Tang Ru, brother and sister Tang Yuanxi and Jiang Xueyi looked at Lin Jinxiao and Chu Nanzhi left, taking away the Qi family's carriage, all of them were puzzled.
Tang Ru glanced at Jiang Xueyi in confusion: "Is there any clue left on this carriage?"
Jiang Xueyi shook his head calmly: "As soon as the carriage came back, I personally checked it and there was nothing suspicious."
"That would be strange."
Tang Ru looked surprised.
Why did Princess Pingning point the incident to Cangshan Mountain, and why did she take Zheng's carriage back to the county government office?
Could it be that she has taken a fancy to Mrs. Zheng's luxurious car and wants to keep it for herself?
For the time being, I couldn't care about so many things, so I had to follow them quickly.
Lin Jinxiao and Chu Nanzhi got on the county government carriage. After they were left alone, Lin Jinxiao asked curiously: "What did you find?"
Chu Nanzhi pursed her lips and smiled: "Let me keep it a secret, and I will explain it to you when we get there."
Lin Jinxiao looked at her mysteriously and didn't ask any more questions.
After leaving the North City Gate and walking along the official road for more than ten miles, when they reached the entrance to Cangshan Mountain, the vast crowds of people stopped one after another.
Lin Jinxiao opened the car curtain and was about to order the county government officers and the coastal defense battalion sergeants to go to the mountains to search respectively, but Chu Nanzhi stopped him and first asked: "What materials does the dye factory in Cangshan rely on to process dyes?"
"I heard that the mountains and fields are covered with comfrey, and dyers use this comfrey to blend dyes."
Lin Jinxiao answered slowly.
"That's right."
Chu Nanzhi faced Li Ce and Li Sanmu outside and ordered: "Take people along this path to search into the mountains to see if you can find fresh ruts."
This small road is no more lively than the official road. In just one or two days, except for the carriages and horses going in and out of the dye factory to pull goods, there won't be too many merchants and pedestrians passing by. You will definitely be able to find some traces.
If we were to search all over the mountains and plains, the scope would be too wide. With such a big mountain, it would probably take a lot of time.
Li Ce and Li Sanmu followed the orders and led the officers to march slowly along the bumpy path.
Chu Nanzhi left Lin Jinxiao on the carriage and personally led the search on the muddy path.
As we walked further in, the originally dry road gradually became extremely wet, except for the bumps and bumps, with silt deposited in many places.
The sour smell under the wheels of the Qi family became more and more obvious.
Chu Nanzhi stopped and looked around, and suddenly found some white powder scattered on the ground.
She strode forward and paused for a while in front of the tiny bits of powder scattered on the ground. Then she bent down, wrapped some of the powder on the ground with a handkerchief and hid it in her pocket.
When he was approaching the dye factory, Li Sanmu's voice came slowly from his ears: "There are traces of a carriage running over here."
Chu Nanzhi heard the sound and went over, looking at the green grass on the left, where some white flowers emerged from the green leaves.
Taking a closer look, there are indeed marks of being run over by wheels among the flowers.
Chu Nanzhi waved to everyone: "Search inside along the marks."
And she herself walked to those flowers and looked around, and recognized that they were the comfrey growing in Cangshan Mountain.
Squatting down, she picked the roots of several comfrey plants and squeezed the juice from the roots into the white powder on the handkerchief. After a while, the white powder turned into purple-red, which was right on the wheels of the Qi family's carriage.
The stained color.
It seems that the Zheng family has indeed entered Cangshan Mountain.
Following the clues given by Chu Nanzhi, Li Ce and Li Sanmu led the officers to quickly find the bodies of Zheng, the groom and two maids in the mountains.
After receiving the news, brother and sister Chu Nanzhi and Tang Ru were the first to rush to the location where the body was buried.
The four corpses had been dug out of the ground by the guards and placed neatly on the grass.
Tang Yuanxi looked at the pale faces and was so frightened that she immediately hid behind Tang Ru, looked at the calm Chu Nanzhi tremblingly, and asked secretly: "Brother, why is she not afraid at all?"
Tang Ru sighed helplessly and whispered back: "She has solved so many human life cases, so naturally she will not be afraid of a few dead bodies."
Tang Yuanxi sighed and nodded, and mustered up the courage to walk to Chu Nanzhi fearfully, looked at the corpses, and asked timidly: "How did you determine that the corpses of Mrs. Zheng and the maids were in Cangshan?"
of?"
"The little princess wants to know?"
Chu Nanzhi looked at her expectant eyes and asked deliberately teasingly.
"certainly."
Tang Yuanxi curled her lips angrily. She didn't believe that this woman had any extraordinary abilities. She said loudly: "I seriously suspect that you are the princess."
Before she finished speaking, Tang Ru immediately stopped her: "I also think that the princess is very perceptive and intelligent, and she can find the whereabouts of the Zheng family so easily."
Tang Yuanxi was very unhappy when her brother interrupted her suspicions. She looked unconvinced and almost shouted "I am not convinced".
If this woman hadn't killed Mrs. Zheng and then buried her body here, what other possibility could there be.
Chu Nanzhi guessed that Tang Yuanxi suspected that she had killed Zheng.
This little princess really has a very simple mind. If she really killed the Zheng family, why would she lead everyone here to search for her? Wouldn't it be unnecessary?
She looked at Tang Ru with a smile and replied: "The governor has given me too much praise. I just grew up in the village and have more knowledge than you."
"Would you please give me some instructions, Princess?"
Tang Ru asked impatiently.
"I still have many doubts in my mind. Once the mystery is solved, I will make all the clues public."
Chu Nanzhi answered with a half-smile, but looking at the eager eyes of the brother and sister, he was afraid that they would not be able to stop without an explanation, so he had to say casually:
"Actually, the reason is very simple. This Cangshan Mountain is the only path leading from the official road to the Jinglu Canal. I learned from the servant at the Qi family stable that the carriage was covered with a lot of mud when it returned to the city. This season is already dry and dry.
If it rains, there will naturally be no silt deposits on the official road, and this is only possible in Cangshan Mountain."
As for the real clues, she still has to keep them to find the real culprit.
Otherwise, if the murderer is alerted, the only clue will be lost.
As expected, Tang Ru believed it to be true and immediately stood in awe: "Princess Pingning is really uncanny. She can detect clues from the smallest details. I admire her."
As soon as he finished speaking, the Qi sisters who came over after hearing the news saw Zheng's body and they all crawled forward and burst into tears.
Suddenly the field began to fall into chaos.
Li Ce sent someone to pull the Qi sisters apart and carefully examine the wound of the deceased.
Everyone's wounds were roughly the same. They were all injured by sharp objects. There were obvious knife wounds on the chest, and they were killed by one blow.
And judging from the size of the stab wound, he was killed by the same sharp blade.
A narrow blade must be a short dagger.
Inferring from this, it must be the same person who killed Zheng and several slaves.
Such a bad method is really cruel.
Then Wu Enrong is just a powerless civil servant, can he kill four people by himself?