Su Ruojin tidied herself up, walked out of the room, and knocked on Feng Ying's door.
When Feng Ying opened the door, Su Ruojin asked directly, "Feng Ying, how many doctors have applied for the Youming Sanyunqi?"
Doctors who can apply for the Netherworld Powder are certainly not ordinary doctors, especially since Yunqi is one of the few who can apply for it; the number of such doctors must be very small.
Feng Ying recalled, "I remember that only three doctors in Yunqi had received the Netherworld Powder, but I can't quite recall which three they were. I'll write back to ask the pavilion now."
Feng Ying wasn't in charge of applying for poisons, so it was already quite remarkable that he remembered three doctors from Yun Qi had applied for them.
"good."
After asking her question, Su Ruojin turned to leave, but Feng Ying called her back.
"Miss, why did you suddenly ask about the Netherworld Powder?"
This is a poison developed by the Heavenly Medicine Pavilion more than two years ago, and now an antidote has also been developed.
"Because I just smelled the familiar scent of the Ghostly Powder in the bird's nest that was delivered."
Others might not be able to smell the scent of the Netherworld Powder, but she was extremely familiar with it.
To enhance the flavor, she mixed the Netherworld Powder with different ingredients to make it appear colorless and tasteless to outsiders.
But for Su Ruojin, it was like her own child; no matter what it turned out like, she could still smell it.
Fengying asked anxiously, "Miss, are you alright?"
When the Netherworld Powder was first developed, its toxicity ranked among the top five in the Heavenly Medicine Pavilion's list of poisons.
Those who consume it will feel their entire body burning instantly within the time it takes to drink a cup of tea; every inch of their skin will feel as if it is truly on fire.
After death from poisoning, the person's entire body will appear red and swollen as if burned, covered with various burn blisters.
Moreover, throughout the entire process, the poisoned person is unable to make any sound or move; they can only lie on the ground, conscious, enduring the burning pain until death.
If there weren't genuine burn marks on the body, an experienced coroner would only conclude that the person died from burns.
Su Ruojin initially developed poisons at the Tianyi Pavilion out of curiosity and playfulness, but also because she felt that medicine and poison were always related, and sometimes using poison to fight poison could have miraculous effects. She often developed some poisons with peculiar toxicity.
Now that it has been developed, let's set it aside and have the doctors in the pavilion develop an antidote to improve their medical skills.
Unexpectedly, someone actually dared to disregard the rules of the Heavenly Medicine Pavilion and use its poisons to harm people.
This is the first person to have done this since the establishment of the Heavenly Medicine Pavilion.
Since that's the case, she'll make an example of this person to warn others!
Let the world know that the rules of the Heavenly Medicine Pavilion are not to be taken lightly!
"I developed the Netherworld Powder, so how could anything happen to me?" Su Ruojin said with a smile. Even if she had drunk it, she would be fine.
Fengying understood that it was simply a matter of being confused when it concerned himself.
"Let me know when you have news. I'm going back to sleep. I haven't had a good night's sleep in three days, I'm exhausted. I'm leaving now."
Su Ruojin waved to Feng Ying and left.
Su Ruojin didn't care who poisoned her for the time being; getting a good night's sleep was the most important thing right now.
People can't always escape their fate.
Seeing Su Ruojin's exhausted appearance, Feng Ying swallowed back the words he wanted to say, deciding it wouldn't be too late to talk about it after she had rested.
Steward Lu paced back and forth in the room, instructing his maids to deliver bird's nest to all the masters of the mansion. This was a common practice in the Zhao family, and no one would suspect anything.
He had spent a hundred taels of gold to obtain the Netherworld Powder, which was colorless and odorless. If he added it to Su Ruojin's bowl of bird's nest, no one would ever notice.
The man described in detail how the Netherworld Poison took effect, and that once she was poisoned, he would light a fire in the middle of the night to make it appear as if Su Ruojin had died by accidental drowning.
It's winter now, the weather is dry, and flooding is common.
There was still no news by the end of the Chou hour (3 a.m.). Butler Lu calculated that it was about time and went to Su Ruojin's courtyard under the cover of night.
The courtyard was very quiet, with only the occasional chirping of insects.
He tiptoed to Su Ruojin's room, and just as he was about to push the door open, he was knocked unconscious.
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