Chapter 409: Confusion

"I don't care what your heart is, hide your tail, don't let me pull it again, next time, I will directly peel your skin."

Yu Shu's expressionless warning voice made people shudder, Ji Xingxuan's eyelids trembled, turned around without saying a word, opened the paper umbrella in his hand, and walked into the rain, just under Yu Shu's cold gaze, she suddenly stopped in the rain, turned around, walked through the rain curtain, and looked at Yu Shu deeply

Yu Shu returned to the women's dormitory under the heavy rain, her whole body was already soaked, but fortunately there were clean clothes in the house, she took off her clothes neatly with a sneeze, changed into underwear, untied her wet hair and twisted it a few times, wrapped in a quilt and sat on the bed, her cold hands and feet slowly warmed up, and what kept replaying in her mind was the complicated look that Ji Xingxuan showed in the rain - neither cowardice nor resentment, there was an inexplicable sense of disobedience, which made her incomprehensible.

Although Xue Rui has not confirmed it, she has made it clear that the person who passed the note to Cao Youling and framed Jing Chen for seducing the female student to death is Ji Xingxuan, in this case, seeing Jing Chen and Ji Xingxuan holding an umbrella in the rain, she almost subconsciously decided that Ji Xingxuan was deliberately approaching Jing Chen.

But she wasn't sure what Ji Xingxuan would do next, so she warned at the time, not because of a momentary brain fever, but because she wanted to force Ji Xingxuan to show some horses, but her performance was too calm, not like an accomplice to murder or a murderer at all.

"Didi Da Da"

The sound of the rain outside the window gradually subsided, Yu Shu got dressed, put his half-dried hair behind his head, walked out of the door full of doubts, lingered in the corridor for a while, and waited until the rain stopped completely before entering the courtyard.

As soon as she came out of the women's house, she heard someone calling her not far away, and when she turned her head, she saw Xue Rui coming from the side of the garden mountain wall. Holding an oil-paper umbrella in his hand, he didn't see the guards following him.

"Is it raining?" Xue Rui frowned, and at a glance, he found that Yu Shu had changed his clothes and his hair was damp. "I didn't scoop an umbrella, so I didn't find a place to hide."

Yu Shu said helplessly: "It suddenly rained halfway, and it was so big, so I ran back."

As she spoke, she inadvertently looked down and saw that Xue Rui's entire pair of boots were wet, and there were a lot of mud spots splashed on the hem of his clothes. It wasn't because the rain was light that it came out, so I wondered:

"Where did you go to the rain just now? The shoes get wet like this. ”

Listening to her unconscious question, Xue Rui was secretly helpless, where else could he go, not to see the heavy rain, and to remember that she didn't scoop an umbrella, so he looked for her. He ran to several places in the library. It was only after the last that she found the women's house, but who knew that she ran back in the rain.

"I accidentally stepped into a puddle," Xue Rui didn't want to admit that he was stupidly looking for her. So he diverted her attention:

"Have you met Academician Fang?"

Yu Shu nodded, still staring at his wet shoes, thinking that it must be uncomfortable for him to soak his feet like this, so he said: "I've seen it, are you still staying in the library, let's go back to the machine building for lunch, and I'll talk to you on the way."

"I'm fine, let's go, I'll talk about it later."

Xue Rui actually doesn't have to stay in the Taishi Academy from morning to night, and there are a lot of officials under him. It's not a dry meal, according to the progress of the case, he just needs to wait for the news to pass on and ask questions, and he comes over every day, just to spend more time with her.

Of course, this evil can't be said to Yu Shu, otherwise according to his understanding of her. What reciprocated him was definitely not moved, but a roll of the eyes.

On the road, there were only two of them in the carriage, Yu Shu told Xue Rui about her greeting Fang Zijing without any scruples, and finally learned Situ Qinglan's original words to explain Fang Zijing's painstaking efforts, and then pretended to sigh:

"If it weren't for the importance of this Academician Fang, I'm afraid that I, a junior who has no one in my eyes, won't be able to worship a single gentleman in Taishi Academy."

Xue Rui smiled slightly and said, "If it weren't for your own cleverness, I'm afraid you wouldn't even be able to worship this Academician Fang."

This is true, Xue Rui has only heard of Fang Zijing's person, and he has never seen it, but if he can compete with Han Wenguang, who is popular all over the world, in the Taishi Academy, he must also be an old fox.

Reprimanding Yu Shu in public is not so much to help Yu Shu get rid of those rumors, but rather a temptation, if Yu Shu's reaction is not as he expected, then not only will he not accept this student, but he will also add a fire to the rumors, making her situation more difficult.

"Sure enough, the eldest brother is an understanding person." Yu Shu felt that it was easy and effortless to talk to Xue Rui more than once, and there were some things that he could understand without her explaining.

"Now that I've worshiped Fang Zijing, I still want to find another academician who is proficient in astrology, but I'm not in a hurry." Yu Shu wants to study "Hun Tian Bu Lu", it is inevitable that a person will be bored to read a book, Jing Chen, who originally said that he was going to teach her, released her a big pigeon, but fortunately, it is a good place in the Taishi Academy, and the eighteen academicians have their own strengths, and it is enough for her to benefit a lot from pleasing one or two.

"If you have a plan, it's fine."

After saying this, the carriage arrived at the Wangji Building, and the two entered the backyard as usual, and each went back to his room to clean up.

Yu Shu asked the maid to comb her hair again, went downstairs to find Xue Rui, and as soon as she entered the room, she saw him sitting at the table, scooping a few pieces of paper in his hand and looking through it, with a serious expression.

Yu Shu realized something, closed the door of the room behind him, walked over and asked, "Have you found out?"

The more than 30 students under Jing Chen's name have crossed paths with the deceased Cao Youling, and they are proficient in physiognomy.

Xue Rui put down the paper, pressed it with a fist, and said a name in a deep voice, just as Yu Shu had expected before:

"She's the only one."

"That's her."

After confirming this, Xue Rui took the opportunity to analyze: "According to our previous guess, the murderer was framed against Jing Chen, and it is not an exaggeration for Ji Xingxuan to be suspicious, after all, the case of Ji Huaishan committing suicide in fear of crime was caused by Jing Chen, so she was resentful and wanted to take the opportunity to take revenge." But—"

As soon as he spoke, a look of suspicion flowed in his eyes:

"It is obviously not her who killed the murderer, if she is the mastermind, she is buying the murderer. With just a note, it is impossible to wrongfully accuse Jing Chen of being the murderer, at most it will make him suspicious, plus Jing Chen is a Taoist, if the real murderer cannot be caught in this case, he will never be filled with Jing Chen. In this way, she killed Cao Youling just to pour a basin of dirty water on Jingchen, don't you think it's too much of a fuss?"

Ji Xingxuan is not a crazy murderer, on the contrary, she is very smart and rational, is it necessary to risk buying a murderer in order to ruin Jingchen's reputation?

Yu Shu thought about it, sat down opposite him, and said slowly: "I was in the library in the morning, and I saw Ji Xingxuan and Jing Chen walking together."

Xue Rui unexpectedly raised his eyelids and stared at her face, his first reaction was that he was worried that she would be sad, others didn't know, but he watched her go to the soup for that man.

Yu Shu remembered that scene, he couldn't help frowning, didn't notice Xue Rui's strange gaze, and told him hesitantly:

"I also think it's strange, on the one hand, she is plotting against Jingchen, and on the other hand, she is close to Jingchen, what is her idea."

Xue Rui's eyes flashed, he raised his hand and rubbed his chin, suddenly stood up, walked a few steps around the room, vaguely remembered some kind of connection, and couldn't grasp the point, so he heard Yu Shu slap the table abruptly, and when he turned around, he saw her in shock:

"Could it be that the group that framed Jingchen before hooked up with Ji Xingxuan?"

Xue Ruimao paused, looked at her with flickering eyes, lowered her voice and said, "So Ji Xingxuan may not be the mastermind, she is just an accomplice."

Yu Shu nodded a little excitedly and stood up. After Jingchen's identity was revealed, life was peaceful, and she almost forgot that there was still the group of people who buried Jingchen's silver needle in the dark watching.

In this way, it makes sense to explain, Cao Youling is not what Ji Xingxuan wants to kill, so she is ruthless enough, and she does not have the anxiety that a murderer should have, the most important thing is that Cao Youling is dead, no one can prove that she handed over the note to her, she can sit back and relax and watch coldly

"Damn," Yu Shu figured this out, and couldn't help but be annoyed: "Without real evidence, just based on the results of my divination, I can't identify her at all, otherwise you can arrest her back and torture her to extract a confession."

Da'an Dynasty is easy to learn and good, but the judgment and arrest pay attention to real evidence, even Jingchen was monitored by Xue Rui, and there was that "note" as evidence.

Compared with Yu Shu's chagrin, Xue Rui was slack at this time, not for anything else, just because there might be a bigger involvement behind this murder case-

The emperor has handed over the assassination of Nian Daozi to King Ning for investigation, but after a few months, there has been no progress, and now he has found the clues, which I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing.

"Don't be in a hurry first," Xue Rui said to Yu Shu calmly: "This is just speculation, if we act rashly, we will only startle the snake, didn't you say that Ji Xingxuan intends to approach Jingchen, if there is someone behind her, there will definitely be a move next, let's wait and see what happens, and wait for her to show her feet."

Yu Shu wanted to speak and stopped, it was good to wait and see what happened, but Xia Jiangmin's dream indicated that someone would be killed again soon, and she intuitively felt that the woman who was pushed downstairs in a pink regular dress was related to the current murder case, maybe it was still the hand of this group of murderous people.

She really wanted to tell Xue Rui about her worries and let him think about countermeasures together, but there was no way to explain where she learned about it, "judging blessings and misfortunes, judging life and death", this is a skill that Yi Xue only has after reaching the peak, she can't roll Xia Jiangmin here, and she can't lie far-fetched that it is the result of her fortune calculation.

Xue Rui saw her uneasy expression, misunderstood that she was worried about Jingchen's safety, and envied Jingchen who could be remembered by her, but he still comforted her and said:

"You don't have to worry about Jingchen, he is now at the feet of the Son of Heaven, with the protection of the royal family, no matter how big the matter is, there are people to carry him."

Yu Shu reluctantly pulled the corners of her mouth, and did not explain that what she was most worried about was not Jingchen's safety, but the next girl who was about to die innocently.

Who could it be? (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )

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