Chapter 146.1
The mother and daughter looked weirdly at the medicine bag on the table, wondering what the elderly woman had given them.
"What is this?" Yao shi asked.
The elderly woman stretched her body and lazily sat down on the chair, saying, "White a.r.s.enic."
Yao shi choked up.
Gu Jiao felt like choking too. If she remembered correctly, just now, the elderly woman took it out of her pocket, didn"t she? Were all old women nowadays such a hard core? Carrying a.r.s.enic with them?
"Where did you get this white a.r.s.enic?" Gu Jiao looked at the elderly woman and asked.
The elderly woman looked a little guilty as she gently coughed and said, "Well, you know, yes, right, It’s for... poisoning rats!"
She mumbled the last two words, but Gu Jiao still understood.
She was reselling things again, she meant.
A few days ago, Gu Jiao found some mice in their home, so she made some rat poison with white a.r.s.enic.
The rat poison had disappeared, and no mouse had appeared again at home.
She thought that all those rat poison had been eaten by the mice, but as it turned out, it was resold by the elderly woman again?
Selling only the jinchuang medicine couldn’t meet her needs, could it?
So she also started selling rat poison?
The elderly woman cleared her throat and continued, "It"s very effective. Every neighbor has a bag of it."
Gu Jiao: You"ve already sold a bag each to everyone in the alley?!
The corner of Gu Jiao"s mouth couldn’t help twitching.
"Oh! It smells good! Did you cook something? I"m heading to the kitchen!" The elderly woman greased the soles of her shoes and slipped away.
Yao shi also stood up and said, "It’s true, it smells really good. I"ll go and have a look too!"
Gu Jiao"s eyes rested on her hand holding the medicine bag.
Taking a.r.s.enic to the kitchen, that was scary, okay?
Yao shi smiled wryly, pinched the medicine bag in her hand and said, "I’ll throw it away on my way!"
"Oh." Gu Jiao pretended to believe it.
Yao shi caught up to the elderly woman, and they went to a secluded corner!
Yao shi held the medicine bag and humbly asked for advice, "Grandaunt, how do I use this?"
The elderly woman first acted out the action of slipping poison into a drink, then looking up and drinking it. She wink at Yao shi and said, "Do that, understand? There should only be the two of you, so it’s no use even if she explains with many mouths!"
Yao shi seemed puzzled, asking, "But how can I get rid of those servant girls?"
Concubine Ling was always accompanied by her trusted servant girls.
"Of course you can"t get rid of her servant girls. You let her do it herself." The Elderly woman said, and whispered a few words to Yao shi’s ear. "Got it?"
Yao shi was suddenly enlightened as she replied, "Smart, really smart!"
After having a plan, Yao shi couldn"t wait to leave for home.
Looking back at Yao shi"s excited departing figure, the elderly woman fell into a deep confusion by herself, "What on earth did I do in the past exactly? Why is my stomach full of bad water, I wonder?"
Yao shi went back to the estate with the white a.r.s.enic.
It would be the first time she was doing such a thing, so she was very nervous.
However, thinking of the grievances and accusations she received over the years, she felt that nothing could be more terrible than that.
First, she carried out the first step of the plan: to lure the snake out of its den.
Concubine Ling was a very cautious person. It was unlikely for her to go out alone, much less if she invited her. Not unless it had to do with Concubine Ling’s own unpresentable affairs, for example, seducing Marquis Gu.
Yao shi first released the news that Marquis Gu was in the back hill, and in order to make the news true and reliable, Yao shi did cheat Marquis Gu to the back hill.
As soon as Concubine Ling heard that Marquis Gu was in the back hill, she immediately dressed up gorgeously and went to the back hill alone to create a romantic "encounter" with Marquis Gu.
However, instead of Marquis Gu, she met Yao shi who had been waiting in the back hill since earlier.
"M-Madame?" Concubine Ling was stunned, hurriedly pulling up the lapel of her clothes that had somewhat slid down.
Yao shi looked at her vividly attired figure and smiled faintly, "Who is concubine going to have a private meeting with, coming in this back hill dressed like so?"
Concubine Ling hastily wrapped her cloak around her body, covering herself tightly. She suppressed her guilty conscience and said, "I just came for a walk. It"s nothing. I"ll take my leave first."
Yao shi smilingly said, "Since you’ve come, why don"t you take a seat with me here? Marquis Gu will also come looking for me after picking the fruits."
With Yao shi around, Concubine Ling couldn"t fully display her skill, but she didn"t want to just leave like this either. After all, she really dressed up beautifully this time, and she was not reconciled to not letting Marquis Gu catch a glimpse of her.
Concubine Ling and Yao shi went to a nearby cabin.
Marquis Gu occasionally came to this back hill to train with his sword. Gu Chengfeng and Gu Chenglin also came here from time to time to pick fruits. This cabin was for them to rest in.
It didn’t look that big, but it had everything one needed.
The two people sat face to face.
Yao shi poured Concubine Ling a cup of tea, and added the contents of the medicine bag in her hand into it while Concubine Ling was not paying attention.
The elderly woman originally wanted Yao shi to employ the ruse of self-injury, adding poison into her own cup and pretending to be poisoned. She would take a fake sip before spilling it on her body, and then she would slander Concubine Ling of poisoning her.
Anyway, there was no third person around them. It would be no use no matter how many mouths Concubine Ling used to defend herself.
However, Yao shi had obviously misunderstood the elderly woman. Instead, she took advantage of the moment the other party wasn’t looking and directly put the rat poison into Concubine Ling"s cup.
How could Concubine Ling expect Yao shi to blatantly poison herself? She picked up the teacup and drank it without hesitation.
Then she was instantly miserable.
The rat poison the elderly woman was reselling wasn’t at the original dosage, otherwise she wouldn’t be able to make any money. It was mixed with flour, basically a fake rat poison. It couldn’t kill people, but it was enough to make Concubine Ling suffer.
Concubine Ling fell to the ground, her nose crooked and her whole body twitching while also foaming at the mouth...
People who knew better could tell that she was poisoned, but those who didn’t would only think she had a stroke at a young age.
What was more, Marquis Gu, who came to look for Yao shi, actually came back at this moment and spotted her in this messy appearance.
Concubine Ling couldn’t wait to die!
"What happened? What happened to her?" Marquis Gu asked with a shocked face.
"I don"t know!" Yao shi played dumb.
Marquis Gu immediately called the servants to take Concubine Ling back to her courtyard and called the estate physician to treat Concubine Ling.
The physician diagnosed that Concubine Ling had been poisoned and hastened to induce vomiting for her.
This was what Yao shi once suffered.
However, the medical skill of the estate physician wasn’t as good as that of Gu Jiao, even the medicine and equipment were not as advanced as that of Gu Jiao. Compared to Yao shi, Concubine Ling suffered much more.
After a total of two hours of tossing and turning, when she felt that half of her life was lost, Concubine Ling was finally able to speak.
And the first thing she did was to testify against Yao shi, "She poisoned me!"