A scream broke the silence of the evening.

Then came the sound of footsteps, and the voices of servant girls and servants.Not long after, the guards who rushed over sealed off Xu Mingjin's room, not allowing idlers to approach at will.

Xu Mingyu and Su Ying, who came back after receiving the news, went out in a row, hurried past the blockade of the guards, pushed the door in, and the first thing they saw was the woman lying motionless on the ground.

A large amount of blood flowed down her forehead, covered her face, and also gathered on the ground below to form a small pool of blood. The bloodless skin and motionless breathing seemed to indicate that the person was completely dead.

Next to it was an overturned wardrobe, scattered snacks, and a large number of blood-stained porcelain fragments scattered on the ground.

In addition, there were a large number of messy footprints on the ground, of different sizes, and the ground was covered with blood stains everywhere, which also turned the originally clean death scene into chaos.

The scene in front of him made Xu Mingyu frowned fiercely. He looked around the crowd and said calmly, "Who can tell me what happened?"

"My lord, everyone who has entered this room is now in the courtyard." Yan Shu, Xu Mingyu's confidant, took a step forward.

Xu Mingyu went hunting with his cousin, but he didn't go with him, but stayed in the inn. As soon as he received the news of Xu Mingjin's accident, Yanshu rushed over and detained all the maids and servants who broke into the room, and did not let them go.Run alone.

Then, while sending someone to inform Xu Mingyu of the accident at the station, he interrogated him urgently.

As he said that, Yanshu raised his hand a little bit, pointing to a maidservant who looked the most panic-stricken, he was very logical: "This is the girl who should take care of Mr. Mingjin today, but who would have thought that she would take care of Mr. Mingjin while he was taking medicine and fell asleep?"Lazy outside, maids and servants have all confessed that when they came, only this little girl was in the room, Lan Xin was killed, Young Master Mingjin was seriously injured and unconscious, now he has been moved to the next room, and a doctor has been invited for treatment."

"Someone has inspected it just now. The doors and windows of the room are undamaged, and there are no signs of damage. The inn is not an ordinary residence. If an outsider sneaks in, it will not be silent. The guards all said that they have not found any traces of being broken in..."

The group of people who came with Xu Mingyu, apart from the maids and servants who took care of the daily life, were all soldiers carefully trained by Duke Wei. There were not many of them, but all of them were elite. There were two talents who were proficient in interrogation and trace inspectionIt's normal, after all, wars are never just about swords and guns.

What's more, in order to pick up his son this time, Wei Guogong sent the elite of his own soldiers.

As soon as Yan Shu said it, Xu Mingyu immediately understood.

Experts who are proficient in trace inspection all concluded that it was not an outsider who broke in, but someone in the post station did it.

The maid who was named by Yanshu turned pale with fright.

Even if she didn't understand so much, she understood. As the first person to appear in Xu Mingjin's room, she was extremely suspicious.

"No, it's not about the servants. The servants have absolutely no intention of murdering Mr. Mingjin. The servants are wronged!"

She hurriedly knelt down, shouting for grievances: "Master Mingjian, this servant should not have left his post without permission when he saw that Mr. Mingjin was sleeping peacefully. But this servant never murdered Mr. Mingjin! Just now when this servant came back, he heard movement in the room, andOnly when Mr. Mingjin called for help, did he rush in..."

It was clear that Lan Xin was the one who died, but neither Yanshu nor the maid directly ignored her existence, and kept saying "murdered Mr. Mingjin". After all, no one would think that the murderer's target would be the hometown where she was born.Wild civilians.

Even though it was strange for Lan Xin to appear here, everyone preferred to understand that she found Mr. Mingjin in danger when she passed by, and she wanted to help but was hurt and implicated.

——In this society where the noble and the humble are distinguished, it is obviously reasonable and justified for the untouchables to sacrifice their lives for the nobles.

At least none of the people present felt that there was a problem.They are still angry at the rampant and boldness of the murderer.

Su Ying looked at this scene like a detached bystander, his eyes swept over the expressions of worry or fear or forced anger on everyone's faces, and he seemed to find it funny and smiled.

Then, he looked at the corpse on the ground, to be precise, at the sky above the corpse, like a child who accidentally discovered a new toy, his eyes were fixed and he looked at it without blinking.

"Are there still ghosts in this small world?"

A familiar phantom was floating above the corpse, and the blood-stained face looked like the corpse.

The ghost who had just died hadn't realized what happened, but just looked at everything around her in a daze, but none of the strangers present felt sad for her death.

If the original owner of Su Ying's body was here, maybe there would be the only one who truly felt sorry for her.

Amidst the ghost's dazed onlookers, the maid was still trying her best to recall what she had seen, struggling to organize her words:

"When I opened the door, I saw that the furniture in the room was in a mess. Aunt Lan Xin was lying on the ground, and Young Master Mingjin was also covered in blood, leaning against the bedpost, unconscious..."

"The servant panicked for a moment, screamed out, and then led everyone over - this matter really has nothing to do with the servant!"

Xu Mingyu listened, and probably understood.

"It seems that what happened, I can only ask Mingjin."

He asked someone to lead the way, and when he came to Xu Mingjin's recuperation room, he saw the familiar old doctor explaining something to the maid by the bed.

Seeing this, Xu Mingyu asked: "Dare to ask the old man, how is the patient's injury? Can you see how it was injured?"

"At first glance, he was injured by a smash. How else could he be injured? This is all smashed to the head.It’s too late.” The old doctor replied angrily, “It’s only for people to take a good rest, and it’s like this. I don’t think your care is meticulous.”

The group of people did not show the signboard of Duke Wei's mansion, and the old doctor only thought it was an official family member who went to Beijing from other places. Xu Mingyu asked such unreliable words again, and he immediately answered angrily.

Xu Mingyu felt a little relieved.

He asked people to offer a reward and send the old doctor out.

To be honest, Lan Xin, a special person, died in Xu Mingjin's room before returning to Beijing. It was really subtle, and it was hard not to arouse some doubts in his heart.

But looking at it now, Xu Mingjin was also badly injured. Fortunately, the old doctor who had been invited to treat him was still in the inn and rescued him in time.

The suspicion in Xu Mingyu's heart dissipated seven points immediately.

... He didn't want to have such doubts in his own selfishness. Anyway, Xu Mingyu had a brotherly relationship with him for many years.

What's more, this cousin is also a frail scholar who grew up reading sage books. Let alone murder, he has never seen blood. He shouldn't have such courage, right?

But this still does not explain who the murderer is.

He stared intently at Xu Mingjin who was lying on the bed with a thick layer covering his forehead, he didn't express his conjectures, but just sighed: "...Mingjin is really in a lot of trouble."

Then, Xu Mingyu remembered that the dead woman was an elder trusted by his little cousin. Although he always felt that this person was suspicious and planned to report it after returning to the Duke's mansion, the innocent little cousin didn't know so much, so it must beAre you sad?

Xu Mingjin turned her head and looked to the side, slightly taken aback.

I saw Su Ying sitting in front of the table on one side, playing with something in his hand, and looking closely, it seemed to be a jade pendant.

Seeing his gaze, Su Ying raised the jade pendant in his hand, like a child who found a new toy to share with his friends: "I found it next to Aunt Lan Xin, it was her relic. Aunt Lan Xin will live inOh, it's in here."

"Well, Aunt Lan Xin also agrees."

With a serious tone and a bright smile, he held up the jade pendant and shook it happily, as if there was really a spirit attached to it, Xu Mingyu took a step back as if he had seen a ghost.

After reacting, he braced up his cousin's majesty, as if he was not the one who was afraid of ghosts just now, and solemnly taught: "Sanlang, I know you are sad, but now the most important thing is to find the murderer, so that the deceased can rest in peace......"

"Eh?" Su Ying blinked his eyes, expressing his confusion.

... The pig-raising tool man is still around, and after becoming a ghost, he can concentrate more on his work and work day and night. What is there to be sad about?

As for the murderer...

He pointed to the person on the bed, and said in a natural tone: "Don't look for it, the murderer is right here."

At this moment, the person on the bed opened his eyes and was identified by Su Ying. He was startled at first, and then said weakly:

"There's no need to investigate, I killed the person."