My wife is not a demon

The old bustard who was still in shock was talking to an official, and beside him stood quietly the refined Shao Si Ming.

Seeing Shao Si Ming, Chen Mu remembered that the other party had been looking for Xue Caiqing to learn piano these two days.

"Little Zier."

Chen Mu's heart moved, and he walked in front of the other party.

The girl was holding a precious guqin made of cinnabar red old fir wood in her arms, her expression was quiet and quiet, and her beautiful eyes showed a look of worry from time to time.

"When did you come, did you see who killed someone?"

Chen Mu asked.

Shao Siming nodded lightly and hummed.

With a twinkle in Chen Mu's eyes, he took her to a remote corner of the pavilion and asked, "Tell me about the specific process."

"There is no process. I only saw sister Caiqing holding a dagger, and that man was covered in blood."

Shao Si Ming's words made the man frown.

From this point of view, could it be that the prince Luo Wenhai was really killed by Xue Caiqing?

"Sister Caiqing won't kill people."

Although he was an eyewitness, Shao Siming still couldn't help defending Xue Caiqing.

Chen Mu also believed that Xue Caiqing would not be the murderer.

Since the case in Qingyu County was over, Xue Caiqing's personality has become more and more stable, and it is impossible for her to suddenly lose control of her emotions and kill someone.

There must be something strange about this case.

The man patted the girl's fragrant shoulder, gave a comforting look, then walked up to another witness, the procuress, took out a small notebook and began to take notes.

Although Chen Mu's official position has been dismissed and he has no right to investigate the case, but with the Suzaku envoy by his side, the official did not dare to protest.

"Tell me what you saw."

Chen Mu stared closely at the anxious bustard in front of him.

The old bustard was very familiar with the man in front of him. After all, he had been using his identity to prostitute Xue Caiqing before, and never gave him a penny.

Although I didn't like it, I still answered honestly: "Master Chen, my family is also puzzled now, why did the murder suddenly happen after everything was going well. You should also understand that girl Caiqing, how could she kill people, she..."

"Get to the point!" Chen Mu was impatient.

The old bustard was taken aback by the man's sharp and indifferent eyes, and stroked his chest: "Actually, I only saw Caiqing holding a dagger, looking very scared, and the guest was leaning against the wall, his body was covered with blood. .”

"Is there anyone else in the room?"

"No, just the two of them."

"you sure?"

"Oh, Miss Zi'er saw it at the time, she couldn't be dazzled."

Chen Mu glanced at Shao Siming, saw the latter nodded, wrote a few sentences in the small notebook and asked, "What is Xue Caiqing's attitude towards Luo Wenhai?"

The old bustard smiled wryly: "Miss Caiqing, you should know better than me. She never pretends to any man. Although Mr. Luo has been stalking him, Caiqing ignored him."

"Is there any conflict between the two?"

"That's not true. That Mr. Luo was also gentle and polite before, and he never did anything presumptuous."

"Did anything happen between those two?"

Hearing this question, the old bustard frowned, and said with a displeased expression: "Master Chen, what do you mean by that, you don't think that Caiqing—"

"I'm asking, besides chatting on weekdays, are there any other strange things going on?"

"Well...not at all."

"What about the gift?" Chen Mu asked the important point.

The old bustard curled her lips: "Mr. Luo gave gifts before, but they were all rejected by Cai Qing, and then he gave another one forcibly, but it was a very ordinary jade pendant, and he was so stingy. The reason why Cai Qing saw him today , I reckon it is also to return that gift."

"Ordinary jade pendant?"

Chen Mu was a little confused.

Logically speaking, with Luo Wenhai's distinguished status, it is impossible to give ordinary gifts.

Either the gift had some special meaning, or the procuress was ignorant, the latter was more likely.

Out of his rich experience in handling cases, Chen Mu had a keen intuition that this 'gift' might be one of the breakthroughs in the case, so he asked:

"What kind of gift? Have you ever seen it?"

"It's very common." The old bustard replied after thinking carefully for a moment. "It probably looks like a jade pendant in the shape of a fish, but I can't remember exactly."

Fish shape?

Perhaps it was because he had experienced too many things about the Pisces country before, but when he heard the word 'fish', Chen Mu instinctively thought of the Pisces country.

But when he thought that the deceased was the prince of Nangan Kingdom, and he couldn't get along with Pisces Kingdom, he didn't think deeply.

After taking notes on the old bustard, Chen Mu entered the small pavilion where Xue Caiqing lived.

Sure enough, as he expected, the scene had already been destroyed.

The shocking bright red blood is dazzling on the clean floor and walls.

The chairs next to it were upside down or crooked.

There are many messy footprints on the ground, which are probably left by Nangan Kingdom's guards and government personnel after trampling on it.

This is greatly detrimental to the investigation scene.

Bai Xianyu didn't bother, and stood quietly outside the door, not letting anyone in.

After a while, the female officer next to the queen mother hurried over.

When he saw Bai Xianyu and was about to speak, the latter put his jade finger on his lips, made a "shh" gesture, walked a few steps away, pulled the female officer aside and asked in a low voice, "What instructions does the Queen Mother have?"

"The queen mother asked Master Suzaku to bring the suspect Xue Caiqing over from Xichang and put him in the prison of life and death, and let Master Chen reinstate his post to investigate the case with full authority."

The female officer handed the two orders from the Queen Mother to Bai Xianyu.