Chapter 52 Description
"The city gate is closed?" Cheng Xuelian obviously didn't know this and asked in surprise: "Is it related to the case that Brother Lu testified today?"

Seeing that she didn't know anything about it, Xinnuo stopped asking and said with a smile, "I don't know, I just thought it happened at the same time, so there might be some connection."

Cheng Xuelian then asked: "In this case, you'd better not be too big, so as not to get into any trouble."

After saying this, she put down Xingzi and walked away briskly with her maid.

The new and old lady said, "Sister, do you have a sweetheart?"

"It should be," Xinnuo squatted down, picked up a yellow apricot from the basket and threw it, "I pestered her two days ago and followed her to have a look. This eldest sister of the Cheng family has a good eye. She I don’t dislike the man I’m attracted to at all.”

The new and old ladies were funny, "How did you say this?"

Xin Nuo smiled and said: "Anyway, some people in the Cheng family always make me feel disgusted. It's rare for that family to have a good impression of them."

The old and new lady's heart skipped a beat, this girl couldn't be a playboy, could she?

Didn’t you always praise Marquis Ruiming two days ago?
No, the old man is back and we have to discuss it carefully with him.

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The night was long, Xinnuo ran through his mental method, and sat at the window holding a piece of watermelon to eat.

The window was half open, and the cool night breeze blew in.

When she finished eating the watermelon, she looked out and saw only the black night sky.

Is it cloudy?

Could it be that she guessed wrong that the senior brother will not come today?

"It's likely to rain today, so close the windows."

A warm and clear voice suddenly sounded from behind.

Xinnuo turned around suddenly. The senior brother was dressed in a snow suit and black gauze, with his black hair half loose. He was serving dishes from a small bamboo basket with his head lowered.

"Da," Xinnuo almost blurted out the title in his heart, and rushed towards me, happy and excited, "Why did you think of coming to see me?"

Chu Wei raised his eyes. Under the night light, his eyelashes were so long that he wanted to reach out and pull them.

He said: "The case is over, let me tell you."

Xin Nuo sat aside obediently, put his hands on the table, and said, "I saw Zhang Ku arresting someone, and the murderer also had accomplices. I saw it."

Chu Wei saw her slightly raised chin in triumph, and for some reason, his heart felt soft. Unknowingly, the smile in his eyes almost spilled out.

"Thanks to you," his voice became deeper and deeper.

Xinnuo smiled and said, "I want to know the whole story."

Regarding this case, although she had seen two scenes and had some guesses of her own, she didn't know the inside story, so she was quite curious.

Chu Wei brought out the last plate of desserts, sat across from her, and said, "This starts with the Chenzhou disaster relief food theft case 12 years ago."

Disaster relief food stolen?
heard about it.

At that time, this case was considered a national sensation. She was only three or four years old at the time. She stayed with her grandparents in a remote Xiangshui County, eating and drinking all day long, and she had heard of this case.

"This case cannot be regarded as an unjust case, but Cao Zhiyi, who was executed at the time, was not a man who could empty out the entire Chenzhou Pingquan warehouse."

Xin Nuo picked up a crystal clear snack and looked at Chu Wei seriously while eating, listening to his story.

Chu Wei was concentrating on talking, but when he accidentally raised his eyes and saw her eyes, he felt a heat on his face and a severe throbbing in his heart.

After coughing, he continued: "To be able to evacuate and level up the warehouse without anyone noticing, it must be a joint effort from above and below. Therefore, the so-called theft case back then was actually a joint collaboration between many officials in the state government."

"The reason why Cao Zhiyi was pushed out was actually because he was the first person to steal grain. Cao Zhiyi's Yue family was a big grain merchant. Not long after he became the Tongzhi of Chenzhou, he transferred a shrewd person from his wife's family to the prefect's Yamen. After that, the two parties cooperated. , they passed off the grain in Pingquan's warehouse as inferior quality and transported a lot of it away. Later, when the prefect Quan found out about it, the scale of the joint cooperation gradually formed. "

"So much so that they became more and more courageous and emptied the entire liquidation warehouse. If the imperial envoys sent by the emperor hadn't taken it by surprise, the empty liquidation warehouse might not have been discovered."

Hearing this, Xinnuo already had a guess, "So, in order to get rid of the crime, the whole Chenzhou government put the blame entirely on Cao Zhiyi."

Chu Wei nodded, "That's why they convinced Cao Zhiyi's confidants to make false accounts and false evidence, which resulted in the tragic deaths of dozens of men in the Cao family, and all the women were thrown into the camps of official and military prostitutes."

"And the murderer in these cases is a young lady who was replaced by the loyal servant of the Cao family. The two people she wanted to kill were Zhang Zhiyuan, who was also an acquaintance of Chenzhou Prefecture, and her little aunt. , Cao Zhilan. It can be said that when Cao Mansion was convicted, these two people played the biggest role."

"But because of the first murder case, I paid attention to this case, and she didn't have time to do it." Speaking of this, Chu Wei sighed a little, "If you didn't remind me, there would be an innocent dead soul today."

Xinnuo felt that his appearance was extremely pitiful, so she smiled and stuffed a piece of crystal cake into his mouth.

Chu Wei looked at the girl with both laughter and tears in his eyes. She snorted coquettishly and asked, "Is that Cao Zhilan the murderer's accomplice that I reminded Zhang Ku to pay attention to?"

Chu Wei ate half of the crystal cake that he took out, and said with a smile: "I'm not an accomplice. I visited Mr. Zhang before, and Cao Zhilan guessed Cao Ruo at that time. They had met each other more than a year ago, so Cao Zhilan heard that Whenever I mention those who died, I think of her."

"This is a calm and calm person. After I met Zhang Zhiyuan, I sent someone to protect him in the dark. This Cao Zhilan, who guessed why, has resisted looking for Cao Ruo. If she hadn't bumped into the arresting scene today, and In order to help Cao Ruo get rid of the suspicion, I attacked the neighbor's child. After the case is closed, I will not associate her with the Cao family."

Xinnuo thought for a while and said: "Being able to betray your brother back then must have a very complicated character. But there is one thing I can't understand. That day in Thousand Layers Temple, there were people like you and me who were good at martial arts, and yours The four guards are very skilled, but why didn’t they hear any movement?”

Chu Wei smiled and said: "If you know that the Cao family is from Puding County, Shuzhou, you will understand. Puding County is located in the hot and humid southwest, and there are many exotic flowers and plants. Before Cao Zhiyi became an official, Cao's family was a doctor. The family has a well-known medicine called Xiaomafeisan, which is different from the Mafeisan handed down by the legendary doctor Zhang. The Cao family’s Xiaomafeisan can make people lose the ability to move and speak, but it will not completely The pain of loss.”

"This is a drug with shortcomings, but it has played an important role in these cases."

Xinnuo was puzzled: "But I didn't see the traces of the medicine on the corpse, didn't you find out the clues through your work? And, how did that Cao Ruo get into Cheng's mansion?"

Chu Wei looked at her. There were so many questions and she must be truthful. She was really suitable for participating in the investigation of the case.

"The widow of Dali Temple did a detailed examination after returning home, and indeed found pill residues in the stomach of the deceased. But you only looked at the corpse roughly. If you can also see traces of medication, wouldn't it be amazing."

(End of this chapter)

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