female catcher

Chapter 77 Everything Is Not Right

Xia Chu didn't want to talk to Jiang Xiyuan, but wanted to discuss the case.The two sides weighed it, and temporarily let go of their small emotions, stroked their hair, and asked reluctantly: "Has the murderer who killed Hong Yuerong been caught?"

Jiang Xiyuan turned back and shook his head, "No." He put down the record and said, "The Hong family reported Hong Yuerong's disappearance in the early morning of October [-]st, and the body was found the next day, that is, on October [-]nd. Later, during the investigation stage, Hong Yuerong's father was demoted and was about to go into exile, so the government officials and officials didn't seem to care about it, and in the end it was an unsolved case, and no one pursued it anyway."

"It's really discrediting our police circle!" Xia Chu picked up the record angrily, and asked while reading it: "It doesn't say what Hong Yuerong went out on September [-], did he go to meet someone, or did he go?" Where? I didn’t write anything.”

"September [-] is the Longevity Day of the late emperor."

"So?" Xia Chu didn't quite understand, she hadn't celebrated Longevity Day, but she had celebrated Halloween.

Jiang Xiyuan was baffled by her, and looked at her with his arms folded on his chest, "There are hundreds of operas in the two cities on the Wanshou Festival, and Shengping Square in the south of the city. The whole city is very lively. Hong Yuerong didn't need a reason to go out that day."

Xia Chu stopped talking and continued to read the transcript.Jiang Xiyuan moved closer and asked her, "Where were you on Longevity Day last year?"

"Anyway, not in Xijing." Xia Chu replied, and immediately changed the subject and said, "Judging from Hong Yuerong's death, I think Liu Ying and Hong Yuerong are probably committed by the same person, and they can be reasoned together."

Jiang Xiyuan snorted inexplicably, "How do you reason?"

Xia Chu took out a piece of paper and spread it on Jiang Xiyuan's desk, picked up the ink that had just been broken, rubbed it hard in the inkstone a few times, and then wrote down "Liu Ying", "Hong Yuerong" 'Two names.

Jiang Xiyuan sighed silently.

His top-quality pine smoke ink, his famous carving She inkstone, and his excellent silk raw Xuan!

"There are currently two intersections between the two deceased, Liu Ying and Hong Yuerong." Xia Chu said while writing: "One is Liu Rong, and the other is Fang Yi. And these two people are our primary suspects right now. .”

"If Liu Rong is the murderer." She looked up at Jiang Xiyuan and said, "My lord, you said just now that the reason she wanted to get rid of Liu Ying might be because she thought that once Liu Ying died, no one would trouble her again, no one would Interfere with her marriage. Then, what is her reason for killing Hong Yuerong?"

"For Fang Yi!" Xu Lu hurriedly replied, "Hong Yuerong and Fang Yi were engaged, and Liu Rong killed Hong Yuerong to prevent their marriage. She might want to marry Fang Yi herself, but Fang Yi was engaged to Liu Ying, so Liu Rong killed Liu Ying again."

Xia Chu neither nodded nor shook his head, "What do you think, my lord?"

After pondering for a moment, Jiang Xiyuan said: "Hong Yuerong was killed at the end of September last year, and Liu Ying was killed in March this year. There was a half-year gap between them. Judging from Xu Lu's investigation of Liu Rong's situation, Liu Rong was killed during this period. There is no intention of getting married to Fang Yi. Xu Lu, is it?"

Xu Lu thought about it for a while: "Well, there is not."

"If she killed Hong Yuerong in order to marry Fang Yi, then she would have waited too long after the murder. If she could kill someone for this matter, what a strong emotion it must be!" Xia Chu said.

"Liu Rong is a concubine, and Fang Yi is the eldest son of the Fang family. She may also know that it is difficult for her to marry Fang Yi, so she didn't mention it?" Jiang Xiyuan mentioned another possibility.

"Then she still kills?"

"You just think Liu Rong is innocent, don't you? You're not preconceived?" Jiang Xiyuan sarcastically said.

"A little bit." Xia Chu didn't deny it, and said bitterly, "After all, my lord, you haven't questioned Liu Rong, so you don't have a relatively intuitive understanding of her."

"You are right anyway..."

Xia Chu bit the tip of his pen and thought for a while, "I don't know where Liu Rong was on the Wanshou Festival last year, and if he had time to commit crimes. Asking now..., I feel a little uneasy."

"What if Hong Yuerong's death was just an accident?" Liu Qi interjected.

"Looking at Fang Yi's bloody and tearful engagement history, I don't think it's an accident at all." Xia Chu patted the file and sighed: "Let's ask Fang Yi and see what he says. Although He has no time to commit the crime...tsk, it seems that he has no motive for committing the crime!"

Jiang Xiyuan listened, his heart suddenly moved, "Could it be that Fang Yi doesn't want to get married at all? It's like..."

"Hey!" Looking at Jiang Xiyuan's meaningful eyes, Xia Chu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "If you don't want to get married, then don't get engaged. How can you go out of your way to kill someone after getting married? Your lord, you don't want to get married either, let you go." Would you do that? It's too stupid."

"Master! You don't want to get married?!" Liu Qi poked his head out.

"Go away!" Jiang Xiyuan waved his hand, and warned again: "Don't talk nonsense to me when you go home!"

At the beginning of Xia, put away the dossier, "I'll take the dossier and study it first, tomorrow..." She glanced at several people in the room, "Who will come with me to find Fang Yi?"

Jiang Xiyuan took Xia Chu's hat and threw it on her head, pushed her neck and walked out, "I'll take you back, and I'll pick you up tomorrow morning and go directly to Fangfu."

"Morning? How early? Will you get up before the sun rises?"

"I don't care about you beating your boss just now. You have to know how to accept it."

"Assault is not the right word. Does your lord know what self-defense is?"

"Tsk, I should exile you to Yuzhou, that's my legitimate defense."

Liu Qi and Xu Lu watched Jiang Xiyuan and Xia Chu bicker all the way away, and when the sound faded away, the two came back to their senses and looked at each other.

"Am I thinking too much? Why do I always feel so wrong?" Xu Lu said.

"You think too much..." Liu Qi glanced back at the door again, "My young master has a nickname, no way..."

"Master, it seems that you also feel that something is wrong."

"That must be something wrong with me." Liu Qi nodded heavily, "There must be something wrong with me."

Xu Lu watched Liu Qi leave again, stood in the empty study for a while, and sighed.

"Everything is wrong..."

Xia Chu returned to her small courtyard, and as soon as she entered the door, she saw a pure white square object on the ground, her heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly picked it up.

The same envelope, the same letter paper, the same beautiful and neat handwriting, the same "yellow" character for signing.

Xia Chu carefully flattened the letter paper on the table, and suddenly smiled at the letter, covered his mouth with his hands, and looked behind the window secretly, as if afraid of being seen.

"Fang Jian..." Xia Chu glanced hastily, "Tsk, he is a rich businessman after all, the way is really rough."

After carefully reading Su Zhen's letter, Xia Chu fidgeted and ran around the yard twice, his heart jumped for joy, and he hated the moon moving too slowly and the sun rising too late.

With nowhere to vent her excitement, Xia Chu ran back to the house again, picked up the letter paper and kissed her.Feeling embarrassed after the kiss, he took advantage of the situation to cover his face with the paper.

There was a faint fragrance on the paper, just like the special fragrance on Su Zhen's body. It was very light and a bit cool, like the epiphyllum in the summer night wind, drifting into a dream at some point.

Xia Chu put the letter paper on the table and flattened it again, stroked the 'yellow' character with his fingers, and said thank you very lightly, with a shy smile that he had never noticed before.

In the bedroom, Su Zhen changed into loose clothes after taking a bath, stepped on the plush carpet with bare feet, walked slowly to the couch in front of the window and sat down, stretched out his hand and opened the window.Creamy skin, star-like eyes, waterfall-like long hair draped behind her, a little lazy.

A warm palace lantern on the couch table, blending with the cold moonlight, reflecting the illusory colors, this handsome young man looks like a flower that takes the shape of a human by the side of the fairy spring, not like ordinary people in the world Taste.

An Liang came in with tea to soothe the nerves, and stood far away without stepping forward, afraid of disturbing such a picturesque scene.

It was Su Zhen who saw An Liang first, "What are you doing standing there?"

"The slave watched the emperor think about things, and didn't dare to disturb him." While talking, An Liang put the teacup on the table.

Su Zhen picked it up and drank it slowly, then looked up at the night, "Did you say he saw that letter at this time?"

"You see, it's already this hour." An Liang replied, with a usual smile on his face, and said softly, "The Emperor is very concerned about that case."

Su Zhen shook his head, put down the teacup, and smiled slightly, "It's not a question, I'm just doing my friend a favor."

An Liang nodded and said yes: "Master Jiang was appointed as Jing Zhao Yin for the first time, and this is his first major case."

Su Zhen's smile deepened, "I'm not talking about him."

An Liang was slightly taken aback, and realized that the "friend" Su Zhen was referring to was actually Xia Chu, and couldn't help feeling slightly disapproving.He felt in his heart that with Xia Chu's status, no matter what, it was not enough to be friends with the emperor.

Although that person is not bad.

Su Zhen supported the table with his arms, and supported his head with his palms. Seeing An Liang's expression, he knew what he was thinking, so he smiled and said, "You think he is not worthy?"

"The servant dare not."

"You all say you don't dare, but what do you mean by not daring? It's just because of my identity and my power. One day I won't be me, and you will have nothing to dare."

An Liang knelt on the ground, "I mean, I don't think so."

Su Zhen looked at him, the smile on his face gradually faded, and he said in a slightly disinterested tone: "An Liang, do you have any friends?"

"Ah?" An Liang was stunned, swallowed his saliva, and said carefully: "There is... Min Feng, He You from the Imperial Dining Room, and... and Eunuch Lian from the Department of Weaving and Weaving..."

"Among your friends, is there no me?"

"Slave..." An Liang wanted to say dare not, but remembering Su Zhen's words just now, the "dare not" swallowed it back, and he didn't know how to answer for a moment.

Su Zhen turned his head and looked out the window, and said slowly: "You and I grew up together, so did Jiang Xiyuan, and Min Feng. I have no choice when you are by my side, and you have no choice. The choice and arrangement of the queen mother. You can’t leave when you come, only loyalty. But loyalty, after all, is not friendship, you can’t treat me like a friend, and I actually do.”

"It's not that I don't want to, I really don't dare to treat the emperor as my friend...but I'm very loyal."

Su Zhen smiled, asked An Liang to stand up, looked at him and smiled again, "I don't mean to blame. But Xia Chu is different. He is the only friend I choose by myself, do you understand?"

An Liang thought for a while, and boldly said: "But Mr. Xia doesn't know that you are the emperor. If he knows, he will be loyal to you as well."

"can you?"

"The servant doesn't know either." An Liang said.

Su Zhen was silent for a moment, "Then it's best not to know."

(End of this chapter)