Chapter 21 (2): She was caught to test the medicine
She turned around and left anxiously. Unexpectedly, a servant who was passing by saw her. "Who? Stop! Don't go!" the servant shouted.
Soon, several servants came in front and surrounded her. She had to pretend to be innocent and said: "Hey, I just want to find a toilet for convenience. You don't need to surround me."
The village chief came out to see what was going on, and the servants told him the situation. He didn't listen to her reasons at all, and directly asked the servants to tie her up and take her inside.
When the herb picker saw Yan Ruocheng, he paused and said to the village chief: "She came to Bai Linghuang with someone."
"I know you are looking for her to test the medicine. Did you know that it will kill people? Uncle, didn't you say that this Bailinghuang is addictive and poisonous? You told us not to look for it, but you used it to harm people!
"Yan Ruozhen said angrily straight to the point.
The village chief slapped her hard and said viciously: "Are you the ones who want to steal the Bai Linghuang from me? I don't care who it poisons, as long as it can save my son, it doesn't matter how many unnecessary people die."
When Yan Ruocheng heard what he said, she understood that it turned out that all the missing people in the village were captured by him to test the medicine, and they died in the test. He also bribed the officials not to investigate the matter, and it turned into a rumor that there was cannibalism in the village chief's house.
"Did the missing people in the village also die after being captured by a crazy person like you to test the medicine?" She glared at the village chief and asked angrily.
"Hmph, it's good that you know. You don't want to go out anyway. If she fails, I will use you to test the medicine." The village chief held his chin and said with a bad idea.
"Your son doesn't have any serious illness at all. Does he have a mental illness?" Yan Ruozhen did not bother with the drug test issue at first, but wanted to explain the conclusion she got from the last time she checked his son.
"You still dare to talk nonsense, you charlatan. My son took your medicine and became epileptic that night. You told me not to wake him up, otherwise it would affect the potency of the medicine. Fortunately, my servants discovered it early. I still
I didn't come to settle a score with you, but you came here to finally let me vent my anger." The village chief slapped her twice and said angrily.
"How could this happen? I made a wrong diagnosis..." She was so confused by the slap that she could have made a wrong diagnosis because of her lack of experience.
The herb gatherer had ground Bailinghuang into black water, put it into a bowl, added different medicinal powders, and brought it to the woman.
Yan Ruocheng shouted to stop: "Don't feed her anymore, she looks like she can't stand the power of the medicine. I know you are not a bad person, otherwise you wouldn't have told me that this herb is poisonous."
"Shut up!" The village chief slapped her again, so hard that the corners of her mouth were bruised. He also said: "This is not the first time he has done this. He has poisoned people before, and there is one more."
No more, one less is a lot.”
The herb collector heard her words, hesitated for a moment, poured the medicine into the woman's mouth, and sealed her mouth until she swallowed all the medicine.
"How can you use human lives to test medicine? They also have relatives, are you human beings?" She scolded without giving up.
The village chief slapped her several more times until her face was bruised and asked someone to tie her to a tree.
The woman needed some time to digest the medicine after testing it, so the village chief and the medicine collector walked away, leaving people staring at her.
Yan Ruozhen was tied up and there was nothing she could do. She only hoped that Huang Chenling would notice that she was missing and send someone to find her whereabouts.
After about an hour of burning incense, the village chief and the herb collector came back. She saw that not long after they entered, the village chief came out and asked someone to take her in.
When she went in, the woman who was testing the medicine had purple lips and was carried out. She must have died. She began to feel afraid that she would be the next one to test the medicine.
"Let me go, don't use me to test medicine! Everyone's body is different. Even if it succeeds, it may not be suitable for your son to take it!" She tried her best to mislead their ideas.
"Stop talking nonsense. As long as it succeeds, your blood can be used as a primer, and my son can be saved." The village chief did not believe her words at all and said with a straight face.
"Then I can ask, which expert told you that you need to use the blood of a living person as a primer to save your son? Then what disease did your son suffer from?" Even if she was going to die, she would die clearly.
, keep asking.
"My grandfather said that. The village chief's son has the same disease as my grandfather." The herb collector said to her.
"Why does your grandpa think this remedy is useful?" she asked in confusion.
"Because my grandfather cured himself using this method. The medicine used at that time was my father's blood," the medicine collector explained.
Yan Ruozhen paused, feeling that it was not that simple, and asked attentively: "Did your father die from the poison of Bai Linghuang? If I guessed correctly."
The herb collector didn't answer her, which was regarded as acquiescing. She understood this again. No wonder he would kindly tell them that Bailinghuang was poisonous, and he also knew that when the poison took effect, he would die naturally. It turned out that he had seen it with his own eyes.