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Inside Guisi Hall, there was silence.

The burning of the Mu family's library shocked everyone in the whole government, and even the head of the Mu family, who had lived in the customs for a long time, came forward to care about it.

Mu Yin was standing beside her father at the moment, pacifying his anger with filial piety.

At this moment, Mu Xi, who had hurried back from her trip, also had a stern expression on her face, bowing respectfully to the senior elder, "Uncle, I'm the one who came back late."

Elder Mu frowned majesticly, nodded, and signaled him to stand aside temporarily.

Seeing that the suspected thief hadn't arrived yet, Mu Yin thought for a moment, then found an opportunity, walked up to Mu Xi, and told him about the family affairs.

The more he talked about the latter, the more embarrassing Mu Xi's expression became.

"This matter will be judged by you later, and I will wait and see. There is only one thing, he is a guest after all, you should pay more attention to propriety... Offending Chang Ting will not be good for the road after Jing Yao."

Due to the lack of subjective experience in emergencies, Mu Xi handed over the power of justice to Mu Yin.

……

After Qi Zhong was brought to Guisi Hall, his expression remained calm.

He glanced around at the strange faces around him, but there was no one there, and he was disappointed for a moment.

"Father, let me interrogate." Mu Yin recommended herself by Mu Lao's side.

After seeing him nodding, he walked to the upper seat and looked at Qi Zhong standing in the center of the lobby with dissatisfaction in his eyes.

"Is there anything you want to take the initiative to say?"

Qi Zhong said with a smile: "Miss Mu, what does this mean? Judging me?"

Mu Yin frowned: "You are the biggest suspect right now. I just want to hear your thoughts first."

"I don't have anything to refute. The clearer is clearer. If you have to say something, can you ask Mu Yun to come out?"

"Brother Yun is not at home."

Qi Zhong sneered annoyedly: "Not at home? I saw him just now."

Mu Yin was slightly surprised: "When?"

"It was when the library was on fire. At that time, he and I went to chase that blue shadow together, and that shadow set the fire in the library."

"Oh. The shadow set fire?"

Mu Yin felt that it was absurd, not only didn't believe it in her heart, but also attributed his words to the nonsense she said to justify her crime.

Qi Zhong nodded resolutely: "Yes. It's just a shadow, which trapped us in a dark formation. After the formation was broken by us, I went to chase him, but was taken to the library. He also threw a jade token to me..."

"It's Brother Yun's pearl order."

Mu Yin recognized the string of tokens at a glance.Mu Xi fetched it for her.

From this, Mu Yin gradually hesitated: "Did you really meet Brother Yun?"

Qi finally wanted to nod, but it was difficult to admit it, because Mu Yin didn't believe what he said, but because of something.

"No. Second Miss, he stole this pearl order."

While hesitating, someone in the crowd "debunked" him angrily.

"You stand up and say."

Mu Yin ignored Qi Zhong's expression, and turned her eyes to her disciples.

That little disciple is the person guarding the library today.

He identified Qi Zhong and said: "He stole it. He also set the fire."

Qi Zhong sneered helplessly, and asked back, "What's the reason?"

"You were blocked from entering the library today, so you were stingy, so you stole the third son's pearl order, sneaked in, and set fire to vent your hatred."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Mu Yin frowned and remained silent, still thinking.

Qi Zhong counterattacked: "It's really nonsense! Which eye of yours saw me stealing? Which eye saw me stepping into the library? It's obviously your speculation, but you want to rush to claim credit and deliberately frame me?"

"You! It's your misconduct! It's no surprise that you can do such a thing."

The little disciple blushed impatiently, and answered the wrong question.

It's a pity that everyone still nods frequently for this, which is chilling.

Qi finally laughed angrily: "Misconduct? What did I do?"

"You deliberately made things difficult for the third son to handle the case, it's fine if you don't cooperate with the answer, and you even asked the third son to go to the kitchen in the middle of the night to call for supper for you..."

"And you said bad things about the third son before, we heard..."

……

"There is such a thing?" Mu Yin was furious.

Qi Zhong lowered his head when he heard it. There were some half-truths and half-false facts in these words, but when he did these things, it was because of Mu Yun's inconsistency that he...

"What else can you say? There are all witnesses and evidence."

Mu Yin was so angry that she really believed in one side of the story.

Mu Xi was about to tell her to calm down, but an announcement came from outside the hall: "The third young master has arrived."

Everyone looked back and saw the person, all of them were namelessly happy, as if a large piece of walking evidence had disappeared.

Qi Zhong refused to look at him angrily, but in his heart he hoped that he would prove his innocence soon.

Mu Yin held back her joy and continued the interrogation.

"Brother Yun, you came back just in time, this bead order..."

Mu Yun took the jade order and said with emotion: "I accidentally dropped it before."

Everyone's face turned pale.

"Did you hear that? He dropped it!"

Qi finally raised his head proudly.

Mu Yin endured it, and said again: "But this still doesn't wash away your suspicion of burning down the library."

Qi Zhong pursed his lips forbearance, and turned his gaze to Mu Yun.

Seeing him frowned seriously, with displeasure on his face: "Second sister, evidence."

These two words made everyone hope that Qi Zhong would be sentenced to death, and then be convicted and punished.

Mu Yin spoke weakly: "Someone..."

"Who?" Mu Yun soberly asked.

Mu Yin's face froze: "He said he saw you, when the library was burned."

Mu Yun nodded: "Yes."

"Brother Yun! You..." Mu Yin looked back in shock.

Qi Zhong snorted coldly, with a smug expression on his face.

At this moment, Mu Xi said sharply: "Before the library was burned, were you together?"

"Why did you meet? Why did you separate after that?"

"...No. When we were chasing the real culprit of the arsonist, we encountered a dark formation, and we met from this."

After Mu Yun finished explaining, Mu Xi turned to Qi Zhong again.

"Before we met, you went to the library, why?"

"I went to borrow books in the afternoon, and later I went to help put out the fire, but I encountered a blue shadow on the way."

"What book do you want to borrow?"

"This..." Qi Zhong hesitated for a moment.

Everyone was startled by the clues, pressing forward step by step.

"Can't tell?" Mu Yin asked back.

"Still can't make it up?"

The latter sentence directly made Qi Zhong furious.

"It's none of your business to borrow any books? Does it have anything to do with the case?"

"Presumptuous." Hearing his rebellious words, Mu Yin's anger was also high.

"Are you so uneducated in someone else's house?"

"A Yin..."

"Second sister..."

In a hurry, she made a slip of the tongue, so Mu Xi and Mu Yun both reminded her.

Qi Zhong didn't want to hold back any more, and sarcastically said loudly: "You guys wronged people for no reason, how can you be better educated?"

The library was burned, and everyone's sanity somewhat lost control.

After Mu Yin was stimulated by this sentence, she couldn't choose what to say.

"How did the Changting Lin family teach you to contradict people so ignorantly?"

"enough!"

Hearing her satirize Shimen, Qi Zhong was so angry that his head was dizzy, and he didn't want to say anything more.

"Whatever you like to think, don't ask me any more."

"This trick again!"

Mu Yin sneered, and angrily slapped the table.

"Is it so difficult for you to cooperate with the investigation of the case? You want to be innocent, and you are so willful."

Hearing this, Qi Zhong paused before leaving, turned around and said.

"What is it again?"

"Do you know that because of your reckless actions, the case of Linglongxin has not progressed, and the real culprit is still at large. Just the day before yesterday, the Wen family, a century-old family of immortal witches in the Jingxin Ancient Path, was brutally exterminated..."

Mu Yin's words did not have the effect of making Qi Zhong reflect, but instead made him even more angry. Turning around, he sighed helplessly: "Your Mu family is really good. The evidence and clues are in front of you, but you can't even catch a murderer. Seeing that, you are still here to mock me as an outsider. What a head of the Immortal Sect, what a candidate for Jiugai Mountain!"

The gritted teeth made everyone even more angry.

Elder Mu, who had been silent all this time, also showed a sullen expression at this moment.

"presumptuous!"

After the sound, Qi Zhong suddenly felt a dull pain in his knees, and was forced to kneel down by a spell.

"Father……"

Seeing this, Mu Yun was about to help him, but was sternly stopped by Mu Xi.

"you!"

Looking up at the eyes of everyone, Qi Zhong was so isolated and helpless that saying a word was unnecessary.Elder Shi Wei, even if Lin Tang is here, he probably won't help him easily.

"Hey. Whatever I say, you really do."

But Qi finally was unwilling to swallow this bad breath, and sighed restlessly again.

Mr. Mu closed his eyes. In order to prevent himself from being pissed off by this unconscious junior, he didn't want to get involved in this matter anymore, so he left without hesitation.

Seeing the elder walking away, Mu Xi hurriedly undid Qi Shengsheng's immobilization technique, and got up with him, but he pushed his hand away.

Mu Yin looked at him coldly when he saw that he didn't accept his elder brother's kindness, it seemed that old and new grudges were counted together.

"I don't have to pursue the suspicion of burning the library for now, but you know exactly what you have done in Fufeng these days."

Qi Zhong pursed his lips and said indifferently: "I really don't know."

Mu Yin was eager to protect her relatives, and spoke ruthlessly: "Chang Ting sent you here to assist Brother Yun in handling the case, but you repeatedly evaded the case and made the case stagnant. Do you know how difficult this is for Brother Yun?"

He simply didn't want to bear it any longer, Qi Zhong was also unwilling, and retorted: "Difficult? The case is not for me to handle, why should I care whether it is difficult or not."

"Miss Mu, you only know what I saw and what I encountered. I have said everything that needs to be said. You are not capable enough, and you still want to question me?"

"It's fine to question me, why do you have to force me to confide evidence again and again? Then you know, I am the victim. I don't even want to recall the things that happened. How do you know that I am on the verge of death? What is the feeling of death and despair? How do you know what I almost lost because of this, and what is the wound left in my heart?"

"Every time you ask me about these experiences, I will fall back into that kind of helplessness. But you can ask these things whenever you want, and you have never considered it. Isn't it also a kind of embarrassment for me to come back from the ghost gate? ?"

The grievances accumulated over the past few days can be vomited quickly at this moment.Qi Zhong didn't want to say it at first, he thought it was boring to care about it like this.

"You!" Mu Yin was furious and ashamed for a moment, but she was also speechless.

Mu Yun, who was silent at the side, listened to him speak these words angrily, his brows gradually deepened, his thin lips were pursed into a thin line, and the distress in his eyes deepened.

Seeing that the atmosphere was tense, Mu Xi did not dare to speak out for the time being, and only waited for him to calm down slowly.

Unexpectedly, Qi Zhong was still angry, and went straight to Mu Yun, met his apologetic eyes, and said coldly: "I didn't burn down the library, and I didn't intentionally increase your burden! Believe it or not."

"I believe it!" Qi Zhong was slightly taken aback by the decisive answer.

However, there were too many grievances tonight, and these two words were not enough to move Qi Zhong even more.

Speechless.He could only snort coldly and leave sadly.