Lu Baichuan was stunned. So, Qin Jian's previous act of setting the fire was wrong, as it could very likely have caused the surrounding people to be poisoned?
"Would it be very serious if ordinary people accidentally inhaled it?"
They were in the county town at the time and didn't know what was going on that night, so they were a little worried.
"A small amount won't cause any problems, but a large amount will be serious."
He Jiuniang guessed that he was referring to the night Qin Jian set the fire, and continued, "It was the middle of the night, and everyone was sleeping with their doors and windows closed, so there wasn't much of a problem. The ones who used the most drugs were probably the people who put out the fire, but they were probably all from Qingyin Garden. They got what they deserved, so who cares about them?"
Fortunately, it's the dead of winter, and everyone has their doors and windows closed. This would be a huge problem if it were summer.
Lu Baichuan breathed a sigh of relief. Now that he was guarding Jingzhou City, he naturally had to protect the people of Jingzhou. If anything happened to the people, it would be a real problem.
He Jiuniang got up and dressed, and Lu Baichuan personally went out to bring her water to wash up. Afterwards, the two ate breakfast together.
"How long will this drug rehabilitation take? The cell is dark and damp; you can't stay here forever."
Although he found the room unusually warm when he entered, he knew that countless people had died in this prison cell, and living there was really unlucky. The environment was definitely not as good as home. The thought of his wife having to stay here for a while made him extremely unhappy.
"It won't be long. I just need to wait here and see if they develop any other symptoms in the early stages. The rest is up to the jailers here. Anyway, we can only wait for them to get through it on their own. There's very little I can do."
He Jiuniang sighed as she spoke. If nothing unexpected happens, more and more people will develop these symptoms in the future. Now she just hopes that their condition is not too serious and that they can completely quit through coercive measures.
At this point, He Jiuniang continued, "Dongting has been entrenched here for many years and has a huge influence. After a while, there will definitely be many people showing symptoms. We can't keep these people locked up in prison forever. On the one hand, the environment is not good and it is not suitable for recuperation. On the other hand, the patients' families are also uncomfortable. So I suggest that you find a spacious place as soon as possible, transfer all these people there, and send heavy troops to guard it and personally supervise them to forcibly quit drugs."
She only stayed here for one night, and even then, she used all sorts of electrical appliances before she could barely fall asleep. You can only imagine how the others got through the night.
In such an environment, it's impossible to recover properly; over time, not only will recovery be impossible, but the condition might even worsen.
This reminded Lu Baichuan that he also felt that patients and prisoners should not be locked up together. Even if someone knew they were addicted, they would not dare to come here for treatment and would be deterred by the environment.
"I'll ask Qian Xing about this. Finding a vacant house specifically for these people to live in would be a good idea."
He Jiuniang nodded: "Let's do it as soon as possible."
Lu Baichuan finished eating and went to work, while He Jiuniang continued to observe each person who had an attack in the cell, and would give them acupuncture to put them to sleep when necessary.
But this is not a long-term solution, so He Jiuniang prepared a medicine to help them alleviate some of the pain during the attacks.
Meanwhile, at Qingyin Garden, when Xinran heard early in the morning that the batch of tea had been destroyed again, she was furious. She rushed to the Qian family's house, saw the mess, and slapped the two guards of the warehouse.
"Didn't I tell you to be on your guard? What's going on here?"
I thought the Qian family was a relatively safe place, since Qian Xing had never known about the tea and never paid attention to it.
The most dangerous place was actually the safest, and as a result, it was all destroyed overnight!
These things are very expensive. She has suffered heavy losses one after another. How is she going to explain this to her superiors?
"Please calm down, young lady! We really don't know what happened! We were both awake all night and didn't hear a thing. We only saw it like this this morning. We really have no idea what happened!"
The two knelt down together, their eyes filled with fear and self-reproach.
It had been burned down before, and they were really careful last night, patrolling the area the whole time, but they didn't hear anything inside. Yet, it was all destroyed this morning.
The two men were quite capable, even considered experts. It was precisely because of their outstanding skills that they were sent to guard the area. Unexpectedly, the thing they least wanted to see still happened.
"You all say you didn't hear anything, could it be the work of a ghost?"
Who could bring water that flooded an entire warehouse and still manage to evade the attention of two guards?
Everyone fell silent instantly. These things were really hard to say. If it really was done by a ghost, did that mean that even ghosts couldn't stand what they were doing?
But Xinran obviously didn't think that way. She only felt that someone was secretly trying to deal with her, but this person was so well hidden that she couldn't guess who it was for a while.
She also sent people to keep an eye on the people from the Fire Cloud Division. Qin Jian was in prison, where Lu Baichuan had taken revenge on him. He was still resting in bed. Lu Baichuan had gone home to sleep last night, while He Jiuniang had spent the night in the prison cell.
The number of people suffering from this illness in the city is increasing. If it is not resolved soon, and the investigation leads back to her, all the efforts of the past years will be in vain.
Qian Xing never expected things to turn out this way. No matter what, Qingyin Garden and his new wife were business partners. They had only been there for one night and the whole place had been taken down. Wasn't this a slap in the face for him?
He was, after all, the prefect of Jingzhou City, yet those people came and destroyed things with impunity. Did they not respect him as the prefect at all?
Looking at the mess in front of him, he thought to himself that the other party was really ruthless. These were all tea leaves, and being sprayed with lime water like that was even more painful than being burned.
"Your repeated setbacks in the tea business are probably due to my influence."
Qian Xing sighed and continued, "Perhaps it was my ex-wife Xia's family who did it. Before this, the Xia family was in charge of the tea business in Jingzhou City, but since you started doing tea business as well, their business has plummeted, and they've held a grudge against you. I'll send someone to inquire about it later. After all, this matter happened in my residence, so I have to give you an explanation."
Xinran hadn't thought of this at all. What she cared about wasn't the tea itself, but the cherry blossoms mixed in with it. So she kept thinking in other directions and assumed that their plan had been exposed.
Now, reminded by Qian Xingyi, she realized that she might have been overthinking things, and that it might really just be business competition.
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