Chapter 317: There is still half a seal
In the same Guoshu Village, the group naturally arrived at the place quickly.
It is still very eye-catching for so many people to come over, plus the Fan family is now in the center of public opinion, and the villagers who pass by are all pointing and following, and when they arrive at the door of Widow Xu's house, there are already many villagers behind them who have gathered to see the excitement.
"Isn't it the son of the Fan family who died, why did the official send the case to find out the widow Xu's family? Didn't Widow Xu elope with someone a long time ago? ”
Jiang Lingfan's official uniform looked somewhat similar to that in the yamen, and he had a sword on his body, and the villagers subconsciously regarded him as an official who came to handle the case in the yamen.
Listening to the whispers of the people, Jiang Lingfan directly took out the waist card of Yanling Mansion that he had prepared, and his tone was serious.
"The government handles the case, and idlers avoid it."
The villagers in the countryside were a little afraid of the officials, and they couldn't tell how high the identity of Jiang Lingfan's waist card was, they only felt that this young man was really majestic and very majestic, so they were a little scared at the moment, and they scattered and hid.
The front of Widow Xu's house was immediately clean.
The village head, Yu Zhenxu, heard the news and hurried over at this time.
"This official, are you going to enter this house, I asked the villagers to open the courtyard gate before, and the lock on it is newly changed, this is the key."
Yu Zhen handed the key to Jiang Lingfan.
In fact, there is only one courtyard gate, where can it stop a few of them who are cultivators.
Jiang Lingfan must not have known that Yu Xia didn't even know how to light up his body until now.
However, since it was the kindness of the old man who came on purpose, Jiang Lingfan would not refuse, politely thanked Yu Zhen, and let the old man go back to rest.
The inside story of this case is better not to let too many ordinary people know.
When the group entered the courtyard, Jiang Lingfan locked the courtyard door again to prevent others from slipping in.
"The footprints are in that room."
Jiang Lingfan didn't ask Yu Xia how he knew about these things, Yu Xia had sent him a message early in the morning about the situation here, and it was reasonable to come over to investigate it.
The Fan family didn't ask, they knew that Yu Xia was a Xuan Master, and now they were staying with the people of Daoyuan Hall, so they thought they were qualified to investigate the case.
And Yu Chun didn't ask, she always knew that her sister's whereabouts were secretive, and she often went out in the middle of the night and didn't know what she was busy with. It's just that she can't understand why her sister targeted Widow Xu before the murder?
Could it be that this widow Xu has a problem early in the morning?
I have to say that although Yu Chun is illiterate and just an ordinary village girl, this keen insight is rare for ordinary people.
Yu Xia pushed open the door of the study, and the rows of bookshelves inside looked ordinary, but they were amazing enough in this countryside.
Jiang Lingfan glanced at the bookshelves several times with interest, and then heard Yu Xia say, "You look carefully at the footprints on the ground. ”
In order not to damage the footprints, everyone only stood at the threshold and looked inside the ground.
There were three human footprints on the ground.
"The smallest footprint is mine, the medium one should be Widow Xu's, and the big footprint is Fan Erdong's."
Jiang Lingfan's eyes were good, and he had followed Yu Xia to carefully look at the soles of Fan Erdong's shoes before, and then looked at the footprints on the ground at this time, and immediately matched them.
"It is indeed the footprints of Verdon, and these footprints are still very fresh, and they have fallen for no more than five days."
Jiang Lingfan said firmly.
The Fan family looked at each other and did not speak.
Everyone carefully bypassed the footprints and entered the study.
Jiang Lingfan had long been interested in the books that were crammed into the shelves, and immediately took out one to read.
"Yo, this Yu Dashan still has research on Yi Xue."
There were many notes in those books, and the handwriting was a little dull, left a long time ago, and judging from the handwriting, it must have been written by a man.
Yu Xia took out a letter from her bosom.
"This was found from Widow Xu's bedroom, and it was a suicide note left by Yu Dashan to Widow Xu."
Yu Xia noticed that when she said the word "suicide note", Fan Yuping's face changed.
"The handwriting is the same, it is indeed from the hand of Yu Dashan."
Jiang Lingfan was the first to come to such a conclusion when he got the suicide note.
"Beloved Wife Fengxia ......"
Jiang Lingfan read the suicide note from beginning to end, and Yu Xia also noticed that the Fan family's face relaxed again.
"It turns out that Yu Dashan has such a close relationship with your Fan family." Jiang Lingfan glanced at the Fan family and said with a smile.
With all that in mind, what else do you want to hide?
Fan Changshan didn't seem to hear the mockery in Jiang Lingfan's words, and only nodded.
"In the early years, I had a very good relationship with Brother Dashan, and then he died young, although our Fan family did not have much contact with Widow Xu, but we would give her a sum of silver every year so that she could ensure basic food and clothing."
Yu Dashan has left money to Widow Xu, and the Fan family will also send money every year, from this level, Widow Xu is doing well.
It's a pity that he died without knowing it.
"But it seems that this letter has not been written." Jiang Lingfan took the letter and looked at it twice, then raised his head to everyone.
Yu Xia was stunned when he heard this, and the faces of the Fan family also changed imperceptibly when Jiang Lingfan said this.
"Why didn't you finish it?"
Yu Xia had read this suicide note, and at the end of the suicide note, she told Widow Xu to live a good life, and it was difficult to find the Fan family, and the sentence was complete, and there was no sign that it was not finished.
Jiang Lingfan took the letter and showed it to Yu Xia, "This is a letter after all, and at the beginning, Yu Dashan also deliberately wrote the title of his wife, which shows that he wrote this letter very solemnly." Why, then, is there no signature and date at the end of the letter? ”
Yu Xia rarely had access to letters, so he hadn't paid attention to it before, but after listening to Jiang Lingfan's explanation at this time, he immediately understood.
And so it was!
Don't say it's an ordinary letter, this is a masterpiece that knows that your time is short! How is it possible that the signature and date are not even written?
There should be half a letter left.
But where did the half-envelope go?
Yu Xia found the letter in Widow Xu's dressing box, and the box has now been taken away by Yu Daquan, but when she found the letter, she looked at it carefully, and it was indeed only this piece of paper.
There is also half a seal, which should have been taken by the demon.
Widow Xu's bedroom has no footprints of other people, and no one else has ever been there.
"Let's not talk about the suicide note, Yu Xia, can you tell me if there are any other discoveries?"
Yu Xia turned her head to look at the painting on the wall, it was different from the last time she came in the dark, at this time she saw the painting more clearly, and faintly felt that the painting looked a little strange, but she couldn't say it for a while, she only pointed to the painting and said to everyone:
"There's a dark grid behind the painting, and Verdon was supposed to have come for something in the dark grid."