The house was filled with faint red sandalwood cigarettes.

The two were silent.

The seemingly leisurely and quiet atmosphere is as tight as a string, and it seems to be back to the situation that was deliberately targeted by Chen Mu the last time.

Xue Caiqing puts blue and white porcelain cups.

Looking down at his slender white and tender jade fingers as thin as onion roots, his tone was calm and quiet:

"Captain Chen thinks...I am the murderer?"

Chen Mu smiled and shook his head: "I didn't say that, it was just a feeling of intuition, and I always felt that you were hiding something."

“Man’s intuition is sometimes very accurate.”

"So you admit it?"

"Caiqing sincerely hopes that Captain Chen can solve the case and let the eleven sisters rest in peace."

Xue Caiqing neither admitted nor denied it.

She looked at Chen Mu, and her eyes, which were as quiet as a lake, finally had a trace of emotion, and she said slowly:

"But...Captain Chen can do it?"

Is this provoking me?

Chen Mu smiled.

It's interesting. He hasn't taken the initiative yet, so he has posted a challenge post for convenience.

At present, Xue Caiqing does know something, but it is impossible to expect her to take the initiative to say it.

Interrogation cannot be done.

After all, this woman admires countless people, including some famous scholars and big men. If she really wants to be arrested in prison and interrogated, it is estimated that the entire county government will be overturned by then.

“Can you start?”

Xue Caiqing's beautiful eyes fell on the record book in front of Chen Mu's desk, "I will go to Hanwu Temple to burn incense later. I hope Captain Chen will be faster."

Chen Mu smiled and said, "I usually have a long time, so it's hard to get faster, especially when facing Miss Xue."

"But the last time Captain Chen came, it seemed very weak."

The woman verbally retorted.

It turns out that you will be angry too... Hearing the annoyance in the woman's words, Chen Mu smiled secretly and gave a compromise solution:

"Let me do this, I will accompany you to Hanwu Temple. Let's chat slowly on the way. This will not delay your affairs, and I can also finish the transcript. What do you think."

Xue Cai's green-in-mouth-like eyebrows frowned slightly, and finally he pointed his head: "Okay."

...

As the only temple in Qingyu County, Hanwu Temple is not far away.

Take a carriage and walk west along Huailan River Street for about half an hour.

The two entered the carriage, Chen Mu took out a clean handkerchief and placed it on the bench opposite, and made a gesture of inviting the woman.

Xue Caiqing was slightly stunned, looked at Chen Mu in a deep look, but did not refuse.

"Then let's start."

I don’t know if it was because of the small space of the carriage or because the two were closer together, Chen Mu could obviously smell the faint fragrance of snow plum blossoms.

He put his notebook on his knees and said:

"According to the records of the county government at that time, at the 28th of April, the first person to be found was Yuan Xing'er. She was in her room at that time, and the person who found her dead... was you.

So I wonder why you went to Yuan Xinger's room at that time? What was the purpose?"

Facing Chen Mu's burning gaze, Xue Caiqing's voice was soft: "Didn't Captain Chen look at the records of the entire yamen? At that time, the door of Yuan Xinger's room was open. I just looked at it out of curiosity and found something was wrong."

"Yes, that's true in the record."

Chen Mu leaned forward slightly, "But the question is, Yuan Xinger's house is in the second floor East Garden, and your house is in the third floor Snow Pavilion. It's not only upstairs and downstairs, but also in the opposite direction. Where did you do what you did early in the morning?"

"Take the flute."

"Take the flute?"

"Yes, two days before the incident, Xiaowan needed to play for a guest, but her phoenix feather flute broke, so she borrowed mine."

"Xiaowan? Are you talking about the dead courtesan Mei Xinwan?"

Chen Mu asked.

After Chen Mu traveled through time, he heard about the name of this brothel woman.

It is the newest flower courtesan of Ju Chunlou.

Not only is he delicate and gentle, but he also has a sweet look, but he also makes a good flute, which makes many men fall in love with him.

"It's her."

Xue Caiqing nodded lightly and said lightly, "I was going to find her, but I passed by Yuan Xinger's room and saw that her door was opened, and..."

"And what?" Chen Mu asked.

Xue Caiqing said quietly: "And I don't hang up, I just lie on the bed. I realized something was wrong, so I went in to check it out and found that she was dead. Later, other sisters discovered the deceased one after another, including Xiaowan."

Chen Mu looked through the records made by the yamen carefully and found that there were indeed records of all the deceased's fruit bodies at that time.

But other clues are not recorded.

Chen Mu was a little helpless.

When the Ju Chunlou tragedy occurred, he happened to accompany his wife to go out for fun. After returning, Gao Yuanchun did not let him touch the case. Even the body was burned and he directly announced that the case was closed by "accidentally taking poisonous mushrooms".

Although it was because of political reasons, if it could be recorded in detail at that time, it would not be so troublesome to investigate.

Of course, Chen Mu also understood the county magistrate.

In that case, it was said that the snake demon was causing trouble, and even the county magistrate could not make much decisions.

With his thoughts pulled back, Chen Mu continued to ask: "Can you describe in detail the situation of Yuan Xinger's body at that time? For example, is there any swelling of the face, are there any strange spots on the body, and how stiff the body is? And—"

"Sorry, Captain Chen, I've been blurred all the questions you asked, and I didn't look at it carefully at that time."

Xue Caiqing interrupted him and said apologetically.

Chen Mu stared at her: "What about other people? For example, what is the specific situation when Mei Xinwan died?"

"She was peaceful, as if she was asleep."

"Then what?"

"What then?" the woman looked at him in confusion.

Chen Mu's tone became a little cold: "Since you are willing to borrow a flute, it means that your relationship is OK, but at least you should have a memory of what happened after her death."

Xue Caiqing was silent for a moment and said lightly:

"They had no wounds on their bodies, and each of them slept on their own beds, without quilts and clothes covering them, nor were they violated.

Their postures are all the same, with their heads slightly shifted toward the left side, and placed their right hand on their left hand, in front of their lower abdomen.

In addition, all the nails on their right toe were coated with red rouge…”

The nails on the right toe are covered with red rouge?

A flash of light flashed in Chen Mu's eyes.

Such an obvious abnormal situation has not been recorded by the county government?

These guys are really brainless!

However, judging from the situation described by the woman, Xue Caiqing did intend to observe the corpse at that time, and just didn't want to say it...

What is this woman selling in a gourd?

"Is there any more?" Chen Mu asked.

Xue Caiqing shook her head gently: "No more, later the yamen took away all the bodies, asked about some of our situation, and then the case was closed."

"Did you hear anything on the night before you find the body?"

"I don't know, I'm sleeping heavily."

"Do you don't know, or do you don't want to say it?" Chen Mu frowned.

Xue Caiqing did not answer, but lifted the curtains of the car window with her bare hands and said softly: "What happened before."

Chen Mu was stunned and directly lifted the curtain of the carriage.

I saw many people whispering something around the shore in the distance, including the figure of the Ming Guard.

Chen Mu asked the driver to park on the side of the road and jumped out of the carriage to check. From the discussions of the people around him, he learned that someone had found a body on the shore.

After passing through the crowd, Chen Mu saw the salvaged body.

It's a woman.

Petite figure.

A long red dress with a few broken pieces of cloth.

When Chen Mu saw the woman's face, his mind buzzed and his pupils contracted rapidly.
Chapter completed!