female catcher

Chapter 81

Regardless of Xia Chu's objection, Jiang Xiyuan took her out and walked out. After sitting down in the restaurant opposite the government office, Xia Chu slapped the pen on the table angrily, "Break all my thoughts. gone."

"Any ideas?"

"……not yet."

"It's still there, so don't interrupt me." Jiang Xiyuan called Xiaoer over, and ordered two simple dishes, "After dinner with me, let's think about it together."

"Is everything okay at home?"

"Yeah." Jiang Xiyuan nodded, but his expression became serious, "I tried to persuade my little sister, but she didn't listen."

"It must be a lot of pressure to marry the emperor! There are so many rivals in the Sangong Sixth Courtyard, and you can't be jealous. It's depressing to think about it. My lord, why did you let your younger sister into the palace? You don't look like someone who is very powerful and ambitious." man!"

Jiang Xiyuan looked up at her, "How do you know that I have no ambition for power?"

Xia Chu was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "I think." She leaned forward, lowered her voice and said, "Your family is already so rich, there's no need to be richer, is there?"

"Will anyone think they are richer?"

"Yes." Xia Chu nodded.

"Who?"

"A person who understands." Xia Chu smiled slyly, "When the water is full, the moon will overflow and the moon will be full."

Jiang Xiyuan snorted and laughed, "You understand."

Xia Chu didn't take it seriously, "Many people understand the truth, but when it really happens to me, how do I know when it's full? I always feel that I can go further and be fuller."

Jiang Xiyuan was silent for a moment, and said a little irritably: "What's the use even if you understand? It's not that our family wants the younger sister to enter the palace, it's the younger sister who wants to enter the palace."

Xia Chu nodded in understanding, then shook his head and said with a sigh: "Your sister likes the emperor, so I'm afraid it will be more difficult."

"How do you know that? You have never seen the emperor."

"The emperor. I haven't met the emperor, but I have read those books, dramas and so on. The emperor's harem is a projection of the previous dynasty. There is no one to love, right? The queen is actually just a It's just a position." Xia Chu said regretfully, "If it were me, I mean, if I had a younger sister, even if I tied her up, I wouldn't let her enter the palace."

"It's hard to choose." Jiang Xiyuan said honestly: "You don't have a sister, maybe you don't know it personally. My little sister has been the jewel of the whole family since she was a child. I really can't bear to live up to her sincere wish. Even if she is not so optimistic, she still hopes for everything by chance." It will be very beautiful. Although I am not the eldest brother, I still have the feeling of being like a father. Who made her have the best relationship with me since childhood."

"Yeah." Xia Chu nodded, "They are all good brothers."

"All?"

"Fang Yi. He is the eldest brother, and the family was like that when he was a child. He and his sister are really dependent on each other. Look at him and Fang Ruolan, that's the feeling that an elder brother is like a father."

"He is better than me." Jiang Xiyuan said sincerely: "I heard that the old lady of the Fang family doesn't like her eldest daughter-in-law very much, and she doesn't even care about her two children. Father may not come back after being demoted and exiled, and mother died again. I really don’t know how they got here. If it were me, I’m afraid I’d collapse.”

"My lord, you are humble. You just haven't gone through adversity. At that time, you will definitely be no worse than anyone else. Human potential is infinite." Xia Chu flattered her.

"Really? You said that you seem to have gone through vicissitudes."

Xia Chu smiled noncommittally, "Hurry up and eat, I'm so restless, I want to go back and read the file quickly."

Jiang Xiyuan picked up a chopstick of tofu, "Why are you so restless?"

"I don't know." Xia Chu thought for a while, and still said: "I don't know, I feel like something is missing."

Under Xia Chu's constant urging, Jiang Xiyuan finished the meal in a hurry, and returned to the government office in a hurry.

As soon as Xia Chu entered the door, he went straight to the file, flipped through it in a hurry, found the transcript of Fang Yi's interrogation recorded in Wanfo Temple, read it hastily, and then slapped it on the table, "There is a problem! "

Jiang Xiyuan picked up the transcript, "What's the problem?"

Xia Chu pointed to a line in the record and said: "When I asked Fang Yi that day, Fang Yi said that he went to chat with a friend in Youshi, returned to his room an hour later, and then meditated in the room. But his confession today said that He has been with Liu Rong all night."

"Yes, this is already known. I think his statement today is more credible."

Xia Chu waved his hand and continued, "Liu Rong said that she left the room at Xushi, and she left after chatting with Fang Yi until it was almost midnight."

"Correct."

"Fang Yi left his friend's place after chatting. It was almost Xu time. That is to say, Fang Yi and Liu Rong met around Xu time. Can we think so? With the scale of Wanfo Temple, it is not possible to walk for half an hour without missing each other. .”

Jiang Xiyuan nodded, holding the transcript in his hand but didn't read it, and simply listened to the results of Xia Chu's analysis.

"However, Fang Ruolan said that day that she went to Fang Yi's room at around [-]:[-] PM and saw him meditating. If Fang Yi hadn't lied, then he wasn't in the room at all at that time!"

Jiang Xiyuan frowned, and then he lowered his head to read the transcript carefully, put it on the table gently after reading it, and said after a while, "Fang Yi is lying again?"

"I don't know." Xia Chu shook his head, "In the morning, Fang Yi said that he went back to his room to meditate after he separated from Liu Rong. Fang Ruolan, one of them must have lied."

"What do you think?"

"I don't dare to think casually." Xia Chu tapped the transcript, "Or, these two people are lying? Didn't they get it right when they colluded?"

"It's necessary to go to Liu Rong to reconcile the statement. If what Liu Rong said matches what Fang Yi said, then Fang Ruolan is lying." Jiang Xiyuan said.

"Then... what if these three people conspire together?" Xia Chu asked a little confidently.

"Picture what?"

Xia Chu pondered for a moment, sat down, and dug out the transcripts of Liu Rong and Fang Yi, "Then it's better to go through it a little bit. If Fang Yi lied for something, what did Liu Rong plan for? If Fang Yi If Lan lies, what is she planning?"

"Motivation?"

"Yes, the motive for committing the crime." Xia Chu took off his hat and threw it over again, revealing his neat short hair. "To be honest, I really don't know what the murderer's motive is now. No matter who is the murderer, I even doubt it." , Whether the murderer is these three people, or one of these three people."

Jiang Xiyuan thought for a while, but said, "At the beginning of Xia, it's actually not important."

"Why isn't it important?"

"There are too many possibilities for the motive of the crime. It is actually difficult to get close to the truth based on our fantasies here. Some people kill for just one sentence, and some even just because of a careless look. You can't explain it with the thinking of the two of us. behavior of all."

Xia Chu took it for granted and said yes.

"Instead of looking for the motive of committing the crime, it is better to focus on the time and conditions of committing the crime." Jiang Xiyuan pursed his lips and smiled with a hint of pride, "The focus of your questioning this morning is to find or eliminate Fang Yi's suspicion, so you will be ignored. other than the focus of attention."

"My lord..., you have something to say."

"Hong Yuerong."

Xia Chu was stunned for a moment, and then he understood Jiang Xiyuan's meaning: "That is to say..."

"The intersection of Hong Yuerong and Liu Ying, apart from Fang Yi and Liu Rong, there is also Fang Ruolan. And the last person Hong Yuerong met before his death, whose traces can be traced at present, is also Fang Ruolan."

Although Xia Chu understood every word Jiang Xiyuan said, he still looked puzzled, "But Fang Ruolan..."

"Don't use our thinking to explain other people's behavior." Jiang Xiyuan was silent for a moment, then sighed slightly, "If it was really Fang Ruolan who did it, then there is a kind of logic that makes sense."

"...brother complex?"

When Fang Ruolan was young, her father was demoted and her mother died of illness, and she was not welcomed by the elders in the family. During such long and cold days, the only person she could rely on and give her a sense of security was Fang Yi.

"It's not surprising that Fang Ruolan has a brother-in-law complex. Love with brother to such an extent..." When Xia Chu met brother-in-law, it was usually like a house fight, until the brother-in-law and sister-in-law got divorced.She really hasn't seen it when the legal system is in progress...

"I don't quite understand what complex you are talking about. I guess you mean: abnormal love?"

"Almost." Xia Chu stood up and pushed Jiang Xiyuan away, "Let's go, let's find Fang Ruolan now."

In Youshi, Xia Chu and Jiang Xiyuan arrived at Fang's Mansion, but after knocking on the door, they were told that Fang Yi and Fang Ruolan were not at home.Fang Jian heard the report that Jiang Xiyuan had come, so she invited them into the living room.

Fang Jian's appearance is basically the middle-aged version of Fang Yi, and he is also full of elegance. He greeted Jiang Xiyuan with neither humble nor overbearing, and made people serve tea. , do you have any advice?"

"Oh, I did come here once in the morning and asked your son something about the murder of Mrs. Liu's eldest lady. I came here now to find out about your daughter's situation." Jiang Xiyuan said.

"Ruo Lan?" Fang Jian was puzzled, "What does she have to do with Miss Liu's murder?"

Jiang Xiyuan thought for a while, then asked in a roundabout way: "What is the relationship between your son and your daughter?"

Fang Jian smiled very comfortingly, "Oh, the relationship between the two of them is very good. Mr. Jiang should know that the lower official was demoted and exiled. At that time, he didn't know if he would come back alive one day. , the place of exile was extremely poor, so he left his family members in the capital."

"Well, I know about this."

"I'm ashamed to think about it!" Fang Jian sighed, "I thought it was the best arrangement for them, but I didn't expect that the three of them, the mother and the son, had such a hard life. Looking back, I actually threw the house to the children. Fortunately, Fang Yi fought hard, defended my family and brought up my younger sister. As a father, I owe them too much."

"How is your relationship with Ling'ai?"

Fang Jian smiled wryly, "Ruolan was still young when I left, and she was already a big girl when I came back. For eight years, I left no trace of me in her eight years of life, and she didn't remember me at all. Now that she is a father, she only listens to her brother in everything. Although I am a little sad, I can't blame anyone."

(End of this chapter)