"Chu Mingxuan, these chopsticks and bowls are poisoned," Leng Ruoli warned.
"Consort, how did I not detect it?" Chu Mingxuan asked, his brow furrowed.
Had his medical skills regressed?
"The poison on the chopsticks and bowls is colorless and odorless. It's normal not to detect anything wrong."
Leng Ruoli did not mock him, for she herself only knew because of the system's alarm. Poisons that were colorless and odorless were indeed very difficult to discover.
After speaking, she took out a piece of poison-testing paper she had concocted out of boredom and lightly wiped it on her own bowl and chopsticks. The paper immediately turned black.
The crowd's faces changed as they saw the white paper stained black in Leng Ruoli's hand.
The person who poisoned them was truly insidious. Usually, people would poison the food, but this was the first time anyone had poisoned the empty bowls and chopsticks. Because of this, many people would overlook them. If the Consort had not discovered it, they would likely have been wiped out.
"I'm going to settle accounts with the innkeeper," Yin Chen, enraged, wanted to kill someone. He immediately stood up from his stool, turned around, and was about to go downstairs.
"Stop!" Leng Ruoli immediately called out to him.
Yin Chen immediately stopped opening the door.
"The innkeeper didn't poison us. We must not alert the enemy," Leng Ruoli warned.
"Then, Consort, should we just let it go like this?" Yin Chen asked somewhat dejectedly.
"Don't worry, they will come to us themselves," Leng Ruoli said with a cold smile.
Afterward, she discreetly hid the two extra roasted chickens she had ordered, away from everyone's sight, and tossed them into a corner of the space, placing them before the snow fox with burnt fur. The snow fox, which was still mourning, saw the two fragrant roasted chickens appear before it. Its sadness instantly vanished, and it eagerly grabbed a roasted chicken and began to devour it.
Leng Ruoli felt speechless seeing the snow fox busy eating the roasted chicken.
Then, she put on a glove from her space and personally collected the poisoned bowls and chopsticks from the table. Afterward, she took out several sets of clean bowls and chopsticks from her space for everyone to use separately.
"Let's eat. The dishes on the table are not poisoned," Leng Ruoli gestured for everyone to eat.
After the meal, the innkeeper sent people up to clear away the remaining dirty tableware.
Leng Ruoli then had a few people return to their rooms to rest, instructing them to be vigilant for any movements at night. Since the person hiding in the dark knew they had not died from the poison, they would surely try something again during the night.
After she had arranged everything, she brought Jun Mohan into the system space. She needed to use the night to speed up the research and development of the antidote for Jun Mohan's wolf poison.
Meanwhile, Jun Mohan took out a small hoe and went to the grassy area in the space to help his Li'er dig a few plots of land, planting all the medicinal herbs he had dug up from the tomb of the old man Gu Zhou.
Two hours later, in the laboratory, Leng Ruoli finally extracted several components from the Snow Root Orchid that could resolve the wolf poison. She began to research and develop them into antidote pills the size of a little finger, along with the components extracted from other medicinal herbs.
Thus, she spent another half hour creating sixty wolf poison antidote pills.
Later, when Leng Ruoli came out of the laboratory to find Jun Mohan, Jun Mohan had already planted all the herbs she had dug up from the tomb into her medicinal garden in the space.
"Wow! Jun Moxie, you are truly getting better and better. You are becoming more and more proficient at planting," Leng Ruoli praised him with a smile.
"Thank you for your praise, my beloved consort!" Jun Mohan raised his eyebrows as he looked at her.
"The wolf poison antidote has been prepared for you. Why don't you take it now and resolve the wolf poison in your body?"
After speaking, Leng Ruoli placed an antidote pill in her hand into Jun Mohan's hand.
Then, Jun Moxie stared intently at the antidote in Leng Ruoli's palm, his eyes instantly reddening. He had never dreamed that the wolf poison that had tormented him for over a decade would soon be resolved, and he would no longer have to endure suffering in the latter half of his life.
"Okay, thank you, Li'er. I'll take it immediately," Jun Mohan said emotionally.
With that, he directly put the antidote pill into his mouth and swallowed it. Leng Ruoli handed him a cup of warm water with her other hand.
A moment later, a surge of heat immediately appeared in Jun Mohan's body. It incessantly coursed through his meridians, causing him immense discomfort. Jun Mohan's face also showed signs of pain.
"Jun Mohan, this is part of the detoxification process. You must persevere. As long as you can endure for the time it takes an incense stick to burn, the potent poison in your body will be completely removed," Leng Ruoli reminded him from the side.
"Li'er, don't worry. This pain is nothing compared to the agony when my wolf poison flares up," Jun Mohan said with a pale smile.
Finally, Jun Mohan endured the pain for over half an hour and then fainted.
Knowing that Jun Mohan would not wake up for a while, Leng Ruoli transferred him to the bed and then left the space herself.
At this time, the inn was already in turmoil. A group of masked men in black were quietly surrounding the entire inn.
As soon as Leng Ruoli returned to her room, she detected the movements in the inn. Ever since she had obtained the over one hundred years of internal energy from the old man Gu Zhou, her senses had become extremely sharp, allowing her to hear movements within several kilometers at any time. For example, she could now clearly hear the footsteps of the assassins who had ambushed the inn.
She had not yet used her internal energy or martial arts and did not know how well she could perform. Taking advantage of this opportunity, she was determined to show her skills tonight.
When she heard the assassins' footsteps reaching the third floor, Leng Ruoli quickly went to the bedside and lay down fully clothed.
In an instant, the assassins arrived outside the rooms of several of them.
The assassins directly kicked open the doors of the rooms they were staying in and, raising their large sabers, rushed towards Leng Ruoli's bed. They fiercely hacked at the lump on her bed. After chopping for a while, two of them discovered that there was no one on the bed.
"Old Yi, there's no one on the bed. Where did the man and woman in this room go?" one of the masked assassins asked, his brow furrowed.
"It's like a ghost. The room is this small, and I didn't see them leave. How did two grown adults just disappear?" the man called Old Yi mumbled to himself.
As soon as he finished speaking, a melodious female voice came from the doorway: "Hi! Are you looking for me? I'm here."
The masked assassins quickly turned around and swung their sabers towards Leng Ruoli. Leng Ruoli slid forward with her feet, her legs bent halfway, and her slender waist arched backward, successfully dodging the assassins' sabers. She even reached out and lightly patted the backs of several assassins.