Chen Ying didn't have time to enter the door first, but stopped and watched.

On the surface, this courtyard is not much different from other courtyards, and it is also a pink wall and tiles, and warped cornices. At this moment, the door of the vermilion lacquer courtyard is half covered, and an old plaque is hung above the lintel, and the word "Qingfeng" is written on it.

Pei Shu pushed open the courtyard door, Chen Ying followed him in, and then heard him and said: "The layout of these guest courtyards is almost the same, and all of them are missing half of the side rooms. ”

Chen Ying looked around, the courtyard was a blue screen window, a green porch, a ginkgo tree was planted in the east corner, and the green shadow was sifted by the green canopy.

Directly opposite the courtyard gate are three upper rooms, but there is no east wing, only the west wing, which is also a regulation of one light and two dark. There is no verandah in the courtyard, and the stone path leading to the main house is buried in the grass, so you can't see it at all.

Based on this, Chen Ying concluded that in addition to converting the main house and garden into a martial arts arena, Pei Shu did not take care of every grass and tree in this mansion.

"It's better to walk on muddy ground." Chen Ying glanced around a few times and whispered to herself.

Pei Shu was mistaken, thinking that she disliked that this place was not neat enough, and her smile froze.

He is really too lazy to do this, he has that idle effort, why don't he play two more sets of punches and beat Lang Tingyu a few more times, how happy is that? These flowers, grinding, are the most annoying.

"Do those two family members live in the West Chamber?" Suddenly, a voice as light as water sounded, waking Pei Shu up.

Before he could look back, he had already subconsciously said: "Yes, Ah Ying, they all live in the West Chamber." Because money fell from heaven, I didn't ask for much service, so I swept the house every day and brought three meals a day into the house, so I didn't send more people. ”

Chen Ying bowed slightly, stepped on the stone steps, and lifted the curtain into the house.

The furnishings in the house are simple, except for the furniture and a few plain curtains, there are no superfluous furnishings, but the small wine urn placed against the wall is quite conspicuous.

"This man is a drunkard." Pei Shu said.

Chen Ying stepped forward, lifted each wine urn and looked at it, then went to the living room of the east wing to walk around, and then transferred to the bedroom of the west wing to investigate.

Pei Shu followed up the whole process, without saying a word, and even when Chen Ying climbed under the bed and turned the bedding upside down, he just asked calmly, "Do you want to help?"

After getting a negative answer, he stood by the door, admiring Chen Ying's busy figure, grinning at the corners of his mouth and smiling happily.

The search did not take long, and after the entire courtyard was searched, Chen Ying simply did not look elsewhere, and interrogated the witnesses in the West Chamber.

There were four witnesses in total, two of whom were asleep at the time of the crime, and their testimony was equivalent to none.

However, Chen Ying still interrogated the two in detail, observing their micro-expressions to confirm the authenticity of their testimony.

The remaining two witnesses, one is a husband, which Pei Shu has mentioned before, and the other is a night watchman.

This woman and several servants were on duty tonight, because of her abdominal pain, on the way to the clean room to relieve her hands, so she left the order, and when she left the clean room soon after, she heard a sound behind her, and when she turned around, she saw the money falling from the sky.

According to her confession, Qian Tianxia seemed to have just come out of the clean room at that time, and was heading towards the open space, full of wine, which could be smelled from a long distance.

The woman knew that he was a good drinker, and she had seen him get up at night on several night patrols, so she didn't ask much, took a look and left.

By overlapping her testimony with that of her husband, Chen Ying came up with a relatively clear timeline. This timeline is from the first quarter of Zizheng (0:15) to the second quarter of Zizheng (0:30), Qian Tianxia was first seen by the husband, and then discovered by the wife who was looking for the night.

A few pieces of testimony were recorded separately, and a certain amount of time had passed.

When Chen Ying left the west wing, the shadow of the sun was in the west, the sunlight was pouring in through the window lattice, and half of the room was plated with a layer of gold. The spring breeze blows through the window lattice, bringing the smell of grass leaves, sweet, soft and affectionate.

"Ah Shu, I want to go back and see Qian Tian's corpse." Chen Ying put the confession into her sleeve and said to Pei Shu.

Pei Shu frowned slightly: "Did you find anything?" ”

"Not much was discovered." Chen Ying's face was very calm, and when she stepped out of the hospital, she explained to Pei Shu in a clear voice: "Combined with the three aspects of confession, crime scene and autopsy report, there is almost no doubt. I preliminarily judged that Lao Qian should have fallen into a well and died. ”

She looked at Pei Shu with an apologetic expression.

Pei Shu felt inexplicable.

Although it was still like the sound of water, Chen Ying's volume was slightly higher than usual, not to mention Pei Shu, it was a few Pei family soldiers who were guarding the door, and they all followed the sound at this time.

Pei Shu couldn't help but feel a little strange, and turned his head to look at Chen Ying.

Chen Ying's face was extremely calm, her eyes were as clear as water, and she didn't see any waves.

Pei Shu looked away, but the strange feeling in his heart became stronger and stronger.

Chen Ying usually doesn't like to raise her voice, and whenever something important happens, her voice will become extremely low.

But at this moment, the tone and volume of her voice are very different from usual.

"I've been checking for a long time, and I haven't found anything, alas." Chen Ying said again at this time, her voice was still clear, and even her sigh was quite high.

With her voice, when she whispers, it is like a cold spring in a clear stream, quiet and indifferent; And once the volume is raised, the penetration is extremely strong.

Pei Shu tried his best to resist the urge to rub his ears.

He even had a feeling that Chen Ying's voice had already spread to several other courtyards with the wind.

It's just that he has always trusted Chen Ying, and although he had doubts, he didn't ask silently, and only moved forward silently.

It's also strange to say, Chen Ying, who has never talked much, doesn't know what happened today, this way he has been talking endlessly, turning the first few words over and over again, although he can't talk about noise, but he also rarely talks a lot.

It wasn't until she returned to the main room that Chen Ying finally stopped talking.

At the moment when her voice paused, her complexion became extremely solemn.

Pei Shu glanced at it, his heart was awe-inspiring, and he opened his mouth to speak.

However, before the words could be spoken, Chen Ying grabbed his sleeve and shook his head at him with a slight movement.

Pei Shu immediately closed his mouth, and his face sank.

There is no need to bother with words, just looking at Chen Ying's expression, he can already conclude that this case is by no means simple.

For a while, he couldn't say what mood he was, he just quietly walked through the courtyard with Chen Ying, stepped on the stone steps, ignored the spring flowers blooming all over the courtyard, and came to the top of the mortuary.

As soon as the door curtain fell, Chen Ying's voice also sounded.

"O Shu, I have good news for you. Naturally, this may not be good news for you. She looked up at Pei Shu, her eyes clear.

Pei Shu was already mentally prepared, opened the curtain with his backhand, and habitually pressed the hilt of the sword with one hand: "You say." ”

"It's a murder." Chen Ying quickly gave an answer, and her tone was extremely affirmative: "What the husband and the night watchman saw were not Qian Tianchuan himself, but the murderer. Long before that, Qian Tianluo was dead. ”