Chen Anning quickly put down the bowl and stood up.
Wen Huan also stood up after her.
Walking quickly to the inn, Chen Anning said calmly: "What's going on?"
Xu Zan shook his head: "I don't know. When I first came here, I saw him vomiting. I thought he was thinking of the big bowl of bone soup again, so I didn't take it to heart. After a while, other people also vomited one after another, and I Found something wrong...he vomited blood!"
Chen Anning walked quickly to the middle-aged man who was the first to vomit and vomit blood. He quickly held his wrist, checked his pulse, and quickly tapped several of his acupuncture points. He took out a porcelain bottle from his arms, poured out a pill and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Go and get my silver needle quickly!" Chen Anning ordered.
She didn't bring many pills.
There are thirty or forty people here who are vomiting.
Xu Zan went immediately after hearing the sound.
Wen Huan came up and asked, "What can I do?"
Chen Anning didn't even raise her head, "Do you have a handkerchief? Take it out and cover your mouth and nose first, then cover mine."
Wen Huan responded, quickly took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, folded it into a triangle, and first covered her mouth and nose before covering his own.
"Do you have a pen and paper?" Chen Anning asked again.
Wen Huan immediately ordered the maid Shun Xin who was following her, "Hurry and get paper and ink!"
After Shunxin took it back, Chen Anning said, "I'll read it, you write it."
Shunxin bent down, Wen Huan put the paper and ink on her back, dipped the pen in the ink and said, "You tell me."
Chen Anning quickly ordered more than ten herbs. From the corner of his eye, he saw her finish writing and said immediately: "Send people to get the medicine in two directions. One is in the nearest county town, and the other is in the county town to see if there is any Chu family." If there is a herbal medicine shop, go directly to get the medicinal materials and say I want them!"
Wen Huan responded immediately, and then arranged her instructions word for word.
At this moment, Xu Zan took the silver needle back, and the adults who were resting behind the inn also rushed over after hearing the news.
"What's going on?" Chai Shiming asked in panic.
Chen Anning took the silver needle and applied it to everyone quickly.
Wen Huan and Xu Zan followed her step by step.
No one spoke.
Chai Shiming asked twice more.
Seeing no one answered, he stamped his feet anxiously and went to find Zhu Cen.
Zhu Cen's face looked a little ugly.
First, they ignored Chen Anning and others.
The second is the fear of something happening to these people.
After injecting the needle into the vomiting person and taking a short rest, Chen Anning checked the people who were not vomiting again. After making sure that they were all fine, her eyes fell on the person who was vomiting or the water bowl beside her. superior.
After taking the water bowl from one of them and squinting at the sun for a few times, Chen Anning motioned to Xu Zan: "Go and ask who sent this water."
Xu Zan said: "Is there poison in this water?"
Zhu Cen and others immediately looked over.
Chen Anning had no intention of hiding anything. He nodded and said, "Go and ask questions quickly."
"Yes, he's a government servant." A diner who had just received an injection and looked much better said reluctantly.
Xu Zan quickly asked: "Have you seen clearly what it looks like?"
"It seems to have a slender face, with a sallow complexion, and is less than five feet tall." The diner said uncertainly.
"He has a slender face," another diner said. "The face is not only sallow, but also a little dark. I asked him questions, but he didn't answer."
Other diners and people rescued from the pit also spoke one after another.
Everyone's comments focused on his slender face and sallow and dark skin.
"There is no such person among the government officials who came here!" Chai Shiming said proactively before Xu Zan could ask them for questions.
The diners and people coming out of the pit said one after another: "The slender face delivering water is wearing the clothes of a government servant."
Chen Anning glanced at Xu Zan, who immediately went to find the leader of the secret guards.
After a while, he came back and said: "Earlier, there was a group of people from the county government delivering food. There were about twenty or thirty people. These people left more than half an hour ago."
Chai Shiming called to the county magistrate in a panic, "Where are those people who sent food? Quick, go and find them!"
The county magistrate was also a little panicked, "Those people, those people are just here to deliver food. They shouldn't come this way."
"Find them back first!" Chai Shiming said in embarrassment.
He didn't care if they would come this way. If something like this happened, there would always be someone to blame. There are obviously no people here with long, slender faces and black and sallow faces as they say, so we can only look for them among those who have left.
After the county magistrate understood Chai Shiming's intention, he left in a panic.
Chen Anning didn't have time to wait for them, so he simply ordered Xu Zan to call the person who ordered the water to be boiled.
After the people arrived, she asked directly: "Who sent the water for this trip?"
The man who boiled the water scratched his head and said, "It was the little brother who delivered the food earlier. Seeing that the villain was too busy, he said he would help me deliver it twice."
Xu Zan said with a cold face: "Do you recognize him?"
The man who boiled the water quickly shook his head, "I've never seen him before."
Xu Zan: "What do you do in the yamen?"
The man who boiled water said: "The villain has always been doing the work of boiling water."
Xu Zan: "Did you know that the boiled water is poisonous?"
The man who was boiling water immediately knelt down and said: "My lord, I know clearly that the villain has been wronged. There are two elders on top of the villain and three young ones below. They all rely on the villain to boil water in the county government office. Even if the villain has ten heads, I don’t dare to do anything like poisoning.”
Xu Zan sneered: "Tell me, how did they get poisoned?"
The man who boiled the water immediately said: "It must be the guy who said he would deliver water to me. He was the one who poisoned me!"
Xu Zan said: "How can you prove that you didn't frame him after poisoning him?"
"Your Excellency is aware..."
"You just said that you have two elders and three younger ones," Xu Zan interrupted, "Then, if someone gives you enough money to live comfortably for the rest of your life and asks you to poison them, it is possible for you to do so. You’ll agree, right?”
"You can't do that," the man who boiled water immediately denied.
"I assume you don't know how." Xu Zan squatted in front of him, "Then tell me, what does the little brother who asked to help you look like? What dialect did he speak? How old is he approximately? Before he helped you, he talked to Who has dealt with it?"
The man who boiled the water thought desperately. After thinking for a long time, he suddenly raised his head and looked at Chai Shiming and other officials.
Seeing the shrinkage in his eyes, Xu Zan said slowly: "These people are all witnesses to the murder case of the old couple. If they make any mistakes, not to mention you, even your whole family will not be able to escape imprisonment." Big crime!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the man who boiled the water blurted out: "The villain saw Master Wu talking to him!"
Xu Zan followed his words and glanced at all the officials, "Which Master Wu?"
"Master Wu, the county captain." The man who boiled the water said, banging his head and kowtowing.
Chai Shiming quickly looked at Wu Feng and said sternly: "It's you!"
Wu Feng clasped his hands and said, "The official did speak to the person who came to deliver the food, but have you forgotten that the official was following your order to arrange the food that was sent, and that's why we talked to him."
Chai Shiming said anxiously: "How do I know you know them!"
Wu Feng calmly reminded: "Have you forgotten again, you are the one who designates the store that delivers food."
Facing everyone's gaze, Chai Shiming blushed and said, "It's good that I designate those shops, but I don't designate those who deliver food!"
Wu Feng took two steps back and stopped talking.
Chai Shiming said anxiously: "Young Master Xu and Miss Chen have checked clearly. I really don't know those people who send food!"
Xu Zan looked at Chen Anning.
Chen Anning said: "We are in charge of the inn case. The poisoning case was discovered in time and did not cause any damage, so we left it to Mr. Zhu to deal with it."
This was a hot potato, and Zhu Cen didn't want to take over, but Chen Anning and Xu Zan didn't give him any room to refuse. After saying this arrangement, the two turned around and left.
"Go and bring that old couple over." After getting far away from the officials, Chen Anning washed her hands with the water sent by the secret guard and then ordered, "In addition, let people keep an eye on those officials secretly."
Xu Zan was afraid of another accident, so he personally approached the leader of the secret guards and asked him to send people to keep an eye on the officials, and then personally escorted the old couple over.
