Pei Xia groaned for a while, and continued to ask, "She left immediately after you quarreled?" ”

"That's not true, she went back to the room and closed the door, I didn't go to my heart, just when she was angry, after a while she came out again, I asked her where she was going, she didn't say, I wanted to stop her and was pushed by her! My knees are still green! Speaking of this, Mrs. Chen's sadness is gone, and she is still a little gloating, but when she thinks of the economic loss caused by Yin Chuan's death, this bit of happiness can't be maintained, and she holds back her colorful face.

"Did she go out with her?" Pei Xia didn't bother to care about Mrs. Chen's mental journey that couldn't be put on the table, and still asked according to the questions she wanted to know.

"I don't know, I don't think so. I was afraid that she would run away with the money, so I went into her house to see that everything was still there. When Mrs. Chen said this, thinking of the lie she had told before, she couldn't help but secretly glance at Mu Chang'an's face, and when she saw that there was nothing unusual, she dared to continue: "She didn't have any silver money there, all the valuable ones were some jewelry and clothes, and I saw them all at that time, but I stole them when I entered the thief." ”

Speaking of thieves, Pei Xia asked again, "What was the house like when you came back yesterday?" Was there only a thief in the silver chamber? ”

"If this is the case, we must have gone to invite you at that time, but the whole house was swept by thieves, we don't know if it is related to the case, so we decided to go to Lord Li to ask first." The official replied.

"Take me to the other rooms." Pei Xia inspected all the rooms under the leadership of Mrs. Chen, in order to cover up the theft, the official and Mrs. Chen cleaned up the house overnight, and the scene was destroyed, Pei Xia could only make a rough judgment from the extent of the damage to the things in the house and the descriptions of the two.

"It's all here with everything that was cleaned up yesterday." The official had an eye in the end, afraid that this matter was really related to Yin Chuan's death, so he found a big box and put away all the damaged and useless objects on the ground yesterday, in case any evidence was missed when he traced it.

"But what did the thief drop?" Pei Xia asked Mrs. Chen while looking through the contents of the box.

"No, it's all my stuff. This group of thieves who have been killed by the heavens, rotten hands and feet, will not die well......" Mrs. Chen just scolded at the beginning, and suddenly remembered that there was still a prince present, so she quickly closed her voice, and saw that Mu Changan did not notice her side, but was watching Pei Xia check the contents of the box with great interest, and then she breathed a sigh of relief.

"You two come here." Pei Xia looked at it for a while, and beckoned to Mrs. Chen and the official, "Which of these things belong to which room, you pick them out separately." ”

"Where did you pick this out!" Mrs. Chen wailed.

"Vandalism is a cane, do you want to sort these things or get a stick?"

Mrs. Chen still wanted to bargain, but when she saw that the official had already squatted down to pick up, she had to shut up and work together.

Taking advantage of this, Pei Xia returned to Yin Chuan's room, and Mu Changan left Wei Ba to monitor Mrs. Chen and the official, and he followed.

"You already have a judgment in your heart, why bother to let them bother with all this effort?" said that it was a reproach, but Mu Changan had a smile in his voice, obviously not dissatisfied with Pei Xia's little trick.

"Destroying the scene, increasing the difficulty of handling the case, and a small punishment is not too much." When she said that, Pei Xia didn't know what she thought, and her face was a little complicated, but fortunately, she turned her back to Mu Changan, and didn't let Mu Changan notice her abnormality.

"What are you looking for?" Mu Changan saw that Pei Xia had inspected it more carefully than the last time, and even the floor was buttoned one by one.

"I don't know, but it must be a very fatal thing, enough to make people who come to steal know that there will be officials watching in the near future and take risks." Pei Xia rummaged through the floor, walls, under the bed, drawers, cabinets, and all the places he said he could find, but there was still nothing.

Mu Changan didn't make a move, but just watched Pei Xia busy with his work, and then said, "Maybe the things have been taken away by that group." ”

"No, most likely I didn't find it." Pei Xia shook his head and explained: "They even went through the firewood room, if it was the room where Yin Chuan was searched, in order to disguise it as a theft, it was just a matter of turning over Mrs. Chen's room, and in a place like the firewood room, I would know that there was nothing valuable, and ordinary thieves would not deliberately turn over here, only it was possible that they hadn't found anything yet." ”

"Is it possible that Yin Chuan hid that thing in the firewood room and was found by the gang?" Mu Changan touched his chin and guessed.

"It's not impossible." Pei Xia thought for a while and said, "But I still don't think it's very likely. Do you remember that Mrs. Chen said that after the quarrel with Yin Chuan yesterday, Yin Chuan first went back to the room, and then went out again. ”

"So there's a good chance she took that thing with her? And then threaten someone with it? Mu Changan thought about it for a while and still felt that it was wrong: "But when we found her, there was nothing on her." ”

"That's what I find weird too. There is too little evidence and too many assumptions that can be made, and more needs to be investigated. Pei Xia turned around and didn't get anything, and when he went back to look, Mrs. Chen and they had just picked out half of it.

Pei Xia stood aside and watched them for a while, and suddenly asked, "Who are the guests of Miss Yinchuan?" ”

Mrs. Chen refused to say it at first, but Mu Changan instructed Wei Ba to scare him again before reluctantly saying a few names.

It was close to noon when I came out of Mrs. Chen's yard, and the people in the alley got up one after another, and several of them leaned on the door of their homes and looked at this side. Pei Xia inquired one by one, although these people lived in an alley, in the past, there were many conflicts in order to grab guests, as soon as they heard that they were going to investigate the affairs of Mrs. Chen's family, they were all very active, and they confessed several names in three or five times, all of them were well-known figures in Linci County, no wonder Mrs. Chen refused to say.

But it's a pity that we didn't see the thieves who came to steal last night, and we don't know where Yin Chuan went after coming out of the house that day, there is a girl who has a good relationship with Yin Chuan, and said: "Yin Chuan rarely goes out on weekdays, only occasionally goes with us to buy some rouge gouache, or go to the Guanyin Temple outside the city to incense, or go to the hospital to see the disease." Their mother's Chen heart is dark, afraid that she will not be able to serve people with scars on her body, so she will starve her when it is inconvenient to serve people when she comes to menstruation, and she will not be given food for a few days, and no matter how good her body is, she can't withstand such a waste. ”

Unable to find a gap from Pomegranate Lane, Pei Xia went to several local pawnshops and gold shops, and learned that there were no suspicious people to pawn or smelt jewelry today, and the nuns in the Yin Temple outside the city said that Yin Chuan had come at the end of last month, and had not been here since.

Unable to find more clues, Pei Xia had to check one by one from Yin Chuan's guests. The corpse at the scene of this investigation can only account for a part, and more often than not, it is a large number of boring and hard visits, not to mention that Pei Xia and they have not even found the scene of the crime in this case now, and they rely on the confessions of the witnesses found during the visit.

The next day, Pei Xia got up early in the morning and was ready to continue the visit, thinking that Mu Changan just thought it was fun to investigate the case, but after yesterday, he already knew that this was not the case, and he would not go again today, but he didn't expect that Mu Changan had already arrived first when he went down to the lobby.

"What are Miss Pei's plans for today?" Mu Changan still asked with great interest.

"There are still three guests left with Miss Yinchuan yesterday who have not finished checking, and the medical hall mentioned by the girl in Pomegranate Lane didn't have time to go yesterday, and I want to go to see it again today." Pei Xia's answer was as clear as yesterday, and he did not show the slightest panic because he was one day closer to the deadline.

The three of them first went to a foreigner's house surnamed Zhao, and like yesterday's family, they answered everything they asked at first, and their faces immediately changed when they mentioned Yin Chuan.

"I don't know who you're talking about. I've already told you what I was doing yesterday evening and the night before yesterday, you guys came to investigate the case inexplicably, don't be blind if you don't have any evidence! Zhao Yuanwai shouted with a tiger face.

His wife Wang looked suspicious from the moment Pei Xia and the others entered the door, and finally understood, and went up and gave Zhao Yuanwai a slap: "How the hell did you promise the old lady?" Said yes and never fooled around again, did you sneak around again? I'll just say why is there a hairpin missing in my jewelry box, did you take it to that little slut? ”

In order to investigate the matter of Yin Chuan, yesterday Pei Xia and Mu Changan had seen several farces of husband and wife scolding, this lady was the most pungent one, and Zhao Yuanwai's white and chubby face was swollen when he slapped him, and he felt his face hurt just by looking at it.

"I, where did I go to fool around, didn't I say that I was busy in the shop all day before yesterday, and I went to drink with Brother Sun and a few of them last night, Kuixing Restaurant, you go and ask! I was there all night and came back straight after drinking. Zhao Yuanwai was slapped in the face, and suddenly became aggrieved, covering his face and bursting with tears.

"Phew! I also met the daughter-in-law of the Sun family today, and she said that her old grandson arrived home at a moment's notice, but you didn't arrive home until two minutes! Wang scolded.

"He's so close! Do I need time to walk back? Zhao Yuanwai defended.

"It didn't take a full quarter of an hour."

"It's less than half a pillar of incense, enough time to do something! This is a homicide, don't ......" Zhao Yuanwai shouted halfway before he realized that he had missed his mouth, but it was too late, and several people present heard it.

"How do you know it's a homicide?" Pei Xia asked, they had never mentioned Yin Chuan's death since they came in, and only asked what Zhao Yuanwai was doing at the time of the crime, and whether they knew where Yin Chuan had gone during this time.