The Incense Monopoly Order

Chapter 24: Already thinking of a way out

Shang Mingshu gave orders to He Sui who was stopped outside the yamen. Her words shocked everyone and made them all burst into disbelief.

The county magistrate looked back and forth between Shi Houqiong and Shang Mingshu with a look of doubt and astonishment. Why did he favor Shi Houqiong? Of course, it was because he didn't believe that Shi Houqiong would sacrifice a son to deal with Shang Mingshu's two daughters!
Shi Houqiong propped himself up and stared blankly at the bloody corpse in front of him, his mind blank.

Under the gazes of the crowd with different expressions, Shi Houqiong was carried in by several people on a chair. He had many injuries on his body, but he was conscious.

"Chao'er..." Shi Houqiong's voice trembled, and a complex emotion of confusion, joy, worry, etc. was mixed on his face, making him look strange.

"Dad, Luo Jin is trying to murder my son, you should kill him!" Shi Guangchao held the wooden board in his arms and pointed at the frightened Luo Jin with hatred.

"Sir, can I, as a witness, prove my innocence?" Shang Mingshu smiled at the county magistrate, but her eyes were cold.

The county magistrate's face twitched; he was now unable to speak.

The lawyer sighed softly, "Mr. Shi, you keep accusing the merchant's wife of murdering your son. Now your son is right in front of you, alive. How are you going to explain this?"

"I..." Shi Houqiong was speechless for a moment. After all, he had been in the business world for many years, and his son had come back to life. He quickly calmed down and said, "Sir, I am..."

"Mr. Shi, please don't say you were deceived by a servant based on his one-sided account." Shang Mingshu spoke softly before Shi Houqiong could. "Just now, this servant swore to heaven that his entire family depended on the Shi family. How dare he murder his master for no reason? Mr. Shi, you're now blaming everything on this servant. Do you think the county magistrate is an ignorant child who can be fooled at will?"

Shang Mingshu's words blocked both people. Shi Houqiong couldn't push the blame onto Luo Jin, so he shamelessly pushed it over. With Shang Mingshu's words in front of him, if the county magistrate really believed it, it would be confirmed that he had fooled the county magistrate, and the county magistrate would also admit that he was an ignorant child.

He could only place his hopes on Shi Guangchao. He climbed up and squatted beside Shi Guangchao, holding his son's hand, his eyes full of hints: "Chao'er, how could Shang Sanniang save you by such a coincidence?"

If it was Shi Qingyu sitting on the chair at this moment, she would have thrown dirty water on Shang Mingshu without Shi Houqiong's hint, but the person sitting here now was Shi Guangchao.

"Of course Third Lady is kind-hearted. Dad, you must thank Third Lady well. If it weren't for her, I wouldn't be able to see you now!" Shi Guangchao was still frightened when he thought of the despair and panic of falling off the cliff.

Seeing Shi Houqiong flirting with the blind man, Cheng Mian couldn't help laughing: "Shi Dalang is right. Mr. Shi should be very grateful to the Third Lady. This is the first time I have seen someone shouting and suing their savior in court..."

The atmosphere in the courtroom was tense, and no one offered a way out. The county magistrate was forced to interrogate Shi Guangchao: "Shi Jia Dalang, how were you injured? Who saved you? Since your life was not in danger, why didn't you send someone to inform your family? Do you know that because you had no news, your servants deceived your parents and said that you were murdered by the Shang sisters? Your parents were extremely worried and reported the Shang sisters to the court! If you don't explain the reason, your parents will falsely accuse an innocent person, and this county will not go too far in sentencing them to caning!"

"Sir, someone in my family is trying to harm me. They hired a vicious slave and took advantage of my inattention to kill me!" Shi Guangchao hastily explained, "Luo Jin pushed me off the cliff. If Luo Yin hadn't stopped me, I would have been crushed to pieces. Luo Yin fell off the cliff to save me. I was saved by He Mu, a servant of the merchant. I don't know who is trying to harm me, so I begged He Mu to conceal my whereabouts.

Just now, Hemu sent someone to say that Sanniang was being sued by my parents for saving me, so I hurried over to clear the air for Sanniang."

"According to what you said, it was not Shang Sanniang who murdered you?" the county magistrate asked with a wooden face.

"Of course not. It was Luo Jin who pushed me off the cliff..."

"Hahahahahaha..." Luo Jin suddenly burst into a crazy laugh, "That's right, it was me who pushed Dalangjun off the cliff, I was the one who was on the receiving end..."

"Crack!"

When Shang Mingshu saw Luo Jin pointing at her, she dodged and grabbed Luo Jin's chin. Another figure joined her in grabbing Luo Jin's wrists. With a crisp sound, Luo Jin's jaw and both arms were broken.

Shang Mingshu looked at Cheng She, and Cheng She looked back.

The four eyes are facing each other, and they are separated by one touch.

"Shang San, Cheng Er, how dare you!" "Sir, this servant intends to commit suicide." Shang Mingshu did not stop, she raised her feet and kicked, and with two more crisp sounds, Luo Jin's legs were broken.

Cheng She squatted down and took out a poison sac from Luo Jin's mouth, who was lying on the ground like a pile of mud.

When the poison sac was presented, the county magistrate's face changed drastically.

Shang Mingshu's gaze shifted from the county magistrate to Cheng She, who lowered his eyes so that his expression could not be seen.

She quickly looked at Shang Jinliang, and Shang Jinliang's face also became frightened.

They have all seen this kind of poison sac, and this poison sac is of great significance.

Japanese pirates!

Shang Mingshu only thought of one possibility.

Shi Houqiong's expression changed, and he actually relaxed a little.

"There is something strange about this case. Sisters Shang, please go home. This county will give you an explanation." The county magistrate hastily announced the closure of the case and ordered people to detain Luo Jin.

Victory was in sight, and Shang Zishu didn't smell anything unusual: "How could you do this, sir..."

"Zishu." Xiao Yu held her down.

Shang Zishu subconsciously looked at Shang Mingshu. Shang Mingshu shook her head imperceptibly, and she stopped angrily.

"Third sister, we clearly have a sure win, why are you letting them go?" The two sisters got on a carriage. Shang Zishu couldn't understand and the more she thought about it, the angrier she became.

"Shi Qingyu has already planned all the ways out for herself." Shang Mingshu's eyes were deep. "She is really a lunatic."

"Third sister, what are you talking about?" Shang Zishu was confused.

It was obvious that Shi Qingyu was a lunatic, otherwise why would he do such a thing as killing his brother and framing him? But she had a vague feeling that Shang Mingshu was not referring to this matter.

Shang Mingshu held Shang Zishu's hand and wrote a Japanese character on her palm: "That poison sac."

Shang Zishu's face turned pale. She looked up in shock and met Shang Mingshu's gaze. Her lips trembled and she couldn't speak for a long time. Only when Shang Mingshu withdrew her hand did she murmur, "She... isn't she afraid of killing their whole family?"

The secret of his family's collusion with the Japanese pirates was exposed so blatantly.

"The county magistrate will not believe that their family is colluding with the Japanese pirates. He will only conclude that the murder of Shi Guangchao today was framed by you and me, and that it was the Japanese pirates who instigated discord between our two families in order to achieve their unspeakable secret." From the appearance of the poison sac, Shang Mingshu guessed the outcome. Unless she had evidence of the Shi family's collusion with the Japanese pirates, there was no point in saying more.

"What about the prefect?" Shang Zishu's eyes were filled with anticipation.

"The county magistrate will definitely vouch for the Shi family. Without any evidence, the prefect won't easily suspect the Shi family. They can't imagine Shi Qingyu's viciousness, and they won't believe that the Shi family is so foolish as to collude with the Japanese pirates without hiding it, but instead expose their own shortcomings." Shang Mingshu sighed softly, "It's a pity that Shi Qingyu got away."

(End of this chapter)