Chapter 15: Seeing Through the Scheme
"Wait, something isn't right." Mu Xiyun pushed away Yu Mingche's embrace and said with a serious face
"What's wrong?"
"Yu Mingche, you have been in the barracks for the past few days, if it is a plague, you should be more or less uncomfortable."
"This king is in good health."
"No, the health depends on the severity of the disease, but it will not affect the spread of the plague, and we have not found a cure until now."
"Then Princess, you're not just as alive and kicking as you are."
"I, I, I, okay, just say you and me." Mu Xiyun is a seven-tailed white fox, how could an ordinary plague in the human world affect her.
"Yu Mingche, what is the difference between the food of the soldiers on the periphery and the food in the inner periphery?"
"The soldiers on the periphery are all third-class soldiers, so naturally they don't eat as well as the first- and second-class soldiers in the inner perimeter, and they all handle meals in the peripheral kitchens." Yu Mingche looked at the serious Mu Xiyun and knew that things had already come to an eyebrow.
"I thought about it, maybe it's not a plague, it's poisoning!" Mu Xiyun patted his head and said.
"Poisoned? That's impossible? How can poisoning be infected by anyone who has been exposed to the disease? ”
"Yu Mingche, we just know that people who come into contact with the disease will be infected, but it is not clear what exactly they came into contact with, and now I am afraid that they have touched the sweat and vomit on their bodies."
"There's also the possibility of eating something different." Mu Xiyun thought of the reason and said happily to Yu Mingche.
"Water! Because there was a deep well outside the barracks, some people went directly to the well to get water to drink for fear of trouble, but the water drunk by the people surrounding the military tent was brought back from the mountain stream behind. Yu Mingche was a little bit by Mu Xiyun, and immediately thought of the reason.
"Someone! Go and send the military doctor to the tent. Yu Mingche hurriedly sent the military medical officer.
After some discussion, they reorganized the idea of investigation and started with the food and water sources of the outlying military tents.
Sure enough, all the people who had the plague drank the water from the deep well outside the camp, and Mu Xiyun rushed to the side of the well non-stop.
Some yellow powder was found in the place where the soldiers often took water, and when I picked it up and smelled it, there was a fishy smell, which seemed to be the poison that made the soldiers sick.
Moreover, what makes the problem even more serious is that this shows that the military camp is mixed with spies and deliberately poisoned, and although the water from the deep well is not easy to take, more and more people are poisoned, indicating that the poisoning has been done more than once.
The atmosphere of the next meeting was very strange, only Yu Mingche, Wei Chiyan, the military medical officer, and a few senior officers who had been in the meeting for a long time.
"Princess, since you already know that it is caused by poisoning, can you prepare an antidote?" Wei Chiyan asked anxiously.
"I've got the poison, and I can find the antidote, but."
"However, now it is necessary to find out who poisoned the poison and understand the cause of the poisoning incident and the conspiracy behind it." Before Mu Xiyun finished speaking, Yu Mingche took her words.
"Yes!" Mu Xiyun and Yu Mingche's tacit understanding is getting better and better, and they can't help but look at each other and smile.
In this way, after everyone's research, Mu Xiyun went to find a way to detoxify, and Yu Mingche and Yu Chiyan looked for the person who poisoned him.
The next day, Mu Xiyun used the fox's keen sense of smell to find out that the poison turned out to be a toad called natenste, a powder made of sun-dried skin, and since the reason was found, the antidote was the commonly seen green wormwood.
When Mu Xiyun developed the antidote, Yu Mingche also caught the person who poisoned him, who turned out to be a member of the Chiwu tribe dressed as a kitchen boy.
Their plan was to wait for the poison to spread to the whole army, and then attack the military camp in one fell swoop, killing Yu Mingche and them by surprise.
Since this is the case, Mu Xiyun still pretends to be busy treating the sick every day, and those soldiers who have recovered still pretend to vomit and diarrhea with a vegetable face, secretly Yu Mingche has already deployed everything, just waiting for them to catch turtles in the urn.
Sure enough, the next night, the people of the Chiwu clan took advantage of the night to attack the military camp, and there were about a few hundred people in the group, but they didn't know that Yu Mingche had already deployed properly.
A large number of troops were ambushed in the grass outside the barracks, ready to sing them an empty city plan.
The soldiers on guard did not deal with them, and when they saw them rushing in, they hurriedly abandoned their armor and ran to the tent in the barracks, after all, those Chiwu people were rough men, where did they think of any strategy, but they were complacent because of the poisoning of most of the soldiers who had fallen.
When all of them rushed into the barracks with their swords in hand, Yu Mingche made a gesture, and all the soldiers put up their flags and rushed in with a bang.
After a few hours of clanging short soldiers, most of the people of the Chiwu tribe were annihilated, and the rest were all captured.
Yu Mingche walked up to the captured leader and asked sharply.
"What do you Chi Wu clan princes want to provoke when you sing such a play? Some time ago, we have not yet settled the matter of sending bandits to make trouble, and now we have come to our military camp to raid the big tent, and it seems that it can only be settled with the new accounts and the old accounts. With that, he lightly picked up the leader's chin with a dagger.
"You guys! You guys! Actually designed to frame us? When the leader saw that the whole army was destroyed, and now that he was taken prisoner again, he cried out in a rage, but he no longer had the momentum with which he came.
"What you said was obviously that you poisoned the camp first and attacked the camp later, why did we design you? Are you trying to provoke another border war with such filthy behavior?! ”
"Hmph, playing scheming really can't play you Central Plains people, but you remember that our Chengduo prince will not give up! Sooner or later, regroup your army and attack your imperial city! With that, he let out a loud roar and broke the rope that was bound to him.
Yu Mingche was not taken aback when he saw such a scene, and was about to raise his sword to stab at him, but he didn't expect that he took out a stone-sized muffled mine from his arms and smashed it under him.
The stuffy mine exploded in an instant, and the man's body was immediately torn apart, and then turned into more small stuffy mines scattered throughout the barracks, and a sea of fire suddenly appeared.
Yu Mingche was the closest to him, and when the first muffled mine exploded, it had already been blown to the side of the steps of the big tent, because of the impact of the explosion, his arm hit the steps hard, and now he couldn't move in pain.
When he raised his eyes, he saw that another small muffled mine was also flying straight towards him, and there was nowhere to dodge, so he slowly closed his eyes.
I'm not afraid to die, but what about my princess? If I die, will she shed tears? Will you be bullied? I haven't really become husband and wife with her yet... When he closed his eyes, he just thought of Mu Xiyun alone.
Just when he couldn't dodge being blown to pieces, a white shadow pounced on him, hugged him tightly, and instantly exploded beside him, making a deafening sound.
In the white smoke after the explosion of the muffled mine, the others heard Yu Mingche's scream.
"Mu Xiyun! Mu Xiyun! Yu Mingche hugged the thin man and cried loudly, his voice was hoarse, but he still called her name.
Mu Xiyun, you are not allowed to have anything, this king has not allowed you to die, you can't die in front of me!
Who's calling me? What's wrong with me? Slowly opened his eyes, and saw the familiar face that was smudged and tearful because of the muffled mine.
"I'm not dead, stop screaming, Yu Mingche, you're so noisy." After speaking, he slowly closed his eyes and fainted.
Yu Mingche cried with joy, happily hugged Mu Xiyun who had fainted, and cried loudly.
It's okay, you're okay, it's okay, you're still with me.