The dean’s wife arrived in a hurry, her face white as a sheet, one foot in the house, seeing the old gentleman on the bed with his eyes tightly closed, her eyes went black and she almost hit the door frame, “How, how did this happen?”
Fearing that something might happen to the old gentleman, the dean had personally greeted him at the door every day, and after receiving him in, she accompanied him all the time except when he was lecturing.
“You personally prepared all the food and tea for your benefactor these few days ……”
The dean shook his voice, “Have you ever noticed anything unusual?”
“No, the tea was made by me and given directly to Qin Qian, without borrowing the hands of others in between, the food is even more needless to say, it was all prepared by me, not to mention that we also followed it.”
The dean looked at Qin Qian.
“After I took the tea from my master mother’s hand, I held it all the way to old sir, I didn’t lend anyone else’s hand in between either.”
The dean’s head buzzed, if he could not find the source of the poison, his benefactor would not be able to cure it, he was such an advanced age, and time had passed ……
“It’s all my fault, I shouldn’t have let Enshu lecture.”
“It’s already happened, so it’s useless to talk about it? The only way now is to find the source of the poison. Please also ask the dean to go out and ask the masters in the academy what they were doing just now. Also ……
Song Wangyue looked towards the dean’s wife and Qin Qian, “I’m sorry for the two of you, you’ll have to be condescended to for a while.”
“What, what do you mean?”
The dean’s wife didn’t understand.
The dean had understood, “Don’t worry, Miss Song, I will send someone to keep an eye on them.”
The dean’s wife’s eyes widened.
As if he had expected it, Qin Qian lowered his eyebrows and did not react.
“Fu Zi Zhang!”
A fifty-ish fuzi with a stern look between his eyebrows walked in.
“Take Qin Qian back to his hut room, and do not allow him to enter or leave without my command.”
When Zhang had taken Qin Qian away, the dean personally “escorted” his wife back, told the maid to keep an eye on her, and hurried back to investigate all the teachers.
Inside the house, Dr. Yao’s face was grave.
“Miss Song, young master, in fact, old man has been poisoned by two kinds of poison.”
The two men looked at him haughtily.
“One is ten-day sleep, this poison doesn’t need an antidote, the old gentleman can wake up on his own if he sleeps enough for ten days; the other is ……”, he paused, “it’s fifteen-day sleep, it’s the same as ten-day sleep, you can wake up after sleeping enough for fifteen days .”
“Master means that grand great grandfather can wake up after he has slept enough for fifteen days?”
Doctor Yao shook his head, “Although these two poisons sound similar, the formulas are not the same, if only one was taken, the old man would naturally wake up by then, but now he has been poisoned with two poisons at once, I’m afraid he won’t wake up in a short period of time.”
“How long is a short period of time?”
“I don’t know, if I’m lucky, maybe I’ll wake up soon, if I’m not …… maybe, the old gentleman will stay asleep like this.”
……
“What do you mean, the old gentleman is poisoned?”
Grand Master Sun was incredulous.
Master Sun was also stunned.
How dare someone poison the old man in full view of the public? The audacity was too great.
“That’s what Miss Song said, but looking at her like that there was nothing she could do about the poison the old gentleman had been poisoned with.”
“Let’s go over and take a look.”
“The study is now sealed off and no one is allowed in or out.”
……
In just a quarter of an hour, the news of the old gentleman’s poisoning spread throughout Qingping County. The county magistrate was leisurely sipping tea in the back hall when he heard the magistrate’s report and spurted out a mouthful of tea.
“What did you say, say it again!”
“The old man has been poisoned.”
The county magistrate threw his tea on the table, got up and walked out, “Quickly, prepare the sedan chair and go to the Qinghe Academy! Constable Liu, take all the magistrates with you!”
When he left the courthouse and got into the sedan chair, the magistrate was anxious, not because he was worried about the old gentleman, but because he was going to be transferred in a couple of months. He had spent a lot of money on the arrangements, and now that he had finally found something, he dared not make any mistakes. If he doesn’t find out who has poisoned him in time, he is afraid that he will be removed from his black hat, not to mention his promotion.
“Quickly, quickly!”
The four palanquin bearers trotted all the way to the entrance of the Qinghe Academy and stopped. The county magistrate got down from the palanquin and Sheriff Liu had already gone over to knock on the door.
Hearing this, the master inside hurried over and opened the door.
“Sheriff Liu follow me in, the rest of you wait outside.”
The magistrate ordered as he hurried inside, and the husband who opened the door led him towards the common room, where the dean saw from afar and hurriedly greeted him, “My lord.”
“Dean, what’s going on? How did the old gentleman get poisoned?”
“It’s all my fault, I shouldn’t have allowed my benefactor to lecture.”
The dean blamed himself.
“It’s useless to talk about that now, tell me the specifics of the situation.”
The dean said as he walked him inside, hearing that the old gentleman had been poisoned in full view of the public, the county magistrate’s footsteps jerked to a halt, “How is this possible?”
But anyone with a bit of brains would not have picked this time, it was too obvious.
Sheriff Liu also found it impossible.
“Could it be that the old gentleman was poisoned a long time ago and only had an attack today?”
“I don’t think so, neither Miss Song nor Doctor Yao said so.”
The Prefect looked at him, “Miss Song and Doctor Yao?”
“Yes, Miss Song came here early this morning to accompany Ensio, and Doctor Yao was brought in after Ensio was poisoned.”
The County Magistrate continued on, he had heard of Doctor Yao’s medical skills, “What did they say?”
“Couldn’t find out what the poison was.”
Surprisingly, even Doctor Yao couldn’t find any poison, the County Magistrate’s heart went cold, and when he entered the house and saw the old man, his heart went even colder. Usually people who are poisoned look blue and have difficulty breathing, but the old gentleman’s face was rosy and did not show any signs of poisoning, instead he looked like he was asleep.
He looked at Doctor Yao, “Is there anything I can do for you?”
“The main thing at the moment is to find the source of the poison, I don’t know what kind of poison it is and I can’t do anything about it.”
“Sheriff Liu, take the magistrates and search the courtyard carefully, don’t let any traces slip through.”
“Yes.”
Sheriff Liu went out, and the county magistrate looked around the house, but did not see Song Wan Yue, “Where is Miss Song?”
“She’s gone to find the source of the poison.”
At this moment, inside Qin Qian’s house prison.
Song Wangyue sat across from Qin Qian in an imposing manner, without the slightest nonsense, “Tell me, who instructed you to poison?”
Qin Qian looked open, as if he had expected Song Wan Yue to ask him, “Miss Song, I can’t afford this charge, serving tea and water to the old man was assigned by the dean, if you say that I poisoned him based on this alone, I am really wronged.”