Chapter 173: Reversal

The Ya Men runner soon brought the person forward.

Lin Shenzi turned her head to look, and her face turned black.

It was that little bitch Yao Yulan!

Yao Yulan knelt down with a *thud* and kowtowed respectfully twice. "My Lord, commoner Yao, has been married into Longquan Village for more than six years. The grievances between the Lin family and the Jiang Family's Second Branch, commoner knows best."

Saying this, she pointed at Lin Shenzi and said, "This Lü Xiuhua is too shameless. Her daughter likes Jiang Li, and she was so desperate to marry him that she forced Jiang Li to be a live-in son-in-law for their Lin family. Jiang Li naturally refused, and later married Du Shi as his wife. Since then, the Lin family's vinegar jar has been overturned, and they look at Du Shi with displeasure, making things difficult for her in every way, various stumbling blocks, and spreading rumors behind her back, ruining her reputation..."

"You fart!" Lin Shenzi pounced, wanting to scratch Yao Yulan. "When did I do those things? You little bitch, if you dare to talk nonsense again, be careful I'll tear your mouth!"

The County Magistrate's face immediately turned into charred charcoal. "Come, slap her mouth."

Lin Shenzi was happy in her heart and threw a triumphant look at Yao Yulan.

Called you cheap-mouthed and talking nonsense, now it's good, right? Even the County Magistrate can't listen anymore and wants to slap your mouth!

Just as she thought this, she saw a Ya Men runner walk up to her, casually took off the shoe on his foot, and in her confusion, slapped her twice.

These two slaps were very heavy, and Lin Shenzi spat out a tooth on the spot, and the tooth was mixed with blood.

"Mother..." Lin Qingshuang covered her mouth abruptly at the entrance of the public hall, barely swallowing that cry, but her eyes couldn't help but turn red.

Lin You Tian also clenched his fists, his face iron-blue.

The County Magistrate said with a stern face: "The public hall is a solemn place, how can you allow such noise and fighting, and filthy language? If there is a next time, I will definitely not forgive!"

Lin Shenzi, with that red and swollen face, kowtowed aggrievedly, "Yes... My Lord."

Yao Yulan was also frightened, swallowed, but still had the courage to continue.

"The Lin family not only slandered Du Shi behind her back, but there was something even more excessive. A few days ago, Du Shi's face was allergic and had many rashes. Lü Xiuhua's husband, Lin You Tian, took a dozen people to the door while Jiang Li was not at home, insisting that Du Shi had leprosy and wanted to burn her alive! If the doctor hadn't come in time, I'm afraid there wouldn't even be ashes left!"

"Lü Xiuhua, is there such a thing?" The County Magistrate asked.

Lin Shenzi endured the pain and replied: "My Lord, don't listen to her one-sided words. My husband is the village head, and burning Du Shi was also for the safety of the whole village, not out of selfishness at all. His only mistake was listening to the doctor's words and mistakenly thinking Du Shi had leprosy."

"Forget it, stop flattering your husband." Yao Yulan didn't leave her any face at all and immediately exposed her. "If there was really no selfishness, why oppose inviting another doctor? And why insist on burning Du Shi before the doctor came? Isn't it just wanting to take the opportunity to kill her? Who doesn't know that."

"You!" Lin Shenzi trembled with anger, but didn't dare to scold anyone, holding her breath until she was purple.

The County Magistrate pondered for a moment, and then said: "Lü Xiuhua, you said Du Shi held a grudge against you, then has she ever done anything harmful to you?"

Lin Shenzi quickly recalled in her mind, and after thinking about it, she found it was a blank space.

She opened her mouth: "..."

"So there isn't?" The County Magistrate suddenly sank his face and slapped the gavel. "Bold woman, daring to twist the truth in front of this official, confusing right and wrong, truly hateful!"

Lin Shenzi was scared until she crawled on the ground, trembling, fearing she would be hit by the shoe sole again.

At this time, Jiang Li spoke, "My Lord, your eyes are like torches, please seek justice for our Jiang family."

The County Magistrate nodded, the motive for the crime was already there, below just needed to present evidence.

The first to go to the hall was the coroner.

The coroner presented the poisoning test results, confirming that there was indeed a very heavy amount of rat poison in the Jiang family's water vat, enough to cause death.

Then it was the doctor who came for the visit that night.

Confirming that those poisons caused extremely heavy damage to the bodies of Zheng Shi and the others, affecting them for life.

After hearing this evidence, the onlookers shook their heads in pity, and all sympathized with the Jiang family.

Then they pointed at Lin Shenzi.

"Even the Lord doesn't care, but she could even lay hands on a few children, truly the most poisonous woman's heart."

"Look at her, she doesn't look like a good person, her daughter must not be a good thing either, even wanting to force Jiang Bu Tou to be a live-in son-in-law, stinking and shameless."

"Pfft, wasted several taels of silver for me, if I had known she was such a thing, I should have bet on the Jiang family to win!"

Lin Shenzi didn't say anything else, but instead became quiet to the point of being scary.

It wasn't until she heard the County Magistrate summon the grocery store clerk Bao Pi to the hall that her eyes finally lit up.

"Bao Pi, look clearly at the woman in front of you, do you recognize her?"

Bao Pi was in his early twenties, looking like a monkey, looking like a cunning person.

He looked at Lin Shenzi carefully several times and soon said: "I remember her, she came to our shop to buy rat poison, and she bought two taels at once."

Two taels of rat poison, enough to poison a cow.

"When did you buy it? How are you sure it's her?" The County Magistrate asked again.

"My Lord, you don't know." Bao Pi smiled and explained. "That was more than a month ago, and it happened to be my birthday, so I remember it very clearly. This woman came in to buy rat poison, saying that rats were getting married in her house, and had given birth to several nests of little rats, stealing her rice and grain every day, so she wanted to poison them to death. I even joked, why not beat them to death, and you could eat a few bowls of rat meat. When checking out, she paid two extra wen, so I looked at her two more times and remembered the red mole on her ear."

The County Magistrate looked at Lin Shenzi. "Lü Xiuhua, is what he said true?"

Lin Shenzi nodded. "Yes, commoner did buy two taels of rat poison in his shop."

"Now that things have come to this, what else do you have to say?"

"Commoner still says that, commoner is wronged, commoner didn't poison anyone."

Lin Shenzi puffed out her chest and said loudly: "Just because commoner has a grudge against the Jiang family, and happened to buy rat poison, can it prove that the poison in the Jiang family was put by commoner? If you say so, My Lord, you picked up ten taels of silver, and commoner's family happened to lose ten taels of silver, can it prove that the ten taels of silver you have were lost by commoner?"

The County Magistrate fell silent.

Indeed, it couldn't, which was also the loophole he had been worried about before. This case seemed to have solid evidence, but it actually lacked the most critical witness.

No one had seen Lü Xiuhua poison the water with their own eyes.

Without this witness, the case couldn't be nailed down.

Du Ruo and Jiang Li looked at each other, Du Ruo raised her eyebrows, not expecting it, Lin Shenzi suddenly became smart, actually thinking of this loophole.

How to nail this poisonous woman...

Du Ruo calculated rapidly in her brain, and just at this moment, a sound of *eh* suddenly came to her ears.

"I also remember this little lady, she came to our shop a few days ago, and she also bought two taels of rat poison!" Bao Pi pointed at Du Ruo and said. ===== CHAPTER 174 =====