Chapter 5 — Once I am reborn, I will not give him even a strand of hair

The General's Palace has a total of twelve drivers, of which eleven have been found. Only Ma Luc, the driver for Tong Uyen Nhu, was nowhere to be found. Everyone's eyes once again focused on Tong Uyen Nhu. As soon as she reached the yard gate, her legs immediately stopped.

“Yesterday Ma Luc asked me for leave, saying his mother was seriously ill.”

The manager said softly:

“His mother passed away three years ago.”

Tong Uyen Nhu's body slightly staggered.

“I... I don't know.”

"How can we investigate each person's family matters?"

I walked in front of her.

“Yesterday you came into my pharmacy.”

“Today your driver became an assassin.”

“Miss Tong, don't you think this... is too coincidental?”

Tong Uyen Nhu's eyes flashed with terror, and she suddenly knelt down on the cold, wet ground.

“Auntie, I really didn't hurt my brother.”

“Certainly Ma Luc was bribed by someone else.”

The old lady quickly bent down to help her up.

"Since I was little, I never dared to step on an ant to death. How could I poison someone?"

“This matter is definitely someone intentionally slandering and causing harm.”

But when she said those words, her cold eyes fell straight on my face. I did not argue, I just ordered Thach Thanh to block the side door and the stable. After Xuan Dao's body was carried into the atrium, physician Truong Thai took out half a silver needle from the back of her neck. The silver needle is as thin as a hair, leaving almost no blood stains where it penetrates the skin.

"She wasn't poisoned."

Doctor Chuong Thai said in a deep voice:

"Someone took advantage of the chaos and used a silver needle to stab her at her vital point."

At that time, standing next to Xuan Dao, besides the manager and two mothers, there was only Tong Uyen Nhu. In the yard, everyone's expressions were different, but no one spoke first. The small sound of the watch echoed from afar, less than two hours away from Ty's hour. I returned to the pharmacy, opened the wooden box, and took out the blue jade order. I didn't bring the jade order with me, but first reprinted the pattern on both sides. After that, I took a similar block of jade, polished away the old patterns, then based on the stamp, slowly engraved the snow peak shape. Just as the final carving was completed, Thach Thanh's lowered voice came from outside the door.

“Madam, the General orders his subordinates to accompany you to the meeting place.”

I blew away the jade dust and picked up a jade order that was so fake that it was hard to tell the real thing from the fake.

“What else did he say?”

“The general said, no matter what the cost, we must get the antidote.”

I raised my eyes to look at the thick night outside the window.

"Then let him see for himself... how much his life is worth paying for."

The hour of the Rat is coming, and the rain has subsided. I put on a dark cloak and stepped onto the carriage from the west side door of the General's residence. Thach Thanh led eight close guards and dispersed in ambush in the dark, not alarming the servants guarding the gate. The meeting place was engraved in the clamp layer of the wooden card, which was Bach Thao Duong, which had been abandoned for many years in the south of the citadel. That place was originally the pharmacy of the Khuong family. After the Khuong family encountered an incident, the store was sealed, and since then no one has stepped foot in again. When the carriage stopped at the beginning of the alley, the tattered drugstore flag under the awning was still waving in the night wind. Thach Thanh put his hand on the hilt of the knife.

“You just stay in the car, let your subordinates get in first.”

"The other party recognizes the Khuong family's belongings and also has the ability to recognize people."

I put the fake jade order in my sleeve pocket.

“If he has hidden himself in the darkness, no matter how many of you come in, it will be in vain.”

I stepped down from the carriage, my shoe soles stepped on the puddle, almost without making a sound. The door of Bach Thao Duong was ajar, a flickering yellow light emitted from the crack. I pushed the door open and walked in. The old hinges immediately made a long creaking sound. The inside of the pharmacy was covered in dust, but on the counter was a new lamp. Next to the lamp is a white porcelain bowl, inside the bowl is half a bowl of medicine that is still slightly warm.

“Have you brought the jade order yet?”

A hoarse voice came from behind the counter. A man wearing a black scarf covering his face slowly stood up. When his right foot touched the ground, his movements were somewhat stiff, completely consistent with Thach Thanh's description. We stopped at the edge of the light of the lamp.

“Where is the antidote?”

The man raised his hand and pointed to the medicine cabinet behind him.

“Put the jade order on the counter first.”

“The Poisoning of the Twelve Bone-Piercing Sutras has no antidote.”

I looked at the bowl of medicine on the counter.

“At most, you can only give him painkillers.”

The man was silent for a moment, then suddenly burst out laughing.

"Sure enough, Miss Khuong's family is very skilled in poison."

"Since you know there is no antidote, you should hand over the jade order."

“What do you need it for?”

“That's not something you should ask.”

“You spent all your effort to bring me here, yet you still refuse to say a single word of truth?”