"I listened to the conversation between your father and daughter just now, Miss Lanxiang, it's not easy for you." Cao Xiu put down the file in his hand and looked at Sun Lanxiang in the cell.

"Well, who in this world is easy." Sun Lanxiang sighed, and changed her words: "My lord, you won't just tell me this today, right?" ”

Cao Xiu handed the white-glazed plum bottle to Sun Lanxiang's eyes, and showed her the part with the pattern, "The East Pillar in your mouth just now is not the little boy in this painting?" ”

Sun Lanxiang touched the painting on the plum vase, "Yes, Brother Dongzhu, my lord, how can you have this porcelain vase?" Did you buy it at the Chen family shop in the west of the city? ”

"What?"

Cao Xiu was a little confused, "Isn't this bottle your own, it contains poisonous wine......"

"What? My lord, don't be kidding, there is no painting on the wine bottle that the slave family gave to Brother Ma. ”

Sun Lanxiang was also surprised at the same time.

Cao Xiu looked at her, and then at the bottle in his hand, "Should it be ......?"

Sun Lanxiang also thought at the same time: "Brother Dongzhu? ”

Cao Xiu asked, "Where is he at the moment?" ”

Sun Lanxiang said: "I haven't seen him since we separated at the gate of Wanhualou last time, but how could he, how could he know Boss Ma, and how could he kill him?" Moreover, how could he have a hundred flowers brewed? Yes, I must have bought it from my father, and Brother Dongzhu's favorite drink is Baihua Brew......"

Cao Xiu said: "It's very common to hate because of love, wait, now is not the time to discuss this, you have to arrest Chen Dongzhu, Miss Lanxiang, can you roughly describe his appearance?" ”

Sun Lanxiang knew that the situation was urgent, and hurriedly said: "Well, a seven-foot-long body, thick eyebrows and big eyes, the most obvious feature is that there is a big mole on the corner of his mouth. ”

After Cao Xiu heard this, he instructed Wang Xiancheng and them to find it.

……

"Cai Wei, let's go to Wanhualou, shall we?"

Wang Xiancheng has already arranged for the whole city to search for Chen Dongzhu.

Out of prison, Cao Xiu was still a little worried, Chen Dongzhu met Sun Lanxiang a month ago, but if he didn't go home, but stayed in the city all the time, then what would he do? What will be done?

If he is the murderer, then he must do an investigation of Boss Ma and Sun Lanxiang, and this investigation must be followed from time to time, so the place where he lives must not be far, either near Wanhualou or near Ma's house.

And the vicinity of Wanhualou is more likely, because Chen Dongzhu loves Sun Lanxiang deeply.

Therefore, he planned to go to Wanhualou to see if the murderer lived nearby.

Song Caiwei listened, and naturally there was nothing to do.

When the two arrived at Wanhualou, it was already evening.

The old bustard of Wanhualou, who is half a, heard that the magistrate of the county was visiting, where did she dare to slack off, her Lanxiang girl made an accident, and she was naturally very worried in her heart.

Orchid girl is one of the popular flower girls in the Oiran contest.

"Lord Zhixian, if you have anything to say, just ask......"

Cao Xiu looked around and asked, "Have you seen any suspicious characters recently?" ”

The old bustard said: "I haven't seen this much." ”

Cao Xiu replied with a good word, while looking for a good location to observe Wanhualou, especially the embroidery room of Miss Lanxiang, he thought, that may be where the murderer stays.

Cao Xiu asked Sun Lanxiang about the specific location of the embroidery room where he lived, and the old bustard was responsible for guiding him over.

Sun Lanxiang's embroidery room is northwest side, and there is no inn here.

Cao Xiu thought for a while and asked the old bustard: "In this place in the northwest, which families can be used for people to stay?" ”

The old bustard nodded and pointed out a few places to Cao Xiu.

Cao Xiu understood, so he set off with Song Caiwei and a group of officials to find someone.

……

They went from house to house, and finally found a person with a similar face to what Lan Xiang had depicted.

"This old man, can you let us in for a while?"

As soon as Cao Xiu spoke, the old man on the other side was immediately startled, he had never seen such a polite county magistrate, "When, of course you can, just enter." ”

Cao Xiu, under the guidance of the old man, went to the tenant's room.

After knocking on the door, the person was not there, and after the official helped knock the door open, Cao Xiu saw a porcelain vase on the table in the room that was exactly the same as the white-glazed plum vase of the county government.

"Sure enough, it's him......" Cao Xiu felt that he was about to catch the murderer, so he was very excited, and asked the old man, "When did this person leave?" And where did it go? ”

The old man said: "Not long after leaving, the villain asked him, he said that he was going to go to the horse house, the villain didn't know where the horse house he said was, anyway, he had given the villain enough money, and the villain had no need to stop him......

Ma Fu, Ma Fu, is it Boss Ma?

There's certainly nothing wrong with that.

Cao Xiu thought to himself, could it be that this Chen Dongzhu is so vindictive, it is not enough to kill a Ma Teng, but also to kill the Wang family?

It's incredible.

Wait a minute......

If it weren't for killing the Wang family......

Suddenly, a bold idea rose in Cao Xiu's heart.

"Cai Wei, you say ......"

"Well, it's possible, didn't the Wang family also buy arsenic?"

Cao Xiu nodded, he didn't expect that he and her would think together, it was really inspiring.

……

"Don't come, don't come......"

"Ah, help, ma'am, help—"

"Don't come here, come here again, I'll kill her."

"Heroes spare their lives......"

When Cao Xiu arrived at Mafu, it was already a mess.

There was a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, who put it on Wang's neck, and surrounded him with a servant, not letting the man go.

"You're Chen Dongzhu?"

Cao Xiu squeezed into the crowd, and Song Caiwei stood behind him, responsible for protection.

Chen Dongzhu saw the official uniform on Cao Xiu's body and asked, "You, you are the county magistrate?" ”

Cao Xiudao: "Yes, I am ......"

Chen Dongzhu said: "Quick, let the orchid go." ”

Cao Xiu smiled and said deliberately: "How can you let it go, she is a murderer." ”

Chen Dongzhu said: "No, she is not, everything is done by me, I did it......"

Cao Xiu secretly said in his heart, sure enough, it was you, "Did you hide next door to Ma Teng's guest room last night?" ”

Chen Dongzhu asked, "How do you know?" ”

Cao Xiu explained: "When the county entered the guest room next door, he found that there was a sawdust by the window that was trampled on, and the wound was still new, and there was a layer of dust on the window of Boss Ma's room. ”

Chen Dongzhu said: "Heh, so what, I don't want to live anyway, quick, call Lan Xiang over, call her over, otherwise I will kill this girl......"

Cao Xiu pressed his hand and said: "Okay, don't be angry first, then again, what do you hate Boss Ma, what does it have to do with the Wang family?" ”

Chen Dongzhu said: "Because the arsenic was given to me by her......"

In a word, it can really be described as earth-shattering.

The panicked Wang hurriedly denied: "No, no, I didn't, don't listen to his nonsense!" ”