12 Chapter 12: Saving Grandmother

Book title: Solstices

Chapter Title: Saving Grandmother

Chapter no. 12

Author: Ahce Darato Torres (@BunnyDeanAhce)

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(Yao Xue Rong's POV)

The poison grandmother has is what we call Rheumatoid Bee Poison, this poison is extracted from Apis mellifera scutellata which is commonly called Apitoxin. Apitoxin from this poisonous bee has the highest killing efficiency rate which directly damages the cells in the body, excluding white blood cells and gametes. It will let the upper body deteriorate and stop the cells from receiving nutrients while swelling occurs on the legs of the victim. When I was young I used to do lab research about poisons and look for appropriate cure. And now that my grandmother is in a critical condition I must use the hardest detoxification method which is countering a bee poison using its own venom and turning poisonous wild plants into medicinal herbs.

I went to a renowned blacksmith at the foot of the mountain and let him mold lab apparatus like; safety goggles and safety equipment, beakers, conical flasks, boiling flasks, test tubes, tongs, and racks, watch glasses, crucibles, funnels, graduated cylinders, volumetric flasks, droppers, pipettes, burets, ring stands, rings, and clamps, tongs and forceps, spatulas and scoopulas, and tools that will help me with fire and chemical balancing. I've also designed a set of acupuncture needles, medical tools, surgical blades, dissecting kit and microsurgery knives, and these things amazed him, thinking that I wanted to play like a child.

It must be amusing for ancient people to see these kinds of things that came from the modern world, I just need to keep everyone in the dark and hide the truth from where these ideas came from. Before we move to the detoxification process I made sure that my grandma would nourish her body for a week which greatly stopped her legs from swelling further. And I also injected a venom antiserum which came from the bees but the effects only lessened the swelling in half which enable my grandmother to move her legs while saying she can finally feel the numbness gone.

"Jiejie!" the door suddenly opened

"Xie'er what are you doing here?"

"I came here to deliver dinner, grandpa says you shouldn't pass meals because it will damage your body and that you will get sick. I don't want jiejie to be sick." Xiemen pouted

"Come here" I said, he instructed nanny Zhang first to put the tray on the table and urged me to eat. I stood and walked towards the table then nanny Zhang left us. He then climbed to sit beside me and munch some cookies.

"Jiejie are those grandma's medicine? Will she be okay soon after drinking those?" he asked

"Yes, those are grandma's medicines and I will cure grandma so she will be healthy again" I answered

"Grandfather will be very happy if grandma is happy. Jiejie in the future can you teach me about medicine? I also want to be like jiejie. So if in the future father's wives find fault on me and poison me I will be able to defend myself." He reasoned which made me sighed, he really is too smart for his age

I patted his head.

"Jiejie will teach you, that's why you need to study smart with those imperial tutors so that you will be able to grasp the foundation of knowledge that you need before you learn something more complex and difficult like medicine. As for brother's wives you do not need to put them in your eyes, I will take care of them for you. No one can harm you like I promised, so long as I'm alive they will never dare touch a strand of your hair."

"Jiejie is the best!"

When I was done eating he immediately left to learn chess with grandfather.

"Li Jun, Fu Wen..."

"Reporting to mistress" both of them saluted

"Drop the formalities, tell me what you got from the assassins." Two days ago assassins tried to infiltrate the manor but Yao guards were too terrifying that it led them to their deaths

"Mistress it was fourth master's wife Shen Jang who sent them, their goal was to seize the token from your hand and kill everyone in the manor" Fu Wen answered

"En. We'll have a retribution later. Li Jun how's Zetian?"

"Mistress miss Qin has been doing well and the Qins treasure her a lot. She also sent a letter to the mistress. And about Xie family, someone was blocking the information so we cannot dig further, aside from identical incidents which led to the misses of Xie family being gone. This servant is incompetent please punish me."

"Fu Wen ask Fu Si to replace you and guard the Yao three remaining branches, we cannot trust any of them. As for Li Jun's punishment go and capture a wife. She must be on par with you who can help us. Dismiss!"

They bowed before vanishing in thin air.

I was alone again.

I went back to the poison that I was concocting, the harder part was adding poisonous plants and fuse the two to create a potent drug which will reverse its effects and become a cure. Tomorrow grandmother will bathe in medicinal herbs to stop the self-destructing cells in her body and relieve the pain that she's been feeling lately. I will also need to strengthen her stamina and her bones so that she would stay conscious when time comes. Apitoxin might be a common poison but if it is manufactured by humans and extracted from the bee's body it will become tyrannicidal.

If I can get over this I will then check Xie'er and grandfather's constitutions, they might also be suffering from poison. When everything is done I will then focus on training and strengthening Yao Army. We need to grow strong because brother will relay on us, I will also acquire a brothel house so I can establish an information network in the kingdom and branch in other kingdoms. That way I'll have eyes and ears everywhere and I will keep my family safe. The idea of my brother becoming the emperor was already a great risk, and right now even the branches of Yao family is no exception from the threats coming to us.