Chapter 157: Two Flower Beginnings
"Duke De'an, are you sure this corpse is Hua Chu?" After listening to the story of Duke De'an, everyone was nostalgic, Keqing looked at the old man and asked questions.
"I've watched kids grow up with my own eyes... I know it even if it turns to ashes..."The old man was still in tears, but at least he spoke much more clearly than he had just spoken.
"The name of the teacher is Jianqiu?"
"That's right! It's the well-dressed dog who doesn't know the shame! If it weren't for him, how could Hua Chu end up like this..."At the mention of the teaching gentleman, De'an Gong was full of anger and blood, and his pale face was a little more bloody.
"Dare to ask Hua Chuke if there are other sisters?" Keqing then asked.
"I have a sister who is a year older than her, who is still studying in Sumeru, but since the death of her wife, she hasn't been back for several years... I don't know after the eldest daughter received the letter...", Duke De'an said, choking up again.
"Duke De'an, let's mourn for the time being." After comforting, Keqing glanced at An Ping, stepped back for the time being, and led him to a room where no one was around.
"Keqing, did you find any clues that I didn't find?" An Ping didn't see anything wrong with De'an Gong from beginning to end, whether it was emotional or language, and could only guess that Keqing should have some clues that he didn't know.
"Well, because I went to Dihuazhou to survey and map during my stay at the Wangshu Inn, I met a couple who claimed to be going to Sky Island, and the girl claimed to be the second daughter of the shopkeeper of Minghua Commercial Bank, Hua Chu, and the man was named Jianqiu." Keqing didn't hide it from Anping, and told Anping the inside story he knew.
Fortunately, this is what happened in the last few days, and Keqing's memory is good and there are still some impressions. If it weren't for De'an Gongnian who said Hua Chu's name, Keqing wouldn't have found any problems.
"What?!" Anping didn't expect this kind of thing.
"The Hua Chu I saw in broad daylight naturally couldn't be a ghost, so one of the two people named Hua Chu and De'an Gong and the one who called himself Hua Chu must be lying! I've just secretly informed the Millelith Army that they are going to arrest the couple, but I didn't know that this was happening, maybe now that they are out of Liyue's range, there will be some trouble in the cross-border pursuit..."Keqing snorted.
"If they fled in the direction of the Wangshu Inn, they would probably be heading to Mondstadt... It's a big deal, I'll go to Mondstadt and get them back. "It may take some formalities for the Millelith Army or the General Affairs Department to go to Mondstadt to handle the cross-border process, but Anping, as an honorary knight, would not even have a problem asking the head of the Qin regiment to borrow a few Zevoniur knights to pursue the two suspects.
"Leave this capture to the Millelith Army for the time being, let's find out who the deceased is... De'angong's grief is true, but I always feel that there is something strange..."Keqing felt that De'angong seemed to deliberately lead this matter to the suicide incident, his sadness was true, but his anger was much less.
After all, if his daughter really committed suicide because of a quarrel with him about marriage, Duke De'an should more or less have some resentment towards that teaching gentleman.
But if it weren't for Ke Qing's question, he wouldn't even mention the teacher much.
"Do you think that the female corpse in the well will be the eldest daughter of Duke De'an?" An Ping recalled the questions that Keqing had just asked De'an Gong.
If you think about it this way, even De'an Gong could be the murderer... No wonder Keqing didn't directly talk to De'an Gong about what she had encountered Hua Chu just now.
"It's also possible that it's really the beginning of the flower... In the Wangshu Inn, that one is the impostor, of course, these things can only be known when clues are found. I will now go to check the household registration records of the Duke of De'an and the recent passenger records of the passenger ship in the port, and Anping, you go to the neighborhood near the residence of the Duke of De'an to ask the neighbors to see if you can find some clues. Keqing immediately arranged Anping's task, and then explained that the corpse of the person in the General Affairs Department should not be taken away for the time being, and then he and Anping went to investigate the clues.
Anping came to the vicinity of De'an Gong's old house in Scarlet Cloud Slope according to Keqing's words. Duke De'an was also the No. 1 person in Liyue back then, but unfortunately he couldn't keep up with the development of the times, and the money bank he opened was overwhelmed by the foreign Northland Bank, and the depression came down over the years.
However, this old mansion in Scarlet Cloud Slope still shows the style of the year, both in terms of orientation and pattern.
An Ping knocked on the doors of several households near De'an's house and asked one by one. I learned from my neighbors that Duke De'an did have two daughters under his knees.
The eldest daughter is very smart and talented, and she has gone to Sumeru to study three years ago, and the number of times she has come back over the years is indeed only a handful.
The youngest daughter is quiet and virtuous, and she is deeply liked by Duke De'an. After the eldest daughter crossed to Sumeru, the middle-of-the-road De'an Gong dismissed several maids and invited a teaching gentleman to live in the firewood room in the house, teaching her piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, reading and writing every day.
But then it seems that the relationship between the little daughter and the young teacher is not clear, although De'an Gong shouted that the family ugliness should not be publicized, but after a long time, their neighbors still saw some clues.
This is not the first time that the father and daughter have quarreled. But the relationship between the two sisters has been very good since childhood, and the sister is sensible, and she has always let her sister who loves to rob her kite puppet.
Anping confirmed again whether the eldest daughter had come back recently, and the neighbors all said that they had not seen it.
These things are no different from what Gong De'an said. But after all, there is a yard away, and the neighbors can't get a full view.
So if this kind of thing were Mona's place, just let her divination, and then she would know everything.
What a hassle... An Ping looked up at the courtyard wall of Duke De'an's house, and had a little crooked thought. It's better to go in and see if you can find any clues from Duke De'an's house.
The courtyard wall of the more than two-meter-high house of De'an Mansion was the same as nothing in Anping's opinion, and seeing that there was no one around, he easily climbed over.
But these big families are really annoying, which one is the room of Duke De'an's two daughters... Anping searched one by one, and finally found the boudoir of Duke De'an's two daughters.
Although it is said that the family is in the middle of the road, the emaciated camel is still bigger than the horse, and the boudoirs of the two daughters are very gorgeously furnished.
This room with some small Sumeru objects should be the eldest daughter's boudoir... In terms of the cleanliness of the room, it doesn't look like it has been uninhabited for a long time, but this is not enough evidence that the eldest daughter has returned, and it is not unusual for the old man to clean it every day and wait for his daughter to come back to live in.
And those hard-to-clean corners are indeed covered with dust, the clothes in the cabinets are all old styles from a year or two ago, and the bedding on the bed is as smooth as new.
The furnishings in the house Anping quickly checked and couldn't find any clues.