Transmigrated into Substitute Bride 'Fu Lang'

After a long wait, after Chen Xing and the others had a hasty lunch, Qiu Shi came back with the news he had inquired about.

"How is it?" Upon seeing Qiu Shi coming in, Chen Xing, who had been waiting impatiently, immediately greeted him and asked eagerly.

Looking at the impatient Chen Xing, Qiu Shi didn't give a damn. After taking a sip of tea, he immediately told the news he had found out, "The one who died was the head of a family surnamed Xu in the north of the city. After dinner, it won’t work when we go back. The wife of that family has always been aggressive, and after the man died, his wife started a quarrel, and everyone around her knew that her man died because he ate our food.”

Having said that, Qiu Shi paused for a moment, looked at Chen Xing, who was in a bad mood, and continued: "Early the next morning, that woman found a group of helpers to carry her husband's body to the door, and made a fuss all the way. On the yamen."

Chen Xing pursed his lips silently. Ancient news spread slowly, so even if the woman made such a big commotion, he still hasn't heard of it.But how big is a city?In a few days, the news that the woman's husband was poisoned to death by their restaurant will definitely spread throughout the city, so how can their restaurant continue to operate?

Thinking of this, Chen Xing gritted his teeth, he really couldn't figure it out, his shop is well opened, and every ingredient is strictly checked, how could such a thing happen?

Qiu Shi looked at Chen Xing with an ugly face, hesitating whether to say the next thing.

Fortunately, Chen Xing also knew that now was not the time to act impulsively. After taking two deep breaths, he calmed down, looked at Qiu Shi next to him again, and saw that he was hesitant to speak, and said directly: "What else is there?" Is it? If there is something, just say it yourself."

Qiushi stopped hesitating when he heard the words, and directly told the other news he had inquired, "Didn't the little boss let us find out what the family wanted by the way? As far as I know, her husband spent a lot of money on medical treatment." With little money, there is no decent livelihood for the family.

The compensation that the family is most likely to ask for now is money. If we can provide enough money, it is not impossible for them to give up their responsibility for our family.Of course, the best way is to clear the suspicion in our store, otherwise it will be troublesome if such things happen in the future! "

Chen Xing nodded in agreement, and he didn't know this, it was just his worst plan.If possible, they'd better get rid of this matter, otherwise, the name of their restaurant who ate people to death will follow them all the time.In this way, even if the store can continue to open in the future, the business will be greatly affected.

Just when Chen Xing was brainstorming and wanted to see how to solve this matter is the safest way, Qiu Jiu who went out to inquire about the grocery store who supplied them also came back.

As soon as he came in, Qiu Jiu saw Chen Xing and said, "Boss, I went to see that store. Their business is as usual, nothing unusual, and no one came to make trouble."

Chen Xing frowned. In this case, there are two possibilities.One is that those who also took drugs have not found out, so there is no situation of door-to-door trouble.The second is that only their store took drugs, so there is no possibility that other stores will cause trouble.

Chen Xing's heart skipped a beat. For some reason, he always felt that the second possibility was the right one.

Outside the Chen Family Restaurant.

Liao Hui looked at the closed restaurant, looked up at the sky, and confirmed that it should be the time to open the shop. He was a little confused why the shop was closed?

Liao Hui hadn't been here for a long time, and this time he came here because he had built up his heart for a long time and mustered up the courage to come. Therefore, when he saw the small restaurant closed, he was stunned for a moment, and then he found a A peddler who was doing business nearby inquired.

"Boss, do you know why the Chen family's small restaurant across the street is not open today?" Liao Hui bought a pack of melon seeds at the hawker's stall when he inquired.

The peddler saw that Liao Hui bought a bag of his things, and saw that the clothes he was wearing were expensive, so he was happy to tell him about the little things he inquired about, so he said cheerfully: "That store! Today is Those who opened the door, but then a group of officials came and took away their accountant, and their shop was closed!"

Liao Hui was just asking casually at first, but he didn't expect to ask such news, and the expression on his face changed suddenly.A picture flashed in his mind. The last time he was dragged by his friends to see the market, he met a drunk bragging man there. Thinking of the bragging of that man, Liao Hui's heart skipped a beat.

Liao Hui tossed the peddler's sunflower seeds money to him, then strode to the door of Chen's small restaurant and knocked on the door.

The peddler watched the young man knock on the door for a while, then the shop door was opened, and then he walked in.The peddler shook his head, sighed 'this young man is really strange', and went to greet the next customer.

Yamen.

Gu Lang, a group of people in the yamen, and the newly recruited assistants all gathered in the empty room of the yamen, in the middle of which lay the dead body of the man, the live chicken that Gu Lang needed, and several plates of leftover vegetables .

The woman who claimed to be the wife of the deceased was staring at Gu Lang vigilantly at this time. She didn't know what he was selling in the gourd. Her face was slightly distorted due to being too nervous. terrible.

Master Xu looked at everything that had been prepared, came to Gu Lang, and said softly, "Mr. Gu, since everything is ready, can we start?"

Gu Lang nodded, not holding everyone's appetite, first came to the woman, pointed to the leftover dishes of the dishes, and asked lightly: "You said that your husband is because of eating these dishes. , that’s why he died from poisoning?”

The woman looked at the calm and composed Gu Lang in front of her, let go of her tightly clenched lips, nodded lightly, and responded, "Yes, my husband died from eating this stuff. Housewives don't understand anything, I thought these dishes should be brought with me, so I asked someone to bring them with me.”

Gu Lang listened to the woman's explanation, sneered slightly, and said in a low voice: "I think Madam is very smart."

The woman's heart skipped a beat, and she raised her eyes to meet Gu Langqing's cold eyes. She held onto her handkerchief tightly, feeling that her palms were sticky with sweat.

After Gu Lang finished asking the woman, he turned his head to look at Mr. Xu next to him, and said directly: "Can you let this master test these dishes, that dish is poisonous?"

Master Xu nodded after hearing this, and made a gesture towards Zuo Zuo, and the Zuo quickly came to the side of the dishes with his toolbox on his back, and quickly judged the two dishes that were poisonous.

Seeing that Wu Zuo chose a dish with fungus as the main dish, and the other dish was their recently launched fried shrimp, Gu Lang nodded, then looked at the county magistrate, and continued: "Can you ask someone to share those two dishes? Pour out some of the vegetables and feed the chicken."

Although he didn't know what Gu Lang was trying to trick, the county magistrate was still willing to give him face. He gave a warning to the officials standing next to him, and then two people walked out, one of whom was the one who had escorted Gu Lang over. official errand.

The two official servants fiddled with some dishes from the two dishes and put them in front of the chicken. They didn't know if the chicken was hungry or sensed the danger, so they refused to eat the dishes.In the end, he couldn’t do anything, and one of the officials still grabbed the chicken, and another of the officials opened his mouth, and forcefully poured it down.

It took less than a stick of incense for the chicken to swallow the dish, and it changed from its previous high-spirited appearance to thumping about, and then lay motionless on the ground.

Seeing the chicken die so quickly, everyone around was a little scared, but Gu Lang watched the scene in front of him very calmly from the beginning to the end.

Seeing that the chicken was completely cold, Gu Lang slowly opened his mouth: "Okay, then we can start the next step. But, before we start."

Gu Lang paused at this point, then turned his gaze to the woman with a nervous face, and continued in a voice that could be heard by everyone in the audience: "I still want to ask Madam, who is your husband? Was it poisoned to death by this dish?"

It was obviously a very cool room, but the woman's forehead was covered with cold sweat. Hearing Gu Lang's question, she bit her lip nervously, and nodded viciously after a while, as if to give He said boldly, "Yes, my husband died of poisoning."

Gu Lang raised his lips, making his handsome face a bit cold and indifferent.He stopped looking at the woman, turned his head to look at the assistant, and said in a low voice, "Maybe the sir can detect whether the person died of poisoning?"

That bastard is used to observing words and expressions, and when he came here, he saw that the county magistrate and master Xu were flattering Gu Lang, but when he heard that he was Mr., he waved his hands again and again and said:

"My lord, you're welcome. I'm a gentleman. It's just that if you want to check whether a person is poisoned, it's easy. There are two methods. One is to hold a special gauze in the mouth. If the gauze changes color, then This person must have died of poisoning. The second is to open the abdomen of the deceased and directly check whether there is any substance that caused the patient to be poisoned."

As soon as Wu Zuo's words fell, the woman yelled like crazy, "No, you can't let my husband be disemboweled, he has died so badly, and he must not be insulted by you like this. If you If you want to touch my husband, I will smash my head to death here, and become a wronged soul in this yamen, haunting you for a long time!"

The woman's sharp voice sounded in the lobby, causing everyone around to frown, and some even looked at her and showed disgust.

Gu Lang looked at the mad woman without changing his face, and said in a cold tone: "Don't worry, we won't do this."

The originally crazy woman was calmed down by Gu Lang's emotionless words, like a chicken whose neck was pinched, and lost her voice.

Gu Lang restrained the noisy woman, turned his head to look at Wu Zuo not far away, and said lightly: "Sir, there is a third way to test whether he died from poisoning, which is to use silver needles. It's just that This approach is limited in that only a few specific toxicants can be validated in this way."

Having said that, Gu Lang looked at the corpse and the dead chicken again, and said slowly: "Now we have seen with our own eyes that the chicken was poisoned to death, and we can test it with a silver needle. If the silver needle changes color, it proves that it is poisoned." This poison can be tested with silver needles. Next, insert the silver needles directly into the mouth, throat, and stomach of the chicken and the corpse, and pull out the silver needles to see if the color changes, so you can know whether the deceased was poisoned .”

When everyone present heard Gu Lang's theory, they couldn't help being a little uproarious, and their eyes changed a little bit when they looked at Gu Lang. Only one person with a puzzled face looked at Gu Lang and asked him a question, "How can this test be found out?" Were people poisoned to death?"

The corners of Gu Lang's lips widened a little, and he explained: "If people are poisoned to death like chickens, then the silver needles that should be inserted into the stomach will change color at the same time. If people die first and then are fed It is poisonous, because the intestines and stomach cannot move after death, at most, only the throat will show symptoms of poisoning. Ordinary methods cannot detect whether he died of poisoning, but can only prove whether he has been poisoned.”

Hearing Gu Lang's explanation, everyone present suddenly realized, and the master couldn't wait to experiment with Gu Lang's method.He was not afraid of the smell of the corpse, so he directly covered his nose with gauze, pulled off the clothes of the corpse, and inserted the silver needles into the parts that Gu Lang just mentioned one by one, and the chicken next to him was also treated in the same way.

After waiting for two sticks of incense, the clerk first pulled out the silver needles stuck in the chicken, and sure enough, the silver needles turned black. It was easy for people to see that the chicken died of poisoning.

When he was on top of that person, Wu Zuo was a little nervous for some reason, and the surrounding people also had the same expression, holding their breath.

Wu Zuo first pulled out the black needle from the mouth of the deceased.Next is under the tongue, black.Throat, black.Esophagus, half black and half white.

Wu Zuo's breathing became a little heavy, and even the people next to him became tense, and then he saw that Wu Zuo's silver needles were all white all the way to his stomach.

"Look, this man didn't die from poisoning."

I don't know who yelled, and everyone seemed to wake up from a dream, watching this scene in amazement.

Only Gu Lang's complexion didn't change at all from the beginning to the end, as if he had guessed this scene long ago.He slowly looked away from the corpse, turned to look at the pale woman next to him, and said in a low voice, "Ma'am, are you still insisting that your husband died of poisoning?"

The woman opened her mouth, wanting to say a few words in defense, but when she met Gu Lang's indifferent eyes that were almost harsh, as if they had pierced her, she couldn't say anything.The woman who was like a shrew just now can only stand there with her neck stuck, like a choked capon, unable to make a sound.

"Well, you poisonous woman, you must have killed your husband first, and then poisoned him. You want to put the blame on the Chen family's small restaurant, and you want to use this to plan your own future!"

There was a bang in the arena, which broke the silence in the arena. Everyone heard the sound and looked over, only to see that the person who made the sound was the magistrate with a livid face.

At this time, the county magistrate's elegant face was still a bit angry, pointing at the woman and said: "You killed your husband, and you are so fanatical to blame other people. Not only are you malicious, It is hopeless. I must punish you properly today, otherwise, if more people follow suit in the future, what is the majesty of the court!"

Hearing the county magistrate's accusation, the woman seemed to come back to her senses suddenly, knelt down on the ground, looked at the county magistrate and cried bitterly: "No, no, sir. The women did not kill me Husband, he died by himself."

The woman on the ground was crying with snot and tears. If a beautiful woman cried like this, it would inevitably arouse some sympathy from others.But this woman on the ground has an ordinary appearance and vulgar behavior, so that others can't feel any pity for her, and even have a faint sense of disgust.

The magistrate looked at her and frowned, and then said unceremoniously: "You don't have to argue here, if you didn't kill your husband, why bother to blame others so deliberately. A vicious woman like you can only be used as an example by soaking in a pig cage!"

"No, no, my lord, I really didn't kill my husband. He died of his own illness, and I really didn't do anything to apologize to him!" Hearing the words of the magistrate, the woman's fear of soaking the pig cage made her feel even more anxious. Panicked, the crying sound became louder.

It's just that the woman's crying did not arouse the sympathy of the people around her at all. They all looked at her indifferently, as if they had already decided to punish her.Seeing this, the woman became more and more flustered, as if she could see herself being immersed in a pig cage right away.Immediately afterwards, she seemed to remember something, and a gleam of joy flashed across her face, she looked at them and said:

"My lord, it's not that I want to use my husband's body to frame someone else. Someone asked me to do it. They also promised me that as long as I do this, they will give me a sum of money, which is enough for me to have enough food and clothing for the rest of my life." .”

The woman's voice was too shrill, everyone listened to what she said, and looked at her with frowns.

In the end, the magistrate of the county was the first to come back to his senses, exchanged glances with the master next to him, then turned his head to look at the woman on the ground, and said loudly, "Who told you to do this? If you do it honestly, I will definitely treat you Take it lightly. If you continue to persist in your obsession, I will definitely not forgive you lightly."

Hearing what the magistrate said, the woman's eyes flashed with excitement, and she quickly said the man's name, and even explained what they asked her to do and promised.

In the Chen family's small restaurant.

After Liao Hui came in, before he had time to reminisce, he told about Huang Yao who was drunk when his friend took him to the Hualou to meet the world a few days ago. Huang Yao bragged that he wanted to frame Chen Xing and the others.

Liao Hui didn't know Huang Yao at first, but when he came to the small restaurant today and heard that someone was taken away by the officials, he immediately remembered this incident, and also remembered that Huang Yao was taken away by the waiter in the restaurant that day. The one who hit.

At this time, Chen Xing was looking excitedly at the young man who came in. He had only met this young man once, and he never thought that he would bring him such a big surprise.

"Is what you said true?"

Liao Hui didn't expect that he could make Chen Xing so happy just by bringing a piece of news to him.Seeing his little brother staring straight at him with an excited face, even knowing that he already had a husband, his face still blushed involuntarily.

Liao Hui nodded in Chen Xing's expectant eyes, and said with certainty: "What I said is true. If you don't believe me, I can ask my friends to prove it for me. We were sitting next to them at the time. Now that I heard it, they naturally heard it too."

Seeing that Liao Hui was not the only witness, Chen Xing was so happy that he didn't know what to do. At this moment, as if he had found hope, he stared at him with bright eyes, and said cheerfully: "Will your friends also come over to help testify?" ?”

Liao Hui blushed when Chen Xing stared at him. Seeing his expectant look, he nodded without much hesitation.Even if his friends don't want to, they will come here for his sake.

When Chen Xing saw that Liao Hui agreed, the joyful expression on his face became more obvious.Soon, thinking of Gu Lang who was being taken to the yamen, the smile on his face stagnated, and when he looked up again, his expression was a little more eager, "Would you like to accompany me to the yamen now?"

Government Yamen.

"My lord, that's all. I promise I won't lie to you again!" The woman knelt on the ground in embarrassment, and looked at the magistrate above with pleading eyes, hoping that he would be kind to her.

After hearing her words, the county magistrate snorted heavily, then clapped the gavel in his hand, and said coldly: "Under the scope of my jurisdiction, such things still happen. Zheng Hu, take someone to Bring him back to me, I will interrogate him personally, and give justice to the innocent!"

"Yes." The man named Zheng Hu was the official envoy who went to catch Gu Lang back today. Hearing his lord's order, he saluted in a hurry, and then led him out.

When Chen Xing and the others came over, they happened to have a face-to-face meeting with the officials who had gone out. Seeing the officials who left aggressively, he became more and more uneasy, and his steps became faster and faster.

Until approaching the gate of the yamen, Chen Xing looked at the plaque of the yamen, and the worry in his eyes became more solemn.Gu Lang's health is not good, and he doesn't know how much he has suffered today.He had heard that the investigative methods in ancient times were not very good, and they would be beaten into tricks in many cases.

Thinking that Gu Lang would be tortured here, Chen Xing's heart ached. He took a deep breath, discarded all the horrible images in his mind, and walked in.

However, when Chen Xing brought people to the lobby and looked at Gu Lang who was sitting there drinking tea, the worried expression on his face suddenly froze, and he could only stare at the man stupidly, without reacting for a long time.

Gu Lang's reaction when he looked at him was that the corners of his lips curled up. It wasn't like smiling at the woman today, but a kind of tenderness that was as gentle as a flower blooming. He waved at Chen Xing and waited for him to come. When he was in front of him, he said softly, "What's wrong?"

Chen Xing first scanned Gu Lang from top to bottom, and let out a long breath after making sure that he was not injured, then told him what Liao Hui said, then pointed to Liao Hui who was following behind and said: " That's the way it is, so I brought him over to clarify the situation."

Gu Lang raised his eyes to look at Liao Hui who was following behind, only to see that Liao Hui puffed out his chest as if he had received a huge threat after meeting his eyes.