Chapter 320: The Missing Herbs
To the guards on their knees, they escaped. And for the dark guards who kneel on the ground and draw their swords, as long as the group of dark guards in front of them does not die, they don't have to take on the next task, and they are relatively safe!
Peng Danling walked out of the secret room, only to see the servants who were waiting for him.
"Master, someone is coming from the medicine house in the south of the city!"
Peng Danling's face immediately became serious.
The Chengnan Medicine House is the residence of Wan Lao, the chief physician of the Tai Hospital, and the people from the medicine house must have come for the incident yesterday.
Yesterday, he actually went to no other place, it was the medicine house in the south of the city.
Because Wan Lao cultivated a precious medicinal herb for the palace Yanchun grass was actually stolen by someone!
It's big or small.
But the small reason is that Wan Lao has retired after all, although his reputation is still there, but if it is just an ordinary theft case, it is understandable.
What's more, although Yanchun grass is a special herb for the imperial palace, it is not very useful. It's just that the queen is alone, and the queen is reasonable, if she explains the reason, I believe that this matter will be trivial.
But this matter can also make a big fuss, after all, someone dares to steal the medicinal materials specially supplied to the palace in broad daylight, isn't this a slap in the face of the palace?
Wan Lao has a cold and arrogant personality, except for dealing with the apprentices he has taken in, few others can have a relationship with him, but Wan Lao has some friendship with him.
In the eyes of outsiders, he was the proud son of heaven who only took more than ten years to climb from the first place in a scientific expedition to the position of prime minister, and he appreciated the talents of the heavens and sent them to the palace to serve the Wenren Kingdom.
And Wan Lao is the first person born in Xinglintang, and he is the chief imperial doctor of Tai Hospital who is unsurpassed in medical skills.
The two have a lot in common in terms of past and interests, so they have a friendship.
But Peng Danling knew very well in his heart that in fact, Wan Lao didn't have to intersect with him at all, not to mention, with Wan Lao's cold and arrogant character, not intersecting with him was in line with his character.
Although Peng Danling is dispensable to Wan Lao, Wan Lao is very important to Peng Danling!
Wan Lao has an absolute status in front of both the Tai Hospital and the emperor, and dealing with Wan Lao can bring him many benefits!
So no matter whether he wants to make it a big deal or a small thing this time, he must do it as a big thing!
After coming back to his senses, Peng Danling ordered his subordinates to invite people in.
The person who came was Ping Jin, and when he saw Peng Danling, his face was not very good.
"Prime Minister Peng, a few more Yanchun grasses have been stolen!"
"What, who the hell is it, so arrogant!" Although Peng Danling talks and laughs in the court, he is not very good at judging cases. He said with a straight face, "It seems that this person is imagining a provocation from the medicine house, let's go to the medicine house to see the situation first!"
Ping Jin nodded, he had never seen anything like this before!
Peng Danling and Pingjin hurriedly left the Prime Minister's Mansion, sat in the carriage prepared by the next people, and hurried towards the south of the city.
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Chengnan Medicine House, because the Yanchun grass disappeared under their noses, the entire medicine house was absent-mindedly doing what they were doing, and unconsciously put their minds on the medicine field outside the house.
Peng Danling and Pingjin came to the medicine field and saw Wan Lao standing alone in the medicine field.
Peng Danling walked over and saw that a few herbs were missing from a medicine field in front of him.
There are a lot of people who come to the medicine field every day, so the footprints here are very messy, and even if the footprints of the people who steal the herbs are mixed in, it is difficult for them to distinguish them.
"We didn't expect that the grass would be stolen one after another, and we only wanted to keep the evidence at the time, so we didn't clean up the footprints in the field, and we didn't expect that the person who stole the grass happened to take advantage of this loophole!" Ping Jin said angrily.
Yanchun grass is squeamish and difficult to cultivate, and it took a lot of effort for Master to cultivate so much, but a few plants were stolen by others at once!
Peng Danling stepped on the footprints on the ground and said: "These footprints are not enough to find the person who stole the Yanchun grass, since it is useless, let's clean it up, from now on, don't leave new footprints around here, if the person who stole the herbs still dares to come, we will have evidence!"
Of course, he didn't think that the person who stole the herbs would be so stupid and throw himself into the net, so after saying this, he politely said to Wan Lao: "There are some things that Benxiang wants to discuss with Wan Lao, can you take a step to speak?"
Wan Lao didn't speak, nodded, and left the medicine field.
The two walked into the house, entered the house and closed the door.
Peng Danling didn't speak yet, but heard Wan Lao say resolutely: "Since I asked Prime Minister Peng Cheng to help, I handed over the matter to Prime Minister Peng, and Prime Minister Peng didn't have to take care of the old man!"
When Peng Danling heard him say this, he didn't care about it anymore, and said to him: "The prime minister said something that shouldn't be said, I wonder if Wan Lao suspected the thief?"
Who knew that Wan Lao didn't even raise his eyelids, "Although Yanchun grass is expensive, only the people in Shangcheng know its value, and the people in my house are dangling in front of it all day long, and it is inevitable that they will think about it!"
Peng Danling was overjoyed in his heart, his words made him find his direction.
He said politely: "Today, the prime minister must interrogate the people in the house one by one, and Wan Lao, please don't mind the faux pas!"
Wan Lao raised his eyes and looked at him and said, "Since you want to be tried, let's start with the old man!"
Before Peng Danling could stop it, Wan Lao had already made his actions clear.
When Peng Danling finished asking the other people in the house, it was already dark.
Wan Lao invited him to stay in the medicine house.
In the wing, Peng Danling sorted out the records of the interrogations made in the house during the day, and found that Wan Lao had the habit of inspecting the medicine field every day, and he was the last to leave the medicine field every night.
According to Wan Lao, when he left the medicine field the day before yesterday, the grass had not been stolen.
Then it is very likely that the person who stole the herb took the opportunity to go to the medicine field and steal the herbs after Wan Lao left the medicine field.
If it weren't for someone who was familiar with the medicine house, he wouldn't have been so neat, and he also provoked the medicine house for the second time.
Then there are only two types of people who steal the spring grass, one is the people in the medicine house, and the other is the enemy of the medicine house!
Wan Lao has been practicing medicine for several years, saving countless people, even he can't remember where he has offended anyone, ordinary medicinal materials are not stolen, but he steals herbs that are only supplied to the queen!
A person who is familiar with the importance of herbs and wants to provoke Wan Lao, Peng Danling almost has a bold conjecture - someone who has an enmity with Xinglintang!
Wan Lao is from Xinglin Hall, everyone doesn't know much about Xinglin Hall, if the people offended by Xinglin Hall will take revenge on Wan Lao, it is not impossible!
The next day, Peng Danling ran to the medicine field early in the morning, and the thief really didn't come back!
After a while, he saw people in the medicine house coming over in twos and threes, because he had ordered not to approach the medicine field before, so they all stopped outside the medicine field to watch.