Early the next morning, Yizhuang.

Mei Xiaoren was indeed shocked by Jiang Rong's words last night, but he was not so frightened that he was intimidated. She still followed the prior arrangement, and Ye Zhitianming came to Yizhuang.

Yesterday's autopsy was not careful, so she had to ask her to take another look and distinguish the murderer's habit of using weapons according to the shape of the wound, so as to deduce how many people committed the murder.

Mei Xiaoren and Ye Zhi waited aside. Mei Xiaoren and Jiang Rong didn't come back after they went out yesterday, so they only sent people to let them go back to rest, and they only showed up this morning. Ye Zhi couldn't help but be curious: "What did Gongzi Jiang say to adults last night?"

Mei Xiaoren was silent, thinking about whether to tell Ye Zhi.

Ye Zhi's courage is not as big as hers, if he knows that the murder may be committed by the prime minister's minions, will he stop her from continuing to investigate

In fact, she is not afraid of the high-ranking minister, she just can't shelve the case based on Jiang Rong's words, in case Jiang Rong's guess is wrong, it would be dereliction of duty for her to stop and not investigate.

She continued to investigate in order to confirm Ei's claim. If she knew the number of perpetrators, she could let people keep an eye out for these outsiders in Yun County.

According to Ei, although the adults of the Hidden Moon Platform are good at hiding, they are well-trained, and their words and deeds are different from ordinary people, and one or two are difficult to detect, but if there are many people, they may be able to recognize them.

If it was certain that it was the Hidden Moon Terrace, then she had to stop and wait to report it to Lord Futai.

Ye Zhi saw that Mei Xiaoren was a little distracted, and called softly: "My lord"

Mei Xiaoren came back to his senses and said casually: "It's nothing, he has changed his sex now, and he doesn't want to go against me." ”

"Then why did he say that the adults would check it, it's just one" Ye Zhi paused, because that word scared the yamen a lot.

Mei Xiaoren sighed with deep eyes: "Did he scare me less?"

Having said that, she also understood that Jiang Rong didn't scare her this time. If it was really done by the Hidden Moon Platform, then she found out on the Hidden Moon Platform, and she would have offended the Prime Minister.

If the Prime Minister or his staff ordered the Hidden Moon Platform to execute these people in secret, it was enough to show that the reason behind it could not be made public, and naturally it could not be investigated. When she checked, it was tantamount to revealing the bottom of the prime minister or his staff.

Once some secrets are known, they can lead to death. After all, those high-ranking adults remove her from a county order, which is like pinching a tiny ant to death.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the smell of rancid smell has begun to emanate from Yizhuang.

Mei Xiaoren was about to go out to breathe, but she suddenly stopped her: "My lord." ”

She turned around and saw that the servant had pulled something out of the bandit leader's shirt and came up to her.

"Your Excellency, please take a look."

Although it is only a small golden lock, when there is no clue in the case, anything on the corpse is very important.

Such small gold locks are not uncommon, and it is not strange to carry them on the bandits, most of them are stolen goods from the bandits, and they have not had time to sell them.

Ye Zhihe didn't see anything wrong, but Mei Xiaoren frowned quietly.

She reached out and took it, looked at it carefully for a long time, and her frowning brows still did not loosen.

Then she left Yizhuang without saying a word.

Later, the people in the county yamen never saw their own adults for a day, and even Ye Zhi didn't know where the adults went, only that the adults went out again after returning to the yamen in the morning, and went out of the city.

Xiao Mansion in Yunxian County.

A fast horse galloped to the gate and stopped, much to the surprise of the family in front of the door. They were surprised not only that the young lady came back suddenly, but also that the young lady did not sit in a sedan chair, but rode directly on a horse.

Mei Xiaoren still had a veil on her face, and she didn't stop after changing her clothes halfway

He hurried home, still holding the golden lock in his hand.

Father Xiao had just taken a nap and got up, when he suddenly saw a figure outside the hall, and he couldn't help but rub his sleepy eyes, thinking that he was dazzled.

As soon as Mei Xiaoren entered the hall, he raised his hand and sent his subordinates away: "All go out." ”

"Girl, why are you at this time?"

Mei Xiaoren didn't have time to explain, so he asked: "Dad, where is Chu Zifeng?"

"Zifeng" Xiao's father was asked by his daughter, and thought about it, "I heard his father say that he hasn't come back since he was arrested by the official last time, and at first my father thought that you refused to let go."

"Dad, no matter what I do, I have a degree in my heart, even if I arrest Chu Zifeng, I won't let him eat in prison for the rest of my life." Mei Xiaoren was so anxious that he couldn't sit down and talk, and asked again, "He really didn't come back."

Father Xiao shook his head, "Father went to the Chu family yesterday and didn't see anyone. Zifeng's child is playful, and he may not know where to go to play in the mountains and rivers. ”

Mei Xiaoren's heart became tighter and tighter. Chu Zifeng hasn't come back yet, I'm afraid it's not as simple as touring the mountains and rivers.

"Look, is this his" Mei Xiaoren reached out to her father's eyes, spread his hand, and the golden lock lay in his palm.

Father Xiao stroked his beard, frowned and nodded: "If this is not yours, it is Zifeng's." ”

Mei Xiaoren looked at the lock in his palm with heavy eyes. The reason why she hurried back to Yunxian was because she felt that this keyhole was familiar, like the one his father gave to Chu Zifeng when he was the first year.

She knew it because the locks were a pair. Her father gave her and Chu Zifeng one on her fourteenth birthday, and because Chu Zifeng also had it, she would rather wear her jade dice than this lock.

Her lock was still in the makeup box of the boudoir at this time, and this lock could only be Chu Zifeng's.

Locked on the bandits, it means that Chu Zifeng has encountered this group of bandits, and they may have been robbed. When the bandits died, they still wore the locks on their bodies, not because they liked it, but because they didn't have time to sell it, which is enough to show that they met not long ago, and it didn't take long for the bandits to be killed on the outskirts of Yun County, and Chu Zifeng's whereabouts are still unknown

Mei Xiaoren's expression was solemn, and he stood in the hall and pondered to himself.

Father Xiao saw his daughter's strange appearance and hurriedly asked, "Girl, is there something wrong with Zifeng?"

If there is no corpse dead, Chu Zifeng should still be alive. Although Mei Xiaoren hated Chu Zifeng, she never looked forward to his death, in the end, the Chu family was kind to their family, and when Chu Zifeng did not commit any capital crimes, she couldn't bear to let the white-haired person of the Chu family send the black-haired person.

"Girl, no matter what Zifeng does, you have to save his life."

"He's fine." Mei Xiaoren responded softly, just to ease her father's heart. Chu Zifeng will go to find her, not only because of her father's instructions, but also because he may have crucial clues on him.

"Now it's rumored in the city that we have a group of murderous thieves here, Zifeng won't"

Mei Xiaoren walked up to her father and sat down, picked up the teacup and blew the foam, "Alarmist." ”

"Dad just said, my daughter is the county magistrate, there is really such a thing, my daughter must not come to the family to pay attention" Xiao's father breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and turned his eyes, but saw that his daughter was still worried, and asked, "You came back this time to find Zifeng"

"There was a murder in Yun County the day before yesterday, and it was a group of bandits who died, and this was locked on the bandits." Mei Xiaoren looked at the lock with heavy eyes, "But don't worry, your old man, there is no Chu Zifeng among the dead." I looked for him to find some clues about the murder, after all, he might have seen the bandits. ”

"Why don't I send someone to the Chu family to ask if Zifeng has come back?"

"I'll go by myself, I'll have to rush back to the yamen in a while, just by the way." Mei Xiaoren stood up after speaking.

"Today is Komatsu's death day"

She was about to move, when she was suddenly stumped by her father's words. Memories of more than ten years ago came to mind, when she had a younger brother named Xiao Song.