Qingyu Case: Female Minister of Dali Temple

Quan Shuyu had heard Chan Yi whisper that Chen Shao was a girl. After a moment's pause, he looked at Li Tianliu, then at Chen Shao, then at Li Tianliu, then at Chen Shao again.

She was a little confused.

Didn’t you say that General Li didn’t know that the young master was a girl?

Also, isn’t the one General Li likes Chan Yi?

Did she misunderstand?

Seeing the increasingly treacherous looks from the two, Chen Shao laughed and said, "I want to run a girls' school. Since it is a girls' school, then the principal and the teacher must naturally be women, at least in the first few years. There are not many women who are educated, and even fewer who are educated and obedient. Zhang Chunhua is impartial and happens to meet these conditions. She wants to save her father, so I used this to negotiate a deal with her. As long as she is willing to help me organize or manage the girls' school for 30 years, I can spare her father's life on the premise that her father has not committed any murder. She agreed. But to prevent her from regretting it in the future, I asked her to find Quan Shuyu to sign a personal contract. I just asked her if the personal contract has been signed..."

At this point, Chen Shao looked at Li Tianliu meaningfully, "I didn't expect General Li to misunderstand that I'm fickle."

Chan Yi burst into laughter twice, then looked at Li Tianliu and said, "Even if General Li misunderstood you and Miss Zhang, how could he say that he loves the new and hates the old?"

Quan Shuyu also looked at Li Tianliu curiously.

Li Tianliu's face darkened even more, and he looked at Chan Yi coldly: "I am meddling in other people's business!"

After he finished speaking, without giving anyone a chance to respond, he hurried away.

Looking at his angry back, Chan Yi was puzzled and asked, "Why is he meddling in other people's business?"

Chen Shao suppressed his smile and pretended to be surprised, "Yeah, why is he meddling in other people's business?"

Quan Shuyu pursed her lips and smiled.

Chan Yi looked at her: "You know?"

Quan Shuyu looked at her clear and bright eyes and quickly shook his head and said, "I don't know."

Chan Yi didn't believe it, "Then what are you laughing at?"

Quan Shuyu's smile became more obvious. Facing her increasingly suspicious gaze, he coughed twice and forced himself to smile, saying, "I am laughing. I have known General Li for such a long time, but this is the first time I have seen him so angry."

"He gets angry quite a lot, but this is the first time I've seen him get angry because of shame." Chan Yi agreed and glanced in the direction where Li Tianliu left.

Quan Shuyu couldn't help laughing out loud. When Chanyi looked back at him, he immediately changed the subject and asked, "Young Master, are you going to open a girls' school?"

Chen Shao briefly shared his thoughts with them.

After listening to what Quan Shuyu said, he said sincerely, "If all your ideas can be implemented, then women will have another way out besides getting married, having children, and serving their parents-in-law. As time goes by, there will definitely be fewer and fewer women suffering."

Chen Shao knew that she was thinking of herself, so he said, "Change doesn't happen overnight, take your time."

They had been busy until now and had not eaten dinner yet. After arranging two yamen runners to look after the white-haired old man, they returned to Chengfeng Courtyard. After a simple meal and resting for more than half an hour, Yang Dong, Yang Wu, Yang Feng who witnessed Yang Wu beating someone to death, and the family of the victim Ji Quan finally arrived.

As soon as Ji Quan's family members entered the hall, they knelt on the ground and begged Chen Shao to help them. Yang Dong, Yang Wu, and Yang Feng followed closely and knelt on the ground. Facing the crying of Ji Quan's family members, they were all so frightened that they didn't know what to do.

Ever since Chen Shao solved Shi Xing's serial murder case, Yang Dong has been in a state of panic. In order to prevent the Ji family from reporting him to her, he has been looking for someone to go to the Ji family to mediate in recent months. Five years ago, he was unwilling to take 200 taels of silver to settle the matter, but now he is willing, and even willing to pay 10 taels more. The Ji family has obviously loosened up, why is it now...

After asking Chanyi, Quan Shuyu, and Fu Jiu to help Ji Quan's family members up, Chen Shao said gently, "I asked you to come here to find out about Ji Quan being beaten to death by Yang Wu. How did it happen? Do you still remember it?"

"How could you not remember?" Ji Quan's father Ji Tang took two steps forward and was about to kneel on the ground again. After being pulled by Fu Jiu, he said angrily, "In September five years ago, my son followed his second brother to Qingshui Town to sell bamboo chairs. The son was still playful at that age. His second brother knew that he couldn't sit still, so he stuffed six or seven coins into his pocket and told him to play with it. After his second brother sold the bamboo chairs, he didn't see him, so he mistakenly thought that he had returned home first. When he got home, he found that he was not there, so he panicked and went to Qingshui Town to look for him. There was a large bamboo forest outside Qingshui Town. When his second brother passed by there, he happened to see Yang Wu beating him with a stick. When his second brother rushed over and rescued him from the stick, he didn't recognize anyone anymore. He died on the way to the clinic. His second brother was angry and hurt, and immediately carried him to Yang Dong's shop to ask them to give an explanation. Who would have thought..."

Ji Tang pointed at Yang Dong and said angrily, "My son was beaten to death by his son, and he threw out the same piece of silver and cursed it for bad luck! His second brother was also young and hot-tempered. After being humiliated, he immediately shouted that if they didn't take 200 taels of silver, he would go to the government to sue them, and then carried the man back home. When the family learned about the death of our son, they were about to go to his shop to ask for an explanation, but he sent someone to bring 20 taels of silver and threatened that if we took it, we could take it. Otherwise, we would sue him! How could my son's life be bought with 20 taels of silver? That night, we went to the prefectural governor's mansion. But we took precautions, but we didn't expect them to be so shameless and find an innocent person to take the blame!"

Chen Shao glanced at Yang Dong, Yang Wu and Yang Yun.

Yang Wu and Yang Yun were both shivering with fear. Yang Dong was better, but not much better.

Retracting his gaze, Chen Shao asked Ji Tang: "Do you know who they are looking for to take the blame?"

Ji Tang was crying so hard that he couldn't speak, so Ji Quan's second brother Ji Neng answered for him: "They found the fourth son of Lü Dayou from Yinnan Village, but his fourth son died in vain. The Yang family promised to give them fifty taels of silver, but they only gave them ten taels in reality."

When saying these words, Ji Neng couldn't help feeling a little pleased.

After Chen Shao looked at him for a few seconds, he turned to Yang Yun and said, "Tell me about it."

Yang Yun's teeth chattered. "Please spare my life, sir. Please spare my life. I didn't kill him. It was Yang Wu. It was Yang Wu who killed him. It was Yang Wu and his father who forced me to identify Lu Si as the murderer."

Chen Shao looked at Yang Wu, who was already shaking like a sieve. "Sir, spare my life. I, I didn't force him. He took my father's money and helped to identify Lu Si."

When Yang Dong heard this, his eyes darkened immediately.

Chen Shao asked coldly: "So, you admit that Ji Quan was beaten to death by you?"

"No," Yang Wu quickly denied, "I didn't mean to beat him to death. I just wanted to teach him a lesson. Who knew he was so weak that he died after only a dozen hits."

Chen Shao asked: "Why should we teach him a lesson?"

“He won’t give me…”

"My Lord, you are wise," Yang Dong interrupted Yang Wu hastily, "I didn't use enough force when I attacked. I was wrong to kill Ji Quan accidentally, but Ji Quan also made a mistake by bumping into me and refusing to apologize!"

"Yes, yes," Yang Wu nodded immediately, "He bumped into me first, and I asked him to apologize to me. He refused, so I taught him a lesson."

Chen Shao said: "Then tell me, how did you bump into you?"