Chapter 1536: News from All Sides Arrives One by One
Zhu Yanyi repeated her question, her voice small but serious: "Did those children eat some fruit?"
"Yes. Our kindergarten focuses on nutrition. We give every child one fruit every afternoon. Today, those children only ate one apple." The person answering was the teacher who had accompanied them. Knowing the Little Divine Doctor was here, he was sure the children would be fine, but he still wanted to understand the situation. So, when he saw the Little Divine Doctor asking questions, he came over immediately.
"What about the other classes? Did they eat these apples too?" Zhu Yanyi’s face looked very heavy. If the other classes had eaten the apples too, she couldn’t imagine the result.
"The other classes ate bananas today. By the time we got to our class, there weren’t enough bananas, so we gave out apples." Even a slow person would know now that the apples must be the problem.
Zhu Yanyi took out her phone and called Yan Aohan. "The apples bought by Dream Kindergarten today are bad. Go get them all back right now. It’s the same problem as the apricots."
Yan Aohan knew immediately that the apples at Dream Kindergarten contained poppy juice. He called someone right away to go to the kindergarten and bring all the apples back.
After hanging up, Zhu Yanyi turned to the teacher behind her. "The children are fine now. Most of the poison is out. They just need to drink a bowl of detox soup later, and they will be okay. They should rest for a few days and eat light food. After drinking the medicine, they can go home to rest. They don’t need to stay in the hospital."
"Okay, thank you, Little Divine Doctor." The teacher’s face lit up with joy. The children being safe was the best news for him. He went to the emergency ward to wait for the parents.
Zhu Yanyi then spoke to the nurse nearby. "Dispose of all this poison liquid after treating it with S-grade detox solution."
Detox agents had levels. S-grade was a high-level agent, specially made by Zhu Yanyi for detoxifying and disinfecting.
"Okay, I’ve noted it down." The nurse called for help to take everything away, following Zhu Yanyi’s instructions to detoxify and disinfect before disposal.
Zhu Yanyi returned to the fourth floor to wait for the apples. Fortunately, kindergartens didn’t buy too much fruit to keep it fresh, so there were only two baskets of apples.
Yan Aohan brought the apples to Zhu Yanyi. She took them into the lab for analysis. An hour later, she came out. "It’s the same as the apricots. It’s all poppy juice. Luckily, it was diluted. Otherwise, the children would have died on the spot. Children are weaker than adults, with less resistance. Even a little poppy juice made them poisoned."
Hearing this, Yan Aohan’s face darkened. "First apricots, now apples. It seems a batch of poisoned fruit has entered our market."
Zhu Yanyi added, "I only want to know one thing. Senior Brother Gu’s patient had an apricot tree at home. Why were there poisoned apricots? Who had the chance to put poison in them? Or did the apricots on the tree have a problem?"
Yan Aohan paused, then asked, "Ani, do you suspect the fruit on the tree was the problem?"
"I’m just guessing," Zhu Yanyi said. "If poisoned fruit entered the market, it wouldn’t just be in Jingdu. There would be news from other places too. But there isn’t. So, this poisoned fruit is likely very recent."
Yan Aohan frowned. "But there are no apple trees in Jingdu. Apples are transported from other provinces."
"So this is just a guess. Maybe someone bought various fruits and mixed poison into them. The clue is still with Senior Brother Gu’s patient," Zhu Yanyi said, looking at Yan Aohan.
Yan Aohan understood. If the family said they grew the apricots themselves, how could the picked apricots contain poppy juice? It was a huge loophole. Yan Aohan picked up the phone and ordered an investigation into this clue.
The clues came quickly. Liu Guotao, who was investigating, replied soon: "He picked these apricots with a fellow villager. After picking, he kept them at home and never took them out. So, if the apricots were bad, the poison was likely mixed in during the picking process."
"What about that fellow villager?" Yan Aohan asked.
"He’s dead," Liu Guotao said, looking ashamed. "When we arrived, he was already dead. Killed with one stab."
"Killing to silence witnesses," Yan Aohan sneered. "They really think killing someone means I won’t know? In this world, there is nothing I don’t want to know, and nothing I don’t know. Start a Heaven-level investigation immediately. I want the whole truth within three days."
"Yes." Liu Guotao sighed for the mastermind. A Heaven-level investigation could uncover even your ancestors’ bedwetting habits. This small poisoning case would be easy to solve.
A Heaven-level investigation was no joke. Yan Aohan gave three days, but the results came in just over one day. Yan Aohan looked at the report, tapping his fingers on the desk, eyes closed, deep in thought.
Zhu Yanyi walked in and saw her like this. "What’s wrong?"
Hearing Zhu Yanyi’s voice, Yan Aohan handed her the documents. "Look at this."
Zhu Yanyi read it and frowned. "Those R-country people are full of themselves. Coming here to poison us. They caused the Butterfly Change back then, and now this poppy juice. Do they think our Huaxia is easy to bully?"
That was right. The investigation showed that the "fellow villager" who helped pick apricots for Gu Jingtian’s patient was fake. Her real identity was an R-country spy. There were more than ten such spies hidden in Huaxia. Their goal was to use poppy juice to make people addicted. No one expected the poisoned apples to enter Dream Kindergarten and be eaten by children, causing a mass poisoning. Even less expected was that the patient intended to give the apricots to Gu Jingtian, who shared a basket with Zhu Zhibin, leading Zhu Yanyi to discover the plot.
"In the end, the upper levels of Huaxia should thank you. If you hadn’t discovered this, we wouldn’t have found these people so quickly," Yan Aohan said to Zhu Yanyi.
Zhu Yanyi looked at her. "Are you going to act?"
Yan Aohan nodded slightly. "I won’t allow anyone to破坏 the current peace, especially between countries. Even domestically, if the balance is too skewed, I will act. Let alone someone trying to start a new war recklessly. Since they are like this, I plan to warn them. I don’t want them to think I’m asleep."