The Poison Cultivator Married the Crippled Heir novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: The Executor Moves
Yuhang did not move.
"Come in, Bao," he said. "Close the door."
The old man shut it and stood with his hands folded over his apron.
"I did the brewing," he said. "All of it. Nobody else touched the pot."
Wanqing's fingers closed on the ledger.
"Forty years ago I was a hired boy in the Gray Reed Valley," Bao said.
"I worked two winters for the old master, then took a post in the Shen kitchens.
"I never told anyone what I had learned. A poison cultivator in a sect house gets hanged."
"Go on," said Yuhang.
"Three years ago the Executor came to my pantry himself. He had Chi Wenhe's recipe in his hand. He had found out what I was."
Bao's voice shook once and steadied.
"He said the darts were sleeping thorns.
"He said they would only put you under for a month, so you'd miss the Gathering.
"He said if I refused, he would hang me and put your household out of the gate."
"And you believed him."
"I wanted to," said Bao. "Heaven forgive me, I wanted to."
He touched his cloudy eye.
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