Sun Shanchang still had many things to deal with, so he sent a steward to follow Gu Qingjue, ready to be dispatched at any time, and then he went off.
"Captain Zhang, where are the three students who lived with the deceased detained now?"
"It's in the woodshed of the academy."
The steward immediately replied: "I will take you there."
The steward's surname is Mai. He is about forty-five or sixty-six years old. He is older than the mountain chief, but he looks a few years younger than the mountain chief.
It can be seen that if you use your brain too much, you will look older.
The woodshed is next to the student's dormitory, which is on the left hand side when entering the academy. The woodshed is also on the left parallel to the student's dormitory, and on the right is the dining hall.
Inspector Zhang was not very familiar with the academy, but the people guarding the woodshed were yamen. Magistrate Wang was here just now and asked the two yamen to lock up the three most suspicious students here. Inspector Zhang did not come in person.
Captain Zhang quickly raised his hand, and the yamen officer opened the door.
The woodshed was relatively dark, and the sun suddenly shone in. The three students who had been locked up for nearly three hours invariably covered their eyes with their hanging embroidered robes.
After a moment to adjust to the light, he put his hand down.
These three students seemed to have a good relationship with Gu Qingjue. When they saw them, instead of complaining to Captain Zhang, they looked at Gu Qingjue.
One of them looked about eighteen or nineteen, with thick eyebrows and big eyes. He was a little less delicate, but he was very inspiring just by looking at him.
Even though he was wearing a student uniform like everyone else, he could not conceal his noble aura, "Zi Yuan, you will definitely be able to find out the real culprit and clear our names. We believe in you."
"Yes, Gong Jin is right. We believe that Ziyuan will be able to find out the truth and give us justice."
The second student who spoke called the first one Gong Jin, which sounded more like a Chinese character. In this era, unless like Gu Qingjue, whose parents died young and studied in a private school, the master would give him a Chinese character. If you want to be given a calligraphy in time, this student with thick eyebrows and big eyes should be in his twenties.
Hmm, he looks a few years younger than his actual age.
Su Yixin really didn't expect that in less than a month since Gu Qingjue came to the academy, someone would admire and believe him so much.
What shocking deeds had he done during this period?
"Gongjin, Zhongyan, Chengnan, don't worry, I will find the murderer as soon as possible and clear your name. However, if I want to clear your suspicions as soon as possible, I have to carefully recall what happened last night. The clearer the better.”
"Zi Yuan, that Magistrate Wang just asked us once. We returned to the school on time after the evening class last night. The weather is quite cold now, so we asked the book boy to get some hot water and soak his feet before going to bed. It’s down. I really didn’t hear any movement at night!”
Li Duanyuan, also known as Gongjin, said depressedly: "As you know, we usually don't get along with Shen Shaorong. We have asked the administrator several times to change the school, but we have not agreed, so we will not pay attention to him. , save your energy."
Manager Mai nodded after hearing this: "Student Li Duanyuan has mentioned this to me, but the academy has regulations that prohibit students from changing their dormitories at will except for special reasons, so it has not been changed."
"Yeah, I'm not lying. If I hadn't drank a few extra glasses of water before going to bed last night and heard Shen Shaorong's book boy howling there when I got up in the early morning, we wouldn't have known that Shen Shaorong was dead."
"Book boy? Where is Shen Shaorong's book boy?"
Gu Qingjue said: "Before the officials arrived, the book boy disappeared. Whether it was an active disappearance or a passive disappearance is unknown. Many people said that the evil ghost took the book boy away after killing someone. "
Su Yixin shook her head: "I just looked at their school building, and there was no smell of evil spirits."
Shen Shaorong's body was not far away just now, and she didn't feel any ghostly aura. The aura of ghosts is not like human cultivators or sword cultivators. The more unfathomable it is, the better it can hide its aura. The higher the level, the stronger the ghost energy. So far, I have never heard that a ghost can hide its own ghost energy, unless it successfully possesses a person and blends well with the person.
Otherwise, to be able to quietly kill a student in a yang-filled place like the academy, one must at least be at the level of a ghost.
"Who are you?"
After hearing Su Yixin's words, Li Duanyuan couldn't help but become curious about Su Yixin's identity.
He saw her yesterday.
I knew I was here to see Gu Qingjue, but I didn’t know if she was Gu Qingjue’s sister, cousin, or something else!
Gu Qingjue looked at Li Duanyuan speechlessly.
This man looked like he was about to die just now and asked him to save him. Only a short time later, he started gossiping.
"My wife, Su Yixin."
"Ah, it turns out they are younger siblings. No wonder they are smart and capable at first glance."
Li Duanyuan said: "You must clear our names. It's one thing that we can't stand Shen Shaorong, but it's absolutely impossible to kill someone. I just heard my sister-in-law say that it's not a murderer committed by an evil spirit. His book boy is very suspicious."
He kept silent and looked at the student who was only one or two years older than Gu Qingjue and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, Zi Yuan is so smart, my younger siblings must be good, and they will definitely find out the truth."
"Don't be optimistic yet. You have provided too few clues. Shen Shaorong's autopsy did not find the cause of death. It will be difficult to find out for a while. We can only capture Shen Shaorong's book boy first."
After all, he was the first to discover that Shen Shaorong was dead.
Captain Zhang said: "County Magistrate Wang also said that the book boy is suspicious and has issued a wanted order. As long as he is still in Dengfeng, he will not be able to escape."
Well, this County Magistrate Wang’s business ability is not bad.
Li Duanyuan and the other three had no clues here, so Detective Zhang followed the basic steps of investigating the case and investigated the students in the academy who had issues with Shen Shaorong one by one.
At the end of the day, nothing was discovered.
The few students who had quarrels with Shen Shaorong only had minor quarrels, because this murder was really far-fetched, and besides, they were all weak scholars with no martial arts skills at all.
The courtyard was locked at night and they couldn't even climb out of the courtyard wall. How could they climb over the courtyard wall to kill people in Shen Shaorong's room.
Therefore, the three people who lived with Shen Shaorong were more suspicious.
In the evening, Gu Qingjue took a closer look at the list of suspects that Agent Zhang had screened out throughout the day and had been eliminated by Agent Zhang.
"Brother Jue, do you think the murderer is hidden among these people?"
As soon as Su Yixin asked, Agent Zhang immediately denied it: "I have personally tried every student on the list, and they really don't have any skills, and there is no ladder in their school to help them climb over the wall. Something like that. And Li Duanyuan told several people that when they heard the cry of Shen Shaorong, a book boy, they all got up and made sure that the doors and windows were closed. If he really wanted to kill someone, how did the murderer get out of the room? "
Because of this, everyone said that evil spirits killed the people.
Because normal people simply can’t do it.
(End of chapter)
