A heated discussion commenced outside the lobby.
Inside the hall, Liu Yusheng remained calm. After mixing the poisons into the wine, she did not move immediately, but stayed still for a quarter of an hour.
Everyone was staring at her closely the whole time, not daring to blink more than once, for fear of missing the important picture.
Compared to other people’s watch and wait mentality, Qian Wanjin was the most nervous. He looked calm, but his hands were clammy from sweat.
Lucky Nannan, what about not playing? You’re playing such a big game. What are we going to do if the game collapses?
We’ll end badly!
No, he has to believe in Nannan. Whatever she wanted to do, she never missed!
If worse came to worst, he’d shoulder the consequences! If he couldn’t take the blame, let Feng Qingbai do it!
Above all, he knew in his heart that Lucky Nannan was doing this for the sake of the winery and the Qian family.
Otherwise, even if they won the lawsuit today, the wine shop would still be greatly affected and likely to fall apart.
Not to mention the stance the magistrate conveyed. He suspected that he was deliberately discrediting the Xinghua Village wine!
The crowd was discussing lively, and the buzzing remained incessant.
A quarter of an hour later, Liu Yusheng took action again.
He asked Qian Wanjin to help him divide the six rabbits in the cage into three groups, two by two in a pile. They separated them, and then poured down wine in each of the three bowls.
The crowd instantly quieted down. Their eyes fell on those rabbits, and they unconsciously held their breath, waiting to see the results.
The more they waited, the wider their eyes opened with incredulity surfacing on everyone’s face!
In their opinion, the two sets of rabbits that had been filled with arsenic and drunken dragon grass would soon collapse and die, but no!
They waited for at least another quarter of an hour, but even when time continued ticking, the rabbits that should have died were still breathing!
As they all knew, as long as someone took in a certain amount of poison like arsenic into their belly, they would soon bleed and die!
But the rabbits which drank arsenic, surprisingly softly stood up again after the initial convulsions and struggles.
Even though they were weak, they were alive!
And they even showed signs of slow recovery!
Then the two that drank Drunken Dragon Grass!
At first, they wobbled resembling drunkenness, and in the middle, lay down for a while and stayed motionless.
When everyone thought they should have been poisoned to death, they were again amazed when they surprisingly stood up!
It took half an hour!
In the end, none of the ending that the crowd imagined happened!
The two groups of rabbits which drank poisons looked very weak, but they were still alive!
Now the last set of rabbits that only drank pure wine had a small change. They turned vigorous with shiny fur and looked extremely spirited!
“There is still a little residual wine left in these three bowls, so may I ask Mr. Xue to do me another favor and test the poison inside.”
Xue Qinglian moved so fast that he could almost be described as impatient.
He swiftly took out clean silver needles and dipped them in the two toxic bowls to test the wine.
The needles quickly turned black at a speed visible to the naked eye, but the dark color lightened and leaned toward gray.
Moreover, on a longer observation, he found that the color has a tendency to fade slowly!
“Strange! The toxin in the wine is slowly decreasing!”
Xue Qinglian blurted out an exclamation, which made the onlookers believe that what they had just seen was not an illusion.
The color of the silver needle was really diminishing!
Liu Yusheng picked up the wine jar and displayed it towards the outside of the hall.
“This jar is the nourishing wine from our Xinghua Village.
Everyone must be very curious about why the rabbits that drank the poisoned alcohol did not die.
Now let me explain to everyone. It is because the health wine contains traditional herbal medicines that detoxify poison and nourish the body!”
After a pause, she quieted the crowd’s outcry with a gesture.
“For this nourishing wine, the most important thing is the word health.
People eat whole grains, and over time, small toxin deposits will accumulate in the body.
People can’t feel it, but the impact on the body is visible. For example, the older you are, the more ailments will burst forth.
The Xinghua Village’s wine can dissolve the toxins deposited in the body and expel them.
While detoxifying, it also nourishes the lungs and internal organs, giving people a fresh energy and vitality, which in effect prolongs life.
There should be a lot of long-term drinkers of the Xinghua Village’s medicinal wine, so you’re most clear about your body changes.
Whether Xinghua Village’s wine is good or bad, nothing is more convincing than you yourselves.”
Qian Wanjin seized the moment and took the opportunity to raise his voice and said.
“Even when mixing something highly toxic into the medicinal wine, it couldn’t poison the rabbits! This shows how precious this wine is!
Have you ever seen a medicinal wine that can detoxify poison in the whole Nanling Kingdom? And it detoxifies so quickly!
Are you still afraid that drinking this wine will cause damage to your body?”
This proceeding was simply too shocking!
Some people in the crowd exclaimed, “This is not just a medicinal wine, it can be used as an antidote!”
“I’ve been drinking this wine for years. I’ve known before that the longer I drank it, the stronger my bones became and the better my spirit was. However, I never ever imagined that it could discharge poisons from one’s body!”
“Such a strange wine, even if it’s more expensive, it’s worth the money!”
“The Qians wine shop is a decades-old business, and they have always been honest. I wondered how they could sell harmful wine.
Now, it seems that someone is jealous of the good business of the Qians brewery. They are not capable of brewing the same quality wine, so they are thinking of deliberately maligning the Qian family!”
“Your Excellency, the Qians’ brewery has been slandered by a villain, please look into this matter!
Return the innocence of the Qians’ brewery, and return the innocence of the Xinghua Village wine!
Such an exceptional wine cannot be ruined by rumors!”
At this point, the wind direction from the people has changed yet again, and the other side was already powerless to argue.
The several people who made trouble were thoroughly branded as slanderous, incriminating, and even plotted murder.
Although the case started with false accusations, it was true that a person died. Then how did this person die? They must continue to investigate.
But, it was no longer the Qian family, Liu Yusheng and company’s business. They could always pull out and leave.
But after being so falsely accused, Qian Wanjin had no intention of making those few people feel better; even if they were just a few pawns.
“Your Excellency, it is now clear that the Qians’ wine shop has been falsely accused.
These people dare to take a life to falsely accuse my family. They must have an ulterior motive behind it!
Please find out the truth. We must not condone and allow evil people to run amok!”
“If false accusations are not severely punished, everyone will follow this practice in the future when there is competition, and there will be no peace and fairness in the business of Nanling Kingdom!
Your Excellency, as a parent official in the capital, you serve the people and redress their grievances. So, on behalf of the Xinghua Village winery, I would like to sue these villains.
I am suing them for ignoring human life, maliciously fabricating rumors and falsely accusing us, in an attempt to suppress the wine industry in Xinghua Village!
Please uphold justice, Your Excellency!”
Liu Yusheng also understood that this matter could not be investigated until the end. At most, it would end up with these people being reduced to sacrifices.
But even if there was no way to find out who was behind them, with this, they could still give the other side a blow!
Furthermore, she and Qian Wanjin knew exactly who was behind the scenes even without investigating it.
Peek-Aboo 
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