In order to save his life, Zou He had confessed in a panic before. If he were to be tried again now, there would be no need to resort to severe punishment.
The Minister of Punishment even moved a chair for Zou He. He sat there helplessly, his eyelids drooped, not looking at anyone, only staring at the ground in front of his toes with half-lowered eyes.
"If I tell you everything, can the prince give me a way to survive?"
Xiao Yu sneered, "Let's see how valuable you are and whether you can earn a living for yourself."
Zou He's lips were chapped, and he pulled at the corners of his lips to give a forced smile, but he couldn't smile for a long time. Finally, he gave up, stretched his mouth, and remained silent for a long time before saying: "Five years ago, I was still an unknown person in the Taiyuan Hospital. Even the imperial doctors who came to the palace to see patients were not summoned by ladies, and they were only assigned to diagnose the pulse of those who were not welcome.
Suddenly one day, the Marquis of Zhenning came to me and asked me if I would like to go to Qianzhou with him.
At that time, the plague in Qianzhou was severe, and I also heard that His Majesty wanted to send the Marquis of Zhenning to supervise and suppress it, but the accompanying imperial physician sent another person, who was the right-hand man of the Imperial Envoy at that time.
The Imperial Hospital looks like an area of one-third of an acre, but in fact it has all the internal organs. The imperial physicians and female doctors there are divided into three factions.
The faction headed by the envoy of the Ethereal Hospital is the most powerful, and they are followed by people personally selected by the envoy. These people usually diagnose pulses in front of the popular concubines in the palace.
The other group, headed by the Vice-Chancellor, these imperial doctors don't care much about whom they treat in the palace. They are more favored by some important officials in the court.
The rest is the third faction, the "Three No Matters" faction. People like me, who can't build relationships in the palace and can't develop connections with courtiers, can only carry medicine boxes and wait for tasks every day, wherever they are told. Just go wherever you go and live without any purpose.
At that time, Marquis Zhenning came to me. He didn't even promise any benefits, so I agreed immediately.
That's the Marquis of Zhenning. He took the initiative to find me to explain. It means that when he went to Qianzhou this time, the imperial doctor appointed by the emperor did not suit his wishes. He wanted to find one who liked him. What does this mean? It means that I can catch up with him. The relationship between Zhenninghou Mansion.
Sure enough, after I agreed to the Marquis of Zhenning, I quickly received an imperial edict from the palace, asking me to prepare to go to Qianzhou together.
The imperial doctor appointed by His Majesty at that time was from the faction of the Imperial Envoy. On the third day after arriving in Qianzhou, he contracted the disease and died suddenly. At that time, I was the only one left with the Marquis of Zhenning.
I knew that from that time on, I became a person of Zhenninghou. In order to fight for the opportunity to perform, I worked harder than ever before, reviewing medical skills, checking pulse records, and visiting cases, all in an effort to find an antidote that could curb the epidemic.
It was at this time that Su Yunping appeared in front of me.
He opened a medicine shop. When I went there, he was boiling medicine in the backyard. I asked him what medicine he was boiling. He said that this medicine might be able to control the disease, but he was not sure yet and would need to try it before he could know.
I immediately reported the news to the Marquis of Zhenning. The Marquis went to see Su Yunping that day. He and Su Yunping asked for the prescription and said that the imperial court would arrange a unified trial of the medicine.
We selected a group of seriously ill patients and gave them Su Yunping's medicine.
That medicine worked. After taking it for three days, the symptoms of the epidemic were greatly reduced. The high fever and rash subsided.
On that day, the Marquis of Zhenning told me to prepare two portions of Hedinghong and send them to Su Yunping. After they had eaten them, he announced to the public that Su Yunping had accidentally contracted the infection while treating a patient and then infected it with his wife.
Died violently.
When Marquis Zhenning said this, I was particularly shocked, because just at noon that day, Marquis Zhenning had dinner with Su Yunping. The two of them ate for a full hour. They were drinking and talking happily, but how could they turn away from each other?
Want to send Hedinghong there?
But I didn't dare to ask more.
I can only be obedient. I know what the consequences of disobedience will be. Just like the previous imperial physician, he accidentally died suddenly."
Zou He let out a long sigh, "You all know what happened next. The Marquis of Zhenning announced that Su Yunping and his wife died from an epidemic. He took away Su Yunping's two children. The older one was ten years old and the younger one was just born.
He declared that Su Yunping was kind to him and that he wanted to repay the kindness and made a marriage contract to Su Yunping's eldest daughter."
Su Luo looked at Zou He, "Why did he do this? What did my father do to hinder him at that time?"
Zou He had lowered his eyes before speaking, but suddenly his eyelids twitched and he suddenly raised his head to look at Su Luo.
As soon as he looked at it, he saw a face with delicate facial features and a bit of charm, which was very similar to Su Yunping's wife. This was Su Luo.
Zou He's heart skipped a beat.
He swallowed ineffectively in his dry mouth, and finally opened his mouth and shook his head, "The prescription given by your father can cure the epidemic, but after his death, the Marquis of Zhenning asked me to tamper with the prescription and change the prescription to cure the disease.
Effective treatment.
Not long after the epidemic, a cold broke out in many places.
It was said that it was a wind-cold, but actually only people in Qianzhou at that time knew that it was either a wind-cold or a large-scale epidemic. However, after treatment, the disease was no longer so dangerous and fatal.
It was when the wind and cold swept through that the prices of medicines in major drug stores increased."
At this point, Su Luo still doesn't understand anything.
In order to make this fatal disease spread, the Marquis of Zhenning deliberately changed the prescription to make more people sick and make more people go to the medicine hall to buy medicine. The medicine hall controlled by the family took this opportunity to increase the price of medicine.
rise.
Before his father died, he had lunch with Marquis Zhenning for at least an hour. During this hour, the conversation must not have been very pleasant. It was probably the Marquis Zhenning who mentioned the relevant cooperation to her father, but was rejected by her father.
, that’s why Marquis Zhenning suddenly became murderous.
This is how her parents became the victims of Zhenning Marquis for his own selfish desires.
Several aristocratic families in Zhenninghou Mansion sacrificed her parents in order to make money, but she used it as a fig leaf and lived in Zhenninghou for five years, stupidly covering up his shame.
Anger surged in her heart, Su Luo gritted her teeth tightly, and suddenly the hand on her leg was grabbed by someone.
Xiao Yu's dry, warm, rough and calloused palms wrapped her fists. The heat spread bit by bit, and Su Luo's tightly clenched fists slowly released their strength and relaxed.
The mind that was struck by anger regained its clarity.
Su Luo let Xiao Yu hold her hand, and she looked at Zou He, "You should still keep the prescription that was tampered with, right? You did such an unscrupulous thing for the Marquis of Zhenning, and you were afraid of being punished and killed.
Well, how can you not leave a reason for yourself to save your life?"