I became the tyrant's only belief.

Chapter 153: A glimmer of hope

[Master Dong asked the steward, guards, servants, and maids of the porridge stall to recall any unfamiliar faces that appeared on the day of the accident. He also asked the family members of the deceased to recall any unfamiliar faces that approached the deceased, talked to the deceased, or were very close to the deceased. He asked the painter to draw the people according to everyone's description.]

[Hmm? Why do you have to draw a stranger? Can't it be someone you know who committed the crime? ]

[Oh, the Grand Tutor's Mansion has been distributing porridge for quite a while now. Those who go to get the porridge are all the poor people or beggars in the neighborhood. Basically, everyone who can go has gone. There are only so many people in total. You can find a relationship with any three of them. If they are completely strangers, they are either from other places or have bad intentions. They are more suspicious than those familiar faces.]

[Let me take a look. There are not many unfamiliar faces. After recalling all these people, there are only seven people in total. The servant guarding the third porridge barrel recalled five people. These five people all had the opportunity to get close to the porridge barrel. Hmm... After comparing the portraits, there are three people who overlap.]

【Master Dong thinks the suspect should be among these three people, so he sent people to patrol every household with the portrait. So far, two have been verified and ruled out, and only the last one has not been found. Tsk! The follower went there in disguise, and the portrait is very different from his real image. How can he be found out based on the portrait?】

Chu Liuzheng frowned and pulled it down.

[You have to be really stupid to do something like poisoning under your own account. You must be using a fake account. It's not like you don't have this... Eh? There's a scar the size of a copper coin on the inside of your right wrist. Well, people who can become managers must have sharp eyes. They look so carefully. ]

[That scar is not a disguise. If you rely on the scar to find someone, you might actually find the person... No, there are so many people in the capital, how long will it take to find him? By then, the entourage will have left the capital with Prince Li.]

Chu Liuzheng was a little anxious and bit his lips unconsciously. He wanted to push it down, but found that he couldn't push it any further and it had reached the bottom.

[No way, after several days, this is all? What’s the result? ]

She searched the system desperately and found a live broadcast post.

Her eyes lit up and she quickly clicked in to take a look.

[The yamen runners visited the drugstores in the city and found two drugstores that sold raw strychnine. Among them, Jimin Drugstore in the west of the city had a record of selling raw strychnine the night before the poisoned porridge incident. Because raw strychnine is highly toxic, the shopkeeper specially memorized the man's appearance and repeatedly warned him not to eat it by mistake.]

[The yamen runners found out that the buyer was named Chen Dong, who lived in the south of the city and opened a woodcarving shop... Oh, there is light at the end of the tunnel! This Chen Dong is the contact person of the follower, and we finally got the clue! ]

Seeing a ray of hope, Chu Liuzheng hurriedly dug his way down.

[After receiving the news, Mr. Dong personally led people to the woodcarving workshop... Damn! It's gone again! ]

Chu Liuzheng stared at the system eagerly, waiting for it to refresh. His eyes swept over the five words "Chen's Woodcarving Workshop". He felt inexplicably familiar with them, as if he had seen them somewhere before.

where is it?

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At the same time, the yamen runners knocked on the closed door of Chen's woodcarving workshop.

A man's voice came from inside: "Who is it?"

The yamen runner said, "Buy wood carvings."

The man said, "It's sold out. Go buy it somewhere else."

The bailiff turned to look at Dong Yi, who nodded to him. He then continued to knock on the door "bang bang bang", attracting people from nearby shops to stick their heads out to look.

When he saw that it was an official, he quickly retracted his head, fearing that he would get into trouble.

"Open the door, open the door!" The bailiff's voice was so loud that people on the whole street could hear him.

"It's all sold, it's all sold, why are you still knocking? You don't understand what I'm saying!" The man in the wood carving workshop was annoyed by the noise. He opened the door angrily and was about to curse at the people outside who disturbed his peace, but when he raised his eyes and saw the bailiffs in official uniforms, his legs went weak and he almost fell to his knees.

His Adam's apple rolled, and he swallowed the curse mixed with saliva, and apologized with a smile on his face: "It's my fault that I didn't know that you were here. Please come in, please come in."

He stepped aside to let someone in, and courteously invited someone in. The bailiff stood still and asked, "Your name is Chen Dong?"

The man nodded: "Yes, my name is Chen Dong."

"I'm glad it's Chen Dong." The yamen runner stepped aside, revealing Dong Yi behind him, "My master wants to ask you something."

Upon seeing Dong Yi, Chen Dong immediately bowed down and said, "I am here to greet you, sir. I didn't know you were coming and I'm sorry for not welcoming you. I..."

Without waiting for him to finish his words, Dong Yi said, "Get up and go in to talk."

Hearing this, Chen Dong quickly stood up and cautiously welcomed the person in.

When Dong Yi passed by him, his sharp eyes scanned his body calmly, finally stopping at his arm and asked, "Is your arm injured?"

Chen Dong was flattered by the question, and subconsciously covered his right arm and replied, "To answer your question, I was accidentally hit by a falling piece of wood when I was carving a few days ago. I have blood stasis, and it hurts when I use force. I can't carve, so I can't make up for the things in the store after they are sold out."

He enthusiastically recommended: "If you want to buy some wood carvings, there is a Lu's Woodcarving Workshop two streets ahead. The prices are reasonable and the items are good. Why don't you go there and have a look?"

Dong Yi glanced at his calloused hands and said, "They say that colleagues are enemies, but you are so generous."

Chen Dong raised his left hand and scratched his head, laughing: "I am a fellow apprentice of the owner of Lu's Woodcarving Workshop. We were taught by the same master, but we have different specialties, so we won't interfere with each other."

Dong Yi nodded, sat down on the chair brought by the yamen runner, looked around, and found that it was just as Chen Dong said, all the wood carvings in the store were sold out, the whole store was empty, as if it was about to run away.

He had a plan in mind and waved his hand to let Chen Dong sit down.

Chen Dong declined twice before sitting down with great trepidation, looking at Dong Yi: "What do you want to ask me, sir? I will tell you everything I know."

"Don't be nervous." Dong Yi smiled at him and pointed at his right hand, "Let me take a look at your injury first."

Chen Dong blinked in confusion, stretched out his hand and rolled up his sleeves to show Dong Yi.
He saw that his right arm was indeed wrapped in a thick layer of gauze, and the smell of medicine he had just smelled came from there.

Dong Yi gave a look and immediately a yamen runner came forward to remove the gauze from Chen Dong, revealing the wound underneath.

Chen Dong didn't understand, but he raised his arm to show Dong Yi.

Dong Yi looked closely and saw that the wound was covered with crushed herbs. Because most of them had stuck to the gauze, the wound underneath was barely visible.

Based on his years of experience in investigating cases, he knew the injury was about five or six days old, and the subcutaneous blood clots had mostly dispersed, and it looked like it was almost healed.

"Sir?" Chen Dong called cautiously, seemingly not understanding why Dong Yi wanted to see his injuries.

Dong Yi did not answer him, but ordered someone to invite the owner of Jimin Pharmacy to identify the person.

Not long after, the shopkeeper was brought in by the bailiff and took a closer look at Chen Dong.

Chen Dong became uneasy when he was staring at him. His eyes rolled around and his hands were clenched nervously.

"He was the one who came to buy medicine that day." The shopkeeper retracted his gaze, took the gauze from the yamen runner, and carefully identified the crushed herbs.

After a moment, he said to Dong Yi, "Sir, there is indeed crushed strychnine in the gauze. Although strychnine is highly toxic, it can dredge meridians, relieve pain, and reduce swelling. As long as the dosage is controlled, it can be used to treat injuries from falls."

Hearing this, Dong Yi frowned slightly. Could it be that he had found the wrong person?