Datang Coroner

Chapter 69 Motivation for committing the crime

"It disappeared by then?" Li Hai repeated.

Mrs. Zhou confirmed: "I remember I asked her. She said she gave it away."

"Who did you give it to?" Li Hai asked.

Mrs. Zhou shook her head: "I asked, but she didn't say anything. But she smiled at that time, and the smile was weird..."

For a moment, everyone couldn't figure out what these things meant.

Li Hai showed the painting to Mrs. Zhou again: "Have you seen this person?"

Mrs. Zhou recognized it immediately: "Isn't this a fellow of my lord? It's called Ding...Ding, why did he come from—"

"Ding Daomei." Li Hai reminded.

Mrs. Zhou nodded her head, "Yes, yes, that's what it's called!"

"Is he a fellow of your husband? Have you seen him?" Li Hai asked again, his expression gradually serious.

Mrs. Zhou nodded: "Yes, he met my lord on the street three months ago, and my lord knew that he had come to the city. Then he came to the house for dinner a few times. Every time he came to eat— —”

Mrs. Zhou's expression was obviously a little disgusted: "Not to mention the sloppy clothes, but also always talking casually with my husband, and hooking shoulders and backs..."

These obviously don't match Qian Taihao's elegance and elegance, no wonder Mrs. Zhou is like this.

Maybe Mrs. Zhou still thinks that she has tarnished Qian Taihao!

Li Hai pondered for a moment: "Your husband has a close relationship with him?"

"No, he came to us on his own initiative every time!" Mrs. Zhou was even more disgusted: "I hinted at him, but he turned around and returned. My husband is kind, and every time we see him, he is always polite. Angry, what else do you say to me, meeting an old acquaintance in a foreign country—"

"Every time he comes, he has to buy wine and vegetables. Only when he is satisfied!"

Li Changbo asked out loud, "When was the last time you saw him?"

"It was... five or six days ago, right? Just two days before Liniang died. At that time, I was annoying him, so my husband took him out for dinner. My husband didn't come back until late at night and was about to curfew, all dressed up. Smell of alcohol. But he must be happy after drinking it. He pulled me to say something, and I will never see Ding Daomei again." Mrs. Zhou tried her best to remember, but she couldn't remember anything else.

Li Hai nodded, then thanked Mrs. Zhou, and then invited Qian Taihao.

Qian Taihao was a little apprehensive, and when he saw Li Changbo, he took the initiative to ask, "Magistrate Li, how is it?"

Li Changbo smiled: "I have some things to ask you."

Qian Taihao's attitude was very cooperative: "Magistrate Li just needs to say, I will know everything and say everything!"

Fu Shi could not understand him, so he curled his lips quietly.

Li Hai didn't hesitate: "When was the last time you saw Ding Daomei?"

Qian Taihao said: "It was the first two days after Liniang's death. Ding Daomei came to see me that day, my family didn't like him, so I took him out."

Li Hai said concisely: "What is he looking for you for?"

Qian Taihao was silent for a moment: "Ask me for money. He said that he is going back to his hometown to get married and have children."

Li Hai raised his eyebrows: "You gave it?"

Qian Taihao sighed again, "Give it. He knew about my affair with Liniang, and he used this to blackmail me, so I could only give it to him. I didn't have much money with me at the time, so I gave it to him. Even a ring from Liniang , I gave it to him too."

Li Hai took out the ring: "This one?"

Qian Taihao was taken aback: "Yes."

"What happened after that? You haven't seen him?" Li Hai asked again.

Qian Taihao shook his head: "I haven't seen you again."

"Do you think he killed Liniang?" Li Hai asked abruptly.

Qian Taihao nodded without thinking: "It must be him. He knew about Liniang's selling things, so he knew that Liniang was rich——"

As Qian Taihao spoke, his eyes turned a little red: "It was I who harmed Liniang. If it wasn't for me, Liniang wouldn't have been targeted—"

"Does Ding Daomei still have any friends?" Li Hai only asked this question at this time.

After all, this is actually the key.

Qian Taihao was taken aback, then shook his head: "I don't know about that. He's actually a rogue, and I have nothing to say to him. If it wasn't for... I wouldn't be so responsive."

Li Changbo nodded: "So you actually don't like him either."

Apart from a wry smile, Qian Taihao only sighed: "One mistake will cause eternal hatred. It's just my momentary confusion..."

"Since you are from the same town, where is your hometown? How did you come to Chang'an in the first place?" Li Changbo seemed a little curious.

Qian Taihao smiled wryly and replied: "We are from Lingzhou. At the beginning, I couldn't live in my hometown. So I had to come here by begging. There was a disaster in my hometown. I studied for several years, so I came here to be a shopkeeper. I never wanted to be liked by my father-in-law, so I became a married son-in-law."

Li Changbo didn't ask any more questions, so he asked Qian Taihao to go back first.

Next, Li Changbo asked Li Hai and the others to take the portrait to the city gate and ask if Ding Daomei had left the city.

Seeing that there was no progress, Fu Shi said, "I want to go back and change my clothes. I won't go back to the yamen with you, and I'll come back to get things later."

Li Changbo was taken aback: "Then I'll ask Fang Liang to send you—"

Fu Shi waved his hand: "No need, walking and moving around is good for your health."

Li Changbo pondered for a moment, then insisted: "I also want to go back and change my clothes."

Xie Shuangfan and Xu Shuangyu looked at each other in blank dismay: Then what shall we do?

It wasn't until the carriage drove away that Xie Shuangfan stabbed Xu Shuangyu in disbelief: "They really left?"

Xu Shuangyu nodded: "I'm really gone."

At this moment, the two of them suddenly realized what it meant: differential treatment.

Xu Shuangyu asked shyly, "Shall we walk back?"

Xie Shuangfan thought about Yin Zi, "Let's walk, it's good for your health. Miss Fu said it."

Xu Shuangyu obediently said "Oh", and asked curiously, "What's the relationship between Miss Fu and County Magistrate Li?"

Xie Shuangfan: "Hehe, what does it matter? One is a descendant of an aristocratic family, and the other is an ordinary person..."

But Xu Shuangyu insisted: "I think County Magistrate Li may have taken a fancy to Miss Fu."

Xie Shuangfan:! ! !Don't talk nonsense!

"Look, Miss Fu is very good at autopsy and painting. I think the county magistrate Li might want Miss Fu to come to the yamen." Xu Shuangyu analyzed carefully, and the more she said, the more she felt that she was right.

"Right, Master Xie? What do you think?"

Xie Shuangfan: I'm talking a fart.

But on the surface, Xie Shuangfan smiled "hehe", and taught the silly child earnestly: "There are some things that should not be said indiscriminately. Miss Fu is still getting married. She will definitely not come to work as a maid."

Xu Shuangyu was confused: "Why?"

Xie Shuangfan asked him back: "You marry a wife, do you want to marry a wife?"

Xu Shuangyu thought about it seriously, and thought it was pretty good, so she nodded happily: "Yes! She doesn't dislike me, and I don't dislike her either. We can also discuss together—what's a word called? Qin Se He Ming? ! Yes, it is Qin Se and Ming!"

Xie Shuangfan looked at the yearning on Xu Shuangyu's face, and couldn't help it: "Enough! I shouldn't have asked you!"

Qin Se and Ming are a ghost!

　I ate pig's trotters at noon~ I'm so happy~ See you tomorrow

　　

　

(End of this chapter)