The Lady's Code for Raising Her Husband

"Impossible." Mrs. Liu was very confident, "I spent a lot of money to buy this medicine, and I have personally verified that as long as the food is cool, no toxicity will be detected."

Tao thought for a while and asked, "Will the toxicity not be detected, or will no one be poisoned again?"

"Is there any difference?" Ms. Liu was stunned.

"Of course there is a difference." Tao said, "If people are not poisoned, then we are completely safe. Even if it is found on our heads, we are not afraid. But if the toxicity cannot be detected...although the imperial doctor cannot detect it, but If someone eats that plate of tree bark here, they will still be poisoned, and they will also be convinced that the food in that plate is poisonous."

"Who would be so busy and still try that plate of tree bark?" Ms. Liu felt that Mr. Tao's worries were unfounded.

On the contrary, Mrs. Tao felt that what she said made sense and gradually felt relieved.

On the other side, the imperial doctor finally brought over the vomiting medicine. This time, neither Chun Xiao nor Ye Yuxiao intervened, and Du An administered the medicine to the Princess of Chu. However, both Ye Yuxiao and Chunxiao watched closely, as if they were afraid that Du An would do something dirty and kill the Princess of Chu. It seems like something is wrong.

Duan was very unhappy about this, but there was nothing he could do about it.

After the vomiting medicine was poured down, the Princess of Chu vomited out some more dirt. However, after Du An, Chunxiao and Ye Yuxiao took turns to check her pulse, they found that she was still deeply poisoned. If the poison was not detoxified quickly, the Princess and her would The baby in the belly is at risk.

"Find the antidote! Find the antidote! Find the antidote quickly!" Prince Chu was anxious. He finally saw the hope of having a son, he couldn't just lose it like this!

Ye Yuxiao immediately pulled Chunxiao back a few steps.

Du An raised his eyebrows: "How come Princess Yingchuan and the general's wife backed down just when they were about to do business?"

Ye Yuxiao said in surprise: "As doctors, we have done everything we should do. Now finding the antidote is the key to solving the case. What are we messing with?"

Du An had nothing to say, so he simply took a few steps back and ignored it.

The Prince of Chu went to the emperor to beg him, and the emperor immediately ordered the minister of Dali Temple to thoroughly investigate the scene and vowed to find the murderer on the spot.

The Minister of Dali Temple listened carefully to everyone's true story, and came to the same conclusion as Du An, believing that the source of the poison came from the food eaten by the prince and concubine of the King of Chu.

Now that the scope is locked, things are simple. The Minister of Dali Temple immediately asked the Emperor to inspect all the food on the table of the Princess of Chu.

The emperor thought for a while and said: "To be cautious, let Princess Yingchuan, the general's wife and envoy Du Yuan investigate together."

Ye Yuxiao, Chunxiao and Du An stepped forward to accept the order, and then, led by the Minister of Dali Temple, they gathered around the food table of the Princess of Chu.

There were a total of six plates of food placed on the food table, and the middle plate among them was tree bark.

The Minister of Dali Temple stared at the bark in surprise for a while, and ordered the six dishes to be divided into three groups, with two dishes in each group.

After dividing the dishes, he gave the first group to Ye Yuxiao, the second group to Chunxiao, and the third group to Du An, and then asked the three of them to test for poison respectively.

Duan was the fastest and finished the test in a short time. He shook his head at the Minister of Dali Temple and said: "There is no poison in these two dishes."

Chunxiao quickly finished testing the poison, shook her head and said, "I didn't find any poison in this dish either."

Dali Temple Qing nodded and looked at Ye Yuxiao, only to find that she didn't make a move at all.

Du An sarcastically said: "Why, Princess Yingchuan thinks that doing such menial work has degraded your status?"

Ye Yuxiao glanced at him with a half-smile, turned around and asked, "Why hasn't the prince come yet?"

Ouyang Sheng rushed over: "Coming, coming."

Ouyang Sheng crossed the crowd of onlookers and arrived in front of Ye Yuxiao. In his hand, he held a birdcage. There were two birds in the birdcage, and there were two independent food troughs hanging on the wall of the cage.

Ye Yuxiao used two copper spoons to scoop up two plates of vegetables and put them into two troughs respectively.

The two little birds immediately pounced on the food trough and started pecking at it.

Du An was stunned: "Princess Yingchuan, you, you used a bird to test poison?"

Ye Yuxiao clapped his hands: "Isn't this the simplest way? Our purpose is to detect whether there is poison in the food, but not to find out what kind of poison is in the food."

The Minister of Dali Temple nodded repeatedly: "Princess Yingchuan is right. We only need to confirm whether there is poison in the food first. It is indeed the simplest and most convenient to use animals to test the poison."

Du An remained silent. This method was indeed better than his, and it made him look like a fool.

While he was talking, the two birds had already finished the food in the trough. After a while, one of the birds suddenly fell to the ground and struggled.

"Poisonous! Poisonous!" Prince Chu shouted.

Ye Yuxiao stepped forward to confirm and said, "It's the bark. It's the bark that poisons the birds."

Chunxiao looked at the food table in surprise: "The bark is poisonous? However, the Princess of Chu is not the only one who has eaten the bark."

Du An nodded slowly: "Yes, the bark was originally prepared for Princess Anxiang, and Princess Anxiang must have eaten it."

The Minister of Dali Temple looked around and asked: "How many people here have eaten tree bark?"

No one answered, no one had eaten, except Princess Anxiang.

The Minister of Dali Temple looked at Princess Anxiang: "The princess also ate the bark, why was she not poisoned?"

Princess Anxiang said: "I didn't eat it."

Chunxiao immediately retorted: "You obviously ate it, I saw it."

Many people present nodded in agreement.

"Princess Anxiang did eat it, and I saw it too."

Princess Anxiang wanted to continue to argue, but after thinking that it was unnecessary, she remained silent.

The Minister of Dali Temple asked again: "Are the plate of bark on Princess Anxiang's table and the plate of bark on the Princess of Chu's table come from the same dish?"

No one could answer his question, so the emperor ordered someone to go to the kitchen and ask for the kitchen steward.

While fighting and waiting for the kitchen steward, Liu sat in the corner, already stunned.

Mrs. Tao pulled up her veil in panic: "Mom, I asked you just now, whether your poison cannot be detected, or whether it is no longer poisonous at all. Look, look, has it been found out now?"

Mrs. Liu now felt like she was struck by thunder: "I, I didn't expect that Princess Yingchuan would use a bird to test the poison."

"But she just tried. What should we do now?" Mrs. Tao was so panicked that sweat broke out on her forehead.

The Liu family was confused: "Don't ask, how do I know what to do?"

Mrs. Tao has now figured it out. Mrs. Liu has never imagined this situation at all, so she doesn't know what to do.

Since Ms. Liu couldn't count on her, she could only excuse herself: "As long as we don't get traced, it will be fine."

After listening to her words, Ms. Liu calmed down a little and said, "Your distant cousin must have a strict mouth."