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The county magistrate watched the excitement with great interest for a while, then slowly knocked the gavel, "Silence."

Then, he looked at the young man standing upright below, and felt some emotion in his heart.

A year ago, this man was still kneeling when he went to court. However, even when he was kneeling, he stood as straight as he is now, as if no matter how difficult the situation was, it would not break his back.

"In the case of the Mei Rouge Shop, there is certification that the deceased was poisoned after using the lip balm given away by the Rouge Shop, and poisonous lip balm was also found in the Rouge Shop. It seems that the evidence is conclusive. Since you have objections to this case, you must provide more powerful evidence to overturn it."

Hang Shuheng nodded and said, "Sir, I think there are several doubts in this case. First, even if the lip balm in the Rouge Shop is poisonous, it does not prove that the deceased used the lip balm to kill herself. Secondly, before the deceased died of poisoning, the Rouge Shop had already given away a lot of lip balms as gifts. We only need to recall the lip balms that were given away to find out whether the so-called poisonous lip balms are all poisonous or only the lip balm used by the deceased is poisonous. If it is the latter, I have reason to suspect that the poison in the lip balm was put in by the deceased or his family."

As he spoke, he took out a ledger from the Rouge Shop and said, "Sir, this ledger records the information of every customer who bought body lotion at the Rouge Shop and received a gift. You only need to follow the address recorded here to find the lip balm that was given away."

The county magistrate signaled to the captain of the police, who took the account book and brought it to him.

He glanced through the account book briefly, then handed it to the head of the police and ordered, "Go, send someone to these people's homes to retrieve the lip balm."

The captain of the police received the order and arranged for people to go to various places to pick up the goods.

Afterwards, the county magistrate ordered someone to summon the plaintiff and the defendant to the court.

As the defendant, Mei was in the county jail and was brought up quickly.

Mei was brought from the county jail to the court by the bailiffs in public, but she was still very nervous. She didn't expect that the court would be opened again so soon. Has the case been clarified?

As soon as she stepped into the court, she saw Hang Shuheng standing upright in front of her. When she saw him nod slightly at her, most of the tension in her heart was relieved.

Facing the county magistrate, she knelt down and saluted, "I am Mei, a commoner, and I pay my respects to you, sir."

The county magistrate knocked the gavel and asked, "Mei, the Hu family in the north of the city sued your rouge shop for having poisonous lip balm and killing someone. Do you admit it?"

"To answer your question, sir, I deny it. I am innocent."

"You said you were wrongly accused, but how do you explain the poisonous lip balm that was found in your shop?"

Mei paused for a moment, then said, "I can't explain it, because I don't know who put the poison in the lip balm. I'm a business owner, so it's impossible and I won't do such a stupid thing that would ruin my reputation and kill people."

"So, you can't prove that you didn't put the poison in the lip balm, right?"

Mei was silent again, and after a moment she replied weakly, "Yes."

Poisonous lip balm was found in their shop, and she really couldn't prove that she wasn't the one who poisoned it.

After a round of questioning, the plaintiff was brought in, and the body of the deceased was carried to the court again.

As soon as they entered the court, the husband and mother-in-law of the deceased saw Mei and began to act out, kneeling and kowtowing to the county magistrate, "Your Excellency, Your Excellency, my wife died unjustly. Please punish the black-hearted businessman to the law and give my wife justice so that we can let her rest in peace!"

"Wow, daughter-in-law, you died such a tragic death! It was all because of that damn black-hearted merchant who harmed you!" The old woman threw herself on the corpse covered with white cloth and began to act out the story with tears in her eyes.

After howling for a while, he raised his head, pointed at Mei and said a bunch of nasty things, accusing Mei of being a murderer with every word.

Hang Shuheng looked at her coldly for a while, and said calmly: "Madam, the case is not clear yet, you don't have to be so anxious to accuse someone of murder."

The old woman's wailing suddenly stopped. She looked up and found that there was another person in the court with them.

"Who are you and why are you speaking for her?"

"I am a scholar, and also the defense lawyer for Mei in this case."

"Lawyer? What's a lawyer?" The old woman was a little confused. She didn't understand what a lawyer was, but she was sure that this person was in cahoots with the Mei family. "Don't try to excuse her. She is a murderer. My daughter-in-law was poisoned to death because she used their lip balm."

Hang Shuheng pulled the corner of his mouth and nodded, "Okay, you said that the deceased died of poisoning due to lip grease. Then let me ask you, where did the lip grease come from?"

"Do I even need to ask? Of course I bought something from her shop and the shop gave it to me as a gift." The old woman glared at Mei fiercely and added, "I was wondering why her shop was so kind! They gave it to me as a gift, but it turns out they were planning something bad and wanted to hurt me!"

Hang Shuheng continued to ask: "May I ask what did you buy at the Rouge Shop? How much did you spend? Why did the Rouge Shop give you lip balm as a gift?"

"Why do you care what we bought or how much money we spent? I didn't know why they gave us lip balm, but now I know it's to harm us."

Hang Shuheng smiled and shook his head, saying, "Madam, you may not know this! The Rouge Shop has a rule for giving away lip balm. You can only get a box of lip balm if you buy more than ten taels of silver at a time. How much silver did you spend at the Rouge Shop?"

The old woman had no idea about this. After hearing what Hang Shuheng said, she choked up and said, "Is there any need to say more? Of course we also bought something worth ten taels of silver."

The deceased's husband kept his head down, listening to his old mother talking to someone. He always felt something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what it was.

"Oh! Really?" Hang Shuheng laughed and continued to ask: "I heard that your family didn't even have the money to buy medicine for the deceased. Where did you get ten taels of silver?"

"This, I..." The old woman hesitated for a moment and couldn't answer.

Where did their family get ten taels of silver? Even the box of lip balm was given to them by the person behind the scenes.