Hearing that there was a mess in the female dependents, the eldest uncle Shu Hongwang and the cousin Shu Xingye, two adult men, rushed to help Xingyi preside over the overall situation after hastily grooming.

The physical evidence was put back in its original place - at the door of the dormitory of Baiyun Temple, where Yan Bing lived, the entire courtyard where the female dependents lived was sealed, and no one was allowed to move around at will, and at the same time, someone was sent to find the guest monk to inform him of the matter.

After a while, the Vena monk in charge of supervising affairs in the monastery hurried into the courtyard and asked Yan Bing, who was wearing a hat standing at the foot of the steps outside the house, for details.

He is not tall, looks thin and polite, but his eyes are very bright, and his speech is slightly sharp: "Since the lady said that she heard footsteps, someone must have deliberately placed it here, may I ask if your mansion opened the courtyard gate at that time?" ”

Baiyun Temple gave the Shu family two courtyards of the squatter house, men and women live separately, and the guards are the Shu family's family members and mothers-in-law, if the courtyard door is not opened, it is the Shu family's own family affairs, and the temple has nothing to do with it.

The question he asked was really related to solving the case, but Yan Bing was shocked and chilled, and she didn't want to respond to a strange monk's question.

Xingyi raised his arm and put it on his sister's shoulder to appease, and then replied directly on her behalf: "What if it is opened?" This matter is not trivial, just report it to the official and let the government investigate. ”

That thing is gone, presumably involving the corpse murder case, the Shu family and Baiyun Temple are not injured, and the people who are missing things still don't know where they are, what is the use of the Vena monk closing the door and asking clearly?

After speaking, Shu Xingyi sent the chief steward Ge Erdan and the Vena monk to Lantian County to report to the official, although he was not yet an adult, he already had the county earldom, and the monks did not dare to offend and had to obey their orders.

Lantian County is not big, it is said that half an hour is enough for the messenger to go back and forth, but I don't know why the people in the official mansion have not arrived for a long time, and everyone in the Shu family waited from the time of the hour to the time, and even Yan Bing, who was disgusted and disgusted when she saw that thing, was so hungry that she couldn't help but eat some Hu cakes, and then she saw the group quickly enter the courtyard.

The first thing Yan Bing saw was Lantian County Lieutenant Rong Wenyuan, who was wearing a dark cyan eight-grade official uniform, and when he wore this uniform, he seemed to be more upright and handsome. He happened to be surrounded by five officials and a criminal scribe walking in the middle, which made her feel that she already had some of the demeanor of an official master.

Although Wen Yuan was in a hurry, when he saw Yan Bing looking over, he didn't forget to give her a comforting smile, and then found a spacious hall, and under the company of the masters of the Shu family, he summoned the parties to ask questions in turn.

The hall of Baiyun Temple is like a Zen room, except for the chair table and the word "Zen" on the wall, the whole room is empty without any superfluous decorations, like a solemn silence like an official office.

The female relatives of the family used a Buddhist scripture painting screen that was slightly taller than a person as a cover, and found a place to sit in a corner of the house. Wen Yuan sat on the upper seat because of the errand, and on the right side of the head were the father and son of the Shu family, and on the left side sat the husband of Xingyi and Yanjie, Mao Kunming, the son of Mao Qianying, the assassin of Suizhou.

This person is about in his early twenties, with a medium to thin build, and he looks dignified at first, but his triangular eyes and hanging eyebrows are slightly fierce.

Wen Yuan glanced at him without a trace, then looked away and began to ask questions.

First of all, Nuan Xiang stood under the hall and trembled: "About the time, it was close to the hour, the fifth lady heard the footsteps and woke up, the slave went out to fetch water, opened the door, and saw the ...... Stuff. ”

Later, another gatekeeper said: "The old slave opened the courtyard gate at three o'clock according to the custom, and several people had already entered and exited before the commotion. ”

"Ge Er's family, take her to point out those people." Xingyi didn't wait for Wen Yuan to speak, and took the lead in giving an order to a middle-aged woman, raising her hands and feet in the demeanor of the head of the family.

After the death of the first grandfather, the Shu family's room and the second room have been completely separated, and the current funeral is naturally mainly handled by the second room itself, and most of the slaves and maids are under the management of Ge Er and his wife.

Not long after, six maidservants bowed their heads and entered the hall, trembling and lining up to wait for the county lieutenant to ask questions.

Yan Bing glanced through the screen, and found that two of them were from the big house, in addition to Yanqing's two maidservants, the last two were one enchanting and one was very beautiful, and after a little pondering, she remembered that this was brought by Yanjie from her husband's house or Shu, and the maid she had been serving closely since she was a child had long since disappeared because of the cassava.

"Why did you go out so early? Hurry up and recruit from the truth. Wen Yuan carefully looked at the six people while asking, secretly observing their every move.

Four of the six had similar reasons, saying that the master needed to freshen up and go out to ask for hot water, and they all said that they had not seen the thing. Although they looked a little cringe, their answers were clear and uneasy.

Among the remaining two, the enchanting one was the first to open his mouth and said simply: "The slave went to pick morning dew with his companions, and Lang Jun drank tea cooked with fresh morning dew every morning." ”

After speaking, she also gave Mao Kunming a wink to the oblique front, but unfortunately it was shown to the blind man.

Her master was wandering around the world and wondering that he was going to mourn for his father-in-law, and he couldn't socialize or drink for three months—what a fucking bad luck!

The other younger one said, "Yes, I went to the back flower garden to pick the morning dew." No, I haven't seen that thing. ”

"Haven't you seen it before?" Wen Yuan saw that her hands were trembling uncontrollably, and he suddenly became puzzled, and walked straight to the little maid and stood up and asked.

"No, I haven't seen it." She shrunk her shoulders and took another half step back.

"Really?" Wen Yuan took another step forward, and suddenly showed a fierce light on his face and was aggressive, "I haven't seen why you are trembling?" At the end of the day, the dismemberment of the corpse appeared in the east of the city, and killing and decomposing is a major crime that is not forgiven, regardless of the first offender and the accomplice! Can you afford this crime? ”

The little girl was immediately frightened when she heard this, and quickly shook her head and said that she had not killed anyone.

"Then you don't want to recruit from the real quickly?!" Wen Yuan stared at him again and asked, the little maid was afraid, but she still bit her lip and didn't say a word, looking at Mao Kunming for a while and then at Yanjie behind the screen, as if she was waiting for her master to speak.

"Don't you cry when you don't see the coffin?" Wen Yuan looked down at her with a straight face, snorted coldly as if he had completely lost his patience, and then waved his hand at the three or five thick servants behind him, and ordered in a calm tone without any ups and downs, "Drag out the palm mouth and hit her until she says it." ”

The contemptuous eyes that looked like a dead man, and the indifferent posture of extorting confessions without thinking about torture, suddenly startled Yan Bing, who was watching.

Oh, I'll go, is this still the polite and upright Rong Dalang from the past? How does it feel like a split personality?!

The little maid was even more bluffed, and when the two bearded and rough men stepped forward to clasp her arms and were about to go out, she finally couldn't help but intimidate and completely collapsed.

"I say I say!" The little maid cried and broke free from the control of the servants, knelt at Wen Yuan's feet and poured beans, and said, "That thing was seen at the root of the nursery wall in the backyard when I was picking morning dew. My lady asked the slave to wrap her in a handkerchief and throw it outside Shu Wuniang's door, saying that she would be disgusted and disgusting! The slave didn't kill anyone, really not! ”

After hearing this, Wen Yuan finally showed a satisfied face, pointed to the criminal scribe and said, "Take her to the place to identify and see if there are any traces." ”

After speaking, he looked at Yanjie behind the screen again, and said politely but unrefusing: "The fourth lady of the Mao Shu family, please come out and answer a few questions in person." ”

Listening to this, Mao Kunming finally couldn't hold back his mouth and stopped: "Sister-in-law, this question is not necessary, right?" It's just that after picking things up, I couldn't tell the weight from the heavy, so I made a little prank. ”

He deliberately pointed out Wen Yuan's relative status, wanting to make him worry.

Unexpectedly, Rong Wenyuan was completely indifferent to the circumstances of the case, and even ridiculed: "It's really amazing that a nineteen-year-old wife can still play such a childlike prank." ”

After speaking, without waiting for his brother-in-law to speak, he continued to throw out a terrible message: "The deceased Zhao Jinzhu was sixty years old, a silk merchant, specializing in Shu embroidery and Shu brocade business, and had two daughters. The youngest daughter recruited a son-in-law, and the eldest daughter was allowed to be a concubine to an official surnamed Mao twenty-three years ago, and had a son named Mao Kunming. ”

Before Wen Yuan finished speaking, Mao Kunming stared at his triangular eyes with an unbelievable look, and then began to break out in a cold sweat - this is taking himself as a suspect?! Just because of a prank?

Thinking of this, he suddenly became angry, turned around and rushed into the corner screen in three steps and two steps.

Yan Bing felt that a gust of wind suddenly blew in, and then with a crisp sound of "pop", the sister Yan Jie, who was sitting next to her, had been slapped to the ground by her husband.

"Stupid woman of the Dead Star! Look at the good things you do! Mao Kunming jumped like thunder, and everyone raised his foot and kicked his wife in the abdomen.

The ladies were suddenly frightened, and Yanqing even screamed and hid behind her sister-in-law.

"Stop, stop!" Everyone else was running away, but Yan Bing just spoke out to stop it.

Just because she was too soft-hearted, seeing her brother-in-law's fierce eyes, she always felt that the kick was really painful for her sister to die if she was not disabled, and even wanted to reach out to help block him.

Mao Kunming was on fire, no matter if the sister-in-law stepped forward by herself, the outstretched leg was completely uncontrollable and retracted, and she was about to kick Yanjie's calf.

At this critical moment, Wen Yuan took the first step and reached out to hold his fiancée by the waist and dragged her away from the danger zone.

At the same time, he also kicked Mao Kunming's calf fibula hard, which not only stopped him from committing murder, but also avenged the revenge that scared Yan Bing.

After the dust settled, Wen Yuan sighed and whispered in his fiancée's ear, "Are you stupid?" She just hurt you and you're still going to help? ”