At the beginning, I was a rich female prisoner

Chapter 188: Abundant Rice Shop

Yang Yunsheng sighed and replied helplessly: "Your Highness, I can still handle the food and fodder, but I am really powerless when it comes to silver. I have tried my best and invested a lot of money. Now I can only ensure that the people in Chengzhou who are involved in the construction of water conservancy will not starve to death. But after all, I have paid so much silver. What should I do if I lose it all in the end!" His words revealed deep worry and helplessness.

"What do you want?" the prince asked, with a puzzled gleam in his eyes.

Yang Yunsheng smiled and replied softly, "I am a businessman, and all I want is profit."

"You want Chengzhou..." Before the prince could finish his words, Yang Yunsheng raised his hand to stop him.

At this moment, there was a gentle knock on the door. Qin Xiyan said softly, "Your Highness, I will take my leave first."

The prince sighed helplessly, stood up and walked towards the door. When he reached the door, he took out a crystal clear jade token from his waist, handed it to Qin Xiyan, and said slowly: "This is the jade token that allows you to enter and leave the harem freely. Take it. If you have time in the future, you might as well go to the harem more often to accompany my mother. After all, this is not a place for you to stay for a long time."

Qin Xiyan took the jade token with both hands, bent her knees, squatted, bowed, and said softly: "Thank you, Prince." She carefully put the jade token into her arms, her face unable to hide the joy, her mouth corners slightly raised, revealing a beautiful smile, then turned and left.

On the street, Nangong Lin held Yu Yunxin's hand tightly and said softly, "The ghost doctor is waiting for you at Fengyu Rice Shop today. He said he has something important to discuss."

Yu Yunxin frowned slightly and muttered reluctantly, "What could he do? I really can't leave now, go and see him for me."

"He is your master, so let's go together!" After saying that, Nangong Lin directly pulled Yu Yunxin onto the horse.

This heartwarming scene happened to be seen by Yang Yunsheng and the prince in the Juyuan Building. Yang Yunsheng couldn't help but exclaimed: "What a pair of fairy lovers!"

The prince's eyes could not help but drift towards Yu Yunxin's direction. However, their figures quickly disappeared before his eyes.

When they arrived at Fengyu Rice Shop, Shopkeeper Zhao's face was full of worry. He hurried over to greet them and said, "Your Highness Prince Yu and Princess, you are finally here! Those two great Buddhas have been staying in our rice shop for two whole days."

Nangong Lin walked into the store without hesitation and saw an elderly man and a young child sitting on the steps of the central shelf of the rice shop. The fat little monk was even sitting there beating the wooden fish.

"What are you two doing? There are chairs in the store, but you insist on sitting here. Are you not letting others do business?" Yu Yunxin walked over angrily and questioned angrily.

"You are finally here! My disciple and I have been waiting for a long time." The ghost doctor said while yawning and stretching. Then he looked at everyone and continued, "The rice here has been poisoned, but I have caught him. I hate those who waste food and do dirty things like poisoning people. So, I don't allow you to open your business. There is a reason for this. After all, there are people here who are not clean!"

"Where did this madman come from? What nonsense are you talking about here!" A servant shouted at the ghost doctor with his eyes wide open.

"Amitabha, monks do not tell lies." The young monk at the side put his hands together and chanted softly.

At this time, Shopkeeper Zhao also came over. He frowned and said, "I personally escorted all these rice back. How could there be a problem?" There was a hint of doubt and dissatisfaction in his voice.

"I only know who the person who poisoned is!" Wuming said in a firm tone.

"Oh? How could there be such a vicious person in my rice business?" Nangong Lin asked back with a puzzled look on his face.

At this time, the ghost doctor took out a bag of medicine powder from his waist and said, "That's it. I have successfully switched the poison."

"My master and I were supposed to be waiting for my senior sister to come here yesterday, but she didn't come. My master wanted to send food to Qizhou to save lives, so we originally planned to come here at night to get some rice and use our belongings in exchange. However, when we got here, we happened to see a woman in black handing the servant a packet of medicine and asked him to mix it into the rice. Upon seeing this, my master quietly replaced the packet of medicine with incense ash and poison powder. Therefore, it is certain that the person who poisoned the food must have the smell of incense ash on his body and hands, and I can find out the truth as long as I ask a little. It's all my master's and my fault that the light was dim at night, and we were so sleepy that we didn't see the man's face clearly. There was really no other way, so we resorted to this desperate measure." Wuming explained in detail.

"Oh! You mean just smell it? It happens that I have several hunting dogs in my palace, so why not let the hunting dogs ask." Yu Yunxin said, "Shopkeeper Zhao, please count the number of people and don't let anyone escape. Go and bring Baihu and his hunting dogs in my palace." After Yu Yunxin finished speaking, she sat on the chair at the counter. Nangong Lin looked at everyone with cold eyes.

Soon, Manager Zhao came over with Baihu and a white hunting dog. Wuming walked over and took out a bag of incense ash and let Xiaobai smell it. Xiaobai had a good sense of smell because he always managed to steal the beef jerky hidden by Ge Dun and King Jiang.

When Xiaobai smelled it, he walked over to a young servant in green clothes and started barking wildly.

"Guan Ming, how could you do such a thing?" Shopkeeper Zhao said as he walked over. Guan Ming, who was called Xiao Shi, was caught by Bai Hu and pressed to the ground.

"Your Highness, Princess, it was the Second Miss who asked me to do this. She said that this medicine would not kill people." Guan Ming immediately begged for mercy: "My mother is ill at home, and the Second Miss also gave me fifty taels of silver. It's in the empty pocket of my clothes."

"Guan Ming is talking nonsense. His mother passed away last year. Guan Ming, did you go gambling again? You asked me to borrow one or two taels of silver the day before yesterday." said the servant standing on the other side of Guan Ming.

Bai Hu reached out and took out five silver ingots. He threw them on the ground and pressed Guan Ming down. The white dog behind him bit his calf.

"This powder is arsenic, how can it be non-toxic?" said the ghost doctor.

"Manager Zhao, please report to the police! Bring all the evidence," said Yu Yunxin.

"It's the princess." Shopkeeper Zhao replied.

He wrapped the arsenic handed to him by the ghost doctor in a cloth and picked up the silver ingot on the ground.

Guan Ming immediately knelt down and begged for mercy: "My lord and princess, please forgive me. I didn't know! It was the second lady who asked me to do this." Bai Hu disliked him for being too noisy and directly covered his mouth with a cloth.

Yu Yunxin looked at the other servants and said, "If you have any difficulties at home, please tell Shopkeeper Zhao. Can you help out without Guan Ming?"

"Princess, we have no problem." After that, everyone started to work.

Yu Yunxin looked at the servant who had just exposed Guan Ming's gambling and said, "Okay, you can talk to Manager Zhao and ask Guan Ming to bring back the one or two taels of silver. If you dare to do the same as Guan Ming in the future, I will hand you over to the government for punishment. Also, if any of you use your wages to gamble, please leave me alone."

When everyone heard this, they said, "Princess, we dare not."

"Senior Sister, you are so awesome." Wuming walked up to Yu Yunxin and said.

Yu Yunxin squatted down and said, "I want to thank you! By the way, what do you and Master have to say?"

The ghost doctor took out the two pieces of jewelry he had shown Nangong Lin yesterday and said, "These are the things of the dead tomb robber and Eunuch Hua. I have processed them and made them poison-free. How much food can I get in exchange for them? I will go and save the family members and brothers that the tomb robber mentioned."

Yu Yunxin took a look at it and said, "These jewelry look simple and ancient, but it is unlucky to find things in a tomb. How much do you want, Master?"

"Give me a cart of grain and some rice seeds, and I will go to Qizhou to deliver them to the villagers." said the ghost doctor.

Upon hearing this, Yu Yunxin immediately ordered the servant who reported Guan Ming, "Go and prepare some brown rice, corn, and white flour for this gentleman. One hundred kilograms of white rice each, and some rice seeds for one hundred acres of land."

"Yes, Princess. I'll arrange it right away." The servant said and started moving the goods immediately.

"Is there a black horse behind my carriage?" the ghost doctor said to the servant.

He turned around and said to Yun Xin: "I will go to Lushan Village in Qizhou in the next few days. Please help me take care of your junior brother. If you don't want to take care of him, just send him back to Xiangyun Temple." After that, he took out a sheepskin scroll from his arms and said: "This is the inner strength method of Fanhuashijin. Practice it well."

"Master, don't worry! I will take care of this junior brother." Yu Yunxin continued to ask, "If it's not enough, just come to me."

After the rice shop boy loaded all kinds of food onto the cart, the ghost doctor jumped onto the carriage and drove away. He soon disappeared from her sight.

"Senior Sister! Senior Sister! I'm hungry. Is there anything to eat? I eat both meat and vegetables." Wuming said, blinking and pulling Yu Yunxin's clothes.

"Okay, I'll take you to Zuixianlou to eat delicious food." Yu Yunxin said after a pause.

But before she could leave, Wang Yuanxiang came running over, knelt down and said, "Yun Xin, please let Yun Xuan go. After all, she is your half-sister!"

"She deserves it for not changing her bad habits." Yu Yunxin looked at Wang Yuanxiang and replied, "Auntie Wang, if she succeeds in poisoning the people of the whole city, why didn't she think about the consequences? If something goes wrong, not only will it implicate me, but my father will also be implicated by her."

Wang Yuanxiang knelt on the ground and didn't move. After a while, he asked, "Is Yun Xin's condition really that serious? Is there no way to help?"

Yu Yunxin had no choice but to bypass Wang Yuanxiang and brought Nangong Lin and Wuming to Zuixianlou.

"Everyone, go and see! The Minister of Justice will hold a public trial at noon today. It is the case of his own daughter poisoning." Several porters on the street announced loudly.

Upon hearing this, Wang Yuanxiang immediately got up and rushed to the Ministry of Justice.

"Senior Sister, should we go and take a look?" Wuming asked after taking a bite of a chicken leg on the upper floor of Zuixianlou.

"Aren't you hungry? Eat quickly and talk after you're full." Yu Yunxin said, glancing out the window.

"Then I will go with you to have a look later." Nangong Lin said as he picked up a piece of shredded pork with fish flavor and put it in Yu Yunxin's bowl. "This is Zuixianlou's new dish, shredded pork with fish flavor. Eat more."

"You too, when do you think we should go to Qizhou?" Yu Yunxin asked.

"The second prince has already gone! A few days won't make a difference." Nangong Lin said while picking up a fish ball.

"Senior sisters, you are going to Qizhou too! Can you take me with you? I will tell Master to tell him not to come back so we can go find him." Wuming asked.

"Eat yours!" Yu Yunxin and Nangong Lin said together.

Wuming smiled when he heard this and said, "You two are really in sync, this is called husband and wife being of one mind, right?"

"Who taught you? Aren't you a monk?" Yu Yunxin asked.

"Not to mention the food here is really delicious." Wuming said and started feeding himself again.

There were many people gathered at the entrance of the Ministry of Justice. Originally, this was a minor case, but who knew that Yu Yunxuan was the daughter of the Minister of Justice? Yu Tinghai was helpless and wanted to kill his own relative for the sake of justice.

Wang Yuanxiang was crying like a tearful person in the hall, and she kept saying outside the hall: "Master, she is your daughter, please forgive her." She kept repeating these words.

Yu Tinghai slapped the wooden chair and said, "You are responsible for what happened to your daughter Wang. Someone, drag Wang out of the court."

When Wang Yuanxiang, who was dragged out of the court, saw Yu Yunxin, Nangong Lin and Wuming approaching her, she immediately knelt down and said, "Yunxin, save your sister!"

Yu Yun was speechless and spared Wang Yuanxiang. Wang Yuanxiang saw that Yu Yunxin was indifferent and said, "If you don't want to save me, I will go and ask Concubine Wang for help."

After saying that, he staggered to his feet from the ground and ran towards the palace.

"Manager Zhao of Fengyu Rice Shop, please tell us the details of Guan Ming giving you the medicine." Yu Tinghai said.

"Sir, it was the little monk from Xiangyun Temple who saw it. If you ask him to replace the poison powder with incense ash, my rice shop will be in trouble!" Shopkeeper Zhao told the truth tremblingly.

"Where is the little monk from Xiangyun Temple?" Yu Tinghai asked.

"Sir, I'm here." Wuming walked out of the crowd upon hearing this and said, "Amitabha, Buddha is merciful, and monks do not tell lies. I am a lay disciple of Xiangyun Temple and have been called Lachen. Please ask me anything, sir."

When Yu Tinghai saw a trace of pity suddenly appear in Wuming's eyes, he frowned and asked in a serious tone: "Tell the truth about Guan Ming's poisoning, and don't tell a single lie!"

Wuming bowed slightly, took a deep breath, and then told the whole story in detail. His account was exactly the same as what he had said at the rice shop, without any omission or concealment.

The more Yu Tinghai listened, the angrier he became. His eyes widened and he shouted angrily, "How dare you, Yu Yunxuan! You actually used fifty taels of silver to instigate Guan Ming to poison Fengyu Rice Shop. What is your intention? Do you know how many innocent people will be afflicted by this action?" His voice was full of majesty, which shocked people.

"Father, I didn't say that. This servant is talking nonsense. I am not the only second young lady." Yu Yunxuan said, "Father asked me to reflect on my mistakes behind closed doors. I have never left the house. I have the maid to prove it."

"Miss Second, how could you turn against me? It was you who clearly gave me the poison that night, and I didn't misunderstand your voice." Guan Ming knelt down and pointed at Yu Yunxuan with trembling fingers.

Yu Tinghai slammed the wooden handle again, causing the entire room to buzz. He stared at Yu Yunxuan, his eyes filled with disappointment and anger, and shouted, "Yu Yunxuan! You've made such a big mistake, and you still won't admit it? No matter what happens today, the father-daughter relationship between you and me has been severed!"