Similarly, An Shaohua didn't believe what Chu Shi said.

"Even if Lu Quan is ambitious, you have no enmity with him on the tenth day of the lunar new year." An Shaohua said quietly.

"A slave who has betrayed his master will deserve to die!" Chu Shi said bitterly: "The following offends the superior, as a subordinate, how dare you think about it..."

"Using not to go to find Young Master Lu as an excuse?" An Shaohua suddenly thought of something wrong when he heard what he said on the tenth day just now: "Isn't Young Master Lu the Lu Zhongyuan in front of you?"

"Cut..." Chu Shi sneered, "He's just talking to himself! I don't know where the old thief found this fake young master, maybe it's his own seed! He came here to pretend to be the young master, thinking that he was unregistered." Did you say that your surname is Lu and you belong to the Lu family?"

Lu Zhongyuan was wandering in the sky, and at some point the topic turned to himself.Reluctantly regaining consciousness, the whole body was shaking, "..., huh?"

An Shaohua slowly shook her fan, turned her head and looked outside, but Fugui hadn't come back yet.At this moment, whether Lu Zhongyuan is Lu Huan back then, or why should Chu Jiu believe that Lu Quan took over the property of the Lu family?

It will take some time to come to Fugui, so let's procrastinate a little longer.

"In the Yangyang courtyard where I have been staying for the past few days, there is an authentic painting of a book sage." An Shaohua said eloquently, "This is not the first time I have seen this painting. About ten years ago, I was in a I saw it at the home of an adult. A few years later, about... four years ago, I saw it again in Zhenbao Zhai in Yonganjing."

"That word was bought by my father four years ago, four years ago... Around the Dragon Boat Festival." Lu Zhongyuan said suddenly, "My father has been investigating some antiques, ancient books, and famous calligraphy and paintings. But..." Lu Zhongyuan tilted his head. Head, right index finger stretched out, drawing circles repeatedly, looking stunned, "My father once looked for the spring dwelling pictures of Taoyuan Sanren, I remember buying two authentic works of Taoyuan Sanren at that time, but my father only left the spring dwelling picture , the other one was used as a favor."

An Shaohua nodded, he saw that painting four years ago, it was before Gu Feng's birthday, when the second prince was looking for gifts for him, it was indeed around the Dragon Boat Festival.

Gao Xinli looked through the case files of the Lu family back then, and pointed to An Shaohua with a fan: one hundred and two scrolls.An Shaohua glanced at it and nodded. He had read the case earlier in the morning.It's not that the yamen servants are careless, but it's the same for all the case records of house raids, and there is nothing wrong with such records in the law.Everyone knows it well, and no one will point it out.This is the reason why every family is always vying for the task of raiding the house. There are too many detours here, so if you just show your face and stretch out your hand, the whole family will have a lot of money.

Gu Li leaned over and saw that it turned out to be like this. He froze there and looked up at An Shaohua in a daze.An Shaohua explained to him in a low voice: "That's why it's a fat job in the Ministry of Punishment to search the house." Gu Li tilted his head, obviously not understanding, but he also knew that now is not the time to talk about it in detail.An Shaohua leaned over and squeezed his hand, Gu Li nodded, "Tell me about it when you have time later." An Shaohua stroked his back and whispered, "There's still some trouble here. It's time to go to bed. Would you like to rest first, and I will tell you tomorrow?"

The light in Gu Li's eyes flickered for a moment, he pursed his lips and said unwillingly, "You want me to go back and see the child?"

"No," An Shaohua hurriedly expressed his loyalty: "It's a hot day, and it doesn't rain in time. I'm afraid you'll have to work hard with such people in a palm-sized room. If you're willing to stay with me, I..." An Shaohua approached Gu Cheng whispered in his ear, "Of course I'm extremely happy."

Gu Cheng hurriedly looked around at the people, everyone was busy, and no one noticed them.Stretching out his hand to push An Shaohua's heart, he wanted to push him away: "Get out of here! Don't cling to me, it's hot!"

The two of them were getting bored here when a figure flashed by the door.An Shaohua stepped back and saw that it was indeed Fugui.

"Master." Fugui held a piece of cloth in his hand, wrapped in a stack of papers, his face was covered with sweat.

"Hurry up and drink some water, be careful if you catch the heat." An Shaohua took the things and ordered casually.

"Hey." Fugui agreed, took the cup and drank two cups. "Master, this is the portrait of the embroidered lady and her son Nan Ge in the Yong'an Jing Double Corpse Burning Case drawn by the painter of the Ministry of Criminal Justice." Fugui took out another portrait, "This is what the painter Wu found at the pier last night. A portrait of a nameless floating corpse."

An Shaohua put the three portraits together, and everyone surrounded them.

The nameless floating corpse painted by Wu and Brother Nan painted by the artist, although they have different techniques, they seem to be the same person.But when the Lu family siblings pointed at Brother Nan's portrait, they exclaimed Xiao Bei.An Shaohua met Xiaobei once, and fell into deep thought while looking at the portrait.

Gao Xinli pointed to Brother Nan's portrait, squinted his eyes at Lu Xiamiao and said every word, "This is the son of the Xiuniang who died not long ago in Yonganjing, Brother Nan, not Xiaobei,"

Hearing this, Lu Xiamiao swayed back and forth.He laughed, but only bared his canine teeth dryly: "My lord, you may have misremembered. This is my father's personal servant, Xiao Bei."

"No," Gao Xin stood expressionlessly, "The mother and son came from southern Xinjiang more than ten years ago, relying on their mother to do embroidery work to make ends meet. After Nan Ge grew up, he went to a cloth village to work as a buddy. In recent years, the accumulated After getting some money, he went to work as an apprentice in the account house. Not long ago, his family..."

An Shaohua went over, closed the fan, and gently placed it on Gao Xinli's wrist.Gao Xinli looked up at An Shaohua, and immediately stopped talking.

A gust of wind blows, at least some of the heat is dissipated.Gu Cheng looked out, and at this time the Lu family had already turned on the lights, the pale lanterns reflected the blue bricks and green tiles, making it extraordinarily quiet.Not long after, there was another gust of wind, stronger than the previous one, and the rice paper on the bedside table made a rustling sound, and the top one or two pages were turned up and pocketed on the paperweight, revealing the edge of the paperweight.

"The wind is blowing." Lu Zhongyuan lowered his eyes and said this without thinking.

"I'll go down and give some instructions." Qiao Lai looked at Chu Jiu, but Chu Jiu didn't respond; then he looked at Lu Zhongyuan, who was still far away; .

"Sister-in-law, go and do your work first, such a large family is pointing at you." An Shaohua waved to the guards of the Criminal Department behind him, and someone came out to escort Qiao Lai out.

"Mrs. Lu, it's an eventful time in the Lu family. We, Mr. An..." The guard's voice was not loud, and he couldn't hear it when he turned around.

Sending Qiao Lai away, An Shaohua looked at the case file in his hand. It was the post-mortem records, inspection records, and investigation transcripts of the Jingzhao Mansion's double-body dismemberment case brought by the foreman of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. I don't know if they How did he get it, An Shaohua carefully looked at it.Page by page, the color of his eyes gradually darkened, the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became, the blood was gone from his tightly pursed lips, and a drop of sweat slid from his tightly tightened brows.Gu Li fanned An Shaohua. He also saw the transcripts, but he seemed to understand them.

"Lu Xiamiao, this embroiderer, you..." An Shaohua's voice was extremely soft, as if afraid of waking up some fragile person, "Do you still remember?"

Lu Xiamiao's eyes were still wide open, and she looked hard at An Shaohua, then at Gao Xinli, with the same expression of crying and laughing, trying to smile from time to time, but it was always ferocious, and big tears fell down her chin When they got to the table, An Shaohua looked at the puddle of water where tears had gathered, and he had a plan in his heart.

"Ninth day," An Shaohua lowered his head, and said slowly, "Do you recognize the person in this portrait?"

"No, I don't know."

"You don't recognize any of them?"

"I don't know!" Chu Jiu said.

"Nonsense!" An Shaohua slammed the table, poured a cup of tea, Fugui stepped forward, tidied up the cases on the table to avoid flooding, and wiped the table dry.An Shaohua got up and told him to tidy up, and simply walked forward, his index finger was about to poke Chu Jiu's eyes, but he stopped resentfully. "Haven't you seen? Haven't you seen Xiaobei next to Lu Quan? Since you are Lu Quan's stepmother, Lu Quan also redeemed you, how could you have never seen him!"

"My lord, you're being so presumptuous." Chu Jiu laughed, "Just now the tall man said that this is Brother Nan. Why did you become Xiaobei again?"

"How do you know that it was Brother Nan who died in the Anshui River and not Xiaobei?" An Shaohua said slowly, "Master Gao did say that this—" An Shaohua took out the drawing drawn by the painter of the Ministry of Justice. Brother Nan's portrait "It's the portrait of Brother Nan in the case of the double corpse cremation, but this one!" An Shaohua snapped the portrait of the floating corpse painted by the Ministry of Criminal Affairs in front of Chu Jiu, "It's the floating corpse found at the Cangzhou Fu ferry yesterday! You How do you know it's not Xiaobei?"

"Master An, I...I heard wrong, Mr. Gao said just now, this is Quan Niang's son..."

"Who is Quan Niang?" An Shaohua stared at Chu Jiu's pupils, showing a smile: "Who is Quan Niang? Please ask Chu Jiu girl to clarify."

"Quanniang, it's the embroidered lady from Yonganjing that Lord Gao said just now."

An Shaohua cleared his throat, and when he turned around, he saw Lu Xiamiao who was crying out of strength. "Miss Lu, why don't you go down and rest first."

"Lord An, I'm fine." Lu Xiamiao replied weakly, lying on the table.Tears smeared on the clothes in large swaths.

Seeing Lu Xiamiao's appearance at this time, An Shaohua was afraid that she would not be able to bear the blow, but Lu Xiamiao refused to avoid it.Over there, Gao Xinli saw Chu Jiu's appearance, and knew that as long as the iron was hot, the matter would be settled, so he stood up and said, "Gao has never said the name of that embroiderer. And Quan Niang embroidered handkerchiefs for Chunyilou. It has been more than seven years since the first-hand double-sided embroidery skills are well known. According to the investigation of Jingzhao Mansion, you have used Quan Niang's embroidered things, and Quan Niang and you meet almost every month. Yes, but you said you didn't know Quan Niang?"

"Quan Niang, I recognize it." Chu Jiu murmured unclearly.

On the tenth day of the first day, he jumped in front of the people, kowtowed to the ninth day, and said: "I know Quan Niang and Brother Nan. They are the ones who embroider for Chunyi Building. Miss has never seen their mothers. Give them to me when they are embroidered, and I will keep them for the young lady, and I will take them out when I need them. So...the young lady really doesn't recognize them."

"Yes, yes, I haven't seen it."

"Haven't you seen it?" An Shaohua snorted coldly, took out a few interview notes and threw them on Chu Jiu's face: "Since I haven't seen it, how can someone witness you living in the deceased's house? You are really eloquent." Miss Liu Xiaoxiao!"

"Maybe, maybe it's a mistake, and I don't know."

"I think you won't shed tears when you see the coffin," An Shaohua beckoned, "Come on, escort Chu Jiu back to Beijing for me, and the interrogation will be slow when the time comes!"

"That's right, the Ministry of Criminal Justice's interrogation method, but no one has been able to tell lies in front of torture tools for decades." When Gao Xinli wrote just now, a drop of ink was stained on his hand.At this moment, the ink marks faded quietly along the lines of his hands, which was really beautiful. Gao Xinli played with his hands with great interest, and said cold-blooded words.Chu Jiu shivered with fright.

"My lord!" Chu Shi shouted, "I admit it! It's all done by a woman!"

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