All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Shen Lingxi and Su Xian got out of the carriage after Chu Yan, and the embroiderers had already surrounded the house.

This is a small courtyard with one entrance, with two upper rooms in the middle and a wing room on the left and right.

It seems that no one has lived in the house for a long time. The red paint on the doors and windows has been scorched by the sun and has never been repaired.

Only the window paper is freshly pasted, and it looks barely livable.

On the ground in the middle of the upper room, there was a dead body, which was tightly covered with a white cloth.

Chun Jun had already arrived on horseback one step ahead, seeing them entering the courtyard, he rushed out of the room to welcome them.

Gong respectfully reported to Chu Yan: "The name of the deceased is Yang Shuangwen, and he is the accountant of the Zhao family's Wan'an bank. Just now, the author has inspected the corpse and confirmed that he hanged himself, and homicide has been ruled out."

"Just now, my subordinates have asked people to search the house inside and out, but there is nothing. I heard from the neighbors that the house was bought by Yang Shuangwen last month, and I haven't lived in it a few times. At the beginning of the month, it was still there. I saw a young woman come twice, and no one else came."

Chu Yan stopped in the courtyard and looked up at Shen Lingxi.

With the experience of the previous few times, now when he is with Shen Lingxi, when he is close to the corpse, he has already begun to consciously ask for her opinion.

After all, if there is a dead soul next to the corpse, as soon as he approaches, the dead soul will be bounced away by his evil spirit, which will ruin Shen Lingxi's business.

Shen Lingxi saw a dead soul sitting on a chair in the corner of the room at a glance.

The dead soul was about 26 to [-] years old, wearing a gray cloth straight gown, tall and tall, and looked fairly upright, but there was a gloomy look between his brows.

He sat with no expression on his face, watching the embroiderer stationed beside his corpse with cold eyes, his eyes were gloomy and uncomfortable.

It was the deceased Yang Shuangwen.

Shen Lingxi was about to stop Chu Yan, but saw that Chu Yan had already stopped.

She was slightly taken aback, then immediately understood his kindness, smiled and thanked him for his blessing.

Only then did he enter the room together with the dead souls of the old ancestor and Mama Xie.

Yang Shuangwen obviously didn't expect that there would be two dead souls coming to his house, his eyes flashed with surprise.

Especially when his eyes fell on the old ancestor, he stood up abruptly from the chair, his eyes were deep and dark, with a sense of hostility.

The old ancestor looked him up a few times and confirmed that he had no impression of this person.

She asked Mama Xie beside her, "Is this what you said, girl Yan's cousin?"

"Exactly." Xie's mother lowered her voice, "You probably don't remember that he was the one who was outside to put tiger skin money for Second Grandma. After you knew about this, you sent the slaves back to Xie's house and raised a question with the third master." Mouth."

"I heard that the third master went to the third lady's family's house that day and made a big fuss. The Yang family was afraid of offending the Xie family, so they kicked him out of the house the next day."

"Later, he was desperate, so he went to the Zhao Family Wan'an Bank and worked as an accountant. Later, he repeated his old tricks and coaxed the second mistress to take the money of the Ninth Master and put the tiger's skin money. It was also his appearance as the Ninth Master. , pushed you down the rockery, he is the real murderer!"

Yang Shuangwen frowned when he heard Mama Xie's words, squinted at her several times, then turned sideways and looked away.

The old ancestor's face sank to the extreme, "Young man, you pushed me? Do you have an affair with girl Yan?!"

Yang Shuangwen didn't answer, and didn't even turn around to show the horses and horses, and didn't want to talk to them.

Seeing this, the old ancestor floated up to him, circled him several times, and asked angrily, "I'm asking you something! Did you kill me? What's the relationship between you and girl Yan?"

Yang Shuangwen was very impatient, so he closed his eyes and pretended to be dead.

Shen Lingxi had a panoramic view of his expression.

She walked up to Yang Shuangwen's body and lifted the white cloth covering the body.

A person who hanged himself has his eyes closed, his lips open, the strangulation is below the Adam's apple, and his tongue sticks out.

After the autopsy, Wu Zuo pressed his tongue back.

Because of this, the soul does not look much different from ordinary people.

Judging from the traces on the body, Yang Shuangwen really hanged himself.

According to Shen Lingxi's previous experience, those who commit suicide must have something inside.

But this kind of person has always been very tight-lipped, and it is difficult to extract useful information from his dead soul.

Even if he is really willing to tell you something, he is probably just like Xie Mama, purely telling lies and misleading you.

Shen Lingxi decided to ignore him, and only asked Chunjun, "Does he have a family?"

Chun Jun: "He is the concubine son of the late Minister of War Yang Shou. He spends his days away from work and wanders around in gambling houses. He was expelled from the Yang family for something he committed last year. Although his wife did not reconcile with him, but after the accident, she brought him with him. The son went back to his mother's house in the south of the Yangtze River, and never returned to the capital."

Shen Lingxi's eyes revealed a clear look.

He was expelled from the family, presumably because of giving away tiger skin money for the second grandmother.

The old ancestor was the aunt of the Xie family's direct relatives.

The family status of the Yang family is naturally not as good as that of the Xie family.

Master Xie San went to Yang's house to make trouble. Yang Shuangwen is a concubine and has no official status. His own father has long since passed away, so it is not a matter of a word from his aunt to be cleared out of the house.

Come to think of it, Yang Shuangwen and his ancestors had a lot of trouble.

In this way, he was instigated by someone to pretend to be Su Xian and push the ancestor down the mountain, which sounds like he did have a motive for killing.

"After he was expelled from the Yang family, did he still gamble?" Shen Lingxi asked again.

Chun Jun was taken aback, but he didn't expect her to ask such a question.

He thought about it carefully, "I haven't heard the shopkeeper and the staff of the bank mention this kind of thing. However, in the bank as the accountant, the owner would never dare to use someone who is addicted to gambling."

Shen Lingxi frowned slightly, "Since that's the case, it's time to find out who recommended him to join the bank."

She pondered for a while, "Killing people is nothing more than seeking revenge, seeking personal gain, or love. If the old ancestor sent someone to report on his lending and was expelled from the house, it should not make him take the risk and kill a The old Fengjun who is in command..."

Chun Jun couldn't hide his curiosity.

"How does the girl know that he was kicked out of the house because of this?" The embroiderers haven't found out yet.

Shen Lingxi choked.

"Naturally, the fairy figured it out." Su Xian, who entered the room after her, uttered a voice to help her out.

Su Xian was holding a compass in his hand, and kept detecting the souls of the dead in the room, hoping to see the pointer in the compass move.

Chun Jun's attitude immediately became somewhat respectful.

Shen Lingxi coughed and continued: "Please also find out if he has any lovers or concubines outside. By the way, let's temporarily store his body in Fu'an Hall."

"Since he and his wife have not divorced, he should inform his wife and children about his passing away, and look at the attitude there. Find out if he has given his wife and children a gift in the past year or so. money."

A notorious prodigal who has been in the gambling house all year round, sneaked into the bank to make fake accounts for others, and gave away tiger skin money.

Obviously it's about the money.

If you have money but don't gamble, the use of money is very intriguing...