He Chi also came to his senses and quickly knelt down, pleading, "Little Divine Doctor, we are so sorry. We shouldn't have been so bewitched and framed you! Please, save my son!"
Xiao Youran nodded, "That's a good idea."
Manager Liu continued to plead, "Please... uh... little miracle doctor, what did you say? You promised to save my son?"
His face lit up with ecstasy.
Xiao Youran nodded, "The dosage of the antidote varies from person to person. I can't just give you the antidote randomly. Once this matter is settled, my brother and I can go to your residence to treat him."
Manager Liu and He Chi both kowtowed in gratitude.
At this moment, Liu turned to her cousin and said hatefully, "Cousin, haven't I treated you well over the past ten years? Why did you harm my son and me?! You're an ungrateful wretch! You poisoned my son and me, and instigated my husband to take back the cloth shop. I'm afraid you just wanted to seize the shop yourself!"
She recalled the day she went to the Yun family's cloth shop to ask for the pills, when her cousin insisted that they were swindlers, and she feared that he had harbored malicious intentions at that time.
Liu's cousin spat, "The cloth shop belongs to the Liu family, which means it's mine! I am the one with the Liu bloodline! What right do you have to sell the Liu family's assets at a low price to save your good-for-nothing son?"
Liu retorted angrily, "This cloth shop was originally part of my mother's dowry, and it's grown to its current size through my father's hard work. It's not Liu family property! Why should it be yours?! Besides, my son is surnamed Liu and is listed in the Liu family genealogy! What's wrong with him inheriting my family property?!"
"So what if your son's surname is Liu? He's still a member of another family!" Liu's cousin said indignantly. "With such a useless father, he'll squander the family fortune sooner or later! That little fairy only had to flatter him a few times before he showered her with money! When I, his third uncle, asked him for a few taels of silver to tide me over, he had to beg and plead. He's the real ingrate!"
Liu felt a lump in her throat, her eyes widening. "Little Fairy? It was you! It was you, wasn't it?! You damned devil!"
He Chi frantically tried to calm his wife, "Madam, what is 'him'? What did he do?"
Liu pounded her chest and burst into tears, “It was that damned man… who took our son to that kind of place… that’s how he contracted that venereal disease… Waaah…”
Everyone in the inner hall, from the high-ranking officials Lord Sun and Magistrate Zhan down to the lowly servants by the door, was shocked.
This is a huge scandal, full of twists and turns!
The people outside the gate, having recovered from their shock, gradually pieced together the whole case and began to whisper among themselves, "This bolt from the blue is indeed a protest against the county magistrate's muddled handling of the case, which almost wronged an innocent person!"
"Exactly! This mother and her two children kindly treated and saved lives, yet they were immediately ordered to be beaten with twenty strokes of the cane. How could two little children withstand twenty strokes? If they were beaten to death or maimed, wouldn't that be two lives lost?"
"No wonder there was thunder in the drought! This thunder is like snow in June! There must be a great injustice!"
"Isn't that right? That third son of the Liu family is truly despicable. Manager Liu has already taken in a son-in-law because he wants a son to carry on the family line, but he actually wants to kill him off and make him childless!"
"It's not just about making Manager Liu childless, it's about ruining her family! Once she and her son are dead, where will that son-in-law have a place to stand? Wouldn't it be perfectly legitimate for Liu Laosan to seize their family property?"
"Luckily, this young master appeared out of nowhere. I initially thought he was going to bully people... but I didn't expect this Magistrate Feng to be so shrewd..."
"This Magistrate Feng is incredibly audacious! He dared to disregard human life while Magistrate Sun was away! Fortunately, Magistrate Sun returned in time!"
"Magistrate Sun is truly an upright and just official!"
Madam Sun smiled.
Madam Yun breathed a long sigh of relief.
Magistrate Sun then pronounced his verdict in court, "The facts of this case are clear, with witnesses and physical evidence present. The defendants are innocent and are hereby released. As for the plaintiff, the woman Liu, she is also a victim and is also released without charge. You two, you poisoned Liu and her child first, and then falsely accused the Yun family; you are guilty of multiple crimes and will be punished accordingly. Even worse—"
His expression turned grave. "He Chi, the third son of the Liu family! You said you had bribed the officials, could you be referring to Magistrate Feng?"
He Chi collapsed into his wife's arms, his eyes blurry with tears. "Madam, I really knew nothing about this! It was all my cousin who did it! He even took a thousand taels of silver from me!"
After expressing their gratitude, the six members of the Su family helped each other to the side.
Magistrate Sun slammed his gavel again, "Third son of the Liu family, why don't you confess the truth?! Confess and you'll be treated leniently!"
Knowing that all was lost, Liu Laosan nodded weakly, "Yes, it's Magistrate Feng. I've already made an agreement with his wife; I'll give her two thousand taels of silver after I take the cloth back to the shop..."
Magistrate Sun then ordered his men to bring County Assistant Magistrate Feng to the courtroom. "Bold County Assistant Magistrate Feng, you have knowingly broken the law! The evidence is irrefutable! Do you have anything to say?!"
County Magistrate Feng's face turned ashen. He rolled his eyes and forced a defense, "Sir, what He Chi said is incorrect. The one colluding with him is not me, but my wife!"
The crowd erupted in uproar. "What? Colluding with the county magistrate's wife is the same as colluding with the county magistrate himself?"
But then Magistrate Feng continued, "Sir, I know nothing about what kind of agreement my wife reached with him or what promises she made!"
Aunt Yun, who was outside, almost fainted when she heard this.
Is this her husband of decades?! And now he's shifting the blame onto her after everything goes wrong?
Magistrate Sun slammed his gavel, "Guards! Summon the County Magistrate's wife!"
Soon the bailiffs brought Aunt Yun Liu to the hall.
Magistrate Feng winked at her, "Madam, you must quickly explain to Lord Sun what agreement you made with this Liu Laosan. I know nothing about it!"
Magistrate Sun slammed his gavel. "Madam Feng, according to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, anyone who accepts bribes exceeding three hundred taels of silver will be punished ranging from public humiliation to exile and confiscation of property. You must confess the truth!"
Aunt Yun trembled and glared angrily at Magistrate Feng.
County Magistrate Feng frantically winked at her and even mouthed two words.
Sacrificing herself to save the entire Feng family, especially her daughter, is worth it!
Aunt Yun understood the look in her husband's eyes, and she also understood the two words he said.
That was the name of her only daughter, now the only daughter who had been divorced and sent home.
Thinking of her daughter, her initial anger suddenly subsided.
She struggled internally, opened her mouth, uttered the word "I," and then could say nothing more.
Is she going to shoulder everything alone?
She was unwilling to accept it!
When she opened her mouth, a gaping hole in her front tooth was revealed, dark and comically comical.
Magistrate Feng was utterly disgusted by this, which only strengthened his resolve to make her take the blame.
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