"What are you doing to make our hands black?"

"That's right, what do we do after taking our palm lines?"

Many people asked Lu Chengze about his doubts, and he was waiting for Liu Ruyue's answer with his eyes hanging down.

Liu Ruyue looked up to everyone's expectations and smiled at everyone, "I have seen a constable catch a thief on my way to Beijing. This is how I used to judge who stole the thing."

Everyone felt itchy when they heard it, and they were afraid that they would be wronged. They asked in the end, "What's the solution?"

"What medicine do you sell in your gourd?"

"This method really won't wrong us?"

When he heard that a constable had already arrested people using this method, Lu Chengze became more and more unable to sit down, "What is the method? What can't be said? Is it not working if you say it? Or are you deliberately delaying time and making a mystery?"

This was originally something to be said, but I didn’t expect that Lu Chengze was so unbearable. If he was like this, Prime Minister Chen would also capture his son-in-law below the list?

Pressing the puzzle in his heart, Liu Ruyue's eyes slowly swept across everyone's faces, "Everyone knows why you have to put your handprints when selling yourself to establish a contract."

“It’s because we can’t write.”

"Worrying that we will be stolen."

"Worrying that we are runaway slaves."

"So the most fundamental reason is why can't you escape after pressing your handprint?" No one could answer Liu Ruyue's question.

Why exactly?

Lu Chengze even wanted to know that as long as he knew the reason, he might be able to come up with a way to prevent Shi Niang from using this method to find someone.

Liu Ruyue opened her fingers to everyone and said meaningfully, "The constable said that there will be people who look similar in the world, but there will be no people who have the same fingerprints and palm prints. Therefore, all dynasties will stamp their fingerprints with their signatures. When a lawsuit is made, you can tell whether the fingerprints are the ones you pressed by a comparison of fingerprints."

"Oh, so that's how it is!"

"I thought that if God pressed his handprint, he would be watching him. If he regretted being a fugitive slave, he would be struck by Thunder God."

"But what is the reason why you asked us to mark our fingerprints? There was no fingerprint on the peace and nothing else."

Picking up the brush at hand, Liu Ruyue pointed to the top and said, "Look, my brush and inkstone have to be held with my fingers and palms, so my fingerprints will be left on it, as well as the fingerprints of the person who just brought the pen, ink, paper and inkstone to me."

Everyone still doesn't understand, "But, we can't see the fingerprints you left?"

"I don't use ink or ink. Can fingerprints be left on things?"

A fatter servant suddenly realized, "Oh oh oh, I remembered that sometimes I sweat a lot when working. When I drink water with a bowl, there will be fingerprints on the edge of the white porcelain bowl. It is like the rings of a tree. Although there is no ink and the ink remains obviously, it will indeed stay."

The maid was not stupid even when she laughed so hard that she felt relieved when she heard this, "The white porcelain bowl can leave fingerprints, and the mutton fat jade is whiter and tenderer than the white porcelain bowl. Maybe it can also leave fingerprints and palm prints."

"Yes, I haven't touched the lady's jade pendant, so of course I won't leave fingerprints."

"Everyone can rest assured that they will not be framed."

Liu Ruyue smiled and swept over everyone's relieved smile, and also saw a panic-hiding look on a person's face, and remembered the person's appearance in her heart.

Many people poked their heads to look at the white jade on the table. Liu Ruyue directly took a piece of rice paper to cover it, "Everyone should finish recording the fingerprints and see who is the thief."

A Yun's wife said with a blank face, "I... When I was looking for the jade pendant, I touched the jade pendant with my fingerprints on it. I can't say that I stole it."

Chuan'er was also nervous and sweating profusely, "It's the jade pendant I found. If it has my fingerprints on it, it can't be said that I stole it."

Liu Ruyue comforted, "I don't worry about ghosts knocking on the door if I don't do anything bad. Anyway, I have never touched this jade pendant, so there will be no fingerprints on this jade pendant. As long as there are fingerprints of people who shouldn't appear on this jade pendant, that person will be a real thief."

By saying this, it is quite clear.

Liu Ruyue looked at Chen Manqing, "Madam Chen, you have played with this jade pendant recently. When you don't play with it, who will put it aside to keep it."

Chen Manqing originally wanted to take the opportunity to find people who are not clean, and learned this method. In the future, it will be more convenient for servants who are not clean, and there is no need to fight and kill.

So she cooperated very much and didn't feel that she was being interrogated. She said, "I took it out and played with it during the day, but the weather was too cold. She would get the hands on the air when she went out to blow the wind, so she asked Cuizhu to take it back to the house and put it in the makeup box for me."

The rules of the homes are that the maid who manages finances such as gold, silver and jewelry for the ladies will be whoever they are, and no one else can touch them.

Therefore, if the fingerprints of the maid other than the maid in charge of the accountant appear on the jade pendant, it will not escape the title of a suspect. After all, as a servant, he should not have coveted his master's precious treasure, so he should not have played with it.

As Chen Manqing finished speaking, someone's face became more and more ugly.

There are still many problems with Chen Manqing's yard. Liu Ruyue already has a clear idea. After thanking Chen Manqing, she asked the people behind to continue pressing their palm prints and fingerprints.

Taking palm prints and fingerprints is much faster than interrogating them.

In less than half an hour, Liu Ruyue recorded the handprints of all the servants in Zhuran Pavilion except Chen Manqing, Lu Chengze, Lu Xueling, and the maids and servants who served them closely.

"Then please let me ask all the maids and maids who serve the master to record them."

Several of the maids and nanny looked embarrassed, "You are insulting us!"

On weekdays, maids and servants like masters’ houses cannot get in at all, and there are maids guarding them like door gods.

But tonight, fireworks were set off, and the maid also came to the yard to see the fireworks, which could give outsiders the opportunity to take advantage of the situation. There are so many more suspects.

If it is ordinary, it is impossible to doubt her as an outsider.

But from the beginning, Liu Ruyue was the only one who was close to Chen Manqing, because the maids outside could not get what she loved, especially this matter was definitely arranged by Lu Chengze, which had nothing to do with the chores in the yard.

These women and maids all need shame. Liu Ruyue comforted her, "No, I'm helping everyone get rid of their suspicion. After proving their innocence, will you be more decent and confident in front of your master in the future? Besides, I didn't ask for the trial and did not use any torture, so how could I insult all my sisters and aunts?

After everyone has finished recording, Shi Niang will also record my own palm print fingerprints. Then we can compare the palm print fingerprints on the jade pendant. The truth will be revealed. Who is right and who is not something that can be decided at a glance."
Chapter completed!