Chapter 184 As long as the other party dies, I will be the ultimate winner.
Madam Hua was holding the porcelain shard when the sudden attack caused Zhang Shuai to instinctively loosen his grip.
After that, it was too late.
Right before Zhang Shuai's eyes, Madam Hua knelt on the ground, raising the wooden stick high above Doctor Hua, who was now lying on his side in the corner, unable to speak, and roared, "I'll let you take a concubine! I'll let you divorce me! Go ahead and take one! Divorce me!..."
Zhang Shuai doesn't remember how long he yelled, nor does he want to.
All he knew was that he staggered out of the courtyard, his steps unsteady, and leaned against the hitching post, sitting down against the wall for the better part of an hour.
He didn't know what happened afterward.
The road home from the clinic that day was the longest road he had ever traveled in his life.
His mind was in complete turmoil.
With my eyes closed, all I see is Dr. Hua's shocked, incredulous, bloodied face.
Zhang Shuai sat by the bed all night, his face as white as paper.
After that, Zhang Shuai was escorted to the Shengzhou government office by Bai Yu and Yun Fei, while Li Jin and Jin Shu strolled leisurely behind.
This case seems to have taken a turn for the better.
"What kind of person do you think Zhang Shuai is?" Li Jin asked, fanning himself as he looked at Jin Shu's profile.
She waved her hand and said, "I don't know the whole story, so I won't comment."
Li Jin raised his eyebrows slightly. He had considered many possibilities, but he never expected this sentence.
"Why?" he laughed. "The case is closed, what's there to be unclear?"
Looking at the man in front of her who was asking a question he already knew the answer to and making fun of her, Jin Shu curled her lips and asked, "Does Your Highness really believe what he says?"
Upon hearing this, Li Jin narrowed his eyes slightly, revealing his approval: "As expected, Mr. Jin never disappoints me."
He didn't believe it, and neither did Jin Shu.
Five-Stone Powder is just that—Five-Stone Powder. Although it may refresh the mind and temporarily boost physical strength, it's practically impossible for a woman to fight off two men with just this.
“It’s not an elixir of immortality; the human body has its limits,” Jin Shu said.
Li Jin also agrees with this point: "I tend to think that he took advantage of Madam Hua's bad temper and extremely poor reputation to push the whole thing onto Madam Hua, making himself look like an accomplice and thus gaining a glimmer of hope."
“Of course,” Jin Shu added, “As long as the other party dies, I will be the ultimate winner.”
Whether it's Madam Hua or Marshal Zhang.
For Dr. Hua, who has no children, as long as he can pin the blame on the other party and survive, he will be the heir to the Shengzhou clinic and the two residences.
"Your Highness listened to two different versions of the crime this afternoon," Jin Shu said curiously. "Which one do you believe more?"
Li Jin smiled and said softly, "I believe you." He paused, "And I believe Yunfei too."
After returning to the Shengzhou government office, Li Jin chatted for a few minutes with the two elderly men who looked after the courtyard.
That night, the two old people did hear some noise, but they thought it was normal for the noise to be loud when they saw Madam Hua arrive.
It was common knowledge in Shengzhou that Dr. Hua's family had a strained relationship; fights and vandalism were commonplace. The two elderly people were easygoing and didn't take it seriously at first.
After the noise subsided, I paid even less attention and slept soundly until dawn.
No one shouted "Run!"
No one cried out for help.
Just as Li Jin and Jin Shu deduced, the two accomplices were shifting blame and accusing each other, attempting to send the other to the guillotine.
"People who aren't family don't enter the same door." Li Jin looked at the case notes that Jin Shu had already written in the courtyard of Yun Jianlin's side room.
That document excluded the two suspects' confessions, neither of which could be reasonably established. It retained the reasonable deductions made by Yunfei, who was present at the scene, based on Jin Shu's autopsy results.
If you eliminate all the illogical elements, what remains is the truth.
Madam Hua did indeed spend money to hire Zhang Shuai to help teach Doctor Hua a lesson, but Madam Hua also genuinely did not intend to kill him.
Zhang Shuai genuinely intended to kidnap Dr. Hua without harming him, but in the ensuing struggle, he lost control and killed him.
They were accomplices, the murderers who conspired to kill the man.
Li Jinhe opened the booklet, looked up at Jin Shu, and smiled: "We'll be setting off for the capital early tomorrow morning, sir. Please make your preparations."
Before Jin Shu could respond, he added with a deeper smile, "The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and you didn't mention last time who you were preparing a gift for."
He stepped forward: "There will be plenty of time on the road tomorrow, so I will have a good discussion with you, sir."
Seeing his radiant smile, Jin Shu frowned immediately and waved her hands repeatedly, saying, "No, no, no, this is too much trouble for Your Highness. I can't accept it."
“Sir, what are you saying? We’ve worked together for a while, so I can make time for you.” He glanced at Jin Shu’s forehead, smiled, and gave her a thumbs up to smooth out her furrowed brows. “Besides, if the Shadow of the Six Doors goes out to deliver gifts and doesn’t do it well, it’s the Six Doors that loses face.”
"As the sect leader, how can I not oversee things?"
After speaking, Li Jin smiled, his eyes crinkling, and tilted his head slightly. His kind and gentle demeanor conveyed the unspoken "no arguments allowed" message.
Jin Shu's eye twitched twice.
No matter how she looked at it, this man didn't seem like someone who was genuinely looking after people.
From head to toe, he exuded an air of wanting to personally stir up trouble.
Seeing that she was speechless with frustration, Li Jin was very satisfied and in a great mood. She turned around and walked towards Yun Jianlin's study with a smile.
With his back to Jin Shu, as he stepped over the threshold, his thumb inadvertently brushed lightly against his lips.
That evening, as Yun Jianlin and Li Jin discussed how to deal with the extra fake bribery ledger in the study, Li Jin's smile never faded.
Yun Jianlin felt a chill run down his spine when he saw it.
"Put these accounts back where you found them," he said. "The accounts have names and surnames on them, so I'll trouble you, Lord Yun, to go door to door to collect the money and write down the receipts."
Yun Jianlin was stunned: "Huh?"
Is this even possible?
Li Jin pointed to one of the names and said, "For example, this one is called Chang Le. It says 2,000 taels of silver. Lord Yun just needs to come and ask for it. If he doesn't give it to you, he'll give you an IOU. If he does give it to you, you'll give him a receipt."
He raised his hand, took a sip of tea, and said, "Keep the note safe. Take one portion and donate the rest to the Censorate for disaster relief."
“Then, put a mark after this name.” After Li Jin finished speaking, he pushed the booklet in his hand back to Yun Jianlin.
Yun Jianlin pondered for a moment: "Brilliant!" He looked delighted. "A record of bribery has been transformed into a summary of disaster relief donations in the blink of an eye."
Li Jin nodded: "In that case, the day the Ministry of Justice uses this to slander you will be the day the person on this fake account goes bankrupt and donates money to disaster relief."
It was also the moment when Pei Yide, the Minister of Revenue, and the Crown Prince's plum blossom branch, were broken off by Li Jin himself.
He picked up his teacup and gently blew away the foam on top.
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