Ye Feng sat in the small flower hall of the Guan family of the Qinglong Dart Bureau, frowning deeply and thinking deeply.

The Guan family generally receives guests above the main hall, but now the main hall has been arranged as the mourning hall of Guan Pengfei, the second son of the Guan family, so they can only place Ye Feng and them in this small flower hall first.

Beside Ye Feng, there are two big fat men like meat balls sitting on the left and right, which are the righteous brother Zhang Idiot and Lanzhou Governor Zhou Ziran. At this moment, both of them were slumped in their chairs like a puddle of flesh, their heads tilted and their eyes closed, and they were snoring soundly soundly.

This whole night of nervous and busy, everyone didn't close their eyes for a moment, it seemed that these two were really tired enough, their snoring came and went, staggered, like a lullaby around Ye Feng.

In fact, Ye Feng was also very tired, but he didn't feel a little sleepy, just now he carefully interrogated Mrs. Guan's personal maid here before her death, as a personal person who is usually responsible for taking care of the daily life and diet of Guan Si and Mrs. Guan, he is naturally very trusted by them, and of course he knows a lot of things that others don't know.

Some of the clues that came out of the mouth of this personal maid just now made Ye Feng feel that in this turbulent Qinglong dart game, some things were faintly emerging, becoming clearer and clearer, but it made the whole case more hazy and confusing.

First, Guan Pengfei, the second son of the Guan family, was killed outside, and then his mother, Mrs. Guan, died in the small garden of her house in the middle of the night.

Although Ye Feng was very reluctant to believe it, from the evidence known so far, the most suspicious person was undoubtedly Mr. Arazuki.

But Ye Feng never believed that it was him, and he had no reason to do so.

What if Mr. Arakitsuki really wasn't the murderer? Ye Feng had a very strong feeling in his heart, this murderer must be his own person within the Guan family!

Who can imitate Mr. Arazuki's blades and sword moves? Who can know that Mrs. Guan secretly went to the small garden alone to meet Mr. Arazuki last night?

can know so many things, and deliberately lead all the clues to Mr. Arazuki, this person must be inside the Guan family!

It's a pity that Mr. Arakitsuki refuses to reveal the content of the meeting and conversation with Mrs. Guan no matter what, even if he will be suspected of being a murderer, he must want to cover up some secret, and this secret must have a significant relationship with the identity of the real murderer and the Guan family.

But what is the secret?

Therefore, Ye Feng asked Tang Rou to find Guan Pengju, the eldest son of the Guan family, and the adopted son of the fourth old man of Guan Si, the thick-eyed Guan Yuntian, came to talk, because he felt that the things that these two people knew would definitely help him piece together a complete picture of the entire Guan family, which was very important for him to explore this secret and even the identity of the real murderer.

Taking advantage of this time, he tried to sort out the clues that were known so far, but the snoring of the two big fat men on the left and right surrounded him, making it difficult for him to calm down.

He sighed softly and looked at the two piles of sleeping meat slurry on the chairs, and it seemed that they were indeed extremely tired.

At this time, at the door of the small flower hall, Tang Rou walked in.

As soon as she entered the door, she saw two fat men dripping and snoring, and her brows immediately furrowed.

Ye Feng saw that she was about to have a seizure, so he quickly stood up, made a silent gesture, pointed to the outside of the flower hall, and pulled her out of the small flower hall.

He really couldn't bear to interrupt the sweet sleep of the two fat men, so let them rest more.

Walking out of the small flower hall, Ye Feng looked up and saw Guan Pengju, the eldest son of the Guan family, and when he saw Ye Feng, he immediately smiled and said hello.

He has always been so calm and indifferent, always so polite, and has always made people feel that he is so indifferent and indifferent to the drastic changes in the Guan family in the past few days.

Ye Feng didn't see Guan Yuntian with thick eyebrows and big eyes, he looked at Tang Rou a little strangely.

Tang Rou knew what he meant, and shook her head: "Guan Yuntian is gone." ”

Ye Feng was stunned for a moment, what do you mean it's gone?

Tang Rou explained: "Since yesterday afternoon, he went out to buy some things for the funeral in the house, and he has never come back, and he was not in the house last night. I asked up and down the house, but no one knew where he had gone. ”

Ye Feng frowned, at such a special time, he would suddenly disappear? His absence from the mansion last night did not prove at all that he would not sneak back to the mansion to commit a crime, but the real culprit would be him

Is it?

Guan Pengju stepped forward, he heard the snoring sound like thunder coming from the small flower hall, and he poked his head curiously to look inside, and couldn't help but smile.

Ye Feng looked at his smile, and felt even more strange about this person in his heart. Does he really care so little about what's going on at home these days?

First his younger brother was killed, his father was paralyzed by a stroke, and then his stepmother was also killed, but he can still behave so indifferently, so relaxed, as if everything has nothing to do with him, which is too unreasonable.

Guan Pengju lowered his voice at this time, as if he was afraid of disturbing the sleeping people in the small flower hall, and asked Ye Feng: "I don't know if Ye Gongzi is calling to come down, what's the matter?"

Ye Feng was still feeling strange about his performance, and he didn't know where to ask for a while, so he asked casually, "Mr. Arazuki, have they settled down?"

Guan Peng nodded and said: "Yes, he was placed in a guest room, and he was arranged to catch the fast in the yamen and the guard of the dart master in the dart bureau before and after, and I also arranged it just now." ”

Ye Feng thought for a while and asked, "Guan Gongzi, how is your relationship with Mr. Arazuki, why do you think he is not the real murderer?"

Guan Pengju smiled faintly: "Mr. Arazuki and our Guan family have been close friends for decades, he and my father are like brothers, naturally we are also very fond of our younger generations, my brother and I have been instructed by him in martial arts when we were young, and we usually take care of our lives, to say that he is the most vicious murderer of my brother and Erniang, I really can't believe it." ”

Hearing him talk about Mr. Arazuki, Ye Feng couldn't help but think of the half-naked maids in his house when he first met Mr. Arazuki, as well as the two naked girls he hugged left and right, thinking of the seductive smiles on their faces and the snow-white curves on their bodies, Ye Feng couldn't help but swing in his heart.

He unconsciously glanced at Tang Rou beside him, but fortunately she didn't notice his distraction at this moment, and quickly settled down.

It was really hard to imagine that such a lewd and lustful old man was like a kind and kind elder in Guan Pengju's mouth, and Ye Feng almost wondered if the Mr. Arassy Moon in his mouth was the same person as what he saw.

Blinking, Ye Feng asked, "You said that Mr. Arazuki once instructed your two brothers in martial arts, is it a swordsmanship?"

Guan Pengju's face suddenly showed a look of shame: "That's when I was a child, he once taught me a few swordsmanship, but unfortunately I have dull talent and can't learn it when I'm old." Later, after I had my younger brother, everyone praised him for his great talent, and Mr. Arakitsuki and my father both trained him carefully and taught him martial arts, and he never had time to guide me again. ”

Ye Feng shook his head secretly, it seems that before and after his younger brother Guan Pengfei, the situation of the eldest son of the Guan family is really a little different.

He asked again, "Mr. Arakitsuki and your father have been close friends for decades, how did they meet?"

Guan Pengju thought for a while and said: "I don't know exactly how I met, but I heard that it seems that when my father came to Lanzhou to open a dart game at the beginning of that year, Mr. Arazuki's family was one of the richest businessmen in Lanzhou City, which was very helpful to my father." Later, after Mr. Arazuki's family passed away, he was obsessed with martial arts and had no intention of doing business, and finally the family fell into the middle of the road and sold all the family property, even the courtyard where he lives now was bought back by his father at his expense. ”

Ye Feng remembered Mr. Arazuki's dilapidated courtyard, and it seemed that he really had enough to lose. It's just that I'm afraid that he is obsessed with more than martial arts.

He suddenly understood why when he asked passers-by about Mr. Arazuki's residence in Lanzhou City before, those people showed disdain. A person like him, who spends all his time drinking and ruining his family property, and still raising women at home, and even wearing half-naked clothes, is probably a ruined son who is known in the streets of Lanzhou City for a long time.

Guan Pengju continued: "Later, my mother died of illness, I was only more than ten years old at the time, my father missed my mother, very depressed, Mr. Arazuki often took his father out to relieve his boredom, and within two years, his father brought Erniang back, officially married into the Guan family, and then gave birth to my younger brother Guan Pengfei within a few months. ”

Ye Feng secretly sneered in his heart, with Mr. Arazuki's two good fortunes, where can he take Guan Si out to relieve his boredom?

He was more interested in Mrs. Guan who gave birth to Guan Pengfei only a few months after marrying into the Guan family, so they had already married a pearl outside a long time ago, and they were married to their sons?

He spoke casually

He asked, "Where is Mrs. Guan's mother's house, and how did she and Mr. Guan Si meet?"

Guan Pengju suddenly lowered his head, as if he hesitated for a long time with some shame, before he spoke: "I really don't know how I met, but I've heard people say that my second mother was a famous Oiran lady in Lanzhou City back then. It is said that it was Mr. Arakitsuki who introduced them to each other at the beginning. ”

(Note: In ancient times, there were several categories of women in Qinglou, those who lit the green lanterns were only performing arts, accompanying the guests to eat and sing songs, and those who lit the red lanterns were those who were doing the skin and meat business.) ）

Ye Feng and Tang Rou were both taken aback, they couldn't imagine that the famous old man Guan Si's wife would be a Qinglou woman!

Marrying this kind of woman was a very disgraceful thing for the etiquette at that time, and it was generally only used for the concubine room to fill the house, and it would never be used for the Ming media to marry and the lady of the beautiful Xuxian. Guan Siken did this, which shows that he really loves this new lady very much.

Ye Feng asked, "Do you know which Qinglou Madame used to make a living in back then, and what was the name of the flower?"

Guan Pengju shook his head with an embarrassed face and said, "I really don't know, no matter how I say that she is also my second mother, how can I inquire about these things of the elders?"

Ye Feng was silent, what he said was also reasonable, he thought about it and asked, "What is the relationship between Mr. Huangyue and Mrs. Guan over the years?"

Guan Pengju replied calmly: "They get along very well and have never had any disputes, not to mention that Erniang, as a female dependent, rarely sees outsiders, so naturally there is no contradiction." ”

Ye Feng looked at Grand Prince Guan quietly, did he really not know?

According to the confession of Mrs. Guan's personal maidservant, in fact, for so many years, Mr. Arakitsuki has often stayed in the Guan Mansion because of his relationship with Guan Si, and every time he stays overnight, Mrs. Guan will quietly go to the small garden alone in the middle of the night to meet him.

The person who knows this may be the one who killed Mrs. Guan and framed Mr. Arakizuki, is this Prince Guan really not knowing or pretending to be confused?

However, it was inconvenient to ask further questions about the ** who had already involved the Guan family, so he changed the topic and asked: "Guan Yuntian has been in your family for many years, you have a good relationship, right?"

Guan Pengju seemed to be a little surprised by this question, and replied: "Yuntian is an orphan, a righteous son adopted by his father, his parents were kind to his father before his death, and his father treated him as if he were his own, but after having Pengfei, he gradually became a little colder, but he has always been loyal to his father." ”

Ye Feng's brows moved, Guan Pengju's answer was very ingenious, he had actually been talking about the matter between Guan Yuntian and Guan Si Master, but he didn't mention the relationship between him and Guan Yuntian at all.

After thinking about it, Ye Feng turned to ask, "How is Guan Yuntian's martial arts, and how does it compare to the second son?"

Guan Pengju was stunned for a moment, then suddenly reacted and said: "Do you suspect that Yuntian is a murderer? There is no way! His qualifications are as blunt as mine, his martial arts are mediocre, and he is definitely not Peng Fei's opponent." ”

Ye Feng nodded, he remembered that Zhang Fatzi had said that when he saw Guan Yuntian and Imperial Physician Jian's disciples having a secret meeting the night before, Guan Yuntian's martial arts were not very good, since everyone was saying that Guan Pengfei was extremely talented and his martial arts were good, it seemed that he had no chance.

After a pause, Ye Feng finally asked the most important question: "May I ask where you were before and after the time of the last night?"

Guan Pengju didn't seem to be surprised by this question at all, he quickly replied: "I have been arranging the funeral in the mourning hall around the time last night, and many people in the dart game were there at that time, until someone came to report that Erniang's personal maid found Erniang's body, and I sent someone to report to the official, and at the same time rushed to the small garden with people." ”

Perfect alibi, flawless!

Ye Feng nodded, and smiled at Guan Pengju: "Just ask according to the routine, don't be surprised by Prince Guan." Now that the question is over, the eldest prince must still have a lot of things to do, so please take care of yourself. ”

Guan Pengju still politely said goodbye and left, and after his figure disappeared, Tang Rou asked, "Do you believe what he said?"

Is it important to believe it or not? Ye Feng didn't squeak, thinking secretly in his heart.

In the conversation just now, Guan Pengju was always unhurried, without a trace of nervousness and panic, as if he had already prepared the answers to all his questions.

If it is said that he is blunt in martial arts, then in some other aspects, I am afraid that his talent is difficult for ordinary people to match.