My Ancient Stepson Bootcamp

Chapter 367 What Help?

Sure enough, Xiao Chen soon found out that the Liuli Pavilion was actually opened by Zhao Mu, the young prince of Yaowang's Mansion. Yaowang's Mansion has always been very low-key in the capital, but he didn't expect that it would be involved in a murder case and become the focus of everyone's eyes. .

It was only the second day after the murder of the young master of the Bai family, another murder case occurred in the capital. This time, the head of the Yan family, a silk merchant, died in his study. There is Xu Mingfan, the fourth child of the Xu family.

When Lin Shuran heard the news, Xiao Chen had already taken Xu Mingfan to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to assist in the investigation of the case. Afterwards, Xu Junze personally picked him up from the Ministry of Criminal Justice. When he returned home, everyone in the Xu family surrounded him and asked him what happened. one thing.

Xu Mingfan told his family that Yan Chuan'an, the young master of the Yan family, was a classmate of his Guozijian, and the two had a very good relationship in private. A few days ago, Yan Chuan'an had been inviting Xu Mingfan to his house as a guest, and the two made an appointment today.

After arriving at the Yan Mansion, Xu Mingfan paid a polite visit to Yan Chuan'an's family. Although there were some conflicts between the General's Mansion and the Capital Chamber of Commerce because of the Xu family's sugar store, everyone in the Yan family saw Xu Mingfan, the fourth young master of the General's Mansion. He didn't dare to neglect, Yan Chuanan wanted to take Xu Mingfan to the study to meet his grandfather, the head of the Yan family.

It's just that they didn't expect that after the two of them pushed open the door, they saw the Patriarch of the Yan family lying on a chair crookedly bleeding from the corner of his mouth. He was already dead, and then Xiao Chen took him with him.

Xiao Chen just asked some questions as a matter of routine, and then asked Xu Junze to bring Xu Mingfan back, and the strange thing was that there was also a glazed ornament in front of the head of the Yan family, which was also poisoned.

As soon as this matter happened, no one dared to buy the accessories of Liuli Pavilion, and the little prince Zhao Mu was also invited by Xiao Chen to the Ministry of Criminal Justice. The murders in the two days before and after were all related to Liuli, which had to arouse his attention.

"It's such a coincidence!" Lin Shuran exclaimed.

Yesterday was the young master of the wine merchant's Bai family, and today he is the head of the silk merchant's Yan family. Could it be that someone from the salt merchant's Wu family will be next?

As if to verify Lin Shuran's conjecture, on the third day, it was reported that the eldest grandma of the salt merchant Wu's family died in the sedan chair returning to her mother's house. She still had the glazed necklace she had just bought from the glazed pavilion hanging around her neck. Murder, rumors of "cursing Liuli" began to spread, and Liuli Pavilion was immediately sealed.

"Ma'am, someone is deliberately targeting Liuli Pavilion!" Hong Gu also secretly checked the news, but found no trace of the murderer, but the murderer chose "Liu Li" as the "murder weapon" every time, making it clear that he wanted Liu Li The cabinet cannot be opened.

"It's not just Liuli Pavilion, the three people who died are all related to people from the Beijing Chamber of Commerce!" In Lin Shuran's view, the murderer should have premeditated murder. What is his purpose? Is it enmity with Liuli Pavilion or the capital city? Does the chamber of commerce have any grudges?Or is it some other reason?
Lin Shuran was talking to Honggu, when a maid came to report outside the door, saying that Xu Junze had returned to the mansion, and asked Lin Shuran to go to the flower hall in the front yard.

Lin Shuran didn't know why Xu Junze returned to the mansion suddenly, so she hurried to the front yard, entered the hall and saw Xiao Chen was there, Xu Minghan who was supposed to go to the shop and Xu Mingfan who was going to the Imperial College were also brought back, she was a little worried He looked towards Xu Junze.

"Lord Xiao needs you, Brother Han, Brother Fan, and the others to help!" Xu Junze asked Lin Shuran to sit down beside him and explained to her.

"Help? Help for what?" This time Lin Shuran turned his gaze to Xiao Chen, and Xiao Chen's face was business-like, with no other emotion in his eyes, and no expression other than calmness on his face.

Both Xu Junze and Xiao Chen knew that the Liuli Pavilion belonged to Zhao Mu, the young prince of the Yaowang Mansion, and they knew in their hearts what kind of existence the Yaowang Mansion was to the emperor. What's more important is that the three murders not only put everyone in the capital at risk, but also disturbed the people in the capital chamber of commerce. They were all worried that they would become the murderer's next target, so Emperor Zhao You Order Xiao Chen to find out the truth as soon as possible and bring the murderer to justice.

Xiao Chen told Lin Shuran at this time that he wanted her to help with the portrait. When the first murder happened, Xu Minghan was in the Liuli Pavilion, and from Xu Junze, Xiao Chen knew that he had an excellent memory, so to speak, so he wanted to He helped to recall the situation of Young Master Bai in Liuli Pavilion.

And when Lin Shuran painted the portrait of the little tiger before, Xiao Chen knew that her portraits were very realistic. Neither the Criminal Ministry nor the court painters could compare to her in terms of portraits. In order to find clues as soon as possible, he needed Lin Shuran's help.

After listening to Xiao Chen's narration, Lin Shuran didn't refuse. She immediately asked people to find charcoal pencils and paper, and based on Xu Minghan's narration, she drew the scene of Liuli Pavilion on the day that Young Master Bai died. He also drew all the characters he met when he entered Yan's house.

When Lin Shuran finished painting her arms were sore, Xiao Chen took the drawing paper and watched carefully. He was very grateful for Lin Shuran's help, but he didn't show his usual concern in front of Xu Junze, and then he left the General's Mansion.

"Thank you for your hard work today!" Xu Junze personally massaged Lin Shuran's arm gently with his hands. If it wasn't for investigating the case, he didn't want Xiao Chen to have any contact with Lin Shuran, but it seemed that Xiao Chen had let Lin Shuran go.

"I hope I can help you!" Lin Shuran didn't know if she could really help Xiao Chen investigate the case, and she also hoped that the case would be solved as soon as possible, and the Liuli Pavilion would still be opened in the future.

Xu Minghan and Xu Mingfan also returned to their respective rooms after Xiao Chen left, but both of them also hoped that the truth of the case would be found out as soon as possible, but they didn't expect that Xu Minghan would be found after the investigation of the case.

"I'm afraid your youngest son will have to go to the Ministry of Punishments with me again!" Xiao Chen brought someone to the General's Mansion early in the morning. He just found a key witness, who was the former shopkeeper of the Ren family. He is now It was Xu Minghan's man, and he had already admitted that he poisoned and killed the three people.

As for the reason for the murder, the old shopkeeper said that the Wu family of the salt merchant, the Yan family of the silk merchant, and the Bai family of the wine merchant were all involved in framing the Ren family. He wanted to avenge the old master, so he killed to vent his anger. The third time he wanted to kill was the young master of the Wu family, but unexpectedly he killed the young lady of the Wu family by mistake.

He also said that Xu Minghan's murder had nothing to do with Xu Minghan. Xu Minghan didn't know about it at all, but a young man pointed out that Xu Minghan asked the old shopkeeper to do these things.

"I didn't order the murder!" Xu Minghan did not admit the boy's accusation. The old shopkeeper was once a loyal old servant of the Ren family. He was invited to the capital not long ago when he was employing people. He had no idea that he would kill people. .

(End of this chapter)