commoner pretty detective

Chapter 51
Gong Ziling rubbed her face, turned around and showed a huge smile to Wu Yan.Wu Yan's heart skipped half a beat, she quickly stabilized her mind, and shouted, "What are you doing?"

Gong Ziling said suspiciously: "I was just about to ask you, is my smile that scary?"

"Scary?" It's a little scary, awesomely scary, but fortunately my heart is strong enough.

"I don't usually smile, but he has a calm demeanor and is not afraid of me at all. I smiled at him today, but he was afraid of being like that."

"Don't you usually smile at your subordinates?"

Gong Ziling thought for a while and said, "It seems so."

"It turns out that you are a cold-faced prince, I just found out." No wonder Liu Fang was afraid, Gong Ziling was too abnormal.

I only heard Gong Ziling's "shh": "Stop talking, stand up quickly, someone is coming."

As soon as Wu Yan straightened her posture, she saw Liu Fang, the magistrate, brought a person in, and then retreated by herself.The person who came was Officer Wang, and his rhetoric was no different from that of Liu Fang.

Next was Yao Jiang, the deputy treasury supervisor, who added the situation after Wang and Liu left.

After everyone left that day, it was time for the shift.Originally, Yao Jiang was on duty that night, but Chen Wenshan said that something happened at home the next day and he wanted to change shift with Yao Jiang, and Yao Jiang agreed.Immediately, the two locked the door, wrote a seal and pasted it.Chen Wenshan seemed a little restless, and he made a mistake when writing the seal, which caused Yao Jiang to write another picture and seal it.

Gong Ziling asked: "How to deal with the wrongly written seal?"

Yao Jiang replied: "Chen Kujian crumpled it up and threw it into the wastebasket. After a while, he said that the insurance should be removed, so he picked it up and tore it into pieces and threw it away."

"What's unusual about Chen Treasury Supervisor recently?"

"Chen Kujian was originally a humorous person. He liked to tell jokes and often made several small treasury officials laugh. But in the past two or three months, he has become taciturn, and he never speaks easily. He is alone all day long. Hiding away. I get along with him all right, but he doesn't even pay me much attention."

"Didn't he mention what happened?"

"Never mentioned it."

"What are the hobbies of Supervisor Chen?"

"I don't know about this, but his treasury staff may know."

According to the three treasury officials who were on duty that night, Chen Wenshan had no hobbies and usually stayed at home when he was not on duty.

On the night of the accident, around midnight, Chen Wenshan said he wanted to go out to inspect, so he walked out of the duty room alone, without anyone following him, without even bringing a lantern, and never came back afterward.

At the beginning, the treasury officials didn't pay attention to it, but after seeing that he hadn't come back after a long time, they took turns to go around the bank to look for it.I didn't see anyone else, and I didn't find anything unusual.The three of them discussed and guessed that he might have avoided them to do some private business, and it was inconvenient to say anything.It was not until the bank was opened the next day that he was found dead in the bank.

Gong Ziling asked: "Did he go out alone and never return when he was on duty at night?"

The three treasury officials all shook their heads and replied affirmatively that there was no.

The guards who patrolled that night responded that there was no movement that night. They didn't see Chen Wenshan, but they saw the treasury officials patrolling with lanterns.When I passed the duty room, I heard snoring from inside. It was probably someone who fell asleep, but it was inconvenient for them to take care of it. Besides, it was not surprising to hear snoring often.

Saying goodbye to Liu Fang, Wu Yan asked Gong Ziling: "Why didn't you ask how they opened the bank gate when Chen Wenshan disappeared that day?"

"I know this. The officer who escorted the silver cart that day had already arrived at the door, but Chen Wenshan hadn't arrived, and he couldn't be found anywhere. Later, Liu Fang came to ask me for instructions, and I ordered the lock to be picked."

"So that's the case. I thought someone had a spare key."

It was already dusk when we came out from the magistrate's yamen, and the shops on the side of the street were starting to light their lamps one after another, Wu Yan watched with greedy eyes, and really didn't want to go back to the palace right away.I have been in Biwu for several days, and I have been locked in the palace every night, without computers, TVs, or entertainment, and the only books I can read are in difficult traditional Chinese characters.

How does Gong Ziling usually spend the night?According to legend, isn't the prince always singing and dancing every night, but she didn't even see a trace of singing and dancing.

Looking up at Gong Ziling curiously, he found that Gong Ziling was also looking at her with great interest.Not guarding against Wu Yan's sudden look at him, Gong Ziling turned her head away, looked towards the street, and said as if nothing had happened: "I'm fine tonight, how about going shopping with me?"

(End of this chapter)