After being reborn, she became the richest man without being a queen

Chapter 175 Purpose
The courtyard of the Liu family is very elegant.

Simple, elegant, no frills.

Even in the inner room, there is only a simple bed, table and chair, and a picture of longevity is hung on the wall.

"Why Longevity Picture? Isn't this Liu Yongdao's Zhuangzi?" Shen Qingling asked.

"This is not Liu Yongdao's Zhuangzi. It is the other courtyard where the Liu family used to play in winter. It is also the underworld where the old man of the Liu family once lived. The picture of longevity was given to the old man by the younger generation in the family."

Shen Qingling walked up to the Longevity Picture, and asked: "Why hasn't this Longevity Picture been printed?"

wrong!

Not without.

She found a needle, and gently picked up a bit of drawing paper in the lower right corner of the Longevity Picture. Finally, after carefully and patiently picking, she picked up the thin paper covering the Longevity Picture.

"Huizhou ink" Shen Qingling sniffed it.

"What's going on?" Ren Bingyi walked to Shen Qingling's side, and took the stripped drawing paper from Shen Qingling's hand, "Yongdao pasted this on?"

Shen Qingling didn't nod, didn't shake her head, just said: "Shaochun and I went to a bookstore yesterday, the shopkeeper of the bookstore said that Liu Tongsan had bought a few old books from the previous dynasty from him a few days ago."

"I know." Ren Bingyi touched the small piece of drawing paper in his hand, and put it under his nose to smell it.

It is definitely Huizhou ink.

Huizhou ink is very precious, and Liu Yongdao is never willing to use it on weekdays.

On Liu Yongdao's birthday the year before last, Ren Bingyi spent a lot of money to buy him a large piece of Huizhou ink, but after a few years, that piece of ink was still placed in Liu Yongdao's study, and he was reluctant to use it even a little bit.

"Yongdao won't use Huizhou ink casually." Ren Bingyi closed his eyes, his voice froze, "If he made it up, either the underlying things are important, or Huizhou ink itself is very important."

Shen Qingling agreed: "I think both may be equally important."

She took down the Longevity Picture, laid it out on the table, tapped the lower right corner of the Longevity Picture, and talked about her own opinion: "The blurred place is not a seal, but an ingenuity of the presenter. Look The words should have been written by a child, so I made a mistake when I wrote the pen, and there is a stroke missing here."

The place where his finger pointed, the word "Shou" was indeed missing a line.

In the blink of an eye, Ren Bingyi slapped his palms and said, "I remembered, this longevity character was written by brother Hui, the son of Liu Niang at home!"

Huizhou ink.

Brother Hui.

Liu Yongdao seemed to be worried that the visitor would not be able to discover the secret, so he left these two reminders?
"Look for an old book." Ren Shaochun got up and walked over, with a sad face, suggested: "If the third uncle found something, there must be some reminder somewhere else."

A group of people dug three feet in the other courtyard and searched for it for two days.

However, to everyone's disappointment, the yard seemed to have been cleaned deliberately, without leaving any traces.The only thing that can remind everyone that Liu Yongdao's death is unusual is the longevity map and the palm print on Liu Yongdao's body.

Liu Yongdao's death was deliberately concealed from Mrs. Ren by everyone in the Ren family.

But the fire could not be covered with paper, and after a few days, Mrs. Ren did not hear from her brother, so she naturally realized that something had happened, and forced Ren Shaochun to tell the truth.

Those who were sent to Wuzhou returned quickly.

It's just that the news they brought back was not good news. One was that Liu Yongdao's wife had disappeared, and the other was that Liu Yongdao's two daughters had also disappeared.

"Why is Liu Yongdao different?" Sitting in the study, Shen Qingling asked herself repeatedly.

The governor of Huizhou at that time was Jiang Yuan, a native of Yangzhou, and a Jinshi background. He heard that he loved the people like a son, and won the hearts of the local people in Huizhou.

Could it be that he has a problem?

Or the one with the word emblem in the name?
Or from Huizhou?

Ren Bingyi was investigating Shen Qingling's conjectures one by one, but as time went by, Ren Bingyi kept going around in circles without finding any clues.

One is that Jiang Yuan has never been out of Huizhou since he became the governor of Huizhou, and he doesn't know Liu Yongdao, so he can't talk about why he murdered Liu Yongdao.

The second is that there are too many people with the word Hui in their names. There are thousands of people in Yangzhou alone. After careful investigation, no one has anything to do with the serial murder case or Liu Yongdao.

As for the Huizhou people...

There are tens of thousands of Huizhou people in Yangzhou. It is quite time-consuming to investigate one by one, and the government does not have so much energy to investigate such a wide range.

Seeing that the investigation was at an impasse, Shen Qingling proposed to go to Wuzhou by herself.

The three brothers of the Ren family also wanted to go with them, but Shen Qingling finally wanted to go with Ren Shaochun, and entrusted the Shen family to Ren Shaoyan and Ren Shaoming, hoping that they would take good care of Pingniang and others, and protect Man'er.

It is not far from Yangzhou to Wuzhou.

In about five or six days, Shen Qingling had already seen the gate of Wuzhou City.

The two of them came out in disguise this time, so when they entered Wuzhou City, they mixed in with the crowd entering the city, and they were relieved when they successfully entered the city.

"Find a place to live first?" Ren Shaochun asked.

Shen Qingling shook her head, and said: "You go to Liu Yongdao's house, I'll go to the government office, don't attract attention, sneak in carefully."

Ren Shaochun looked up at the sky which was still in broad daylight, and said helplessly, "Second lady, you can fly over eaves and walls, I haven't learned it yet, why don't we talk about it at night? Let's find an inn first, so we can discuss what to do next , not like a headless chicken.”

Seeing Ren Shaochun's well-planned plan, Shen Qingling couldn't stop laughing, nodded repeatedly and said: "Okay, okay, I will listen to you first, and we will split up when it gets dark."

The two chose an inn close to Liu Yongdao's house to stay.

The Liu family didn't seem to know that something happened to Liu Yongdao. From a distance, they could see the servants coming in and out normally, and there was no mourning.

"What's going on?" Ren Shaochun asked in surprise: "I clearly remember that my mother wrote a letter back, why don't they seem to know?"

Shen Qingling, who was drinking tea, turned her eyes, then looked at the Liu family in the distance, and said: "I suggested to Uncle Ren, press the news of Liu Yongdao's death first, and pretend that Liu Yongdao is not dead and was rescued. .”

Then wait to see if the murderer will throw himself into the trap.

This kind of method is just taking advantage of the door and cannot be completely relied on, that's why Shen Qingling said to come to Wuzhou in person.

into the night—

The night is dark and windy.

Shen Qingling was dressed as a nocturnal traveler, turned over and fell into the government office with a light figure, and then followed Ren Shaochun's introduction during the day, and found the General Judgment Office where Liu Yongdao handles political affairs on weekdays.

At this moment, the door of the Judgment Hall was closed, and there was no light inside.

And just as Shen Qingling dodged over, trying to sneak in through the window, she suddenly heard a rustling sound behind her.

Looking into the past.

Flicking back into the shadows, Shen Qingling saw two furtive figures crawling out of the grass in the corner.

(End of this chapter)