Aunt Wu also shook her head.
Li Xiyue smiled and said, "The medicine is fine."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, except for Wang Shitou, who said, "How could there be no problem? There's so much Prunella vulgaris, wouldn't that kill someone?"
"Don't you know nothing about herbs? How do you recognize Prunella vulgaris? How do you know there's a lot of Prunella vulgaris in this packet of medicine?" Uncle Xu asked rhetorically.
Wang Shitou quickly covered his mouth, realizing he was in trouble.
Uncle Xu snorted coldly, "Did you tamper with the medicine?"
It's summer now, and there's plenty of selfheal on the mountain. This kid probably tampered with the medicine.
"What's going on?" Xu Guoqiang asked seriously.
Li Xiyue said, "Aunt Wu was treated for lumps by me. The prescription I gave her included dandelion and prunella vulgaris to disperse blood stasis and resolve lumps. However, these two herbs are very cold in nature. Aunt Wu has a weak spleen and stomach, and using such cold herbs would harm her spleen and stomach. Therefore, I added ginger to balance the cold nature of the two herbs, and the dosage was also reduced."
“But there was no ginger in this bag of dregs. Instead, the amount of Prunella vulgaris was three times the usual amount. I’m certain that someone tampered with it. I just asked Uncle Wang and Aunt Wu if they knew anything about medicine, and they both said they didn’t. But Uncle Wang was able to name the herb Prunella vulgaris and the dosage.”
"Therefore, I am certain that it was Uncle Wang who tampered with the medicine."
After his initial frustration, Wang Shitou realized he had been tricked by Li Xiyue and, unwilling to accept it, retorted, "Do you know I was the one who tampered with the Xia Ku Cao? Maybe you made a mistake when you prescribed the medicine."
“Every prescription and every medicine issued by the clinic is meticulously recorded, traceable, and undergoes repeated verification, making it absolutely impossible to prescribe the wrong medicine,” said Li Xiyue.
Wang Shitou argued illogically, "You prescribed the medicine, you got the prescription, and you were the one who recorded it. How would outsiders know if it was right or wrong? Anyway, I didn't touch the medicine. You have no evidence; you're just framing me."
“Of course I have evidence.” Li Xiyue looked at Wang Shitou. “After touching Xia Ku Cao, there will be marks on your hands. Do you dare to show me your hand?”
Wang Shitou instinctively hid his hands behind his back, looking guilty.
“If you don’t dare, then you’re the one who did it,” Li Xiyue said.
Xu Guoqiang shouted, "Wang Shitou, put your hand out."
Deputy Captain Wang also said, "Stone, if you didn't do it, just stretch out your hand and let Dr. Li see it. That will also prove your innocence."
Wang Shitou gritted her teeth and decided to go for it. She refused to believe that this girl could really see through anything.
Li Xiyue stepped forward and, with a barely perceptible wave of her hand, sprinkled a transparent liquid onto his hand. When the setting sun shone on it, faint red marks immediately appeared on his hand. "Look, everyone, after touching the herb Prunella vulgaris, your hand will show red marks under the sun."
As she spoke, she placed her and Xu Baiwei's hands in the sunlight, where they both had red marks. "Weiwei and I both touched them, so our hands have marks."
Others reached out their hands, but none did.
"It really is you!" Xu Guoqiang roared, "You dare to frame Dr. Li!"
Deputy Captain Wang rubbed his face, thinking, "What an idiot."
Wang Shitou rubbed his hands vigorously. "Impossible, I washed my hands several times..." Realizing he had said the wrong thing, he tried to make amends. "I was helping my wife brew medicine, of course I would come into contact with the medicine, but that doesn't prove that I tampered with it."
Aunt Wu's face was deathly pale. Her husband had never brewed medicine for her. He really had tampered with the medicine. Why would he want to harm her?
Li Xiyue looked at Wang Shitou, not expecting that the old man had some brains and could still make him explain himself.
So what? Is there nothing we can do about it?
She said, "Since Uncle Wang doesn't admit it, then we'll go to his house and see for ourselves. There's no way such a large amount of Prunella vulgaris could be completely without leaving any trace."
"No need." At this moment, Chu Xun walked in from outside.
Li Xiyue exclaimed with delight, "Ah Xun, you're back?"
Chu Xun nodded and said, "When I came back, I saw this woman acting suspiciously outside the clinic. I grabbed her and asked her one question, and she was so scared that she confessed everything. She had some unused Prunella vulgaris that we found at Wang Shitou's house."
He pushed a woman in front of the crowd and threw a basket in front of Wang Shitou, scattering the summer-dried grass inside all over the ground.
Wang Shitou's face immediately turned pale.
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