Chapter 111 Are you moved?

Chapter 111 Are you moved?

Chu Li looked at the person who was speaking. He was a young man with a pointed chin and monkey-like features. When he saw Chu Li looking at him, he lowered his head.

Another woman also shouted: "Your Highness, we are all about to die, what's the point of coming to see us now!"

After hearing what the Crown Prince and the Grand Tutor said, the people who were personally visited by them began to feel uncertain about the touch they had in their hearts.

"Shut up!" The patriarch was angry. He looked at the two of them and scolded them.

"Fang Ergou, watch your mouths, you two. Who are you listening to? If it weren't for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, your autumn crops wouldn't be sold at such a good price! You benefited from the flood discharge, but now you turn your back on us when something goes wrong. Are you the kind of people who are like this?"

Kong Wu grasped the hilt of the sword, "Your Highness, they framed you like this, and you still managed to remain calm!"

Chu Li looked at Du Nanzhou who came out of the manor and asked, "Master Du, how is it?"

Du Nanzhou looked calm, but his heart was agitated. "Your Highness, you are right. The disease the people in the manor are suffering from is not plague, but food poisoning."

Chu Li waved behind him, "Kong Wu, unload the medicinal materials from the Imperial Hospital."

"Yes." Kong Wu went to do it.

Chu Li looked at the people, "Don't panic, you don't have the plague, you have food poisoning, you won't die!"

The people were in an uproar.

"It's not a plague, you won't die!"

"Hey, food poisoning means eating the wrong thing. We can still be saved!"

The depressing atmosphere instantly improved a lot because of Chu Li's words.

Chu Li asked, "What special food have you eaten these past two days? Has anyone come to the farm to sell some food that is not available in the farm?"

The people shook their heads, and Chu Li asked the clan leader, "What kind of water do the people in Zhuangzi drink?"

"Your Highness, the water we drink on weekdays is from the well in the manor."

"Go get a bucket of water." Chu Li ordered Kong Wu.

She glanced across the crowd and looked at Fang Ergou and his wife, whose expressions suddenly became panicked.

Kong Wu came back after a while and brought a bucket of water to Chu Li.

Chu Li smelled it and then gave the scoop to Du Nanzhou.

After Du Nanzhou smelled it, he took a sip. After tasting it, he spit it out immediately.

Ye Hanting asked, "Is there a problem with the water?"

"Yes, the well water was drugged."

The people looked at each other.

"No wonder we all got sick. It turns out there's something wrong with the water we drink every day."

Chu Li asked: "Chief, is there any spare well in the village?"

"Yes!" The clan leader nodded and said, "I will order someone to open the backup well now."

Chu Li picked up a medicine bag and said, "According to the prescription I gave you, everyone should take it every day. Most people will be cured within seven days."

The people were all weak and they just wanted to survive. Although they were skeptical, they saw a glimmer of hope.

"Thank you, Your Highness!" The clan leader sincerely thanked Chu Li for discovering the cause of their illness.

Chu Li looked at the two people in the crowd who were panicking and trying to sneak away.

"Fang Ergou, you want to run away? Everyone is listless, only you two are the loudest. Why haven't you drunk the well water in the manor in the past two days?"

Fang Ergou and his wife were extremely nervous.

Fang Ergou's wife suddenly started crying, "I am innocent. There are so many people in the manor. Why would His Royal Highness suspect us two honest people?"

Everyone in the manor looked over. Although Fang Ergou and his wife were a bit arrogant on weekdays, they had no reason to harm everyone in the manor. Why was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince so sure that it was them who drugged the child?

Ye Hanting's expression was stern as he ordered his subordinates, "If you are disrespectful to the prince, slap him in the face!"

Fang Ergou watched the guards approach him, and he immediately shouted, "No! No, Your Highness, how can you hit someone? We are all poor people. Do you want us to confess under torture in broad daylight?"

Fang Ergou's wife simply ripped open his collar and started to yell, "You hit me, you molested me!"

Ye Hanting's secret guards walked forward expressionlessly, like a cold-faced demon, and beat the two men so hard that they saw stars, had crooked mouths and squinted eyes.

The two men's cheeks were bruised and their lips were bleeding, and only then did they start to get scared.

The people were also extremely frightened. They lowered their heads and dared not breathe.

Chu Li said coldly, "Well done! Ever since I entered the village, you two idiots have been calling yourself smart, slandering and accusing me of causing the plague by releasing the floodwater. If you didn't have the support of some big shot, you two wouldn't dare to do that even if you were given the guts!"

"Tell me, who is the person behind you? What benefits did he give you that made you dare to slander my reputation!"

The two were frightened now, and they both shouted, "Your Highness, this is all a misunderstanding, we are wronged!"

Chu Li smiled faintly, "Unfair, huh? Then take him back and interrogate him slowly!"

The two men were so scared that their legs went weak. The big shot promised them that if they succeeded, he would give them a lifetime of wealth and glory, and would also keep them safe.

The two had heard that the prince was kind and merciful, so he would definitely not kill them. Besides, they had someone backing them up, so they would be fine.

Unexpectedly, their ideas were too naive.

Two arrows came from the darkness and pierced the hearts of the two men in an instant.

Fang Ergou opened his eyes wide and spit out blood as he looked at his wife who had suffered the same miserable fate.

Chu Li looked at Kong Wu and Huan Yan, "Chase!"

The two of them quickly chased in the direction where the arrow was shot. Ye Hanting looked at Chi Yan, and Chi Yan also chased after him.

Amid the people's frightened voices, Chu Li quickly came up to the two men and asked, "Tell me, who ordered you to do this?"

Fang Ergou realized that he regretted it only now, because it turned out that everything the big shot had promised him was fake.

They actually chose to kill and silence the witnesses.

He spat out another large mouthful of blood. Fang Ergou looked at his dead wife with deep regret and said with difficulty: "Yes..."

"who is it!"

Fang Ergou spat out another mouthful of blood, and the words he hadn't finished were buried in his stomach forever.

"The arrow is poisonous." Chu Li sighed. It seemed that he could only wait and see if Huanyan and Kong Wu could catch up with the person.

The clan leader looked at the tragically dead Fang Ergou and his wife with trembling hands, "Your Highness, it seems that someone deliberately killed them to silence them. This so-called plague is aimed at you, Your Highness."

Chu Li looked at the terrified people and comforted them, "Don't panic, I will definitely heal you and protect you."

"Chief, give each household five taels of silver as a token of my appreciation."

The people woke up in shock from their illness. This was a blessing in disguise!

He was originally unable to get up, but the moment he stood up, he knelt down and kowtowed to Chu Li.

Chu Li waved his hand and said, "Everyone, take a rest. I will send someone to guard the manor in the next few days to ensure that nothing goes wrong."

"Thank you, Your Highness." The old people shed tears of gratitude, and the children were happy because of the candies sent by Chu Li.

Chu Li was really angry. These high-ranking officials did not take the lives of ordinary people seriously in order to bring her down.

This time it was she who implicated Dayingzhuang, so she should be the one to clean up the mess.

Chu Li distributed the medicinal herbs and food in the car.

Ye Hanting looked at Chu Li's busy back, and felt more admiration in his heart. The warmth in his eyes was seen by Du Nanzhou.

Du Nanzhou walked to his side and asked in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Are you moved?"