The man was held down on his knees by Xiao An and looked at Song Wan Yue in fear.
“Cui Qiao’s big brother?”
The man whimpered twice.
Song Wangyue gestured for Xiao An to release the hand covering his mouth.
“Who are you people?”
Song Wangyue looked at him with a smile, the coldness in her eyes caused his body to shiver, a sudden flash of light in his head, and then his eyes widened, “You, you are ……”
The words did not finish, using all his strength to violently push Xiao An away, desperately fleeing.
Xiao An would not let him get away with it, effortlessly restraining him and holding him down again.
“Let me go, let me go!”
The man struggled desperately.
Song Wangyue walked over and bent down slightly to meet his eyes level, “Scared?”
The fear in the man’s eyes was clear, Song Wangyue could even bring down the Third Prince and the Duke of Qi, taking his life was just a matter of words.
Song Wangyue smiled slyly, a cold smile, as if she could take his life at any moment.
The man’s body trembled into a sieve.
“Want to live?”
The man’s head nodded into a chicken peck.
Song Wangyue slapped a piece of paper on him, “Write down the address on it. You go to the pastry shop now and ask for the silver, tell them they haven’t paid for the silver they bought for your recipe, tell those constables you know their proprietor’s address and take the men there.”
……
No matter how much Sheriff Liu questioned, the shopkeeper would not say who the proprietor was, saying that the matter was his doing and that he would bear all the blame if he had to be beaten or punished.
He said that he was responsible for the incident and that he would be punished.
A man swayed over and froze when he saw the situation in front of the shop, “What’s going on here?”
There were many people watching, but he was the first one who dared to come forward. The man seemed to understand what was going on and shouted at the shopkeeper, “The recipe I sold you is a good one, and they are selling it well over there.”
It was too late for the shopkeeper to stop him from speaking, so he closed his eyes again, knowing that he was completely finished this time, and that even if he had Lady Shu, he would not be able to protect him.
The head constable Liu heard him clearly, his mind turned and he walked up to the man with his belt knife pressed, “Did you sell the recipe?”
“Yes.”
“Take it down!”
Two magistrates stepped forward to hold the man down.
The man panicked, “What are you doing?”
Sheriff Liu sneered and pointed at the people paralyzed on the ground, “These people were poisoned by eating the pastries made from the recipe you gave them.”
“Impossible!”
The man strained his neck, “Those recipes were stolen by my sister from the pastry shop over there, and they were sold well over there.”
There were murmurs from the onlookers.
The shopkeeper’s face went white.
With this witness, he could take the shopkeeper back for questioning.
When the man finished speaking, he realized that he had said something he shouldn’t have said, and shrank back in fear, then he shouted again, “They said they would try the formula to see if it was true, they haven’t given me the silver yet, these people are poisoned and I have nothing to do with it, they must have added something else to it.”
“You are full of nonsense!”
The shopkeeper couldn’t hold back any longer and angrily scolded him, “These were all made according to the recipe you sold to us.
Hearing him say so, the man also quit, boldly shaking off the magistrate’s hand holding him down, “You’re the one who’s talking nonsense, how come nothing happened to the recipes I sold you earlier?”
I tell you, I know where your proprietor lives, if you don’t give it to me, I’ll find his house!”
“You shut up!”
The shopkeeper’s heart trembled, this man was a jerk, who knew if he really knew the proprietor’s address.
“You know their proprietor’s address?”
Sheriff Liu asked delightedly.
“Of course I know it, I’ve been guarding against this trick of theirs, secretly following him through.”
Sheriff Liu said at once, “Take us there.”
“My Lord!”
In the heat of the moment, the shopkeeper’s voice broke, “Don’t listen to his nonsense, the silver I ……”
He wanted to say that the silver had already been given, but changed his mind at the end of his sentence, “I’ll give him the silver.”
The only way to find out who is behind the shop is to be rewarded in front of Squire Song, and perhaps to be able to get in touch with the Ding Guo Gong House.
As if he didn’t hear his words, he clapped his hand on the man’s shoulder, “Take me to their proprietor, as long as I catch the man, I will plead for you in front of Squire Song.”
“Li Er!”
The shopkeeper warned.
The man spat at him, “What, you want to pin this on me, and you still don’t want me to find a way back for myself?”
When he finished, he turned to Sheriff Liu, “My lord, I will take you there now.”
Sheriff Liu left two magistrates to watch the people in the shop and forbade them to move about, and took four other magistrates to follow the man towards the west city.
The people who were watching followed.
As they walked along the road, some good people asked and heard what was going on, and followed.
By the time they reached the entrance of the Wu family residence, hundreds of people were already following behind.
“My lord, this is the place.”
Sheriff Liu looked up and saw an unusual plaque with only the word Wu Residence on it, which neither shone with gold nor had any other decorations, so at first glance it was an ordinary house of a little higher up.
The watchman was startled when he saw the constable escorting someone over.
“Who?”
Wu Jin acted as if he hadn’t heard.
The janitor spoke again to the side.
Wu Jin was so angry that he almost lifted the table, it was really a tiger in a flat sun being bullied by a dog, a small constable also dared to boss him around in front of the door, if in the past, he only needed to say a word, he could have someone beaten away with a messy stick, now ……
The only reason why the sheriff came to his door was because of the pastry shop and he could not show up.
“Go and bring ……”
Trying to get someone to go get the shopkeeper to come and ask him how he was doing his job? How did he give him up? And then I thought of the fact that since the constable had come over, the shopkeeper must have been taken down.
“Call the butler.”
The steward came running quickly.
“You change your clothes and go out and pretend to be me and see what happens.”
The butler answered, hurried back to his house, took out the clothes he wore for New Year’s Eve and put them on, and hurried to the door, “Who is looking for me?”
Sheriff Liu looked him up and down a few times, he had grown up in the capital and had been in the capital for several years, he had seen all kinds of people, he could tell at a glance that the person in front of him was not dressed as the real owner, he narrowed his eyes, “Where is your master?”
“I am.”
Sheriff Liu snorted and pointed to the mansion behind him, “A person who can afford to live in such a mansion wears clothes like yours, are you fooling the fools?”