Chapter 493
A stern look flashed in Lin Minghao's eyes, and the answer became obvious.
The person who poisoned was very patient, using the method of dripping water to penetrate the stone, allowing the poison to accumulate in his body bit by bit.
Only by accumulating in this way day by day, will I get used to it and not pay attention to the changes in my body.
Since this is a long process, the person who poisoned it had done it a long time ago.
Recalling carefully, he found that what the commander Lin Zou said was right.
I am usually cautious, I will not try any weird things, and I will not rashly let strange practitioners enter the palace of the city lord.
After fighting the flame snake in the ruins that year, he was severely injured and his realm fell, and he has been recovering in the palace for the past few years.
Another point is that Lin Zou must be right. He has been taking tonic decoctions and pills for the past few years to help restore his realm.
The poisoner can only start with these things and let himself eat the poison.
Thinking of this, Lin Minghao left the study and quickly walked to the rear of the palace.
There is a huge kitchen hall. The tea I drink, the pastries and fruits I eat, and the decoctions and pills I take all come from the kitchen hall.
The shape of the kitchen hall is a simple square house, which is built of stone bricks tightly.
Inside is a spacious and flat space, which can park more than 30 carriages, just like a solid and large warehouse.
In the spacious space, alchemy furnaces, stoves, medicine jars and other items are neatly placed, and they are cleaned spotlessly.
At this time, there was no one in the kitchen hall, and the alchemists and cooks were not there. They didn't know that the city lord had returned.
Lin Minghao opened the medicine pots for making decoctions to check one by one, and even scooped out the medicine dregs in the alchemy furnace and kneaded them to separate them.
I have taken all these types myself, and the smell is extremely familiar.
He packed up the leftovers one by one in a bag, then left the kitchen and went to the warehouse where the medicinal materials were stored.
In the city lord's palace, there were four warehouses for storing medicinal materials, and the tallest one stored the medicinal materials that Lin Minghao took.
He dismissed the commander outside the warehouse, and then went in to inspect the medicinal materials carefully.
Some species were familiar, while others were very unfamiliar. He dug out the empty bag again, packed a portion of unknown herbs and took them away.
In the lonely city of the Great Wilderness, originally only the Great Wilderness Elixir Supermarket sells medicinal materials. Others want to do the medicinal material business, but they can't compete with Boss Zheng.
However, just half a month ago, Boss Ning of Dahuang Supermarket suddenly announced that he would merge the next-door elixir supermarket into his own name and let his daughter Ning Mufeng run it.
At the same time, Boss Zheng of the Danyao Supermarket has not returned after following the city lord out of the wilderness, and the supermarket's supervisor Kanchi has also disappeared.
With the departure of Boss Zheng, the medicinal materials sold in the elixir supermarket are gradually in short supply, and the number that can be put on the shelves every day is getting smaller and smaller.
Only then did Ning Mufeng and Boss Ning know that without Zheng Qiu, there would be no large amount of fresh medicinal materials. Once the stock of the elixir supermarket is sold out, the supermarket will have to close if it is not closed.
The father and daughter were not willing to let the supermarket fall into their hands, so they hurriedly sent someone to temporarily plant medicinal materials.
But in the arid place like the Great Wilderness, where the sky is full of yellow sand, without Zheng Qiu's special vigor, how could it be possible to grow enough fresh herbs.
And other business owners, seeing that the elixir supermarket was getting worse day by day, seized this opportunity and started the medicinal material business as well.
They each found a way to show their special skills, and sold medicinal materials from the wilderness through the post station.
There are more shops dealing in medicinal materials, and there are more practitioners who understand medicinal materials in Dahuang Gucheng.
Lin Minghao carried the bags and went door to door to let these shops identify them and analyze the types and effects of the medicinal materials in the bags.
Going around the city,
Combining the identification results of more than a dozen medicinal material stores, he got the answer he wanted.
There is a certain kind of toxin in the medicine dregs in the Alchemy Furnace of the Kitchen Hall, which will hinder the power of the meridians.
However, among the medicinal materials in the warehouse, there was nothing that carried this toxin.
That is to say, there is no problem with the medicinal materials sent to the palace of the city lord. That bastard traitor added poison into it when he was refining alchemy.
This answer also confirmed what Zheng Qiu said, Zheng Qiu was not a poisoner, and all the medicinal materials he sent were tonics.
Lin Minghao threw away the bag and rushed back to the palace with a dark face. In the name of refining new pills, he ordered the commander to call all the alchemists in the kitchen hall to the hall of the side hall.
The person in charge didn't know the truth, so he notified all the alchemists according to the order.
Knowing that the city lord came back and would refine new pills, the alchemists rushed to the palace from their respective residences.
Entering the hall of the side hall, the alchemists lined up in a row, waiting for the arrival of the city lord.
Soon, Lin Minghao strode in from the door, and asked without looking, "Are all the alchemists here?"
The commander in the hall clasped his hands and replied: "All are here!"
Lin Minghao dismissed the person carrying the order, waved out two waves of air, and closed the door heavily.
At the same time, air waves blew across the walls and the windows snapped shut.
The continuous sound of closing doors and windows startled the alchemists, and seeing the city lord's ugly face made them even more frightened.
Lin Minghao sat down on the seat and slapped the armrest.
He asked coldly: "Who made the pills I've been taking these past few years? Stand up!"
The alchemists were shocked. They didn't know why the city lord lost his temper, but judging by his appearance, someone might splatter blood on the spot today.
"Stand up...get out...come!"
The city lord's tone became more and more stern, like a sharp knife scraping against the whetstone, ready to be stained with blood at any time.
There were six alchemists who didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and stood up tremblingly, their legs trembling constantly.
Lin Minghao threw a bag on the ground, and angrily said: "Look at what's inside!
Why are there toxins in the pills you refine?
Do you know what is the crime of murdering the city lord? "
The six alchemists immediately knelt down on the ground, shouting that they were wronged, and one of them even picked up the bag on the ground and opened it to check.
Seeing the city lord getting angry, the other alchemists retreated back calmly, trying to stay away from the six hapless bastards.
The bag contains medicinal dregs, which are taken from the alchemy furnace.
The six alchemists turned over the dregs of the medicine to check, and even wiped some of it with their fingers and put it in their mouths to taste it carefully.
Soon, panic appeared on their faces, their foreheads were thumping on the ground, and they were still yelling that they were wronged.
Lin Minghao slowly clenched his fists, and there was a slight creaking sound from his knuckles, but this sound was so clear in the hall that the alchemists were sweating profusely.
"Wrong? Why did I wrong you? Didn't you refine these pills?"
Hearing the city lord's question, one of the six alchemists who kowtowed and trembled boldly raised his head to answer.
"City, city lord, these pills are indeed refined by us, no, no, no, they are indeed not refined by us, really wronged!
We also don't know that there is something wrong with the pill, this, the taste of this pill obviously shouldn't be like this..."