In the early morning of this day, the red sun is rising, and a slip of shop pù on Suzaku Street has also opened its doors to welcome customers, and there are gradually pedestrians on the clean streets after a long autumn rain.

The atmosphere was quite peaceful and peaceful.

At that time, there was a small slight sobbing sound faintly, burrowing into the ears of passers-by.

Someone frowned and began to look left and right, subconsciously looking for the source of the sound.

But I saw that the sobbing sound grew from small to loud, and gradually turned into a whimper, and then into a wail, and finally into a howling cry.

I can't bear to hear it.

Quite a few people began to look to the source of the sound.

It turned out to be a poor mother and son, and the mother with disheveled hair was prostrate on the ground with a thin boy in her arms, mourning, but the boy was with his eyes closed, his face was dark, and he was held by his mother, not moving, as if he was lifeless.

This is......

Someone guessed the sad situation of this mother, and couldn't help but shake their heads, sigh, and walk quickly past her with a long sigh, as if they couldn't bear to look at it again.

And the woman seemed to be immersed in grief, and cried as if no one was caring for herself.

When the sun was rising, people came and went, and some people couldn't see it, so they walked over and whispered for comfort.

I didn't think that the woman could no longer listen to any words of comfort, and the more people watched and comforted, the more she touched the despair in her heart, and the more heartbreaking she cried.

Until someone lightly mentioned whether to call someone from the government to ask. The woman looked up at the man as if she had been awakened suddenly.

A pair of bloodshot eyes full of resentment were revealed.

"Government ...... The government should arrest him! The woman gritted her teeth and said word for word.

Everyone was stunned, and looked in the direction of the woman's finger, but suddenly saw the words "capsule shop" on the plaque diagonally opposite.

There was a lot of talk for a while.

――Isn't this the capsule shop that everyone in the capital knows about?

- Yes, it is said that it is the shop of Dr. Meng, who is good at treating heart diseases, how did it have anything to do with this mother and son?

- Could it be......

was guessing and wondering, but heard the woman crying: "Please well-wishers, help me evaluate the reasoning!" ”

"It's Dr. Meng from this family who healed my child!"

The woman's cry shocked everyone. The onlookers were more like they had fried the pot, and they couldn't stop shouting.

At this time, the capsule shop on the cusp of the storm was closed, and it seemed that it had not yet opened.

At this moment, it has added several layers of suspicion.

"That day, I took my crazy child to this shop to ask Dr. Meng for healing, but Dr. Meng refused at first, saying that he wanted to charge us a hundred taels of silver, but our mother and son were poor, where could we raise this one hundred taels of silver?! I had no choice but to plead with him. ”

Speaking of this, she paused slightly, and cast her eyes eagerly on the audience: "There were many people who saw the scene at that time, and they can testify!" ”

Seeing that there was a lot of noise around, someone chimed in: "I saw it, at that time, as this woman said, Dr. Meng was standing at the door of the store, and she kept crying and asking Dr. Meng." ”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but smack their tongues, only saying that they didn't expect that Dr. Meng was really cold-hearted and hard-hearted as rumored, and his eyes were open when he saw money.

- Phew, I think I can heal heart disease, I can't save it, sooner or later I will be retributed by God!

Someone scolded indignantly.

At present, most of the onlookers are ordinary people, who are already unattainable to the capsule shop, and they can't help but feel unwilling, and this time they see the tragic experience of this mother and son, and they are even more sympathetic, so they are more and more dissatisfied with Meng Heng.

The woman wept again in grief, and said: "He saw that there were people watching around, and he was afraid that his reputation would be ruined, so he allowed me to enter his shop, but he still did not want to treat my child wholeheartedly, only saying that my mother and son were so shabby that they were not worthy of his personal treatment, so he only sent a few capsules to my child that were not ready, yes, this is it!" ”

As she spoke, she took out a squarely folded cloth handkerchief from her bosom and lifted it little by little, revealing a capsule.

The translucent off-white hard shell envelops the faintly visible herbs inside.

Someone who has been fortunate enough to see the famous capsule and recognize it at a glance: "Ah, this is a capsule!" ”

The woman glanced at him gratefully, and continued to sob: "I thought that Dr. Meng had good intentions, and he left with a thousand thanks, and hurriedly fed my child to eat, who knows...... Who knew that it was okay not to eat it, as soon as I ate the capsule, my child's condition became more and more serious! When, that night, there will be no ......"

Speaking of this, the woman seemed to be unable to hold back the grief in her heart any longer, and she couldn't cry, burying her head and crying.

There was a thud all around.

Someone shouted angrily: "It turns out that this Dr. Meng not only didn't save him when he saw death, but he was cold and hard-hearted, and he actually did such a thing that murdered people's lives, which is simply a loss of conscience!" ”

Some people even echoed and scolded: "Is there no royal law in this capital land?" This person is so vicious, and he openly murders people, is the government blind?! ”

"The official ......" The woman sneered sadly, and said, "The official government is basically a wolf-embarrassment-for-traitor!" This surnamed Meng dares to be so rampant, isn't it because there are people from the government behind him, and where do they care about the life and death of our people! ”

This sentence aroused everyone's anger even more, and for a while, the group of grievances boiled, some of them sighed, some of them beat their chests, and some of them were brave by nature, and they took the initiative to stand up and threaten to seek justice for this poor mother and son, and their words were generous, but they attracted everyone to worship and talk to each other to discuss it, and they decided to take this mother and son to the yamen to beat the drum and voice their grievances in order to calm their resentment.

When the woman saw this scene, Fang Jue's resentment in her heart was vented, she staggered straight up and solemnly kowtowed to everyone.

However, at the moment of bending over, the corners of the woman's mouth quietly hooked up a cruel arc.

*

Inside the Shuncheonfu Mansion.

Lord Fu Yin Li looked at the group of menacing people in the hall, and his eyebrows were deeply furrowed.

Not long after he went to the yamen today, he saw that there was very little official business, so he thought that nothing major would happen, and since the little brother Meng often came to the yamen to help him try the case, there was no longer the accumulation of cases in the past.

There are even a lot fewer things to commit adultery.

Who would have thought that such a thing would happen right now.

He was in a mixed mood for a while, and it was difficult to clarify the clue, and he was given a headache by the woman who couldn't stop crying, but he didn't want to believe that the lonely and arrogant little brother Meng would do such a thing.

"Silence!" He slapped the hall hard, and the hall suddenly became much quieter.

"You have sued Dr. Meng for the death of your child, do you have any evidence?" Master Li said in a deep voice: "If it's just a lie, this official will condemn you for false accusation!" ”

"My lord, the women have evidence!" The woman was busy, and as she spoke, she presented the capsule she had carefully collected, and cried: "It was Dr. Meng who gave me this that day, and I fed it to my child, but I didn't expect it to ......."

The woman thought of the sad thing and couldn't help but cry bitterly.

Master Li pinched the capsule and examined it carefully, frowning.

This is indeed no different from the shape of the capsule that Meng Xiaodi gave him.

But how can it be a capsule, and how can it kill people?

The expression on his face couldn't help but change several times, and it darkened even more.

But I heard the woman say, "My lord, how dare a woman wronged others! Many people saw the scene on that day, and they can testify to the civil women! And this capsule is even more ironclad proof! Dr. Meng said that the women were not worthy of his own treatment, so he sent the unfinished capsules to the women, who thought he had good intentions, but who knew that he was hiding such a bad intention......

As if thinking of something, she hurriedly added, and the cry in her mouth was not stopped: "If you don't believe it, you can go to the capsule shop, and the woman can swear that this capsule was taken out by Dr. Meng from a secret place in his shop and given to the woman!" At that time, the women thought that this thing was expensive, so they hid it secretly, but they didn't expect it to be □□! It must have been used by him to send away poor people like the folk women! ”

When everyone in the hall heard such a secret thing, they were even more surprised, and they were filled with righteous indignation for a while: "If what this eldest sister said is true, the surname Meng doesn't know how many lives have been killed!" With the blue sky on his head, he must not let the surnamed Meng bully the people at will! ”

Seeing that Lord Yin didn't speak for a long time, everyone below couldn't help but speak out for the woman.

The law does not blame the public, and everyone follows the clouds, which is always the mode of collective behavior.

Master Li's brows furrowed even more.

"In the public court, how can you allow others to convict others at will!" He shouted solemnly: "Unless the evidence is conclusive, what you say can be regarded as random speculation and slander against others!" ”

He slapped the hall again, and the hall was slightly silent, but there were still people who were chatting and talking about it without resentment.

Lord Li was bored.

In such a situation, he must not directly excuse Meng Xiaodi, otherwise he will arouse public indignation, and he may also be suspected of colluding with each other, and the dirty water that Meng Xiaodi was splashed on cannot be washed away.

Moreover, the defendant was not qualified to try the case, and Meng Xiaodi's trial skills to distinguish between loyalty and treachery were nowhere to go.

It's tricky.

He thought back and forth for a few times, and finally said in a deep voice to the official on the side: "Go and call Chen Ping to me." ”

*

With a paper order, Chen Ping had to lead his men to seal up Meng Heng's pharmacy and search it up and down.

Strangely, the capsule shop seems to have foreseen the turmoil and has not been open since early morning today.

Pedestrians passing by have already learned the news, and they can't help but point fingers at this capsule shop, and the once unattainable height has become everyone's spurning in a blink of an eye.

Chen Ping frowned, ordered his subordinates to drive away the onlookers, and ordered them to simply enter the store and search it, and not to destroy the property. However, to his surprise, the "incriminating evidence" in the woman's mouth was only briefly rummaged through before being found by his subordinates and presented to him.

Chen Ping's face couldn't help but become a little gloomy.

Now, it can be regarded as complete human and material evidence.

He handed over the capsule he had found to Master Li, and after identification, it turned out that it was exactly the same as the physical evidence held by the woman, and the pharmacology was of the same origin, and it did contain highly toxic substances.

Master Li pondered for a long time, didn't speak again, only wrote a sentence on the paper, and then turned around and walked away.

Only Chen Ping was left to look at that sentence blankly, as if a stone had been pressed on his heart.

*

The young man frowned and looked up at the word "Meng Zhai" on the plaque with a solemn face, and did not move for a long time.

At this time, it is noon, the late autumn sun is just right, just shining on a tall green bamboo in the Meng house, the breeze blows, a little bit of broken gold flows at the tip of the bamboo leaves, and it shows its vigorous wind bones.

He felt a pang of boredom in his heart, and his mind kept recalling the words that Master Fu Yin had written on paper and explained to him.

For the sake of the common people's grievances, Meng Heng had to be escorted back to the Yamen.

Of course, he can understand this. He has done the same when dealing with so many cases in the past, and he has never hesitated.

However, this time, perhaps because the little brother Meng had helped him too many times, or because the young man always looked down on the world and smiled calmly, he couldn't agree with this approach.

"Lord Chen, it's not too early." The official who followed on the side reminded carefully.

Chen Ping clenched the long knife at his side, finally nodded, and said, "Call the door." ”

The official replied neatly, waved his hand, and asked the remaining officials to quickly line up, blocking both sides of the Meng Mansion with knives, and he stepped forward, unceremoniously buckled the copper buckle on the vermilion door, and shouted: "Is the suspect Meng Heng here?" The Shuntianfu Criminal Prison Division is calling! ”

However, before he could shout a second time, he heard a "squeak" and the door was suddenly opened from the inside.

A young man dressed in a moon-white shirt and standing tall was standing inside the door, looking at them with a smile.

Those dark eyes narrowed slightly, as if they had already held a qiē in their eyes.

The wind is light, and the world is clear.

Everyone couldn't help but be stunned, and they were stunned for a moment.

"Little Brother Meng......" Chen Ping seemed to be stunned for a moment, and couldn't help muttering.