While the Mo family was busy in the fields, Han Shuxian received a notice from a diner saying that the customer had a severe stomachache after eating luncheon meat.
On this day, the boy from the Jingli blacksmith shop was delivering a wood cutter. Han Shuxian and Mo Ziyuan watched Changhu put the wood on the cutter and then use a hammer to smash the wood down. Then they saw the wood. The cutter was cut into small wooden strips. Just when Mo Ziyuan was sighing at the good idea of the blacksmith shop clerk, she heard a servant coming to report, "The waiter came to see the diners."
"What's going on?" Han Shuxian asked.
The servant replied: "He didn't say anything, only that it was urgent."
"I'll go take a look, and you guys can try again." After Han Shuxian said that, he turned around and walked towards the front hall.
"I'll go too." Mo Ziwan followed Han Shuxian and walked out.
"Mr. Han, our boss asked me to invite you to the store." After Han Shuxian came to the hall, the store clerk stood up and said.
"What's going on?" Han Shuxian asked.
"A customer came to the store and said he felt upset after eating luncheon meat. The boss wants to discuss something with you," the waiter replied.
"How could that happen?" Han Shuxian said to Mo Ziyuan after saying that, "I'm going to pay diners a visit."
"Daddy, I'll go with you. Someone must be jealous of our good lunch meat sales and want to blackmail us! I'll figure it out with you."
Seeing that Mo Ziwan insisted on going, he obeyed her and said, "Let's go right away!" After saying that, he ordered his servants to go to Mo's house to say something, then he took Mo Ziwan and asked Changhu to drive the carriage to the capital.
The diners arrived in a hurry, and without even having time to say hello, they asked Murong Tingxu, "What's going on?"
Murong Tingxu had someone send a message to Han Shuxian and kept waiting in the store, "He came to the store in the morning and bought a pound of luncheon meat. At noon, his family brought him to the store to make trouble, saying that our luncheon meat had The problem is, my stomach hurts after eating it.”
"Impossible. You know very well how our lunch meat is. If there was a problem, how could we still sell it until now?" Han Shuxian said with certainty.
"I must believe that our lunch meat is fine, otherwise we wouldn't still be selling it today! I invite you here to ask if you have offended anyone recently? If not, then you have encountered someone who wants to blackmail us. It's easy to deal with this kind of person, even if he is not sent to an official position, we can teach him a lesson in private." Murong Tingxu said.
Han Shuxian thought about where he had been recently, shook his head and said, "No."
"Where are Wanwan and the others?" Murong Tingxu asked again.
Han Shuxian glanced at Mo Ziwan, "You haven't encountered anything recently, right?"
Mo Ziwan thought for a while, "When I sent my brother Qingyuan to Beijing to take the exam, I met Chen Guogong's wife, and we had a quarrel with her."
"Who won the argument?" Murong Tingxu asked.
"We won!" Mo Ziwan replied, "Not only did we win the argument, we also won the fight."
"Are you taking action?" Murong Tingxu was a little surprised. He knew she was the Duke's wife, but he still dared to take action. I really don't know if the Mo family is ignorant and fearless or they don't take the Duke's residence seriously!
It's probably the latter. Based on her understanding of Wanwan, she is not ignorant. She probably thinks that she and the Duke's government are already mortal enemies, so she doesn't care about any more conflicts.
"The Duke's wife wanted to hit me, but Sister Mo Li rushed up and pushed her away. Then they beat Sister Mo Li. One slap was not enough, and they wanted to hit me again, so Grandma stepped forward and pulled her away. She had to hold her mother-in-law and maid, otherwise they would beat Sister Mo Li, and there was some scratching when she was pulling her, and there were some scratch marks on the mother-in-law's face."
"Why didn't I hear you say this when I came back?" Han Shuxian asked.
"We didn't say anything until we were bullied. We didn't want our godfather to worry about it," Mo Ziwan explained.
Han Shuxian looked at Mo Ziwan and said, "If you encounter someone who bullies you in the future, you must come back and tell them whether you were bullied or not."
"Um."
"Do you think it could be the Duke's Mansion?" Murong Tingxu looked at Han Shuxian and asked.
Han Shuxian was unsure for a moment and looked at Mo Ziwan, "Tell me the whole thing."
Then Mo Ziwan started talking when they entered the cloth shop, continued to talk about the dispute with Huang Jingshu and the others, and then Huang Jingshu angrily took her maid and mother-in-law out.
After Mo Ziwan finished speaking, and before Han Shuxian could reply, Murong Tingxu said, "I think it might be the Duke's wife who did it."
Mo Ziwan looked at Han Shuxian, and for a moment she didn't know what to do?
"Where is that person now?" Han Shuxian asked. Now it is just a guess. Let's find out first whether it is true or not.
"Locked in a private room."
"Have you invited the doctor to come and see you?"
"Please!"
"What did the doctor say?"
"The doctor asked him what he had eaten. He said he only ate luncheon meat and gruel. Not long after eating, he developed stomach pain and diarrhea."
"Can I use the restroom in the store?"
"I've had it. It's definitely diarrhea and no other discomfort."
"How come you have diarrhea for no reason without any other discomfort?" Han Shuxian asked with a frown.
"The doctor is also looking for a reason."
"I'm going to see that person." Han Shuxian said.
"Let's go!" Murong Tingxu stood up after saying that, and walked out with Han Shuxian.
The three of them came to a private room called Qingfeng. There was a man lying on the couch in the private room. There was a woman accompanying the man. The man was complaining about abdominal pain. The woman was also yelling about lunch meat. Eat dead people.
Han Shuxian walked over and said, "I'm the one who makes luncheon meat. If you have anything, just tell me."
"I ate your lunch meat and now my stomach hurts so much that I can't walk. I'm going to the government to sue you for selling poisoned meat." Although the man spoke fiercely, he looked weak. .
"If there is something wrong with our lunch meat, you don't need to go to the government to complain. We will not continue to make this lunch meat ourselves." After Han Shuxian finished speaking, he looked at the man and asked, "Are you sure you want to eat us again?" Did you eat anything else before and after lunch meat? Or is it another disease?"
"I have made it clear to the doctor what I need to say. I feel very uncomfortable right now, my stomach hurts a lot, and I feel unmotivated. I have suffered so much. If you don't compensate me, I will go to the Yamen to sue you. "
The woman also said, "We must pay for it!"
After Mo Ziwan entered the room, the rich smell in the room filled her nasal cavity. This strong smell seemed to announce that the man in the room was really having diarrhea.
While Han Shuxian was talking to the man, Mo Ziwan got closer to the man. Then, in addition to the smell of the toilet still in the room, the smell of the man also drifted into Mo Ziwan's nose.
There was a smell of sweat at first, but when the man spoke, his mouth smelled like medicine.
Thinking about what Murong Tingxu just said, the man had no other discomfort except abdominal pain and diarrhea, but his mouth clearly smelled of medicine. It couldn't be that he had taken some medicine for diarrhea.
This thought was really possible. My mind was spinning rapidly, and I thought about all the medicines that could easily cause diarrhea. I quickly found a medicine that had a similar taste to the one emanating from the man's mouth.
To be sure, Mo Ziyuan looked at the man and asked, "If our lunch meat is really bad for you, we will definitely lose money, but I have a few questions I want to ask you again."
"What's the problem? Tell me." The man said impatiently.
While he was speaking, Mo Ziwan endured the stench and took a deep breath, "How many people are there in your family? And who is she to you?"
"What does it matter to you how many people there are in our family?" The man didn't want to answer, but he answered the second question, "She is my mother-in-law."
"Are you living together?" Mo Ziwan asked again.
"You kid, why are you called a couple if you don't live together?"
"Is there anyone else in the family?" Although Mo Ziyuan was already sure of the result she wanted, she still asked further to see how he could justify the lie she had told.
"This is my family matter, do I need to tell you?" The man didn't want to say more.
"Of course it is necessary, because if we go to the government to accuse you of framed and blackmailed us, the official will ask you the same question." Mo Ziwan said unhurriedly.
"You still want to sue us. It seems that you don't want to settle it properly. I will go out and sue the government right away and sue you for cooking poisonous food to harm us people." After saying this, the man sat up. The man who was obviously weak just now, now But it has energy.
The woman also stood up and supported the man, "Come on, let's go outside and let those who come to buy luncheon meat see what we have become after eating it, and see if they still dare to buy it?"
"You are a family, how come only one of you can't eat well?" Mo Ziyuan saw the two people standing up and didn't care at all how they were jumping over the wall in a hurry.
"He got sick before I had time to eat. Fortunately, I didn't eat. Otherwise, both of our family members would have suffered from problems due to the bad meat you bought." The woman glared at Mo Ziwan and said.
"Is it because I didn't have time to eat luncheon meat, or because I didn't drink the water boiled with senna leaves?" Mo Ziyuan directly told the medicine she smelled from the man's mouth.
The two of them were obviously startled after hearing this, but they immediately calmed down and pretended not to know what Mo Ziyuan was talking about and said, "You girl, we can't understand any of the nonsense you say."
"Senna leaves have the effect of moisturizing the intestines and laxatives. Diarrhea will occur within a quarter of an hour after use. Overdosage will also cause abdominal pain." After Mo Ziyuan finished explaining the effects of the medicine, she turned to look at Murong Tingxu, "Uncle Murong, they cannot leave this room for the time being. Also, please ask Uncle Murong to bring a trusted doctor to their home to search for any senna residue."
Murong Tingxu wanted to know how she knew that the man had diarrhea after drinking the senna water, but he knew that this was not the time to ask, so he replied: "I will accompany the doctor myself." He added another sentence after that. , "I'll go right away!"
"No!" The man immediately stopped, "You can't go? Why do you go to my house?"
The woman was not as calm as the man. She panicked and followed the man to stop her and shouted, "You can't go to our house."
