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Chapter 465 find
Looking at Master Jingci's meaningful eyes, Ji Chongyan didn't explain anything aloud.

In fact, he is not as confident as Master Jingci thinks.He had also interviewed whether Miss Jiang Si liked him or not. Although he had a vague hunch, it still needed to be confirmed for him.

It was important to him to step out of the box and see the girl's reaction.

He had just seen the girl's reaction when Mrs. Jingci asked her something, and many emotions such as astonishment, surprise, trance, etc. flashed across the face for a moment, so many and complicated emotions... He can be sure She likes him too.

As far as he is concerned, it is enough to know that she likes him too.

Good match... He thinks they are very good match, no one is more suitable than them.As for poison... Ji Chongyan frowned, and looked at Mrs. Jingci in front of him: Although such things are rare, he will try his best to get them for Miss Jiang Si.

He will remove all the thorns that lie between them until there is not one left.

Master Jingci, who is well-known in Baoling City, spoke unexpectedly "loose" when facing him, and looked calmly and somewhat satisfied with Master Jingci, Ji Chongyan saluted Master Jingci, Indifferently said: "Teacher, don't worry!"

Master Jingci nodded, and gave him a sideways glance: "Although the poor nun is not in the world of mortals, it is very clear whether it is true or false."

The implication is that if she didn't feel that he was sincere to Miss Jiang Si, she wouldn't be so relaxed.

Master Jingci is a Buddhist who is merciful and cherishes her life, especially Miss Jiang Si's life is more important to her.This is the reason why Master Jingci's tongue is so loose.

Ji Chongyan naturally understood what Mrs. Jingci meant, and saluted her again, saying, "Don't worry, Mrs. Jing!"

After probing Miss Jiang Si's response, it was time to leave. Ji Chongyan turned around, but stopped when he was about to leave, and turned to look at Mrs. Jingci: "Why did Mrs. Jiang suddenly mention the theory of facial features?"

He only asked Mrs. Jingci to test Miss Jiang Si's attitude towards him, but these facial expressions were never mentioned.

Master Jingci gave a dry laugh and a haha ​​when she heard the words, but she raised her hand and said "Amitabha" before closing her eyes and nose and closing her nose without saying a word.

This posture... It seems that he is not ready to speak.

Ji Chongyan stood there for a while, glanced at the Mrs. Jingci in front of him who seemed to be ignoring the world, but knew a lot of things, and turned to leave.

……

When I went to Ji's Bieyuan with my things, it was rare that I didn't see Ji Chongyan.

Holding the file, Lin Yan, whose hair was messy and had no time to wash, greeted her, and said with regret: "It's a coincidence that Chongyan just left, but I don't know where he went. Miss Jiang Si wants to stay and sit down." sit?"

Jiang Shaoyan shook her head, and said to Lin Yan: "When Grandpa Guo returns from fishing and Nanny Chai gets up, Lin Shaoqing remembers to tell the second elder for me."

Lin Yan nodded: Miss Jiang Si came by coincidence, Chongyan just left, Grandpa went fishing, and Nanny Chai...would sleep at any time, so he was the only one who could stand up and say hello to her at this time one.

The girl didn't take it seriously, she nodded, and when she was about to turn around and leave, Lin Yan suddenly stopped her.

The girl turned her head and looked at Lin Yan.

Lin Yan tapped his head with the rolled up file, hesitated for a moment, but still asked her: "Is Miss Jiang Si free right now?"

Jiang Shaoyan nodded and said, "It's nothing."

"So..." Lin Yan thought for a while and said, "I have a heartless request."

……

It was the first time for Jiang Shaoyan to enter the study in Ji's Bieyuan.

In such a big house as Ji's house, the important place of study can't just lead people into it. This point, not to mention Ji's house, even Jiang Zhaoyan's study room, Jiang Shaoyan seldom set foot in the memory of the original owner.

There are many kinds of books in the study of Ji's Bieyuan, although it is only a few gardens, considering Ji's family property, the collection of books in Bieyuan's study is several times larger than that of many other mansions.

Jiang Shaoyan glanced at the collection of books in the study, then turned her eyes away, and looked at Lin Yan in front of her.

Lin Yan sorted out the files in hand and piled them up in front of her, while explaining: "The identities of the women who were killed in the cave have been sorted out, and Chongyan and I have found something in common. These days, I have been going back and forth I looked through these files, but after reading them for so long, I still couldn't find my direction, fell into chaos, and really wanted to find someone to help me..."

This is the dilemma that investigators often fall into when they are surrounded by many clues and contradictions.People have fixed habits in the process of thinking about problems.If you get used to this way of thinking, you are very likely to fall into a rutted routine, and you won't be able to jump out of it for a while.Therefore, he occasionally needs others to help him to look at these things with different thinking habits and methods.

In Chang'an City, he often went to Asu's place. Now, seeing Miss Jiang Si, he suddenly wanted Miss Jiang Si to try.

Women's thinking is different from men's, and it is very likely that they will notice things that he has not noticed.

After listening to Lin Yan's explanation, Jiang Shaoyan looked down at the file in her hand.

With Lin Yan's method, there is naturally nothing wrong with the direction and method of investigation.

He has already found out the commonality of those murdered women in the cave.

They are all the daughters of local merchants, and their families are all members of a local chamber of commerce.

As for chambers of commerce in various places... Lin Yan has sent people to investigate the connections between these chambers of commerce, but it seems that the origin of these people is not limited to one place.On the map of Dazhou Kanyu spread out at Lin Yan's hand, the location of each merchant was also marked with cinnabar. At a glance, the red dots drawn by cinnabar were scattered and messy, and it was difficult to see any connection for a while.

After Jiang Shaoyan looked at the messy and scattered red dots, her eyes once again fell on the list of the murdered women in front of her. She just looked at it carefully, then raised her eyes to Lin Yan: "Lin Shaoqing."

Lin Yan gave a "hmm" and looked at Jiang Shaoyan.

Jiang Shaoyan said: "There is one thing... I actually discovered it when I saw it that day."

"What's the matter?" Lin Yan, who was sitting lazily on the chair, sat up straight subconsciously.

The girl said: "Those women are young and young, and they are all barren women."

Youthful age does not mean no birth.Women in some places get married earlier, at the same age of 16, some have already given birth to two sons, and some have not yet married.

People who are proficient in medical theory can tell from the position of human bones whether they have given birth, so she discovered this on that day.

Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean anything, maybe it's just a coincidence.

Jiang Shaoyan looked at the ages of the women on the list. The youngest was 16 years old, and the oldest was 19 years old. Except for the Kaifeng Dong family who was married to a "powerful" family, none of them were married.

"Judging from the actions of the Dong family in Kaifeng, it is not because of their parents' obstruction that these women were not married. Therefore, when choosing women, that person deliberately picked the daughters of merchants from the Chamber of Commerce, and they are still unmarried daughters." Jiang Shaoyan said. , looking down at the women on the list, "If it's a coincidence that he did this, I think it's too far-fetched."

The woman's angle of view is really different from his. Lin Yan couldn't help but sigh when he heard Jiang Shaoyan's words, but he nodded instinctively when he heard the girl say that, and said, "It's not like a coincidence, but I really don't understand. His purpose of choosing this way."

intention?The girl thought for a while, and asked Lin Yan a nonsense: "Have you had an autopsy yet?"

Lin Yan let out a "hmm", before knowing the identities of those women, they could be dealt with as "unrecognized", so he rushed to conduct autopsies on those women before they were identified.

As for the reason why these women died, it was also very simple, that is, their throats were cut with a sharp knife.

The girl's eyes flickered, and instead of asking about the cause of death, she asked about another matter: "Those girls didn't encounter anything during their lifetime, right?"

Lin Yan was taken aback for a moment, and only when he understood what the girl meant, he suddenly came back to his senses, and said, "No, they are all virgins."

After finishing speaking, before the girl could open her mouth, she frowned.

Originally, he and Chongyan focused on the origins of those girls. The daughters of the merchants were all members of the local chamber of commerce. In addition, the known reactions of the Dong family, Wang family and others made them almost I can be sure that these people must know something.

There is nothing wrong with that of course.

However, with the girl's reminder, he suddenly discovered another thing.

The thirteen dead women were all Yunying's unmarried virgins. Ordinary murderers, even those with a paranoid and terrifying personality, can only choose women based on their age. You must know that age doesn't mean anything. After a lot of time, how can we be sure that the thirteen women selected are all virgins?
Moreover, there are requirements on whether a woman is a virgin or not. Most of the cases he handles have a bit of "evil spirit", which is mostly related to cults and the like.

Since it is related to cults, the place where these women were found should be the "altar" they built, but these women died in an ordinary cave...

Just as he was puzzled, the girl in front of him spoke again: "There is one more thing..."

What's up?Lin Yan looked at the girl.

The girl said thoughtfully: "The process of killing these women did not exceed an hour. The murderer was straightforward and a veteran murderer. Based on the voice heard by An Guogong, it should have been at noon that day!"

Speaking of this, the girl paused, with a complicated expression as if she was touched: "I've read some books about this Dao..." Those books are naturally the books left by Jiang Gong in the previous life.

"That day is an auspicious day in the Chinese calendar when everything goes well, and noon is the auspicious time among the auspicious days. If these are not coincidences..."

The "auspicious" time when those women died was a bit outrageous.

"You have to choose a day to kill..." Lin Yan's face changed slightly: killing people on an auspicious day... If it is not a coincidence, it must be related to such evil techniques.

What Lin Yan thought of, the girl naturally thought of it too.Thinking of the group of evil ways on Jiulongling, the girl frowned: "What happened to Shizi Ji and I on Jiulongling, I think Shizi has mentioned it to Shaoqing in the future, and the Taoist priests at Ruiyuan Temple first controlled the Taoist priests who were watching for him. What I used was Zixu Wan, which is said to be able to live forever."

Although the Zixu Pills are all fake stories, the evidence that can make the onlookers "believe" the existence of the Zixu Pills is about the former Taishi Ling Chen Rang.

"Decades after Chen Rang's death, someone claimed to have seen Chen Rang when he was young in the capital," the girl paused at this point, and then said, "I don't believe that Chen Rang is immortal. The so-called Chen Rang is very likely to be his descendant in my opinion."

If it was Chen Rang's descendants... Lin Yan's face suddenly changed: Chen Rang and Chen Xian, two senior brothers, could make such a big show on Kowloon Ridge, would their descendants be just ordinary people?
He doesn't know whether others believe it or not, but based on Lin Yan's experience of seeing large and small cases: the possibility that Chen Rang's descendants are ordinary people is extremely low.

"Actually, what happened on Jiulongling will be looked at after the fact. It has little to do with Chen Rang and Chen Xian." Jiang Shaoyan had a different opinion when talking about the previous incident. She took a deep breath and said, "Although the group of Taoist priests on Kowloon Ridge are still doing that, and the royal family of the previous dynasty is still supporting and maintaining this matter, their senior brothers actually did the same thing shortly after they established the seven Taoist temples on Kowloon Ridge... It's broken."

According to historical records, Chen Rang died a few years after he became an official. Given Chen Rang's age, he naturally died of old age, but they didn't know what Chen Rang did after he became an official.Chen Xian... left more things than Chen Rang, leaving behind the seven Taoist temples on Jiulongling, but apart from that, Chen Xian himself was quickly separated from the seven Taoist temples on Jiulongling.

"The pair of brothers and sisters will soon disappear from the history books, but I think this matter is not over yet." The girl rubbed her brows and looked at Lin Yan, "The family members of those killed women may have participated What's the matter, let them keep silent about it, and refuse to speak, but the fact that killing people still have to live is really weird."

Lin Yan lowered his eyes and thought deeply.

After Jiang Shaoyan finished speaking, she glanced at the list of the murdered women again, handed it back to Lin Yan, then paused, and said, "Of course, these are just my guesses, not the truth."

"Guessing is enough." Lin Yan rubbed his eyebrows, got up and sent the girl away, "Thank you for today, Miss Jiang Si, please!"

……

When Ji Chongyan returned to Ji's Bieyuan, the girl had already left.

Lin Yan sat behind a desk full of files and looked at Ji Chongyan: "Chongyan, I tried my best. In order to let you meet Miss Jiang Si, whom you miss so much, I specially left her for an extra hour to help her. Unfortunately, Miss Jiang Si left before you came back."

"It's okay, I met Miss Jiang Si today." When "Miss Jiang Si" was mentioned, the corners of Ji Chongyan's lips curved subconsciously, as if he was in a good mood.

Lin Yan was not interested in greeting him, but told him what he had just discovered with the girl.

"...Chongyan, do you think these things are related to what you encountered on Jiulongling?" Lin Yan felt a little worried.

"Perhaps so." Ji Chongyan's reaction when he heard this matter was much more flat than Lin Yan thought. After a short pause, he pushed the two letters in front of Lin Yan, "I went out today except to see Jiang Besides Miss Four, there are two more things."

Lin Yan looked at the two letters lined up side by side on the table, paused, and stretched his hand to the right.

"The first thing is that Yang Yan is going to ask for leave and go back to Jiangnan Road." Ji Chongyan said looking at the letter on the right.

The corners of Lin Yan's mouth twitched when he heard this: Yang's back house is in such a mess, if Yang Yan doesn't come back...do you want this ancestral house?
Now that Ji Chongyan said this, Lin Yan stopped reading the letter on the right and turned his hand to the left.

"The second thing is the case we are currently investigating, and I have found someone who is willing to speak up." Ji Chongyan said.

(End of this chapter)