Chapter 219 Beauty's Schemes (22) - Returning to the Crime Scene
As Ning Shu was thinking about something, she heard a knock on the door. Chunlan was outside: "Sister Ruyi, the Prince asked me to bring you medicine."
The prince sent someone to deliver medicine?
This mother and son are really interesting; one plays the good cop and the other the bad cop, right?
Ning Shu initially didn't want to pay attention, but then felt it was unnecessary, since it was her own body and she probably wouldn't be able to leave the house tomorrow without applying the medicine.
"Come in, the door's unlocked."
That's right, she didn't lock the door because she was worried about inconvenience.
After hearing this, Chunlan pushed open the door and came in, followed by a maid carrying a basin of water.
After Chunlan entered the room, she instructed the maid behind her to put down the water basin first:
"Sister, let me apply a hot compress to your knee first, and then apply the medicine. This will help the injury heal faster."
Ning Shu asked curiously, "How did Your Highness know I was injured?"
Chunlan smiled and said, "Sister Ruyi, really, this is the Prince's mansion. Isn't it normal for the Prince to know?"
The prince only sent his younger sister to take care of his elder sister because he felt sorry for her.
Feeling sorry for her?
Ning Shu got goosebumps all over. If it weren't for him, she wouldn't have had to suffer like this.
Watching Chunlan carefully apply heat and medicine to her knees, she stopped complaining about Prince Rui.
Before Chunlan left, she said to Ning Shu meaningfully, "Sister, when you rise to prominence in the future, don't forget to help your younger sister."
Ning Shu looked completely bewildered. If she couldn't complete the task, she wouldn't have a future. How could she possibly rise to a high position? She was overthinking it.
Ning Shu didn't take Chunlan's words to heart; his mind was preoccupied with how to complete the mission.
The next day, Ning Shusheng was full of energy, showing no signs of having knelt all day the day before, and he felt that the medicine was quite effective.
She immediately found the maid and servant in charge of storing the flower petals and asked them how they stored them.
When she heard that the other person had actually stacked baskets filled with flower petals one after another, she felt like she was going to vomit blood.
How can you prevent the petals from being crushed like that? They even squeeze out sap.
She was truly fed up with these bastards; they had ruined her life, and it was all her own fault.
Ning Shu could only let it go; there was no way to make amends anyway. She should just hurry up and see Tuya.
She flew out of Prince Rui's mansion like a swallow, heading towards the inn where the graffiti had been placed.
"Graffiti, how was yesterday? Did you see Mrs. Gao?"
Tuya looked miserable: "What did I see? I just arrived at the bamboo forest and saw someone taking Madam Gao away, saying that the prince had sent them home."
Ning Shu was taken aback.
Holy crap, he arrived so late that he missed the time when Madam Gao was in the bamboo forest.
"Why haven't you gotten there yet?" Ning Shu complained.
Graffiti: "You notified me at the last minute, I didn't even know where the bamboo forest was, I searched for a long time and finally found it."
I saw a noblewoman resting in the pavilion from afar, and before I could even feel happy, she was taken away.
It's hard to judge. The arrangements were indeed rushed, and without navigation or anything like that, it was really hard to find the place.
Ning Shu felt that this was her fault; one mistake had delayed the graffiti task.
She comforted him, saying, "It's okay, metaphysics may not be of any use. We can think of other ways."
After they finished talking, they headed to Dali Temple together. Ning Shu was anxious to know how Cui Zeyu was doing.
When Cui Zeyu saw that people had arrived, he didn't wait for Ning Shu to ask before telling her what he had found out.
The person who reported the crime has been caught; he is a fisherman.
He had been offended by Yin Xinyue's aunt and harbored resentment, so he went out of his way to buy sleeping pills.
According to the other party, he mixed sleeping pills into the rice, intending to steal from the house after they passed out.
He timed it carefully, and upon entering the house, he immediately began to touch the Wu family members, intending to search their bodies.
Unexpectedly, during the body search, they discovered that the Wu family members looked like they had been poisoned, which gave them a huge shock. They were so frightened that they almost peed their pants.
After regaining his senses, he checked everyone's information.
They discovered that there was still one person alive, and that was Yin Xinyue.
He didn't even want to steal the silver anymore and quickly climbed over the wall to leave.
After leaving, he suddenly remembered that he had put the drug in the rice and was worried that the Ministry of Justice would investigate and implicate him.
After thinking it over and over, I couldn't come up with a good solution.
In the end, he chose to report the case to the police.
His thoughts were simple: of the five people present, four were dead and one was alive, and it was hard to say what was the situation of the one who was alive.
He only wanted to steal some silver to vent his anger and didn't intend to cause any deaths.
Little did he know that his actions had implicated him, otherwise the Dali Temple would never have been able to trace him.
Upon hearing this, Ning Shu felt that being uneducated was truly terrifying, but it also indirectly proved that the fisherman was not a bad person.
Ning Shu asked Cui Zeyu, "Does Your Excellency find the fisherman's words credible?"
Cui Zeyu: "Based on the evidence we have so far, his words are highly credible because Yin Xinyue only ate rice and did not drink soup."
Ning Shu understood: "It means that whoever put the poison in the soup will be the murderer."
This is nonsense, Cui Zeyu thought, speechless.
Ning Shu frowned, but so far, they still couldn't shake off Yin Xinyue's suspicion. Did they really have to break her out of prison?
"I plan to visit the Wu family again. Do you want to come?"
Was Cui Zeyu inviting her?
Ning Shuyi agreed without hesitation. He was joking; he had to go, otherwise how could he complete the mission?
With Cui Zeyu accompanying them, Ning Shu and the others no longer needed to climb over the wall and could enter openly through the main gate.
Cui Zeyu also brought others with him, and they began to search for clues separately.
Ning Shu and Tuya rushed straight to the kitchen, since that was the key area.
When Cui Zeyu saw that they had chosen the kitchen first, he ordered his men to search other areas, while he followed them in.
Tuya glanced at Cui Zeyu behind him, then lowered his voice and asked Ning Shu in confusion:
"Sister Ning, we've already looked at the kitchen, haven't we? Why don't we go check out the other places this time?"
Ning Shu explained: "The fisherman said he put the medicine in the rice jar first, and the Wu family would always rinse it before cooking, right?"
He must have anticipated the effects of the medicine; the amount he used must have been quite large. Let's check the rice container for any residue.
Cui Zeyu believed what the other party said, and Ning Shuxian confirmed what the other party said.
She opened the rice jar and saw that there was still rice inside.
The kitchen was rather dark, so she asked Tuya to move the rice container to the yard where it would be in the sunlight so she could examine it more closely.
Cui Zeyu was surprised by Ning Shu and the others' actions, so he followed them out to see what was going on.
Ning Shu, the graffiti, and Cui Zeyu's head all appeared above the rice jar, completely blocking out the sunlight.
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The three fell silent for a moment, then Ning Shu spoke up: "Why don't you go first, sir?"
Cui Zeyu did not refuse. Ning Shu pulled the graffiti to stand back, leaving space for Cui Zeyu.
Cui Zeyu looked at it carefully for a while, then reached into the rice jar, picked up some rice grains, and rubbed some white powder off them.
It looks like there's a little more rice crumb than the rice that falls off naturally. If an average person doesn't pay attention, they wouldn't suspect that the rice has been adulterated with chemicals.
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