"What do you mean by that? There's nothing good or bad about it,"

The expression on Ruixi's face became a little strange,

"Anyway, she has a lot of guests, and I can't mess with her, so I usually take care of each other. She is beautiful, and she knows a few words, and the guests who go to her are all sons and nobles, where is it like me......"

"Oh, then, has she been unhappy these days?"

Zong Jiyuan asked casually.

Ruixi listened and asked a little strangely,

"Not happy? How could she be unhappy? On the contrary, she seems to be very happy these days, and the other day she whispered something to me, and the person she was destined to have appeared. ”

"Fate?"

Zong Jiyuan's heart moved, and he immediately asked,

"Didn't she say what that meant?"

"I didn't say that, seeing that she was so happy, and she came to me to show off, and people had the heart to ask her what she meant......"

Ruixi's face, which was originally very delicate, but was covered by a thick layer of fat powder, showed a trace of loss.

Zong Jiyuan could see that this kid was actually a simple person, so he suddenly changed the topic and asked,

"Ruixi, did you hear any strange sounds last night?"

"Yes, who wouldn't hear it so noisy?"

Originally, I moved a little bit and wanted to make a surprise attack so that she couldn't be caught off guard, but who knew that the kid answered very simply,

"In the middle of the night, when I was trying to sleep, I heard a scream in her room, and someone ran through the door. Startled, I crept over to the other side and saw the door of the room wide open, and the cold wind was swishing and messing inside, but I didn't see what was going on. Later, Zheng's mother and a few people came, and I was afraid of being scolded by them, so I hurried back to my house. ”

"Sounds hilarious,"

When Zong Jiyuan heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, but he still said with a very funny expression as if he had heard something new,

"And then what? And then what? ”

"After that, my mother came and told us that no one was allowed to go out, and then ...... I heard people running around outside, and I didn't know what they were doing, but by the way, some people seemed to be out of the gate. ”

This Ruixi said excitedly, gushing endlessly.

Zong Jiyuan looked at her still childish face, and once again had a trace of distressed pity in his heart, and sighed,

"Okay, thank you, little Ruixi, close the door, have a good rest, and don't tell anyone about our conversation yet."

"yes, got it."

Ruixi nodded obediently and escorted her to the door.

After returning to the room where the crime occurred, Zong Jiyuan quietly came to the back window, pushed open the window and looked down, and secretly said in his heart, sure enough, he turned around and looked at the Zheng mother who was still standing aside, and said,

"Mother Zheng, is that girl here really missing out of thin air?"

"yes, that's ......"

Mother Zheng nodded again and again.

Zong Jiyuan then asked,

"And it happened in the middle of the night last night, didn't it?"

"Yes, yes...... Oh no, no, it's this morning! ”

This Zheng's mother was startled, shook her hand again and again, and corrected it.

Zong Jiyuan frowned slightly, and said coldly,

"Nonsense! Are you so easy to coax people who handle cases in our county government? ”

"But I really didn't lie to you...... You—Where did you see that I lied to you......"

Zheng's mother was so frightened that she hurriedly defended.

Seeing that she was really tricky, Zong Jiyuan simply said,

"Okay then, I'll tell you what's in your room where you lied to us."

As he spoke, he walked to the front of the back window again,

"First of all, the temperature and air conditioning in this room have not subsided, and the heating in this room is obviously good, but why is all the furnishings chilling? It can be seen that the windows in this room are open for at least half a night. If the person who lived here this morning was gone, then how did she stay in this room until dawn this night?! ”

"Huh? This ......"

Zheng's mother couldn't say anything for a long time.

Zong Jiyuan didn't wait for her to make any explanation, and continued,

"Then there are the footprints on the ground, which are faint but completely recognizable as men's boot prints, and which, judging by their size and style, belong to at least four men. If it is said that it was left by the guests, the floor in this room is obviously very clean, which means that someone is carefully wiping it every day, and it will not be that at least four guests came overnight last night, right? ”

After saying this, Zheng's mother's face turned pale, and He Ruichang and Diao Saburo naturally looked at her approvingly, and encouraged Zong Jiyuan to continue talking with their eyes.

Receiving the praise of the adults, Zong Jiyuan continued,

"In addition, there is the futon on this bed, which I have just seen, and it is neatly folded, and there is no trace of it used last night, and, more importantly, in such a cold season, there is only a thin quilt, not even a thicker quilt. Judging from the degree of attention that Mantang has received here, it is not because he has been treated coldly and has not been treated as he deserves, someone must have done something with a thick quilt, isn't it?! ”

After saying this, Zong Jiyuan turned around and walked back to the back window, pushed the window open,

"And the things under this window, Mother Zheng, do you want to see for yourself?"

"What?"

Diao Saburo was very curious to come to the window, leaned down and looked down, and saw that there was a large pile of ropes on the ground downstairs, and then looked up into the distance, and was surprised to find that it turned out that the back window was actually outside the county seat.

Zong Jiyuan smiled and continued unhurriedly,

"Ropes, not only those outside the window, isn't there one on the beam of this house? Mother Zheng, tell me about it, the rope on the beam of this house, the stool that overturned under the rope, and the footprints of so many men on the ground, the thick quilt that disappeared on the bed, and the long rope that fell on the ground outside the window after opening the window in the middle of the night, what does it mean that you can go directly out of the city here? ”

"What ...... said?"

Zheng's mother was already trembling with fright, and her upper teeth touched her lower teeth.

"The little girl really doesn't understand, it's obvious that my daughter is gone......"

"Are you still quibbling?"

Zong Jiyuan couldn't help but sneer,

"Do you think that you can really hide from the world and deceive our family?!"

"Bold woman!"

In fact, He Ruichang already had some judgments just now, and with Zong Jiyuan's analysis just now, he was even more clear in his heart.

"Obviously, it was your persecution that caused the girl to hang herself last night, and you were afraid that you would be punished by the law for forcing people to die, so you found your subordinates to wrap the body in a quilt, and sent it out of the city through the back window to be buried in secret, yes or no?!"