The moon climbed up the treetop, and Tang Lei, who had been busy all day, pushed open the door and entered the house. He saw Tang Shiqi sitting in front of the dresser, holding a pearl hairpin and staring blankly. "What are you thinking about?"

  Tang Shi Qi heard this and looked at Tang Lei from the copper mirror, saying in a low voice: "You say, will this Huajun be the Heavenly Pulse?"

  Tang Lei's face was shocked: "Do you have evidence?"

  Tang Shi Qi turned to look at Tang Lei: "We used 'Yóulì' on her, but it was ineffective. Zi Qi and the others used 'Shí Gǔ', yet she's still alive and well. I think there's only one possibility..."

  "No!" Tang Lei raised his hand to stop her from continuing: "It's impossible, don't forget that the Tianmai can only be passed down through bloodline. The poisonous house was destroyed overnight back then, and only Tang Jiu'er survived, she never married!"

  Tang Qiqi sneered, "Not being married doesn't mean she can't have children. Don't forget, when the poison house incident happened, she was outside executing orders and only returned two years later. Two years is plenty of time to have a child, isn't it?"

  Tang Lei's eyes rolled left and right: "You mean that Hua Rou might be Tang Jiu'er's child?"

  Tang Qiqi nodded: "I've thought about it for a long time, and it seems that only this answer can explain why. Otherwise, with her cold personality, how could she have stood up to defend Hua Rou again and again?"

  Tang Lei fell into deep thought, remaining silent.

  Tang Qiqi got up and leaned close to her husband: "Do you still remember? After Tang Jiu'er returned, the master of the sect wanted to revive the Poison House, so he specially chose a few good people to marry her, but she refused to get married. Even when the master severely punished her, it caused a commotion for a whole year, and in the end, didn't they give in to her?"

  "Of course I remember, at that time she even put a knife to her neck and said that if the master forced her again, she would die and let the poisonous house disappear completely."

  "Yes, the master of the house is afraid that the poisonous room will be gone, so he compromised. But think about it, a beautiful young woman who refuses to marry, is this normal? In my opinion, she must have had an affair with someone outside and had children, but didn't dare not come back, so..."

  "You're right, but that's just our inference." Tang Lei thought for a moment: "In that case, follow this lead and investigate. If Hua Rou is indeed her daughter, then we'll have to come up with another plan."

  Tang Shi Qi nodded: "Understood."

  ……

  "Sorry, Mu Ge, I still can't find a solution..." In the bamboo forest, Hua Rou's expression was regretful as she apologized to Mu Junwu, having tried many methods but to no avail.

  "No need to apologize, you've done your best."

  "Brother Mo, don't worry, although I haven't gained anything for the time being, I haven't given up. I will continue to try. You have to believe me, one day I will find a solution."

  Admiring the sincerity in Hua Rou's eyes, his heart warmed up and he instinctively raised his hand to tweak her nose, but just as his fingertips were about to touch the tip of her nose, he suddenly froze.

  This move was unexpected.

  He suddenly came to his senses and withdrew his hand, while Hua Rou was stunned, her face flushing red.

  "Uh..." Mu Junwu said, pulling out a small mechanical part from his sleeve: "Take a look at this, is there a problem?"

  Hua Rou stretched out her hand just as she was about to receive it, but Mu Jun Wu pinched the small piece and dodged her hand. At the same time, Hua Rou's eyebrows were shocked: "This... this has poison on it."

  "What poison?"

  "I only knew after I touched it."

  "Can you touch poison? Won't anything happen?"

  Hua Rou nodded slightly and nodded.

  I gazed at you with wonder in my eyes and handed over the spare parts to her.

  Hua Rou took the component in her hand and identified it briefly, then immediately grabbed Mu Junwu's hand and looked at him inexplicably: "The antidote for this poison is the same as the new poison on your body. Could it be that the new poison on you was caused by touching something contaminated? Wasn't it a variation of the detoxification I gave you?"

  "Looks like it's true. Is this poison potent?"

  "I'm not quite sure, I'll only know when I go back and check the book." Hua Rou's eyes changed from confusion to worry: "Mu Ge, it can't be... someone is harming you, right?"

  "Stop daydreaming, this thing is something I randomly picked up from the warehouse, I suppose that poison must have been stuck on it since it was applied to some mechanism years ago, and I just happened to be unlucky enough to touch it."

  "What bad luck!"

  She said, lowering her head to look at the parts, but Mu Junwu was secretly thinking.

  The person who poisoned first needs to be able to enter and exit the government office, secondly, be familiar with the mechanism, in order to have the possibility of putting poison on the connecting axle that is necessarily used by the crossbow.

  But how did he know I was going to make a crossbow?

  It seems he should be inside the government building... I have to catch him out!

  ……

  Hua Rou picked up her pen and wrote down several names of herbs on paper before hugging the book and starting to flip through it.

  She can sense the solution and naturally thinks of finding out what poison corresponds to it.

  Hua Rou carefully compared and searched, but only flipped through a few pages before Yu'er came back with the food box: "The meal is here, come and eat quickly."

  Yu'er brought out the dishes and arranged them, turned around to see Hua Rou standing still, then smiled and walked forward: "Don't work so hard, let's eat first, we can look at it later!"

  However, Hua Rou was too focused and didn't hear her speak. Yu'er helplessly reached out to pull her, her eyes scanning over the names of several herbs on the paper.

  "You've learned so quickly, you even know 'Jiaolongsha' now..."

  Hua Rou just came back to her senses and heard this sentence. She immediately turned around and grabbed Yu Er's arm: "What did you just say?"

  "You're telling me you've even learned how to kill a crocodile? What's wrong with you?"

  Hua Rou's eyes widened in shock, she quickly flipped through the book, her mouth repeating over and over: "Jiaolong kill, Jiaolong kill..."

  Yu'er looked at Hua Rou and smiled helplessly: "It's not in this volume, it's in the next one, on the last three or four pages!"

  Hua Rou was shocked by what she heard and hastily pulled out the next volume, flipping to the last three or four pages. Then she stared at Yu'er in shock: "How do you remember so clearly?"

  Yu'er proudly raised her chin at this time: "When I was in the poisonous house before, my grades were always unmatched by anyone."

  "You're too powerful!" Hua Rou exclaimed, then went to look at the records of Jiaolong's killing, muttering to herself:

  "Gu Long's poison: it induces a toxic disease, and upon contact, one will be infected. The infected person will show no symptoms at first, but after a month, the toxin will penetrate the internal organs, causing heart pain. Three days later, the heart will rupture, leading to death... Good heavens! This poison is too terrifying!"

  Yu'er heard this and snorted lightly: "Hmph, what's there to be afraid of? Our family has over a hundred kinds of poison that are more frightening than this!"

  "What?" Hua Rou was shocked, this python's gaze had already made her feel uneasy, but it seemed that wasn't even anything...

  "In fact, the creator of this poison has already shown mercy by giving at least a month's time to get rid of it, unlike those other ones..."

  "Wait a minute!" Hua Rou's eyes widened: "You're saying that this Jiaolong Sha was created by Master?"