Jiu Zhang Ji: The Daily Life of the Reborn Daughter

Chapter 53: The Poison of the Wuxi Barbarians

In the outer study room of Duke Dingguo's mansion, Qiao Lili and Shang Zhen listened to the day's report.

The movements of everyone in the Bai family and what the masters in the East Palace were doing were finally reported to Qiao Lili.

Of course, the coachman Lao Tu was also carefully selected by Shang Zhen and given to the Bai family. Otherwise, with so many carriages in the carriage and horse business, how could they happen to meet this plague god? Qiao Lili's original intention was to make everyone in the Bai family suffer and repay her for the karma of her previous life.

Unexpectedly, this old butcher was so cruel and vicious, and the effect was beyond expectations. The old butcher was going to attack Bai Rouer, which was probably something Bai could not tolerate, so she had to take action. She could not deal with the old butcher alone. Was the person behind the scenes about to surface?

Qiao Lili ordered Feng Ye and Shen Hui to go out personally and keep a close eye on the Bai family.

Thinking of the concubines and illegitimate children who died in the Bai Mansion under unclear circumstances, and knowing that the Bai family mostly used drugs to harm people, Qiao Lili suddenly thought of the death of Nanny Sun in her previous life. Less than half a year after she married into the Bai family, Nanny Sun suddenly fell ill. The doctors could not find the cause of the illness. She just couldn't eat or sleep well, and she died in less than two months.

The doctor couldn't find the cause of the disease. Suddenly, it was as if a thread was about to connect. Qiao Lili felt that her brain was about to explode. Her mother, who was a martial artist and young, was in much better health than Nanny Sun. She also suddenly became ill. She invited countless doctors, including the imperial physician, but they couldn't find out what the disease was. Her body quickly weakened, and finally...

When people are in a situation, they tend to look at things one-sidedly, not to mention that she was very young when her mother was sick. However, when you step out of this frame and combine what happened in the two lives, you will find clues that you have not discovered before.

Mother's illness is surprisingly similar to Nanny Sun's. If that's true, then, Bai Rushue, I, Qiao Lili, will skin you alive.

Qiao Lili dismissed everyone. When they saw the young master's expression suddenly change, they knew that she had something on her mind, so they quickly returned to their respective posts and stopped disturbing her.

She was alone in the study room, deep in thought for a long time. The more she thought about the things she had experienced in her previous life, the things in her dreams, and the news she had received in this life, the more frightened she became.

Qiao Lili opened the door and called a servant, asking him to go and ask where Master Feng was.

The servant came back soon and said he was at the winery.

After Doctor Feng sobered up, Qiao Lili took him to visit the wine cellar of Duke Dingguo's Mansion and taught him to make wine. In the past few days, two winemaking masters came. Qiao Lili gave them the recipe for Seven Days of Drunkenness and asked them to try to make wine.

This was a big deal. The pot of Seven Days Drunk that Feng Wuzui drank was stolen by him at Dazhe Villa. He escaped by disguising himself as a beggar after stealing the wine. It cannot be said that he narrowly escaped death, because even if he was caught, his life would not be taken away. However, he did not want to be caught. He was a great doctor Wuzui, and if he was caught stealing wine, wouldn't his reputation be ruined if it got out? Despite the dangers, he still escaped.

If he could brew wine that would make him drunk for seven days, he would sit in the wine jar and drink. So now he spends every day in the winery, instructing the two winemaking masters, just like a gourmet instructing a chef to cook, which might produce unexpected results.

The winemaker has never been drunk for seven days, but Doctor Feng has.

What's more, after his guidance, the taste of the wine he brewed is getting closer and closer to Seven Days Drunk.

When Qiao Lili arrived at the winery, Doctor Feng was holding a gourd and tasting the wine brewed today. Seeing Qiao Lili coming, he held the gourd in front of her and said, "Girl, try it quickly. It tastes like Seven Days Drunk. If it is buried underground for two years, it will be more fragrant than the Seven Days Drunk of the elder one. Hahaha."

Qiao Lili took a symbolic sip. To be honest, she couldn't taste the quality of the wine, but she didn't want to spoil the old man's mood. After drinking the wine and praising it, Qiao Lili finally talked about the real business of finding Doctor Feng.

"Grandpa Feng, let me ask you a question. A healthy person suddenly fell ill. The doctors couldn't find out what was wrong with him. Even the imperial physician couldn't help him. The patient quickly weakened. He might not be able to survive for a month or two. Do you know what disease this is?"

Feng Wuzui said without thinking, "Poisoning. Those who can become imperial physicians are very proficient in both medicine and poison. There are only a few types of poison that they can't identify." Feng Wuzui thought for a while and said, "But are you sure that the imperial physician really didn't identify the disease or poison, but just didn't tell me?"

Qiao Lili was certain of this, because there was more than one doctor and imperial physician consulted at that time, and one of them had a close relationship with her grandmother. Moreover, from her current perspective, her mother's life or death would not affect the emperor or the King of Chu, so no one would instruct the imperial physician to lie.

Feng Wuzui asked Qiao Lili to describe in detail the various symptoms his mother had before and after being poisoned, and asked many questions. Finally, he twisted his beard and said, "Based on your description of the patient's condition, I guess it might be a Gu poison. But since I haven't seen the patient, this is just a guess."

The imperial physician's medical skills are the best in the Great Yan Kingdom. The diseases and poisons that even they cannot diagnose must be very rare.

"What is Gu poison? Why have I never heard of it before?" Qiao Lili had never heard of this kind of poison before today.

"How old are you? Isn't it normal for a teenage girl to have never heard of it? This poison is not found in the Kingdom of Yan. It is a poison from the Wuxi barbarians." Feng Wuzui said and took another sip of wine.

Wuxi Man is a tiny country. How could the poison from there reach the capital of Dayan?

Wait a minute, she seemed to have forgotten something crucial. The Wuxi Barbarians now belong to Western Turkestan. Qiao Lili's memories in this life were somewhat confusing with her memories in the previous life. In order to avoid making misjudgments, she hurried back to the Waiwai Courtyard to find Shang Zhen.

Shang Zhen said: "Now the Western Turks have unified the 25 small countries in the southwest and are eyeing Great Yan covetously. If your father and brother were not guarding the West Gate, the Western Turks might have broken through this border defense."

Duke Dingguo was in Xiguan, a pass that controlled two countries. To the northwest was Northern Mongolia, and to the southwest was Western Turkestan.

Qiao Lili's originally clear thoughts became confused again. She originally thought that Bai had poisoned her mother for some reason, but how could she, a woman from the Great Yan Kingdom, have the poison from a place like the Wuxi Barbarians?

Who gave it to her? Why did she want to murder her mother? What was her purpose? Was it because of her father and brother, or because of her mother herself? During this period of time, I learned a lot of things that happened in the past. From these things, it can be seen that Bai Ruxue's every move was for her mother, not for her father and brother. Bai Ruxue can be said to be scheming against her mother. What does she want from her mother?

It definitely wasn't a marriage fraud. When she and her mother first came into contact, both of them were unmarried, so it was impossible for her to think so far. This must have been a spur-of-the-moment idea on her part.

Then why did she look through the drawer? Was she looking for something while her mother was asleep? Did she find it? Probably not. If she had found it, she would not have taken the Engagement Card again. She would have only concealed the traces of having opened the drawer and would never have touched the Engagement Card inside again.

So what exactly is she looking for?

I thought the truth would soon come to light, but now it has become even more confusing.

Qiao Lili took a deep breath and decided to investigate if she couldn't figure it out. She believed that one day the truth would come out.