Chapter 4: The Scene of the Crime

The snowstorm was getting heavier and heavier, everyone in the courtyard moved to the study, the fire in the study had already been extinguished, Adjutant Zhao skillfully lit the fire, and arranged everyone in the Fang family to sit down in the corner of the room, except for the old lady who was arranged to sit down on Commander Fang's single bed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

"Second Young Master, what did you say you saw the whole process of the case?" Xu Tian asked.

"I've been peeking out of the ventilation window into the study this afternoon, and everyone in the family has been in the study half an hour before the incident."

The second young master's words made the atmosphere of the scene even heavier, everyone look at me, I look at you, as if they all suspect that the other party is a murderer.

"First of all, the second young master told me, why do you want to peep through the ventilation window?"

"Because...... Because I wanted to kill this beast, but I didn't succeed, the ventilation window was too small, and there was a steel wire mesh, this animal has been working in the study, I didn't dare to break the steel wire mesh, so I have been waiting for the opportunity, but when I felt that the time had come, suddenly someone kicked the door outside the study, and then Adjutant Zhao came in with the soldiers and the old housekeeper standing guard, and I knew from their conversation that the beast was dead. ā€

"This is your father, the second young master calls Commander Fang like this, I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate, right?"

"What? How can I tell him to use you to take care of him? I insulted the word beast when I called him beast, and this man was simply a big brute who violated human morality. ā€

The second young master looked angrily at Commander Fang, who was sitting in the chair, clenched his fists, and the green tendons in his temples had already burst out.

"This man is not even as good as livestock." The second young master's mother cried and said. "I'm not afraid of being laughed at by everyone, this Commander Fang has occupied me for 20 years, and he wants to adopt my son because he wants to detain me in the Fang Mansion together, our mother and daughter have lived a hellish life in the past 18 years, and even the subordinates have to show us their faces, and we are living worse than death."

This crying woman is called Fang Qingzhu, and after marrying Commander Fang's younger brother, she took the surname of the Fang family, because she was originally born in an opera, so she was not treated by the Fang family.

"Qingzhu, why are you so troubled! This kind of thing has nothing to do with the case, you don't have to say it. Adjutant Zhao handed a handkerchief to Fang Qingzhu.

"No, I'm going to say, this bastard is dead now, my son and I are finally free from his clutches, and I must make this brute's crime public." Fang Qingzhu cried and said.

"Yohehe......" Mrs. Fang smiled as she clutched her cherries. Do you think no one else knows? Your scandals have been talked about all the time! From the day after I married to Fang Mansion, I knew that the relationship between the two of you was not normal. ā€

"Shut up, you witch." The second young master pointed at Mrs. Fang and cursed.

"Alright." The old lady shouted. "Shut up for me, no matter how inferior this person is now, he is the commander who guards this county, this case must be solved tonight, tomorrow Adjutant Zhao will take the murderer to the province to invite merit, the position of commander, let Xiao Zhao do it!"

"Everyone be quiet, about the Fang family's interpersonal relationships, let's talk about it later, now I want to know, what the second young master saw outside the ventilation window." Xu Tian walked to the center of the study, looked around at the Fang family and said.

"I was lying on the roof this afternoon, hanging my head upside down to look into the ventilation window, but I didn't see Commander Fang, the bookshelf was too big, looking into the study from the ventilation window, the position under the bookshelf was not visible at all, only a small part of the desk could be seen."

"Then how did the second young master know that Commander Fang had been working?"

"Because I can sometimes see Commander Fang's hand dipping in ink, I conclude that Commander Fang has been working all afternoon."

"Okay, then the second young master will tell me, who I saw walking into the study before the crime, I want everyone to enter the study in the correct order, how long they have been in the study, and what everyone said to Commander Fang."

"I remember that the first person to come in was the old butler, who came to the study every quarter of an hour to change the hot water from the time I first peeked into the study."

"Did the old butler speak?"

"No, the old butler is very careful every time, but when he knocks on the door outside, he will only come in with Commander Fang's permission."

"Well, who is the plus?"

"Adjutant Zhao, just about half an hour before the incident, Adjutant Zhao came in once, handed over a file bag to Commander Fang, and the two of them talked about some things about the army, and Adjutant Zhao went out after a while."

"The second young master is wrong." Adjutant Zhao said. "I'm not talking to Commander Fang about the deployment of the army, but I'm reporting to Commander Fang how to arrange the soldiers standing guard, because it's been nearly three or nine days recently, and the soldiers standing guard will freeze if they stay outside for too long, I suggested that Commander Fang should let the soldiers change shifts every other hour, and Commander Fang also agreed, and then I took away the four soldiers who were standing guard before, and replaced them with a new batch of them, which is now these four soldiers, and I didn't let them change shifts after the incident."

"So, after Adjutant Zhao left, there was no one outside the study for a while?" Xu Tian asked.

"It should be so, because the four soldiers had been standing from morning to evening, and they were already frozen, so I wanted them to hurry up and warm up."

"Adjutant Zhao is really a good person who is considerate of his subordinates, but in this way, it is very likely that the murderer took advantage of the loophole during that time, can Adjutant Zhao accurately say how long it has been unguarded outside the study?"

"It's about a quarter of an hour to half an hour! Because the soldiers who were sent to guard later had not yet reached the time to take up their posts, and today it was because of my temporary initiative that they changed the time of the changing of guards, so no one went to stand guard before the four guards came to report. ā€

"I understand, this also makes sense, the second young master continues!"

"Soon after Adjutant Zhao left, the eldest young master came in, he and Commander Fang had a quarrel, it seemed that Commander Fang did not agree with the marriage between the eldest young master and Xiao Nannan, Commander Fang also slapped the eldest young master, the eldest young master was knocked to the ground by Commander Fang, just in front of the desk, I could see it clearly, and then the eldest young master left in disgrace."

"Well, this can also prove that the eldest young master is not lying, continue to speak."

"After that, Mrs. Fang, this woman came to Commander Fang to ask for money, saying that she was going to the theater tonight, but Commander Fang didn't give it to her, and after Mrs. Fang got in touch, she left. However, during this time, Mrs. Fang had been under the bookshelf, and I only heard their voices, but did not see their people. ā€

"Are you sure that it is Commander Fang himself who counts Mrs. Fang?"

"I'm sure I'll never forget that brute's voice for the rest of my life."