Chapter 181 Decisive Ironclad Evidence

One investigative technique is called covert investigation. It's a special investigative method that involves secretly searching places where evidence might be found.

Li Jin looked at her with a smile, her eyes completely conveying a "let her do whatever she wants" attitude.

Such stares made Mrs. Hua's face turn even paler and more embarrassed.

Seeing Zhou Zheng approaching with a knife in his hand, she panicked and immediately lay down on the ground, saying, "Oh dear, I can't move this disease, I can't move it!"

Seeing her appearance, Li Jin chuckled and said, "Madam Hua, don't worry, my imperial physician will be here soon. Lie down and don't get up."

The word "tens of millions" is very apt.

Just as the usual melodramatic scene was unfolding in the main hall, Jin Shu's gaze fell upon Yun Fei standing in the courtyard from outside the gate.

He waved to Jin Shu and held up a short, thick wooden stick in his hand.

The dark red paint and the split wooden cross-section, except for one end covered with a lot of charcoal ash, are identical in appearance to the missing section of the washbasin stand at the scene.

Jin Shu glanced at Madam Hua lying on the ground, then quietly took a few steps to the side and stepped out of the main hall.

She quickly stepped forward and took it from Yunfei's hands: "She burned it?"

The wooden strip in my hand had one end covered in charcoal and looked like it had been burned.

“It’s burned,” Yunfei said. “I dug it out from under the stove. I noticed there wasn’t a trace of blood left on it, so it’s a bit of a problem.”

Without bloodstains, one can easily use their silver tongue to completely disassociate this thing from the washbasin stand at the crime scene.

Jin Shu lowered her head and carefully examined the tip of the piece of wood in her hand, afraid of missing the most crucial clue.

"Has Lord Yun made any other discoveries?" After a long pause, she frowned and asked.

Dressed in a black robe and standing with his hands behind his back, Yun Fei pondered for a moment, glanced at Li Jin behind her who was still dealing with Madam Hua, and nodded, saying, "Mr. Jin, do you remember there was a dark purple embroidered shoe at the scene?"

Jin Shu was taken aback, and looked up at him: "Found it?"

She thought Yunfei had found another one, and if so, this would be irrefutable proof.

But Yunfei waved his hand: "No." He smiled slightly, "But the other embroidered shoes of Madam Hua, in terms of length, size, and even the deformed parts of the shoes, such as the protruding part of the big toe and the edge of the little toe, are all the same as that shoe."

"Dust was everywhere in this courtyard. Apart from these two items, there were traces of bloodstains on the bluestone slabs in the backyard, but they were not obvious. They must have been cleaned by someone. Following the bloodstains, you can reach the small wooden door at the back of the courtyard."

Yunfei said, "Madam Hua should be the woman who appeared at the scene that night, and the real perpetrator had a brief stay in this courtyard."

He glanced at Madam Hua, who was still lying on the ground throwing a tantrum in the main hall, and added, "Her current abnormal behavior is as if to say that she has an inextricable connection with this case."

At this point, Yunfei sighed, his gaze returning to the charred murder weapon in Jin Shu's hand: "What a pity, we arrived too late."

Jin Shu shook her head: "Not necessarily."

After saying that, she took the piece of wood to the kitchen, picked up the smallest knife next to her, and gently cut a small slit down the wood, slightly towards the top.

Upon seeing this, Yunfei, who was standing at the door, was stunned for a moment: "Sir, this is important physical evidence..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Jin Shu's second cut landed on the other side, gently making a small incision along the wood grain.

This cut drew blood.

Jin Shu put down the knife and showed it to Yun Fei: "With such a large amount of bleeding, the wood must have been soaked with a lot of blood."

"The surface may appear charred, but the inside is irrefutable evidence that cannot be hidden."

Yunfei glanced at the small opening she made, raised his hand to cover the slight smile on his lips, and gave her a thumbs up in admiration.

With this item present, even if Madam Hua tries to argue her way out of nothing, it will probably all be in vain.

"Jin Shu has another question." She held the wooden awl in her hand. "Lord Yun once said that the Hua family often argued about divorce, and it was your father who mediated them." She paused. "So, did they eventually get divorced?"

Yunfei shook his head: "No." He stood at the kitchen door, smiling gently, "Six years ago, before I followed the sect leader to the Six Doors, that incident caused the most trouble."

“That time, Dr. Hua didn’t divorce her, he divorced her,” he said as he walked into the courtyard.

The courtyard house faces west, where the setting sun casts a golden glow on the stone slabs.

Under the withered tree, Yunfei nodded to the Imperial Physician Qiao who had just arrived at the door, and then said, "That time, I heard that Doctor Hua wanted to take a concubine."

Inside the main hall, Madam Hua, who was pinned to the ground by several yamen runners and unable to move due to her tantrum and unreasonable behavior, still insisted: "You've trespassed on a private residence! So what if you're royalty! Even the emperor is subject to the same laws as commoners!"

Jin Shu stood in the courtyard, bathed in sunlight, and nodded as she watched this scene, saying, "...Dr. Hua has it tough too."

With such a wife in charge, life must not be easy.

"At the time, Dr. Hua wanted to skip his wife and choose a girl to marry first so as to continue the family line." Yunfei's face was bathed in sunlight, and the smile on his face seemed even softer. "But before anything was even settled, Madam Hua found out about it. She actually chased and beat the girl who came out of the clinic in the street, and the whole city knew about it."

"With this incident, Doctor Hua's hopes of taking a concubine were dashed. Unable to take a concubine, and with his principal wife unable to get close, the Hua household has remained childless to this day," he said. "This is where the conflict began to spiral out of control."

"After that, Dr. Hua wanted to divorce his wife, but Madam Hua was even more ruthless. She wouldn't even let him in the door and stood at the door cursing for three days."

"But Dr. Hua is, after all, a scholar, and he cares about his reputation. There are some things he can't do." He shook his head. "In the end, it was my father who intervened and the matter was dropped."

Hearing these words, and looking at Imperial Physician Qiao, who was taking pulses and examining patients in the main hall, Jin Shu frowned even more deeply.

"Then Madam Hua actually had the upper hand," she said, puzzled. "If she had the upper hand, why would she still try to harm Doctor Hua?"

Inside the main hall, the autumn sun shone on Madam Hua. She struggled for a long time, but seeing that Li Jin did not respond at all and still had a smiling face, fear had spread throughout her body.

She started to get scared.

Especially when he heard Physician Qiao say, "This woman is not sick, nor does she show any signs of a mental breakdown..." he stroked his beard, "She is just very nervous."

Upon hearing this, Li Jin stood up, calmly walked to her, knelt down on one knee, and said with a smile, "What other tricks do you have? Show me everything."

Looking at Madam Hua's pale face, his smile deepened: "Madam Hua, you really have a bad memory. Have you forgotten the shoe you left at the scene?"

"Have you forgotten the stick you threw into the stove?"