Chen Chaoyan turned around and looked at Mrs. Zhou.

Mrs. Zhou's tears flowed even more fiercely, and she was lying in the arms of her mother-in-law, and the suppressed sobs made her heart sore.But Chen Chaoyan didn't have time to sympathize with her, so he took two steps forward, and when he was about to question her, Xie Xuan stopped her with a jade bone landscape fan.When she looked over, Xie Xuan signaled her not to be impatient with his eyes.

Mrs. Zhou cried a little bit uncontrollably.

It also gradually changed from whimpering to crying loudly.

Chen Chaoyan glanced at Empress Xie Xuan knowingly, and waited quietly with patience.

After about tea cup time.

Only then did Mrs. Zhou stop slowly, and after wiping off the tears on her face with a handkerchief, she bowed to Xie Xuan and Chen Chaoyan in embarrassment.

Xie Xuan accepted the gift calmly, "Since we're done crying, let's talk."

Mrs. Zhou's face, which had turned crimson from crying out loud, turned pale again in an instant, but perhaps because she had vented, her expression was a little more determined than the previous hesitation.She looked at Chen Chaoyan, and asked with firm eyes: "The murderer who murdered my husband, is it really not Ma Huai?"

Chen Chaoyan said: "No."

Mrs. Zhou quietly clenched her handkerchief, "That's..."

"I said, whoever should see the account books first." Chen Chaoyan interrupted her indifferently.

Mrs. Zhou withdrew from her mother-in-law's arms and said in a low voice, "Go."

The mother-in-law hesitated.

Mrs. Zhou patted her hand lightly, and said sadly: "My husband is gone, I can no longer watch his murderer get away with it."

The mother-in-law quickly glanced at Xie Xuan and Chen Chaoyan, "My child..."

Mrs. Zhou closed her eyes, "Go, don't let the prince and Miss Chen wait in a hurry."

After taking another look at Xie Xuan and Chen Chaoyan, the mother-in-law hurried away.Xiaoxiao came back with a few thick account books, and handed them to Chen Chaoyan at Mrs. Zhou's gesture.

See you on the moon.

Chen Chaoyan took the last one and opened it casually.

In addition to the records of iron ore transactions recorded in the account book, there are also records of transactions between gold mines and silver mines!

Chen Chaoyan's heart skipped a beat!

Flipping through a few pages quickly, Chen Chaoyan's mood became more and more heavy as he looked at the time, quantity, delivery method and number of people of various ore exchanges that made people feel shuddering!

The privately mined iron ore is used to privately manufacture weapons.

It is self-evident what the privately mined gold and silver mines are used for!

Chen Chaoyan didn't dare to look back, closed the account book, calmed down his ups and downs secretly, and handed the account book to Xie Xuan beside him.

While Xie Xuan was watching, she looked at Mrs. Zhou.

Mrs. Zhou chose to hand over the account book, so she didn't intend to hide it anymore.Therefore, without waiting for Chen Chaoyan to ask, she spoke first, "Master Wang asked me to take the account books out of the study and hide them separately."

"Wang Da?" Chen Chaoyan asked.

Mrs. Zhou nodded her head, her eyes were red again, "The night before he went to Luyi County, he sent someone to explain to his mother-in-law. According to him, these account books are not only related to my husband's reputation, but also to my husband's reputation. The safety of me and my two children is concerned. My husband has already gone, and I can no longer let others ruin his reputation, nor let others hurt my two children, so I followed his instructions and found a reason to go to the study , took all the account books out of the secret box, and hid them in the secret room in the bedroom."

"Apart from asking you to put away the account books, did he say anything else?" Chen Chaoyan asked as calmly as possible.

Mrs. Zhou wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and told her exactly what Wang Da had come to warn her when it got dark earlier.

After Chen Chaoyan listened, she turned her head slightly to look at Xie Xuanhou who was still flipping through the account books, then turned around and asked Mrs. Zhou, "Is Wang Da and you in close contact?"

Madam Zhou shook her head.

"Not close, then after your husband's accident, you are not surprised that he is so 'attentive' suddenly?" Chen Chaoyan asked.

Mrs. Zhou clenched her handkerchief tightly, "Miss Chen means..."

"Judging from the clues we have so far, it is most likely that Wang Da is the real culprit." Knowing what she wanted to ask, Chen Chaoyan said bluntly, "In the case of murdering your husband, Ma Huai was just pushed by Wang Da to take the blame. man of."

Mrs. Zhou's legs went limp, and she collapsed into the arms of her mother-in-law.

Seizing this rare opportunity, Chen Chaoyan quickly asked: "Your prime minister never hides such confidential account books from you, so he never told you that all these things he did were all set up by Wang Da?"

Mrs. Zhou burst into tears and said: "My husband treats me, my children, and my parents very well. There are delicious, useful, and easy-to-wear clothes. The first thing he thinks of is us. What's wrong? He just faced it silently and never complained in front of us."

There must be something hidden about her words, but Chen Chaoyan didn't want to pursue it anymore, and after explaining that she had better stay at home these days and not go anywhere, she followed Xie Xuan back to the Sheriff's Mansion.

The amount of information on the books is too large.

Chen Chaoyan wisely chose to go to Liyuan instead of going to Suiyuantang.

After having dinner with Chen Qiyang in the Liyuan, and after assessing his progress in learning the Thousand Characters, he returned to the Zhaixing Building.

The Zhaixing Building has not yet lit the lights.

Only the shallow moonlight shines.

Chen Chaoyan walked slowly into the room, and was about to order Yue Jian to light the lamp, when she saw Xie Xuan sitting in the dark first.

Xie Xuan sat in the carved pear wood chair, propped his head on one hand, and seemed to be asleep.

Shi Shu and Wen Mo stood quietly behind him.

Ruolan and Qingxue were hidden in even darker shadows.

Chen Chaoyan stopped, paused for a while, and then walked towards him.

Xie Xuan did close his eyes, but when she came to him, he opened them.After quietly looking at her for a moment, he got up and walked past her.

Chen Chaoyan hesitated for a moment before turning around and following his footsteps.

The moonlight is like a veil like a mist, gently covering all places that can be seen by the eyes.

Xie Xuan didn't walk fast.

Chen Chaoyan also deliberately slowed down, slowly following behind his reflection.

For a moment.

The two went to the back garden of the Sheriff's Mansion.

"My lord should go back and have a good rest." Stopping under the crabapple tree, Chen Chaoyan said to Xie Xuan who was still walking forward.

Xie Xuan turned to look at her, and said tiredly, "Rest? It is indeed time to take a good rest."

From the beginning of the arrest operation, his daily rest time was less than two hours.

Originally planned to take a good rest tonight.

But the shocking record in the account book is obviously about to break his plan.

Squeezing the space between his eyebrows, Xie Xuan turned back and said as he walked, "Come with me for a walk."

Chen Chaoyan stood still, "This case has been investigated for a month or two, and I don't care if it takes another day or two. But the prince has only one body, and if it collapses, it will collapse."

Xie Xuan stopped again, but turned his back to her without turning around, "Miss Chen, do you know how much evidence they can hide and how many weapons or gold and silver ingots they can privately manufacture during the two days of delay? "

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