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Chapter 369 Lure the snake out of its hole
  Shen Zhuoxi guessed the whole story, and Fenfen no longer needed to hide it.
  She wiped her tears and continued: "Seven or eight days ago, someone came to me and said that as long as I did something, he would give me five hundred taels of silver."
  "Five hundred taels of silver. Our whole family has been selling tofu all the time. It would take ten years to earn so much. I was a little scared at the time and didn't dare to agree."
  "But the man said that what he was going to do would not harm anyone's life."
  Shen Zhuoxi interrupted Fenfen and asked, "Who is the person who bribed you with money? What does he look like?"
  Fenfen bit her lip, shook her head and said, "I don't know him. That man found me at night, and he was dressed just like I described before."
  "He was dressed in black, his face covered, and he had a weird-looking scimitar on his waist. Seeing that I didn't agree, the man took out the scimitar and gestured, and put it on my neck."
  "When asked whether I should choose money or the lives of my whole family, I naturally wanted to live, so I had to agree first. He took out a bag of dead grass that I had never seen before."
  "After letting me boil the sweet-scented osmanthus together, I will throw the sweet-scented osmanthus soaked in grass juice into the well water. The well at the door is the only source of water for the surrounding neighbors."
  "I was afraid it was poison, so I asked deliberately. The man said it would not kill anyone, and told me not to ask any more questions. For the safety of my family, I did as he said."
  "But I was cautious and didn't throw all the osmanthus in, I kept some of it."
  Following her words, Shen Zhuoxi looked at the sweet-scented osmanthus on the table and said, "What do you keep the sweet-scented osmanthus for?"
  Fenfen sighed and said: "If you don't want others to know, you have to do nothing yourself. The second lady and His Royal Highness King Yu came here to check first. I knew that I was worried that it would be exposed, so I kept observing you through the dog hole in the corner of the wall. "
  "The dog hole is not big, and there are a few weeds growing outside the hole, so the second lady and His Highness King Yu didn't notice it. I watched with my own eyes as the second lady fetched water from the well and took it away."
  "From that day on, I was worried every day. Finally, I couldn't stand it any longer, so I told my husband and his family. We all discussed it and finally decided that if anyone discovered it, we would deny it."
  "Today the second young lady came to our door. Our mother-in-law and daughter-in-law didn't plan to tell her at all, but I saw that the second young lady was very smart and I was worried that you might notice something if it went on. So I could only make up the story about the poisoning by the man in black."
  As Shen Zhuoxi listened, he always felt that something was wrong.
  After thinking about it for a while, he said: "You said that the man in black handed you the cinnamon sticks and ordered you to boil them with the osmanthus flowers and throw them into the well. He can also do these things, so why bother to find you?"
  "Isn't it better that fewer people know about this kind of thing?"
  Fenfen smiled bitterly and shook her head: "I was also confused. After asking more questions, the man in black said that because boiling osmanthus requires space, he didn't have the energy to do it."
  "Our yard is closest to the well, and there happens to be an osmanthus tree in the yard. It's easy to boil the osmanthus and hay when making tofu."
  Speaking of this, Fenfen thought of something, turned around and took out a package of things wrapped in black cloth from under the bed.
  Seeing that everything was heavy, Shen Zhuoxi glanced at it and roughly guessed what it was: "The money he gave you?"
  "Yes, this is the five hundred taels of silver promised by the man in black." Fenfen handed the silver over and said, "Second Miss, what I told you is everything my family and I know."
  "The money is here too. Please Miss Second, let me and my family go. We are forced to have no choice. No one wants to be a villain!"
  Shen Zhuoxi glanced at the package and told Huizhi, "Open it and take a look."
  Huizhi opened the package, which was full of large silver ingots, but there was no mark on the silver ingots.
  This also means that Shen Zhuoxi's attempt to find the other party's traces through silver ingots was in vain.
  "You should keep the money yourself." How could Shen Zhuoxi want the money? She asked Huizhi to re-wrap it and said to Fenfen: "How do you get in touch with the man in black?"
  Fenfen shook his head: "There is no way. Every time when we are making tofu in the middle of the night, that person appears in the dark and disappears into the night after finishing speaking."
  "The last time he was seen was when the villagers developed strange rashes and he sent the silver."
  Shen Zhuoxi stared at Fenfen with unknown meaning and said, "Is this really true?"
  "Really!" Fenfen was so anxious that she almost cried, and said with red eyes: "I have lived here for many years, and our whole family needs to drink water from this well every day."
  "After the incident, Ah Wu had to go far away to fetch water at midnight every day. Not only was it hard work, but our whole family was also worried. We were worried that one day the incident would be revealed and the villagers would drive our family out of the village."
  "I'm even more afraid that the man in black will use this as a threat to make us do something even more outrageous. Publicly and privately, I hope that the second lady will find the man in black as soon as possible."
  Shen Zhuoxi carefully observed her expression and made sure there was nothing strange before saying: "Before this matter is found out, the man in black will probably come to you again."
  As she said that, she took out a packet of medicinal powder from her purse and handed it to Fenfen: "You should carry it with you at all times. As long as he appears, you will spill this powder."
  Fenfen stared at the medicine bag and hesitated to take it: "Second Miss, I am a defenseless and weak woman. If this medicine powder is spilled, will the man in black get so angry that he will chop me with a knife?"
  "No." Shen Zhuoxi smiled and said, "You didn't say that every time he appears it will be at night. I guess he will appear tonight. You just need to do what I say."
  Fenfen took the medicine package doubtfully and said: "If I am a bad person, please let the second lady let my family go!"
  Shen Zhuoxi nodded and took Hui Zhi out.
  As soon as she went out, the old woman couldn't wait to go into the house to check, fearing that something had happened to Fenfen.
  Zhengyang had already finished the search and found nothing. When he saw her coming out, he made a report.
  "Why did it take you so long to get in?" Jing Muling waited for Zhengyang to finish and then asked worriedly: "Have you found it?"
  "We found some clues about the matter, but it's very complicated." Shen Zhuoxi took a deep breath and said, "We'll discuss it in detail after we get on the carriage."
  After getting on the carriage, Shen Zhuoxi told Jing Muling about the conversation with Fenfen, and finally said: "The man in black is the key. If we want to draw him out, we can only spread the truth."
  "In addition, since we appeared here today, the man in black will definitely come to Fenfen to inquire if he is suspicious. I left a medicine bag in Fenfen's hand, just in case."
  "I know what you mean." After Jing Muling heard this, he concentrated on giving instructions: "Zhengyang, you and Zhengqing stay here alone, observing in secret and waiting for the man in black to show up at night."
  "The other one immediately found someone and spread the news about the inexplicable rash. The truth has been revealed. It was someone from Renyi Hall who deliberately poisoned!"
  Shen Zhuoxi and Jing Muling went back to their respective homes.
  What Shen Zhuoxi didn't expect was that Shen Xinyu was still staying in the Grand Master's Mansion when it was almost dark. Looking at her posture, she probably had to rest there.
  (End of this chapter)