"Let's go, Miss Shen." Zhang Neng picked up the knife on the table and called Shen Yuyu downstairs.
"Where to go?" Shen Yuyu hurriedly followed.
"Huayang Academy, please investigate this official from the capital." The two of them left the inn and headed to Huayang Academy.
The matter continued to be discussed on the road.
""Master Zhang, if Shen Xi's lover is not Wang Xiucai, then why did I see Shen Xi holding hands with him that day?" Shen Yuyu still has many questions.
"What you see is just the back. In fact, Wang Xiucai and his cousin are about the same age and figure. As for the clothes, isn't it normal for the cousin to wear his cousin's clothes?"
"But Chen Xi's mother insists that she is Wang Xiucai, so what's the explanation?"
"The person Shen Xi wanted to hook up with at first was Wang Xiucai, maybe her mother instigated it. Unexpectedly, Wang Xiucai refused, so Shen Xi accidentally hooked up with Wang Xiucai's cousin but didn't tell her mother clearly. , is this explanation still reasonable?”
"It seems reasonable." Shen Yuyu thought for a moment and nodded.
"It's useless to just guess. It should be clear after going to the academy to investigate.'
As the two of them talked, they had already arrived outside Huayang Academy. When they asked about Wang Wenqin's cousin, almost everyone knew about it.
"Song Yu'an, that dandy." Someone replied with a smile. It seems that this official son is quite famous in the academy.
"Dandy? Why do you say he is a dude?" Shen Yuxi asked with a smile.
"Going to a brothel every two days, what is that if you're not a dandy?'
"Going to a brothel? The women in the brothel are so dirty that they don't have a fixed lover?"
The young man who was asked was young and a straight man, so he immediately laughed.
"I live in the same room with Young Master Song, and I know him better than Wang Wenqin. When Young Master Song first came here, he really liked to go to brothels. Later, we fell in love with him and kept him outside. He lived a happy life."
Shen Yuyu and Zhang Neng looked at each other with joy in their eyes: "Do you know where it is raised?"
"I don't know about this. He also talked about going to a brothel. He is probably afraid that his parents will know, but he often walks at night and comes back in the morning. He should be in the town."
Zhang Neng and Shen Yuyu felt confident, thanked the straight man and rushed to the town.
"He must have kept Shen Xi in the newly purchased house of the Wang family, otherwise why would he hide it from Wang Xiucai?" Shen Yuyu guessed.
"I think so too." Zhang Neng nodded: "So we must find this house, which is most likely the first scene of the murder."
Shen Yuyu said helplessly: "But I've asked everywhere, and no one knows where it is."
"Are you sure the house is empty?"
"Yuan Yuan went to Beijing to celebrate his birthday and hasn't come back yet, so it must be empty.'
"That's easy. As long as it's an uninhabited high-walled compound, just sneak in and take a look. If the deceased lived there, there will always be clues left behind.
"Smart." Shen Yuyu felt that this method was very feasible. "There are definitely not many empty large houses in the town. Not everyone in the country can afford to live in a big house."
"Let's go and ask."
After asking in a different way, it turns out that the nosy adults and aunts in the town know a lot about these things.
Unfortunately, Zhang Neng and Shen Yuyu visited more than a dozen empty houses, but still found nothing.
The two of them were really unwilling to give in. They even went in to search the empty small houses on the second and first entrances. They were all covered with dust and found no one living in any of them.
"Is your news unreliable?" Coming out of the last house, Zhang Neng looked at Shen Yuhu helplessly.
Shen Yu'an was in trouble, "I also heard what the women in the village said. Who can confirm it? But even if the Wang family didn't buy a house in the town, Song Yu'an must have rented one for Shen Xi to live in."
"Then it will be even harder to find, unless you take Song Yu'an's portrait and check one by one, but this will definitely alarm him." The two of them were sitting on the roadside worrying about it, when an old man holding a cow stopped in front of them. Come down.
"Are you looking for a vacant large house to buy or something?" He asked when he saw that Zhang Neng was well-dressed and elegant.
"I really want to buy it, sir, do you know where I can buy it?"
"Well, go west out of the town from here, then walk halfway along the road to Huayang Academy, then turn to the right road and go all the way to the end. There is an empty house there. The owner's family moved to the county more than two months ago. I went there, but I don’t know if it was sold or not.”
When they heard this, they immediately cheered up and went straight to Zhenxi after thanking the uncle.
According to what the uncle said, I soon came to a house. When I got here, I discovered that there was a path behind the house that led directly to Huayang Academy, which was only about ten minutes away.
Both Shen Yuyu and Zhang Neng seemed a little excited, and without saying anything, they climbed the wall and entered the yard.
The courtyard was eerily quiet, the cold wind blew up the fallen leaves, and waves of chill came over. Shen Yuyu shivered and followed Zhang Neng closely.
"Squeak~~" Zhang Neng pushed open the door of the main room. There were all the furnishings inside. He took a look and found nothing unusual, and walked to the side room.
This is a large house with three entrances and three exits. Nothing was found in the first two courtyards, but something was discovered after entering the third door.
As soon as I entered the yard, I saw chrysanthemums blooming all over the garden, as if they had been watered not long ago.
"How long has it been since it rained?" Zhang Neng asked.
"Nearly two months." Shen Yuyu answered affirmatively. She rushed back to Shenjia Village from Dahe Town in the dark after crossing over. It rained that night and the ground was so dry that it cracked.
"It must be here." Zhang Neng tensed his nerves and approached the main room step by step.
As soon as Shen Yuyu opened the door to the main room, her heart skipped a beat. She was a doctor, and at this moment she was shocked by the situation inside the room.
The house was decorated like a new house, with wedding candles, wedding quilts, and the big red word "happy". All it took was a couple to come and get married.
"Go in and search." Zhang Neng raised his legs and stepped in, followed closely by Shen Yue.
The two of them searched the whole room but found nothing. Shen Yuxi held her forehead and sat on the threshold, feeling a little desperate.
"What is this?" Zhang Neng suddenly squatted on the ground and was attracted by a vague mud footprint on the ground.
Shen Yuyu hurriedly followed his line of sight and saw that there was not just one mud footprint, but a string of mud footprints. This string of vague mud footprints spread all the way to a remote corner of the backyard.
"Something is buried here." Shen Yuyu pointed excitedly at the foot of the tree, where the soil had obviously been newly plowed.
Zhang Neng hurriedly found a hoe and dug down along the root of the tree. After digging for a long distance, a bundle was revealed.
He pulled out the baggage with all his hands, and when he opened it, he found a package of clothes and a Xiangxiang. The word "Chen Xi" was crooked on the Xiangxiang, which was definitely written by Chen Xi, and the middle coat was also embroidered with the same word. Chen Xi’s name.
"Miss Yu Yu, this case is almost solved." Zhang Neng said with certainty, "The murderer is Wang Xiucai's cousin Song Yu'an. Let's go and get him."