When Mother Ye came back, Xu Chunjun secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
While discussing with Ziling Lvchun what clothes to wear when going out tomorrow, someone came from outside to report something: "Miss Xu, Mr. Chen is here and wants to ask you something."
Xu Chunjun had to go see him. Chen Sijing seemed to be thinner and darker than the last time he came.
"Master Chen, is this about Liu'er? Has the matter made any progress?" Xu Chunjun asked.
"I'm sorry. There has been little progress in the investigation over the past few days. Yesterday, the teahouse owner hanged himself in his residence." Chen Sijing was really worried. He had not slept well for several days.
Xu Chunjun was also shocked when he heard this.
It turned out that the Yamen took all the people in the teahouse for questioning. After being detained for two days, they couldn't find anything useful, so they had to let them go.
According to Chen Sijing, the shopkeeper didn't see anything suspicious, and no one saw him going upstairs.
Under normal circumstances, he does not go upstairs, but only receives guests and settles accounts downstairs.
His wife and children are in the countryside, and he lives in a rented house in Yuanpan Alley.
The teahouse has not been unsealed, so the shopkeeper is staying at his residence.
Because the yamen told these people that they were not allowed to leave the capital and were to come as they were told.
Yesterday, Chen Sijing wanted to ask the shopkeeper some more questions. When he got there, no one opened the door after calling for a long time. Then he and his men climbed over the wall and went in. They found that the shopkeeper had been hanging for a long time.
"Why did the shopkeeper hang himself?" Xu Chunjun asked, "Is he really the murderer? But he has been released, why do he still seek suicide?"
Although he didn't know who the murderer of Liu Er was, Xu Chunjun felt that this person must be an extremely calm and vicious person.
Although the shopkeeper is suspected, there is no evidence at all, and he has been released, indicating that he will be fine for the time being, so why should he die?
"We checked and found that the shopkeeper was indeed hanged. There were no signs of a fight in the house, and there were no other injuries on his body except the marks on his neck."
"So he really committed suicide." Xu Chunjun didn't expect that another person would die before Liu'er was killed.
"My colleagues in the yamen often think that the shopkeeper committed suicide out of fear of crime, but I don't think so." Chen Sijing didn't know why, but when facing Xu Chunjun, he couldn't help but tell her his inner thoughts.
"There must be a reason why you think so." Xu Chunjun felt that Chen Sijing was different from most young men in the capital. He did not have any dandy habits, was serious about his work, and had no discrimination against others, which was very rare.
"Although the shopkeeper looked like he committed suicide, there was a strong smell of alcohol in the room, including on him. There was only a pair of bowls, chopsticks and a cup on the table, and the whole jar of wine was drained. I asked specifically,
The shopkeeper doesn't drink much, and usually gets drunk in three ounces. Even if he needs to drink to drown his sorrows, he can't drink more than ten times."
"Even if he really drank a jar of wine, he must have been so drunk that he couldn't even stand up. How could he hang himself on a stool without knocking over anything?" Xu Chunjun understood what caused Chen Sijing's suspicion.
Already.
"Miss Xu, you are really smart." Chen Sijing truly felt that Xu Chunjun was much smarter than the people in the Yamen.
"But I don't know the shopkeeper well, so I can't provide anything useful." Xu Chunjun felt helpless.
"I came here this time to ask Miss Xu to draw the pattern of the handkerchief. I'll take it and ask, maybe I can get some clues." Chen Sijing was unwilling to give up any clues.
"Since the last time you left, I have tried to embroider the handkerchief. Of course, it cannot be exactly the same, but the general appearance is not much different." Xu Chunjun asked Lvchun to take the handkerchief and hand it to Chen Sijing.
"Thank you, thank you so much!" Chen Sijing stood up and took it with both hands.
"Master Chen, isn't the veil still on Liu'er?" Xu Chunjun asked.
Chen Sijing shook his head.
Xu Chunjun sighed: "Let's assume that she was killed in the teahouse. If the scarf is still on her body, someone can rule out the suspicion."
"How do you say this?" Chen Sijing asked.
"Liu'er went to return the handkerchief. She must have asked at the door. If it were not the owner of the handkerchief, she would never leave the handkerchief behind after killing someone. That would get her into trouble. If it was the handkerchief
The owner of Liu'er, she would definitely take the veil away without leaving any clues. However, Liu'er's body was thrown into the river, and the veil was not on her. It may have been taken back by the murderer, or it may have floated away with the water.
It's impossible to tell at the moment. Besides, whether the murderer is the owner of the veil or not, it doesn't prevent her from killing Liu'er to silence him. Because we don't know what Liu'er broke."
After hearing this, Chen Sijing lowered his head to think, then suddenly raised his head with a bit of joy on his face: "Thank you, Miss Xu, for reminding me. When I ask, I can ask them who lost the veil. If the real culprit is the person who lost the veil,
She probably won't agree."
"My lord, what you mean is that if everyone says that they did not lose the veil, then the real culprit is the person who lost the veil." Xu Chunjun understood what Chen Sijing meant.
"The stairs of the tea house are on the east side, so Liu'er must have started asking from the east," Chen Sijing continued his analysis, "I also asked in turn, and I was able to find out something."
"If the people in the next room say that Liu'er has been to their private room, then the people in the previous room can basically eliminate the suspicion." Xu Chunjun said, "Because Liu'er couldn't have been killed in the corridor, otherwise he would have been killed.
There will be a commotion."
"Yes, the private rooms of Xiangmai Tea House have always been well soundproofed, which is one of the reasons why its business is good," Chen Sijing said. "If Liu'er's mouth and nose were covered in the private room, it would really be difficult for the people in the next room.
aware."
"It's possible that no one heard the sound, but is it really true that no traces were left?" Xu Chunjun didn't believe it. "Even if Liu'er couldn't make a sound, she was strangled to death. It was impossible not to struggle. Most likely she would
Knocked over the tea set."
"I also thought about this and asked the maids in the teahouse. No one broke the tea cups and teapots that day." Chen Sijing smiled bitterly.
"The private rooms of the tea house are all covered with soft mats, and the tea table is low, so it is indeed not easy to break," Xu Chunjun said, "but it is inevitable that it will be knocked over."
Chen Sijing's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this: "I'll ask if anyone's clothes got wet that day."
"Ladies and ladies often prepare an extra set of clothes for replacement when going out," Xu Chunjun reminded.
"Thank you, girl, for reminding me." Chen Sijing felt a little clear in his heart.
His superior wanted to close the case as soon as possible and concluded that the case was committed by the teahouse shopkeeper. However, the shopkeeper had already committed suicide out of fear of the crime. The most he could do was award the Jiang family some money for burial. Anyway, it was just a maid who died, so it was not good.
Because she repeatedly bothered those ladies and ladies.
Only Chen Sijing is committed to pursuing the investigation to the end, and the real culprit must be caught and brought to justice.
