Dayong Nu sentenced to death

"Lord Cao, there is no need to do this, I will just accept you."

Su Rao gave her a hand, and said hastily.

Cao De'an raised his head, his eyes brightened: "Really?"

"really!"

Su Rao nodded, "The case of He Gongze is of great importance and must be thoroughly investigated. I thought that your lord was frustrated by the investigation of the case and wanted to test the son's attitude through me, so I kept silent. I didn't expect you to come to me to investigate the case. "

Hearing this, Cao De'an was stunned for a moment, then smiled wryly: "It's no wonder the girl misunderstood, after all, I did do this."

The eyes of the two met, and they couldn't help smiling.

Su Rao didn't have much opinion on this prefect, he could put down his figure and face to ask her for help for this case, knowing people and making good use of them is also an advantage.

"The case is urgent, but it's not good to delay the matter here. Let me arrange one or two first, and then we can discuss the details of the case, okay?"

"Okay, okay, the girl decides."

Where would Cao De'an have any opinions.

Su Rao turned around and left the pavilion, only then did Cao De'an realize that there was a child behind her, as quiet as a ghost, making no sound of coming and going.

Su Rao invited Zhu Yan to arrange things with him. After making sure that there were no omissions, she thought about it and ordered people to bring all the five or six-year-old bones that had been sorted out.

"What does the girl want these bones for?"

Zhu Yan asked curiously.

"According to what Mei Han said, her young daughter was five years old when she disappeared, and she was tortured to death shortly after entering the prostitution hall. The body should be buried in the mansion, and she should be found first."

After Su Rao finished speaking, she remembered something again, "By the way, the young girl of the Mei family died nine years ago. With these two points alone, the scope can be greatly narrowed."

"Okay, let's go down and help."

Zhu Yan turned his head to pass on a message, and after a while, Shadow Thorn brought three corpses over. When they were tidying up the bones, they made a brief record of the age and time of each person's death.

It is very convenient to find.

"What's next?"

Zhu Yan looked at Su Rao and asked.

Who among the three corpses is the missing daughter of the Mei family?

Su Rao's eyes fell on the charcoal pencil, and she placed the three small skulls properly on the small table in front of her, and said to them: "Please have some tea, Mr. Cao, and I will draw the portraits of these three girls first." .”

"Yes."

Shadow Thorn left, Zhu Yan knew that she didn't like to be disturbed when she was doing the portrait, and was going to do other things, and didn't want to be stopped suddenly.

"What's the girl's order?"

"Go to the interrogation side of the west courtyard for me, inquire about the progress, and then inquire about the news about the young girl of the Mei family."

There is no breakthrough for He Gongze and Mei Han, so they can only start with these children to see if they can find any clues.

"Okay, this subordinate will go now."

Just two steps away from Zhu Yan, Su Rao raised her head suddenly, "Wait, by the way, I'll ask them if anyone knows Wei Hongluan."

Zhu Yan was stunned for a moment, "Young lady suspects the daughter of the shopkeeper of Fulai Inn... I know."

He walked quickly out of the yard.

The surroundings became quiet, and Su Rao began to paint the skull in meditation. The charcoal pen glanced at the paper and made a rustling sound, and the golden sunlight shone through the dry tree branches into the room, casting a faint halo around her.

The picture is quiet and peaceful.

Practice makes perfect, after these days of repeated drawing, the speed of the portrait has increased several times than before. After more than two hours, she finally finished the three portraits.

Standing up and stretching her muscles, Su Rao found Cao De'an with the portrait, "Let's go."

"Okay, where to go first?"

"Prison."

The carriage that Cao Dean was riding in was parked in the alley outside the side door. Seeing someone coming out, the coachman hurriedly fetched a footstool and put it beside him, and stretched out his hand to help.

"Girl, get in the car."

Su Rao glanced at the narrow compartment, then at the prefect standing three steps away from her, "What about you?"

"I'll just sit outside."

Cao Dean smiled.

After all, there is a difference between men and women, it is not good for him to ride in the same car with a girl who has not left the court, and it will be rumored to tarnish her reputation.

"Lord Cao is going to wear an official robe and sit on the shaft of a chariot to swagger through the market?"

Su Rao turned her playful eyes on him, then turned around and walked to the front of the mansion, "You should take the carriage."

"What about you, girl?"

Cao De'an shouted at her back, Su Rao waved at him without looking back, "Your Excellency, go first, I will follow soon."

Said figure disappeared around the corner.

The coachman called respectfully: "My lord, what shall we do?"

"What else can I do? Let's go!"

Cao De'an bent down and got into the carriage. The coachman put away the footstool and drove the horse out of the alley. Just as he reached the intersection, there was a sound of hooves from far to near.

Cao De'an raised the curtain of the car and saw that it was Su Rao who came.

"Here, isn't this a special war horse for Yinxuewei?"

Seeing the steed she was riding, Cao De'an's heart tightened, and he subconsciously looked at Yin Xuewei who was guarding outside the house.

"They are willing to give it?"

War horses are precious, and sometimes they are more important than lives to soldiers.

Su Rao caressed the horse's mane, smiled lightly and said, "Why don't you agree, it's not like I won't return it."

"Hehe, that's the truth..."

When Cao De'an heard her say that, he knew that she didn't understand the meaning of it. If others were willing to give it to him, he couldn't say much as an outsider.

Had to pretend to be deaf and dumb.

The importance attached to her in my heart has reached another level.

"Let's go quickly."

Su Rao urged, Cao De'an nodded, put down the curtain and said to the coachman, "Go to the prison."

When the two of them arrived outside the prison, the clever government servants came forward to install the carriage and horses, and they walked into the prison together.

The prefect Cao De'an led Su Rao straight to the cell where Mei Han was imprisoned. Wherever they passed, the guards whispered and looked at her curiously, guessing her identity.

"Girl, it's here."

Cao De'an stopped in front of a cell, and said to the guard, "Open the door."

"As ordered."

The guard quickly took off the chain and pushed open the cell door. The man in prison clothes inside heard the movement and turned around slowly. Seeing Su Rao was obviously taken aback, and soon regained his composure.

"I didn't expect to see you here again."

"To be honest, I didn't expect that either."

Originally thought that Mei's case would be handed over to the government office, and she would not need to intervene. Unexpectedly, the secrecy measures of the prostitution hall were much stricter than expected, so that the progress of the case was hindered.

Su Rao leaned on the prison door, said lightly: "I won't gossip, I'm here to investigate the case."

"Investigate the case?"

The two met three times in total, the first time in Tianxiang Tower, he saw her martial arts, and the second time in the dark prison, he saw her scheming.

the third time.

She said she was here to investigate.

Glancing at the prefect of Hanyang standing beside her, Mei Han's gloomy complexion showed some seriousness, "You want to investigate my daughter's case?"

"Yes, so please cooperate with Master Mei."

Speaking of which, Su Rao took out three scrolls from her sleeve and unfolded them in front of him, "Tell me, which one of them is your daughter?"