Chapter 124 Cheating a Child
"Pa pa pa"
Shen Wangshu applauded him and said as he did so, "That's exactly what I said. Does the Duke's Mansion need these few pearls to fill the bottom of the water? To the point of risking His Majesty's blame by breaking the water tank to steal them?"
She was outside the house just now and few people saw her. Now she came into the school room, her stunning beauty seemed to light up the whole room. The children were stunned and suddenly thought that some fairy had descended to earth.
After a while, someone asked quietly, "Is this Doctor Shen?"
In order to control the disease, Shen Wangshu had been personally visiting every household in the city to see patients during this period of time. Therefore, many people knew that the general's wife actually had superb medical skills and could treat both major and minor illnesses.
It is normal that there are children in the academy who recognize her.
Shen Wangshu smiled and said, “It’s me. I’m the parent of our Hao brother.”
Breaking the imperial gift could be a big or small matter. After all, the northern border is so far away, and now it is almost the territory of the general who guards the country. If no one reports it, no one will know about it. However, since the general's wife has come in person, the dean of the academy still has to step in to deal with it.
The dean and Master Liu came here together when the bell rang before the afternoon class. Seeing Shen Wangshu, they saluted respectfully: “Meet the general’s wife.”
The two of them were one, two, or three times older than her, and Shen Wangshu hurriedly said, “You two don’t have to be polite, I’m here today for Chen Hao’s matter.”
Unexpectedly, Master Liu's attitude was not as harsh as he imagined. Instead, he was quite warm: "The fish tank was found broken this morning. After we checked it out at noon, we also felt that this matter was indeed strange and it was unlikely to be done by the young master."
Having been Chen Hao's homeroom teacher for several years, Master Liu knows him well enough. If he really did it, he should have decisively reached out his hand and slapped him on the palm - this little devil has never denied his mistakes, and now he feels so wronged, it is very likely that he did not do it.
Besides, what they said was right. The Rongguo Mansion was not short of those pearls at all. If that person wanted to put the blame on someone, he should put the blame on someone more reliable. There are so many loopholes... It's really laughable.
"Master? But we clearly found the lost pearls from his desk this morning!" a child shouted with his eyes wide open.
Chen Hao also shouted at him: "Wei Lanxuan! I suspected that you stole the pearl and put it on my table! Are you slandering me?"
"Nonsense! How could it be me!"
Seeing that the two children were about to start a quarrel, Master Liu frowned and shouted, "Quiet!"
When they stopped talking, Shen Wangshu whispered, "Can you please tell me again what happened this morning, Mr. Wei?"
Wei family... It seems that there is only one young master of the Wei family who can study in the aristocratic class of Xiaoshan Academy.
He is one of the famous wealthy families in the city.
Shen Wangshu looked at him with a smile, and the young master Wei secretly glared at his mortal enemy, and said proudly and boldly: "Today I was the first to discover that the fish tank was broken. The fish inside are dead, and the pearls have disappeared."
"Yesterday, Chen Hao took a Cuju to play in the school room. Everyone saw it! And the pearls in his desk drawer all rolled onto the floor. Who else could it be but him?"
At first glance, Wei Lanxuan's words do make sense, but -
"The Cuju I picked up yesterday was very light, it couldn't break the fish tank at all!" Chen Hao was so angry that he grabbed a handful of pearls from his table pocket and threw them on the ground: "How many times do I have to tell you that I don't care about these pearls! I have plenty of them in my room!!"
Shen Wangshu leaned over and picked one up: "The pearls that fill the fish tank have been soaked in water for many years, and they should have lost their luster long ago, and their surface would become very wooden. This pearl... is round and full, and the color is bright and lustrous, how could it be a pearl from the fish tank?"
What kid doesn't even understand this common sense and yet learns to frame others?
Chen Hao put his hands on his waist and said, "My sister-in-law is right! This is not the pearl in the fish tank at all! The shape doesn't even match!"
We often pass by the fish tank and have visited it so many times that we have some impression of it. Now we all take a look and realize -
"It seems to be true. These pearls look brand new!"
"The pearls in the fish tank are old pearls, and some are round and some are flat. These are round."
The children's statements change every time. When they first came in, they were condemning Chen Hao, but now they are questioning him.
Shen Wangshu glanced at Wei Lanxuan, who looked unhappy, and paid a little attention, and indeed heard what he was thinking: [How...how could it be different? They are all pearls, how can there be any difference! 】
[If they start to suspect that it wasn't Chen Hao who did it, then I'll be in trouble... No, no, no, no one will suspect me, I have already dealt with everything! 】
Chen Wangshu thought to himself, it is you, the little mischievous thing, I will scare you to death.
"Of course, what I want to talk about today is not the pearls, but the transparent fish—" She deliberately dragged out her tone: "I took a look when I passed by the fish tank just now. The fish came from a country near the sea outside the country. It was fished up from the seabed. Its body is transparent and mushroom-shaped, with many transparent tentacles underneath."
"When attacked, these tentacles will sting."
The dean stroked his beard and asked, "What would happen if this fish stung someone?"
"On the first day, the skin where you were stung will be red, swollen, itchy, and stinging and burning."
"Then, depending on the constitution of different people, the toxicity will slowly set in, and the next day you may feel shortness of breath, chest tightness and shortness of breath."
"Wait until the poison spreads throughout the body..."
Every time Shen Wangshu said something, he would glance at Wei Lanxuan’s expression, and looked at his whole face pale with satisfaction, and said: “In short, you must get treatment as soon as possible, otherwise the consequences will be very bad.”
"But since it was Chen Hao who moved the fish tank, then no one present should be stung, right?"
Wei Lanxuan thought about the back of his hand that was red, swollen, itchy and painful, and he didn't sleep well the whole night. He felt as if he had been hit on the mark. He felt chest tightness, shortness of breath, and discomfort all over.
That fish…that fish is actually poisonous! !
No wonder he felt pain on the back of his hand when he fished it out yesterday. It turned out it was not an illusion!
Wei Lanxuan's face was pale. He didn't dare to tell any lies at this moment. He knelt down with a plop: "I'm sorry, I did it. It has nothing to do with Chen Hao... Please save me!"
The general's wife could describe the characteristics and appearance of the fish in such detail, even the reaction after being poisoned. She came here today specifically for this matter, so there must be a way to save him!
Wei Lanxuan stretched out his swollen hand with a trembling hand, and covered his chest with his other hand while trying to breathe. He felt that he really didn't want to live long: "Save me, I don't want to die..."
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