Jade Without Fragrance

   Chapter 234 Association

The    guest house is specially used to entertain foreign guests, and all the people who do things are Dazhou people.

   "What's that person's name?"

   Yuliu maid shook her head weakly: "I don't know, I only noticed him for the first time when he put the mask on me."

Cheng Maoming didn't doubt that the maid of Yuliu was lying. It was the most convenient to call a few servants who trimmed flowers and trees for the maid of honor to identify, but the news that the maid Yuliu was found could not be spread, and the fewer people who knew it, the better. After thinking about it, I still have to ask Prince Jing for help.

   Really can't do without the Prince Jing - Dudu Cheng sighed in his heart, and felt a little embarrassed in hindsight.

  Cough, mainly because Prince Jing has great talents, not because he is dependent.

   "Take good care of people." Cheng Maoming explained and went to invite Qi Shuo in person.

   "People found?"

  Cheng Maoming smiled brightly: "I found it!"

   Qi Shuo smiled: "Congratulations to the Governor."

"It's all because of the prince's blessing." Cheng Maoming bowed his hands, saying that he had come, "The maid Yuliu explained that the mask was obtained from a servant who trimmed flowers and trees. If the prince has time, I will trouble you to go to Jinzhou. Lin Wei."

   "What's the trouble with this, I'll be happy to help the Grand Governor."

  Cheng Maoming was deeply moved: "The prince's goodness, Cheng Mou has kept it in his heart."

   Qi Shuo soon saw the imprisoned Yuliu maid.

   "You can tell me what that person looks like." Cheng Maoming said coldly.

   Under the description of the maid Yuliu, a portrait was painted soon, and the picture was a black and thin man in his forties.

   "Is that him?"

  The maid Yuliu nodded and looked at Qi Shuo with a strange look: "Yes..."

   After being confirmed by the jade maid, Cheng Maoming handed the portrait to his subordinates: "Go to the guest house and quietly bring back the person on the portrait."

   The subordinates took orders and left.

   Cheng Maoming accompanied Qi Shuo out of the interrogation room and invited him to drink tea.

   Qi Shuo cares about the follow-up, and naturally he will not refuse.

   Now it seems that the person who gave the mask to the Yuliu maid was definitely related to the person who gave the mask to "Fake Du Qing".

   The two of them waited for an hour.

   "Great Governor, someone brought it." There was a report from his subordinates outside the door.

  Cheng Maoming put the teacup on the table: "Bring it in."

   As the door rang, a thin black man was pushed in.

   "Kneel down!" Jin Linwei, who brought people, kicked him to the ground.

   The black and thin man looked terrified: "Your Excellency, please spare your life."

  Cheng Maoming looked down at the man: "Do you know why you were called here?"

   The black and thin man didn't dare to look up at all, and he shouted with a weeping voice: "Minor people don't know!"

   "I don't know?" Cheng Maoming raised an eyebrow, "Someone reported that you gave something to the missing Yuliu maid, is there any such thing?"

   The first reaction of the black and thin man was to deny: "Xiaomin doesn't have any—"

  Cheng Maoming patted the table, his eyes full of viciousness: "Did you forget what this place is?"

   The black and thin man shuddered and suddenly lost the courage to hide: "Xiaomin said, Xiaomin said!"

  Cheng Maoming picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.

Jin Linwei undoubtedly has a great deterrent effect on ordinary people, the black and thin man lowered his head and said shiveringly: "Xiaomin gave the jade maid named Bailing a small box, but Xiaomin does not I knew what was in there, and I didn't expect her to disappear!"

   "Don't know what's in the box?"

   "I really don't know, Xiaomin can swear!" The black and thin man raised a hand, ready to swear.

  Cheng Maoming waited without saying a word.

  Although he didn't believe this, he didn't lose anything by listening to it.

   The black and thin man paused, gritted his teeth and made a series of poisonous oaths.

   "Since you don't know what's in the box, where did the box come from?"

   "Yes... it was given to Xiaomin by a person who couldn't see his face clearly."

   "I don't know what he looks like?" Cheng Maoming sneered, "If you say that, this official is not satisfied."

   "Xiaomin really didn't see what the man looked like. He was wearing a hat and only his chin was exposed."

   A voice sounded: "Tell me about the person's appearance, height, short, fat, thin, and clothes. The more specific the better."

   The thin black man looked at the young man who opened his mouth hesitantly.

  Cheng Maoming's face froze: "If you want to say it, just say it!"

   The black and thin man didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and said honestly.

   "Is that so?" After an unknown amount of time, Qi Shuo put down his pen and asked.

   On the picture scroll is a rough-clad man wearing a hat with only his chin exposed.

   "It's him!" The black and thin man shouted excitedly, his tone firm.

   Cheng Maoming glanced at Qi Shuo hesitantly.

   Even if I draw it, I still don’t know what that person looks like.

   "How did this man find you?" he asked.

"Outside a hospital." The black and thin man's eyes were red and his voice was choked, "Xiaomin's son is very ill, and after taking a few medicines, he really has no money, and the man who was desperate appeared and said to Xiaomin. Just give the small box to a jade maid named Bailing in the guest house, and give Xiaomin fifty taels of silver."

   He said, bang bang kowtow: "Xiaomin really can't do anything, Xiaomin can't watch his son die..."

   Cheng Maoming was indifferent to the black and thin man's cry: "Did that person find you again later?"

"No."

   "What else did you say besides asking you to hand over the things to the Yuliu maid?"

   "Let Xiaomin be the same as usual and forget about it."

  Cheng Maoming couldn't help looking at Qi Shuo.

  If the missing Yuliu maid can't be found, no matter how you look, you won't be able to find the head of the gardener who behaved as usual. Fortunately, Prince Jing's brilliant pen broke the deadlock.

   It's just that the gardener didn't see the man's face, and it would be difficult to find that man.

   "Take the man down and continue to ask to see if he has concealed anything." Instructing his subordinates to take the black and thin man away, Cheng Maoming decided to enter the palace.

  Qi Shuo pointed at the portrait: "Does the Governor don't mind if I take the portrait away?"

   "The prince is free." Although Cheng Maoming wondered what the use of such a portrait was, he didn't ask much.

   Qi Shuo left Jinlinwei and asked Lin Hao to meet the fake Du Qing together.

   "Is this the person who gave you the mask?" Qi Shuo unfolded the portrait in front of the fake Du Qing and asked straight to the point.

   Fake Du Qing glanced at it, a little silly: "I can't see what it looks like."

   "How does it make you feel? Even if you can't see the eyebrows, the shape of the exposed chin, and the body shape, are they similar to the men you've seen?"

   With such a reminder, the fake Du Qing looked carefully.

   After a while, he slowly shook his head: "I met that person only once. If we meet again, maybe we can recognize it. It's impossible to be sure just by looking at such a portrait. The body shape is similar."

   Worried that the answer would not satisfy the two of them and would suffer, the man hesitated: "Besides, since he is good at disguising, what I see may not necessarily be his true appearance..."

  Lin Hao stared at the portrait for a long time, then stretched out his hand to cover the upper part of his face.

   (end of this chapter)