In the midst of everyone's curiosity, an old man on crutches walked up to the front of the hall and knelt down tremblingly.

"Who's in the hall?"

"The villain's name is Li Shen, and he sells rat medicine."

For Li Shen, the onlookers are no strangers.

He is a famous rat king in Kyoto, and his family has been selling rat medicine for several generations.

Who in Kyoto hasn't bought his rat medicine?

Seeing him, everyone immediately whispered, "Why is Old Man Li?" ”

"Isn't Old Man Li selling rat medicine?"

"How did he get involved with this?"

"That herb can't be rat poison......

Xu Qingchen beckoned, and asked people to present the mouse medicine and the poison materials of Shourentang to the hall together.

"Did you concoct the poison in this herb?"

The old man Li put the medicinal herbs in his hand and smelled them, and then said very firmly, "It's the villain's tune." ”

"How can you be so sure?" Xu Qingchen asked the questions of everyone present.

"Because the villain sells rat poison."

After the old man finished speaking, he saw that everyone was puzzled, so he explained:

"When people use rat poison at home, they have to mix it with bait, and these baits are generally leftovers."

"The villain is afraid that the child will be ignorant and eat it by mistake, so he put some cow dung in the rat poison, and he will know it when he smells it."

Hearing this, everyone suddenly realized.

"No wonder Old Man Li's rat poison always smells."

"Damn, I thought it was some kind of secret recipe, but it turned out to be rat poison!"

"His family's medicine works really well, and the smell is really stinky."

"But with his medicine, children really won't steal it."

After listening to Old Man Li's words, everyone's attitude was already a little wavering.

After all, Old Man Li has a good reputation in Kyoto, and he is so old, he shouldn't be able to lie.

Seeing that the hall was noisy, Xu Qingchen patted the shocked wood and continued to ask Li Shen, "Then you see, have the people in Shouren Hall in the hall ever bought your rat poison?" ”

Li Shen shook his head, "They are from Shourentang, they can prepare whatever medicine they want, how can they come to me to buy medicine." ”

said, pointing to the second-rate son, "He bought a lot." ”

"How do you remember so clearly?"

Listening to Xu Qingchen's inquiry, the old man's expression was a little complicated, "Because he never gave money to buy medicine before, it was all on credit." ”

"That day, he paid it all off."

Everyone would have been skeptical, thinking that there were so many people who bought rat poison, how could they know them one by one.

But when he heard Old Man Li say this, he immediately accepted his reason.

No, how can a person who buys things back and doesn't give money not know him?

They know each other.

Burned to ashes all know!

Moreover, Old Man Li's words are also correct with what the second-rate son himself said.

If he didn't give money before, he was poor.

Later, when I suddenly got rich, wasn't it given by the man in black?

Moreover, Li Shen did not talk nonsense with empty teeth, but took out an account book from his arms.

In the account book, it is clearly recorded that the second-rate son had paid enough money for one or two pieces of silver before, and these two pieces of silver had not been paid back on credit for three years.

But the night before the accident in Shourentang, people suddenly returned it.

Not only did he pay it back, but he also bought a full tael of rat poison.

That's three years!

How many rats do you have to have in your house to use so much rat poison?

Xu Qingchen took the account book, and then passed a few more witnesses.

This time, it's a few second-rate fox friends and dog friends, and a girl from Yihualou.

All of them were frightened, and as soon as they came to power, they hurriedly defended themselves.

"Master, we don't know about second-rate crimes."

"We didn't have long with the second-rate people."

"The slave family is just picking up customers, and I don't know what he has done."

Xu Qingchen didn't embarrass them, but asked, "When did you all meet him?" ”

"Not a few days."

"If he hadn't invited us to dinner and drink, we wouldn't have hung out with him."

"yes, he used to be very stingy."

"It was after the accident in Shourentang that he suddenly had money, and he was in front of us all day long."

"Before the accident in Shourentang, the slave family had never seen him."

After getting the required confession, Xu Qingchen patted the shocked wood and invited two more pieces of physical evidence.

This physical evidence is nothing else, one is the second-rate money hidden under the bed.

The second is the deed of the plum hidden in her arms.

And the time on the deed was the night before the Shourentang poison incident!

All the evidence taken together proves the innocence of Shourentang without a word.

At this time, the onlookers no longer had any doubts.

There are family witnesses, there are physical evidence, and the sinners themselves have confessed.

What else is there to doubt?

On the contrary, they speculate without evidence, as if some villains have the heart of a gentleman.

Thinking about it, Shourentang really has no reason to do such things that harm others and are not beneficial to himself.

Take 10,000 steps back, even if Shou Rentang really wanted to kill someone, he would not be stupid enough to poison the medicinal materials in his own pharmacy.

Is this for fear that others won't be able to catch you?

Shourentang has been treating the poor for so many years, never asking for money, and it is a rare pharmacy with a good reputation.

I'm afraid that in the future, Shourentang will not be so good again.

The people looked at the people in Shourentang, and they couldn't help but feel emotional and ashamed in their hearts, and wanted to apologize for a while, but they couldn't wipe off their face.

Only someone asked worriedly, "Is Shourentang still open?" ”

Hearing this, An Qiliang straightened his back and said loudly: "Of course I am open, I am sitting upright in Shourentang, and I am not afraid of anyone who will make trouble!" ”

After speaking, he looked at Shen Jiaojiao with a look of asking for praise.

Shen Jiaojiao curled the corners of her lips and said in the same loud voice: "Although this matter was not done by Shourentang, my Shourentang did have omissions. ”

"From today onwards, the first thing that all the shops in Shourentang open every day is to check the medicinal herbs!"

"Every day after closing, I send someone to sleep in the store and watch the store."

"Never allow such a thing to happen again!"

Hearing Shen Jiaojiao's loud words, the onlookers shouted in unison, "Okay!" ”

Shen Jiaojiao stretched out her hand to calm everyone's applause, and continued: "As for the poisonous herbs in Shouren Hall now, and the utensils that have contained poisonous herbs, we will leave some for Dali Temple as evidence, and the rest will be burned all!" ”

"You can rest assured that Shourentang will never leave any poisonous herbs behind!"

"Good!" The crowd was excited, waving their arms and applauding.

"Please allow Shourentang to close for three days, and after three days, Shourentang will do better than before!"

"Good!" Hearing that Shourentang would be better than before, the people couldn't help themselves with excitement.

But there are also some who are calmer.

"You're just a doctor, do you talk well?"