After Ling'er finished his porridge and took another nap, Xie Xun came out of the cell.
"You go first." Xie Xun said.
Chen Anning nodded and took Ling'er and the children she had adopted to the cell again.
Li Tianyi leaned against the cell door.
Seeing Ling'er coming, he immediately stood up straight, stretched out his hand and shouted: "Sister Ling'er!"
Ling'er seemed to have a natural tacit understanding with him. Although she couldn't hear and her eyesight was not good, in the dark cell, the moment Li Tian reached out to her, she also reached out to him and whimpered twice. .
"Sister Ling'er," perhaps everything that should be explained was explained, and Li Tianyi felt a sense of relaxation that he had not felt before. Holding Ling'er's hand, he grinned relaxedly and contentedly, "Master Xie said that as long as I cooperate with him in investigating the case and atone for my crimes, I don't have to die."
Word by word, he spoke very slowly.
Ling'er looked at his lips, and after understanding his words, her tears rolled down and she also whimpered.
Li Tian couldn't help but blush. While wiping Ling'er's tears, he said to Chen Anning: "Sister Ling'er told me to cooperate with Mr. Xie in investigating the case, and I will never lie to others again."
Chen Anning glanced at Ling'er and then at him, "Ask him if he is willing to go to the orphanage in the capital."
Li Tianyi asked truthfully.
Ling'er shook her head and refused without even thinking about it.
Li Tianyi held her hand tightly and said, "But I want to go. I want to see what the capital looks like, and I also want to fulfill my promise to you."
Linger whined in response.
After Li Tianyi smiled and said "Thank you, Sister Ling'er," he turned her around slightly, pointed at Chen Anning and said, "She is the miracle doctor I told you before. She has promised to treat your ears. Mouth and eyes. In the near future, you will be able to hear my voice, talk to me, and see the world with your eyes."
Ling'er's expression changed quickly, and then she shook his hand randomly, whining with excitement.
"Sister Ling'er, you misunderstood." Li Tianyi cried and laughed, holding Ling'er's hand, and slowly explained, "This miracle doctor doesn't charge me money, she treats you for free. I don't cheat money. I won’t cheat money anymore.”
Facing Ling'er's dubious look, Chen Anning nodded and said slowly, "He's right. As long as he cooperates with our investigation, I will treat you for free, no money required."
Linger immediately wanted to kneel down to her.
The child next to her moved faster and fell to his knees when he heard her words.
Chen Anning quickly held Ling'er's arm and said, "No need to say thank you. It is my responsibility to treat illnesses and save people."
Linger whined at her twice.
Li Tianyi said: "Sister Ling'er said, thank you."
Chen Anning nodded and looked at him thoughtfully: Did he follow Lu Deqiu and Zhao Yongsheng to deceive him in order to treat Ling'er?
Ling'er talked to Li Tianyi for about half a cup of tea, then took the initiative to let go of his hand, held the arm of the oldest child next to him, turned around and walked out.
Li Tian never looked away from her, "Sister Linger said she would wait for me."
Chen Anning nodded and followed.
From beginning to end, Li Tianyi stood at the cell door, looking at them.
After sending Ling'er back to the courtyard and asking the eldest child to tell her that she should live here with peace of mind and take good care of herself. Only by taking good care of her body can her deafness and mute be cured, Chen Anning returned to Luoqiu Courtyard.
Luoqiu Courtyard was the courtyard where Madam Lu arranged for her to live when she first arrived at the Prefect's Mansion.
After Xu Tianyi was arrested, the Jincheng County case basically came to an end. In order to facilitate the interrogation of Lu Deqiu and others at any time, they returned to the prefect's mansion from the inn.
"So happy," Chen Anning asked with a smile after entering Luoqiu Courtyard and looking at Xu Zan's excited fat face, "It seems that Xu Tianyi has explained a lot."
"Not much." Xu Zan handed over Xu Tianyi's confession, "Most of what he confessed was also a lie."
Chen Anning spent nearly a cup of tea and read the confession twice before saying, "The horses that Lu Deqiu and the others deceived also flowed to those eight counties."
Xu Zan nodded repeatedly, "Although the direct relationship between Lu Deqiu and Song Shizhong cannot be seen yet, it is certain that they are in the same group."
Chen Anning looked at the confession again, "The horses that flowed to Shuofang County were given to Qin Biao, the military commander stationed in Shuofang County. He doesn't know about the horses from the other counties?"
Xie Xun was sitting behind the desk, writing a letter. Hearing this, he replied slowly: "Things are kept secret, not to mention what they did... It's not surprising that Lu Deqiu was on guard against him."
Looking at the confession about how he secretly followed the man who sent the horse to Shuofang County, Chen Anning asked: "Then are you going back to Shuofang County or the capital next?"
Xu Tianyi's confession provided only two important clues.
One is the flow of horses.
The second is the flow of money.
The flow of horses further confirmed the relationship between Lu Deqiu and Song Shizhong.
In addition, Qin Biao, the commander of Shuofang County Zhechong, also provided them with a direction to continue their investigation.
There are ten directions for money to flow.
In addition to the eight counties where the horses flowed, there was also Guangling County and the capital.
Song Shizhong's case did not involve money.
The money involved in Lu Deqiu's case was heading to the capital.
This shows that the expenses in the capital far exceeded the income of the case Song Shizhong was involved in.
This is undoubtedly another direction for further investigation.
"Go to Shuofang County." Before Xie Xun had time to answer, he was overtaken by Xu Zan, "The troops are divided into two groups. Baolin and I are in the dark, and you are in the light."
Xie Xun looked up at Xu Zan and gave another answer: "You are only half right."
Xu Zan immediately asked: "What is the other half?"
Xie Xun smiled half-heartedly: "Miss Chen Er and I went to Shuofang County just to deceive others."
"Although the reason we used when we left the capital was fair and aboveboard, the mastermind must have known that we had some control over the flow of horses. Now that we are going to Shuofang County again, it has undoubtedly confirmed his suspicions."
"If you were the mastermind, would you let us go to Shuofang County again?"
Xu Zan replied: "No."
"So," Xie Xun said slowly, "Miss Chen Er and I went to Shuofang County just to force the mastermind to stop it."
Xu Zan clicked his tongue twice: "Fortunately, I'm not the mastermind. It's too insidious!"
"Is this sinister?" Xie Xun laughed disapprovingly.
After writing the letter and giving it to the secret guard, and instructing the secret guard to deliver it to the capital before dawn tomorrow, Xie Xun stood up and sat next to Chen Anning, "Cherish the next two days of free time, and from now on, Gotta be busy."
Xu Zan screamed in protest, saying that he was not willing to eat and sleep in the open no matter what.
Xie Xun said calmly: "As long as you can guarantee that you won't be recognized and hunted down, then it's up to you."
Xu Zan grabbed Wen Baolin and left angrily.
But before he could reach a cup of tea, he stumbled back and said with a wink, "Master Chu is here with his father."
After a pause, he added: "Miss Hua and Miss Hua are also here."
here we go again?
Chen Anning squinted his eyes and looked at Xie Xun teasingly.
