Everyone immediately looked at Qiutuding, their hearts filled with disbelief.
Qiu Tuding panicked for a moment, but quickly calmed down.
After all, even if Lin Xiaodong really saw it, he believed that the other party would never have evidence.
"You are slanderous! You must be responsible for what you say. Don't try to put the responsibility on me without evidence!"
Several people present nodded. If Lin Xiaodong shifted the responsibility to Qiu Tuding without evidence, it would be equivalent to framing the blame, and the fault would be huge! Yang He also helped: "Lin Xiaodong, I didn't expect you
He is such a person. He clearly did something wrong. He does not take responsibility and does not say anything, but he blames others. He is really not a man!"
Lan Ruo pulled Lin Xiaodong and asked, "You said Qiu Tuding did this. Do you have any evidence?"
Although she didn't like Qiu Tuding, she couldn't help Lin Xiaodong frame him casually. She could only hope that Lin Xiaodong could come up with something to prove it.
But Lin Xiaodong only shook his head and said: "You are right, I really don't have any evidence..." Du Chen scolded: "Shameless people, you dare to frame others for doing something wrong, I don't want to say anything."
Why don't you forgive him? Just give him a beating and send him to the government!"
"That's right, people like him don't deserve to be in Peony Garden at all, so we should leave it to the government.
Destroying something as valuable as the Peony King, plus falsely accusing others, is enough to sentence him to death!"
Not only was everyone disgusted, but Lan Ruo's eyes when she looked at Lin Xiaodong also changed. Is Lin Xiaodong really such an irresponsible man?
But judging from every bit of contact with him, she really didn't believe that he was such a person! Qin Qingyun on the side was not so convinced of Lin Xiaodong and seemed a little shaken.
Suddenly, Lin Xiaodong smiled, pointed forward and said: "Although I have no evidence, it can help me prove that it was Qiu Tuding who killed it!"
Everyone looked in the direction he was pointing and found that what he was pointing at was the wilted Peony King in the corner! Qiu Tuding originally thought he could produce some evidence, and was shocked, but when he saw
It was just a potted plant, and he laughed immediately.
"Lin Xiaodong, you are counting on a pot of peonies to help you identify the prisoner. Are you too afraid of taking responsibility for the crime and are you going crazy?"
Du Chen also shook his head in disappointment and shouted: "Crazy! It's really crazy!"
Lin Xiaodong asked confidently: "Everyone, do you know how this Peony King can grow so big?"
Yang He immediately replied: "This is not simple. I naturally think that Master Duchen cultivated it carefully and gave it the best growing conditions."
Lin Xiaodong looked at Du Chen and asked, "Is that so?"
Du Chen snorted and did not intend to answer his question: "Now that things have happened, why are you still asking this? Are you trying to delay time?"
Seeing Lin Xiaodong like this, Lan Ruo knew in her heart that he was definitely not aiming for nothing, so she persuaded him: "Master Duchen, why don't you just tell me, maybe it will be useful."
Du Chen sighed and finally said: "Actually, I don't know why it can grow so big."
Everyone was extremely surprised. It was clearly the Peony King cultivated by Du Chen, but why did they say they didn’t know?
"Actually, most of the peonies in this collection pavilion are varieties cultivated by me.
Only this King Peony was discovered by me accidentally in the mountains. It was already very big when it was just a seedling.
I realized that it had great potential, so I dug it back and cultivated it carefully in this gathering pavilion. In the end, it lived up to my expectations, but today..." As he said that, Du Chen looked at Lin Xiaodong, his eyes filled with laughter.
Full of resentment.
Lin Xiaodong ignored him and said with a smile: "You don't know, but I do."
"you know?"
Hearing this, everyone just thought he was fooling people.
Of course, Lin Xiaodong was indeed fooling people, but he was confident that he could make the whole thing watertight and make everyone believe it.
Du Chen said disdainfully: "What do you know about something that I don't even know about? Don't brag about it."
"You may not know that this peony king actually just looks like a peony. It is actually a poisonous flower called the heartbroken flower.
It originally grew up in the far north. The reason why it was encountered by Master Duchen in the south is that it was probably brought here by someone and accidentally left there."
When he heard that the Peony King was the poisonous king of flowers, Qiu Tuding's face was obviously unnatural and he rubbed the hand he had used to poison the flowers.
Du Chen asked: "You...how do you know this?"
"That's because I'm from the north, so I've naturally seen this kind of plant!"
Everyone was immediately frightened. After all, Lin Xiaodong did come from outside the city, and he never announced where he was from, which actually increased the credibility of the matter.
"Even if this Peony King is actually a heartbroken flower as you said, what does that have to do with you destroying it?"
Lin Xiaodong frowned and said: "I have already said, it was not me who did it, it was Qiu Tuding who destroyed it!"
"Then how do you prove it?"
"Please listen to me patiently.
The reason why this heartbroken flower is called the poisonous flower is because it can secrete a corrosive liquid. As long as you eat its flowers or leaves, you will be poisoned and die within half an hour.
However, even ordinary contact with the skin is still dangerous, because its branches have many small thorns that are invisible to the naked eye. Once touched, they will prick the skin and transport the venom into it."
Hearing this, Qiu Tuding was already breaking out in cold sweat. He felt uncomfortable anywhere on his body. Could it be that he was poisoned?
Du Chen retorted: "Impossible. I have been cultivating the Peony King for so many years. According to you, wouldn't I be dead long ago?"
Lin Xiaodong picked up Du Chen's arm and said, "Of course you won't die. Let's take a look, what is this?"
Lan Ruo's eyes were very poisonous, and she figured out the whole story at the first glance: "Master Du Chen is wearing gloves on his hands!"
"Yes, because the cultivated peony varieties are very delicate, if you touch them with your hands, it will easily cause adverse effects.
Therefore, Master Duchen and his apprentices always wear gloves, so it is naturally impossible for them to be poisoned."
While Lin Xiaodong was making up, he paid attention to Du Chen's face and found that he was almost convinced.
"However, I just saw Qiu Tuding smearing poison on the branches of the Heartbroken Flower. Now I'm afraid the poison from the Heartbroken Flower has entered his body.
We just need to wait quietly, as long as he dies in half an hour, my innocence will be proven!"
Everyone looked at Qiu Tuding and saw that his face was pale and he was trembling all over.