The Junior Minister of the Ministry of Justice was under a lot of pressure.
A pond of koi was poisoned to death, and Su Jin quickly solved the case.
Moreover, the thod of solving the case was both bluffing and intimidating, sothing he had never heard of before.
But it was very effective, with just a few words, people confessed without pressure.
Now that this young lady was poisoned to death, he interrogated for a long ti without getting any useful information.
The Junior Minister of the Ministry of Justice even doubted whether he was suitable for this job.
Su Jin, listening beside him, also didn’t find anything special.
This young lady was rely the daughter of the Imperial Censor Mansion, not conspicuous among the many noblewon, with few paying attention to her, and little information provided.
By now, people had been detained in the Beauty Pavilion for half a day, and Su Jin instructed the Beauty Pavilion’s steward to let them go.
The body of this young lady was taken back by the Ministry of Justice, asking them to help investigate this case.
The Beauty Pavilion suspended business due to the murder case, and would choose a day to reopen once the matter was resolved.
Su Jin took a carriage back to the Prince Mansion.
Just as she stepped out of the carriage and onto the stairs, a governnt official rode over and said, "Your Highness, my lord invites you to the Ministry of Justice."
Su Jin looked at the governnt official and asked, "Is it urgent?"
"There’s new progress in the case," the official replied urgently.
Su Jin was montarily stunned.
She didn’t expect progress to be so swift, having thought this case would take a while to unravel.
Imdiately, she sat back in the carriage, heading straight for the Ministry of Justice’s governnt office.
Upon reaching the Ministry of Justice, Su Jin heard that the eldest daughter of the Uncle Wen Yuan Mansion hadn’t returned there but instead went to Duke Chong’s Mansion, leaving her dumbfounded.
She had thought she had swindled them out of three thousand taels, and with Uncle Wen Yuan visiting to acknowledge kinship, Steward Lin had beaten him up.
The new and old grudges, then, targeted her Beauty Pavilion.
As it turned out, she was used by soone else as a tool.
Only this tool wasn’t of great quality, failing to harm the enemy and instead hurting itself.
However, the Junior Minister of the Ministry of Justice had invited Su Jin not because of this, but because a package of dicine was found in the purse of the eldest daughter of Uncle Wen Yuan Mansion.
The forensic doctor examined it and confird it to be poison, but it wasn’t the one that poisoned the koi.
The governnt official handed the dicine package to Su Jin.
Su Jin took it, sniffed it, and said, "This is the poison that killed the daughter of the Imperial Censor Mansion."
The forensic doctor had the sa suspicion, but he wasn’t sure.
The Junior Minister of the Ministry of Justice then invited Su Jin over.
The eldest daughter of the Uncle Wen Yuan Mansion knelt on the ground, her face ashen.
Half an hour until the hour was up.
As Su Jin looked at her, Uncle Wen Yuan and Madam arrived.
These two were truly unfortunate.
Upon learning their daughter was in trouble, they hurried to the Beauty Pavilion, only to find she rushed to Duke Chong’s Mansion.
By the ti they reached Duke Chong’s Mansion, they hadn’t seen her but received a scolding from Duke Chong.
After rushing around, they finally saw her now.
Seeing Madam of Uncle Wen Yuan, the eldest daughter cried, "Mother, the eldest daughter of Duke Chong’s Mansion refused to give the antidote..."
Uncle Wen Yuan was dizzy and light-headed.
How could his daughter be so foolish?!
She directly sought out the antidote; if they truly gave it to her, wouldn’t it admit that they instigated her to poison?!
No way would the eldest daughter of Duke Chong’s Mansion admit to such a disgraceful act?
Unable to get the antidote, she even gravely offended Duke Chong’s Mansion.
Whether he could vie for the position of Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue depended entirely on Duke Chong’s assistance.
Now he only hoped Duke Chong wouldn’t sabotage him, and he’d be content just to be reappointed in Yongzhou.
The Junior Minister of the Ministry of Justice struck the gavel, questioning the eldest daughter of Uncle Wen Yuan Mansion why she hard the daughter of the Imperial Censor Mansion.
The eldest daughter of Uncle Wen Yuan Mansion vehently denied it, "I didn’t harm her!"
"If you didn’t harm her, then how did the poison end up in your purse?" the Junior Minister asked.
"This dicine package isn’t mine!" exclaid the eldest daughter, agitated.
"I’m on the verge of death from the poison, if I did it, I’ll admit it!"
"If I didn’t do it, you can forget about pinning it on !"
Her voice was loud, eyes constantly flicking to the hourglass.
Su Jin also believed it was unlikely she was responsible.
While she might be a bit foolish, she wouldn’t be stupid enough to poison soone and then stuff the package back into her purse.
Such a small piece of oil paper could easily be tossed anywhere without being found.
It all seed as if soone had deliberately frad her.
But with so many people in the Beauty Pavilion, how was it she was conveniently frad?
Su Jin suspected that person knew early on of her plans at the Beauty Pavilion, conveniently having her take the bla for the poisoning of the Imperial Censor Mansion’s daughter.
Who just suggested the body search in the Beauty Pavilion earlier?
The Junior Minister of the Ministry of Justice and Su Jin’s thoughts coincided.
There hadn’t been any clues before, making the investigation directionless, but now with this dicine package, they naturally had to follow the lead.
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