Brocade clothing

Chapter 358 An Ancient Recipe

In fact, there is not much on the road guide, it only writes the other party's name, place of origin and what they do for a living.

This man was Xue Changcun, a merchant in the incense powder business in a small town hundreds of miles away from the capital, but he was only twenty years old, and it was probably his first time traveling far away, so he was very cautious and didn't leave much money on him.

The clothes on the other party's body are luxurious, and it seems that they should be from a good family.

But such a person with a good family background not only didn't hire a carriage when he returned home, but also didn't have a servant to accompany him, which was strange.

Why did he choose the most dangerous dry bone forest? Could it be that he took a shortcut?

Chu Qing stood up slowly, and slowly closed the guide. The yamen servant behind her saw that she was not in the right mood, and stepped forward: "My lord, is there a problem?"

Chu Qing hummed, since that person did everything possible to count this case as the first case, it was definitely not a simple case of being bitten to death by a poisonous snake.

This person has been dead for two days, and the other party didn't find out at the first time, maybe he already knew about it, but he was just waiting for the day when Yu Kuifeng got married.

"Send someone to look around to see if there are any clues." Chu Qing ordered, squatted down again, stuffed the guide into the bag, checked it carefully, and finally landed on the silver bag.

She poured out all the silver, and found only some scattered silver, and a silver ingot, and nothing else.

Chu Qing glanced at the half piece of dry food held in the hand of the deceased, and a few pieces packed beside it.

Pick up one of them: "Is there a lot of this kind of dry food in Beijing?"

"That's a lot, my lord. It can be seen almost everywhere, but this person eats such fine food, two cents a piece, and he is full. Ordinary ones are more difficult than this. Generally, the driver and the pawn will only buy a penny and one yuan." The yamen servant was probably short of money, and when he couldn't eat hot food, he would buy this kind of dry food to satisfy his hunger.

Chu Qing counted, there were ten dry rations in total, plus what he had in hand, the total was 11 yuan, which means 22 Wen, and the smallest piece of silver in the deceased's hand was one tael of silver.One tael of silver is 22 Wen. Could it be said that the copper plate in this man's hand is exactly [-] Wen?

This is also too coincidental.

Chu Qing stood up, shook the silver bag, and looked at the yamen servant beside her: "How do you usually eat this kind of dry food?"

The yamen servant has been involved in many cases with Chu Qing, so he is familiar with it, and he does not show timidity. From time to time, he will make a few harmless jokes: "One sip of water and one sip of dry food, this dry food always hurts the throat. If money is not tight, no one would think about it." Eat this stuff."

Chu chuckled softly: "Send someone to draw a portrait of this man, go back to the capital and ask where you bought the dry food, find out who is accompanying this young master, and arrest him immediately."

"Ah?" The yamen servant was dumbfounded, "But wasn't this young master bitten to death by a poisonous snake?"

Chu Qing said: "If there is dry food but no water, according to your words, he can choke to death. Besides, he has no copper coins in this silver bag, so who will pay for the dry food? Also, he is a young master, how dare he go to this deep place alone? Sanlao Lin Chuang? I'm afraid he was deceived by someone. Send someone to the largest incense powder shops in the capital and ask if you know him."

The yamen servant also came back to his senses when he heard it, and patted his forehead: "Yes, yes, I felt something was wrong just now. There is no water bag around this man." It would take at least a day or two to walk out of this dry bone forest, provided that he did not meet him. When it comes to beasts, how can anyone only eat dry food and not drink water?

"Let's do it. Also, bring the body back. This person must have been poisoned. The poison was put in a water bag and taken away with him. I'm afraid the poisonous snake tooth mark was printed later. , in order to convince us that the deceased was bitten to death by a poisonous snake." Chu Qing said slowly, but his eyes turned cold.

"Yes, this subordinate will do it now!" The yamen servant did not expect to have a clue so soon, and looked at his lord with admiration. If it were them, they might not have noticed these details.

Obviously they look reasonable, but adults can always see those unusual points.

The murderer obviously came prepared and did not leave any trace of himself.

But fortunately, when Chu Qing found out what happened to the deceased from several other details, he was afraid that there might be a second or third person present.

After waiting for an hour, Chu Qing and others returned to the government office, and after a short wait, a government servant came to report, saying that they had found it.

They made some inquiries in a powder shop specializing in the sale of fragrance powder. The shopkeeper recognized the man in the portrait and said that it was their young master, because the master's house was not in the capital, but in a city not far away. The master's family also didn't want to leave their homeland, so they were sent to the capital more than ten years ago.

On the contrary, he has made a fortune, but the owner bought an old recipe through the channel the year before last, which is specially used for spices.

It’s just that they haven’t been able to convince the other party to sell it. A month ago, Gu Fang finally bought it. The master also wanted to train the young master and let him come to the capital to gain experience, so he sent a loyal servant to follow him, and came to the capital to bring Gu Fang. go back.

Knowing that his young master had been murdered, the shopkeeper was so frightened that he lost his soul. He knelt in the lobby and asked every word without daring to hide anything: "My lord, you must avenge our young master! You must catch the murderer!" ah……"

"When did Xue Changcun leave?" Chu Qing asked.

This Xue Changcun is the deceased.

"It was early in the morning two days ago. At that time, the young master's house that Xiaochun followed, the young master said he still wanted to bring something to his wife and master, so he left early in the morning.
(End of this chapter)