Chapter 14: You Are Not In Exile You Are Clearly Traveling!
Chapter 14 Life for a Life
"Official, please help us!" The woman cried out when she saw Zhao Guang appear.
"Alright, stop crying and explain what happened."
The woman didn't really know how to explain, but she knew one thing, "My son was poisoned to death by them."
Zhao Guang approached the chubby man and nodded when he saw his purplish face. "Indeed, he was poisoned, and it's a deadly poison with no cure..."
After saying that, he sighed, "Make arrangements for the funeral."
"Impossible!"
Zhang Yiquan collapsed instantly, and the woman also collapsed beside her son, wailing, her voice bringing tears to those who heard it.
The onlookers were all sympathetic.
"So, you're sure they killed your son," Zhao Guang suddenly spoke to the Zhang family.
"Yes, it was them!"
Zhang Yiquan remained silent. He didn't have a good impression of the officials. They had previously asked the official to help buy a carriage, but what they bought turned out to be a donkey cart. If not for the donkey cart, his son wouldn't have had an accident.
Anyway, he believed the official wouldn't arrest Chen Yuan. This grudge had to be settled by himself.
"Wait."
Chen Yuan immediately stepped forward, "This sir, let me explain what happened... Someone sent us a package full of food. I placed it next to the carriage and was talking to Mr. Zhang..."
"We had trouble communicating later, so my daughter communicated on behalf of us. Who knew that Mr. Zhang's child mistakenly ate the food, leading to poisoning..."
Chen Yuan didn't see the situation at the time, but pieced together what happened. Hearing this, everyone suddenly realized.
Even Zhang Yiquan understood how his son had been poisoned, but he didn't believe any talk of "accidental ingestion" or the like.
"It's obvious you intentionally placed the food next to the carriage, deliberately tempting my son to eat poisonous food. In the end, it's still you who killed my son."
A mud figure can still be fierce.
Naturally, Chen Yuan was also a bit angry, "If I really wanted to do it, I would have brought a knife and killed your Zhang family long ago instead of using such despicable means."
"You..."
"Alright, I understand what happened."
Hearing this, the Chen family looked expectantly at Zhao Guang. After all, he was the chief executive here. As long as he cleared their name, there would be no problem.
However, Zhao Guang's expression suddenly turned cold, and he shouted, "Chen Yuan, you have a lot of nerve. The Emperor has shown mercy and spared your life, allowing you to be exiled. Yet you are not satisfied and dare to kill someone in the exile convoy. This crime is unforgivable."
"What?"
Upon hearing this, everyone's faces changed.
Zhang Yiquan was stunned at first, then showed wild joy. He thought this official would definitely protect the Chen family, but he didn't expect...
"Hahaha, Chen Yuan, you can't escape. The one who kills will be killed."
The Chen family didn't expect that even after explaining the situation, the official would still consider them guilty. Didn't they need to investigate further?
Immediately, their hearts sank.
They were now criminals and couldn't possibly resist the official. In other words, if the official really wanted to kill them, they would die without a chance to argue.
"Clang!"
Sure enough, Zhao Guang pulled out the large knife from his waist in front of everyone, and the blade shimmered in the sunlight.
The Chen family's servants immediately stepped forward to protect their master, and Xiao Die also opened her arms to shield Chen Xue.
"Are you... rebelling?" Zhao Guang said coldly, "Move aside now. I'm only going to execute the main culprit. Otherwise, everyone will be executed together."
These servants were really troublesome.
Zhao Guang's expression was very ugly. He alone couldn't defeat so many people, and he couldn't find an opportunity to kill Chen Yuan.
So he turned to the crowd.
"Tell me, now that there is a murderer among you, do you want to keep him? Or do you want to live in fear every night, worried that the next victim will be yourself?"
"Of course not."
"Kill him!"
"It's only fair to pay for murder."
"An eye for an eye!"
The onlookers immediately shouted, putting immense pressure on the Chen family's servants. Even though Master Chen was adept in the officialdom, at this moment, he didn't know what to do.
Because to resolve this matter, he had to reconcile with the Zhang family. But to reconcile with the Zhang family, the prerequisite was for the chubby Zhang to survive.
But that was difficult because there was no antidote, let alone a doctor.
"I can die, but my wife and daughter are innocent." Chen Yuan stepped forward, looking at Zhao Guang and Zhang Yiquan.
"Beautiful thought." Zhang Yiquan's face twisted with rage, "I want your whole family to accompany my son in death."
"Don't worry, I will help you avenge your son now," Zhao Guang had long wanted to complete the task from above, so he gripped his weapon and moved to kill Chen Yuan.
"Master, be careful."
The Chen family's servants immediately stepped forward to block the attack.
"Mr. Zhang, I can save your son."
Just then, Zhang Yiquan suddenly heard a melodious voice, looked up abruptly, and saw Chen Xue's figure, his face darkened instantly.
He sneered, "First poison, then help my son detoxify? Good, the Chen family is really something!"
Chen Xue was somewhat helpless. She had known this would happen, otherwise she would have stepped forward to help Chubby boy detoxify long ago.
Now, the only way to break the deadlock was to save Chubby.
So she was a bit impatient, "I'll ask you once, do you want to save your son or not? If you don't want to, forget it."
"Save him!" Zhang Yiquan gritted his teeth, "If my son isn't saved, I want your Chen family to..."
"To accompany him in death, right? How many times have you said this already? Can't you come up with something new?"
Although Zhang Yiquan didn't understand Chen Xue's words, he was still choked up by them.
Ignoring him, Chen Xue asked him to step back, and then instructed the servants to lift the Chubby boy. When the body blocked their view, she dripped a drop of the exchanged detoxification liquid into Chubby's mouth.
After a few seconds, when she confirmed that the detoxification liquid had entered the Chubby boy's body, she let the servants turn the Chubby boy over, half-lie him on their legs, and reach into his mouth to force him to vomit.
"Ugh!"
Soon, the Chubby boy vomited all over the ground, and he began to regain consciousness.
Zhang Yiquan was ecstatic, about to rush over, but was stopped by Chen Xue. Even though he was angry and uncomfortable, for the sake of his son, he could only obey.
Chen Xue went to the Chubby boy's side, and the Chubby boy opened his eyes to see a beautiful sister, his eyes brightened immediately.
"Chubby..."
...
In no time, a lively and bouncing chubby boy returned.
"He's alive, he's actually alive."
"So miraculous!"
"He really was saved."
The onlookers were astonished to see this scene, discussing it animatedly. In their impression, once poisoned, it was difficult to be saved.
Unexpectedly, Chen Xue managed to save him with just a few moves?
Yes, they also saw Chen Xue's actions, although they didn't understand them, they were classified as random fiddling.
Random fiddling could save lives, which was incredible.
But no one knew that it was Chen Xue who had exchanged a few taels of silver for the detoxification liquid.
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