Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 511 Pharmacy Ledger
Li Canghai slightly arched his hands towards him, and said: "Just now I met Miss Liangchen, she said she wanted to come to the pharmacy to find some medicinal incense, so that she could sleep soundly, so I wanted to help her find it."

"Oh, so that's how it is!" The old man pointed to a row of medicine cabinets opposite, and said, "Medicine incense is not a valuable thing at all, go find it yourself!"

"Thank you, Uncle Gong!" Liang Chen made a blessing to the old man, and then pushed Li Canghai towards the medicine cabinet in the room.

"Can you use the medicinal materials in this pharmacy as you like?" Li Canghai was a little surprised.

The pharmacy stored some precious herbs, and as a servant, Liang Chen was able to come to the pharmacy to look for medicine, which was beyond Li Canghai's expectation.

Liang Chen giggled, and said: "The Immortal Elder doesn't know something. Although these medicinal materials are precious, they are worthless to our master. As long as we servants have a legitimate reason, we can come to get the medicine. However, We have never dared to touch those precious medicinal materials, so the master is not worried that we will steal them."

Li Canghai nodded secretly, thinking in his heart: Although Zhang Wenyuan's reputation is bad, there are merits.At least for the aspect of managing subordinates, he is well-versed in his methods, and he treats his servants with both kindness and power, which is just right. No wonder he has never heard anyone speak ill of Zhang Wenyuan behind his back in the past few days in the Zhang family.

Liangchen walked to the medicine cabinet and searched back and forth among the medicine cabinets.

Li Canghai didn't look through those medicine cabinets. There are at least a hundred medicine cabinets in this room, that is to say, nearly a hundred herbs are stored here.

Although the various medicinal materials are not the same, there are many medicines with similar smells.

Liangchen only remembers the fragrance and breath, so how easy is it to find it with this fragrance?

Li Canghai glanced at the pharmacy, and his gaze immediately stopped on the table where the old man was.

There are stacks of ledgers on the table, and the old man is carefully looking through the reconciliation.

Li Canghai walked over and asked, "Old man, do you dare to ask if there is a registration list for those who come here to borrow medicine?"

"It's natural. What medicine and how much each person takes from here every month must be recorded in the record for the master to check." The old man put down the account book and said quite politely.

"I don't know where the record is? I want to take a look." Li Canghai felt that since Liangchen thought that the medicinal fragrance came from this pharmacy, there must be a record. Just look it up, what medicine Yu Chengen came here to take recently, Naturally, you will be able to find the medicinal fragrance.

"It's all here, Immortal Elder, please take care of yourself." The old man pointed to a row of shelves behind him and said.

Li Canghai bowed slightly to the old man, then walked to the row of shelves.

There are more than ten rosters on this shelf, and each one has a time written on it.

Li Canghai probably looked at it, from 16 years ago to now, almost every year.

Li Canghai picked up the nearest directory and looked it up, only to find that Yu Chengen's name was not on the directory.Not only that, during this month, no one has come to pick up herbs such as medicinal incense.

"Liangchen, did you remember it wrong? No one has come to pick up the medicinal incense recently." Li Canghai put down the directory in his hand, picked up a directory and read it.

Liangchen searched back and forth between the medicine cabinets, she scratched her bangs, frowned slightly and said: "I'm not sure if the medicine fragrance exists, I just remember that the fragrance is very faint, I asked Mr. Yu later , but Young Master Yu also looked blank, saying that he did not smell the fragrance of the medicine. Young Master, you rest for a while, and I will look for it later."

Li Canghai shook his head, he picked up those directories out of boredom, and flipped through them.

In the ninth year of Tianbao, on May [-]th, Zhang San took three coins of rhubarb and half a coin of croton because of abdominal pain.

In the seventh year of Tianbao, on the sixth day of the first lunar month, Wang Er took one qian of honeysuckle and two qian of forsythia because of high fever.

In the first year of Tianbao, on the first day of the seventh month, Fan'er took three qian of Chuanbei, one qian of almond, and three qian of Qianhu because of asthma.

……

Looking at these records, Li Canghai nodded secretly. The medicinal materials these people took were also suitable for the case, and they were all the most common common medicinal materials, and they did not touch any expensive medicinal materials.

Li Canghai put down those lists, and picked up the record list from 16 years ago.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the lady was pregnant and took five ganoderma lucidum to nourish her body.

On the first day of February, the maid took a hundred-year-old ginseng and made ginseng soup for the lady.

……

From the first month to the ninth month, most of the above records are some precious medicinal materials taken by the maid for Fengniang.

From this point, it can be seen that Zhang Wenyuan was not stingy in order to have a son.

All kinds of precious medicinal materials, wild ginseng and ganoderma lucidum, were sent to Feng Niang as if they didn't need money.

It wasn't until September that the records about Feng Niang came to an abrupt end.Because at that time, Feng Niang had already committed suicide by throwing herself into the well.

Li Canghai sighed, then looked down.

On the fourteenth day of the ninth month, the second lady took five coins each of Nuxyma, Shengnanxing, Shengchuanwu, Maoshu, and musk due to abnormal qi and blood...

Seeing this, Li Canghai suddenly felt a little strange.

He closed his eyes, and went through the names of the medicinal materials he saw in his mind. Suddenly he opened his eyes, and his face became extremely surprised.

Nuxynum seed and Shengnanxing are used together, not to treat qi and blood disorders, but to abort them!

In other words, this is the abortion pill!
"How did this happen? What's the matter with this medicine? Did Hongmei take it herself, or was it given to others?" Li Canghai frowned, rolling his eyes back and forth, muttering to himself.

Li Canghai then flipped back, and he discovered something strange again.

The directory also records that the third lady, the fourth lady, and the fifth lady all came to the pharmacy to pick up these herbs, and the time between them was very close.

The eldest lady is Fengniang, the second lady, the third lady and others, naturally there are Hongmei, Lanyue, Azhu, and Orange.

And the four of them actually took abortion pills in the same year!

In the subsequent browsing, Li Canghai also found that they had taken this medicine more than once.

Li Canghai's face was serious, he suddenly understood why Zhang Wenyuan had no heirs.

Like Zhang Wenyuan before, he suspected that Zhang Wenyuan had a physical problem, but he didn't fully understand it until he saw the records of these medicinal materials.

Mixing these medicines can have the effect of abortion, but it also has very serious side effects. If you take it too often, it will cause infertility.

Zhang Wenyuan has no heirs, the problem is not with him, but with his four concubines who are already unable to conceive!
"Strange, what's going on here? Why did Hongmei and the others drink abortion pills? And they made themselves unable to conceive? What's going on here?" Li Canghai frowned.

If one of them had taken the abortion pill, he had reason to suspect that they secretly poisoned and framed her because of jealousy.

But judging from the current situation, the four of them are all in the same situation, and there seems to be no reason for poisoning.

(End of this chapter)