When someone died, everyone was nervous, for fear of finding out that there was a problem with their own medicine.

In fact, they are even more afraid of the special relationship between Zhixian and Xia Qiu. If there is really a problem, in order to help Xia Qiu clear the suspicion, the government will lead the trouble to the east and plant the blame on them, how can it be good?

In the name of self-inspection, it is actually to monitor the government and the hanging pot hall.

Soon, the sedan chair of the magistrate arrived.

He looked a little tired, but he couldn't hide the noble temperament around him. Xu Mingliang and Wei Ge walked towards everyone.

When the magistrate came, the person in charge of each family did not dare to secretly hesitate anymore and saluted respectfully.

Lu Tingxiu did not return to the house last night, but questioned the six officials guarding the treasury. He was repeatedly interrogated in every detail, not even letting go of any details, and it is no exaggeration to say that even small as yawning was not missed.

This investigation really made a discovery.

On the evening of five days ago, Zhou Ning, the old man Lai, and Zhu Qing were on duty on the night shift.

The old man somehow ate a bad stomach and hurriedly went to the toilet.

Zhou Ning had a party in the evening, couldn't control his mouth and drank a few more cups of yellow soup, and squatted at the door after the shift and fell asleep.

Zhu Qing was the most dedicated, about three o'clock in the morning, he suddenly heard a movement outside, and hurriedly woke up Zhou Ning next to him, asking him to guard the door of the warehouse, while he went out to have a look.

After patrolling the outside and finding nothing out of the ordinary, he returned. It was less than a quarter of an hour, and Zhou Ning was still asleep.

Seeing that the door of the warehouse was still locked, Zhu Qing didn't take it to heart.

After all, Lao Lai and Zhou Ning left their posts without permission, and the three of them were questioned by the county magistrate at the same time, and their hearts were somewhat empty, so they begged Bai Lai to ventilate with Zhu Qing, wanting to keep their jobs.

As a servant, it is not easy to eat with a mouthful, coupled with Zhu Qing's morality, he knows that the county adults are strict, if he knows that the two of them are gags when they are on duty, this job will definitely be lost.

However, people are not as good as heaven, and the county magistrates are thoughtful, and they can't hide it at all.

The potions mixed with the Broken Intestine Herb were all given out on the second day of the Celestial without exception.

If it's too much of a coincidence, it's not a coincidence.

Xia Qiu met with Lu Tingxiu, and his attitude was very clear, this matter was not simple.

The warehouse has a strict management system, and those who are qualified to enter and exit to take medicine are not only Dr. Zhou from the Hanging Pot Pavilion, but also Dr. Fan from the Touquetang. These two people are elected by everyone, and every time the drug enters and exits, the two will jointly accept or distribute it.

The door of the warehouse was opened, and in order not to destroy the scene, everyone else was waiting outside the door, only Lu Tingxiu and Xia Qiu walked in.

Dozens of flavors of medicine are placed in the inventory, full of all kinds of medicinal smells, and there is no hope for relying on the unique sense of smell in summer and autumn.

The fairy thatch is placed in the fifth row, the thirteenth shelf, that is, in the easternmost corner.

As soon as he arrived at the shelf, Lu Tingxiu suddenly paused and lowered his head suspiciously.

The camp is remote and inhospitable, with slums nearby, and the houses built by the poor are not paved with tiles, and the floors are tamped with wooden hammers, so the floors are uneven.

When I rented this house, it was a dry day, and the head of the household patted his chest to ensure that the house would never leak.

It rained for several days, and the leaks in the house were nowhere to be hidden, and there were signs of rain leaks in several places in the warehouse. Although it has not yet reached the point of rain leakage, the drizzle of cattle has made the mud floor wet and sticky.

Lu Tingxiu lifted it, the soles of his boots were not stained with mud, but there were shallow footprints on the wet ground.

Xia Qiu's eyes lit up, "If someone really did it, maybe they would leave footprints." ”

The dirt has been trampled on for years, and nothing can be seen in the blackness.

The two of them exited the storeroom, and ordered the experienced catcher to quickly fetch lime powder and sprinkle a thick layer on the ground.

The white lime solidifies when exposed to water, and those footprints that are layered or of different shades are quickly extracted.

Excluding the unformed, there are dozens of different pairs of footprints in total. The floor is uneven, and the force point is different, and the rubbing will be different, but the size of the foot cannot deceive people.

Excluding the footprints of Dr. Zhou and Dr. Fan, there are three other people.

When entering and exiting the medicine, the guards will help carry and carry them from time to time, and according to the footprints, they are the two guards on the day shift.

And the last pair of footprints, no one was found.

Lu Tingxiu looked at the rubbed model over and over again, and Xia Qiu pondered beside him, "These footprints seem to be different from others." ”

"The outside is deep and the inside is shallow, this is a typical outer figure."

Outer eight characters, commonly known as "old man's feet" in Liangzhou dialect, are mostly formed when walking or when the feet are in a fixed posture for a long time. The pace of walking is slower than normal. If the pace is slow, for the people who exchange labor for food, it is naturally half inferior.

The children of the poor are in charge of the house early, and they will generally correct the clues in time.

The figure-eight foot mold happened to be taken from the row of shelves of fairy thatch. The two of them entered the storeroom again and carefully counted the fairy thatch.

Last time, I took away a total of five bags of fairy thatch, and there were still twenty bags of medicine on the shelves, all of which were printed with the words "Hanging Pot Pavilion".

From the existing number of herbs found to contain broken intestines, it is almost the amount of a bag of fairy thatch, and the probability is almost 20%.

This is interesting, how the person who poisoned the poison pinched, the bag containing the broken intestine grass will definitely be taken.

Lu Tingxiu reminded: "Look at the placement of these goods. ”

The access to the drug will follow the first-in-first-out principle, but the remaining goods on the site are placed, and the person who receives the medicine is quite casual and takes it at will.

Xia Qiu called Dr. Zhou, and Dr. Zhou said with a sneering expression: "Owner, it happened that the laborer was going to bring three days of medicine home that day, and I was very busy, and I was urging outside, so I took a few bags of emergency with my hand, so I ......"

She didn't blame Dr. Zhou, but felt that perhaps it was because of his carelessness that he saved many lives.

In the summer and autumn, it was found that there were three packs of rope tied at the mouth of the fairy thatched straw bag, which was slightly different from the special knot of the hanging pot hall.

This rule is still specially set by the old man Tu, but for the medicine bag of the hanging pot hall, the two symmetrical half-knots at the front and back can prevent sliding or preventing the end of the rope from continuing to fall off when the end of the rope is opened.

Old man Tu doesn't care about anti-slip and anti-off lines, he is anti-counterfeiting.

This knot is very laborious to open, and is rarely used in pharmacies or medical clinics.

The three packets of herbs, at first glance, seem to be similar to the knot, but in fact they are not different at all.

After the doctor checked all the fairy thatch, the answer was exactly the same as Xia Qiu's guess.

The flaws have been found, but it will not be easy to undo them. Even if there is a suspect, it is not easy to get evidence.

Withdrawing from others, Xia Qiu's brows tightened, "I remember, the housekeeper in Washington seems to be a figure-eight foot." ”

"You also think it was instructed by Hua Feng?"