"On the night of the tenth day of the lunar month, everyone in the Wang family heard Wang Qingyan coming home. Early the next morning, they found Wang Qingyan stabbed to death in the study. There were also signs that the study had been disturbed."
"During the on-site investigation, we found that the paper in the blood stains had two forms. One was soaked in fresh blood and then solidified, and the other was floating on the already solidified blood."
Yan Kuan was very engrossed in listening and couldn't help blurting out and asked, "What does this mean?"
"It shows that there are two times for turning over the paper. The first is when the murderer has just finished killing the person and the murderer falls while searching for it. The second is when someone falls while searching for the paper after a long time after death and the blood has coagulated."
An Ying looked at Qin Manyun and said: "The second situation can only be Mrs. Wang, Qin Manyun, who entered the study early the next morning."
Qin Manyun lowered his head and said, "It's me. I want to find out the manuscript of Xianggong's book and send it to Chengbitang before the officials come."
Liang Su stopped talking and said, "Cheng Bitang? Could it be that Wang Qingyan is Mr. Qingluan? What you want to send is the manuscript of "Peach Red"?"
Qin Manyun nodded, while Liang Su, Yan Kuan and others winked at each other excitedly, and others also whispered.
An Ying looked around and said, "This case is much more complicated than the previous two. It starts with Wang Qingyan's dismissal from the Ministry of Household Affairs."
"Didn't you say that direction was wrong?" Yan Kuan asked anxiously.
"The direction was wrong, but it was the cause of the matter."
"Wang Qingyan embezzled one hundred taels of silver when he was the judge of the Ministry of Revenue. To be honest, it sounds like a lot of silver, but compared to the millions of taels of silver he handles every year, it is actually very little."
"Why would he embezzle this money, which was not much but ruined his career? Judge Duzhi will be promoted after one more year of service. He has a bright future ahead of him.
An Ying looked at Qin Manyun and said, "Because his wife was seriously ill, he was in a hurry to use money, so he had no choice but to embezzle a sum of money."
Qin Manyun's tears fell down.
"Fortunately, the money was put to great use and Mrs. Wang was rescued." An Ying continued: "But Wang Qingyan lost his job, the official could not get much money, and Mrs. Wang had to continue taking medicine. "
"This is Mrs. Wang's prescription. Liang Su, please take a look."
Liang Su was stunned when his name was called. He swallowed the dried incense in several mouthfuls, took the prescription and glanced at it. "This prescription is for treating the spleen and stomach. Mrs. Wang has been belching all the time and doesn't want to eat." Qin Manyun nodded.
Liang Su said: "There is nothing wrong with the prescription, but this medicine cannot be broken. And the medicines in this prescription are relatively expensive."
"Wang Qingyan's ancestral home is in Jingzhou, and his family is mediocre. He basically relies on Wang Qingyan to work hard in the capital. In order to pay for Mrs. Wang's medicine, Wang Qingyan looked for work everywhere to make money."
"He found his fellow villager, Bai Yongcheng, the Le Cheng of the Jiaofang Division. After Bai Yongcheng introduced him, he wrote lyrics for songs in the Jiaofang Division, earning some money and a day's rations."
Qin Manyun was a little confused for a moment, and she said hesitantly: "You mean Qingyan has been working in the Jiaofang Department before?"
"Yes, even Huang Yu's work was introduced by Bai Yongcheng who was entrusted by Qingyan."
Huang Yu on the side couldn't help but said: "Then the story I told was..."
"Yes, the story you told about Qiu Yueniang has actually been known to Wang Qingyan for a long time. Bai Yongcheng, Wang Qingyan and Qiu Yueniang are all fellow Jingzhou people."
Yan Kuan couldn't help but interjected: "So the book "Peach Red" is not a fabrication?"
An Ying nodded and continued to say to everyone: "Yes, the story of "Peach Red" is about Qiu Yueniang."
Mrs. Qi Guogong on the side couldn't help but said: "Doesn't this mean there is really a black-hearted and unfaithful man?"
An Ying nodded and said, "Indeed. But Qiu Yueniang doesn't have any close friends. As Huang Yu said, people who do menial work are too busy trying to find ways to have enough to eat that they have no time to care about others."
"Bai Le Department, even you, the fellow who introduced her to the Jiaofang Department, don't know about it, right?"
Bai Yongcheng, who was standing in the crowd, nodded, "I never asked, and she didn't tell me. I just went to various charity villages in the capital every day to inquire. Later, I heard that she had found her husband, but... .”
"Just like Taohong in "The Story of Taohong" discovered that her husband Liu Zhen had become the consort, Qiu Yueniang also discovered that her husband was still alive and had even become a high-ranking official, but her husband did not recognize her and was only willing to give her some money. This matter She told the people working under the chef’s kitchen, and basically everyone knew about it.”
Huang Yu said: "Yes, we all know about this. Later we persuaded her to take the money and forget it. Later she thought it would be better to take the money and go back to her hometown."
Bai Yongcheng also said: "I also know about this. Didn't Qiu Yueniang take the money and leave later?"
An Ying shook his head, "Huang Yu, Mrs. Wang, you once said that Wang Qingyan's abnormality was that he once inquired about people with a policeman on the street."
Qin Manyun and Huang Yu looked at each other and said in surprise: "Is he asking about Qiu Yueniang?"
"Yes, we asked the police officer on duty on Dongxi Street. The person Wang Qingyan was asking about was Qiu Yueniang. What the police officer said, what the Bai Le Department said, and what the chef's servants said were all right, it was Qiu Yueniang who went there. After getting directions from the Military and Horse Division, she was ready to leave. But someone heard a conversation between Qiu Yueniang and a man under the cook of the Jiaofang. Jiang Acai, please tell me."
"Young Jiang Ah Cai used to be a wind master in the Jiaofang Division in the east of the city. Hehe, don't you understand, noble man? In the summer, he fanned people and begged for food. One day I was secretly sleeping under the kitchen and heard with my own ears that there was a The man and the woman were talking. The woman cried and said that the man had abandoned his useless wife and married a noble girl in the capital. She was going to the capital government office to file a complaint. The man said, give you some money and go back quickly."
At this moment, Mrs. Qi Guogong understood, and she said: "The two of them didn't reach an agreement in the end?"
An Ying sighed, nodded and said: "Yes. In fact, at first I was not sure whether it was Jiang Ahcai who heard it first or Qiu Yueniang and others who said she wanted to return to her hometown. After all, if Jiang Ahcai heard what happened earlier, Then things will go as Qiu Yueniang said, she compromised, took the money and left."
Liang Su understood and said, "Yes, you don't know what happened before and after these two things happened. What if she met her husband in Jiaofangsi first? It's not necessarily true that the two of them reached an agreement later, right?"
An Ying nodded to Yuan Yi, the chief minister of the Jiaofang, and said, "Are the people in your kitchen unable to go to the guest room in front of you?"
Yuan Yi saluted An Ying, then saluted Su Huangzhe, Qi Guogong's wife and others: "The Jiaofang Division has regulations that people who do rough work such as the kitchen and carriages and horses cannot enter the front. The only people serving in the front are female prostitutes, musicians and tea and wine. "
"This is why Huang Yu has been working in the Jiaofang Division for a year and has never seen Wang Qingyan, who is also working there. It was not until she quit her job in the Jiaofang Division that she could have the opportunity to move on from the front when she came to the Jiaofang Division again. Therefore, I saw Wang Qingyan and Bai Lecheng talking." An Ying said.
Only then did Huang Yu and Qin Manyun understand. Qin Manyun grabbed Huang Yu's hand and let go.
Liang Su suddenly realized: "So the conversation Jiang Acai heard must have been that they had met elsewhere. Was her husband specially looking for the chef of the Jiaofang?"
An Ying nodded, "Yes, so a more reasonable inference is that Qiu Yueniang met her husband elsewhere and the two settled the matter. But later, for some unknown reason, Qiu Yueniang regretted it, and she went to the capital government office to file a complaint! Then she Her husband came over again to dissuade her.”
