White Cat Legend Episode 9 Recap
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Chen Shi brought the simple-minded girl to live at Court of Judicial Review. They washed clothes and cooked together, and he even wove grasshopper ornaments for the simple-minded girl. The two gradually got along well and could talk about anything. Li Bing went to the market to find the Hu butcher. The Hu butcher was selling meat. After finishing a busy spell, Li Bing showed the Hu butcher the pendant of his father, Li Ji.
The Hu butcher immediately understood and invited Li Bing to the backyard to talk. After Li Bing revealed his identity, the Hu butcher did not believe him. According to common rumors, Li Bing had already been killed on the way back home while escorting his father's coffin. It was only after Li Bing mentioned the Hu butcher's past as an executioner that the Hu butcher believed Li Bing's identity.
Li Bing found a string of numbers on the back of the mask he found at the Hu people's casino, so he casually wrote it down. Now, showing it to the Hu butcher, the Hu butcher collapsed onto the ground after seeing the numbers and then revealed the name of the prisoner corresponding to the number. The prisoner's name was Yi Zhi Hua. He was the most unforgettable person in the Hu butcher's decades-long career.
After Wu Zetian abolished the beheading penalty, the Hu butcher was transferred to prison to be a guard. One day during a patrol, he noticed Yi Zhi Hua had strange eyes, so he stepped forward to warn him to be honest and follow the rules. However, Yi Zhi Hua grinned wickedly and praised the Hu butcher's teeth for being beautiful. His various strange behaviors were different from the other prisoners.
After several prisoners were executed, the Hu butcher went to the prison to check the situation. Several prisoners had stopped breathing, but Yi Zhi Hua was safely in the corner, holding a string of teeth connected by a rope. It was then he understood the intention behind the earlier praise of his teeth. Afterwards, the Hu butcher, with the help of Court of Judicial Review Minister Li Ji, left the prison.
Three years later, the prison where Yi Zhi Hua had served his sentence suddenly disappeared, as if it had never existed at all. As time passed, few people mentioned this matter again. Li Bing returned to his room and found it tidy, but the mask was missing. Besides Chen Shi tidying up everywhere, there would be no one else, but Chen Shi was not at Court of Judicial Review at the moment.
Li Bing used his ghost cat eyes to check and traced the route to the vicinity of Suzaku Gate. Chen Shi had woven many lanterns and was selling them. The simple-minded girl was standing in front of Yuan Buer's fortune-telling stall, and the mask was placed next to the simple-minded girl. Li Bing quickly retrieved the mask.
It turned out that when Chen Shi was tidying up the room with the simple-minded girl, she found the mask interesting and took it with her casually. Li Bing instructed Chen Shi not to tidy his room excessively in the future. However, Chen Shi also had some gains from selling lanterns for half a day. Yuan Buer calculated the simple-minded girl's age, and she was already an adult, often saying words related to coming-of-age ceremonies.
Li Bing speculated that someone must have painstakingly taught the simple-minded girl, and this person could only be the Yuanwailang. Wang Qi and his group discovered that the roof repairman had been to the Yuanwailang's house that night and was now repairing the roof at Court of Judicial Review, indicating that this person was also suspicious. Several people rushed back to Court of Judicial Review. The roof repairman was preparing to secretly stab the simple-minded girl.
Wang Qi stopped him in time but was taken hostage in return. Chen Shi picked up a porcelain bottle and smashed it on the repairman's head, finally stopping him. According to his confession, the Yuanwailang had previously bullied the roof repairman, so he decided to take revenge. Killing the Yuanwailang was not enough to quench his anger, so he intended to kill the simple-minded girl as well.
After the case was solved, the simple-minded girl could finally return to the Ji Ci Tang with peace of mind, and Chen Shi was reluctant to part with her. Due to the twists and turns in solving the Yuanwailang case, Li Bing was preparing to dismiss Wang Qi. The first time he went to the Ministry of Justice to re-examine a case, Wang Qi only cared about personal relationships and saving face, nearly missing important clues.
Although Wang Qi was unwilling, he could only obey the superior's arrangement. At the same time, because Chen Shi had contributed twice in solving cases, Li Bing asked Chen Shi to quickly learn to read and write. If he met the literacy standard after one month, he could get rid of his attendant status and join the Mingjing Hall to investigate cases together.
