When the prince is reborn, he will only hit me if he doesn't hit the wall!

Just at this moment, Xu Xinyue looked over here.

Qi Mobai's expression did not change much, but his heart tightened.

Is she...suspicious?

Would you doubt that it was him who did it?

After all, he had damaged her bookstore before, even if it was not intentional, but it seemed reasonable for her to be suspicious...

But the next moment, Xu Xinyue smiled at him faintly: "Master Qi, don't think too much. I know in my heart that this matter should have nothing to do with you."

Her voice was very soft and faint, and she seemed not to have much strength to speak, but Qi Mobai could still hear it clearly.

With just one sentence, the shackles on his heart instantly collapsed, as if the breath that had been taken away was returned to him.

As if to confirm and verify, Qi Mobai asked again: "Does the princess trust me?"

"After all, I have known you for such a long time. Even if I cannot say that I have a complete understanding of Mr. Qi's character, I do know a thing or two about him."

"My intuition is that you are the person who would least bother to do these things."

"I've been in the academy for the past two days thanks to your care."

Xu Xinyue took the remaining candle from the guard and said:

"You mentioned that this yellow candle lamp was taken from the academy's storehouse. I guess you just picked it up at random. Am I right?"

Qi Mobai nodded: "Yes, that's true."

Xu Xianyue nodded and said, "So, the students who were poisoned should be random... If my guess is correct, as long as they have used the storehouse to obtain the yellow wax, they will be poisoned."

"Students have a monthly quota. It's already the end of the month, so few people should be going to the storehouse to get candles recently. If it were the beginning of the month, I'm afraid more people would be poisoned."

The dean questioned: "But what evidence is there to prove that there is something wrong with the candle lamp?"

"You old man, Yueyue has experienced it herself. It's like this, and you still question it?"

Ana Luo was dissatisfied and yelled at him.

Qin Yuechuan was also very displeased. Just as he was about to refute, Xu Xinyue pressed his hand. He lowered his head and looked at her. Xu Xinyue blinked and shook her head at him.

Then he said to the dean: "I understand the dean's doubts. After all, you were not by my side when the poisoning happened, so you can't testify for me."

"But there is a simplest and most intuitive method. Wouldn't it be clear if we just try it?"

The dean disagreed: "Princess, I am just a little confused, but if what you said is true, isn't it disregarding human life?"

Xu Xinyue was helpless. How could this dean become stupid from studying so much at such an old age?

"What the princess meant is that we can use other tests."

Qi Mobai understood her intention and added.

"Anything else?"

"A living thing will do, like a mouse. You can catch it, right? Put it in a cage, put it in a warmer, and let it sit with a candle for an hour or so. Wouldn't it be obvious whether it's poisonous or not?"

"Ah! Yes, yes! It's easy. It's simple. We should be able to catch a few in the granary."

The dean suddenly realized and was about to order someone to prepare it, but then he heard Xu Xinyue say, "Dean, I suspect that most of the yellow wax in your warehouse may have been adulterated. Why don't you pick a few and try them out?"

"I always felt that this was premeditated. Huang La was secretly plotting, and then the rumor was directed to my bookstore."

The dean straightened his expression and thought about it carefully, which was indeed the case.

At first, he thought that there were mistakes in the books of Yangchun Bookstore. He seemed to have heard some rumors that the smell of paper and ink from Yangchun Bookstore was different from that of other books, which was very suspicious.

There had been no accidents in the academy for many years, and he had never doubted the internal affairs of his own academy. The only thing that was different from the past was the books he ordered from Xu Xinyue...

"Okay, thank you for your reminder, Princess. I'm afraid the yellow candles in the storeroom can no longer be used."

Xu Xinyue reminded him: "However, I still want to say one more thing. Who replaced the yellow wax in the academy with poison? The dean must investigate in detail. I'm afraid this person has some ulterior motive."

The dean agreed deeply and recalled: "I remember that the purchase of yellow candles seemed to have always been done by Yu Wu, the accountant of the academy... He showed me the purchase list a few days ago, saying that some items were in short supply and needed to be replenished. The latest batch of yellow candles was newly purchased!"

"So, the newly purchased yellow candles are the poisonous ones!"

The dean muttered to himself, "So the students who were poisoned all accidentally used the newly purchased yellow candles..."

"Maybe. Could the dean bring Yu Wu up for questioning?"

"What are you talking about, princess? Of course I can. I'll call him up right now."

Before going out, he thought of something and took his foot back just as he was about to step out of the door.

Ne Ne said: "Princess, where did you get this...antidote?"

Xu Xinyue replied calmly: "I deserve it."

"You yourself?! Deserve it?"

"Well, that day, I said that I knew a little bit about medicine. I felt their pulses and knew what kind of poison it was, so I prepared an antidote myself."

The dean whispered, "Princess... since you are a doctor, you should be kind-hearted. How can you bear to watch the students suffer and turn a blind eye?"

Xiao Chan was furious when she heard this. She was already extremely worried about Xu Xinyue being poisoned, and now that she had just woken up, she was actually being "accused" like this. She didn't care that her master was present, and immediately shouted:

"You are so unreasonable, Dean. Who said in the room that the princess was 'pretentious and the doctors she invited couldn't see her. So what if they knew a little bit?' Even if I gave you the prescription, would you dare to drink it?"

"Now that our princess has taken it herself and confirmed that it is effective, why are you talking about the benevolence of doctors?"

"The doctor is kind-hearted. What if the patient is not kind-hearted? What if he bites back?"

Xiao Chan's words were sharp and embarrassed the dean, whose face turned red and white.

Xu Xinyue had never seen Xiao Chan so sharp-tongued. In the past, the verbal abuse was done by the more lively and outgoing Xiao Shu. Now, it seemed that Xiao Chan had learned some skills from him.

After she finished speaking, she suppressed her laughter and said, "Okay, Xiaochan, the dean knows."

Xu Xinyue said, "I didn't give the prescription away for free. Dean, you have to charge for practicing medicine."

"Of course, of course. How much silver does the princess want?"

"You said that the order from our bookstore will be extended for another two years."

"Okay, okay, let's do it!"

Qin Yuechuan saw that Xu Xinyue was so exhausted after waking up. Her cheeks were pale and her lips were pale white.

I'm afraid that all the efforts I've made in the past two days have been wasted.

He said softly, "Yueyue, why don't you take a rest first? There's no need to think too much about this kind of thing. The people below will be able to find out clearly. You don't have to interrogate them yourself."

"But I just woke up and couldn't fall asleep... It's okay, just a few questions, it won't take much effort. I've done this for this matter, you should know the whole story. Just treat it as a story."

Qin Yuechuan couldn't persuade her, so he asked, "Then what do you want to eat? You've slept for so long, you must be hungry, right?"

"Well... a little..."

Qin Yuechuan brought the porridge that had been prepared long ago and said, "You have been hungry for too long. Eat some porridge first. When we return to the palace, we can eat something else."

Smelling the sweet aroma, Xu Xinyue suddenly felt hungry. She couldn't wait to take the bowl of porridge and the wooden spoon from Qin Yuechuan and started eating.

Qin Yuechuan wanted to feed her, but seeing that she was eating happily, he did not force her. He sat on the edge of the bed and looked at her quietly.

Occasionally, he wiped the rice grains from her lips and said, "Eat slowly. There's no rush. There's more."

After Xu Xianyue finished eating everything, she pursed her lips in satisfaction: "Qin Yuechuan, I'm full."

"Are you full already?"

"Well, I can't eat anymore."

Qin Yuechuan took the empty bowl, turned around and put it back into the food box.

Xu Xinyue looked at his back and hooked her fingers guiltily. Her mind was still not clear when she first woke up.

Now it seems that Qin Yuechuan probably already knows that she has tested the poison on herself.

She thought he was bound to be scolded, but now things seem to be going well - he doesn't seem to be very angry.

Fortunately, she woke up quickly.

Looking at the sky, Xu Xinyue estimated the time. From last night till now, she had probably slept for no more than six or seven hours.

Just as I was thinking about it, the dean brought Yu Wu over.

Yu Wu is only in his early twenties, thin, with a shrewd look, and looks like a man who is good at calculating.

The dean asked directly: "Yu Wu, where did you buy this batch of yellow candles?"

Yu Wu wanted to fool around at first, so he lowered his head and answered casually, "It's the one we often go to in the academy, Chen's Candle Shop."

"The Chen family? How could something from the Chen family be tainted with poison?"

Yu Wu raised his head in shock: "Add, add, add poison?"

"You didn't know? The yellow candle you brought back was poisonous? What do you think is the real reason why the students were poisoned these days?"

Yu Wu shivered violently: "No, no, it's not because of the new book I bought."

The dean was too lazy to beat around the bush with him: "It's not a book, it's the yellow candle you bought. If you can tell me where it came from, this matter has nothing to do with you. If you can't, I will treat you as someone who deliberately murdered someone! I will send you to the authorities directly!"

"Send, send, send...send the officials?"

Xu Xinyue had a hard time listening to him. Could it be that Yu Wunan was a stutterer?

The dean questioned her. Xu Xinyue was wrapped in a quilt, sitting at the head of the bed with her knees hugged, her chin resting on them, quietly, as if watching the excitement.

Yu Wu panicked and knelt on the ground, begging for mercy: "Dean, no, it's not my fault. I didn't do it. I just wanted to get some benefits, so I brought some yellow candles back..."

The dean was puzzled: "For cheapness? How cheap?"

Yu Wu hesitated for a moment, and finally seemed to have made up his mind: "It was a few days ago, before I arrived at Chen's house, I just came down the mountain, and there was a small vendor who said he had top-quality yellow candles at a cheap price, and asked me if I was willing to buy them..."

"I thought the quality was okay, so I bought it..."

The dean asked anxiously, "Who bought it? Where did you buy it? How much silver?"

"The silver is only 60% of Chen's... I don't know the people, and the stall is not fixed..."

The dean was extremely angry, but considering his image as a scholar, he clenched his fists and resisted kicking him: "What about his appearance? Do you remember his appearance? If I let you describe it orally, can you draw a portrait?"

Yu Wu lowered his head even more, and his voice became extremely weak: "It's just that, an ordinary face, the kind that you can't recognize in a crowd of people..."

The dean could no longer bear it, so he lifted his robe and kicked Yu Wu: "Old man, old man - go to hell!"

The dean reacted strongly, and when he raised his foot and cursed, Xu Xinyue was startled and she straightened up unconsciously.

The dean, such a gentleman, would actually swear when he gets angry?

Qi Mobai could guess what was going on even though he didn't see clearly. He didn't want to listen to Yu Wu's meaningless rambling, so he quietly left.

"What about silver? Isn't the price only 60% of Chen's? Why don't you bring back the remaining money?"

The dean is a scholar after all, so he couldn't hit the sore spot even if he kicked him. Yu Wu rubbed his arm and stood up: "Spent...spent. I lost some money gambling the past two days, so I filled the hole."

Although it was no secret that the accountant took kickbacks, the dean could not tolerate the fact that such a small amount of kickbacks had almost caused a loss of life.

In recent days, the families of the poisoned students have come in waves, trying to persuade them with kind words and paying a lot of money as compensation. The reason turned out to be here.