In the middle of the night, the farmer's wife's behavior was really suspicious, Gu Si jumped down from the big tree not far away, approached the firewood house, and saw the farmer's wife remove a wine vat near the wall of the firewood house, and then squatted down, and after a while, there was a stack of things in her hand.

What it is is not yet known, because it is wrapped in a gray cloth.

When she got the things, the woman did not delay, but moved the old jar back to its original place, and took the things back to the room where she slept.

The farmer had three children, they all slept in the west side of the house at that time, and there was a faint candle flame in the room on the woman's side, she opened the things, and Gu Si saw from the roof that there were several silver tickets wrapped in cloth, and there were a few pieces of paper under the silver tickets.

Thanks to Gu Si's good eyes!

These pieces of paper were actually recorded by a dead farmer, who bought the information of the white stone man from him.

That's great!

The farmer's wife looked at the people who suddenly appeared in the room, and she almost screamed in fright.

"You, who are you?"

"What are you going to do?"

At this time, what she thought about the most in her heart was that the person in front of her, dressed in black, wouldn't be the one who killed her husband-in-law, he was coming to kill her now?

"You don't have to be nervous."

Gu Si comforted people with a cold face not to be nervous.

Isn't that funny?

When people opened their mouths wide and screamed, Gu Si covered the mouth of the farmer's wife in time: "This lady, I am really not a bad person, I am here to investigate the death of your husband." ”

The woman still didn't believe it, and looked at Gu Si deadly.

"Think about it, if I wanted to kill you, I would have killed you a long time ago, would I still stand and talk to you?"

The woman stopped struggling this time.

"You don't want your husband to die in vain, what you have in your hand, you may be able to find the murderer of your husband."

"Let go now, don't scream."

The peasant family lives on the east side of the village, and there is a family not far in front of them, and several families side by side in the back.

"Promise you a wink, I'll let go of my hand."

The woman blinked.

Only then did Gu Si let go of his hand and said sorry to the woman.

The woman didn't believe it at first, but the next few words made her let down her guard, the man in black was right, with his skills, if he really wanted to kill her, he could do it quietly, and he didn't need to tell her so much.

"Who are you and why are you helping me?"

"I'm a close person in Kyoto, there is a case in Kyoto that involves your Langjun, I didn't expect the person behind it to move so quickly and kill your husband."

The woman is just the wife of a farmer, and she has not seen much of the world.

Hearing Gu Si's words, he couldn't help but retreat in fright, and finally sat on the edge of the bed.

"We are just ordinary farmers, how could we incur such a catastrophe......

Gu Si's eyes looked at the silver tickets on the table: "You are farmers, but where did these silver tickets come from?" ”

The woman said: "We didn't do anything hurtful, we all got it normally." ”

What the woman said, Gu Si had already investigated it a few days ago, so he let the woman know that the reason why his husband died was related to those stones, and persuaded her to give him those lists and enter Beijing with him.

In order to save her life, the farmer's wife finally agreed to follow Gu Si to Beijing.

However, before he left, Gu Si received a letter from Gu Qingjue, asking him to protect the safety of the woman and the child, and the person sent by Li Jizhi, the secretary of the Kyoto Criminal Department, to investigate will arrive soon.

Although Gu Si was not very happy, the head of the family told him that he would obey and explain the situation to the woman, so he would protect the safety of the mother and son nearby, and wait until the people sent by Li Jizhi accepted it, and escorted them all the way back to Beijing, and waited until they all entered Kaifeng Mansion safely before returning to the mansion.

With the list of pebbles brought by the farmer's wife, Li Jizhi had a clear direction for investigation.

Six of them were quickly eliminated, and three were left, all of which were not simple.

One is the official family sent to the Liangguang region four years ago to observe the envoy Guo Zhongji, the other is Cao Zhan, he has been the Jiannan Jiedu envoy, a year ago to return to Beijing to take office, more than a month, then took his wife and children to Liangguang to play, just know about this stone, with one hundred and fifty taels to buy, to her wife Wen Chuying to make jewelry.

This particular piece of jewelry is more beautiful than pearls of average color.

There is also a county king sitting in Luoping Town, named Duan Lianjing, who is Duan Silian's nephew.

Of course, the dead farmer did not know his identity, but Gu Si found out, and then gave this clue to Li Jizhi.

Guo Zhongji and Cao Zhan are both in Kyoto, Cao Zhan used it as his wife's headdress, and Wen Chuying often carried it, it is easy to know whether it is lost, Guo Jigang used it as a collection, Li Jizhi could only go to Guo's mansion in person, let Guo Jigang take out the stone, in order to prove his innocence.

Guo Zhongji is a side branch of Queen Guo, and the deceased Queen Guo is the same generation, forty-eight years old this year, although Queen Guo was abolished, but the official family behind the thought of the benefits, and posthumously named her as the queen, the Guo family still has some foundation, Guo Zhong Ji himself is angry, the first time he did not hit, continued to study hard, and finally won the Toad Palace when he was twenty-six.

Eighteen years have passed, and now four years have passed, and he is still inspecting the states for His Majesty, and he just returned to Beijing from Yanzhou last month.

Li Jizhi came to Guo's mansion with two officials and a pusher.

Li Jizhi explained his intentions, and the porter took the person to the main hall as soon as possible, and then sent someone to report.

"I've kept Master Li waiting."

"I also just arrived, and this official came here because I want to confirm something with Master Guo."

Guo Zhongji said: "Lord Li was ordered to investigate the murder of Wanlai Restaurant, presumably he found some clues, and that clue pointed to this official?" ”

"You're not alone."

"I see, Lord Li, please ask."

Li Jizhi: "Lord Guo, do you remember that four years ago, you were ordered to inspect Liangguang and bought a pure white stone in a town where Liangguang and Dali meet?" ”

"This ......"

Guo Zhongji was slightly embarrassed: "Four years ago, this official went to so many places, I really can't remember it clearly. ”

Li Jizhi nodded: "Understood." Then he took out the stone he found from the restaurant from his sleeve: "Lord Guo, are you familiar?" ”

Li Jizhi has been observing Guo Zhongji's face since he took it out, and saw that Guo Zhongji seemed to have doubts, and then began to think about it carefully, his expression did not show a trace of flaws, Li Jizhi has been a criminal department secretary for so many years, and he can't see anything wrong from Guo Zhongji's face.

Did Guo Zhongji really not remember it for a while, or did he pretend?

After staring at the stone in Li Jizhi's hand for a while, Guo Zhongji said "ah": "I remember, I did buy a similar stone in the hands of a farmer, but a year ago in Yanzhou, it was given to a friend of mine. (End of chapter)