Chapter 121 Heart-breaking Grass
But now the patients do not have similar symptoms, and the possibility of arsenic poisoning can basically be ruled out.
As long as it is not arsenic, there is still a chance of survival. Once the patient is poisoned by arsenic, even if gastric lavage saves the patient, irreversible damage will be caused to the body!
Just when everyone was at a loss, two men in white robes and green cloaks on their heads walked in from the door.
"It's Gelsemium elegans."
Gu Feixue's eyes immediately lit up. Yes, it could be the heart-breaking grass!
After taking the herb, the patient will experience diarrhea, but milk has a detoxifying effect and dilutes the toxicity. After the body rejects it, the patients will also experience vomiting.
But not all patients vomit. On the contrary, patients with mild symptoms vomit more. Because they stay in the same room, they affect each other, which makes it look like poisoning.
If you eat too much Gelsemium elegans, you will suffer from diarrhea and die.
But in order to prevent the milk from changing color, even if the herb powder was added, not much would be added. Combined with the detoxifying effect of milk itself and Gu Feixue's practice of feeding people soapy water to induce vomiting and supplementing with sugar and salt water, the patients' condition was obviously not serious.
After figuring out the key point, Gu Feixue suddenly realized that the voice just now seemed somewhat familiar.
When she looked back, she saw that it was Rong Qi and the other two.
Although their faces could not be seen due to their attire, Gu Feixue knew that they were Rong Qi and the others.
She was grateful for the other party's help and immediately turned to Wang and the village head's wife and said:
"Quick, go to the kitchen and get some pot ash. Then boil it with mung beans, honeysuckle, and licorice!"
Every household has pot bottom ash, and Green Bean Anju Village has no shortage of it either. As for honeysuckle and licorice, they happen to be the ingredients for the herbal teas that the Gu family drinks every day. Gu Feixue always picks a lot of them every time she goes up the mountain, and this time she can use them to clear away heat, detoxify, and relieve wind-heat.
After the villagers were fed the decocted medicine, soon after, most of them not only stopped suffering from diarrhea and vomiting, but their pale complexions also eased a lot.
"Xue'er, they are the divine doctors of the Shennong tribe, right?"
While helping to take care of the villagers, Wang called Gu Feixue over and privately pointed at Rong Qi and the other man standing in the yard and asked them.
Gu Feixue did not hide it, nodded, and asked Wang not to tell anyone, as the genius doctor and his men did not like to be vindicated.
Wang naturally didn't say much. After learning the general situation, she went to take care of the patient with everyone else.
During this period, Zheng Cheng, who had been helping out in Anju Village for a whole day, was about to go back to report. Gu Feixue thought about it and asked him to spread the news that many people in Anju Village were poisoned for unknown reasons.
We were busy until it was getting dark, and all the patients and cows had finally recovered. However, the cows' milk production would be affected in the near future, and the patients would need some time to fully recover.
This incident was caused by the farm. Despite everyone's rejection, the Gu family paid silver to each household and also provided herbal medicine for everyone's future health.
The villagers were very grateful to the doctors and the Gu family, and of course they were also very grateful to the hermit who had been in the yard without talking to them from beginning to end.
Although the milk was sent by someone from the Gu family, no one would have expected that Qian'er, who delivered the milk, would actually poison the milk.
On the contrary, Miss Gu was busy looking for a doctor to take care of the patient, and the Gu family didn't even eat a bite of food the whole day. Everyone saw it and remembered it, so naturally they didn't blame them.
After many apologies, the Gu family said goodbye to the villagers and returned to their home.
Gu Feixue's face was gloomy. She asked about Qian'er and was told that she had not returned to the farm all day. Her guess was almost right.
Midnight that day.
Except for the occasional barking of a dog or two, Anju Village was quiet everywhere. Qian'er saw that the lights on the farm had dimmed, so she returned to her residence in the dark.
She planned to pack her bags and leave Anju Village. With the reward from Qian Youliang during the day, she could buy a fake identity. Then, even if the indenture was in the hands of the Gu family, she would not be afraid.
Unexpectedly, the farm, which was originally dark, suddenly lit up dozens of torches when she stepped into her house.
Qian'er's face turned pale. She wanted to run away without even packing her bag, but she didn't expect that the farm was already full of people outside.
The leader was Gu Feixue, who had a frosty face.
"Did you poison the farm?"
Although it was a question, the tone was basically certain. Gu Feixue just wanted to give the other party a chance to confess.
"It wasn't me. I don't know who poisoned me."
Qian'er was in a panic and tried to distance herself from the matter without realizing it.
Gu Feixue sneered: "Don't you care what kind of poison the person used? How many people were poisoned?"
After saying that, without listening to her weak explanation, Gu Feixue asked Chunxiang to snatch the bag from her hand.
He spread out the contents of the bundle in front of everyone, and found a fifty-liang silver note inside!
Gu Feixue had used her perspective to see the silver notes in the bag that the other party was holding against his chest from the very beginning. If it weren't for this silver note, she wouldn't have dared to confirm that the other party was really involved in the poisoning.
When the criminal was caught red-handed, Qian'er confessed everything.
"I didn't mean to do that. Qian Youliang deceived and threatened me. I only gave me half the poison..."
Chunxiang and the others were extremely angry: "Threatening you? Threatening you with fifty taels?!"
Qian'er looked at Chunxiang with a hint of jealousy in her eyes: "Don't talk nonsense! You learn cooking from the master and make cakes for Zuixianlou. You can redeem yourself soon, but what about me?! You and I were bought together, why are you living better than me?!"
Chunxiang and the others were shocked by Qian'er's words. They never thought that Qian'er, who always treated them as sisters, actually hated them so much!
"That's enough! Do you think I don't know how much money you've embezzled on shopping this past year?"
They were all people she begged from the matchmaker. Even when working on the farm, she did not treat Qian'er harshly. Instead, she let her do the most lucrative work.
Even if Li Tiezhu sometimes reported to her that there was a discrepancy between the silver and goods purchased, she didn't care because she was eager to earn money to redeem herself.
I wanted her to learn how to do business from others, but I didn't expect that what she learned the most was jealousy of her colleagues and embezzlement of money!
"The threat you're talking about is if Qian Youliang finds out you lied about the quantity of goods you purchased, is that right?"
Qian Youliang had many spies in the city, and he had a lot of dealings with grain, oil and rice shops. After Qian'er bought the goods, she asked the clerk of the grain and oil shop to write a false amount on the order, and told Qian Youliang behind his back, so she was naturally caught.
Qian'er obviously didn't expect that Gu Feixue actually knew about this. She originally looked at Chunxiang and others with jealousy, but in an instant, she looked at Gu Feixue with fear and confusion.
"If I were biased, I wouldn't have let you do the shopping, and I wouldn't have turned a blind eye and tolerated you until today!"
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