The sunset is slanting.

The light and shadow of the window, which had never stopped, finally climbed slowly but firmly onto Sun Shaozong's head, reflecting his tight brows in a patch.

After nearly four hours of carpet searching, the final result was in vain - not to mention the secret passages, secret rooms, not even a decent secret grid was found.

The question in Sun Shaozong's heart seems to have not been answered, but has become more and more obscure.

Could it be that his speculation was problematic in the first place?

Lin Qisheng's corpse was not actually hidden in some secret room, but was quietly transported to another place to hide?

If this is the case, Lin Xiuyuan's suspicion will greatly increase, after all, if you want to transport a corpse out of the Lin Mansion without knowing it, it is not something that anyone can do.

But......

If Lin Xiuyuan really killed his father, he could have lied that his father had suddenly run away from home and disappeared after hiding the body and using Li Daitao's strategy to make an alibi.

Wouldn't that be more appropriate than taking the risk of bringing the stinking corpse back to the house?

It doesn't make sense, it really doesn't make sense!

"Your Excellency."

Just when his train of thought inevitably fell into a dead loop, a scribe suddenly came in and reported in a heartfelt manner: "Huang Zhutou is back." ”

Sun Shaozong's spirit was shocked, Huang Bin was sent by him to Yaxing to find the craftsman who was in charge of the reconstruction three years ago, which delayed him for a long time before coming back, and he thought that he had gained something.

Perhaps, the message he brought back could help him straighten out his mind again!

Immediately gave an order, the scribe turned his head and went out, and after a short time, Huang Bin came in.

Huang Bin was obviously a dusty man, his face was covered with a thick layer of oil mud, and his lips were dry and cracked.

"Your Excellency!"

However, as soon as he spoke, he was still very capable: "According to your instructions, the villain visited several craftsmen who had participated in the reconstruction of the Lin Mansion at that time, but they all said that they had never heard of any secret rooms and secret passages. ”

"However, under the repeated questioning of the villain, a craftsman recalled that there were a few outsiders who also participated in the reconstruction of the Lin Mansion, but the food, housing and workmanship were not in the same place as the local craftsmen, so what they were responsible for building, outsiders have no way of knowing."

Therefore, the villain went back to the tooth shop to investigate, but the tooth shop did not have any records, so it can only be inferred for the time being that it was hired by the Lin Mansion in private.

"But Steward Hu, who went with me, didn't have the slightest impression of this."

Not hired by a dental out-of-town?

Even the officials of the Lin Mansion don't know?

This seems to have reconfirmed the inference that there is a secret passage in the Lin Mansion.

But where is this secret passage?

When the search was carried out today, it was clear that the Lin Mansion had been carefully screened up and down, and all the places where there might be secret passage entrances!

No matter how exquisitely designed the entrance of the secret passage is, with Sun Shaozong's vision, knowledge, and patience, it should not be for nothing.

What is the deviation in this?

Sun Shaozong fell into deep thought again.

It's just that it didn't take long for Yang Zhiming, Tang Weishan, and Chen Jingde to gather together.

Sun Shaozong had no choice but to cheer up first and listen to their reports on the 'results' one by one.

First of all, Yang Zhiming, who was in charge of controlling the situation, according to the results of his monitoring of the Lin Mansion, everything seemed to be very normal, and there was nothing wrong with it.

The second is Tang Weishan, who is responsible for statistics and interrogation of the old servants of the Lin family, who led a team to investigate about 80 people today, but the results are few.

In the end, Chen Jingde, who didn't say anything......

In short, to sum up the report of the three people, it is the words 'lackluster to show'.

However, Sun Shaozong still tried his best to extract the nutritious part from it, and then lay out further actions accordingly.

Such as:

"Tang Sizheng, you will work with the steward of the Lin Mansion as soon as possible to draw up a map of the distribution of the old servants of the Lin Mansion inside and outside the city, and then according to the investigation records, see if there are any people who live in the same area but have not come to worship."

"If there is, then send someone over to check and see why they didn't come."

Another example:

"Yang Sicheng, you want to send some trustworthy women—regardless of whether they are the wives of the officials, or the children of their sisters—and let them temporarily settle in the courtyards of the back house of the Lin Mansion in the name of personal protection."

"Be sure to record every move of the Lin family's daughters."

And:

"Deputy Chen, you ...... You're in charge of the vigil tonight. ”

After laying out these duties, Sun Shaozong saw that it was not early, and there was no new direction of investigation at the moment, so he prepared to go home to rest for the time being.

But before leaving, he came to the front yard mourning hall again.

After quietly looking outside the door for a long time, and after taking in the demeanor and words of everyone in the Lin family, he still couldn't help but focus his attention on Shen Peilan.

Her tears never seemed to stop, and even her crying eyes began to swell.

Looking at this sadness, is it really embarrassing between her and Lin Qisheng?

But this pear blossom presses the begonia, and it is an unruly love, which is even more wrapped in the life of Shen Peilan's husband, how heartless and shameless does she have to be willing to live with Lin Qisheng?

Staring at the petite figure, Sun Shaozong was puzzled in his heart.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the mourning hall, and almost everyone looked at the coffin under the north wall, and Lin Xiuyuan even stood up in surprise.

There is only one person, who has not received any influence, and is still kneeling sadly on the straw mat - this person is Lin Qisheng's daughter-in-law Shen Peilan.

At this moment, a thought suddenly popped up in Sun Shaozong's mind: Shen Peilan is sad and missed, I'm afraid it is not Lin Qisheng!

Is he crying for a husband who died young?

But it still doesn't make sense!

If she wasn't the murderer, her husband would have been dead for more than two years, and even if she touched the scene, she shouldn't be sad endlessly.

If she was a murderer, now that she has revenge, there is no reason to cry so poignantly.

So who the hell is she crying about?

Just thinking about it, the commotion inside was getting bigger and bigger, and a few concubines were full of horror, and even shrank to the door, as if they might run away at any time.

Seeing this, Sun Shaozong also came to the door and asked, "What's going on inside?" Why is the mourning hall so noisy? ”

"Master Sun, you're here just in time!"

Seeing Sun Shaozong's sudden appearance, Lin Xiuyuan was suddenly overjoyed, took a few steps to get closer, grabbed his arm, and said in fear: "Father...... My father seems to have put a ...... Fart! ”

As soon as the words fell, a straightforward concubine next to her couldn't help but scream in horror: "The master shouldn't be a corpse, right?!" ”

As soon as these words came out, there was another commotion around.

Lin Xiuyuan glanced at her dissatisfied, but the muscles on his face couldn't stop trembling suddenly.

Sun Shaozong listened, but asked disapprerovingly: "Has someone touched the body or coffin?" ”

"Just now...... Just now, the master of Fayuan Temple used incense to cleanse his body for his father, and it seems that he had touched the corpse at that time. ”

"Then there's nothing strange about that."

Sun Shaozong explained: "After the corpse is decomposed, the body is filled with all kinds of qi, and occasionally it leaks out, which sounds like a living person farting. ”

After all, he is a recognized professional, and everyone was immediately relieved by his explanation.

Sun Shaozong took advantage of the situation to say goodbye to Lin Xiuyuan, and Lin Xiuyuan sent him outside the courtyard all the time.

And during this period, Shen Peilan still knelt in place deafly......

。 Nine Heavenly God Emperors