In order to detoxify the Grand Empress Dowager as soon as possible, Mu Yuanzhi traveled without rest to Xuanwu Street in the capital, where many foreigners gathered.
While this street was filled with foreign merchants in the shops and at the street stalls, those who had come from Miaojiang were almost impossible to find. Mu Yuanzhi was skilled at treating poisons, but she had little knowledge of insect poison. She crouched before a merchant’s stall from the Southern Frontier, bought a few random items, and began to inquire about the matters at hand.
On the second floor of a restaurant across the street, Pei Shangling sat by the window, looking down and watching every move Mu Yuanzhi made.
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