When Jiang Yutong walked out of the room, she saw a group of people gathered together. Looking down, she saw the small Yu Xueyi with his neck stiffened and a look of dissatisfaction on his face.

Shopkeeper Liu smiled and apologized, "Sir, please look carefully. This kind of thing would never happen in our Jingshui Tower."

The man said with a half-smile, "Are you saying that I slandered this brat? You guys at Jingshui Tower are becoming more and more unrefined. You dare to hire anyone to be a waiter."

Shopkeeper Liu felt something was wrong when he heard this, "Sir, are you acquainted with our waiter?"

The man said arrogantly, "It's true that I know him, but this kid's parents are wanted criminals by the imperial court. Aren't you afraid of losing your heads?"

Manager Liu's expression was stern. He had not inquired carefully about Yu Xueyi and his sister at the beginning, but it seemed that this matter was most likely true.

Yu Xueyi's face flushed with anger, "Nonsense, my father was wrongly accused."

The man sneered, "Humph, you can't tell me whether it's unfair or not. Why is he exiled if he was wronged?"

Yu Xueyi said angrily, "It's all the court..."

"Learn righteousness."

Jiang Yutong called out to him loudly, interrupting Yu Xueyi before he could finish his words.

Yu Xueyi swallowed the two in his mouth, "..." corrupt.

Everyone looked up at Jiang Yutong, and Jiang Yutong walked down from upstairs.

She stood in front of Yu Xueyi and said to the man, "May I ask why you are making such a fuss?"

Seeing that Jiang Yutong was just a little girl, the man said contemptuously, "What does it have to do with you?"

Jiang Yutong was not annoyed. "Yu Xueyi happens to be my adopted brother. His affairs are none of my business."

The man sneered, "You've come at the perfect time. I lost the silver I was carrying with me, and this guy was the only one who entered and left my room at the time."

Yu Xueyi stretched his neck out from behind Jiang Yutong and said, "I didn't do that. You're talking nonsense."

Jiang Yutong reached out and pushed Yu Xueyi's head back. "What's your name? How much silver did you lose, and when did you lose it?"

"My last name is Lu, and I have one copper coin. You'll have to ask this guy when it's due."

Jiang Yutong frowned. "You don't even know when you lost it, so how do you know it was stolen by Xueyi? I have a good reason to think you're deliberately making things difficult for me because of something old."

The man surnamed Lu stiffened his neck and said, "You're talking nonsense. Anyway, I just lost some money, and someone saw this guy sneaking around my door. Who else could it be but him?"

After saying that, he pulled a bystander out and asked, "Is that right?"

The other person leaned back and said, "I didn't see him steal your silver."

The man surnamed Lu shouted, "This money is from selling pork. It's all hard-earned money."

Jiang Yutong looked at the man, tall and strong, with a lot of flesh on his body. "May I ask what you do for a living?"

"I'm a butcher in the neighboring county. I came to Yinbai County to buy a pig. I just bought the pig and was planning to rest here, but I lost my money. What should I do?"

Jiang Yutong smiled and said, "Okay, then I will call you Butcher Lu. In that case, let's report to the authorities."

Butcher Lu raised his voice, "Report to the police, that's easy for you to say, but it will delay me a lot of things. Besides, will reporting to the police help me find my silver? I won't report to the police. As long as this kid can give it to me, I won't care."

Yu Xueyi was so frustrated that he almost cried. He gritted his teeth and said, "I didn't take it, Sister Yutong, please believe me."

Jiang Yutong certainly believed Yu Xueyi. He had been in Jingshui Tower for so long, but this was the first time he was accused of stealing silver.

"If you don't report it to the authorities, it's hard to say. Words are not enough to prove anything."

"Wouldn't it be easier to find out by searching me?"

Butcher Lu was about to reach out and search Yu Xueyi's body.

Jiang Yutong pinched his wrist and said, "It's not good to search other people's bodies casually like this. There's no name on this copper coin. If you find something at random, does it mean it's yours?"

Butcher Lu hadn't expected Jiang Yutong to be so strong. He grabbed his wrist and made him unable to move. He grinned and said, "If you weren't guilty, why wouldn't you dare let someone search you?"

At this time, the onlookers were also talking about it, "If you didn't steal it, then let people search it."

"That's right, what are you afraid of?"

"That's not good. Like this girl said, there's no name on the coin, so how can we know if it's his?"

Jiang Yutong released the man's wrist, pointed at him and said, "I said you stole my money, will you let me search you?"

Butcher Lu rubbed his wrists and quickly covered his collar tightly. "You're talking nonsense. Why should I let you search me?"

Jiang Yutong shrugged and said to the onlookers, "Everyone has seen it. This person framed others without any evidence, making it difficult for the police to report it. He also wanted to search people at every turn. Who doesn't have a few coins on them now? Like I said, there's no name on these coins, so how are we going to judge them then?"

Butcher Lu was not willing to give up. "I clearly saw silver on him. That's mine."

Yu Xueyi's hands were shaking. "You're talking nonsense! This was clearly a tip from a few guests just now."

Yu Xueyi pointed at a few guests who happened to be in the crowd.

The people being pointed at nodded, "It is true."

In order to convince the people, Jiang Yutong said, "Manager Liu, please help me get two bowls of water."

Manager Liu quickly had two bowls of water brought over.

Jiang Yutong said to Yu Xueyi, "Xueyi, give me a copper coin."

Yu Xueyi did as he was told. Similarly, Jiang Yutong asked Butcher Lu for a copper coin.

Butcher Lu reluctantly took out a copper coin from his lapel.

Jiang Yutong raised both hands and said, "Everyone, watch carefully. I'm going to put these two copper coins into the water at the same time. Let's see what happens."

After saying that, Jiang Yutong put the two copper coins into different bowls, and soon found that the copper coins belonging to Butcher Lu had oil splatters on the surface of the water.

But there was nothing in Yu Xueyi's bowl.

Some smart people have already figured out the key, while some who are confused ask, "What's the difference?"

Jiang Yutong patiently explained, "Butcher Lu works with pork all day long. The copper coins that pass through his hands are all covered in lard. However, Yu Xueyi's copper coins have no lard at all. So, these copper coins cannot possibly belong to Butcher Lu."

After Jiang Yutong's explanation, everyone suddenly realized, "So that's how it is."

Butcher Lu continued stubbornly, "I just happened to take out this copper coin that wasn't mine. He has other ones on him."

In fact, Yu Xueyi didn't have many copper coins on him. They were all tips from customers. You gave one and he gave two, so in total there were only about ten copper coins, and he took them all out.

"All the copper coins I have are here." After saying that, he threw them all into the water.

All the copper coins were clean without a speck of grease.

"What else do you have to say?"

Butcher Lu cursed and wanted to leave, "It's my bad luck."

"Stop."

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