In the afternoon, Qingyuan County, Zhang's mansion.

Although Miss Zhang has been dead for more than three months, the Zhang family is still shrouded in a dull and depressing atmosphere, and the subordinates of the family are working with their heads bowed and hurried steps.

Since the murder case has not been solved, the door of the hospital where Miss Zhang is hospitalized is still affixed with the seal of the county government and a padlock, prohibiting anyone from entering.

This also affected the fact that Miss Zhang's body could not be buried, and now it is still parked in Yizhuang, although it has been embalmed but it cannot avoid decay, after all, there is no freezer used to preserve the corpse in this era.

The idea of the old man of the Zhang family is very simple, if Yang He can't give Miss Zhang justice, then he will let him carry Miss Zhang's official wood to Taiyuan Mansion to complain.

"Open!" Surrounded by a group of county officials, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin followed Yang He to the small courtyard where Miss Zhang lived.

The two messengers immediately stepped forward to tear off the seal and open the padlock, and Yang He led Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin into the brisk walk.

After entering the door, Li Hongyu saw at a glance that there were two flower beds in the yard, one on the left and one on the right sides of the yard, although the flowers in the flower beds have withered now, but the flowers must be very beautiful when they bloom in spring and summer.

The rooms in the courtyard are divided into the north house, the east house and the west house, which is a very common architectural pattern in Shanxi, of which the north house is the boudoir where Miss Zhang lived, the east house was the wing room where the subordinates lived, and the west house was used to store sundries.

In addition to Miss Zhang's personal maid Hong'er, there is also a middle-aged old mother who is responsible for cleaning in the east room, but there is something at home on the night of the incident, so I don't know what happened that night, but it can be testified that Miss Zhang's family did have a private meeting with someone, but she didn't know the identity of the other party like Hong'er.

Li Hongyu did not rush into Miss Zhang's boudoir to check, but walked around the yard and observed the environment around the yard.

Although the small courtyard where Miss Zhang lives is located in the back house of the Zhang family's mansion, it is in the center of the back house, and there are Zhao family's houses on the front and back, and there is no street.

Obviously, the murderer is familiar with the terrain of Zhang's house, otherwise it would be difficult to enter the courtyard where Miss Zhang lives after climbing over the wall from the back street safely, which means that the murderer came prepared.

At the same time, this has also become an important reason why the young owner of the Dexiang is a murderer, and there is no clue that someone has inquired about the terrain of the Zhang family in advance.

"Brother Li, it seems that this case is not simple, and it is not easy to enter this deep boudoir compound." After inspecting the courtyard, Zhao Xin glanced at the high courtyard walls around him and whispered to Li Hongyu.

"Brother Zhao, do you have any clues?" Li Hongyu bowed slightly when he heard this, and asked in a low voice.

"I heard that Miss Zhang's family usually doesn't go out of the door at home, if it weren't for Shen Shaoqiang to visit Zhang's house, it would be impossible to meet her, so if Shen Shaoqiang didn't do it, then there must be an internal ghost!" Zhao Xin groaned for a while, looked at Li Hongyu quietly, and said that the "Shen Shaoqiang" in her mouth was the unlucky young owner of the Dexiang.

On the way to the county seat, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin had simply learned about the case, and Shen Shaoqiang came to Zhang's house to look for Miss's brother for more than a year, but he met Miss Zhang by chance, and was shocked by the beautiful Miss Zhang.

And Miss Zhang was also interested in the young and handsome Shen Shaoqiang, so the two secretly dated through Hong'er, and finally went to Wushan ** to go to the joy of fish and water.

In fact, both Miss Zhang and Shen Shaoqiang already have a marriage contract, and the children of large families like them have long been arranged by the family.

But even so, the two of them still had an unstoppable private meeting in secret, before and after spending the moon, Shen Shaoqiang even had a plan to elope, and was ready to take Miss Zhang to Jiangnan in the future, anyway, he was the young owner of the Dexiang, and he had endless money in his hand, which was enough for the two of them to spend the rest of their lives.

Besides, Shen Shaoqiang is the heir vigorously cultivated by the Shen family, has a strong business acumen, and is exquisite, otherwise it would be impossible to easily impress Miss Zhang's heart.

Therefore, after arriving in Jiangnan, Shen Shaoqiang plans to change his name and surname to do business, and work hard to create a world in the Jiangnan business community, which is also an important reason why the Shen family tried their best to save Shen Shaoqiang, the Shen family must plan for future development, and Shen Shaoqiang is undoubtedly the most suitable heir in the future.

For this reason, the Shen family did not hesitate to find a substitute for the dead ghost to save Shen Shaoqiang, but unfortunately this Li Dai Tao's stiff plan was discovered by the Zhang family, so they could only put pressure on Yang He, and insisted that someone else killed Miss Zhang, which made Yang He very troubled by this.

After listening to Zhao Xin's words, Li Hongyu bowed his head slightly and agreed, if the murderer was not Shen Shaoqiang, then it must be related to the descendants of the Zhang family, otherwise how would the other party know Miss Zhang's residence in the deep boudoir compound.

"I heard that Miss Zhang was neatly dressed when she died, and only a blonde hairpin was lost in the house, and the rest of the gold and silver fine soft lines were not touched."

Immediately, Li Hongyu groaned for a while and whispered to Zhao Xin about another thing, "It can be seen that the other party seems to have some friendship for Miss Zhang, otherwise he wouldn't have put on Miss Zhang's clothes." ”

"Why did he take that blonde hairpin?" Zhao Xin's eyebrows frowned slightly when he heard this, it was obvious that the other party's move was too abrupt, which was a little incomprehensible, and if he robbed money, he would not ignore other property.

"Maybe that blonde hairpin has some special meaning to him." Li Hongyu thought about it and said, in his opinion, this is the only explanation.

"Then let's start with that hairpin." Zhao Xin also had this intention, and said after bowing slightly.

"By the way, there is one thing I forgot to ask, the Dexiang and your Fuxiang are both in Qingyuan County, what is the relationship between them?" Li Hongyu nodded, then remembered something, and couldn't help but ask with some curiosity, he felt that Old Man Zhao's reaction to this case seemed to be relatively cold.

"How do you say it......" Zhao Xin couldn't help but smile when he heard this, and after thinking about it, he said to Li Hongyu, "As the saying goes, peers are enemies, and our Fuxiang and Dexiang are both in Qingyuan County, so there are naturally a lot of grievances and entanglements in business." ”

"My grandfather was kidnapped by a gang of gangsters when he was young, and he almost died in the hands of those gangsters, it is rumored that the mastermind behind the scenes is Shen Shaoqiang's grandfather, if it wasn't for someone mediating at that time, my grandfather almost led someone to smash their Shen family."

As he spoke, Zhao Xin approached Li Hongyu and whispered to him about a historical grudge between the Fuxiang and the Dexiang.

As Zhao Xin approached, Li Hongyu suddenly felt a refreshing fragrance coming to his face, which made him smell it a few times, and then pursed the corners of his mouth: The incense powder used by Zhao Xin is really fragrant, maybe only a handsome man like him would use such a fragrant incense powder.

"Is there such a thing?" After listening to what Zhao Xin said, Li Hongyu couldn't help but be taken aback, and looked at Zhao Xin with some surprise, he just felt that there must be some business entanglement between Dexiang and Fuxiang, but he didn't expect that there would be such a big feud here.

"Brother Li, don't worry, my grandfather is a reasonable person, and he will definitely not care about anything in this case, after all, Miss Zhang's case is too hurtful, and my grandfather also hopes that the real murderer can fall into the legal net." Zhao Xin smiled when he saw this, and comforted Li Hongyu softly, lest Li Hongyu be difficult to do when investigating the case.

Li Hongyu immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, he was a distinguished guest of the Zhao family, and it was indeed difficult to come forward to help the Shen family, who had a deep hatred with the Zhao family, but with Zhao Xin's explanation, he had no worries and could rest assured that he would investigate this case.

After greeting Zhao Xin for a while, Li Hongyu led her into Miss Zhang's boudoir, because she was searched by the county government's messengers, the room was in a mess, and even if there were any clues, they had already been artificially destroyed.

Therefore, Li Hongyu did not stay in Miss Zhang's boudoir for long, he came this time just to understand the environment of some crime scenes, and the next thing to do is to meet Shen Shaoqiang and Hong'er and other people involved in the case, to see if they can find some useful information, especially the news related to the blonde hairpin.

"Lord Zhixian."

As soon as he got out of the courtyard gate of the small courtyard where Miss Zhang lived, a middle-aged man waiting outside led a group of men and women to hurriedly greet him, this middle-aged man was Miss Zhang's father, Master Zhang, bowed to Yang He and glanced at Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin who were following Yang He, and asked with a serious expression, "Lord Zhixian, I don't know which one is Li Jieyuan?" ”

Master Zhang already knew that Yang He brought Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin to investigate the case, and he also heard that Li Hongyu had tried the bloody case of Wuchang Mingyue Pavilion in one day, so he naturally wanted to come, first, to meet Yang He, and secondly, to meet the rumored Li Hongyu, after all, Li Hongyu's attitude will have an important impact on Yang He.

"Li Hongyu, a Guangju person in Xiahu." Li Hongyu took a step forward when he heard this, and said after bowing his hand to Master Zhang.

"Li Jieyuan, you are the leader of the Huguang Township Test, the dignified Master Xie Yuan, this time you must investigate the case impartially, and give the little girl justice, thank you for the little girl here." Master Zhang glanced at Li Hongyu up and down, knelt down with his legs bent, and pleaded solemnly.

With this action of Master Zhang, the group of men and women who followed him knelt down together.

"Master Zhang, you can kill me, the case will be found out by the magistrate, and I just help the magistrate to do it." Seeing this, Li Hongyu hurriedly helped up Master Zhang, and said in an orderly manner, he didn't do this kind of noisy thing.

Yang He couldn't help but bow his head slightly when he heard this, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, he was very satisfied with Li Hongyu's response, and he didn't answer to Master Zhang like those fledgling hairy boys.

"I've seen Uncle Zhang." Waiting for Master Zhang to get up, Zhao Xin stepped forward and bowed his hand.

The Zhang family is a big family in Qingyuan County, so they naturally have dealings with the Zhao family where Zhao Xin is located, and the personal relationship between the two sides is very good, so Zhao Xin wants to call Master Zhang "uncle".

"Nephew Zhao Xian, I saw you once when you were a child, you were only five years old that year, and now more than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the virtuous nephew has already tried Yayuan for Huguang Township, he is really young and promising, really give us the face of the magistrate of Qingyuan County!"

Hearing this, Master Zhang looked at Zhao Xin, looked at her for a while, stretched out his thumb at her, and said in a deep voice, "If Brother Deyi has a son, this life is enough!" ”

"Uncle Zhang has won the award, and the little nephew is just lucky." Zhao Xin hurriedly waved his hand and replied with a humble face.

Master Zhang had already prepared a banquet and wanted to entertain Yang He, Li Hongyu, and Zhao Xin, but Yang He refused, after all, the case was not over, how could he get too close to the owner of the party concerned, and it would be a trouble for the Shen family to know about it.