Su Chen asked Chef Zhao, Chunxiang and others to be called out individually first, and they would go through the process and learn more about Chef Liao's usual preferences, personality, strengths and weaknesses, and learn more about this person.

Then, Coach Li was asked to lead people to call Chef Liao out alone and put him in a small dark room without windows.

Su Chen and Peng Qingqing were sitting on chairs, with two oil lamps placed in front of the desk, giving it an interrogation-room atmosphere, interrogating him alone.

Chef Liao looked at the two of them nervously and asked, "I really didn't do it. Why don't you believe it?"

Su Chen had no expression on his face and said coldly: "You didn't do it? But out of the seven people, five of them wrote that you did it!"

When Chef Liao heard this, his expression changed drastically. He shook his head violently and argued, "It's impossible. They are just slandering others and framing me."

"Putting the blame on you? Not necessarily, right?" Su Chen smiled slightly, looking somewhat confident.

Chef Liao turned his eyes and looked at Su Chen and said, "What if this isn't to frame the blame? Xiao Di originally worked in the Bai family as his duty, but now something happened to the head of the family, they colluded and framed the blame on me in order not to take responsibility for themselves.

, This is not fair, I am not a poisoner, Miss Prefect, you have to make the decision for Xiaodi!"

When Peng Qingqing heard this, she didn't have any idea. She could use force, but if she used her brain, it would be a mess.

"Just tell me honestly." Before Peng Qingqing entered the house, she listened to Su Chen's analysis and guessed that this person was a poisoner. Although she had some small opinions about Su Chen, her position on many things

Still consistent!

"Xiao Di really can't explain it, it wasn't me!" Chef Liao was still pretending to be innocent.

Su Chen stared at Chef Liao and said solemnly: "We have sent people to search the poison bottle from your room, and there is Hedinghong in it. You used Hedinghong to poison the Bai family.

He is now seriously poisoned and is no longer a symptom of a stroke. He will die at any time. You are the murderer!"

Chef Liao shook his head and said: "Red crane crown? Not me, definitely not mine!"

Su Chen insisted: "I found Hedinghong's poison from your room. The Bai family leader happened to be poisoned, so it must be Hedinghong's poison. Liao Guan, you are so cruel. You are using it to poison the family leader."

!If he dies, you will pay with your life!"

Chef Liao denied it flatly: "It's not the red crane crown, it's definitely not my poison!"

Su Chen shouted angrily: "Then what kind of poison did you cast?"

"It's aconitine..." Chef Liao stopped mid-sentence, covered his mouth, and turned pale.

A smile emerged from the corner of Su Chen's mouth and he said: "Yes, it's aconitine mixed with a little oleander, right? Although the powder is not fatal, it can poison the Bai family master, induce stroke symptoms, and cause oral health problems.

Your eyes are crooked, you can't speak, and you're hemiplegic. This is a good thing you did!"

Chef Liao still wanted to deny it, but Peng Qingqing slammed the table and shouted angrily: "Liao Guan, you are so brave. You plotted to kill the head of the Bai family, and you cheated and cheated. You committed murder!"

Liao Guan's face was as white as paper, and he shook his head in fear, "That's not the case..."

At this time, the door was opened, and Bai Susu, Manager Zheng, and Coach Li came in.

Bai Susu stared at Liao Guan with cold eyes and said: "Did the Ding family give you the poison? Did you collude with the Ding family? To murder the master, the Bai family has the right to deal with it according to family law. If you have half a life left, you can report it to the prefect!"

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Liao Guan immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "Miss, I did not have an affair with the Ding family. Yes, yes..."

Halfway through, Chef Liao stopped talking.

Bai Susu asked in a cold voice: "Who gave you the medicine? If you tell the truth, you may be able to avoid punishment under the family law, otherwise, the end will be unpredictable!"

Liao Guan was suppressed by Miss Bai's momentum, his body trembled slightly, and he gritted his teeth and said, "It's Mr. Bai!"

"My second uncle?" Bai Susu's expression was solemn, with a bit of coldness, and it was indeed similar to what Su Chen had guessed.

"It was Mr. Bai who asked me to do this. He used coercion and inducement. Don't you dare to do it? He personally said that this medicine will not hurt people's lives. It just temporarily made the head of the family speechless and bedridden. In this way, Mr. Bai, he

I can seize the position of the head of the family. After that, I will be promised a thousand taels of silver and will be promoted to the steward of the outer courtyard."

After hearing this, Bai Susu was able to deduce the cause and effect. She pondered for a moment and said, "Where are you hiding the remaining poison?"

Chef Liao said in fear: "I hid him in a stone crevice behind the rockery."

Bai Susu immediately ordered: "Coach Li, take him down, find the poison, bring it back, and then put him in a woodshed and keep him under strict supervision!"

"Yes, Miss!" Coach Li handed over his hand, led the servants forward, and took Chef Liao to find the remaining hidden poison.

Peng Qingqing patted Su Chen on the shoulder and said in surprise: "Okay, Su Chen, I didn't expect you to really be able to try the case and find him guilty."

Su Chen felt that Qingqing didn't slap hard this time, so he said modestly: "It's just good luck!!"

Peng Qingqing smiled and said: "No need to be modest. It seems that the people who try cases are better than those in the prefect's yamen, and the methods are also unique."

"Su Chen, thank you." Bai Susu said gently to Su Chen.

Su Chen looked at Bai Susu and asked with concern: "Susu, what are you going to do with him? Do you want to have a showdown with your second uncle?"

Bai Susu hesitated for a moment and said: "My second uncle has great ambitions but little talent. Showdown or not will not pose a big threat to my control of the Bai Mansion. If there is a stalemate, it will make the Bai Mansion uneasy, make people panic, and make people outside laugh more."

Anyway, the second uncle is now under guard and cannot make a big splash. On the contrary, the Ding family is questionable. They must have colluded with the second uncle, advised him and provided him with poison. This kind of aconitine is strictly controlled in the military.

The local regiment training army and Jiangyin army outside Runzhou City are both under the jurisdiction of the Yin governor, so it would be easy for someone to take out a little aconitine poison."

Su Chen sighed softly: "That's true. The Ding family is not terrible. The Ding family has the backer of Governor Yin. It will be difficult for the Bai family to completely overthrow the Ding family."

Bai Susu shook her head and said: "You don't want to be overthrown, as long as you can protect yourself. Since the Huangchao uprising in the late Tang Dynasty, the five generations have changed. There are only century-old families, but no century-old dynasties. Many small courts only survive for twenty or thirty years. As long as the Bai family

Unless he is completely defeated, it is still easy to get rid of a governor."

After hearing this, Su Chen glanced at Bai Susu and felt that what she said was quite reasonable.

In the melee of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, too many countries perished within 20 or 30 years after the founding of the country, and there were even small courts that only survived for ten years. As long as the gentry and the wealthy families in various places protect themselves and do not have their homes confiscated and exterminated in troubled times, then they can

It continues and has been passed down for hundreds of years, just like those aristocratic families in the Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties.

However, these merchant families have limited influence in government affairs, are not respected by scholars, and their status is not comparable to that of the noble and prominent families in the past.

"Let's go, the spy has found out, let's go see how Junior Brother Liu is doing in detoxifying the Master of the Bai family?" Su Chen suggested.

Bai Susu nodded, turned around and walked out when she suddenly said something incomprehensible: "You always call me the head of the family, which is a bit unorthodox."
Chapter completed!