Tang Jing led a group of disciples in the kitchen, rummaging through boxes and cabinets to search for ingredients and utensils. His expression was stern, scanning every nook and cranny, occasionally directing this one and ordering that one to search thoroughly.
A crowd of disciples scattered around him, no one by his side, he reached into his sleeve pocket and pulled out two things that looked like medicinal materials, preparing to hide them in the corner of the table when a voice interrupted his action.
"Look, I found it!"
The crowd heard and rushed over, Tang Ji was shocked, he thought for a moment, put the medicine back into his sleeve pocket and hid it well before going over to take a look.
"Master brother, don't you think there's something wrong with these two?" The disciple of the Soul Snatching Chamber handed over a package of jade flutes he had dug up for Tang Ji to examine.
Tang Jing took it and looked at it for a moment, then rolled up the whole package of jade silk and walked out with it.
A package of yuzhang was placed on a stone table in the courtyard of the poison house.
Tang Ji silently stepped back, and Tang Jiu'er came forward to take a look. She took out two stems of psammosere ferns and handed them over to Grandma.
"Master of the door, look."
Grandma took a few glances and let out a sigh, then directly handed it to Tang Lei beside her: "Take a look!"
Tang Lei took it and looked at it for two seconds, with a slightly worried expression, before handing it over to Tang Shiqi beside him. Just as Tang Shiqi had just taken it in her hands, Tang Hezhi suddenly stepped forward and snatched it away from her.
"What's wrong with these two?"
Tang Jiuer looked at Tang Shiqi: "Let Feng Zhu tell you!"
Tang Shi Qi glared at Tang Jiu Er fiercely and said in a bad temper: "These two are Ganoderma lucidum..."
Tang Hezhi heard this and immediately took two roots of Cnidium monnieri and the remaining Jade Cnidium for comparison, finding that these two things seemed to have no difference.
"These two aren't the same thing? They look exactly alike to me!"
Tang Jiuer spoke up to remind: "The rhizome of Cibotium has a red stem line at the base, but Yu Can doesn't."
Tang He stood up and observed the roots of the plant, then clicked his tongue: "Hmph, if you don't look carefully, it's easy to get them mixed up!"
"Household owner, all the materials inside the door are your responsibility to purchase. " Tang Jiu'er stared at Tang Lei and said unceremoniously: "This yu can and can shan were mixed up, almost causing trouble, you'd better go back and discipline the people in your house!"
Tang Lei's face darkened: "I will take good care of it myself."
"You'd better behave yourself!" Grandma slapped the table and stood up, and immediately Tang Lei and others bowed their heads to listen to her scolding.
"A small unexpected event, my Tangmen disciples can actually be knocked down by so many people. If this time is a deadly poison, wouldn't my Tangmen be in danger? Jiuer, from today on, every day's meal must be tested for poison in the poisonous room, and we cannot repeat the same mistake!"
"Yes, Master."
"Tang Lei, I handed over the family business to you, but you got me into such a big mess. You have three days to give me an explanation!"
Tang Lei lowered his head and replied: "Yes."
"Alright, let's disperse. Everyone return to their rooms and take care of themselves."
Grandma said, supporting Hong Gu and leading a group of people away.
Tang Lei and Tang Shi Qi, who had not gained any benefits but instead suffered a loss, also left with their disciples and attendants, both wearing gloomy faces.
"Come with me." After the outsider left, Tang Jiuer said a sentence to Hua Rou, then headed towards the main hall, and Hua Rou naturally followed.
Inside the courtyard, Zihua and Yuer exchanged a glance, then each turned their head back to their respective rooms.
Hua Rou entered the main hall, and Tang Jiu'er not only closed the door but also opened the secret room.
The two of them entered in silence, one after the other. When the stone door of the secret room closed, Tang Jiuzi looked at Hua Rou and said, "Speak, what's going on?"
Hua Rou closed her mouth tightly and slowly shook her head.
"Don't want to say, or don't know?"
Facing Tang Jiuer's inquiry, Hua Rou clenched her fingers tightly together, her knuckles turning white, yet she still didn't utter a word.
"If you don't want to tell me, then go and explain it to your grandma. I think the master of the house will certainly be interested in why there is wood leaf powder in the chicken soup..."
"Plop", Huā Róu knelt down: "Master, I didn't poison! Mù Yè Fěn is non-toxic, eating it will only activate blood and remove stasis, only... only those who have come into contact with the dragon killer will faint."
Tang Jiuer furrowed her brow: "Who was killed by the Jiaolong?"
Huā Róu's shoulders tensed, shaking her head: "I don't know, I just... happened to see something poisonous on the ground, and out of curiosity, I wanted to know what it was. After finding out it was a dragon killer, I then wanted to figure out who had poisoned it, and who had been poisoned, that's why..."
"This is the Tang Sect, where poison and mechanisms are our specialties. It's not unusual for an object to be poisonous, so don't worry about it unnecessarily! If you have the leisure time, you'd better focus on improving your skills instead!"
"Master's teachings are!" Hua Rou lowered her head, but immediately raised it again: "But what if someone in the sect accidentally gets poisoned?"
Tang Jiuer stared at Hua Rou for a few seconds: "If someone is poisoned, I will naturally detoxify. If it can't be detoxified, then that's just his fate!"
Hua's soft lips opened and closed twice.
Tang Jiu'er saw the situation and instead approached Hua Rou's face, saying solemnly: "You also saw it today, in the Tang family, once you let your guard down, you will be schemed against. Be more cautious in the future, don't underestimate the importance of being on guard, do you understand?"
"Yes, Master."
"Get up!"
"Thank you, Master." Huā Róu stood up: "Master, I have something that I don't understand."
"Say."
"Why can't we get along with our family members?"
Tang Jiuer patted Hua Rou's shoulder gently and said, "They can't get along with anyone."
……
"Master is back!"
In the main hall, Tang Yu and several disciples heard the sound and immediately dropped the fellow disciple they were taking care of to rush to Tang He's side.
Admiring you, I didn't move, he was feeding his younger brother water on one side, and looking around in that direction on the other.
"How is everyone doing now?"
"Master, don't worry, everyone who drank the antidote soup is gradually waking up." Tang Yu replied loudly, seeing Tang He put his mind at ease, he quickly asked: "Master, have you investigated clearly? Is it the poison of Hua Rou?"
"It's not" Tang He waved his hand: "This is just an accident, those people who collected materials for the house were too careless and actually took the wrong herb back, the busy cook didn't notice either, and it ended up like this."
Everyone spoke their own words, but I lowered my head and pondered in silence.
How could our family's house possibly give others a handle to use against us, making such a low-level mistake? There must be an inside story. Hua Rou, fortunately you're fine, but what exactly did you do?
……
At midnight, Tang Jiuer walked into the secret room of the ancestral hall. As soon as she entered, her grandmother scolded with a face full of anger: "Don't tell me this is an accident!"
Tang Jiuer quietly placed a porcelain bottle on the stone table.
Grandma picked it up, opened it and smelled it, frowned and said: "Red fern poison."
"This is the child's drawing on the soft table, she thought no one knew."
"You deliberately did nothing and let so many people faint?"
"If it wasn't for this, how would we know if it was the doing of these two little girls or...?" Tang Jiuer's eyes gleamed with a cold light: "Is someone instigating from behind?"
