Chapter 166

At the yamen gate, the drums sounded at this time.

The drums are dense and vigorous. Someone is complaining.

Whenever someone beats a drum and complains of injustice, the county magistrate must be promoted.

Xiao Baoshan is the one who plays the drum. Xiao Baoshan has found evidence and concluded that Lai Er is the one who poisoned, and sister Xiang is the one who instigated Lai Er.

After the promotion, many people surrounded the court. Xiao Tieshu and Xiao Tongshu knew it. They couldn't help running over and wanted to stop the process and what happened.

Gu Jingshan brought witnesses. One was selling amaranth powder in the pharmacy, the other was selling wine, and there were people living in the same alley with Lai Er.

The county magistrate rose to the hall and clapped: "who is kneeling under the hall?"

"Cao min Xiao Baoshan!"

"Why do you play the drum?"

"Lady Cao min beat the drum a few days ago because she was wronged and imprisoned."

The county magistrate sneered: "Oh, what case should I be? It turned out to be a poisoning case in the Xiao family restaurant. The Xiao family's wife secretly poisoned the food regardless of other people's lives, resulting in a total of 12 people being poisoned. What's wrong with such crimes?"

Xiao Baoshan said, "my Lord, my wife runs a restaurant to do business. She has no motive to poison and murder diners. If diners are poisoned, what benefits does she have?"

The people who are watching outside also think Xiao Baoshan is reasonable. How can a restaurant operator poison his diners?

The county magistrate sneered again: "how do I know what her motive is? What if she thinks her business is too good and deliberately wants to make the whole thing out of her store?"

Xiao Baoshan suddenly looked up and looked like an arrow. The magistrate was startled by his eyes.

"Bold, have you raised your head?"

Xiao Baoshan put away his fierce eyes and said to the county magistrate, "Sir, only peers can do such a thing as poisoning in restaurants."

"Peers?" The magistrate's eyes were obviously flustered: "then tell me, which colleague wanted to murder her?"

Xiao Baoshan said, "Sir, as far as I know, the poison among the poisoned people is amaranth powder. I brought three people here. The first, the shopkeeper of the pharmacy, admitted that Lai Er, who died on the river a few days ago, had bought amaranth powder in the store. This Lai Er came to Xiao's restaurant to find his relatives on the day of the incident.

The second is the manager of the County winery. After the incident, Lai Er took a piece of silver to his winery to drink. He said that he had paid off all the money he owed a few days ago. Obviously, someone gave Lai Er a lot of money to commit murder.

The third one lives in the same alley with Lai Er. Two days before the incident, he saw that the landlady of Xianglin restaurant had found Lai Er. "

When Xiao Baoshan finished, people outside talked about it one after another.

According to Xiao Baoshan's speculation, the person behind this is obviously sister Xiang.

Not only the people outside, but also the people in the court showed an unusual look.

They all know that sister Xiang has a friendship with the county magistrate. Sister Xiang often goes in and out of the county magistrate's backyard, and the county magistrate often goes to Xianglin restaurant to drink.

After hearing Xiao Baoshan's description, the county magistrate panicked.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Baoshan was so rigorous that he could investigate the case himself and connect all the clues together.

What should he do now?

Continue to shield sister Xiang? Or call sister Xiang here now and try again?

The people outside were still watching. He couldn't be too selfish, so he called someone to pass on sister Xiang.