"What do you say? Cai Po's mother and son were not killed by you? Are you telling the truth? Dou Tianzhang asked Yang Zhong with a frown.

Yang Chong smiled bitterly and said: "I have already admitted to killing Fan Er, this killing one person is death, killing two people or death, if Cai Po's mother and son are really killed by me, then why should I not admit it?" ”

Then his words changed: "But I know that there is a person who must be related to the death of Cai Po's mother and son." ”

"Oh? Who is this person? Dou Tianzhang hurriedly asked.

Yang Zhong opened his mouth and replied, "It's Shen Feng, the shopkeeper of Shen Ji Pharmacy that we were going to before. ”

By what he said, everyone immediately remembered, in fact, everyone's original plan was to go to Shen Ji Pharmacy, but as soon as they went out, they encountered many people blocking the door, and found clues about Yang Chong from Sister Fang's discussion, so they returned to the yamen and began to interrogate Yang Chong.

So Dou Tianzhang immediately ordered Zhang Yun to bring the shopkeeper of Shen Ji Pharmacy over, and as soon as he saw him, he asked, "Shopkeeper Shen, has someone come to you to buy arsenic recently?" ”

Shopkeeper Shen shook his head again and again and said: "No, absolutely not, not to mention recently, no one has come to buy arsenic for almost a year." If you don't believe adults, you can check the villain's accounts and the amount of arsenic, and it will definitely be able to match. ”

Dou Tianzhang sent someone to the pharmacy to bring the account book and arsenic, and after verification, it was found that the accounts were indeed consistent, which showed that the shopkeeper Shen was not lying, so Dou Tianzhang asked him with a headache: "Do you know that in addition to you, there are other pharmacies or medical centers in Shanyang County where arsenic can be bought?" ”

Shopkeeper Shen hesitated for a moment, and then replied: "There should be no this, because arsenic is highly poisonous, so according to the rules of the guild, there can only be one pharmacy in a county town that can operate this thing, and Shen Ji Pharmacy, who is a villain in Shanyang, can buy it, unless you go to another county to buy it." ”

At this time, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in Tangning's mind: "What about a year ago?" What if someone bought arsenic a year ago and saved it for now? Do you remember who bought arsenic a year ago? ”

Shopkeeper Shen replied with a bitter face: "Master Tang, you are embarrassed, as long as there are no mistakes in the general accounts, then the villain will settle the accounts once a year, so the villain really can't remember the things before this year." ”

Although Shopkeeper Shen's answer seemed reasonable, Tang Ning still didn't let him go: "Can't remember?" This shouldn't be, it is said that there are very few people who should buy arsenic, and his accounts should not be cleared every year like other drugs, right? ”

"This, this, but the small shop is indeed clear once a year!" Shopkeeper Shen explained stubbornly.

Seeing him like this, let alone Tang Ning, even Dou Tianzhang and Zhang Yun saw the problem, only to see Dou Tianzhang snort coldly: "Hmph, it seems that Shopkeeper Shen doesn't want to tell the truth, Zhang Yun!" Take him down and torture him severely! ”

As soon as he heard that he was going to be punished, the shopkeeper Shen suddenly couldn't hold it anymore, and knelt on the ground with a plop and said to forgive: "Adult, adult, the villain is willing to tell the truth, beg the adult not to be tortured!" ”

"Summoning everything you know, and then we'll go and check it, and if there's a lie, we'll be punished immediately!" Dou Tianzhang frightened.

Shopkeeper Shen hurriedly replied: "The little ones don't dare, the little ones don't dare!" In fact, it was Zhang Donkey who bought arsenic from the villain three years ago, but he remembered Dou E's name in the account book. ”

"Since he bought it, why do you want to write down Dou E's name?" Dou Tianzhang asked.

Shopkeeper Shen hesitated for a moment and didn't answer, Dou Tianzhang didn't shed tears when he saw this guy when he saw the coffin, so he gave Zhang Yun a look, Zhang Yun immediately sent someone to bring a few torture tools, Shopkeeper Shen was suddenly paralyzed to the ground with fright, and hurriedly said: "Don't move, don't move, I'll say this, I'll say this." In fact, Zhang Donkey didn't register arsenic in the account when he first bought it, but he found me after his father was poisoned and asked me to register Dou E's name on the account. ”

"What?! Could it be that it was Zhang Donkey himself who poisoned his father? How is this possible? Why did he want to kill his own father? Dou Tianzhang asked in disbelief.

Shopkeeper Shen thought about it for a while, and then replied: "According to him, it seems that he originally wanted to poison Cai Po, but something happened at that time, and it turned out to be his father!" ”

Originally, Tang Ning had always been very puzzled about why Zhang Donkey poisoned Cai Po, because Cai Po had agreed to marry Zhang Donkey's father and strongly persuaded Dou E to marry Zhang Donkey, so on the issue of Dou E's remarriage, she should be Zhang Donkey's ally, so Zhang Donkey's poisoning of Cai Po was not only unprofitable, but harmful to his occupation of Dou E, so why did he do it?

It wasn't until he came to this world that he knew that there were two forms of marriage in the Yuan Dynasty on the issue of widow remarriage, namely step-on marriage and step-marriage. Marriage is when a widow recruits her husband, and the husband enters the house, but is not in a dominant position in the family. Stepmarriage, on the other hand, means that a widowed woman can be taken as a wife by a relative of her deceased husband. (This is a typical Mongolian steppe style, and even after the death of Genghis Khan, his favorite concubine Mu Da Hatun was married by his third son Ogedei.) It was not until the Ming Dynasty that this system of incest was outlawed. ）

In the original text, Zhang's father himself also said that "the old man has come to Cai Po's house to do foot-picking", so that after Cai Po and Zhang's father are combined, Zhang Donkey can not only inherit her inheritance after Cai Po's death, but also become a mother-son relationship with Cai Po, and become a brother with the husband of Dou E, who has died, according to the step-marriage system, the brother has the right to take the wife of the stepbrother, and the son has the right to take the second wife of the stepfather, so that Zhang Donkey's forced marriage of Dou E has a legal basis.

But because Cai Po is a husband who is born and married, the system of marriage makes Zhang's father a weak position in the Cai family, and it is Cai Po herself who can really control the Cai family's property and Dou E's fate, so Zhang Donkey wants to poison Cai Po, because as long as she dies, Zhang's father will become the master of the family, and Dou E's fate is in the hands of their father and son.

"Why do you listen to Zhang Donkey so much? He asked you not to keep accounts, you didn't keep accounts, and he asked you to write Dou E's name, and you wrote Dou E? Downing interjected.

Shopkeeper Shen replied with a bitter face: "The villain owes a lot of money to that donkey, so he was forced to help him do these things in desperation!" But his killing really has nothing to do with villains! ”

PS: After watching "Ready Player One" yesterday, I only have one thought, that is, if there is really this kind of online game, how can I still have a time code word......