Chapter 521: Discovered Abnormality
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation , Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Chestnut looked at Moon who had fainted on the bed and became very frightened. She did not dare to delay and immediately called Teacher Fang over. She was in charge of the school dormitories.
Teacher Fang looked at the unconscious Moon with an ambiguous expression. She gestured to the students in the same school dormitory not to panic. She told them to get up, eat, and go to class first. She would take care of the situation here.
After everyone had left, Teacher Fang instructed someone to send Moon home.
After Teacher Fang sent Moon away, she went to the house in the back courtyard that was provided for the staff of the academy to rest.
Zhou Xiangrong was sitting in the house and writing something diligently. When she heard the sound, she only raised her head to look at Teacher Fang before lowering her head to continue writing.
“Master, the girl has been sent away.”
Zhou Xiangrong’s face was emotionless as she asked, “Which number is this one?”
“Master, she’s the sixth one.”
Zhou Xiangrong’s slender eyebrows furrowed slightly. “It’s not enough. Continue.”
“Yes, Master.”
After Teacher Fang left, Zhou Xiangrong slowly put down the brush in her hand, and a creepy smile appeared on her face.
Moon fell ill after she was sent home. She developed a high fever that same day.
Her mouth kept shouting words like “No” and “Help” and so on. Her family was so scared that they quickly took her to the medical hall in the city.
After the doctor in the medical hall gave Moon a check, he only said that she had caught a cold and might have been frightened so that was why she fell ill. Moon’s family simply could not understand how Moon could be frightened so badly in the academy. After all, she was always very happy whenever she came home and did not look like she was bullied.
Unable to figure out why, Moon’s family could only take the medicine and go back first.
However, after taking this medicine for a few days, although Moon’s high fever subsided, she became unconscious. This made the family extremely anxious. “Moon’s father, what do you think we should do? What kind of illness did she get? Why hasn’t she woken up after taking so many days of medicine?”
“Why don’t… we go and ask that Miss Su for help?”
Before Su Ying left Moon’s family, she had left them her contact information and told them that if they encountered any problems that they couldn’t solve, they could look for her at the given address.
Moon’s family members really had no other choice. They wanted to take Moon to the most famous medical hall in the capital city for a check-up but there were too many people going there. People had to queue up in advance to see the doctor. They were worried that Moon could not wait that long.
They didn’t want to trouble Su Ying. After all, they had never helped her in any way, but when they saw Moon in this state, they were truly afraid.
In the end, they decided to look for Su Ying. Regardless of whether Su Ying could help them or not, she would still be their benefactor for life!
Inside the Imperial Palace, Su Ying was holed up inside her interspatial store.
This was because she found that the test results of the substances she extracted from the corpses were abnormal!
Fortunately, she had made a backup before burying the bodies. True enough, she found some poisonous substances that should not be present in the burnt stomach walls of the corpses.
As too much time had elapsed and the body had been burned by fire as well, Su Ying now had to determine whether this substance was formed after the burning or if it had been in the victim’s stomach before that.
In order to get a more accurate result, she had done hundreds of tests to verify the substance. The final result was that the poison was in the victim’s stomach before the burning.
It would be fine if this poison appeared in one or two people, but it was not normal when all the corpses she dug up had this poison. After all, when she dug up the corpses, she chose them randomly. There were also large gaps between the buried corpses. They were not patients who died at the same time.
In other words, the presence of this substance was not a coincidence at all.
Su Ying dripped the liquid agent into the test tube and finally ascertained the type of poison.
It was a poison that contained highly purified cyanide. As the toxic cyanide had been purified and processed and other substances might have been added to the compound, it made the symptoms of the poisoned person appear less obvious. This in turn confused the doctor’s judgment.
However, this was not the main point. The most critical thing was that the cyanide compounds were not viruses and were not contagious.
Prior to this, Su Ying had felt that the plague had erupted and died off in a strange way. She had never seen such an infectious disease become completely eradicated in such a short period of time.
The so-called plague didn’t seem like an infectious disease. It was more like people getting mass poisoning.
Su Ying’s eyebrows twitched as this thought instantly spread through her mind.
That was it! Someone poisoned them!
The more she thought about it, the more she felt that the likelihood was very high.
After sorting out all the test reports, Su Ying left her interspatial store.
She went to the window and looked at the sun dipping in the west. She had been in the interspatial store for the entire afternoon.
“Bai Shuang, go bring me some snacks.” Su Ying was hungry after fiddling for such a long time.
‘Yes, Your Imperial Highness.”
Zhou Qing pushed open the door of the inner hall and walked in with some hot tea.
“Your Imperial Highness, have a cup of hot tea first.”
Su Ying nodded absentmindedly.
“When will His Majesty return?”
Zhou Qing looked at the sky outside and said, “Looking at the time, he should be returning soon. If Your Imperial Highness is in a hurry to see His Majesty, shall I go to the Imperial study to pass a message?”
Xiao Jin’s deep affection for Su Ying was well-known to all. Otherwise, Zhou
Qing wouldn’t have dared to say such words.
Su Yun shook her head as she collected herself. “No rush. I’ll just wait for him to come back.”
As they were talking, Bai Shuang walked in with some snacks.
“If Your Imperial Highness is hungry, eat some snacks to fill your stomach first. I heard Uncle Hea say that he has cooked Your Imperial Highness’s favorite honey roast chicken tonight.”
Upon hearing that, Zhou Qing said with a smile, “I remember Your Imperial
Highness also liked the sweet and sour pork ribs the last time.”
“Gosh! Look at me. I almost forgot about the important matter.” Bai Shuang slapped her head and reported, “Your Imperial Highness, someone sent a letter to the outside of the Imperial harem’s palace in the afternoon.”
If someone outside the palace could deliver the letter to Bai Shuang’s hands, then it could only be Su Ying’s subordinates.
Su Ying took the letter and opened it. When she saw the unfamiliar handwriting on it, she was a little baffled. However, after reading the contents of the letter, her brows furrowed into a deep frown.
Bai Shuang and Zhou Qing exchanged looks with each other and saw the puzzled expression in each other’s eyes.
“Your Imperial Highness, did something happen?”
“It’s Moon. She suddenly became seriously ill.”
Bai Shuang knew about Moon and was surprised when she heard the news.
“That girl looks quite healthy. How did she become so sick?”
Moon’s family members had stated in the letter that they had no choice but to come to Su Ying for help.
Moon was also a student of the academy. She had fallen ill suddenly in the academy, so Su Ying could not ignore the matter. “Bai Shuang, go to the Imperial Academy of Medicine and look for Imperial Physician Ruan. Tell him to go to Moon’s house to take a look at the girl.”
Imperial Physician Ruan was one of the few physicians in the Imperial Academy of Medicine who was skilled in all the medical specialties. His excellent medical skills were well-known to all, and his medical ethics and reputation were very good. He would not neglect the patient just because the patient s status was not noble enough.
“Yes, your servant will go now.”
“Your Imperial Highness, the day after tomorrow is the Parents’ Visitation Day for the academy. Do you wish to attend?” Zhou Qing asked.
“Parents’ Visitation Day?”
Zhou Qing explained, “This was conveyed by Miss Zhou’s messenger. Miss
Zhou was worried that the students’ parents would be worried about their children, so she set up an open house every month for family members to visit the academy. This will put the parents at ease.”
Su Ying frowned. “There is such a thing?” She didn’t really want to attend, but she didn’t refuse either. She wanted to see what Imperial Physician Ruan had to say first when he returned tomorrow..
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