Chen's Study in Daming Mansion.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang staged an ambush at night, captured Chen Hua and others, and captured the stolen goods.

Zhan Zhao found Zhou Shen, and when the gods saw the bones in the camphor wood box, they stopped drying. He dragged a few old men and cursed, saying that they were the only actors in the past, and they insisted on saying that children worship ghost foxes.

, and was buried in the academy.

Zhan Zhao stopped Zhou Shen, who was about to drag a few hypocrite and smelly old men to the Yamen to see an official, and asked him if he was sure that the body was that of the scholar surnamed Wang who disappeared that year.

Zhou Shen said that Scholar Wang’s real name was Wang Xin. Even though his grades were not very good in school, he was very good at handicrafts and could knit jewelry and embroider things. He and his childhood sweetheart wore the same pair of silver bracelets.

The bracelet was made of silver wire by Wang Xin.

The fourth son has just sorted out everything in the camphor wood box. In addition to a complete set of skeletons, there are also some clothes, shoes, an earring, and a ring that has turned black.

The fourth son also wondered what this dirty black ring was. When he heard that it was a silver bracelet, he went to find some salt and took a brush to brush it. It turned out to be a very unique silver braided bracelet.

, but unfortunately part of it has been corroded and broken.

The fourth son held the bracelet and glared at the ladies.

Zhou Shen asked the three people why they were so cruel and cruel that they killed an innocent child.

Chen Hua and others swore to God that they were not the ones who killed them, they just helped the murderer cover up the crime...

"So who is the murderer?" Zhan Zhao asked, "Also, who is Mei'er?"

…

Seeing that they could no longer hide anything, the three masters had no choice but to tell the truth.

Sixteen years ago, Chen's study was even more strict than it is now. Students could only go home once or twice a month to study, and had to live in the academy the rest of the time.

Wang Xin is a very ordinary student in the academy. His family owns a gold and jade shop and has some money. The boy is very kind-hearted, but his literary talent is limited and he has no ambitions. However, his family has great expectations for him, so he is sent to study.

Mei'er was Wang Xin's childhood sweetheart. Her family ran a paper shop, which happened to be next door to Wang Xin's jewelry shop. The two children grew up together and had a particularly good relationship.

At that time, all the paper for the study was bought from their shop. In order to meet Wang Xin, Meier often came to deliver paper.

Mei'er is very beautiful, lively and playful, and there are many boys in the academy. At this age, she is just starting to fall in love, and she doesn't usually see girls of the same age, so many students in the study have a crush on Mei'er, so they are very dissatisfied with Wang Xin and feel

Wang Xin, who is ordinary and dull, is not worthy of Meier at all.

At that time, there were also cliques in the study. Even though they were young, they had a clear hierarchy.

The most powerful person in the academy is the prince Guo An, and his two friends, Xue An and Xu An, known as San'an. There is also a foreign prince Li Fan who only studied here for one year and learned Chinese.

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Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang confronted Guo An, Xue An and Li Fan, but they were also puzzled - who is Xu An?

"What happens next? Why did Wang Xin die?"

"Alas..." Chen Hua had no choice but to point to the pair of earrings and said, "It's because of these earrings."

"earring?"

"Guo An spent a lot of money to buy this pair of earrings from Haizhu Shop and planned to give it to Meier. But when Meier came to see Wang Xin that day, she was wearing a pair of identical earrings. Guo An is the prince's son, how can he give it to Meier? Are they the same as those given by ordinary people? I was very angry. After Meier left, Guo An and others surrounded Wang Xin and asked if he had given the earrings to Meier. Wang Xin said that the earrings were indeed made by him. He made it... Guo An and the others made fun of him, saying that he copied the stuff from the big shop and sent fakes to Meier. Wang Xin was very upright, and he wouldn't have argued with Guo An and the others, but he was scolded. Forget it, one more thing is worse than one less thing. But Wang Xin was very angry that day. He said that he drew and designed the earrings by himself. If you want to copy them, they were copied by a jewelry store according to his style. If you don’t believe it, you can go to the store. They were confronting each other, and he was not afraid of anything. He would not send fake things to Meier... They started to quarrel as soon as they went back and forth. There were many people in Guo An and they pushed and shoved each other. As a result, Wang Xin was pushed down by Guo An. By chance, he fell by the flower bed and hit the back of his head on a stone... Alas, Guo An's friends went up and kicked him twice, and as a result, Wang Xin died."

When Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang heard this, they looked at each other - just now at Haizhu Shop, after Uncle Tuo said that there was only one pair of earrings, an old man in the accounting office told them that in fact, the man who made the pair of earrings said that he was in

I saw a little girl wearing a pair of these earrings on the road and thought they were very cute, so I designed this pair... Indeed, it was not Wang Xin who copied the designs from the big shop, but the master of the big shop who designed them.

Made. The reason why the gentle-tempered Wang Xin quarreled with Guo An and the others over this matter was because they said he sent fake things to Meier, which was his sincerity...

The fourth son's eyes were slightly red when he heard this, and Xiao Liang was also very angry, "What the hell! It's too much. You are a good example to others, and you actually helped that kind of scum cover up his crimes?! Then Wang Xin didn't worship the ghost fox at all, right?

!”

Chen Hua sighed.

Zhou Shen shook his head at the side, "I asked many people, and people who knew Wang Xin, including Wang Xin's parents, said that Wang Xin was a very loyal and kind man, and would never worship some ghost fox to curse people... But

At that time, you showed me his papers and took me to see my wife who was seriously injured...so you fabricated all of this?!"

Chen Hua looked ashamed and nodded, "No other students saw the accident when it happened, only the steward of the Prince's Mansion led by Guo An. The steward called me over and told me to dispose of the body. I..."

"You're just going to do it?" Zhan Zhao looked at these stupid scholars with cold eyes.

"I am also helpless. The Prince's Palace is too powerful, and..."

Zhan Zhao didn't want to hear his excuses at all. He waved his hand and asked him, "What does Qiao Wanwan have to do with this matter?"

"Qiao Wanwan was repairing the roof at the time. He happened to be sleeping on the roof and saw the whole process." Chen Hua continued, "In fact, it was he who came up with the idea of ​​worshiping the ghost fox. He grabbed the handle and knocked it.

There are many benefits from the Prince's Mansion, and he will be responsible for all the future renovations of my academy. He was originally a small wealthy man, but later he became very prosperous. He claimed that all his wealth was left to him by his father, but in fact it was all blackmail.

Come."

"What happens after that?" Bai Yutang asked, "What happened to Mei'er?"

Chen Hua sighed, "After Wang Xin disappeared, Meier has been coming to the academy and sitting by the flower bed waiting for him. Later, when she heard about worshiping ghost foxes, she didn't believe it, but after waiting for many days, Wang Xin still didn't come back.

, so she went into the mountains alone to look for him. She never came again after that, and her family could not find her. There were rumors that she lost her footing and fell off a cliff when she was looking for Wang Xin in the mountains and died...

"

Hearing this, Zhan Zhao smiled. Different from the bright and gentle smile in the past, Zhan Zhao's smile at this time was colder than the cold winter of 1939. "Masters, sixteen years have passed in the blink of an eye. These sixteen years have passed by you."

Can you sleep peacefully every night?"

Several wives shook their heads repeatedly, saying that they often had nightmares and felt extremely guilty...

"The fear of being unable to sleep is not because of guilt, but because of fear of being discovered, right?" Zhan Zhao brought the four treasures of the study and asked the four of them to write down all their crimes and confess their guilt.

The facts of the case are probably clear, but there are still a few doubts.

Zhan Zhao asked several people who Xu An was, and they replied that he was Xu Zansheng's nephew. Xu Zansheng also taught in Chen's study. After the accident, he originally wanted to drag Xu An to surrender, but they were

I persuaded him. Furthermore, Xu An was the son of Xu Zansheng's brother. His brother died of illness many years ago. With such a son, Xu Zansheng couldn't bear to have him go to jail, but he also had no face to be a master anymore, so he left Daming Mansion and went to

I moved to Kaifeng Mansion to live permanently, but I heard that Xu An died of illness a few years ago...

After listening to the whole case, Zhan Zhao felt that there was still one link left unfinished, so he took Fifth Master aside to discuss, "What was the reason for Mrs. Xue's death?"

The Fifth Master also felt a little strange, "According to what Qin Shuyun said, the death of Mrs. Xue's daughter was also related to the Prince's Mansion... In terms of age, it was definitely not Guo An... could it be Guo Linxian or Guo Linsheng?"

Zhan Zhao curled his lips, "Will my father be a scumbag for the rest of his life? What a prince!"

"There is something else that is very suspicious." Yin Hou, who had been listening silently, suddenly said, "The ghost fox Mei'er who is causing trouble in Kaifeng Mansion now is obviously here to avenge the murder of her lover back then. But where was she then?

He… disappeared for so many years, and now he comes out for revenge?”

"Mei'er was just a weak woman back then. She must have learned kung fu in the past ten years or so. Will there be any adventures?" Bai Yutang thought for a while and then asked the fourth son, "Little fourth son, the one you saw

Little girl..."

"That's not Mei'er." The fourth child shook his head, then said with a smile, "That sister is a fire fox."

Yin Hou looked at the fourth son, while Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at Yin Hou - are there really other fox tribes besides the Silver Fox? Could it be that there is a Fire Demon King?

Yin Hou was speechless, "Where are there so many demon kings..."

After thinking for a while, the old man asked again, "Before, that boy in Manji said that Mei'er, who jumped into the river and disappeared, was surrounded by fog after entering the water, right?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both nodded.

"This Kung Fu sounds a bit like the Kung Fu of the Mountain God Palace."

"Shan Shen Palace?" Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang thought it was a bit powerful.

"It's the same type as the Demon Palace, Yaksha Palace, and Xuanjie." Yin Hou explained, "At that time, the war was in chaos, and many masters chose to escape from the world. Some went to the Demon Palace, Yaksha Palace, and the like, and some chose to escape to the mountains and old forests.

In order to prevent being found, most people are good at using the Kirigakure technique. If someone enters the forest by mistake, they will create a fog to prevent outsiders from finding the Mountain God Palace. They are also good at pretending to be gods and ghosts to scare away travelers who enter by mistake. Therefore, the Mountain God Palace is actually more powerful than the Demon Palace.

The secrets basically only exist in legends. And the Mountain God Palace does have a characteristic. It will keep mountain gods in captivity. According to different types of mountain gods, there are different palace factions... Some mountain gods are eagles, so they raise eagles. Some are eagles.

Wolf, just raise wolves... Judging from the ghost foxes that appeared this time, this mountain temple may raise fire foxes. In the large deep mountains and old forests behind Mingyang Mountain and various valleys and streams, it is indeed very possible that there is a mountain temple.

.And those foxes should have been raised in the palace... If Meier accidentally fell off the cliff as the legend says, she might have strayed into the Mountain God Palace and been rescued."

"Then who put the bloody cotton and earrings in the bird's nest?"

Zhan Zhao asked Chen Hua.

Chen Hua said that cotton is what Guo An usually wears. People in the Prince's Palace used to wear cotton, but they stopped wearing it after the accident.

During the previous dispute, the cotton may have been lost, but he didn't know the details. The pair of earrings was also lost, and they were never found...

"One earring was stuffed into the camphor wood box together with Wang Xin. Maybe it fell and was not noticed at the time." Zhan Zhao analyzed, "That means another earring and the cotton ball also fell... They wouldn't have fallen out anyway.

Let’s go to the roof?”

Bai Yutang thought for a while and asked, "They said just now that Mei'er waits by the flower bed every day, right?"

Zhan Zhao nodded.

"Why is she waiting here?" Bai Yutang asked.

Zhan Zhao thought about it and frowned, "Could it be that she picked up another earring?"

Saying that, Zhan Zhao looked at the bloody cotton again, "If she also picked up this cotton..."

"Then she will guess that Wang Xin's disappearance has something to do with Guo An." The fifth master's eyes became colder, "Guo An will kill her to silence her..."

"Maybe she didn't get lost and fell off the cliff on her own, but was thrown down by Guo An and the others..." Zhan Zhao nodded, "Guess who scared Qiao Wanwan to death?"

"Indeed, if it were his late wife standing at the door, it would be very scary, but if it were Meier, it would also scare him to death." The Fifth Master also nodded.

Zhan Zhao was so angry that he gritted his teeth, "What a good Guo An. He works in the Imperial City Army to maintain order in the Imperial City, and he still has this kind of life-and-death lawsuit in his hands... No wonder Xue An said that Meier is like losing her soul. Also,

Li Fan, he had such a big reaction when he saw the red fox. Who would believe it when he said he had never entered the Ghost Fox Forest... Why did they go in? It was probably the fox he bumped into when he killed Meier! So when he visited the lake, he watched

Mei'er would be so frightened and react so violently when seeing the fox!"

The more Zhan Zhao analyzed, the more reasonable he felt. He immediately took Chen Hua and the two wives involved in the case and rushed back to Kaifeng Mansion, preparing to kill all the people involved in the case. No matter he was a prince or something, no one could escape!
Chapter completed!