Chapter 87: Murderer Revealed (2)

One searched in the living room and one in the inner room separated by a cloth curtain. During this period, Jiang Xin's expression was calm, but Gu Yun's sharp eyes never moved from his face.

Cheng Hang flipped through the clothes in the wardrobe, and a blue-white object fell from the clothes. Cheng Hang was startled and quickly reached out to catch it. The object wasn't big, bounced in his hand, and finally fell to the ground. The crisp tinkling sound attracted everyone's attention.

While picking it up, Cheng Hang smiled awkwardly: "Sorry, I dropped your things." But when he saw the thing in his hand, his face changed, staring at Jiang Xin, who was calm and composed just now but now had a blue face.

Jiang Xin's eyes widened, staring dead at the jade pendant in Cheng Hang's hand, his face turning from white to blue, his expression obviously frantic and unbelievable, calling out in a low voice: "This is impossible, I clearly..."

Leaning against the round table, Gu Yun curled a faint smile at the corner of her mouth, her tone becoming colder: "You clearly already destroyed it, why is there another one, right?"

Staring at the cold and sharp woman, Jiang Xin only felt cold all over! Why did she know, as if everything was in her expectations, this was impossible!

Jiang Xin's nervousness and panic, no need for insight, anyone could see it clearly. Lv Jin walked to Cheng Hang's side, took the blue-white jade pendant, and saw clearly a cute mandarin duck carved on it, and on the lotus leaf beside the mandarin duck, a lifelike bellflower was carved, exactly the same as the pattern on the paper!

Thinking of Gu Yun's pressing step by step on Jiang Xin just now, she seemed to have determined that the murderer was Jiang Xin from the beginning. Why?! Lv Jin asked puzzled: "What is going on, how can you be sure that the murderer is him?"

Gu Yun didn't play mystery, and said straight: "First, when he heard that Wu Xu was pregnant, a clear panic appeared on his face. Most people are at most unbelievable, not to the point of fear, so he is very suspicious; second, there are fine calluses left by holding a pen often on his left middle finger and ring finger. He is left-handed, and judging by the knife wound on Wu Xu's chest, the murderer is also very likely to be a left-handed person."

Cheng Hang stared at Gu Yun in surprise. She only looked at Jiang Xin for a few glances that day, and could see that he was left-handed? Could it be that everything that passed through her eyes, she could remember and analyze? Too terrible! Unbelievable!

"This doesn't explain that he is the murderer." The hoarse male voice hummed coldly, seemingly thinking that what Gu Yun said wasn't the point.

Turning to meet Ao Tian's icy eyes standing by the door, Gu Yun raised her eyebrows. Was this a provocation? Walking toward him step by step, until the two were almost stuck together, Gu Yun smiled coldly: "But it can explain that he is suspicious! And there is something in his house that makes me further guess that he is the murderer."

Gu Yun only reached his chest, but her approach actually made him feel a sense of pressure, and he retreated a step involuntarily. He, who was not interested in the beautiful face, actually felt that her beautiful face was so dazzling.

Zhuo Qing narrowed her eyes slightly. The flash of amazement on Ao Tian's face, was it because of Yun?

"What is it?" Cheng Hang didn't notice the undercurrents there, just eager to know the answer.

Although Ao Tian had retreated a step, the distance between the two was still a bit close. What did she want to do? Ao Tian was still guessing Gu Yun's intention, but Gu Yun had already squatted halfway, smiling at Cheng Hang and Lv Jin: "Don't you think this door bolt looks familiar?"

Cheng Hang ran over quickly, squatted down and looked for a while, his eyes lit up: "This door bolt is the same as the door bolt in Miss Wu's room."

"Look carefully again." Gu Yun nodded with satisfaction, teachable.

After careful verification, Cheng Hang wondered: "There are shallow grooves?" Yes, very shallow, if you don't look carefully, you can't see it.

"In order to make the scene look like a sealed room, he must put the door bolt down, so he practiced countless times in his own home to ensure nothing went wrong. He calculated that the door would be broken open, so he chose to open the groove to fix the position of the rope, which was exactly the position where the door bolt broke." While speaking, Gu Yun had already taken the jade pendant from Lv Jin's hand, hanging with a hanging rope, the jade pendant swaying one by one, staring at Jiang Xin's scattered eyes, Gu Yun said coldly: "Jiang Xin, what else do you have to say?"

The jade pendant from the crime scene appeared in his room, what else could he say? Taking a deep breath, Jiang Xin finally recovered a bit of sanity from the panic, and asked puzzled: "After coming out of the room, I clearly already smashed the jade pendant, why is there another one?" After the jade pendant was smashed, it was burned with the blood-stained clothes. He really didn't understand why it appeared here intact?

"Because the one you took away was not the one Miss Wu originally gave you, but her own. She bought a pair of mandarin ducks playing in the water jade pendants for lovers. Even if she gave one to her lover, there should still be one, but we searched her room and didn't find it. This shows that the jade pendant was taken away by the murderer! Why would the murderer take things from Miss Wu? Because the murderer thought the jade pendant was his! So he picked it up by the way. Who would pick up the jade pendant and let Miss Wu drink the drugged wine unknowingly, only that lover. Did I make any mistakes? Jiang Xin!"

After listening to her words, Jiang Xin laughed at himself. It turned out that the jade pendant was a pair. He thought that what he took away that day was the evidence he dropped at the scene, but he didn't know that what he took away was actually the evidence of his murder! There is a fixed number in the dark! Covering his face with his hands, Jiang Xin sat on the ground.

He was considered to have confessed! Lv Jin asked in a deep voice: "Did you kill the other three young ladies? Why did you kill them?"

Squatting on the ground for a long time without speaking, when he looked up again, his young face was already full of tears: "They weren't killed by me. Actually, I didn't want to kill Xu'er either. We were truly in love! I had already agreed with her that when I had some achievements, I would go to Minister Wu to propose marriage and ask him to marry Xu'er to me. Who knew that the Wu family suddenly asked to get married, and she insisted that I go to Minister Wu to propose marriage immediately, otherwise she would tell about the skin-to-skin relationship between me and her. If the Wu family knew about this, they would definitely not let me go, and at that time, I really didn't know she was already pregnant! Otherwise I wouldn't..."

"Even if you knew she was pregnant, you would still kill her, because the person you love most is yourself. She hindered your future, so she had to die!" Jiang Xin's voice was choked with sobs, but Zhuo Qing was unmoved. Having killed someone with his own hands, what qualifications did he have to cry and tell their love? He didn't deserve Wu Xu, this pure and firm bellflower at all!

"No!" With a low shout, his red eyes stared at Zhuo Qing like a wounded beast, roaring: "We are in love."

Zhuo Qing sneered mercilessly: "If you really loved her, how could you do it? In order to cover up the fact that you killed someone, you even chose such a cruel way to kill her! Is this your so-called love?!"

Such love was a bit cheap and dirty!

Tixing Mansion

A group of people sat at the long table in the study, and no one spoke for a long time. There was no relief of solving the case, and several people were frowning.

Half lying on the long table, Cheng Hang sighed: "It was not easy to have a clue, thinking that the case was finally solved, but it turned out to be a joy in vain!"

Gu Yun gave him a white look and scolded with a smile: "At least this case is broken, and it can be considered to have returned justice to Wu Xu. Things are always solved one by one. Being ambitious will only lead to nothing. Did you find the case files I asked you to find?"

Speaking of this, Cheng Hang was energetic again, anxiously: "Found it, I didn't notice it until I went to find it. It turns out that in the last six years, such heart-stealing cases have occurred in Qiongyue, and there are more than one or two. It's just that they are not such serial murder cases. Some cases have been solved, the criminals have been brought to justice, and some cases that have not been solved are already old cases. Now count them, there are thirteen!" He took a dozen yamen runners and checked the case files for a whole night to find them.

Zhuo Qing was originally supporting her chin lazily, but after hearing his words, she also cheered up and asked: "Are the victims all women? Are they all sealed room murders, heart-stealing and died of blood loss? Did the victims show terrified expressions on their faces?" Although they were all heart-stealing cases, it didn't necessarily mean that they were all done by one person!

"Mm, all women. There are only two sealed room murders, but they are all heart-stealing and died of blood loss. The case files don't record the victims' expressions!" The case files were reported from all over the place, and the coroner's records and autopsy methods were different, which was difficult to unify.

Gu Yun tapped the table with her index finger, frowned and asked: "What else do they have in common?"

"Yes." Although he said yes, Cheng Hang's face didn't have any excitement: "Three of the women were also learning the zither from Su Mufeng at the time. Maybe it's a coincidence."

Zhuo Qing and Lv Jin were both disappointed. Gu Yun asked: "Who is Su Mufeng?" Didn't hear them mention it?

Zhuo Qing explained awkwardly: "The most famous zither player in Qiongyue, a cold and clear man, has taught many descendants of noble families. The three victims this time were all his students. But I saw it with my own eyes last time, he has blood phobia, and it doesn't look like he is pretending."

She believed in Qing's judgment, but there were no such coincidences in the world. Everything needed verification. Gu Yun stood up gracefully and smiled: "Since he has doubts, no matter whether he really has blood phobia or not, we should meet him, right?"

Su Mansion

The Su family settled in Xingfeng City, the most prosperous city in Qiongyue except for the capital. This house was just a villa built by the Su family in the capital. The Su family was worthy of being a music family. Even if it was just a villa, it was decorated elegantly and revealed an elegant and peaceful atmosphere everywhere.

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