Qingyu Case: Female Minister of Dali Temple

Before this, she had asked the Imperial Guards to focus on investigating two doctors and three waiters.

There were two doctors, one named Zhu Chongliang and the other named Yu Chengchun; there were three assistants, one named Che Yonggen, one named Liu Tieniu, and one named Hu Changcun.

The reason for requiring them to be investigated is based on the basic psychology of criminals.

If a criminal happens to be within the screening range of suspects, most people will subconsciously try to clear themselves through some unnecessary "performances". In layman's terms, criminals will have the lucky mentality of "I have been so actively helping you catch the murderer, how could I be the murderer?"

These five people... no, there should be one more.

Chen Shao quickly flipped through the results twice, and after confirming that there were only five copies, he turned to Fu Jiu and asked, "I remember..."

"I know nothing," she began to speak, and Fu Jiu quickly said, "I was in Yunhe Town when those eleven beasts came to Huimin Pharmacy to cause trouble."

Chen Shao stopped talking, looked past him and looked at the Yulin Guards beside him: "I remember there was another doctor, one of the fourteen township doctors. When I was investigating the kudzu case, I needed the medical records from the previous day. The doctor immediately gave them to me. What was the doctor's name?"

The Imperial Guard replied, "It seems his last name is Shen, what's Shen? I'll go ask him."

"Shen what... don't ask," Chen Shao called him, "I already remembered, his name is Shen Limin, I forgot to ask you to check him before. You take two people and check him now, the focus is still on the two directions, one is to check whether anyone in his family has been out recently, where they went, who has seen or contacted whom; the second is to check whether his family has suddenly become generous recently or whether his family members always show off in their words. As long as there is one of these two characteristics, arrange someone to watch in secret, don't alert the enemy."

After the Yulin Guards took two yamen runners away, Chen Shao paused for a moment before looking through the investigation results of the five people.

Just like the psychology of criminals, it is difficult for newly rich people to hide their wealth. Even if the criminal can do it, it is difficult for his family members to do so.

Zhu Chongliang was the old doctor of Huimin Pharmacy. He had been there when Huimin Pharmacy opened. He was a very honest doctor. After the Yulin Guards' open and covert investigations, the results were consistent with his performance. His home was no different from before the incident.

Yu Chengchun was one of the fourteen township doctors. He... Seeing his densely written two-page investigation report, Chen Shao immediately became alert. For her, interrogating the doctors and assistants of Huimin Pharmacy was not only to find the traitor, but more importantly to find "Manager Lin" and "Manager Qi".

Repeated interrogations of the three villages, Deng Ding and several other people, as well as the families of the eleven cases, failed to yield any more clues about Shopkeeper Lin and Shopkeeper Qi. Shopkeeper Lin and Shopkeeper Qi seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth, and even though their portraits were plastered all over the streets and alleys and distributed to various villages and towns, over the past half month, not a single clue has been found.

Calming his mind, Chen Shao turned his gaze to Yu Chengchun's investigation results.

Two days before the kudzu poisoning case, Yu Chengchun asked for leave to go home. The reason for the leave was that his mother was sick and he had to go back to visit her. However, according to the investigation of the Yulin Guards, his mother was not sick, but she tricked him back home under the pretext of being sick and forced him to raise money for his brother Yu Chengdong's marriage.

Yu Chengdong has been spoiled by his parents since he was a child. At the age of 27, he idles all day and doesn't even know how to feed chickens and ducks. Needless to say, food, clothing and other expenses all fall on Yu Chengchun, and there is no restraint. Such a waste, someone is willing to marry, already because of Yu Chengchun's help, but Yu Chengdong has no self-awareness, picks and chooses, either this one is fat or that one is ugly, in short, no one can catch his eye. Yu Chengchun's parents believe that since Yu Chengchun is here, Yu Chundong should choose a daughter-in-law with outstanding family background, appearance and ability. After picking and choosing again and again, Yu Chengdong was finally picked at the age of 27, and finally Yu Chengchun's parents were anxious.

Yu Chengdong also became anxious.

Just when he was about to give up his high standards and settle for a wife with decent family background and appearance, he accidentally ran into Miss Xu from Xu's Incense Shop in the county town while strolling in the Niangniang Temple. He was immediately struck by her beauty. He approached her and said he wanted to marry her. After being beaten by the servants, he still dragged his broken hands and feet back home and immediately forced his parents to propose marriage for him.

Even though Yu Chengdong's parents were very ambitious, they knew they couldn't get close to Xu's Incense Powder Shop. However, they couldn't stand Yu Chengdong's threat of death, so they went to Xu's Incense Powder Shop with a smug face. Without saying a word, they were humiliated again. When Yu Chengdong's parents were trying to persuade Yu Chengdong to give up, Yu Chengchun went to Huimin Pharmacy.

Yu Chengdong's parents suddenly felt confident again.

In view of the fact that the shops under the names of Zhu, Gu, and Fan families were all closed, even though Manager Xu knew that he had done nothing wrong, he could not help but feel uneasy. After being threatened by Yu Chengdong's parents, he panicked and really agreed to the marriage. However, although the marriage was agreed, there were conditions, that is, the Yu family must pay a betrothal gift of no less than fifty taels of silver, otherwise there would be no discussion.

Naturally, the Yu family couldn't come up with so much money.

Even though Yu Chengdong continued to threaten to commit suicide, the marriage inevitably came to a standstill.

It was not until the afternoon two days before the incident that Yu Chengchun hurried home. That night, the Yu family sent fifty taels of silver to the Xu family, and the marriage was set for early December.

According to what the yamen runners learned from Yu Chengdong, the fifty taels of silver were given by a nobleman named Ren in order to make friends with Yu Chengchun.

Based on this clue, the Imperial Guards found out that Yu Chengchun took two hours off at 4 p.m. on the day before the incident, saying he was going home to visit his mother. But he did not go home after taking the leave. As for where he went, it has not been found out yet.

Three assistants: Che Yonggen was a clerk in the pharmacy, Liu Tieniu and Hu Changcun were clerks responsible for running errands between the doctor and the pharmacy.

There was no change in the homes of the three people before and after the incident.

However, on the afternoon of the day before the incident, Che Yonggen and Hu Changcun took leave for one hour and two hours respectively, on the grounds of going home to get cotton clothes and visiting their elderly grandmothers.

The time for taking leave is the same as Chengchun, which is the hour of You, just a quarter earlier or a quarter later.

After the two asked for leave, they did not return home. As for where they went, it has not been found yet.

After Chen Shao showed the investigation results of Yu Chengchun, Che Yonggen and Hu Changcun, he told Fu Jiuqian to go back and asked, "Don't we need to go back to Yunhe Town today?"

"Everything has been arranged, they just need to build it." Pu Jiu said casually, "It will take at least 20 days to build the whole thing, and it's only half built now."

"Although everything has been arranged, I still have to go back and take a look from time to time." Chen Shao said.

Fu Jiu nodded: "I know."

Although he didn't like to use his brain, he would complete the tasks assigned to him step by step. After Chen Shao made a few suggestions, he stopped talking and ordered, "Go, take someone to invite Yu Chengchun's family, the owner of Xu's perfume shop, and Miss Xu Er to the prefect's residence."

After Fu Jiu led the people away, Chen Shao ordered the yamen runners, "Go and bring up the doctor and the clerk from Huimin Pharmacy."