"Madam likes quietness, and this is the backyard, how many people have come here?" Xiang Sao thought carefully for a moment and answered: "Except for Boss Guo who comes to give the young master a lesson every other day, only Madam and Miss Hu Niu would enter the young master's room."

"When the gang leader came to teach Xiao Teng, I always avoided him." Chen Huaixiu explained in a low voice.

Zhao Hao nodded. There are always gossips around a widow, so one should avoid suspicion. Everyone understands that.

"Then will you serve on the side during class?" Li Shizhen asked Zhao Hao's question like a megaphone.

"Boss Guo didn't allow us to do that. He said that people like us are not worthy of listening to the books of sages." Sister Xiang shrank her neck and said, "So I stayed outside during class."

Li Shizhen and Zhao Hao looked at each other. Gang Leader Guo had the conditions and motive to commit the crime.

But the two will not jump to conclusions easily.

Li Shizhen also gave Xiang Sao a prescription and told her to go home and fry it and eat it. Her poisoning was much less serious than that child's, and she should get better soon.

After Xiang Sao left, Chen Huaixiu, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly asked in a low voice, "Excuse me, sir, vomiting and diarrhea, blood in the stool, high fever to the point of convulsions, purple lips, and red spots on the body after death, is this mercury poisoning?"

Li Shizhen thought for a moment and said slowly, "From what you said, it sounds like the symptoms of a stroke caused by mercury poisoning."

"Then why is the difference so big?" Chen Huaixiu bit his pale lips, and his eyes became scattered.

"This is because the mercury enters the body through the mouth, so the symptoms are naturally very different from the child's who had it enter the body through the nose." Li Shizhen still answered slowly and firmly, like an emotionless medical robot.

"However, I will not make a judgment without seeing the patient. Symptoms can be deceiving. Only after mutual verification can misdiagnosis be greatly reduced."

"But, the person has been dead for a year..." Chen Huaixiu shook his head, tears rolling down his face.

"No problem." The medical robot replied, "According to what you said, the deceased must have taken a large amount of mercury. Not only would the bones turn black, but there would also be mercury attached to them."

After a pause, he continued, "If he's been dead for a year, we don't even need to hire a coroner to do it."

Chen Huaixiu covered his mouth with the back of his hand and cried bitterly.

Zhao Hao looked at Li Shizhen helplessly and reminded her softly, "Being more tactful could kill someone."

Seeing that the financier was unhappy, Li Shizhen quickly changed his words and said as tactfully as possible: "It is said that mercury can prevent the body from decaying, and even make the dead seem alive again."

Chen Huaixiu burst into tears in the arms of the woman with thick eyebrows, heartbroken.

Zhao Hao patted his forehead and turned his head away. This old Li was good at treating illnesses but not at being a good person. He couldn't make it in the Imperial Hospital at the beginning. I'm afraid it was not just because he couldn't persuade the emperor.

Seeing this, Li Shizhen couldn't help but worry whether his research funding would be cut...

Seeing Chen Huaixiu crying so hard that she almost fainted, Zhao Hao and Li Shizhen felt awkward standing there.

Li Shizhen packed up the medicine box, and Zhao Hao said goodbye, "If there is nothing else, we will go back first."

"Please wait a moment." Chen Huaixiu suddenly struggled to stand up, and pleaded with red eyes: "Can you two stay overnight?"

"Isn't this necessary?" Li Shizhen frowned. He had a lot of things to do in the hospital, so how could he have the time to waste time here?

Zhao Hao was waiting for her to say this. He glared at Li Shizhen and said to Chen Huaixiu with a smile, "Madam, is there anything else?"

"I do have a favor to ask for." Chen Huaixiu seemed to have made a great decision and nodded heavily, "The person I just mentioned is my late husband. Please help me open the coffin and conduct an autopsy to find out the truth!"

"Ah?!" The thick-browed couple was shocked and hurriedly advised: "Madam, this, this, will it disturb the ghost of the gang leader?"

"If my late husband was really poisoned to death, and I was confused and didn't find out the truth, he would really die with hatred." Mrs. Shen's expression became more determined.

"If I am overthinking it, he won't blame me if he knows the current situation of our family."

Zhao Hao felt his scalp tingling after hearing this. This woman is really a ruthless character.

"Sir, can you help me with this?" Master Zhao looked at Li Shizhen but did not give a direct order.

Because he knew that doctors and coroners were different professions, and almost no doctor was willing to touch a dead body.

However, Li Shizhen said sternly, "Mr. Meng has not abandoned me and appointed me as the first dean of the medical school. How can I discriminate against forensic medicine?"

Then he said to Chen Huaixiu, "You send someone to the county to ask the magistrate to issue a document to open the coffin and conduct an autopsy. Then I will go all out to help you dig the grave."

The thick-browed couple could not help but stand in awe. They originally thought that although this Doctor Li was skilled in medicine, he was cold-hearted.

Only then did I realize that Mr. Li was a man of cold appearance but warm heart, and a kind-hearted person.

"No need to go to so much trouble..." Chen Huaixiu said sadly, "My late husband has not been buried yet. His coffin is temporarily placed in the ancestral hall."

"Oh." Li Shizhen was not surprised by this. At that time, the time of burial of the deceased was very particular. It was not uncommon for someone to not be buried for several years.

"Because it is widely rumored that Sansha will collapse like Yaoliusha," Chen Huaixiu explained. "I am afraid that his body will be gone, and I don't want to leave him alone on the island, so I plan to find another suitable place to bury him after everything is settled."

Zhao Hao glanced at Chen Huaixiu and thought that it didn’t matter if he was buried, Sansha would not collapse.

But he would not tell everything like he did to his disciples. Firstly, they were not familiar with each other. Secondly, this was his trump card over the Shachuan Gang, so how could he reveal it to Chen Huaixiu?

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At dusk, Li Shizhen left Haisha Town, and Chen Huaixiu personally went to the dock to see him off.

But Mrs. Shen's mood was completely different from the joy and excitement she had when she welcomed him. Anyone could tell from her red and swollen eyes that she was trying hard to suppress her sadness.

"I'm sorry, ma'am." Li Shizhen showed an apologetic expression for the first time. "I can't help you much."

"Sir, you are too kind. This is the child's fate." Mrs. Shen took a deep breath and said with a wandering look: "This is fate, just like Sansha Island. What is coming will eventually come..."

"It's difficult to sail at night. Please send Doctor Li to Xisha for me." Mrs. Shen instructed the man with thick eyebrows again.

The thick-browed man responded, rowed a sand boat, lit a lantern, and led the way.

Mrs. Shen watched the sand ship leave the dock, then wiped her tears for a long time at the dock before returning to town.

This required no acting at all; no matter what the results of the autopsy that evening, her grief was overwhelming.

The evening breeze gently ruffled Mrs. Shen's hair, causing her deep sadness to spread, shrouding the entire pier in darkness.

Many sailors squatted down and held their heads, sobbing. Is the Shen family going to be extinct?

The Shachuan Gang is no longer named Shen, is it still the Shachuan Gang?

Will the Sand Ship Gang also disappear along with the demise of the Paracel Islands?

The people of the Sand Boat Gang were also deeply saddened.

ps. Third update. Please give me a monthly ticket!