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Being scolded, Xie Yu'an wasn't angry at all, he was still cheerful, "At this point, why did Master Yan come back?"

Yan Qingchuan frowned and said, "The murderer of the Yuan Hai case has been caught."

Xie Yu'an was surprised, "So fast? Who is it?"

"Boatman Xue An, he pleaded guilty on his own initiative."

Xie Yu'an frowned, "Boatman?"

"Ah."

"No... No, he is not the murderer." Xie Yu'an looked at Yan Qingchuan and said firmly.

"Because people like boatmen and fishermen have to stand on the boat for a long time, in order to stabilize the center of gravity and maintain balance, their toes will be spread apart when they stand, just like the flippers of animals. It is more generous, but the footprint left at the murder scene is narrower at the front of the foot, and that footprint cannot be left by the boatman."

Xie Yu'an stood up abruptly and walked out, just as he took a step, his wrist was grabbed by Yan Qingchuan.

"where to?"

Xie Yu'an said with a serious face: "Miss Qingtian, I want the truth."

Yan Qingchuan didn't stop him, got up and took the cloak in the room, threw it to Xie Yu'an, and went out first, "Follow."

Not long after, the two came to Qingtian Division, Xie Yu'an went straight to the interrogation room, staring at Xue An's feet.

The man was wearing a pair of straw sandals, his exposed toes were bruised and purple from the cold, and his fingers were wide, which completely confirmed Xie Yu'an's guess.

Xie Yu'an stared at Xue An and asked, "Why do you want to take the blame for the murderer?"

Xue An twitched the corner of his mouth unnaturally, "I don't understand what this lord is talking about."

Xie Yu'an raised his voice, "You didn't kill Yuan Hai at all!"

Xue An said indifferently: "Everything I have stated is consistent with the circumstances of Yuan Hai's death. Except for the murderer himself, how could anyone else know so many details?"

"you--!"

Xue An turned his head away, as if refusing to communicate any more.

Xie Yu'an stomped his feet angrily and left the interrogation room.

She came to the gate of Qingtian Division, sat on the steps, and looked at the snowflakes circling and falling in the sky with a disappointed expression.

After a while, another person sat on the steps beside her, and she turned her head to see that it was Yan Qingchuan.

"Master Yan, is this the only way to close this case?"

Yan Qingchuan nodded lightly, "Xue An confessed everything. If there is no new evidence to prove that he is not the murderer, this case can only be closed like this."

Xie Yu'an rested his head on his knees, and said dejectedly: "He would rather give up his own life to take the blame for the murderer, who would that person be?"

"Today, I saw Ye He's name on Qian Si's roster of prostitutes."

Yan Qingchuan's words revived Xie Yu'an's spirits, "Ye He? You mean the woman from Chenxiang Pavilion?"

"Ah."

Xie Yu'an's pupils shrank slowly, frowning and muttering: "There must be some missing details, there must be."

After a while, she got up abruptly, rushed into the file room, and looked through Ye He's identity information in Qian Si's case.

When she saw the record that her parents hanged themselves at the beginning of the year, she suddenly turned her head, looked at Yan Qingchuan who followed, and asked: "When I investigated Yuan Hai, did you mention that he gave us high interest loans, which caused a couple to die?" About the couple committing suicide?"

Yan Qingchuan nodded.

Xie Yu'an held the file and said in a daze: "I understand, Ye He is the child of this couple, and she killed Yuan Hai."

Yan Qingchuan frowned and said, "How to explain the footprints at the scene? Besides, with Ye He's size, she doesn't have the conditions to kill Yuan Hai at all."

Xie Yu'an stared at the snow-covered ground in the atrium and said, "It was my preconceived idea, she just used a very simple trick to deceive us, but she easily deceived us."

"Come with me." She said, and walked out of the gate of Qingtian Division first, and came to the main road in the city.

Because of the heavy snow last night, the road in the city was covered with a thick layer of snow. Someone was grabbing a lot of coarse salt and sprinkled it on the snow, and then shoveled the snow with tools.

"The freezing point of salt solution is lower than that of water. Sprinkling salt on the snow can speed up the melting of the snow. Ye He took advantage of this and created an alibi for himself. Yuan Hai's real death time should be earlier than we calculated. It should be earlier, probably between the time when he leaves Chenxiang Pavilion and before the snow falls, that is, between twelve o'clock and three o'clock in the morning."

"If Ye He really used this method, it would also explain why she took so much effort to drag Yuan Hai to an alley hundreds of meters away after killing Yuan Hai. She just wanted to leave these footprints , to mislead us.

After she killed Yuan Hai, she sprinkled salt on the ground in advance to make footprints and dragging shapes. After a night of heavy snow, these forged traces appeared. Coupled with the extreme weather, it is difficult for us to judge based on the state of the body With the exact time of death, he mistakenly thought that Yuan Hai must have died after the heavy snow at three o'clock in the morning, and at that time, Ye He was in the Chenxiang Pavilion, with a perfect alibi. "

After listening to Xie Yu'an's reasoning, Yan Qingchuan was silent for a while and said: "There is still one thing that doesn't make sense. Xue An has nothing to do with Ye He. Why would he pay for his life to take the blame for her?"

Xie Yu'an was confused: "This is what I want to know too."

Yan Qingchuan opened a bamboo umbrella neatly and said, "Let's go, ask her herself."

......

In Chenxiang Pavilion, in a quiet and elegant room, a slender and beautiful woman is standing by the window, admiring the silver-clad capital outside the window.

The little maid came over with a hand stove in her hand and said, "Girl, you have been standing by the window for a long time and have been blowing the cold wind, and you should catch the wind chill later."

The woman smiled, "It's nothing, it's just that there hasn't been such a heavy snowfall in Kyoto for many years. Look, it's so white, how beautiful it is." The smile grew brighter.

The next moment, there was a sudden knock on the door, and the upward arc of the woman's mouth gradually disappeared, "Go and open the door."

The little maid heard the words and opened the door, and it was Xie Yu'an and Yan Qingchuan standing outside the door.

Xie Yu'an couldn't hold back her temper, she stepped into the room the moment the door opened, and said straight to the point: "The murderer who killed Yuan Hai has been found."

Ye He covered her mouth in surprise and said, "Who is it?"

"Xue An." After Xie Yu'an finished speaking, he stared closely at Ye He's face, not letting go of the slightest change in the other's expression.

But it's a pity that Ye He didn't show any strange expression other than being puzzled when he heard this name.

"That's great, Boss Yuan can rest in peace underground."

Xie Yu'an took a deep breath and said, "Miss Ye He, other than that, do you really have nothing else to say?"

Ye He said lightly: "What do you mean, my lord?"

Xie Yu'an turned his head to look at Yan Qingchuan and said, "Master Yan, according to Dayan's law, can those who voluntarily surrender and plead guilty be given a lenient punishment as appropriate."

"Yes."

Xie Yu'an looked at Ye He again and said, "Miss Ye He, I will give you one last chance to surrender."

Ye He hooked the corners of her lips, and said with a half-smile: "I really can't understand what adults are saying more and more."

Xie Yu'an shook his head, "Yes, you have planned everything very carefully, but you forgot that Xue An is a boatman, and the footprints you forged do not match his, and besides, you need a lot of money to forge the footprints." With so much coarse salt, if you buy it from the market, the government will suspect you, so you can only trade it privately with people on the black market.”

"Unfortunately, the largest private salt dealer in Kyoto was recently arrested by Qing Tiansi. From him, we can find evidence of your private trading of coarse salt, as well as the murder weapon. The dagger is much smaller than ordinary daggers, and the handle is engraved with exquisite Hua Hua, as far as I know, your father ran a blacksmith shop when he was alive. I think he made that dagger specially for you. The reason why you killed Yuan Hai with this dagger was to avenge your dead parents. Right?"

Ye He opened her mouth slightly, her face was pale, and she didn't speak.

"No matter how inhuman Yuan Hai is, you shouldn't kill him."

Hearing this sentence, Ye He's pupils shrank suddenly, and then sneered: "Don't kill him? Don't kill him and wait for God to kill him? Is it useful to ask God?"

Yan Qingchuan said calmly: "You can collect evidence of his violation and report it to the court."

"Oh, I don't believe you at all, and I don't believe in the imperial court! When my father's blacksmith shop was confiscated by the government and he was forced to borrow money from Yuan Hai, where was the imperial court?! When Yuan Hai beat my father until he became seriously ill Where was justice? When he forced my parents to hang themselves, where were you?!"

Two meandering teardrops flowed down Ye He's pale cheeks, and she roared heart-piercingly: "You stop being hypocritical, there is no fairness and justice in this world, there are only people who bully, humiliate and trample on others! "

Xie Yu'an shook his head, and said with compassion in his eyes: "Do you know that Xue An took the blame for you, and he didn't even say a word to defend himself, and put all the blame on himself."

Seeing Ye He's stunned expression, Xie Yu'an smiled wryly and said: "Yes, you see, in your plan, you deliberately designed a murder and planting case, but you didn't expect that the person you planted was actually willing to take the blame for you , I don't know why he did it.

But if this world is really cold-blooded and dirty as you said, and there is absolutely no fairness and justice, how do you explain Xue An's willingness to be your scapegoat? You have to understand that what he took for you was a life . "

Ye He looked dazed, and after a while, he murmured: "I really don't know him, he...why would he do this, I only know that he comes to the pavilion every night to pester Yuan Hai borrowed money, no matter how Yuan Hai beat him and scolded him, he just kept his head down, before today, I didn't even know his name."

"Now you know, the person who is about to go to the execution ground for you is called Xue An."

"Xue An...Xue An." Ye He murmured, and suddenly said sharply: "I remembered, I remembered, my father, when my father was still there, he took a skinny My little apprentice, that person is very introverted, he dare not look directly at others, dare not talk to others, but he likes to hang around me and call me Miss in a soft voice."

"After the blacksmith shop disappeared, my father entrusted his relationship and sent him to a small fishing village. Afterwards, he never got in touch again."

"It's him...how could it be him..."

Ye He sat down on the chair with an expression of disbelief.