The Herbal Scents of Farm Life
Chapter 1169: It Really Isn’t Calm at All!

Chapter 1169: Chapter 1169: It Really Isn’t Calm at All!

Before he could finish speaking, Lin Caisang rushed over and kicked him down, leaving him sprawled out on the ground.

"Ugh."

The next moment, Lin Caisang walked over, placed her foot on the chief’s chest, and pressed down until he grimaced in pain.

"You old good-for-nothing, caught red-handed and still won’t spit out the truth. You two, come here, stuff this pill of poison into his mouth. I want to see just how tough he can act!"

Two constables, summoned by Lin Caisang’s nod, came forward without hesitation—one prying open the chief’s mouth, the other stuffing the poison pill inside.

"Ah, no, I don’t want it, what are you feeding me, someone help, murder, you lot... Ah!"

The chief was forced to swallow the poison pill and started screaming for help in fear, but unfortunately for him, not a single person showed sympathy; in fact, some glared at him with anger in their eyes.

In fact, one constable even slapped him across the face as he was loudly cursing.

"Keep cursing if you wish to die."

Lin Caisang lifted her foot from his chest, took a couple of steps back, and quietly watched him.

After a short while, the chief felt an excruciating pain spreading through his body, so intense that he writhed on the ground, howling and rolling over, desperately seeking help from others.

"Help, help me..."

"Hmph, serves you right!"

The villagers merely watched him with cold eyes.

Who knew if he had kept that poisoned beef intending to use it against the people of the village?

"Your Honor, this woman has something to say." A woman stepped forward.

"Speak."

County Magistrate Jin looked at her and nodded.

"Your Honor, that night, my husband was sleeping peacefully at home until he was called out by the chief. They thought I was asleep, but I saw everything clearly. It was the chief who called my husband out to dig out the poisoned beef."

The woman pointed angrily at the chief, addressing everyone around her.

"And I, Your Honor, though I didn’t see the chief in person, I heard his voice, and it was unmistakably his," another woman stood up and echoed the first one’s statement.

"Heh."

Hearing this, Lin Caisang glanced at the Eldest Prince and County Magistrate Jin, scoffing.

"It seems that Wan County is truly not at peace! Aren’t you going to speak the truth, chief?

You should know that my poison is not like that beef; if poisoned, within a quarter of an hour, the pain will be unbearable, after half an hour, your hands and feet will start to fester, followed by your face, and then your internal organs.

Chief, if you don’t tell the truth now, you will really run out of time."

The chief, drenched in cold sweat, couldn’t tell if it was from fear or pain, looked up at Lin Caisang.

"I’ll talk, I’ll talk, give me the antidote, the antidote."

"Of course there is an antidote. As long as you tell the truth, I will have you take the antidote immediately," Lin Caisang said, reaching into her small pouch, fumbling around, and pulling out a porcelain vial which she held in her palm, flaunting it in front of the chief.

Seeing this, the chief tried to reach out to grab it, but to no avail.

"It was a few nights ago. A man in black came to me, gave me a thousand taels of silver, and asked me to find people to dig up the cattle buried by Old Wang. He told me to dry the beef, and he would come to get it later.

I... I truly had no idea that the villagers would sneak off with the beef. I did give them silver, just asking them for a favor, that’s all."