Su Xiaoshan regained her composure, wiped away her tears with a handkerchief, covered her face with her hands and angrily rushed away from the crowd of onlookers and left the medicinal restaurant.

Su Jiudong saw that a small crisis had been successfully resolved, so he beckoned the diners to continue eating, turned his head and called Shopkeeper Liu and several cooks into the courtyard.

Shopkeeper Liu was quite ashamed to confess to Su Jiudong: "Su Dongjia, today's matter should have been handled by myself, and I didn't want to disturb you and Heng Gongzi, but I couldn't handle it well, and I also made you have to expose the identity of the owner...

I am really ashamed of the importance and trust you placed in me when you hired me, and even more ashamed of the identity of this shopkeeper. ”

"There's no need to discuss it anymore when the matter is settled, just use it as a reference. If something like this happens again in the future, you should have the experience to deal with it accordingly. ”

Su Jiudong waved his hand and didn't dare to accept the sincere apology of Shopkeeper Liu, and expressed his approval to several cooks by the way: "Since the opening of my medicinal restaurant. The diners were raving about the look and taste of the dishes, and you all did a great job and wore your headscarves exactly as I asked you to cook. ”

One of the cooks gave her own advice: "Boss, it's winter, and it may not be much of a problem to wear a headscarf, but in summer, it can be very hot and humid...... Owner, do we not need to wear headscarves in the summer? Just tie your hair up. ”

"The purpose of I asked you to wear a headscarf is, firstly, to ensure that the food is clean, and secondly, to be able to answer with a clear conscience when facing future situations such as slandering the dishes for being unclean, and we are not the ones who fell out of our hair." After Su Jiudong explained, several cooks and shopkeeper Liu nodded in agreement, and each dispersed to continue to do their own things.

Su Jiudong hurried back to the medicinal herb shop and quietly guarded Wen Yiheng, who was still unconscious. Fortunately, the dangerous period of poison has passed, and Wen Yiheng has turned the corner.

Su Jiudong worked hard by the bedside all night, and Wen Yiheng slowly woke up at noon on the second day.

Wen Yiheng's eyes in the haze were confused, he opened his eyes to look at the unfamiliar ceiling and indoor furnishings, subconsciously grabbed Su Jiudong's little hand to wipe his face and wash him, and gently pinched it, "Where am I?" ”

"In Dr. Yan's herb shop... Did you know that you were poisoned yesterday? Almost died. ”

Su Jiudong glanced at Wen Yiheng, who was still in a daze, almost resentfully, and pulled out his hand to continue to help him wipe it: "Fortunately, we rescued him in time, otherwise you would be in the Netherworld now, where would you have the opportunity to ask where you are." ”

"I'm obviously at the reception banquet prepared by Lord Zhizhou for the minister, how could I... How did you get here? And poisoned? ”

Wen Yiheng sat up against the edge of the bed and shook his head, which was still a mess, trying to sober himself up.

Su Jiudong recounted to Wen Yiheng in detail about the fainting of Wen Yiheng after returning to the medicinal food hall yesterday. Finally, I was able to ask the doubts I had been thinking about for a long time: "You said that you went to the reception banquet of the minister yesterday, why did you suddenly get poisoned?" Have you been in contact with someone or something? ”

Wen Yiheng slowly recalled everything at the reception banquet yesterday morning.

Chu Lufeng, the minister of the Qin Mission, handled the matter ordered by the Holy Lord, turned the horse's head from Shandong to Zhejiang to continue his inspection.

Zhejiang officials received the news in advance, and the prefect and governor prepared a reception banquet for Chu Lufeng, and Wen Yiheng, who was an "attendant", was also invited.

After Chu Lufeng reported to Wen Yiheng about the situation of the imperial court and the secret order of the current saint, the two set off together for the reception banquet.

At the reception banquet, singing and dancing were leveled, and everything was as usual. Chu Lufeng was surrounded by several prefects and governors in the middle of the compliment, and Wen Yiheng planned to get up and take a walk.

Just as he was about to walk out of the crowd, Wen Yiheng was bumped by a medium-sized official.

I saw that the official was in a hurry, and he walked away eagerly without saying sorry to Wen Yiheng.

Wen Yiheng saw that the official was a strange face, and it should be just a petty official who didn't appear often, so he didn't care much about it and continued to enjoy the garden scenery.

Wen Yiheng turned his head and saw from a distance that Lord Lei, the county magistrate of Qishan County, was waving to him, he didn't bother to pay attention to Lord Lei, he only smiled and nodded, and did not plan to come forward to communicate. Writing Zhai

Lord Lei saw Wen Yiheng standing in place and refused to move, so he took the two glasses of wine on the waiter's tray and walked towards Wen Yiheng with a smile. Wen Yiheng saw Lord Lei coming over to toast, even though he was reluctant in his heart, he still kept a polite smile at it.

At this time, someone behind him nodded Wen Yiheng's shoulder, and a strange hoarse voice came from behind him: "This adult ......"

Wen Yiheng turned around and saw that it was the little official who hit him just now. The little official hurriedly stuffed a thing into Wen Yiheng's hand, apologized to Wen Yiheng with a smile on his face, and said, "This lord, you are Lord Chu's attendant, right?" Just now, Xia Guan had no eyes, accidentally bumped into you, knocked your jade pendant off, and now I deliberately return the jade pendant to you, please don't be surprised. ”

Wen Yiheng spread out his palm and saw that what he was holding was not a jade pendant that he was wearing, but a clear and turquoise jade jade pendant, with a lot of water and good permeability, and it was worth a lot of money at a glance.

He smiled clearly, and estimated that this petty official wanted to give him this precious jade pendant in the name of returning the dropped jade pendant after learning that he was close to the minister, and secretly bribed him.

Wen Yiheng pointed to the mutton fat white jade pendant that was still hanging on his waist, and said with a smile: "This adult, you misunderstood, this is not the jade pendant I dropped." You see, my jade pendant is still there. ”

Wen Yiheng handed the jade jade pendant back to the little official, the little official's hands were slightly retracted into the sleeves of the official uniform, and the sleeves wrapped his hands to take back the jade jade pendant, smiled at Wen Yiheng, and slipped into the crowd with a disgraced face.

Wen Yiheng looked at the little official with a look of fear of falling when he followed the jade pendant, and couldn't help but silently calculate how expensive the jade jade pendant could be, which made the official tremble so much.

Lord Lei walked towards Wen Yiheng with two glasses of wine, and toasted to Wen Yiheng flatteringly: "Master Heng, do you know Master Li?" Look, you just talked and laughed with him... Are you willing to talk and laugh with Master Li, and please give you a face and let the lower officials toast you for a drink? ”

Wen Yiheng took the small wine glass and drank it up, stuffed the wine glass back into Lord Lei's hand, didn't want to have too much communication with Lord Lei, and said goodbye straightforwardly: "Lord Lei, I drank this glass of wine you toasted, and it was also your face." I still have important things to do, so I'm one step ahead... Please. ”

“…… In this way, you should have been poisoned after drinking the wine toasted by Lord Lei. It seems that it is really the Lei family's personal revenge," Su Jiudong and Wen Yiheng reviewed the matter together, and Su Jiudong thought that the problem was in the glass of wine that Lord Lei saluted.

But now that the reception banquet has ended, the poisoned wine or wine glass must have been carefully disposed of by Lord Lei, and there is no evidence to prove that Lord Lei poisoned Wen Yiheng.

"It must be Lord Lei who saw that you didn't say a few kind words for him in front of the minister, and there was no hope for promotion, so he simply poisoned you, which is really annoying and angry! In broad daylight, or at the reception banquet of the minister, Lord Lei dared to blatantly poison you, it was really bold! ”

Su Jiudong slammed the bed board angrily with his fist, and his eyes were full of resentment: "The Lei family is full of evil and crimes, you should have told the Minister of the Qin Mission about the Lei family, and if something happens to you in the future, it will be good for the Minister of the Qin Mission to know that the Lei family is behind the ghost." ”

"I have already mentioned the matter of the Lei family to the minister, and we have been busy collecting evidence of the Lei family in the past few days, and now is the time to close the net." Wen Yiheng held Su Jiudong's hand in his hand, and gently stroked the red place where she had beaten the bed board in anger just now, and her mouth began to be restless again.

"You also put in your own petty temperament, why bother to hurt your hands for the wicked people of the Lei family. My illness must be healed by your skillful hands. ”

Under Su Jiudong's strong request, Wen Yiheng recuperated peacefully at home for five or six days, and did not come forward to preside over the investigation of the Lei family with the minister.

Su Jiudong disliked that the distance between his home in the village and the medicinal diet hall was too far, and it was inconvenient to take care of Wen Yiheng every day, so he vacated one of the small rooms in the second courtyard of the medicinal diet hall as Wen Yiheng's recuperation room, and placed Wen Yiheng there to facilitate her daily care.

On this afternoon, Su Jiudong, who had invited Mrs. Li to have a safe pulse, returned to the medicinal restaurant from the Li Mansion and sent Wen Yiheng a soup and medicine, and also brought the Lei family's affairs that Wen Yiheng was most concerned about.

Just two days ago, the minister and his accompanying guards received a tip-off that they had arrested all the people at the scene of Lei Jingyun and the gangsters' illegal salt trafficking, and took advantage of the victory to pursue and destroy the gangsters' lair, and found a large amount of illegal salt stocks.

Chu Lufeng ordered a raid on the Lei family, not only found the receipts and evidence left when he traded with the gangsters in the past, but also found a total of millions worth of silver tickets and silver taels in the secret room of Lord Lei's study.

Both the stolen goods were obtained, Lord Lei and Lei Jingyun were irrefutable, and they were imprisoned, so they had to obediently confess their guilt and surrender to the law. However, what is surprising is that Lei Dada, who is over half a hundred years old, has a very tight tone, and he still refuses to reveal the superior officials involved in him and mediated for him because he received bribes.

didn't get the final result they wanted, and the Lei family was bent on death, so Chu Lufeng could only stop here and withdraw his troops.

Those higher-level officials who had originally sheltered the Lei family understood that Chu Lufeng wanted Jiang Lei's family to do a big deal, so they all stopped the idea of interceding for Lord Lei, lest they accidentally say the wrong thing and implicate themselves.

In the end, Chu Lufeng sentenced the Lei family to the crime and punishment, dismissed all official positions of Lord Lei, raided the Lei family, and beheaded all Lei family men over the age of twelve; The daughters of the Lei family and their children under the age of 12 were exiled to the frontier, and all the property and real estate of the Lei family were collected into the state treasury.