Great Lawyer

Chapter 719 Clues Afterwards ([-])

The lame man walked over and pushed aside the scattered woodpile.

He saw a pair of old shoes thrown underneath. The shoes were worn out and the soles were worn out with a hole. He measured them with his hands and said, "It's the same size as the shoes that Jiuyan brought back."

"The shoes that were worn out just now, it is very likely that he wore these shoes to send his mother away, and then replaced the old pair of shoes to bury his mother?"

Although there was a lot of dust on these shoes, there was no heavy mud.

"Jiuyan," the lame man showed Du Jiuyan, and Du Jiuyan also measured the size like him, and raised his eyebrows, "Looking at the cleanliness of the shoes, it doesn't look like they are walking on mountain roads."

"It hasn't rained these days. If he wears these shoes to see his mother off, then he must be walking on the official path."

"Let's see if there are other clues." Du Jiuyan said.

The lame man nodded, and continued to look for it.

Pei Ying looked at the two of them and was shocked.She knew that the cripple and Du Jiuyan had a tacit understanding, but she didn't expect that the tacit understanding between them had reached such a level.

When they get something, they even think in the same order and direction.

No wonder the cripple told her that for him, Du Jiuyan was the light in his heart, and also a teacher who led and tried new things, because of her, his life had color.

His past life was gray and gray, and he had no interest and indifference to things other than his duties.

But since she came, he has changed from passive to active, and his life has gained momentum, like a lazy person who changed his bad habits and began to become active and active.

Pei Ying sighed, Du Jiuyan taught these things to the cripple, right?

"Pei Ying," Du Jiuyan waved his hand in front of her, "What are you thinking of, so lost in thought?"

Pei Ying came back to her senses, concealed her embarrassment, and asked, "Why do you think he might go out wearing these shoes?"

"In his family's situation, he definitely doesn't have three or five pairs of shoes. Bai Jun is growing tall, and he can't wear a pair of shoes if they don't break for half a year. But these shoes are as big as the ones he left in the Hechun Pavilion. It's recent. Those shoes are half-new and muddy."

"So, it is very likely that he is wearing this pair of shoes to send his mother away. When he comes back, he will exchange for another pair of semi-new shoes and sell himself in the Hechun Hall. Even if he sells himself, he wants to clean up decently."

Pei Ying thought it made sense, and said with a smile: "It seems that I still have a lot to learn."

"You are already very good. Diao Da said that you are very smart. You can remember everything once you say it. Not only do you memorize it in your head, but you also sort out the handbook and sort it out item by item."

"He is quite satisfied with your apprentice."

Pei Ying smiled shyly and continued to look for things.

Du Jiuyan squatted in front of the woodpile and looked at it.Why did Bai Jun put these shoes here?
Want to hide?What's there to hide?

She turned over all the firewood, and then let out a huff, and saw that there were traces of landfill under the soles of the shoes, and she found a sickle to dig them out.

The hole was very deep and she dug dozens of times before she saw a wooden box.

She opened the box, and there were neatly stacked banknotes inside, with a letter on top of the banknotes.The letter was written to his mother in Bai Jun's tone, telling his mother that he was dead, and asked his mother to take good care of himself, and then find a good man to marry and have a child.

There are a total of 300 taels of silver tickets, all of which are ten taels of silver tickets with a Tongtian ticket number.

"Hidden by Bai Jun?" King Gui came over and asked.

Du Jiuyan nodded and said: "He left it for his mother. It should be to settle her mother down and tell her to come home when she recovers. There is a pair of old shoes under the firewood, and there is a box under the shoes. Let his mother Open."

"So, his mother really didn't die, and I don't know what he did."

Du Jiuyan nodded, "He didn't sell himself, but his life."

"It seems that we were wrong. His mother will definitely not be inside or outside the capital. Otherwise, if something happens to King Ning and he dies, his mother may hear the rumors no matter which way he comes from."

In this way, the secret that Bai Jun wants to protect cannot be protected.

Several people continued to search, and found two chestnuts wrapped in thorn shells under the bed in Bai Junniang's bedroom, which should have fallen to the ground and rolled to the bottom of the bed.

"Are there any chestnuts in the nearby mountains? We didn't seem to have seen them when we went up the mountain." Du Jiuyan said, "The ones bought outside are all peeled."

Everyone shook their heads and didn't see it.

Not having anything else, they withdrew and asked the head of the village if there were any chestnuts in the mountains outside the village.

"No, we don't have these in this mountain, but ten miles ahead, there is a valley, and there are a few chestnut trees in it, and everyone sometimes picks them."

"Has Bai Jun been there?" Du Jiuyan asked.

The chief was taken aback for a moment, and asked someone to call the village boy who played well with Bai Jun.The child was twelve or thirteen years old, very solid, and ran over like the wind from a long distance, panting: "I didn't go this year. I planned to go, but his mother's illness got worse, so he didn't dare to go." When I went out, I dug out all the sweet potatoes in his field with my help."

"Since the beginning of August, I have finished my homework every morning, and I will come to help him with it." The child said, "But for two days, he went out."

"One time was on August [-]th. He said he was going out for a trip and asked me to look after his house. He came back in the afternoon with empty hands."

"Another time, his mother went to the city. He said he sold himself and gave me five taels of silver. He told me to go home and don't come to him again." The child said, "I won't I was willing to ask for his money, but I didn’t leave, and he beat me, so I went home in a fit of anger.”

"It was only later that I found out that he sent his mother up the mountain alone, and left five taels of silver in my yard. I have never seen him again."

King Gui asked, "Did you think there was anything unusual about him? For example, who did he know?"

The child scratched his head and thought about it, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and said: "One day, my mother steamed steamed buns early in the morning. It was still before dawn. I brought two steamed buns to him. When I arrived at his yard, I saw a young man coming out of his yard."

"juvenile?"

The child nodded, "Yes, he is quite tall, about the same age as us. I didn't care, so I didn't ask Bai Jun."

"If I knew... I would definitely ask him."

"Although I don't have any money, I can borrow it for him. We have grown up and can earn money. Let's pay it back slowly. Why should we sell ourselves. And... still dead." The child said, crying .

Du Jiuyan couldn't comfort him, so he just thanked him and left.

"Let's go find Bai Jun's mother." Du Jiuyan shook the chestnut, "Ten miles away, almost."

No matter how far away, Bai Jun's mother would not be able to reach her, even if she rode in an ox cart and a donkey cart, it would be very bumpy.

After walking ten miles forward, Huairou was already out of Huairou. After walking for a while in the mountains, he found the chestnut tree. One mile further on, he found a very lively town. I told the situation of the person I was looking for.

The town is not big, if someone moved in or moved out, even if they didn't know it at the time, they would hear about it in a few days.

Bao Zhang thought of it as soon as he heard it, "Just behind here, a new woman has moved in, and she has invited the old woman from the Xia family to serve her three meals a day and medicine, help with laundry, and pay [-] yuan a month. Money."

"The woman was sent by her son. Her son left after sending her here. He said he would come back in a few days, but he didn't come back after a few days."

"I don't know if it is, do you want to go?"

Du Jiuyan and King Gui looked at each other, and they both nodded.

Several people were led by the security chief to find the house.It is a small courtyard separated from a big house with a reopened door, just one bedroom and one kitchen.

The security chief knocked on the door, and the person who opened the door was a 60-year-old woman who recognized the security chief when she saw her, "What are you doing here, chief security?"

"Someone is coming from the capital, is the woman who asked you to serve here?"

The mother-in-law pointed to the room, "Here, he just took medicine and was lying down."

"Let's go in and have a look." The security chief walked in front, and the woman opened the door.

Du Jiuyan entered the bedroom. The room smelled of medicine. In the dark room, the woman was lying sideways on the bed, facing the door. She was awakened by the sound. She opened her eyes and saw so many people. He opened his eyes wide, thought of his son, sat up slowly, and asked excitedly, "Did something happen to Bai Jun?"

The woman's face was thin and sallow, sickly, obviously ill for a long time.

Du Jiuyan nodded.

The woman couldn't sit still, staggered and fell down again, trying to sit up again.

Du Jiuyan said to the mother-in-law watching the excitement at the door: "Help her up."

The mother-in-law came up to help the woman.

"Did he die, or did he do something bad? Steal money or kill someone?" The woman's voice trembled. A few days ago, Bai Jun suddenly began to prescribe medicine for him, and sent her here to recuperate, and hired a maid to serve her. The care of three meals a day and the cost of medicine are paid in one lump sum for one year.

He also let her recuperate in peace, and he went out to earn money, and when she recovered from her illness a year later, he went to find him.

"Did he tell you who he knew?" Du Jiuyan asked, "Did he leave anything for you?"

The woman grabbed the bed sheet and asked persistently, "What happened to him? Tell me quickly, tell me quickly!"

"He poisoned Prince Ning, and Prince Ning's life and death are uncertain at this moment, and he committed suicide by taking poison himself." Du Jiuyan said, "Since he has no grievances with Prince Ning, we suspect that he used money to work for others."

The woman even forgot to cry, she stared at Du Jiuyan dumbfounded, then tremblingly said: "Killed, killed a prince?"

"Why is he so confused?"

"Kill the prince!"

The woman wailed loudly.

The Baochang was also very frightened, he didn't expect that child to be so courageous, to poison the prince.

"Think about it carefully." You have handled many cases, and you are no stranger to such a situation.A murderer, the story behind it and the motive of the murder make people both distressed and angry... In terms of emotional regulation, it is often chaotic and difficult to adapt.

Therefore, Du Jiuyan learned to be indifferent, and only by trying not to be touched can he investigate the case impartially.

"Yes!" the woman said, "He went out on the fourth day of August, and at night he thought I was asleep, but I wasn't. I heard him talking to a boy in the yard."

"The two of them were talking about Jingning Hou's Mansion and Prince. I asked Bai Jun later, and he told me not to think about it."

"There is something," the woman stood up, "I picked it up in the yard, I don't know what it is."

As she spoke, she took something out of her pocket, "I think there's something wrong, but I don't know what it is. These days my eyelids have been twitching, and at night I always dream that something happened to Bai Jun."

"I'll keep all his things." The woman took out something, and King Gui brought it over, and his face immediately darkened.

It's a golden key, in the shape of a plum blossom.

Just like the paper, the golden scorpions used by each household are also different. Some have the name of the house on it, and some have shapes and pictures drawn by their own family.

This gold key has a snowflake-like pattern on the front corner.

It is commonly used in Jingning Houfu.

"I'll wait for you outside." King Gui shook his sleeves and went out, Du Jiuyan asked the woman, "The boy who came to look for him fell?"

The woman nodded, "Yes! He also gave Bai Jun the bank note, but Bai Jun didn't mention it to me afterwards, so I don't know if I read it wrong at the time, after all, it was dark."

"This person must have ordered Bai Jun to do bad things. I, Bai Jun, are so filial and well-behaved. It's impossible for him to do evil things."

The woman cried again as she spoke.

(End of this chapter)