Volume 1 Chapter 257 Crisis of Confidence

"What happened to the deceased?"

He put down the tools in his hand and covered his face with the white cloth he carried with him before he got up to reply.

"The deceased took a large amount of arsenic and cream, and looking at the marks on his cheeks and neck, he should have been force-fed, and the time of death was about three quarters of an hour ago."

Everyone was silent, three quarters of an hour ago happened to be the time when the Lord Wenle and their guests arrived at the restaurant, which...

"It's them, it must be them, we've been hiding well these days, it must have been when we entered the restaurant, and the store saw it, so I told them, my lord, you quickly arrest them."

The entourage stood up and roared angrily, and everyone also looked at Han Bei on the side, as we all know, the current Xu family and the Han family have a lot of business dealings, and the little son of the Han family has always been very close to the lord of Wenle.

"Fuck your uncle, dare to splash dirty water on our house, my master can't kill you."

Han Shaozhi almost kicked his entourage when he heard this, but fortunately Pei Ran fished him back.

"Qin Zhutou, our restaurant guys won't do this kind of thing, and I hope you and Lord Jiang will know everything." Han Bei stepped forward and said respectfully.

"Shopkeeper Han rest assured." Qin Zhutou returned the salute, looked at the entourage and continued to ask.

"What evidence do you have? Just because you casually identify the murderer, even if the prefect comes, you can't put people in prison at will."

"This prince said that the Xu family sent people to find us, and they also reported to the official to ask the government to help find us, but they talked to the master early in the morning, but they left angrily after not negotiating."

The entourage recounted the matter again with clear words, only to see Qin Zhutou's puzzled face, and looked at his subordinates who also had question marks on his face and asked:

"Have you ever helped the Xu family find someone?"

The subordinates also looked confused, shook their heads again and again, and said, "No, I have been investigating the arson case in the past few days, and the brothers are not manpowered, so they don't have time to help them find someone."

Yacha's words caused an uproar in the hall, and the discussion became louder and louder, and even the people outside crowded in to watch the excitement.

The eight businessmen before moved their footsteps far away from Xu Yunjin and the others.

Zeng Yiqian frowned, he didn't believe that the Xu family was this kind of person, although he had only seen Lord Wenle, but a person's family education and cultivation could not deceive people.

Xu Yunjin's face was already black to the bottom of the pot, and even a blind person could detect the weight of her anger now.

"No way, are you mistaken?" Han Shaozhi rushed to the front of the official and pulled him by the collar and asked.

"Master Han, we are really not mistaken, there is indeed no brother who has looked for someone for the Xu family in the past few days."

Yacha said helplessly, Han Shaozhi seemed to be shocked by this fact, and as soon as he loosened his hand, Yacha quickly slipped behind his boss.

"I wonder what you two have to say?"

Qin Zhutou looked at Fan Yuanqiao and Kang Lian with a pair of sharp eyes, and also glanced at Xu Yunjin vaguely, the look was intriguing.

"My lord, we were wronged, the day before yesterday, I obviously asked my brothers to help me find someone on the street, but then you said that no one was found, why this person appeared here, and why he died, we don't know."

Kang Lian and Fan Yuanqiao hurriedly knelt down and shouted for themselves, but now everyone looked at them with suspicion in their eyes.

"My lord, he's lying, and I still have evidence that they came to see my lord in the first place."

The entourage was ready early in the morning, Xu Yunjin knew this, but they didn't know what the other party took out.

"This thing, the county lord won't know it, right?"

The entourage handed the things wrapped in a handkerchief to Xu Yunjin, and Xu Yunnan took it for her, only to see that what was lying inside was the official seal of the dyeing workshop.

Xu Yunjin's face suddenly became ugly, and his eyes seemed to be shooting directly at Kang Lian with a knife.

Kang Lian didn't expect that the other party had made such complete preparations, and even the official seal of the dyeing workshop had been copied, I am afraid that the real official seal hidden in his house is really not there now.

It's just that he can't show anything unusual now, and hurriedly crawled in front of Xu Yunjin, shouting that he really didn't know the official seal

Why in the hands of the retinue.

"The owner, you believe me, no, the official seal has not been lost, it has been kept in my home, if you don't believe it, you can let people go back and find it, and put it in the place where my daughter-in-law hides the money."

Xu Yunjin's face improved slightly, and he looked at Xiao Wu on the side, and Xiao Wu got out of the restaurant and rode on his horse towards Kang Lian's house.

A sneer flashed in the eyes of the attendant, heh, if I can find the real official seal, I will lose.

Kang Lian saw that Xu Yunjin's face softened, and hurriedly knelt back in place, his waist straightened, as if he had found a loophole in his entourage.

"Even if according to what you said, we went to look for your master, but didn't we leave later, how could we happen to know that he was in Yuefu Restaurant and which private room he was in?

You're just about to go out shopping, and we don't know how to murder him?

We have never been to the pharmacy to buy arsenic or cream, these adults can go to check, and all kinds of suspicions can prove that it is not my fault."

Kang Lian had a clear mind and asked a few questions in a row, and everyone thought about it and felt that it made sense.

But the followers did not follow, and they caught whoever bit whom:

"Who doesn't know that the Xu and Han families are close, maybe you colluded with the Han family and leaked our whereabouts.

And as we all know, the county lord of Wenle opened a medical hall, maybe you took the poison there, or you cooperated with each other to kill my master."

Han Shaozhi was restrained by Pei Ran and couldn't move, but he just yelled in his mouth to tear his stinky mouth.

"Qin Zhutou, you know the character of our Xu family, I came to the restaurant today, I brought a lot of 400,000 taels of silver tickets, even if our family dies of poverty, they will not do anything to make money and kill people.

It's not like some people who have done bad things, I am afraid that they will be eaten up by evil spirits in the future."

Xu Yunjin stared at his entourage with straight eyes, and looked at him in a cold sweat behind his back, not daring to look at her, and his head turned unnaturally.

"Well, wasn't this steward an advanced restaurant just now? We don't know where he went or what he did during that time?"

A man in the crowd weakly reminded everyone, and in an instant, all kinds of suspicious eyes came towards Xu Yunjin.

But she still looked so calm and composed, and she didn't even look at the person, which made Qin Zhutou, who knew the inside story, very admirable.

"What do you have to say?"

Qin Zhutou looked at Kang Lian, who was still kneeling on the ground, with a serious face, but he was actually holding back a smile in his heart.

This steward of the Wenle County Lord's family is quite good at acting, if he didn't know that he was pretending, I'm afraid he would really feel that the other party's expression at the moment was empty.

"The adult is wronged, the villain had a bad stomach this morning, so it is convenient to go to the clean room as soon as he gets out of the carriage, and he has never been to other places in the restaurant, if you don't believe it, you can let the shopkeeper testify to me."

Kang Lian had a witness, and everyone's eyes also looked at Han Bei on the side.

"Go and call someone."

Han Bei called the guy on the side to call someone, and the guy's job was to guard the back door of the restaurant, and on the surface he was an inconsequential person.

But the Han family knows the importance of the back door, so the people who can stay there are people who are very trusted by the owner's family, but Da Niu is different, just an ordinary guy, but he is very smart and trustworthy.

Qin Zhutou also asked the yacha on the side to go out to find a doctor to check whether Kang Lian really had a bad stomach, this move was obviously distrustful of Xu Yunjin, everyone looked different, did not speak, and waited quietly.

Qin Zhutou glanced at the situation downstairs, asked a few more people, and didn't ask anything useful, so he took the two yamen to the scene of the first crime.

In order to make it look like the deceased was murdered, the other party also specially made a mess of the private room, and the entourage moved the body downstairs as soon as he entered the door, for fear that the officials would find something.

Qin Zhutou didn't find anything useful upstairs, so he took someone downstairs, and just went to call the guy back.

The guy went for a long time, and came back at a trot, and everyone heard the sound and looked over, and the guy ran over panting, and shouted

Sound:

"Oh no, son, shopkeeper, the big cow is gone, and there are a few torn clothes left in the room."

"What?"

Xu Yunjin is not calm now, that young man is the most important witness, if he disappears, then Kang Lian's suspicion will be great.

He Yansan, who had been watching Xu Yunjin in the crowd, smiled at this time, but what he didn't know was that he was being watched by Old Man Zhuang where he could see it, and he was being watched by Xiao Yi where he couldn't see it.

"Man, man is gone."

The young man was frightened by Xu Yunjin's face, and stammered and repeated it again.

"The people at the door said they saw him get into the carriage and leave through the back door of our restaurant, and the driver was also wearing the same clothes as me, as if it were, as if it was your nephew, the shopkeeper."

The man's voice became smaller and quieter, but everyone still heard it, and it was known that Han Bei's nephew was trained to take his place.

If it weren't for someone's instructions, they wouldn't have made today's moves, and now everyone cast suspicious glances at Han Bei and Han Shao's master and servant.

Xu Yunjin's eyes were slightly cold, and the killing intent in his eyes seemed to be about to execute the two people on the side, and the friendship of the past seemed to have disappeared here.

"What does Lord Wenle mean by this? Don't you suspect me Yuefu Restaurant? Besides, is it possible that my guy from Yuefu Restaurant is going out to do errands, and he still needs to explain to you? Maybe they'll be back in a moment."

Han Bei was also angry when he saw this, and he opened the door to do business well, because of the Xu family's bad thing, I am afraid that the business will not be able to recover in the next half a month.

"Uncle Han, Ah Jin definitely didn't mean that."

Seeing that the two of them were suspicious of each other, they went-for-tat, and Han Shaozhi was so anxious that cold sweat broke out in the middle.

"Master Han, my people were framed and killed, but the witness of the person who was originally in your restaurant is gone, and he was taken away by the person you trust the most, shouldn't I have any doubts?"

Xu Yunjin's eyes like a stranger made Han Shaozhi stunned for a moment, and the unhappiness in his heart was reflected on his face, but he was still more gentlemanly, and explained in a good voice:

"Ah Jin, although this person is a buddy in our restaurant, he is not a descendant of our family, he must have been bought by the murderer, and Second Brother Han must have been threatened." Second brother Han is Han Bei's nephew.

"We can't afford to mess with ourselves now, and we'll let the bad guys get their way."

Han Shaozhi knew that it was normal for Ah Jin to be angry and suspicious when encountering this kind of thing, but they couldn't have internal contradictions.