There are also several darkrooms in the front.
The layout of each darkroom is similar.
Except for the last darkroom.
In addition to a simple wooden bed, the last darkroom also had a layer of straw spread on the floor.
There were two or three broken bowls scattered among the straw.
Chen Anning raised the torch and looked forward.
There are so many footprints on the ground that you can tell that at least seven or eight people have walked back and forth here just by looking at them with the naked eye.
There were no such complex footprints on the previous passage.
In other words, the end point of these footprints is the last darkroom.
Withdrawing the torch, Chen Anning looked at the darkroom in front of her again.
In the darkroom, although the straw was spread in a messy way, it was so full that the footprints could not be seen.
The only thing I could hope for was the two or three broken bowls.
Chen Anning held the torch and carefully walked to one of the broken bowls. Still wrapped in a handkerchief, she picked up the broken bowl.
"A group of gangsters and beggars came here yesterday," Xie Xun's voice sounded at the door of the darkroom as if out of thin air, "one of the gangsters used to work for A Zan. After the news about Miss Zhao Er's disappearance yesterday, this gangster The gangster secretly found A-Zan and told him everything about the situation here."
Chen Anning glanced at the broken bowl and then looked at the door.
Xie Xun leaned against the door, looking a little tired, but his eyes were bright.
Seeing her looking over, he continued: "These gangsters and beggars were brought here by a waiter in Chunhua Pavilion. They don't know the purpose of coming here. After Miss Zhao Er was thrown into the dark room by you, these gangsters and beggars, they were driven away.”
Chen Anning sneered twice, "What do you mean, originally they planned to use these gangsters and beggars to destroy my innocence? Later, it was Song Fu who got interested and drove them away?"
Xie Xun said with a serious look on his face: "That's pretty much it."
"That's really what you brought upon yourself." Chen Anning mocked, then put down the broken bowl and stood up, "Have you ever gone to see Song Fu?"
"I've looked for him." Xie Xun's eyes were cold, "He denied that he had been here."
He went to Song Mansion after going to Xu Guogong's Mansion and asking Xu Zan to find someone to go to Hepingfang to investigate the situation.
Song Fu is not at home.
He followed a few fair-weather friends to play in the West Market.
When I found him in the West Market, he and his fair-weather friends were listening to music at Goulan.
Those fair-weather friends all testified that they had been drinking and having fun together yesterday.
Regarding what Chen Ziling said about him being in the darkroom, Song Fu bluntly said that she was slandering.
"Have you seen all the darkrooms here?" Chen Anning asked.
Xie Xun nodded, "I've seen it."
"What is Song Fu's height and foot length? Do you know?" Chen Anning asked again.
"Song Fu's height is about five feet two to five feet three, and his feet are long..." Xie Xun said after a moment of silence, "Slightly smaller than an ordinary man."
Chen Anning said calmly: "Then you can arrest him."
"The murderer who killed Miss Zhao Er's maid was between five feet two and five feet three, and his feet were seven inches five, slightly smaller than an average man's. If he doesn't admit it, you can ask him to come over and compare the footprints."
He took out the jade pendant, Jin Bu Yao and jade hairpin and handed them to him, "Jin Bu Yao and jade hairpin can definitely belong to Miss Zhao Er."
"In addition to Song Fu's footprints, there are four people's footprints in the darkroom. The sizes of the four people's footprints are: seven-inch-eight, eight-inch-one and two eight-inch. There are two eight-inch footprints, one of which is There must be a slight limp in the foot.”
"In addition, the ground carrier here is very good. From the depth of the footprints, we can roughly estimate the weight of the five people including Song Fu. Song Fu is around 130, and the 7-inch-8 and 8-inch-1 footprints are both around 16 On the left and right, there are two eight-inch footprints, the lame one is about one hundred and two, and the one without lame is about one hundred and forty."
"If nothing unexpected happens, the owners of these footprints should be the fair-weather friends who testified for Song Fu."
Although it shouldn't be done, Xie Xun couldn't help but laugh eccentrically, "Song Fu not only violated Miss Zhao Er by himself, but also let those fair-weather friends violate her too?"
Chen Anning nodded, "Although it's unbelievable, it's true."
"That's really what you're doing!" Xie Xun snorted coldly. After saying that Song Fu's few fair-weather friends were about the same weight as she estimated, and one of them happened to be lame, he took out the Dali Temple Qing's Token from his waist and threw it away. To the officer on the side, he ordered in a deep voice, "Arrest Song Fu and his few inseparable friends immediately!"
The officer took the token and left.
Chen Anning followed Xie Xun towards the exit of the darkroom while talking about some of her thoughts on the case when she went to Kaiyang Hou Mansion.
"After Wang Yong's case happened, people have been arranged to investigate." Xie Xun said, "In addition, Tian Daming's interpersonal relationships have also been investigated."
"Tian Daming's parents disappeared a few years ago. He still has a few brothers and sisters, but they don't have much contact with him."
"He works as a charlatan, and the people he usually associates with are people from all walks of life."
"Everyone who has had contact with him has been checked one by one recently, and no problems have been found for the time being."
"However, according to several beggars in Baoningfang, before he introduced Wang Yong to Ci'en Temple as a handyman, he had seen him interacting with a strange man about fifty years old. Judging from their descriptions, It seems that he is similar to the murderer you portrayed."
"The person must be nowhere to be found."
"We can only place our hope in Hepingfang."
Chen Anning glanced at him, "Since you can only place your hope in Hepingfang, why did you send someone to check the gray cloth carriage?"
"Just in case." Xie Xun replied calmly, "Besides, it can be considered as making an attack in the east."
The entrance and exit of the darkroom is in an old courtyard in a back-yang alley.
The courtyard is full of fireworks.
Apparently, someone lived here before Zhao Ying disappeared.
There are also people living around the courtyard.
Judging from the words, deeds and clothes of these people, they are all ordinary people.
Standing in the alley, looking at the firewood or wheelbarrows and other daily necessities placed on both sides of the alley, as well as the adults and children hiding behind these daily necessities, looking at them carefully, Chen Anning asked: "Have they been checked?"
Xie Xunshun glanced at both ends of the alley, "They don't know much about the situation of this courtyard house. They only know that a family of five lives in this household and they moved in in July of the year before last."
Chen Anning looked away, "Where are the five members of this family?"
"No more." Xie Xun's voice was like ice and snow, "Song Fu killed them all before leaving."
Chen Anning was silent for a moment, then walked into the courtyard, "He is smart to hide the entrance and exit in the common people's living area."
Xie Xun followed her, and when he heard her words, his eyes moved faintly: Hepingfang is also decorated in this way!
After Chen Anning walked around every corner of the courtyard, she faced him and said, "The layout here seems ordinary, but it is extremely concealed. If the murderer is really Song Fu, then it is obviously not the first time he has set up such a trap. Over at Hepingfang, judging from the results of your visit yesterday, the situation seems to be not much different from here."
Xie Xun said solemnly: "There is indeed not much difference."
It's past noon.
A guard came with a horse.
Chen Anning walked out of the courtyard, took another look at the surrounding environment, and then rode back to Chen's house with him.
Had lunch together.
After Chen Anning returned to Qingzhiyuan, when she saw the fragrance of lotus, she remembered that Chun Rui and Chuntao were still in Chunhua Pavilion.
After asking He Xiang to send someone to bring them back, Chen Anning was about to take a nap when Xu Zan came.
