Chapter 18 (1/2)

Ice Fantasy 18 – Looking For the Person Who Got Poisoned

Something happened three days after that and that incident made everyone sank into a state of panic because Feng Huang wasn’t dead at all.

That time the owner’s son came crying at me, pulling my hand and telling me that his favorite flowers had withered and then he brought to the back of the inn. When I came to that place, I went silent all of a sudden. Yue Shen and Huang Tuo came after me and their expressions were just like as serious as mine.

Because that huge patch of gra.s.s behind Ting Zhu Xuan was all withered like a scar.

“There’s problem with the soil beneath.” Huang Tuo said.

Yue Shen came over and slashed her moonlight blade at the ground, and then the ground split open. I could see there were huge amount of needles through the crack and they were all coated with lethal poison. This was why the gra.s.s was all dead. But the top of those needles didn’t have the head of a Phoenix.

“We need to look at Zhen’s body again.” Huang Tuo said.

Once again, we dug out Zhen’s body from the grave.

“My king, look at her fingers.” Huang Tuo pointed at the blood clot on her fingers.

“Why are there blood clots?” I asked Huang Tuo.

“Because her body had already stiffened after her death, but someone moved her body and also tried prying her fingers open.” Huang Tuo replied.

“Because the time when the person tried to kill Zhen, Zhen was already holding the needle in her hand but she didn’t manage to use it and the person had already killed. After that the person tried to replace the needle in her hand with the needle that Feng Huang used, making us think that Zhen is Feng Huang.” Yue Shen added.

Shang Lie didn’t say a word; his expression was serious all the way. He finally spoke after a long time. “Bury her and don’t touch her anymore.”

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The next morning I wast eating at the main hall, Huang Tuo walked over and sat down next to me. He told the waiter what he wanted to order and didn’t say anything after that except opening his palm at me. I saw a piece of white paper on his palm and there was a needle, which was dug out from the ground.

I took a good look at those needles because I knew Huang Tuo wouldn’t ask me look at these things for no reason. After looking at them under the light for a long time, my eyes went wide and then I saw Huang Tuo smiling at me. He knew I have already discovered the secret.

There was blood on one of the needle and it would mean that the needle had p.r.i.c.ked person, who replaced the needle from Zhen’s hand, and so he or she would have been poisoned.

“To neutralize this poison, it requires several rare medicines.” Huang Tuo said.

I saw his eyes sparkled brightly and then I understood what he meant. “We just need to know who in the inn is buying these medicines and then we will know who is being poisoned.” I said.

Huang Tuo nodded. “Then we will know who is Feng Huang once we know who got poisoned.”

Everyday there would be a delivery cart parked outside the inn, and the owner and waiter would go collect those stocks that the inn required. Of course there would be medicines. If any customer in the inn were to order any stuff, the deliveryman would send it directly to the customer’s room.

We noticed that everyday there would be medicines being delivered to the inn from all medicinal halls of various cities; majority of them were were required by the inn for their menu while the other portion was delivered to Yi Zhao’s room.

When Huang Tuo and I told Shang Lie about it, Shang Lie just shook his head and said. “Definitely not Yi Zhao.”

Shang Lie told us that Yi Zhao has been taking such medicine because her injuries have yet to recover and she would have someone to send her these medicines everyday while she was staying at Tai Zi’s residence. But now that she has moved to the inn, they could only send the medicine here.

“The medicine that Yi Zhao are is to recover her spiritual power and it’s definitely not those poison neutralizing medicine.” Shang Lie said.

When we left Shang Lie’s room, Huang Tuo told me this. “My king, we should go check out Yi Zhao’s medicine.”

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Luo Cao Zai was the biggest medicinal hall in this city and the deliveryman for Yi Zhao’s medicine was the worker from the medicinal hall. We went into the medicinal hall to look for the doctor and then asked him for her prescription.

The doctor smiled but I could still see the inadvertence in his smile. He told us it was against the patient’s privacy so he couldn’t reveal it to anyone.

“If you agree to show us the prescription, I can help you to cure three persons any time.” Huang Tuo went up and told him that.

That doctor gave us a despising kind of smile and said. “I am the best doctor in the whole city. Why should I let you cure my patients?”

Huang Tuo gave me a look and I walked up to the worker next to me and swung my hand with an ice sword pierced through his chest suddenly. I saw the fl.u.s.ter look on the doctor’s face when he saw the blood of his worker flowing down to the floor. Huang Tuo and I turned around to leave with a smile and when we were about to step out of the main door, we heard the doctor’s trembling voice. “Please stay.”

Huang Tuo stroked his glowing hand on the worker’s chest and then the wound began to heal on its own, leaving his skin scarless like there wasn’t any injury before. That doctor was already sitting on the ground and his eyes were filled with fear and horror.

We have already gotten the prescription, and there were three rare herbs written at the end of the prescription.

“These herbs are the best poison neutralizers,” said Huang Tuo.

I looked at him and his eyes sparkled with a special yet exceptionally attractive glow. I knew what he meant.

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When we went back to the inn, I saw Yi Zhao at the courtyard of Qian Cao Tang; she was wearing a long black robe, so gorgeous yet mysterious. Her expression was cold, arrogant and mysterious, just as creepy as a blooming black Mandala flower. But when she saw me, a smile crept across her face so suddenly like wind blowing on the frozen lake; her smile was like those small and beautiful ripples spreading out on the lake surface. “My king, Ka Suo, how are you?”

“I’m good. I’ve seen you taking medicine everyday. Are you okay?” I said.

She brushed her head away from her forehead and smiled. “I’m fine. Those medicines are for my injuries. Thank you for your concern, my king.”