Feeling the serious gaze cast by Yang Chen, Xiao Yu couldn't help but shrink for a moment, and then said in a slightly trembling voice: "No...... No. Just now I wanted to ask him for the money and then take out the pawn ticket to him, but you showed up ......"

"So, you did find the pawn ticket and hid it?" Yang Chen immediately narrowed his eyes, stared at the maid in front of him and asked.

Xiao Yu lowered her head, and after a moment, she answered in a low voice. This made Huang Feng sigh: "No wonder we can't find clues no matter how we look for it, it turns out that you have already hidden it!" How unreasonable! ”

"Madam, the maid was just greedy for a while, so she did something wrong, please forgive me......" Xiaoyu found Chen's cold eyes looking at her again, which made her even more panicked than when she was caught by Yang Chen and them on the spot just now, and she knelt down again, crying and pleading.

It wasn't pretending, she was really scared. Now as long as the Ming Dynasty is a slave who sells himself to a certain family, then he has become someone else's property from head to toe, and the master's family has the right to dispose of it at will, even if he really kills someone, at most he will lose some money, which is more terrible than being arrested by the government.

Yang Chen also sensed this, so he spoke: "Then you still don't hand over the ticket to atone for your sins?" Then the official can help you say a few words. ”

Xiaoyu suddenly came to her senses, nodded hurriedly, and said, "I'll take you to get the pawn ticket, and I'll put it in my room." ”

So a few people hurriedly took Xiaoyu inside, and soon came to her hut. No longer shying away from the fact that this was a woman's boudoir, Yang Chen immediately pushed the door in, turned around and asked, "Where are the things?" ”

"It's at the bottom of my suitcase." Xiaoyu answered honestly. Yang Chen did as he said, and sure enough, he took out a piece of paper from the box placed in the corner, walked to the door, and looked at the light of the lantern, and saw that this was indeed half a pawn ticket.

Speaking of which, fortunately, that guy asked Xiaoyu to find this half of the pawn ticket, if it was replaced by another note, she might not recognize an illiterate maid. But when the ticket is different, although she doesn't recognize any of the words on it, she can still have some contact with it before, and she also recognizes its appearance.

Yang Chen only glanced at it, then put the pawn ticket into his sleeve, and then looked at Xiao Yu: "Do you know the identity of the person who asked you to take the pawn ticket?" What is his name? ”

"I ...... I do not know. Xiao Yu shook his head slightly, "It was when I went out to buy candles and other things that my lord met on the day of his accident, and then he told me about it." ”

The fact that the other party could recognize Xiaoyu as a maid of the Chen family shows his familiarity with the Chen family, which makes Lu Zhen even more curious: "Hasn't he been to your house?" ”

"No, at least the servant hasn't seen him at home."

"And what does he look like?" It seemed that he couldn't ask his identity, so Yang Chen could only retreat.

"He's quite tall, with a dark face and no beard......" Xiao Yu tried to remember the man's appearance, but the words were just a few simple adjectives, and unless she saw the man again, she would never find her target.

It seemed that there was nothing more to ask from her, so Yang Chen looked at Chen with a gloomy face on the side: "Mrs. Chen, this matter is indeed a bit strange, although this little jade girl did something wrong, but fortunately it did not cause a big disaster, this official hopes that you can be light, don't be too difficult for her." ”

"Don't worry, my lord, I also know the law, and I don't dare to really do anything to her." Chen agreed.

"In that case, then we won't bother. This is ...... the ticket"

"Since the adults feel that they can be used to find out about the murder of their former husband, they can just take it."

Glancing at Xiao Yu with a frightened face again, Yang Chen and Huang Feng left with each other. Although he knew that the other party was just perfunctory, maybe as soon as the two of them left, Xiaoyu would have to suffer, but he really didn't want to interfere in this kind of family affairs. After all, it is difficult for a clean official to decide family affairs.

Out of the gate of the Chen family, Huang Fengcai glanced at Yang Chen with concern again: "My lord, you are not injured, are you?" That man's quick knife just now, how could you block it? In the end, it was revealed that what he really cared about was how Yang Chen could block that knife.

Yang Chen smiled: "Fortunately, I was wary, otherwise I might really fall into his way." The force of that knife was indeed huge, and if it weren't for this, I would have been seriously injured at least. As he spoke, he raised his right arm, revealing a piece of black iron in his torn sleeve.

"It's ...... Iron ruler? Huang Feng quickly recognized this thing.

"Yes, this is the guy I've been with me for years, and he's saved me many times." Yang Chen said, he had put down his hand, and he didn't mean to take out the iron ruler for the other party to take a look.

Huang Feng understood that the other party would not elaborate on such life-saving measures, so he turned the topic back to the case itself: "My lord, why do you say that the murderer wants to take this pawn ticket, and what secret does this pawn ticket hide?" ”

"When there's something hidden behind the ticket, at least for now, it's impossible to see. And I looked, the pawnshop above is not from my county. Yang Chen replied: "In addition, you are wrong, the one who wants to take this as a ticket is definitely not a murderer." ”

"Huh? What do you mean by that? ”

"You think, if the murderer wants this as a ticket, and takes it after the killing, how can Li Gui see it again afterwards? Also, the mysterious person we met tonight didn't use it when he knew that the pawn ticket might be in the Chen family, but just bribed the maid to find it for him, obviously not wanting to make things bigger, and even hoping that no one would know his purpose. This is the exact opposite of what Chen Zhigao did. So I judged that at least two people, or even two groups, were the ones who killed and wanted to get the vote. Yang Chen analyzed.

Huang Feng was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then nodded and said, "What the adults said is that it is the small ones who think things simply. ”

"But then things get more complicated. There is no clue why Chen Zhigao was killed, and now that there is such a mystery, who will they be? Yang Chen said, his fingers gently twisted the pawn ticket in his sleeve, and frowned. Although he has solved many unsolved cases before, it is rare for a case like today to involve two types of criminals.

Even he felt that this case was rare, and Huang Feng felt that it was even more difficult to handle, so he asked with a bitter face: "Then my lord, how should we investigate this case next?" Which side should I check first? ”

"Check on both sides, both at the same time!" Yang Chen gave his own meaning: "In this way, you are most familiar with the place in Pianguan County, so as I said before, inquire about the news in the county, find those who are close to Chen Zhigao, or have business dealings, and see if you can find clues from them." ”

"What about you, my lord?"

"Well, I'll follow the clues of the pawn ticket and check down. This time I have to leave the county seat and go to Taiyuan Mansion. Yang Chen smiled and said.

"Huh?" Huang Feng glanced at him with some puzzlement. Yang Chen understood and explained: "This half of the pawn ticket only has the name of the pawnshop, it is the Li family pawnshop in Taiyuan, but because it was torn off in half, I don't know what kind of object he is." So I'm going to take a trip to Taiyuan and look for clues from there. ”

"The Li family's pawnshop, that's a big shop that we can count in the whole of Shanxi. Are they willing to cooperate with our Yamen in Biguan County to investigate the case? Huang Feng said worriedly.

"You don't know until you go." Yang Chen said casually: "It's almost the second watch, let's go back quickly." With that, he quickened his pace. Huang Feng came back to his senses at this time, hurriedly agreed, and followed him quickly in the direction of the county office.

As members of the county government, the two of them still have the benefits they should have, at least the courtyards behind the county government have become their shelters, saving a lot of money for renting and buying a house.

When he arrived near the county office, Huang Feng hurriedly knocked on the door of a noodle shop on Yaqian Street, bought two large bowls of hot noodle soup with the people inside, and then entered the county government and sent it to Yang Chen's residence. People helped him search all day long, so naturally it was not good for him to go hungry.

Yang Chen was not polite, and ate noodles with Huang Feng in the room. After eating a few bites, he remembered a little more and said, "There is one more point, you should also check it carefully." That's what Chen Zhigao has been doing lately. I always felt that this might have a lot to do with this case. ”

Huang Feng's mouth was full of noodle soup, and it was difficult to speak, so he could only nod his head again and again, indicating that he had written it down.

After eating the noodles and Huang Feng left, Yang Chen took out the half of the pawn ticket again, and looked at it carefully on the oil lamp on the table. However, in his eyes, he didn't find that there were other mysteries hidden in this pawn ticket, this is just the most ordinary pawn ticket, except that it is only half a ticket.

"It seems that this should fall on the gifts. In the end, is this Chen Zhigao's own pawn, or did he get the pawn ticket from someone else? After freshening up a little, Yang Chen came to the bed, and his heart turned around again, but for a while, he didn't have a clue.

Just as he was about to fall asleep, an alarm suddenly appeared in his heart, which made Yang Chen suddenly open his eyes, and his body also rolled up from the bed, and he subconsciously looked towards the window.

It's just that the closed windows are covered with thick window paper, and it's a dark night outside, so you can't see anything at all. But Yang Chen believed that his feelings would not be deviated, and immediately leaned in front of the door with the iron ruler, gently pulled the door latch open with his hand, and then suddenly pulled the door, and jumped out of the room with an arrow step.

As a result, there was nothing but darkness in the small courtyard outside the house, not even a ghost shadow.

After scrutinizing the surroundings and making sure there was nothing suspicious, he shook his head in disbelief and turned to enter the house.

When he closed the door again, a black shadow flashed under the big locust tree outside the courtyard, and quickly disappeared into the night......