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Chapter 33 Cheng Xiao is lying again!

Zixiang said: "Let's see, when I went to the street with the girl a few days ago, the girl stared at a gambling house in the city called 'Hehe', which was opened by the Zhenhai gang. I don't care about it, but you don't have to keep an eye on any bandits anyway, just hang out there? It's better than staring at Du Jian in the mansion."

Huang Jimao suddenly understood.

……

Changying blew on the wind in the yard, and although it may not be safe to lie down when she comes back, she finally fell asleep.

When she got up early, Zixiang said that Shaoqing had gone to check Fangtong's whereabouts.

Fang Tong hasn't shown up yet, she is vaguely uneasy, but Shaoqing and the others have searched all the places where Yin might have been, and Cheng Xiao has ordered someone to go out recently, and there is no Fang Tong in the places where those people have been. traces, which is puzzling.At dinner last night, she had told Shaoqing that he must pay close attention to this matter.

Huang Ji and Zhou Liang had gone nowhere, and now she hadn't figured out which direction to turn around and attack, so she let him wander around.

In addition, she was still waiting for Cheng Xiao to use tricks to drive her away from the house. The man in black was dead, so it seemed that she had no reason to stay. I won't bother her to live down anymore.

But still the same sentence, Fang Tong did not show up. Although the people in black are dead, the case has not yet been solved, and there are still some days before her half-month period, so she has a reason to stay.

If Cheng Xiao really wanted to chase her away, it would not be so easy.

After breakfast, she strolled outside Fang's courtyard.Looking at no one, he stepped on the trunk and climbed the tree.

Mrs. Fang was sitting under the window lost in thought, and Fang Tong's eight-year-old son was teasing the crickets.

The yard was quiet, even the servants who were drying the clothes lightly.

Other than that there are no exceptions.

When she got off the tree and returned to the room, Mrs. Fang's absent-minded face always appeared.

Fang Tong didn't go to the neighboring county, and his whereabouts may be unknown, does Mrs. Fang know?

She picked up the tea and just took a sip when Zi Xiang pushed the door open and came in: "Fang Tong is dead!"

……

Du Jian was just about to go out when he received the news that Fang Tong had died.

Under the threshold, he held his breath for a moment, and strode towards the warehouse.

The body was found in the warehouse of Zhizhou Mansion. When they arrived, Cheng Xiao and the others were already there. Cheng Xiao was standing on the porch with red eyes, together with Mrs. Cheng comforting Mrs. Fang who was crying until she was almost hoarse.And Fang Tong's body had already been parked on the unloaded door panel in the hall, covered with a white cloth, the skin on the exposed face was purple and black, and there was some blood at the corner of the mouth.Wu Zuo in the yamen is checking.

"what happened?"

Another voice came from outside the door, he didn't look back, knowing it was Shen Changying, so he went straight to him.

Cheng Xiao arched his hands and sighed: "A few days ago, I sent Zhimu to Anji on an errand, but I didn't know that no one came back after two or three days, so I sent someone to Anji County to inquire, and the other party's yamen said that they had never seen him come. , Do you think it's strange? When I came back, I searched around, but this morning, when Master went to the warehouse, he found his body!"

Speaking of this, he wiped the corners of his eyes, and sighed again, "I have worked hand in hand with him in Changxing for these years, and I only thought that I escaped from death that night. After a catastrophe, the murderer was found dead again, but he—you said why he couldn’t figure it out so much?”

Changying stared at him: "Your Excellency, what do you mean, Master Fang committed suicide?"

"The doors and windows in the warehouse are locked, and there are bottles of poison on the ground. It's not suicide, but could it be murder?" Cheng Xiao raised his eyes.

Changying stared at the busy work, as well as Mrs. Fang and the children who were crying hoarsely, without saying a word.

Shaoqing tugged at her sleeve.

She glanced at him and walked out the door.

The dark clouds outside the courtyard gate made people feel a little uncontrollable.

Shaoqing followed up: "This matter is fraudulent! There is a record in the warehouse records that the yamen servants came in to fetch things the day before yesterday!"

It has been three days since Fang Tong "leaved the Yamen". According to Cheng Xiao, Fang Tong should have died on the day he disappeared, and the appearance of the corpse just now does not seem to have just died, which means that the corpse should have been at least dead in the warehouse. He stayed there for three days, but Cheng Xiao said that the doors and windows hadn't been moved, so he was lying?
(End of this chapter)