After leaving the county government office, Zhan Feiyu refused Agent Zhao's offer to see him off and followed Dr. Ji on the carriage. The two decided to go to Yujia Village and the mountains to see if there were any clues.
Sitting on the carriage, Doctor Ji looked at Zhan Feiyu, who was frowning in thought, and said: "If County Magistrate Chen is a weak official, he will take these people back to the county government and torture them, and then they will know everything."
"My husband is a scholar, my senior brother is the son of a scholar, and the Wang family is a wealthy businessman. The only ones who can torture are Uncle Dong, his daughter, and Aunt Lu." Zhan Feiyu rolled his eyes speechlessly. Doctor Ji's method was really simple and crude.
Before Doctor Ji could speak, Zhan Feiyu said again: "Furthermore, I heard Uncle Chongguang say that Mr. Chen offended his magistrate, a second-rank official. County magistrate Chen has not been promoted in seven years. If he is wronged again,
If the case is false and wrong, Mr. Chen's official career will come to an end."
This time it was Doctor Ji's turn to be surprised. He looked at Zhan Feiyu and laughed. No wonder Master Qi was so important to him. If this girl were a man, she would definitely have a place in the court!
The back mountain is very close to the private school. When Master Lin built his house at the foot of the mountain, he wanted to keep it quiet and avoid the noise of Yujia Village.
"Xiaoyu, who is this?" Seeing the carriage parked in front of the private school, Muramasa thought it was Master Lin's friend who came to pay homage, but he didn't expect that it was Zhan Feiyu who got off the carriage.
Although Doctor Ji's left arm is empty, just by looking at the jade ornaments hanging from his waist, you can tell that he is not an ordinary person.
"Murmasa, this is Doctor Ji from Leshan, here to pay homage to my wife." Zhan Feiyu said the identity of Doctor Ji.
Although Muramasa was surprised that Leshan Residence was a teahouse with a doctor, he didn't ask any more questions and took him to the mourning hall.
Amidst the sad sounds of suonas and gongs, Doctor Ji paid his respects, and Lin Xiuyuan returned the greeting. Wang Linlang, who was also kneeling beside him with red and swollen eyes, squinted and secretly looked at Doctor Ji.
Black satin patterned boots, round neck, narrow sleeves, straight skirt, and a jade pendant with Ganoderma lucidum pattern hanging on the waist. The Wang family is rich and wealthy, and Wang Linlang also knows a little about jewelry. Just looking at the luster of this jade pendant, you can tell that it is not ordinary, and it does not cost hundreds.
You can't buy it for two taels of silver.
Looking at Lin Xiuyuan, whose face was pale and his eyes were lifeless, Zhan Feiyu couldn't help but said: "Doctor Ji, my senior brother is weak, can you help me make a prescription?"
"Xiaoyu, I'm fine, I just haven't slept well these past two days." Lin Xiuyuan refused in a hoarse voice.
Lin Xiuyuan wanted to raise his son but refused to be kissed. Lin Xiuyuan stayed up all night, forcing himself to drink a few sips of water and eat two mouthfuls of porridge. He was just torturing himself with self-abuse, so as to alleviate some of the pain of losing his mother.
Wang Linlang stood up and staggered after kneeling for too long.
After being supported by Lin Xiuyuan, Wang Linlang said his thanks softly with a pale face; "Brother Xiuyuan, your medicine is still warming on the stove. I will bring it to you later. Brother Xiuyuan, if you don't take the medicine well, uncle and
Sister Zhan will be worried."
Rather than asking Doctor Ji to diagnose his pulse and prescribe a prescription, Lin Xiuyuan, who did not want to cause any trouble, naturally chose to drink ready-made medicine, "I will go to the kitchen to drink medicine in a moment, Xiaoyu, don't bother Doctor Ji."
Zhan Feiyu was really worried that Lin Xiuyuan's body could not bear it. He and Mrs. Lin had caught wind and cold before, and the medicine they drank was only prescribed by the barefoot doctor in Yujiacun.
Now that I was worried about the funeral, I couldn't bear it either physically or mentally. I asked Dr. Ji to help diagnose the pulse and prescribe prescriptions in order to regulate the bodies of Mrs. Lin and Lin Xiuyuan.
Wang Linlang deliberately leaned closer to Lin Xiuyuan, "Sister Zhan, don't worry, I will definitely take good care of Brother Xiuyuan."
Doctor Ji raised his eyebrows, "This little girl is amazing. Are you talking as Lin Xiuyuan's "wife"?
"Senior brother, you don't know how bad you look!" Zhan Feiyu said with a straight face and a stern voice, "Moreover, Muramasa said that Master has not slept for two days and two nights. Do you want to let Master's wife leave without peace of mind?"
"I..." Lin Xiuyuan was dumbfounded. He could not care about himself, but he could not care about Master Lin's body.
"If you and your wife don't take good care of your health, I will live in a private school from tomorrow on!" Zhan Feiyu did not stay, firstly because she was young and could not help with the funeral.
Secondly, Zhan Feiyu is already eight years old, and it would be bad for his reputation to stay outside.
When he glanced out of the corner of his eye, he saw Wang Linlang's expression was different. Zhan Feiyu was confused for a moment. In fact, his senior brother had a gentle temperament. If Wang Linlang had been stronger, his senior brother would still have taken the medicine.
Did she do it on purpose, so that Wang Linlang could take the opportunity to show off when her senior brother and master fell ill? Moreover, the master's wife passed away. If Wang Linlang really used some tricks, the marriage might be possible.
Zhan Feiyu gathered his thoughts and said, "Senior brother, where is the Master?"
"Dad is in the backyard. Sorry to bother Doctor Ji." Lin Xiuyuan thanked him again and led Doctor Ji and Zhan Feiyu to the backyard.
Panic flashed across Wang Linlang's eyes quickly, followed by resentment and anger at Zhan Feiyu's meddling in other people's business.
But after thinking about it, Wang Linlang was relieved and followed him. Three or four days had passed, and no matter how good the doctor in front of him with a broken arm could find out anything.
Master Lin was in the backyard discussing the cemetery with the village chief and clan leader of Yujia Village.
Mrs. Lin's grandparents fled here and settled down later. The Lin family is a single generation of three generations. His parents died young. Therefore, Mrs. Lin has no clan or elders in Yujia Village. Mrs. Lin's coffin can only be buried on the cemetery behind the village.
"Let's take our leave first. I know what Master said." When the clan elder saw Doctor Ji coming, he just regarded him as Master Lin's friend and left first with Muramasa.
Knowing Doctor Ji's identity, Mrs. Lin was also unwilling to trouble him, but Zhan Feiyu pointed at Lin Xiuyuan, who looked pale beside him.
Before Master Lin could speak, Doctor Ji looked coldly at the father and son, who looked sad and emaciated, and said, "It doesn't matter, I can come again after I fall ill."
Uh... Mrs. Lin and Lin Xiuyuan didn't know what to say for a moment. In the end, Mrs. Lin could only stretch out her hand to let Doctor Ji take his pulse.
After a while, Doctor Ji said: "It's nothing serious. I'll prescribe two prescriptions to replenish your vitality."
Lin Xiuyuan also had similar symptoms, but he was weak and his prescription was slightly different. Dr. Ji picked up his pen and started writing the prescription.
Zhan Feiyu looked at Wang Linlang with a relaxed expression, and his doubts became even more confusing.
"Doctor Ji, please ask Uncle Hai to go back to the county to get medicine. I will take you for a walk in the back mountains and pick you up when Uncle Hai comes back." Zhan Feiyu said this casually, and it seemed that she was very close to Doctor Ji.
, otherwise how can he summon his entourage.
Doctor Ji put down his pen and looked at Zhan Feiyu sideways, "You don't treat me as an outsider."
Zhan Feiyu greeted Doctor Ji's scrutinizing gaze shamelessly. As long as I wasn't embarrassed, others would be embarrassed.
"We can't trouble Doctor Ji anymore. I'll ask the villagers to help go to the county to get medicine." Mrs. Lin hurriedly spoke, but Xiaoyu's words were out of proportion.
"Master, if I'm being polite to Doctor Ji, I'm treating him as an outsider." Zhan Feiyu deliberately emphasized the word "back mountain". As expected, he saw Wang Linlang's flash of panic. Even if he had other thoughts, it was just
A twelve-year-old girl.
"I heard that there are a lot of medicinal materials in the back mountain. Xiaoyu and I will go take a look without delaying anything." Doctor Ji answered, and it was obvious that he really didn't care about these false gifts.
After a while, Mrs. Lin sent Zhan Feiyu and Doctor Ji out, while Uncle Hai drove the carriage back to the county seat with the prescription to grab the medicine.
The back mountain is not far from the private school, you can go there by following the path.
Doctor Ji lifted up the branches and looked at Zhan Feiyu who was walking behind him, "Do you suspect the girl named Wang?"
"If someone from the private school poisoned her, Wang Linlang is the most suspicious, but I still can't think of her motive for poisoning and killing people." Zhan Feiyu didn't hide it, "She wanted to marry her senior brother, and her senior sister would definitely not agree, but for
The idea of murder is a bit far-fetched."
"Don't talk about a twelve-year-old girl, even a five- or six-year-old can kill someone." Doctor Ji sneered coldly, seeming to disdain Zhan Feiyu for seeing people as too kind, "The Lin family and his son are kind-hearted. If your wife is a difficult person,
Damn it, now that she's dead, it will be much easier for someone named Wang to marry Lin Xiuyuan."
Many men underestimate the women in the back house, but they never know that when women are cruel, there is no need for men to be bad, otherwise they would say that women have the most vicious hearts!
Seeing Zhan Feiyu frowning and still thinking, Doctor Ji continued walking into the mountain, "It is said that men have three great blessings..."
"If you get promoted and get rich, your wife will die." Zhan Feiyu blurted out his answer.
Doctor Ji's expression was a little stiff. This little girl with chubby cheeks was only eight years old, so she knew too much.
Zhan Feiyu touched his nose in embarrassment, "Doctor Ji, you are saying that Wang Linlang poisoned my wife. Firstly, the senior brother has to observe mourning for three years, which will give Wang Linlang time to make plans for the future. Secondly, if she really marries into the Lin family without her mother-in-law,
It’s pressed on top.”
Wang Linlang wanted to marry Lin Xiuyuan, but the biggest obstacle was indeed Mrs. Lin. Not to mention that she had decided on Zhan Feiyu, even if she had to choose another daughter-in-law, it would never be Wang Linlang who was a daughter-in-law.
After Mrs. Lin's death, three years later, Lin Xiuyuan paid homage. Wang Linlang was already fifteen years old at that time. If she used some tricks, she could really get married.
When she got married, she didn't have a mother-in-law, and her husband and father-in-law were kind-hearted. It's not an exaggeration to say that Wang Linlang fell into a lucky nest.
But Zhan Feiyu always felt that something was wrong. This could be regarded as a reasonable motive for killing. But Wang Linlang was only twelve years old, could she really do this?
If so, Wang Linlang's expression would not have changed when she mentioned Houshan twice just now. Moreover, she had provoked him several times before. Although she looked like a white lotus, she was not clever enough.
"Your husband and senior brother did not catch the cold. They also ate mushrooms, but in very small amounts." Doctor Ji told Shi Chui's evidence.
He noticed it when he just took his pulse, but the barefoot doctor in the village had average medical skills and mistook the slight headache and dizziness as a cold and prescribed medicine.
Zhan Feiyu's eyes suddenly widened, and he found a rock and sat down, "No wonder Wang Linlang looked wrong when she just said to check Brother Fuzi's pulse, I just thought she didn't want him to recover, so that she could take care of him, and took the opportunity
To gain favor."
"If the Lin family and his son had not taken the medicine to treat colds, the poison in their bodies should have dissipated." Doctor Ji looked around, and there were deep mountains ahead. A little girl like Wang Linlang probably wouldn't dare to take the risk.
The wind-cold medicine prescribed by Dr. Barefoot in Yujia Village affected the patient's appetite. Master Lin and Lin Xiuyuan drank three large bowls of the bitter concoction three times a day and lost all appetite.
If you eat less, your body will not excrete much, so the medicinal properties of mushrooms will still remain in your body.
After Mrs. Lin passed away, the father and son were even more grieved. They didn't even drink a sip of water, let alone eat. Otherwise, no matter how skilled Dr. Ji was in medicine, it would have been three or four days since he could have known that the father and son were still alive.
Eating poisonous mushrooms.
"Look over there." Doctor Ji pointed to a shady place not far away, where a section of dead wood was broken by lightning and there were some rotten branches and leaves under the tree.
Zhan Feiyu walked over quickly, squatted down and inspected it carefully, "This is the broken mushroom handle... Doctor Ji, is this the mushroom?"
Pushing aside the dead leaves, Zhan Feiyu pointed at a bright red mushroom. The mushroom was very small and probably only grew in the past two days.
Doctor Ji carefully broke off the mushroom, smelled it carefully, dipped his fingertips into some of the liquid oozing out of the mushroom, put it on the tip of his tongue and licked it, "That's it."
About a quarter of an hour later, Zhan Feiyu found more than 20 broken mushroom stems in the surroundings. "Wang Linlang goes out every day to pick some wild flowers and put them in vases. He even came to the mountains to look for orchids a few days ago."
So she really poisoned her master's wife to marry her senior brother?
Looking at Zhan Feiyu with a sullen face, Dr. Ji comforted him: "These are not evidence, and they will not be able to convict her in court. However, it is impossible for her to marry Lin Xiuyuan, and after the news gets out, she will never be found guilty in this life."
Don’t expect to marry into a good family either.”
This was the biggest punishment for Wang Linlang. She had tried all her tricks, but unfortunately she ruined her marriage.
After a long silence, Zhan Feiyu said: "I will talk to Master after the funeral of Master's wife."
But these are all speculations by Zhan Feiyu. Whether Mrs. Lin will report to the official position or use other methods to seek revenge, Zhan Feiyu will not interfere.
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Seven days after the coffin was laid, it was the day of the funeral. The drizzle of rain fell. Zhan Feiyu followed Lin Xiuyuan in mourning clothes. Once he was a teacher, he was always a father. Mrs. Lin was also considered her elder relative, and it was appropriate to wear hemp and mourning.
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Doctor Ji held a road sacrifice, and after Zhan Feiyu came down from the tomb, he whispered: "There are rumors in Shangsi County that Mrs. Lin was poisoned by Mrs. Lin."
"What?" A hoarse voice sounded. Zhan Feiyu's eyes were red and swollen from crying. She thought that her feelings for her mistress were not deep enough, but seeing Mrs. Lin and Lin Xiuyuan's sad looks, Zhan Feiyu's tears couldn't stop flowing down.
"I'll send someone to bring ointment later. Are you going to cry your eyes out?" Doctor Ji frowned and looked at her eyes, which had only a slit left. The little girl's skin was white, but her eyes looked red and swollen.
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"No, Doctor Ji, you said there are rumors outside that Master is the murderer?" Zhan Feiyu asked quickly.
Although Mrs. Lin was poisoned, the yamen concealed the news. Outsiders only thought that Mrs. Lin had died of a sudden illness. Those who came to express their condolences only lamented that Mrs. Lin was so unlucky. Why did rumors of poisoning spread? The key point
The murderer is still Mrs. Lin.
Before Doctor Ji could speak, Zhan Feiyu thought quickly, "When Fei Shaotou came to the village to inform my wife of my wife's death, Cun Zheng and my mother knew that Cun Zheng even hid it from the fifth grandmother. After Fei Shaotou and the others came to the private school
, it is impossible for Mr. Dong to mention it to outsiders, and it is impossible for Wang Linlang and Aunt Lu to say it."
As for Jishitang, this is not the first time that Dr. Xu has cooperated with the government, so the news will naturally not be leaked.
How did people outside know that the master's wife was poisoned? Could it be that the Yamen's police officers leaked the news? But why were there rumors that the Master was the murderer?
Doctor Ji patted Zhan Feiyu's head and said, "After all, more than a dozen people know that Mrs. Lin was poisoned. It's not surprising that the news spread. Zhang Xiucai and your wife are old enemies. It's very likely that he is taking the opportunity to cause trouble."
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Half an hour later, the private school study room.
Zhan Feiyu did not say that Wang Linlang was the murderer who poisoned Mrs. Lin, but told Mrs. Lin who was exhausted both physically and mentally about the rumors.
"What is pure will become pure by itself, and what is turbid will become turbid by itself." Master Lin was not angry, perhaps he was still immersed in the pain of his wife's death, "Xiaoyu, as a teacher, I want to attend the funeral for your wife. You will go to the county school in a few days.
When it comes to studying, the teacher can no longer teach you."
Zhan Feiyu raised his head and looked at Master Lin, whose eyes were full of bloodshot eyes and looked sad. Tears suddenly fell down again, "Master, once you are a teacher, you will always be a father. If you don't want me to become a teacher, don't you look down on me as a female disciple?"
?"
Master Lin looked at the dishonest Zhan Feiyu and stretched out his hand to wipe away the tears on her face, "Don't mess around with your own future. If you don't become a disciple, I am also your disciple. Will you not recognize me as your disciple when you are named on the gold list in the future?"
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Zhan Feiyu knew that Mrs. Lin was determined not to allow her to become a disciple. She flattened her mouth, suppressed her sobs and said, "I understand, Master. I will study hard when I go to the county school."
After calming down, Zhan Feiyu asked tentatively: "Master, when will Miss Wang leave?"
Mrs. Lin is going to mourn, and the private school has to be suspended. The Lin family, except for Dong Xiaoya, is all male. Although Wang Linlang has not yet grown hair, it is against the rules to live in a private school.