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“Cough cough cough…”

Liang Juan covered her chest and coughed several times. It seemed that she had spit out all the water that had moistened her throat. Then she asked, "Why is there medicine in this water? What kind of medicine is it?"

"Be gentle!"

Ye Min quickly put her finger to her lips and asked Meng Zheng to close the door. After he kicked the stone over to block the door, she said, "I don't know why there is medicine." After saying that, she put down the enamel cup, thought for a moment and asked, "Sister Liang, did you encounter any strange people or things when you went to get water?"

"No," Liang Juan looked puzzled, "This is a hospital, aren't all the people who go to get water the patients' families?" At this point she suddenly remembered, "Oh, yes, not all of them were patients' families, there was also a woman who went to the toilet and almost fell when she came out."

Hearing the word "partum woman", Ye Min's mind moved: "Tell me in detail."

"Actually the situation is just as I just said, there's nothing else to it..." Although she said this, Liang Juan still elaborated on the situation and repeated it from beginning to end.

The hospital's washroom is actually a suite. The faucets are arranged in a concave shape on the outside, and there are two faucets inside, the women's toilet on the left and the men's toilet on the right. The hot water faucet is located near the women's toilet.

Because Ye Min was slow to eat, when Liang Juan went to get some water, there were only a few people queuing in the water room. By the time it was her turn, the water room was almost empty.

So when she was getting hot water and saw the person coming out of the women's room go limp and fall to the ground, Liang Juan went over and helped the person up without thinking.

After being helped up, the woman thanked Liang Juan repeatedly and briefly introduced her situation. It turned out that she was a 216-month-old woman who had given birth. Because her family conditions were poor and her husband had to go to work and could not leave, she had no one to take care of her after giving birth.

Liang Juan felt very sympathetic after hearing this and forgot about the kettle that was collecting water for a moment until someone behind her reminded her that the water was collected and turned off the faucet for her. Only then did she react.

At this point, Liang Juan clapped her hands and said, "It must be that man who drugged us! I thought he was a good man, but he actually did such a thing in secret!"

Ye Min did not share her hatred, but asked: "The person who helped you turn off the faucet was a man?"

"He was a man, about this tall, quite thin, and quite gentle-looking," Liang Juan recalled as she described him. She still looked incredulous after she finished, "I really can't tell he's a bad guy."

Liang Juan thought it was a man who drugged the woman, and didn't think it was the woman in labor. Ye Min, however, thought it was a trap and asked, "Did the woman in labor tell me which ward she was in?"

"She said she was in Ward 216. I saw her go in when she came back."

Ward 216, the family conditions are not good...Ye Min thinks that the woman who fell down is probably one of the two people mentioned by the nurse, and may also be the adoptive mother of her daughter in the original book.

Since it was the foster mother who drugged the baby, it is likely that she was the one who switched the baby.

Oh, and there's another man, probably a husband-and-wife partnership.

Noticing that Ye Min looked a little unhappy, Liang Juan hesitated, "Could it be that... that woman in labor is also related to this matter?"

Ye Min did not answer directly, but only asked: "If the woman had not fallen, would you not have watched the kettle?"

"Of course not!" Liang Juan answered without hesitation. When she finished speaking, she was stunned. "Does it really have anything to do with her? Is she in cahoots with that guy? What do they want to do?"

"I don't know what they want to do, but," Ye Min looked at Liang Juan and asked, "Do you remember what I said about someone hanging around outside last night?"

Although the story about someone hanging around outside at night was fake, knowing the couple's plan, Ye Min simply combined the two things.

Because of the foundation she had laid before, Liang Juan had no doubts when she heard Ye Min's words: "This is really... you can't tell a person's true heart from his appearance! By the way, what kind of medicine did they use?"

"It smells like musk, datura and fennel, and all have anesthetic and sedative effects," Ye Min guessed, "It should be a drug."

Liang Juan first said "Huh", then picked up the enamel cup again, sniffed it carefully and said, "Why don't I smell anything?"

Ye Min replied: "The amount is small, and the smell of the medicine has been diluted."

In fact, if she hadn't seen the barrage of messages and known that someone was trying to steal her daughter, making her suspicious, she might not have noticed that there was a drug in the hot water.

Liang Juan suddenly realized what was going on and then asked curiously, "According to what you said, the smell of the medicine has been diluted. Can it be useful? Can it really make people sick?"

"It's not to the point where you pass out right after drinking it, but it should make you drowsy and help you sleep extra deeply at night."

Musk, datura, fennel and tangerine peel are all medicinal materials often used to make knockout drugs in ancient martial arts novels.

In those novels, knockout drugs are always taken with wine. First, because wine is a dull yellow in color and has a strong smell of alcohol, it would be difficult to detect the knockout drug when it is taken with wine; second, because wine itself can intoxicate people and promote the dissipation of the drug's power, achieving the effect of falling down as soon as one goes out or falls asleep as soon as one lies down.

But life is not a novel after all. Even if you grind all the anesthetic herbs into powder and mix them together, they may not achieve the effect of the knockout drug in the novel.

Moreover, the lives of ordinary people are not so full of ups and downs, and most people will never encounter a situation in their lifetime where they need to knock others out, so the recipe for the knockout drug gradually became lost.

Ye Min knew that these were the herbs used to make knockout drugs because she had read comic strips adapted from famous novels when she was a child, memorized the "Tangtou Gejue", and had learned about all kinds of Chinese medicinal herbs from her mother when she was seven or eight years old.

Having said that, although life is not a novel, the world they live in is a novel called "The Fake Daughter in the 1980s".

Thinking about it this way, it is not surprising that the woman in labor in Ward 216 had the prescription for the knockout drug.

And they probably also know that Chinese medicine has a strong smell and are afraid of being discovered, so they don’t put too much powder to make it difficult to detect.

After digesting Ye Min's words, Liang Juan stood up suddenly: "No, I have to find the police, tell them about this, and arrest those two people."

But before Liang Juan took two steps, Ye Min called her back, "Wait!"

"What's wrong?" Liang Juan turned around and asked.

Ye Min asked, "If you go to the police like this, what if they don't admit to arresting the person?"

"They were the ones who gave me the drug. Why don't they admit it?"

"You said they did it, so it was them? What if they say we drugged ourselves to frame them?" Ye Min raised his voice and asked back. Seeing Liang Juan had listened, he slowed down his voice and continued, "To arrest someone, you have to take the dirt. Without evidence, why would the police believe us?"

Liang Juan certainly understood what she meant, but thinking that the bad guys might get away with it, she asked unwillingly, "Are we just going to let this go?"

"Of course not."

"That……"

Ye Min said meaningfully: "Do you think all they want is to drug us?"

Liang Juan was not stupid. She was just angry for a moment and didn't think too much about it. After Ye Min's reminder, she suddenly realized and asked, "You mean, they come to our ward at night to steal things?"

"Um."

Ye Min nodded: "Don't drink the water. If you are thirsty, please bear with it. Let's go to bed early tonight."

…

Around eight o'clock, after the doctor finished his rounds, the corridor quickly became quiet. Only one light was left on, at the middle staircase entrance, where the nurse was standing, to avoid being unable to see when people went up or down the stairs.

The doors of the wards in each department were basically closed, and there was not much light coming through the cracks in the doors. People at this time were used to going to bed early and getting up early, even if they were hospitalized to accompany the patient.

But not everyone in the ward fell asleep early. In Ward 216 at the end, Li Wenxiu opened her eyes, supported herself with her hands, and sat up, then moved her legs to the floor.

The noise was not loud, and the woman in bed number four was not woken up at all, but she was not to the point of being silent either. When her front foot moved, Xu Haiyang, who was lying on bed number two next to her, opened his eyes and sat up.

Li Wenxiu knew he was awake, but she didn't look at him and just followed her plan.

When she was young, she thought this man was good in every way, his indecisiveness was gentle, his weak character was kind. But now, all the advantages in her eyes have become disadvantages. A man who should be able to stand tall and proud is so timid that he hesitates to do such a small thing.

"Wenxiu."

Hearing his voice, Li Wenxiu felt extremely annoyed and said in a low voice, "Alright, don't bother trying to persuade me. I'll do this alone. If it succeeds, we won't talk about it. If it fails, I won't implicate you."

Xu Haiyang was embarrassed by what he said, and said angrily: "That's not what I meant."

After all, they are husband and wife. Hearing him say this, Li Wenxiu's heart softened: "I'm not gamble. If what I did is discovered, the result will definitely not be good. Someone has to take care of my son. I will take the responsibility on myself. You take good care of the child in the future."

Xu Haiyang fell silent. He wanted to say that he would stand by her side, but he couldn't bring himself to say it. In the end, he just asked softly, "Isn't it good to live a peaceful life?"

Although Li Wenxiu did think about removing Xu Haiyang after failure, when it really came to this moment and she heard these words, she still couldn't help feeling chilled.

This is the man she married!

Li Wenxiu smiled coldly: "I don't want her to live the same life as me."

After saying that, Li Wenxiu ignored Xu Haiyang, bent down, picked up her daughter and walked out.

Before being sent down to the countryside, Li Wenxiu had always been the most fashionable person in the compound. She liked to perm her hair, wear blouses, and her shoes were all lambskin, which made a "clacking" sound when she stepped on the ground.

After the great movement began, everything she liked became evidence of petty bourgeoisie. She no longer dared to perm her hair, her braids were cut short, and she changed to the old cloth shoes that she used to look down upon.

In the past, she thought cloth shoes were old-fashioned and could not withstand wind, frost, rain and snow, and she disliked them in her heart. But now she is somewhat thankful that she can walk without making any sound when wearing these shoes.

After leaving the ward, Li Wenxiu carefully closed the door, then tiptoed to the outside of Ward 214 and carefully pushed open the door.

When the door was pushed, the stone blocking the door also moved, making a slight sound when it rubbed against the ground.

The sound was not loud, and the people in the adjacent wards could not hear it through the door. Li Wenxiu was not worried that the people in the ward would hear it, so at seven o'clock she asked Xu Haiyang to go outside Room 214 and make sure that everyone in the ward had drunk the drug.

Her mother knew the recipe of the drug by chance. When she was young, she used it to deal with her aunt. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the country promulgated a new marriage law that emphasized monogamy. Her father had no choice but to send away all the women except her mother, and the drug was no longer useful.

Before her mother died, she told her the prescription, not to let her write it down to harm others, but to give her something to protect herself when she was in desperate situation.

Li Wenxiu was a person who always prepared for the worst. Although she felt that she would never need to use the prescription in her lifetime, she still tried to redeem a few prescriptions and fooled a few colleagues who did not get along with her at work.

So she knew very well how to take the medicine and what its effect would be.

Convinced that the person in the ward would not wake up, Li Wenxiu was not as careful as she was outside after entering the ward. She took heavier steps and walked more casually.

But she knew that such matters were best dealt with quickly, so she did not waste any time after entering the ward. She walked to the bedside in two or three steps and looked at the mother and daughter sleeping on the bed in the dim moonlight coming through the glass window.

The bed was next to the window, and the mother slept on the outside, lying sideways, forming a triangular empty area with the wall. The little girl, wrapped in swaddling clothes, slept peacefully in the triangular area.

Li Wenxiu watched for a while, then put her daughter at the end of the bed, then bent down and reached over Ye Min to hug the little girl beside her, exerting a little force with both hands.

As she was about to stand up with the child in her arms, Li Wenxiu felt her wrist tighten. She looked up and met a pair of dark, bright eyes. Then she screamed, "Ah!!!"