“Stop him!”
The guards stopped in front of Gu Yi.
Gu Yi’s mouth deflated, and as the guards thought he was about to cry, he let out a startling cry, “Little girl, they’re bullying me!”
Not only was the body of the guard stopping him shaken by the shout, but also the guard stopping Song Wangyue froze, and Song Wangyue took the opportunity to barge through and run towards the flower hall.
The moment his hand touched Song Wan Yue’s lapel, he felt a harsh killing intent, and he was so distraught that he hurriedly withdrew his hand.
“Third prince, what do you want?”
Song Wan Yue had already barged in, pushing aside the guards who were stopping her, pulling Gu Yi behind herself and angrily waiting for the Third Prince, “Don’t think he’s easy to bully just because he’s stupid, I’m going back to tell my maternal great grandfather!”
The third prince took a deep breath and suppressed the fire that had risen to the top of his head, Song Wangyue was not enough to be feared, but the old man he could not afford to offend.
“Miss Song misunderstood, I didn’t bully him, I just wanted to help you save him!”
“He was trying to rob while the fire was still burning!”
Gu Yi angrily complained, “He wants half a million taels of silver and the formula for the pills, he’s shameless!”
The third prince was so angry that his brain burst into pain.
He was an imperial prince and the son of Concubine Shu, he was always hailed everywhere he went, when had he ever been spoken to like that, and he could do nothing about the two of them.
“Roll roll roll roll roll!”
Gu Yi was about to say something else when Song Wan Yue turned around and pulled him outside, going straight out through the back door of the county courthouse and hurriedly getting into the carriage.
“Master ……”
The guard who stopped Song Wan Yue thought about it and thought he should tell his master, “When I stopped that girl just now, I detected a strong killing intent?”
The Third Prince was in the midst of his anger and didn’t understand the meaning of his words for a moment, “Are you saying that an expert followed to protect them?”
“No, it’s that girl who knows martial arts.”
“Say that again!”
“My subordinate clearly felt that the killing intent was emanating from that girl.”
“How is that possible? Didn’t you say that that girl was betrothed to him only last year?”
The guards were also puzzled.
……
When Song Wan Yue and Gu Yi returned home, they told the old man about the conditions that the third prince had made, “He’s thinking of another plan after one failed, and he must have sent someone to do the restaurant.”
The old gentleman was furious!
One was for the Third Prince’s greed, and the other was for the four lives, “This is simply a straw man!”
“If he doesn’t get his way today, he will make other moves next, Grand Great Grandfather, otherwise, you and Second Grandfather and Uncle should go back to the capital first.”
Gu Yi advised.
“Silly child, if we leave at this time, they will have even less to worry about, don’t worry, with Grand-Great-Grandfather here, we will never let them have their way.”
……
The magistrates soon summoned Master Gu.
When they got to the court, Master Gu knelt down, “Your Excellency, I already know what happened, whether or not the food was poisoned, these four people died in our restaurant, and we are willing to pay compensation.”
As soon as his words came out, the people gathered at the entrance of the courthouse were in an uproar.
It had been more than an hour since the deaths of those people, and none of the rest of the people who had eaten at the restaurant were in trouble.
The county magistrate’s eye glanced in the direction of the back office when a figure moved behind the door and the guards quickly ran to report to the third prince.
After hearing this, the Third Prince sneered, “Fine, go and call the victim’s family to come and ask him to compensate.”
The guard answered, went outside the back door of the county office, gestured towards the distance, and when the distant man saw it, he flew on his horse and went back to the dart board.
“Master, you can let them go now.”
The dead men were the four dart masters of the dart board, picked up by Qi Wu at a very young age, trained them and later even married and had children for them.
At the moment all the families of the four dart masters were inside the dartboard.
Qi Wu looked at them with a sullen gaze, “Do you remember what I just instructed?”
“Remembered.”
Qi Wu waved his hand, and the group split into several groups, going out in batches through the back door and gathering at the intersection in front before marching in great numbers towards the entrance of the county courthouse.
When people passing by saw it, they were curious, and once they heard that they were going to the magistrate’s office, they also followed them, and by the time they reached the entrance of the magistrate’s office, they were followed by hundreds of people.
“Get out of the way, get out of the way, the family of the deceased is here!”
A good man shouted.
The people in front of them turned their heads to look over, and when they saw that they were all women and children, they shook their heads and moved out of the way.
A group of people went up to the lobby and knelt down.
The county magistrate looked at the dense crowd of people kneeling, and was puzzled by the coincidence that these families had come.
He pointed to Gu Qian, “He is the proprietor of the restaurant and said he is willing to compensate you.”
One of the women in her thirties spoke up, “Your Excellency, we don’t want any compensation, we just want your Excellency to find out who did this to them, so that we can comfort their souls in heaven.”
“Yes, please, Your Excellency, find out who did the poisoning.”
The rest of the people echoed the words,
The people gathered at the door couldn’t help but praise when they heard, “These are really good people.”
“Who says they aren’t? But good people don’t get good rewards, how will they live without the backbone of their family?”
“That’s right, that’s right, the person who poisoned the few people is really abominable, I hope that the Lord Qing Tian will find out soon, so that those four dead people can also rest in peace.”
……
The noise at the door was so loud that the county magistrate slapped the alarming wood, “Silence!”
The onlookers quieted down.
The magistrate asked, “Do you know what happened?”
The same woman replied, “I heard, they were close friends and often had small gatherings together. In the past, when my family didn’t have any money, they could only go to a small restaurant and order a catty of wine and a plate of peanuts for a drink. Some time ago, my family that mouth to follow a relative of the family to go into business to earn some small money, this time back one is to invite them to dinner, the second is to want them to follow a piece to do, did not expect ……”
The woman choked up when she said this, and could not continue.
The other three Ming women also had red eyes.
One of them, who was younger and still had a child in her arms, extended her finger and pointed angrily at Gu Qian, “It’s all his fault! If he hadn’t put out some herbal tea in his restaurant, that member of our family wouldn’t have gone to their restaurant and lost his life!”
“Xiu Zhen!”
The older woman called out to her, “Don’t talk nonsense.”
“How am I talking nonsense, they have been drinking together hundreds if not dozens of times over the years and nothing has ever happened, yet they died in their restaurant, I think it was poisoned by someone in the restaurant, I, I ……”
The young woman was talking and lost her mind, holding the child and crashing towards Master Gu.
Master Gu couldn’t dodge and was knocked over by her to the ground, something fell from his mouth and he hurriedly reached out to cover it!