Su Xianrong listened to Chen Changmao's speech and asked, "Where are the silver hairpins and earrings?" ”

Chen Changmao glanced at the inner room a few times and said, "Cui'er, take out the silver hairpin and earrings that the monk gave you last night." ”

Before Chen Changmao's words were finished, Su Xianrong saw the bead curtain in the inner room move, and then, a young woman wearing green clothes and combing her hair came out from behind the bead curtain.

The woman pouted, walked up to Chen Changmao, took off the silver hairpin on her head, took off the earrings, threw them to Chen Changmao and said, "Here you go!" I haven't brought this hot yet. ”

Chen Changmao reprimanded: "You kid, why are you so disobedient? The silver hairpins and gold earrings are not owned by our family, these are ill-gotten gains and should be returned. ”

Chen Cuiling said angrily: "The monk drank water in our house, and we gave him another piece of clothing, and his silver hairpin and gold earrings were bought with our money, how can this be ill-gotten gains?" ”

Before Chen Changmao could speak, Su Xianrong said, "That monk is dead. All the things on the monk's body will become evidence in court. Of course, the silver hairpins and gold earrings that your father and son got from the monk are also evidence, so it is not an exaggeration to say that he is ill-gotten gains. Don't you feel sorry for your conscience that the monk drank a bowl of water at your house, and you gave him a man's garment, and you dared to ask the monk for a silver hairpin and a pair of gold earrings? ”

Chen Changmao hurriedly explained: "Lord Tolerance, misunderstanding, misunderstanding, we don't want the silver hairpin and gold earrings given by the monk, but the monk has to give it, and we are reluctant to accept it." ”

Su Xianrong took the silver hairpin and gold earrings in his hand and said, "If it weren't for your assistance in handling the case, we would definitely arrest you in the yamen so that you can reflect and reflect." Okay, now we will bring the silver hairpin and gold earrings back to the Yamen, and when the monk's case is finished, if there is no problem with the silver hairpin and gold earrings on his body, we will consider returning them to you. ”

Song Ruilong got up and said to Chen Changmao: "Chen Changmao, what you said today is better to be the truth, if there is even the slightest untruth, the county will invite you to the prison to say it well." ”

Chen Changmao pulled Chen Cuiling to kneel on the ground and said, "What Xiaomin said is true. ”

After Song Ruilong and Su Xianrong walked out of Chen Changmao's house, Su Xianrong looked to the south and north and said, "This monk came out of Chen Changmao's house around the third watch. When he came out, he was still wearing a woman's clothes. If you were that monk, what would be the first thing you would do first? ”

Song Ruilong thought about it and said: "It is indeed very awkward for a monk to wear the clothes of a big girl. If I were the monk, I would first have to find a place to change my woman's clothes. ”

Su Xianrong looked at the two roads due south and north, and said, "Then you said that the monk came out of this courtyard, and he would go in that direction?" ”

Song Ruilong first looked to the north, then to the south, and said: "Due south is the field, but if you go due north, walk out of this street and then go due east, you will pass through Fanjiazhuang, and from Fanjiazhuang to Xianren Mountain is the nearest road." If that monk was the monk of Mengzhen Temple in Xianren Mountain, then he would definitely go north from here, walk to the end of this street and then go east, passing through Fanjiazhuang. Suppose that the monk was going to have a happy affair with a man's wife, then he would definitely be killed in Fanjiazhuang. ”

Su Xianrong's face was slightly red, and he said, "Why can't it be someone from Chenjiazhuang who did it?" You must know that throwing the monk into the dry well from Chenjiazhuang is the same distance as throwing the monk into the dry well from Fanjiazhuang. Also, the monk was wearing women's clothes at night, and according to Chen Changmao, he didn't know what was going on, he just slept in the box. I think the box that the monk said is very suspicious, and the clothes of the woman the monk is wearing are also very strange. ”

Song Ruilong nodded and said, "This monk has treasures on his neck, ears, head and ankles, which is really strange. Judging from these jewelry, it should be a large family in the county. However, the place where the monk was killed was definitely not in the county seat, and the place where he was killed was either in Chenjiazhuang or Fanjiazhuang. The monk came out of Chen Changmao's house during the third watch, and he had no shoes on his feet, so he must not have walked fast. It would only take more than half an hour to walk to Fanjiazhuang, assuming that he had a good friend in Fanjiazhuang, then, he directly knocked on the door of that house, and hugged the woman when he entered, and then..."

Su Xianrong said: "I understand what Brother Song means. But did Brother Song ever think about it, assuming that the monk was from Mengzhen Temple in Xianren Mountain, and he wanted to come out to Fanjiazhuang at night to date the woman, he could go to Fanjiazhuang directly from Mengzhen Temple, but why did the monk wear women's clothes and disguise himself as men? In the end, how could he return to Fanjiazhuang from Chenjiazhuang, isn't this a reluctance to seek the near and far? ”

Song Ruilong pondered: "If that monk returns from Ping'an County, then these doubts of yours can be explained." The monk was in Ping'an County, a man dressed as a woman, and stole the gold and silver jewelry of a large family, he was afraid of being discovered, so he ran desperately, and ran away with his shoes in the process of running. In the end, he came to Chenjiazhuang barefoot, at this time he was hungry and thirsty, in desperation, he knocked on the door of Chen Changmao's house, drank water inside, asked for a man's clothes, and went out, and then on the way back to Mengzhen Temple, he may have encountered some trouble, so he was killed. ”

Su Xianrong said with a smile: "The reasoning is very successful, but we have to uncover these mysteries now, we can't rely on reasoning, we still need evidence." Assuming that the monk was really a shoe-wearing escaper from the county government, then he must not be an ordinary person, because ordinary people can't climb over the four-zhang high city wall at night. If he was wearing shoes, he would have seen them. ”

Song Ruilong said: "It's not ordinary people who killed him. ”

Song Ruilong and Su Xianrong walked more than a dozen steps to the north, and at the end of that street, he found a vegetable garden, and the greens in the vegetable garden were growing very well.

The outside of the garden is a circle of thorns, and there are thorns on the thorns, which can prick people's fingers if they are not careful.

Su Xianrong saw a messy footprint outside the vegetable garden. There were no patterns on the footprints, and Su Xianrong concluded that those footprints were stepped on by someone with bare feet. And there are a lot of red threads on top of the thorns.