"Two months ago, I instructed Lingyou and Lingquan to impeach me in Dongshi, and my father was furious and gave me a Qianzhong Road inspection envoy, wanting me to come here to experience the experience, and let Qianniuwei drive me out of the capital." Xie Xuan wantonly supported his forehead with one hand and played with the teacup with the other, "I thought that my father would be able to edict me back after three or five days." But I waited for almost two months in Shannan East Road, and there was no edict to pick me up and return to Beijing. After thinking about it, he had no choice but to make strange moves, threw away the accompanying guard of honor, and came to Luyang County with a few mausoleums. ”

"I originally planned to come over and pick something to make a fuss, but if I make a big fuss and be wronged, my father will always be soft-hearted. As a result, I don't know if Zhou Daren's luck is not good, or your luck is too good. It's so picky, and it's picked on your head. ”

Chen Chaoyan hooked the corners of his mouth shallowly, "The prince wants to tell me that everything you have done is just to return to Beijing as soon as possible?" ”

Xie Xuan looked at her lightly, "Miss Chen doesn't believe it?" ”

Chen Chaoyan nodded, "I believe." ”

Xie Xuan raised his eyebrows and looked at her, but did not speak.

Chen Chaoyan smiled lightly and did not speak.

Xie Xuan got up from the Hu bed with a low smile, moved to her seat, and knocked on the coffee table between the two, "Say." ”

Chen Chaoyan raised his eyes and looked at him, "The prince really wants to hear it." ”

Xie Xuan said: "Say." ”

"If the prince really wants to return to Beijing as soon as possible, I have a good way." Chen Chaoyan said in a slow voice, "The prince has called Luyang County, and this is already the fourth case. Although these cases have nothing to do with the prince, the prince is an inspector and has responsibilities. If the emperor really favors the prince, he doesn't want the prince to go in and out of danger frequently. Therefore, as long as the prince asks Lingyou to publicize me this morning, and publicize the prince's 'great achievements', it will take less than ten days and a half months to return to Beijing. ”

Xie Xuan teased: "In order to get rid of me as soon as possible, you have put a lot of thought into it. ”

Chen Chaoyan met his gaze and responded: "The prince has also put a lot of thought into probing me. ”

Xie Xuan snorted: "I know I'm probing you, but you still don't tell the truth?" ”

Chen Chaoyan raised his eyebrows, "Didn't the prince tell the truth?" ”

Xie Xuan half-leaned over, his eyes were frivolous: "If I tell the truth, Miss Chen will only be able to follow me in the future, Miss Chen really wants to hear it?" ”

Chen Chaoyan looked at him with a bright look in his eyes, and was about to refuse, when Ling You's voice came in from the outside, "Childe, it's here." ”

The Zhou family is in the west of the city's Qiwan Lane, which is the residence of the people of the county, and it is about three teas away from the county guard's mansion.

The alleys are cramped.

The carriage had to stop at the end of the alley.

Chen Chaoyan quietly looked away, stepped out of the carriage with the help of Yuejian's support and Lingyou, and sat in a wheelchair. When she was about to enter the alley, Mrs. Zhou, who came back first, held her mother-in-law with one hand and the child with the other, with tears in her red eyes, and knelt down in front of the guards in front of the people who came to see the excitement, and said to her: "Ask Miss Chen to be the master of the concubine and catch the murderer of my father-in-law!" ”

Chen Chaoyan has encountered this situation in modern times, so he is not surprised. But when the surrounding people saw her, they instantly started talking.

"Why is it a little girl?"

"Look at this, it's not twelve yet, is it?"

"Still a cripple."

"I heard from the people of Dongzhao and the village that it was indeed a little girl in a wheelchair who solved the case yesterday. It's just that I didn't expect it to be so small. ”

"That's King Jin, right? I heard that this little girl was persecuted by the magistrate, and it was the King of Jin who saved her. ”

"It's a good life, one step to the sky."

"It's King Jin, the young man next to him, the one who was telling stories on the street this morning."

“……”

All kinds of discussions rushed over like waves, most of them were talking about Chen Chaoyan's age and appearance, as well as her good luck being saved by Xie Xuan. Only a small number of people were talking about the cases she had solved and the cases she was about to solve.

Chen Chaoyan was not shocked and asked Yuejian to push her to Mrs. Zhou.

After reaching out to help Mrs. Zhou and whispering a few words of comfort to her, Chen Chaoyan followed Mrs. Zhou through the winding alleyway in full view of everyone and entered Zhou's house.

Guarding the Zhou family is Wang Da.

When Wang Da saw them coming, he immediately stepped forward, and after saluting Xie Xuan, he led everyone to the study. Walking as he walked, he said: "According to Miss Chen's instructions, the study where Zhou Zhongcai committed suicide was guarded by officials. No one has ever been in this group except our own. ”

After Chen Chaoyan expressed his gratitude with an 'um', he stopped at the door of the study.

The study is a flat loess floor.

Such a ground should have been a good carrier.

But looking at the messy footprints in the house, Chen Chaoyan sighed helplessly. She knew that even if it was written in the Southern Song Dynasty, there were not many requirements for the protection of the crime scene. But after enduring it again and again, she still couldn't help but say to Wang Da: "If you encounter such a case in the future, don't rush to see the corpse first." ”

"Send one or two people into the house first, mark the footprints, blood stains and other fresh marks on the ground with carbon or lime, and then let the servants or others avoid these marks and enter the house to see the body."

"If there are too many footprints and other traces, then use flat stones, wooden planks and other materials to build bridges and pathways. In short, the form of bloodstains can be the key to solving the case, and the same is true for footprints, etc. ”

Wang Da's teachings should be.

After taking another look at the floor of the study and making sure that with her ability, she couldn't extract effective footprints, Chen Chaoyan asked Yuejian to push her in.

The study is very neat, as recorded in the case file, there is no trace of turning or fighting. The only thing that doesn't match the neatness is the crooked flask on the bookcase.

The wine jug was a black glazed jug, with a rough glaze, knowing that with her ability and conditions, she could not extract fingerprints, etc., Chen Chaoyan still picked it up, looked at the sunlight shining obliquely through the window, and carefully flipped through it several times, so that the light screen could be completely recorded.

After doing this, after holding the wine pot in a handkerchief and handing it over to Ling You for safekeeping, Chen Chaoyan asked Mrs. Zhou, who had been silently wiping away her tears, and following her, "This pot of wine is the pot that your maidservant sent over after your father-in-law came to the study?" ”

Mrs. Zhou nodded yes.

Chen Chaoyan looked at the IOU on the table again.

The deed was borrowed on white linen paper.

The white linen paper is smooth and clean, with a delicate and tough texture, which is a good carrier for fingerprints.

Chen Chaoyan carefully pinched the corner of the deed of borrowing with a handkerchief, and after confirming that it was the two deeds that Wang Da and the others had seen when they came over before, he wrapped them in a handkerchief and rolled them up, and also handed them over to Lingyou for safekeeping.

After.

Chen Chaoyan looked at the chair in front of the bookcase.

There was a pool of blood on the chair, and there was also a small pool of blood on the ground corresponding to it.

When Mrs. Zhou saw the blood, she couldn't help but cry bitterly.

Chen Chaoyan didn't have time to comfort her, she looked at the description of Zhou Zhongcai's height in the case file burned on the screen, and then compared the height of the chair and table, imagining the picture of Zhou Zhongcai committing suicide while sitting in the chair. Finally, she dropped her gaze on the table.

There was no blood splattering on the table.

Neither the front nor the side, no.

Chen Chaoyan asked Lingyou to lend the deed to her, she opened it again and reconfirmed, and there was no blood on the deed.

The dagger pierced the heart, and the moment it spurted blood, blood was bound to spurt out.

If there is no here, then it means......

This is not the scene of Zhou Zhongcai's first death!