【Frog fun! Isn't Chen's Wood Carving Workshop right next to my house?】
Chu Liuzheng, who had been lying down watching the system livestream post and refreshing it repeatedly, suddenly sat up straight, startling Mo Xiang, who was sitting beside her embroidering a handkerchief.
"What's wrong?" Mo Xiang put down her embroidery basket, stood up, and asked with concern, "Are you feeling unwell?"
"My back itches after lying down for so long." Chu Liuzheng moved her shoulders, turning her body halfway, "Please, Sister, scratch it for me."
Mo Xiang first warmed her hands by the brazier, then reached under Chu Liuzheng's under-jacket, scratching while asking, "Here?"
Chu Liuzheng had just made up that excuse, so she nodded when Mo Xiang asked. After a few scratches, she said it didn't itch anymore.
Mo Xiang withdrew her hand, saying, "It's been two days since you washed. I'll go boil some hot water for you to wash with."
It was freezing cold, Chu Liuzheng had a hand injury, and she had just recovered from a wind-cold illness; it was really not suitable for her to take a bath.
Chu Liuzheng nodded and watched her leave.
After the door closed, she eagerly opened the system, found the livestream post, and clicked on it.
【The contact person actually lives next door to me! What's the difference between this and living next to an assassin? Brother, look at the shop you found! What terrible luck you have!】
【Just now I saw... Your Excellency Dong personally led people to the wood carving workshop, knocked on the door of the wood carving workshop, Chen Dong had an injury on his arm... uh, he did have an injury, he deliberately smashed it to buy strychnine.】
【That Doctor Zheng from Renxin Medical Clinic is also greedy. Knowing that Chen Dong's intentions were not pure, he still accompanied Chen Dong to the pharmacy to buy strychnine for the sake of money, even though prepared strychnine would have had a similar effect.】
【After Doctor Zheng returned, he packed his luggage, closed the clinic, and left for his hometown overnight with his wife and children. He told people that he was taking his wife back to her maiden home and spending the New Year at his father-in-law's house... Nonsense! He's clearly afraid of being implicated when things come to light, so he absconded with the money beforehand. What kind of person is this to be a doctor? And Renxin? I think Black Heart is more like it!】
Chu Liuzheng scrolled down, and when she saw Chu Yuxin being arrested by the yamen runners, she was completely disheartened.
【My sister! Can you casually watch the excitement at the government office? How did Elder Sister teach you? To watch the excitement, you must maintain a safe distance! You went right to the gate! If they didn't arrest you, who would they arrest?】
Chu Liuzheng felt so distressed watching this that she didn't breathe easily until she saw that Chu Yuxin wasn't beaten, but the next moment her heart went up again.
【Frog fun! Xin'er actually saw the Crown Prince of Li's attendant! A witness! She... Whoa!! Don't keep looking at your left and right hands anymore! Brother, look behind you! Chen Dong, that scoundrel, has a hidden weapon, he's going to kill people to silence them!!】
She was so scared that her hair almost stood on end, and her face turned pale. She was afraid to see the news of her brother or younger sister's death in the next line.
She unconsciously bit her lip, mentally preparing herself before quickly scanning down two more lines.
【Ah!!! The hidden weapon was thrown, it shot... hey? It missed, and hit the pillar.】
【Lack of experience with the first use or something, no, with this skill level, he can still be a contact person?? He didn't deal with the witness and exposed himself early, this contact person is quite stupid.】
Chu Liuzheng blinked her eyes, relieved to see her enemy so stupid.
Continuing to eat melon.
【Hmm... The yamen runners swarmed forward, captured Chen Dong, and brought him back to the yamen for interrogation. Brother and Xin'er also went to the Shuntian Prefecture Yamen to describe the attendant's appearance to the painter, to have a more accurate portrait drawn.】
【No, won't this arrest leak information? If the Crown Prince of Li and the attendant know, let alone running away beforehand, even if they just hide somewhere, it would take forever to find them.】
Chu Liuzheng frowned and checked the whereabouts of the master and servant, discovering that the system had just refreshed one not long ago.
【The Crown Prince of Li spent a fortune emptying the clothing shops and jewelry shops on Xin Yi Street. Tsk tsk, this guy is truly a fool with money! He's been buying for several days now, he can't even tell the difference between old stock and new arrivals, he's been ripped off and is still counting money for them.】
【These two kept buying, surrounded by enthusiastic shopkeepers and shop assistants, completely overwhelmed and temporarily unaware of Chen Dong's arrest.】
【Good thing they don't know!】
Chu Liuzheng immediately switched back to the livestream post to see what happened next.
【Chen Dong was stubborn and refused to confess, Your Excellency Dong was worried that he still had hidden weapons on him, so he ordered the yamen runners to strip him naked and search him. Oh my... this searching young man is thorough! He didn't even let go of his buttocks. Chen Dong was completely ashamed and angry, but his hands and feet were tied, and his mouth was stuffed, so he couldn't even commit suicide.】
【Tsk tsk, his psychological quality is far worse than Han Da Congming's. That guy could even bathe with the Japanese ambassador, scrub each other's backs, and remain unfazed when praised for his skin and touched. He could even take the opportunity to share his wife's beauty secret recipe, instantly building rapport, and now they're as close as brothers.】
It shows that spies are different from spies.
Chu Liuzheng silently gave Han Ruoyu a thumbs-up and continued to read.
【Frog fun! The Grand Tutor is here! The Grand Tutor has had a hard time lately; not only does he have to supervise the Shuntian Prefecture's investigation into the poisoned porridge case, but his backyard is also not harmonious.】
【Sleeping in the study, once it happens, it happens twice, and twice it happens three times, and three times it happens four times; he's slept there for six or seven days in a row. The Grand Tutor is desperately hoping for an opening, but his wife is busy looking for a childbirth secret recipe for their daughter and has no time to pay attention to him.】
【Tsk tsk, if there's no opening, create one yourself. What could a cat be thinking? It's just eating some small fish, Grand Tutor, why are you holding a grudge against a little cat? Take the initiative to feed this City North tyrant, and the opening will appear.】
【Speaking of which, the Grand Tutor has seen the Crown Prince of Li's attendant, I don't know if the portrait drawn by the painter based only on the description is similar or not, whether he can recognize... he didn't recognize him?? No, how could he not recognize him? The Grand Tutor is not that old and blind!】
Chu Liuzheng inwardly lamented and slapped her thigh, suddenly stopping halfway.
【Oh my! Thankfully there's a butler, the butler is even a few years older than the Grand Tutor. Look at his memory, he recognized him at a glance. Grand Tutor, learn from him!】
【Tsk tsk, knowing that it was the attendant who poisoned the food, the Grand Tutor is furious, he didn't even take a sedan chair, he personally led the yamen runners to arrest them. Your Excellency Dong got a face full of dust, pulling... wait a minute! Chu Yuxin, come back here!! What does the arrest have to do with you that you're running along!】
Chu Liuzheng wished she could go through the text and beat her disobedient sister's bottom. Is this kind of thing something you can interfere in?
Just as she was thinking about how to have a friendly chat with her sister after she returns to the palace, Mo Xiang came in, carrying a bucket of hot water.
Chu Liuzheng quickly put away her thoughts of a 'bamboo shoot stir-fry', waiting for the system to refresh while letting Mo Xiang clean her.
The weather was cold, Mo Xiang was worried that she would catch a cold, so she added several more pieces of charcoal to the brazier, which made Chu Liuzheng feel a pang of sympathy.
Mo Xiang thought it was funny, wringing out the handkerchief to wipe her back: "Look at you, feeling so sympathetic. Is the charcoal more important or your body?"
Of course her body was more important, but Chu Liuzheng was also reluctant to waste the charcoal.
Save where you can, spend where you must. She had been saving money for years and only tended to be generous when it came to necessary favors.
She glanced at the dwindling amount of charcoal in the basket and sighed softly.
【Still, it's so satisfying to fleece the tyrant. The charcoal is almost used up, when will the tyrant return to be a charcoal delivery boy again?】
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