Episode 7 recap: Exposure of Poison Prescription.
The people woke up and opened the door to find a large pot with a corpse inside, with an iron nail carved in its chest and a note left behind, stating "The person who possesses this also possesses this illness." Twenty years ago, children were playing and threw a person into the water. As he struggled, another person jumped into the river to save him. Lu Yuan Bao gave a pair of live pigeons to his friend, but his friend's beloved pigeon was killed. He pointed at Lu Yuan Bao in anger but couldn't speak.
A mysterious person suspected that the Monkey Demon was a scapegoat released by the killer. He told Zhang Yaozu that the killer might not target the two people he was watching. Zhang Yaozu suspected that the mysterious person was the intended target and said he would come back with his senior brother to protect him. They would be open while the killer operated in the dark, allowing the killer to confidently kill the other two. The mysterious person held a knife to Cheng Yi Zhi's neck and forced him to write something, and there was a large pot behind them.
Qu San Geng won the gamble, and Xia Bu Tou returned to the Niaotai with the Monkey Demon. He would definitely torture and frame Leng Wujin and Wang Fuzi for their deaths. If someone else was falsely accused, there would be no motive, but the Monkey Demon was the most suitable candidate. Song Dianshi handed the list of antiques collected by the Monkey Demon to Qu San Geng. It detailed what antiques each household had. The hidden list leaked from the Taiping Stove, but Qu San Geng didn't find anything suspicious. Song Dianshi told him that according to the victims, there were no antiques listed on these lists. Perhaps this "antique" was something else. Qu San Geng guessed that this list was intended to lure the Monkey Demon, but what was the purpose? The list described a man with a big beard and a bamboo hat.
A Taoist in the temple opened the door and found Cheng Yi Zhi's body lying in a large pot, nailed in the chest, with a note left behind. Wu Zuo, the coroner, found that he died from poisoning. Liu, the manager of the security hall, said that the residue in the pot was a poisonous drug. The prescription was fine, but when dozens of prescriptions were cooked together, it became a deadly poison.
It turned out that Cheng Yi Zhi was forced to write the prescription and then tied up, and the person mixed the prescriptions together and boiled them. Liu, the manager, said that combining various drugs would undoubtedly result in death. The note lamented that the person possessed both this and the illness, just as Confucius mourned that Ran Buniu had contracted such a disease. Xie Shi Ye understood the county official's meaning and had already prepared the report, waiting for the county official's signature.
Qu San Geng handed the two prescriptions from twenty years ago to the manager Liu. He discovered that when the two prescriptions were taken together, Chen Wang would be unaffected, but Lu Yuan Bao would cough up blood.
Twenty years ago, on Lu Yuan Bao's sickbed, Cheng Yi Zhi instructed Lu Zhi to give Lu Yuan Bao a dose of Chong Xu San at the Rooster Hour and to take it himself beforehand. When Lu Zhi went to soak the Chong Xu San, he discovered that Cheng Yi Zhi was stealing. Lu Zhi informed Master Zhong about it since he was the most renowned doctor. Afterwards, Lu Zhi replaced the valuable antiques in the room with worthless ones and made a record of the items stolen by Cheng Yi Zhi. Suddenly, Lu Zhi remembered who the skull buried in Mr. Wang's yard belonged to.
Xiao Bao was going to offer a sacrifice for a friend named Qiao Gou Er. It was Qiao Gou Er who saved Xiao Bao when he was thrown into the water and Qiao Gou Er's academic achievements at the school made Xiao Bao envious. However, Xiao Bao learned from him that the teacher often beat people. When Xiao Bao saw steamed buns in front of a grave, he knew that a family member had visited. During the days of his disappearance, his father went crazy looking for him and later discovered his head, which had been chopped off, behind the theater. His father recognized Qiao Gou Er from the scars on his back and it happened in October. Lu Zhi stated that Qiao Gou Er was not killed at the theater troupe because there were no performances during the holidays, and that's why his body was left there. Qiao Gou Er was supposed to meet his classmates after school, but they never waited for him.
Lu Zhi brought Qiao Gou Er's skull to Leng Wujin, who examined it and found that the occipital bone was shattered, indicating that something had crushed the skull, and the head had been severed after multiple chops. Lu Zhi wanted to report it to Mr. Wang, but Leng Wujin vetoed the idea, as there was insufficient evidence and Mr. Wang was a highly respected Xiu Cai.
Lu Yuan Bao and Zhao Juren partnered to open a shop, but Lu Zhi guessed all the account problems. He advised Lu Yuan Bao to pretend not to see them, or else it would escalate the conflict. When Zhao Juren got drunk at the Lu family's house, Lu Zhi arranged a guest room, and Zhang Gui returned in night clothes to help Lu Yuan Bao with some business.
During the meal, Lu Yuan Bao deliberately asked how much the interest on 4,300 taels would be, and Zhao Juren pretended to be ignorant, relying on his status as a juren and not fearing a lawsuit from Lu Yuan Bao. Lu Yuan Bao, seeing that he was angry, deliberately apologized to make peace on the surface. However, in the end, Lu Yuan Bao gave Zhao Juren a pair of "copper rod white" pigeons, which happened to be Zhao Juren's cherished pigeons.
At this moment, Zhao Juren realized how easily Lu Yuan Bao had taken things from his house. He immediately knelt down to apologize and signed an IOU, but the amount had become 5,000 taels. The next day, Liu Shi Qi, who was severely injured, sought his junior brother Zhang Gui, but outsiders couldn't stay at the Lu residence, especially since Liu Shi Qi had a pending case. To avoid implicating the Lu family, Zhang Gui asked Lu Zhi for advice. When Lu Zhi learned that Liu Shi Qi was involved in the business of killing people, he stood up in panic. Lu Zhi found himself caught between the friendship of Master Zhong and Zhang Gui at the Lu family, and it would be difficult to fool Bao Sheng and Zhao Liang, the protectors of the estate. To conceal the purpose of his visit, he pretended to have come to write a family letter.
In the end, Liu Shi Qi was discovered, and Lu Zhi falsely claimed that he was Zhang Gui's senior brother. However, his deeds and identity were recognized by Bao Sheng and Zhao Liang. Lu Zhi persuaded the two of them to find a compromise, heal their wounds, and then deal with the matter. Bao Sheng and Zhao Liang disagreed and insisted on reporting the incident to the authorities. At that moment, Master Zhong instructed the two of them to keep an eye on Zhang Gui, and Lu Zhi handed the situation over to Lu Yuan Bao. The two of them agreed willingly. When Master Zhong closed the door and left, Bao Sheng and Zhao Liang were killed from behind.
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