Xie Xun reacted quickly and flew away instantly.
Chen Anning joked: "Aren't you going to commit yourself to me? What are you hiding from?"
Xie Xun raised his hand and flicked the hem of his clothes, "I am delicate and frail, and I cannot bear the love of Miss Chen Er."
Chen Anning sneered twice and returned his attention to the case again.
Xie Xun also stopped joking and sat back down.
"Leave aside those children who were robbed or robbed," Chen Anning said, "What happened to these children who were deceived or abducted?"
Being cheated or abducted is basically committed by acquaintances.
Xie Xun's eyes fell on the case in her hand.
The case record is about a twelve-year-old girl who was abducted.
Although he could probably recite the content, he still read it from beginning to end before saying, "I've checked it all."
Chen Anning turned her head and looked at him, "What was the result?"
Xie Xun said quietly: "There is evidence of alibi."
Chen Anning raised her eyebrows, "Every time you walk, you will leave traces. I don't believe you haven't heard of this sentence."
Xie Xun smiled lowly, "I believe it, so I need you."
This time, Chen Anning did not refuse, but said: "It's been more than two months. Even if there were any traces at the beginning, there are no traces now, right?"
Xie Xun nodded helplessly, "The area where these children disappeared is not only populated by a large number of people, but also a mixture of three religions and nine streams. The day after Mr. Feng and Mr. Shi came to find me, another disappearance case occurred. When I rushed over to take the case, The scene was almost completely destroyed.”
Chen Anning looked at him and said, "So if you want to solve this case, you can only start from outside the city?"
"If there are no accidents," Xie Xun considered, "that's about it."
"Then, let's talk about the cases outside the city. The most recent case happened half a month ago," Chen Anning quickly pulled out the corresponding case, "The location was in Wuzhu Village, fifty miles away from the capital. The missing person He was a thirteen-year-old boy who disappeared on his way to deliver food to his parents who were working in the fields."
"The place where the missing boy's parents work is about three miles away from Wuzhu Village. Because it is a mountain road, there are many woods. According to your early investigation, he disappeared in a forest about two miles away from Wuzhu Village."
"There are only 23 households in Wuzhu Village, with a total of more than 160 people. Usually there are almost no strangers there. And before the boy disappeared, the villagers had not seen any strangers around."
Xie Xun nodded, "I have confirmed it again and again, it is indeed true."
Chen Anning glanced at him and then back at the case, "The missing boy is almost four feet eight tall and weighs about one hundred and two. With this height, weight, and age, he may not be very strong, but he should not be small. If It is impossible for strangers, even two or three, to take him away by force without hurting him or alerting others."
"And in fact, you found no signs of a fight in the woods where he disappeared."
"So," Xie Xun said, "you suspect that an acquaintance committed the crime."
Chen Anning looked at the sketch of the place where the boy disappeared that came with the case.
Outside the woods where the boy disappeared, there are five winding paths.
These winding paths are reserved for people to go to the ground. Looking at the markings on the map, the widest of these paths is only two feet.
Looking around, there are fields that are not cut evenly.
In such an environment, it is unlikely that a stranger will approach the boy on the pretext of asking for directions or because he is lost.
So... Chen Anning didn't answer and asked instead: "Who do you think is more likely to commit the crime?"
Xie Xun did not answer, but looked at the simple picture and said, "Would you like to go to the scene and have a look?"
Chen Anning thought for a moment and replied, "In two days."
In the blink of an eye, two days flew by.
It's time to go to the eldest princess's mansion again to give the eldest princess acupuncture.
Early in the morning.
Mrs. Qiu came over.
She's here to take credit.
Since that day when Chen Anning 'incited' her to rebel, in the past few days, she had been at odds with Chen Fanghai and Mrs. Chen.
In the past, I always put them first in everything, but now that I no longer rely on them, I really don't like them everywhere.
What should I do if it doesn’t look pleasing to my eyes?
Of course it's a nitpick.
Chen Fanghai was injured and still expected her to take care of him. He was so angry that he could only endure it. Mrs. Chen couldn't stand her sarcasm, and she fainted twice in just five or six days.
Mr. Qiu tasted the sweetness of doing whatever he wanted, and became even more aggressive.
Seeing the beaming expression on her face when she told about the torture of Chen Fanghai and Mrs. Chen, Chen Anning's heaviness for several days in a row could not help but dissipate a lot.
In order to encourage her to continue working hard, Chen Anning took out a jade bottle and handed it to her during her explanation. In her frightened eyes, he said: "Apply it once every morning and evening to eliminate scars on your face."
Qiu took two steps back cautiously, "I will definitely double..."
Chen Anning interrupted her: "I want to harm you, why don't I go to all this trouble?"
That's right.
Mrs. Qiu happily took the jade vase, summoned the lotus fragrance to bring the bronze mirror, looked at it and applied medicine to the scars on her face.
Seeing her appearance, Chen Anning shook her head and asked He Xiang to give her another twenty taels of silver.
Mrs. Qiu took the silver and happily put her on the carriage. On the way back to the house, she remembered the purpose of her coming.
She came here to take credit for one thing, but on the other hand, and the most important thing, she wanted to find out about the eldest princess's role as a matchmaker for her.
Although Xie Xun asked her to wait patiently, she felt that she should wait, but she couldn't wait.
She was afraid that if she waited and waited, it would be in vain.
She has completely offended Chen Fanghai and Old Mrs. Chen. If it turns out to be nothing, she really has nowhere to go.
"Forget it, it's not too late to ask again when she comes back." Holding the jade bottle in one hand and the silver in the other, Qiu couldn't hide her excitement and returned to her yard.
Entered the house.
Mrs. Qiu was about to say something about whether her daughter could be relied upon to ridicule Chen Fanghai on a daily basis, but she saw Chen Fanghai rolling over on the bed with his half-dressed maid in his arms.
Qi and blood rushed into Qiu's mind instantly.
After stuffing the silver and jade bottles to the mother-in-law behind her, she rushed to the bed in three steps and two steps at a time, grabbed the maid's hair, dragged her out of bed, raised her hands, slapped her twice, pinched and kicked her. He said: "How dare you climb into my bed, you despicable bastard! Let me see if I don't beat you to death!"
The maidservant was beaten until she screamed and begged for mercy, "Madam, please spare my life, it was the master who forced me to be a slave!"
"You have committed a crime yourself, and you dare to frame others!" After Qiu pinched her twice more, she shouted angrily, "Someone, drag this scumbag out and sell it!"
"Madam, please forgive me. I didn't frame anyone else. It was the master who threatened me. If I resist, I have to tell the lady that I seduced him." The slave girl knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "This slave was defiled by the master as early as last year. , the master did not let the slave tell the madam, and kept threatening that if the slave told the madam, he would sell the slave. The slave did not want to sell the slave, so he tolerated it until today. Please spare my life, please let the madam make the decision for me!"
Qiu looked at Chen Fanghai.
Seeing his evasive eyes, anger instantly rose.
He stepped in front of the bed, picked up the pillow, and threw it at him: "Well, Chen Fanghai, I serve you to eat and drink, but you go behind my back and don't even spare your maid!"
