Yang Ye and others gathered in the academy.
Yang Ye was sitting by the window thinking about things, but Yang Shen beside him was very anxious, pacing back and forth, saying, "Why is the Ministry of Punishment here to ask questions again? Is this matter still over?"
Guo Xi had called them one by one to talk before. After the talk, he asked them to stay in the academy and not move around. He thought that they were all students who had passed the entrance exam and might have official status in two or three years. What would happen in the future? Maybe they were all greeted politely, but after all, these students had never been restricted in their freedom, and they were extremely uncomfortable even in the academy.
Zhu Zhuzhi pursed his lips to Yang Ye and said, "You see, he is calm and composed. After all, he worked in the Ministry of Punishment. You can't do this."
Yang Shen glanced at what Yang Ye was planning to say, and Feng Mo on the side said: "What you said is just a sign of trouble for Brother Yang Ye. But if it weren't for your Zongzi, he wouldn't have caused so many things."
Yang Shen paused and said bitterly: "Even if it weren't for your zongzi, Brother Zhu wouldn't have died."
Zhu Zhuzhi lowered his head and said a little tiredly: "I would rather it was me who ate the rice dumplings in the first place. That's right, that person probably wanted me to die, but instead it dragged down Brother Zhu and you all."
Having said that, Shen Pingxiu on the other side said to Feng Mo: "Why are you complaining about Brother Zhu? He is also a victim. The top priority now is to catch the murderer, so that we can comfort Brother Zhu's spirit in heaven. You think so? Brother Liang .”
Liang Su was sitting on a bench drinking water. He didn't even raise his head when he said, "Yeah." Shen Pingxiu didn't take it seriously. Shen Pingxiu knew Liang Su's temperament, so he didn't ask further questions, but Yang Shen was irritable. He stood up and complained: "How long are they going to find out? If you poison someone you don't know, whoever you poison will be the one to blame, and they won't be able to find out in eight hundred years?"
Yang Ye said: "Now it seems that the government probably detained us here because they suspected one of us."
When Yang Shen heard this, his eyes widened and he shouted loudly: "Why? What does this have to do with us?" Zhu Zhuzhi brought rice dumplings and let a few of us eat them. We were almost poisoned to death, okay? You still doubt us? ?”
Zhu Zhuzhi, Feng Mo, Shen Pingxiu and Liang Su all looked over, and Yang Ye continued: "If poisoning is done casually, whoever is poisoned will not count, then it is better to poison all the rice dumplings, so that everyone will die. It’s not more effective. Just dropping a rice dumpling shows that the person who poisoned it has a target.”
Liang Su wiped his mouth and said: "I heard that Boss Fang has been released, and the government has probably confirmed that it is not the Fang family's problem. I felt something was wrong at the beginning. If a few oleander petals accidentally drifted in, Brother Zhu wouldn't It's so fast that it can be saved by drinking the decoction. I think it's the juice of the oleander stem, and the poison comes quickly and violently."
Shen Pingxiu asked: "What does that mean?"
Liang Subai glanced at it and said: "It's quite troublesome to extract this juice, and after six hours of extraction, most of the efficacy will be weakened. The fresher it is, the more toxic it is. I looked at Brother Zhu's condition that day, and most of the toxicity was six Within hours, so the government determined that Zongzi was poisoned in the academy."
Feng Mo thought for a while and said: "There are so many people in the academy, why are we only imprisoned? I remember Brother Zhu sent the rice dumplings to the kitchen for the cooks to cook and bring them. There are not many people in the kitchen. With so many people coming and going, is it even more convenient to poison?”
Yang Ye said: "Didn't Mr. Guo take all the people in the kitchen to the government office for questioning? There must be results in the next few days."
Liang Su on the side continued: "The people in the kitchen should be fine. Which one of them wants to poison Brother Zhu? Isn't this because he is full? It must be a deep hatred to do this."
"What do you mean? We have a deep hatred for Brother Zhu?" Yang Shen immediately asked after hearing this.
"Hey, to be honest, Brother Zhu, are there any deep grudges or resentments in your family? Otherwise, we would really be the biggest suspects." Liang Su drank the water on the table again and said. : "By the way, Brother Zhu, stop hiding it. At this time, if there are any secrets in the family, you have to tell them. Otherwise, the brothers will spend their time here."
Zhu Zhuzhi smiled bitterly and said: "Master Guo has said this before. Although there are many people in my family, everyone is harmonious. Even the secrets are nothing more than squabbles between the female family members in the family. It is really out of the question. Deep hatred and hatred.”
"Last time, Mr. Shao Yin and Mr. Registrar had already searched my house thoroughly. They even found out that the maid in the second room secretly sprinkled dust into the soup in the third room. The rice dumpling gift box is placed in the concierge of my house, where it is kept all year round. There are two young men waiting at the door, and I never see anyone, so no one will poison my house."
Yang Ye nodded and said, "Brother Zhu took the rice dumplings and went directly back to the academy. Did he stop by during that time?"
Zhu Zhuzhi said: "Master Guo has also asked about this. I stopped twice, once to buy the pen and ink paper to be used at the pen and ink shop at Gaosheng Street, and once to buy it from the book shop on Baiyun Road. Several newly published books. The government must have checked them."
An Yingxia came home and walked on the road.
Ever since my father's shop opened and my younger brothers and sisters had settled down, it seemed like there were no worries in life, except for the seal that Luo Qiao Niang had given her during her lifetime.
At that time, I didn't react at all, and I was afraid that the guards on duty would find out that I was exchanging items with the felon in private, so I hid the seal by mistake.
After taking it back, I looked at it carefully. Although it was made of agate, it was worth some money. The content of the seal was only Luo Qiaoniang's name, and there was nothing special about it. But if you think about it later, Luo Qiaoniang is a repeat offender in the prison, and her body must have been searched many times. The fact that she was able to hide it secretly shows that this seal is extremely important, and she must have had a purpose in taking such a big risk to secretly give it to herself, but she has been I just couldn't figure it out.
Until that day when he learned from Mrs. Shen that five hundred thousand taels of silver were missing, An Ying had an idea.
Could it be that Luo Qiaoniang secretly hid this silver, and this seal may hint at the whereabouts of the silver? But if he rashly went to the Ministry of Punishment to confess about the seal, then his relationship with the felons would not be clear anyway. Especially since he was investigating Zheng Ping for Luo Qiaoniang, it would be easy for people to doubt his motives.
After careful consideration, he decided to join the Criminal Department. If he could look at the files of the tribute tea case, he could secretly investigate the relationship between the five hundred thousand taels of silver and Luo Qiaoniang's seal.
I just didn't expect that when I first entered the Criminal Department, I wouldn't be able to come into contact with cases, especially such huge cases. All he could do was wait for the opportunity, An Ying sighed and walked home.
I scolded Luo Qiaoniang ten thousand times in my heart. Her normal life was completely ruined by this little seal.
