"What!" The pork seller was shocked.
There was also a sound of gasping around.
"Little girl, don't talk nonsense here." The mushroom seller said angrily, while giving Shen Ning a disdainful look.
"Little girl, please tell me quickly, where is the money I lost?" the pork seller said anxiously.
Shen Ning smiled and said, "You should ask me first, which one of you two lied."
The pork seller said: "There's no need to ask. It's the mushroom seller who lied. He obviously stole my money, but he refused to admit it. I just saw him putting my money into his wallet." In the money bag.”
The mushroom seller shouted: "You said the money in my wallet belongs to you. Do you have proof? Has anyone seen it? You just want to accuse a good person unjustly with your empty words. With the county magistrate here, you can't even think of unjustly accusing a good person!" "
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, Magistrate Zhou's head started to hurt again.
"Girl, you just said that one of these two people lied. Girl, who of them lied?" He looked at Shen Ning and asked seriously.
He did not show contempt for Shen Ning because she was a young girl and wore shabby clothes. Instead, he was very polite.
The fact that he, a respected person in the county, could have such a gentle attitude towards a peasant girl is enough to show that this person has an unusual temperament.
Shen Ning couldn't help but give him a high look.
People respect me one foot, and I respect others one foot.
This has always been her principle as a person.
"Even if I point out who is lying, that person will probably not admit it. I just said there is a way to prove it, and we can verify it on the spot." She answered very politely.
"What method and how to verify it?" Magistrate Zhou asked again.
He tried his best but couldn't think of any good idea. Why did this little girl come up with it? He looked at Shen Ning with curiosity in his eyes.
"Zhui Feng, go get a basin of water. I want clean water." Shen Ning said.
Zhui Feng hesitated for a moment, then glanced around at the people around him again, then separated from the crowd and went to get water.
As soon as he glanced at it, everyone couldn't help but feel a chill.
Soon, Zhui Feng came back with a basin of water.
"Put it on the ground." Shen Ning said.
Zhui Feng put the water basin on the ground as he was told and stepped aside, his heart full of curiosity.
It's really strange to be able to tell who is lying with just a basin of water.
The originally noisy crowd also fell silent. People looked at Shen Ning with wide eyes to see what she was doing with the basin of water.
Is this water a demon mirror
The pork seller was suspicious, the mushroom seller sneered slightly, and the boy named Wufu secretly pulled at the sleeve of his county magistrate.
"Sir, do you really believe what this little girl says? Is she pretending to be a ghost?"
County Magistrate Zhou was also confused, but said calmly: "It doesn't hurt if we listen."
Shen Ning raised her head, glanced at the pork seller and mushroom seller with clear black and white eyes, and said with a smile:
"Words are unfounded, seeing is believing. Let's let the facts speak for themselves. This uncle selling mountain mushrooms, if you throw all the money in your wallet into this basin of water, it will prove that you have been wronged."
The mushroom seller said, "What? Is it that simple?"
"Yes, it's that simple." Shen Ning nodded: "What we say with our mouths does not count, but the money in our pockets knows who is its master. If you want the money to speak, just throw it into the water."