That night, Wei Jiu and Wei Yi both returned.

"Back to Your Highness, as you expected, the collapse of the Liu River Bridge is really strange. Villagers in nearby villages said that a boulder rolled down the hill and smashed into the river upstream at the beginning of the rain, and then the rain rose so hard that the stone washed down and broke the bridge. When I heard what they said, I went to the hill to look at it, and sure enough, I found the marks and tools that I had pried on. ”

Looking at an iron rod more than one meter long that Wei Ba brought back, Mu Changan didn't make any comments, but asked Wei Yi: "How are you over there?" ”

"After Qi Hong returned to Daomi County, everything was normal, and he didn't go to see any special people." Wei Yi hesitated for a moment and said, "But my subordinates saw a person in Daomi County......"

"Who?"

"Pei Qifang."

Pei Qifang ...... Pei Xia...... It's getting more and more interesting. Mu Changan turned the wrench in his hand, and just when Long Zhi came back, he asked Long Zhi, "Commander Long, what have you found in the past two days?" ”

"My subordinates have been secretly following His Highness, and I have not noticed that anyone has misbehaved. After returning to the post house last night and tonight, Miss Pei has been sorting out the evidence collected during the day in the room, and she has not seen anyone else except the guys at the post house. Long Zhi replied.

"In this way, Miss Pei is really here to help." Wei Jiu was the youngest in this group of guards, and he was very lively, and as soon as he said the words, he was glared at by Long Zhi, and hurriedly closed his voice and pretended to be dead.

"Yes or no, we'll see tomorrow." Mu Changan turned his head to look out the window, and at this moment, Pei Xia was also in a daze in front of the window, things were going well, and the facts of the case were basically clear, but where did Yin Chuan hide the things?

In the morning, when Mu Changan came out of the lobby to wait for Pei Xia after washing, he learned from the guy that Pei Xia had gone out of the city early this morning, and left him a message saying that he had probably guessed the location of Yinchuan's hidden things, and he wanted to verify it.

Mu Changan waited until noon, and Pei Xia finally came back, only to see her face solemn and a package in her hand.

"Your Highness." Pei Xia handed the package to Mu Changan, Mu Changan opened the seal, and there was an account book inside, Mu Changan flipped through a few pages, and his face became solemn.

"Wei Yi, you go to Haozhou quickly and hand over this account book to Lord Qincha Zuoli; Wei San, you go to Qiuzhou City and invite Governor Wang and Master Du to come over. ”

"But Your Highness, there is still a suspicion in this case, the leper beggar only confessed to throwing the body at the door of the inn, who moved it to His Highness's room......"

"This king knows this matter in his heart, and there is no need to investigate it again."

"But Your Highness ......"

Pei Xia was about to say more, but Mu Changan put a finger to his mouth: "Shhhhhhh ”

At night, Linci County Ya.

Wang Yunsheng was very dissatisfied with being invited here again in the middle of the night: "I came back because the case is related to His Highness, since it has been explained that His Highness is not suspicious, then it can be taken care of by Lord Li according to the jurisdiction of the place, why do you want to call this official?" ”

"Because there is still a good show today, I think Lord Wang must not want to miss it." Mu Changan sat in the listening chair for a long time, looking a little more energetic than the sick appearance last time.

In Wang Yunsheng's eyes, Mu Changan deliberately wanted to find trouble with him. What waves can a useless prince like an embroidered pillow turn over? He flicked off his official robe and sat down rather contemptuously, and said, "Hmph! I'd like to see what surprises His Highness has in store for this officer. ”

The cadres involved in the case were also brought to the court one by one. When the personnel arrived, Mu Changan signaled that Pei Xia could start.

Pei Xia nodded and stood in the center of the lobby.

"This case starts with a banquet. At the beginning of last month, Master Zhou invited guests to a banquet at home, invited several girls from Pomegranate Lane to accompany him, and left Yin Chuan at home for the night after the banquet. But after this time, something happened, and Yin Chuan hid something from Master Zhou's bedroom into his piano case while Master Zhou was asleep, and secretly took it away the next day. ”

When Zhou Keli heard this, his face became ugly.

"This thing is very important to Master Zhou, so important that he would rather be blackmailed several times than think of reporting to the official."

"What is it?" Li Shoufu asked curiously.

"I'll let you know later, and we're still blackmailing us." Pei Xia said unhurriedly, "On the sixteenth of this month, that is, on the afternoon of Yin Chuan's death, Yin Chuan asked Master Zhou for money again, this time she asked for a large sum, and Master Zhou didn't have so much money on him, so he agreed with her to go back and get the money first, and give it to her later." ”

"Y-You!" Zhou Keli roared, "Brother-in-law, how can you, how can you let a girl investigate the case, what will she do?" Unsubstantiated nonsense! ”

Du Xiao's face was also very unhappy, and he reprimanded: "Miss Pei should be careful when she speaks, this investigation is not child's play, and no evidence is slander." ”

"Naturally, there is a lot of evidence. Yin Chuan had been seeing a doctor in a medical hall before, and he suddenly wanted to make a decoction into a pill. The pill is much more expensive than the decoction, the only advantage is that it is easy to carry, Yin Chuan lives in Linci County, what do you want to do to be easy to carry? Unless she's going to be out of the house, or ...... Run away! However, whether it is to make pills or to escape, you need money, where did Yin Chuan get so much money? ”

"What's my business with her money!" Zhou Keli has a hard mouth.

"Yes, Miss Yinchuan suddenly made a windfall, and during this period of time, you frequently pawned the antiques at home, and your house has not had a large amount of expenses recently, why do you suddenly ask for so much cash?" Pei Xia asked.

"Individuals have their own ideas and needs, and that's not evidence at all." Du Xiao retorted.

"Yes, these really don't constitute evidence, so what about these?" Pei Xia raised his hand, and the attendant came across a wooden plate, which contained a lot of beaded jewelry.

"This is the county government's errand to search for in your house, Mrs. Chen has identified it is indeed something lost by her family, I don't know what trouble the house has encountered recently, it is not enough to pawn so many treasures and antiques in your own house, even a small prostitution hall has to be robbed?"

"This, this must have been done by some of my unseen slaves! I didn't know it at all, I had been sick in bed for the past few days, and I hadn't been out of the house! Zhou Keli still has to quibble.

Pei Xia didn't argue with him much, and directly asked the family and maids to come up, this afternoon, Pei Xia and Mu Chang'an, together with the officials of the county government, interrogated them separately one by one, and a few people who were not good at lying were found flawed and couldn't hold on.

"If you go back, if you go back to your lordship, my lord did go out at night that day and came back in the middle of the night. And the day before, the day before. The maid said with a shuddering kowtow.

"Did he go out on his own?" Pei Xia asked.

"Seventeen went with Ah Liang and Archie that night, and after the master went out in the afternoon of the sixteenth, the lady also went out, and the master came back halfway, and then went out again, and didn't come back until midnight."

"Y-You are making this nonsense!" Zhou Keli was red-eyed and wanted to step forward to hit the maid, but was held down in time by the servants on both sides.

"Your illness I checked for you that day, it was not a lingering half a month at all, but a sudden emergency, most likely caused by the cold wind you came back in the middle of the night, and you were restless and restless. In addition, you are the only one who has the key to the treasury where the stolen goods were found, and now that the certified physical evidence is gathered, do you still have to quibble? Pei Xia asked.

Zhou Keli saw that he couldn't deny it, so he said: "Yes, I was blackmailed by her, but I am also a victim, I want to get my things back, this is not a big deal, right?" I make it clear that I didn't kill her! ”

"I'm getting more and more curious about what you're talking about, what the hell is it? Miss Pei don't sell it. Li Shoufu couldn't help but ask again.

"Master Li, don't worry, it's better to leave this wonderful thing for the finale." As soon as Mu Changan said this, Li Shoufu couldn't say anything more.

Pei Xia continued: "Yes, she was indeed not killed by you, but by your wife!" ”

"You're squirting blood!" Zhou Keli was really panicked now, "What does this have to do with my wife!" ”

"After Yin Chuan quarreled with Chen Po that day, he went back to the house and took the hidden silver money to get the medicine, and then went to the opera garden where you often go to find you. She didn't go in, but found a child to send you a message, and asked you to meet you in the broken temple outside the city, and you sat still when you heard the message, and left the theater not long after, and these theater owners and the child who passed the message can testify. You go to the ruined temple, meet Yinchuan, and tell her that you don't have that much money, let her wait, and you come back later, and she agrees, so you go back to pawn your belongings to make money, and the owner of the pawnshop can testify. ”

"What you didn't expect is that Mrs. Zhou has been following you since you went out, she noticed your strange behavior these days, but you didn't tell her the reason, she saw you pawning things at home again and again, and saw that you were dating Yin Chuan outside the city, and mistakenly thought that you were going to elope with Yin Chuan."

"When you go home and pawn your belongings, you take the money out of the city, and when you see Mrs. Zhou in the ruined temple, it's too late, and Yin Chuan is already dead. You searched her whole body and the entire ruined temple, pills were scattered all over the ground, and the idol was smashed by you, but you still didn't find what you wanted, and scolded Mrs. Zhou angrily. After that, you disguised yourself as Yinchuan and hanged yourself, and when you were about to return to the city, the city gate was closed, so you crawled in through the dog hole at the corner of the south of the city. ”

Pei Xia didn't wait for Zhou Keli to deny it again this time, and directly took out the small piece of cloud brocade she found from the dog hole: "This is accidentally scraped off the clothes when drilling the dog hole, although you have disposed of the clothes, but this cloth is more special, the shopkeeper of the silk village still remembers that he used this cloth to make a dress and sold it to you, and the owner of the theater also confirmed that you were wearing that lake blue dress that day." ”

"As for your wife, bring it to the hall and everyone will know it." After Pei Xia finished speaking, a palace guard and a Linci County official brought Mrs. Zhou to the court.