Chapter 24 Master, We've Lost a Lot
“This, this…”
The officer hesitated and couldn't say anything for a long time.
Wu Xu simply stepped forward and snatched the pieces of Chuanwu away: "If you can't even do such a simple thing, what use are you!"
The officer was startled and subconsciously reached out to snatch it back, but as soon as he moved, he remembered that there were so many people watching around, so he barely held back.
The woman was also confused: "Tung oil? What tung oil? "
Ye Chutang raised his chin slightly, and Ye Jingyan immediately stepped forward and opened a whole row of medicine cabinet compartments.
The tung oil that has not yet dried has a faint oily luster, and the air is filled with a very faint but not negligible smell.
Ye Chutang said, "Actually, I've wanted to do this for a long time, but I was busy before and didn't make time for it. It just so happened that I had some free time recently, so I asked Ah Yan and Ah Feng to do it. But they both have to go to the academy for classes on weekdays, so they finally squeezed out some free time today."
She sighed with some regret, "This Sichuan Wu looks pretty good, but it's a pity that it can't be used now."
There was dead silence inside and outside the small courtyard.
It takes three hours for this layer of tung oil to dry completely, but there are traces of it on those pieces of Chuanwu, which shows that they were just put in!
The woman began to panic, she never expected that Ye Chutang would actually cut off the source of the problem!
Yang Zhen stared at the pieces of Chuanwu with a serious expression. At this point, no one could figure out what was going on!
"No!" the woman suddenly retorted sharply, "This medicine cabinet belongs to you, and you must have put the things in it!"
Ye Chutang asked back leisurely, "Oh? What you mean is that I emptied the medicine cabinet, applied a layer of tung oil, and before it dried, I put the wine-soaked Chuanwu in it?"
The woman's face turned red and white, and she was speechless.
Ye Chutang said again: "It's really interesting. I didn't release anything, but only the one who brought poison and harmed people? Are you afraid that someone will find out?"
A series of rhetorical questions left the lady speechless.
Yang Zhen asked the woman in a deep voice: "What else do you have to say?!"
The woman's eyes rolled around in panic, and she finally sat down on the ground and started crying, "My Lord Magistrate! I don't know! I really don't know anything! I didn't find that thing, it has nothing to do with me!"
Hearing this, the official who had previously uncovered the Sichuan worm opened his eyes wide and said angrily, "What do you mean by that?"
Isn't this clearly implying that there is something wrong with him?
The woman did not respond to him, but continued to cry and wipe her tears, shouting that she was innocent.
At this point, everyone could guess what had happened. It must have been that the officer who had put the things into the compartment of the medicine cabinet while he was rummaging through it, trying to take the opportunity to slander her.
And it is very likely that he and the woman worked together to do it, otherwise she would not shout that she wanted to come over to search the clinic.
Yang Zhen frowned and said, "Are you going to talk about this here, or back at the government office?"
Going back to the yamen means there is a high chance that he will be punished.
The official realized something was wrong and finally knelt down with a plop: "Sir! It's all her! She ordered me to do it! She gave me fifty taels of silver and told me to secretly put this thing here! I don't know anything else!"
"Don't spit blood on me!" The woman jumped up in shock and immediately rushed towards the man, "I'll tear your mouth apart!"
But how could she be a match for the other person? She just scratched a bloody mark on the other person's face and was kicked out.
Both of them looked extremely embarrassed. At this point, who could care about anything else? The most important thing was to save their own lives!
Ye Chutang raised his hand to cover his lips and yawned softly.
She was really tired of watching the dog-eat-dog drama.
"Just now you said that if we didn't find anything, you would do whatever I asked you to do, right?"
The woman stopped moving suddenly, looked up with disheveled hair and panicked look.
Ye Chutang's lips curled up: "Then tell me, who asked you to do this?"
She had no grudge against this woman, so it was obvious that she was motivated by profit.
She probably already had the answer in her mind, but she needed the woman to say it in public.
Hearing her question, the woman's eyes flashed with panic, and she shook her head repeatedly: "No, no! No one ordered me to do it!"
Perhaps she realized that the truth had been revealed and it was useless to argue, so she simply admitted it.
"It's me! I was not feeling well when I was seeing you for treatment before, so I wanted to take revenge on you, so I came up with this idea!"
Pop.
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Ye Chutang clapped her hands slowly, with an expression of admiration: "I never thought that you, an ordinary woman, would understand pharmacology and know that Chuanwu soaked in wine is poisonous. You can also take out fifty taels of silver to bribe the official and let him do things for you. It's really admirable."
These words made the woman turn pale.
Anyone with a discerning eye could see that there must be someone behind her.
Her expression changed, and then she gritted her teeth, turned her head and ran towards the wall!
Ye Chutang seemed to have expected this and said calmly, "A Feng."
The next moment, a strong and tall figure flashed by quickly, and arrived first, blocking the woman!
It’s Ye Yunfeng!
He raised his arm, grabbed the woman's wrist and pulled it hard!
A huge pulling force came, and the woman didn't even have the strength to struggle, and was thrown to the ground.
Ye Yunfeng snorted coldly: "You want to die without making things clear? You wish! You——"
Suddenly, he paused and looked up at Ye Chutang in silence.
"Sister, she fainted."
I don’t know if I was scared.
Ye Chutang didn't care: "It's OK as long as he's not dead. He'll wake up someday. Besides, isn't there another one?"
As she spoke, she looked at the officer kneeling on the ground.
Knowing that he had no way to refute it, the official kowtowed frantically with a pale face: "Please spare my life, sir! I was just confused for a moment, please forgive me this time!"
His forehead was bleeding, but Yang Zhen's face remained icy cold: "This is a serious matter. You have done something wrong, so you should be punished! Come! Take him back!"
"yes!"
Seeing the officers taking the people away, Ye Chutang asked loudly, "Sir Magistrate, now that the matter has been clarified, can our clinic be unsealed?"
There was silence for a moment.
Who would have thought that the door was sealed in the morning, and it would be unsealed again in just half a day.
Ye Chutang went back and forth and solved the problem in less than a day.
There were quite a few people watching outside the Ye Clinic. They had seen and heard everything that had happened there.
It won’t work unless it is unblocked.
Yang Zhen had no choice but to raise his hand to the person next to him, and Wu Xu immediately went over and removed the seal on the door.
Ye Chutang bowed to Yang Zhen and said, "Thank you, magistrate, for giving justice to my Ye's Clinic."
Yang Zhen was feeling annoyed, so he responded with a few words and then led his men away, dragging the unconscious woman away with him.
The once noisy courtyard returned to peace again.
Inside the house, Lian Zhou, who had watched all this, murmured:
“…Master, we just paid for half a month’s board and lodging. Isn’t that a big loss?”
(End of this chapter)
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