C115 (1/2)

Among them, Yuecao Hall could be counted as an industry that protected one's family's foundation, and each year, Marquis Mansion accounted for at least thirty percent of the household's income. The branch family had long since left the capital, and their reputation was also quite good in the south.

He had the foresight to know that the three Medicine Hall s that were ahead of the capital had opened a branch family in the southwest. It was a good thing that they had developed this way. The cause of the incident was an old squire from Xi'an Prefecture. Because of his sickness due to her age, she could be considered to be with medicine all year round. One day, due to a sudden attack of cough and asthma, she went to the Yuecao Hall and grabbed some medicine and brought it home. Not only did she not recover from his sickness, but she also died from frothing at the mouth.

Then again, even if there wasn't any power behind it, they wouldn't be able to do it too big. Everyone knew that it was for mutual benefit, and since Yuecao Hall had a good reputation, most people would prefer that the old squire would live to the point of sickness and death. Just like this, under the biased judgement of the officials, the old squire's sons accepted the fact and went home to divide their property in grief. As a result, this matter was suppressed.

However, something similar happened in the Chengdu residence soon after. This time, the young master was not the same as the old squire; he was the son of the young master of Shen Family, the son of the Sichuan governor Shen Maotian, and the younger brother of his concubine, Shen Zhui.

Shen Maotian was not just this son, but this young master could be considered to be an old man, and was also his most beloved darling. Originally, he had some child dysentery, and later when he asked for medicine, he was able to enter the Yuecao Hall, and this young master did not immediately die from the medicine, and instead died after drinking three batches of medicine. After the doctor's inspection, he suspected that there was a problem with the medicine, and thus died.

This kind of Yuecao Hall naturally could not be easily dismissed by a doctor with a few words. Who knew if the doctor was mistaken, or if he had died due to some other reason, or if he had eaten something by mistake, or if there was a dirty incident in the backyard, or if he had specially asked for a coroner to examine the corpse, but the final conclusion of the autopsy was that he had been poisoned.

Of course, being poisoned cannot be determined as there was a problem with the herbs. After all, the medicine shop was open for business, who would want to destroy a signboard for no reason? Furthermore, there was no enmity with a little kid like Shen Family, why did you harm him? One was their local emperor's Shen Family, the other was the Marquis Anfeng's palace that held a lot of power in the capital. They could not afford to offend any one of them, yet they could not let go of their Shen Family, which was really hard to deal with.

Later on, the officials checked the root of the problem and determined that the herb was the one that killed the young master of Shen Family by adding him into the Intestine Severing Grass. This time, the Shen Family had exploded, and no matter if it was on purpose or not, since the herb was bought from your medicine store, your Yuecao Hall was responsible.

He was not afraid of who was behind the Yuecao Hall, and directly closed down a few local branch stores. In the Southwest region, the Shen Family was like an emperor who did not care about anything, and furthermore, he was in the right, so you could say that he did not leave any face to the Marquis Anfeng Palace.

The entire nation's branch families were affected by the incident with the Yuecao Hall. If the medicine store had taken someone's life, no one would dare to buy another medicine, otherwise, it would be impossible for them to not be affected. Other than the main family in the capital, who would be able to continue sitting here under the pressure, the rest of the families would have chosen to close their doors due to the pressure.

When Bai Cao came over to talk about this matter with Xie Jingxi, she was puzzled, ”Logically speaking, Medicine Hall like the Yuecao Hall should have a great scale, with experts inspecting all the medicinal ingredients that enter and exit, and the medicinal ingredients that are in contact with are very mature, how could they be so easily poisoned without knowing?”

Xie Jingxi was very sensitive to this matter, from Xie Jingqi's difficult situation to her big brother's early death, all of them were because of the herbs, to Wuhen who still did not have a clue, and to his current Shen Family that was at the peak of its power, which was even related to the battles in the imperial court, it was all going to be very troublesome no matter what. Just like what Bai Cao had said, this matter seemed to be a small medical incident, but it was extremely strange.

Xie Jingxi said to Bai Cao: ”Could it be that it's a competition between several clans' Medicine Hall? For this kind of thing, other than the merchants being able to deal with it, ordinary people would not even think of starting from the medicine store.” As for why Shen Family was so unlucky, then it might involve another layer of deeper meaning.

After all, the matter of involving the inner courtyard of the Marquis Mansion was still a little far. It was undeniable that if one mixed poison with medicinal herbs, it would either be one of their own, or the source of the medicinal herbs would have a problem. Regardless of which aspect it was found to be from, it was still a huge project.

As far as I know, not only one or two families have their eyes on that piece of fat, the Yuecao Hall is located in the southwest of the Northwest, and it is hard to say what kind of families would be interested in that piece of fat. ”Su Yun said.

Xie Jingxi asked again, ”Have you found any problems with the medicine?”

If even the master of a Yuecao Hall could be tricked, then it must not be an ordinary method. This seems to have the same effect as the things that happened in the Marquis Mansion, perhaps, he might be able to find out the trick in the Marquis Mansion if he followed this line.

Bai Cao said: ”I don't know the specifics, I only said that they were poisoned by the Intestinal Severing Grass, and there were a few that died from eating the medicine, and I found out that they were also poisoned by the Intestinal Severing Grass, but there is clearly no Intestine Severing Grass within the medicinal ingredients, which is truly a little outrageous.”

thought for a moment, then asked: ”Just now, you said that Young Master Shen Family has some sort of illness?”

”Oh, it's infantile dysentery.”