Favoring the concubine and killing the wife? She divorced the concubine and lived with her concubine

"Quiet!" Su Ze saw that the gossip outside was getting louder and louder. He could hear it, and Sun Shaohua could hear it too.

Sun Shaohua used to go to places that ordinary people couldn't go to. He was like a star surrounded by people and no one would gossip about him. But now, he listened to all the unpleasant words from the people behind him.

He believed he was just a sentimental man. Many scholars and literati sought inspiration in restaurants and brothels, so there was nothing wrong with him being a talented and romantic man. Furthermore, Xiao Lan's dowry was also truthfully stated. Xiao Lan was too frail to care for it, so her mother took it over. How could it be considered usurpation as these ignorant and unruly people claimed?

Fortunately, the people outside were afraid of the officials after all. After Su Ze gave an order, everyone outside fell silent.

"Ignorance is not a crime?" Su Ze asked.

"Ignorance is not a crime! I really don't know. What's more, I feel that Doctor Wang has been wronged." Sun Shaohua replied.

"Wronged? What evidence do you have?" Su Ze narrowed his eyes.

"It's obvious that Captain Xue has bad intentions. How could he just steal someone's medicine box and take unknown medicine?" Sun Shaohua said, looking up at Su Ze, "Don't you have any doubts about this, sir?"

"Bring the suspect Wang Zhi, please ask Captain Xue Wu!" Su Ze did not answer him and gave the order directly.

Wang Zhi was carried up by two constables. He looked disheveled and exhausted, but there was no sign of torture. When he came out, he didn't see Sun Shaohua, but instead looked at Butler Wang. "Save me..."

At this point, Sun Shaohua turned back to look at Butler Wang, his eyes blazing with anger. Seeing that Sun Shaohua's expression was off, Butler Wang quickly winked at Wang Zhi, who then realized, "I'm innocent, Boss!"

"Captain Xue Wu, greetings, sir!" Xue Wu was tall and mighty. Wang Zhi and Sun Shaohua were immediately shrouded in the shadow of his figure and could not help but look up.

The two constables ordered Wang Zhi to kneel down, then stepped back and stood to one side.

Now in the hall were Sun Shaohua and Wang Zhi, kneeling, and Xue Wu, standing. Outside, the common people couldn't help but grumble, "This big guy standing there is blocking half the court."

"Wang Zhi, I want to ask you, what exactly are those red pills in your medicine box?"

"That...that is..." Wang Zhi looked at Sun Shaohua, then turned to look at Butler Wang.

"You'd better answer truthfully! If you dare to lie, you will be severely punished!" Su Ze slammed the gavel, frightening Wang Zhi so much that he trembled and kowtowed repeatedly.

"I dare not lie, I dare not... Those are, those are rat poison pills."

"Rat poison pills? Captain Xue, where did you get this medicine?" Su Ze asked again.

"Reporting to the lord, it was found in Wang Zhi's medicine box. There was a medicine bottle in it, and there was some medicine in the bottle, but not much." Xue Wu answered truthfully.

"You're putting rat poison pills in your medical kit? Are you treating people? Or are you killing them?"

"I dare not... Master, I dare not. It's just ordinary rat poison. I dare not talk nonsense." Wang Zhi's forehead was bleeding.

"You're a doctor working in a pharmacy, why do you carry rat poison? Rat poison is a veterinary drug. Did you make it yourself or buy it?"

"Yes..." Animal medicines are made by veterinarians, and the poisons made here contain banned substances, which were also obtained by asking someone to go into the mountains. It was impossible to say it out loud, and he hesitated for a moment, not knowing how to answer!

"Hit me twice with a stick and see if I can answer you directly!" After Su Ze said this, he was about to throw down two white-headed sticks, which scared Wang Zhi so much that he fell to the ground.

Sun Shaohua felt that he had been tricked by Butler Wang today. If he hadn't come here without knowing why, he wouldn't have ended up in such a passive situation! It was obvious that Su Ze's arrogant official power made Sun Shaohua inevitably indignant. The gossip of the people behind him made him lose face. In a moment of impulse, he couldn't help but ask, "Are you going to force me to confess, sir?"

"Confession under torture? Are you slandering me? Do you think I'm unfair?" Su Ze's expression was serious, and the bailiffs in the hall became nervous. Sun Shaohua hadn't suffered enough, and he didn't know how powerful this county magistrate was!

"Hit them each with two boards as a punishment!" Su Ze said, and threw out four white sticks. Several yamen runners took benches and held up the two men with big boards!

Sun Shaohua tried to hide quickly, but he was no match for the rough-working yamen runners. As the two runners held him, they whispered, "It won't hurt, Master Sun, just bear with it!"

"How dare you hit me!" Sun Shaohua pointed at Su Ze and cursed. He, Sun Shaohua, had never suffered any grievances in this city since he was a child, but now he was going to be beaten with a stick. It was like rubbing his face on the ground. How could he live his life in the future?

"Sun Shaohua, 29 years old, with no official title, manages the shops and farms that came with the Sun Xiao family's dowry! As the county magistrate, I have the right to impose appropriate punishment on you if you accuse me of being tortured into confessing and making an unfair judgment!" Su Ze glared at him and threw down his stick. "Hit me!"

This meant that Sun Shaohua was stripped of all the gorgeous clothes he had been wearing in front of everyone, and the people outside started to murmur again.

"The new county magistrate looks gentle, but he's quite ruthless in his actions."

"We've been a county magistrate for a while now. There's no need to give the Sun family any face. No matter how rich they are, they're still common people."

He said it didn't hurt, but Sun Shaohua, a delicate young man who had never even received a slap from his father since childhood, couldn't stand these two blows. He immediately broke out in a sweat, half-crouched, half-knelt on the ground, trembling all over, and dared not say another word! Wang Zhi was also beaten to tears and his voice was hoarse.

"Wang Zhi, I'll ask you again, did you make this medicine yourself or buy it?"

"Bought..." Wang Zhi replied weakly.

"Where did you buy it from? Which veterinarian? Tell me everything!" Su Ze asked.

"..." Wang Zhi didn't dare to answer. The question was so detailed that it would be exposed as soon as he checked. He quickly changed the subject and said, "I made it myself!"

"I think you need to be beaten with a stick before you dare to tell the truth!" As he said this, he was about to throw the sticks again. When the stick box moved, Sun Shaohua and Wang Zhi were so scared that they tried to hide backwards.

Sun Shaohua struggled to stand up and said to Wang Zhi, "Just tell me the truth! What's the big deal? It's not like you've poisoned anyone!"

Sun Shaohua's words, "It's never killed anyone," actually reminded Wang Zhi! This drug had only been given to Xiao Lan, but Xiao Lan was said to be still alive and kicking. This meant that this drug might not be effective on humans, after all, he had only tried it on a donkey.

"This medicine was made by a common people. It is made to poison rats." Wang Zhi finally answered.

“How many pills should I use at a time?”

"One..." Wang Zhi was puzzled by the question.

"How to take it?"

"swallow……"

"Swallow it?" Su Ze sneered.

"Are you going to catch the mouse, pry open its mouth, and stuff the pill in?" Xue Wu interrupted! He thought of what Jasmine had told him about Xiao Lan's experience that day, and his huge fist clenched with a creaking sound, wishing he could smash it on Wang Zhi's head.

"No... no... melt it in honey water and lure mice to lick it!" Wang Zhi quickly changed his words.

"Then let's try it and see how big a rat can be killed by one pill of this medicine!" Su Ze had someone bring up a horse. The horse was restless due to a cyst on its leg and was dying. So he brought it to the court to test the medicine.

"No...it's not enough. For a horse this big...you need...three or five." Wang Zhi's heart trembled when he saw that an old horse was being led here, and he said hurriedly.

"Just one!"

"Yes!" A yamen runner dissolved a pill in water and soaked hay to feed it to the old horse. Unexpectedly, the old horse struggled for a while before lying on the ground and died.

Everyone was amazed. How big a rat could this be? A single pill could have such a potent effect! Seeing this, Sun Shaohua was so shocked that he stepped back!

"This medicine is more than enough to poison a person!"

"No, sir, I didn't poison anyone. I can't poison anyone, I can't poison anyone!" Wang Zhi's face was covered with snot and tears. It couldn't have happened that quickly. The donkey clearly died three days later. But he didn't want to think about it either. The donkey was still in its prime, while the horse had been suffering from illness for a long time.

He turned around to look at Butler Wang, who was hiding in the corner, not daring to make a sound, but not daring to leave either.

"How do you know that poison can't kill people? Who have you poisoned?" This time the gavel was banged even louder.