Chapter 663: Fake drama to the prefect
Xiang Governor is not acting for the victim's family to see, but half-truth, if the Zuo family can't come up with a result that can satisfy him and the victim's family, he really has to do business.
Although the Zuo family has stuffed him with silver over the years, the silver is not worth it for him to stake his black yarn hat. What he is most afraid of is that the victims' families will make trouble, and once it becomes a civil uprising, his black gauze hat will be like a piece of paper in the wind.
Although his current boss is Jinshi Lian Daning in the same year, he doesn't think that Lian Daning will give him this face and recognize his friendship. Therefore, problems must be dealt with in the bud and must not be left behind.
"Lord Qingtian, the younger second brother has gone to Nanjing to investigate this matter. Fu Rong's batch of medicines was made in Nanjing, even if there was an accomplice and accomplice, it was also in Nanjing, and the little one would definitely find out about this matter and give a satisfactory answer to the eldest man and the villagers. Zuo Wensheng kept going up.
"Well, that's pretty much what you say. In this way, no matter what, this matter is done by the people of your Zuo family, and tomorrow I will hand over 10,000 taels of silver to compensate the victim's family, 500 taels of funeral expenses per person, and 500 taels of family comfort. ”
"The villain must do so, so I will go back and prepare the silver, and I will make up the money by smashing the pot and selling iron." Zuo Wensheng said.
He nodded to the prefect and looked at the crowd standing on either side below.
When the families of the victims on both sides heard this result, they were quite satisfied, especially one thousand taels of silver, which was indeed a lot, and if it weren't for the prefect to make the decision for them, they wouldn't be able to squeeze out one hundred taels of silver from the Zuo family.
"Okay, if you can't hand over 10,000 taels of silver tomorrow, the government will detain people. Retire! Xiang Xiang was shocked by the prefect and announced his retirement.
Zuo Wensheng walked out of the yamen, his clothes were soaked, and he muttered in his heart: "Why is it always me who is injured, those brothers are fine, I have to be cannon fodder, and the ancestors are too, I only know this order and that, I don't know how difficult it is for me." ”
If a person dies, he will have to pay five hundred taels of silver for funeral expenses, plus five hundred taels of silver for his family's consolation expenses, and similarly, he will have to give the prefect this amount as filial piety expenses, and if there are a few more accidents, the Zuo family will be about to go bankrupt.
He pondered, after he went back, he really had to discuss it with his ancestors, first close all the pharmacies, thoroughly inspect all the medicines, and destroy all the fake medicines.
But nothing happened in the previous batches of fake drugs, what is the reason for the death and poisoning of so many people this time?
He walked as he thought about it, but before he had gone far, he was brought back by the officials.
"What's wrong, what's the matter?" Zuo Wensheng shuddered in fright.
"The master is looking for you, I don't know what's going on." The official raised his face to the sky, with a look of not approaching anyone.
Zuo Wensheng had no choice but to come to the second hall tremblingly, but when he saw Xiang Prefect holding a letter in his hand, he saw him come in, so he said, "Did Miss Zuo return to Zuo's house?" ”
Zuo Wensheng trembled with fright when he heard this, how dare he tell a lie, so he had to answer: "Back to my husband and ancestor, my niece has returned home, and she is accompanying my eldest brother and her brother to apologize in front of the ancestral throne." ”
Xiang prefect frowned: "What is her crime?" I'll hear you what you say. ”
Zuo Wensheng smiled bitterly: "Fu Rong is the housekeeper of her niece, and all the medicines are ...... It's all flowing from her. ”
"Are you hinting to the government that Miss Zuo is the mastermind?" Xiang said coldly to the prefect.
"No, no, no." Zuo Wensheng danced his hands again and again.
"You explain it to the government clearly, and don't be vague." Said to the prefect majestically.
"Yes, my lord, I mean that these medicines were originally developed by my niece, and our family is investigating the source of the fake medicines."
"That's the case, how did I hear that it was developed by Childe?" Asked the prefect.
"This ...... My husband is really a god, he has insight into everything, and he even knows this. These medicines are indeed prescriptions developed by Guo Gongzi, but the medicine is made by her niece, and the two of them cooperate. ”
"Well, it seems that they have a lot of relationship, and such a valuable prescription has been given to Miss Zuo." Xiang prefect smiled slightly.
"This ...... Her niece has always been in love with Gongzi Guo, and she went to Nanjing to follow him. Adults should know. Zuo Wensheng had no choice but to answer like this.
"Well, I'll go with you and meet Miss Zuo." Xiang Governor stood up.
"No, it's not going to work." Zuo Wensheng hurriedly waved his hand.
"What? No, you dare to say no to this government? Xiang Zhifu immediately straightened his face.
"No, the villain said that he didn't dare to work for his husband's ancestor." Zuo Wensheng's back was already drenched with sweat.
"You're welcome, I haven't been to your Zuo family once or twice, and besides, this is the official business ordered by my boss, how dare I not do it? In fact, I really hope to stay away from your Zuo family to save yourself from being contaminated with your bad luck. Xiang Xiang snorted coldly.
He really didn't want to go, and it was only good for him to keep a certain distance from the Zuo family at this time. However, Lian Daning explained in the letter that he must go to Zuo's house in person to make sure that Miss Zuo is well, and to ensure Miss Zuo's safety.
Zuo Wensheng knew that he couldn't stop it, and screamed in his heart: It's over, it's over, this time it's really hard to hold the fire, and it's really going to be exposed.
As for telling the prefect that their Zuo family had bad luck, even he admitted that the Zuo family had been smooth sailing for so many years, and now it is the end of good luck. The ancestral gods seem to have abandoned them, and now the Zuo family is the head of the canopy, and the disaster stars are shining.
discharged all the honor guards to the prefect, brought all the three classes of officials, and surrounded them quickly, putting on a posture of going to Zuo's house to handle the case.
He showed this to the people of the whole city, showing that he would never wear a pair of pants with the Zuo family, and in the face of major rights and wrongs, he stood firm against someone, and he was a clean official who made decisions for the people, not a corrupt official who used his power for personal gain and did things for the rich.
Along the way, the crowds were surging, all following the mighty team of the prefect, thinking that the Zuo family was going to be unlucky this time.
When he arrived outside the Zuo family's mansion, someone had already reported that the family members inside knew about it, Zuo Kun still pushed his nephews out to prevent the disaster, but he resolutely did not show up, but came to the meeting hall where Zuo Ling and the three of them were there.
"The prefect will come to see you in a while, I hope you know what to say and what to do, otherwise, we will burn the jade together, and before the poison occurs, I will dispose of your father and brother first." Zuo Kun said viciously.
"Ancestor, do you still want to be face-saving?" Zuo Ling was so angry that his delicate body trembled, no matter what, he couldn't imagine that the respected ancestor was so shameless that he didn't go offline.
"Face, in the face of absolute interests, what is face, isn't it just a skin?" Zuo Kun's old face was bloodshot, but he shook his head forcefully and said.
"A man has a face, a tree has bark, and a man has no face, how different is it from an animal." Zuo Wenxiang couldn't bear it anymore, and directly burst out very elegant foul language at this old ancestor.
"Unfilial things, dare to scold me for being a beast, I am a beast, what are you?" Zuo Kun said angrily.
"People are different from each other, some people are people with lofty ideals, and some are well-dressed beasts, although we have the same blood, we can't guarantee that there will be no more well-dressed beasts in the family." Zuo Dongge couldn't help but speak.
"Okay, okay, your family all have the same temper, scolding and scolding, if you hand over the prescription, what if I let you scold to death?" Zuokun Road.
"Why should I hand over the prescription? Since you have poisoned me, you will definitely die, and you will simply die together. Zuo Ling said coldly.
"Bound to die? Don't you know, there is an antidote to these five days of broken intestines? Zuo Kun looked at the three of them and suddenly laughed.
"You don't have to be a deception, we are also the descendants of the Zuo family, of course we know that this poison is insolvable, and we can only temporarily suppress it. We don't want to live on the antidote for the rest of our lives, forever under the control of others. Zuo Wenxiang said resolutely.
"Fool, the antidote to suppression is a complete antidote, and after taking it fifty times, the poison is completely solved. Do you think that my brain is burned out, and I want you to hand over the prescription and give you a poison that has no solution? Again, if you hand over the prescription all at once, I will simply give you the prescription for the antidote, and you will dispense the medicine yourself. If you like to take your time, then one prescription for one antidote, fifty prescriptions for all the antidote. ”
"Shameless, I don't have fifty prescriptions at all." Zuo Ling said angrily.
"Then let me give you a few more, he can figure it out anyway." Zuo Kun is very shameless and authentic.
Zuo Ling was speechless, she was so angry that she couldn't speak.
She looked at Zuo Kun's long snow-white eyelashes that covered her eyes, and those deep eyes were not full of wisdom and wisdom, but evil, malice and greed.
"The prefect is almost here, you make a decision quickly, don't want the government to arrest me and force me to ask for the prescription of the antidote, the prescription has been destroyed, it is all in my mind, and I will do what you will. If you really want to die together, it's a big deal that I, a person who is about to enter the ground, will accompany the three of you, and it can be regarded as earning. Zuo Kun said with a cruel smile.
"Don't be threatened by him, just die together, you can't believe his words at all." Zuo Dongge said.
"Is there really an antidote to poison?" Zuo Wenxiang asked.
"Hmph, this is the codex of the old ancestor at the beginning, see for yourself, I can't forge this thing, I can't believe me, can't I believe the old ancestor a hundred years ago?" Zuo Kun threw a yellowed notebook to Zuo Wenxiang.
Zuo Wenxiang opened it and saw that the page number had been folded, and he immediately turned to the place where the ancestor who invented this five-day gut-breaking poison recorded this poison, and sure enough, it was written that if you take this poison by mistake, you can take the suppressed antidote fifty times in a row, and you can remove all the poison.
This old ancestor came from the second room back then, so this notebook is always kept by the second room.
Originally, this kind of thing will not be kept secret from anyone, but unfortunately everyone is secretive about this poison, and gradually no one mentions it, after a few generations, almost no one knows that the Zuo family still has this poison prescription, Zuo Wenxiang because he is the patriarch, he is naturally familiar with the allusions of the ancestors of all generations, and he knows these old things. But he doesn't know the specific situation very well, mainly because he is not interested in knowing.
"It's true." Zuo Wenxiang was surprised, he didn't expect Zuo Kun to have a time when he didn't lie.
"What should I do?" Zuo Ling didn't know what to do.