Inside the tent, a long sword was thrust through the bottom of the tent and stood in front of the medicine boy.
The medicine boy trembled and knelt on the ground, unable to say a word.
Feng Jiuer sat on the chair and looked at the people on the ground, eyes half-squinted but did not speak.
It wasn't until everyone outside left that she said calmly: "Get up."
The medicine boy raised his eyes in disbelief and said in a hoarse voice: "Jiu, Miss Jiu'er."
"Get up." Feng Jiuer reminded again.
The medicine boy stood up, looked at Feng Jiuer and blinked, not daring to speak.
"Where did it come from?" Feng Jiuer met her gaze and asked in a deep voice.
"Phoenix City." The medicine boy took a deep breath and responded in a low voice.
"Phoenix City?" Feng Jiuer looked up and down at the girl in front of him.
"Yes." The medicine boy nodded, "My mother-in-law is dead."
"I have no relatives or friends in Phoenix City, and I thought about coming here to join my uncle. However, I have been in Crowwood City for more than ten days, and there is no news about my uncle."
"I ran out of money, so I saw a drug store recruiting drug boys, so I went to try my luck."
"How well do you know about medicinal materials?" Feng Jiuer looked at the medicine boy and asked softly.
"My mother is also a doctor. I have been learning medicinal materials from her since I was a child, so I have some understanding of her." The medicine boy responded softly.
"Okay." Feng Jiuer picked up a bowl of porridge on the table and handed it out, "Come over and see, what's in this porridge?"
The medicine boy pursed his lips and walked towards Feng Jiu'er.
She took the bowl, put it in front of her nose and smelled it. Suddenly, with a "pop" sound, she knelt down.
"Miss Jiuer, don't kill me, I really didn't poison you."
"What do you smell?" Feng Jiuer asked softly.
"Toad fen." The medicine boy responded in a low voice, "It smells like fresh toad fen."
The medicine boy didn't understand Feng Jiuer's intention, so he could only look up at her and answer truthfully.
"When did you get the injury on the back of your hand?" Glancing at the back of the medicine boy's hand, Feng Jiuer's breath became a little lower.
"Back to Miss Jiu'er, this injury was accidentally cut when I was treating my brother yesterday." The medicine boy said carefully.
"I really didn't poison you. Please don't kill me, Miss Jiuer."
"Do you think I want you to drink poison to apologize?" Feng Jiuer looked at the drug boy and frowned lightly.
The medicine boy raised his eyes and glanced at Feng Jiu'er, lowered his eyes and looked at the porridge he had placed on the ground, and pursed his lips.
"If not, this bowl of porridge...could it be said that the brothers were poisoned by toad poison?"
"Yes." Feng Jiuer confirmed Yaotong's guess.
"Among my brothers, there are people like you who know some medicinal materials. Therefore, even if you want to bring poison in to harm others, it will not be so easy."
"If I wanted to poison, I would not choose to bring the poison directly into the military camp." The medicine boy nodded lightly.
"Miss Jiu'er, I remember seeing toads by the creek not far behind the third team, but I really didn't poison my brother."
"I believe you for now." Feng Jiuer took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, waved her hands and said, "Get up."
The medicine boy bit his lip, nodded, and then slowly stood up.
"Miss Jiu'er, how can you... trust me?" She lowered her head and asked softly.
"I know medicine and poison. It's not impossible if I catch the toad alive and collect the toad venom to give medicine to my brother."
"Of course." Feng Jiuer nodded, "Everyone is suspicious, but I believe you for the time being."
"Judging from the severity of your wound's healing, your injury did last for more than twelve hours."
"These fresh toad venoms were collected from the toads no more than three hours ago. When collecting toad venoms, the wounds are easily contaminated with toxins."
"You don't have any symptoms of poisoning, so I say, I believe you for the time being."
Feng Jiuer sighed lightly and stood up.
"Since you know how to distinguish medicinal materials, then stay here. My people have collected some medicinal materials and come back. Don't go anywhere. Just stay and divide the medicine."
"Yes, Miss Jiu'er." Yaotong nodded sharply and said.
Feng Jiuer untied a cloth bag from her waist and took out a thin piece of dough.
"Lift your head, I want your face to do something."
The medicine boy didn't dare to ask any more questions and raised his head.
About a quarter of an hour later, the medicine boy left the tent. Soon, a brother walked into the tent carrying a bag of medicinal materials.
In another tent at one place, several doctors and their medicine boys were having a meal together.
Seeing the female medicine boy who had been left behind come in, the girl's master immediately stood up and frowned.
"Is it really you who gave the medicine to your brother? You want to kill everyone, don't you?"
"No." The drug boy's voice was a little hoarse, and he seemed to be frightened. "Miss Jiu'er has already checked it out. It's not my problem."
The female medicine boy sat down next to her master and said no more.
"It's okay." Seeing that she could come back safely, her master also chose to believe it, "By the way, tell me, who did this?"
"We know that we belong to each other, but if the people here do anything bad, if Miss Jiuer wants to be suspicious, she will definitely doubt us first."
"This time, I was really killed by someone who drugged me!"
"Yes, who is it?" Another doctor looked around at everyone and said softly, "Don't hurt everyone!"
"I have young and old at home, so nothing can happen to me!"
"Miss Jiu'er is really going too far." Another doctor's voice sounded, "We are sincerely convinced and kindly came to help, but she actually doubts us?"
"We are the only outsiders who don't doubt us. Who do we doubt?" said the master of the female medicine boy.
Looking sideways at his medicine boy, the female medicine boy master also breathed a sigh of relief.
"However, it seems that Miss Jiu'er is still a good person. If it had been anyone else, there would probably be no one left here."
"Which general wouldn't kill one to serve as a warning to others about this kind of thing? Moreover, we surrendered. Now that she has killed us all, no one will speak for us."
"That's right. I really hope that Miss Jiu'er will investigate the matter clearly as soon as possible. As long as it's a capable person, it doesn't matter who can be the head of the sect."
"..."
Everyone talks to each other, some are complaining, some are helpless, and some are very quiet and only say a few words occasionally.
The medicine girl sat among them and remained silent.
There were many injured brothers. After lunch, the doctors and their medicine boys began to be busy again.
Changing dressings, dispensing medicines, and decoctions, everyone was very busy.
"I heard that the person who poisoned me was caught. He was a traitor in Miss Jiuer's own army."
"Yes, I heard about it too."
"I didn't expect it to be a traitor, and I was almost killed by him."
"But it's good if you catch him, at least he won't implicate us."
Before nightfall, news spread among the army.
Soon, everyone knew the fact that the person who poisoned today had been arrested.
