Chapter 338 Interrogation, Shen Chu and Pei Yuan Meet Again
Shen Chu's gaze swept across the fan.
"Manager Li's fan is quite unique."
Manager Li's eyes flickered slightly. "Madam is mistaken. It's just an ordinary fan, not worth much."
As he spoke, he tucked the fan into his bosom.
Chen Chu said "Oh," and replied, "I misunderstood. When I saw the shopkeeper put it in his pocket, I thought it must be something precious."
Manager Li chuckled dryly, feeling uneasy inside.
If he had come in a moment later, the woman would have gone into the inner room.
Fortunately, the man in the inner room had already fainted.
He quickly made a gesture to see the guest out.
"We're really out of perfume, so we won't keep you here for tea, Madam."
Shen Chu nodded and turned to walk outside.
Manager Li secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and after making a polite gesture, he quickly followed.
"This humble servant is seeing you off, Madam."
Shen Chu suddenly turned around and, with lightning speed, pulled out the fan from Manager Li's chest.
"What are you doing?" Manager Li's expression changed, and he reached out to snatch the fan.
Shen Chu sidestepped and swiftly opened her fan.
Made of mutton-fat jade, the fan is decorated with gold-flecked paper, and depicts four graceful maidens in different poses.
At a glance, she recognized it as Pei Yuan's jade bone fan.
Shen Chu's expression darkened slightly. "Tell me, how did you come to have this fan?"
Manager Li's eyes flickered. "What do you mean, how could I have this? This was originally my fan."
Give me back my fan.
Thinking of the strange noise that had just come from the inner room, Shen Chu turned around and walked towards the inner room.
"Stop right there!" Manager Li quickly reached out to pull Chen Chu away.
Before her hand could even touch Chen Chu, Hong Xiu grabbed her wrist and twisted it swiftly.
Crack.
"Ouch, my hand!" Manager Li cried out in pain.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Shen Chu rushed into the inner room.
The inner room was empty.
She frowned slightly; she had clearly heard a soft moan just now.
Manager Li rushed in with his arms hanging limply. He was stunned for a moment when he saw the scene in the inner room, and then he started shouting.
"Oh dear, where did you come from, you crazy woman? How dare you cause trouble at my Sanyuantang and even steal my things?"
"Hey buddy, hurry up and get some men to take these two crazy women to the authorities."
There was no response from the waiter outside the door.
Hongxiu walked in, flexing her wrists. "Stop shouting, I've knocked him unconscious."
A look of panic flashed in Manager Li's eyes. He crossed his arms and turned to run outside.
Shen Chu gave the order in a cold voice.
"Stop him."
"Okay."
With a sweep of her red sleeves, she lifted her leg.
Manager Li tripped and fell to the ground, landing face-first in the mud.
Hongxiu stepped forward, stepped on his back, and dislocated Manager Li's other arm.
Manager Li let out a miserable cry and shouted angrily:
"You little vixens, what do you want? Let me go, I... Ahhh!"
Shen Chu slammed her jade-bone fan into his mouth, looked down at him with a cold expression.
"I'll ask you one more time, where did you get this fan? And where is the owner of the fan?"
Shopkeeper Li was in so much pain that his face turned pale and he was covered in cold sweat, but he still insisted that the fan was his.
"This is banditry! You beat people and robbed them without even asking what happened. I'm going to report this to the authorities."
As soon as he finished speaking, a cold blade popped out from the end of the jade fan and pressed against his neck.
Manager Li even felt the pain of his skin being cut.
He was so frightened that he immediately shut his mouth and dared not shout anymore.
Shen Chu snorted coldly, "You only have one chance. I'll count to three. If you don't talk, you'll taste what it's like to have your neck slashed."
As soon as she finished speaking, she twirled the dagger in her hand, and with a cold glint in her eyes, it swiftly fell to the ground.
"three!"
Manager Li trembled with fright. "I said! This morning a man collapsed at the door."
I took this fan from him.
Where are the others?
“He was injured and fainted, so I left him in the inner room. I swear, I didn’t kill him.”
Shen Chu looked around the room, then his gaze suddenly sharpened.
There were a few drops of blood on the floor next to the small couch, and the bloodstains spread all the way to the back window and then disappeared.
She walked quickly to the window and saw a few drops of blood in front of the half-open window frame.
It looks like the person left through the back window.
Shen Chu instructed Hong Xiu, "Make him hand over the Golden Spear That Never Drops Water, then send it to the yamen to 'Lord Shen,' and say that he was greedy for money and plotted to kill someone for it."
"yes."
Worried about Pei Yuan's safety, Shen Chu went directly to the alley behind Sanyuan Hall.
Sanyuantang is located in Qingshan Town, the closest town to Yangzhou City.
The town's streets were clean and tidy, but Chen Chu saw a few drops of blood in a back alley.
She followed the trail of blood until it disappeared in a dark alley.
Just as Shen Chu was searching around, she suddenly felt a gust of wind behind her.
She nimbly leaned back, and a bloodied fist grazed past her eyes, lifting a corner of the veil of her hat.
Shen Chu looked up and met Pei Yuan's cold and stern gaze.
Her pupils contracted slightly, and she instinctively tugged at the light veil of her veil.
thump.
Pei Yuan swayed and then collapsed softly to the ground.
"Sixth Brother."
Shen Chu exclaimed in surprise and rushed forward to check on Pei Yuan's condition.
His face was pale, his lips were cracked and bluish-purple, and his forehead was frighteningly hot.
His hands were covered in blood, and there was blood on his chest and shoulders.
Shen Chu's face paled, and for a moment she didn't know where to check his injuries first.
In her eyes, Pei Yuan was confident and arrogant, and he had never been so disheveled, even when he couldn't see anything at night.
Who on earth hurt him like this?
Her hands trembled slightly, and it took her two tries to successfully launch the signal flare used by Medicine King Valley.
The eldest brother accompanied her and Hongxiu today to gather herbs in the vicinity.
Once the signal flare is seen, the eldest brother should arrive soon.
After firing the signal flare, Shen Chu clenched her hands tightly and dumped all the medicine she carried on her body onto the ground.
After finding the wound medicine and treating and bandaging Pei Yuan's hand wound, Han Feng arrived.
"Achu, what's wrong?"
"Senior Brother, you've come at the right time. Quickly take a look at him."
Han Feng peered over and was astonished to see Pei Yuan lying unconscious on the ground.
"Huh? What's he doing here?"
"Stop talking, treating your injuries is the priority."
With a professional doctor like Han Feng present, the task of treating the wound naturally fell to them.
"The wound on his chest is an old one. It's been there for at least half a month, and it's quite deep. It hasn't healed properly and it keeps reopening."
"Tsk, I don't know why he didn't rest and recover properly before running around causing trouble."
Chen Chu's mind was in turmoil. "How is the wound on his shoulder? Is it highly toxic?"
Han Feng carefully examined him. "Fortunately, he reacted quickly and sealed his internal energy, preventing the poison from spreading."
Don't worry, I just gave him an antidote pill. He'll be fine after a few days of rest.
Shen Chu breathed a long sigh of relief.
Han Feng bandaged his wound while sighing.
"You didn't really come to Yangzhou just to find you, did you? Are you really giving up being a prince?"
Could it be that he offended the emperor while looking for you, and the emperor sent men to chop him up like this?
Chen Chu frowned. "It shouldn't be. Even tigers don't eat their cubs, and besides..."
Besides, she felt that Pei Yuan wasn't such an impulsive person.
Han Feng suddenly interrupted her in a low voice, "He's about to wake up."
Shen Chu was startled. Looking down, she saw Pei Yuan's eyelids twitch slightly, indicating that he was indeed about to wake up.
She instinctively got up to leave, but Pei Yuan grabbed her skirt.
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