“You’re full of sh*t!”
Master Zhang was furious, “Since poison is not common, how could Yao’er have it? If it was really Yao’er who poisoned her, how could she be fine? Your Yuan family has one of them, all of them are vengeful. Our two families used to be good friends, and when Yuan Min was injured, it was only natural for them to visit her mother and daughter. Yuan Cheng, I think you hold a grudge because I refused to marry the two families at the beginning of the year, and that’s why you’re taking revenge.”
“You bullsh*t! What do you think that son of yours is? How could I let Min’er marry something like that just so I could set up a fellow student in high school?”
When he said this, he thought of something and took a step forward, “Your Excellency, when Miner had just died, he came to my door, encouraged me to sue Master Gu, and even dragged in the sister of Song Juejin to take his place. Now that I think about it, it must have all been his plan. He asked Zhang Yao to poison my daughter and use it to bring down the Gu family and deal with Mr. Song, yes, that must be it!”
The county magistrate’s heart leapt as he listened.
If this was really the case, Master Zhang’s mind was too poisonous.
“Your Excellency, don’t listen to him Hu Qin. Our two families have been friends for many years, and I will naturally help him out when something happens to him; he is making this up for nothing, creating something out of nothing.”
“Silence!”
The county magistrate heavily slapped the wood of the hall and stared at Yuan Cheng, “Do you have any basis for what you just said?”
“Your Excellency can send someone to search his mansion, as long as they can find the beauty smile, it will prove that he did it.”
Master Zhang’s face changed invisibly.
The county magistrate had already taken the warrant stick and thrown it on the ground, “Someone, go and search!”
Several magistrates led the order and went away.
Xiao Si, who had been standing at the entrance of the magistrate’s office listening, darted back to the tavern to report.
“It’s no use.”
Song Wangyue said, “Beauty’s smile is unusual, so how would the Zhang family put it out in the open? The magistrates won’t be able to find it.”
The magistrates really didn’t find it.
Master Zhang smiled coldly towards Yuan Cheng, “What else do you have to say?”
“You must have, you must have.”
Master Yuan knew his lady, she would not have poisoned the two men if she was not very sure about Min’er’s death.
Zhang Lao sneered a few times and knocked his head heavily on the ground, “Your Excellency, that b*tch would not have the guts to poison my wife and daughter, she must have been under the compulsion of Yuan Cheng’s father and son, please look into it and give justice to my wife and daughter!”
The county magistrate had two big heads, “Yuan Cheng, let me ask you, were you involved in this matter?”
“Your Excellency, if I had known that the Zhang family had poisoned my daughter, I would have brought the whole family to fight for their lives, how could I have let my wife do this alone?”
“Then did she show any signs beforehand?”
“No. If there had been, the herbalist would have detected it long ago and would have stopped her!”
“You told her that the Zhang family had poisoned her?”
“No.”
“Then where did she learn that the Zhang family had poisoned her and where did she get the poison to mix with the pastry?”
“I don’t know!”
The county magistrate slapped the alarming wood, “Bring the maid from the Yuan residence!”
The two maids were quickly brought up.
They had long been terrified and came to the hall trembling and lying on the ground.
“When I ask you something, you must answer truthfully, if you dare to speak falsely, you will be served with a big board!”
The two maids turned into sieve chaff, “I, we dare not!”
“Then I ask you, where did your wife learn that your young lady died by Zhang Yao’s hand, and where did she get the poison?”
“I, we really don’t know.”
“How dare you! Drag them off!”
“But, it could be Miss Song. The day after Miss was buried, Her Ladyship had called her to the house and sent us all out.”
There was a silence in the hall.
Everyone, including the Prefect, looked at the maid who had spoken.
The maid was shaking like chaff and crouched on the floor, beads of sweat falling from her forehead, “Slave, slave servant is only guessing, and did not, did not hear what Madam and Miss Song said, said.”
“Come on ……”
The county magistrate returned to his senses and drew an order stick and threw it on the ground, “Summon Song Wan Yue to the hall!”
Hearing this, Xiao Si gave a hand signal to another fellow and ran back to the tavern himself.
Seeing that he was sweating profusely as he ran, and his breath was rushed, Song Wangyue knew that she was involved.
“What did the county magistrate say?”
He had already sent a magistrate to Song’s village to summon someone.
Song Wangyue’s made an immediate decision, “You go and ask Wei’s boss to stop the magistrates and tell them to come to the tavern.”
She had sent Song Shen away because she didn’t want her family to worry about her knowing that she was involved in this.
Xiao Si answered yes and hurriedly went to find Master Wei, who got into his carriage and chased him outside the city, stopping the two magistrates.
Hearing that Song Wangyue was at the restaurant, the two magistrates turned around and came back, and when they reached the restaurant, they politely arched their hands towards Song Wangyue, “Miss Song, please come with us.”
Song Si had won the exam but had not become an official, which meant that he wanted to take part in next year’s exams, and if he came out on top again, there was no telling how big his official position would be in the future, they were just pawns and did not want to offend the Song family.
Song Wan Yue and Gu Yi got on the carriage, two magistrates followed behind, when they arrived at the entrance of the county court, Song Wan Yue got off the carriage and told Gu Yi to wait in the carriage, she followed the magistrates into the county court, saluted the county magistrate and stood in the hall.
The county magistrate was very uncomfortable when he saw her standing so straight, but he thought that she was now engaged to Gu Yi and was Song Xieyuan’s sister, so he forced the discomfort down.
“Song Wan Yue, the maid from the Yuan residence said that you had been to the Yuan residence the day after Yuan Min was buried?”
“Your Excellency, yes, it was Madam Yuan’s maid who personally asked me to go there.”
The county magistrate nodded, “What did you say?”
“Madam Yuan asked me to confirm the cause of Miss Yuan’s death, and I told her the truth.”
“Is that all?”
“That’s all.”
The Prefect reminded, “Think harder, did you say anything else?”
“Your Excellency, indeed that’s all. Originally I was puzzled, the Yuan family had known about Yuan Min’s death for a long time, there was no reason why Madam Yuan didn’t know? Why would she suddenly think of sending someone to call me over to ask again? Now that I think about it, Madam Yuan, she’s taking revenge on me.”
“You make some sense.”
“Although Yuan Min died from poisoning, the cause of her death was that she was injured first, and the cause of her injury was because I wanted to redeem the bracelet I had pawned, although this matter was wrong on Yuan Min’s part, Madam Yuan turned her hatred on my head in her grief. She had called me there in a premeditated manner, so that when she had poisoned the Zhang family’s mother and daughter, everyone would think that I had told her that the Zhang family had done the poisoning, and the Zhang family would hate me even more, and might even think of devising ways to deal with me. This is exactly what Madam Yuan wants.”
