Qingyu Case: Female Minister of Dali Temple

Quan Shuyu blushed.

But my heart is full of emotion.

"Zhang Ruyuan and the others are still in the Wen family's warehouse," after Chan Yi followed suit with a few teasing remarks, Quan Shuyu couldn't help but cover his face and said quickly, "I'm going over there too."

Chen Shao nodded and signaled to Chan Yi: "Go with her."

"No, I..."

"Why not?" Chan Yi interrupted her, grabbed her hand domineeringly, and forcibly took her out of the study. "Wang Su and Xu Chengmei dared to frame you for blocking the road to appeal for justice. Who knows, they might also blame you for their expulsion from the dyeing workshop and the beheading of their brothers. Although the young master has people keeping an eye on them, this kind of thing is not to be safe than sorry. Let the Yulin Guards follow you, there will always be times when it is inconvenient. I follow you, that's just right."

Listening to their voices gradually fading away, Chen Shao's thoughts once again fell on the volumes of hereditary imperial edicts. Fu Jiu stood there bored, so she walked around the yard with her hands behind her back and kicked her feet. She was still bored, so she walked back and fumbled around, making noises that repeatedly interrupted her thoughts. Chen Shao had no choice but to stop and look at him boredly, and asked slowly, "Where are your two pieces of satin? Have you made them into clothes?"

Fu Jiu said, "Give it to Quan Shuyu."

Chen Shao raised his eyebrows, "What to give her?"

Fu Jiu said as a matter of course: "Aren't all the shops of the Wen family and the Zhu family under her management? She must know better than me which shop makes good clothes and which shop makes bad clothes. I gave it to her, so of course I let her take it to the best shop to make clothes for me."

Seeing Chen Shao's gaze, Fu Jiu quickly added, "I only asked her to make two sets of clothes for me, and gave the rest of the satin to her."

Based on her understanding of Quan Shuyu, she was sure that he would not want the satin, but looking at his expression, he did not seem to be lying, so she asked, "Did she accept it?"

"She didn't want to take it at first," Fu Jiu said proudly. "I told her that if she didn't like it, she could just throw it away. I wouldn't want it anymore anyway, so she had no choice but to take it."

Chen Shao looked at him and said, "You have money, why don't you give her some as a thank you?"

"That won't work." Fu Jiu refused without thinking, "I want to save my money for marrying a wife."

Chen Shao laughed: "You want to marry a wife, how can I miss you?"

"How can they be the same?" Fu Jiu said proudly, "What I saved is not just money, but also my heart."

The heavy mood caused by the various changes caused by the princelings of the previous dynasty temporarily dissipated with his innocent expression and pure words. After laughing a few times, Chen Shao deliberately teased him, "Do you have a girl you like?"

Fu Jiu sighed, "I plan to save up 500 taels of silver so I can find a girl I like. I originally saved up 300 taels of silver, but I made a bet with Chan Yi and lost more than 100 taels to her. Now I only have less than 200 taels left."

Chen Shao said slowly, "You just want to save up 500 taels of silver to marry the girl you like. What I'm asking now is, do you have a girl you like?"

Fu Jiu thought about all the girls he knew in his mind, then shook his head and said, "Not yet."

Chen Shao smiled: "What kind of girl do you like?"

"I like it..." Fu Jiu thought for a while and shook her head again, "I don't know."

Chen Shao questioned: "You don't even know what kind of girl you like?"

Fu Jiu scratched her head. "I haven't met her yet, how would I know?"

"Not bad." Chen Shao praised thoughtfully, "Liking is a feeling, how can it be defined?"

Fu Jiu didn't understand.

Chen Shao himself had never been in love, and couldn't explain it clearly, so he simply changed the subject and asked, "Have you met that woman in white recently?"

"No." Fu Jiu shook her head and said, "She hasn't appeared since the Master asked the Yulin Guards to look for her."

Chen Shao was in a daze for a moment before he remembered that this had indeed happened, so he asked, "Did the Yulin Guards look for her again later?"

Fu Jiu was gloating: "We looked for her. The Imperial Guards didn't believe in evil. They searched the grass for several days but still couldn't find her."

Chen Shao glanced in the direction where the woman in white appeared: "What about the surrounding yards? Have you checked them?"

"I checked, but still can't find her." Fu Jiu said in amazement, "Maybe she is really a female ghost."

After Chen Shao glanced in the direction where the woman in white appeared again, he retracted his gaze, looked at the wooden box in his hand, and slowly instructed: "Go ask Ding Lisheng and Lei Dehou later and see what they say."

She had no time to take care of this matter before, but now that she was not too busy, she could spare some time to investigate the secrets of the prefect's mansion. After Fu Jiu agreed, Chen Shao changed the subject again and asked, "How is the situation in Bianhe Village?"

Fu Jiu laughed and said, "Several people have fainted from fear."

Chen Shao ordered: "Speak more clearly."

"When the people arrived at Bianhe Village and learned that they were going to dig up the bones of their children who had been sold, they were so scared that they burst into tears," Fu Jiu groaned. "Many people even knelt down and kowtowed to Xu Guang, saying that they knew they were wrong. After Xu Guang threatened them that he would chop off their heads if they didn't dig up the bones, they all gathered at the foot of the low hill out of fear of death. However, when they saw the bones we had dug up before, the timid ones fainted directly. Xu Guang didn't indulge them. He told them viciously about the various tortures those corpses had suffered in their lifetime, and then found the people from the Ren family who were guarding the farm to supervise them in digging the bones. Xu Guang also had to keep an eye on the garden, so he didn't stay in Bianhe Village, but he didn't completely ignore them. He would go to Bianhe Village every morning and afternoon to check on their progress in digging the bones."

Chen Shao nodded, indicating that she knew, and then signaled him to go find Ding Lisheng and Lei Dehou. After he left, Chen Shao thought about it for a while, then sat down and wrote a letter to Huiyin, mainly to ask about Shi Yuan's death. The former prince was rumored to have survived after being buried in the sea of ​​fire, so Shi Yuan might also survive. In order not to reveal her identity, she also wrote a letter to Chen Zhao. She hid Huiyin's letter in Chen Zhao's letter, sealed them together, and gave them to the Yulin Guards to send back to the capital by express horse.

Afterwards, seeing that it was still early, he asked someone to invite Hu Qinglu over.

Almost a month has passed since Hu Qinglu was sent back to the prefectural governor's mansion in Daqiao Town to wait for punishment. During this period, Chen Shao neither looked for him nor convicted him of any crime. During the long wait, Hu Qinglu's spirit had been in a tense state, like a frightened bird, unable to sleep or eat at the slightest movement. Especially after the Zhu family was destroyed, this state reached its peak. Now seeing the Yulin Guards coming to his door, he was so scared that his eyes rolled up and fainted before they could even speak.

The Yulin Guards didn't know what Chen Shao wanted to talk to him about, so they carried him back without delay.

Perhaps he was still frightened in his coma, so the imperial guards put him on the ground and he woke up faintly. The moment he opened his eyes, he saw Chen Shao standing beside him, and instinctively shuddered twice, then he quickly got up and knelt down to beg for mercy.