my father is the emperor

Chapter 9 Food Taboos
Zhou Li turned his head, and Wang, who was just watching, turned his head and cried. Zhou Li took a deep breath and asked in detail: "Excuse me, Wang, when will your husband be seriously ill in bed?"

Mrs. Wang burst into tears without hiding it, and said slowly: "Yesterday, I saw that you were selling vegetables, and they were very cheap. I was fascinated, so I went up to watch and saw that the sales were indeed reasonable, so I bought some!" Rolling up his sleeves and gently wiping away the tears of resentment in his eyes, he broke down in tears and said: "After shopping for vegetables, I happily returned home to show off. Your husband has always praised me for being knowledgeable and courteous, and my business is appropriate. The little girl's heart is naturally sweet!" After a pause, she said: "At that time, the little girl thought to herself, Mr. Lang is busy from morning to night, working hard for the whole family, and has made great achievements. On a whim, he washed the vegetables, lighted the stove, and Mr. Yibao worked hard!" "

Zhou Li frowned and sighed slightly. He didn't get any useful information from these words, so he continued to ask: "Dare to ask Mr. Wang, has your lord eaten moldy and dirty food before this?"

Mrs. Wang shook her head and said: "The little girl has been with the gentleman since she was a child, and the gentleman's food and daily life are taken care of by the little girl herself, and she has never eaten moldy things!" She crawled and crawled on the ground, shouting: " The officials please decide for the bitch!" Looking at Zhou Li, he said more bitterly: "This son clearly wants to delay the time to save my lord!"

Zhixian also nodded for a while, glanced at Linger, and said coldly: "Hmph, bitch Peng Ling, do you have anything else to say?"

Ling'er grabbed Zhou Li's leg and said, "Master Zhou, save me, we are innocent, we have been wronged!"

Zhou Li felt a pain in his heart, squatted down, held Linger's beautiful hair, and said plausibly: "Don't worry, Linger won't make you suffer!"

The county magistrate snorted coldly and said, "Come here, put Peng's family in a cell for trial the next day!"

Zhou Li shook his body, and snorted coldly: "Wait a minute!" Glaring at the young man who came up to take him into custody, he clasped his fists and said, "I still have something to ask!"

The county magistrate slapped the table, and furiously said: "You bastard, you have no law, and you still take the Great Tang Sage in your eyes? Someone, take it down!"

Zhou Li clenched his fists with both hands, waved them in front of his chest, clasped his fists higher than his forehead and said, "It is precisely because I admire the wiseness and martial arts of the great Tang sage so much that I am going to finish my sentence. Could it be that you, the county magistrate, are you a little seventh-rank county magistrate? bribed?"

The magistrate squatted on the chair angrily, and said coldly: "Hmph, don't think that you are scholars, so I dare not arrest you!"

Zhou Li saw that the magistrate bypassed his own question and kept silent on this matter, he sneered in his heart and said, "Hmph, does the magistrate want me to sue the court, and ask the sage to punish you for deceiving the emperor?"

The magistrate frowned and thought for a while. He didn't know that Peng Le and Zhou Li were actually fake scholars. After pondering for a moment, he thought that Emperor Wu once valued imperial examinations. Suppressing his anger, he snorted coldly and waved his hands to signal the boy not to detain him for the time being, saying: "Something is coming soon, if you are messing around, no matter whether you are a scholar or not, I will imprison you according to the king's law!"

Zhou Li was overjoyed, and said, "Mr. Wang, I won't wrong you. Just answer me for now. If my sister is really reckless and murders your husband, we will hand it over to the magistrate for justice. But if there is nothing like this, and something is created out of nothing, please return my sister's innocence!"

Mrs. Wang nodded slightly, and Zhou Li then asked: "After you cooked the dishes last night, did you and the children eat?"

Mrs. Wang nodded lightly and said: "Our family, of course we have to eat together!" Immediately after thinking about what he felt, he was horrified!

Zhou Li chuckled and said, "Then why is your husband poisoned, but you and your children are not poisoned?"

Wang panicked and said: "Little girl doesn't know, I was wronged by the county magistrate, I was wronged!"

The county magistrate sneered and said: "Good Mrs. Wang, you dare to fabricate a poisoning case to try to blame the Peng family. This kind of femme fatale is really embarrassing. What use will I let you be!" A sounding wood slapped it, and said loudly: "Come here, take this femme fatale woman who is a criminal and twists right and wrong to the prison, and ask for execution at another day..."

Wang cried loudly, shouting that he was wronged, Zhou Li looked at him and couldn't sleep, and said: "Wait..."

The county magistrate frowned, twitched the corner of his mouth, and said with a sneer, "Zhou Xiucai, Mr. Liu gave you face and let you speak, but don't push yourself too hard to disturb the court!"

Zhou Li said sincerely: "But what's wrong with the Wang family?" He spread his hands and looked helpless!
The county magistrate snorted coldly: "She fabricated the poisoning case, intending to blame the Peng family, but even if she jumped into the Yellow River, she can't be cleared of the crime!"

Zhou Li shook his head, boldly, looked up to the sky and laughed loudly: "What the county magistrate said is negative, if Mrs. Wang wanted to fabricate the case of poisoning, why would she murder her husband?"

The county magistrate's head was as big as a bucket, and the corners of his mouth couldn't stop jumping up and down. He slapped the table and said, "Good Zhou Xiucai, how dare you cover up the bitch Mrs. Wang. Could it be that you have committed adultery!"

Chastity and fame are women's taboos. Hearing this, Wang yelled, "Impossible, I don't know this young master! How could I do such a lowly thing that the upper hand loses!"

Zhou Li also sneered, and said: "The county magistrate, you are arbitrarily assigning crimes. If the current emperor knows, do you think you will be punished?"

The county magistrate smiled coldly and said, "Then tell the truth, who is wrong and who is right?"

Zhou Li stopped showing off his literary talents, and said: "Actually, the Peng family is not to blame for this matter!" "Zhou Li left Peng's family out at first, and then said to Wang Shi: "I definitely don't blame Wang Shi, Wang Shi is also eager for Ai Lang!" "

Seeing that the county magistrate wanted to get angry, Zhou Li said, "It's only Wang Feng's fault for eating and drinking indiscriminately, that's why he got seriously ill!"

The county magistrate let out a sigh, and the Wang family cried: "Master, please be clear, my husband is a real farmer, he didn't eat indiscriminately!"

Zhou Li chuckled and said, "I'm not that messy eater!" After a pause, he looked up at Gaotang and said eloquently: "Everything in the world contains the law of yin and yang parallelism, there are black and white, beauty and ugliness, fragrance and smell, and food also has There are both positive and negative sides. After all, everything in the world is not [-]% perfect, so we people in the Tang Dynasty should be cautious about vegetables. Apart from being able to satisfy hunger and keep healthy, are there any taboos that will hurt the body? If you know what to avoid, you will be safe and healthy when you are full of food all day long!"

Not only the county magistrate was confused, but even the other people on the side were scratching their heads and thinking non-stop. Zhou Li smiled and said: "This sentence is very simple, even if food and food are eaten together, it will also attract people. Physically ill, lying in bed with a serious illness!"

At this time, inside the yamen, it became a stage for Zhou Li to perform alone. He was full of knowledge, magnanimous, and possessed some unique insights. He stared at Wang and said, "The food you ate last night was sweet potatoes?"

Seeing Mrs. Wang nodding, Zhou Li smiled lightly and said, "Does your husband like to eat persimmons?" After Mrs. Wang said yes, Zhou Li continued: "As we all know, sweet potatoes and persimmons cannot be eaten together. It can cause stomach distension, abdominal pain, vomiting, and in severe cases, it can lead to gastric bleeding, and in severe cases, it can lead to death!" Dundu said: "Fortunately, Wang Feng eats less, but if he eats too much, then there is really no proof for death!"

Walking to Wang's side, he took out some silver, and said: "Go to the doctor's place first, let your husband take some medicine, if it doesn't improve, you can just go to me!"

Wang was grateful for a while, and after thanking the magistrate, he just left. The magistrate saw that Zhou Li was particularly difficult, so he didn't want to say more. When Zhou Li wanted to leave, the magistrate saw a disc on the ground and ordered someone to present the stolen goods. After that, he took a deep look, sweating on his head, and said, "Wait!"

Zhou Li said: "Is there any other business for the county magistrate?"

The county magistrate raised his green official robe, walked down, looked at Zhou Li carefully and asked, "Is this fast jade medal belonged to Zhou Xiucai?"

Zhou Li took a look at the jade plate, it was the bastard jade pendant that he took care of carefully, after thanking the county magistrate, he helped the old man of the Peng family out of the yamen!

Zhou Li walked out of the yamen, feeling a bit of fear in his heart, patted his chest, looked at the blue sky, and murmured: "Fortunately, I learned some knowledge about food taboos in the biology class of the 21st world!"

The magistrate looked at Zhou Li who was going away from afar, dripping with cold sweat, returned to the court, quickly drafted, wrote a few big characters, and handed it to a young servant: "Quickly send it to the prince!" The young servant ordered, The county magistrate sat down on the official position, panting tremblingly!
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