female catcher

Chapter 101 Whereabouts of Cao Xuelian
After asking Yu Shirong, Xia Chu invited Yu Shiji again.What Yu Shiji said was similar to what he said in Guangji Hall that day. He said that he was at home on the first day of April, and it was raining and nothing happened. After breakfast, he went back to his room to rest.

"That is to say, no one saw you at home in the morning?"

"Xia Butou can go and ask his wife, she knows. The child cries at night, sleeps restlessly all night, and is a little lazy during the day. My father is not here, take a break." Yu Shiji replied calmly .

Early summer was in trouble.Yu Shiji's wife is not yet confinement, of course it's not appropriate to have someone come over to ask questions in this rainy day, and he is dressed as a man, so it is even more inappropriate to go into the inner courtyard of the house.

Asked Xiangbo, Xiangbo found a middle way, asked Pei Lan, a maid in Yu Shiji's courtyard, and asked, Pei Lan said that Yu Shiji went to the study after breakfast, which was not much different from what Yu Shiji said.

Xia Chu was skeptical about this kind of confession from his own family, and Pei Lan just lowered his head when he replied, speaking very smoothly, without any clues.Since there is no flaw, we have to go through it like this first.

After asking Yu Shiji, Xia Chu got up and walked to the verandah at the door, took two deep breaths to express his depressed mood.

"Boss, why don't you search Baicao Village? Didn't Cui Dahua of Yongxiuchun say that there was a person wearing Mizhou brocade clothes? If you find that dress, at least you can bring someone back to the government office for interrogation, and you can make some progress." .”

"It can be searched, but at the moment, I don't think it's useful."

"why?"

"It is true that a man entered Baicao Village. Regarding that man, there are three possibilities. First, Cao Xuelian died before he arrived; second, Cao Xuelian was killed by him; third, Cao Xuelian died. Xuelian was killed after he left. Right?"

Xu Lu nodded after thinking about it.

"If it's the third type, then he doesn't know anything at all; if it's the second type, there must be a lot of blood on his clothes, and the clothes must no longer be there. If it's the first type, then he shouldn't know anything at all. Can't enter Guangji Hall, unless he bumps into who the murderer is."

"Maybe this is the possibility? Wouldn't it be a good time to bring him back to the government office for interrogation, and let him tell who the murderer is."

"Assuming that he ran into the murderer, but he neither called for help nor reported the crime, it means that he wanted to conceal the crime for the murderer. If so, how could he let go easily? If there is no evidence, just rely on torture to extract a confession. Do you know if it’s true or not? Do you arrest whoever he says? Capture them and beat them again?”

Xu Lu stopped talking.

"Besides, I am most opposed to torture, you know." Xia Chu paused, and then said: "If you want to start with the clothes, it's better to check the order list at home. Since the material is expensive, it is likely to be tailor-made. Made to order. But the workload is a bit too much, Xijing has at least a hundred clothing stores, and we have to check from last year to this year, and we don't even know who that person is now."

"That's true."

"This clue can be put aside first, and it is possible to investigate after we have a general goal."

Looking up at the sky at the beginning of Xia, the rain has dropped a lot, and it has become a little dense. It seems that it will continue to fall for a while. The road back to the city is all dirt roads, and it must be difficult to walk when it softens.

Difficult to walk...

"Hey!" Xia Chu patted the pillars of the corridor, "Stupid! I almost missed this matter."

Xu Lu was still immersed in guessing about the mysterious man, and was taken aback by Xia Chu, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong? Boss, did you think of something?"

"A carriage!"

Cao Xuelian said she was going back to her natal family, although she didn't bring her maid, but she definitely wanted to take a carriage.Where she went, others don't know, but the coachman must know.

At the beginning of Xia, Xiang Bo was called again, and asked him to call the coachman who brought Cao Xuelian into the city in early April for questioning.The coachman's surname was Zhou, and his name was Zhou Quan. He was a man in his twenties. He had thick eyebrows, big eyes, dark complexion, and looked very straightforward. When he saw Xia Chu and Xu Lu, he called him a master, and asked Xu Lu to stop him as soon as he lifted his robe. down.

"Zhou Quan, you were the one who sent your wife into the city on the first day of April?"

Zhou Quan nodded and hummed a few times, "Yes, I usually send Madam when she goes to the city."

"Did you send your wife back to her natal home that day?"

"No, that day Madam asked me to take her to Yanfufang."

"Yanfufang? Where is Yanfufang?"

"Just go to the alley in the southeast corner of Yanfufang." Zhouquan thought about it and said, "Madam said she wanted to buy something for her natal family, so I told her to drive her there. It was raining that day, and the road was not easy to walk. Madam She said no, she said it was very close to her natal home, and she could just walk there after shopping. Let me come back first.”

"Has she been like this before?"

"In the past..., it doesn't seem to be the case. They all went directly to the door of Cao's house."

"What about you? After you sent her to Yanfufang, you went back to Baicao Village?"

"That's right." Zhou Quan nodded as a matter of course, "I just drove back, just in time for dinner."

Xia Chu smiled helplessly, and asked, "Then don't you find it strange?"

Zhou Quan blinked and shook his head, "Madam wants to walk back by herself, I also said I would send it off, but Madam refused."

Xia Chu nodded feebly, and said Zhouquan really didn't have any curiosity at all, and it would be a good material for the leader to drive in a modern day, and he didn't care about anything, so it was safe.

"Then do you still remember what time it was when you arrived at Yanfufang?"

"It's probably half past the hour of the morning. It was raining and the road was not easy to walk that day, and the car drove slowly."

"Did you see which direction your wife went after getting off the car?"

Zhou Quan squinted his eyes and recalled, while drawing in the void with his fingers, "Left, west, right, east..., um, it looks like it's going to Sifang Street in the east."

After asking Zhou Quan, the rain outside basically stopped, Xia Chu and Xu Lu left Baicao Village and returned to the city.

The air after the rain in early summer is full of refreshing moisture, and the breeze brings the aroma of soil and grass, which is a little bit cool.The sky is still a little low, the dark clouds are about to break through, and the golden rim is covered by the sun, and the sunlight pouring down is like a light, shining on the Yuanping Mountain with lush pine forests, and the green stubble has grown in the wheat field.

Xia Chu sat next to Xu Lu, with one leg crossed, bumping along with the carriage.She took off her hat, shook her short hair in the wind, and sighed comfortably.The depression that I just harvested in Baicaozhuang also relieved a lot.

The car passed Wuliting at a leisurely pace, and when it saw Anhua Gate, it saw a fast horse galloping out from the direction of the city, bringing up a bunch of soft soil.Immediately, one person was sitting empty, leaning forward, holding the rein with one hand, and whipping the horse with the other hand, with a very chic posture.

Xu Lu and Xia Chu stared blankly at the horse running closer and closer, then swished past their carriage.The two looked at each other, and Xu Lu said, "Why do I see that person looks like Master Jiang?"

"You look like it? I thought it was because I was blind."

After a moment of silence, Xu Lu stopped the carriage abruptly. Xia Chu jumped out of the carriage while supporting the carriage, and looked in the direction of the horse, only to see that the horse had also stopped and was spinning around in place. For the look of hesitation.

Xia Chu was happy, put his hands around his mouth, took a deep breath, and shouted with all his strength: "Master Jiang!!!"

The horse stopped turning immediately, turned around, and galloped back, running until Xia Chu was in front of him.Jiang Xiyuan leaned over to look at Xia Chu from the horse, "It passed by just now, I thought I was wrong."

"My lord, what are you doing here?"

"Go to Baicaozhuang to find you, why, have you finished asking?"

"Yeah." Xia Chu nodded, "Aren't you busy with business, sir? Why did you run out?"

"I've arranged the matter, and I took some time to come out to see the progress on your side. I still haven't caught up with you." Jiang Xiyuan rolled his eyes with a smile, and reached out to stroke Xia Chu's thin, soft hair.

"Hey! My lord is really dedicated, and my subordinates admire it." Xia Chu turned to look at Jiang Xiyuan's beautiful white horse, and the horse was also bending its neck to look at her, with big eyes and long eyelashes, it looked so kind and lovely.

"How is it? Did you get anything?" Jiang Xiyuan jumped off the horse, took out a few pieces of caramel and put them in Xia Chu's hands, then grabbed her wrist and brought them to the horse's mouth. The white horse sniffed and stuck out its tongue. Lick the caramel away.

Xia Chu chuckled twice, and while stroking the white horse's mane, said: "There must be some gains, but there are also many questions, and I have to sort out the notes when I go back."

"Can you ride a horse?"

Xia Chu shook his head, "I've never ridden before." Having said that, Jiang Xiyuan saw her bright eyes and eager face, so he smiled, grabbed the white horse's chew and raised his eyebrows at Xia Chu, " mount."

"Okay!" Xia Chu was eager for him to say this, for fear that he would regret it, he trotted around to the side of the saddle, held the saddle and stepped on the stirrups, and jumped up.

Jiang Xiyuan is tall, and the horse is also tall. Xia Chu's pedaling was a bit difficult. Jiang Xiyuan kindly wanted to help her, but just as soon as his hand touched Xia Chu's butt, Xia Chu felt as if he had been electrocuted. Go up, turn around and bark at him: "Don't touch me!"

Jiang Xiyuan's hand was still in the air, in the state of holding a bowl. After being reprimanded by Xia Chu, Jiang Xiyuan didn't react a little, and looked at her blankly.

Xia Chu was embarrassed by him, turned his head to shake the reins, and shouted 'drive' in his mouth, wanting to run away quickly, but the white horse didn't give him any face, shook his flowing mane, and lowered his head. Sniff the grass on the side of the road.At the beginning of Xia, he tugged on the rein vigorously to make it look up, back and forth, one person and one horse got pulled together.

Jiang Xiyuan snorted lightly, stepped forward and patted the white horse's neck, and the white horse immediately raised its head.

"Stamp on the stirrups with the soles of your front feet! Clamp your legs! Straighten your waist! Hold the reins tight!" Jiang Xiyuan corrected Xia Chu's posture, and when Xia Chuna just sat up straight, he slapped the horse's butt.Hearing Xia Chu's soft cry, the white horse leaped forward and began to gallop.

Jiang Xiyuan watched cheerfully, and then sat on the carriage driven by Xu Lu, "Let's go, follow along." His attention was all on Xia Chu, and he didn't notice Xu Lu's meaningful eyes beside him at all.

(End of this chapter)