female catcher

Chapter 71 Fang Yi's Past

The two walked out of the city through Mingde Gate.There is a pavilion on the west side of the road outside the city. You can see the official road leading straight to the distance, and you can also see the already verdant Yuanping Mountain and the Taoist temple on the mountain.

Spreading his arms in early Xia, he embraced the spring wind, "comfortable."

Su Zhen also followed her example and spread out his arms, and gently closed his eyes.

The warm but not glaring sunlight shone on his face, and his eyes were light yellow.The wind is blowing, and you can hear the rustling of petals being rolled off the branches, and occasionally last year's dead leaves walk by briskly, but sometimes there is nothing in Fengli, just bringing the warm and intoxicating atmosphere of spring. smell.

Slowly, quietly, very comfortably.

You don't need to travel far and wide, and you don't need to run far away from your familiar life. As long as you feel at ease, you are free wherever you are.

For a moment, Su Zhen even had an idea, that is to transfer Xia Chu into the palace to be an imperial guard.But this is just a momentary thought.

Chat with Xia Chu, listen to her unrestrained words, do things that have never been done before, and experience the true self after putting aside her identity.In a short period of time, he seemed to be able to remove the burden that had been on him for more than ten years, and wash off all the masks that had been applied to his face.

He is not the emperor, but Su Zhen.

The emperor is rich in the world, but friends are the most rare.In the past, he had Jiang Xiyuan, but slowly, the differences in their identities emerged, especially after he ascended the throne, Jiang Xiyuan could no longer treat him with friendship, and he, too, could no longer treat him.

If Xia Chu was transferred to the palace, she might also become another Jiang Xiyuan, which would be a pity.

Xia Chu turned to look at him, and smiled lightly.Su Zhen opened his eyes. Seeing himself being looked at by her, he felt a little embarrassed. He cleared his throat and sat down in the pavilion. He found a topic and said, "The last time I met you at Wanfo Mountain, you said you were investigating a case. Did the check go well?"

"It's not going well." Xia Chu looked at Yuan Pingshan in the distance, and lazily shook his head.

"I heard that the daughter of Master Liu Zhong Liu was killed? Is this the case?"

"You know all of this?" Xia Chu looked away and glanced at him, "That's right, those who are in business, especially those who have done a lot of business, must have contacts with officials."

"You know all of this?" Su Zhen imitated her tone and replied, and both of them laughed.

"At the moment, we can only start with the interpersonal relationship around Liu Ying, and if it doesn't work, we can expand to Mr. Liu's interpersonal relationship. After investigation, I just believe that this is not a rape and murder case on a whim."

"Liu Zhong's interpersonal relationship..." Su Zhen tapped his chin and thought for a while, then suddenly remembered something, "Last month, I heard that Fang Jian went to propose marriage to the Liu family, but the Liu family didn't agree. There was a fight about it."

"Yes. It just so happened that Fang Yi, the son of the Fang family, was also at the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple that day, but although he had a motive, it didn't seem to me that strong. And he didn't have time to commit crimes." Xia Chu shrugged his shoulders, "Fang Yi's reputation seems to be very good."

"That's right, I've heard of it too. At the time when Master Fang was demoted and Grandma Fang passed away, the Fang family's big house was supported by Fang Yi. It wasn't until Fang Jian came back and separated the family that Fang Yi was relieved of this burden. .It's not easy at such a young age."

Xia Chu listened carefully, and after listening, he said with emotion: "In this way, a person like him will not kill people because of the failure to marry him. He is so tenacious and will not be so impulsive."

"Fang Yi..., if I remember correctly, he should be almost 20 years old this year. Unexpectedly, the marriage has not yet been settled, and it's still the same result."

"Is it so difficult for him?" Xia Chu asked inexplicably, "Although Mr. Fang is not a high-ranking official, he is still a Beijing official. Not to mention his family, but Fang Yi's appearance is dignified and his temperament is elegant. There must be something wrong with him." Girls like it."

"Maybe it's bad luck." Su Zhen smiled.

"Can you believe this?" Xia Chu sneered, "I guess there is something hidden, it's hard to say it clearly, I can only say that my life is bad."

"Well——" Su Zhen thought for a while, then frowned slightly, "I have a vague impression that someone told me about Fang Yi's engagement..."

"what's up?"

Su Zhen was silent for a long while, rubbing the center of his brows, "It seems... that his fiancée died."

"Dead? Did he die of illness or was murdered?" Xia Chu woke up, she didn't really believe in the so-called fate.

"I can't remember at all, and I'm not even sure if there was such a thing. But I can ask you."

"Okay." Xia Chu nodded and said with a smile, "Then I'll treat you to dinner again."

Su Zhen bent his lips and smiled, "It's a deal."

When turning to Tianmao, Xia Chu went to the government office on time to work, and first called the policemen to hold a work meeting.

Liu Ying's case is not the only one in the capital, and there are also some matters such as chicken crowing, robbery, fraud, adultery, etc. that need to be handled by the government.

After the work was distributed, the policemen began to carry out their respective tasks, and Xia Chu took out Liu Ying's file again, planning to go through all the transcripts again to see if there were any missing clues.

After watching for less than half an hour, Jiang Xiyuan came, walked in and sat down at Xia Chu's table, looked at her a few times: "Did you go out yesterday afternoon?"

"Yes." Xia Chu said without raising his eyelids.

"What are you doing?"

"What did I do that has nothing to do with your lord?"

"Of course!" Jiang Xiyuan said confidently: "You left the post without authorization during working hours, as a boss, can't you ask?"

Xia Chu raised his eyes and glanced at him, put the pen on the table, crossed his hands and said, "Well, the government's daily working hours start at Mao o'clock, eat and rest at noon, and start work in the afternoon. Yesterday I was The government office that has not left at three o'clock, may I ask where you were at that time? Even if I want to ask for leave, who can I ask for?"

Jiang Xiyuan was taken aback by her question.Seeing that he was silent, Xia Chu picked up his pen again.

"At least you can make up for it now, and you're so confident about being absent from work, I've never seen it before."

Xia Chu said without raising his head: "Okay, then I will ask you to make up the half-day leave yesterday afternoon. But my lord, I only took one day off during the three-day holiday of the Shangsi Festival. I don't know when I will make up for those two days." ?”

"Why are you so fussy now!" Jiang Xiyuan said angrily.

"If your lord doesn't care about me, naturally I won't." Xia Chu put down his pen again, "If your lord wants to talk to me, just say so. You don't need to find such a lame opening."

"What's a crappy opening!" Jiang Xiyuan stood up and slapped the table, "Isn't it right for me, as your boss, to ask you where you went yesterday afternoon? Leaving aside the boss, as a friend, I ask you where you went yesterday afternoon. Can't it?!"

Xia Chu also stood up, "My lord, you care about me so much, it's not afraid that I might misunderstand something, is it?"

Jiang Xiyuan's arrogance suddenly became a little weaker, and his Adam's apple twitched a few times, "I was the one who didn't think about what I said that day, so don't take it to heart."

Xia Chu smiled resentfully, "How dare you, you are an adult, and your adult doesn't count on my villainy, how can I dare to blame you, my adult."

"Look! I apologize!"

"I didn't accept it."

Jiang Xiyuan gritted his teeth, "Then can you talk properly?"

"Yes." Xia Chu smiled, and stretched out his palm. Jiang Xiyuan patted her hand weakly, and sat down again.He looked at Chu Xia who was buried in the file for a while, but couldn't help but ask, "What did you do yesterday afternoon?"

Xia Chu frowned slightly, "My lord, why are you so curious? I went to see a friend yesterday."

"male?"

"Men." Xia Chu replied casually, then raised his head after speaking, "Are you here again?"

"No." Jiang Xiyuan quickly denied, "Didn't you say you have no friends?"

"I didn't have it before, and I'm not allowed to have it now? I'm not autistic, not a lone ranger. Sir, didn't you just say that I was my friend."

"What is autism?"

"Hey, you probably understand what it means." Chu Xia spread his hands.

"What kind of friend? Why haven't I heard you mention it?"

"Didn't you hear it now?" Xia Chu rolled his eyes and looked at Jiang Xiyuan with a smile, "My friend is quite good, his family is rich, and he is also very good-looking. Didn't you ask me if I like men? Think about it, if it was my friend, I might really like him."

When Jiang Xiyuan heard this, he was startled for a while, not knowing how to react or what to say.According to the usual pattern, it should be a good time for him to say a few words of sarcasm, but at this moment, he couldn't find a word in his heart, and he was quite disappointed.After a while, he touched his nose embarrassingly, "I have a chance to introduce you."

"I think it's better to forget it." Xia Chu waved his hand, "It's not good to hit the adult later. Cough, look at what I said, no matter how good-looking, no matter how rich the family is, can you beat the adult?"

Seeing Xia Chu's sly smile, Jiang Xiyuan turned around and said, "Xia Chu! You did it on purpose!"

Xia Chu raised his head and laughed loudly, slapped Jiang Xiyuan's hand pointing at her, and said happily, "I'll stop talking. I'd better ask you something serious."

"What's the business?" Jiang Xiyuan said depressedly with a dark face.

"Does your lord know that Fang Yi was engaged before?"

"Based on his age, it's not surprising that he was engaged." Jiang Xiyuan shook his head to express his ignorance, paused, and then suddenly said: "Wait, you seem to be a little impressed when you say that, it seems that it has been more than once."

"More than once?" Xia Chu propped himself up and leaned forward, "You mean, he got engaged more than once before Liu Ying?"

"It seems that one of them... is dead?" Jiang Xiyuan thumped his palm, "Yes! He is dead."

"It really happened..." Xia Chu felt strange, so he picked up a pen and wrote it down.After finishing writing, she pushed the summary of the transcript she had just sorted out to Jiang Xiyuan, "This is something that has not been investigated yet."

"You two words, can't you..."

"Look at the content." Xia Chu interrupted him unhappily, pointing to the piece of paper and said, "On the way back, the mother-in-law who checked the body told me some details that she found out. Now I feel that we locked before The scope may be too narrow."

(End of this chapter)