeling between them had a full beard and a gloomy expression. He did not poison them this time.
He had considered it before, but when he heard that Miss Su was a doctor, he gave up. After all, it was too risky to commit a crime against the wind.
Since I didn't poison him, how could the third prince be poisoned?
"Squeak~" As the door opened, Su Yue walked out with a gloomy face. He glanced at the people kneeling there without saying a word.
Following Su Yue was Ruofeng, but his face didn't look good either.
"Miss Su, I wonder how the third prince is doing now?" The chef who was kneeling in the lead saw Su Yue's grim expression and asked cautiously.
"Miss Su, this is the head chef of our kitchen. His surname is Huang." When Ruofeng saw Su Yue turning her head to look at him, he hurriedly introduced her.
"Manager Huang, after the Third Prince took the Five Red Soup, he vomited continuously and even vomited blood. He is now unconscious in bed.
I was careless in this matter. I thought that after introducing myself and knowing some medical skills, the thief would definitely not do anything after hearing it. I didn't expect that I was still taken advantage of. ”
After Su Yue finished speaking, she sighed softly and looked at everyone with a tone of self-blame.
"Is the third prince okay?" When Butler Huang heard Su Yue say that the third prince was unconscious in bed, he became anxious.
"It's fine for now, but today, I must catch the person who poisoned me!"
Su Yue looked at the people present. When they heard her say that she wanted to catch the person who poisoned them, the people kneeling on the scene all raised their heads cautiously.
If Miss Su could really catch the person who poisoned the patient, it would definitely be a good thing for most people.
After all, because of the poisoning incident, they had been working in the kitchen very carefully during this period, for fear that they would be attacked by the thief hiding among them.
"Miss Su, do you have any solution?" Manager Huang was also over fifty years old, so he could naturally recognize Su Yue's tone.
"Manager Huang, I have a way. Someone, bring the things up."
Following Su Yue's instructions, several servants walked in one after another from the gate of the courtyard. They all held a plate in their hands. On the plate was a small wooden basin, which should be filled with hot water. Steam was still coming out of the water.
Some careful people even counted the number of slaves and found that there were as many as twenty-two of them. Each of them was holding a basin of water and then stood in line.
"Bring a basin over." Su Yue motioned for a maid to come over. The maid closest to her lowered her head and walked to Su Yue's side.
"Bring a few more candles so that those present can have a look together."
Su Yue continued to give instructions, and soon, several candles were placed around the basin of water. In order to prevent the candles from being extinguished by the rain, a lampshade was specially added, so that the water in the basin could be illuminated clearly.
"For this arsenic poison, if a silver needle is put in and it turns black, it is poisonous. Butler Huang, do you know this method of testing poison?"
Su Yue stretched out his right hand and took out another package of something wrapped in paper from the plate.
"This silver needle test for poison is something that even ordinary people know. I have lived for more than fifty years, so I naturally know it too."
Butler Huang saw Su Yue pick up a packet of medicine and put it into the water, and the water immediately began to roll. Then Su Yue added another packet of medicine, and the rolling water immediately turned black.
"You can see that the first packet I put in was arsenic, and the second packet was silver powder. This is why the water turned black."
Su Yue explained softly, looked at the people below, and felt that everyone was puzzled, so she chuckled and said again:
"Someone, bring a piece of raw meat." As the raw meat was brought in, Su Yue gently threw the raw meat in amid the puzzled gazes of the crowd, and took it out two breaths later.
Afterwards, everyone saw a maid walking out from behind Su Yue. The maid was holding a plate in her hand, and on the plate was a huge glass bottle.
Through the bottle, everyone saw only a bunch of black things crawling around.
Afterwards, Su Yue hung the raw meat on the mouth of the glass bottle. As Su Yue moved, everyone was surprised to find that it might be because of the cold weather.
The black thing that had been motionless just now was now like a pot of boiling water, desperately crawling towards the mouth of the bottle. However, because the glass bottle was too smooth, the thing fell down after only a few climbs.
Only then did everyone see clearly what was in the bottle. It was a bunch of spiders the size of a thumb, which looked very creepy.
"Butler Huang, did you see that? In fact, when the silver powder and arsenic come together, they not only turn black, but also produce a smell that can drive the number one poisonous spider, the black wolf spider, crazy.
It’s just that we usually use silver needles, which are the size of a black needle tip and have a non-obvious smell, so few people know about it. ”
Su Yue ignored the black wolf spider's madness and put the raw meat aside.
"What does Miss Su mean?" Butler Huang looked at the poisonous spider and felt uneasy in his heart.
"What I mean is that the person who poisoned must have come into contact with arsenic. Tonight, everyone in the kitchen will run their hands through the water soaked in silver powder, and then walk past the black wolf spider one by one. By looking at the black wolf spider's reaction, we will know who poisoned it."
Su Yue looked at everyone and spoke slowly, and the people who were kneeling just then realized that there were only twenty-one basins left in the field, and there were exactly twenty-one people in their kitchen.
After hearing what Su Yue said, the person who poisoned the food exhaled carefully. He said that he did not poison the food, so even if it was soaked in silver powder, it should be fine.
"Miss Su, when the poison was administered, the amount of arsenic that the person who administered the poison must have been exposed to was very small, so the silver powder water might not turn black. What should we do then?"
Seeing that it had come to this step, Ruofeng asked a question according to Su Yue's previous instructions.
"Ruofeng doesn't have to worry about the amount of arsenic that the person who poisoned the water had on his hands being small, causing the water in the basin to not turn black.
Whether the water is black or not is not the point; the point is the smell. The black wolf spider is extremely sensitive to smells, let alone a small amount of arsenic.
Even if it was poisoned a month ago, as long as the black wolf spider comes into contact with arsenic and is soaked in this silver powder water, the faint smell will drive it crazy! ”
Su Yue's words made the man's face turn completely dark, and he panicked.
There were twinkling stars in Su Yue's eyes. Now, the game had been set, the urn had been opened, and she was just waiting for the prey to reveal itself.
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