In the lobby of the Judicial Department, a large wooden board was erected, four feet wide and six feet long. The upper surface was covered with Shu paper, which was smooth and white. There was a mahogany shelf underneath. On the shelf were placed three langhao pens and grinders of different thicknesses. Good ink and cinnabar.
Lin Sui'an, Ling Zhiyan, Fang Ke and Jin Ruo were sitting on the Grand Master's chair. There were tall tables beside each of them. Mu Xia had brewed the best flower tea and prepared the white sugar cake that Jin Ruo loved to eat. An's favorite Qifu ointment, Ling Zhiyan's favorite golden millet cake, and of course Fang Ke's favorite hell-flavor smoked tea are indispensable.
Hua Yitang chewed the penholder and walked around in front of the wooden board while writing down people's names. His handwriting was as wild as the names of the people they wrote.
"Lian Xiaoshuang" is in the middle, "Wu Zhengli" is on the right, and a blank circle is drawn on the left. "Qu Hui" is located in the upper position between Lian Xiaoshuang and Wu Zhengli, and "Qingzhou Embroidery" is located in the lower position in the middle. After finishing writing, Hua Yitang changed to a small regular script pen and connected the names of several people and things.
"Lian Xiaoshuang and Qu Hui were both abused by Wu Zhengli. Lian Xiaoshuang's belongings left clues about Qingzhou embroidery. The man who sold Lian Xiaoshuang to Wu Zhengli——" Hua Yitang added in the blank " The word "lover" means "I don't know his identity at the moment. I only know that this person is also a gambler. He borrowed money from Wu Zhengli and sold Lian Xiaoshuang to Wu Zhengli."
Jin Ruo: "Lian Xiaoshuang used to be a prostitute, and she used to stay in the music studio of Hongxiangfang."
Lin Sui'an: "Later I became an embroiderer, and I have three embroidery workshops that I often keep in touch with."
Hua Yitang drew two circles above Lian Xiaoshuang, wrote "Hongxiangfang" and "Xiufang" respectively, and connected the circles of "Lefang" and "Lover".
Ling Zhiyan: "If we can find the music studio where Lian Xiaoshuang stayed before, we might be able to find clues to the identity of her lover. Unfortunately, I searched in the music books in Yidu City, and there was no Lian Xiaoshuang's name at all. It’s as if Xiao Shuang never existed.”
Hua Yitang snorted and clicked on Hongxiangfang and Lefang, "The records on paper can be destroyed, but the records in the human brain cannot be erased. I have asked the head catcher to take Lian Xiaoshuang's Huaying Figure went to Hongxiangfang to visit and investigate. If Lian Xiaoshuang really stayed in Hongxiangfang, he would definitely find someone who knows her."
Jin Ruo: "Hua, it's not that I don't believe you. I always feel that the government officials and bad people in Yidu Prefecture don't like us very much. Can we rely on them to investigate the case? Why don't we ask our Jingmen for help?" "
"Of course the Jingmen will also be investigated, but the investigation must be done without the knowledge of these government officials and bad people," Hua Yitang said.
Jin Ruo: "Isn't it unnecessary for you to take off your pants and fart?"
Hua Yitang chuckled, "I just want to see if they can find it. If Jingmen can't find it, but they find it (Jin Ruo: Tsk! How is it possible?!), they will be counted as one. If Jingmen can't find it, they will." If I find it, but they can’t, I will convict them of dereliction of duty, and I will be able to find another suspect along the way.”
Jin Ruodaqi: "Who is the other suspect?"
"After all, I am considered a member of the judicial army. Bad guys and police officers all point their fingers at me. If you really dare to confront me, then you must be instigated by others, acting against the will and sabotaging work." Hua Yitang raised his eyebrows. , the words "Wu Zhengqing" were written directly above Wu Zhengli.
"Do you suspect Wu Canjun?" Ling Zhiyan frowned, "But I have confirmed again and again that on the night Xiaoshuang was murdered, Wu Zhengqing did check the files in the government office's archives, and I also checked the scribe who testified for him. , is a subordinate of Xia Changshi and has no direct interest relationship with Wu Zhengqing."
"What I suspect is another thing." Hua Yitang pointed at Wu Zhengqing's name with his pen. "He was born in a wealthy family, lived in government and served as a soldier, joined the army, and was a hero who captured the Peach Blossom Demon. He was young and promising, and he looked like - uh ... I can see it. Do you think that if a man like this appeared in front of a prostitute, said that he loved her, and could help her get out of the country, would the prostitute be completely devoted to him?"
As soon as this statement came out, everyone was shocked.
Lin Sui'an: "Do you suspect that Wu Zhengqing is Lian Xiaoshuang's lover?!"
Hua Yitang connected Wu Zhengqing's name with the circle of "lover", "Do you still remember Wu Zhengqing's expression when he saw Lian Xiaoshuang's body? It was very strange."
Lin Sui'an recalled it, and it was indeed quite strange.
He seemed very shocked, a little sad, a little relieved, and even a little ferocious.
Ling Zhiyan: "Based on this alone, I'm afraid it's a bit far-fetched."
"Not only that, there are four doubts. First, Wu Zhengqing happened to be the main person in charge of investigating the Peach Blossom Demon serial murder case five years ago. Coincidentally, Peach Blossom Brand appeared on Lian Xiaoshuang's body."
"Secondly, as of now, he is the only man who has contact with Wu Zhengli and Lian Xiaoshuang, but all the evidence so far shows that Wu Zhengqing is innocent. Of course, there are two possibilities. The first is that Wu Zhengqing It really has nothing to do with Lian Xiaoshuang. The other way is that Wu Zhengqing used his identity and connections to erase all the clues that were not conducive to him."
"Thirdly, Wu Zhengqing joined the army as a sergeant. He also served as a headhunter and judicial officer before. There are so many things he can do using his power, such as -" Hua Yitang shook his pen, "entered the prison and poisoned people." Wu Zhengli."
Fang Ke nodded: "If it's Wu Zhengqing, it's indeed possible. Wu Zhengli and he are cousins, so he naturally has Wu Zhengli's trust and can trick Wu Zhengli into drinking the fake death medicine."
Ling Zhiyan: "He has been a head catcher in Yidu Mansion for many years. He must be very familiar with the jailer in the Yamen. It would be easy to enter the cell without telling the jailer."
Jin Ruo: "If you have the energy to talk nonsense, why not interrogate the jailer on duty today?"
"Ling Si asked directly, and the jailer and jailer swore that no one had visited Wu Zhengli today." Lin Sui'an shook his head and said, "What's more, even if Wu Zhengqing really visited Wu Zhengli, it's only human nature. We can't prove that he faked his death. The medicine was sent by Wu Zhengqing."
Jin Ruo: "Who else could be there besides him?"
Ling Zhiyan: "Wu Zhengqing can say that Wu Zhengli took the poison himself, or directly denied it, and made no assumptions. Wu Zhengli is now in a coma and cannot testify. We have no other evidence. It may be inappropriate to interrogate a soldier who joined the army for no reason."
Jin Ruo rolled his eyes, "Being an official is troublesome. According to the temperament of us Jianghu people, I'll put a sack on him and beat him up. I'm sure he'll do anything."
Lin Sui'an didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Even if he can get his way, it will only be more troublesome if he recants his confession in court."
Jin Ruo clicked his tongue.
"There is also the most critical doubt." Hua Yitang flicked the pen above "Wu Zhengqing", "I found this person very annoying when I first saw him!"
Everyone: "..."
Fang Ke: "Isn't this too ridiculous to be a point of doubt?"
Hua Yitang put his hands on his hips and said, "I am the fourth man of the Hua family. I am most proud of the three things in my life. The first is spending money, the second is knowing people, and the third is good luck. They are all skills I brought from my mother's womb. "
Jin Ruo was extremely disgusted, "Is it your luck that kills people? Save it!"
Lin Sui'an sighed and tried to straighten the crooked building, "Since this lover is a gambler, we can also investigate his identity from the gambling house."
Jin Ruo's face darkened, "It's not easy to check the gambling houses. All the gambling houses in Yidu City belong to the Wuling Alliance, and behind them are the Suizhou clan."
Emma, that's it. Lin Sui'an said with peace of mind, thank God for not causing trouble for those troublesome things from the Su family in Suizhou, let alone assisting in the investigation.
"Suizhou Su Family——" Hua Yitang suddenly laughed, "Isn't this a coincidence?"
As he said that, he pulled out the account book that he had found from Wu's cloth shop today and threw it away. "The shopkeeper named Yu has written down all the customers who purchased Qingzhou embroidery in the past eight months. The Xu family and the Zhou family in the south of the city , the Wang family, the Sun family in the north of the city, and the disciples of the Ma family in the east city are among them, and the biggest buyer is the Su family in Suizhou."
Lin Sui'an said "Oh" in his heart, took the account book and glanced at it twice. He couldn't understand it at all, so he handed it to Ling Zhiyan.
Ling Zhiyan frowned and scanned it carefully, "Most of the children of the aristocratic families buy individually. Only the Su family in Suizhou is a family wholesaler. They purchase one batch every three months on average. However, the number of purchases has dropped sharply in recent months -"
"That's because the supply of Qingzhou embroidery products suddenly stopped. Wu Zhengli thought that the rare goods were valuable, so he asked these shopkeepers to suppress the goods and wait for an opportunity to increase the price." Hua Yitang sneered.
Lin Sui'an did some calculations and found that the time when the goods were out of stock happened to be when the Dragon God case came to an end. Suddenly I felt a little more comfortable.
Jin Ruo: "The Dragon God Fruit has been burned completely, let's see if they still sell it for nothing in the future!"
Hua Yitang walked around in front of the wooden board a few times, clicking through the interpersonal relationships around "Lian Xiaoshuang" one by one. "Wu Zhengli and Wu Zhengqing both have alibis. Where is Qu Hui?"
Ling Zhiyan: "The bad guy in charge of the search just reported that Wu Zhengli was not in the other courtyard on the night of the crime. Qu Hui went out once after dark. She said she had never gone out before, which is obviously a lie."
Lin Sui'an's head jumped, "When did you come back?"
"He didn't arrive at Xu Zheng. After that, he sat in the garden until dawn. Many servants saw him."
"If the murderer wants to finish dumping the body, he must stay at Lian Xiaoshuang's house until Chou Shi." Ling Zhiyan shook her head, "Qu Hui's time is not right either."
Hua Yitang: "What did Qu Hui go out to do?"
Ling Zhiyan: "I haven't had time to ask yet."
Hua Yitang drew a cross above "Wu Zhengli" and "Wu Zhengqing". The tip of his pen hesitated for a moment on the name "Qu Hui" and also drew a cross. "In other words, these three people have alibi. Could it be that——" Hua Yitang wrote the words "Peach Blossom Demon" in the blank space again, "is the real Peach Blossom Demon returning to the world?"
Everyone was silent.
If this is the case, then this case will be even more difficult to investigate.
Lin Sui'an's eyes quickly wandered on the white wooden board, secretly combing through all the clues.
Even the clues about Xiaoshuang's interpersonal relationship are unavailable, and the Peach Blossom Demon is even more clueless. The only clue left now is the death words left by Lian Xiaoshuang - Qingzhou Embroidery.
Hua Yitang wrote the four words "Suizhou Su Family" next to "Qingzhou Embroidery", connected the line, clicked the pen three times, and sneered, "It seems that we are going to meet Suizhou Su Family." The head of the family."
Speaking of this, Ling Zhiyan suddenly said "ah" and pulled out a mahogany invitation with gilded characters from her sleeve, "This is what Xia Changshi Fei gave to Ling today. Ling really couldn't refuse it... He said it was—— Su’s invitation to Hanashiro.”
Lin Sui'an: Oh!
Hua Yitang opened the invitation and took a look, his eyes suddenly lit up, "Look, what am I talking about? Hua is indeed the head of good luck brought out from her mother's womb!"
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Xia Changshi: Hehe, it turns out that Liulang of the Ling family is easy to talk to, so he gave away that hot potato invitation. :,,
