"Just when we were about to give up, we found a lead at the last place, a small money house in the south of the city called the Abundant Prosperity Money House."
"Look at this statement. These are Li Qinghe's transfer records at that money house for the past six months. Every month, he sent money to an estate called the East Island Medicinal Herb Estate, sometimes a few hundred taels, sometimes several thousand. In the last three months alone, he transferred over twenty thousand taels of silver."
"According to the statement, Li Qinghe repeatedly purchased precious medicinal herbs such as ginseng and fleeceflower root from that estate."
Su Fei took the account statement. His gaze sharpened as he read the large characters spelling out East Island Medicinal Herb Estate.
"A medicinal herb estate? He was buying medicinal herbs? Li Qinghe spent so much silver on them. Was someone in his family ill?"
Lei Wu hurriedly continued.
"After seeing these records, I had much the same thought as you, sir."
"Then I went to Li Qinghe's residence, asked the gatekeeper for three months of visitor registrations and supply receipt records, and checked them. Guess what? I discovered that no one from the East Island Estate had delivered medicinal herbs during those three months."
"Never mind delivery records, there wasn't even a record of a single visit."
"Li Qinghe spent all that silver, yet the East Island Medicinal Herb Estate never once came to his residence to deliver medicinal herbs. Wouldn't you call that peculiar, sir?"
Su Fei now had a clear idea.
"Lei Wu, you did very well. This is indeed peculiar."
"He spent tens of thousands of taels of silver and didn't receive so much as a single ginseng rootlet. Tsk, tsk."
Everything instantly became clear to Su Fei.