Chen Chaoyan glanced at the surrounding people, and said in a suppressed voice: "Let's talk about it first." ”

"Yes, yes, first house, first house." Mrs. Zhou said as she was about to welcome her into the house.

Chen Chaoyan didn't move, and only after Xie Xuan left first did she follow closely.

Mrs. Zhou's whole mind was on her, and when she saw that Xie Xuan was also there, she was about to kneel down as soon as her feet were weak. Chen Chaoyan held her hand in a timely manner, "No need to be polite, it's important to get down to business." ”

"Miss Chen is right." After Mrs. Zhou barely stood up, she quietly took two small steps back. When Chen Chaoyan left first, she helped her mother-in-law to follow slowly.

Entering the gate, the outside chaos is gradually cut off.

Although Mrs. Zhou was afraid of Xie Xuan, she couldn't wait to speak: "Miss Chen......"

"Let's go to the study first." Chen Chaoyan interrupted her.

Mrs. Zhou opened her mouth and reluctantly swallowed her words back.

Chen Chaoyan saw that he deliberately took two steps slower, and after walking side by side with her for more than ten steps, he asked slowly: "Recently, no one has been to the study, right?" ”

Mrs. Zhou's hand holding her mother-in-law tightened slightly, "No." ”

Chen Chaoyan continued to ask, "In addition to the account book handed over to Lord Feng, do you have any other account books?" ”

Mrs. Zhou's hand holding her mother-in-law tightened again, and her eyes were faintly panicked. When Chen Chaoyan couldn't wait for her answer and looked at her, Mrs. Zhou quickly said, "No." ”

Chen Chaoyan looked at her steadily, "Is it not, or don't you know?" ”

Mrs. Zhou avoided her gaze, and at the same time clenched her mother-in-law's hand and said, "I—I don't know." ”

After Chen Chaoyan Jing glanced at her a few times, he looked away and didn't ask any more.

She didn't ask, but Mrs. Zhou couldn't help it, and after she stopped talking a few times, she quickly looked at Xie Xuan, who was walking in front of her, and asked tentatively in a low voice: "Miss Chen, the account book and the murderer who killed my father-in-law ......?"

The study arrived.

Xie Xuan was waiting for Chen Chaoyan at the door.

Chen Chaoyan stopped, looked at Mrs. Zhou, who stopped the second half of the conversation with a weak heart, and asked again: "Whether the account books have anything to do with the murderer who killed your father-in-law, you will only know after reading the account books." So I asked Madame again, Madame is sure that your father-in-law did not leave any other account books? ”

Mrs. Zhou avoided her gaze again, "I ......"

"Madame, you'd better think clearly before answering." Chen Chaoyan said.

"I'm ...... him"

Seeing that she was still struggling and hesitating, Chen Chaoyan interrupted her impatiently, and said intentionally: "The murderer who killed your husband is not Ma Huai!" ”

The words fell, and without giving Mrs. Zhou time to react, she turned around and went into the study.

"Miss Chen!"

Mrs. Zhou turned her head in horror, and wanted to chase her after taking a few quick steps, but Yuejian reached out to stop her at the right time, "Please also ask Madame to stay." ”

"I ......"

Yuejian interrupted her calmly: "Madame, if you have anything to say, it's not too late to wait for Miss Chen to come out of the study." ”

Mrs. Zhou looked anxiously at the study, wanting to break in, but she was afraid of Ruolan who was carrying a sword beside her.

And when she was apprehensive.

In the study.

Chen Chaoyan glanced around.

On the bright side, the study is still the same as before, and there is no trace of movement.

But Mrs. Zhou's concealment of the account book made Chen Chaoyan not feel at ease to open the light screen, as if looking for faults, and compared them one by one from left to right.

Xie Xuan stood beside her, and after scanning her gaze around a few times, he asked, "What did you find?" ”

Chen Chaoyan compared and told him about the previous conversation with Mrs. Zhou. After finishing speaking, after a slight pause, she said again: "Judging from the last time she took out the account book that exposed Song Yanzhong's corruption and perversion of the law, she still knows Zhou Zhongcai's actions. The question I asked a lot, 'Do you have no or don't know?' is just a routine. If she insisted that she hadn't, I probably wouldn't have doubted it. But her hesitation made me know that she was lying. ”

"The reason for the lie is not clear for the time being."

"Let's hang her for a while."

Xie Xuan looked at her with slightly sideways eyes.

Chen Chaoyan said: "I did say that we should use evidence to speak, because the most fatal mistake in solving a case is not to conduct blind reasoning or speculation based on evidence, and the result in this way is often to distort the facts to conform to reasoning or speculation." But ......"

Chen Chaoyan turned his head to look at him, "I never said that reasoning, speculation, assumptions, and assumptions are wrong and unfeasible. As long as the utopian dreams and hypotheses are based on the existing clues, you can boldly verify them, which is also a way to find evidence. ”

Xie Xuan chuckled, "I didn't say a word, the good and the bad were finished by you." ”

Chen Chaoyan Wan'er, "It is true that the prince's mouth did not say a word, but his eyes said a little much. ”

"Really?" Xie Xuan asked with great interest, "Tell me about it." ”

"It's a long story, I'll just say it simply......" Chen Chaoyan looked at the second block from the left on the third floor of the bookshelf, paused suddenly, and said in a deep voice, "Let the officials outside the house and Mrs. Zhou come in!" ”

After Xie Xuanshun glanced at the lattice twice, he set his eyes on the five officials and Mrs. Zhou who came in one after another.

"Who has been in the study during this time?" After Chen Chaoyan glanced at Mrs. Zhou, he looked at the five officials.

The five officials glanced at each other, and were about to answer, but Tsukimi took a step forward and said, "It's better to think clearly before answering!" ”

He said this, but one of the officials didn't think much about it, so he pointed to Mrs. Zhou and said, "She came in and said that she wanted to get two books for the children to read." ”

Chen Chaoyan and Xie Xuan looked at Mrs. Zhou together.

The rest of the people also looked at Mrs. Zhou at the same time.

Mrs. Zhou almost couldn't stand still leaning on her mother-in-law's arms, and before she could say a word, tears flowed down first.

The sun had already set, and the whole courtyard was reflected red in the sunset. The red fell through the window into the study, as if a fine layer of silk had been laid for the study.

It's just that if you don't look closely at this satin, it's more like human blood.

"It is true that I took two books, one "Analects" and one "Book of Rites." Chen Chaoyan finished speaking lightly, and then turned his head sideways and instructed Yuejian to take out all the books in the grid. These books, after the Zhou Zhongcai case, she asked people to carefully check them, they are all old books, scattered in the books, and there are many insect eyes.

The previous explanation given by Mrs. Zhou was that Zhou Zhongcai collected them one by one from other places. Combined with the account book she handed over, Chen Chaoyan did not have any doubts before.

But at this moment, I checked a few books again, and there was still nothing.

Looking at her eyebrows that were gradually twisted together, Xie Xuan chuckled, then tapped her head twice with the jade bone landscape fan, and when she looked up, she reminded casually: "There is no problem with the book, try to see it again." ”

After Chen Chaoyan's mind moved, he immediately went to the front of the lattice, stretched out his hand and touched it around. After only a moment, she felt a bump the size of a fingernail, and without thinking about it, she pressed it.

There was a soft thud.

A smaller box embedded in the wall was revealed.

The box is empty.