female catcher

Chapter 72

Xia Chu and Jiang Xiyuan said what the mother-in-law said, and they were a little secretive, but Jiang Xiyuan still understood, and said: "According to what you mean, the perpetrator is not necessarily a man?"

"Yes. If you expand the scope, then that tassel can explain it. The color of apricot yellow is mostly worn by women, right? If it is not Liu Ying's, then it is probably the murderer's."

"Well, in this way, Liu Rong is more likely to be suspected. In the meditation room of Wanfo Temple that night, the only person who did not have an alibi was Liu Rong. If it is really her... then she is quite ruthless. "Jiang Xiyuan shook his head incomprehensibly.

"That's right. In addition, I put Fang Yi back on the list of suspects."

"Why? Didn't he have an alibi?"

"Intuitively. It may be because of his previous two engagements. If you remember correctly, my lord, he has failed in three consecutive engagements. It is hard to believe that it is a coincidence."

Xia Chu pulled out Fang Yi's interrogation transcript again, and looked at it at a glance, "It was his younger sister Fang Ruolan who gave him the alibi. Although there was nothing flawed in his reaction at the time, the relationship between relatives The proof still needs to be discounted. Coupled with the matter of engagement, I think it is necessary to check him again. "

Jiang Xiyuan thought for a while and said: "That being said, even if you ask again, I think the same result will still be the same. If he made up a lie last time, he will only keep telling his lies in the past few days. Complete and complete, if you ask again, it will be even more difficult to find out the flaws. Unless you can find another breakthrough and break the integrity of his current statement."

Xia Chu nodded slowly, "Yes, it's the same with Liu Rong. Alas, I had a problem with setting the scope before, and I took a detour. If there is no matter of the mother-in-law's physical examination, maybe I can check it earlier That's it." She sighed angrily.

Jiang Xiyuan didn't take it seriously: "If it wasn't you, but other arrests, they might have seen the blood on the underwear and immediately believed that they had been violated. Therefore, if there is no mother-in-law's body check, they might go to other policemen. A detour. Don’t mind too much, it’s not wrong to get the injury checked.”

Xia Chu was slightly relieved after hearing this, and said: "Now that Xu Lu is investigating Liu Rong, we can first investigate Fang Yi's engagement."

In the royal study in the palace, Su Zhen was also asking An Liang the same question.

An Liang bowed his head respectfully, lowered his hands and said: "Your Majesty, after you came back yesterday and asked the servant, the servant thought about it for a long time, and asked Min Feng to help me recall it, and finally remembered."

"Just say it when you think about it."

"Yes." An Liang cleared his throat: "The eldest daughter of Mr. Xu Yanshou's family was engaged to Mr. Fang in the middle of last year, and she had already been hired at that time, and then I don't know why the Xu family just broke off the engagement. "

"Is the eldest daughter married now?"

"The slave is not clear. Mr. Xu was later released to become an official, and his family members should have gone with him."

Su Zhen nodded, took the teacup and wiped it lightly, "Go on."

"Yes. In mid-September last year, Master Hong's second daughter got engaged to Mr. Fang, but later, Mr. Hong was implicated in the affairs of the common man Su Yi, and he was exiled from office. At that time, the first emperor passed away. The servant only knows that Miss Hong died, but I really can't remember the exact time, it must have happened in October last year."

"How did you die?"

"It seems to be an accidental death. I don't know if he was killed. There were many things at that time, so the servant didn't inquire carefully."

The movements of Su Zhen's hands paused, "Where did he die? The capital?"

"It should be. Master Hong delayed his departure because of his daughter's funeral. Otherwise, this servant would not even know about his daughter's death." An Liang paused, and then said: "The matter of Mr. Fang's engagement, Lord Fang should be the clearest, why don't you ask Lord Fang to come over and ask?"

"A joke." Su Zhen frowned lightly.As the king of a country, he summoned his ministers to meet him and asked about his son's engagement. What is this?
But after thinking about it, it seems a bit ridiculous to ask An Liang now.

Why do you care so much?Xia Chu was originally a headhunter paid for by the treasury, so he should solve these matters by himself, why did he agree so logically to inquire for him?
Su Zhen didn't ask any more questions, and asked An Liang to retreat.There is no need to ask, An Liang naturally knows what to say and what not to say.

In the empty imperial study room, Su Zhen leaned on the couch and lost his mind for a while, finally got up and walked to the desk, took a pen and wrote down what An Liang said just now, and sealed it up.

Since we are friends, let's put down our arrogance and be friends seriously. It is always necessary to do a favor.

Su Zhen said so to himself.

In the afternoon, Master Liu Zhong went to the door of the government office and asked them why Liu Ying's case was still pending.Xia Chu directly invited Liu Zhong into Jiang Xiyuan's study, seeing Jiang Xiyuan's eyes wanting to strangle her to death, she flashed away without guilt.

At the beginning of Xia Xia took Jiang Xiyuan's car home. When she got off the car, she said goodbye to Jiang Xiyuan. Jiang Xiyuan just waved his hand wearily and didn't bother to say a word.

Xia Chu smiled, turned and entered the door.As soon as the courtyard door was pushed open, a white square object was thrown on the ground. When Xia Chu picked it up, he realized it was an envelope, which was thin and had no words written on it.

She took the letter and looked around and saw that there was no one, so she closed the door and entered the house.

Turning on the light and opening the envelope, Xia Chu flattened the letter paper and let out a soft wow: "It's so beautiful."

The letter paper is a very common raw paper, and the lowercase letters arranged in columns are neat and tidy like a grid.The structure of the single characters is well-proportioned and stretched, and the words are connected like clouds and flowing water.

Xia Chu doesn't know how to read, but she has been using a brush to write these days. Although her handwriting has not improved much, she can still tell what kind of calligraphy is good now.For example, Liu Qi's handwriting, she won't praise it anymore.

Sign a "yellow" character.

Xia Chu casually smiled, and walked his fingers along the strokes of the character, and then praised to himself: "The writing is really good, it really looks like the person..."

After appreciating the words, Xia Chu started to read the content. After reading it, he was overjoyed and wished he could rush to Jiang Xiyuan's place immediately, pick him up and discuss it with him, and barely held back.

so good!Mr. Huang is simply an ancient living woman!Too generous!
Xia Chu tossed out a pen and paper to spread on the table, and copied Su Zhen's letter very carefully, more serious than any previous document, it seemed that it was not the case, and she felt sorry for the content of the letter .

After the transcription was completed, Xia Chu folded Su Zhen's letter according to the previous creases, put the envelope back in, and put it in the drawer of the low cabinet next to his bed.

The drawer was originally empty, but now there was a clean white envelope lying in it, which was particularly eye-catching.Xia Chu pulled the drawer and looked again, then slowly closed it and closed the cabinet door.

Xia Chu received the information from Su Zhen, and early the next morning, Xu Lu also brought her some new news.

"So the relationship between Liu Ying and Liu Rong is not bad, but very bad?" Chu Xia's eyes lit up.

Xu Lu nodded, "It may not be obvious on the surface, but based on the things I have investigated, I think it is impossible to say that Liu Rong doesn't hate her. How generous is that."

At this time, Jiang Xiyuan opened the door and walked in. Seeing Xu Lu and Xia Chu lying face to face on the table, they both looked excited and didn't know what to say, and felt uncomfortable for a while, "What are you doing? Woolen cloth?"

"When did your lord become so suspicious?" Xia Chu pushed Xu Lu's elbow, Xu Lu stood up and gave his seat to Jiang Xiyuan, and sat aside himself.

"I don't call it suspicious, it's called reasoning."

Xia Chu patted the table with a smile, copied the teapot on the table, and poured a full cup of tea for Jiang Xiyuan.Jiang Xiyuan looked down and was completely at a loss as to what to do. He said helplessly, "I've wanted to talk about this for a long time. Xia Chu, do you know what it means to be full of wine?"

Xia Chu was taken aback, and said hastily, "Ah? Isn't the tea full and half full of wine?"

"Who said that?"

Xia Chu blushed a little, and hesitated, "No..., no one said it, I seem to have heard it from somewhere."

She used to be so poor that she never had the opportunity to drink tea with others.Even if you drink it, you just have a table with your classmates in a restaurant and order a pot of free tea, who would pay attention to this!

She had always thought that the tea was about to be filled, but now that Jiang Xiyuan said it, she recalled the foolishness she had committed before, and was extremely annoyed.

"Actually, it doesn't matter..." Seeing her like this, Jiang Xiyuan felt that he might have said something wrong, and comforted him in a slow voice: "It's nothing serious, it's just that the hot tea is too full and it's not easy to serve."

"...I didn't expect that."

"It's all right." Jiang Xiyuan took another cup, squeezed the rim of the cup, poured half a cup out, and pushed it in front of Xia Chu.Fearing that she would be embarrassed, he quickly changed the subject and said, "What are you talking about with Xu Lu?"

Xu Lu answered very discerningly, "My lord, we were talking about Liu Rong just now."

"Oh?" Jiang Xiyuan turned his face to look at Xu Lu, "Did you find out something new?"

"Liu Rong's maid didn't go to Wanfo Temple, so I didn't ask about it at the time. This time I asked her maid Dongmei first. Dongmei said that Liu Ying has never been very kind to Liu Rong. She said she was a younger sister, but she often teased her. .”

Jiang Xiyuan glanced at Xia Chu, seeing that she was holding the cup with her hand, the embarrassment on her face had eased a lot, and then said, "I asked about this last time at Wanfo Temple, and Liu Rong didn't deny it."

"This can't be called the motive for committing the crime." Xia Chu added from the side: "However, Liu Ying's bullying of Liu Rong is not just a childish way of 'ordering'. Dongmei said that what makes Liu Rong most angry with Liu Ying is that she A stumbling block in marriage."

(End of this chapter)