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"Chen Mu Mu!" Shangguan Yue was not deaf, and upon hearing her teasing, he was naturally angry, and immediately blushed.

"I won't say any more." Chen Mu spread out his hands and shut his mouth.

She had just finished giving the two inside the room an hour to work on her needle to expel the poison, and was currently overtaxing on her strength, so she didn't dare to make Shangguan Yue, the ancestor, angry. Otherwise, she would be the one at a disadvantage.

Seeing that she knew what was going on, Shangguan Yue glared at her angrily. She turned her head in embarrassment and annoyance, not caring about her at all.

"Mu Mu?" Lu Jinfeng's happy voice came out from inside the house, "Are you outside?"

Chen Mu Mu Mu didn't say anything, but Shangguan Bai was already smiling. "If it wasn't for her, who would make our entire bodies full of needles."

Chen Mu Mu raised an eyebrow when he heard that, "Shangguan Bai, are you looking down on my poor culinary skills, preferring to continue being unconscious?"

Shangguan Bai hurriedly denied it: "Yes and no, it's my honor and the honor of Young Master Lu and I to be able to get Miss Chen's help."

Chen Mu Mu Mu chuckled. She was already standing by the door, and upon turning her head, she saw the two men who had already withdrawn back into the water.

Her gaze became sharp, but Shangguan Bai and Lu Jinfeng were embarrassed. They were embarrassed, especially Lu Jinfeng, who almost turned into a cooked shrimp.

"Can Miss Chen leave for now?" After all, Shangguan Bai had been in the business world before, and his skin was thicker than usual. After panicking slightly, he calmed down and said, "It's time for Young Master Lu and I to get up."

Although it was his second time being seen by Chen Mu, but that was because she had to expel the poison with needles, and he had no choice but to do so. Now that she did not use needles, and instead looked at him with such a huge gaze, Shangguan Bai couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.

It didn't matter if the woman was looking at his body. After all, he wasn't the one who suffered a loss.

However, it would ruin her reputation.

Moreover, as a man, when faced with such a different gaze from the opposite sex, he would still … Very uncomfortable.

As for Lu Jinfeng, even though he had already gotten used to Chen Mu Mu's teasing and his skin had thickened, he was still embarrassed when faced with this kind of situation where he was naked without any defenses.

While he was embarrassed, he was also a bit worried – he was not the only one in the room.

This woman … How can you be such a hooligan? You can even take off a man's clothes!

If she wanted to see it, he could just take it off and show it to her.

It was all for women.

"Not yet." Chen Mu Mu didn't know what the two of them were thinking, but she could tell from their expressions of embarrassment and annoyance.

But even if she could see, she couldn't let their temper take over.

"The poison in your bodies has not been completely expelled. Even if I use this method to expel the poison, it will only expel half of it."

Mo Mu frowned slightly. "You just finished the injection and still have to soak in the medicinal soup for another two incense sticks' worth of time. You woke up way too quickly."

Did he think that they woke up too quickly?

Lu Jinfeng was a little depressed: "What time do you wake up? It's not something I can control."

Shangguan Bai had a pensive look on his face, "Even you can't do anything to it?"

"I'm not a god, not even a doctor." Chen Mu Mu Mu mocked herself, "I only have a rough understanding of medicinal herbs, so naturally not all diseases can be cured by me."

"Lady Chen, please don't belittle yourself. In my eyes, you are already very powerful." Shangguan Fei said, "This poison is really strange. Other than the person who poisoned it, I'm afraid there's no other way to cure it."

A thought struck Chen Mu's mind. "Do you know what poison this is?"

Shangguan Bai nodded, but his gaze drifted about before he said: "The walls have ears."

Chen Mu Mu Mu blinked his eyes and said: "Then why don't you all take a bath first, Shangguan Yue and I will go prepare some food. We'll talk about it later."

After he finished speaking, he closed the door and left with Shangguan Yue who had been in a state of distress.

Shangguan Yue was shy, she did not dare look around, but her ears were still listening. She only heard the conversation between the few of them, and after she left the house, she said depressingly: "If I knew that big brother would be so suspicious, I would not have let him faint so early, and it would have been better to look for a doctor for the medicine."

Chen Mu Mu smiled but didn't say anything. He could still hear Shangguan Bai's words in his ears.

She still needed someone to take care of the bell, and she didn't have any way to cure the poison completely. If Shangguan Bai knew the origin of the poison, things would be much easier.

However, since that person had such a strange poison in his hands, it would not be that easy for him to obtain the antidote.

Seeing that Shangguan Bai and Lu Jinfeng had woken up, Shangguan Yue's attitude towards Chen Mu Mu Mu had returned to how it was before. The two of them went to the kitchen and used a few snacks to calculate the time before they slowly walked towards the house that Shangguan Bai and Lu Jinfeng were staying in.

When Chen Mu and Shangguan Yue arrived, Shangguan Bai and Lu Jinfeng stood up at the same time. The bathtub had already been moved away by the servants and the two of them wore clean clothes.

Chen Mu Mu Mu had many questions in his mind, but after waiting for Shangguan Bai and Lu Jinfeng to finish eating, he then said: "Now we are all grasshoppers on the same boat, we can both live happily and suffer humiliation at the same time. Young Master Shangguan should tell us everything that we know, only then can we think of a way to solve this problem."

Shangguan Bai smiled bitterly, "Lady Chen is right. You can only think of a solution if you tell us what you know." He sighed, "But, Young Master Lu and I don't even know who sent those waves of assassins."

How many waves of assassins?

Chen Mu Mu narrowed his eyes. "When did you encounter the assassination attempt?"

With Lu Jinfeng and Shangguan Bai together, plus what Lu Daquan and his wife said, Chen Mu Mu Mu had roughly guessed the time they had met the assassin.

They should have been stopped in the city to help her with the pastry problem.

However, Lin Qiu'er had set that trap to deal with her. The grudge between Lin Qiu'er and her was very simple. It was that they disliked each other, and Lin Qiu'er had even blamed the misfortune of being lowly on her, so he wanted her to lose her reputation and regret the pain.

But Lin Qiu'er was only a commoner's daughter, even if she was married to Shen Tianba later on for some reason, and Shen Tianba doted on her very much, but her power was limited, and Lin Qiu'er's methods were limited as well. How could she send several batches of experts to stop Shangguan Bai and Lu Jinfeng from entering the city, and even poison the two of them?

In that case, the person behind this should not be Lin Qiu'er.

"As you thought, not long after we left Xingyu Village, we met a few waves of killers in succession at the outskirts of the city." Shangguan Bai thought of that scene, and his expression turned cold. "Those people were vicious, pushing each other step by step, and I never thought of letting us leave alive. I was originally thinking that I had accidentally offended some powerful official, which was why I ended up causing such a fatal disaster."

As he said that, he looked at Lu Jinfeng, "Later on, I realized that those people were here for the Brother Lu."

Hearing that, Chen Mu Mu Mu immediately turned to Lu Jinfeng and asked: "What kind of grudges and anger did you commit behind my back when you were outside, for you to invite such a disaster?"

"I'm just a commoner. What kind of powerful person could I offend?" Lu Jinfeng smirked, "Those people killed me for no reason."

Seeing him pretend to be stupid, Shangguan Bai's gaze turned deep. After some hesitation, he said, "Although I don't know who is trying to kill us, but I do know who has the antidote for the Frost Heart Congealing Powder."

Was this any different from knowing who was trying to kill them?

Since the assassin wanted to kill them, and they were poisoned by that person, that person was naturally the one who ordered them to do so.

The corner of Chen Mu's mouth twitched as he asked in a slightly speechless manner, "Who has the antidote?"

Shangguan Bai was not one to speak carelessly. Since he had said the two things separately, he must have had his reasons.

Shangguan Bai poured a cup of tea and took a sip. A hint of hesitation flashed across his face.

"Capital Qiu Family."

Chen Mu Mu and Lu Jinfeng looked at each other, their bodies trembling.

She was going to do a big business with her eyes locked onto the entire world. She knew more or less about the capital city, the center of power.

In the capital, the only family that could afford such a reputation was one of the Four Great Clans, the Qiu Family.

In the capital, the Qiu Family had produced several outstanding courtiers and officials from past generations. They were a century-old family, and as one of the Four Great Families, their status was astonishing even in the capital.

It turned out that such a clan couldn't even be compared to ordinary people like them. To put it bluntly, the Qiu Family might have even thought it was a waste of effort to kill them.

The Qiu Family should have disdained attacking them, but in their eyes, she and Lu Jinfeng were nothing but lowly commoners. They disdained to do anything to them.

But the Qiu Family had a daughter, who was related to Lu Jinfeng — — Qiu Yuexin, the main wife of the North King.

Needless to say, the relationship between the North King and Lu Jinfeng was even cheaper than trash.

But this enemy, was Lu Jinfeng's unilateral hatred, because the North King had killed Mo Qin, and Lu Jinfeng hated him.

However, now that the heir to the North King Palace had died, he only had Lu Jinfeng as his only son. This son was not as ugly and strange as the previous one, and even if he knew of Lu Jinfeng's existence, he would probably not be willing to kill Lu Jinfeng.

Ever since she knew of Lu Jinfeng's existence, she had always been worried that Lu Jinfeng would threaten her son's title. Even after her son died, she still hated Lu Jinfeng and thought that Lu Jinfeng had killed her son.

Qiu Yuexin hated Lu Jinfeng. It was not strange that she sent people to kill Lu Jinfeng, not to mention that the poison that Shangguan Bai and Lu Jinfeng talked about was from the Qiu Family.

However …

Chen Mu Mu Mu's eyes stared unblinkingly at Shangguan Bai as he asked hoarsely, "Since it's the Qiu Family's secret medicine, so many doctors don't know about it, how do you know?"

Even if they were best friends, they couldn't afford to miss any suspicious points.

Shangguan Bai's eyelashes fluttered as he took a sip of tea. His eyes were as cold as the autumn wind as they flashed past.

"Because in my Shangguan Family, there were people who were afflicted with the Qiu Family's Frost Heart Poison!"