Jun You Ji Fou

After a short rest, Chu Mingyun and Su Shiyu set off to the home of Zheng Wan, who was killed first.

Zheng Wan, the former You Fufeng, had died for more than a month, and his body had been buried in the ground long ago, but his house was still a piece of plain, the curtains were not removed, and the house was filled with incense and candles and fireworks.The maid helped a lady in filial piety to come out to meet her. The white hairpin was slanted on her slightly disheveled hair.

After a few words of comfort, they were led directly to the courtyard where the accident happened.The government had come to inspect it before, and a funeral had already been held. Most of the objects here have lost the appearance when the incident happened. Only the faint blood stains that cannot be washed away are left on the stone slabs in the courtyard, silently remembering everything that happened.

After Su Shiyu stood in front of the desk and looked at it for a long time, he picked up a few documents and contemplated something. Chu Mingyun looked away, but felt that there was nothing to see in the courtyard, so he turned and walked towards Mrs. Zheng.

The sight of Zheng Wan's death was still vivid, and this other courtyard became a wound in Mrs. Zheng's heart. She didn't want to set foot again, so she waited outside the courtyard and waited for them.

"Madam Zheng," Chu Mingyun asked, "Since it is said that your husband was killed in the middle of the night, what is he doing here without going back to his room to sleep in the middle of the night?"

"There are still some official documents in the government office, so my husband brought them back and reviewed them in the study." Mrs. Zheng replied slowly.

"Zheng Wan is always like this?"

"It's not often." She thought for a while, and said, "For some urgent official documents that have just arrived, my husband is used to taking them home and reading them slowly."

"So if the murderer is not an attendant in your house, he is someone you Fufeng knows well." A gentle voice sounded behind him, and Su Shiyu walked steadily.

Chu Mingyun looked at him, smiled slightly and said, "Master Su, what did you see?"

"Originally, I didn't find any useful clues," Su Shiyu said, "but Master Chu's question just reminded me."

"...Master Yushi, why do you say that?" Mrs. Zheng looked at Su Shiyu, her eyes flickering.

Su Shiyu smiled faintly, "It's just my guess, but it shouldn't be too bad. There are still guards' corpses in this courtyard, which means that the murderer's skill is not good enough not to alarm anyone, but no one in other courtyards in the mansion knows what happened. Even Madam, you only found out that Mr. Zheng was killed in the early morning of the next day, so it seems that the murderer entered here directly."

Mrs. Zheng frowned, and looked at him puzzled, "What does what your lord said have anything to do with the identity of the murderer you mentioned just now?"

Chu Mingyun already understood, "What he means is that the other party must know that Zheng Wan has the habit of approving official documents here, and also understands the layout of your mansion, so he can find him directly, and he will not be someone he doesn't know." He paused. After a pause, he turned his head to Su Shiyu and said, "It must be someone who knows that Zheng Wan has urgent documents that night."

Su Shiyu nodded, and was about to speak when he heard Mrs. Zheng's trembling voice: "How is it possible..."

They looked at her slightly surprised.

"How...is it possible..." Mrs. Zheng wrung her sleeves tightly with her fingers, unable to accept it, "My husband is kind, and no one in the family has ever been treated badly, and all of them have served for many years. I left, and even the little girl from the cashier's family came to comfort me,...how could they be murderers!"

"Madame Zheng..."

"If it's someone I know well..." Tears welled up in her eyes, her figure trembled slightly, and the maid beside her hurriedly helped her up, her head bowed in compassion.Mrs. Zheng took a deep breath, stared straight at them, extremely confused, and almost asked, "Since we are familiar with each other, why do you want to do this?"

Chu Mingyun and Su Shiyu had nothing to answer.

Madam Zheng turned her head away, covered her face and wept silently.

Not long after they returned home, Su Xing came over to care about the situation of the investigation. Su Shiyu smiled lightly and said that there was no result. Seeing that Su Xing seemed to have something to say, he asked, "Uncle, what else?"

Su Xing glanced back, and the master came forward understandingly and said: "Reporting to the two adults, a sneaky person was caught among the people who went out of the city today, and he was tortured just now. He thought he was the one who killed Master Zheng... ..."

Chu Mingyun couldn't help but sneered and said, "It's been a long time since I found out what's going on, and now I can be arrested by you all at once?"

"Maybe I know the two adults are coming, and I can't hold back my guilty conscience." The master said with a smile on his face, "Anyway, do you want to go and see the two adults?"

Su Shiyu looked at him for a moment, then smiled softly, "Alright."

Oil lamps were burning in the prison, and the jailers saluted the few of them and stood aside.The middle-aged man in the prison was dozing off, his slightly bulging temples could be seen under the disheveled hair, and the palms resting on his sides were thick.

Startled by the sound, the man opened his eyes in a daze, and suddenly woke up when he saw the person coming, with a frightened look on his face.Before anyone could react, the man suddenly knelt down, pulling the iron chain with a loud bang, and he said to Chu Mingyun in fear, "My lord... my lord, please spare me!"

Chu Mingyun looked at him inexplicably, "Are you talking to me?"

"Sub... subordinates are not good at work...but..." The man raised his head and glanced at Chu Mingyun quickly, shaking like a sieve, "I beg you to hold your hands high!"

The jailers all took a deep breath and stared at Chu Mingyun in unison.

Su Shiyu watched thoughtfully, but did not speak.

Chu Mingyun tilted his head and looked at him for a moment, then suddenly shook his head and smiled, "I don't know if I want to drag me into the water, but I don't have such ugly people as you."

The man choked suddenly.

Su Xing glanced at Chu Mingyun with a delicate expression, then turned to Su Shiyu and said, "Yu'er, what don't you ask?"

Su Shiyu said with a faint smile: "Since he is pleading with Master Chu, then let Master Chu make the decision."

Hearing this, the man looked at Su Shiyu quickly, and pleaded repeatedly: "Master Yu Shi! The grassroots committed a felony, and they knew they deserved to die...But, my wife and children are innocent after all, and I beg you to save them."

These words had a profound meaning, Su Shiyu looked at him with his eyes closed, but smiled without saying a word.

Chu Mingyun glanced at Su Shiyu with a smile, and said to the man again: "Okay, stop shouting. Let me ask you, it has been so long since Zheng Wan was killed, why didn't you escape from Fufeng County earlier, why did you show up today?" gone?"

The man looked straight at Chu Mingyun, his face distorted, and said, "I'm just following orders. Since your lord's words are to clear yourself up, how can I explain it?"

"Heh," Chu Mingyun said coldly, "You said you were my subordinate and acted according to my orders, so what's the matter with you insisting on me now?"

The man avoided his gaze and lowered his head, "As my lord said, I'm just a chess piece that can be discarded at will, so I can't be considered your subordinate. When things come to this, it's just a fight to see if I can let you My wife and children survived by luck."

"What's wrong with your wife and children?" He asked with a smile.

"This point, I'm afraid the adults know better than me..."

Chu Mingyun narrowed his eyes slightly, and was about to go forward when someone grabbed his arm suddenly. He turned his head to look, and Su Shiyu smiled at him and said, "Seeing that he is emotionally unstable, he probably can't ask any questions. There is no need for interrogation." In a hurry, Master Chu is also tired today, why don't you go back and rest first?"

Chu Mingyun frowned and looked at Su Shiyu's expression, then turned his head and responded perfunctorily.

This development was really exciting. When they left the cell, the guards finally got together without any scruples and talked very freely.Outside the prison cell, the expressions of the master and the entourage who followed were also quite strange.

Su Xing couldn't help pulling Su Shiyu and whispering again: "Yu'er, look at the situation just now..."

However, Su Shiyu rarely interrupted him, and his tone was still gentle and flat, "It is not uncommon to slander the powerful with one-sided words. Besides, there is no evidence to be sure that that person committed the crime. Uncle, don't jump to conclusions." .”

Chu Mingyun walked ahead alone and heard clearly, and chuckled without emotion.He knew in his heart that no matter how deceptive the man's words were, he could not make Su Shiyu suspicious of him. It was not that Su Shiyu trusted him, but that this man believed in his own judgment.

Even so, he was still faintly irritable. After all, Chu Mingyun had always had a bad temper, and he just played tricks with Su Shiyu, and he really had no patience with others.

I don't know if Su Shiyu noticed that he was in a bad mood. In the next two days, Su Shiyu unexpectedly neither went to the cell for interrogation, nor went to Zheng Wan's house. Most of the official documents were approved by the helper, so Chu Mingyun became even more irritable.

When Su Shiyu knocked on the door of his room at night with a few books, Chu Mingyun put one hand on the door frame and said unbearably: "Master Su, if you didn't come to sleep with me, please go back."

Su Shiyu lit up the book in front of his eyes, it was not an official document but a military book, "Don't go to bed, I'm afraid something will happen tonight, you and I will wait in your room."

Chu Mingyun raised his eyebrows slightly, then withdrew his hand and let him into the room, "What happened?"

"I don't know exactly what will happen." Su Shiyu put the things on the table, "But I have already told my uncle to leave Fufeng County to check elsewhere. If they don't do anything tonight, they will have no chance."

"They?" Chu Mingyun sat down opposite him, "What do you know?"

"It's just a guess," Su Shiyu smiled, "An organized crime always needs to be dispatched by someone. In the past two days, I compared the time and place where officials were murdered five times before and after, and found that if the mastermind was in this place, the time just happened to match up." .”

"So you're planning to take the two of us as bait?"

Su Shiyu raised his eyes to look at him, the candlelight reflected his pupils like black ink, and he said jokingly, "Master Chu is afraid?" His gentle voice rose slightly at the end, seeming to hide a smile It sounds really nice.

His appearance made Chu Mingyun slightly stunned, and then he smiled and said, "Could it be that you came to my room because you were afraid?"

Su Shiyu shook his head and smiled lightly: "I came here just for convenience, Mr. Chu is overthinking."

"Why do you have to explain," Chu Mingyun said with a smile, "is it so difficult to just say you want my protection with such a thin skin?"

Su Shiyu looked at him silently for a moment, then suddenly said: "By the way, I wanted to ask you a question earlier."

"Ok?"

"Master Chu is so thick-skinned, wouldn't he feel hot?" Su Shiyu asked solemnly.

"..." Chu Mingyun replied solemnly, "Come and touch it?"

Su Shiyu silently picked up a military book and handed it over, terminating the conversation.

Chu Mingyun glanced at the title of the book with lowered eyes, "I've read it, change to another one."