Chen Chaoyan put the information aside and waited for Lingyou to report first.

Lingyou took the tea from Yuejian, drank it with a few sips, put his hands on his hips, and said with great air, "I brought back the carriage that Tian Changlin used to ride in and the donkey cart that he often used!"

Chen Chaoyan said 'hmm', "Have you checked the carriage and donkey cart?"

"It's been checked." Lingyou nodded, "It's clean, nothing."

"Clean?" Yuejian questioned, "Is it clean already, or washed?"

"It should have been washed." Lingyou said uncertainly, "But it's not, the princess has to see it to know."

Chen Chaoyan Yinghao, after asking that he had parked the carriage and donkey cart outside the mortuary, picked up his whereabouts.

Seeing the record that Tian Changlin arrived at Ningkou Village early in the morning on the day Tao Apo was killed, and returned to the official mine at dawn on the second day, Chen Chaoyan raised her eyebrows involuntarily.When Cheng Shi, Zhou Zhouwa, Aunt Jiang, Li Shi, Sun Siwa, and Zhou Shi were killed, he also set off from the official mine to Ningkou Village early in the morning, and returned in the early morning of the second day. After the official mine, Chen Chaoyan asked Ling Quan: "Is this whereabouts investigation reliable?"

Lingquan replied: "Reliable."

Chen Chaoyan was silent for a moment, "He went to Ningkou Village from the official mine early in the morning, but there seems to be no record of when he left Ningkou Village."

Lingquan nodded, "The whereabouts were copied from the official mine entry and exit records and the tea purchase account books. Ningkou Village also asked the villagers, but the villagers only remembered that he usually went there in the morning. , leaving in the evening. But few people remember exactly what day passed."

"Leave in the evening soon..." Chen Chaoyan read the information again, and handed it to Empress Xie Xuan who was next to him, then got up and said, "Let's go and see the situation of the carriage and donkey cart first."

Xie Xuan took the information and followed her.

Horse-drawn carts and donkey carts were parked side by side outside the door of the mortuary.

Chen Chaoyan went around one by one, took the gloves from Yue Jian, put them on, and ordered: "Take off the horse and donkey first."

When Lingyou, Chonglou, and Lingquan were busy, she told Yuejian again, "Give me a light, it should be brighter."

After the horse and donkey were unloaded, Chen Chaoyan walked around the two carriages, squatted in front of the carriage, and inspected them bit by bit, starting from the wheels and from the outside to the inside.

The outer sides of the wheels and the bottom of the compartment were the places she focused on checking.

"Give me the lamp." Seeing dark traces in the gap at the bottom of the carriage, Chen Chaoyan reached out to Yue Jian for the lamp without looking back.

Yue Jian brought the lamp over, and was about to give it to her, when Ling You stepped forward and said, "What do you want the lamp for, can't you just turn the carriage over?"

As he said that, he turned the carriage over on its side.

Chen Chaoyan looked at the overturned carriage, and then at Ling You: ... Do you know that you will make me look naive?

Under Xie Xuan's teasing gaze, Chen Chaoyan acted as if nothing had happened, squatting and moving to the front of the carriage, and continued to check the dark marks.

It's blood.

But just to be sure, Chen Chaoyan still ordered: "Give me a dagger, and prepare a bowl of water."

Lingyou handed her the dagger hidden in his sleeve without hesitation, and at the same time, he also squatted beside her, "Are these marks blood?"

Chen Chaoyan said cautiously: "Is it true, you will know after an inspection."

After Bai Shao beat the water, she used a dagger to lightly scrape out a little dark trace, put it in the bowl, and stirred it lightly.Even though time passed, traces of blood quickly melted from that mark.

"It's blood." Lingyou said, his eyes fell on the bottom of the carriage again, and soon he found several traces of dried blood in the gaps of other wooden boards.

After Chen Chaoyan looked at them one by one, and checked them one by one, she got up and told him to turn the carriage over, and then entered the carriage with the light on for inspection.

Lingyou also wanted to follow in, but Xie Xuan stopped him with a look.

The compartment is so cramped that almost three people can only sit there, and after sitting down, there is basically no room for movement.

Chen Chaoyan first checked the roof, front, back, left, and right sides of the carriage, and after making sure that there were no traces of blood, she squatted down and checked the floor.

The floor was clean, the obvious one that had been recently rinsed clean.

However, Chen Chaoyan still saw faint dark traces in the gap where the wooden boards were joined together.The traces looked like dirt left over from years of walking, but Chen Chaoyan knew it was not.After carefully collecting the dots with a dagger, they picked them up and put them in the water bowl. After stirring, two thin traces of blood appeared in the gray soon.

"Did Tian Changlin kill in the carriage?" Yuejian asked looking at the bloodshot.

Chen Chaoyan didn't answer, but retreated back into the carriage, and shone the light on the stool that was attached to the carriage.After confirming that there was nothing there, she looked under the stool on the other side.

There is also nothing.

wrong.

When Chen Chaoyan was about to turn off the lamp, he noticed something strange at the foot of the stool.

The legs of the stool are nailed down.

But at the moment, there are a few strands of cloth hanging on the edge of the stool.

Put the lamp on the floor, carefully scraped off the cloth scraps with a dagger, wrapped it in a handkerchief, and handed it to Ling You who was standing by the car door, "Take it."

After Lingyou took it, she continued to check.

But unfortunately, nothing was found.

Not only that, but there was nothing on the donkey cart.

Fortunately, it can be judged from this that Tian Changlin's corpse was transported in a carriage.

"Take care of the carriage compartment." After handing the lamp to Yue Jian, Chen Chaoyan took back the cloth scraps wrapped in the handkerchief from Lingyou, ordered while walking towards the mortuary.

By comparing with the clothes of Tao Apo, Aunt Jiang and others, the cloth scraps in the carriage were successfully identified as the same as Zhou's clothes.

Coupled with the blood stains on the bottom of the carriage, it can be said to be solid evidence.

Chen Chaoyan couldn't wait to send out to investigate the village where the murder occurred and the people in the neighboring villages, whether anyone who saw someone cleaning the carriage by the river before and after the murder came back, so Chen Chaoyan couldn't wait to run towards the second hall.

On the way, she did not forget to ask Chonglou to invite Kong Tao.

After Kong Tao came, Chen Chaoyan gave him both the cloth scraps and the water bowls carried by Bai Shao, and explained the process of getting them to him in detail.

Although less than two hours had passed since the previous unhappiness, Kong Tao immediately entered the working state, and immediately sent someone to the prison to bring Qiu Shi and Xu Shi out.

Kong Tao presided over the trial.

Chen Chaoyan stood behind Xie Xuan, who was three steps away from the lower left side of the desk, and joined the jury.

Qiu Shi and Xu Shi entered the second hall after being pushed and yelled at, Kong Tao picked up the gavel and slapped it hard.

The mighty majesty driven by the loud sound broke the courage of the two of them in an instant.With little effort, Tian Changlin obtained the confession that every time Tian Changlin went to Ningkouzhuang to buy tea, without exception, he came in the morning, left in the evening, and drove a carriage by himself.

Immediately, Kong Tao ordered Du Jian'an and Meng Xun to be taken out of the prison.

Both of them were bloody, because Kong Tao used torture when interrogating treacherous ministers and rebels last night.

The two thought they were continuing the interrogation at night, so they kowtowed and complained when they entered the room.

Kong Tao snorted coldly, "I want to ask you two, does Tian Changlin use the carriage for buying tea alone, or does he share it?"

"It's his own carriage!" Du Jian'an replied immediately without thinking about it.

"Think clearly before answering!" Kong Tao shouted majestically.

Du Jian'an propped up his palms, touched his head to the ground, and said, "Your Excellency, I have clearly observed that what I said is true."

Kong Tao snorted and told the yamen servant next to him, "Go and bring Tian Changlin up!"

Soon, Tian Changlin was brought up.

In the morning, Tian Changlin had only been interrogated once, so he didn't take this interrogation seriously.It wasn't until they entered the second hall and saw Qiu Shi, Xu Shi, Du Jian'an and Meng Xun kneeling beside them that they felt panic.

"Tian Changlin!" Kong Tao picked up the gavel, slapped it hard, and then shouted in a cold voice, "Hurry up and bring your murder of Grandma Tao and others into account!"

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