The queen is spoiling the king and madly criticizing him for spoiling her

"It's better to investigate further. Maybe someone really took advantage of this opportunity to sneak into Guo Wu's house and do something bad to his wife."

"I will arrange for someone to try again." Yun He immediately turned around and left.

When Dou Wen heard the word "dog hole", he inexplicably had a bad premonition in his heart.

The little beast could even sleep with his own little girl, so there's no guarantee he wouldn't do something worse than other beasts.

The moment Gu Jianchu looked over, Dou Cong turned his head away guiltily.

The wait was long for the murderer. Yunhe hadn't returned yet, but Zhuxia had hurried back, escorted by the Dali Temple bailiffs. Behind her was a man dressed in ordinary silk and satin, with a small mustache on his face. "Your Majesty, this jade belt was sold by Qiuyuefang. This is the owner of Qiuyuefang."

"Do you still remember who you sold the jade belts to?" Gu Jianchu glanced at the boss.

The boss nodded quickly. "I remember. Although it was scrap brocade, brocade is expensive to begin with. Plus, it's top-grade mutton-fat jade, so the jade belt was inevitably a bit more expensive. I sold three in that month, one to Mr. Dou, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; another to Mr. Guo, the son of the Vice Minister of Justice; and the young master of the Earl's Mansion. I remember the young master of the Earl's Mansion said he bought the jade belt as a gift."

[Why is there always that unlucky child from Minister Guo's family?]

Minister Guo really should discipline this unfortunate child. Otherwise, he'll easily be implicated and become a victim. After all, smart people like Your Majesty and I are hard to find.

Xie Ci'an nodded.

There is nothing wrong with what the Queen said.

After praising himself, Gu Jianchu continued to ask, "Are the three jade belts you sold the same?"

"The styles are similar, but there are subtle differences. The embroidery is done by different embroiderers, and the texture of the jade is also different, so each jade belt is different."

[Because the boss was stingy, she immediately replaced the previous embroiderer when she saw that the price was too high, which is why the stitches were different. The same goes for jade. If they could find something cheap, they wouldn't use the expensive one. After all, the selling price would be the same.]

"Then can you tell who this jade belt was sold to?" Gu Jianchu looked at the other party coldly.

The shopkeeper looked embarrassed. "Please forgive me, Queen. Although the jade belts I sold are similar, I really can't tell that this one was bought by that young master."

Knowing that the shopkeeper really couldn't recognize him, Gu Jianchu stopped making things difficult for him and waved his hand to let him leave.

"Go check and see whoever can't produce the jade belt will own it."

Gu Jianchu said something and his eyes first fell on Dou Cong.

Dou Cong, feeling guilty, was frightened and slipped, falling to the ground.

"I heard from the shopkeeper that Mr. Dou also bought an identical jade belt. I wonder where yours is?"

Dou Cong wiped the sweat from his forehead and thought quickly, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I did buy an identical jade belt, but I lost the other one."

"Do you remember where you lost it?" Zhu Xia asked.

Dou Cong pretended to think seriously, "I think I lost it at home. I used it once and then threw it in my room and never used it again. Then I went to look for it and found it was gone. Anyway, it was something insignificant, so I didn't pay too much attention to it."

"Mr. Dou is really careless. He didn't even look for the thief in his house. Today he lost a jade belt, but tomorrow he might lose something else. Zhuxi, take your men to Mr. Dou's yard and search it thoroughly to see if the thief left any clues. After all, the person who stole Mr. Dou's jade belt is very likely the thief who defiled the Wu family."

Dou was sweating profusely, and he raised his hand to wipe it again and again.

Dou Wen asked the servants to bring tea and snacks.

The yamen runner who had gone to question Guo Zirui and the young master of the Earl's Mansion came back first, each holding a jade belt in his hand. "Your Majesty, these are the jade belts of Guo Zirui and the second young master of the Earl's Mansion, neither of them is lost."

"The possibility of them is not high. After all, they are too far away from here. It is impossible for them to come here to commit crimes. Let's send someone to take the jade back to them." Gu Jianchu rubbed his aching eyebrows.

Yunhe and Zhuxi came back one after another.

Dou Cong's nervousness rose again, and his fingers under his sleeves were shaking.

Yun He reported first, "Your Majesty, I have already had someone try it. If someone is a bit thinner, they can indeed crawl through this dog hole to Guo Wu's house. I also found some cloth on the edge of the dog hole. It must have been left by someone accidentally rubbing against the edge while crawling through it."

"I have tried my best to find a slim brother to try on. Even if he is a little thinner, his clothes will be easily scratched by the edge." Yunhe handed the collected cloth to Gu Jianchu.

They are all the remaining raw edges of some clothes.

"Your Majesty can determine through the traces on these clothes that the murderer must have gone to Guo Wu's house through the dog hole." Yunhe finally summarized.

【Yunhe is still very powerful. 】

Dou Cong still has two pieces of clothing he took off after crawling through the dog hole and hasn't washed them yet. They're covered in mud. I wonder if anyone in Zhuxi has found them. If they can, they'll be able to nail Dou Cong to the point of killing him.

Xie Ci'an picked up the frayed edges of the clothes and took a look. "They come in all sorts of colors, and are made of the finest Shu brocade. They're definitely not the clothes of the servants in the mansion, and they don't fit in with the clothes worn by ordinary people around here. What do you think about this, Lord Dou?"

Dou Wenben was sitting on the edge of the armchair. When Xie Ci'an reminded him, he slipped off the armchair and fell to the ground.

The housekeeper helped Dou Wen up from the ground. Dou Wen wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "Your humble servant... Your humble servant..."

Not to mention the shrewd emperor and empress, Dou Wen also had a vague guess. A jade belt and the fine cloth rubbed off the dog hole, what else could not be explained?

The dog hole is still in Dou Cong's yard, so it definitely couldn't have been made by anyone else.

Whether it was the servants in the mansion or Dou Cong's cronies, it was impossible for Dou Cong to be unaware of it, so the only possibility was Dou Cong himself.

It would have been fine if he had just slept with the young lady in the mansion, but now he has set his sights on the neighbor next door. It's all because he was too indulgent to this little beast, which led to him developing a lawless character.

Gu Jianchu was too lazy to listen to Dou Wen's stuttering. "Zhuxi, have you found any useful clues?"

Dou Wen swallowed his explanation in an instant and knelt on the ground like a quail, no one paid any attention to him.

Zhuxi said, "I have carefully checked Mr. Dou's yard and found no trace of thieves, but I did find some other things."