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The groom's death severed that last remaining clue.
Officer Wang was still saying to Xu Yi, "Why was this person drinking? He just fell and died."
At this moment, he regretted not finding this clue sooner, otherwise he might have been able to get some information out of him.
"Did he really die from a fall?" Xu Yi asked.
Officer Wang nodded. "At first, I wondered if someone had done it, but I had the coroner examine the body. It was a fall that killed him. He had a big hole in his forehead, and blood was everywhere. His family only found out the next morning. He died from excessive bleeding."
This is what really puzzled Constable Wang, because he couldn't find any evidence that the coachman had been murdered by someone else.
"Yesterday, the steward from the Qi family came to ask me if the person who poisoned me had been found yet. I'm really annoyed." Constable Wang felt like he was having a run of bad luck, with everything going wrong.
"Isn't it rumored that Steward Qi and Qi Shi don't get along? Why does he seem quite concerned about this matter?" After all, none of the people who were poisoned have asked about it.
“That’s right.” Constable Wang agreed wholeheartedly. “I went to the Qi family yesterday, but I didn’t even get to see the young master of the Qi family. It seems that it was Steward Qi who was in charge of the Qi family.”
Officer Wang shook his head regretfully, "What a pity about the empire that Master Qi built; in the end, it still benefited someone else."
Recently, for some reason, there have been rumors circulating in town that Steward Qi is going to seize the Qi family's property.
Strangely, Steward Qi did not step forward to stop the rumor, but instead let it develop.
Xu Yi had a feeling that these words were deliberately spoken by Butler Qi to guide everyone.
"Officer Wang, I have a way to help you find that bearded man." A glint of light flashed in Xu Yi's eyes.
"What's the solution?" Constable Wang hurriedly stepped forward. If this matter wasn't resolved soon, he would be scolded to death by the county magistrate.
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"Miss, I just came back from outside. I heard that the bearded man who plotted to kill the young master of the Qi family has been found." Shuangxi walked in carrying a stack of books.
Fu Man'er was standing at the table, holding a brush and writing something, without looking up, when she asked, "The person hasn't been caught yet?"
Because she said "double happiness" meant she had found it.
"They didn't catch him. Someone saw him on West Street and then went to the yamen to report it. Now all the officials and constables from the yamen are heading to West Street."
Shuangxi put the book back on the bookshelf, then peeked at the table and her face darkened.
"Miss!"
Seeing Fu Man'er holding the brush with such fluid movements, I thought she was practicing calligraphy, but who knew she was drawing a turtle.
"Alright." After finishing the last stroke, Fu Man'er looked at her masterpiece with satisfaction. "How was it? Wasn't it good?" she asked, looking for praise.
Shuangxi sighed silently and picked up Fuman'er's turtle painting to hang it on the rack to dry.
"You've drawn it very well. The turtle you drew is so lifelike that even a real turtle would feel ashamed after seeing it."
"Shuangxi, I don't feel like you're praising me at all." Fu Man'er puffed out her cheeks.
"My dear lady, I'm not just praising you, I'm praising your painting! It's so lifelike!" Shuangxi's eyes hurt from looking at the turtle painting, so she quickly changed the subject.
"Have you seen the wedding dress design that the eldest young master sent over?"
Speaking of this, Fu Man'er deflated like a punctured balloon, slumping back into her chair. "I've seen it."
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"Have you made your choice yet?"
Xu Yi somehow found so many wedding dress designs, had them all drawn in a booklet, and gave it to Fu Man'er so she could choose her favorite dress.
Their wedding was set for next August, which now seems to be less than a year away.
Regardless of everything else, just sewing this wedding dress stitch by stitch would take half a year.
“I can’t choose.” Fu Man’er simply rested her chin on the table, her arms hanging limply at her sides. “I even asked Sister Lu Sheng and Jing Jing to help me choose, but they both chose different things.”
"Why don't you wait until the young master comes back tonight and choose together?" Shuangxi suggested.
"No way!" Fu Man'er shook her head frantically. "Everyone says that a bride is most beautiful on her wedding day. I can't let my brother know which wedding dress I chose. I want to stun him on the day."
Shuangxi thought to herself that the young master had looked at all the clothes in the catalog, and no matter how much the young lady chose, they would still end up wearing the clothes in the catalog.
But seeing Fu Man'er's confident expression, she chose to keep quiet.
Fu Man'er turned her head from side to side on the table, and suddenly an idea came to her. "Oh my, I've thought of a brilliant idea."
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She was about to jump up and run outside when Shuangxi quickly grabbed her arm. "Miss, where are you going?"
"Let's go find my brother." She thought her idea was brilliant and couldn't wait to share it with Xu Yi.
Shuangxi knew this, and pulled Fuman'er's hand even tighter. "The young master sent someone to say that he will be on duty with Constable Wang from the yamen today and will not be back until tonight."
In other words, you won't be able to find anyone if you go now. "Besides, the young master said that you should stay home and rest today, and he also told me to keep an eye on you and not to jump around. If you can lie down, don't sit; if you can sit, don't stand."
The reason for this is that these two days are auspicious for Fuman'er. Last month, the little girl didn't take it easy and suffered from pain for several days.
She nestled in Xu Yi's arms with tears in her eyes, and Xu Yi felt so sorry for her that he took extra care of her this month.
If you can keep an eye on things, do it yourself; if you really can't, find someone else to do it.
Fu Man'er slung her arms over her shoulders and said, "Okay, okay, I understand." She had only come to know the extent of the suffering after she had endured it herself.
"Then I'll wait for my brother to come back and talk to him." Anyway, she can't go anywhere today and can only stay at home.
Xu Yi had not returned by dinnertime, but he had sent someone back to inform him.
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At that moment, he was following Constable Wang and keeping watch on someone.
"Is your method really going to work?" the two asked, hidden among the dense trees.
Xu Yi leaned one shoulder against the tree trunk, his eyes sharp as an eagle's. "We'll find out soon enough whether it works or not."
The two stood there in the tree for an unknown amount of time until someone finally appeared at the street corner. Officer Wang leaned forward slightly.
"They're here."
The man walked very fast, but he was also extremely careful. He looked left and right before continuing to walk straight ahead.
"Strange, could it not be him?" Constable Wang looked at the departing figure with a puzzled expression. Just as he was about to jump down, Xu Yi grabbed him and whispered, "Wait."
Not long after, the person who had walked away returned. Xu Yi noticed that in just a short time, the person had changed his long robe and the crown on his head.
“He’s back again.” Constable Wang glanced at Xu Yi, as if asking, “How did you know he would come back?”
Xu Yi made a shushing gesture to him, indicating that he should look down.
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The man stopped outside a courtyard, knocked on the door, but no one answered. He then pulled a dagger from his sleeve, slipped it under the door, flicked it, and quickly pushed the door open and went inside.
As soon as he went inside, Xu Yi and Constable Wang jumped down from the tree and quickly and lightly reached the edge of the courtyard wall.
Xu Yi leaped onto the wall and, after getting a clear view of the courtyard, gestured for Constable Wang to come up as well.
The person who had just gone in had already tiptoed to the door and entered the room using the same method.
Once he went inside, Xu Yi and Constable Wang quickly followed, quietly sticking their fingers to the door.
The room was pitch black, unlike the moonlight outside. The person had only taken a couple of steps when he bumped into the table, making a noise that woke up the people sleeping inside.
"Who's there?" the sleeping person inside called out, but the room was quiet and no one answered him.
He groped around on the bed and found a tinderbox. A faint light appeared in the room, and he could see the person who had suddenly appeared there.
"Butler Qi." The man on the bed involuntarily shrank back a little when he saw the person standing in front of him.
"You know me?" Butler Qi's hand touched his thigh, a dagger hidden in his palm.
"I used to work at the Qi family's cloth workshop." The man looked at Butler Qi with suspicion and asked, "Butler Qi, what are you doing here? How did you get in?"
Butler Qi glanced around the room. "I came to ask you something. I knocked, but your door wasn't closed, so I just came in."
The man was confused, and seemed to have forgotten his fear. "I remember I closed the door."
Butler Qi, holding a dagger, took a step forward, staring intently at the man on the bed. "Did the government officials come looking for you today?"
"Huh?" The man was taken aback. "Oh, right, they came looking for me. They thought I was the one who poisoned Young Master Qi. I'm not. I picked up that beard. I just thought it was funny and put it on, which led to the misunderstanding."
Butler Qi took another step closer and pressed, "You picked up that beard? Where did you pick it up?"
"I... I found him near Xu Family Restaurant." The man stared blankly at Butler Qi's face, wondering why, in the blink of an eye, Butler Qi looked like he was about to devour someone.
“Impossible,” Butler Qi said firmly. “You’re lying. Tell me honestly, where did you pick up this beard?”
"I really did find it near the Xu Family Restaurant." The man had barely finished speaking when Butler Qi took a big step closer to him, revealing a dagger in his hand.
"You're lying. It can't be Xu Family Restaurant. If you don't tell the truth, don't blame me for being impolite."
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A gleaming dagger was placed before him, and the man was so frightened that he didn't dare to move. "Butler Qi, I found this thing. How could I not know where it came from?"
Seeing that he was still trying to argue, Steward Qi sneered, "Those idiots in the county government will believe you? I don't. I'm the one who lost the things, do you think I don't know?"
He was determined to kill the man in front of him, so he wasn't afraid of him finding out. What he needed to know most was how this bearded man ended up in this man's hands.
He clearly remembered that he had already been put into a caravan of Hu people, and that caravan had been out of the city for so many days. Now that Hu people had suddenly appeared again, he was very flustered.
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