Chapter 400: One more
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"Master Meng laughed, Liao is just thinking about it, and has no other intentions." Liao Junjie said with a sneer.
"Think about it, think about it more, the older the shopkeeper Liao's business, the better, you have figured out the minds of every guest, and they still don't obediently throw the silver into your pocket?"
"Master Meng actually has such a deep study of doing business, Liao is disrespectful." Liao Junjie bowed to the end.
"Research can't be talked about, this official investigates and solves the case, which is similar to the practice of Liao's shopkeeper." Meng Yan said with a smile.
"Lord Meng's words really opened Liao's eyes!"
"Shopkeeper Liao, you won't mind if I borrow someone from you, right?" Meng Yan asked as he continued to look through it.
"Borrow whom?" Liao Junjie was stunned.
"Him, Xiao Cui!" Meng Yan pointed at the guy named Xiao Cui and said.
"Master Meng, he's just a young guy who records, what's the use of you borrowing him?" Liao Junjie said, "Besides, you have a lot of talents......
"So do you borrow or not?" Meng Yan swept his face lightly.
"It's not impossible to borrow, it's just that Liao has finally cultivated such a guy who can help me share some things, adult, you can't say you want to leave?"
"You don't have to cry with me, I just borrow it for a while, ask some questions, and pay you back in a while!"
"So that's the case, then it's no problem, Master Meng, you can use it however you want." A stone fell to the ground in Liao Junjie's heart. I thought that Meng Yan was going to get this little Cui away permanently.
"Shopkeeper Liao, I want to lend you a place, the official has something to ask Xiao Cui." Meng Yan closed the registration book and said.
"No problem, Liao's study, do you think it's appropriate, Master Meng?"
"Won't it be too intrusive?"
"No, you use it, Liao has something to do in front of him, so I'll retire first!" Liao Junjie was afraid that Meng Yan would resign, so as soon as he gave up his hand, he pouted and walked out quickly.
"Mr. Cai. I'm tired of you. Meng Yan arched his hand.
"Your Excellency is welcome. Cai has a lot to do. Cai Jin walked over, picked up the pen and paper on the table, and prepared to record it.
"Xiao Cui, what's your full name?"
"The villain's name is Cui Tianming."
"But you understand?"
"No, it's just that. A blockbuster! Cui Tianming explained.
"Good name!" Meng Yan smiled slightly. "Who got the name?"
"Mother!"
"Ling Tang must be a good woman who is well-informed."
"Master Xie complimented. The mother is just a maid by the side of the housemother. Cui Tianming said.
"Heroes don't ask where they come from!"
"Cui Tianming, the small talk is to let you relax and have some questions for you. You have to answer truthfully, understand? ”
"The villain understands!" Cui Tianming thought for a moment and nodded.
"The official knows that the shopkeeper Liao has an explanation to you, so if you have difficulties, you can not answer, but if you open your mouth, you must tell the official the truth, do you understand?"
"The villain knows, please ask, my lord." Cui Tianming's expression was relaxed, and it was obvious that Meng Yan's attitude made him feel that the pressure was suddenly gone.
"Cui Tianming, are you writing the contents of this check-in book?"
"Yes!"
"Have you ever seen it with your own eyes?"
"Some of them saw it with their own eyes, and some of them were told by other guys."
"Well, this official can see it, you saw it with your own eyes, and the description is very detailed, and others only relayed one or two sentences, right?"
"Yes!"
"This official looks at your record on the evening of the eighth day of the ninth lunar month, and you are very impressed by Xi'er's entry into the Hejian Hall, isn't it?"
"Yes." Cui Tianming paused slightly and nodded.
"I want to see what other records you have about Xi'er?" Meng Yan asked, "I don't know, can I?" ”
"Well, of course!" Cui Tianming bit his lip, and a hint of discoloration flashed in his eyes.
"Then take it."
"Yes, sir!" Cui Tianming agreed, turned around and walked out.
"Your Excellency?"
"Mr. Cai, this is the unexpected gain of this official today!" Meng Yan smiled and pointed to Cui Tianming who walked out.
"Harvest, what do you see?"
"I'm afraid Mr. Cai hasn't had unrequited love, right?"
"Unrequited love?" Cai Jin was slightly stunned, and immediately understood, Cui Tianming liked Xi'er, "My lord, how did you see it?" ”
"Just look at Cui Tianming's relevant records of Xi'er, obviously with affection, and there are obvious words of concern for Xi'er's appearance, while for others, the pen and ink are concise, and there is not too much emotional color!"
"My lord said this, this Cui Tianming is really unrequited love for Xi'er!"
"These records are just my guesses, if there are other records to corroborate, then it will be a problem!" Meng Yan Road.
"Since this Cui Tianming likes Xi'er, then he must care about her very much, and he has been in the Hejian Hall for a long time, and he is reused by Liao Junjie, he must know some secrets that we don't know, about Xi'er?"
"This is the biggest takeaway from our visit to the Riverside Hall today!"
"Then will Liao Junjie also know that Cui Tianming likes Xi'er?" Cai Jin asked.
"He may know, but he won't tell us directly." Meng Yan said, "But I left Cui Tianming alone, this guy must have seen it, so he found an excuse to avoid it." ”
"This guy is really a loach and cunning!" Cai Jin scolded.
"Don't worry about him for now, focus on this Cui Tianming, maybe we can ask some things we never knew today." Meng Yan smiled.
"Your luck has always been good." Cai Jin said with a smile.
After about a cup of tea, Cui Tianming walked in with a stack of registration books, and saw that there was dust on it.
"My lord, shall I dust it off first when I take it outside?"
"Mr. Cai. Help. Meng Yan shouted.
"It's coming!"
With the previous ventilation with Cai Jin, the focus of this search was found, and soon, the records about Xi'er's discrepancies in the account books were picked out.
Seeing Meng Yan browsing his records about Xi'er one by one, Cui Tianming lowered his head, and there was a feeling that he didn't dare to come out.
"Cui Tianming, is Xi'er beautiful?"
"Beautiful!" Cui Tianming said without thinking about it, and then felt speechless, and his face turned slightly pale.
"Cui Tianming, how old are you this year?"
"Nineteen!" Cui Tianming snorted.
"Nineteen years old. It's time to get married. Did the family say they were kissed? ”
"Not yet."
"Is there a girl you like?"
Cui Tianming blushed, lowered his head, and did not answer.
Sometimes there is no answer, and that is an answer. What's more, Meng Yan has read so many records. The meaning of concern and affection between the lines. It all comes out of his pen.
Maybe he is still deliberately hiding something, but in the eyes of those who have a heart, this is not a secret at all.
"Cui Tianming. If you marry Xi'er, would you marry her? Meng Yan suddenly jumped to a rather acute question.
"What do you want to know, sir?" Cui Tianming knelt in front of Meng Yan with a puff, and said in a trembling voice.
"Cui Tianming, you get up and speak first." Meng Yan stepped forward and pulled him up.
"Adult, the villain likes Xi'er, but the villain never thinks about it, let alone does anything to hurt Xi'er." Cui Tianming said nervously.
"This official knows that you like Xi'er, and you don't tell her about your admiration for Xi'er, right?"
"Yes, the villain doesn't dare, the villain knows, she doesn't look down on me." Cui Tianming said.
"I can't look down on you, although your mother is also a Yahuan, she is already a free body, and she is just a Yahuan, what qualifications does she have to look down on you?"
"What she wants is the kind of life that people hold on the tip of their hands, and villains can't give it."
"If you can't give it, who can give it?"
"Boss He, Second Master Jiao, and Cao Qianhu!" Cui Tianming said in frustration.
"Cao Qianhu, Cao Qin!" Meng Yan and Cai Jin were taken aback, why did Xi'er still have a relationship with Cao Qin?
"Yes, once Jiao Erye arranged to get Xi'er drunk, Cao Qianhu came, and left the next morning!" Cui Tianming said.
"Does He Wendong know?" Meng Yan asked in surprise.
"Boss He should know that that it was the four of them who ate wine together, and I was serving on the side." Cui Tianming said.
"Does Xi'er know?"
"She probably knew that after that time, she hadn't been to the Riverhouse for two months." Cui Tianming said.
"When?"
"Just June of the year before last." Cui Tianming said, "The specific time will be known by looking at my records." ”
"You find out!" Meng Yan was surprised again, in June of the previous year, was it the time for Xi'er to get pregnant?
Why did another Cao Qin pop up?
And what surprised Meng Yan even more was that Cao Qin actually became the biggest suspect of the father of the baby in Xi'er's womb.
"My lord, here, on the evening of June 17 of the year before last, Xi'er, Boss He, as well as Jiao Erye and Cao Qianhu drank together, and the location was in the private room of the restaurant in our hall!" Cui Tianming quickly found out.
Meng Yan remembered that He Wenhai said that he left the capital in mid-June, and before leaving, he had a spring breeze with Xi'er, who had just been clean and neat.
He didn't know exactly the specific time, but it was probably twelve or thirteen.
If Cui Tianming's record of the days is accurate, the next four or five days is indeed the best period for conception.
Xi'er was also sixteen years old at that time, and the possibility of conception was very high.
"Cui Tianming, are you sure that in the next two months, Xi'er has not been to the Hejian Hall?" Meng Yan asked solemnly.
"Unless I didn't see it, I'm sure Xi'er hasn't been to the Riverroom for two months!" Cui Tianming said.
"When did Xi'er come to the River Hall?"
"August 15 is the Mid-Autumn Festival, He Wendong went to pick up Xi'er, the two seem to be talking and laughing, they should be reconciled." Cui Tianming said.
Meng Yan flipped through to the day of August 15, and sure enough, there was a record of Xi'er and He Wendong returning to the Hejian Hall together.
"My lord, can you identify ......" Cai Jin was also laughed at by this result.
"This can't be confirmed yet, Xi'er just hasn't appeared in the Hejian Hall in the past two months, doesn't it mean that they are not somewhere else?" Meng Yan said very seriously.
"It makes sense for adults to say, but according to the logic of normal people, a familiar place is always safer than an unfamiliar place?" Cai Jindao.
"That's right, but it's also a bit arbitrary." Meng Yan said, "It's just that we have one more object of suspicion." ”
"It's messy enough!" Cai Jin shook his head and smiled bitterly. (To be continued......)