Xu Chu started and said that it was a dossier, but there was a wax-sealed urgent report outside. It can be seen that this file was transmitted from the capital, but what does this little-known businessman in Yunzhou City have to do with the capital?

She guessed in her heart, and she didn't dare to open the file without delay, and only after a moment did she say dumbly: "Wu Daqing is actually a lowly member?" Still examining the Yamen? ”

Xu Chu lowered his eyebrows and asked with a thin autopsy sheet between his fingers.

Wu Daqing is Wu Song's grandfather, if according to the law, the lowly nationality is passed down from generation to generation, and it cannot be changed unless there is the emperor's grace. Moreover, untouchables with untouched nationality cannot study the imperial examination, let alone become officials.

And now the autopsy list in Xu Chu's hand is a column with Wu Daqing's name, and his background is no different from his ancestral hometown. That is, Wu Daqing was not only a lowly person, but also did things.

If this is the case, it stands to reason that the men of the Wu family for generations have to work for lowly people, and there is no need to refute and ponder this.

So why did the file of Wu Song's father and son that she reviewed only mention that Wu Song's father, Wu Mingfang, was a miscellaneous servant of the Yamen, and Wu Song was not a lowly person?

"Wu Daqing suddenly resigned from his position twenty years ago and moved his family, and then Wu Mingfang appeared in Yong'an County and became a miscellaneous servant!" Xu Chu had a flash of inspiration in his mind, pursed his lips and lowered his eyes to think, but he thought of the relationship in a moment, "That is, the Wu family has suddenly had family wealth since twenty years ago, and that wealth is enough for them to bribe local officials or officials to modify their identity documents, and even do not hesitate to fake and get out of their lowly status." ”

This is also why when she rummaged through the files transferred from the local area, she found no abnormalities, and in fact, everything she consulted was fake. If it weren't for King Jing'an finding out the suspicions from Beijing, I am afraid that he would have to spend a lot of trouble on his own.

Xiao Qinglang saw that Xu Chu was deep in thought, so he didn't bother, and only took warm tea to drink. It wasn't until the sparkling sound of the wheels slowly stopped that he reached out and nodded on the file in her hand, and said with a smile: "It's here, get out of the car first." After drinking a few cups of coarse tea in the tea shop all day, is it possible that you can still be hungry? ”

When he got off the car, Xu Chu was still holding the account book and the files he had found, and he didn't need Xiao Qinglang to urge, he jumped up and down the carriage directly. This lively performance made Xiao Qinglang raise his eyebrows again, unconsciously looked at the wooden bench on the side of the carriage that was easy to get up and down, and said in his heart that this girl really did not take the usual path, not only could she be a prostitute in the Qinglou, but she could also take her rude behavior for granted......

He hooked his lips lightly, and then walked unhurriedly towards the house with the drizzle.

"Wei Guang, go and ask someone to prepare a meal."

Xu Chu still had doubts in his heart, and he subconsciously followed Xiao Qinglang's steps before he could grasp it. She wanted to know if Xiao Qinglang knew anything, and ignored the surprised expression of Wei Guang, who had always been meticulous on the side.

She had already walked the road in the house, but she had never been to where Xiao Qinglang lived, and now the two of them actually crossed the flower hall and entered the Zhaohua Courtyard one after the other.

The meal was placed outside Xiao Qinglang's living room, and the subordinates who came forward to serve quietly retreated after the prince washed up briefly. Only Xu Chu and Xiao Qinglang were left looking at each other.

It was at this moment that Xu Chu realized that he had trespassed and followed the prince to the place where he should not come.

"Lord Wang, the people's daughter retired first." Xu Chu bent down, endured the hot face and whispered, "After the prince has dinner, the people will come to see him again." ”

"Okay, don't sit down yet, the king can still afford a meal." As he spoke, Xiao Qinglang pointed to the opposite position and motioned for her to sit down and speak.

The so-called food is silent, and the two of them only eat some food at the same table silently. To be honest, Xu Chu really felt that Xiao Qinglang, who was the king of Jing'an, had too simple and light food, and he also lost his good cooking skills, and he could make many tricks just a few kinds of vegetables and fruits.

At the beginning of the few bites, Xu Chu was still a little cautious and restrained, knowing that she was not alone with King Jing'an when she was in the Qian family before. Then when she was in the Xu family's courtyard, it was her own territory, and she would not feel unconfident.

Probably people are like this, every time they are in a familiar environment, they will feel extremely safe......

However, it was not until the gluttonous worms in her stomach were hooked up that she felt really hungry, and she glanced at Xiao Qinglang slightly, and saw that he was still concentrating on eating the meal in the bowl slowly, so she was slightly relieved.

Outside the carved and hollowed out windows, there are still drops of water droplets hanging upside down on the eaves. The room was silent, except for the sound of crumbling and the grinding of small vegetables.

A quarter of an hour later, the table was filled with delicate but not sumptuous dishes. Of course, Xiao Qinglang, the king of Jing'an, only held a few chopsticks at the beginning, and the rest of the time, he quietly drank the clear soup sent by the people below without saying a word.

After eating, Xu Chu put down the dishes and chopsticks in her hand unsatisfied, but when she looked up again and saw Xiao Qinglang's smiling gaze, her hand still couldn't help shaking, and then ...... Calmly got up and called someone to clean up.

Soon the dining table was cleaned up, and the room was quiet again. Xu Chu bent down again and took the file from the side, looked sideways at Xiao Qinglang and asked, "Why did the prince suddenly check Wu Daqing from the archives of the Criminal Department in Beijing?" After all, when I checked the Wu family's file at that time, I didn't find anything. ”

"This king did not deliberately investigate Wu Daqing, but just asked people to find all the case files in Liulin Village, Changping County twenty years ago, and by chance found that there was Wu Daqing's autopsy list among them." Xiao Qinglang said lightly, as if he really didn't care at all, but he just didn't intend to find out.

But Xu Chu was in awe in his heart, in his previous life, he had also heard that the best criminal investigators could speculate on the loopholes in the suspect's file just by virtue of their understanding of the suspect's file, and then confirm the other party's crime. She always thought that that kind of person did not exist, even if she was a professional legal psychology expert, she could not infer the facts of the case just from the surface, and she had never met such a master.

But now, watching Xiao Qinglang almost casually find out the suspicion of the upper two generations of the Wu family, she couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable with the shallowness of her thoughts.

To say that Xiao Qinglang did have an advantage in solving the case because of his powerful status, but Rao was like this, and she also knew in her heart that if he hadn't been suspicious and aware of it, how could he have received the news from the capital so quickly? I'm afraid that the matter of him asking the people in the capital to investigate started as early as when he first took over the murder case of the Five Elements Evil Ghost......

The candle flame gradually lit up, making a crackling sound, and by the light of the fire, Xu Chu took out a small codex from his arms and recorded it.

The suspicions of the Zhang family, the haunting of the Li family, the people who made Li Jin leave the house in anger, as well as the sea fishing document that had been passed for 20 years, and the inexplicable management tools that suddenly appeared.

The change in the identity of the Wu family, as well as the secrecy that has been hidden for twenty years.

What is it that can make people rich overnight and even change their faces?

When Xu Chu returned to the room, the night rain stopped, and the wind was cold at this time, which made her a little tired. I pondered the key in my mind repeatedly, and I always felt that there was something I had missed.

But what's missing?

After too long, both the county officials of Pingchang County and Anping County have changed several times. According to the habits of officialdom, it is really difficult to find an insider from the yamen twenty years ago at this time. Fortunately, there is not one suspicion in her hands, so she just needs to dig deep into each search, and she is not afraid that she will not find the truth.

Even though he kept comforting himself not to be anxious, Xu Chu was lying on the soft and comfortable stepping bed, tossing and turning, and it was difficult to sleep. The wind rose outside the window again, and the cold wind was miserable, blowing the bamboo forest with a wave of waves.

Unable to fall asleep after tossing and turning, Xu Chu simply turned over, put on a coat and looked through the various files and codexes in his hand by the palace lamp in the outhouse.

"In the 56th year of Chengde, there were several cases of bandits running around in Changping County, involving hundreds of thousands of dollars. Later, after being killed, the bandit leader was captured alive, and then the bandit leader killed the jailer and escaped from prison, and he didn't know where he was wandering. After more than a month, the county found clues in the village, led a few people to besiege and kill the bandit leader, and then captured several bandits alive and escorted them to the yamen. Xu Chu looked at the stack of files on the couch, thinking of the few copies that Xiao Qinglang, the king of Jing'an, suddenly gave her today, and couldn't help but carefully consider it word by word. After an inquest by the Yamen, it was confirmed that the deceased was the bandit leader Jiang Dakui. ”

After that, the county magistrate wrote the file and sent it to the Beijing Criminal Department for review. After being approved by the Criminal Department, the county magistrate of Changping County was ordered to behead the remaining bandits in public, so as to eliminate the bandits and make the people feel at ease.

Reading this, Xu Chu's fingers couldn't help but press a few words to Changping County again. Then I searched in all the autopsy sheets of Wu Daqing, and sure enough, I found Jiang Dakui's autopsy results.

"The bandits robbed the money, involving hundreds of thousands ......of taels of money," Xu Chu muttered, but in the end, only 10,000 taels were recovered from the file. At that time, the file of Changping County said that the bandit leader was ambushed, and the bandits did not know where to hide the dirty silver.

Where did the rest of the huge money go?

It seemed that she really needed to go to Liulin Village, she didn't want to find many insiders, but wanted to make sure of a bold guess in her heart. If it can be confirmed, then many mysteries can be solved. Even if she can't finally solve the case, she can probably guess the motive and law of the murderer's killing.

Now Jinmu, water, fire and earth, except for Liu Chan, three people have died. Xu Chu believes that the other two people selected by the murderer will never stop or let one of them go because of Liu Chan's accident that died in wood.

The palace lamp at hand was clearly extinguished, and finally the lamp oil was exhausted and extinguished. The lights on the promenade outside fade sporadically at night, making the courtyard more peaceful at night. Slowly, it made Xu Chu sleepy, and he fell asleep on the table and pressed the file.