Su Chen asked Chef Zhao, Chunxiang and others to come out separately first, ask about it, go through the process, and push Chef Liao's usual preferences, personality, strengths and weaknesses, and learn more about this person.

Then, let Li Jiaotou lead someone to call out Chef Liao alone and put him in a small dark room without windows.

Su Chen and Peng Jingqing sat on chairs, with two oil lamps in front of the table, quite a bit of an interrogation room, interrogating him alone.

Chef Liao looked at the two of them a little nervously, and wondered: "I really didn't do it, why don't you believe it?" ”

Su Chen's face was expressionless, and he said coldly: "Didn't you do it?" But five out of seven people wrote that you did it! ”

When Chef Liao heard this, his face changed greatly, he shook his head violently, and defended: "Impossible, they are spewing blood, and they are framing me." ”

"Blame you? Not necessarily, right? Su Chen smiled slightly, looking a little confident.

Chef Liao's eyes rolled, looked at Su Chen, and said, "Isn't this a blame?" Xiao Di is supposed to do things in the Bai family, and now that the head of the family has an accident, they colluded to blame me for not taking responsibility for themselves, this is not fair, I am not the poisoner, Miss Prefect, you have to be the master of Xiao Di! ”

When Peng Jingqing heard this, she didn't have any idea, she could use force, but if she used her brain, it would be a mess.

"Just be honest." Before Peng Jingqing entered the house, she listened to Su Chen's analysis and guessed that this person was the poisoner, although she had such and such small opinions about Su Chen, but in many things, the position was still the same!

"Xiaodi really can't explain, it's not me who did it!" Chef Liao is still pretending to be innocent there.

Su Chen stared at Chef Liao, and said solemnly: "We have sent someone to search out the poison bottle from the room where you live, and there is Heding Red in it, you just used Heding Red to poison the head of the Bai family, he is now seriously poisoned, it is no longer a symptom of stroke, and he will die at any time, you are the murderer!" ”

Chef Liao shook his head and said, "Crane top red? It's not me, it's not mine! ”

Su Chen insisted: "The poison of Hedinghong was found from your room, the head of the Bai family happened to be poisoned, it must also be the poison of Hedinghong, Liao Guan, you are so ruthless, you are using it to poison the head of the family!" If he dies, you will pay for it! ”

Chef Liao flatly denied: "It's not Hedinghong, it's definitely not my poison!" ”

Su Chen shouted angrily: "Then what kind of poison are you throwing in?" ”

"It's aconitine ......" Chef Liao stopped halfway through speaking, covered his mouth, and turned pale.

A smile overflowed at the corner of Su Chen's mouth and said, "Yes, it's aconitine, mixed with a little oleander, mixed together, yes or no?" Although the powder is not fatal, it can poison the head of the Bai family, induce stroke symptoms, crooked mouth and eyes, unable to speak, and half of the body, this is a good thing you do! ”

Chef Liao still wanted to deny it, but Peng Jingqing slapped the table and scolded angrily: "Liao Guan, what a bold man, you murdered the head of the Bai family, ate inside and out, and committed the crime of murder!" ”

Liao Guan's face was as white as paper, and he shook his head in fear, "That's not ......"

At this time, the door was opened, and Bai Susu, Steward Zheng, and Li Jiaotou all came in.

Bai Susu stared at Liao Guan with cold eyes and said, "Is the poison given to you by the Ding family?" Did you collude with the Ding family? murdered the master, the Bai family has the right to deal with it according to the family law, and with half of his life left, he will be sent to the prefect to report to the official! ”

Liao Guan immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "Miss, I didn't fornicate with the Ding family, yes, yes......"

Halfway through speaking, Chef Liao stopped talking.

Bai Susu asked coldly, "Who gave you the medicine?" If you say it truthfully, you may be able to avoid the punishment of the family law, otherwise, the end is unpredictable! ”

Liao Guan was pressed by Miss Bai's momentum, his body trembled slightly, and he gritted his teeth and said, "It's Second Master Bai!" ”

"My second uncle?" Bai Susu's expression was solemn, with a little coldness, which was really similar to what Su Chen had speculated.

"It was Second Master Bai who asked me to do this, coercion and temptation, Xiaodi didn't dare to do it? He personally said that this medicine does not hurt people's lives, but it only temporarily makes the head of the family speechless and bedridden, so that Bai Erye can seize the position of the head of the family, and after the matter is completed, he promises to give me 1,000 taels of silver, and he will be promoted to the steward of the outer court. ”

After Bai Susu listened, he was already able to deduce the cause and effect, pondered for a moment, and said, "Where are the remaining poisons hidden by you?" ”

Chef Liao said in a panic: "I hid in a crack in a stone behind the rockery. ”

Bai Susu immediately ordered: "Sect Leader Li, take him down, find the poison and bring it back, and then put him in a firewood room and keep him under strict supervision!" ”

"Yes, Miss!" Li Jiaotou gave up his hand, led the family to step forward, and took Cook Liao to find the remaining poison hidden.

Peng Jingqing patted Su Chen on the shoulder and said in surprise: "Okay, Su Chen, I didn't expect you to really try the case and convict him." ”

Su Chen felt that Qin Jing didn't shoot hard this time, and said modestly: "It's just luck!" ”

Peng Jingqing smiled and said: "Don't be modest, it seems that it is more powerful than those people in the prefect's yamen to try cases, and the method is also peculiar." ”

"Su Chen, thank you." Bai Susu said softly to Su Chen.

Su Chen looked at Bai Susu and asked with concern: "Susu, what are you going to do with him, do you want to have a showdown with your second uncle?" ”

Bai Susu hesitated for a moment and said, "Second Uncle Zhi is very talented, whether there is a showdown or not, it will not pose much of a threat to my control of the White Mansion." If there is a stiffness, it will make Baifu restless, people will be panicked, and it will also make people outside laugh at it. Anyway, the second uncle is now guarded and can't make big waves, but the Ding family is suspicious, it must be that they colluded with the second uncle, gave him advice and provided poison. This kind of aconitine is very strictly controlled in the army, and the local regimental training army and the Jiangyin army outside Runzhou City are all under the jurisdiction of Yin Thorn History, and it is easy for people to take out a little aconitine poison. ”

Su Chen sighed lightly: "That's true, the Ding family is not terrible, the Ding family has the backer of Yin Thorn Shi behind it, and if the Bai family wants to completely bring down the Ding family, it will be difficult." ”

Bai Susu shook his head and said: "Don't seek to be overthrown, just be able to protect yourself, since the Huangchao Uprising at the end of the Tang Dynasty, five generations have changed, there are only a hundred years of family, but there is no hundred years of dynasties, many small courts only survive for twenty or thirty years, as long as the Bai family does not completely fall, it is still easy to survive a thorn history." ”

After Su Chen heard this, he glanced at Bai Susu and felt that what she said made sense.

In the melee situation of five dynasties and ten kingdoms, there are too many people who have perished in twenty or thirty years since the founding of the country, and even small imperial courts that have only survived for ten years. As long as the squire families everywhere protect themselves and are not exterminated in the troubled times, then they can continue to continue and inherit for a hundred years, just like those gate valve families in the Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties.

It's just that these merchant families have limited influence in court politics, and they are not respected by scholars, and their identities are not comparable to the noble and prominent gate lord forces in the past.

"Let's go, the inner ghost has been carefully investigated, let's go and see how Senior Brother Liu has cleaned up the Bai family master?" Su Chen proposed.

Bai Susu nodded, and when he turned around and walked out, he suddenly said something inexplicable: "You always call the head of the family, it's a bit of a foreigner." ”

"......" Su Chen looked stunned, thinking that if I don't call the head of the family, do I still call grandpa with you? is not a relative, so as not to let the old man take advantage of it.