My Ancient Stepson Bootcamp

Chapter 152 Not That Person
When Lin Shuran came out of Fangda's room, she ordered Lingqin to sneak into the Yushi Mansion next door to find the old lady of the Fang family, and told her that Fangda had woken up. Doctor Mei said that as long as she rested for a while, she should be fine.

Soon, Lingqin came back from the next door, and brought a reply from the old lady of the Fang family, saying that she was very grateful for Lin Shuran's actions and asked her to continue to take care of Fang Da on her behalf. The Fang family will never forget this kindness.

In the early morning of the next day, Xiao Chen came to the General's Mansion to meet Fang Da. The two chatted about something in the room, and then Xiao Chen came out and proposed to meet Lin Shuran.

Xiao Chen came in official clothes, Lin Shuran invited him to a seat in the main hall of the front yard, she thought Xiao Chen was asking Fang Da to be carried away, but Xiao Chen said that Fang Da's body was just right, and the imperial physician Mei said it was not suitable to move Therefore, let him continue to stay in the General's Mansion for a while.

"Brother Xiao, thank you!" Lin Shuran didn't politely call Xiao Chen Master Xiao when there were only two of them in private.

Xiao Chen looked at her intently, and said: "You don't have to thank me, if there is no emperor's will to allow, I will not let the guilty person stay in your house!"

"Your majesty doesn't believe that Mr. Fang and Mr. Fang's old censor would do something like taking bribes and hiding the golden pagoda, right?" Xiao Chen is also regarded as a close minister of the emperor, although his relationship with the emperor is not as close as that of Xu Junze, but he is A very important person for the emperor.

Xiao Chen didn't want to talk to Lin Shuran about the case. If possible, he hoped that Lin Shuran wouldn't get involved in these things from the beginning, but many things happened and he had to think about it.

"You can't just look at a person's appearance. Sometimes no one can tell the difference between a good guy and a bad guy. Before the case is investigated, I won't make a judgment lightly." Xiao Chen turned to Lin Shuran and asked after saying this, " Shu Ran, tell me the truth, when you were in Long'an Temple last time, was there another person in the meditation room you were in?"

Xiao Chen suddenly mentioned the matter of Long'an Temple, Lin Shuran pretended to look at him suspiciously and asked, "What's wrong? Did brother Xiao find out the identity of the person who was going to hurt me?"

Xiao Chen glanced at her with a vague expression, then turned his eyes to the outside of the hall again, and after thinking for a while, he turned his eyes and said to her: "Although that person's body was destroyed by wild beasts, I have already experienced that he was twisted by someone. He died with a broken neck, and there were no other injuries on his body, and the person I was looking for was not this person."

"I don't know about that. At that time, this person was the only person in my room. If he hadn't intended to hurt me, Honggu would not have attacked suddenly." Lin Shuran replied pretending to be calm.

What a shrewd and cautious person Xiao Chen was, he investigated the case meticulously, but he didn't expect him to find out so quickly that the person who died was not the person the Ministry of Criminal Justice was looking for.

"But I found out that the meditation room was originally owned by Princess Xiqing of Prince Qing's Mansion. At that time, Princess Ling led someone to catch the thief and went directly to that Zen room. I know you have nothing to do with Prince Ling's Mansion, but Princess Xiqing There is some conflict with Princess Kerou, that person didn't go after you at that time, right?" Xiao Chen stared at Lin Shuran with determined eyes, not letting go of any expression on her face.

Lin Shuran smiled helplessly, met his scrutinizing eyes calmly, and replied: "Sure enough, I still can't hide anything from you, Brother Xiao. I was also out of desperation that day. Someone came aggressively to harm Princess Xiqing's Qingyu, and you also Seeing such a big battle between Princess Ling and Princess Kerou, if someone finds that Princess Xiqing's meditation room has entered a man in Long'an Temple, and the man talks nonsense, Princess Xiqing's reputation will be ruined. I have no face to live in this world, I can't let Princess Ling and the others succeed in their plot."

After receiving Lin Shuran's affirmative answer, a trace of pain flashed across Xiao Chen's face. When did his simple and kind "Sister Shu Ran" become so scheming and cunning, and even learned to kill people in order to save others? She will not be able to get rid of it for the rest of her life.

"You are different from before!" Xiao Chen sighed slightly, he didn't want to admit that Lin Shuran was different from before, but every little bit of the past three years told him that she had really changed, "You never You will be involved in these things, you are the daughter of the Lin family's pampered baby, those intrigues and mutual calculations should not have anything to do with you."

Lin Shuran used to avoid Xiao Chen's eyes seemingly, because she was always afraid that Xiao Chen would see the difference in her, but now she bravely looked directly at him with disappointed eyes, and looked at him with a smile on his face. She said to him: "Brother Xiao, you are right. I am no longer the Lin Shuran from before. On the day that Brother Gu was buried, the previous Lin Shuran had already died with him. Now Lin Shuran is a brand new Me, a mature me, a more worldly and smooth me, so don't take this kind of me in your heart anymore, I have really changed, I am no longer the innocent and kind little girl in your mind, I'm already married, and I have more family members I want to protect!"

Xiao Chen felt even more painful and uncomfortable when he heard Lin Shuran say these things, but he was powerless to change anything. She changed, did he not change?But no matter how he changed, his feelings for her would not change, but this feeling could no longer be expressed, he could only bury it in his heart.

"Shu Ran, I just want to ask you one last time now, was there a second man behind the screen in the meditation room that day?" Xiao Chen calmed down his emotions, quickly recovered his calm face, and stood up. up.

"No!" Lin Shuran replied without the slightest hesitation.

"Okay, I believe you, it's fine if you don't!" After saying this, Xiao Chen left without looking back, and Lin Shuran stared at his leaving back for a long time, and then slowly walked away from the Standing up from the chair she was sitting on, only now did her eyes show guilt.

Maybe Xiao Chen had guessed that she was lying, maybe he was just probing, in fact, she had guessed before that the reason why Xiao Chen allowed Fang Da to be taken in by the General's Mansion was for some other purpose!
And Xiao Chen went back to the Yamen of the Ministry of Punishment after leaving the General's Mansion, and then locked himself in the room. He looked at the pile of case files related to the Fang family and the Ren family in front of him, and fell into deep thought for a long time.

Just now he couldn't tell whether Lin Shuran was telling the truth or lying. He even had doubts about her in his heart. He didn't know whether it was his intuition in handling the case or his overthinking.

These days, he has found out that the suspect in the serial killing of officials is probably the remnant of the Ren family's Jinta case, and this person is most likely the third young master of the Ren family, Ren Yong. Get away with it.

He even found out that Ren Ying and Xu Junze, the young masters of the Ren family, were once in the same military camp. When the Ren family had an accident, Xu Junze had appeared near the Ren family's old house. Could Ren Yong's disappearance have something to do with Xu Junze?

(End of this chapter)