Secretary Xu ordered the officials to prepare the things Qiu Shubai needed.

A soft-bristled brush and a small box of iron powder.

After the official went down to prepare, he also walked down from the courtroom out of curiosity.

Walking to the jade carving placed on the tray, he couldn't help but take a closer look.

This jade carving looks like there is nothing left on the surface.

Master Xu reached out curiously to pick up the jade carving and take a look at it.

"With these two things, can you extract the fingerprints on this?"

Qiu Shubai remembered Zhao Ce's instructions and quickly stopped him: "Master Registrar, wait a minute!"

"If you pick up this jade carving, your fingerprints will be on it."

Master Xu paused for a moment with his outstretched hand, and then took it back.

He was not angry even after being stopped. Instead, he became more and more curious and said, "Then let me see what you are going to do."

After Master Xu finished speaking, the two couples kneeling on the ground looked very unhappy.

The adult who was investigating the case spoke to the scholar in a gentle manner, and he did not look like he would punish the scholar.

This woman was worried that Master Xu was determined to be partial, so she had no choice.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but glared at Mr. Lu next to her.

"Bah! What a piece of bad luck, I actually gave birth to a good son."

After hearing this, Mr. Lu was not only not annoyed, but felt a little happy.

Master Xu also lowered his head and glanced at the woman lightly.

I happened to see Chen Youtian next to the woman and looked worriedly at the jade sculpture not far away.

Especially when he heard Qiu Shubai talking about verifying the fingerprints of the person who had taken the jade carving, he shook uncontrollably.

Master Xu had a keen sense that there must be something wrong with this man.

He called a yamen servant to him and whispered a few words.

The officer glanced at Chen Youtian, nodded and walked out.

soon.

The two things Qiu Shubai mentioned were prepared.

After receiving Xu's approval, Qiu Shubai stood up from the ground and placed the tray on the table brought by the official.

After taking a brush and dipping it in a little iron powder, Qiu Shubai nervously swallowed his saliva.

He took another look at Zhao Ce standing at the door.

Zhao Ce faced him and nodded gently.

Qiu Shubai then picked up the brush and gently flicked the brush handle in his hand towards the jade carving.

The iron powder stuck to the soft hair began to scatter evenly on the jade carving.

Chief Xu looked on curiously.

After half of the jade carving was covered with iron powder, Qiu Shubai took the clamp and carefully picked up the jade carving.

Then gently shake off excess powder on top.

Among the onlookers, they all looked around curiously and were still talking about it.

"Is this okay? I looked at the jade carving and didn't see any fingerprints?"

"Look at Qiu Shubai's confident look, I guess he can really do it."

"Hey, this Qiu Shubai is indeed a scholar. He knows all these weird things."

While everyone was discussing, several obvious fingerprints had appeared on the jade carving.

Qiu Shubai looked at the fingerprints that appeared and said happily: "It appeared!"

The method Zhao Ce taught Qiu Shubai is the "powder display method" which is very common in modern fingerprint extraction.

If Mr. Lu had ever taken this jade carving, he would have left his fingerprints on it.

Fingerprints have low adhesion.

As long as some metal powder with a large color contrast is used, this colorless fingerprint can be extracted.

Make it a colored fingerprint.

This method is not difficult to implement.

Therefore, after Zhao Ce talked to Qiu Shubai, he didn't need to worry about anything else and just stood in the crowd and watched.

Master Xu looked at the obvious fingerprints on it and took a closer look with some curiosity.

But he seemed to quickly figure out the key to this.

Usually, when signing a contract or a piece of paper, your thumbprint is required.

People in their yamen are naturally familiar with fingerprint comparison.

Chief Xu glanced at Zhao Ce standing in the crowd with some admiration, and then raised his voice: "Come here, bring the ink pad and compare the fingerprints on it!"

All of Lu's fingerprints were pressed on the paper and compared one by one.

There are several different fingerprints left on it, none of which match Lu's.

After getting this result, both Qiu Shubai and his mother smiled with relief.

Master Xu walked back to the front of the court and sat down.

"Now that I have proven that Mr. Lu has never come into contact with this jade carving, what else do you have to say?"

After hearing this, the woman said in disbelief: "Then could it be that my jade sculpture grew its own feet and walked into her basket?"

Master Xu glanced at the woman unhappily.

Now it is true that it can only be proved that Mr. Lu did not take the jade carving, but how this jade carving got into Mr. Lu's basket is still an unsolved mystery.

"You said this jade carving has been kept at home and only you have wiped it every day?"

The woman replied: "Yes, we will go to the state capital to visit our relatives in a few days, and we will send him there."

"Of course you have to watch it carefully."

Master Xu glanced at the man next to the woman and said, "Then your husband must have never been touched, right?"

The woman said: "There should be none today."

"Yes, yes!" Chen Youtian suddenly interrupted the woman and shouted loudly: "When I was in the morning, you put the jade carving back and I touched it again."

The woman said unhappily: "How come I didn't know when you touched it? I obviously locked it at home after wiping it in the morning."

"I took the keys with me, but when I came back from a trip, I found that there was only a wooden box left."

"When I was going out, I happened to see this bitch walking past our door."

"This bitch must have gone in and stolen it while we were away!"

Chen Youtian really wanted to strangle his mother-in-law to death.

He hesitated and said: "Yes, I have touched it..."

Master Xu shouted: "Come here, take their fingerprints and compare them!"

After this comparison, it turned out that there were indeed two of their fingerprints on it.

The woman was stunned for a moment.

She touched the keys on her body, but found nothing.

When she turned around to look at her husband, he didn't dare to look directly at her.

"You use our family's things to raise someone else's son?"

Master Xu was shocked by her thinking.

Coincidentally, at this time, the official sent by Secretary Xu also came back.

After he whispered a few words into Master Xu's ear, Master Xu nodded and slapped the gavel in his hand.

"Chen Youtian, why don't you actually recruit me?"

Chen Youtian shook for a moment and said, "My lord, I really just touched you. If I touched you, it's not against the law, right?"

Master Xu sneered: "You are such a thief, you really won't shed tears until you see the coffin."

"I noticed that you were acting strangely today, so I asked someone to inquire about it."

"You made an agreement with the people in the gambling shop today to pay off your gambling debts. You stole this jade sculpture to pay off your gambling debts! Do you dare to say otherwise?"

Chen Youtian was stunned for a moment.

After the woman heard this, she looked at her husband in disbelief.

"You have gambling debts?"

Chen Youtian said with a sad face: "Just, I owe a little, but not much."

"If I sell this jade sculpture, I can repay the interest first, and after repaying it, I can still have money to repay the principal."

As soon as these words came out, he immediately covered his mouth, knowing that he had said the wrong thing.

When the woman heard this, she said angrily: "Okay, Chen Youtian, you actually dare to gamble and still owe gambling debts!"
Chapter completed!