Traveling through books to ancient times, I provoke the love of villains and powerful ministers

The next day, just as Qi Qingxi opened the door of a restaurant to open for business, a group of officials came over, led by Wang Wanru's father, Wang Butou.

"Someone went to the yamen to sue you, saying that his daughter-in-law ate at your restaurant yesterday, and she vomited and had diarrhea after returning home, and died at home this morning. The county master wants me to take you back for questioning."

Qi Qingxi's first reaction when he heard this was that the miserable woman with her daughter died yesterday.

Sure enough, Qi Qingxi saw the fat man from yesterday on the county government hall, and the corpse of the miserable woman on the stretcher beside her, her face was pale and her lips were black.

Seeing Qi Qingxi, the obese man only snorted coldly, without any trace of sadness on his face.

"Snapped--"

A gavel sounded.

"There is a restaurant owner named Qi under the hall. He Erniu accused you of poisoning his wife Liu's life. Do you agree or not?"

Qi Qingxi knelt under the hall, looking up at the strange county magistrate with sharp eyebrows above the courtroom. According to Wang Wanru, this new magistrate was surnamed Zhang and was transferred from a nearby county.

She said calmly, "My lord, the girl doesn't recognize me."

Seeing that Qi Qingxi didn't recognize him, He Erniu jumped up immediately: "My mother-in-law ate at your restaurant yesterday and died after returning home. You poisoned my mother-in-law to death. How dare you deny it?"

"Snapped--"

There was another gavel, and the county magistrate Zhang scolded: "How dare you be so bold, you must not roar in the courtroom."

Magistrate Zhang looked at Qi Qingxi: "Wu Zuo has examined the body, but he died of poisoning, and someone saw Mrs. Liu eating in your shop yesterday, is there such a thing?"

"My lord, there is indeed such a thing."

Qi Qingxi also told the story of how she met her mother and daughter yesterday, including how He Erniu beat Liu Shi in the street.

"Did Mrs. Liu eat food with peanuts in your store?"

Qi Qingxi was taken aback when he heard the words, and replied: "I did eat a bowl of peanut pork rib soup."

"But you served it to her?"

"Yes."

"That's right. According to the autopsy results, Mrs. Liu died of peanut poisoning. Can you admit that it was you who poisoned him?"

"Go back to your lord, don't admit it, and Minnv has something to say."

Magistrate Zhang paused for a long time, so long that Qi Qingxi was afraid that he would press the button to silence her in order to solve the case, and just closed the case casually.

"You said."

Finally, Qi Qingxi was relieved to hear him speak again.

"The Liu's daughter Cui Cui was also eating at the Minnv shop yesterday. May I ask my lord, where is Cui Cui now?"

County magistrate Zhang replied: "The girl is missing. He Erniu said that Mrs. Liu died after eating your peanut soup. He Cuicui was lucky to survive, but she went crazy. After seeing her mother's body, she struggled to escape from the house." , is now missing."

There was a sound of "啪——" and the sound of the gavel, County Magistrate Zhang said: "Put Mrs. Qi in prison, and release him after He Cuicui is found."

Two yamen servants stepped forward and put Qi Qingxi in prison.

This was the first time in Qi Qingxi's two lives that she was imprisoned, and she couldn't help but looked around her surroundings.

In the county government prison, the light was dim, blackened straw was scattered on the cold floor, and a bed of dirty cotton wool was spread on the wooden bed in the prison, exuding a moldy smell.

The only good thing is that there are no mice.

Not long after she came in, Wang Wanru came to see her: "Sure enough, I didn't make you a friend for nothing."

Wang Wanru said with a bitter face: "What time are you still talking about these things?"

Then he looked at Qi Qingxi seriously and said: "My father and the others have already gone to find that Cui Cui, don't worry, they will rescue you soon."

Qi Qingxi was noncommittal.

Not to mention whether they could find Cui Cui, they found it, but now that Cui Cui is crazy, how can they prove her innocence.

Moreover, Wu Zuo has clearly pointed out that the cause of Liu's death was eating poisonous peanuts.

Unless it can be proved that the poisonous peanuts that Mrs. Liu ate were not eaten in her shop, since the person who poisoned them dared to poison them, how could they keep the evidence.

Except for her motive for killing, all the evidence points to her conclusively.

"Now that my small shop is here, Yunming and the others should not have to worry about food and clothing anymore. You can just help me visit them occasionally. The business in the shop... You should bring me some paper and pens when you come back next time. I have to deal with some things. I have to write it down, lest you explain it unclearly.”

Seeing Qi Qingxi's appearance of explaining the funeral, Wang Wanru couldn't help but get angry: "What are you doing, you haven't found He Cuicui yet."

Qi Qingxi nodded: "You're right, but people are mortal, so they have to take precautions..."

"He Cuicui found it."

Before she finished speaking, two yamen servants rushed in and opened the cell door of Qi Qingxi's room.

"He Cuicui has been found, and my lord ordered the trial to continue."

So Qi Qingxi was brought back to court again.

In the courtroom, as soon as He Cuicui saw her, she rushed over and hugged her and cried loudly, without the slightest hint of madness.

Qi Qingxi hugged He Cuicui, who was crying so hard, and kept comforting him.

"Snapped--"

"I have pronounced the verdict that He Erniu and his mother murdered his wife, Liu Shi. He committed a heinous crime. He is now being held in prison. I will report to the imperial court and ask to be executed after autumn. Qi Shi, the shopkeeper of "Youjian Restaurant", is innocent and released."

Qi Qingxi watched in a daze as Magistrate Zhang finished the sentence, and then Wang Wanru rushed up to her, dancing and hugging her.

"Great, I knew you were fine."

Qi Qingxi looked at the little girl who was still sobbing in her arms, she was fine, but the little girl seemed to be in a bad condition, and even had a fever.

Qi Qingxi took her to the hospital. The doctor said it was typhoid fever and she needed to go home to take care of her.

The little girl is now lonely and helpless, so Qi Qingxi can only take her home first.

Qi Qingxi fed the little girl medicine and put her on the bed to rest.

Wang Wanru, who went back to inquire about the case, came over again.

It turned out that after Liu's mother and daughter returned home yesterday, they were caught and beaten to death by He Erniu again.

While beating them, they scolded them for their courage, for daring to steal money from the family and go out to eat and drink.

While struggling, Mrs. Liu told He Erniu that it was Qi Qingxi who kindly gave them peanut soup for nothing.

Cuicui's grandma was next to her and scolded: "Hey, who has such a good heart to give you meat back, and you are not afraid that she will poison you two resentful species to death."

Speaking of this, Grandma Cuicui rolled her eyes, thinking of a plan.

He conspired with his son to make Liu pretend to be sick, and framed Qi Qingxi to poison the soup, in order to blackmail Qi Qingxi.

But Mrs. Liu was grateful for Qi Qingxi's kindness in donating soup and clothes, and she didn't want to do this. He Er was so arrogant and beat him up again.

It happened that there were some peeled peanuts thrown there in the corner next to it, and Cuicui's grandma picked them up: "I like peanuts so much, I'll let you eat as much as you want."

Together with He Erniu, they forced Liu Shi to eat.

But Mrs. Liu specially added rat poison to the pile of peanuts to kill rats.

As a result, Mrs. Liu ate the poisonous peanuts and foamed at the mouth on the spot, and disappeared within a moment.

Seeing this, He Erniu and Grandma Cui Cui thought that they should simply blame Qi Qingxi for the matter.

After the two of them conspired, they remembered that they hadn't seen He Cuicui, and they were afraid of causing trouble, so they thought about not doing anything and sending the dead girl who wasted rice to see her mother.

But after searching all night, he couldn't find any trace, so he had to lie that He Cuicui had gone crazy and ran away.

However, He Cuicui was hidden early in the morning by Mrs. Liu, who knew that He Erniu would beat and scold her when she returned home, and told her not to come out at will until she heard what she said.

And he hid in the haystack behind the woodpile outside the house, listening to everything that happened inside the house, and dared not make any sound.

The reason why the He family's mother and son could not find anyone was because the two never cooked at home, and they didn't know that there were Tibetan haystacks behind the woodpile.