Chapter 459: dissatisfaction with the head of the county
Chapter 459 The princess refuses to accept
Tang Ru, brothers and sisters Tang Yuanxi and Jiang Xueyi watched Lin Jinxiao and Chu Nanzhi leave, and took the Qi family's carriage with them, all wondering.
Tang Ru looked at Jiang Xueyi in confusion: "Could it be that there are some clues left on the carriage?"
Jiang Xueyi shook his head indifferently: "As soon as the carriage came back, the subordinate officer checked it himself, and there was nothing suspicious."
"That's weird."
Tang Ru was surprised.
What did Princess Pingning point the incident to Cangshan, and why did she bring Zheng's carriage back to the county government?
Could it be that she fell in love with Mrs. Zheng's luxurious car and wanted to keep it for herself?
For the time being, I don’t care about all this, so I have to hurry up.
Lin Jinxiao and Chu Nanzhi got into the county government's carriage, and when there was only space left for the two of them to be alone, Lin Jinxiao asked curiously, "What did you find?"
Chu Nanzhi pursed her lips and smiled slightly: "Let me keep it a secret, and I'll explain it to you when I get there."
Lin Jinxiao looked at her mysteriously, and didn't ask any more questions.
Out of the North City Gate, walked along the official road for more than ten miles, and when they reached the entrance to Cangshan Mountain, the mighty people and horses stopped one after another.
Lin Jinxiao opened the curtain of the car and was about to order the county government officers and the sea defense battalion sergeants to go to the mountains to search separately, but Chu Nanzhi stopped him, and first asked: "What materials does the dye factory in Cangshan use to process dyes?"
"I heard that the mountains are covered with comfrey, and the dyers use this comfrey to blend dyes."
Lin Jinxiao answered slowly.
"That's right."
Chu Nanzhi directed to Li Ce and Li Sanmu who were outside: "Take people along this path to search in the mountains and see if you can find fresh rut marks."
This small road is no more lively than the official road, and it only takes a day or two. Except for the carts and horses going in and out of the dye factory to pull goods, there will never be too many merchants and pedestrians passing by, and they will definitely find some traces.
If you search all over the mountains and plains, the scope is too wide. I'm afraid it will take a lot of time for such a big mountain.
Li Ce and Li Sanmu acted according to orders, and led the guards slowly along the bumpy path.
Chu Nanzhi left Lin Jinxiao in the carriage, and personally led the people to search on the muddy path.
Walking all the way in, the originally dry road gradually became extremely wet except for potholes, with silt deposited in many places.
The sour smell under the wheels of Qi's 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, stopped and looked at the little powder scattered on the ground, then bent down and wrapped some powder on the ground with a handkerchief and hid it in her pocket.
When he was about to approach the dye factory, Li Sanmu's voice came from his ear: "There are traces of a carriage running over here."
Chu Nanzhi heard the sound and looked at the green grass on the left, some white flowers emerged from the green leaves.
Taking a closer look, there are indeed marks of being crushed by wheels among the flowers.
Chu Nanzhi waved to everyone: "Search along the mark."
And she herself walked up to those flowers and looked around, and recognized that they were comfrey growing in Cangshan Mountain.
Squatting down, she picked the roots of a few plants of comfrey, squeezed the juice from the roots into the white powder on the handkerchief, and after a while, the white powder turned into purple-red, right on the wheel of Qi's carriage. 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 guards to quickly find the bodies of Mrs. Zheng, the groom and two maids in the mountains.
After receiving the news, brothers and sisters Chu Nanzhi and Tang Ru rushed to the place where the corpse was buried first.
The four corpses have 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 Chu Nanzhi with a calm face tremblingly, and asked secretly: "Brother, why isn't she afraid at all?"
Tang Ru sighed helplessly, and replied in a low voice: "She has solved so many murder cases, so naturally she won't be afraid of a few dead bodies."
Tang Yuanxi sighed and nodded, and also plucked up the courage to walk to Chu Nanzhi's side in fear, looked straight at the corpses, and timidly asked: "How do you believe that the corpses of Mrs. Zheng and the maids are in Cangshan Mountain?" of?"
"The little princess really wants to know?"
Chu Nanzhi looked at her expectant eyes, and deliberately teased and asked.
"certainly."
Tang Yuanxi curled her lips angrily. She didn't believe that this woman had any superpowers, and said loudly: "This princess seriously suspects that it is you, the princess."
Before she finished speaking, Tang Ru immediately stopped her: "I also think that the princess has a keen insight and intelligence, and she can find Zheng's whereabouts so easily."
Tang Yuanxi was very upset when her brother interrupted her suspicion. She showed dissatisfaction on her face, and she almost shouted out "My princess is not convinced".
If it wasn't for this woman who killed Mrs. Zheng and then buried her body here, what other possibility would there be?
Chu Nanzhi guessed that Tang Yuanxi suspected that she had killed Mrs. Zheng.
This little princess is really very pure-hearted, if she really killed Mrs. Zheng, why would she bring everyone here to find someone? Wouldn't it be unnecessary.
She looked at Tang Ru with a smile, and replied: "The governor is too famous. I just grew up in the village, and I have more knowledge of the villagers than you."
"Will the princess show me?"
Tang Ru asked impatiently.
"I still have many doubts in my heart. After the mystery is solved, I will make all the clues public."
Chu Nanzhi replied with a half-smile, but looking at the eager eyes of the two brothers and sisters, he might not be able to end the scene without an explanation, so he could only perfunctoryly say:
"In fact, the reason is very simple. This Cangshan Mountain is the only trail leading to the Jinglu Canal from the official road. I learned from the handyman in the Qi family's stable that there was a lot of mud on the carriage when it returned to the city. This season is extremely dry. Rain, naturally there will be no silt deposits on the official road, and it is only possible in Cangshan Mountain."
As for the real clues, she still has to keep looking for the real culprit.
Otherwise, if the murderer is alerted, the only clue will be broken.
Tang Ru really believed it, and immediately stood up in awe: "Princess Pingning is really amazing, she can detect clues from subtleties, and I admire you."
As soon as he finished speaking, the Qi family sisters who came over after hearing the news all crawled forward to cry when they saw Zheng's body.
For a while, the field began to fall into chaos.
Li Ce sent someone to pull the Qi family sisters away, and carefully examined the wounds of the deceased.
Everyone’s wounds were roughly the same. They were all injured by sharp weapons. There was an obvious knife wound on the chest, and they were killed by one blow.
And judging from the size of the knife wound, they were killed by the same sharp blade.
A narrow blade must be a short dagger.
It can be inferred that the murder of Mrs. Zheng and several servants must be done by the same person.
Such a bad method is really cruel.
Then Wu Enrong is just a powerless civil servant who can kill four people by himself?
This is a bit unbelievable.
(end of this chapter)