Tang Mengji took out the handkerchief in his sleeve and wiped the chairs used by the jailers at the entrance of the cell before taking a seat, and then raised his hand to signal Yang Zixi, who was still standing, to sit down opposite.

Yang Zixi hesitated for a moment, and finally sat down.

Tang Mengji picked up the wine jug on the table, shook it, heard the sound of the wine shaking inside, his face showed joy, and he took out a glass from his sleeve and poured himself a glass of wine.

Yang Zixi watched him quietly as he tasted the wine of the jailers as if he were enjoying it, and couldn't help but speak, "How many things are you carrying in your sleeve?" ”

Tang Mengji smiled, stretched out a finger, shook it in front of Yang Zixi's eyes, and said, "This is not good!" Don't ask too much about things that have nothing to do with you, just like I won't ask if the medicine you gave to the second young master of the Cui family is poisonous. ”

"You don't ask?" Yang Zixi was a little surprised, "I thought that as a lawyer, they should ask the case clearly first, and only then can they fight the lawsuit if they have the bottom in their hearts." ”

"That's an ordinary lawyer, not me." Tang Mengji smiled very arrogantly, "I only believe what I want to believe, and then use my belief to convince everyone, any news that contradicts my belief, even if it is true, is meaningless to me." Since you are already my patron, then as far as I am concerned, there is no poison in the medicine, there is no poison at all. ”

"Not really." Yang Zixi said righteously, "I don't know Cui Hong, the second young master of the Cui family, and I have never had anything to do with the Cui family, a salt merchant in Liuzhou, so why should I kill someone?" The potions given to the students of the academy were safe, and I gave them to my brother and the people in my hospital in front of everyone. No one had any adverse reactions, so Cui Hong's death had nothing to do with my medicine! ”

"Bang bang." Tang Mengji pursed his lips and slapped his face, "Tomorrow." I hope you can speak so calmly in court, which will be good for winning this case. ”

"I will," Yang Zixi nodded, she paused and said, "How do you know that the people of the Cui family will hire someone to prepare to kill me tonight?" ”

"It's not unusual." Tang Mengji said, "It's not the first time that the Cui family has done this!" ”

"Oh?" Yang Zixi was a little surprised, "You have also handled the Cui family's case in the past?" ”

"Not bad! They're my old customers anymore. Tang Mengji took a sip of wine, frowned spicily, and said, "But last time the Cui family was the defendant, and the third master of the Cui family crossed his neck for a pair of blue and white bottles." The Wang family in the east of the city lost their ancestral shop, and the Wang family was unwilling, so they sued the third master of the Cui family to the yamen, and I was hired by the third master of the Cui family to be his lawyer at that time. ”

"And then? The Cui family sent someone to kill the plaintiff? ”

Tang Mengji nodded: "Yes, one suddenly died, and it was a hundred." It was the uncle of the Wang family who died as soon as he died, and the Wang family dispersed, and others were worried about the power of the Cui family in Liuzhou, and in the end, no one came forward to compare the case. ”

Yang Zixi was stunned. After a pause, Fang said: "It seems that the Cui family is a tyrant in Liuzhou!" However, you were Master Cui San's lawyer at the time, that is, you won without a fight? ”

"I hate winning without a fight." Tang Mengji pursed his lips and said disdainfully. "The Cui family didn't have the courage to fight with their opponents in an upright manner, and I was embarrassed by the drag! Since that time, I, Tang Mengji, have sworn that I will get a few people from the Cui family to go to prison. To avenge an arrow! ”

Yang Zixi: "......" is the divine logic, what kind of lawyer did Xiao Shi and Yuqing invite to defend her!

"But my case. I am the plaintiff, even if I win. No one in the Cui family will be imprisoned for this. She couldn't help but say.

"Not necessarily." Tang Mengji played with the small teacup in his hand and said proudly, "Since you are not a murderer, there must be another murderer." I don't believe that a good young scholar suddenly fell ill and died, and someone must be doing something here. ”

"You mean...... Did the Cui family kill Cui Hong? Yang Zixi thought of the conversation between the jailers and his heart moved.

"It's very likely." Tang Mengji said, "That's why I took your case, otherwise you think that the hundreds of taels of silver that your apprentice brought can really impress me?" ”

Yang Zixi: "......" those two losers! The stalls of the medical center are being expanded, and money is needed everywhere! A few hundred taels of silver? I'm afraid it's already all the amount available on the account!

The two chatted for a few more words, until Tang Mengji drank the last drop of wine in the jug.

Tang Mengji arched his hand at Yang Zixi and threw down the sentence: "Remember to pretend to be injured tomorrow." Then he turned around and left the prison, as if he had come to drink and talk this time.

Yang Zixi was stunned for a moment, and then she realized that she looked at his back as he disappeared into the night, and felt a little steady. Although this person's words are frivolous and unreliable at first glance, this sentence of pretending to be injured exposes his true strength.

Yes, pretending to be injured, her Yang Zixi's age is her best umbrella, plus she was tortured in prison, I am afraid that most of the people will sympathize with and support her. It seems that Tang Mengji is the same as he is in the medical profession, and he is the best among people.

With such a person helping, what else does she have to worry about?

So she can't leave, but to stay, and defeat the Cui family tomorrow!

She paced to her cell, and after giving the two jailers a brief check before entering, and after making sure they were all right, she gave them another injection of anesthetic. He entered the private room and fastened the cell door from the inside.

There was nothing to say all night, and when she woke up the next day, Yang Zixi found that the attitude of the jailers towards her had taken a 180-degree turn. Breakfast is no longer a stinky thin bean rice, but a bowl of serious millet porridge, and even two side dishes. In addition, she was given several bundles of dry straw and a bedding.

"Our lord will ask the case at the end of the day, and you will have to be ready by then." When a noodle official came to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, he said, "By the way, last night...... What happened last night? ”

"Last night?" Yang Zixi's eyes widened deliberately, and he said with an innocent face, "I don't know, I slept until dawn last night, really, although the conditions in your prison are not very good." ”

The unfamiliar official glanced at her deeply, and went out with his things.

Yang Zixi smiled coldly and no longer paid attention to this matter. She leaned against the haystack and closed her eyes, which was not as comfortable as the bed, but it was much better than the cold, damp walls of the prison.

But it was said that in the backyard of the prefect's yamen, the prefect of Liuzhou was a little difficult, on the one hand, the Cui family had already sent him a hundred taels of gold! A large box of precipitation was pressing in the treasury of his mansion, and the balance in his heart was raised high.

But on the other hand, Dean Sima of Nanhuai Academy wrote a letter to him personally, stating that he was very optimistic about the character of Yang Zixi, the owner of Renhetang, and was willing to guarantee it, proving that this matter had nothing to do with Yang Zixi.

Although this letter was not worth anything, it weighed back the balance in his heart.

He was also a student who came out of Nanhuai Academy back then, and he had a deep affection for the academy and Dean Sima.

Silver and favor, fish and bear's paw, it's really hard to choose!

The prefect of Liuzhou hesitated again and again, and was ready to deal with it impartially, if someone committed Yang Zixi's true innocence, he would be tantamount to repaying the old dean's affection; If Yang Zixi is proven guilty in the end, the old dean will have nothing to say, and he can still get so much silver for nothing.

Therefore, after a battle between the left and right, one of the most unjust prefects suddenly became the most just and selfless referee.

The referee had already ascended to the seat in the middle of the Yamen hall at this moment, and sat down in front of the four big words of 'justice and strictness', he raised the startling wood and said to the crowd of onlookers outside the main hall: "Ascend to the hall!" ”

There are really a lot of people watching the trial of this case, the Cui family is the richest family in Liuzhou, and it was the second young master of their family who died, or it was an inexplicable violent death, which is rare big news! And the name of Renhetang is now in the limelight in Liuzhou. Huaizhou is not far from Liuzhou, but it is much more developed than Liuzhou, Liuzhou people have always liked to go to Huaizhou to buy houses, and they also like to go to Huaizhou to consult when they are sick.

Renhetang near Huaizhou City, since Yuwang Zhu Chenyun moved in, has become a thorn in the eyes of various time-honored medical halls in Huaizhou City, the chatter behind this is indispensable, so one came and went, and many Liu people knew the name of Renhetang.

The owner of the little girl who is not yet old is a pill-like medicine, and likes to tinker with people's bodies...... It's all talk, and it's all new.

Now these two are competing, how not to attract people's attention, there are thousands of people in the crowd outside the yamen.

"Take someone to commit it!" With a shout from the prefect of Liuzhou, the two officials took the lead out of the lobby and brought in Yang Zixi, who was waiting outside.

Yang Zixi, who fell in the eyes of everyone, is not in a good state. She had a disheveled hair (scratched by herself), her clothes were thin (the scum of the soil on the outside, and the thin jacket with 100% down on the inside), and her left leg was unnaturally skimmed outward, and when the officials let go of the hand holding her, Yang Zixi's body lost her balance and almost didn't fall to the ground!

This leg is clearly injured! Is it easy to say? Definitely beaten in a cell!

Looking at the Liuzhou prefect's eyes, his eyes were a little bad, in the eyes of everyone, such a young child is a girl, how can he be punished before the case is tried?

The crowd exploded, and Wang Xiaoshi and Chen Yuqing, who were crowded in the middle, were also anxious, they didn't know the real situation, and they thought that the little master really beat someone!

Yang Zixi lay on the ground, supported her upper body, struggled twice and couldn't stand up, she dragged the unnatural leg and said to the prefect: "My leg is injured, it seems that I can't kneel, can you give me a chair?" (To be continued......)

PS: I'm sleepy, my hands hurt today, go to bed first, if there are typos, I'll change it tomorrow.