After Shen Chongming walked away, Zhou Yu'an opened his eyes and soon heard the sound of him using the key to open the third door.
Take a deep breath and fumble among the gold and silver jewelry.
Being greedy for money is fake, looking for a prescription is real, but that prescription is not in the coffin.
Glancing at the third door that was opened, she carried her bag and walked in.
"It's so heavy that I can't carry it!" Zhou Yu'an dropped the bag on the ground: "What are you looking for?"
Shen Chongming opened the purple gold box placed on the wooden shelf. The box was empty and the prescription was missing.
"Is this box filled with medicine? Why does it have a strong smell of medicine?"
Zhou Yu'an stepped on his feet and recognized that the box contained the prescription. The prescription was written on silk cloth, soaked in potion to prevent insect infestation. Zhou Yuan knew the ingredients of the potion quite well, and it was the smell in the box.
She knew that Shen Chongming was from the imperial court, but she didn't expect that he was also involved with the prescription.
"The things are gone, maybe they were taken away by someone." Shen Chongming put the purple gold box into the armhole: "Have you packed the things you want?"
"Absolutely!" Zhou Yu'an weighed the baggage on the ground: "It's too heavy to carry, so I can only carry this much."
"Don't you know how to pick up something light?" Zhou Yu opened the bag and took a look. Except for the string of beads from before, Zhou Yu installed all gold utensils. These things are expensive and eye-catching.
"I'll help you choose." Shen Chongming shook his head, his eyes loving and helpless: "Where do you want to go after changing the money?"
"I don't know." Zhou Yu'an squatted on the ground, looking up at Shen Chongming picking things from the coffin. Unlike Zhou Yu'an who only picked up gold items, the items he picked looked ordinary and easy to carry.
"Don't you want a jade pendant? That thing is easy to carry."
"Those are Prince Ning's things. Holding them will only bring trouble to you." Shen Chongming sighed: "The ones I picked for you are easy to pawn. The larger ones can be exchanged for banknotes and deposited in the bank account, and the smaller ones can be exchanged for shreds. Carry the silver with you. Find more pawn shops to avoid being targeted."
"Shen Chongming, don't you blame me?"
"Why do you blame me?" Shen Chongming said calmly: "I blame you for selling me to Chunfeng Tower?"
"I told you that I had no choice but to do so." Zhou Yu'an pursed his lips and said, "Is it okay for you to follow Mr. Li?"
"It's not what you think." Shen Chongming handed her the baggage: "I'm just a master in the county government."
"Is it Mr. Li's intention that you come to He Mansion to look for something?" Zhou Yu'an couldn't help but ask: "Is this the guard Mr. Li arranged for you to hold the sword?"
"Zhou Yu'an, have you forgotten where you found me?" Shen Chongming stared into her eyes: "He is my subordinate who holds the sword and came to Fuyang County to find me. I helped Mr. Li because we both belong to the imperial court. Eating royal salary."
"I know, I promise I won't ask again in the future." Zhou Yu'an smiled and had other plans in mind. "Since we all got what we wanted, let's go our separate ways after we go out."
"Zhou Yu'an!" Shen Chongming called her name, his eyebrows softened, "Is there anything else you want to tell me?"
Zhou Yu'an thought for a while, avoiding his increasingly gentle eyes and said: "It's good to be a master. Don't go to the battlefield to fight again. You were lucky that time in Changmingshan. Also, I am very happy to meet you. But I don’t want you to meet me again.”
Zhou Yu'an carried her little bundle and left without looking back. Shen Chongming stood there, his eyelids drooping in shadow, thoughtfully.
At the door, holding a sword, he handed a homing pigeon to Shen Chongming.
"What happened to Miss Zhou? Why did she leave on her own?"
"Send someone to keep an eye on her." Shen Chongming took off the note tied to the pigeon's leg: "There are changes in Suizhou, we must go back as soon as possible."
"Then we don't care about this He family?"
"The prescription is gone. It was not taken by He Hongyi." Shen Chongming took out the purple gold box. There was a shallow scratch on the box: "The box was opened with a dagger. The person who took the prescription was very cautious and worried about the storage of the prescription. There is another mechanism in the purple gold box of the prescription."
"Are you from His Highness King Qi?"
"If King Qi succeeds, Sui'er and Chunhong will not continue to hide in the mansion. You also know how King Qi acts. Even the informants who were bribed with money will be silenced one by one after the incident is completed."
"It's not He Hongyi, nor King Qi, so who took this prescription?" He scratched his head with his sword, puzzled: "It can't be a member of the Zhou family, right?"
"A member of the Zhou family?" Shen Chongming pondered.
Zhou Yu'an, surnamed Zhou, was good at medicine and came here to make prescriptions. If she is a member of the Zhou family, it was another force that took the prescription. Who does that force belong to? Is it a certain minister in the court, or a foreign tribe who is eyeing the opportunity and wants to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble.
No matter what, this matter must continue to be investigated.
Before leaving, Zhou Yuan went to see Chunhong.
They talked in the room for half an hour. Chunhong nodded and went to see He Hongyi with the relics left by her mother.
After only one night, He Hongyi's hair turned white. He was sitting in a rocking chair like an old man in his twilight years, looking at the things left by his mother and son in trance.
When Chunhong took out the token, his eyes suddenly widened, and then he looked at her and smiled quietly.
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Just after Haishi, Su Niang, who was staying in Yizhuang, was awakened by a harsh scratching sound. She opened her eyes suddenly, held her son in her arms and gently coaxed her, looking towards the window.
The room was not dark, and the moonlight fell to the ground through the thin window paper. Through the moonlight, I saw a vine wrapped around the window lattice.
It was crab grass that was commonly found in the fields. Before I came to the He family to become my aunt, I had to shovel it in the fields every three to five days.
How did this crabgrass get to the window?
Not to mention that the window was half a person's height from the ground. When she was repairing the window during the day, she had never seen this kind of grass nearby.
Driven by curiosity, Su Niang put down her sleeping child, walked to the window, pushed open the window, and pulled off the crab grass that was wrapped around it.
A gust of cold wind came, and the crabgrass seemed to be alive, crawling along her fingertips into her sleeves, and then climbed to her neck.
Crabgrass leaves are very sharp and feel like needles when piercing the skin. It drilled into her flesh with great force, but she could only open her eyes in vain and slowly lower her hands.
At the Yuelai Inn, Zhou Yuan was blocked in the room by a group of government servants, the leader of whom was holding a sword.
A murder occurred in Yizhuang in the south of the city. Su Niang was hung from the beam with a straw rope. Different from ordinary murder cases, this straw rope seemed to grow from her neck and was connected to her meridians. At the same time, the person who was responsible for guarding the village disappeared. There was only a newborn baby waiting to be fed.
To the people of Fuyang County, Su Niang had long been dead, and it was unheard of for a dead person to give birth to a child. The county magistrate did not know the inside story and thought it was an evil spirit. He cried and begged to let Shen Chongming postpone his return and help him solve the Yizhuang case.
The case is related to Su Niang, and the only survivor is the child rescued by Zhou Yuan - this case is strange, she must be present!
In the Yi Zhuang, Wu Zuo ordered someone to take down Su Niang's body.
The deceased's clothes were intact, with only socks and no shoes on her feet. Judging from the traces of mud on the bottom of her socks, she walked out of bed by herself.
The quilt was half-opened and the child was placed against the wall, indicating that she did not notice the danger when she stood up to check.
