Yun Pan and Guo Xi suddenly understood and asked again: "Then why are you going to Zhu Kexin's house now?"
An Ying said: "I have seen all the things that Zhu Zhuzhi took from Zhu Kexin's house. I think there should be a lot missing. I will take another look and maybe I will gain something."
An Ying spread out a few line drawings that Liang Su and Yang Ye had seen last night, "Yun Pingshi, the paintings I took from Master Jin yesterday. I met Liang Su and Yang Ye on the way back, and they recognized these paintings at a glance. It's Zhu Kexin's own face. I've never seen Zhu Kexin, do you think?"
Guo Xi nodded and said, "I have seen the body, and it is indeed him."
Yun Pan sighed: "I was negligent in this regard. I will send someone to go to Zhu Kexin's hometown."
An Ying and his men rushed to Willow Lane without stopping.
Zhu Kexin's house has two entrances. The front is a simple hall and a wing, and the back is a study and bedroom. An Ying walked around in the study and asked someone to call the old woman who came to see the house.
Xiao Yi looked east and west and said, "What are you trying to see? This is just an ordinary study."
An Ying rummaged up and down and said, "Please help me look for any ink marks left by Zhu Kexin. I think in a study, in addition to calligraphy and paintings, there are always some drafts or notes?"
Xiao Yi suddenly realized it and started searching. Here An Ying opened Zhu Kexin's cabinet and looked through it.
At this time, the yamen servant at the door came in and reported: "Captain Yi, Mrs. Wang has been brought here."
An Ying sat down in the hall and asked: "Granny Wang, we are sent by the Ministry of Punishment to investigate Zhu Kexin's case. You don't have to be afraid. Let's chat casually. The main thing is that Zhu Kexin is from out of town, and we don't know some things about him. By the way, Where are all the papers on which he writes and draws in his study? Why can’t he see them in his study? "
Wang Po said: "Not long after Mr. Zhu's accident, the book boy next to his friend came and took away all the pieces of paper he used to write and draw on. He said that he was a classmate in the academy who wanted to remember him."
An Ying asked again: "I just looked at the cabinets in the room, and there was nothing in them. Did someone take away his things? Was it also taken away by the book boy?"
Granny Wang nodded.
An Ying asked again: "Does Zhu Kexin have any friends here on weekdays? Also, how is Zhu Kexin's life and his relationship with his neighbors."
Granny Wang nodded and shook her head, making An Ying confused for a while. After a while, Granny Wang replied: "Young Master Zhu often comes here, but my old lady sees too many people. Young Master Zhu and our Young Master must have had a quarrel."
An Ying asked strangely: "During the initial investigation, the government officials said you were deaf. Can you hear?"
Grandma Wang smiled, showing her missing teeth, "It's hard to find a job at our age. But if you pretend to be deaf, some owners are willing to do it. Do you understand this?"
An Ying couldn't help but praise in his heart for accurately finding the right market demand.
"It's also for this reason that our young master hired me and gave me a month and a half of wages. Hey, Mr. Zhu is a good man."
"The day the officials from the capital government came, I wanted to tell them. But they left in a hurry. A few days later, I heard the news that poison had been accidentally put into the Fang family's rice dumplings."
An Ying said: "Now Mr. Punishment feels there is something suspicious about the case. If you find anything, just tell me."
"Mr. Zhu and Mr. Zhu had a dispute last month, but they actually had a few quarrels. I heard Mr. Zhu keep scolding, you lied to me, you shouldn't lie to me."
Granny Wang sighed, "Master Zhu is a rare good person. Master Zhu likes to write and draw in the study on weekdays. He is kind and generous with money. He has a good relationship with the neighbors. Although he usually stays in the study when he comes back from vacation. , I don’t go out much. But during the Chinese New Year, I would write some Spring Festival couplets for the neighbors, and even draw flowers for my mother-in-law. Because my paintings were good, some ladies next door asked me to do them.”
"After Master Zhu quarreled with him and left, Master Zhu would set up a brazier and burn all the paintings and everything else."
An Ying couldn't help but sigh, she just wanted to find Zhu Kexin's pen and ink outside the academy.
Seeing her like this, Grandma Wang said, "Little girl, is this matter important?"
An Ying nodded, and Mrs. Wang hesitated for a moment before saying: "Why don't you go to Mrs. Ge next door and ask? I saw it was a pity to burn the paper before. After all, these papers are worth a lot of money. If they are burned, it is better to use them. Pick up the soles of shoes or draw a pattern."
"I secretly hid some and gave a lot to Mrs. Ge next door. A few days ago, the book boy next to Mr. Zhu took away all the papers, even the papers in my room, but Ge There should be some more at Madam’s place.”
An Ying was overjoyed, and Xiao Yi immediately took someone to get it.
An Ying asked again: "Did Zhu Kexin bring a woman here? Or did a woman come here to look for him?"
Wang Po shook her head, and suddenly said with some uncertainty: "Once I helped Mr. Zhu dry clothes and books, and there were a lot of women's clothes in them."
"But no woman has ever come to this courtyard. Those clothes were all taken away by the Zhu family."
Returning to the academy, Guo Xi's people looked at the papers An Ying brought, and then looked at the various calligraphy and painting manuscripts brought from the Zhu family, frowned and said, "An Ying, are you sure these papers belong to Zhu Kexin?"
An Ying saw that they looked strange and felt a little strange: "It should be right. But what's the problem?"
Guo Xi shook his head and said: "I have read some of Zhu Zhuzhi's handwriting and the academy's homework, and it basically checks. Most of your handwriting here also checks, and only some of the handwriting is far different. Will Could it be that other people’s writings have been mixed together?”
Xiao Yi shook his head and said: "Probably not. At that time, I was afraid that Madam Ge had asked for a lot of waste paper and would be confused, so I specifically asked if there was any leaked paper from other people. Madam Ge said that their This family is the only scholar in the neighborhood, no one in the other families writes at all, so there will be no confusion."
Guo Xi and An Ying took out a stack of papers, including the homework kept by the academy, the calligraphy and paintings that Zhu Zhuzhi kept as a souvenir, and the manuscripts from Madam Ge, and asked Yun Pan to check them together.
Guo Xi drank the sweet-scented osmanthus cold drink and said as he read: "Has this boy fallen in love with a girl from some family? Are these love poems written over and over again? Come on, these words are well written, Shan Although the alliance is there, it is difficult to trust the brocade book. Tsk, tsk, tsk."
Yun Pan said: "An Ying, I have done some research on handwriting. Most of these love poems are written by women, and the tone is also female. Could it be from which boudoir Lady Ge took it out? It's hard to say clearly. "
An Ying didn't know much about handwriting, so he wondered: "That's probably true. I'll ask later. Maybe there are so many people here today that it's not convenient to explain clearly."
After reading for a while, Guo Xi smiled again and said: "This little lady's writing is good, but her love journey is a bit bumpy. Looking at this poem, it seems that her lover has separated from her. Oh my, I think the current trend is good, young people Human love is so joyful.”
Yun Pan checked carefully and said, "I see that Zhu Kexin's homework in the academy and the pen and ink handwriting he got from Zhu Zhuzhi are basically consistent. They are all daily articles and poems. Some of Ge Niangzi's pen and ink here are his. There are various paintings of flowers, birds, landscapes and figures, but there is nothing special about anything else.
An Ying also shook his head and said: "Master Guo, I found that Zhu Kexin had almost no personal items such as clothes, shoes and socks at his residence. I heard that it was the book boy of the Zhu family who took them away."
Guo Xi said: "Captain Zhang came back and reported it. I also asked Zhu Zhuzhi, and he said that when Zhu Kexin was buried, he burned some of Zhu Kexin's daily things, which would be useful in another place. That makes sense."
An Ying asked again: "Has the policeman who went to Wu County come back?"
Yun Pan shook his head, "It will take at least two days."
