Chapter 89： Dig a hole for the magistrate

Chapter 89 Dig a hole for the county magistrate

It's just that she doesn't have the heart to listen to this nonsense now, so she straightened her thoughts, and said to Sun Wucai solemnly: "The evidence that the lady asked the county magistrate to keep for yesterday, please fetch it for the lady."

After hearing this, Sun Xiancheng stopped thinking about Yu Shi's affairs, and immediately went to bring half a bag of tea.

While handing the tea to Chu Nanzhi, he asked puzzledly: "Ms. Chu went to Shen's house in only one noon, could there be some new progress?"

Chu Nanzhi took the tea leaves from him and poured them in one corner of the clean desk, and then poured the tea leaves brought back from Han's Courtyard in the other corner of the desk.

After finishing all this, she casually began to reply to Sun Wucai's words: "There is no definite conclusion yet, and I have to go to Nanhua Temple tomorrow."

Spontaneously revealed his inner thoughts, and his tone didn't sound like he wanted to discuss with the county magistrate.

Sun Wu heard this, and immediately frowned again: "This old man can't be the master."

Chu Nanzhi looked carefully at the tea leaves, then raised her head and smiled at him slightly: "The lady knows, the lady waits for the county magistrate to come back and then discuss with him."

Seeing what she said, Sun Wucai's hanging heart dropped.

Afterwards, Chu Nanzhi continued to compare the two bags of tea leaves, while Sun Wucai made fun of the second and fourth treasures.

The rest of the people were scattered in the main room, their faces were always cloudy 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 glance, these dried honeysuckle flowers are not different in terms of color depth, but if you look carefully, you can find that there is a slight difference in the length and thickness of the petals on both sides. It does not appear to have been picked from the same vine.

She called Xiaofen to her side, and asked earnestly, "Did your young lady and Mrs. Han pick tea at the same place that day?"

Xiaofen raised her eyebrows and thought about it, she puffed her mouth and shook her head lightly, and replied calmly: "That's not the case, the servant girl and the young lady are in one place alone, and the mistress and the maidservants in her courtyard are in another place, but they are far apart. Not far."

Also afraid that her description was not comprehensive enough, she added cautiously: "The garden on the back mountain is full of honeysuckle, and there are no other flowers."

"Um."

Chu Nanzhi nodded in thought.

If you look at the climate in your own world, the honeysuckle is actually dying this season.

However, thinking of what Hu Maoxi said earlier, she also realized that the climate in Nanhua Mountain may have some regional peculiarities.

Factors such as temperature, latitude and longitude, and light can all affect it.

No longer obsessed with such insignificant details, she continued to check the scented tea on the desk.

She carefully screened the tea leaves from Han's Courtyard and found nothing abnormal, but the half bag of tea leaves brought by Sun Xiancheng, although a few grains of poisonous tea leaves were picked out yesterday, after careful screening inside, she Once again, some tea leaves with strange shapes were found.

She repeatedly compared the poisonous tea leaves in her palm with the honeysuckle on the desk.

Although the appearance of these two types of scented tea is somewhat different, there is no difference in terms of the degree of drying and the preserved color, and it is obvious that they were dried at the same time.

Therefore, she can conclude that the poisonous tea leaves in her hand must have been picked together that day.

She stared at Xiaofen deeply, and asked earnestly, "Xiaofen, think about it carefully, are you sure that no outsiders interfered when you and your young lady picked tea that day?"

Xiaofen looked at her increasingly dignified expression, didn't dare to be perfunctory, and thought about it again and again in her mind, finally gritted her teeth and nodded heavily: "Your maidservant can conclude that, except for the mistress who picked for the young lady that day. Except for a handful of tea leaves, the rest are all picked by the maidservant and the young lady, and the maidservant has also seen the tea leaves picked by the mistress, so there is no difference."

"Um."

Chu Nanzhi looked at the few grains of poisonous tea leaves in his hand and fell into deep thought again.

She always felt very familiar with this thing, but she just couldn't remember what it was.

While she was having a lot of thoughts, Hu Maoxi's voice suddenly came from her ear:

"Yo yo, it's the second treasure and the fourth treasure, why did you go out together today?"

"Grandpa County Magistrate, our aunt will help Grandpa County Magistrate investigate the case for the next few days, and we will follow Auntie to protect her. Today it is me and my sister, and tomorrow we will change to two older brothers."

Little Four Treasures Lin Ruijia, like a little witty ghost, leaned in front of Hu Maoxi, and replied in a soft voice.

Chu Nanzhi knew that the little guys were afraid of leaving without saying goodbye, so they had to follow wherever they went.

But, when did I promise to bring the big treasure and three treasures tomorrow?

Helplessly glanced at the two little ghost heads, Chu Nanzhi couldn't laugh or cry for a moment.

Hu Maoxi smiled and patted the heads of the two little guys, walked to Chu Nanzhi's side, and asked in a soft voice: "What did Miss Chu gain today?"

Looking at the dusty magistrate, Chu Nanzhi's eyes suddenly lit up, she nodded and said with a smile: "Of course there are gains, but the next thing is to rely on the county magistrate."

"Oh?"

Hu Maoxi showed a look of joy, but then he became frowning again: "What can I help Miss Chu?"

Chu Nanzhi remained silent, but quietly looked at the tea leaves on the desk.

Hu Maoxi looked at the tea leaves in her hand, then at the desk, and said in a puzzled way: "This tea leaf"

Before he finished speaking, he also immediately noticed that there was something wrong with the scented tea in Chu Nanzhi's hand, and said excitedly, "Could it be that there is something wrong with the tea picked by Mrs. Han?"

"Don't misunderstand, my lord, this is taken from the half bag of tea kept in the county government."

Chu Nanzhi patiently explained: "There is nothing wrong with the tea leaves in Han's Courtyard, and please see, my lord, the color of these tea leaves is the same, which can rule out the possibility that someone deliberately planted and mixed poisonous tea leaves during this period, and there is only one Maybe, there was something wrong when picking the tea."

"Is there a problem when picking tea?"

Hu Maoxi's eyes wandered over the crowd, and after a long time, he suddenly realized what she was saying, and asked anxiously, "Could it be that Mrs. Chu wants to go to Nanhua Temple to investigate the source of tea?"

"exactly."

Chu Nanzhi smiled faintly: "That's why the women said that this matter can only be done by the adults themselves."

Who knows, as soon as she finished speaking, Hu Maoxi quickly waved his hands to evade with a dark face:

"This is impossible, this is impossible, Mrs. Chu, are you joking about this official's future? If you can't find out why, not only will this official's black hat be lost, I am afraid that even the head of the item will have to be covered. There are old and young and there are young ones, so please don't embarrass me, Mrs. Chu."

The last time she accompanied this woman into the cemetery of Mrs. Zhao's deceased mother, she almost lost half her life. This time, she played more and more, and even set her mind on Nanhuaguan.

Hu Maoxi felt a little scared when he thought about it, and began to regret his decision to allow her to retry the case.

Chu Nanzhi also thought that this trip would not go well, but he didn't expect this guy to be so frightened when he heard the name of Nanhua Temple.

This is not okay.

Since he dared to cheat himself, he had to cheat him in order to gain balance.

(end of this chapter)