Chapter 8 Witnesses
"Oh, sir, I am the old man of your family. I have always been honest and honest. How could I lie? Everything I said is true, it is the spring bamboo shoots they sold to me." The cook looked at the official and held it.
The fingered torture instrument walked in front of her, and she lay on the ground and started howling.
"It's unfair, it's not us who poisoned it. Please observe clearly!" Mingyue glanced at the cook, let out a whistle, and took out a formation that was powerful and powerful to drive the mountains and the world.
Her throat was really caught off guard.
The lady was trembling with fear.
The cook was so scared that he howled and stuck in his throat. He was stunned on the spot, not knowing what lines he should say next.
The county magistrate was so scared that he bounced off the chair. He took a second to reorganize his appearance and pointed at Mingyue angrily, "Come on, I will punish me! The bold and unruly people dared to disturb the court, I will give me my official
Beat hard!"
"Let's wait!" At this time, an elegant monk came from outside the court.
He walked to the court, first stood with one hand and recited the Buddha's words, then pointed at the cook and said, "She lied, I gave her the spring bamboo shoot this morning. I happened to go down the mountain to purchase this morning, and saw
Ming donor and their mountain goods were fresh and begged her to sell them to me. Originally, Ming donor did not agree because she accepted the adult's reservation yesterday, but I told her that there are distinguished guests in Wanfu Temple today, so the distinguished guests like to eat these.
Then she sold them three baskets of spring bamboo shoots and twenty kilograms of yam to me. Finally, I followed her to your back door to explain to the cook, and gave her a spring bamboo shoot."
The cook turned around and glared at the monk, "Who are you? I have never seen you before. How dare a monk slander me if he appears?"
She thought to herself, you dead monk, don’t go back to the temple if you buy something, you will be nostalgic for the world here, and you will not be afraid of being struck by lightning.
The county magistrate slapped the slap in the slap, "Dark wife, stop me!"
The noble lady sitting beside her had already stood up and came to the monk, bowing slightly, "Master Miaoyuan, you are polite!"
Miaoyuan stood with one hand and returned the greeting, "Madam Mu, you are polite!"
The woman in the kitchen is very knowledgeable, but Mrs. Mu knows that although this is a small town in the western border town, and although the Dingxi General who is stationed in the western part of the world usually doesn't come here in Anyuan City, he does not come here every spring and autumn.
They will stay in Wanfu Temple for a while, so it is so convenient to talk about the sutras and treatises with this Master Miaoyuan. I believe that the general is now in Wanfu Temple! Therefore, she was very respectful to Miaoyuan and listened to Miaoyuan.
After saying that, he secretly gave the county magistrate a wink, telling him not to make a big deal of this matter. When the general comes, as his parents official, of course, he must manage the local area to maintain peace and stability.
Miaoyuan turned around and pointed to the melon-eating crowd behind him, "It's not that I am a monk who speaks nonsense. They all saw it when the donor Ming sold things to me. They were all witnesses. Some of them bought pheasants from the donor Ming at that time.
Some people bought yam from her, but in the end most of the yam was sold to me. However, when I came to the back door of the noble house, I explained to the donor Ming. In order to prove my words, I took it at that time.
A bamboo shoot came over to explain, and after the explanation, he gave the bamboo shoots to the cook."
The cook was still trying to argue, and the county magistrate handed over with a look, and the two officials immediately stepped forward and blocked her mouth.
Miaoyuan looked at Mrs. Mu and said, "Dare you ask what poison is in Mr. Ling?"
Mrs. Mu wiped her tears with a handkerchief and said, "It's an excessive amount of arsenic. It was discovered in time and it was vomiting a lot, but the person was still in a coma."
Miaoyuan smiled slightly, "Madam, arsenic is not completely dissolved in water. Even if someone smears the poison on the spring bamboo shoots, can your cooks not take the skin of the vegetables and don't wash them? This is too much
Arsenic..."
Miaoyuan's words are all here.
But Mrs. Mu had already understood that this poison really has nothing to do with the person selling vegetables. It seems that she is restless in her home.
The county magistrate understood it, since it was a private house, the family scandal should not be made public. So he slapped the auspicious wood and immediately pronounced the sentence, "Mingyue and his family are not guilty, released in the hall, the chef is hiding evil intentions and escorted them in
The prison is waiting for the fall.”
Sitting on the ox cart back, Miaoyuan asked Mingyue, "Donor Ming, so yesterday you asked Li Da to inform me that you went down the mountain to buy mountain goods today, but it was a kill of two birds with one stone?"
Mingyue waved her hand, "It's not all. I just looked at the cook yesterday, but I was a poor man and could not refuse the procurement from the county magistrate's family, so I remembered you. My mother didn't often go to add money to sesame oil to you during her lifetime.
Yes, she has a good relationship with you, so now, if I have trouble, I will trouble you to go down the mountain to help me.”
Miaoyuan narrowed his eyes and looked at Mingyue. Why didn't he believe this at all? If you do a little favor, you will find various excuses to keep him for lunch in the town?
In fact, Mingyue can search for the original owner but there are only Miaoyuan, except for the people in this village. It is because Miaoyuan comes to Wangjia Village every spring and autumn to buy herbs with the original owner. As for the original owner, he has some impression of it.
Mingyue is a nonsense when my mother adds money for incense and oil to the temple, but she believes that according to the information she has obtained in the past few days, the original owner will do that, so she is really confused. Miaoyuan said something to her.
No objection.
Brother Wang sent Miaoyuan back to the temple first.
Mingyue asked her two brothers to help me deliver the mountain goods to Miaoyuan into the temple kitchen before they said goodbye to the village.
Mingyue praised Xiao Meng very much in the car.
"Xiao Meng, thanks to the conspiracy you monitored by the county magistrate's concubine yesterday. Thank you for saving us. From tomorrow, I will increase my exercise to ensure that you can store more energy."
Xiao Meng was very modest, "Where is the master who is smart. If you hadn't asked someone to come to find a very powerful person early and so many people to buy groceries early in the morning, this time the matter wouldn't have been solved so easily.
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Mingyue secretly wrote a note to Li Da on the favor book in her heart, and at the same time, she added another person to the small notebook - Miaoyuan.
Brother Wang drove the ox cart and became more and more confused. It turned out that when the girl Mingyue arrived in the town, she didn't go to the government office first, but went to the market first to sell all the mountain goods to Miaoyuan in front of everyone. Is there such a reason?
But how did she know that the son of the county magistrate's family would be poisoned at noon?
The backyard of the county magistrate's house was in chaos at this time.
Mrs. Mu has always been in poor health, and it is her concubine, Aunt Wang, who is taking care of her inner house.
Aunt Wang is the illegitimate cousin of Mrs. Mu's distant family. At that time, Mrs. Mu's stepmother said that Mrs. Mu was in poor health and ordered Aunt Wang to come to help her. She has been relying on her for many years.
At this time, Mrs. Mu was so angry that she was out of breath. The nanny beside her gave her a worry, but she didn't dare to say anything. Everyone with a wink was closed at this time.
My mouth was afraid that I would become the fish that was affected.
Mrs. Mu pointed at the servants kneeling on the ground and panted and shouted angrily: "Okay, you're going to make a big fuss!"
Aunt Wang took a pretentious step forward, "Sister, you are in poor health. Go back and rest first. Leave this matter to me. I will definitely find out the truth for you."
Now that such a big thing has happened, Mrs. Mu will not continue to believe in Aunt Wang even if she is simple. What's more, the people who grew up in the back house of a big family are not confused. She just trusted others before.
Forget it, she angrily slapped the table and said, "You kneel down! Leave it to you? Do I think the man's life is too long? Such an important place in the kitchen can actually make people get in and poison? You still have the face to continue
Housekeeper? Someone came, lock Aunt Wang into the woodshed and dragged the cook who was talking nonsense to me. Sister, go and search the houses of Wei Mother and others for you."
The eldest sister is Mrs. Mu's eldest daughter, sixteen years old this year, and she is a smart and clever person. She took the order and left.
At this time, the son and daughter born by Aunt Wang knelt on the ground crying and begged Mrs. Mu repeatedly, but seeing that she was just breathing and ignored them, they hurried to the county magistrate and cried, "Dad, you can't let it go,"
My mother was locked up, and she was very weak. How can I get sick in the woodshed?"
The county magistrate saw that Aunt Wang was about to be dragged away. He looked reluctant and heartbroken, but he did not dare to speak out when facing the wives' anger. He could only look at his two illegitimate children with pity, "Listen to your mother."
arrange!"
The county magistrate’s surname is Zhang. He was able to rely on the relationship between Yue’s family and be grateful to such a small county magistrate, so he has the ability... It is impossible to say that there is no such thing, but if you have a big talent, you don’t have to rely on Yue’s family.
After searching until evening, the county magistrate's backyard was overturned, but no evidence was found that it was not good for Aunt Wang. Mrs. Mu was still angry and hated and did not release her.
However, they found a hundred taels of silver from the cook's room, and the silver was marked, so the cook hurried the fact that he was ill-intentioned, but Mrs. Mu did not execute her. Mrs. Mu always felt that such a big deal was not
Because you have the courage to do it for a moment of greed.
However, the cook hung up in the dark dungeon, committing suicide for fear of guilt and died.
After hearing what Xiao Meng said to herself, Mingyue put down the bowls and chopsticks lightly. She said to Mu Yunkai and the others: "Eat slowly, I'll go find the village chief and call everyone to pay back the money owed to them in public.
After all, we didn’t write an IOU when we borrowed money, so we had to let everyone testify together so as not to make a mistake.”
Watching Mingyue walk away, Mu Yunhe excitedly told me and my mother and elder brother what happened today.
Mu Yuntian was also very excited, "Mom, brother, our family not only can pay back the money from the villagers, but my sister-in-law also made a lot of extra money with yam today, and bought seeds and farm tools. We don't have to worry about being hungry in the future.
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After hearing this, Mu Lao Niang and Mu Yunkai narrowed their deep eyes together.
What Mu Yunkai thought was: I didn’t expect that my wife was so powerful. If she was a marching and fighting, she could be a military advisor. She must take good care of her.
Old Madam Mu was thinking a lot, but she felt she had to be on guard against the bright moon...
Chapter completed!