Since I met you, people are dying every day

When this topic was mentioned, Zhu'er couldn't help but her eyes turned red, "Naturally, I am not as considerate as my parents, but I am lucky to have a place to go away from here." She sobbed as she spoke.

Ye Sirui comforted her repeatedly, and when she stopped crying, he asked again: "Did your young master value you very much before his death?"

Zhu'er shook her head, "The servants are the young master's personal servants, but they are often scolded by the young master, so I dare not take them seriously."

"Oh?" Ye Sirui's eyebrows were deep, "But I heard from the kitchen that you bring back the ginseng soup that the young master uses every day?"

Zhu'er quickly said: "The young master has four servant girls who serve him personally. The servant girls are stupid and have to do some errand work."

"So, if the young master's ginseng soup was poisoned, you wouldn't know it?"

Zhu'er immediately knelt down, "Your servant... I don't know! But my lord, after the servant brings back the ginseng soup that the young master uses every day, there will be other sisters tested for drugs, how could they be poisoned?"

Unknown to the news, Ye Sirui nodded, told her to go down, and called other maids to ask, and sure enough, the food and soup brought from the kitchen every day were all tested by the personal maids before they were given to Shen Zhaoxin to eat.

Ye Sirui called the maid named Lan Er to come out alone. "When you mentioned Madam just now, who was the other aunt you mentioned?"

Lan'er had a bitter face and refused to say, "Your servant has no words and is scolded by her sisters every day. Your lord, please spare this servant."

"If you don't tell me, if I take you back to the county government, the county magistrate will beat you too." Ye Sirui had a straight face, not as friendly as usual, "With such a long stick, you have to take off your pants to beat you." He used his hand Gestures are long and short.

Lan'er was about to cry from fright, "The servant girl said, just say it. In fact, other sisters also know about this matter. After the wife gave birth to the young master, she couldn't have children. The master took in a red aunt outside. Later, she didn't know why. I was kicked out by Madam." Seeing that Ye Sirui was still dissatisfied, she cried and begged: "My lord, please spare this servant, I also listened to other people's words."

This is the second girl to cry today.Ye Sirui thought dumbfounded.When did he become so lethal? "Don't you cry, I won't tell anyone. Are you afraid of Pearl?"

Saying she didn't want to cry, Lan'er really didn't want to cry, she choked up and said: "Sister Zhu'er is very fierce, if you say something wrong, you will be slapped."

"Well, I promise not to tell her."

Ye Sirui went directly to the third young master Shen Zhaoyu's room.

Shen Zhaoyu was on leave just in time because of his elder brother's death. Instead of going to the academy, he was practicing calligraphy at home.Seeing Ye Sirui stand up respectfully and salute.Ye Sirui stopped him: "You have a reputation, so you don't need to be polite."

"I'm still here today for your elder brother's business, and I hope to find out some information."

Shen Zhaoyu nodded to express his understanding, "Wan Sheng will naturally try his best to cooperate with adults in investigating the case."

"The day your elder brother had an accident, did you see him?" Ye Sirui seemed natural, but in fact he was closely watching the change in Shen Zhaoyu's expression.

"Meet? I must have met when I greeted my parents in the morning." Shen Zhaoyu was at a loss for a while.

"What about other times?" Ye Sirui asked gently.

Shen Zhaoyu thought for a while, "By the way, I accidentally bumped into my elder brother when I was seeing my friend out in the afternoon. He didn't look very well, so he went out without saying anything."

"Send off friends? Do you have friends visiting?"

"Exactly." Shen Zhaoyu showed a bit of youthful embarrassment, "After school that day, Qinghe came to visit. I talked with him for a long time, and Shen Shi sent him out."

Li Qinghe is Shen Zhaoyu's classmate and a scholar, whose nickname is Qinghe.After asking clearly, Ye Sirui began to have some doubts, why come to be a guest at such a good time?

Seeing that Ye Sirui was thinking, Shen Zhaoyu couldn't help defending his friend: "Qinghe often comes to visit, he is not a pedantic scholar, and he didn't look down on me coming from a family of business gentry. He also has a good friendship with eldest brother, and he will never harm eldest brother."

Let alone talking about it, Ye Sirui became even more suspicious when he said it.What kind of scholar can look up to Shen Zhaoxin?

Seeing that his anxious expression did not seem to be fake, Xia Shu gave a rare voice of relief: "He only asks casually, so you don't have to worry too much."

Shen Zhaoyu showed gratitude, and bowed directly to him, "Thank you, big brother." Ye Sirui was a little bit dumbfounded, and left after asking Li Qinghe's address.

"Any new discoveries?" Xia Shu asked after leaving the door of the Shen residence.

Ye Sirui smiled. "I found out that you have a good impression of Shen Zhaoyu." As soon as the words came out, he was startled, why did you joke with him? "Maybe it's your accomplice," he added.But he knew in his heart that most of his doubts about Xia Shu had unknowingly dissipated.

Xia Shu neither explained nor denied. "The others?"

Ye Sirui also became serious, "Shen Zhaoyu bumped into Shen Zhaoxin, Shen Zhaoxin didn't have a good impression of this younger brother, and usually reprimanded him every now and then, but this time he didn't reprimand and left directly, isn't it strange?"

"Perhaps he is friendly with Li Qinghe and is not angry." Xia Shu replied.

Ye Sirui shook his head, "The servant girl also said that he was very upset. It's true, Li Qinghe is a scholar, why should Shen Zhaoxin think highly of him and make friends with him?"

Xia Shu couldn't answer.

Ye Sirui muttered to himself: "He doesn't want to reprimand, or he can't reprimand." His side face was dyed a warm pale yellow by the sun, his pupils also appeared lighter in color, and his slender eyelashes drooped slightly, almost transparent.

Xia Shu looked at him quietly, waiting for him to make up his mind.

"Go see Li Qinghe first." He said.

Li Qinghe lived not far away, Ye Sirui was too lazy to go back to the yamen to sit in a sedan chair, so the two walked together.Xia Shu is tall, his steps are big, and his speed is extremely fast.But if you walk with Ye Sirui, you will always be half a step behind him steadily.

He walked lightly, without a trace of sound.

Ye Sirui glanced at him calmly, with a thoughtful smile on the corner of his mouth.

Li Qinghe's father is the teacher of the academy and teaches outside.Whenever the academy rests, Li Qinghe is also at home.He was a little confused when he saw Ye Sirui and the two, "May I ask who you two are?"

Ye Sirui didn't wear ordinary clothes, but said: "I am the magistrate of Dong'an County, and I am here to investigate the case of Shen Zhaoxin's murder."

Li Qinghe hurriedly bowed and saluted. "Students have met adults." Li Qinghe was about one or two years older than Shen Zhaoyu. He was thin and haggard in an old brown-black cotton robe, but his facial features could still be seen to be regular and delicate.

Ye Sirui thought to himself that the pair of friends were really good-looking, and stepped forward to help him, "I just came to inquire about the situation, so there is no need to be polite." Li Qinghe stood up obediently, and his curious eyes naturally fell on Xia Shu behind him.Xia Shu stood still like a wooden stake, not saying a word, completely ignoring him.

"This is a servant accompanying me, not a yamen official." Ye Sirui explained symbolically.

Li Qinghe understood, "My lord, please come inside."

Li Qinghe asked Ye Sirui to sit down at the main seat, and made tea for the two of them. "Your Excellency, do you want to ask the student about Brother Zhaoyu?"

"Exactly." Ye Sirui took a sip of the tea, the fragrance was overflowing, even though it was rough tea, it was not bad.Xia Shu picked up the tea to have a look, then put it back. "I heard that you were a guest at the Shen Mansion that day?"

"Exactly. After school that day, Zhaoyu and I were discussing what the teacher said. Zhaoyu invited me to visit his house. I had the liberty to visit him before, so I agreed." Li Qinghe replied without hesitation.

"Then have you seen Shen Zhaoxin?"

"It doesn't count that I saw him. Zhaoyu bumped into brother Shengxing in the yard when he was sending me away." Li Qinghe thought for a while before answering, which was the same as what Shen Zhaoyu said.

Shengxing is Shen Zhaoxin's word.

The tip of Ye Sirui's eyes turned upward more and more obviously, "Do you know Shen Zhaoxin?"

"Naturally we know each other." Li Qinghe said generously, "I used to hear that he had a bad reputation, but I had a grudge in my heart. Later, I saw that he treated his friends with generosity and generosity. I gradually let go of him. People are not sages, so who can do nothing? I used to be too shallow."

What Li Qinghe said was reasonable and well-founded, but Ye Sirui felt something was wrong no matter what he heard.His father once did something wrong and offended a group of literati, and was scolded by his ancestors for eight generations without using dirty words.Even though he made amends repeatedly afterwards, he never saw anyone's impression of him change.Besides, if Shen Zhaoxin was rude to his younger brother as the maid said, how could Li Qinghe, as Shen Zhaoyu's friend, have a good impression of him?

After asking some more questions, Ye Sirui got up to leave.

It's noon, Ye Sirui intends to stay with Xia Shu for dinner, Xia Shu bids his farewell first, Ye Sirui doesn't want to force him to stay.After Xia Shu left, Ye Sirui randomly found a restaurant for dinner, drank two glasses of wine, and sighed.

While in a trance, I heard the shopkeeper and the waiter whispering to each other about the Shen family.He listened carefully and realized that this restaurant was the shop of the Shen family.Ye Sirui didn't have time to eat, so he went to inquire immediately.

When mentioning Shen's family, the shopkeeper and the waiter in the shop praised Shen Zhaoguan, saying that he is quite like his father, and he is also the son that the shopkeepers of Shen's shop most want to see.The third young master would only go to bookstores to ask for credit, while the eldest young master would only go to various shops to ask for money.

Ye Sirui asked the eldest young master about the day when the accident happened, and the shopkeeper swore that Shen Zhaoguan was busy with business outside that day, and he was still eating in their restaurant, so he had no time to go home.

Ye Sirui went out with a dejected look on his face, this time it was good, Xia Shu he suspected was beyond doubt, and the most suspicious person was ruled out.

Ye Sirui returned to the yamen and went to see Shen Zhaoxin's body. Two or three days later, it had begun to rot.He looked even more anxious.Ask the county magistrate, the magistrate is stroking his beard and the old god is there, "My lord is wise."

He was at a loss.He can kill people, but he can't guarantee who killed them.It is dereliction of duty to seek his own government in his position.He went through the whole process of the case, sometimes he felt that there was no clue, and sometimes he felt that there were many suspicious things.Shen Zhaoxin was poisoned, but it was most likely caused by the silver needle.The maids also confirmed that it is impossible to poison the ginseng soup.Silver needles must be pierced by people who are close to the body.Xia Shu?Not too possible.It is simpler and more direct for him to kill him with one knife, and it is more in line with his character.

Is Shen Zhaoxin poisoned in the Shen Mansion or the Zuixiang Pavilion?

He braced his head and didn't want to think about it, the more he thought about it, the more his head hurt.