The crown prince has returned to the Land Temple.

After listening to Baixiang's words, he hurriedly followed down the mountain and entered Yan Qi's tent, and couldn't wait to say, "You found it?" ”

Yan Qi sat at the tea table and pointed to the chair opposite: "Sit down and say." ”

The prince sat down, watched him make tea with great interest, and frowned: "When did you become so good at rubbing!" ”

took the tea he pushed over, and said, "Say it quickly, I'm going to die in a hurry!" ”

Yan Qi took a sip of tea and said, "Do you know when the medicinal materials in the epidemic area go to the medicine warehouse for the next day?" ”

The prince shook his head and said, "I don't know." ”

Although he is in charge of the affairs of the two lakes, he has not reached the level of personally supervising everything.

He frowned and wondered, "Does this have anything to do with the matter of poison herbs?" ”

Yan Qi didn't answer him, and continued: "The imperial doctor will focus on the diagnosis and examination of the medication of the people suffering from the epidemic every morning, revise it after deliberation, and after concluding the prescription, send someone to get the next day's medicine." The time of taking the medicine is the end of the day. ”

The prince was even more puzzled: "There are twelve hours in a day, why do you take it at the wrong time?" ”

Yan Qi explained: "The medicine warehouses are all placed in the open air, so they are wrapped in several layers of oiled paper in order to prevent moisture. ”

"The daily time is the best time of the day, and opening a warehouse to take medicine at that time can greatly reduce the moisture of medicinal materials."

The prince thought it was reasonable, but he still didn't understand, what does this have to do with poison herbs?

Nodding at him, he said, "You go on." ”

Yan Qi said: "After opening the warehouse every day to take the medicine, you must immediately seal the medicine warehouse. ”

"Turn it on again until the end of the second day. And during this period in between, there were men from the trading house who took turns to guard, and no one could approach unless necessary. ”

The prince was hung by him, scratching his heart and lungs anxiously, drank the remaining half of the tea, and said, "Are you sincere in wanting to kill me in a hurry?" ”

Yan Qi refilled the tea for him and said, "The five medicine warehouses where the poison was found are citrus aurantium, peppermint, gardenia, forsythia, and licorice. As he spoke, he handed the prince the prescription for the plague.

The prince took it, it was an ordinary glance, and after seeing a few words clearly, he frowned, combined with what Yan Qi said just now, he already understood it in his heart.

Yan Qi smiled without a smile: "I still wonder why the amount of poison herbs picked up is so small." ”

If it is really someone in the trading house who wants to frame the trading house and frame him, they occupy the right time and place, and the amount of poison and herbs will not be only so small, as if they are making a small fuss, arousing suspicion.

The prince continued his words: "Because, the poison herb was not put in by the people in the trading house at all. ”

"What?" Bai Xiang and Sui Feng were dumbfounded and spoke in unison.

Yan Qi nodded in agreement with the prince's words, and explained to the two Baixiang: "When someone took the medicine, he put the poison herb into the medicine warehouse, and the medicine warehouse was closed. The next day, the poison was attacked, and the spearhead was directed at the medicine warehouse. ”

"And the opening inspection, it is indeed poisonous herbs, there is no need to doubt it at that time, and no one will suspect it, and the firm has become the culprit."

Baixiang wondered, "But how did the poisonous herb get in?" When the medicine was taken, there were always people watching the business bank! ”

Yan Qi sneered: "That kind of tiny measurement, hidden in the sleeve, after taking the medicinal materials, shake the sleeve, unknowing." ”

Baixiang was still suspicious: "But if the medicinal materials in our trading house are not poisonous, then how did the people who took the medicine poison?" ”

The prince remembered Yan Qi's look when he saw Jiang Ji's medicine bowl, and said, "It was the miscellaneous servants of the decoction who poisoned it." He added: "Although I don't know the time of the medicine, I know that the errand of collecting medicine has always been done by the miscellaneous servants in the epidemic area. ”

Yan Qi smiled and raised his glass: "The prince is smart." ”

The prince held the cup, raised it, and said with a smile: "Not as good as you." ”

When Sui Feng heard this, he understood everything.

Thinking that they have worked hard all these days, they have been tricked!

Gritted his teeth angrily and said, "Who is it!" ”

"Who is it that used such despicable means to calculate and frame the trading house!"

Yan Qi lowered his eyes and took a sip of tea.

The prince was speechless.

With this clear direction, things are much easier to check.

Sui Feng and Baixiang searched for a large bag of poison materials in less than an hour.

The detained handyman was called Erniu, and he knelt in the tent at the moment, bowing his head and saying nothing.

Baixiang looked at him and said coldly: "When I went to find Imperial Doctor Cui, he was still quietly observing me. I was glad that I had brought back the paper that had been soaked in vague handwriting.

Yan Qi looked at the tattered patches and stacks of coarse cloth clothes on his body, and then looked at his emaciated face, and said, "Why are you doing this?" ”

The second cow seems to have never heard of it.

Yan Qi said again: "Your parents died after suffering from the epidemic. You understand the pain of losing a loved one. ”

"Why put this pain on someone else?"

Erniu moved slightly and raised his head.

Not matching his stagnant body, one of his eyes was cold and shining.

Looking at Yan Qi, he said sadly: "I just hate them." ”

Yan Qi squinted and asked, "Who do you hate?" ”

Erniu "sneered" and smiled, extremely contemptuous.

"I hate all the children who have both parents, and I hate the people who can still get better after the epidemic."

He paused as he spoke, looking confused, jealous, and crazy.

After a few blank breaths on his face, he laughed: "I'm still crying, why are they laughing!" Yes? Why laugh! ”

Bian Yushan was hit by his theoretical anger and rushed straight to the heavenly spirit cover, kicked him in the face of rampant laughter, and scolded angrily: "Beasts are not as good! ”

Erniu's laughter stopped, and he covered his face and began to cry.

Yan Qi's heart was heavy, and he breathed a deep sigh of relief, and said, "Can you be instructed by someone?" ”

Erniu is still crying.

Bian Yushan stepped up again: "Ask you, dare to pretend to be crazy and stupid, and slaughter you to feed the dog!" ”

Yan Qi was afraid that he would kick someone to death, so he frowned and looked at him.

Bian Yushan hurriedly took two steps back, not daring to be presumptuous.

Yan Qi came to him and squatted down: "You don't have the money to buy these poisonous herbs, and it is impossible for any pharmacy to sell you so many at once." ”

"Where did the poison herb come from? And by whom are you commanded? ”

"Tell me, I will renovate your parents' graves, and every year at the Qingming Death Festival, I will have people send them paper money."

Erniu stopped crying, but he stopped talking.

Yan Qi was not discouraged, and then said, "Do you think your parents are willing to see you like this?" ”

Erniu was poked in the sore spot, suddenly folded up, and his face almost deceived Yan Qi's face, and roared in a low voice: "What do people like you know!" ”

Yan Qi raised his hand to stop Baixiang and Bianyu Mountain, which were about to rush up.

looked at Erniu calmly and said, "You may not know, my mother disappeared when I was very young." ”

Erniu was stunned, and a blank appeared in his hateful eyes.

Yan Qi continued: "Our boat sank, my mother fell into the water with me in her arms, someone came to rescue, she handed me up, but she herself sank to the bottom of the water, and the bones did not exist." ”