Qingyu Case: Female Minister of Dali Temple

As soon as he reached the door, Chan Yi came out with a basin of dirty water. Fu Jiu sniffed it twice, then covered his nose and asked, "What kind of water is this? Why is it so smelly?"

He came to this garden after arranging for Liu Deming's father and others to have dinner at Juxian Building, and settled the Luo and Wang families at Juxian Building. When he came, Chen Shao had already started the autopsy, and he didn't know that they had saved people.

Chan Yi brought clean water and went back to the house.

Fu Jiu chased after him but was stopped by the Yulin Guards at the door.

Fu Jiu asked, "What are you hiding? Why are you so afraid of being seen?"

Yulinwei joked: "We rescued a woman, and Miss Chanyi is wiping her body. Are you sure you want to see it?"

Fu Jiu immediately took two steps back and asked with concern, "Is the injury serious?"

Yulinwei said: "It's not light anyway."

Fu Jiu asked again: "Did you tell me who the murderer is?"

Yulinwei said: "He is still unconscious."

Fu Jiu prayed: "I hope she wakes up soon and reveals the murderer, so that you can avenge her."

It's already very late.

After chatting with the Yulin Guards for a while, Fu Jiu returned to the main room. Seeing that Chen Shao was about to take a rest, she quickly stepped back and said, "Sir, please take a rest. I'm not tired yet. I'll continue digging bones while it's not raining."

Chen Shao stopped him: "Don't go, I have other plans for those bones!"

Fu Jiu reluctantly said yes and turned to the courtyard of the Yulin Guard next door. She drew two buckets of water from the well, washed herself simply, and changed into clean clothes. Just as she was about to return to Chengfeng Courtyard, she saw a woman in white standing in the distance.

When the woman in white saw him, she immediately turned and ran away.

Fu Jiu looked up at the sky. There was no moon or stars tonight. The sky was pitch black, which was indeed suitable for scaring people. Unfortunately, he was not afraid of ghosts. Fu Jiu put his hands behind his back, turned around and went back to Chengfeng Courtyard. Seeing that the light in the east wing was still on, he walked over and shouted into the room, "I'm outside. If you need help, just call me."

After Chan Yi answered that she knew, Fu Jiu flew up the tree with satisfaction and fell asleep using his arm as a pillow.

the other side.

The woman in white only ran a few feet before she stopped and hid behind some bushes, waiting quietly. After waiting for a full cup of tea and seeing no movement, she carefully poked her head out.

No one came after me.

The woman in white looked around again without giving up. After making sure that no one was chasing her, she walked out angrily, picked up the jade pendant that she had deliberately thrown into the bushes, and returned to the tree where she had been before. She hid herself and looked towards the yard where Fu Jiu had come out.

There was no one in front of the yard, which showed that the man did not chase after them.

After muttering a curse word "idiot", the woman in white walked into an empty yard in twists and turns. In the wing room on the side of the yard, she carefully pushed open the cabinet and entered the secret passage. After groping for about eight or nine feet, she knocked three times at the corner.

The person guarding outside immediately opened the secret door.

"How is it?" The woman in white asked secretly, and someone immediately asked.

The person who asked the question was Zhang Boshan’s daughter Zhang Chunhua.

The woman in white was none other than Zhang Chunhua's sister Zhang Chunyan.

Zhang Chunyan said angrily: "That idiot didn't even chase after me!"

Zhang Chunhua took the tea from the maid and handed it to her: "Did he not see you?"

Zhang Chunyan put down the teacup forcefully, "He saw it!"

Since he saw it, how come... Seeing her angry look, Zhang Chunhua swallowed the doubts in her mouth and comforted her with a smile: "It's my fault. There are no stars or moon tonight. The sky is as dark as ink. My beauty cannot be revealed, so naturally he missed it. Let's pick a day with a moon tomorrow. I guarantee that even without the love potion, I will be able to seduce him."

Zhang Chunyan's embarrassed and angry mood finally calmed down a little.

There is a spacious courtyard on the east side of the prefectural government, where other officials of the prefectural government live.

After Zhang Chunyan returned empty-handed, a murmur of voices could be heard in one of the courtyards:

"How about it?"

"No, I didn't follow her."

"What a loser! I told her everything in the secret passage, but she can't even seduce a man back!"

"There's no need to be so anxious. Didn't Master Chen Liu give the order to arrest people when he saw those corpses today?"

"What do you know! She didn't order the arrest. She was persuaded by General Li!"

"Does she really want to uproot us?"

"Isn't she already doing it? She had the bailiffs drag the bodies back to the prefect's mansion in a grand manner. Do you think she respects the dead? She did it for the people of the city to see. She wants to use the discussions and gazes of the people of the city to tie our hands and feet!"

"As long as we refuse to admit it, what can she do to us?"

"She couldn't do anything to us, but she put those bodies in the ice cellar!"

"Just get rid of her!"

"Get rid of her? Do you have the ability to resist the revenge of Chen's army?"

"Then what do you say we should do? She gave me all the keys to the ice cellar and said that if anything happens to the body inside, I will be held responsible."

"Are all the jade chess pieces in Zhang Boshan's house?"

"Let it go."

"Is that maid reliable?"

"reliable."

"Then wait for them for a few more days. If that doesn't work, we can only take the risk of poisoning her with arsenic again, lure her over to them, and let the maid say that it was Zhang Boshan who ordered her to have Du Zhong poison her."

"What about Madam Gao? Do you want to silence her?"

"Don't make things complicated. Our plan is to divert the trouble away and eliminate her murderous intentions towards us."

"What about the corpses used as fertilizer for the flowers?"

"Never mind. If they like to dig, just let them dig."

The night was very dark and there seemed to be a rainstorm coming. As dawn approached, the dark clouds suddenly dispersed.

It's still a sunny day.

When the sun rose but before it set, Chen Shao woke up, washed up briefly, and went to the east wing to see the injured woman. The woman was still in a coma, and Chan Yi was dozing off beside her bed. He took the woman's pulse, which was more stable than yesterday.

After letting Chan Yi continue to sleep, Chen Shao came out and called Fu Jiu down from the tree. "Go to the porridge stand in Juxian Building outside the prefectural government and find me 20 people who are willing to do odd jobs."

After Fu Jiu left, Chen Shao was about to ask someone to invite Ding Lisheng and others, but Xu Guang came in first, carrying a dirty cloth bag.

"We found evidence." Xu Guang spread out the cloth bag and laid out the plants inside one by one. Finally, he took out a few rice cakes and introduced them one by one, "These plants are the medicinal materials for making anesthetics, and these rice cakes with anesthetics are the leftovers from what they made."

After Chen Shao took a quick look at the herbs, he asked, "Where did you find them?"

"On the edge of their field." Xu Guang stood up and patted the mud off his hands. "I searched their house for most of the day yesterday and found nothing. So before leaving, I decided to take a walk in their field. I saw such a large vegetable field, but only one bunch of vegetables had been turned over. It was really suspicious, so I asked someone to dig it up, and sure enough, they dug out these things."