The third cousin of the Liu family knelt below the hall, drenched in cold sweat, his entire body almost collapsing to the ground.
He could no longer hear what the registrar was saying; only one sentence echoed in his mind: What to do, what to do? Now, all he could do was push everything onto the confused Manager Liu!
If we can just hold on until today, and wait a few more days until she is completely poisoned, then there will be no way to prove anything!
After the registrar finished speaking, he pushed Manager Liu forcefully, "Your Honor, please investigate! Only my cousin knows whether she was sober or not. Now that she is in this state, how can she defend herself? How can anyone else judge whether she was sober that day?"
If my cousin says that she was confused and somehow tricked into signing the contract, there might still be a chance to turn things around.
If Manager Liu insists that he was drugged and confused when he signed the contract, then the red contract is invalid.
The biggest mystery in this case is that the transfer price of one hundred taels is simply unbelievable.
Liu's cousin gradually calmed down and continued, "The testimony of Registrar Cao alone is not enough to prove that she was sober that day. My cousin is in this state now, and no one knows whether she was under some kind of spell or drug. That cloth shop is worth at least three or four thousand taels of silver. If she were sober, she would never have transferred it for one hundred taels of silver. If she wasn't bewitched at the time, how could she have signed such an absurd contract?"
Magistrate Sun said, "Since you say that the testimony of Registrar Cao alone is insufficient to prove that she was conscious that day, you may summon the shop assistants and maids from the cloth shop to testify! Guards! Go and bring the original shop assistants and maids from the cloth shop!"
Liu, the cousin, hurriedly said, "Sir, the original employees of the cloth shop are now also employees of the Yun family. It's hard to guarantee that they won't collude. Manager Luo, who lives across the street from the Yun family's cloth shop, also witnessed the events that day. Please summon him as well."
This was exactly what he had expected, and he had already taken care of everything that needed to be taken care of.
Magistrate Sun nodded in agreement and signaled the constables to carry it out.
Soon, the group was brought to the hall. Of course, Xiao Liu and the others testified that Manager Liu was sober, while Manager Luo said that she had acted strangely that day, otherwise she would not have been so confused as to sell the cloth shop for a mere one hundred taels of silver.
Both sides stuck to their own versions of events, resulting in a stalemate.
Seeing that Manager Luo had become unbelievably fat, his weight seemingly heading straight for 200 pounds, Xiao Youran couldn't help but fall into deep thought...
Flipping through her little notebook, she discovered a wish she had made sometime during the day: to gain weight just by taking a breath!
Xiao You Ran: ……
In the past, she might have simply said "it's already been resolved".
Right now, this fat woman is colluding with this Liu Laosan to give false testimony!
So... do all the supporting characters die because of stupidity?
Seeing that Magistrate Sun's expression had hardened, Liu's cousin pressed on, "Moreover, the contract doesn't explicitly state that the Yun family's condition of treating their nephew is attached. Most importantly, my nephew is currently at home, and we can invite a doctor to examine him. Furthermore, his father can testify that he has never suffered from any incurable disease. Why would he joke about the cloth shop? This is the Liu family's only source of income!"
Jiang Youchen said angrily, "His illness is cured, and now you're going back on your word?"
Xiao Youran suddenly calmed down and pressed him down, "Brother, his illness has been cured, so naturally nothing can be diagnosed. But isn't there still someone in this hall who needs treatment?"
Jiang Youchen was overjoyed, "Little sister, you mean—her?"
He pointed to Manager Liu.
Xiao Youran nodded and bowed to Magistrate Sun, saying, "Lord Sun, my brother and I are disciples of the renowned physician Gu. May we be allowed to examine this Manager Liu? Wouldn't it be more credible for her to tell us how she signed the official contract that day?"
Magistrate Sun naturally agreed.
Xiao Youran then gestured for her brother to step forward and take her pulse. She quickly examined her eyelids, tongue coating, and pulse, and soon determined that her mental impairment was caused by an overdose of Han Shi San.
She quickly obtained the antidote pills from her notebook and stuffed them into Manager Liu's mouth.
A moment later, Manager Liu coughed a few times and slowly regained consciousness.
Seeing this scene, she was startled. Xiao Youran whispered a few words to her about the lawsuit.
Everyone was stunned. Who could provide an on-site diagnosis and immediately produce a pill to detoxify?
The first of Liu's cousins exclaimed, "Impossible! How could you have the antidote? Could it be that you poisoned her?"
He knew better than anyone the poison in Manager Liu's body.
Even he doesn't have the antidote, so where did this five-year-old toddler get the antidote?
Xiao Youran rolled her eyes at him and said in a cute but fierce tone, "Am I stupid? I would drug her so you could have a chance to testify against us in court? I almost got beaten to death!"
She cupped her hands in greeting to Magistrate Sun. "Lord Sun, Manager Liu was lucky. I happened to have several antidotes with me, one of which could cure this poison. She was poisoned by an overdose of Cold Stone Powder. For the first three days, she will be dazed and unable to eat or drink. On the seventh day, she will fall into a coma. Even if someone feeds her water and food every day, she will still bleed from all seven orifices and die completely after a month."
Shopkeeper Liu was stunned for a moment, then flew into a rage. She crawled two steps to He Chi's side, grabbed his ear, and began to berate him, "You, He Chi! For a shop and a few taels of silver, you actually dared to poison me?!"
"I didn't know you were going to die, my wife!" He Chi covered one ear with one hand and pointed at his cousin with the other. "It was him! It was him! Your cousin drugged you! He said it would only make you stupid for a few days and then you'd recover. Not only could he get the cloth shop back, but he could also clear his son's name and find him a good girl to marry..."
Manager Liu was trembling with rage. "Third Brother! I've always treated you like my own brother. Over the years, how much have I given you, both openly and secretly! And you actually want to kill me?"
Cousin Liu was taken aback. "No, no, no, cousin, I was just worried that if you lose this cloth shop business, you'll lose your source of income..."
Suddenly, He Chi panicked. "Wife! Something terrible has happened! Our son also took that medicine yesterday, and when I saw him before I left home today, he was acting like a madman! Oh my god! What have I done!"
He began to sob, kowtowing repeatedly to Magistrate Sun, "Waaah, Your Honor, please have mercy! I deserve to die! I was bewitched... I confess everything..."
Half an hour later, He Chi recounted in detail how his cousin from the Liu family persuaded him to turn against the Yun family, how he drugged his wife and son until they were delirious, how he found a lawyer to write the complaint for him, and how he swore that everything had been taken care of so that he could go to court and insist that the Yun family had cheated the cloth shop, and so on.
Shopkeeper Liu pounded on her husband's fists and wept bitterly. Then she knelt down in front of Xiao Youran and pleaded, "Little Divine Doctor, please, please give me the antidote again!"
Xiao Youran shook her head, "This antidote can't be given out casually."
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