After the indigenous heroine was reborn, she went crazy and reorganized the plot line

There was a moment of silent silence.

Shen Peiqing gritted his teeth, neither admitting nor denying, and directly took out an account book from his sleeve.

"I found this in a pharmacy. It has a record of Sun Ruling's personal maid, Liu, purchasing arsenic."

As soon as these words were spoken, Sun Ruling's face changed drastically.

Lord Cheng glanced at Sun Ruling, then reached out and took the account book handed over by Shen Peiqing. He opened it, frowned, and his expression suddenly became solemn.

Sun Ruling's heart sank slightly when she saw Mr. Cheng's expression, but she remained calm and began to defend herself, "Sir, please don't trust these people. Even the account books can be falsified. How could my personal maid buy arsenic?"

"Sir, in addition to physical evidence, there are also witnesses. Liu is outside now." Shen Peiqing glanced at Sun Ruling, then said calmly to Lord Cheng.

When Sun Ruling heard Shen Peiqing mention Liu, her face became uncontrollable and almost cracked.

Cheng Da Ren glanced at Sun Ruling and said in a deep voice, "Then let Liu come in."

Shen Peiqing gave Gu Yun a look, and Gu Yun nodded, then left the deserted temple. In less than a moment, he came in with an old woman. Although her clothes were not as gorgeous as Sun Ruling's, they were not bad either. She kept her chest hunched, her eyebrows lowered, and her appearance was submissive. It was obvious at a glance that she was a servant of a wealthy family.

When Liu saw the scene inside and then glanced at Sun Ruling, whose face was ashen and eyes were gloomy, she was so frightened that she trembled all over and kept her head down.

"Ms. Liu, it's written in this account book that you bought two taels of arsenic. It's true. Tell the truth, otherwise I will punish you!" Lord Cheng threw the account book in front of Ms. Liu. Ms. Liu was so frightened that she immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Mr. Cheng.

"Old woman, old woman..."

Liu spoke tremblingly, and before she could finish, Sun Ruling spoke immediately. Her voice sounded gentle, but there was a hint of pressure in her words.

"Liu Fang. Think carefully before you speak."

When Mrs. Liu heard Sun Ruling's words, her body trembled uncontrollably. Rong Su saw that Sun Ruling was warning Mrs. Liu, and she couldn't help but frown. She said to Mrs. Liu, "Ms. Liu, Master Cheng is here now. Just tell me what you know. He will make the decision for you. But if you hide anything, I think if he finds out, it will be a more serious crime."

"Old lady, I said it all! I said it all!" Liu had obviously heard Rong Su's words, and she was so scared that she kept kowtowing to Lord Cheng.

Master Cheng pondered and said, "Speak."

"Yes, yes! What was written in the account book is true. I did buy arsenic, but I was just following orders. It was Madam Gao who gave the order, and I had to obey!" Liu's face was full of sadness and embarrassment. She didn't dare to look at Sun Ruling, and looked at the ground in fear.

Rong Su glanced at Sun Ruling's face, which was as dark as a dark cloud and extremely ugly. Her eyes seemed to contain hidden swords, fierce and cold, staring at Liu.

"What did the Gao family buy the arsenic for?" Lord Cheng shouted coldly.

Liu was so frightened that her shoulders trembled, and she trembled and said, "To, to frame Master Jiang."

"You old hag, shut up! Stop talking nonsense!" Sun Ruling seemed to have been caught in a sore spot. She was furious and pointed at Liu and cursed.

Liu was so frightened that she turned sideways, not daring to look at Sun Ruling. Lord Cheng saw this and said in a cold voice, "Ms. Gao! I'm interrogating you now! If you say anything more, I'll charge you with disrupting the trial!"

After hearing these words, Sun Ruling was so angry that she could only shut up. She clenched her handkerchief tightly, and her eyes turned red with anger.

Cheng Daren looked at Liu, who was kneeling on the ground, and continued, "Tell me everything you know about the cause and effect, and I will be able to give you a lighter sentence for what you have done!"

Liu was so frightened that she begged for mercy: "Sir, I'll tell you right away, right away!"

"After receiving Madam Gao's order, I went to a pharmacy in the city with whom I had a good relationship and secretly purchased two taels of arsenic. Madam Gao specifically instructed me not to leave any traces, so I even gave the pharmacy owner fifty taels of silver to erase the purchase record."

Cheng Da Ren listened to these words with a serious look in his eyes. He ordered a yamen runner in a deep voice: "Go and find the owner of the medicine shop!"

Seeing this, Gu Yun volunteered to the yamen runner and said, "I'll take you there."

Then Gu Yun and the yamen runner left the deserted temple one after another.

In a short while, Gu Yun and the yamen runners came in, carrying a middle-aged man with a terrified face. The man was probably the shop owner.

The shop owner was so frightened when he saw Master Cheng that he knelt on the ground and begged, "Master Cheng, I don't know what crime I have committed. Why did you ask the yamen runners to bring me here so late at night?"

Cheng Daren's face was full of dignity. He raised his hand and pointed at the account book on the ground with a few pages casually opened. He growled and asked, "Is that account book yours?"

The shop owner was so frightened by Mr. Cheng's imposing aura that his face turned pale. He hurriedly reached out to pick up the account book, opened it with trembling hands, took a closer look, and his face changed drastically in an instant.

"But what do you have?" Mr. Cheng asked again, his tone a little heavier than before.

"How could this be? I clearly hid the real account book." The shop owner looked at the account book in his hand in disbelief.

Shen Peiqing couldn't help but smile lightly, "I went to ask for the account book, and you showed it to me, but your eyes were evasive. I knew there was something fishy going on. Sure enough, I found the real account book under your bed at home."

The shop owner's face turned pale and his voice trembled. He had obviously realized what had happened and immediately begged for mercy from Master Cheng, admitting his guilt: "It was my fault, Master. I was only fooled for a moment and sold arsenic to Liu!"

Master Cheng looked sternly at Liu and shouted, "Keep talking!"

Liu was so frightened by the roar that her body trembled. She lowered her head and said in a trembling voice, "Sir, I bought the arsenic and gave it to Butler Yan according to Madam Gao's instructions. As for the rest, I really don't know!"

After saying this, Liu kowtowed to Cheng Da Ren and admitted her mistake.

As soon as these words were spoken, Steward Yan saw that the situation was not going his way. Knowing the situation, he quickly knelt before Master Cheng, extended his hand, pointed at Sun Ruling, and said, "Master! I was only following orders! All this was orchestrated by Madam Gao! She was the one who had me arrange for the waiter at Tianxiang Tower, gave him some money, and then replaced the arsenic with the medicinal powder on Jiang Suifeng's body!"

Hearing this, Rong Su was stunned. Why did Jiang Suifeng carry medicinal powder on him?

Master Cheng obviously understood the question and continued coldly, "How did you know Jiang Suifeng had the medicine powder on him, and how did you get the waiter to replace the arsenic?"

"That day, I originally wanted to have the waiter put the drug directly into Zhou Tu's cup, but then I found Jiang Suifeng, who had arrived earlier, in the side room. He pulled out a packet of medicine powder from his pocket and kept staring at it. I thought that Jiang Suifeng might have his own little tricks, so I played along and asked the waiter to find a way to replace Jiang Suifeng's medicine."

Butler Yan lowered his head and thought, then told everything.

Afterwards, Lord Cheng asked the yamen runners to take Butler Yan to fetch the waiter from Tianxianglou.

When the waiter arrived, he also knelt on the ground and trembled in fear.

The waiter might have known what happened on the way here, and he had something to hide, so he told me everything without me even asking him.

"I, I accepted twenty taels of silver from Steward Yan, and then I listened to him and deliberately wet Mr. Jiang's clothes. I then arranged a small room for him to change clothes. I secretly changed the medicine powder while he was changing and tidying up his clothes."

Lord Cheng seemed to have fully understood the whole story. He looked at Sun Ruling with a look of intimidation in his eyes. Sun Ruling's face was already pale, and after feeling Lord Cheng's sharp gaze, she was so scared that she trembled all over and took a step back.

I don't know why she could still hold on. She even faced the adults with pretended calmness, forcing herself to maintain a smile on her face.

"Master Cheng, I do have that intention, but Jiang Suifeng isn't a good person either. Didn't he also bring the medicine powder? This means he also intends to harm people. I'm just following his wishes and helping him!"

When Rong Su heard what Sun Ruling said, she felt a slight contempt for Sun Ruling in her heart. She was about to die, but she still wanted to drag others into the water. She was really vicious.

Master Cheng frowned, seemingly undecided. Suddenly, Shen Peiqing suggested to Master Cheng, "Master Cheng, why don't we bring Jiang Suifeng from prison for questioning and see what he has to say?"

After hearing what Shen Peiqing said, Master Cheng glanced at him lightly, then waved his hand to a yamen runner and said, "Go and bring Jiang Suifeng here."

In less than half a minute, Jiang Suifeng was taken to the deserted temple under the custody of the yamen runners.

When Jiang Yanyu saw Jiang Suifeng, her eyes turned red and tears filled her eyes. She called out in a trembling voice, "Dad..."

When Jiang Suifeng saw Jiang Yanyu, his old face trembled slightly, his eyes became redder, and his voice was quite vicissitudes: "Yu'er."

"Okay, Jiang Suifeng, let me ask you, when you met with Zhou Tu at Tianxiang Tower to discuss business, did you have any medicinal powder on you? If so, was it arsenic?" Lord Cheng was obviously only interested in solving the case and did not want to watch the drama of the father-daughter love. He interrupted the conversation they were about to start with an iron-faced voice.

Jiang Suifeng didn't seem to expect that Mr. Cheng would ask this. His expression suddenly showed a hint of hesitation and embarrassment, and he fell silent.

Sun Ruling caught Jiang Suifeng's expression and took the opportunity to taunt him, "Master Cheng, you've seen it too. Jiang Suifeng is intentionally harming people. If you say I had someone steal the medicine powder, then Jiang Suifeng can't escape this guilt either!"

"It was you who changed the medicine powder! Sun Ruling, you vicious woman!" Jiang Suifeng's face showed horror after hearing Sun Ruling's words, and then turned into anger. He looked at Sun Ruling and cursed.

Sun Ruling sneered, "Then you and I are just friends. You and Zhou Tu have been friends for so many years, yet you want to harm him just for a piece of orchard? Haha. Speaking of poison, aren't you even more vicious?"

Jiang Suifeng stared at Sun Ruling with eyes filled with hatred, and veins on his forehead were bulging with anger.

Jiang Yanyu was anxious, her eyes red with tears. She looked at Jiang Suifeng and pleaded, "Father, if you have any difficulties, just tell me! Master Cheng is here, he will make the decision for you! Father."

"Yes, Master Jiang, if you have any secrets, just tell me. Lord Cheng is a fair and upright person and will definitely help you." Yuan Shen persuaded Jiang Suifeng and complimented Lord Cheng in his words.

Cheng Da Ren was quite pleased to hear this. After hearing these words, he looked at Jiang Sui Feng, coughed lightly, and said to him, "Jiang Sui Feng, please speak. I am not someone who cannot distinguish right from wrong. As long as what you say is reasonable, I will consider it."

Jiang Suifeng looked at Jiang Yanyu, then at everyone else looking at him. He couldn't help but sigh slightly before saying softly, "Yes. I did bring some medicinal powder that day."

Sun Ruling seized the opportunity, pointed at Jiang Suifeng, and said to Master Cheng, "Master, listen to this! Jiang Suifeng has admitted it! He intentionally harmed people!"

How could Jiang Suifeng not hear that Sun Ruling was trying to drag him down with her and slander him again? He looked at Sun Ruling angrily and shouted back to Master Cheng.

"Sir! That powder is not arsenic! It's not poison! It's a powder for treating the symptoms of an epidemic!"

Sun Ruling was the most skeptical when this was said. She refuted it in a sharp voice, "Impossible! What nonsense! Jiang Suifeng! You are just making it up! How could Zhoutu possibly have an epidemic?"

Jiang Suifeng seemed to feel a lot more relaxed after he explained the matter. Regardless of Sun Ruling's attempts to refute him, he calmly said to Master Cheng, "Master, if you don't believe me, you can ask a doctor to examine Zhou Tu's body. My packet of medicine powder is gone, so it's hard to prove it. But I have a letter asking for medicine from the master. It's at home."

Mr. Cheng had a solemn face and waved to the two yamen runners. The two yamen runners nodded in understanding and then left the deserted temple.

When one of the yamen runners came back, he had several opened letters in his hands.

The bailiff handed the letter to Lord Cheng, who took a closer look and then looked at Jiang Suifeng: "It is indeed a letter asking for medicine. Then why did you hide it? If you conceal it, you will be convicted of poisoning Zhou Tu. Do you not care?"

Jiang Suifeng's face showed some helplessness. He sighed and whispered, "Brother Zhou wanted me to keep all this a secret. He unfortunately got this disease. At first, I thought it was just a common cold and headache, but I never thought it would be a precursor to the epidemic."

"He was afraid his wife would be worried if she knew, so he kept it a secret from his family and secretly came to me, asking me to help him find a doctor who could treat this disease. However, diseases like epidemics are currently difficult to cure. I could only ask some close business friends for help. I finally found a master and got a prescription for him."

After listening to Jiang Suifeng's words and combining them with everything she knew, Rong Su thought for a moment and said, "So, when you and Zhou Tu met at Tianxiang Tower, you weren't discussing business. You were just using it as a cover-up. What you were really trading was medicinal powder to treat the epidemic."

Jiang Suifeng glanced at Rong Su and nodded gravely, "That's right. But I didn't expect that Brother Zhou was actually implicated by me. He didn't die from the plague, but was indirectly murdered by that vicious woman, Sun Ruling!"

After he finished speaking, his eyes angrily accused Sun Ruling. Sun Ruling had never expected this to happen. She shook her head in disbelief and stepped back, yelling a little madly.

"Impossible! Jiang Suifeng is lying! He must be lying!"

Although Rong Su also felt it was a bit ridiculous, at this time, another yamen runner who had left also hurried back. He walked quickly to the side of Mr. Cheng and whispered a few words to him.

Cheng Daren's expression suddenly became serious and solemn: "Zhou Tu is indeed suffering from the symptoms of the epidemic."

When these words were spoken, everyone present was shocked.