Chapter 2967 - 2968: Five Stone Powder Deal

Chapter 2967: Chapter 2968: Five Stone Powder Deal

"There’s a psychological study that says people’s subtle facial expressions can betray their inner thoughts. Just now, when you said there shouldn’t be any concealment, he glanced to the left, but quickly recovered," Bai Ruozhu answered. "Besides, there’s a woman’s intuition."

Jiang Yichun nodded, "It might not be too critical, but this time he was genuinely scared."

Bai Ruozhu shrank her neck, "I’m really scared too. Look at what a mess this is."

She put a bit of blood into a small bottle. Jiang Yichun wanted to help but was stopped by her. "Don’t let your hands touch those, otherwise I’ll be disgusted with you."

"You’re okay with touching them yourself?" Jiang Yichun said discontentedly.

"Well, my hands are meant to touch you, and your hands are for touching me, so of course you can’t move," Bai Ruozhu replied.

Jiang Yichun couldn’t help but laugh, what kind of logic is this?

But saying his hands are for touching her, he liked hearing that.

She put on gloves again to examine the corpse of the servant Awang. Jiang Yichun stood beside her playing with her hair, "You’ve been too tired lately, and your hair has split ends again. Should I cut it for you?"

Bai Ruozhu gave him a look, "If you’re so idle, go play elsewhere. Don’t ruin the crime scene. If the Government Office people find my hair everywhere, how can I explain?"

Jiang Yichun chuckled, "Even if your hair is cut, I’ll keep it well, close to my heart."

Bai Ruozhu couldn’t help but laugh too, "You’re sweet-tongued."

The two of them joked around, feeling the atmosphere improved a lot, otherwise this eerie Memorial Hall was really oppressive and terrifying, very uncomfortable.

Jiang Yichun said he wouldn’t get involved, but he also carefully checked the traces left behind.

"This footprint is Awang’s. Look here, if it were a slip, the footprint couldn’t be this complete. At least one foot would have slid out, but now it looks more like both feet left the ground simultaneously and his head hit the corner of the coffin."

Jiang Yichun continued, "Even if he were possessed and jumped up and hit his head, he couldn’t have jumped so neatly. It can only be that he was hit by a powerful attack and flew over, and his entire body was knocked up before hitting the coffin corner hard, causing immediate death. So, it’s murder, and the person’s inner strength is remarkable."

"We’ll have a post-mortem examination later by the Government Office to see if there are any traces on the body," Bai Ruozhu said.

"There may not be any left, like your uncle Fen Jiu, who likes to use his sleeve to swipe past, leaving almost no traces," Jiang Yichun said.

They finished looking around and left the Memorial Hall. Once out of the Xue Residence, Bai Ruozhu secretly instructed Jianqi to have someone keep an eye on the Memorial Hall of the Xue Residence.

Additionally, Jiang Yichun asked Muyu to investigate Elder Xue’s little brother-in-law Duan Fei.

The two then returned to the Inn to rest. Early the next morning, Muyu had news.

"He’s staying at another Yunlai Inn, in the upper room, spending lavishly." Muyu said.

Bai Ruozhu raised an eyebrow, "Not a pauper, yet eyeing a family heirloom he might not even know about, that’s odd."

"Let’s go, let’s interrogate sternly." Jiang Yichun pulled her up and headed outside.

Muyu touched his right hand with his left, ah, he also wanted to hold his wife’s little hand. If it weren’t for the delay on the road, he could have seen Princess already.

Not long after Bai Ruozhu and Jiang Yichun went out, they received a report from the dark guard watching that Duan Fei had sneakily gone out.

"Could it be to meet the person behind the scenes?" Muyu asked happily.

Jiang Yichun gave him a sidelong glance, "If the person behind the scenes were so careless, wouldn’t we have discovered them already, and wouldn’t need this much trouble?"

Muyu scratched his head, "Oh, that’s true."

Quickly, they found Duan Fei and carefully followed behind.

"Did you bring the goods?" The one meeting Duan Fei was a burly man, looking like a thug, with exceptionally fierce eyes.

"I brought them, where’s the money we agreed on?" Duan Fei asked. He looked fair-skinned, it was clear he was also a handsome man in his youth, just that his eyes were somewhat lewd.

He said this as he took out a porcelain box, carefully opened it, revealing some white powder.

The burly man dipped a finger in a bit and put it in his mouth.

"Pretty pure, how much more do you have?"

Duan Fei laughed in a low voice, "This stuff isn’t easy to get, the Imperial Court strictly controls it, there’s not much left."

"Less talk, how much more do you have? You’ll get your silver," the burly man said.

Duan Fei laughed as he raised three fingers, "I’m here on business, can’t bring too much. If the price is right, I can supply you regularly."

The man laughed, "What business, not just here for the funeral to snatch heirloom gems, everyone in the City almost knows, Duan Fei you’re something else, your own sister’s dead, and you still have to profit."

"Otherwise, I’ll never get anything again. Not taking my chance now, there’s no opportunity later," Duan Fei laughed slyly, "So, do you want the goods or not?"

"Okay, same place tomorrow, bring all the goods, you’ll get your money." The man said.

"Alright then," Duan Fei responded happily.

Not far away, Bai Ruozhu’s face turned grim, she mouthed to Jiang Yichun: Five Stone Powder.

Five Stone Powder is the drug from Ancient Times, it causes addiction, and the Imperial Court has already ordered its ban in the market. Anyone daring to sell Five Stone Powder faces exile at best, beheading at worst, possibly taking the whole family down too. Unexpectedly, it’s still being traded now.

If the goods aren’t much, there are still four large boxes, what if there’s more?

The buyer doesn’t look like a good person either; who knows how many people will be poisoned by buying Five Stone Powder.

After both parties left, Bai Ruozhu and the others didn’t alarm the buyer but quietly followed Duan Fei.

This Duan Fei got the silver and started muttering about going to the Brothel to find Sister Hua, in broad daylight, he’s really impatient.

Bai Ruozhu and Jiang Yichun jumped onto the roof and sprinkled some Drug Powder down on him.

Soon, Duan Fei sat on the ground, looking somewhat dazed.

"Where did you get the Five Stone Powder?" Bai Ruozhu asked.

"The Imperial Court controls it strictly, I bought some servants who are cultivating and producing it in Chengshui Country," Duan Fei answered.

"Are you the only one doing it?" Bai Ruozhu asked again.

"Yes, I never partner with anyone," Duan Fei replied without awareness.

Bai Ruozhu and Jiang Yichun exchanged a look, hit by this drug, he would explain everything. For Duan Fei to come up with such a way to make money on his own, it’s an ability too.

"What heirloom are you here for?"

"I don’t know, the old man wouldn’t tell the truth even to his death. I only know he passed it to his legitimate daughter."

"Who sent you? What benefits did they promise you?"

"Someone tipped me off that she was dying, I wanted to come on my own. Since it’s a family heirloom, it must be worth some money."

"Who tipped you off?"

"I don’t know, just an arrow with a note shot to my bedside. I didn’t quite believe it, thinking since I was going to do business anyway, I might as well take a look."

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