“I didn’t include bone-eroding powder in my prescription!” Doctor Su pointed to the prescription he wrote and said, “I would never add such harmful substances to her medicine bag!”

Bai Zhu looked at the solemn old man in front of him, sighed, and asked, “Where did the bone-eroding powder come from? Does Doctor Su still want to say that this medicine bag is not from your Jimin Hall?”

Doctor Su lowered his eyes and looked at the opened medicine package, saying, “This medicine package was indeed taken out by Jimintang, but I didn’t know anything about the bone-eroding powder.”

In this case… Bai Zhu thought for a moment and said, “So Doctor Su is trying to say that maybe it was done by your Jimintang’s apprentice who dispenses medicine?”

The solemn old man frowned upon hearing this and shook his head, saying, “Those apprentices in my clinic are of clean origin and were brought up by me. They don’t seem like the kind of people who would do such a thing!”

Bai Zhu was speechless after hearing this: “Doctor Su admitted that the medicine was from Jimintang, but he also said that you didn’t prescribe the bone-eroding powder and that your apprentice wouldn’t do such a thing! Then, Doctor Su, did the bone-eroding powder here come out of thin air?”

The old man fell silent after hearing this. After a while, he shook his head and said, “I don’t know where this thing came from!”

Looking at the silent and serious old man in front of him, Bai Zhu frowned and turned to Lin Fei who had not spoken a word: “Shaoqing Lin, this…”

Lin Fei watched from the sidelines until this moment, and then he said, “Doctor Su is a serious person!”

“If a doctor is not serious and careful, using a little more or less medicine may endanger life, so he should be serious.” Doctor Su said, “Yes is yes, no is no.”

So, if he didn’t know about this bone-eroding powder, then he didn’t know about it.

Just a few questions and answers were enough for Lin Fei and others to make a judgment about Dr. Su’s character, which was exactly the same as the evaluation of Dr. Su by others.

In this case, Lin Fei looked at Doctor Su in front of him, and after a brief consideration, he asked him: “What kind of person is your brother?”

Everyone saw that when Lin Fei mentioned the word “your brother”, Doctor Su’s brows in front of them frowned visibly.

After Lin Fei finished asking, Doctor Su, who had been answering all the questions just now, hesitated. After a long while, he shook his head and said, “I don’t know him!”

As an older brother, it was obviously unacceptable for him not to understand his own younger brother.

“We have been at odds since we were young. I inherited the family business, and he likes cockfighting and dog walking, which is always causing trouble!” Doctor Su said, “I don’t like him!”

“Later, he stole the family’s money and left a letter saying that he was going out to make a living,” Doctor Su said, with a hint of anger on his serious face. “The money was originally used by the family to buy medicinal herbs. Because of his theft, Jimin Hall’s signboard was almost destroyed. We ran around for a long time before we collected the money!”

“He left many years ago. My parents and I thought he had died outside because he hadn’t even come back since they passed away.” Doctor Su said, “A few years ago, he finally came back. I heard that he saved some wealthy businessman, was adopted as his son, and inherited a large sum of money! On the first day after he came back, he came to Jimin Hall and spent a large sum of money. He was said to have paid for all the medical consultations and medicines that day!”

Some people might think that such a wealthy and powerful person has “made a name for himself”, but Doctor Su thinks that “a clinic is a place for diagnosing and treating illnesses! He was wasting money like this, so many hooligans took the opportunity to come to our clinic and take away a lot of scarce medicinal materials to sell at high prices outside. He was clearly deliberately causing trouble!”

“He spent a few days giving out silver and money, and after receiving a lot of praise from the neighbors, he probably felt it was boring and stopped coming.” Doctor Su said, “My brother and I have always had a bad relationship! This is something that everyone in the neighborhood knows!”

Hearing this, Lin Fei nodded and asked Doctor Su in front of him, “Has he been to the clinic recently?”

Doctor Su heard this, but shook his head and said, “He hasn’t been here for a long time!”

Bai Zhu and Liu Yuan, who were listening to Doctor Su’s reply, couldn’t help but look at each other when they heard this: Doctor Su was really…

When ordinary people heard Lin Fei ask this, they would guess something. To get out of this situation, even if they didn’t lie, they would subconsciously find out about his brother’s problem. But he was good. He said “He hasn’t been here for a long time” and directly cleared the relationship between Su Gongzi and the other party.

Lin Fei remained calm when he heard this. He looked at Doctor Su and asked him, “You said your brother stole money from home and went out to make a living. I would like to ask if your brother is a thief?”

As soon as these words came out, Doctor Su on the opposite side fell silent. After a while, he said, “It is said that family disgrace should not be made public! However… since it is a government matter, it is not right to lie! This was indeed the case before he left home.”

There were many witnesses in the surrounding neighborhoods.

Lin Fei said “Hmm”, and then asked Doctor Su: “Have you ever heard your brother mention his wealthy godfather?”

Doctor Su nodded and said, “He has mentioned him before. His surname was Wen. I heard he was a well-known local businessman! He made a gold waist plate with his name engraved on it for his adoptive father, which he always wears around his waist.” At this point, Doctor Su couldn’t help but frowned again.

People say birds of a feather flock together. How could such a well-known righteous businessman choose his younger brother as his adopted son? He really couldn’t understand it! And the act of showing off his name badge to everyone always made people feel that he didn’t show any respect.

If Doctor Su was puzzled by this matter, Bai Zhu and others on the opposite side suddenly changed their expressions when they heard this. They couldn’t help but look at each other, wanting to say something but stopping themselves.

If it was just a suspicion originally, now with the testimony of Doctor Su, it was almost certain that the adopted son of the wealthy businessman surnamed Wen was most likely Su Gongzi.

Whether it was the business or reputation of the businessman surnamed Wen, he was not of the same kind as Su Gongzi How could he…

It seemed that it was really necessary to invite Su Gongzi over for questioning.

Su Gongzi, who “returned home in glory”, was very wealthy. As the monk could run away, the temple could not, so he was quickly invited over.

They heard that he looked calm when he was invited, and asked them with a smile if it was “his brother’s” business, and his attitude was very cooperative!

“Should we interrogate this Su Gongzi right away?” Liu Yuan hesitated. “If what Doctor Su said is true, this guy must be a gangster! He won’t cry until he sees the coffin. If we interrogate him rashly, I’m afraid he won’t tell the truth. If we don’t have evidence, I’m afraid we won’t get anything out of him.”

Lin Fei was well prepared for this.

“This Su Gongzi is particular about pomp and circumstance. Didn’t he move the grave of his adoptive father, who was so kind to him, to Chang’an a few years ago?” Lin Fei said, “If there is something wrong with this Su Gongzi, then the death of that businessman surnamed Wen is probably also problematic. I’ll go tell Lord Zhao to have Wu Bucai prepare to open the coffin for an autopsy!”

(End of this chapter)

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