To divorce his wife, the top scholar preferred being cuckolded to wearing a red hat.

Some people want to play the innocent victim, but she didn't have the time or the indifference to expose them before.

Now that she's come to us of her own accord, don't blame her.

“Miss Su, I admire your medical skills, and I know that my skills are inferior to yours. But what do you mean by that? Do you doubt my medical skills, or do you doubt that I wrote the prescription myself?”

"Whether it was your own doing or not, you know the answer in your heart. I just want to ask Miss Zhu, if you were a doctor, you wouldn't be unaware of how potent the last two ingredients in that prescription are. But you didn't use them, which shows that you don't care about the lives of ordinary people at all, and you only want to make quick money, right?"

Those two medicines are extremely potent. To put it bluntly, if someone took such medicine, even a healthy person would be ruined for the rest of their life, and it would be virtually impossible for them to regain their health.

“I admit your prescription is better than mine. I had no other choice at the time. Could I just watch people fall one by one in front of you? As long as they can live, it’s better than them dying immediately. Miss Su, your medical skills are excellent; you were able to find a solution in such a short time. Go ask the other doctors. Under the circumstances, it was already the best I could come up with. Before my prescription appeared, they had no other options.” Zhu Sha didn’t think she had done anything wrong.

“Perhaps you have no idea what the consequences of those two ingredients will be, because you didn’t write the prescription at all.” Su Mingyue walked up to her gently, looking into her eyes: “Is that right, Miss Zhu?”

"You're talking nonsense. I wrote that prescription. I'm a doctor, it's just writing a few prescriptions, how could I not be able to write them?"

"The one who knows medicine is not you, but someone else. If you really knew medicine, you would have helped those who came to you asking you to save them; that would have been your best chance to shine. But you didn't; you chose to ignore them and give up the opportunity to become famous. Given your personality, this shouldn't be the case. There's only one possibility: you don't know medicine, and those prescriptions and ideas were all devised by someone behind the scenes."

Zhu Sha broke out in a cold sweat as she listened. Could this Su Mingyue possibly read people's minds? It was terrifying.

"I don't understand what you're saying, Jinxiu, let's go." Zhu Sha turned and ran.

"Miss, we must bring her back."

"No need." A cold glint appeared in Su Mingyue's eyes. "We need to find out who's behind her. The person behind her could very well be the one who poisoned her this time."

She had inquired and learned that since Zhu Sha arrived in Qingzhou City, apart from the prescription she gave to Physician Hu, she hadn't intentionally treated any other patients. If she truly possessed exceptional medical skills, there was no reason for her not to treat them.

Unless she doesn't know it at all, and someone else does.

"Could it be her maid? They haven't been separated these past few days, so that maid is the most likely candidate."

“No.” Su Mingyue shook her head: “That person should be in the shadows.”

Zhu Sha ran several hundred meters in one breath, and only dared to stop when she could no longer see Su Mingyue.

Seeing a child in the distance, she waved to him and said, "Little brother, why are you out here? Where are your family?"

"My parents are resting at home, so I went out to catch fish."

"How many did you catch? Can I see them?"

The child picked up a small wooden bucket from the side and showed it to her: "It's all here."

Three small fish were jumping inside, not very big, about the thickness of three fingers, like crucian carp.

"You've arrested quite a few. Where did you arrest them? Can you take me there?"

"There are many there, right by the stream ahead."

While the boy turned around, Zhu Sha tore a packet of medicine powder into the bucket and poured it in. When the boy turned back, she had already stood up: "Little brother, you're really capable. I have to go take care of some things. Play by yourself and don't wander off."

"Goodbye sister."

Zhu Sha found an excuse to leave Willow Village.

The little boy happily took the fish home, saying he would cook fish soup for his parents.

The village head was standing right next to him: "Erdan, come here."

"Grandpa Village Head, what's wrong?"

"You can't eat anything from the river lately, you know?"

"I just caught it, can't I eat it?"

"No, it'll make people sick. Give me the fish, I'll take care of it, okay?"

Erdan nodded: "Okay."

The village head was carrying the fish away when Su Mingyue saw him and asked, "Village head, where are you going?"

"Erdan just caught a lot of fish in the stream, I'm going to process them."

"show me."

As soon as the small fish got close, Xiao Xiang sounded the alarm.

"Master, there's something wrong with this water. Be careful."

Su Mingyue looked at the fish and carefully took them: "Did Erdan encounter anyone else when he was catching the fish?"

"I didn't ask about that. But there's something wrong with these fish, I'll go over and ask them now."

The village head quickly replied, "Erdan said that on his way back he met two pretty older sisters who talked to him for a while."

Pretty older sister? It must be Zhu Sha and the others.

"Okay, I understand. These fish are indeed inedible. I'll have the Prince handle them later; you all should stay away from them."

Miss Su and the prince saved the villagers, so the magistrate naturally listened to their words.

"Okay, I'll bother you then."

Xiao Zhan watched her lift the bucket over and casually took it from her: "Is there something wrong with this fish?"

Su Mingyue nodded: "Someone has tampered with the water. Be careful not to get it on yourselves."

"It seems the person is still in the village and hasn't gone far."

"They might have already run away."

"Who?"

"We'll have an answer soon." Whether Zhu Sha was behind it or not, we'll find out soon.

……

Su Mingyue and Xiao Zhan returned to their residence very late.

It was already dark when they returned.

Prefect Yang was in much better health and waited at the door when he learned of their return.

"Greetings, Your Highness, and Miss Su." Yang Chengjie had been recuperating for the past few days, and since the illness was contagious, he dared not leave his room despite wanting to help, for fear of infecting more people.

"Is Lord Yang feeling any better?"

"Thank you for your excellent prescription, Miss Su. I feel much better now."

"The illness in Qingzhou City this time was not sudden; it was caused by someone with the equipment to poison the city. What is Lord Yang's opinion on this matter?" Xiao Zhan went straight to the point.

Yang Cheng was startled: "Deliberate poisoning. But where did their virus come from?"

"I am also thinking about this issue."

"If it really was poisoned, could it be that some place is experiencing a plague, and they poisoned it here in the hopes that we will find a solution so they can take it along the way?"

"It's not impossible. You and I will go out again in a while. This matter is of great importance and we must find out the truth."

Xiao Zhan and Yang Cheng were about to leave when they turned around and saw a young man standing at the door.

The person who came was none other than Liu Zhi.

"Who are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for Miss Su." Liu Zhi said somewhat nervously, "There's something I want to tell her."