Luo Beichen shook his head in denial, however Dong Shen understood the matter entirely, "you are saying that Dreamless Night isn't a poison and it needs to be ingested regularly for prolonged period and kept on being ingested by the person to be in effect?."
Qin Xu looked at Dong Shen in shock and awe, 'so this man had moments of lucidity too where his brain worked better than normal, look how quickly he pieced everything together with her broken words. '
"Yes, what his highness said is true that means someone has been regularly administering her dreamless night since three years, and for the two years when she was in comatose state even then she was fed with dreamless night regularly at least once a week. "
Luo Beichen's complexion darkened, "could it be the maids by her side or the nanny? " He quickly wanted to catch the culprits and make them pay for what they did to his mother.
"A mere servant won't dare to do this to it's master they don't have any motive to harm Aunt until someone in the dark is giving them instructions. " And Dong Shen felt he knew who that person might be.
"What his highness said is true and without evidence we won't be able to catch them and even if we do they won't confess until we have a solid evidence against them. "
"Yes you are right first we should focus on how to treat my mother, sister in law, do you have any ways to wake her up? " Luo Beichen placed all his hopes on Qin Xu he felt that God took pity on him and sent him a guiding buddha in the form of his sister in law. "
"Don't worry Brother i have the solution but here is the thing first Dreamless Night is not a poison it's a drug, poison corrodes your organ but drugs can not only corrode you physically but even mentally that is it leaves addiction in it's wake so we need to first stop the administration of this drug without alerting the enemy however I am not sure when she will wake up the good thing is we will start administering her medicine in her comatose state so when she wakes up she won't feel much after effects of dreamless night. " Said Qin Xu in one breath.
"Don't worry I will monitor her food from now and appoint a shadow guard to change her food regularly in my opinion they might change the food box in between the kitchen and Lotus Pavillion and i will have someone replace the adulterated food box with the original one. " Said Luo Beichen it was his fault he should have kept an eye on what is going on in the manor but he made an oversight.
"Where do you thing this dreamless night was purchased from? We can find the person who bought it and then we will have evidence. "
"Brother in law as I said first it's not a poison hence even if we put a silver needle to check if the food is poisoned or not we won't find anything, there is just one thing which sets dreamless Night apart, it's the smell it emits, it smells like sweet night lily you should have noticed by now that Aunt Cai also have this smell very prominently present on herself and her room, it's due to Dreamless night. "
"So we can catch the culprit by smelling them? " Spoke Luo Beichen.
Qin Xu's lips twitched, 'huh are we dogs? why would we smell them like idiots to find who the culprit is.'
"No we won't go around sniffing people instead we will check their belongings, I don't think any maid would have it, we should directly look at the belongings of the masters of this house. " Said Dong Shen while sipping his tea calmly.
Qin Xu again glanced at him with side eye, 'what is it , why is he getting sharper by the minute was he pretending to be a fool earlier?'
Dong Shen saw the quizzical look Qin Xu was throwing his way and quirked his lips in an almost impertinent smile.
'This fox thought only she had brains huh? 'It seems he will have to remind her that he Dong Shen was not afraid of a little fox like her instead it was her who should be wary of him.'
Luo Beichen finally understood, "Yes indeed we will do as brother Shen says, then we will know who the mastermind is with ease, sister in law quickly tell me what herbs do you need to make medicines for my mother I will get them to you now. "
" A bezoar, atleast a hundread year old, red lingzhi, Leaves of conch berry, and roots of wild fengi tree." Qin Xu quickly wrote down the prescription in the required quantity and said
"Dreamless night is not the drug that can be found in Ding nation. "
Dong Shen finally out down his cup and asked in a serious tone, "A spy? "
"No your highness it can't be that serious but Dreamless Night is made from herbs which are native to Chu Nation, in fact the prescription to make dreamless night is also a secret of Chu Nation."
"Meaning the source from where this is acquired is probably from someone who is from Chu Nation but probably is living here as a citizen of Dong Nation. " Said Dong Shen however he believed that it was highly a spy from Chu Nation who has been living amongst them without them knowing until now.
Once again Qin Xu and even Luo Beichen was impressed at how clear headed Dong Shen was, 'of course he is War Prince for a reason.'
"Yes so we need to not just catch a smaller fish but also the big one in one fell swoop, it's better if we can personally see the person make a purchase then we will know the identity of both the buyer and the seller. "
Yes they will have to work fast, "Brother Shen Do you have a suggestion? " Luo Beichen as usual turned towards Dong Shen asking for his expert advice after all it was a well known fact that in catching culprits and making them confess Dong Shen was second to none.