Yinzhen lowered his head and looked through all the previous records about the case. He flipped through it very quickly. The thick case file was quickly finished. The situation recorded above was roughly consistent with what Zhao Chenyi said, except that the man in black was replaced by
himself, and the murder weapon was eventually found in his room.
"Since everyone in the Zhao family has been killed, why do you have to be spared a life?" Yinzhen asked slowly. This was the only part of Zhao Chenyi's speech that didn't make sense.
"I don't know, maybe... he thought I was dead. After all, the wound was so long that even the bones were exposed." Zhao Chenyi opened his clothes as he spoke, and sure enough, there was a promise mark across his chest.
New flesh has grown out of the half-foot-long wound, which looks like a pink centipede lying across it, looking hideous and terrifying.
When he was covering up his clothes, Ling Ruo's glance happened to see many small scars on his waist. The wounds were different from the knife on his chest. They should have been there a long time ago. They looked a bit like
It was cut with a razor blade; it was strange how a pampered young man could have so many scars on his body.
When she told this question to Yinzhen, the latter nodded calmly and glanced at the piece of paper on the top of the file, "Zhao Chenyi, according to the records in the file, your mother was originally serving the master of the Zhao family.
A girl with feet, right?"
The flesh on Zhao Chenyi's cheeks trembled because of these words, he lowered his head and answered in a low voice, "Yes!"
Seeing this, Yinzhen continued: "By chance, she was attracted by Mr. Zhao, and then she had you. However, after you were born, Mr. Zhao asked a fortune teller to read your horoscope and said that it would be easy to defeat your father before you were ten years old.
, so you were sent to the countryside for foster care as soon as you were born. When you were eight years old, your mother passed away due to illness, and you didn't even see her for the last time, let alone see her before her death."
"Yes!" When the same word came out of Zhao Chenyi's mouth again, it was much heavier than before. The chains hanging on both sides of his hands rattled, and there was a look of pain on his face.
Seeing her lover's pain, Fang Lian'er couldn't help but said to Yinzhen: "Aren't you here to investigate the case? Why are you asking these questions for no reason? We all know that Chen Yi's biological mother died young, so why bother asking more!"
Yinzhen did not answer her words, but continued to ask: "How did the Zhao family treat you after you returned home at the age of ten?"
"My father treats me very well, and my aunt treats me like a parent and son. The brothers also get along harmoniously and harmoniously. Originally, I was thinking of going to Beijing to take part in the examination. My father and aunt have always hoped that I could shine on my family, but I didn't want to get married.
This kind of thing, all my relatives left me overnight, and the yin and yang were separated forever!" Speaking of the sadness, Zhao Chenyi burst into tears.
"Really?" Yinzhen said suddenly, tapping his fingers on the file, "Since you have met the man in black, do you remember what he looks like?"
Zhao Chenyi tried his best to think back and said: "It was too dark at the time to see clearly."
When he said this, Yinzhen noticed a slight dodge in his eyes, as if he was hiding something from them.
Under Fang Lian'er's extremely dissatisfied eyes, he stopped interrogating and left the cell. In the next few days, he asked many servants who had served in the Zhao family, mostly about Zhao Chenyi's daily life and his relationship with the Zhao family.
The relationship between superiors and subordinates; he has always doubted the scene where Zhao Chenyi said that a father is kind and his son is filial. How can a father who sent his newborn son to the countryside for foster care because of a few words from a fortune teller and ignored him for ten years would be better?
Where to go.
Although the situation asked about was fragmented, when all the fragments were put together, one fact was gradually restored; a cruel, but unique truth!
After that, Chen Yuanjing was asked to ask Zhejiang Xuezheng about Zhao Chenyi's qualifications for the joint examination. Although the prefect and Xuezheng were not from the same party, the Xuezheng was still willing to sell it, not to mention that the list of the joint examination was not a secret or unexpected.
The reason is that Zhao Chenyi's name is not on the Zhejiang Examination List. It is not because he committed a crime and was crossed out, but because this name has never appeared. Instead, there is another name with only one character difference from Zhao Chenyi on the paper.
By this time, Yinzhen was very likely to identify the real murderer of Zhao's case.
On November 12th, he went to the prison again, and the same people went down with him as before.
"You've been delaying for so long, have you thought of who the murderer is?" The repeated delays and waiting exhausted all Fang Lian'er's patience.
Yinzhen, who was walking in front, did not speak, but nodded slightly. However, this shocked Fang Lian'er, and all complaints and dissatisfactions disappeared in an instant.
Like last time, Zhao Chenyi was asked to be interrogated alone. As soon as he came up, Yinzhen asked: "Last time I asked you, you said that Mr. Zhao and Mrs. Zhao treated you very well, and the brothers were even more respectful and harmonious, right?"
Zhao Chenyi's expression froze, and he had a vague feeling of bad premonition, but he still said bravely: "Yes, the villain did say that."
"But the situation I found is very different from what you said." Yinzhen raised his hand and held a stack of white paper full of handwriting, "I asked everyone who works in Zhao Mansion
, everyone said that Mr. Zhao didn’t pay much attention to you at all, and even had no intention of taking you back. It was because the relatives in the country didn’t want to raise you anymore.
That's why I had to send it up. As for Mrs. Zhao, she takes it out on you when she's not happy at all. She often even insults you and your mother, thinking that it was your mother who was charming and seduced Mr. Zhao into giving birth to you, a bastard! The so-called Zhao
Third Young Master is just an empty name, your status in the Zhao Mansion is even lower than some of the servants."
The more Fang Lian'er listened, the more wrong she became, and she interrupted him angrily, "That's enough, what do you want to say?"
Yinzhen ignored her and stared at the excited Zhao Chenyi, "As for those two brothers, they will treat you as badly as their mother." Before he finished speaking, he pulled up Zhao Chenyi's sleeves and said,
It's impressive on that arm
There are the same wounds as the ones I saw on his waist last time. "If I guessed correctly, these should be evidence that they abused you. Zhao Chenyi, in your heart, you should treat the Zhao family and everyone in the Zhao family
Full of hatred!"
Fang Lian'er covered her mouth in surprise. She had never heard Zhao Chenyi mention these things before. Is it true? Is it really like what Yinzhen said, Chenyi suffered all the humiliation in Zhao's house? Was he bullied by everyone?
"I...I don't know what you are talking about?" This time, anyone could see the dodge in Zhao Chenyi's eyes.
"You are not willing to live in humiliation like a dog all your life, so you spend all your energy on studying, hoping that one day you can reach the top three in high school and become a master of people, so that they will not dare to treat you like this again. The emperor is worthy of your hard work.
It paid off. Four years ago, you were a high school scholar who ranked fifth in the children's examination. The eldest son of the Zhao family, Zhao Chenming, was also in high school with you, but his grades were much lower than yours, but he was passable."