Chapter 57: The antidote is with me

Song Shijie was not a fool. He had been in the Dali Temple for many years and had seen countless prisoners: not everyone who lied would dodge their eyes!

Especially those in high positions, because they were confident that they would not be convicted, so even when they lied, they would look the judge in the eye!

Although Xu Xiao was his leading superior, precisely because he was the leading superior, it was more likely that he would obstruct and judge an unjust or false case!

Seeing Song Shijie take no action, Lin Jiaojiao mistakenly thought he was going to believe Xu Xiao's words!

She glared at Song Shijie with red eyes and was about to curse him as a corrupt official when Lu Zhenting suddenly took out a small bottle from his sleeve pocket.

"The antidote is with me." Lu Zhenting shook the small white jar, and in an instant, everyone's attention shifted to the small bottle!

Lin Jiaojiao's brain turned fast: Lu Zhenting wouldn't have any antidote, and the gimmick of muscle relaxant was all used by her to scare this corrupt official Xu Xiao!

What she used was just pufferfish toxin. That thing could be found in ancient times, and it just so happened that Xu Xiao really ordered the pufferfish dish today!

She just bribed the cook in Xu Xiao's mansion in advance and gave the cook's young son a pack of medicine for tuberculosis, so the cook listened to her and did it.

This poison poisoned a group of servants, including Xu Xiao!

Lu Zhenting said the small bottle in his hand was the antidote; this was clearly helping her!

Song Shijie also understood Lu Zhenting's intention. He narrowed his eyes and stared at the so-called antidote, guessing that it was about the gold sore medicine that Lu Zhenting usually carried with him.

Taking gold sore medicine as an antidote to bluff the Dali Temple Minister was too childish.

But everyone in this room, only Xu Xiao believed it was the antidote!

He stared dead at that small bottle, and the light of several flashes of lightning swept across his eyes. That bulging stare was clearly what only a ghost crawling out of hell would have!

Xu Xiao's eyes were splitting, and he roared like a beast, "Quick, give me the antidote——!"

He wanted to rush forward to grab the antidote, but couldn't move a step forward.

Lin Jiaojiao grabbed the "antidote" from Lu Zhenting's hand and shook it in front of Xu Xiao, making him look on with eager eyes.

"You refuse to say anything, then I might as well give this antidote to any servant in your mansion," Lin Jiaojiao sneered, then turned and walked out of the house, walking towards a servant who was unconscious in the rain, "Maybe your servant knows all your secrets."

"I'll say, I'll say!" Xu Xiao shouted anxiously, "I ordered the Dali Temple to be burned! I wanted to burn you, this bitch, to death!"

Song Shijie was shocked beyond measure!

He didn't expect that Xu Xiao, as the Dali Temple Minister, would actually set fire to the Dali Temple!

Anger burst out in Lu Zhenting's eyes, and at the same time, a murderous intent rose in his chest: the Dali Temple Minister actually had the heart to kill!

And Bai Zhi, who was killed, was a girl he had saved back then. This good life was buried in the sea of fire just because of the Dali Temple Minister's selfishness!

Lin Jiaojiao asked aggressively, "And then? Why did you have to kill me?"

"Because, because you are the daughter left in the world by Lin Ye, you will, will overturn..." Xu Xiao's speech began to become thick-tongued, slurring, "Embezzlement of military grain and pay..."

Song Shijie glanced at him and said coldly, "Stop putting on an act."

"An, an, an, an, an..." Xu Xiao's tongue hung out of his mouth, and saliva dripped onto the ground. He discovered that he couldn't even control his speech!

"Oh no!" Lin Jiaojiao was the first to get anxious, "The pufferfish toxin has affected his cerebral cortex! This will cause him to lose his language function!"

"Where is the antidote?" Song Shijie reached out to Lin Jiaojiao. This was the first time he was anxious to urge someone, "Quickly bring the antidote!"

"There is no antidote for pufferfish toxin in ancient times! Even in modern times, there is no good way," Lin Jiaojiao stomped her feet anxiously, "Even if you irrigate with feces to induce vomiting, that still——"

Upon hearing about irrigating with feces, Song Shijie was an old hand!

Regardless of the filth on Xu Xiao's lower body, he forcibly pulled down Xu Xiao's pants and stuffed the filth on them along with the pants into Xu Xiao's mouth!

Xu Xiao fell to the ground foaming at the mouth, Song Shijie squatted on the side and held him down, continuing to stuff the filth from the pants into his mouth!

This set of operations was smooth and flowing, leaving Lu Zhenting and Lin Jiaojiao dumbfounded.

"No, Shijie, this is too——" Lu Zhenting suddenly remembered why Song Shijie had a stinky smell on him when he came to the Dali Temple that day.

At this time, Xu Xiao was foaming at the mouth, rolling his eyes, and had completely fainted!

Song Shijie felt his breath with his finger, "He just fainted, the person is still alive."

After speaking, he got up as if nothing had happened, walked out of the house, and used the rainwater to wash away the filth on his hands and body.

After washing clean, he came back in, looked at the dumbfounded Lin Jiaojiao and asked, "He will wake up, right?"

"Once he wakes up, he can tell the truth. By then, I will report this matter and request the Emperor to re-investigate the case from back then."

"He will wake up, but..." Lin Jiaojiao looked at Xu Xiao who had fainted on the ground: his pants had been taken off, leaving only his upper garment on his body. Fortunately, the upper garment in ancient times was long enough to cover his lower body, which was stinking enough to make people dizzy.

But his tongue was still hanging out of his mouth, and his hands and feet presented the typical state of pufferfish poisoning paralysis. He had breathing, but even if he woke up, he would be like this from now on.

"But what?" Song Shijie frowned.

"But he is already severely poisoned, even if you irrigate with feces, it's too late." Lin Jiaojiao herself seemed like a deflated pufferfish, "Even if he wakes up, he will probably be in a state of slurred speech and limb paralysis, and it will be very difficult to provide any testimony..."

"Then let him identify the evidence one by one." Song Shijie was calm and composed; he had seen many such scenes.

Sometimes when interrogating a prisoner, he only needed to see the change in their eyes to see the flaws and distinguish the truth.

At this time, the heavy rain outside had become smaller, but it was still drizzling, and a fish-belly white appeared on the horizon.

Lu Zhenting looked at that fish-belly white, "It's dawn."

"Yes, it's dawn, we still have many things to do." Lin Jiaojiao looked at the horizon. Now she felt a little better in her heart, but Bai Zhi's death was still pressing on her heart, not to mention the truth about the death of her original parents.

After traveling through time, she had asked Bai Zhi about her background and situation, but Bai Zhi knew very little information. Now that she knew her background, it was impossible for her to sit idly by.

Not to mention, the father of the original body in this world had the same name as her father in the modern world!

"I want to beat the drum to seek justice for Bai Zhi, and I want to seek justice for the old case of Wang Ye back then," Lin Jiaojiao looked at the light on the horizon and asked Lu Zhenting softly, "General Lu, can you take me to the place where I can seek justice?" ===== CHAPTER 58 =====