Chu Nanzhi ordered two officers to swim out along the underground cave found in Zhou's courtyard to see where it led, and he followed Li Sanmu to Lin Sanniang's courtyard again.
The courtyard was surrounded by government officials and the security was very tight.
Chu Nanzhi followed Li Sanmu out of the willow window and walked five meters to the west. As expected, he saw blood solidified marks on the stone ridge near the pond.
Li Sanmu faced her and said suspiciously: "This should have accidentally dripped from the boning knife."
Chu Nanzhi looked around and found no other blood stains, just this one.
She leaned down and examined it carefully. She saw that the faint blood that had long dried formed a thin line. She shook her head thoughtfully, directly denying Li Sanmu's conjecture.
"The murderer swam from the water. If my guess is correct, she would definitely take off her soaked shoes before entering the house after reaching the willow window, so as to reduce the noise."
Thinking of this, Chu Nanzhi couldn't help but look at the protruding stone not far from the blood stain. He squatted down and checked it over and over again, and found that there were sharp edges on the edge of the stone.
She nodded with sudden realization: "In the dark night, the murderer's foot must have been accidentally cut here, and that's why this only trace of blood was left. Even if she put the shoes on again, she could no longer continue to trace them.
There are no traces, but as long as the murderer can be found, the scratched wounds on the soles of her feet cannot be covered up in just a few days."
Li Sanmu nodded hesitantly, but suddenly became at a loss: "But if there are no clues, where can we find the murderer?"
Isn’t this equivalent to saying it in vain?
Chu Nanzhi did not answer immediately, but turned back to the house in silence, walked outside and waited quietly for news from the guards in Zhou's courtyard.
Not long after, the two guards rushed over, all wet, and Lin Tingzhen followed behind with a gloomy face.
While wiping the water stains on their bodies, the guards reported: "Ms. Chu, that hole leads to the pond in the inner courtyard."
Chu Nanzhi twisted her thin lips in joy and gave an evil smile: "Uncle, don't you want to know who knows the nature of water so well? I will let you see clearly and be able to come and go freely in the water.
Killing someone and then stuffing the murder weapon from the bottom of the water into Mrs. Zhou's courtyard is not something that ordinary sailors in Luyan Port can do. I am afraid that only people who have lived by the sea for a long time or even those who have been working in the water for a long time can do this.
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"Girl Nanzhi, who do you want to suspect, please make it clear."
Lin Tingzhen's entire face turned dark.
For the past half day, she had been emphasizing to herself that there was a woman in the backyard who was good at water, but the backyard was obviously filled with delicate women.
Chu Nanzhi slowly turned his head to look at Li Sanmu and said solemnly: "Master Gong Cao, if you want to know who's sole was scratched, go to the west yard to get him."
"The courtyard to the west?"
Li Sanmu's eyes widened: "Isn't that Jiang Xiaoniang's yard?"
When Lin Tingzhen heard this, he immediately became angry and said without any good looks: "Ms. Chu, you are really lawless. You actually suspected your aunt. She is Jinlan's biological mother. How could you murder your own daughter?
You are simply ridiculous."
Then he roared directly at everyone: "Get out of here, Mrs. Chu, get out of here as well. I don't care about you as a litigant."
As soon as Lin Tingzhen finished speaking, a deep voice suddenly sounded from around the corner: "When things have reached this point, I'm afraid it's not up to you, Uncle Clan."
When everyone heard the news, they went to see Lin Jinxiao leading many people, including official officials and elders of the clan.
He strolled up to Chu Nanzhi, smiled warmly, and then ordered Li Sanmu with a solemn look: "Capture Lin Jinlan's biological mother, Mrs. Jiang."
"Dalang, what are you going to do?"
Lin Tingzhen was even more angry. He had nowhere to vent the anger in his heart. He could only glare angrily at the Zhou mother and daughter beside him.
The Chen couple and Lin Bo couple who followed also looked annoyed.
Da Chen scolded her with a stern face: "Da Lang, I don't have to say anything else, but if you want to make false accusations out of thin air, your sister-in-law will not be able to live with her for a long time. Jiang is such a good person, gentle and virtuous, and she is always at home in the house."
A person who has nothing to do with the world has never said a word about other people's gossip."
"Yes, I'm afraid you and your wife have been deceived by the Zhou family, so you would bully an honest person. It's really outrageous."
Lin Yuan also accused him.
Lin Jinxiao turned a deaf ear to the couple's words. He looked at Chu Nanzhi calmly and said with a smile: "You didn't like what I told you two days ago. Today I will tell you another one. You will definitely feel it.
Interested."
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Chu Nanzhi glanced at him with contempt.
How long has it been, and this pretty boy still has the time to talk about anything?
It's really not serious.
Seeing that she didn't seem interested, Lin Jinxiao immediately added: "It's a story about a fisherman girl and an infatuated husband."
"Fisher girl?"
Chu Nanzhi looked at his profound eyes and probably guessed that he also knew about Jiang Xiaoniang's past.
Could it be that Taigong Zhao also looked for him?
This old guy is really someone who burns bridges. He is afraid that his privacy will be known. To investigate Zhao Xiaolangjun's life experience, he would rather hire a private detective at a high price, but he spreads other people's privacy everywhere.
For being so unreasonable, I should have cheated him out of another 10,000 taels of silver today.
Lin Jinxiao looked around the crowd casually and began to talk: "It is said that in the distant Tong County, there was once a pair of hard-luck mandarin ducks. They grew up as sweethearts, but the woman was greedy for power and finally left her sweetheart behind and ran away with others. The poor husband
In despair, he brandished his sword and committed suicide in the palace, determined to follow the palace servants and go to the palace as an errand."
Why doesn't this sound like the same story?
Chu Nanzhi looked at him suspiciously.
Lin Jinxiao continued unhurriedly: "Unexpectedly, something happened later. The woman was abandoned and became pregnant with someone else's flesh and blood before she got engaged. She was almost drowned in a pig cage and drowned by her family members. This poor woman was
When the husband learned about this, he secretly rushed back and rescued his sweetheart."
Hearing this, Lin Tingzhen finally lost his patience and interrupted him anxiously: "Dalang, you are now the magistrate of Luyanggang County, why are you so ignorant of propriety? What time has it been? Why don't you ask someone to get it?"
Your little aunt is here talking to everyone about these irrelevant things."
Chu Nanzhi covered her mouth and laughed quietly.
It turns out there is another episode behind this story.
The clan elders around him were quite critical of his attitude, but Lin Jinxiao still looked indifferent and focused on telling the unfinished story: "Later, this poor man concealed his name and took his sweetheart away from home and fled to Luyan Port.
He also gave his sweetheart to someone else to be a concubine, this kind of magnanimity is truly admirable."
The fourth uncle, Mrs. Wang, seemed to have heard some clues. She raised her head cautiously and looked at Lin Jinxiao, and asked tentatively: "Da Lang, this little lady you are talking about is not the Jiang family in Tingzhen Courtyard, right?"
Lin Jinxiao pretended to be mysterious and fell silent, looking at Chu Nanzhi with a smile: "I've finished telling the story, which one do you think is more emotional than the one I told the day before?"