The seven raised their heads tremblingly, but they all lowered their eyes, not daring to look at him.

Xie Xuan's eyes slid across the faces of the seven people one by one, and then slowly fell on their hands.

While he was observing, Chen Chaoyan walked slowly behind them and checked their shoe sizes.The shoe sizes of the seven people are all larger than Qi Wu's, and the texture of the soles is also very uniform, it doesn't seem like they are deliberately wearing a big camouflage.

Even so, Chen Chaoyan did not relax, but looked at Xie Xuan.

Xie Xuan said calmly: "Take them down and find another place to keep them."

This clears them of suspicion.

After Ma Qiang took them away, Xie Xuan explained: "None of them are martial arts practitioners."

Chen Chaoyan nodded, expressing understanding.

a little.

A few more people were brought to the ancestral hall by the yamen servants.

But it was still not the person they were looking for.

Group after group of people came, and group after group of people went out.

Before I knew it, it was dawn.

Xie Xuan leaned on the armrest slightly with his elbows, his brows were calm, and he seemed full of patience.

Chen Chaoyan felt a little uneasy in his heart.

They made such a big battle, and searched for several hours, but they still haven't found Qi Wu. Is he really still in Wenhai Town?

Walking outside the ancestral hall, looking at the clouds that were dyed red by the rising sun and the wind blowing through the treetops, Chen Chaoyan took a deep breath and looked towards the distance of Wenhai Town.

Li Deqing and his men are still searching.

Wenhai Town is actually not big, maybe only a few hundred households.

But he searched too carefully, not only searching for people, but also every corner of every house.

After coming out of Qingxi County, she followed Xie Xuan to several places. For such a responsible parent officer, he should be No.1, and Wen Kui can only be ranked behind him.

Chen Chaoyan watched it quietly for a while, then returned to the ancestral hall.

Sit down in a chair not far from Xie Xuan, lean on the back of the chair and close your eyes slightly for a nap. Within two cups of tea, you heard dense footsteps hurrying in.

Chen Chaoyan opened his eyes.

It's Li Deqing.

Li Deqing had a gloomy face, followed by several yamen servants, who forcibly detained a beautiful woman who kept twisting her body and yelled to let her go.

After entering the ancestral hall, without waiting for anyone to ask, Li Deqing said angrily: "Qi Wu has already escaped!"

Chen Chaoyan looked at that beautiful woman.

"It's this stupid woman!" Li Deqing said with difficulty concealing his anger, "The body picked up from Wenxin Lake is her husband! After Qi Wu killed her husband, he pretended to be his husband and lived in her. Yesterday morning, when we salvaged the corpse in Wenxin Lake, she followed Qi Wu among the people watching the excitement. After we left with the corpse, Qi Wu knew that he couldn’t escape, so he ran away without hesitation! "

When the body was salvaged, Qi Wu was among the crowd of onlookers?Chen Chaoyan immediately turned on the light screen and brought up the video from yesterday morning when the corpse was salvaged.

The glamorous woman's face was so recognizable that within a short while, Chen Chaoyan saw her under an old locust tree.However, her gaze didn't stay on her body too long, she just glanced over and locked her gaze on the man beside her.

The man is also looking at her.

To be precise, he was looking at her who was searching for clues at the scene.

The man is not tall, but his body is slender, and his face is also slender.

On the whole, he is an ordinary to extremely ordinary person.

Only those eyes, no matter how you hide them, still reveal a vicious and vicious viciousness.

Although he had only seen Qi Wu's face in the portrait, and the man had put on a disguise at the moment, Chen Chaoyan inexplicably decided that he was Qi Wu.

People walked around Qi Wu and the beautiful woman, and occasionally someone greeted them.But neither the people who walked around nor the people who greeted him recognized that he was not the real husband of the beautiful woman.

What does this mean?

It shows that her husband's facial features, height, and body shape are not much different from Qi Wu's!

Chen Chaoyan looked at Qi Wu, feeling a little regret in his heart.

As a bystander, Qi Wu stood outside the crowd, watched the whole process of them searching for clues and examining her body form, knowing that they had already cracked the method of throwing his body, and knowing that he could no longer hide, he simply left up.

If when asking if anyone is missing in the town or looking for clues, if you can ask Lingyou to ask a few more questions with Qi Wu's portrait, he will definitely be captured on the spot!

Chen Chaoyan had an intuition that after he escaped this time, it would be very difficult to find his trace again.

Unless, he commits another crime.

"This stupid woman's kitchen has a patio. Next to the patio, there is a rough gravel road. There are still bloodstains on the gravel road. I followed the bloodstains, looked for both sides, and found the bedroom. The bed in the bedroom Underneath, I found this torn clothes." Li Deqing said, and handed over a torn clothes, "Miss Chen, take a look, is the torn clothes used by this stupid woman to bind the corpse's hands, A strip of cloth for the feet."

Chen Chaoyan took the clothes, shook them off, and spread them on the chair.Close up the tattered place slightly, first look at the size of the gap, and then quietly look at the light screen.Seeing that the two strips of cloth binding the corpse perfectly merged into the gap in the clothes in the light screen, she nodded and said: "It is indeed the strip of cloth binding the corpse."

"And this one." Li Deqing handed over a few more knots, "I picked this up at this stupid woman's house, Miss Chen, see if it's the same as the knots used to bind the corpse?"

Chen Chaoyan took the knot in amazement, and after matching the knot, couldn't help but say: "Master Li is really careful."

"It's all... Forget it, let's catch Qi Wu first." Li Deqing swallowed the bitterness, turned to look at the beautiful woman, and shouted, "Stupid woman, what else can you say!"

The beautiful woman did not answer, but struggled and writhed, yelling.

Chen Chaoyan looked at her and asked Li Deqing, "Did she and Qi Wu know each other?"

Li Deqing was stunned for a moment, "Why did Miss Chen say that?"

After finishing the question, before Chen Chaoyan could answer, he suddenly realized: "We definitely know each other. Otherwise, what a coincidence, Qi Wu went to her house where he didn't go, and he just happened to be about the same size as her husband!"

Chen Chaoyan nodded, "How did she and Qi Wu know each other? And why did she help Qi Wu murder her husband? I have to investigate further."

"This stupid woman was willing to marry Tie Sheng because she was interested in his status as a scholar. After Tie Sheng failed the fifth exam, she didn't want to serve her any more, and she continued to curse at whatever was unpleasant all day long. Afterwards, he stole people everywhere because of his good looks." Ma Liang walked in quickly, raised his crutches and greeted the beautiful woman, "It must have been stolen from Yang Shan, only two People tricked each other to kill Tiesheng!"

The glamorous woman had her hands clasped by the yamen servants, and she had nowhere to hide. After being beaten a few times, she simply broke the jar and said, "He has no ability himself, so why don't I go find someone else?"

Ma Liang hit him again with a cane, "Bastard, if you want to find someone else, go for it. You can find as many as you like, but what are you doing to kill Tiesheng!"

"He's looking for death!" The beautiful woman cursed, "If he doesn't insist on going to the county government to report, Yang Shan can give us ten pennies if he hides in the cellar for a few days! For ten pennies, he will sell it for a lifetime Calligraphy and painting can’t make so much money! If he wants to live a poor life, he will go there by himself, why should I be with him!”

Chen Chaoyan took the opportunity to ask: "After knocking your husband unconscious, what did you do to his face, hands and feet?"

The beautiful woman glared at her fiercely, but said nothing.

Chen Chaoyan looked at her, "Your husband was drowned for only six or seven days. Logically speaking, even if he was eaten by fish, it would not be that serious. You scratched his face, hands and feet, intentionally Let the fish eat him."

A hint of panic flickered across the eyes of the beautiful woman, but she quickly calmed down again.After poohing disdainfully, he turned his head away.

She didn't say anything, but Ma Liang grasped the two key words 'stunned' and 'drowned', and asked almost unsteadily, "Was Tiesheng drowned?"

Chen Chaoyan glanced at his pale face and despairing eyes, and then at Ma Qiang's pale face as well as those of the others, then nodded and said, "From the results of the autopsy, Tie Sheng was indeed beaten unconscious. Throw it into Wenxin Lake and drown."

As soon as she finished speaking, Ma Liang immediately raised his crutches and beat the beautiful woman without restraint, "Bastard! How did my Ma family raise such a bastard like you!"

Ma family?

Chen Chaoyan looked at Li Deqing.

Li Deqing looked coldly at the beautiful woman who was screaming after being beaten, and said mockingly: "If she wasn't from the Ma clan, she would have been beaten to death if she dared to steal men everywhere behind her husband's back." .”

Ma Qiang and the others blushed, and wanted to defend themselves, but felt powerless.

That's right, if Hou Tiesheng hadn't been a single householder, and if they hadn't indulged and protected her again and again, how could she have made such a big mistake!

Chen Chaoyan glanced at them, and asked again: "She has a trick, which direction did Qi Wu leave?"

Li Deqing hummed: "She said she didn't know."

Chen Chaoyan endured it, "Then how did Qi Wu come to Wenhai Town to find her after killing Yang Wei and Sun Huairen?"

After Li Deqing took a slow breath, he said: "I didn't understand that she and Qi Wu had known this relationship for a long time. When I asked her this, she said that Qi Wu hid in her home by himself. , Qi Wu originally wanted to kill her, but after she swore and promised that she would never disclose it to others, Qi Wu let her go."

Chen Chaoyan laughed and said: "In this case, she will use it to deceive herself."

Li Deqing blushed, he believed it just now.Turning her face away for a while, after calming down, she turned around and said: "The fact that she killed her husband-in-law is undeniable, so I didn't have a strict trial. When I bring it back to the county government, it won't be too late to interrogate it slowly."

Chen Chaoyan nodded: "Where is her home, I'll go and have a look."

Li Deqing said: "I'll take Miss Chen there."

Chen Chaoyan should be fine.

But before following him to leave the ancestral hall, she turned her head and asked Xie Xuan, "Is the prince going?"

Xie Xuan hooked the corner of his mouth, got up and followed.

The two followed Li Deqing, bypassed Wenxin Lake, and headed towards Wenhai Town East Street.

Soon, they came to a yard surrounded by bamboo fences.

The courtyard is not big, and it is not much different from other surrounding courtyards.

After glancing at the townsfolk who were pointing and discussing the yard from far and near, Chen Chaoyan followed Xie Xuan into the yard.Then led by Li Deqing, he passed through a main room like a gatehouse, and walked towards the southeast, where he found the clue to the patio.

"It's here." Li Deqing stopped in front of a peach tree.

Chen Chaoyan passed Xie Xuan and walked to the front.

It is a gravel road.

The stone is uneven, and it is very painful to step on it.

After walking back and forth twice, Chen Chaoyan looked at the not so obvious dark red blood on the gravel road, and asked rather puzzled, "What's ahead?"

Li Deqing said: "The kitchen."

Chen Chaoyan went to the kitchen and came out, stood by the patio in the yard, and asked curiously: "Why is such a road paved in this place?"

Li Deqing explained: "I heard from the elders that there was no gravel road here, but when it rained, the road surface was muddy. The woman often complained about this, and Hou Tiesheng, who was the husband of the woman, went to the mountain to carry a few baskets of stones and smashed them down. After it was broken, it was spread here."

It turned out to be the case.

Chen Chaoyan glanced at the dirt on both sides of the stone road, then at the houses on the other side of the stone road, and finally turned around, glanced at the kitchen, and asked, "Where did they knock Hou Tiesheng out?"

Li Deqing pointed to one of the houses on the opposite side of Shizi Road, and said, "It's in that bedroom."

Chen Chaoyan glanced at the bedroom, then at the gravel road, and was even more puzzled, "Why did you drag Hou Tiesheng here after you knocked him out over there?"

"It was said that at the beginning, he planned to throw Hou Tiesheng into this courtyard." Li Deqing snorted softly, "Later, after dragging him to the courtyard, Qi Wu changed his mind again. As for why he changed his mind, the woman Said, Qi Wu didn't tell her."

Chen Chaoyan walked towards the bedroom along the gravel road, and asked while walking: "Then does she know that Yang Shan is Qi Wu?"

After thinking deeply for a moment, Li Deqing shook his head and said, "I probably don't know."

Chen Chaoyan thought for a while, but she also tended not to know.

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