Chapter 9 Men should be generous
"Don't be nervous, I won't bully you." Shang Wan picked up the quilt and wrapped it tightly around Lu Chengjing's thin body.
Lu Chengjing: Something seems wrong?
He coughed dryly, forced the topic back, and asked with concern: "Where do you and Yuanyuan live now?"
"Living in Yushu Village." Shang Wan briefly told him the current situation of the four people, focusing on Chen San and others, and asked, "Have you ever had any enmity with the Lin family?"
She had a gut feeling that Village Chief Lin suddenly targeted them not only to establish his authority, but also that their only interaction with Yushu Village was Lu Chengjing.
"No." Lu Chengjing frowned, "But he deliberately targeted you, and it should have something to do with me."
Isn’t this self-contradictory?
Shang Wan looked at him and said, "Be careful."
"Qin Cuixiang, the daughter of Qin Lizheng in Xiaohe Village, was the concubine of Li Can, the only son of the former Dongning County Magistrate Li Wenhua. Li Can had few heirs, and neither his main wife nor other concubines had any children. Only Qin Cuixiang gave birth to a son for him. Maybe he can inherit the family business, and the Qin family and the Lin family are related by marriage."
"Wait, let me think about it." Shang Wan felt that the amount of information was a bit overwhelming, and she pressed her temples, "You mean, the Qin family blamed you for poisoning the former county magistrate, and no one will help their grandson shop in the future. Qingyun Road, out of resentment, took advantage of the Lin family's in-laws to take out his anger on us? "
Lu Chengjing nodded.
Shang Wan was speechless. He wanted to take revenge, but he wanted to go head-on. As for going around in such a big circle?
After thinking about it, she still felt something was strange, "Shitou didn't report his family name when he went to exchange for food. How did Village Chief Lin know that we are from the same family as you?"
Lu Chengjing looked at her unadorned bun and said, "That silver hairpin has the emblem of the Lu family engraved on it."
Shang Wan: "..."
Are you cooperating with her to deceive yourself?
Lu Chengjing warned worriedly, "If the plan fails, there should be a backup plan. You live in the village, so be careful."
"Don't worry about us." Shang Wan said, "First tell me, how should I rescue you?"
Lu Chengjing stared at her face for a while. Seeing that her expression was serious and not fake, he couldn't help but pursed his pale lips and whispered: "There is no other way but to find the real poisoner."
"Then tell me about the county magistrate's poisoning from beginning to end." Shang Wan grabbed the messy hair of the person next to him and smoothed it down with his eyes lowered.
Lu Chengjing moved his head uncomfortably, trying to pull his hair back.
"It's you who'll be in pain if you move again." Shang Wan held on tight and urged, "Hurry up, those government officials should wake up soon."
Hearing this, Lu Chengjing had no choice but to suppress the awkwardness in his heart and recount the poisoning incident in key points.
In fact, the matter is very simple. The day before yesterday, Lu Chengjing met Li Wenhua when he went to Fuyuan Inn and was invited to have dinner with him. Unexpectedly, the wine was poisonous. After drinking the poisoned wine, Li Wenhua bled to death from his orifices. His death was tragic.
But Lu Chengjing happened to escape because he was too weak to drink.
There were only two of them in the private room. After the government officials questioned the inn staff and found no other suspicious persons, the charge of poisoning the county magistrate naturally fell on Lu Chengjing.
"Unlucky boy." Shang Wan sighed, "Why did you go to Fuyuan Inn when you had nothing to do?"
Lu Chengjing turned away and pulled his hair back from Shang Wan's hand hard, breaking several strands.
Shang Wan: "..."
This little temper tantrum will cost you a thousand dollars.
She carefully recalled what she had just said, then reached out and poked Lu Chengjing's arm, "I take back what I said about the unlucky boy."
Shouldn't you be angry now?
But Lu Chengjing's face looked even darker, as if someone owed him several thousand taels of silver.
Shang Wan: "..."
I'm afraid Shitou didn't learn that awkwardness from this guy, right?
"Letter." Lu Chengjing clenched the quilt with his left hand, his voice a little muffled, "I saw that letter."
What letter?
Shang Wan blinked, and a picture suddenly popped into his mind.
The sour love words on the letter, the original owner's blushing face and turbulent heart in the mirror, and the little expression of wanting to resist but welcome. groove! Lu Chengjing actually went to Fuyuan Inn to catch an adulterer!
No wonder the stone blamed her when she first woke up. If not for that letter, Lu Chengjing would not have gone to Fuyuan Inn. If he had not gone to the inn, he would not have met Li Wenhua. If he had not met Li Wenhua, he would not have been blamed for poisoning. .
The original owner was delayed for some time because of Mrs. Lu's deliberate embarrassment. When he went out, the news that Lu Chengjing poisoned the county magistrate had spread. The original owner was so frightened that he fainted at that time, and the cuckold operation was naturally ignored.
"If I say that the letter is all fake, do you believe it..." Under Lu Chengjing's gaze, Shang Wan curled his lips, "Well, you definitely don't believe it."
"But didn't I have time to cuckold you?" Shang Wan said confidently, "Don't worry about things that haven't happened. Men should be more generous."
Lu Chengjing laughed angrily at these words, and Shang Wan immediately climbed up the pole, "Hey, you just don't care if you laugh."
"Okay." Lu Chengjing responded unexpectedly.
Shang Wan was stunned and looked at him carefully.
I can tolerate being a cuckold, so I'm afraid he's not a fake man.
"You really don't care?"
"Yeah." Lu Chengjing responded again, his expression visibly softening.
The woman in front of you is not Shang Wan, why bother with her?
Shang Wan didn't understand what Lu Chengjing was thinking, but since Lu Chengjing was so generous, could she hug him from left to right in the future... Ahem, that's a long way off, so let's get down to business.
"Who do you think is most likely to poison Li Wenhua?"
Lu Chengjing stared at her for a long time before spitting out a name, "Tian Sheng."
Tian Sheng is the county magistrate of Dongning County.
Shang Wan was confused, "Why do you doubt him?"
"That day he came to the inn to look for Li Wenhua with the official documents from the county government, and happened to see Li Wenhua suffering from poison."
Shang Wan felt that this reason was a bit far-fetched, "What if he bumped into it by chance?"
"He was too surprised at the time and even dropped the official document." Lu Chengjing recalled the scene at that time. "The official document fell at my feet. It said about the change of wife in the county school. As the county magistrate, he was completely responsible for such small matters. You can make the decision, even if you need to ask Li Wenhua for his permission, the matter is not urgent enough for him to come from the county government to the inn. "
"So you think he made the trip on purpose to witness Li Wenhua's poisoning?"
"Yeah." Lu Chengjing nodded, "Besides him, I can't think of anyone else."
"Okay, let's check this Tian Sheng." Shang Wan said, raising his hand to cover Lu Chengjing's forehead, and found that the temperature had completely returned to normal.
Lu Chengjing could naturally feel the changes in his body. He looked at Shang Wan with his extraordinarily dark eyes, "What did you give me to drink just now?"
Shang Wan didn't blink, "Water."
Lingquan water is also water.
Lu Chengjing felt perfunctory: "..."
"Although the quilt is a bit smelly and thin, it's better than no cover at all." Shang Wan stood up and waved to the people on the straw mat, "Let's go."
Lu Chengjing opened his mouth to say something, but saw the green shadow in front of him flicker and disappear with the sound of the lock falling.
There is still a hint of the fragrance of vegetation in the air.
Lu Chengjing lowered his head and clenched the thin quilt tightly with his left hand. His eyes hidden in the shadows were dim and unclear.
(End of chapter)