“Chinese medicine doctor?” I paused for a moment, then burst into laughter. “Looks like he totally fell for my lies about corpse poisoning!”

Xiaotao sighed. “But we still can’t do anything about it. Not unless he gets so scared that he turns himself in.”

“Wait!” I cried. An idea just popped up in my mind. “Xiaotao, you just made an excellent point! Since we can’t do anything to him right now, we’ll make him incriminate himself?”

“How?” asked Xiaotao excitedly. I could tell from her eyes that she hadn’t given up on the case.

“By sending a visitor from beyond the grave to him!”

I wrote down a list of items for Wang Yuanchao to prepare. I then called Lao Yao.

“Little Song!” he cried when he picked up the phone. “I was just about to call you myself! I’ve given it some thoughts, and I decided to take up Miss Huang’s...