Qingyu Case: Female Minister of Dali Temple

Because Chan Yi was the medicinal residue facing everyone's inspection, all the relatives of the deceased and the onlookers saw the kudzu in her hand.

The family members of the deceased immediately shouted indignantly, demanding that Chen Shao strictly review the pharmacy. The angry curses of the doctors were endless. The people who were watching the excitement were also very excited. You know, many of them were the ones who came to Huimin Pharmacy to see a doctor today.

Chan Yi's expression turned ugly. "This little bunch of kudzu vines is not fatal at all!"

"You said it wasn't fatal, so how did my mother die?"

"Can you poison someone if it's not fatal? You are disregarding our lives!"

"Execute all the doctors at Huimin Pharmacy to pay for my mother's life!"

Chan Yi's face became uglier and uglier. Chen Shao comforted her by saying "stay calm" and then looked at the rest of the family members except Su Er's family, "Who else brought the medicine residue here?"

Ten more people took out the medicine residue one after another.

What a coincidence, everyone brought the medicine residue with them before coming to Huimin Pharmacy! Chan Yi endured the ridicule that was about to come out of her mouth, and after taking all ten sets of medicine residue, she still checked them in front of everyone. Each of the ten sets of medicine residue had kudzu, but only a small handful.

Seeing this, the family members shouted even louder.

After seeing Ye Ge, the onlookers gradually joined the voices calling for Chen Shao to execute all the doctors at Huimin Pharmacy.

Chen Shao squatted down, picked up the kudzu from one of the medicine residues, calmly called the Seventh Master, whose face was already pale without a trace of blood, to come forward, and ordered: "Go search the pharmacy to see if there is any kudzu left."

"Kudzu is poisonous. How come a pharmacy has this stuff?" asked a doctor, and several other doctors echoed him.

Chen Shao said calmly: "Let's go and see first."

Two doctors and three assistants went with the Seventh Master.

Soon, several people came out angrily with a wooden box that originally had Niu Dali written on it, but now contained Kudzu.

"This is a false accusation!" Seeing the wild kudzu, whether it was the 'family members' of the deceased or the onlookers, before they started to make a fuss, a group of pharmacy guys were already unwilling to do so. "Although wild kudzu and cow dalily are similar, we are not unable to distinguish them! We can guarantee with our lives that there was absolutely no wild kudzu in the pharmacy when we were dispensing the medicine yesterday!"

The doctors looked at them in silence, as if they had escaped a disaster. Since kudzu was found in the pharmacy, it proved that it was not their problem. Even if they wanted to settle the score, it would not be their turn.

"Who are the people who added herbs to the pharmacy? Call them all out." Chen Shao calmly instructed Qi Ye and turned to Chan Yi, "You and Zhou Erge go to the medicine store to check if there is any kudzu in the store."

After everyone left, Chen Shao glanced at Li Tianliu.

Li Tianliu walked up to her casually.

Chen Shao glanced at the people who wanted to be the master, and then at the people who were watching, and said in a low voice: "Arrange people to guard the doors of the medicine shop. No one is allowed to leave under any excuse without my or your order. Arrange people to guard the surroundings and keep an eye on these people who want to be the master. If anyone leaves in the middle of the way, have someone follow them. Also, keep a close eye on the doctors and assistants who followed Master Qi to the pharmacy just now."

After hearing this, Li Tianliu was thinking about what excuse to use to leave when Xu Guang squeezed through the crowd and hurried over. He walked up to them, took a look at the medicine residue on the ground, hurriedly asked "what's going on", and then went to the row of corpses.

"You've come just in time," Chen Shao ordered, "Find out the cause of their death."

Xu Guang agreed.

Taking advantage of the gap between Chen Shao and Xu Guang's conversation, Li Tianliu retreated to the door of the pharmacy calmly, and then pretended to be nothing happened and went into the pharmacy. Then, under his arrangement, the Yulin Guards quickly dispersed to the several entrances and exits of the pharmacy and among the crowd, quietly surrounding the Huimin Pharmacy and all the "family members".

"Looking at the symptoms on their hands and faces, it seems that they were all poisoned by kudzu." After checking all eleven bodies one by one, Xu Guang subconsciously glanced at the row of drug residues, then looked at the people in the pharmacy, and then whispered to Chen Shao, "Did you prescribe the wrong medicine?"

Chen Shao gestured for him to look at the handful of kudzu that Chan Yi had picked out from the medicinal residue, and after repeating Su Er's words to him, he asked, "Everyone knows that kudzu is poisonous, but do you think this handful of kudzu can really kill a person? Or, can this handful of kudzu really kill a person in a short period of time?"

Pueraria lobata is not a rare poison. Xu Guang naturally knew that. He squatted in front of one of the medicinal residues, picked up the small handful of kudzu next to the residue and smelled it. After comparing it with the other medicinal herbs in the residue, he was puzzled and said, "I don't know if this small handful of kudzu can kill people, but it definitely can't kill people in a short period of time. But they..."

"Yes, that's definitely not the case, but they all died of poisoning." Chen Shao took over his words meaningfully, handed him the paper and pen left by Chan Yi, and began to interrogate the 'family members' of the deceased.

The answers of the ten "family members" were not much different from those of Su Er's family.

They all gave the medicine to their parents or husbands after dinner as ordered by the doctor. The poison took effect soon after they were given the medicine, and they died on the way to the hospital.

If it weren't for the fact that they fed the medicine at such close times, had the same death process, and had not all brought medicine residue with them when they came to Huimin Pharmacy, then Chen Shao would have no objection to saying that this was a malicious poisoning incident.

There is no shortage of coincidences in the world, but if there are too many coincidences in the same thing, especially a vicious incident, it is no longer a coincidence.

But, what is their purpose in doing this?

After taking Xu Guang's records and making sure that there were no omissions in his records, Chen Shao raised his eyes and swept his gaze over the eleven families of the deceased's family members one by one. The eleven families of the deceased's family members, in total, numbered nearly a hundred people, and the expressions of these nearly a hundred people ranged from sorrow, numbness, panic, fear, excitement, and calculation.

After taking another look at the crowd, Chen Shao turned his gaze to the twelve men who followed Qi Ye out.

All twelve guys were men.

After following the Seventh Master out in panic, they listened to the people's shouting and talking, and could not help but kneel on the ground and cry out for justice.

Chen Shao calmly asked them to get up, then asked slowly, "When do you usually get medicine refilled at the pharmacy?"

"Normally, the pharmacy opens at noon, and they will prepare all the medicines half an hour in advance. There have been many patients in the past two days, so the pharmacy opened an hour earlier than usual, and they will also prepare the medicines an hour earlier." The Seventh Master answered calmly, "In the middle of the process, they will either prepare the medicines in the medicine storehouse or help in the pharmacy. They will prepare the medicines according to the lack of the medicines, so the time is not so certain."

Chen Shao asked again: "How do you make the tonic?"

As if to prove that the deaths of the eleven bodies had nothing to do with the medicine shop, Master Qi deliberately raised his voice and said, "The medicinal materials are usually put into the warehouse by one group of shop assistants first, and then checked by another group of shop assistants. When leaving the warehouse, they will first report the missing medicinal materials to the shop assistants in the medicine store, and the shop assistants in the medicine store will be responsible for taking them out and giving them to them. After they confirm, they will send them to the dispensing pharmacy. After the medicinal materials in the dispensing pharmacy are replenished, two to three shop assistants will also check and confirm that they are correct."

"Since so many inspections have been carried out, why is kudzu vine put in the Niu Dali?" someone questioned.

Mr. Qi couldn't answer.

Chen Shao looked at the person who was speaking and found that it was the man in his early thirties who had angrily asked them not to shirk their responsibilities. After taking a calm glance at the men and women around him, Chen Shao retracted his gaze and continued to ask, "Who refilled the medicine for the pharmacy today?"

"They have all been filled." Mr. Qi replied after taking a look at the twelve people.

Chen Shao continued: "Who did the verification?"

Three people stood out from the crowd of shop assistants at the entrance of the pharmacy. They looked at Chen Shao and said firmly, "When we checked this morning, they were all Niu Dali!"

Chen Shao asked, "After you checked, how many people had entered the pharmacy before Master Qi took out the kudzu just now?"

The Seventh Master replied, "Besides the doctor and the pharmacy clerk, only the twelve of them who make tonic medicine can enter and leave the pharmacy. They..."

Master Qi glanced at the eleven 'family members' and said, "Before they came here, the pharmacy had been open for nearly two hours. Basically, everyone who could enter the pharmacy had already entered. It is difficult to find out exactly when they entered."

Chen Shao nodded and ordered Li Tianliu: "Take all the doctors, the pharmacy staff and the medicine-making staff back to the prefectural governor's mansion!"

He also ordered Xu Guang: "Take the body back to the mortuary of the prefectural government and prepare for an autopsy."

Then he looked at the eleven families and said, "Please follow me to the governor's mansion."

After a pause, he said to the people who were watching the excitement, "Many people come to Huimin Pharmacy to see a doctor. With something like this happening, I'm sure everyone can't continue to see a doctor. So, if anyone is seriously ill or still trusts me, you can wait a while until Chanyi is done, and she will treat you. If the illness is not serious, or if you no longer trust me, you can leave on your own, or go to the prefectural governor's mansion to wait for an explanation."

It was the man in his thirties who had raised the question. He snorted coldly and said, "With such a serious murder case, who would dare to see a doctor at Huimin Pharmacy before the case is fully solved?"

The people who were still hesitating whether to stay and wait for Chan Yi to see a doctor immediately gave up the idea after hearing his words.

Chen Shao looked at the man again and said calmly, "You are right. Then please follow me."