I'm a detective for Dongchang

Chapter 35 Suicide in fear of sin
Lu Xizhi has been very uncomfortable these few days, it's really terrible.

"Ugh……"

The little maids, Chunxiang and Xiaxiang, picked a lot of flowers in the garden, and ran over with a smile: "Miss, you have been moaning all morning, why don't we make a wreath, look at how beautiful Second Miss's weaving is."

Lu Xizhi automatically skipped this suggestion, took a bite of the steamed stuffed bun, frowned, and looked down at the fresh and juicy breakfast in his hand. He was in a bad mood, and even the fried bun, which he usually likes most, was tasteless.

It has been three days since she came back that day, but her father is still strictly guarding her, and ordered her not to step out of the gate of the courtyard!She also replaced all the servants in her yard with those sons of his who had stayed in the yard for ten years. They completely obeyed Lu Zhonglian's orders. not accept.

Lu Xizhi waved to the little maid listlessly: "Chunxiang, Xiaxiang, come here."

When they approached, Lu Xizhi pointed to the courtyard gate in the distance and said, "Why do I look at this courtyard gate~~ Is it a little different from before?"

"Miss, there are servants inside and outside the gate of our courtyard. We are the safest in the whole house." Xia Xiang said innocently.

Lu Xizhi and Chunxiang looked at each other, and they said at the same time, "Oh..."

In the past three days, except for the first day where she rested comfortably at home all day, she could only stay in the courtyard for the next two days, and could not go anywhere. Even the main courtyard had to be called by her mother Out of the Zhaixing Building, so let alone Guo Boss Wonton Shop and Jinyu's Xiansi Building.

Ah~~!It's really hard to fly, who will save her!
"Miss San, Madam asked you to come over." Bai He, a maid in Li's courtyard, knocked on the door happily and walked in.

"Sister Lily, come and drink scented tea." Chunxiang went to greet her.

"Good sister, next time, madam is waiting for Miss San."

Thanks to the blessing of the second aunt, the garden in Lu's mansion is well-maintained. The singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers are particularly plump and rich, creating a pleasant scene.There are lotus flowers and water lilies in full bloom in the courtyard in the lake, attracting many dragonflies to come and stop, and there is also a faint elegant fragrance, which finally made Lu Xizhi feel a little more energetic and show a happy face.

"Sister Lily, do you know why my mother told me to go there?"

"Third Miss will know when she goes, it must be a good thing." Lily looked at her and laughed.

It's kind of mysterious.

"Mother, aunt, sister." Lu Xizhi didn't expect all the women to be there, greeted them one by one, and stood aside.

Everyone has arrived, and Li Wenjun announced to his family members with a smile on his face: "The bad things happened a few days ago, everyone was frightened, especially Xizhi, let's go out for a walk today, and go to Weixianglou to have a good meal. pause."

"Then I would like to thank Madam, and lead us to have a good meal. In the evening, we will invite the master to play a game of cards and have some wine, haha." Aunt Wang has even thought out the arrangements for the evening.

Li Wenjun accepted with a smile: "When it comes to having fun, you are the best at it, so let's do it."

"Bring me the plum wine I made that night, and everyone will try it." Aunt Zheng agreed.

Lu Xizhi was also secretly happy, God finally heard her distress signal, and was finally able to go out!

I don't know how efficient the Dali Temple is, whether Liao Chenlin has been convicted, and whether my speculation about his behavior has been verified. I have to find a way to get out of the group to find out when I go out this time.

The housekeeper had already ordered two carriages, one for the mistress and two aunts, one for Lu Xizhi and Lu Xiruo, and three maids, and they set off from the Lu residence in a mighty way.

At the first stop, they stopped at a jewelry store. The store was magnificent, and the rows of gold and silver jewelry almost blinded Lu Xizhi.

Speaking of which, this is the first time that Lu Xizhi personally chose the accessories he likes in a physical store under the leadership of his parents since he came to ancient times, because Li Wenjun usually picks out these kinds of items and sends them to the courtyard for her and Lu Xiruo , so as soon as she entered the store, she immediately looked at it with great interest.

She didn't know anything about the financial situation of the house, including her father's monthly salary, and she only got two taels of silver that was given to her every month.She also didn't know how the finances of the three wives and concubines of the father were managed, and who was in charge, so when she was watching, she was very reserved, like a scholar Lu Xiruo, picking out a few small things and making gestures.

She held a leaf-shaped hairpin that she liked quite a lot, and quietly asked the little girl beside her, who stretched out three fingers flatteringly, "I'll be good, this costs three taels of silver, which is more expensive than her monthly pocket money." More, quickly put the things down gently, stuck out his tongue and walked away.

In the end, she and Lu Xiruo picked out two pearl flowers, and the two aunts also picked out their favorite bracelets and necklaces. Li Wenjun picked out quite a few, and asked the waiter in the shop to wrap them all up. Once the bill was paid, it was 30 taels!

Although she still didn't know much about the exchange here, seeing the two aunts smiling and thanking the mistress with a smile, Lu Xizhi felt that the 30 taels should be a lot of money.

It seems that the Lu family is fairly well off.

After leaving the jewelry shop, Li Wenjun was going to take everyone to make some new clothes.

Don't miss out!

"Mother, do you still remember the Xiansi Tower I mentioned? The boss there, Jin Yu, is also very skillful, as good as the Guiqi Pavilion."

Li Wenjun thought about it, almost all the fabrics of Guiqi Pavilion were purchased from Liao's cloth shop, and because of the good relationship between the two families, Li often made clothes there.Now, the son of the Liao family has committed such unconscionable bad things, and the two families have broken ties, so it doesn't matter if they don't go.

"Alright, let's go and have a look."

Lu Xizhi's "trick" succeeded, not to mention how happy he was, he was the first to jump into the carriage happily.

Two quarters of an hour later, Xiansi Tower was within easy reach.

"I'll take you in." Lu Xizhi rushed into the store impatiently.

Several wives shook their heads in unison. Li Wenjun knew that she must be suffocated, so he let her go.

"Yu Niang, Yu Niang!"

"It's a pity!" Jin Yu put down the work at hand, and ran out to greet him in three steps at a time.

The appearance of the two of them really is like not seeing each other every day.

After hugging her for a while, Jin Yu pushed her away with some embarrassment, helped her hair, and respectfully saluted the ladies.

"I often hear Xizhi talk about Miss Jinyu, but seeing her now, she is really lovely." Aunt Zheng looked at her with a smile.

Jin Yu was a little embarrassed, lowered her head and blushed: "I made Madam laugh."

She hurriedly led everyone into the shop, "Miss Lu loves you, the shop is narrow, please forgive me." After speaking, she asked Jinxian and Yinxian to make tea for everyone.

"Miss Jinyu must have endured a lot of hardships in opening a shop in this capital alone. I am sorry that she was naughty and did not cause any trouble for the girl." Li Wenjun said politely.

"Where is it, ma'am, you can't beat me, sit down quickly, I'll pick out a few good ones for you." Jin Yu walked out as she spoke, and looked at Lu Xizhi meaningfully before leaving. glance.

Lu Xizhi knew there was something to do, and hurriedly said: "I'll help you, mother, aunt, sister, you can do whatever you want."

As soon as he entered the warehouse, Lu Xizhi met an unexpected person——Wang Yuanzhi!

Jin Yu closed the door of the warehouse, and the three of them sneaked into the innermost place like enemy agents.

"Wang Yuzuo, why are you here?"

Wang Yuanzhi frowned: "I haven't seen you in the yamen for three days, I guess you should have been banned by your family, and nothing happened these few days, but just today, I received a bad news, I know your doubts about Liao Chenlin's case, this I just thought of coming to Xiansilou to leave a letter for you, and let Jinyu find a way to find you."

Lu Xizhi was startled, "What happened?"

"Liao Chenlin committed suicide in fear of crime."

what? !

"Early this morning, Dong Hai Zhang Xing came to the Yamen to look for me, and hurriedly asked me to follow him. When I arrived at Dali Temple, I found out that Liao Chenlin hanged himself to death last night!"

Liao Chenlin hanged himself in fear of crime? !
Lu Xizhi always felt that he was not the kind of person who would choose to commit suicide, and there was something wrong.

"Wait, you said that Dong Zhang Xing took you to Dali Temple for an autopsy? Could it be that there is no official in Dali Temple?"

"Naturally, Dali Temple has a higher level of wu, but Dong Zhangxing said that this is the order of Yuan Changgong, and when I arrived, I saw Yuan Changgong was also there."

Yuan Yanxi also sensed that something was wrong, so he asked Wang Yuanzhi to investigate again.

"How, are you sure it's suicide?"

"Judging from the confined environment of the scene, it is undoubtedly a suicide, but the straw rope used for hanging and the direction in which the bench fell are a bit strange. But the scene was cleaned up by the people of Dali Temple not long after we went there."

"What? Just ruin the scene casually like this?"

Wang Yuanzhi also nodded heavily.

"What about the corpse? Have you examined it carefully?"

"This is the problem." Wang Yuanzhi walked to the warehouse door to make sure no one was eavesdropping. Then he turned back and whispered, "The corpse fits the characteristics of being hanged, and there is no sign of poisoning. However, I found extremely deep fingernail marks on the palms of Liao Chenlin's palms, indicating that he was stimulated by intense pain before his death, but there were no scars on the other surfaces of the body. At that time, I suddenly remembered that Master once said that she I dealt with a case of killing people with acupuncture, so I quietly expressed my suspicions to Mr. Yuan."

"Do you believe in Yuan Yanxi?" Lu Xizhi interrupted Wang Yuanzhi, otherwise why didn't he directly express this important doubt in public?

Wang Yuanzhi pursed his lips, "There are my plans, it's not convenient to tell me now."

"Then, Dongzhang Xing dismissed the people from Dali Temple, and I pretended to be careless and inspected, and finally found three extremely fine needle marks on the corpse's Baihui, Shenmen, and Jueyin points. If the three acupuncture points are inserted at the same time, a temporary illusion will appear, accompanied by a strong pain."

"You suspect that Liao Chenlin killed him."

Wang Yuanzhi nodded.

"What did Yuan Yanxi say?"

"I thought he would investigate the case in detail, but I didn't expect that he just had someone copy Liao Chenlin's suicide note and take away the autopsy report I wrote, and finally let Dali Temple handle the follow-up by itself, so he left first .”

"You came to find me, there must be something else." Lu Xizhi was sure.

Wang Yuanzhi took out a piece of paper from his arms: "Miss Lu did not misread me, yes, this is a handwritten suicide note from Liao Chenlin."

Lu Xizhi quickly spread it out and looked at it.

"You don't need to waste your energy on me anymore. The deaths of Zhou Caidie, Sun Cui'er and Chen Xiuzhu were all planned and executed by myself. You already know why I killed them. I still don't regret it. .Three lowly women, trying to seduce me so easily, they should be damned.

I found out about my parentage when I was three years old. It turned out that my biological mother was a prostitute. Liao Mingli redeemed her for her and gave birth to me.But after that, not only did I fail to fulfill the responsibility of being a half-divided mother, but she also abandoned me in the Liao family and left by herself. She likes to wear blue shirts and skirts the most. She said that it is a gorgeous and free color, which can set off her best beauty.

For some reason, the Liao family's incense has not been flourishing. Liao Mingli feared that he would have no descendants, so he adopted me under the name of the Tang family.Although Liao Mingli treated me kindly, Tang shi hated me to the bone.

When I was three years old, Tang took advantage of Liao Mingli's leaving home to buy goods, and threw me into the garbage pond on the street, leaving me to fend for myself, and warned me that if I told my father about it, he would drown me in the pond.So, on that cold winter night, when I was young, I wandered in the garbage ponds in the streets and alleys, looking for rags and leftovers, but I told myself, I want to live, I want to grow up, and trample them all under my feet .

After Liao Mingli came back, he didn't care about my weight loss and abnormality, and from that day on, he also beat and scolded me, and even put me in a woodshed without food or drink. This continued until I was 14 years old.

I was admitted as a Gongsheng student, and accidentally learned the secret of the Liao family.

Liao Mingli was barren!Haha, my two younger sisters and I are not his biological children, no wonder he didn't like me back then.

But the Liao family couldn't live without queens, he and the Tang family wanted to save face, so they kept this family secret.Seeing that I studied hard and got a good name, they began to ask me how I was, and united to change the mistreatment of me in the past, and praised me to the sky.

However, it was too late.

When I found that killing dogs and cats could no longer satisfy my happiness, it was finally three months ago that I attacked people for the first time!That feels so good.So damn all women in blue!They all only care about their own enjoyment, but they don't care about her life or death.

Up to today, I think I am too tired and should take a rest.

Liao Chenlin"

For a moment, Lu Xizhi didn't know what to say.

"Okay, okay, the murderer deserves to die. It's a pity, why are you so interested in such terrible things."

Lu Xizhi asked: "I compared the handwriting, did Liao Chenlin write it?"

Wang Yuanzhi nodded.

"Of course, have you chosen?"

Suddenly, Aunt Zheng's voice interrupted their conversation, Jin Yu hurriedly pushed Wang Yuanzhi behind the cloth, and then took out some new cloth with Lu Xizhi out of the warehouse.

"How did it take so long?" Li Wenjun asked.

"Forgive me, ma'am. This is your first time here. I want to pick out the best fabrics for you, so I was delayed." Jin Yu explained.

Several people did not doubt that they had him, and started to pick goods one after another. Jinyu was worthy of his talent in business, and made them docile. In the end, each of them made two sets tailor-made, and they returned with a full reward.

Lu Xizhi looked at the bright sun in the sky, but nothing could illuminate the confusion in his heart. What kind of conspiracy was hidden behind the murder in Dali Temple and the death of Liao Chenlin.

Zishidong Police Factory
"Where did those people go today?" Yuan Yanxi said coldly.

"Chang Renxin didn't go out at home. Fan Ming and Wei Buyi had dinner at Hongshun Tower, and returned home at [-]:[-] pm," Xifeng replied.

"Who was watching Dali Temple last night?"

"This subordinate is dereliction of duty! I beg the boss to punish me." Donghai knelt down annoyed.

"Capital crimes can be avoided, but living crimes cannot be escaped. Go and get the board yourself." Yuan Yanxi said coldly.

Suddenly there was a noise from outside the compound.

"Go and see what's going on."

After a while, Xifeng replied: "A house two streets away has flooded, and there is a lot of smoke. Many neighbors are fetching water to fight the fire."

"Everyone is worried! You take people there to see if any people are injured."

"Yes!" Xifeng took the lead and left.

Yuan Yanxi's handsome brows and eyes were deeply wrinkled, and that bad feeling came again.

　The birthday banquet is coming soon, 'Eunuch Yuan' is very busy.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)