The wife of the power minister's family

Yao Shaoyin quickly put his head over, "Mrs. Xu, what did you find?"

Xu Jing pointed to a place behind her coat and said, "Look here."

The coat was dark gray with no patterns on it. However, Xu Jing pointed at the upper middle of the coat. There was an obvious crack there. The crack was horizontal and about as wide as a knuckle. , because the clothes were stuffed with some kapok batting to keep warm, and at this time some old and yellowing cotton batting was exposed from inside.

Yao Shaoyin was slightly startled. What did this crack mean?

Xu Jing stared at him and said, "Is there such a crack in your inner garment over there?"

Yao Shaoyin shook his head, "No, Madam Xu suspects that this crack was formed when Sister-in-law Wu died?"

Xu Jing nodded, her eyes darkened slightly, "I have an idea."

This idea came to her as early as when she heard Qu Langjun say that his mother-in-law was lying on the roof and rolled down.

What she did next was more or less validating this idea.

Yao Shaoyin suddenly looked at her with confusion and curiosity, but Xu Jing didn't say anything. She turned to Qu Langjun and said, "Qu Langjun, do you have any impression of when the crack on your grandma's coat occurred?"

Because this set of clothes was washed by himself, Qu Langjun knew that there was such a gap. He shook his head and said helplessly: "To be honest, I don't know very well. I live in the academy all year round and usually only have ten days of work." I would go home during the break, so I can only be sure that the crack was there when I took off my clothes from my mother-in-law.

But my mother-in-law cares very much about the things around her. If there is any tear in her clothes, she will repair it immediately, so I guess the tear only appeared that night. "

Indeed, Sister-in-law Wu's suit is full of patches, and one can tell at a glance that its owner is a diligent and frugal person.

Seeing that Xu Jing was still staring at the rip in her clothes, Jiang Yu, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said: "What did Madam Xu think of?"

Xu Jing raised her eyebrows slightly and glanced at him.

To be honest, if he hadn't suddenly spoken, she would have forgotten his existence.

She stood up with the coat and said quietly: "I already know how Sister-in-law Wu died. As we guessed before, Sister-in-law Wu most likely did not commit suicide, but was murdered."

As soon as she said this, everyone looked at her in surprise.

No, why did she know it all of a sudden? Didn't their investigation just hit a bottleneck?

Even Jiang Yu was slightly stunned.

Yao Shaoyin quickly said: "Ms. Xu, what on earth is going on?"

"I want to go to the inn where Sister-in-law Wu died first."

Xu Jing glanced at him and said, "I will explain the specific situation to you when we get there."

The place where Sister-in-law Wu fell was the Xinyi Inn in the east of Xijing City. The class distribution of Xijing City is clearly shown in the layout of the entire city. Generally, powerful families live in the north of the city, especially in the northwest. In that area, the people who can live in that area are basically families that Dachu can name. Ordinary people generally live in the south of the city. Among them, the southeast is especially prosperous and lively on weekdays because of the large number of foreign merchants. There are many large and small markets. The things there are not necessarily the best, but they are definitely the most popular. Good quality and low price, this Xinyi Inn is located in the southeast of Xijing.

The market where Sister-in-law Wu usually sells tofu is not far from Xinyi Inn, and it only takes less than a quarter of an hour to walk there.

As soon as Yao Shaoyin and his party entered Xinyi Inn, they noticed something was wrong - there were too few people in this inn! There were only two tables of guests sitting in the entire lobby. Although it was the new year and there were fewer guests than usual, they came all the way and occasionally glanced at other inns when they passed by. The guests inside were not so miserable.

When the waiters in the store saw someone coming in, they were about to come forward to greet them happily. When they saw them wearing official clothes, their whole faces turned pale. When they saw Qu Langjun who was following Yao Shaoyin and the others, He took a step back suddenly as if he was frightened, and couldn't help but said angrily: "You...how do you have the nerve to come here! It's because of your mother that no one wants to come to our inn right now! Everyone thinks it's unlucky ! Our shopkeeper said that if this continues, the store will be closed early and it will be re-opened after repairs next spring! In my opinion, I should ask you for the money for the repairs! "

Qu Langjun looked embarrassed and bowed to the clerk: "I'm really sorry. I also know that we have brought you a lot of trouble. Originally I was too embarrassed to come to your store, but Yao Shaoyin from the Xijing government office He said that there was something fishy about the case of Mrs. X, so I had no choice but to shamelessly come over with them again."

Hearing that the person coming was Yao Shaoyin, the guy didn't dare to behave any more, but his expression was still bad, and he said fiercely: "Didn't your mother commit suicide? Is there anything fishy about it?"

Seeing this, Yao Shaoyin took the initiative to take a step forward and said, "We will talk about the details later. We want to see the place where Sister-in-law Wu fell from the building. Please help me lead the way."

The clerk was still very respectful to Yao Shaoyin. After all, they were doing business in Xijing. There would be many problems for the Xijing government office in the future. He immediately put away his dissatisfied and angry face, asked the shopkeeper on the side for instructions, and said: "Please follow me." Come here, villain."

Then he took them to the backyard and said as he walked: "The woman jumped down from the building to the east of us, and the room she lived in was also there. The building to the east of us has two floors. I remember, she lived in It’s one layer.”

With that said, they arrived at an open space in front of the building. The guy pointed to the right side of the open space, curled his lips and said, "Well, this is where she fell."

This inn has a one-level layout. The buildings on the four sides are connected by several corridors. The houses on the left and right have only one floor, and the houses in the front and back have two floors. Because it is an economical and affordable inn, the courtyard cannot be said to be much. It is exquisite, with only a few trees planted sparsely. The tallest tree is the sycamore tree next to the building where Sister-in-law Wu fell.

Yao Shaoyin looked around and said, "Where is the room where Sister-in-law Wu lives?"

The clerk pointed to a window on the left and said, "We have six rooms on the first floor, and she lives in the second room from the left on the first floor."

Yao Shaoyin nodded and asked again: "When she came in to check out the room, did you notice anything wrong with her?"

The clerk couldn't help but glance at Yao Shaoyin and said, "Zhang Shaoyin also asked this question before. When the woman came in, her face was not very good. She looked lifeless and seemed a little panicked. She kept looking around."

Looking around?

Yao Shaoyin frowned slightly.

Words like panic may also carry some personal judgments of people in the store. The same expression may have different interpretations in the eyes of different people, but the action of looking left and right is real.

Based on his understanding of Zhang Shaoyin, and assuming that the other party committed suicide, he might interpret the action of looking left and right as Sister-in-law Wu's panic before she committed suicide.

But what if Sister-in-law Wu looks around to avoid certain people?

Thinking about it, the murderer probably knew the victim, and it was even possible that the murderer asked Sister-in-law Wu to come here. Sister-in-law Wu looked around, maybe she was looking for that person!

Yao Shaoyin thought for a while and subconsciously wanted to discuss it with Xu Jing. He looked around but saw no one.

He couldn't help but be slightly stunned, "Where's Madam Xu?!"