Chapter 89 Digging a hole for the county magistrate
But she was not in the mood to listen to such gossip now. She straightened her thoughts and said to Sun Wucai solemnly: "Please fetch the evidence that the citizen woman asked the county magistrate to keep for safekeeping yesterday."
After hearing this, Sun Xian Cheng stopped thinking about Yu's affairs and immediately went to get half a bag of tea.
While handing the tea leaves to Chu Nanzhi's hand, he asked puzzledly: "Ms. Chu went to Shen's house for only an afternoon. Could it be that there has been some new progress?"
Chu Nanzhi took the tea leaves from him and poured them into the corner of the clean desk. Then she poured the tea leaves brought back from Han's courtyard into the other corner of the desk.
After waiting for this to be done, she casually began to reply to Sun Wucai's words: "There is no definite conclusion yet, and I have to go to Nanhua to see it tomorrow."
He naturally revealed his inner thoughts, and his tone did not sound like he wanted to discuss it with the county magistrate.
When Sun Wu heard this, he immediately frowned again: "This old man can't make the decision."
Chu Nanzhi looked at the tea leaves carefully, then raised her head and smiled slightly at him: "The civilian woman knows that the civilian woman will wait for the county magistrate to come back before discussing with him."
Seeing her say this, Sun Wucai's heart dropped.
After that, Chu Nanzhi continued to compare the two bags of tea, while Sun Wucai was amusing himself with Er Bao and Si Bao.
The remaining people were scattered in the main room, their expressions always gloomy and uncertain, and they couldn't understand what Chu Nanzhi was going to do.
Chu Nanzhi repeatedly and carefully compared the tea leaves on both sides of the desk. At a rough glance, these long-dried honeysuckles showed no difference in terms of color depth alone. However, upon closer inspection, one could find that there was a slight difference in the length and thickness of the petals on both sides.
It seems they were not picked from the same vine.
She called Xiaofen to her side and asked seriously: "Did your wife and Mrs. Han pick tea at the same place that day?"
Xiaofen raised her eyebrows and thought for a moment, puffed out her mouth and shook her head gently, and replied calmly: "That's not the case. The slave and the mistress are alone in one place, and the mistress and her maid in the courtyard are in another place, but they are far apart.
Not far."
Fearing that her description was not comprehensive enough, she carefully added: "The garden in the back mountain is full of honeysuckle, and there are no other flowers."
"Um."
Chu Nanzhi nodded thoughtfully.
If you look at the climate patterns of your own world, the honeysuckle is actually in its withering season this season.
But thinking about what Hu Maoxi said before, she also realized that the climate in the Nanhua Mountain area may have some regional specialities.
Factors such as temperature, latitude and longitude, and light can all affect it.
No longer obsessed with such insignificant details, she continued to look at the scented tea on the desk.
She carefully screened the tea leaves taken from the Han Family Courtyard and found no abnormalities. However, in the half bag of tea leaves brought by Sun County Prime Minister, although a few poisonous tea leaves were picked out yesterday, after carefully screening them, she
I once again found some tea leaves with strange shapes.
She placed the poisonous tea leaves in her palms and compared them repeatedly with the honeysuckle on her desk.
Although there are some differences in the appearance of these two kinds of scented tea, there is no difference in the degree of dryness and the color of preservation. It is obvious that they were dried at the same time.
Therefore, she could conclude that the poisonous tea leaves in her hands must have been picked together that day.
She looked at Xiaofen with a deep look and asked earnestly: "Xiaofen, if you think about it again, are you sure that no outsider intervened when you and your wife were picking tea that day?"
Xiaofen looked at her increasingly solemn expression, not daring to be perfunctory in the slightest. She thought about it over and over again in her mind, and finally gritted her teeth and nodded heavily: "I can conclude that this day, except for the mistress, the mistress picked the mistress for the mistress."
Except for a handful of tea leaves, the rest were picked by the slave and the mistress themselves, and the slave has also seen the tea leaves picked by the mistress, and there is nothing strange about them."
"Um."
Chu Nanzhi looked at the poisonous tea leaves in his hand and fell into deep thought again.
This thing always seemed very familiar to her, but she just couldn't remember what it was.
Just when she was confused, Hu Maoxi's voice suddenly came to her ears:
"Yo yo yo, it's the second treasure, the fourth treasure. Why did you go out together today?"
"Grandpa County Magistrate, our grandma will help Grandpa Magistrate investigate the case these days. We have to follow grandpa to protect her. Today it will be my sister and me, and tomorrow it will be my two brothers."
Little Si Baolin Ruijia, like a clever little ghost, came close to Hu Maoxi and answered in a soft and soft voice.
Chu Nanzhi knew that the little guys were afraid of leaving without saying goodbye, so they had to follow them wherever they went.
But, when did I promise to take the Dabao and Three Treasures with me tomorrow?
Glancing helplessly at the two little devils, Chu Nanzhi felt dumbfounded for a moment.
Hu Maoxi patted the two little guys on the head with a warm smile, walked to Chu Nanzhi's side, and asked in a low voice: "What did Mrs. Chu gain today?"
Looking at the dusty county magistrate, Chu Nanzhi's eyes suddenly lit up, he nodded and said with a smile: "Of course there are gains, but we have to rely on the county magistrate in the future."
"oh?"
Hu Maoxi showed a face of joy, but then he became worried again: "How can I help Mrs. Chu?"
Chu Nanzhi remained silent and just stared at the tea leaves on the desk.
Hu Maoxi looked at the tea in her hand, then at the desk, and said with some confusion: "This tea"
Before he finished speaking, he immediately noticed that there was something wrong with the scented tea in Chu Nanzhi's hand, and asked excitedly: "Is there something wrong with the tea picked by Han?"
"Don't get me wrong, sir, this is taken from the half bag of tea leaves kept in the county government office."
Chu Nanzhi patiently explained: "There is nothing wrong with the tea leaves in Han's courtyard, and sir, please see, the color of these tea leaves is the same, which can rule out the possibility that someone deliberately planted poisonous tea leaves during this period. There is only one kind
Maybe, something went wrong when picking tea."
"A problem occurred while picking tea?"
Hu Maoxi's eyes wandered around the crowd. After a long time, he suddenly realized the hidden meaning behind her words and asked anxiously: "Could it be that Mrs. Chu wants to go to Nanhua Temple to investigate the source of the tea?"
"exactly."
Chu Nanzhi smiled faintly: "That's why the civilian woman said that this matter can only be possible if you personally take action."
Unexpectedly, as soon as she finished speaking, Hu Maoxi quickly waved his hands to excuse himself with a dark face:
"This can't be done, this can't be done. Madam Chu, aren't you kidding me about my future? If I can't find out the reason, not only will my hat be in danger, but I'm afraid even my head will be involved.
There are seniors above and young below, Madam Chu, please don’t embarrass me."
The last time she accompanied this woman to the funeral home of Zhao Taigong's late mother, she almost died. This time, she got more and more playful, and even set her sights on Nanhua Temple.
Hu Maoxi felt a little scared thinking about it, and began to regret his decision to agree to her retrial of the case.
Chu Nanzhi originally thought that this trip would not go smoothly, but he did not expect that this guy would be so scared when he heard the name of Nanhua Temple.
This is not possible.
Since he dares to trick himself, he must also trick him in order to feel balanced.