Chapter 12: The Simple Truth
For two days in a row, there were no dangers or incidents, and Gongsun Hongye and the other female dependents gradually stopped being afraid.
Li Shixia still remembered the tragedy of the Qi family, and when she returned home, she discussed the case with Xie Yuanqian.
"Yuan Qian, there are still 3 suspects left, who will we go to tomorrow first?"
The prince's guard, the national player Zhou Xing and the chess servant Gong Fei.
First of all, you can eliminate the prince's guards, why?
Because the situation is not right, now the whole country of Yu is in chaos, and the prince's guards are not in the palace to protect the prince and run out to destroy people?
Is it because the treatment of the palace is too good?
Couldn't it be that the prince wanted to get rid of this chess player?
……
This question is a little too cute to explain.
Among the remaining two, Zhou Xing is more suspicious than the chess attendant.
"Let's check Zhou Xing first."
Gongsun Hongye devoted himself to cultivation, Qiaozhu and Ah Li took care of it in shifts, and Xie Yuanqian could only stay alone in the empty room.
This Xie Yuanqian, while beeping that the gold finger is a precious thing, he is unwilling to develop it seriously.
It's really silly to lie down.
Xie Yuanqian originally planned to accept three typing Ji in the near future, but Emperor Yu summoned the order, where is the time to do this kind of thing, it is more important to keep the family property.
There was no word all night, and the red sun rose in the east.
Today, Xie Yuanqian and Li Shixia have to inspect first, and then go to Zhou Xing for questioning.
Fortunately, since the incident of Chifeng, everyone in Yumo Lane has been in danger, and they dare not easily let outsiders enter the Cave Heaven Blessed Land, but there has been no more trouble.
And Zhou Xing also lives in Yumo Lane, which saves them a lot of effort.
This Zhouxing's cave blessed land looks like it is of the same level as Chifeng, but the scenery here is elegant,
Bamboo forest river, garden pond fish, incense burner guqin.
What a worldly look.
? This faint taste? Where have you smelled it? Xie Yuan smelled the incense burner of Zhou Xing's house and felt very puzzled,
Zhou Xing was also very puzzled when he saw Xie Yuanqian and them coming to ask,
Because he hadn't been out for a long time, the prince didn't summon him, and his friends didn't invite him, so he was happy to study the chess formation in the blessed land.
"I don't know why the two Taoist friends came?"
Xie Yuanqian still asked straight to the point
"The day before yesterday, all 13 members of the Chiffon family were killed by robbery, do you know this?"
Hearing the tragic death of his best friend, Zhou Xing was stunned and then cried bitterly,
"Lingyu, Lingyu! How did you suffer this calamity for no reason! It really makes my heart ache~! ”
Zhou Xing's grief is real, and his words are also true, it seems that he and Chiffon are indeed close friends.
After his mood calmed down a little, Xie Yuanqian continued to ask,
"Where were you the day before yesterday?"
Hearing Xie Yuanqian ask him this, Zhou Xing was very unhappy,
"What! Do you think I killed Lingyu? I tell you, I, Zhou Xing, can swear to the Immortal Dao: If I have any thoughts about the Lingyu family, I will be called Heavenly Thunder! Come to a sticky end! ”
This is all an oath to the immortal way, and he has such a sincere performance before, I'm afraid he is not suspicious, right?
Li Shixia thought to herself.
But Xie Yuanqian is stupid, why can't they answer all of them?
And what's the use of you swearing it? Could it be that God will really take care of you? Where are you a cutie? As a time-traveler, I haven't been blessed by God yet.
"Don't say anything else, where were you the day before yesterday?"
Zhou Xing was a gentleman in the end, and he suppressed his anger and replied to him,
"I study chess at home."
Xie Yuanqian then asked,
"Can someone testify for you?"
Zhou Xing smiled angrily,
"The servants of the house can testify, but will you believe it?"
Xie Yuanqian is not targeting him, this is all a fixed process,
"Zhou Guoshou don't be angry, we are all standard procedures, please call all the servants over."
Zhou Xing imposed the pain of his friend's death and the hatred of the murderer without a trace on Xie Yuanqian, so the more he asked, the more angry he became.
But it is also particularly important to clean up his suspicions, and he also wants to avenge his best friend, so he still called all the people in the family to answer the question according to Xie Yuanqian's instructions.
After Xie Yuanqian's careful questioning, all the servants in the family could prove that he had indeed not gone out on the day of the Chiffon family's accident.
Xie Yuanqian said regretfully,
"I'm sorry, we are also on business, we are offended, I hope Zhou Guoshou will forgive me!"
The fire of Zhou Xing's revenge is burning, and he doesn't care about this little thing anymore.
"It's okay, it's just that Lord Xie can let me also participate in the investigation, I am a formation mage, and I will definitely be able to help you."
Oh! It's such a coincidence, now I can go to the scene to investigate and collect evidence.
Before, because there was no one who knew the formation, there was no way to start at the scene, but now that Zhou Xing has joined, he can start investigating the crime scene from scratch.
Xie Yuanqian readily agreed, there was no way, there was a shortage of manpower, the evidence could not be found, and the case could not be solved by questioning alone.
"That's great, we're short of manpower, now we're going to Chiffon's house."
Then the group returned to Chi Feng's house, this time with Zhou Xing's help, although the formation was not repaired immediately, but the location of the crime could all be restored.
Chiffon died in the living room, family members died in their posts, and no one showed signs of escaping, which is too strange.
Just from these murder scenes, Xie Yuanqian can find a lot of problems.
Judging from the fact that Chiffon died in the living room, the visitor was a guest, but the visitor was not good.
The back kitchen is still preparing the meal, this is to entertain this person to eat.
No one has time to escape? Can't escape or don't you have to escape?
Chifeng is a Zhuji Immortal, and he can kill him without resistance, either his cultivation is much higher than him, or someone poisons him, but now that the corpse is in ashes, there is no way to confirm it.
Judging from these suspicions, the murderer can only be one of the guards and Chang Wei.
One of them is definitely higher in cultivation than Chiffon, and the other is most likely to stay at Chiffon's house for dinner.
Didn't the chess attendant ask? What did she do?
Chess attendants are generally uncultivated or have low cultivation, and the people of the Immortal Yuan Division will not come to the door at such a time, right?
From the Xianyuan Division to Yumo Lane, she has to pass through a few alleys with poor security, where did she have the courage to be a chess attendant?
And Chiffon won't leave a chess attendant to eat at home, right? It doesn't make sense.
In fact, the case is already very clear here, but there is still a question, that is, all the property of the Qi family is gone, Xie Yuanqian has checked Chang Wei's storage bag, and there is only food in it.
Grain?
"Zhou Xing, first restore the Qi family's granary to normal!"
Although he didn't understand what evidence Xie Yuanqian wanted to find, Zhou Xing still partially restored the granary first.
Xie Yuanqian looked at the granary that was actually empty after recovery, and instantly understood part of the truth.
He led people to take down Chang Wei quickly.
Chang Wei's dead duck has a hard mouth, and he doesn't admit it when he dies,
"Xie Yuanqian! What proof do you have to take me! You coveted my cousin's property, and now you want to take me for it! Yes and no! ”
Xie Yuanqian must have come prepared, he scolded,
"Phew! You wolf-hearted thing! The Chiffon family was kind enough to help you survive in the imperial capital, but you were ungrateful and harmed the lives of 13 members of his family, and you dared to spew blood in this mouth! ”
Chang Wei doesn't cry when he doesn't see the coffin,
"You said I killed my cousin's family, what about the evidence?!"
Xie Yuan escorted him back to Chi Feng's house, and poured the grain in his storage bag back into the granary, no more, no less, just one warehouse.
He pointed to the pile of grain and shouted to Chang Wei,
"Do you still need evidence now?! If Chiffon lends you all the food, what will he eat for himself? ”
Chang Wei still wants to deny it,
"What happened to my cousin, who saw that I was pitiful and lent me all the food? He is the national hand under the prince's account, where can't he eat? ”
Xie Yuanqian still has evidence,
"Oh? Is it? Zhou Xing, it's time for you to tell the truth, right? ”
Zhou Xing, who was still watching from the wall, was questioned, and was instantly stunned.
"My lord, me? What should I say? ”
Xie Yuanqian sneered,
"Just tell me, how did you kill the 13 members of the Qi family."
Yes? Aren't people killed by the everlaster?
Zhou Xing will definitely not admit it directly, he said angrily,
"Xie Yuanqian! If you can't find evidence yourself, don't splash dirty water! I swore by Zhou Xing! ”
Xie Yuanqian still said the same thing,
Who are you? Are you still swearing here? Werewolves hurry up and get out!
"You want proof, don't you? I'll give you proof! ”
First of all, he and Chiffon are both national players under the prince's account, and the competitive relationship has not run, but it is also true that the two are friends, otherwise Chiffon would not have warmly entertained him on the day he died, and although the smell of Chiffon's family is now dispersed, it is obviously the same as the taste in his incense burner.
But because the human sense of smell is adaptive, he did not notice it for a while and did not completely deal with these smells.
Secondly, he understands the formation, and he has to participate in the investigation of the case, even if he participates in the investigation, he can repair all the damage to the formation smoothly. If he cultivates the Great Array of Cave Heaven and Blessed Land, will he still take the path of elegance? So there was only one explanation, the formation was destroyed by him, and he would naturally be able to find the location of the formation knot very quickly.
In the end, where did the Chiffon family's belongings go? Chang Wei did only steal food, otherwise he would not be in a hurry to deal with the aftermath of the Qi family, in the same way, Zhou Xing's first reaction when he heard that the Qi Feng family was suffering was not to collect the corpse first and take care of the aftermath but to find the murderer, why?
Because he killed the person and burned it, he needed to participate in the investigation to mislead Xie Yuanqian into their reasoning.
Then there is only one truth,
Chang Wei stole grain in the front, and Zhou Xing killed people in the back,
The murderer is Zhou Xing!
The rigorous reasoning of this evidence made the two have nothing to say and cannot quibble.
Originally, Zhou Xing wanted to resist with the help of the formation, but Li Shixia gave him a taste of the power of Blue Star Technology, and an iron pipe without spiritual power fluctuations was thrown.
Zhou Xing didn't even look at it, the iron pipe couldn't even wipe the hem of his trousers, and he couldn't see the power at all, what was there to guard against.
As a result, when Tieguan and Zhou Xing passed by, Xie Yuanqian's mother-in-law, Li Shixia, a dignified foundation building immortal, shouted excitedly:
"Art is the !! of explosions"
Then there was an explosion that followed the words, and the shattered iron pieces instantly took Zhou Xing's life with the help of the power of gunpowder, blowing him to pieces, and everyone present was stunned.
Including Xie Yuanqian.
The power of the four major inventions in the other world is still okay, although this time it is because Zhou Xing is defenseless, but this kind of bright spear without spiritual power fluctuations, how many people in this other world will be guarded?
This week, Xingke is also a foundation building immortal.
As soon as Zhou Xing died, the matter officially came to an end, Xie Yuanqian and they experimented with the power of Bluestar Technology, Lou Fang recovered the two caves, Yumo Lane returned to normal, although Chang Wei was guilty of stealing, but there was no punishment in the other world, so he was lucky to continue to live in Yuchen Lane.
As for Chifeng's legacy, Xie Yuanqian didn't care about it, and let the other security team members share it all.
Then the three-month war period finally passed, and Xie Yuanqian's family resumed their lying life again. The capital has finally returned to peace.
When the days of tranquility came, the national capital began to be bright again.
Although Yuguo has been downgraded, it is still prosperous.
Shen Xianya has been able to attend the royal banquet because of her excellent composition, and even this diplomatic event is a repertoire edited by her, of course, Xie Yuanqian is behind the scenes.
At this level, Shen Xianya can be said to have perfectly completed her duties and tasks as a tool man, and Xie Yuanqian has gradually come to the front of the stage as a great songwriter.
So they still called each other bosom friends until that day.
Prince Yuei chooses a concubine.
As we all know, Prince Yurong has no intention of taking the throne, he only likes the way of elegance, and there are a lot of guests in the palace, and the two national players who died in Yumo Lane last time were under his account.
Shen Xianya is so good, as a lover of music and rhythm, he will naturally notice her. This kind of attention is not a big deal, after all, there are one or two excellent musicians every year.
However, with Xie Yuanqian's famous works as the promoter, Shen Xianya is obviously different from those fleeting musicians, so she was summoned by Prince Yurong unexpectedly.
"The lyrics and songs are good, the flowers and the moon are good, and you should enter my palace!"
His words directly robbed Shen Xianya's fate, if it was other musicians, he would definitely take off happily, after all, no matter how famous a musician is, there will be a day when he will be out of luck, but when he enters the palace, he will fly on the branch and become a phoenix!
But Shen Xianya was not happy at all, because she knew that her song was far inferior to Xie Yuanqian's words, but it was precisely because of such an excellent Xie Yuanqian that she pushed her step by step in front of Prince Yurong.
She fell in love with Xie Yuanqian in a long-term correspondence, but Xie Yuanqian was the husband of her best friend, so she could only hide her love in her heart.
Until she told Xie Yuanqian about this "good news".
"Red leaves, Yuan Qian, I'm going to marry into King Rong's Mansion as a side concubine."
Hongye felt that it was undoubtedly a great joy for Shen Xianya to marry into the palace, from an unknown Yin Xiu in a town mixed with immortals to a noble princess, even if it was a side concubine, it was also worth being happy! It's an increase in social status, no, it's a leap!
"Really?! That's great, congratulations! Xianya! Then we will be friends with the princess from now on! All right! ”
Although Xie Yuanqian has the title of Shen Xianya's bosom friend, he has no intuition of a bosom friend, and he also feels that Shen Xianya is simply here to say goodbye.
"Congratulations! Bosom friend, no, I'm going to call you princess in the future! ”
This sound of the princess shattered Shen Xianya's remaining hope, and her tears fell uncontrollably,
Seeing her crying, Gongsun Hongye was a little at a loss, and comforted her with nonsense,
"Shen Meili, don't cry, even if you become a princess in the future, we will still treat you as a friend."
Xie Yuanqian is also a second monk who is confused, how can he cry so decently? Is it because I am afraid that once I enter the Houmen, it is as deep as the sea?
Then I can be useful as a senior lover of Lanxing's palace fighting dramas, and Shen Xianya has been a tool for so long, and now she has finally turned over, and I should help her take the position as her "bosom friend".
"Bosom friend, don't be afraid, even if you come to us for something, we will still support you behind you as before."
We? It turns out that it's always been you, and I've always been amorous!
Shen Xianya still has to face the reality in the end, the reality is what she thinks, from beginning to end Xie Yuanqian is Gongsun Hongye, she is just the one standing by the window and watching the scenery.
The moon that decorates the window is not Xie Yuanqian, but Lan Xing's famous song, which was originally a misunderstanding.
Shen Xianya held back her tears of regret, and forced a smile on her face to propose,
"Red leaves, Xie Yuanqian, let's play together again!"
Looking at Shen Xianya, whose smiling face was more ugly than a bitter face, Xie Yuanqian and his wife didn't understand it.
If you say something, what kind of play is this? Where is your expression playing?
But Shen Xianya didn't want to explain more, so she had already taken out the spirit zither by herself, and then played it solo:
"The world is thin, people are evil, and the rain sends the dusk flowers to fall. The wind is dry, and the tears are left. If you want to write about your heart, you will be oblique in your monologue. Hard, hard, hard!
People are different, today is not yesterday, and the sick soul is often like a swing. The horn is cold, and the night is dark. Afraid of people asking, crying and pretending to be happy. Hide, hide, hide! ”
It is Tang Wan's "Hairpin Phoenix", Xie Yuanqian's early copy, and Shen Xianya's pit song.
The lyrics of this song contain resentment and hatred, and the performer also has no sorrow and hatred, and the sword dance of Gongsun Hongye obviously can't keep up with this sad and bitter tune, so he can only move with the song, so that the style of the song can go with the sword intent.
The style of music originated from the sadness of Shen Xianya's heart, and the pain of parting from lovesickness, which caused Gongsun Hongye's sword to be fast and slow, left and right, and the sword move and sword intent were not controlled by Gongsun Hongye, but she seemed to be captured by the notes of Shen Xianya's spirit zither, and she could only be at her mercy.
This word comes from Lan Xing, the true meaning of it, Xie Yuanqian as the copyist is naturally clear, no matter how wooden he is, he now understands what Shen Xianya means.
But this time it's really Xianya's intention to have no intention, from beginning to end Xie Yuanqian didn't have her place in Shen Xianya's heart, although Shen Xianya helped him earn a lot of spirit stones, and even helped him attract a lot of attention, but this kind of thing is like this,
To like is to like, not to love is not to love, and to force it not to come.
And Xie Yuanqian's treatment of feelings has always been the same, typing Ji and Qiaozhu and his affection are both fate and coincidence:
Xie Yuanqian first picked them, but not the kind of selection that picks slaves, but as the selection of subordinates.
Then in countless bits and pieces of life, they gradually had a good impression of Xie Yuanqian, and Xie Yuanqian also relied on them a little.
Both sides are willing to do so, and it will naturally come to fruition.
Needless to say, Gongsun Hongye was the first to move, and Xie Yuanqian just echoed it, so the great friendship between them was sublimated.
Then why can't Shen Xianya?
Xie Yuanqian couldn't answer this question.
Perhaps this can only be explained as not loving is not loving.