Chapter 699 Ye Chenghong’s Secret (1)
Nie Shan chuckled, no longer talking. Even he was wary of his senior brother Ye Chenghong’s scheming nature; continuing to tease might very well mean he’d actually have to face the wall to reflect on his actions soon.
After the jesting, the atmosphere in the room relaxed considerably, and Ming Yuan’s mood was no longer as heavy as before.
Ye Chenghong lowered his head and looked at the weakened Ming Yuan lying in bed, asking softly, "Ming Yuan, what exactly happened that day? Weren’t you going to treat a patient? How did you get poisoned by Qing Frost?"
Ming Yuan took a weak breath, recalled the scene from that day, and his eyes became somewhat animated.
"Sect Leader Uncle, on the fifth day of the month, I accepted an invitation from a patient to treat him. Long before that day, I had thoroughly checked the patient’s body. His pulse was strange, seemingly normal. He didn’t appear sick or poisoned, just like a very healthy person. But every midnight, he would vomit blood incessantly, completely wracked in agony."
Perhaps because his body was too weak, Ming Yuan took a noticeable deep breath after speaking at length, paused for a while, then continued, "Later, I carefully inspected his house and found that everything, from pots and pans used for cooking to cups for drinking water, was smeared with a colorless, tasteless poison. This poison was exceptionally peculiar; I had gone over medical texts before, and only our Medicine Sect antiquarian had records of this poison. It was also sheer luck that I managed to completely cure the patient by following the antidote method recorded in the Medicine Sect antiquarian."