Chapter 129: Poison of the Lovesick Snake

Before he could finish speaking, the door was suddenly kicked open.

Rong Qinglei rushed in and slapped Wu Bingjian hard across the face.

Wu Bingjian could not withstand Rong Qinglei’s strength and was sent crashing to the ground and spitting out two blood-stained molars.

Seeing Wu Bingjian get slapped by Rong Qinglei, Yue Mingxuan felt an intense sense of satisfaction rise in his heart.

This beating was truly well deserved.

There was probably only one person in the world who dared to lay a hand on Rong Qinglei and Wu Bingjian had clearly offended the wrong one.

Yue Mingxuan looked down at Wu Bingjian with disdain and said, “You are not qualified to marry me. You should prepare two hundred taels of gold as the consultation fee instead.”

Wu Bingjian struggled to his feet and trembling with rage.

He had actually been beaten inside his own home.

After shaking for a long time, he pointed at Rong Qinglei and Yue Mingxuan and shouted loudly, “Everyone! Seize these two troublemakers! Send the man to Heavenly Judge Tower and send the Ger to Red Light Pavilion!”

Yue Mingxuan glanced at Rong Qinglei.

Red Light Pavilion sounded very much like a brothel, but Heavenly Judge Tower… doesn’t that place is a prison?

Just imagining Rong Qinglei being sent to prison made Yue Mingxuan feel a chill run down his spine.

He silently mourned Wu Bingjian for a moment in his heart.

If nothing unexpected happened, this man would probably disappear from the Beirong capital very soon.

Sure enough, after hearing Wu Bingjian say this, Rong Qinglei laughed instead of getting angry.

With a wave of his hand, dozens of men dressed in black suddenly appeared all around them.

No one present could see how these men had arrived.

They only saw shadows flashing.

In less than half a minute, every single guard Wu Bingjian had summoned had their arms broken and was lying on the ground screaming.

Seeing this scene, Wu Bingjian began trembling again.

This time, it was not from anger, but from fear. “You… you are committing violence in broad daylight… breaking into a private home… using power to bully others…”

Yue Mingxuan rolled his eyes. “You were just trying to forcibly seize someone yourself.”

At this moment, Rong Qinglei had no interest in arguing with words at all.

In his eyes, Wu Bingjian was already little more than a corpse that could still breathe.

He glanced at Yue Mingxuan and asked calmly, “Mingxuan, what do you want to do?”

Yue Mingxuan smiled slyly. “Of course, we treat the illness.”

He was still thinking about those two hundred taels of gold.

He had already found the cause of the concubine’s illness and was just waiting to name his price.

Rong Qinglei did not speak, but his eyes were filled with indulgence, clearly saying, I’ll do whatever you want.

The surrounding hidden guards broke out in cold sweat.

Even a blind person could tell that this young Ger was the one their prince had ordered them to search for.

Thinking about how they had been tossed into chaos for so long because of this one person, several of the guards could not help but show resentful expressions.

It must have been an illusion.

Yue Mingxuan stepped forward two more paces and looked again at the faint marks on the dressing table.

This time, he became even more certain of his judgment.

He walked up to Wu Bingjian, who was trembling like chaff in a sieve, and said, “Your concubine is not sick from an illness. She has been poisoned.”

Facing Yue Mingxuan, Wu Bingjian did not dare to act rashly.

He shot a fierce glare at the servant standing nearby.

The servant quickly spoke up, “That’s impossible. Many doctors have already come to see her, and they all said my mistress caught some strange disease.”

Yue Mingxuan ignored him completely and continued speaking on his own, “Your concubine was poisoned by a kind of snake venom called Lovesick Snake poison. This venom comes from the Miao people and is considered one of the most vicious types of gu poison.”

When Rong Qinglei heard this, he felt a bit curious.

He had been weak since childhood and had read many medical books, including rare and long-lost texts, but he did not know much about gu poison from the Miao people.

“Mingxuan,” he asked, “what exactly is this Lovesick Snake?”

“The Lovesick Snake is a type of snake unique to the Miao people,” Yue Mingxuan explained slowly. “They are born in pairs, usually one male and one female. They are called Lovesick Snakes because from birth to death, they live together and never abandon each other. The reason this snake only exists in the Miao people is because it likes to eat a highly poisonous plant called Heartbreak Grass. This plant only grows in the northern part of the Miao people. Because they eat Heartbreak Grass all year round, both the male and female Lovesick Snakes are extremely poisonous.”

Yue Mingxuan explained the origin of the Lovesick Snake in a calm and detailed way as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

In truth, Yue Mingxuan had only read about the Lovesick Snake in a long-lost ancient book back in modern times.

Today, when he saw the trace left by a highly poisonous creature crawling across the concubine’s dressing table, along with the recently planted Heartbreak Grass beneath the window, he finally dared to conclude that the concubine had been poisoned by Lovesick Snake venom.

“But if this really is snake poison,” Rong Qinglei asked again, sounding like a diligent student eager to learn, “then there are so many people living in this large estate. Why is it that only the concubine was poisoned by the Lovesick Snake, while everyone else is fine?”

This question was also what everyone else present wanted to know.

All eyes turned to Yue Mingxuan waiting for his answer.

Yue Mingxuan smiled slightly and continued, “It is said that Lovesick Snakes never leave each other, but that is not entirely true. In their lifetime, they only reproduce once. That one birth always produces twin eggs. After mating, the male and female snakes will separate for half a year. The male snake will not return until after the female has laid her eggs. However, if the male snake dies during that time, the female snake can find his corpse no matter how far away it is. If the corpse of the male snake is ground into powder and someone consumes it over a long period of time, that person will carry the male snake’s scent. Naturally, the female snake will then only seek out that person.”

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