Chapter 91: Xin'er's Portrait

Meng Wulan lost his assertiveness, grabbed Wu Fan again, shook him vigorously, and said: "Cousin, did you do it? You speak! Uncle is confused, why are you so confused? He is the only son left with you, why don't you work hard and go against Liang Xinming? I told you a long time ago that my uncle's business has nothing to do with him!"

Wu Fanqiang smiled: "Cousin, don't worry, my brother is fine." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”

With a movement of his sleeve, he shoved an origami paper into Meng Wulan's palm.

Meng Wulan trembled nervously and said, "You...... Are you really okay?"

Wu Fan said: "It's okay. The younger brother has a clear conscience. ”

Meng Wulan watched as he was taken away by the officials.

The Wu family was watched by people from top to bottom, and they were not allowed to move around at will.

Then, Wang Heng personally led the officials to Du San's house with Li Zhutou of the government office, lit the small courtyard brightly, and checked every inch of land.

I checked it for more than an hour, but I didn't find anything unusual.

Li Zhutou was impatient and was about to persuade Wang Heng to retreat, when he suddenly saw him staring at a peach tree in the corner of the courtyard, so he smiled and asked, "What is Lord Hanlin looking at?"

Wang Heng said: "Look at the peach blossoms." ”

Li Zhutou said: "How can there be flowers?

Wang Heng said: "Exactly." At this time, the peach blossoms should bloom, why not?"

Li Zhutou smiled: "The villain doesn't know. ”

But I thought in my heart: "Reading people are sour!"

Wang Heng said: "Because it is dead." ”

Li Zhutou said, "Huh?"

Wang Heng said: "At this time, even if the peach blossoms are not blooming, they have budded, but this peach tree does not even have a bud and has died. As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pinched a branch for him to see, and sure enough, it was dry.

Li Zhutou smiled and said: "Wang Hanlin has good eyesight. ”

Wang Heng stared at him sharply and asked, "Do you know why it withered?"

Li Zhutou said: "The villain doesn't know. ”

Wang Heng said: "I guess there is something wrong with its roots. ”

Li Zhutou looked at him in amazement, didn't they come to investigate the case, but to treat the tree? What kind of medicine did Wang Hanlin sell in this gourd?

Wang Heng ordered the officials to find hoes and shovels and dig under the peach trees.

I dug only two feet deep, and a foul smell came out.

Li Zhutou was surprised and said, "There's something buried underneath!"

Wang Heng let out an "um", thinking to himself about this idiot, only now did he understand that he saw that the soil under the tree seemed to be turned over, and he immediately paid attention to it. Suddenly, I thought that I had also come to Du San's house that night to check, but I didn't notice it, and I couldn't help but be ashamed. At that time, he never dreamed that Du San would be killed. After all, Du San also sent a letter to Luo Datong, the forbidden army, asking him to be strict with Liang Xinming's physical examination, instead of colluding to cheat in the imperial examination. If Liang Xinming hadn't been drugged and angered Wang Heng, no one would have punished Luo Datong, and there was really no need to kill him.

The officials dug up a decomposing corpse, which was verified to be Du San. Du San was hacked to death by his own kitchen knife, and the murderer did not leave any clues at the scene, there were traces, after so many days, the spring was rainy, and it was washed away early. This peach tree was buried by the murderer, and the taproot was cut off before it died.

However, the murderer took Du San's things away.

On the day of Du San's death, he told the neighbors that he was going to go far away. The next morning, neighbors found his door locked. Wang Heng searched Du San's house two days later, and found that both of the fine soft silver were taken away, and it was indeed out of the door.

This shows that the murderer swept away Du San's belongings.

Wang Heng wanted to follow this line to chase down.

He immediately called Liang Jinyun and asked about the results of the previous investigation into the whereabouts of Wu Fan and the people around him, hoping to get inspiration from it.

Liang Jinyun said that since the incident, Wu Fan and the people around him did not move at all as if they were afraid that Wang Heng would suspect them, but before that, Wu Fan's often accompanied Wu Wang to go out for half a day and a night, and only came back the next day.

Wang Heng hurriedly went to Wu Wang's house with the head catcher to search.

At this time, the work went back and forth: a painting was found on the inner layer of Du San's sole.

Wang Heng took the folded paper that was pressed upright, unfolded it, his eyes brightened, and his whole body trembled: It was Liang Xinming who was painted in the painting! But in Wang Heng's eyes, he was more like Lin Xin'er. Obviously, the painter is more familiar with Lin Xin'er, so he paints and paints, drawing Xin'er's charm, without Liang Xinming's elegance and indifference.

No wonder the murderer wants to kill his mouth, it must be for this painting!

Du San refused to hand over the painting, so the murderer killed him.

Wang Heng shouted sharply: "Li Zhutou, go get Wu Wang!"

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The next morning, the prefect of Kyoto ascended to the church.

Wang Heng personally went to court and accused Wu Fan, relying on Liang Xinming for the crimes of his father and brother, framing and retaliating against Liang Xinming, disrupting the imperial examination, and killing people afterwards.

1. Wu Fan used his relationship with the fourth girl to lure the maid Chunmei, who deceived the fourth girl, to use it for him desperately, and became his internal response in the palace.

2. Instigated Chunmei to inquire about Liang Xinming from Dexin Academy.

Third, Chunmei used Rulan's hand to drug Liang Xinming.

Fourth, Rulan was defeated and imprisoned in Dexin Courtyard, Chunmei was afraid that she would affect herself and Wu Fan if she told the truth, so she first coaxed Zhao Jiu to rescue Rulan, then stunned her, pushed her into the well, and made the illusion of Rulan's suicide.

Fifth, Wang Heng found out that Rulan was killed by him, and traced Chunmei to Chunmei according to the traces left at the scene, and Chunmei committed suicide to cover up for Wu Fan.

Sixth, although Wu Fan drugged Liang Xinming, he was still not at ease, in order to prevent accidents, he painted a portrait of Liang Xinming, and asked Du San, the idle head of the Dongcheng Gang, to secretly show Luo Datong, the forbidden army who would test his body, and let Luo Datong frame Liang Xinming.

7. Afterwards, Wu Fanming often followed Wu Wang to Du San to ask for the portrait back, so as not to leave a handle, Du San did not give it, so Wu Wang killed Du San and buried it under the peach tree of the Du family.

Here's how the whole thing works:

Siyu wanted to make champion dumplings for Liang Xinming to ask for a lottery, not just on the same day, it was decided a few days ago, and instructed the kitchen to prepare the materials she needed. When Chunmei heard about this, she told Wu Fan. Wu Fan taught her to instigate Rulan to drug Liang Xinming. Because Rulan wanted to marry Wang Heng, Wang Heng didn't look down on Rulan. Chunmei said that the uncle was fascinated by Liang Xinming, so he refused to marry a wife or take a concubine, as long as Liang Xinming failed in this subject, he would return to his hometown, and the uncle would not be confused if he couldn't see him. Rulan was fooled and drugged the dumpling filling mixed by Siyu, causing Liang Xinming to have diarrhea the night before the trial.

Xiao Luo and Zhao Jiu came forward to testify and confirmed that Chunmei and Wu Fan had an adulterous affair; two Danqing masters from Guozijian went to court to verify that Liang Xinming's portrait and Wu Fan's painting were painted by the same person; the head catcher and the head hunter of the Kyoto Prefecture went to court to confirm Du San's autopsy report; and Wu Wang's whereabouts on the night of Du San's death were unknown, and silver and two belongings were searched from his house, and Du San's borrower identified that it was he who paid off the debt with goods and returned it to Du San...... A mountain of ironclad evidence proves that Wu Fan is the mastermind behind it!

When the news broke, Meng Wulan fell down.

Emperor Jing Kang was furious and ordered Wu Fan to be severely punished.

Liang Xinming, as the victim and sufferer, went to court to hear the trial.

During the entire interrogation of the case, she did not say a word.

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