Ning Dao Covered with Snow

Chapter 129 Inspection
"All the food has been checked, and only this one was found to be toxic." Chaolu said as she reached out and picked up an empty bowl. "Preliminary results show that it should be aconite, which is extremely toxic and can kill a person in a short period of time. But for some reason, the aconite remaining in this bowl is less toxic, and that's why Fuxue was not poisoned to death, but only fell into a coma."

Yan Ci Wan took the bowl and looked at it, and found that there was still some soup residue at the bottom of the bowl.

She leaned in closer and sniffed it carefully, confirming that it was mutton soup!
She immediately looked at Ling Niang and asked, "Didn't you serve this mutton soup to Fu Xue?"

Ling Niang stood there in a daze, staring at the empty bowl in disbelief, muttering to herself: "I watched the cook scoop out the mutton soup from the big pot with my own eyes, how could it be poisonous?"

Chu Wangshan frowned and said, "Ling Niang is Ah Xue's biological mother. She would never poison her own daughter. Someone must have poisoned the mutton soup and wanted to frame Ling Niang."

Yan Ci Wan also felt that it was unlikely to be Ling Niang. At that time, so many people saw Ling Niang personally bring the mutton soup to Fu Xue, and Ling Niang also advised Fu Xue to eat more. Once Fu Xue was poisoned, the first person everyone would suspect would definitely be Ling Niang. Any murderer with a little bit of brains would not be so stupid.

Lingniang fell to the ground beside the bed in despair, looking at Fuxue who was still unconscious, and burst into tears.

"Oh my God, what have I done? I actually sent poisoned mutton soup to Axue. I poisoned my own daughter with my own hands."

Looking at her remorseful expression, if anything happened to Fu Xue, I'm afraid she wouldn't be able to survive.

Chu Wangshan asked, "Can my Ah Xue still be saved?"

Zhaolu answered truthfully: "There is no antidote for the poison of aconite. At present, I can only protect her heart from being eroded by the poison. As for whether she can wake up, it depends on her own willpower."

In other words, whether Fu Xue can wake up depends entirely on God's will.

Chu Wangshan's face suddenly turned very ugly. He was unwilling to accept this reality. He even began to doubt Chaolu's medical skills. After all, she looked too young and definitely did not have much medical experience. What she said might not be reliable. It would be better to find another good doctor to see Fuxue.

But the mountain is currently blocked by heavy snow and they cannot leave the villa, so Chu Wangshan can only endure it for the time being.

He said to Chaolu, "As long as you can save my Ah Xue, you can use the herbs in the villa as you like."

Chaolu responded, "I'll do my best."

At this time, Xiao Wang suddenly spoke up: "I remember that Madam Ling not only sent mutton soup to Madam Fu Xue, but also sent a bowl of mutton soup to Ah Ci."

This reminded Yan Ciwan, and she immediately asked, "Madam Ling, when you served us the mutton soup, did you think about how to distribute it in advance?"

Lingniang looked so devastated that she was a little dazed.

It was not until Chu Wangshan called her again that she came to her senses and answered with sobs.

"No, the cook was distributing mutton soup at the time, and I just took two bowls away. There was no difference between the two bowls of mutton soup, so there was no need to distribute them specifically."

Yan Ciwan looked thoughtful.

The mutton soup consumed by everyone at the Warm and Cold Party today came from the same pot. If the cook had put aconite in the soup when cooking it, Fu Xue would not be the only one poisoned.

The murderer's only chance to strike was when Lingniang was walking towards Fuxue carrying the mutton soup. However, at that time, there were two bowls of identical mutton soup on the tray that Lingniang was carrying. How could the murderer ensure that the bowl of mutton soup with aconite could be delivered accurately to Fuxue?

Or maybe, in fact, both bowls of mutton soup are poisonous? !

Yan Ciwan immediately said to Chu Wangshan.

"I want to go to Guanhai Pavilion again!"

Chu Wangshan asked: "Did you find anything?"

"I do have a guess, but I need to go to Guanhai Pavilion to verify it before I can know the result."

Chu Wangshan looked at Yan Ciwan, Xiao Wang, and Chao Lu, and hesitated for a moment before speaking. "As long as you can find the real murderer who murdered Axue, you can investigate however you want. The only thing is that no matter what clues you find, you must tell me as soon as possible."

Yan Ciwan nodded and agreed: "No problem."

She turned to Xiao Wang and Chao Lu and spoke.

"Alu, stay here to treat Fuxue, and Xiao Liulang, come with me to Guanhai Pavilion."

Chaolu nodded in agreement.

Yan Ciwan pulled her aside, then took off the silver ring on his thumb and spoke quietly in a low voice.

"Put on this ring, and if you encounter danger, press the mechanism here."

As Yan Ciwan spoke, he pressed the mechanism at the end of the ring, and a thin blade popped out from the front of the ring.

Chaolu took the ring and was very curious: "This ring is so exquisite, where did you buy it from?"

Yan Ciwan said bluntly: "I didn't buy it. Xiao Liulang lent it to me for emergency use. The situation in the villa is unclear right now. We are not with you, so you have to be more careful."

Zhaolu put the ring on her left thumb and nodded in response, "Well, you too, be careful."

Afterwards, Yan Ciwan and Xiao Wang left Guanhai Pavilion together.

The two of them returned to Guanhai Pavilion along the same route, which took them almost a cup of tea, just as Lingniang said.

At this time, all the guests in Guanhai Pavilion had left, and the house was empty.

Because of the poisoning incident, Chu Wangshan specifically ordered that the servants were not allowed to clean up the wine and food in Guanhai Pavilion. Therefore, the unfinished wine and food were still placed on the food table, and everything remained the same as it was during the Nuanhan Meeting.

The mutton soup was cooked in the kitchen, then placed in a ceramic jar and carried to the Guanhai Pavilion by two strong servants.

However, because the kitchen was quite far from Guanhai Pavilion, it was still snowing outside and the weather was extremely cold, the mutton soup was already half cold when it was delivered to Guanhai Pavilion.

Fortunately, there was a stove in the Guanhai Pavilion. The cook placed the ceramic jar on the stove to heat it up, then scooped out the mutton soup on the spot and served it to the guests in bowls.

The mutton soup for the other guests was delivered by maids, except for Yan Ciwan and Fuxue, whose mutton soup was delivered by Lingniang herself.

Yan Ci Wan and Xiao Wang walked to the stove, opened the lid, scooped out some mutton soup from the pottery jar and examined it carefully to make sure it was not poisonous.

They then went to check on the mutton soup that the other guests were eating.

It turned out that the mutton soup of everyone present was fine, except Yan Ciwan's bowl of mutton soup, which was poisonous!
But because she was concentrating on observing He Chunzhuo today, she barely touched the food and wine in front of her, and didn't even eat a single bite of the mutton soup.

Because of this, she was lucky enough to escape the disaster.

Yan Ciwan looked at the bowl of cold mutton soup in front of him and couldn't help feeling a lingering fear.

She almost got poisoned.

After this incident, she probably didn't dare to eat mutton for a long time.

Xiao Wang's face was solemn: "The murderer added aconite to both bowls of mutton soup. Perhaps because he was not sure which bowl of mutton soup would be sent to Fu Xue, he simply put aconite in both bowls of mutton soup."

(End of this chapter)