"What direction?" Xiao Yue asked immediately.

"I just received some news when I came here. We have found out the reason why those students were poisoned."

We had checked the water in the academy and asked about the food they ate at home, but we didn't find any problems. However, for so many people to be poisoned, they must have been exposed to something at the same time.

Therefore, in the past few days, she had people carefully check everything that the students might come into contact with, inside and out, and finally found the problem in the incense.

The weather has been gloomy these days, making people feel a little drowsy, so incense is lit in the academy to refresh the mind. And last night, it was discovered that the powder of Datura seeds was found in the incense burner.

"Mandragora seeds?" Lu Yan asked in surprise.

"Yes, Datura is poisonous, and the seeds are even more poisonous. After burning, once inhaled by a person, it may cause nausea, vomiting, coma, and in severe cases, death. Judging from the residue in the incense burner, the amount should be very well controlled. Mixed with incense, it only caused vomiting and diarrhea. In addition, the distance from the incense burner and the degree of inhalation are different, so the time it takes for the body to react is also slightly different."

The incense burner was placed in the library. When the female students had problems, everyone left the library in a panic, busy looking for doctors and taking care of them. The incense in the incense burner gradually extinguished. Therefore, although they went to the library later, they did not find any problems.

"Mandragora seeds, it's hard for ordinary people to know about this kind of thing, and it's also hard to get it. But Prince Su, he has been refining pills for many years, and he said it himself, so making a poison is no problem for him. This matter must be related to him." Wei Yao said in a heavy tone.

First he poisoned Mu Shi, and now he poisoned the academy. Prince Su is really cruel and ruthless.

"Since he came back, nothing that happened in the girls' academy had anything to do with him. Wasn't your Jiang family framed by him? Even if we know that he is involved, it's all in vain without evidence." Xiao Yue said indignantly.

"The princess is right. Everything is just speculation now. There is nothing we can do." Lu Yan's mood sank again.

"Since Datura seeds are poisonous, they should be strictly controlled and not easily available for purchase. Why don't we get someone to investigate how to buy them and see if we can follow the clues and lead them to Prince Su's Palace?" Wei Yao suggested.

"It seems that this is the only way to do it at the moment." Lu Yan nodded.

Just as she finished speaking, she noticed Jiang Suining's expression and spoke again.

"Sui Ning, do you have any other ideas?"

"It's nothing. A Yao is right. We can indeed find some evidence by following this method. However, even if we can prove that Prince Su's Mansion has purchased Datura seeds, this alone cannot shake Prince Su."

"Then do you have any other ideas?" Lu Yan continued to ask.

Jiang Suining did not speak immediately. After a while, he said, "I was thinking, why not make this matter bigger?"

"Bigger?" Xiao Yue was puzzled. "How big? How big?"

"The person who poisoned the person has suffered the consequences, and all the government offices in the imperial city have been forced to pay attention to this matter."

……

In the afternoon, Jiang Suining took all the clues he had found and went to the Imperial City Yamen to report the case.

The report was that someone had poisoned the girls' college by adding datura seed powder into the incense burner, causing so many female students to vomit and have diarrhea.

Previously, because of the plague, the imperial government received an order to pay attention to those rumors, and they were already a little overwhelmed. Now that the girls' college reported the case, the plague turned into poisoning. Although it could temporarily stop the rumors among the people, they also had an additional headache.

But before they could conduct a thorough investigation in the girls' academy, something happened to Prince Su in the evening of the same day.

Just as he was about to leave the academy, he suddenly suffered from abdominal pain and vomiting, and his symptoms were exactly the same as those female students.

If only the incense in the girls' academy was poisoned, it might not cause much commotion, but the prince of the current dynasty was poisoned. This incident instantly caused an uproar not only in the imperial government, but even in the court.

With Jiang Suining's promotion and the influence of money, people on the streets began to discuss this matter, and the previous rumors about the plague in the Women's Academy were suppressed a lot.

At the girls' college, there were many reasons that could cause vomiting and diarrhea, and the students' pulses were not obvious enough, so the specific cause had not been found out for the time being.

After discovering that it was the Datura seeds that caused the epidemic, the imperial physician prescribed the right medicine, and the symptoms of the female students were quickly alleviated. The epidemic gradually began to dissipate.

In the Prince Su's Mansion, Prince Su looked at Jiang Suining who had come uninvited and sneered with a gloomy expression.

"Madam Jiang is really brave. I haven't sent anyone to look for you yet, but you came here on your own."

"Your Highness, thank you for your praise. I do not have much courage, but I thought Your Highness would want to meet me. I did not want to trouble Your Highness to send someone to pass on the message, so I came here on my own initiative." Jiang Suining spoke respectfully with a smile on his lips.

But at this moment, this smile was quite irritating to Prince Su and Butler Wu, especially Butler Wu, who glared at Jiang Suining.

"You are so brave that you dare to poison the prince!"

Jiang Suining's smile deepened. "Butler Wu, why do you say that? I am also very angry about the prince being poisoned. How could I have poisoned the prince?"

"There's no one else here, so why don't you speak frankly, Miss Jiang?" Prince Su looked a little weak because of his previous diarrhea and vomiting. He half leaned on the chair and stared at Jiang Suining intently. "Did you start to suspect me when you found the Datura seed powder?"

"No." Jiang Suining shook his head.

"When was that?"

"When the prince first entered the academy, butler Wu let slip that the students' symptoms were vomiting and diarrhea, and I knew that this was the prince's doing."

Butler Wu was stunned. He could no longer remember what he had said at that time, but because of Jiang Suining's words, he still looked at Prince Su nervously with a guilty conscience.

"My Lord, this old slave..."

Prince Su waved his hand, indicating to Butler Wu that there was no need to say anything more.

"Madam Jiang is indeed perceptive. So when you found the datura seed powder in the incense burner, you had already decided to take revenge on me in this way?"

Jiang Suining smiled but said nothing, and did not answer Prince Su's words.

Prince Su thought for a moment and continued, "I have another question. How did you get the mandrake seeds?"

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