The sickly son died young? After the marriage exchange, I will bring prosperity to his entire clan f

"Okay, reporting half is fine too." Du Mingxian wasn't the stubborn type; this was actually acceptable.

“Cheng Yu’s brother was aware of this matter back then. Although he hadn’t entered officialdom yet, he knew about what the old man of the Cheng family had done.”

Du Mingxian said with a hint of regret, "Those two old men from the Cheng family died too quickly. If they had died later, they could have witnessed what happened today."

Ling Silang chuckled, "There will always be opportunities to overturn the Lin family's case in the future."

"Well, I hope so."

"Go to sleep early, you've been exhausted these past two days."

Du Mingxian touched her face. "I shouldn't be tired, but I got up late and went to bed late. I was working there the whole time, but I didn't find anything, which is upsetting."

"By the way, I was thinking of taking the day off tomorrow or the day after, and then sneaking over to observe during the day to see if I can find out anything. If I don't have to go, that would be great too."

Ling Silang couldn't offer much help with these matters, so he could only offer some advice: "It's good that you've made your decision, but you still need to be careful. Those people are probably not so easy to deal with."

"okay."

The next day, Du Mingxian went as usual.

Du Mingxian ate lunch at the workshop canteen, while Ling Silang heated up his food at home. He didn't go out today; he was reading in his room in the morning. Hearing the noise, Guo Chen from next door came to ask him what was going on at the door.

"Is there food available for lunch today?"

“Yes, there’s also Yue Xiang’s idea,” Ling Silang said with a smile.

Du Mingxian brought back so much food that it couldn't all be thrown away, so Ling Silang simply shared some of what he couldn't finish with Guo Chen and Le Xiangxiang, who lived across the street, during the day.

The two of them lived here alone, and now, when Ling Silang occasionally called them to eat, they were very happy even if it was leftovers.

Guo Chen was overjoyed to hear there was food. "Okay, I'll go call him."

Guo Chen, who lived in the same courtyard, didn't stand in the courtyard and shout. Instead, he walked to the door of Le Xiangxiang's room and knocked. "Xiangxiang, there's lunch. Come over quickly if you want to eat."

"Okay," came a muffled voice from inside.

When Guo Chen arrived at Ling Silang's house with the bowl, the rice had just been heated up.

Ling Silang served Guo Chen a bowl of rice and gave him two steamed buns, both of which Du Mingxian had brought back yesterday. When Guo Chen was about to leave with the food, Le Xiangxiang had already come over, her eyes still wet with sleep, clearly having just woken up.

Le Xiang wanted to come in and smelled the aroma of food. She smiled happily and said, "It's so nice to have food right after I woke up."

"I'm glad you don't mind that it's leftovers. Okay, let me serve you some rice."

Le Xiang also filled a bowl with vegetables and two steamed buns before leaving.

Ling Silang poured the remaining dishes into a bowl, let the rice cool, poured some water into the pot, and then sat down to eat. But... when he took the first bite, he froze, tasted it carefully, and then spat it out with a serious expression.

He glanced at the steamed bun in his hand again, took a bite, and then spat it out.

He hurriedly got up, walked to Guo Chen's room door and knocked, "It's me."

Guo Chen, still chewing his food, walked to the door and opened it. He had already swallowed what was in his mouth. "What's wrong, Brother Ling?"

Ling Silang glanced at the bowl Guo Chen had placed on the table... It had been full of food a moment ago, but now only half a bowl remained. "I was thinking, let's call Le Xiangxiang and the rest of us go out to eat."

"No need, the food today was quite good. How about tomorrow? I'll treat you to lunch tomorrow. Otherwise, I'll feel bad always eating your food."

Ling Silang didn't actually want to eat outside; he just didn't want Guo Chen to eat any more of what was in his bowl. But seeing how distressed Guo Chen looked about the food, he swallowed the words he was about to say. "Alright then, I'll go back to my room first."

"it is good."

Ling Silang returned to his room, but instead of eating the rice and steamed buns, he washed the pot and cooked himself a simple bowl of noodles. After eating, he went to his room to read, but he kept getting distracted.

When Du Mingxian returned home that evening, she found that Ling Silang had cooked dinner himself, making some porridge and stir-frying two dishes.

"Did you know I brought back some good food today?" Du Mingxian placed the food she brought back on the table. "There were steamed buns in today's lunch. I went early, so I took a lot."

Ling Silang chuckled, "I don't want to eat the food from the workshop today, so I'll have what I made."

"Okay." Du Mingxian didn't notice anything amiss and didn't ask any further questions. She sat down to eat.

After the meal, Ling Silang asked Du Mingxian to bring the food he had brought back that day, as well as the food he hadn't eaten at noon, into his space. Only then did the two of them enter the space together.

Du Mingxian noticed something was wrong. Ling Silang usually wouldn't bring things into his space, and the dishes he brought back yesterday hadn't been eaten yet.

"What's going on? What happened?"

Ling Silang pointed to yesterday's leftovers, the portion he reheated at noon today, "It was spiked with something."

Du Mingxian was so shocked that she stood up abruptly. "Many people have been taken back. If they really were poisoned, then... so many people."

Seeing her flustered, he stepped forward to comfort her, "Don't worry, it's not a big problem right now, because that little bit of medicine isn't enough to cause any serious harm. At most, people with poor health might get diarrhea or a minor illness."

"However... if there is poison in the food every day from now on, it will interfere with people's nerves and affect their thinking."

"These people are too ruthless. They are all family members of the examinees. What we need most is to think." Du Mingxian's heart was in her throat. "By the way, the food was fine before?"

"It's alright. I ate the previous food as well. The only problem is with the food you brought back yesterday."

Du Mingxian stepped forward and handed over the food she had brought back that day, saying, "Please check if there are any problems with today's food."

After checking, Ling Silang nodded again, "There is still medicine, but it has only just started to be administered, so the dosage is not heavy."

"Are there problems with both the steamed buns and the dumplings?"

"They put a little sugar in this steamed bun. The medicine itself is not bitter, and the sugar masks the taste, so very few people can probably tell that there is medicine in it."

He was able to taste it because his senses were heightened after his previous resurrection, and the medicine they used this time was probably colorless and odorless.

That's a truly vicious method.

Du Mingxian couldn't think of anything else right now. "Do you have any way to cure this poison?"

"Yes, but you need to prepare the medicine."

"Then you deserve it. I'll go to the workshop and see if I can add it to everyone's dinner tonight. That way, I can save everyone without anyone knowing."

Ling Silang was a little worried, but it was something that had to be done. "You have to be careful in everything you do. Those people aren't so easy to talk to."

"Don't worry, I'll figure something out. I definitely won't expose myself." Du Mingxian had already thought of a suitable method.