Not far away, a woman heard the news and chased after them, raising her cane to strike Jiang.

"Enough! Your son wanted to smell that rat poison, what does that have to do with me? Now that he's dead, what's the point of not throwing him into the mountain stream?"

Jiang pushed her mother-in-law to the ground, and everyone moved from the battlefield to join in the fun.

"My foolish son, how could he fall for this wicked woman's tricks?"

Li Yonghe's son, Li Pangdan, defended the old lady, saying, "Grandma, it was Shanniang who killed my father!"

The old woman's eyes were filled with anger as she looked at Liang Shuyan in the crowd. She got up from the ground, raised her cane, and smashed it down on Liang Shuyan!

How could things have come to this? She only wanted to punish Li Yonghe, but now a murder has occurred?

Although she was terrified, Liang Shuyan knew what was going on. She had only added some sleeping potion to the rat poison. So why did Li Yonghe die?

The old man from the Li family arrived later. Seeing his wife's agitated state, he immediately stopped her, saying, "Don't get agitated. Let's ask the authorities to come and examine the body. A murder has occurred. Da Shan's mother, no matter how deep the hatred between our two families was, how could you be so heartless as to kill the only bloodline of my Li family!"

Seeing that the situation was not good, Jin Dashan pulled Jin Erniu over: "What, what should we do? Mother said that he was only temporarily unconscious, how could this happen?"

Jin Erniu frowned: "So Li Yonghe is really gone? Does that mean Mother is going to go to jail?"

"Going to jail isn't important, what's important is that Mother will be hanged!"

There was a commotion in the crowd. Li Lanfang had carefully studied the rat poison at home and could prove that there was nothing in it except for a small amount of sleeping potion. So why would Li Yonghe bleed from all seven orifices after just one sniff?

Based on Li Lanfang's years of experience, the rat poison was fine. Li Yonghe must have eaten something else. Otherwise, how could he have died after just one sniff?

No, she had to explain clearly. Liang Shuyan had just transmigrated to this place. Poor child, how could she have been involved in such a thing?

The commotion caused by the elderly couple in the Li family quickly attracted even more people. Since this place was not far from Ningyuan Town, the people from the Ningyuan Town government soon arrived!

The villagers then carried Li Yonghe's body out and placed it on a wooden board.

The officials from the government office brought along a coroner, who examined Li Yonghe's body and shook his head: "Impossible. Where's the rat poison? Let me smell it and see if he'll die."

Upon hearing this, Li Zheng hurriedly stopped him: "Coroner, you mustn't! That Li Yonghe just now didn't listen to advice, which led to this situation. We can't be careless about this matter!"

Li Lanfang walked out from the crowd, pointed at Li Yonghe lying on the wooden board, and said, "How could rat poison kill you with just a whiff? Li Yonghe must have eaten something deadly to cause this."

The coroner thought about it and realized it made sense. He looked the old woman up and down and said slowly, "What's wrong? How do you know about this, old lady? Did you get the rat poison? Tell me, where is the rat poison? Show it to me!"

In her previous life, Li Lanfang was an attending physician at a top-tier hospital. How could she not see through such a thing?

A murmur arose from the crowd: "We dare not try it. What if we end up like Li Yonghe? Wouldn't that mean more deaths?"

"But how will we know if this rat poison is actually poisonous if we don't try it?"

Li Zheng stepped forward: "Since the matter was caused by Aunt Dashan, let Aunt Dashan try to smell it. In any case, the coroner must not try to smell it. In case anything goes wrong, Aunt Dashan should try it."

Liang Shuyan snorted coldly; wasn't this just a way to make her try?

Should she try? Then she would try, otherwise, given the situation today, they clearly wouldn't let her off the hook.

“Okay, I’ll give it a try!” Liang Shuyan stepped forward.

Dashan and Erniu hurriedly cried out, "Mother, Mother, can't you try it?"

Soon, her two sons were taken away, but Li Lanfang nodded to her daughter, meaning that she could try it without worry, and that there was nothing wrong with the rat poison.

Liang Shuyan took out the packet of rat poison, held it in front of her, smelled it twice, and then stood aside.

The crowd fell silent, waiting for a miracle to happen.

Jin Dashan, Jin Erniu, and Jin Sanwang burst into loud sobs; the men's cries were truly chilling.

Liu and Zhang wept bitterly, while Li Lanfang looked around with disdain.

Sure enough, half an hour later, Liang Shuyan showed no adverse reaction whatsoever.

Li Lanfang walked towards Li Zheng: "Li Zheng, now you see, this matter has nothing to do with my daughter-in-law. It must be something that Li Yonghe ate that caused that."

The coroner breathed a sigh of relief and examined Li Yonghe's body. Sure enough, he found a large amount of toxic substances in his abdominal cavity.

“Li Yonghe must have eaten something before she died, otherwise she wouldn’t have died. Tell me, Jiang, what did your family eat?”

Jiang then remembered the wild mushrooms they had eaten the day before. Pointing to a large tree not far away, she said, "That's it, right there. We picked some wild mushrooms and cooked them. Li Yonghe is a selfish person. He always eats the most of the good food at home and doesn't let me or the children eat any."

The coroner hesitated for a moment, then instructed one of his attendants, "Go and pick some wild mushrooms. I want to see if they're poisonous."

Liang Shuyan finally understood that it must have been the poisonous mushrooms that Li Yonghe ate that caused his death.

After a while, the coroner tested the poisonous mushrooms he had picked and found that they were indeed poisonous. What was worse, Li Yonghe had eaten too many mushrooms.

"Alright, this rat poison has nothing to do with him. Even without today's rat poison, he would have died anyway. Now, get ready to bury him."

The incident occurred near Ningyuan Town, and the prefectural magistrate naturally did not want such a thing to happen on his territory. So he issued an ultimatum to the magistrate: "I order you famine refugees to leave Ningyuan Town immediately. If a few more people are killed or injured, I will lose my official position."

Although it was proven that there was nothing wrong with the rat poison, the Li family still harbored resentment towards Aunt Dashan.

"Old Mrs. Dashan, this vicious woman, Fatty, you are the only bloodline of the Li family. You remember this, you must avenge your father!" The old lady of the Li family said through gritted teeth, then turned and left.