Meng Zhao was not simply waiting for Beitang Ang and his son Beitang He to succumb to the poison without doing anything. The Blood Calamity Poison was exceedingly strange: it lay hidden in ordinary times, but once it erupted, it was like mountain torrents pouring down, impossible to contain.
If Meng Zhao waited until he personally helped the two detoxify, it would likely already be too late. Thus, he had Liang Muqiu dispatch the Meng Family's divine physicians to the City Lord's Mansion.
They were to say they had received word that someone intended to secretly poison the two of them. Though they had the information, they did not know whether it was true, so they had sent divine physicians to examine them.
With just such a pretext, the Beitang father and son would first see the truth for themselves. Only when they were driven into a corner would they know whom to seek for help.
Liang Muqiu acted swiftly. Since the message had come from the Meng Family, Beitang Ang and Beitang He did not dare neglect it. Though they did not take it seriously, they still had the divine physicians sent by the Meng Family take their pulses and examine them.
They had thought it would merely be a routine examination to go through the motions, yet the three divine physicians from the Meng Family all diagnosed the father and son as poisoned, the poison having penetrated deep into their blood, veins, and marrow. There was no hope of saving them.
How could Beitang Ang and Beitang He accept this? After sending away the three divine physicians dispatched by the Meng Family, they hurriedly summoned several physicians maintained by their own residence to diagnose them.
Inside the grandly resplendent main chamber of the City Lord's Mansion, Beitang Ang