The naughty and cowardly little crybaby sold himself out

Two or three days passed, and the Fourth Prince secretly kept an eye on everyone on the list, but to no avail.

"How could this happen, Fourth Brother, are you really keeping an eye on them? Not only them, but also the servants in their house need to be checked."

"We checked everything. We checked all the guests that went there that day, both male and female. The male guests were a few princes and old ministers, as well as the relatives of the Liu family. We checked the servants they brought with them, and the opera troupe. No one showed any signs of poisoning, and no servant in any of the mansion had skin peeling off their hands."

The Fourth Prince really couldn't find anything he had missed, so he even checked the guards he had arranged in the Liu Mansion.

"How could this happen? This shouldn't happen. Did he really throw away his clothes? Even if he threw away the clothes, he would always touch them when he changed his clothes and unbuttoned his sleeves, so they would be stained to some extent." Chu Jian was very confused.

"It is also possible that someone else sneaked in, committed the crime, and then sneaked out. According to Qingye, he is fully capable of doing so." Jing Muyang said.

"It will be hard to find now." The clue is about to be lost again.

"Actually, I'm still thinking about a question." After a long silence, the three of them finally spoke again. "Do you think he knew he was poisoned and then cured himself? Then we wouldn't be able to find out, would we?"

"How could he know? Could the news have been leaked?" The Fourth Prince filtered out the people who knew about this in his mind.

Chu Jian is also filtering people who know about this matter, and they are all trustworthy.

"It shouldn't be. Maybe he is someone who understands poison theory. The poison of Tianshui must be induced by alcohol. If an ordinary person is thrown a bottle and smells alcohol, he will definitely think it is alcohol. Only people who understand poison theory will think that there may be something else besides alcohol.

And considering we haven't found any information, that person should be quite familiar with this poison, or he has been poisoned or used it before."

The more she talked, the more it made sense. Otherwise, why wasn't there any clues? Suddenly she paused, "Mu Yang, could it be that he was the one who poisoned you?"

Jing Muyang also thought of it, "Qingshan, bring the list of names from the celebration banquet."

After comparing them one by one, there were only a dozen overlaps left. Apart from those old ministers, there were these princes and the attendants around them.

"The Crown Prince, the Third Prince, the Fifth Prince, the Sixth Prince, the Seventh Prince, the Eighth Prince, plus the three attendants they brought with them twice, a total of nine. The old ministers are not of the right age, so their attendants cannot enter the palace. So, only these nine are suspects?" Chu Jian counted, and then she deleted the Fifth Prince, "If we cross out the Fifth Prince, there will only be eight."

"Why cross out the fifth prince?" asked the fourth prince.

"His shoes are different sizes. I've noticed that you princes are all about the same height and build, and your shoes are about the same size. Only the Fifth Prince has the longest feet, which are at least two sizes bigger than yours!"

The Fourth Prince held his forehead with his hand. What on earth do you usually observe when you first meet someone? Why is he looking at other people's feet for no reason?

Facing the Fourth Prince’s reaction, Chu Jian even started to explain.

"You guys often stand together in a row, it's hard not to be compared. It's not me comparing you guys, I only take a second look when I hear others discussing it."

She admitted that it was at the eldest princess's chrysanthemum-viewing banquet, when no one knew who she was yet, and she heard those noble ladies secretly comparing these princes, and she just approved of them out of liking their eyes.

"Okay, I'll go check on the eight of them." The fourth prince laughed. The more he got along with her, the more he discovered that she was smarter and her perspective on things was really unexpected.

However, no clues were found in the following days, so the matter had to be put aside. Just like the Autumn Hunting incident, we had to wait for the murderer to strike again.

This feels very bad.

"Mu Yang, tell me, the murderer could have killed us directly, why didn't he kill us but threw us into the water instead?"

“Maybe he wanted to fake it as an accidental fall into the water so that no one would investigate. But he didn’t expect you could swim. Even if you can swim, you will quickly become hypothermic and lose your ability to move if you fall into icy water. Look at you, if I hadn’t arrived a little earlier, you and Liu Yiyi would have drowned.” Among the noble ladies in the capital, it is estimated that only Chu Jian and Li Ruyi can swim.

"Liu Yiyi... Mu Yang, what should we do with Liu Yiyi and Fourth Brother?"

"We don't care."

"You don't care about Fourth Brother's affairs?"

"No matter. Besides, I can't do anything about it. This matter is too big."

"But you were the one who threw Liu Yiyi to him! Now there are people out there making up stories, what do you want Yiyi to do?"

There were several clear watermarks on the bank of the pond that day, which showed that Princess Zhan was not the only one who fell into the water, but no one pointed it out.

What's more, everyone knows that Liu Yiyi and Chu Jian went to the study together. As for Jing Muyang and Jing Muyun, they were not at the stage, so it is hard to say whether they did not go somewhere together.

Jing Muyang actually felt a little guilty. He didn't want to frame the Fourth Prince. He just subconsciously didn't want to have anything to do with any other woman.

"Chu Jian, if I don't throw Liu Yiyi to Fourth Brother, then she will either stay in the water and drown, or be thrown on the ground to be seen by everyone and criticized by everyone, or be brought into the Zhan Palace to be your sister. What choice will you make?"

"Let's throw it to Fourth Brother." Chu Jian pursed her lips. She understood the seriousness of the matter. Liu Yiyi was a hot potato that could not be taken, even though the Fourth Prince was innocent.

"Don't worry, as long as no one admits it, these rumors will soon pass and the Queen will not let the situation escalate." Jing Muyang touched her head.

*

On the 16th day of the first lunar month, just after the festival, a clinic called Xunyi Clinic opened. It offered free consultations for three days, and then continued to offer free consultations every Saturday.

Before the opening, the business was heavily promoted in conjunction with the Lantern Festival. There were not many people on the opening day, but after seeing that consultations were really free, more and more people came.

As a result, there were not enough doctors, so Chu Jian actually pulled Dean He over to make up the number, and disguised him so that no one could recognize him. Even the palace physician and pharmacist of Prince Zhan's mansion were forced to do their work under her pressure.

But she really provides free medical consultation, and only charges 10% of the money for the medicine. After all, those who come here for the word "free" are basically poor people.

Dean He had been seeing patients for a whole day. He had been throwing away large quantities of medicinal materials, both expensive and cheap. He shook his head, thinking that Princess Zhan had no business sense and that this pharmacy might not be able to survive in the future.

He also discovered that if someone asked the doctor from the clinic to come to their home for a treatment, she would accept any illness and would admit frankly that she could not guarantee that she could cure the patient, but the consultation fee was really exorbitant. Her lowest fee was fifty taels, while the consultation fees of other doctors in the clinic ranged from twenty taels to ten taels. There was no bargaining and they would only come to see the patient after paying.

And those other doctors actually included the palace physician of Prince Zhan’s mansion, as well as Jin Xiang and Yao Tong!

Haha, it was fine for the palace doctor to go out for private consultations, and the medicine boy had a certain foundation in medical skills, so he could barely accept it, but there was actually a maid, and the maid named Jinxiang had only studied for a few months...

This really surprised Dean He, and it was no wonder that he couldn't guarantee a cure.

Moreover, such a high consultation fee is unique in the capital. After all, other medical clinics charge two or five taels, and the highest is that old man Yun from Baicaotang only charges ten taels.

Just wait for the door to close. Only the King of War would let her do this.

However, just a few days after Xunyi Clinic opened, it took on a job that no other doctors in the capital's major clinics could take on. Fan Shixiang, the son of Marquis Dingyuan, suddenly suffered from abdominal pain, high fever, chills and severe pain. The doctors had no idea what to do, and as their condition got worse, their colleagues recommended Xunyi Clinic.

That day, Chu Jian came to the door with her veiled face and the medicine boy and Jin Xiang without any panic. After an examination, they closed the door and no one knew what they did. Anyway, Fan Shixiang recovered in a few days. Marquis Dingyuan and his wife even came to the door specially to give him a big gift.

The story was spread like a myth. All the major medical clinics did not know her identity and wanted to step on her. Unexpectedly, they helped her to become famous. The prescriptions she wrote for the first time were also priced exorbitantly. Even if the final conclusion was that the patient was incurable, she still received the medical fee.

Anyway, when I first saw it, the consultation fee was one thing, the prescription was another, and the medicinal materials were another.

Those who do not accept the treatment do not have to ask the doctors at Xunyi Clinic. Other clinics that are jealous can do it themselves. However, those who come to Xunyi Clinic are basically patients who other clinics are helpless to treat. Therefore, there is no way to stop the patients who come to Xunyi Clinic for treatment one after another.

This matter was reported to the Imperial Hospital of the Palace. When the hospital chief He learned about it, he was stunned. To borrow the emperor's words, Princess Zhan was really brave! So brave! !

Even the emperor had heard that a new clinic had opened in the capital. There was a female doctor working in the clinic who had miraculous healing skills and a kind heart. Everyone was praising her.

But he hadn't thought about the first time they met. A princess went to open a clinic to treat patients, and physical contact was inevitable. I don't think she would dare to do that!

The first meeting lasted for a month.

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