Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

Chapter 215 The Murderer Is Someone Else
"Go, Miss Shen." Zhang Neng picked up the knife on the table and called Shen Yuan to go downstairs.

"Where are you going?" Shen Yuan hurriedly followed.

"Huayang Academy, take a good look at this official son from the capital." The two left the inn and headed for Huayang Academy.

Continue to discuss this matter on the road.

"Master Zhang, if Shen Xi's friend is not Wang Xiucai, then why did I see Shen Xi arm in arm with him that day?" Shen Yuan still had many questions.

"What you see is just the back. In fact, Wang Xiucai is about the same age and figure as his cousin. As for the clothes, isn't it normal for a cousin to wear his cousin's clothes?"
"But Shen Xi's mother insisted that she is Wang Xiucai, so how can this be explained?"

"Shen Xi wanted to hook up with Wang Xiucai at first, maybe her mother instigated it, but Wang Xiucai refused, so Shen Xi hooked up with Wang Xiucai's cousin by mistake but didn't tell her mother clearly , is this explanation reasonable?"

"It seems reasonable." Shen Yuan thought for a while and nodded.

"Guessing is useless, it should be clear after going to the academy to investigate."
The two of them said that they had arrived outside Huayang Academy, and when they asked about Wang Wenqin's cousin, the noble son from the capital, almost everyone knew about it.

"Song Yu'an, that dude." Someone replied with a smile. It seems that this official son is quite famous in the academy.

"A dude? Why do you say he is a dude?" Shen Yuan asked with a smile.

"Going to the brothel every two days, what is it if it's not a dandy?"
"Go to the brothel? The women in the brothel are so unclean that they don't have a fixed date?"

The son who was asked was young and straightforward, so he immediately smiled.

"I live in the same room with Mr. Song, and I know him better than Wang Wenqin. When Mr. Song first came here, he really liked going to brothels. Later, he fell in love with him and took him out of the house. He lived happily ever after."

Shen Yu'an and Zhang Neng looked at each other with joy in their eyes: "Do you know where it is raised?"

"I'm not sure about this. He also said that he went to a brothel to the outside world, probably because he was afraid that his parents would find out, but he often walks at night and returns in the morning, so he should be in the town."

Zhang Neng and Shen Yu'an had the bottom line in their hearts, thanked the straight man and rushed to the town again.

"He must have raised Shen Xi in the newly bought house of the Wang family, otherwise why did he hide it from Wang Xiucai?" Shen Yuan guessed.

"I think so too." Zhang Neng nodded: "So we must find this house, which is most likely the first scene of the murder."

Shen Yuan said helplessly: "But I have asked everywhere, but no one knows where it is."

"Are you sure the house is empty?"

"Member Su went to Beijing to celebrate his birthday and hasn't come back yet, so it must be empty."

"That's simple, as long as it's a high-walled compound that no one lives in, just sneak in and have a look. If the dead lived in it, there will always be clues.

"Smart." Shen Yuan felt that this move was very feasible, "There must not be many vacant mansions in the town, and not everyone in the country can afford to live in a mansion."

"Go, ask."

Asking in another way, sure enough, those nosy old men and aunts in the town are clear about these matters.

It's a pity that Zhang Neng and Shen Yu'an visited more than a dozen empty houses, but they still found nothing.

The two were really not reconciled, and even went in to search for the empty second-in and first-in small houses, all of which were covered with dust, and they didn't find a single one that had been inhabited.

"Is your news unreliable?" Coming out of the last courtyard, Zhang Neng looked at Shen Yuan helplessly.

Shen Yuan was in trouble, "I also heard what the women in the village talked about, who can prove it? But even if the Wang family didn't buy a house in the town, he, Song Yu'an, must have rented one for Shen Xi to live in."

"Then it will be even more difficult to find, unless you take Song Yu'an's portrait and search one by one, but this will definitely alarm him." The two were sitting on the side of the road worrying, when an old man leading a cow passed by and stopped in front of them down.

"Are you looking for a vacant mansion to buy or something?" Seeing that Zhang Neng was well dressed, he asked.

"I really want to buy it. Do you know where I can buy it?"

"Here, go west out of the town from here, walk halfway along the road of Huayang Academy, then turn the right road until you reach the end, there is an empty house there, the master's family moved to the county more than two months ago I went there, and I don’t know if it’s sold or not.”

The two immediately cheered up, thanked the uncle and went straight to Zhenxi.

According to what the uncle said, he came to a house very quickly, only to find that there is a small path behind the house leading directly to Huayang Academy, but the distance is only about ten minutes.

Both Shen Yu'an and Zhang Neng seemed a little excited, and climbed the wall into the yard without saying a word.

The yard was terribly quiet, the cold wind blew up the fallen leaves, and bursts of chill hit, Shen Yuan shivered and followed Zhang Neng closely.

"Squeaky~~" Zhang Neng pushed open the door of the main room, and there were all the furnishings inside. He took a look and found nothing unusual, and walked to the side room.

This is a big house with three entrances and three exits. Nothing was found in the front two courtyards, but after entering the three gates, there were discoveries.

As soon as I entered the yard, I saw that the chrysanthemums in the garden were blooming enthusiastically, as if they had just been watered not long ago.

"How long has it been since it rained?" Zhang Neng asked.

"It's been nearly two months." Shen Yu'an answered affirmatively. After she traveled over, she rushed back to Shenjia Village from Dahe Town in the dark. It rained a lot that night, and the ground was so dry that it cracked.

"It must be here." Zhang Neng tensed up, and approached the main room step by step.

As soon as she pushed open the door of the main room, Shen Yu'an's heart jumped wildly. She is a doctor, and she was shocked by the situation inside the room at this moment.

The house was decorated as a new house, with happy candles, happy quilts, and big red happy characters, and a couple of couples were just short of being able to worship and get married.

"Go in and search." Zhang Neng raised his leg and stepped in, followed by Shen Yuan.

The two searched the whole room and found nothing, Shen Yuan sat down on the threshold with his forehead supported, a little desperate.

"What is this?" Zhang Neng squatted on the ground suddenly, attracted by a faint mud footprint on the ground.

Shen Yuan hurriedly followed his line of sight to look over. There was not just one mud footprint, but a string. This string of faintly visible mud footprints spread all the way to a remote corner of the backyard.

"There's something buried here." Shen Yu'an excitedly pointed at the tree, where the soil was obviously newly turned.

Zhang Neng hurriedly found a hoe and dug down along the roots of the tree. After digging a long distance, a burden was exposed.

Pulling out the burden with all his hands and feet, he opened it and saw that there was a bag of clothes and a Xiang Xiang inside. Shen Xi's name.

"Miss Yu'an, this case is almost solved." Zhang Neng said with certainty, "The murderer is Wang Xiucai's cousin Song Yu'an, let's go, take someone."

(End of this chapter)