Before this, Mo Jiuye had already helped divide those sixty-one taels of silver into two parts.
Seeing He Zhiran wanting to distribute the silver to everyone, he quickly brought over half of the divided silver.
Before making the dolls, He Zhiran had already talked about the details of the allocation of wages, so she didn’t plan on saying much more. She gave ten taels of silver to each the Fang family and the Xie family, and handed over what remained of her own portion to Eldest Sister-in-law to allocate.
The moment everyone received the silver, they thanked He Zhiran profusely.
Especially the Fang and Xie families. The silver He Zhiran brought them was literally timely rain.
If they didn’t have these taels of silver, they were afraid they would have to gnaw on black steamed buns to get through the days like the He family.
The He family people watched all of this from afar, with flames continuously spewing from their eyes.
But there was nothing they could do, as the others simply didn’t care about their mood...
After He Zhiran finished allocating the silver, she gave everyone a few reminders before returning to her own tent.
She pulled Mo Jiuye along with her as she slipped inside her space.
Earlier, when she was helping treat Sixth Sister-in-Law's illness, Mo Jiuye had held back since it was all women. Now seeing He Zhiran impatiently pulling him into her space, there must be some major problem with Sixth Sister-in-Law's health.
"How is Sixth Sister-in-Law's illness exactly?"
"Sixth Sister-in-Law likely caught a chill from staying up late making dolls outside. However, her pulse condition is more complicated than a simple cold.
Later I helped check Eldest Sister-in-Law and Second Sister-in-Law's pulses as well, and discovered irregular phenomena in their pulses too. I now suspect this very possibly has to do with the queen sending someone to poison them."
Mo Jiuye was clearly somewhat worried.
"The sisters-in-law won't be in danger, right?"
On this point, He Zhiran currently also couldn't make an accurate judgment.
"I just took the chance to draw some of Sixth Sister-in-Law's blood to test. I still don't know the exact details until after examination."
Concepts like examination were still somewhat unfamiliar to Mo Jiuye, but he didn't choose to inquire in this moment.
He Zhiran brought Sixth Sister-in-Law's blood sample to the lab, and after turning on the equipment, she started carefully operating it.
After about twenty minutes, the results for all the testing projects came out. Judging from the blood test, Sixth Sister-in-Law was still relatively healthy.
Only one index was abnormally high, already exceeding the detection range of the testing equipment.
That is to say, the equipment couldn't determine how high that index was rising.
Combing through various analyses to confirm, Sixth Sister-in-Law was indeed poisoned.
This poison wouldn't be fatal. Once the person caught a cold, it would stimulate white blood cells to quickly increase, leading to large scale inflammations in the body and causing high fever that wouldn't recede.
It was very easy for people to mistakenly diagnose this as leukemia symptoms.
Seeing He Zhiran continuously knitting her brows without saying a word, Mo Jiuye anxiously asked, "So what exactly is the situation?"
He Zhiran let out a sigh.
"Based on the results of Sixth Sister-in-Law's blood tests, I suspect the medicine the queen gave them spreads toxins through the blood, causing her to be unable to get pregnant.
Right now I still don't know the specifics of this medicine, so I need to carefully research it."
After He Zhiran spoke, she brought the remaining blood sample to extract it, then placed it under a microscope to observe.
The results seen through the microscope made He Zhiran suddenly understand.
These cell forms were hexagonal. She had previously seen them in a medical journal.
The expert who published that article said it was highly possible that the reason for hexagonal cells appearing in blood was due to being induced by medicine.
And once a woman had cells of this shape appear in their blood, they would be incapable of conceiving a child for the rest of their lives.
In other words, the medicine Sixth Sister-in-Law had been given operated under just this principle, to cause her to be unable to get pregnant.
Unfortunately, He Zhiran didn't know the formulation principles for this medicine.
However, she could confirm that there was one type of antivenom that could clear the toxins in the blood.
This serum had been newly developed not long before she transmigrated, so it hadn't fully made its way into clinical application in the current day and age. Not only was there none available in her space, you also couldn't buy it on Taobao Treasure Mall.
Right now, if she wanted to help clear the toxins for the sisters-in-law, she first had to figure out exactly what poison the sisters-in-law had taken, so that she could conveniently formulate an antidote.
He Zhiran told Mo Jiuye of the final test results.
Mo Jiuye clenched his fists tightly in anger.
"The queen... actually harmed so many innocent women for her own selfish desires."
He Zhiran was also angry, but she understood clearly in her heart that getting angry wouldn't solve anything. So she advised,
"The queen has already lost her only son, and paid the price for everything she's done. In the future when we have the chance, we will definitely help the sisters-in-law get revenge. Right now, the most urgent thing is to first develop an antidote."
Especially for Third Sister-in-Law and Eighth Sister-in-Law. Third Brother and Eighth Brother were still alive. In the future, they would definitely want to have children of their own.
Mo Jiuye also understood this principle. Just now he was simply venting in anger.
"If there's anything you need my help with when making the antidote, just speak up."
"Mm, if I need your help I certainly won't stand on ceremony."
After He Zhiran spoke, she brought out her phone to open Taobao Treasure Mall, where she purchased a book called A Collection of Ancient and Modern Poisons.
Glancing through the table of contents, there really was an introduction about fertility medicines and such.
The contents combined modern medical theory as it was written. Although it didn't give precise formulas for these medicines, it did record methods for detoxification.
He Zhiran carefully looked through the operating principles and symptoms for several fertility drugs.
Finally, she could now fully confirm the medicine the sisters-in-law had taken was a drug with an extremely simple and direct name—Wu Zi.
Perhaps the medicinal materials for making Wu Zi had already gone extinct in later ages. And so the editor was unafraid of people being able to formulate this medicine from the formula, and thus recorded the prescription clearly in the book.
This allowed He Zhiran to luckily understand the formula for this ‘Wu Zi’ medicine.
Indeed, there were two medicinal ingredients she hadn’t heard of before. These materials must not have appeared in later ages.
In any case, she wasn’t interested in formulating these kinds of harmful things. Whether the materials existed or not didn’t matter, as long as the materials for the antidote weren’t scarce.
The prescription for the antidote was written at the very bottom. He Zhiran looked it over carefully; it consisted of a total of sixteen medicinal ingredients.
Fifteen of those were common medicinal materials.
However, one material called Dan Pi was extremely rare.
She had heard the former hospital president mention before that this medicinal material came from the eggshells of Dan birds.
Dan birds existed in snowy mountains. Due to the special environment, their eggshells had a certain thickness, and extremely strong insulation.
It was just a pity that Dan birds had extremely low numbers, and after laying their eggs they would bury them in heavy snow, causing few people to be able to find their eggs. This resulted in medicinal materials like Dan Pi being rarely seen.
He Zhiran tried doing a search on Taobao Treasure, thinking about this issue.
As expected, there were no listings for sale, as she had anticipated.
It seemed she could only take the chance when she went antiquing to ask about it.
