Youtian personally led the way in front of the head, and Lin Fan and them naturally went all the way unimpeded!

On the way, he had a word with Tian Yuanwai. He did this in order to draw in the relationship with Tian Yuanwai and facilitate the investigation of the case; It is also to see if some unknown news can be extracted from the mouths of the field members.

However, what he didn't expect was that for Lin Fan, after entering the courtyard, what attracted him the most was some of the layout scenery in the courtyard.

This courtyard looks like it has the heroic atmosphere of the Central Plains of Jiangbei from the outside, and the front yard is also in the northern style, paved with bluestone, flat and open.

I didn't expect to go to the backyard, but it also has the exquisite grace of the Jiangnan water town; It's really a staggered pavilion, five steps and a scene!

The most rare thing is that on the way here, Lin Fan did not see a river passing through Qingyang Town, but there was a murmuring water in the courtyard, which must have been drawn from elsewhere.

In the south of the Yangtze River, the garden pays attention to the respect of water and the rhyme of stone. Stacked stones and water, water and stone reflect each other, and then supplemented by flowers and trees, it can be called a garden.

Especially in Jiangnan Road, where literati and scholars are gathered, if there is not even a stream of living water in the houses of the major families, then they really can't raise their heads when they go out!

In Lin Fan's opinion, this house has both north and south, and it is quite distinctive. But it is definitely not from the hands of famous artists, the north and south are separated, and the conversion is extremely blunt, and it cannot be integrated, which makes this house seem a little nondescript and inferior. But it's also kind of different, and it's kind of interesting!

Along the way, Lin Fan has a clear understanding of the layout of the hospital.

At this moment, the field member who didn't know anything about these things spoke up in front of him: "Lord Lin, after such a long journey, everyone must be thirsty. Not far ahead is the living room, if the adults are not in a hurry, you might as well take a few officials to the living room to have a cup of tea, and then it's not too late to see! ”

Looking back at the few people behind him, everyone was indeed a little tired all the way. Lin Fan thought about it, let everyone take a sip of tea, take a little rest, and there was no hurry to solve the case.

He nodded in agreement, "It's fine!" Then there are Lao Tian Yuan, and it just so happens that you can also introduce me to the ins and outs of this matter! ”

Tian Yuanwai smiled and agreed, and took them into the living room, and everyone sat down.

After a while, a servant girl brought tea. It seems that everyone is indeed thirsty, He Fang, Zhang Ping, and Liu Erniu all took up the tea bowl and drank it all, and Zhang Ping was almost choked because he drank too quickly.

The people below behaved like this, Lin Fan was also a little embarrassed, touched his nose, and glanced at Tian Yuanwai with a weak heart. And Tian Yuanwai didn't speak, just looked at all this with a smile.

Seeing this, Lin Fan also took a sip of the cup casually, and then asked Tian Yuanwai: "Dare to ask Yuanwai, when was the home stolen?" Who was there at the time, or who was the first to find out? ”

Tian Yuanwai sighed, stroked his beard, which was already a little gray on his chin, and said softly: "Alas, it was seven days ago!"

"The old man went back to sleep after reading the book the night before, and when he woke up the next day, someone found that the study had been stolen, and it was discovered by a maid who cleaned the room. When I arrived, the whole study was in disarray, it was turned into a mess, and books were thrown everywhere. ”

"After counting, it was found that in addition to the loss of a few silver tickets, there were also several celebrity calligraphy and paintings missing! It is worth almost two thousand taels of silver! After that, I asked people to go to the county to report to the official! ”

Lin Fan bowed his head slightly, judging from the previous cases, Fu Tianlin was a thief, and he was very knowledgeable, and many of the lost calligraphy and paintings were related to him, many of which were of great value. So this time the loss of calligraphy and paintings in the field house did not surprise him.

After digesting these, Lin Fan continued to ask, "Did you find any clues after the official mansion came?"

Tian Yuanwai shook his head and said, "It was almost night when the county officials arrived, and they looked around, but they didn't find anything except the copper coin imprint and a few footprints!" However, according to what they said, this is the work of the thief Fu Tianlin, and what he can't catch is that he can't call all the officials in Huainan Province over, which makes me think I'm unlucky! ”

When Lin Fan heard him talk about the copper coin imprint, he took out a piece of paper from his arms, which was one of the two copper coin imprints that Yang Yuanwang gave him before leaving, and he asked Tian Yuanwai: "Is this the copper coin imprint you said?"

Tian Yuan took it out, looked at it carefully for a long time, and said: "That's right, it's this one, even if it's burned to ashes, I know it!"

After speaking, he handed it to Lin Fan, Lin Fan took it, nodded lightly, and asked again: "According to what the staff said, the staff didn't know this copper coin mark at first, could it be that he hadn't heard of the grand thief Fu Tianlin?"

Tian Yuanwai shook his head: "Regarding Fu Tianlin, the old man has only heard of it, and he only knows that this person is very famous. The old man is old, lame again, and has never asked about the affairs of the rivers and lakes, so he has only occasionally heard a few words, and the other old men don't know at all! However, from the mouths of the officials, it can be known that this person is by no means simple! What's wrong with this person, making it difficult for adults? ”

Lin Fan laughed and said, "Don't worry about it, no matter how powerful he is, isn't he still a thief?"

After speaking, he took the tea and drank it all, and then said: "Okay, Tian Yuanwai, the tea has also been drunk, and the words have been asked, let's go to the study to have a look!"

Seeing that they were almost rested, Tian Yuan said, "Okay! Lord Lin, a few officials, please come with me! ”

He got up and walked out of the living room, and continued to lead the way in front of the head, which was not far from the study, and he didn't walk a few steps to arrive.

Tian Yuanwai pointed to a room and said, "Lord Lin, please look, this is the study!"

Lin Fan looked at it, and the study was a single-door courtyard, not facing the street, which isolated the noise on the street. The two plantain trees in the yard are like a cover, and the shadows of the trees are forested, which looks quiet and chic.

Lin Fan stepped forward, pushed the door in, and looked at the situation in the study, which made him frown a little.

I saw that the house was neatly cleaned up, and the floor was clean, not at all like a thief.

He turned back to Tian Yuanwai and asked, "Tian Yuanwai, how did you clean up this study?" Don't know what to keep live? ”

Tian Yuanwai said helplessly: "How can the old man not know what the adults said! It's just that the county government has already come to investigate, and it is said that this case can't be solved at all, and I will die of heart! But life has to be lived, doesn't it? It's been a few days, and the study can't just sit like that forever! Two days ago I had the study cleaned up a bit, so that's it! ”

Lin Fan knew that what he said was reasonable, so he didn't ask any further. For ordinary people, could it be that the case has never been solved, and the scene has to stay like this forever? Ordinary people also have to eat and live, and it is unrealistic for them to stay on the scene for a long time!

Lin Fan paced slowly in the study, his eyes carefully searching every corner of the room to see if there were any valuable clues left.

He took a turn, and found nothing special, and after cleaning, even if there were any clues, they had basically been destroyed.

Now, nothing is left except a footprint on the rear window sill. Obviously, this footprint was retained by Tian Yuanwai who was unwilling to suffer such a big loss, thinking that one day he would be able to solve the case and recover the lost things!

Lin Fan carefully observed this footprint, and said that it was one, but in fact, there was only half of it, according to the shape, it should be that the thief accidentally left it behind when he came out of the window after stealing something.

Looking at the footprints, Lin Fan asked the Tian Yuanwai behind him, "Outside, these footprints were left by the thief Fu Tianlin?"

Tian Yuanwai replied: "My lord is right, this is exactly what the thief left, at that time, in addition to the copper coin imprint, this footprint was also left in this house, so I let people keep it and did not erase it." In order to check on the government one day, so as to leave a piece of evidence, but I didn't expect Lord Lin to come today! ”

Lin Fan snorted, staring at the footprints with deep eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

Based on the footprints, Lin Fan judged the direction in which the thief jumped out, and he looked out the window.

Outside the back window is a small bamboo forest, which is separated from the rest of the courtyard by the study, and the breeze blows, the bamboo leaves sound softly, swaying with the wind, and the fragrance is blowing on the face. The ground is also covered with a thick layer of withered yellow bamboo leaves, with the wind swirling, it can be seen that few people pass by on weekdays, and it is a natural scenery deliberately left by the owner's family.

Outside the bamboo forest, there is the outer wall of the farmhouse, and the courtyard wall is very high, making it difficult for ordinary people to go out.

Of course, in Lin Fan's opinion, this wall couldn't even stop him, let alone the grand thief Fu Tianlin. If Lin Fan was not mistaken, there must have been Fu Tianlin's footprints on the wall.

According to the footprints and the layout of the bamboo forest, Lin Fan calculated Fu Tianlin's movement trajectory at that time, and he also stepped on the windowsill and jumped out of the study.

The rest of the people thought that Lin Fan had discovered something, and hurried to the windowsill.

Before they could open their mouths to ask, they saw Lin Fan squatting on the ground, holding a handful of soil in his hand, and some dead leaves and black dirt slipped from between his fingers to the ground.

"Sure enough, the soil is soft!" Lin Fan said secretly in his heart.

The bamboo forest is dark and damp, covered with layers of dead leaves and watered by rain, and after a few years, it has long since rotted, and when you step on it, it will stick to your shoes. The reason why Fu Tianlin left a footprint must also be related to this!

Lin Fan stood up and came to the wall, and sure enough, he saw three more black footprints on the wall, from bottom to top, arranged in order, and they had dried up on the wall because it had been too long.

As for how Fu Tianlin got out, Lin Fan had already roughly guessed it, Lin Fan didn't care about those footprints first, but set his eyes on the outside of the high wall, but unfortunately he was blocked by the outer wall, and he didn't know what was outside!

He asked Tian Yuanwai in the study, "Yuanwai, what is the place outside this wall?"

Tian Yuanwai replied: "Outside is a small hillside, which is already considered to be the outskirts of the town, except for the occasional child grazing cattle there, there is not usually much to go. There is also a stream, which is not too big to walk, and the water in my house is drawn from the river! ”

Lin Fan nodded to indicate that he understood, but he didn't answer, turned around, and knocked and knocked in the bamboo forest.

He finally picked a thick bamboo and nodded in satisfaction. Everyone was puzzled, and before they could ask, they saw him suddenly jump up and keep climbing.

He was getting taller and taller, and the bamboo was bent more and more by him. In the end, Lin Fan grabbed the upper section of the bamboo with his hand and fell back to the ground.

Lin Fan pulled the bamboo to the bottom of the wall, and his figure went up again. The bamboo had already been pressed to the extreme by him, and as soon as Lin Fan's strength was loosened, he bounced up with a bang.

Lin Fan also took advantage of the tension generated by the bamboo bullet, his body rose sharply, and before the remaining strength was exhausted, he rubbed his foot on the wall three times in a row, and got up with his strength, but in an instant, his body was already above the wall. At this time, Lin Fan let go, let go of the bamboo, twisted his waist, and his legs suddenly exerted force, and landed steadily on the wall.

Lin Fan stood still on the wall, calmed his breath, and looked out of the wall condescendingly.

Tian Yuanwai was right, there was indeed a somewhat desolate meadow outside, overgrown with weeds, with some undulations that were not very obvious. A small river runs from east to west, through the meadow, and disappears from sight.

After a general look at the outside situation, Lin Fan jumped off the wall again, and said with a smile to the few people who came in a hurry: "The scenery outside is good!"