activa-t Chapter 146: Framed
Chapter 146: Framed
At dawn, the sky gradually turned pale, but it was still dark. Yun Yuxi had not slept all night, and she frowned, feeling extremely anxious. Despite staying up all night, she still had not been able to develop a cure for the plague. The winter morning was unusually quiet, and people were grateful. Because if it rained or snowed at this moment, the situation would become even more difficult.
Yun Yuxi carefully took out the spiritual spring as usual and quietly put it into the water tank. She prayed sincerely, hoping that the people would recover as soon as possible. However, she did not realize that there was a pair of vicious eyes staring at her from behind. It was Liu Lin, and his eyes were like a cold poisonous snake, which was creepy.
Liu Lin followed Yun Yuxi quietly, and only showed a sinister smile after she left. He came to the water tank, reached out and touched the wall of the tank, then walked to the big iron pot where the medicine soup was boiled and observed it. While no one was paying attention, he quickly took out a bag of powdered substances and poured them into the water tank and the big pot. After doing this, he looked around and showed an even more sinister smile.
"Doctor Liu, why are you here?" Suddenly, a soldier came over and greeted him. Liu Lin was panicked, but soon regained his composure and replied naturally, "I am here to check if anyone is sick." The soldier saluted him and left in a hurry. Liu Lin did not dare to stay and left the place quickly.
The rescue work had been going on for several days, and more and more people were getting sick. Fortunately, there were medicinal soups to drink, and the death toll dropped significantly. Yun Yuxi looked at the people lying on the ground, coughing until tears came out, and felt even more uncomfortable.
"Princess, it's bad. The patients who drank the medicine today have started to have diarrhea, and some of the serious cases have become dehydrated." Lingyi's anxious footsteps disrupted Yun Yuxi's thoughts.
Yun Yuxi hurriedly followed Lingyi to check the situation. Liu Lin, who was hiding in the dark, revealed a sinister and vicious look, and then walked out swaggeringly to treat the people. No one would have thought that the problem with the medicine was his fault. After all, no one would doubt a doctor who was actively saving people.
Yun Yuxi frowned, carefully felt the patient's pulse, showed astonishment on her face, and asked loudly: "Are you sure you started having diarrhea after drinking the boiled medicine?" The people nodded painfully, their bodies trembling slightly, as if they were under great torture, and even speaking seemed a little difficult, but they still insisted on answering: "Yes... We all started having diarrhea after eating this..." After speaking, the people's faces became paler, and their already weak breath became even weaker.
At this moment, an old woman with a kind face walked out of the crowd, pointed at Yun Yuxi and shouted angrily: "Stop pretending to be a good person here! It was obviously you who added poison in the water tank, I saw it with my own eyes! Folks, catch her and don't listen to her nonsense!" The old woman's voice was filled with endless anger, shocking everyone present.
Yun Yuxi's heart suddenly sank, and she felt a chill. She thought to herself, "Could it be that someone saw me releasing the spiritual spring, and then used it to frame me? But, if that's the case, how can I explain it? The matter of the spiritual spring must not be exposed!" She couldn't help but get nervous, a thin layer of sweat appeared on her forehead, thinking about how to deal with it.
Just as Yun Yuxi was thinking about the core of the problem, she found that more and more people were around her, and they surrounded Yun Yuxi and Lingyi. Lingyi was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, because he was worried that these fools would harm the princess. However, the princess had previously ordered not to harm the people, so Lingyi did not dare to act rashly.
"Everyone has misunderstood. Please be quiet and listen to me! What I put in the water tank was not poison, but a kind of liquid medicine. This liquid medicine is the same one you drank before. Now, please be patient." Yun Yuxi tried to explain.
The people looked at each other with doubtful expressions on their faces. At this time, Yun Yuxi suddenly took out a porcelain bottle from her sleeve pocket, then looked at the crying woman with a stern look and asked loudly: "Did you see me put this into the water tank with your own eyes?"
The old woman looked down and felt a little uneasy, but she still lowered her head and said in a low voice: "Yes, it's what's in this bottle." After saying that, she deliberately looked in the direction of the willow forest.
At this moment, Yun Yuxi suddenly opened the porcelain bottle, raised her head and drank the spiritual spring water in the bottle, and said: "This princess drank it myself. If this bottle is poison, then this princess will die of poison in less than a quarter of an hour." In fact, Yun Yuxi knew very well that the most important thing now was to cure those people with diarrhea, rather than wasting time here talking about these useless things.
When the people saw Yun Yuxi drink the spiritual spring water so decisively, their doubts gradually dissipated. They began to believe that the princess really came to help them. So, Yun Yuxi quickly ordered Lingyi to invite the imperial physician and the doctor from Lingcheng to come and treat the people who had diarrhea.
"Don't believe this woman. I think she is a monster. Who knows if there is poison in her porcelain bottle? Maybe what she took out is liquid medicine. And if it is put in water, it is poison. You just took the medicine she gave you and then got diarrhea." The old woman said with a serious look and gritted her teeth. After all, the man gave her two hundred taels of silver.
A man in his thirties walked in from outside and fanned the flames, saying, "I think there is nothing wrong with what Mrs. Wang said. I also think there is something wrong with this princess." Then he took out a pack of compressed biscuits from his pocket. Look everyone, this is what the woman took out. Have you seen it?" Then he threw the compressed biscuits in front of the people.
Yun Yuxi didn't expect that her momentary weakness would leave herself with hidden dangers.
The people became even more suspicious when they saw the exquisite packaging printed with patterns and words they did not recognize.
Just then, another man took Yun Yuxi's medicine box, opened it and threw it in front of everyone.
Yun Yuxi's heart sank and she complained in her heart, "I gave out these compressed biscuits before we went to Black Wind Ridge because I was afraid that everyone would not be able to endure the journey and needed to replenish their energy. It was only given out this time. It seems that the people who are causing trouble should be the ones I originally led, but the contents of the medicine box are even more shocking. I'm afraid that this person wants to kill her this time."
The people looked at the things in the medicine box, the long and thin pillows, various instruments that they had never seen before, and things similar to pliers. Their faces became solemn for a moment, and they all looked at Yun Yuxi with a look of deep hatred.
The brave people even questioned, "So what Wang Po said is true. There is something wrong with you. We will never drink your medicine again." As the old man finished speaking, the people started to make a fuss, and the scene became even more chaotic. Liu Lin raised his mouth and stood up and said
"My fellow villagers, she is a princess. Aren't you afraid of losing your heads? It is a matter of life and death to frame the regent princess like this." Liu Lin said this in a way that seemed to be an excuse, but in fact, he put pressure on the people.