As soon as Chen Yutian said these words, Ling Yuntian's brows immediately wrinkled.
"What do you mean, Mr. Chen? Why can't I understand it?" He spoke righteously, with a hint of doubt in his eyes.
"Don't you understand, Mr. Ling? Those objects related to the little girl were naturally left by the real murderer on the roadside for others to pick up after the murder. His purpose was to find a scapegoat for himself, Liu Jingyan It just happened to hit his knife edge."
Bai Lingyan stood up and said.
When Ling Yuntian heard this, he suddenly realized and said: "Oh, that's it! So, this murderer is indeed someone else. But what does this have to do with Xiao'er?"
While he was confused, he couldn't help but angrily pointed at his son who was tied up with five flowers.
Chen Yutian smiled slightly and said: "Master Ling, don't worry, you will know soon..."
After that, he looked at Bai Lingyan and asked, "General Bai, I remember you once said that the young lady and Yu'er went out that day to watch the temple fair at the Guanyin Temple not far outside the city, right?"
"Yes." Bai Lingyan nodded.
Nodding, Chen Yutian suddenly looked at Ling Mo. Ling Mo's body trembled, and there was a hint of panic in his eyes.
"According to the monks from Guanyin Temple, they had a conflict with you when they left that day. You don't remember this, right?"
"Wha... what temple fair? I have never been to a Guanyin Temple! I have never been to any temple fair!" Ling Mo's eyes kept flickering, and he denied everything Chen Yutian said.
Seeing his appearance, Ling Yuntian in the hall couldn't help but sigh.
With this look, even if you really haven't done anything, no one will believe you if you tell me...
Chen Yutian smiled calmly and then looked at Ling Mo again, "Oh? Really? Then we might as well have a confrontation in court!"
After saying that, he shouted directly to the outside of the lobby: "It is said that Master Zhongran of Guanyin Temple is coming to the hall!"
As he finished speaking, a young monk came to the hall. He was wearing gray monk robes, wearing straw sandals, holding a string of Buddhist beads, and shouted the Buddha's name to Ling Yuntian.
"Amitabha, this poor monk has seen you, sir."
Ling Yuntian looked at the monk for a moment, then looked at Ling Mo, and found that there was no obvious change in the expression on the latter's face, and he still insisted that he knew nothing.
Chen Yutian asked: "You know, look at this person, is he the one who beat you in the Guanyin Temple that day?"
When Monk Mingran heard this, he looked at Ling Mo carefully. Ling Mo was also very cooperative and mocked: "You'd better take a closer look and take a good look to see if I have ever beaten you!"
After looking at it carefully, he nodded clearly and said: "Sir, that's right!"
As soon as these two words came out, Chen Yutian laughed!
But Ling Mo was stunned on the spot as if he had been struck by a bolt from the blue!
Ling Yuntian even hates that iron cannot become steel.
You said it was enough for you to hit someone, why did you still say that when they were trying to identify you? Are you afraid that others won’t recognize you?
What he said was a bit wrong to blame Ling Mo.
After all, the eldest young master Ling Mo is a bad boy in Youzhou, and he has beaten more than tens of millions of people? How could he remember a mere young monk from a temple?
When Ming Ran first saw him, he really didn't remember that he had beaten this monk. He thought that Chen Yutian just called a random monk over to frame him!
It wasn't until he finished reading clearly and was about to speak that he suddenly remembered that he... seemed to have actually beaten such a monk...
"Monk, take a closer look, is it really him?" Ling Yuntian slapped the alarm and spoke with a hint of doubt.
Monk Mingran nodded solemnly and said, "Sir, monks don't tell lies. He is none other than Young Master Ling Mo who beat up a poor monk in the temple that day!"
Ling Yuntian nodded silently. It turned out that the monk recognized his son...
"No, no, dad, I don't know him, I really don't know him..." Ling Mo shouted quickly.
"shut up!"
Ling Yuntian was even more disgusted with the iron. He slapped the scarecrow again and his expression suddenly changed! !
Ling Mo suddenly didn't dare to speak.
Chen Yutian asked again: "Zingran, can you tell me what happened that day?"
Monk Mingran nodded, and then recounted what he had told Chen Yutian and Bai Fan that day in the hall. When he heard Ling Mo's nonsense, Ling Yuntian's face immediately turned pale.
Bai Lingyan's family stared at Ling Mo with eyes wide open!
Although they had already learned the truth from Yu'er, they still couldn't help but feel angry when they heard Monk Ran talk about it, especially when they heard the part about Ling Mo teasing Bai Xiuxiu, General Bai His face immediately turned ugly.
How dare a mere governor's son molest an old man's daughter? How dare Zhu Zian do this?
Bai Lingyan's heart was burning. If it weren't for the wrong situation now, with his temper, Ling Mo and Lingchi would have been executed long ago...
After Monk Mingran finished talking about the situation of the day, he stopped.
He told the truth truthfully, without any exaggeration, but even so, Ling Yuntian's face was still extremely ugly, without any relief.
Ling Mo even looked a little pale.
Chen Yutian said: "Of course, you just mentioned that Master Ling Mo and the pair of masters and servants left the Guanyin Temple one after another. Do you know where they went after that?"
The monk shook his head and said, "I don't know."
Chen Yutian nodded and said, "Okay, I understand."
He turned around and looked at Ling Yuntian, "I wonder if Master Ling understands this?"
Ling Yuntian's face looked a little ugly, but he still nodded and said: "But even if what the monk said is true, at most it can only prove that there is enmity between my son and the deceased's master and servant, and it cannot prove that I He is the murderer!"
After Ling Yuntian said these words, Ling Mo's pale face looked a little better.
Chen Yutian smiled and said: "Having said that, although young master Mingzheng doesn't know what happened next, it doesn't mean that others don't know. Next, I will continue to talk... In fact, Miss Bai is the master After the two servants left the Guanyin Temple, they returned to the inn where they were renting, which was the guest house."
"But what they didn't expect was that at this time, our Master Ling Mo had already arrived here before them." At this point, Chen Yutian pointed at Ling Mo with the folding fan in his hand!
Ling Mo trembled and continued to speak harshly: "You...you are talking nonsense! I have never heard of an inn called 'Kexiangju', let alone one that I have visited!"
"Oh? Really?" Chen Yutian raised his eyebrows.
"Of course." Ling Mo still spoke harshly, not noticing that the corner of Chen Yutian's mouth curled up the moment he finished speaking.
But just because he couldn't see it, it didn't mean that Ling Yuntian couldn't see it either. Ling Yuntian's heart suddenly sank, and he secretly screamed: "It's not good!"
Sure enough, the moment this thought arose, Chen Yutian said: "In this case, we can only invite witnesses to the court again. Come on, invite the witnesses to the court!"
The moment he finished speaking, there were two figures waiting outside the hall. They came to the lobby together and first bowed deeply to Ling Yuntian: "The common people pay homage to you, sir!"
In the hall, when Fang Jing, who was sitting at the master's desk, saw the faces of the two men clearly, he couldn't help but reveal a look of great surprise.
It looked like he was seeing a ghost.
Ling Yuntian also frowned calmly.
The two witnesses who appeared in the court were none other than Jing Wuming and his wife, whose lives had been saved by Gongsun.
"The common people have met your lord, your lord the imperial envoy!"
"Pa..." Ling Yuntian slapped the hall and asked: "Who is kneeling in the hall? Please tell me your name quickly!"
"Caomin Xingming..."
"Grass people's pipes..."
The two of them bowed again and said in unison: "Greetings to Master Qingtian, Your Majesty the Imperial Envoy!"
Chen Yutian nodded and asked: "Xing Ming, Guan Cai, were you two staying at that guest house that day?"
"Yes, sir!" They both nodded at the same time.
"Then can you tell Master Ling exactly what happened on that day?"
Jing Wuming and Guan Zai looked at each other, and the former sighed and said, "Okay. That day, we were having a drink at the guest house, and Mr. Guan and I didn't know each other at that time..."
Jing Wuming began to tell the story of that day.
"Halfway through my meal, I saw this young master walking up to the second floor in a swaggering manner. Since almost everyone in Youzhou Mansion didn't know him, they didn't take it seriously at the time..."
Jing Wuming pointed at Ling Mo.
"But not long after the young master went to the second floor, he saw a pair of deceased masters and servants entering the inn together. After saying hello to a waiter, they went directly to the second floor... At that time, I didn't care."
Jing Wuming continued: "However, when I was almost finished drinking, Mr. Ling staggered down. We didn't pay attention to him at first, but this time when Mr. Ling came down, the entourage behind him was obviously carrying his weight. Wearing two big cloth bags, this makes me feel a little strange."
"But as a commoner, how can I interfere with Mr. Ling's business... Later I understood that the cloth bag on Mr. Ling's entourage actually contained the master and servant of the Bai family!"
Listening to Jing Wuming's story, Guan Zai nodded repeatedly.
He saw that the situation was not much different from Jing Wuming's, so he didn't talk about it alone.
After listening to Jing Wuming's story, Ling Yuntian frowned tightly.
Fang Jing's expression also changed somewhat.
But at this moment, after Chen Yutian pondered for a while, he suddenly asked: "Is what you said true?"
"Everything the grass people said is true, sir!" Jing Wuming affirmed.
"Then why when we went to find you before, you insisted that you had never seen Miss Bai that day?"
As soon as Chen Yutian said this, not only Jing Wuming and Guan Cai were stunned, but even the square mirror in the hall trembled involuntarily!
Ling Yuntian's eyes narrowed slightly.
Only then did he finally understand that today, Chen Yutian was not simply planning to get to the bottom of Bai Xiuxiu's murder case...
"Alas..." After hearing Chen Yutian's words, Jing Wuming and Guan Cai both sighed.
"To be honest, sir, the reason why we said that before was because someone gave us a sum of money to keep us secret, asking us not to tell anything about what we met with Miss Bai that day!"
Chen Yutian was surprised: "Oh? Who is so bold?"
"It's him!" Jing Wuming and Guan Zai pointed at someone in the hall in unison.
Chen Yutian looked along their directions and his eyes suddenly narrowed.
In the hall, the chief clerk Fang Jing's expression changed drastically. He looked at the two fingers pointing at him, his face turning pale...
