Xiao Suo was frightened by this cold questioning, and when he looked back, he saw a lean man standing outside the door, the shadow of the courtyard door covering the upper half of his face, and Xiao Suo could only see his thin and curled lips and two shallow lines at the corners of his lips.

"What happened the next day?"

Seeing that the crowd was looking at him, the man did not dare to say a word, so he took a step forward. The sun fell above his head and shone on his eyes and the long sword he held in his hand, and for a moment everyone was a little confused, not knowing whether to look at the eyes or the sword, for his eyes were as bright as the sword, and they shook a little panic.

"He's holding Shang Fang's sword, right?"

I don't know who whispered such a sentence, everyone was stunned, and then turned their eyes to the sword at the same time, only to see that it was made of dark iron, with a faint blue light, the pattern on it was finely chiseled, the pattern was clear, one side was engraved with the soaring dragon, the other side was engraved with the winged phoenix, and the hilt of the sword was also decorated with the Big Dipper, which was extremely luxurious.

"The sword above, could it be that he is Lord Xu Chong Xu?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone hurriedly knelt down towards the door, but Xu Chong took a step ahead of them and said "no courtesy", and then stepped into the threshold and walked towards the small lock behind the door at a loss, bowed his head and said, "Girl, don't panic, just tell me what happened that day." ”

"That day," Xiao Suo blinked and rubbed his nose again, and then said slowly, "that day, the young lady slept until the end of the day, but even so, she still looked no better than the day before, her face was frighteningly white, and her eyes were dark blue, as if she had fallen into an evil spirit. I brought her some porridge and side dishes, and she only ate a few bites before putting them down, and then sat alone at the table and wept silently. I saw that the situation was wrong, so I wanted to inform the master and ask him to invite a Lang Zhong to come over and take a look.

"What did the body look like when it was found?" Xu Chong quickly answered.

"She was lying on her back at the table, with a hole in the top of her head, and the inkstone was next to her head."

"Was your young master not there at the time of the incident?"

Xiao Suo didn't know why Xu Chong asked this, but he still replied, "The young master went out early in the morning, but after I found the young lady's body, he also came over quickly, he should have just entered the door." ”

"Just walked in the door." Xu Chong repeated these three words, and was about to ask Xiao Suo what to do again, but his voice was interrupted by a voice behind him.

"Lord Xu, it turns out that you came here in person, you don't have to bother with this case, we have already found a witness, and we know who the murderer is." Wu Yuanli, the county lieutenant of Maocheng, hurriedly walked towards Xu Chong, hunched his waist, and the smile on his face could be seen from miles away, "Lord Xu, it's a winter today, you should spend the festival in Fuzhong, and you don't need to make a special trip here." ”

Xu Chong ignored Wu Yuanli's courtesy, and only frowned, "Do you know who the murderer is?" ”

"Of course," Wu Yuanli didn't expect that Xu Chong would also be one step slower than himself, and his heart blossomed with joy, "The murderer is Yang Ziyun, the young master of the Yang family." ”

He said the three words "Yang Ziyun" in a low voice.

"What is the evidence?"

Wu Yuanli leaned his head towards Xu Chong and lowered his voice, "Lord Xu, do you know where this Yang Ziyun went on the day of the crime?" Why did he go there? ”

After speaking, seeing Xu Chong frowning and staring at him, he didn't dare to sell Guan Zi anymore, and asked himself, "He went to the pharmacy to grab medicine." ”

"As the young master of the Yang family, do you still need to go to the pharmacy to grab the medicine yourself?" Xu Chong asked.

Wu Yuanli smiled "hehe", sent his hand outside the courtyard, and motioned for Xu Chong to come out with him. After the two of them were away from those whispering servants, he smiled and said to Xu Chong, "Because this Yang Ziyun's illness is a hidden disease, and it must not be explained to others." He rolled his eyes around and covered the corners of his mouth with his hand, "Yang Ziyun is suffering from inaction." ”

"Let's move on."

According to the guy at the pharmacy, Yang Ziyun seemed to have something in his heart on the day of the crime, and when he grabbed the medicine, he sighed to himself, saying that he had this disease, and even the newlywed lady looked down on him, which was really a wretch. Later, he hurried away without even taking the medicine bag, as if he was in a hurry to do something. I asked the guy about the time when Yang Ziyun left, and calculated the time from the pharmacy to Yang's mansion, and found that Yang Ziyun lied, he should have rushed home before Cui Ruyi died, and then took advantage of the unpreparedness to smash his wife to death with the inkstone on the table, and left in a hurry and turned back, pretending that he had just rushed back from outside. ”

After saying this inference, Wu Yuanli let out a sigh of relief and smiled smugly, "Lord Xu, you often tell the lower officials not to just look at the surface when encountering problems, but to be good at discovering the clues in the case. ”

Xu Chong looked at Wu Yuanli's face that was slightly red because of excitement, forcibly suppressed the sentence in his heart, and only said in a low voice, "It's better to ask Yang Ziyun first, and then make a conclusion." ”

Sure enough, as Xu Chong expected, Yang Ziyun's reaction to the suspicion that he was a murderer was extremely strong, and this excitement led to a series of violent coughs, he clutched his chest, coughing so much that he couldn't calm down for a long time, Xu Chong almost suspected that he had to cough up a rib to stop.

"Two adults," he gasped and sat up straight on the bed, "Since you have all gone to the pharmacy, then I simply don't hide that I Yang Ziyun had a disease of inactivity a few years ago, and I have been drinking medicine, but this does not mean that I want to kill people, I can't hide it, this disease is still secondary, my tuberculosis is the real stubborn disease in my body, I don't have many days to live, so my father is arranging one family affair after another, and I want me to leave incense for the Yang family before I die. What reason do I, a dying man, have to kill again? ”

After finishing his words easily, as if he had exhausted all his strength, Yang Ziyun fell on the bed again, panting breathlessly, Xu Chong was afraid that he would die in front of him.

"So where did you go after you left the pharmacy that day? I asked the guy at the pharmacy, and he said that you left in a hurry, and you didn't even take the medicine" Wu Yuanli was also frightened by Yang Ziyun's appearance, but he still asked with a stiff neck.

Yang Ziyun smiled miserably, "I went to Sister Liu's mother's cemetery, and I told her that she doesn't have to wait too many days, because I will come to accompany her soon," Speaking of this, he seemed to suddenly remember something, and his eyes lit up, "My lord, I also met a few officials there, and chatted with them a few words, if you don't believe in villains, you won't trust your subordinates." ”