While Lin Yushu was busy refining poisons and making medicine in the yard, she keenly noticed that in the past two days, Mrs. Wang had lost her previous sad expression and became emotional again.

Lin Yushu stood silently under the corridor, watching Wang Po in full energy directing the servants to sweep the yard, with the corners of her lips curled up in a sarcastic smile.

Mrs. Wang must have received some kind of promise from Second Aunt, and it seems that Second Aunt is really impatient to take action again.

That night, Chuntao sat beside a low table, embroidering a purse while chatting with Lin Yushu who was reading a book.

"Ever since the young lady cured Madam Cao of the poison in the pharmacy, many people outside have praised her, saying that she is a beautiful and kind person with superb medical skills."

Lin Yushu shifted her gaze away from the Poison Sutra and looked at Chuntao's smug face with some confusion.

"Has the news of my detoxification spread?"

"It spread within just two or three days. Now everyone in Qingshan County knows that the young lady can detoxify." Chuntao said proudly.

Lin Yushu frowned slightly. As the saying goes, good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels far and wide. There is some truth to this.

Although she did not deliberately avoid others when she detoxified Madam Cao, it was definitely not enough for everyone to talk about it. It spread at such a speed. Lin Yushu absolutely did not believe that there was no one behind the scenes fanning the flames.

After a little thought, Lin Yushu suddenly remembered a detail that she had not noticed before, and it suddenly became clear in her mind.

Lin Yushu smiled with satisfaction. Second Aunt's methods were indeed much more clever than those of Mrs. Wang. That was good too. It would be more interesting this way.

Early the next morning, Lin Yushu dressed neatly and went out with Chuntao.

Chuntao had just walked a few steps out of the door when she felt a little confused.

"Why didn't I notice before that there are so many beggars in the county?"

Beggars in tattered clothes slowly approached Lin Yushu and her servant in twos and threes from all directions.

Chuntao also realized something was wrong at this time, and pulled Lin Yushu to pass through the crowd.

However, a dozen beggars quickly blocked their way.

The three beggars who were close to Lin Yu suddenly fell to the ground, their eyes were blue and purple, and a fishy smell filled their faces. These were very familiar symptoms, and Lin Yushu understood what was happening.

Before Lin Yushu and the other beggars could react, the rest of the beggars all knelt on the ground, yelling at the top of their lungs.

"Please have mercy, Miss Lin, and save them!"

A dozen beggars shouted together, and the huge shouts immediately attracted the attention of people around.

People who were watching the fun gradually gathered around. Lin Yushu stood in the center like a crane standing out among chickens. A group of dusty beggars knelt beside her, making her look as dazzling as a banished immortal.

Until the beggars' cries slowly stopped, Lin Yushu showed a kind smile and spoke in a gentle tone.

"You asked me to save them, but I don't know what happened to the three of them."

A beggar wearing a tattered straw hat nearby kowtowed.

"We live in a dilapidated temple in the south of the city. There is a field of goldenrod behind the temple. These three people walked into the flowers this morning. They must have been poisoned by the yellow-striped green snake."

Hearing this, Lin Yushu sneered secretly and pretended to be surprised.

"Since you were poisoned by the yellow-striped green snake, why didn't you go to Muchun Hall for treatment? Why did you come to me?"

The beggar in the tattered straw hat choked. Obviously, Muchun Hall was closer to the dilapidated temple in the south of the city, but this group of beggars chose to go far away and blocked the gate of the Lin Mansion's villa waiting for Lin Yushu to treat them.

Sure enough, after these words were spoken, the people around looked at the beggar with some confusion.

The man in the straw hat exhaled and his eyes avoided involuntarily.

"We were originally going to go to the soup kitchen in the west of the city to ask for some porridge. When we arrived at your house, the three of them suddenly became poisoned. The poison took effect very quickly. I beg Miss Lin to have mercy on them and give them acupuncture to detoxify them."

Lin Yushu secretly laughed in her heart. The beggar in the tattered straw hat actually knew that acupuncture was needed to detoxify. He really came prepared.

If Lin Yushu agrees to use acupuncture to remove the poison, then she will have to take off the shirts of the three beggars. Although doctors do not distinguish between men and women, others will not think so.

In this way, Lin Yushu's reputation would be ruined. No noble family would accept a woman who gave acupuncture to a naked beggar in public, even if it was to save his life.

If Lin Yushu did not agree to use acupuncture to detoxify the three beggars, the three beggars would surely die of the poison immediately. Then she would be labeled as an evil woman from a wealthy family who watched beggars and refugees die without helping them and treated them like grass. Her reputation would still become infamous.

Second Aunt was indeed ruthless. With one move, she put Lin Yushu in a desperate situation, leaving her with no way out.

Seeing that Lin Yushu ignored him, the beggar in the ragged straw hat raised his hand and was about to tear off the tattered clothes of the three beggars on the ground.

The two beggars kneeling at Lin Yushu's feet even stretched out their dirty hands to grab Lin Yushu's ankles under the pretext of begging for mercy.

Lin Yushu's heart was burning with anger. She pulled out a silver needle from her waist, pretended to bend down to comfort the beggars, and quickly gave them two injections in their hands. Her movements were so fast that no one could see clearly.

The two beggars lost control of their hands without realizing it and could no longer raise them. Their abnormality was drowned out by the crowd and no one noticed.

Seeing the beggar lying on the ground with his clothes torn, Lin Yushu suddenly spoke up to stop the action of tearing the straw hat.

"Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. I am naturally willing to help them detoxify."

A flash of joy flashed across the beggar's eyes in the tattered straw hat, and his hands moved faster, as if he was afraid that Lin Yushu would go back on her word.

"Don't worry, you don't have to take off your clothes to detoxify."

Lin Yushu's sweet voice, like that of a nightingale, reached everyone's ears, and some people who knew about Lin Yushu's detoxification business in the drugstore immediately exclaimed "Huh?"

The beggar in the tattered straw hat paused when he heard this and looked at Lin Yushu in confusion.

"Two days ago, Doctor Shen from Muchun Hall prepared an antidote pill for the poison of the yellow-striped green snake. You can recover after taking it without acupuncture. You are so lucky. I happen to have a few pills here."

Lin Yushu smiled calmly and took out three black pills from her purse.

In the eyes of the beggar in the ragged straw hat, that smile was like a fox spirit that had taken away souls. His throat rolled involuntarily and his face felt hot. The words he wanted to refuse were stuck in his throat and he couldn't utter them. He took the pills in a daze and fed them to the three beggars.

In just a cup of tea, the three beggars who had been lifeless just now no longer had purple complexions and slowly woke up.

They looked down and found that their clothes were still on, and they couldn't help showing confusion.

When the crowd saw the three beggars returning to normal, they all praised Lin Yushu for not only being as beautiful as a fairy, but also having a heart as kind as Guanyin Bodhisattva. From then on, the people of Qingshan County all admired her.

Chuntao helped Lin Yushu through the cheering crowd. Her fingers were trembling and cold. Lin Yushu knew that Chuntao was afraid, so she gently held her fingertips.

If Lin Yushu hadn't suddenly remembered that there were more and more beggars near the villa in recent days and hadn't seen through Second Aunt's methods, she would never have been able to escape unscathed today.

"Miss, can that pill really detoxify?"

Chuntao's voice revealed her relief at surviving the disaster. She knew that the pill was made by Lin Yushu just last night.

"It can be solved, but... it's only temporary."

"We can only suppress the onset of the poison in their bodies. After three months, they will surely die."

The pills Lin Yushu gave them were just her improved detoxification pills. Detoxification pills can detoxify many common poisons, but for strange poisons like the venom of the yellow-striped green snake, they can only temporarily suppress it.

The detoxification effect of the Qingdu Pills improved by Lin Yushu will be released slowly.

Once the effect of the detoxification pills completely disappears, the venom of the yellow-striped green snake will intensify its counterattack.

Lin Yushu felt a little regretful. It was a pity that she couldn't watch them die from the poison with her own eyes, otherwise it would have provided her with some reference for future poison making.

The chess piece in Second Aunt's hand has been placed, and now it is her turn to make a move.

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