In the evening, the county government of Qingyuan County was in prison.

Since it was the off-season for work, the gardeners who had worked for the Zhang family stayed at home and were all taken away by the officers of the county government.

In fact, except for the old man who is a registered gardener, the rest of the people are all households, and they are the apprentices of the old gardener.

Obviously, people did not think that the death of Miss Zhang was related to these florists who had an alibi at the time of the crime, so rumors spread in the market, and the rumors that the Shen family bought Li Hongyu to save Shen Shaoqiang by replacing the dead ghost spread far and wide.

This made the Shen family suffer a huge criticism suddenly, Shen Yunshan made his family remain silent about this, he knew that with the current situation, no one would believe him no matter how he explained, but it would be regarded as a sign of weakness, so the best choice was to remain silent and wait and see how things developed.

In fact, the Zhao family is also under a lot of psychological pressure, and it is no secret that Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin were invited by Yang He to assist in the investigation of the case, so the Zhao family was naturally implicated in this turmoil, and it was inevitable that there would be some rumors.

Old Man Zhao felt very helpless about this, considering the grievances between the Zhao family and the Shen family and the complexity of the case, no matter what Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin did, they would be criticized, but the only way to calm down the situation was to find out the facts of the case.

Originally, the people of the Zhang family thought that the Shen family had a grudge against the Zhao family, so Zhao Xin would definitely fall into the case against Shen Shaoqiang this time, but who knew that Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin began to suspect those gardeners after checking the case file.

For this reason, Miss Zhang's father couldn't hold back his excitement, like going to the county government to find Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin's theory, but was persuaded by Yang He, so as not to affect the government's handling of the case.

After all, those florists were just called to assist in the investigation, Li Hongyu did not say that they were the murderers, so Master Zhang did not insist, and left angrily under Yang He's persuasion, and ordered his subordinates to keep an eye on Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin's every move.

At night, the county jail, the torture room.

Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin met Hong'er, the maid of Miss Zhang's family, who was brought by the jailer, although Hong'er looked a little haggard but looked in good spirits, and as a key witness in Miss Zhang's case, she did not suffer any grievances in the prison.

"Miss Hong'er, what's so special about that lost blonde hairpin?" Li Hongyu motioned to the jailer to move a stool for Hong'er to sit down, and then asked in a deep voice quietly.

"Back to Master Jie, that golden hairpin was picked by my young lady from the gold shop last year, and there is nothing special about it." Hong'er looked up at Li Hongyu when she heard this, and after biting her head, she explained the origin of the golden hairpin, and from Li Hongyu's Huguang accent, she knew that it was Xie Yuanlang who asked her at this time.

Li Hongyu checked the case file, and naturally knew that the golden hairpin was one of a batch of jewelry selected by Miss Zhang from the gold store last year, and he even borrowed an identical golden hairpin from the gold store, with a peacock pattern on the tail, which belonged to the common jewelry on the market, and there was nothing special about it.

Yang He naturally tried his best to track down this lost golden hairpin, but unfortunately found nothing, no matter from which point of view, it was just an ordinary piece of jewelry.

Li Hongyu is very concerned about the matter of the golden hairpin, in his opinion, the murderer must have some meaning by just taking the golden hairpin after the murder, in other words, the golden hairpin has a special meaning to the murderer.

Therefore, Li Hongyu decided to find out what is special about this golden hairpin, as long as this problem is solved, then the case may become much simpler.

Moreover, as an important object involved in the case, if you want to solve the case, you must find it, in order to avoid the murderer from selling the stolen goods, the entire Taiyuan Mansion has posted a notice of the golden hairpin, as long as the golden hairpin appears, it will definitely be reported.

Li Hongyu didn't think that the murderer would sell the golden hairpin, and if the murderer was greedy for money, he would definitely take Miss Zhang's other belongings away, but in fact he didn't do it, so he would definitely hide the golden hairpin.

"Miss Hong'er, think about it carefully, has your young lady's golden hairpin been on your young lady's body, has anyone else touched it?" After listening to Hong'er's answer, Zhao Xin pondered for a while, and asked carefully, according to her and Li Hongyu's analysis, the murderer definitely had anything to do with that hairpin.

"Master Hui Yayuan, that hairpin is either worn by the young lady or put away by the maid for safekeeping, and outsiders can't touch it." Hong'er shook her head when she heard this, from Zhao Xin's accent, she knew that Zhao Xin was the young master of the Zhao family, and she had answered this question many times, which was really lackluster.

"Miss Hong'er, think about it, has this hairpin ever left you and your young lady, even if it's just for a short time." Li Hongyu saw that Hong'er couldn't provide any useful information, so he thought about it and asked in a different way.

"Master Xie Yuan, when you said this, the servant remembered something, this hairpin was lost once." After listening to Li Hongyu's words, Hong'er frowned at first, then thought of something, and said to Li Hongyu, "Actually, it's not a loss, the hairpin fell in the yard, and it was picked up and replaced." ”

"But when you're renovating the flower beds?" Li Hongyu's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this, and he glanced at Zhao Xin quietly, and then asked in a deep voice.

"That's exactly the time." Hong'er's face couldn't help but show a look of surprise, she didn't expect Li Hongyu to be able to guess the time, so she continued, "At that time, the golden hairpin was ......."

"Wait a minute." Realizing that Hong'er was going to say the name of the person who picked up the golden hairpin, Li Hongyu opened his mouth to stop her, and he didn't want to know the answer until he got the details of the gardeners, so as not to mislead him at that time.

Hong'er swallowed back the words when she came to her mouth, and looked at Li Hongyu with a puzzled expression, not knowing what Li Hongyu meant.

"Why didn't you say this during the previous interrogation?" Zhao Xin knew Li Hongyu's intentions, so he asked Hong'er quietly.

"Back to Master Ya, I found it soon after the golden hairpin fell off, so the maid didn't take this matter to heart, if it wasn't for the reminder of the master just now, the maid wouldn't have remembered that incident." A wry smile flashed across Hong'er's lips, and she opened her mouth to explain that it seemed to her that it was just a trivial matter, and she quickly forgot about it.

Besides, the gardener who picked up the golden hairpin was honest, and Hong'er would not think that he had anything to do with the murder of Miss Zhang.

"How did your young lady deal with this?" Zhao Xin nodded after listening to Hong'er's explanation, and then asked in a deep voice.

"My young lady originally wanted to give him some money as a reward, but he said that he should not reward him for this matter, and the young lady felt that he was kind, so she gave him a box of ginseng and asked him to take it back to make up for the old man at home." Hong'er replied methodically when she heard this.

"How many people know about this?" Li Hongyu couldn't help frowning when he heard this, and then looked at Hong'er with a serious expression and asked.

"It's not clear, there were only three of us present at the time, I don't know if he told anyone else." Hong'er shook her head when she heard this, then hesitated for a moment, and asked tentatively, "Two masters, you don't suspect that he is a murderer, right?" ”

"We're just asking." The "he" in Hong'er's mouth naturally refers to the gardener who picked up the golden hairpin, Li Hongyu replied quietly.

"My young lady gave him such a valuable ginseng as a gift, which is kind to him, he is so honest and will not do such a heartbreaking thing anyway." Hong'er couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she heard this, and couldn't help but say good things for the other party.

Li Hongyu's brows furrowed again, no wonder Hong'er didn't tell outsiders about the golden hairpin before, and her subconscious had already excluded the gardener who picked up the golden hairpin as the murderer.

"Miss Hong'er, don't tell anyone about today's conversation." Zhao Xin's willow eyebrows also frowned slightly, and then took a pen and paper and said to her, "Write down the details of the hairpin that fell off." ”

Hong'er naturally didn't dare to slack off, and wrote down the story of the incident one by one, and was taken down by the jailer after signing and drawing.

"Brother Li, what do you think about this?" Zhao Xin checked Hong'er's confession and put it away, smiled and asked Li Hongyu, Hong'er wrote the name of the gold-hairpin gardener who picked up the golden hairpin on the confession, there is no doubt that this person has a major suspicion.

"Skynet is magnificent and negligent, if this case is done by him, then he will definitely not be able to escape justice." Li Hongyu pondered for a moment, sighed and looked at Zhao Xin, "Poor Miss Zhang, she is too kind, maybe that box of ginseng is the key to her death!" ”

"Ginseng?" Zhao Xin's willow eyebrows frowned, and he looked at Li Hongyu with some surprise, "Brother Li, are you saying that Miss Zhang's box of ginseng made him think about it?" ”

"The more honest and honest people are, the more they love to drill the horns!"

Li Hongyu shook his head a little helplessly, got up and came to the window, opened the window, looked at the twinkling stars in the sky, and said with feeling, "A young man with strong blood meets a young and beautiful girl, and the girl's smile may give the young man a deep root, and after being carried away by feelings, he will often do some unbelievable things!" ”

"Brother Li does he have a favorite girl?" Zhao Xin saw Li Hongyu's vicissitudes of life, and couldn't help but ask with some curiosity, as far as she knew, Li Hongyu had been studying hard in Baihe Town, and he had no chance to contact other women.

Besides, Li Hongyu is only sixteen this year, although Zhao Xin feels that Li Hongyu's temperament is very stable, but he has definitely not experienced the baptism of ********, so why is there such a sense of vicissitudes.

"I'm just talking about things." Li Hongyu couldn't help but come back to his senses when he heard this, he remembered some things from the past just now, so he smiled and said perfunctorily, "Marriage has been the order of parents since ancient times, and the words of the matchmaker, even if there is a girl you like, you can only meet in private, just like Shen Shaoqiang and Miss Zhang, there is no good result." ”

Zhao Xin's expression suddenly darkened when she heard this, and her eyes when she looked at Li Hongyu were suddenly full of complicated looks, Li Hongyu was right, not only Li Hongyu, but even her marriage was up to her, and the elders in the family had to make the decision, which made her feel inexplicably sad and gloomy in her heart.