Chapter 214
Old Mrs. Pei called out to her good grandson and moved to the head of Young Master Pei's bed in small steps.
Qiao Sheng and Li Mu were forced to listen to the deep love between the grandfather and grandson for more than ten minutes. The boy named Xiaoyang came in with a cotton cloth and a clay pot in his arms.
He served the porridge and asked Old Mrs. Pei to take it and began to feed Young Master Pei spoonful by spoonful.
It was warm and cozy. Island Master Pei ran in front, followed by Butler Bai. They were all sweating when they entered the room. Seeing that his son had started to drink the porridge and did not feel any discomfort, he was relieved. He turned around and said a few words to Qiao Sheng and the others, and asked Butler Bai to take them to his daughter's room next door.
As soon as Qiao Sheng entered there, he felt something was wrong. There was no one else taking care of Miss Pei in the room except Miss Pei. Miss Pei, who was lying on the bed, was covered with a quilt and looked at a small bulge. Under the guidance of Butler Bai, they approached the bed.
Li Mu stood at the end of the bed and did not approach. Qiao Sheng walked to Miss Pei and lifted the quilt to see that Miss Pei was so thin, almost skin and bones. Although no one was taking care of her, the smell in the room and the cleanliness of the bed were still acceptable.
Qiao Sheng was the one who took the pulse. He pretended to do it for a while, but in fact, the two of them were busy checking the debuff on Miss Pei, and they saw the problem at a glance.
Master Pei's life was hanging by a thread. If they had come a little later, he would have died. But Miss Pei was just suffering from malnutrition, nothing else.
Li Mu called Butler Bai aside and asked about Miss Pei's recent diet. Sure enough, she had hardly eaten anything and vomited everything she ate. The old doctor had treated the brother and sister before, but he only said that the symptoms were the same, but Master Pei's was more serious. Hearing
what he said, it seemed that the NPCs on this island could not detect that Master Pei was poisoned.
No matter how they thought about it, they felt that something was wrong. After Qiao Sheng took Miss Pei's pulse, he put Miss Pei's hand away and covered her with the quilt. While doing this, he clearly saw the eyeballs of the person lying on the bed move. He did
not expose her, but stood up and walked to the door to listen to the conversation between Li Mu and Butler Bai.
Qiao Sheng began to lose focus while listening, and accidentally checked on Butler Bai. The mild poisoning on his head brought her back to her senses. She
first quietly sent an email to Li Mu, asking him to see Butler Bai's debuff. After that, Li Mu didn't want to disturb Miss Pei's rest, and the three of them moved from the house to the yard to talk.
"Butler Bai, have you noticed anything wrong recently, including Master Pei and Miss Pei's diet?" Qiao Sheng started asking questions as soon as she came out. She still thought that illness comes from the mouth, so it would be right to start asking about food.
"Young Master and Young Lady's illness started about half a month ago. Young Master's was very serious. He got sick on the first day and vomited everything he ate on the second day. After that, we went to see famous doctors, but Young Master and Young Lady's health got worse and worse." Housekeeper Bai recalled the past half month, and was really worried.
She exchanged a look with Li Mu and told Housekeeper Bai that she would go to Young Master Pei's room to see how he was after eating.
When she went in and out, many things became more confusing. The young man named Xiaoyang had a poison debuff, but Island Master Pei and Old Lady Pei did not.
Now among the six people they checked, two were poisoned, three were poisoned, and the remaining three were not poisoned, which was very strange.
After sending an email to Li Mu about the situation, the two of them were just worrying when Qiao Sheng's system suddenly told her that the countdown for the dungeon had begun.
This sudden situation scared Qiao Sheng. After all, they really didn't do anything. They were standing in the cool place in the yard thinking hard, and they didn't know how the countdown was triggered. She
told Xia Beibei and Lin Haiyang that the countdown had begun, and asked them to go out for a walk and find out some news.
Xia Beibei replied directly that the two of them were wandering around the island now, and said that it was a good opportunity to catch up with the big market, and they could exchange many things. They just exchanged two blankets and could hang them in the cabin as decoration. As for
finding out the news, they were keeping an eye on it, so they didn't worry.
Before leaving the island master's mansion at night, Qiao Sheng and Li Mu fed Miss Pei and Master Pei medicine again. Master Pei drank Baibao Dan to replenish blood, and was still not in a hurry to detoxify him. After all, he had been poisoned for more than half a month, and a few days would not matter. As long as he was not dead, it would be fine.
Miss Pei was also fed by Qiao Sheng, but it was not medicine, but sour plum soup. Considering that the patient was malnourished and extremely thin, her spleen and stomach must be not good, so she was not given iced drink.
He held Miss Pei with one hand and held the glass bottle with the other hand, and gulped down half a bottle. He stopped when Miss Pei could not drink anymore.
Li Mu had already finished feeding Master Pei the medicine, and when he came over, he found that Qiao Sheng had also finished his work, but he still sat beside Miss Pei's bed without moving. Half an hour later, he left the Island Master's Mansion with Li Mu.
He also made an appointment with Butler Bai to come again tomorrow. When they came out, Butler Bai sent them out. They secretly checked everyone they met along the way. They met a total of five workers, and they all had poisoning debuffs.
The two of them still chose not to make a fuss. After leaving the Island Master's Mansion, they walked towards the port. It's not that they didn't want to live in the rented yard, but there was really no place that was as comfortable as their own doghouse. After drifting on the sea for a long time, it was really a bit uncomfortable to suddenly have solid ground.
"You said that the mission that triggered the countdown was to treat Miss Pei and Master Pei?" Qiao Sheng started talking after walking a little further away.
"It shouldn't be. I checked the timeline. The last thing you did before the system reported it was to find that Butler Bai was poisoned." Li Mu shook his head and explained the order of his summary.
"Your reminder is true. I originally thought that curing those two patients would be considered completing the mission. It seems that it shouldn't be. This island owner's mansion is very strange. In addition to Master Pei, Butler Bai and Xiaoyang, the five people they met later were also poisoned." Qiao Sheng counted the people they had checked on his fingers.
"It seems that we have to find a way to walk around the mansion tomorrow and try to meet more people in the mansion and check them all. But it's hard to get rid of Butler Bai. Judging from the situation today, he may follow us in the future." Li Mu felt that the poisoning was most likely the key point.
"Hey, this is easy to do. There is no need to get rid of him. When I go to the cafeteria to eat tomorrow, I can just stay there for a while, eat slowly, go to the toilet a few times in the middle of the meal, and check everyone I can see. Maybe I can really float to the surface." Qiao Sheng waved his hand to reassure him.
The two of them sped up and it was almost dark when they returned to the ship. The two ships in the harbor were brightly lit.
As soon as they got on the boat, Xia Beibei ran over to greet them, holding a pot of marinated salmon in her hands. Behind her was Lin Haiyang's roar: "Xia Beibei, leave the pot to me. It has to be put in ice so we can take it out when we want to eat."
"Stop shouting, Sister Qiao and the others are back. It's time to eat. Hurry up and cook. You're more nagging than my mom every day." Xia Beibei retorted in disgust.
First they went to the kitchen to ask Chef Lin if he needed help. He replied that everything was basically ready and they could just eat. Qiao Sheng and Li Mu went to the bathroom to wash up. They were sweaty all day and it would be uncomfortable if they didn't wash and change clothes when they came back.
When they came out after cleaning up, Lin Haiyang and Xia Beibei had already brought dinner to the table. They ate here with Qiao Sheng and his friends. The table here was bigger, so they ate here together these days.
The dinner was not bad. Lin Haiyang made sesame noodles and cut a lot of seafood, but most of them were steamed and sashimi. Compared with the lunch they had at the island owner's house, although his cooking skills were not as good as Chef Wang's, the ingredients were fresh and abundant.
After eating and drinking, the four people began to discuss the situation in the island owner's mansion. Qiao Sheng first told them about what they saw and heard in the island owner's mansion. No one made any rash judgments. Xia Beibei talked about the situation at the market today.
Although the two of them kept bartering, their ears were erected. These islanders were gossiping about the Zhang family and the Li family. They were really idle all the time and never did anything serious.
This afternoon, Xia Beibei even figured out who the gossipers were at the market. However, because they were strangers, they could only listen to the fun from the side and could not get close to ask questions, which made them feel very depressed.
"Sister Qiao, you don't know that old lady is a gossiper. I even know that her neighbor's second uncle's granddaughter's handkerchief friend is going to be engaged to the island owner's mansion's worker. She has to be busy with business, and only chats with the auntie at the stall next door when she is free. If she is left to talk all day, I guess people on the island have no privacy at all. Everything will be told by her." Xia Beibei admired the old lady's mouth when she thought of it.
There was too little useful information, so they decided to split up tomorrow. Qiao Sheng and his team went into the island owner's mansion to check, while Xia Beibei and his team continued to rush to the market, and tried to get close to the old lady on the way to see if they could hear any useful gossip.
The next morning, Qiao Sheng and his team got up and had breakfast on the boat before going to the island to continue their work. This time they drove an electric car.
Xia Beibei said that the market they were going to was very close to the port and it would take less than ten minutes to walk there. However, she and Li Mu took two hours to go back and forth yesterday, and all the time was wasted on the road. They were also very tired.
So they simply drove the electric car today to save time and effort, and it was convenient and fast.
As soon as they drove to the gate of the island owner's mansion and got out of the car, the doorman came out immediately and told a worker beside him to notify Butler Bai immediately, and then asked another worker to help drive the car to the parking space next to it.
Under his guidance, as soon as Qiao Sheng and Li Mu entered the city lord's mansion, Butler Bai came out jogging to greet them. They thought he was respecting them, so they ran to the door to greet them. But as soon as they walked in and saw his expression, they knew something was wrong.
"Hey, you two are finally here. Last night I sent someone to the address you left to look for you, but I found that you were not there. I was so worried. Come and see the young master and the young lady. They were obviously getting better yesterday, but they got worse after dinner." Butler Bai grabbed Li Mu's arm and ran away.
Seeing his anxiety, Qiao Sheng and Li Mu also wanted to know what went wrong last night, so one let him drag them and the other jogged along.