Chapter 2098 What's Missing?

"As a result, the next day, when I went to the study to copy books, I heard someone saying that Xie Jun's sister was missing. Mr. Xie was so anxious that he reported the case to the police. Now everyone is looking for her. I hurried home and asked Xiaoru. Xiaoru denied it and said that I must have seen it wrong."

"No matter how I tried to persuade her with emotion and reason, she just denied it and cried. Her family thought I bullied her, and her brother pulled me out of her house. There was no way, she didn't admit it, and I couldn't do anything. I saw that her shoes were stained with mud, and there were withered flowers on the mud, the same as the ones planted in our academy. I heard the flower manager of the academy say that there was only one place for that flower in the suburbs of Beijing. Yes. On the ninth day of the first lunar month, I asked the steward that I wanted to pick some to bring back to my mother, and the steward told me the way. I left the city, but I didn't find anything. "

"I thought that if the government found out that Miss Xie often visited me, they would definitely come to my house to ask about my mother and me, so I picked the flowers and put them in the house. If Miss Xie got into trouble, maybe when she was found, she would also have this kind of flower on her body, and Xiaoru's feet were all stained with it. "

"The night before yesterday, I deliberately let my mother stay in the house, waiting for the government to come and question me. I hoped that the government would find it, because this flower is not common in the capital. "

After Song Yi finished speaking, he lowered his head dejectedly.

Gu Xin asked again: "What about Manzhu? What do you think of Manzhu?"

Song Yi looked up in confusion: "Manzhu?"

Gu Xin nodded: "Yes, Manzhu. When Miss Xie usually came to you, was Manzhu always with her? Did you do anything unusual to her?"

Song Yi shook his head: "Actually, I don't talk much with Miss Xie. Every time we met, it was just by chance. Manzhu was with her, and I didn't do anything unusual to them, the master and the servant."

At this time, Li Dafei, who went to the general guarding the city to get the records, came. He brought a few books, which were the records of people entering and leaving the city from the seventh day to the day before yesterday when the body was found.

Gu Xin first flipped through the book of the ninth day. Song Yi did not lie. He did leave the city at the end of the morning of the ninth day and came back at noon. The purpose of leaving the city was also written to find wild flowers for his mother.

On the seventh day of the first lunar month, at the hour of You, Ye Cuiru drove out of the city in a carriage, saying that she was delivering goods. The father and son of the Ye family were delivering things for others, and they often went in and out of the three gates of the capital. Sometimes Ye Cuiru and Zhu would follow them, so she carried several sacks of goods in the carriage, and they did not check them carefully.

But there was no record of Ye Cuiru returning to the city, so she should not have returned home from the East City.

But the mother and son of the Song family did see Ye Cuiru after nightfall.

Gu Xin looked through the records for a while, and did not find any records of Manzhu entering and leaving the city in these records.

So, Ye Cuiru was the murderer?

She put down the booklet and asked Li Dafei to notify the yamen runners to arrest people at the Ye family, arrest the whole family of the Ye family. They also lied, saying that Ye Cuiru was at home from the sixth to the eighth day of the first lunar month, and did not go out because of illness. How could they not know that Ye Cuiru went out during the seventh day of the first lunar month?

Li Dafei got the order and immediately went down to call people, and happened to meet Captain Gao who had rested well.

When Captain Gao heard that the princess had found the real murderer as soon as he woke up, he was so impressed by Gu Xin that he worked even harder.

Gu Xin thought about it and still didn't ask anyone to find the prefect. She felt that there was something missing in this case.