When Lin Shuran came out of Fang Da's room, she instructed Lingqin to quietly enter the Imperial History Mansion next door to find the old lady of the Fang family, and tell her that Fang Da had woken up, and that Imperial Doctor Mei said that as long as she recuperated for a while, she should be fine.

Soon, Lingqin came back from next door and brought a reply from the old lady of the Fang family, saying that she was very grateful to Lin Shuran for what she had done, and asked her to continue to take care of Fang Da on her behalf, and the Fang family would never forget it.

Early the next morning, Xiao Chen came to the General's Mansion to see Fang Da, and the two of them chatted in the room, and then Xiao Chen came out and proposed to meet Lin Shuran.

Xiao Chen came in official clothes, Lin Shuran invited him to sit in the main hall of the front yard, she thought that Xiao Chen was asking to carry Fang Da away, but she didn't expect Xiao Chen to say that Fang Da's body was just right, and Imperial Doctor Mei said that it was not suitable to move, so she had to let him stay in the General's Mansion for a while.

"Brother Xiao, thank you!" When there were only two people in private, Lin Shuran did not politely call Xiao Chen Lord Xiao.

Xiao Chen looked at her intently and said, "You don't have to thank me, if it is not allowed by the emperor's will, I will not let the guilty person stay in your mansion!" ”

"The emperor doesn't believe that Lord Fang and Old Fang Yushi would do the thing of embezzlement and bribery to hide the Golden Pagoda, right?" Xiao Chen is also a close minister of the Son of Heaven, although his relationship with the emperor is not as close as Xu Junze's relationship with the emperor, but he is a person who is very important to the emperor.

Xiao Chen didn't want to say more about the case to Lin Shuran, if it was possible, he hoped that Lin Shuran would not have been involved in these things at the beginning, but the occurrence of many things made him have to think more.

"You can't just look at the surface when you look at a person, sometimes no one can tell the difference between good guys and bad guys, and I won't make judgments easily until the case is clarified." After Xiao Chen finished saying this, he looked at Lin Shuran and asked, "Shuran, you tell me the truth, last time you were in Long'an Temple, was there still a person in the meditation room where you were?" ”

Xiao Chen suddenly mentioned the matter of Long'an Temple, Lin Shuran looked at him with pretended confusion and asked, "What's wrong?" Did the elder brother of the Xiao family find out the identity of the person who wanted to hurt me? ”

Xiao Chen glanced at her with an uncertain expression, then turned his eyes to the outside of the hall again, and after thinking for a while, he turned his eyes to her and said, "Although that person's body was destroyed by the beast, he has already experienced that he was killed by someone twisting his neck, and there are no other injuries on his body, and the person I am looking for is not this person." ”

"I don't know this, there was only this one person in my room at that time, if it wasn't for his intention to hurt me, Honggu wouldn't have made a sudden move." Lin Shuran pretended to be calm and replied.

Xiao Chen is such a shrewd and cautious person, he is very meticulous in investigating the case, but he didn't expect him to find out so quickly that the person who died was not the person the criminal department was looking for.

"But I found out that the Zen room was originally the Qing Prince's Mansion Xiqing County Lord, Princess Ling took someone to catch the thief at that time, and went directly to the Zen room, I know that you have nothing to do with Ling Wangfu, but there is a contradiction between the Xiqing County Lord and the Kerou County Lord, that person didn't go to you at that time!" Xiao Chen stared at Lin Shuran tightly with determined eyes, not letting go of any expression on her face.

Lin Shuran smiled helplessly, calmly met his scrutinizing gaze, and replied: "If you really can't hide anything from the Xiao family, brother, I was also in a hurry that day, someone came to harm the reputation of the county lord of Xiqing, you also saw the battle between Princess Ling and the county lord of Kerou, if it was found in Long'an Temple that the county lord of Xiqing had entered the man's meditation room, and the man talked nonsense, the county lord of Xiqing would definitely have a ruined reputation, I am afraid that I would have no face to live in the world, I can't let Princess Ling and their conspiracy succeed." ”

Receiving Lin Shuran's affirmative answer, a trace of pain flashed on Xiao Chen's face, when did his simple and kind "Sister Shu Ran" have such a powerful scheming, and even learned to kill people in order to save people, she knows that once she has human life on her hands, she will not be able to get rid of it in this life.

"You're not the same as you used to be!" Xiao Chen sighed slightly, he didn't want to admit that Lin Shuran was different from before, but the bits and pieces of the past three years were telling him that she had really changed, "You never got involved in these things before, you are the daughter of the Lin family's pampered baby, and those intrigues and calculations shouldn't have anything to do with you." ”

Lin Shuran used to always avoid Xiao Chen's eyes as if out of nothing, because she was always afraid that Xiao Chen would see the difference in her heart, but now she bravely looked directly at him with disappointed eyes, looked at him with a smile from the corner of her eyes and said: "Brother Xiao, you are right, I am no longer the previous Lin Shuran, on the day the Gu family brother was buried, the previous Lin Shuran had already died with him, and the current Lin Shuran is a new me, a grown up and mature me, a more worldly and sleek me, so, Don't take me to heart like this, I've really changed, I'm no longer the simple and kind little girl in your mind, I'm married, and I have more family members I want to protect! ”

Xiao Chen heard Lin Shuran say that these things were even more painful and uncomfortable, but she was powerless to change anything, she changed, didn't she change? But no matter how it changes, his feelings for her will not change, but this feeling can no longer be declared, he can only bury it deep in his heart.

"Shu Ran, I'm only asking you one last time, was there a second man behind the screen in the meditation room that day?" Xiao Chen restrained his emotions for a moment, quickly regained his calm countenance, and the person also got up and stood up.

"Nope!" Lin Shuran replied without the slightest hesitation.

"Okay, I believe you, it's good if you don't!" After saying this, Xiao Chen left without looking back, and Lin Shuran looked at his departing back and was stunned for a long time, and then slowly got up from the chair she had been sitting on, and at this moment her eyes showed guilt.

Maybe Xiao Chen had already guessed that she was lying, maybe he was just trying, in fact, she had guessed before, the reason why Xiao Chen allowed the General's Mansion to take in Fang Da was for some other purpose!

And Xiao Chen returned to the yamen of the Criminal Department after leaving the General's Mansion, and then locked himself in the room, he looked at the pile of case files related to the Fang family and the Ren family in front of him, and fell into a long contemplation.

Just now, he couldn't tell whether Lin Shuran was telling the truth or lying, and he even had doubts about her in his heart, I don't know if it was his intuition or being too careful.

These days, he has found out that the suspect in the serial murder of officials is likely to be the remnant of the Ren family's Jinta case, and this person is most likely the third young master of the Ren family, Ren Yong, who seemed to have escaped by luck when the Ren family was beheaded.

He even found out that Ren Ying, the eldest young master of the Ren family, and Xu Junze had been in a military camp, and when the Ren family had an accident, Xu Junze had appeared near the Ren family's old house, did Ren Yong's absence have anything to do with Xu Junze?

(End of chapter)