Yu Jinshu stared into Cheng Shu's eyes. "Then based on your intuition, was it the Huang family who did it?"
Cheng Shu nodded: "I think this is too coincidental. My intuition is that it was done by the Huang family."
Yu Jinshu said, "I heard about these three cases from my father three years ago. At that time, my father only said that these three cases were not handled properly and that the prefect in office at the time was not good at solving cases."
Cheng Shu was immediately interested when he heard this. "Young Madam, you are absolutely right. The prefect at the time was not good at solving cases and was very reluctant to handle them. He would just casually close any case. This also led to the loss of many physical evidences."
Yu Jinshu asked, "I heard the general asked you to dig up the grave and invite a coroner to perform a new autopsy."
Cheng Shu nodded: "The coroner performed an autopsy, but his findings were not much different from what was in the case file."
Yu Jinshu thought to herself that if she were to perform the autopsy, with her medical experience and the help of the system, she would definitely be able to get a result.
But since she knew the truth, there was no need for an autopsy.
"Since there is no breakthrough from the corpse, why not start from the Huang family?"
Cheng Shu heard her say that she had an idea to tell him, so he asked quickly, "Young Madam, please tell me!"
Yu Jinshu called Cheng Shu over and explained her idea to him in detail. Cheng Shu thought this method was great.
Of the three prodigal Huang family members, one is missing, leaving only the father Huang Sheng and the eldest brother Huang Xiaoguan. The father and son stayed at home well for two or three days and did not go out to gamble.
They couldn't stay idle that day, so when they were about to go out, they saw a young man in brocade clothes walking towards them at the door.
The young man in brocade clothes, with a scholarly air and a folding fan in his hand, asked them, "Excuse me, are there any houses available for rent nearby?"
Huang Sheng and Huang Xiaoguan glanced at each other, then looked at the heavy boxes carried by the young man in brocade clothes.
Huang Xiaoguan asked, "Where are you from? What do you do for a living?"
The young man in brocade clothes said, "My family is in Yezhou. Since my parents have passed away and I have no brothers or sisters, I want to come to the capital to see if I can find a job. However, I am new to the capital and am not familiar with the place. So I want to rent a house first. Once I find a job and settle down, I will buy a house and find a woman to live with."
Huang Xiaoguan smiled and said, "That's a coincidence. I have a vacant room at home that I can rent to you."
The Huang family mansion used to be very big, and most of the houses nearby belonged to the Huang family.
But later on, the father and his two sons became spendthrifts and slowly lost the house to others bit by bit. In the end, only four rooms, a yard, and a living room were left.
The second son Huang Bingliang died, and his room happened to be vacant.
It just so happened that Huang Sheng and his son Huang Xiaoguan cleaned out the room in the past two days, took out all the belongings of Huang Bingfang and burned them. Only a bed, a table and a chest of drawers were left in the room.
When the young master in brocade clothes heard this, he was very happy: "That's a coincidence, why don't you take me in now so I can take a rest."
The father and son hurriedly welcomed the young man in brocade clothes and asked his name. They learned that his name was Lu Yi, with the courtesy name Pingjian.
The Huang family mansion used to be a big merchant family. The houses they built were very spacious and large, with inner and outer rooms.
Lu Yi liked it at first sight and asked about the rent, which was three hundred coins a month. He immediately put his boxes next to the chest of drawers and said he wanted to live in this room.
There was something strange in the eyes of Huang Sheng and his son, but Lu Yi didn't notice it.
Lu Yi walked out of the house, looked at the room next to it, and asked, "Who lives in this room?"
Huang Sheng said, "I have a daughter at home. She is usually at the shop and rarely comes back to stay."
Huang Jixiang Shop is actually a small house with a shop in the front, two rooms in the back and a yard.
Lu Yi smiled and said, "No wonder you are willing to rent this empty house to me. It turns out your daughter doesn't live here."
If you have a daughter at home, you should not take in tenants casually, otherwise it will damage her reputation and it will be difficult for her to get married.
Lu Yi stayed there. He opened the box and revealed a layer of silver ingots on top.
But he suddenly seemed alert again, closed the box, looked at Huang Sheng and his son, and said with an awkward smile: "You can go wait for me outside for a while, I will give you the rent later."
Huang Sheng and his son walked out. They looked at each other again, thinking that this man's boxes seemed to be filled with silver ingots.
Lu Yi waited for them to leave and then closed the door.
The silver ingots inside made a "ding-ding" sound, which the father and son outside could hear very clearly.
Lu Yi came out and stuffed a tael of silver into Huang Sheng's pocket: "I don't have enough change, so I'll just pay for two months' worth of it at once."
Huang Sheng took the silver and nodded repeatedly with a smile: "Okay, okay, okay."
Huang Xiaoguan left his father at home to look after him while he went to the incense shop to find his sister.
Huang Ji Xiang Shop.
When Huang Ningxiang heard her brother say that he had hired a new tenant, she slammed the table and stood up: "No, today is different from the past. We can't do the things we did three years ago now."
Huang Xiaoguan got angry when he heard this: "Why can't we do it?"
Huang Ningxiang felt that both of them were talking a little too loudly, so she hurried to the door. Seeing no one around, she walked up to her brother and said, "Three years ago, you and father lost everything. I was only fifteen then. To make a living, I had no choice but to take the risk and kill those three people. But now, I'm loved by General Wei. Although General Wei is married, he said he would divorce Yu Jinshu, and I plan to marry into the general's mansion in the future."
Huang Xiaoguan pleaded, "Sister, can you just do this one order?"
Huang Ningxiang advised, "Brother, please don't do such evil things again. Second brother has committed a crime, and my reputation has been ruined. Everyone in the general's mansion looks down on me. If you and father do such evil things again, I'm afraid we'll be caught, and I'll be ruined."
Huang Xiaoguan said, "We won't be caught. Thanks to your advice, we didn't leave any evidence behind. It's been three years since those three cases happened. I don't know why the government is investigating them again, but they can't find any evidence that we were responsible."
Huang Ningxiang still shook her head: "No, absolutely not."
Huang Xiaoguan continued to persuade: "Sister, we have done it three times, so we are not afraid of doing it again. I looked at his box, and the top layer is full of white silver. His box is very heavy, and it would shatter the floor if it was placed on the ground. I guess it is full of silver."
Huang Ningxiang felt moved again after hearing this.
She thought for a moment and said, "He just moved in. We must not touch him. Let's wait and see."
Huang Xiaoguan was so excited when he saw his sister finally gave in. He opened his hand again, palm facing up: "Sister, give me three taels of silver. I have no money left."
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