Just after Chen Shi, Xu Zun and Zhao Yu came to the gate of Shangyuan City.

This place is one level larger than the county yamen, and is called the city yamen or county yamen.

When Xu Zun and Zhao Yu went in, they were seeing the yamen runners bringing out a group of flower girls with heavy makeup.

The girls no longer had their usual laughter and slap, and their faces were full of indescribable fear.

Obviously, they were all invited by the yamen to identify the female corpse.

In order to find out the identity of the deceased as soon as possible, the body was placed in the side courtyard of the yamen all night and was not sent to the charity village.

Xu Zun and Zhao Yu walked straight to the side courtyard, wanting to ask about the situation of recognizing the body.

Unexpectedly, they saw a man in the side yard kneeling in front of the body and crying.

"this……"

Xu Zun looked carefully, but saw that the man was also wearing official clothes, but he didn't know him.

"Master Tixing," said the headmaster Ju Ran, who saw Xu Zun, hurriedly came forward, "You are such a coincidence that the identity of the body has just been found out!"

"Oh?" Xu Zun's eyes lit up and he came closer.

"This is Chen You, the Yu official from Shangyuan City," Ju Ran pointed to the man who was lying in front of the body and cried, "The woman who was killed is his second wife!"

oh?

Yu Li…

When Xu Zun extracts memories, Yu Li refers to the minor official who is in charge of the granary.

The second wife is his concubine.

The woman who died in Huguo Temple was actually the concubine of a Yu Li?

this……

"Sir!" Yu's official Chen You held back his sadness, turned around and greeted Xu Zun, and then said, "The side room is called Xiaoying. She disappeared half a month ago. Bei Zhi has reported the case. Today, he heard that the yamen had an autopsy was found early in the morning. Unexpectedly, Unexpectedly... Woo..."

Chen You cried in grief.

"Don't be sad," Ju Ran asked, "You can tell us in detail about the incident. Where is your second wife from?"

The reason why Ju Ran asked this was naturally because she wanted to know whether this woman named Xiaoying came from Hualou?

"Xiaoying's father was the groom in the military camp," Chen You introduced sadly, "After someone introduced, he was married to a second wife by a humble position.

"I have a good relationship and a good relationship. But half a month ago, Xiaoying went back to her parents' house to get some things, but she hasn't returned for a long time. When I go to my father-in-law's house to ask, I found out that Xiaoying hadn't returned at all!"

oh?

Xu Zun and Ju Ran looked at each other. Obviously, this Xiaoying came from a serious family and was not a person who fell into the dust.

This is very different from the monk's robe case ten years ago.

I don’t know why the murderer chose Xiaoying as the target to kill him?

Xu Zun looked at Chen You carefully. This man was nearly fifty years old and his temples were white. It was naturally a beautiful thing to marry such a young and beautiful woman as a concubine.

But... knowing people but not their hearts, who can understand their marriage life will definitely be happy?

After that, Ju Ran made a detailed record for Chen You, asking Chen You to tell everything about Xiaoying.

Unlike the deceased in the monk's robe case back then, Xiaoying not only never believed in Buddhism, but also believed in the mysterious way.

What is even more intriguing is that the place where Xiaoying used to burn incense was Qinglan Temple!

However, Xu Zun knew in his heart that Qinglan Temple itself was the only female Taoist temple in Shangyuan City. Almost all women who believe in Xuandao would go there to burn incense.

The record was being made here, but someone came to call Xu Zun, saying that the governor Li Yan had something to do with him.

So Xu Zun asked Zhao Yu to stay and entered the inner hall of the yamen himself, but saw that Li Yan and Tai Min were already waiting anxiously there.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Xingtai, the captain of the garrison army, appeared in the inner hall.

"Ji Ying, I just heard that the Lu family bookstore was on fire?" Li Yan anxiously asked about the situation without waiting for Xu Zun to sit down.

"right."

Xu Zun calmly found a place to sit down, and then told the three officials about what happened last night.

"You...I don't understand," Li Yan waved his hand, "Why don't you bring people to investigate openly? Why do you have to go there late at night?"

"Sir," Xu Zun's answer was concise and clear, leaving Li Yan speechless, "I went quietly late at night and fell into a trap. If I went straight and openly during the day, what else could I find?"

"This..." Li Yan frowned and turned to look at Tai Min.

Originally, Taemin should have spoken a few words at this moment, but Taemin was still the same, looking very afraid of Xu Zun, and had a slight face and said nothing.

"Then..." Yuan Xingtai asked, "Xu Tixing, have you seen any suspicious people? Who would ignite this fire?"

"No," Xu Zun shook his head, "I didn't see anyone. The other party's skills were profound, and we didn't notice it."

"This is a problem!" Li Yan clapped his palms fiercely and paced back and forth. "I didn't expect that this unknown enemy is still very difficult. If so, how can we find the daughter of the Hou Mansion back?"

"It's really outrageous!" Yuan Xingtai also slapped the table angrily, "In my Shangyuan City, someone actually disregarded the law and committed a crime.

"Sir, otherwise, let's close the city and conduct a large-scale search for the whole city!"

"No!" Li Yan waved his hand quickly, "If the city could be closed, it would have been closed long ago!

"It is indeed not a trivial matter to disappear from the daughter of the Marquis' Mansion, but if the superiors know that the city was locked down for this reason, it would be unreasonable!

"I, Daxuan, can only be locked up for a curfew unless it involves major events such as conspiracy and rebellion or plague, and they will be held accountable!"

"Then...well," Yuan Xingtai said anxiously, "At this point, I can only strengthen patrols and searches!

"Oh!" he sighed, "The entire Shangyuan City has been searched almost everywhere, why are there no trace of the daughter of the Hou Mansion?

"Where can this group of thieves hide Miss Lu?"

"The key is," Li Yan thought of an important question and asked Xu Zun, "Ji Ying, now it seems that the disappearance of the daughter of the Hou Mansion is also related to the Lu Family Bookstore?

"That group of gangsters were willing to burn the bookstore, probably trying to cover up something, right?"

"Well..." Xu Zun nodded, picked up the teacup and took a sip.

The tea leaves are fragrant, and they are indeed top-notch tea.

"Since that's the case," Li Yan complained anxiously, "You shouldn't have boasted about the marquis! The situation is so complicated, where are you going to find it?"

"Well, I'm looking for it," Xu Zun continued to taste tea and said slowly, "It's not until dark yet. Maybe some miracle will happen?"

"Mr. Xu, Mr. Xu..."

As soon as he finished speaking, headmaster Ju Ran ran in excitedly from outside.

"Look?" Xu Zun smiled slightly, "Isn't this coming?"

Seeing so many senior officials at the scene, Ju Ran hurriedly greeted him one by one, and then said excitedly to Xu Zun:

"Mr. Xu, I just sent someone to check this Chen You, and it turned out to be a major discovery. I never expected that this Chen You was actually a prisoner before taking charge of the granary!"

"Oh?" Xu Zun didn't react in the first second and asked, "What's wrong with the prison guard?"

"The place where he worked at the Shangyuan City South Prison Prison," Ju Ran said excitedly, "Monkey Liankong was locked up there!"

"Ah!?" Xu Zun stood up.

If Chen You was really the jailer who guarded Lian Kong, would it be...

"What!? Liankong!?" At this time, Yuan Xingtai, who was opposite, suddenly stood up and said in shock, "No wonder, I felt something was wrong yesterday! Tell me quickly, is this really someone imitating the killer of the monk robe?"
Chapter completed!