In the afternoon, Chu Nanzhi did not dare to delay for a moment, and took Sang Qi back to Tong'an Village with the carriage prepared by Chu Wenbi and Lin Jinxiao for the couple, and pulled back all the things left in the Chu family.
According to Liu Yun's instructions, sisters Chu Nanxiang and Chu Nanzhu were also brought into the city to help prepare the restaurant.
Before leaving, Chu Nanzhi secretly stuffed Chu Wenbi with five hundred taels of silver notes and asked him to keep them to support his son-in-law's toilet business.
Nowadays, Liu Shuyang is becoming more and more sensible. He is worried that there will be problems if the fry are kept in the pot. Taking advantage of these few days, he actually dug a small pond next to the house and raised all the fry in the pond.
, took care of the fry very carefully.
Seeing her little son-in-law making progress day by day, Chu Nanzhi couldn't be happier.
After she and Lin Jinxiao reconciled, this new son-in-law would be the Chu family's only son-in-law, and she would have to put more effort into cultivating him.
Liu Shuyang was not good at other things, but she listened to herself, which made her very happy.
If he can make some progress in the toilet business this time, Chu Nanzhi plans to let him take care of the restaurant in the future, so that even if he goes to the court in the future, he will have a reliable helmsman for the Chu family's business.
When I came back from the Chu family, I just arrived at the door of my old house and saw Li Sanmu leading several teams of government servants to argue with Lin Tingzhen in front of the patriarch's house.
Chu Nanzhi first asked Sang Qi to drive the carriage back to the courtyard, then he hurried over and searched around the crowd but did not find Lin Jinxiao.
When she went to the county government and Zhao Taigong's house today, she also realized that Lin Jinxiao had to deal with a lot of things at the moment. If he hadn't dealt with Zhou's case, it would be such a thankless thing, and he would not be willing to delve into it any further.
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Now that he has given him a step forward, he must seize the opportunity. This time he must find out the real murderer, not only to give justice to the Zhou family and his daughter, but also to fulfill Jiang Xiaoniang's rare "wish".
When they arrived in front of a few people, they heard Lin Tingzhen saying respectfully to Li Sanmu: "Master Gong Cao, the guilty wife of my family has already confessed her crime. I'm just asking my nephew's daughter-in-law to go to the county government office. It's just to appease people's hearts.
, why bother entering the government in such a big way again?"
Chu Nanzhi saw the ticket in Li Sanmu's hand and immediately guessed that Lin Jinxiao must have persuaded Zhou to repent.
Speaking of which, Lin Jinxiao is also a good judge of people. When I went to the county office today, I heard that Li Sanmu was promoted to an alternate meritorious service. He must have been intentionally recommended to officially take over the position of the county's meritorious director.
She has had close contact with Li Sanmu. Although he has some minor flaws, he is still capable of doing things. He is not only calm and willing to use his brain, but also quite careful.
Asking Li Sanmu to bring someone here instead of Li Ce shows that Lin Jinxiao has given some thought.
Chu Nanzhi was not in a hurry to talk, and listened calmly to Li Sanmu's response: "Clan Chief Lin, it's not that we want to break into your house, but Zhou suddenly regretted his confession and provided some new clues. Master Lin dare not
He was rashly convicted, so I was asked to come over and conduct a detailed investigation again."
"What new clues can there be from this?"
Lin Tingzhen looked impatient: "She just felt that there was no way to survive and wanted to fight to the death."
As he said that, he looked at Chu Nanzhi who was coming over and said with some dissatisfaction: "Niece-in-law, what's going on? Do you really listen to your aunt and become a lawyer for that evil woman?
She's confused, but you can't be confused. It's already a done deal, so why do you have to mess around with that evil woman anymore? You can just go through the motions, but don't be too serious and make people laugh."
After a pause, he added with an extremely solemn expression: "I know that your sister-in-law feels that the evil woman was kind enough to take her into the house. She is grateful and does not believe that this evil woman can do such harm.
It’s a matter of reason, but the facts are right in front of our eyes, and there is no room for disbelief.”
"Since my little aunt has such good intentions, why should my uncle let her down?"
Chu Nanzhi finally said: "Brother Jingyi will be back soon. It seems that she is also worried about the father-son relationship between the clan uncle and brother Jingyi. Moreover, I went to the county office today to check the files carefully. I am afraid that this case is not my aunt's.
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Now that Ms. Zhou has regretted her confession, the evidence she has now has muddied the waters. It is not difficult to eliminate the suspicion of mother and daughter. However, she has no way of identifying Mr. Jiang, so she does not want to mention Mr. Jiang's past for the time being.
Lin Tingzhen became hesitant after hearing this.
His son Jing Yi has finally gained some fame now, but from the bottom of his heart he still doesn't want his son's official career to be affected by his biological mother.
Although he didn't have deep feelings for Mr. Zhou, he came from a wealthy family, so as the wife of the wife, she looked much more respectable.
If the murderer really is someone else, as long as she can live in harmony with Mr. Jiang in the future, this house can still barely accommodate that woman.
"How can my nephew-in-law determine that the murderer is not the evil woman?"
Lin Tingzhen asked carefully.
"Then I have to trouble Uncle Clan to take everyone to Sanniang's courtyard again. I will definitely give you a satisfactory explanation."
Chu Nanzhi asked for instructions.
Lin Tingzhen raised her eyebrows slightly, but she finally compromised and allowed her and Li Sanmu to enter the inner courtyard with the servants.
After passing through several corridors and arriving at Lin Sanniang's courtyard again, Chu Nanzhi went straight to the point and asked Lin Tingzhen to call the maid Ping'er to accompany her into the wing room.
Then he ordered Li Sanmu to go into the main room and close the door. Without inserting the bolt, he pushed it gently. The "creak" sound of the door could be heard very clearly in the ear room.
Ping'er was stunned when she heard this.
Chu Nanzhi asked casually: "That night, did you only hear the sound of the door opening at the fifth watch?"
"Yes, this slave has indeed only heard this sound during the fifth watch."
Ping'er answered clearly.
"very good."
Chu Nanzhi led her out of the penthouse, asked Li Sanmu to close the door again, and asked Ping'er to go over and push the door open.
Ping'er pushed gently, and the door was opened, making a series of "crunching" sounds slowly again.
Ping'er shook her head: "When I opened the door that night, the door was indeed very tight. It is not like this now."
Chu Nanzhi nodded slightly, then thoughtfully entered the room and closed the door. Only a small part of the door bolt was inserted. Ping'er pushed the door in and out several times before pushing the door open.
In the process of pushing the door, there was a lot of noise all around.
Chu Nanzhi walked out of the room, looked at Lin Tingzhen with a smile and said: "Even if the door bolt is not tightened, the clan uncle has seen it. It is not easy to open the door. There are no signs of damage inside or outside the door, and
Madam Zhou and Jin Hui don't know what's going on here. They know clearly that there are sharp blades in Sanniang's house, but they dare to open the door openly. If they wake Sanniang up, they're asking for death."
Lin Tingzhen showed an expression of enlightenment.
Indeed, Zhou's mother and daughter did not know that Jinlan had taken the Anshen Decoction that night.