They chased after him and found the discarded veil and clothes in an alley.
Not long after, Jiang Yueyang, King Yan and others came to meet Ke Ming.
Bai Ze and Jiang Xun picked up the clothes and veil respectively to examine them. The clothes were made of ordinary linen and the veil was nothing special.
However, there was a faint scent left on the clothes.
Jiang Yueyang asked: "Master Ke, Master Bai, could that man be the murderer?"
"It's possible." They both answered in unison.
Ke Ming was annoyed, "Damn it, I almost caught him."
Jiang Yueyang patted his arm, "Don't worry, Master Ke. I have a feeling that we will catch the murderer soon."
"What Si Zheng said is right." Bai Ze shook the aconite hairpin in his hand towards the others, "Let's go to the various drugstores first to check whether the aconite in this aconite hairpin came from a drugstore..."
For highly toxic medicinal materials like Aconitum, each pharmacy kept records of how much it bought and how much it sold.
Moreover, the aconite hairpin had obviously been processed.
Someone who knows how to prepare medicinal materials is most likely a doctor or a professional herbalist.
"Which pharmacy are you going to investigate first?" King Yan asked the key question.
"Jishidang."
"Baicao Hall."
Ke Ming and Bai Ze said the name of a pharmacy together, but they didn't dare to mention Huichuntang directly.
Jiang Yueyang didn't hear the name of "Huichuntang" and asked with some disappointment: "Can't all the pharmacies be checked together?"
"That would make too much noise and might cause panic among the people," Jiang Xun said.
Jiang Yueyang frowned, "But... what if the murderer is someone from a certain pharmacy, and sees us investigating the pharmacy, and destroys the evidence in advance or runs away?"
Hearing this, several people looked at Ke Ming. He was in charge of the case, and it was up to him to decide how to investigate.
"...Then check all the pharmacies together!"
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