Detective in the Red Chamber

After setting up the task of going to the dental office to investigate, Lin Xiuyuan also rushed to set up the court.

Sun Shaozong picked up the straw paper he had just smeared and combed it again. After confirming that no new ideas emerged, he decided to start the second round of questioning.

In this round, he will focus on interrogating people, firstly, Zhuer, who is known to have resentment towards Lin Qicheng, and secondly, those who claim to have seen Lin Qicheng in the past five days.

In addition, there are three concubines that Lin Qicheng favored—especially the last one. If she is the accomplice of the murderer, then a series of actions such as murder, hiding the corpse, and Li Daitao's death can all be done that night. Finish.

The first person to be summoned before Sun Shaozong was the steward Wang Peng from Qingqing Prairie.

According to the statistics of the yamen servants, this Wang Peng is only 29 years old this year, but he looks very old, even the hair on his head is sparse, and he has obviously fallen into a middle-aged crisis ahead of time.

"Master Qingtian, Mingjian!"

Yue Mo had already guessed that he had become the main suspect. As soon as Wang Peng entered the door, he hurriedly grabbed the ground with his head, and said pitifully: "Although my mother-in-law did have an affair with the master, but...but she Before she married me, she was the master's servant girl!"

"The left and right are left over from the master's play, and they were thrown to the villain. Now it's just picked up and chewed, so what's the matter? The villain doesn't have any complaints in his heart..."

Sun Shaozong suddenly interrupted him: "How did I hear that you beat your wife several times because of this?"

Originally, I felt that this guy was a little pitiful, but seeing his obscene words that he tried to avoid, his sympathy for him suddenly disappeared.

"This……"

After asking this question, Wang Peng immediately froze, and said in a cold sweat for a long time: "The villain has no complaints in his heart, it must be impossible-but I have the courage to dare to answer The master is poisonous!"

This rascal!

It's no wonder that after arresting Lin Qicheng and raped him in bed, he was still able to keep his position in charge.

Or maybe, that day he actually went to play the flute for fun?

After continuing to cross-examine a few more words, Wang Peng just blindly judged in fear.

Seeing that there was nothing useful to ask, Sun Shaozong motioned to the left and right, took Wang Peng out, and summoned the next suspect to come in.

This person is none other than Wang Peng's wife, Zhao Yingying.

The 27-year-old Zhao Yingying is a standard petite woman. When she was assigned to Wang Peng, Lin Qisheng was partial to plump women, so naturally she didn't have much nostalgia for her.

It's just that he didn't expect Lin Qisheng to change his taste after seven or eight years...

However, unlike her petite figure, after entering the door, Zhao Yingying held her head high and her chest held high without any fear.

When asked by Sun Shaozong about her behavior in the past few days, she even gave an irrelevant answer: "I am just a plaything of the master. How would I know how he died?"

After a pause, he added indifferently: "However, if my lord wants to take someone on a job, the woman is willing to plead guilty, and I can't live anymore!"

this woman...

Either the acting skills are so high that people can't see the flaws.

Or the desire to die has really sprouted.

Having said that, while being bullied by Lin Qicheng, who was nearly [-] years old, she had to endure her husband's beatings, and she also had to bear the strange looks of others. It was completely normal for an ordinary woman to have an emotional breakdown because of this.

These two in succession failed to ask anything.

Sun Shaozong decided to temporarily change the plan, and let the bitter and bitter ones be aired first, starting with the three favored concubines.

The first one to be brought in was the youngest aunt, the 22-year-old Zhang Ning—she was the first concubine whom Lin Qisheng favored after driving away the servants around her.

Zhang Qing married into the Lin family six years ago. At that time, Lin Qicheng was in the period of transition from plump to petite. Therefore, Zhang Qing had the beauty of both, but it was not like the later ones. Sick Xi Shi also seems weak.

And her performance was finally much more normal. After kneeling on the ground tremblingly, she didn't dare to open her mouth.

"I'm asking you."

Sun Shaozong asked solemnly: "When Mr. Lin spent the night with you that day, was there anything unusual?"

"Anomalies?"

Hearing this, Zhang Ning looked up at Sun Shaozong with a strange expression on his face, then hurriedly lowered his head, faltering and saying: "It seems that there is nothing wrong with it."

This seems to be a concealment.

slap~

Sun Shaozong immediately slapped the table, and shouted sharply: "Is there or is it not? If you dare to perfunctory this official again, be careful of severe punishment!"

"This this……"

Zhang Ning's face turned pale with fright, and he looked at the clerk who was in charge of recording the confession in a panic, and said hesitantly: "My lord, this... there are some words, it is really inconvenient for slaves to talk nonsense."

"Humph!"

Sun Shaozong snorted coldly, and yelled in a pretentious manner: "Come on, get rid of this secretive woman..."

"My lord, spare my life, my lord, spare my life! The servant said, just say it!"

Now Zhang Ning didn't dare to hesitate anymore, and hastily described the scene of that night in detail.

Speaking of it, it was actually nothing unusual, but that night, because of Lin Qicheng's poor condition, he still couldn't harden himself up.

Considering that Lin Qisheng is 69 years old, this is nothing more than normal.

So Sun Shaozong was a little disappointed, and asked casually: "Apart from this? But there are other abnormalities."

Zhang Ning seemed a little surprised by Sun Shaozong's indifferent reaction. He raised his head and looked at Sun Shaozong in surprise, and murmured, "No...no more."

It was this surprised look that made Sun Shaozong vaguely aware of something, so he hurriedly asked: "Then when you got along with Mr. Lin in the past, did something similar happen?"

"It's not completely absent, but it's only occasionally after the master has been busy..."

Zhao Yingying blushed and said, "Besides, I helped the master and helped the master that day... After it didn't improve, the master didn't get annoyed by it. Instead, he slept very soundly at night."

Sun Shaozong grasped the key point again: "You mean, in the past, Master Lin would become angry whenever similar situations happened, but this time he made an exception?"

"Ah."

Zhang Ning nodded, his face became more and more red: "Although the master is old, he never refuses to obey his old age, especially in this respect."

In this way, it is indeed a bit strange.

Sun Shaozong pondered for a moment, then ordered Zhang Ning to retreat first, and then called the other two concubines in. After entering the door, regardless of other things, he first asked Lin Qisheng about his performance that night.

As a result, no surprises, Lin Qicheng really softened to the end!

And these two times, he also did not become angry from embarrassment.

The only difference was that Lin Qicheng seemed extremely tired from the mouths of the two concubines.

This is even more strange!

If it is said that he did not lift up suddenly and was under tremendous psychological pressure, so he appeared more and more tired, it stands to reason that he should behave more and more irritable every time.

But how could he accept it uncharacteristically calmly?

Could it be...

There were actually other reasons that led to his situation, so he didn't care at all whether his intercourse with the three concubines was harmonious.

Or, he went to this three-bedroom concubine's house to spend the night to cover up something?

Chapter 926 Deliberation [Part [-]]

After the second round of interrogation, Sun Shaozong reconfirmed that, apart from those perverse behaviors on the surface, Lin Qisheng was also hiding a big unknown secret.

And this secret is mostly related to a woman, a woman he would never dare to get involved in the open, otherwise Lin Qicheng would not have covered it up in every possible way.

So that afternoon, Sun Shaozong focused his suspicion on two people: Lin Xiuyuan's concubine Liang Nianxiao, and... daughter-in-law Shen Peilan.

Comparing with Zhao Yingying, having an affair with a younger relative is obviously a hundred times more serious!

Among the two, Shen Peilan was undoubtedly more suspicious.

She is now a widow, without a man to protect her, and she is petite and cute, which is most in line with Lin Qicheng's taste in recent years...

and many more!

The tunnel was remodeled three years ago.

Two and a half years ago, Lin Xiuyuan's eldest son fell ill and died four months later.

Two years ago, Lin Qisheng had problems with his mental state and gradually found it difficult to control his emotions.

Lin Qisheng was forced to resign half a month ago, and then dismissed all the servants around him.

From then on, Lin Qisheng spent every day alone in the backyard, and went to the concubine's room every five days to make a show. He didn't mind showing incompetence in front of the concubine at all.

Even though he was soft to the end, he couldn't hand over even a single drop of public rations, but Lin Qicheng was getting tired day by day...

If Shen Peilan is included as an important link, it seems that this series of messages can be connected in series!

Three years ago, Lin Qisheng started having an affair with his grandson-in-law Shen Peilan. In order to facilitate the tryst, he specially asked someone to build a secret room, or a tunnel.

Two and a half years ago, the eldest grandson of the Lin family found out about his wife's and grandfather's unethical behavior, but because of his reputation or fear of his grandfather, he didn't dare to speak out about it. In the end, he became depressed and fell ill, and died four months later.

And after his eldest grandson died of illness, perhaps because of his conscience being condemned, Lin Qisheng's mental state gradually became problematic, and he became unable to control his emotions.

During this period, perhaps in order to get rid of his obsession with his grandson-in-law, he not only accelerated the pace of taking concubines, but even stretched out his demonic claws to the married Zhao Yingying.

But apparently, all his 'efforts' ended in failure.

The grandparent and grandson still maintain an absurd relationship.

Half a month ago, Lin Qisheng was forced to report his old age and return to his hometown. Thinking that after returning to his hometown, it would be difficult to have a private meeting with his grandson-in-law in a short time, so he simply dismissed all the people around him and started working overtime to find compensation in advance.

Of course, it might be Shen Peilan who took the initiative to propose dismissing the servants. The purpose is naturally to carry out her long-planned revenge plan!

Then, Shen Peilan and his accomplices poisoned Lin Qicheng in the secret room of the usual rendezvous, and made his accomplices dress up as Lin Qicheng in an attempt to confuse the time when the body was found...

and many more!

If this is the case, even if they want to create an alibi, there is no need to risk being exposed and perform for several days in a row, right?

Considering that Lin Qisheng would pretend to be lucky with a concubine every five days in order to cover up, yesterday it can be said that he has reached the limit of impersonation.

This kind of extreme operation is just to confuse Lin Qisheng's death time?

Can't figure it out, really can't figure it out.

However, now that we have a direction to investigate, we should try to pursue it first, and it will not be too late to continue to deliberate when we find new information, or if the path is different.

Thinking of this, Sun Shaozong asked the yamen servant at the side: "The whole Lin family, are they all worshiping in the mourning hall now?"

The yamen servant hastened to report respectfully, saying that not only the people from the Lin family, but also the old servants who were nearby had rushed over upon hearing the news, and they were currently building a tent in the courtyard. The dojo is gone.

When Lin Xiuyuan released the news, he deliberately concealed the cause of Lin Qicheng's death. In addition, Lin Qisheng had just resigned from office not long ago. In the eyes of outsiders, he probably died of illness or died of old age.

As the saying goes, "a person who is about to die has a good word", since he didn't know that he died of poisoning, naturally no one doubted it.

The book is back to normal.

But Sun Shaozong rushed to the mourning hall, first offered incense and worshiped according to the rules, and then invited Lin Xiuyuan outside after the family members answered the ceremony, expressing that in order to solve the case, he would carefully search every room in the Lin mansion.

Since the secret room was already mentioned in the morning, Lin Xiuyuan had no intention of objecting, but in order not to offend the female family members of his mansion, he said that when searching, he must bring two maids from the Lin mansion.

It's nothing, anyway, as long as he, the head of the family, agrees, how dare the two maids make any fools?

Seeing Lin Xiuyuan calling two maids, and exhorting them, Sun Shaozong subconsciously looked at Shen Peilan, who was kneeling in the mourning hall in sackcloth and filial piety.

At this glance, he couldn't help but froze.

Gein's sad look on Shen Peilan's brows did not show any falsehood at all, and it was even more sad than others crying.

If she was really the murderer, why would she cry so sadly in front of Lin Qisheng's spirit?

Could there be any true love between her and Lin Qicheng? !

Isn't this ridiculous? !

If this is the case, why did she kill Lin Qicheng?

Could it be that the murderer is someone else?

But if she wasn't the murderer or an accomplice, how could Lin Qisheng's body be kept safe in the underground secret room for four or five days?

"Master Sun, it's the two of them."

Just as he was confused, Lin Xiuyuan had already brought the two servant girls over, and told them face to face: "You just have to watch, don't hamper the official's investigation indiscriminately!"

Wait for the two servant girls to obediently agree.

Although Sun Shaozong hadn't figured it out yet, he wasn't afraid of procrastinating and showing his feet, so he handed over his hands and made a confession, and led two maids and a dozen government servants to the back house of Lin's mansion.

The first search was not Shen Peilan who was the main suspect, but Lin Qicheng's concubines.