By the time the confession was finished, it was already past noon. An Ying felt empty in her stomach, and was too embarrassed to interrupt Mr. Su who was still looking around, so he could only endure it silently, thinking in his mind that he would buy Hu cakes at the corner when he went out. The Hu cakes in that shop were made soft and soft. After eating enough sesame seeds and green onions, especially the salty taste, An Ying couldn't hold back and swallowed hard.
Su Huangzhe laughed when he heard the sound. Now An Ying felt a little embarrassed, so he said: "Master Su is laughing, I am really hungry."
Xiao Yi saw this and said, "My subordinate just asked someone to buy some food and it will be delivered shortly."
What a coincidence, the food Xiao Yi brought in was the biscuits from the shop at the corner of the street. An Ying immediately perked up, "Is this the biscuits from the store at the street corner? Brother Xiao Yi really knows how to buy them. The biscuits from this store are delicious. The dough is made soft and soft, especially the green onions they use skillfully. The mouth is filled with the aroma of green onions.”
Su Huangzhe smiled and picked up a pancake and took a bite. "Ms. An is very interested in food. I ate the wontons in the morning well, the fillings were well prepared. I ate pork, shrimp, and some chopped green onions. .”
Seeing that Mr. Su had already started eating, An Ying took a bite of the Hu Pancake without any reservations. He was so satisfied after one bite. It was a pity that he had less to drink. An Ying thought to himself, but he didn't dare to ask for it, so he took a small sip later. I ate it in small bites because I was afraid of choking.
Xiao Yi, on the other hand, brought two more bowls of soup, put them on the table and said, "I also bought soup, so just eat these pancakes, otherwise you will choke."
An Ying took a big sip, then let out a long sigh and said, "This is the clove soup from the Wang Pozi fragrant soup stall at the corner. It tastes good, but the clove flavor takes away from the onion flavor of this pancake, which is not very good." "
Xiao Yi's eyes widened, as if he had seen a ghost. An Ying immediately felt that something was wrong. He felt relaxed in front of Mr. Su for some reason, so he couldn't help but casually said what was on his mind. He immediately smiled and wanted to round things off: "Brother Xiao Yi, look at my nonsense. Thank you for the food you went to buy."
"Don't be nervous." Mr. Su drank the soup and said, "Xiao Yi is like that because he bought the same thing a few days ago and I said the same thing."
Xiao Yi immediately nodded and said: "Miss An, don't be nervous, I don't mean anything else. I bought similar Hu cakes and clove soup on the way that day, and Mr. Su said the same thing as you."
An Ying then relaxed and said with a smile, "It seems that Mr. Su has the same taste as me."
"Tell me about it, Xiao Yi, and listen too." Su Huangzhe finished eating and drinking slowly and leaned back in his chair.
An Ying immediately stood up and was about to salute and prepare to reply when he heard Mr. Su's slow voice coming from above his head: "You don't have to be so reserved, little girl. You were very relaxed when you were hungry just now. Now you are so respectful again. "
An Ying didn't know how to respond at all, and she didn't know what to do with her hands raised in the air. Xiao Yi pushed a chair over and said, "Miss An, just sit down and talk. We adults are easy-going and don't need so much etiquette. "
An Ying had no choice but to sit in a chair and said: "We just took a look at Luo's dowry. All the valuable jewelry was there, and I heard from brother Xiao Yi that Luo packed up and returned to her parents' home. I felt strange. Like Mr. Zheng In a merchant like this, the only valuable things that a lady can take away are cash, banknotes and jewelry. But when I looked at the items in Luo's bag, except for two 100-tael banknotes, the rest were all Bits and pieces of worthless things. You said that if my mother was really sick, she would at least bring some valuable medicinal materials. What are these? Rouge, comb, mirror, and a set of clothes. The quality of the clothes is average, but this style seems to be from the future. The ones from the girl's family are not what a married woman like Luo Shi wears. The strangest thing is that there are some jewelry. These jewelry are all worthless, such as small beads, silver hairpins, etc., in her bedroom The gold and ruby-embedded open bracelet in the dowry is more expensive than this baggage. You said she really didn't know the news and was just going back to her parents' home to see her mother, so she shouldn't have brought it with her."
Xiao Yi was convinced and said: "I felt something was wrong. What tricks was this woman playing? Er Mao said that this woman insisted that she was going to see her mother, and she didn't know anything about Zheng Ping. After hearing about Zheng Ping, she even cried I had to faint."
"Then what does she do with these things? What is she hiding?"
An Ying picked up the stack of confessions and said, "I didn't know why at first, but we have to look at it in conjunction with the confessions."
Xiao Yi scratched his head and said: "I know that confessions are very important, and Mr. Su also attaches great importance to this when handling cases, so I recorded all the confessions carefully. But these are all bits and pieces, let alone reading them again, I fell asleep listening to them. Miss An has read through such a thick confession book?"
An Ying opened a thick confession book and said as he turned, "I've been quick to read things since I was a child. I'm used to reading the account books at home."
"On the first day of May, that is, the day before the tea shop meeting. Shopkeeper Niu installed the molds in the warehouse of the workshop. He finished the work at about 15:00. As usual, shopkeeper Niu locked the doors and windows and returned home. . The lock was opened early the next morning, and there was nothing special, so the box was loaded onto the carriage. You see, the confessions of the cattle shopkeeper’s wife and the store’s helpers confirmed this.”
Xiao Yi said: "It may be that shopkeeper Niu pretended to be wrong and said that on purpose."
An Ying nodded and said: "This is a possibility. When we push the case, we list all the possibilities, and then the most likely ones are impossible. I also said before that there must be a motive for committing a crime. Regardless of Whether it’s shopkeeper Niu or Mr. Zheng, their families have been making a living from the tea industry for generations. Is there any motive for them to abandon their family business and family to do this? If it is to attack other tea households, this method is not like business competition but Struggle in official circles. Secondly, from a convenient point of view, Shopkeeper Niu and Mr. Zheng are both people who bought the molds from Mindi. They can directly poison the molds and cannot commit the drama of taking them out and putting them back again. It makes no sense. So there is no need for Shopkeeper Niu and Master Zheng to lie about this matter."
"Xiao Yi, think about it now, what is the key to this problem?" Su Huangzhe asked
Xiao Yi scratched his head worriedly, "Miss An just started, and she didn't say anything else. How do I know?"
"You think if He Zhizhou hadn't ordered the tea shop to use new molds at the conference, this poisonous mold wouldn't have been able to enter the tea households smoothly. He Zhizhou must be one of the key people in this matter." An Ying looked at Su Huangzhe Said: "That's why Mr. Su put He Zhizhou under special supervision from the beginning."
Su Huangzhe nodded and said: "The moment I received the case, I sent someone to Huzhou to take He Zhizhou into custody first."
