Chapter 173 - Poisoning

When he arrived home, the sky had already turned completely dark.

After having a casual dinner and taking Nizi back, Chen Yang washed up and went to bed.

But before he could fully fall asleep, a sudden call from Brother Diao came from the backyard.

It sounded quite urgent and unsettling.

Hearing Brother Diao’s calls, Chen Yang immediately sat up, put on his shoes, and opened the back door to head to the backyard.

“What’s wrong, Brother Diao?”

As he reached the backyard, Chen Yang immediately asked.

Seeing Chen Yang, Brother Diao promptly swooped down from the peach tree and continued making the noises near the pheasant breeding farm.

Seeing Brother Diao’s behavior, Chen Yang immediately understood.

“Is there something wrong at the breeding farm?”

Cheep.

Brother Diao nodded.

“Damn!”

Seeing Brother Diao nod, Chen Yang couldn’t help but curse and immediately turned around, put on his clothes, and rushed out of the house toward the direction of the pheasant breeding farm.

Brother Diao also soared up from the backyard and followed closely behind Chen Yang.

Thinking that something had happened at the pheasant breeding farm, Chen Yang felt anxious.

He ran as fast as he could, covering in six or seven minutes what usually took more than twenty minutes, and rushed to the breeding farm.

Upon arriving at the farm, Chen Yang immediately started inspecting the area around the breeding farm.

But he didn’t find any damage or anything like that.

There were also no signs of people around.

“What’s going on?

There doesn’t seem to be anything wrong here!” exclaimed Chen Yang, and then immediately called down Brother Diao, who was hovering overhead.

“What’s the situation here?

There seems to be nothing wrong!” Chen Yang demanded.

Cheep.

Brother Diao still used that very unsettling voice to call out.

But after calling out for a long time, Chen Yang couldn’t understand what Brother Diao was saying.

Perhaps Brother Diao knew Chen Yang couldn’t understand, so it stopped calling.

Instead, it hopped towards the wire mesh outer fence of the breeding farm and pecked inside the farm using its long beak.

Brother Diao expressed itself in this way, and Chen Yang immediately understood.

He walked over in a few steps and then pointing towards the breeding farm, he asked, “You mean there’s a problem inside?”

Cheep.

Brother Diao immediately nodded.

Seeing his guess was correct, Chen Yang immediately took out the keys and then opened the breeding farm.

He was ready to go in and check what exactly was the situation inside the breeding farm.

But before he could enter, Brother Diao dashed in and then disappeared into the bushes under the night sky.

Brother Diao moved very fast, like a bolt of lightning.

Chen Yang couldn’t react in time.

“Brother Diao’s behavior is too abnormal, something must have definitely happened inside,” Chen Yang frowned, then also prepared to immediately go inside.

But before he could step in, Brother Diao suddenly rushed out of a bush.

It seemed as though he was carrying something in his mouth.

“Brother Diao, did you find something?” Chen Yang immediately asked.

Without responding, Brother Diao directly rushed over to Chen Yang, then bowed his head and spat out what was in his mouth.

Out of curiosity, Chen Yang looked down.

It was a very small, earth-brown pill.

It was nothing like the domestication pills and nourishing elixirs he usually threw in.

“What is this?” Chen Yang wondered, then picked up the small pill and sniffed it, examining it closely.

Then the composition and function of the pill instantly came to his mind.

This was one of the abilities bestowed upon Chen Yang by the King of Medicine; merely by smelling and looking at a medicinal item, he would know its components and functions.

And after he had carefully examined the ingredients and effects of the pill in his hand,

He instantly became furious!

The pill in his hand was a poison that dealt lethal damage to poultry!

Any animal that ate this would be poisoned to death!

Last night, Diaoge was acting so unusually because it was clear that someone had thrown poison into the farm.

“Damn it!

They don’t dare target me directly, so they go after my farm?

That’s just sick!”

Chen Yang crushed the pill in his hand, already having a good guess at who had poisoned the place tonight.

Fu Deren!

It must be him.

Apart from him, Chen Yang hadn’t offended anyone else around here!

Knowing that someone had poisoned his farm, Chen Yang didn’t dare to delay even for a moment.

He immediately turned around with Diaoge and rushed into the farm, then began to inspect it carefully.

The pheasant farm covered a large area, and Chen Yang didn’t know if any pheasants had eaten the pills at that time.

So he could only look for the poisoned pills while making noise to wake up all the pheasants in the farm.

Then he inspected them all.

It was a huge task.

Since the farm was so vast, Fu Deren’s men could have poisoned it from any angle.

Therefore, while inspecting, Chen Yang had to be extremely cautious, ensuring no poisoned pill was left in the farm.

Under the cover of night, Chen Yang bent over and wandered back and forth across the farm, inspecting any place that might have been poisoned.

After several rounds, he found five places where poison had been tossed.

There was a large spread of those small pills on the ground, and many corn kernels too.

Chen Yang cleaned up each and every one, and then he was able to rest easy.

“Fortunately, the poisoning happened at night when the pheasants were all inactive; otherwise, the consequences would’ve been unimaginable.”

After cleaning up the poison, Chen Yang was terrified deep inside.

It was good that he had asked Diaoge to stay here today when he passed by the farm; otherwise, there would have been a big problem.

Every morning, it’s when the pheasants eat the most, and if they had eaten all those pills.

His farm would probably have been ruined.

“You really saved the day, Diaoge.

Tomorrow, I’ll definitely find some tasty innards to reward you,” Chen Yang patted Diaoge.

Diaoge excitedly lifted its neck, like a child being praised.

After cleaning up the poison from the farm, Chen Yang didn’t go back straight away, but sat in the farm for quite a while.

Because he wasn’t sure whether the person who poisoned the place would come back.

After sitting in the farm for a while and hearing no noise around, Chen Yang finally got up and went back with Diaoge.

Back home, Chen Yang went to check the rabbit farm, but didn’t find the same kind of poison as in the pheasant farm.

“They’re quite clever, knowing the pheasant farm is further away, so they went there to poison,” Chen Yang said angrily as he shut the iron gate of the farm and then turned to go back into the house.

By the time he lay in bed at home, it was already midnight, approaching early morning.

He had been busy all day and had disturbed for half the night, so he should have been very tired by all accounts.

But as he lay in bed, he felt no sleepiness at all.

Because his mind was entirely focused on figuring out who had poisoned the place.

Although Chen Yang strongly suspected Fu Deren, he couldn’t jump to conclusions without solid evidence.

He lay in bed, thinking of everyone he had conflicts with over and over again.

After thinking about it, he could only recall three people.

The fat man who ran the gambling house in town, Fu Deyou from Shangshan Village, and Heipi from the mountain team.

The fat man had already been dealt with and was behaving, so he certainly wouldn’t dare to try poisoning again.

Then Heipi had already reconciled with him, making him the least likely to poison.

So after thinking about it, Chen Yang still fixed his gaze on Fu Deyou.

“If nothing unexpected, it must be him!” Chen Yang said with certainty.

“You bastard!

Can’t get the better of me so you target my farm?

That’s just sick!”

Chen Yang was furious deep inside, tempted to rush to Shangshan Village right then and teach Fu Deyou and Fu Deren a lesson.

But he didn’t do that.

Because he knew very well that going there now without any evidence.

If he broke into a home in the middle of the night and attacked someone, he might even get bitten back.

So Chen Yang held back from seeking trouble from the Fu brothers.

“They poisoned tonight, so they’ll definitely send someone to check the results tomorrow.

Then I’ll wait and see if it really was Fu Deren who ordered this shoddy job!”

Chen Yang thought to himself, and after calming his angry mood, he finally fell asleep.