Chapter 940: Poisonous Vegetables

Chapter 940: Poisonous Vegetables

Lu Anfan looked back every few steps.

When he turned around for the third time, he saw Lu Zhaoling waving at him.

His tears burst out in an instant.

He also waved his hand, then rode away on his horse and left Shuning City.

If he looked at it again, he was afraid that he would become so fragile that he would not want to leave.

"Little brat."

Lu Zhaoling said in a low voice.

Zhou Shiyue hugged her and turned to walk in.

"Second brother, you have a sharp tongue but a soft heart. You obviously love this boy very much."

There is not a single good person in the Lu family. He used to think that Lu Zhaoling wanted to draw a clear line between herself and the entire Lu family.

Lu Zhaoling sighed softly and said.

"What can we do? In the entire Lu family, there is only one person who can barely pick up this person."

She doesn't really want to wipe out the family.

"After all, there is some blood relationship."

"Sister."

Outside, Yin Yunting, Qingmu and others just rushed back, but instead of going in to say anything, they called Lu Zhaoling out again.

"Master Sister, please go to Yu'an Hall."

Lu Zhaoling turned around and saw Yin Yunting's pale face, and her expression changed slightly.

"what happened?"

"All of a sudden, those children vomited blood and fainted," Qingmu explained, "Master Yin set up a formation there to protect them."

Lu Zhaoling called out, "Qingyin Qingbao, let's go!"

"This king..."

Just as Zhou Shiyue was about to say that he would go with her, two officials came galloping over in a horse-drawn carriage.

"Your Majesty, our Lord asks you to come over. There is an important matter that needs your decision!"

They came in a carriage to pick up His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin, but His Excellency was too busy to leave.

Zhou Shiyue and Lu Zhaoling looked at each other, both feeling helpless.

They had originally planned to go to Subei as soon as possible, but now it seems that there are a lot of things to do in Shuning City. If they don't deal with them, they will not feel at ease leaving.

"I'm afraid Lord Zhong is in a really bad situation as well." Zhou Shiyue said to Lu Zhaoling.

"Then we will split up into two groups. You take all the Qings to help Master Zhong, and I will take my two junior brothers and Qingyin with me."

Lu Zhaoling glanced at the gloomy sky, then looked at the vast expanse of white in front of him, his eyes determined.

"I believe that these things are more or less related. If we can pick the key one, the rest will be no problem."

Since the person behind this is most likely targeting the Great Zhou Empire, all the things may have the same source.

"Be careful."

In front of everyone, Zhou Shiyue hugged her gently. While hugging her, he whispered in her ear, "Thank you for your hard work, A Ling."

After saying this, he let her go and got on the government carriage.

Lu Zhaoling watched the carriage leave and retracted his thoughts, "Master brother, let's go too."

Manager Gan was so busy that he was almost stepping on sparks.

When he finished his work and returned to the company, he found that everyone was gone, not a single one was there, even his daughter was too busy to come home.

The clerk came to him and asked sadly, "Boss, do we have to keep our business open?"

"Even if there are no guests, we should keep the people here and leave the door open. What if someone comes to ask for help?" Manager Gan said, "Have you forgotten that we saved Master Lu and Master Qiu two days ago?"

"Don't worry, you stay here and look after the shop. We will give you more things and money."

"Manager, we have no objection. We have nothing to do at home anyway." The waiter said quickly.

The boss is very generous and the manager is also very good. If they stay here, they can get more charcoal.

Zhou Shiyue was taken to a house, not to the government office.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw several simple stoves with big pots cooking. Some people were busy adding firewood, and some were adding medicinal materials with a bamboo basket. The billowing hot smoke drove away a lot of the cold.

"Your Highness, we are boiling the medicine soup." An official told Zhou Shiyue, "We gathered all the doctors in the city yesterday to discuss. The doctors jointly decided on three prescriptions. All the patients were brought to one place and divided into three levels of illness, and different medicines were given to each patient."

"The patients are staying in the empty house requisitioned in front."

"I will go and take a look."

As Zhou Shiyue was about to turn around, the officer was startled and quickly stopped him.

"Your Majesty, no."

"The diseases of those patients are contagious. How can you, with your noble body, go there and take risks?"

Zhou Shiyue frowned and was about to speak when Lord Zhong came out quickly.

"Your Majesty, please come this way!"

Lord Zhong looked as if he was a little anxious.

Zhou Shiyue gave up the idea of ​​going to see the patients and followed Lord Zhong into the hall.

"what happened?"

"Your Majesty, I have already found the source of the food that infected those people and caused their death."

Lord Zhong invited him to the table and motioned for him to look at the things on the table.

Zhou Shiyue saw oil paper spread out on the table, with a few clusters of dark green things on the oil paper, which looked like grass and vegetables.

There was another person kneeling on the ground, his hands tied behind his back, and his face and nose bruised from being beaten.

"And this person."

Lord Zhong said, "I don't know where this man got all these wild vegetables from, and he sold them to the poor people for one copper coin per bundle. Some of them were found by him on the way to Shuning City."

"During this season when the mountains are blocked by heavy snow, passers-by also think that such wild vegetables are rare, so they also bought from him."

"After eating those wild vegetables, their bodies became weaker. I asked those patients and most of them didn't think it was because of the cold at first. They just thought they had caught a cold."

"But when you first catch a cold, you'll start to feel weak and dizzy."

Zhou Shiyue looked at these "wild vegetables" and felt that the soil on the roots was a bit strange. The soil was fine and dark gray.

"The families of the two employees who were originally expelled from the Sun Family Business had no money to buy these wild vegetables, so they picked up some of the heads and roots that people had washed and cut and boiled them to eat. They never expected that these heads and roots were the most poisonous."

"So they died the fastest. After investigation, I found that the merchants who died of illness before entering the city were also boiled whole."

Zhou Shiyue walked up to the man.

The man was trembling as if he was about to meet the King of Hell.

"Why do you use poisonous vegetables to harm people?" Zhou Shiyue asked coldly.

"Sir, I don't have any!"

His hands were tied, but he still kowtowed quickly, his voice trembling, "I just want to make some money so that I can go to Subei."

"I really didn't know these wild vegetables were poisonous, because I have eaten them too!"

Zhou Shiyue frowned, "Have you eaten it yourself?"

"I have really eaten it! If I hadn't tried it to make sure it was edible, I wouldn't have dared to sell it for money!"

"Did you have anything to do after eating?"

"nothing!"

"Where do you want to dig these poisonous vegetables? The mountain is now closed due to heavy snow, and a bundle only costs one copper coin. How many do you have to dig to make money?"