"So that's the case." Fu Ciyi said, "We have to let him in.""Yeah." Yan Funing nodded.
Long Yi was walking in front, but before he even stepped into the courtyard gate, he was stopped by Nanny Li.
"Your Majesty cannot enter!"
"I am here to see my princess, why can't I come in?"
Long Yi was about to get angry again, but then he thought of Wanyou who was inside. If she heard him scolding others, it would ruin his image, so he turned his head to signal someone to follow him.
Only then did Nanny Li see her own Master and Young Mistress coming around the corner.
"Master, Madam, he..."
Fu Ciyi nodded, indicating that Long Yi could be allowed to enter.
Only then did Nanny Li lower her head and stand aside.
Long Yi snorted and walked in. He looked up and saw Wanyou sitting in the main house with lifeless eyes. He felt distressed.
She couldn't see it. It was usually like this, she just sat there in silence, not even having any fun.
Crossing the small courtyard, Long Yi quickened his pace.
The distance was close, and Wan Niang's hearing was better than that of an ordinary person with eyesight. She immediately tilted her head alertly: "Who?"
"It's me, Long Yi."
Wan Niang fumbled to her feet and shouted, "Madame Li."
Nanny Li came running over: "The old servant is here, the young master and the young mistress are here too."
Wan Niang finally calmed down and stretched out her hand towards the door: "Ci Yi, Fu Ning."
"Mom." Yan Funing called out.
The couple was walking behind, and even though they quickened their pace, they were still overtaken by Long Yi.
He held the wooden box with one hand and held Wan Niang's hand tightly with the other.
The touch of the hand was different. This person's hands were dry and warm, with a thin layer of calluses on the palms. Wan Niang was so scared that she quickly retracted her hand, but was held tightly by Long Yi.
"My son and daughter-in-law are here. As a prince..."
Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Long Yi: "Wanyou, I brought the antidote."
"Antidote?" Wan Niang's face darkened. She pulled her hand back with strength that she didn't know where she got it from. "Finally you admit that you poisoned me?"
"That's ridiculous. If I were the one who poisoned the person, why would I bring the antidote?"
Long Yi placed the wooden box on the table and opened it directly.
Fu Ciyi and Yan Funing both stepped over the threshold, supporting Wan Niang on the left and right.
Long Yi turned around and said, "Try one bottle at a time, or check them out?"
Fu Ciyi lowered his voice and said to Yan Funing, "You really guessed it right. Given his personality, he will really try out every bottle."
"It's better for us to be careful." Yan Funing also said softly.
Long Yi smacked his lips: "Is it appropriate for you to discuss this in front of me?"
"No matter what you think now, the antidote must be tested."
Fu Ciyi spoke in a faint voice, raised his chin, and motioned Yan Funing to go and check.
Yan Funing glanced at Long Yi and slowly walked to the table. She saw more than ten wooden boxes filled with bottles and jars of various sizes.
"There are so many antidotes right before our eyes, and some poisons don't even have antidotes. This shows how many poisons there are in Prince Jin's mansion."
These words made Long Yi choke.
The fact seemed to be like this, and he had nothing to say, so he just raised his hand and said, "You check it out."
Yan Funing took out a bottle, opened the cork, and did not get close to it. She just fanned it lightly with her hand and then smelled it.
He did this one by one, and then selected seven bottles and put them aside. "Are these useful or useless?" Fu Ciyi asked.
"It's useless. These are common antidotes, such as antipruritic and anti-laughing drugs."
Yan Funing's eyes fell on the remaining antidotes. She opened them one by one and checked them, but she couldn't be sure what the antidote was.
"What about these?" Fu Ciyi asked again.
Yan Funing said frankly: "I don't know either."
Long Yi was already impatient: "Why bother?" He pointed at Nanny Li standing beside him, "Just use her to try the antidote."
Although Nanny Li didn't understand.
But her intuition told her that such a mission was dangerous and she couldn't retreat without delay.
"No, what if the antidote is made by using poison to fight poison, and Madam Li is not poisoned." Yan Funing objected.
Wan Niang was supported by Fu Ciyi and walked to the table: "Fu Ning, what do you want me to do?"
"Mother, the difficulty is that we only know the consequences of the poison in your body, but we don't know the name of the poison." Yan Funing raised her eyes and looked at Long Yi, "And these antidotes, Prince Jin didn't even ask what the antidotes were for."
"Then I'll take it back and ask."
"No need to ask." Yan Funing suddenly thought of something and said it directly, "If the antidote in the box can cure my mother's poison, then the owner of the antidote is the person who poisoned her, so I guess the antidote is not in there."
"What the Yan family girl said makes sense, but there are a few bottles in there that I took secretly, and the owner of the antidote is unknown." Long Yi said.
"Which bottles?" Fu Ciyi asked.
"The bottles with their stoppers wrapped in red cloth." Long Yi raised his chin.
Yan Funing frowned, pondered for a moment, and ordered: "Madame Li, go get a piece of pork slice, the fresh kind."
"Okay." Nanny Li walked out quickly.
After a moment, she came back with a tray with a piece of fat meat with skin on it.
Yan Funing opened the remaining antidotes one by one, including the bottles with stoppers wrapped in red cloth, and poured a little of the antidote on the pork skin.
In just a moment, the skin in two places turned black.
Yan Funing pointed to the two corresponding small bottles and said, "This contains poison, not an antidote."
The bottle stopper was wrapped in red cloth.
"What else do you have to say?" Fu Ciyi tried to grab Long Yi's collar, but he was split open by his palm.
If this person came to feed the mother the antidote at night, the mother would be poisoned to death immediately.
"I asked them about these in advance, and they said they were antidotes. I didn't ask them for them right away, but I was cautious and took them secretly at night." Long Yi was angry, "Could it be that they temporarily replaced the antidote with poison?"
"Just keep making it up." Fu Ciyi said coldly, "My mother has lost her memory and become blind because of you, and you still want her to die?"
"If I didn't do it, then I didn't do it." Long Yi raised his voice. "If I really wanted to kill you and your son, I could have sent someone to kill you now. Why did you come to my house again and again, not only being humiliated and insulted, but also having the nerve to come again?"
"Who knows what you are thinking?" Fu Ciyi didn't believe it at all.
"Stop arguing." Yan Funing said softly, "From my observation, there is only one bottle of antidote that may be of some use to mother."
Upon hearing this, the father and son both went to the table.
"Which bottle?" Long Yi asked.
Yan Funing picked up a small blue and white porcelain bottle: "This bottle is probably for the headache poison, and there are no side effects if you take it." She looked at Fu Ciyi, "Husband, I want mother to try it."
Before Fu Ciyi could answer, Wanniang nodded first: "I'll try, I do have headaches from time to time."
Yan Funing looked at Fu Ciyi again, and seeing that he nodded, she poured out an antidote for her mother-in-law.
Wan Niang put the antidote into her mouth and drank a glass of water.
"Is it useful?" Long Yi asked.
"It won't take effect that quickly. It will probably take a quarter of an hour." Yan Funing said calmly, "Let's wait for a while and see if there is any other reaction to the pork." (End of this chapter)
