A tense atmosphere was created throughout Qingyang City.
Bai Siyuan led the monks from the Keqing Mansion to visit each Keqing Mansion one by one to conduct routine inquiries.
The city lord's palace dispatched five thousand government troops and city defenders to strengthen patrols in the city, and prepared a notice that starting from the next day, people entering and leaving the city would be interrogated.
At least the appearance is in place.
As for Zhong Mansion, after learning the news of Shen Lanxin's death, the monks were in an uproar and talked about it.
At first, I envied Zhong Yan for being associated with the Changning Zhuji family, but it turned out to be a disaster. Some people regretted it, while others secretly gloated about it.
However, no one objected to the Zhongfu's request for everyone to prove their innocence. On the contrary, they were very cooperative and eager to clear up the relationship.
Ask each one individually.
Below the sixth level of Qi refining, it is difficult to have the ability to commit murder if simply asked.
Above the sixth level of Qi Refining, multiple questions have been confirmed.
However, later monks such as Pang Baodu and Bai Siyuan almost always had many people drinking and communicating together, and there was no time to commit crimes.
Including Zhong Yan’s suspected target - Pei Nanjin!
During the incident, she had contact with Yan Sandao, Gongsun Nuannuan, Jiang Ping and others.
But Zhong Yan knew that she still had time to commit the crime - with the peak cultivation level of the fourth level of foundation building, there was no need to use any speed talismans, and the time was more than enough.
Moreover, because she was looking for Gongsun Nuannuan, she had a general tour of the mansion. She knew the location of the buildings in the mansion and had free access. It was not difficult to find Shen Lanxin's residence.
However, when Liu Chengyang looked at her with suspicion and asked about her cultivation level, she completely revealed her identity.
"I come from the Seven Peaks of the Fire Cloud Sect. I arrived in Qingyang before you Shen family members. I have no interaction with the Shen family before and have no motive for committing the crime."
Pei Nanjin took out his identity token.
Can't hide it.
When she first arrived at Zhong Mansion, she announced her name in front of several monks, and her junior sister Gongsun Nuannuan made another move of "raising the stone lion".
As long as Liu Chengyang sends the news back to Changning, Shen Nanfeng can find out, and he may even know the name Pei Nanjin.
"The Seven Peaks of Fire Cloud Sect?"
Liu Chengyang was surprised and frightened. He looked at the token carefully. Although he had never seen it before, he couldn't believe it.
After pondering for a while, he handed the token back to Pei Nanjin with both hands, and solemnly saluted: "Junior Liu Chengyang has met senior Pei! Please forgive me, senior, what is the purpose of coming to Qingyang this time?"
"Uncle Zhong, please forgive me for not stating my identity before."
Pei Nanjin cupped his hands towards Zhong Yan and said frankly to Liu Chengyang:
"This matter is a misunderstanding. Before Master left, he seriously asked me and other disciples to take care of Uncle Zhong. I had learned that someone was investigating Uncle Zhong in the sect, so I thought I was in trouble and made this trip."
Uncle Zhong...Liu Chengyang was shocked again, "This junior has offended many people, so the murderer cannot be Senior Pei."
Pei Nanjin: "Please keep this matter confidential. I will leave soon."
"..."
This lasted until the next morning, when all the monks in the Zhong Mansion were able to find more than three alibi.
Things are on hold for now.
Liu Chengyang needs to ask Chang Ning for instructions.
The selection of guest ministers of Zhongfu has been postponed and the date is to be determined.
However, because Zhong Yan offended the Shen family, many monks made excuses to leave and no longer participate in the election. One hundred people were in full order.
If the spirit stones had not been collected in advance, even Wu Yang and the other seven 'fake guests' would have to evacuate, fearing that they would be implicated.
Especially Chen Wanmiao, she regretted it terribly.
When Zhong Yan handed over her mission, she did not specify the specific reason. Later, when she learned of Shen Lanxin's death, she even speculated that it was the secret hand of the Zhong Mansion.
Zhong Yan could understand the reaction of the monks and temporarily stayed for three more days to wait for Chang Ning's reply.
There is a side hall in the first layer of the courtyard.
Several important figures from the Zhongfu were present.
Yu Qingyao said worriedly: "Husband, Shen Nanfeng was once a disciple of the Five Peaks of the Fire Cloud Sect. He should know the soul-searching technique. What if Xiaotao goes back and is soul-searched?"
Yan Sandao also said: "Even if she doesn't search for souls, she might still tell the truth, then..."
Zhong Yan frowned and thought.
That's not what I was thinking about.
But the murderer.
His inner guess was that there was more than 70% chance that Pei Nanjin committed the crime.
There are hundreds of small courtyards and thousands of rooms in the Zhongfu. How could the so-called "evil cultivators who sneaked into the mansion" find the Sixth Level Courtyard and kill Shen Lanxin alone?
Except for her concubine Dongcao and four maids, no one knew where she lived, and many monks in the mansion would not go into the courtyard without permission.
As for the other new member of the family, 'Zhen Rong', he asked Yu Qingyao to kill him.
What he couldn't figure out was, if it was Pei Nanjin, what was his motive?
After a long time, Zhong Yan shook his head and said: "Don't worry about the Shen family. Although Shen Lanxin died in Zhong Mansion, as long as we are not the real murderers, we have no big responsibility. The Shen family took the initiative to come to the door. The responsibility of guarding is not ours, and we don't have that responsibility." ability. "
"If the maid tells everything, it will further prove that this matter has nothing to do with us."
"And if she doesn't say anything, then the conflict will be transferred to the evil cultivator and the guard, both sides are acceptable."
Zhong Yan said, and added something in his heart - how could she be allowed to return to Changning.
Everyone nodded suddenly.
Li Shangwen said: "Uncle, is the marriage certificate still valid? Are you going to Changning yet?"
Although he obeyed Zhong Yan's arrangement, he was still a little reluctant to leave him behind as everyone went to Changning. If they wanted to go together, it was best to stay.
"It's just a marriage contract, not a marriage. Since the person is dead, it is naturally invalid!"
Speaking of this, Zhong Yan was still a little annoyed that he was deceived by Shen Lanxin.
Even if Shen Nanfeng finally agrees to provide the spiritual veins, he doesn't know how long it will take.
Although the Shen family has a second-order high-grade spiritual vein and can intercept a small section as a first-order spiritual vein, doing so will cause great damage to the spiritual vein, and Shen Nanfeng will never do this.
You can only find it elsewhere.
But spiritual veins are so easy to obtain.
Yu Qingyao: "Then we can only wait for news from Changning now. Husband, do you want to send another message to Senior Lin and ask him to help talk?"
"Need not."
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the other side.
The Shen family members gathered together to discuss.
There were fifteen people in the group, and now there were only ten left.
Shen Lanxin died, a monk maid and two maids who lived in the 'Taihe Inn' also died, and Shen Lanxin's mistress disappeared - naturally it was Zhong Yan who arranged for Chen Wanmiao and Gu Baiyu to do it.
The purpose of killing the maid and maid was to eliminate the possible alibi of the concubine.
One person asked: "Captain Liu, what should we do now? Isn't it really Ge Qing's fault?"
One person said: "I asked the shopkeeper and the waiter, but I didn't see the specific time when Ge Qing left the inn, but the time when the three of them died was similar to the lady."
Another person said: "How could he let ordinary people see him doing that kind of thing? An invisibility charm can hide it. Taihe Inn is not far from here, and we can make it in time. But can Ge Qing kill the lady?" Are there any accomplices?"
You say something to me, and I analyze it for a while.
Liu Chengyang looked at Xiao Tao and asked, "What do you think?"
Xiao Tao said: "If Miss is not paying attention, he can do it based on the relationship between them, and he knows that Miss's storage bag has a lot of resources. In addition, Miss is determined to marry into the Zhong Mansion and completely sever all previous relationships in the future. Summoned and mentioned it to Ge Qing."
Someone said: "So, he felt that he would not be able to benefit from the young lady in the future, so he grabbed the resources and completely left the Shen family and flew away?"
The other person looked at Xiao Tao with twinkling eyes: "Perhaps, he is worried that the young lady will be silenced, so it is better to strike first!"
Xiao Tao looked at everyone's faces and said, "The lady didn't say that explicitly."
Explicit words, hidden meanings, and moved thoughts.
Xiao Tao added: "By the way, the lady asked me to send a message to Xiaoli to come to Zhong Mansion tomorrow. They also know where the lady lives. Could it be that the evil cultivators in the city happened to kill Xiao Li and the others, and then learned the news, and took advantage of the Zhong Mansion Party, disguised to sneak in, decisively looking for you?"
"This... is also possible."
a long time.
Liu Chengyang said: "You go first, Xiaotao stays, we will report the situation to the ancestors and see how to deal with it."
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