Fish Leaping Farm Gate

Chapter 268 Poisoning
Logically speaking, it only took a few days to go to Lingcheng, but Li Jin hadn't returned after half a month. Du Xiaoyu couldn't help feeling a little worried, maybe something happened on the way?
Li Jin's old mother, Mrs. Bai, also came to look for her. She has only one son, and she has been away from home for a long time. Look over there.

Du Xiaoyu was planning to tell Li Yuanqing that day, but someone sent a letter.When I opened it, I found that it was written by Fang Jinrong, saying that Li Jin had a sudden illness in Lingcheng, so he was delayed, and had already asked a doctor for treatment, and asked Du Xiaoyu to tell Bai Shi, don't worry, he will come back when he recovers.

Unexpectedly, this girl would follow him to Lingcheng, she immediately asked a servant to go to Li Jin's shop to inform Bai Shi, so as to reassure her.

Thinking of Fang Jinrong's temper, it happened that Li Jin was ill again at this time, and the two of them were alone in Lingcheng, the corners of Du Xiaoyu's mouth twitched.
A month later, the yamen servants who followed Guanshi Yao and his family members finally got news. The people in Yao's family rarely socialized and didn't like to go out, but they still found a suspicious thing. Zhang Papi was related, and had met with Zhang Papi's subordinates in a restaurant.

The meeting between the two was extremely hasty, only for a cup of tea, and Manager Yao handed the man a stack of bank notes during the process.

Zhang Papi is notoriously vicious in the county. If anyone borrows money from him and doesn't repay it, his family will be ruined. Even Li Yuanqing can't do anything about him.Firstly, borrowing money to repay the money is justified, and secondly, the victims borrowed money voluntarily, and no one dared to sue Zhang Papi. This kind of industry, as long as the people don't sue, the officials can't control it.

"Strange, Guanshi Yao doesn't look like someone who wants to borrow money from usury."

Li Yuanqing agreed, "So the bank note was not returned to Zhang Pao."

"That's it?" Du Xiaoyu opened his eyes wide, "Did he also participate in the usury thing?" After saying this, more doubts followed, "Where did he get so much money? "

No matter how rich the Lin family is, the stewards are not so rich, and they have spare money to lend usury. According to the yamen servant, how many thousand taels of banknotes are they supposed to ask for?
"Aren't you looking into this matter? He must have taken some loopholes."

Du Xiaoyu slapped his palm on the table, "It's unreasonable, I really didn't expect him to make so much money! He will make money with money, I really can't underestimate him."

Li Yuanqing smiled, and wrote lightly, "There is not much difference between a manager and an official. If there is integrity, there will be greed." Money business?How many people really want to do things for the court and benefit the common people?

Thinking of the purple ganoderma, she asked Caiping to call the boy and told him to invite Ding Fengnian.

"I don't know if my guess is right."

"Ninety-nine are close to ten." Li Yuanqing patted her head encouragingly, and went to work in the yamen.

After Ding Fengnian came over, Du Xiaoyu asked him to sit down and took out a pack of herbs, "I got this from the shop, you are not proficient in it yourself, so finding someone who is proficient in this way should be able to do it, right? "

"It can be done." Ding Fengnian nodded.

"One more thing, you find someone unfamiliar to go to the pharmacy and pretend to buy a lot of medicinal materials."

Ding Fengnian looked at Du Xiaoyu in surprise, not understanding what she meant.

Du Xiaoyu took out the ledger and ordered a few new herbs in recent months, "Purple Ganoderma lucidum, musk, ginseng, bezoar..." are all extremely expensive Chinese medicinal materials. , I'm afraid I don't even know what kind of medicine Yao Guanshi sells in his gourd.

Ding Fengnian asked, "Madam please make it clear."

"Find someone who looks richer and richer, and say you want to buy them all, and see how he handles it."

"This..." Ding Fengnian wondered, "If you really want to buy these in the shop, you will need a lot of silver." Thousands or even tens of thousands of taels are too risky.

"Ask first, he may not be able to sell it, and then, even if you want to buy it, you have to negotiate the price, right? You have to shop around. The person you find must not panic and show his feet, remember." Du Xiaoyu Again and again.

After Ding Fengnian heard it clearly, he promised to finish the meeting.

After a few days, he invited a master who is proficient in processing. Those medicinal materials were indeed no problem in processing, so Du Xiaoyu was relieved.

Manager Yao still has a sense of propriety, he didn't make fun of people's lives, otherwise, if they really sell medicinal materials that have been added with harmful substances, their shop will have endless troubles, and someone will come to sue them one day, and the death case is not so easy to solve.

Ding Fengnian was afraid of accidents, so he brought the man pretending to be a rich man to Du Xiaoyu to have a look. He looked good, and he looked extremely capable. After wearing the specially sewn robe, he looked more like a person of that level up.

"Go there tomorrow."

Ding Fengnian nodded, took that person away and left.

Li Jin finally came back from Lingcheng. He was ill and lost weight. When Du Xiaoyu went to visit him, Bai Shi was there, watching his son drink the big tonic soup with distress.

"I just wanted to go to your side, but you fell down." Li Jin put down the soup bowl.

"How can I call a patient to see me?" Du Xiaoyu smiled, and called Bai's aunt.

"It's ready." Li Jin got off the bed and sat on a chair, "My mother was worried and told me to rest more. You came just in time, and I brought back the silk. I heard that Sun Xiaoshan's silk quilts are good. ?”

Seeing that the two of them had something to discuss, Bai smiled and withdrew.

"I've been building it for a while, and there's nothing wrong with it. Now that I've bought all the silk, it's time to get started." Du Xiaoyu said, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, "I heard that Miss Fang went to Lingcheng with you? What about the letter?" It was she who wrote it to me." Fang Jinrong wrote to her instead of Bai Shi, which also has her meaning in it.

Li Jin blushed slightly. He didn't expect Fang Jinrong to go to Mausoleum with him. In fact, if she wasn't there, he might die of illness in Mausoleum.

He didn't have a good impression of this Miss Fang's family, but during this time, Fang Jinrong didn't complain and took good care of him as a patient. If he wasn't moved, it would be impossible.

It can be seen that his attitude has changed. Fang Jinrong's decision this time can be said to be a wise move, and God is helping her.

Li Jin is actually very soft-hearted. After this incident, as long as Fang Jinrong works harder, the son-in-law of the Fang family may not be able to escape.

Li Jin changed the subject, "I brought a large amount of fabric back this time." Then he stood up and went to the warehouse outside, "It's relatively soft, and it's most suitable for wrapping silk."

"I thought of it, and you thought of it too. I was wondering what kind of cloth to use for the inner tube." Du Xiaoyu touched the cloth in surprise, it was delicate and soft, and it was really good. She nodded in satisfaction, and said, "I also want to improve the outer quilt cover. The ones I used in the past are very inconvenient to remove and wash. If I change it, it will save a lot of effort."

Today's quilt covers have to be re-sewn every time they are used, unlike the ones used in her time, which are simple and convenient.

She took the banknotes over, and wrote a simple picture on it, "Look, you can also use nice-looking quilt covers, but they are all pre-processed, with buttons at the bottom, and the four corners are fixed, so that they won't run away when you cover them." Come and run."

Li Jin picked it up and looked at it, he was very surprised, in this way, all the inconveniences were solved, there was nothing better than this, so he agreed again and again.

"At that time, our shop will not only sell quilts, but also quilt covers." Li Jin smiled.

"And the pillowcase." Du Xiaoyu added.

The two talked for a while, and then divided up some tasks. For example, Du Xiaoyu went to find Mrs. Wu, and then hired some hired workers, while Li Jin went to find a suitable place to use as a workshop.

As soon as he came out of Li Jin's shop, he met a small stone head-on.

Xiao Shitou was the hired worker who carried the silk quilt for her last time and followed him back home. Du Xiaoyu saw his sweaty head and said in surprise, "Little Shitou, why are you here?"

"Ma'am, I, I'm here to look for you." Xiao Shitou hurriedly said, "Sun, Master Sun fainted."

"What?" Du Xiaoyu was shocked, "What's going on? Have you hired a doctor?"

"Please, the doctor is looking at it." Xiao Shitou said, "Aunt Tao asked me to tell Madam."

Aunt Tao is also a female worker in the workshop, "Where are everyone? Are they in the workshop?"

"In the workshop."

Du Xiaoyu hurried over.

A group of people gathered in the workshop, and when they saw Du Xiaoyu coming, the crowd dispersed, and someone already exclaimed, "Fu, madam, the doctor said that Master Sun was poisoned! Ma'am, is the food we eat poisonous?" ?” As he spoke, he began to pick his own throat, and his words made the people around him turn pale with fright, and they immediately chattered and became confused.

Du Xiaoyu sternly said, "Shut up and listen to the doctor."

She walked over and saw that Sun Xiaoshan's lips were blue, which seemed to be a sign of poisoning, so she asked the doctor, "What's going on? Is it really poisoning? Aunt Tao, quickly bring the food you ate today and show it to the doctor." .”

Dow hurriedly brought over the rice bowls and vegetable bowls, and there were still some leftovers in them.

"It's indeed poisoning, but it's not deep. The old man has already given him an antidote pill, and he can wake up with another bowl of medicine." The doctor said and went to look at the leftovers over there.

"Which medicine is boiling?" Du Xiaoyu asked again.

"The lady of the Ding family is boiling in the room." Aunt Tao replied hastily.

These two female workers were specially introduced by Mrs. Wu, and they are very kind, so Du Xiaoyu believed them. Hearing that Mrs. Ding was doing it, she didn't continue to ask.

The doctor looked at it for a while, and said with certainty, "There is no poison in this food, so you don't have to worry."

Only then did everyone breathe a sigh of relief, and patted their chests one after another, as if they had saved their lives.

It seems that this poison is only aimed at Sun Xiaoshan alone!Du Xiaoyu frowned, who is it?And by what method did Sun Xiaoshan get poisoned?

(End of this chapter)