The servants on both sides were used to seeing this kind of situation, and they hit the ground without hesitation with water and fire sticks in their hands, making mighty sounds in their mouths. The people who were still fighting in the lobby at first slowly separated. The rules in the yamen

, three times of silence is the killing stick.

"This is in court, the grievances have not been settled, and the sentence has not been pronounced yet. How can we identify the medicine shop owner and the apprentice as the murderers?!"

Zhao Zhen looked at the noisy crowd in the hall and said that many people had already gathered in the "auditorium" at the door.

"Your Highness, I have been wronged!" The apprentice cried out first and hurriedly knelt forward: "Anyone who comes with a prescription for medicine will be checked carefully. Shopkeeper Qian is a rich man in the city. How dare you be careless? This Toad Su usually

The dosage is very small, and it will never be used to treat cold and heat symptoms. No matter how stupid you are, you will not use toad cake!"

The shopkeeper on the side quickly stepped forward to confirm his statement: "Your Highness clearly noticed that Xiaolao's medicine shop was handed down from our ancestors, how dare you smash your own sign! I must test Erniu every time he takes medicine, and besides, we

How could the two masters, apprentices and shopkeeper Qian kill people for no reason!"

Zhao Zhen nodded. This is correct. The old store has relied on its famous signboard and credibility to attract customers. Only a fool would deliberately kill people. It is so obvious. This is not just a small matter of smashing the signboard. According to Song Xingtong

If you kill someone intentionally, you will have to pay for your life with your life.

"Who made Yulian's medicine?" Zhao Zhen suddenly asked the shopkeeper Qian on the ground. It was very simple. Since there was no problem with Dr. Sun's prescription or Li Sheng's medicinal materials, the only ones left were those who had access to the medicine.

"It's my little girl's maid, Xiang'er... Your Highness, you mean she poisoned you?! This ignorant white-eyed wolf!" After reacting, shopkeeper Qian immediately got up and walked towards the door, as if he wanted to go back and kill Xiang'er.

Peng Qi quickly stepped forward and stopped him: "Your Highness just summoned Xiang'er to ask clearly, why are you in such a hurry?"

"This is still unclear? Who else can touch this bowl of medicine besides Xiang'er, the maid who cooked the medicine? The shopkeeper and apprentice of Li Sheng's medicine shop have been excluded, and Dr. Sun's prescription is fine, so there is only Xiang'er left.

Are you ready?" Shopkeeper Qian's words were instantly recognized by everyone.

"What a sin! This maid deserves to die. She is capable of such things as killing her master, and she almost dragged us into it!" Sun Langzhong and others shook their heads and sighed bitterly.

Huo Laoqi went out again in depression, couldn't he explain it clearly at once?! Today he ran to two places, one south and one north, and his legs almost broke.

Xiang'er knelt on the ground pitifully and cried out that she was wronged. The people next to her looked disdainful, as if in their eyes she was not a human being at all but garbage. The maid was not an indentured servant, but a slave who was owed a bond.

This was a very common phenomenon in the Song Dynasty. Unlike the helpers, they had no personal freedom and could only work and eat in the master's house. They were sold to the master's family for the rest of their lives.

After patting the gavel, his palms were numb from the shock, Zhao Zhen waved to Peng Qi, who was holding back a smile, and a bowl of reddish-brown juice was delivered to Xiang'er: "Your Highness, you are pitiful and rewarded.

A bowl of ginger soup for you."

Looking at the "ginger soup" handed over by Peng Qi and the young prince in the hall, Xiang'er took it without hesitation and was about to drink it, but Peng Qi quickly took it and nodded to Zhao Zhen.

"Do you know what's in this bowl?"

"Isn't it ginger soup?" Xiang'er asked doubtfully.

"This is toad poison, and it is highly poisonous! How could you not know?"

"Scared! Is this toad venison? But the lady said this is ginger soup, added to the medicine to remove colds!"

Xiang'er came back in surprise, and the situation changed instantly. Everyone in the hall stared at the medicine bowls in Xiang'er and Peng Qi's hands in stunned silence. Could it be that all this was Mrs. Qian's fault?!

"Bitch!!" Shopkeeper Qian was hit one after another, and his spirit had collapsed. First his daughter died, and then the murderer turned into his wife. How could he bear it? He screamed and collapsed softly. Doctor Sun next to him quickly helped him up and pinched him.

It took a long time for people to wake him up.

Seeing the prince looking at him, Huo Laoqi was really speechless. If he had known that he had locked up Mrs. Qian just now, how could he still suffer these two crimes!

"Although this ginger soup and toad soup are the same color, they will turn reddish brown when exposed to water, but they are completely different before boiling. Mrs. Qian did this deliberately!"

As soon as Zhao Zhen's words came out, everyone nodded. Everyone in the hall was either a medicine shop keeper or a doctor. How could he not know the appearance of Toad Su, who deals with medicinal materials all day long? It seems that Mrs. Qian really wants to murder her daughter!

Shopkeeper Qian's face turned purple with anger. He didn't expect that his wife, whom he had been with day and night, could be so cruel and poisoned his daughter, who he usually regarded as the apple of his eye, to death. Even if tiger poison does not eat its children, this bitch is worse than a beast!

Seeing the woman being escorted into the lobby, shopkeeper Qian rushed over like a leopard, trying with all his strength to strangle the frightened woman to death. Fortunately, Huo Laoqi stopped her, otherwise Mrs. Qian would have died.

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"Xiu is fooling around! Your Highness will make the decision for you!" Huo Laoqi kicked Shopkeeper Qian's legs hard and made him kneel on the ground.

Shopkeeper Qian came to his senses and lay down under the Nuan Pavilion in the lobby: "Your Highness, please make the decision for me! This bitch actually killed her own daughter and refused to atone for her crime by cutting her into pieces!"

Zhao Zhen frowned and looked at the shopkeeper Qian who was crying like a baby. His face was now full of regret and pain. After all, the woman he loved most had killed his daughter, and no one would feel bad about it.

"Who is the woman kneeling in the hall?"

"Ms. Qian Liu, a lady from the common people, kowtowed to His Highness the Crown Prince." Mrs. Qian no longer had the strength to stand, and knelt down with her legs weak. She did not expect that she had killed her daughter. At first, she, like Shopkeeper Qian, thought that Dr. Sun had made the wrong order.

The medicine poisoned my daughter to death.

"Do you know the suitable medicinal materials to put into Jade Lotus Medicine?"

"Toad puff... But the monk said that eating this toad puff can get rid of evil spirits!"

"Monk? Evil spirit? Mrs. Qian Liu will tell Gu Daolai exactly what happened!"

The woman's answer surprised Zhao Zhen. Why is the monk still involved? This is a completely unrelated person!

Mrs. Qian sobbed and told what happened. Everyone in the hall, including the people and officials who were watching, were shocked by her words. It turned out that Yulian started talking nonsense after she fell ill, and kept calling the name of a strange man. Qian

The lady felt uneasy, thinking that her daughter had fallen into trouble, so she went to the Great Buddhist Temple in the west of the city to seek advice from an eminent monk.

The so-called "eminent monk" actually said that the toad nectar from toads could ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters, and that the toad nectar from other places was not as effective as his golden toad nectar, but he would not sell it to anyone. Seeing Mrs. Qian's sincerity, he reluctantly parted ways with her.

For this reason, Mrs. Qian gave him all the money and jewelry she had with her, and then she exchanged three taels of toad pods from the "eminent monk" and asked her maid Xiang'er to put them all into the medicine.

The truth of the matter was finally revealed, and the people watching whispered: "What kind of eminent monk is this? He is simply a monster monk who harms people's lives!"

"Mrs. Qian is really stupid. Who doesn't know that toads are poisonous? How could she put it in her own daughter's medicine?"

"It's fair to say! Such a rich family is ruined like this!"

"Mrs. Qian was wrong in this matter, so the demon monk was right?"

"You are a sinner! How could a good monk do such a sinful thing without chanting sutras? He is not afraid that the Buddha will send him to hell!"

"I don't know whether Buddha will punish him or not. His Royal Highness will never let him go."
Chapter completed!