The Empress Dowager

Chapter 388
"My lord, here comes the wine." Several arresters came over with several jugs of wine, pulled off the lid, and a burst of wine smelled.

Wu Zuo came over, took out the silver needle and tried it in the wine, the silver needle didn't change color, Zhifu frowned.

Wu Zuo tried the silver needle in another wine jar, and this time the silver needle turned black. Wu Zuo tried a few more jars of wine, and found that only the strong sheep wine was poisoned.

Wu Zuo put the silver needle on the fire and burned it, put it away, bowed to the magistrate, and said: "My lord, this strong sheep wine has arsenic mixed in it."

The magistrate frowned, and looked at the proprietress with sharp eyes: "The evidence is all there, what else do you have to say?"

The proprietress knelt on the ground with a 'plop': "My lord, I'm wronged. I really didn't vote for this poison. I just opened a tavern to make a living. How could I put poison in my wine? My lord, I'm wronged!"

"Take it away!" The magistrate ordered, and the two policemen quickly pulled the proprietress up.

"Your Excellency, you are wronged!" the proprietress shouted.

Nangong Yue frowned, always felt that this matter was a bit strange, it was true that this wine was from the shop, but this poison...

"Master Zhifu, let me ask a few words, how about you take it to the Yamen?" Nangong Yue said.

"Miss Nangong, just ask."

"Thank you magistrate!" Nangong Yue thanked, walked up to the proprietress, and said:

"Miss Boss, this is a matter of life and death. If you really did this, it would be a life for a life. If you didn't do it, it wouldn't be worth dying for others." Nangong Yue said indifferently said, with a calm expression on his face.

The proprietress moved her mouth, but said nothing.

"Miss Boss, just like what you said, you are not stupid enough to poison your own wine. If you really wanted to harm people, you wouldn't open this tavern, would you?"

"Girl, I really didn't inflict this poison. Qiangzi told me that every time he drank, he couldn't get down the next day. It was too late for work. He said that there was arsenic in the wine tank. Draw a cross on the bottom of the cup and pour the wine in, the wine after a day of fermentation is very mellow, and the drunk will wake up quickly."

"Before, I didn't care about it at all. I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen today." The proprietress said.

"Don't you know he poisoned your wine?" Nangong Yue asked.

"Qiangzi is an old acquaintance of the shop, and every time he has to choose wine by himself, so I didn't pay attention to it at all."

Nangong Yue frowned, looked at the magistrate, and said, "Master magistrate, please send a few policemen to the medical clinic to ask if someone has bought arsenic?"

"Okay." The magistrate responded, looked at the two policemen beside him and said, "You two go to the major medical clinics to ask."

"Yes, my lord." The two policemen received the order, turned and walked out.

"Miss Boss, tell us everything you know." Nangong Yue said.

"I thought Qiangzi was just talking casually about this matter, but I didn't expect that he actually did that. Qiangzi is a good person, he never thought of harming anyone, girl, talk to the magistrate..."

"Miss Boss, I can't decide this matter."

"I didn't expect Miss Nangong to be so secretive! You can see the key at a glance." The magistrate said.

"Master Zhifu is polite! I'm just discussing the matter."

"This case was solved so quickly, it's all thanks to Miss Nangong. If Prince Jing knows about it, he will be happy!"

(End of this chapter)