Marquis Wu is more than affectionate and lacks strategy.

"According to what the Marquis said, you only love this Wu Yan and don't use him much, right?" Lu Qingfan hit the nail on the head when he said: "You can enjoy the love and partiality in the house, but you can't adopt him as your direct descendant, and you have lost the possibility of inheriting the title.

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Can Wu Yan be willing to do so?

"If the Marquis continues to favor Young Master Wu too much in front of him and criticizes the legitimate son harshly, I'm afraid that the legitimate son in the mansion will not tolerate it, and the brothers will be in trouble, and even Young Master Wu will resent the Marquis in his heart."

Lu Qingfan exposed his inner feelings, which made Lord Wu startled.

"You, what you said..." He had never thought about it.

"I heard that everyone in the house admires Mr. Wu very much. He is excellent in writing and friendly in behavior. However, the housekeeper and others still pay more attention to the sons who are the direct descendants of the Marquis. They must only be obedient on the surface. It is impossible to know whether they have worked with each other secretly.

Do you understand?"

Yun Xi's questioning and inference made Mr. Wu fall into deep thought.

"You are saying that I praised him but gave him no hope of going higher. In the end, he would only..."

Those who have some means will end up fighting against each other; those who have no means will naturally die miserably and inexplicably.

Now Yan'er's tragedy has confirmed their reasoning.

The root cause of the tragedy turned out to be the one who loved Wu Yan the most.

The faces of several sons appeared in Wu Houye's mind, and the details that he had ignored in daily life gradually became clear, corresponding to the inferences of Yun Xi and Lu Qingfan.

"How could it be?" Mr. Wu became more frightened and frightened the more he thought about it, and even the heroic spirit between his brows faded a lot.

The human heart is so complicated that even though I had been living in it for several years, I didn’t have a thorough understanding of it. Instead, it was captured in one sentence by two juniors.

This is really a great irony.

Now, regardless of whether the murderer is a member of the Hou family, Wu Houye has become the most uncomfortable person. Even if it is not committed by anyone in the Hou family, Wu Yan's death will become a thorn in the family relationship between father and son, always like a thorn in the throat, forever

Can't swallow.

Lu Qingfan and Yun Xi proposed to investigate the weird swamp again. Lord Wu did not raise any objections. He even asked the housekeeper to find the craftsman responsible for looking after the swamp and followed them. They asked all questions.

answer.

"If you need to catch fish by hand, you two should stop doing it yourself and just ask our people to do it."

When the time came, Lord Wu did not forget to send word to send men.

Marquis Wu's great help saved Yun Xi and Lu Qingfan a lot of trouble.

The two thanked them again and again, and then led the people back to the swamp.

Yun Xi arranged for the craftsmen and servants who were combing the swamp to look for grass similar to that in the belly of the deceased; Lu Qingfan was talking to the housekeeper:

"This plum forest has actually been abandoned for a long time. Some time ago, Mr. Wu proposed to make the land here more fertile. He wanted to plant some fruit trees."

The housekeeper looked at the busy crowd, but his eyes looked regretfully at the plum trees that had not yet been pulled out: "What a pity for these old plum trees."

Lu Qingfan frowned: "Master Wu is not someone who knows how to plant, is he?"

"Yes, I am also curious. But Mr. Wu didn't let us ask, so we just asked him to do as he was told. A few days ago, this swamp was almost like a dirty ditch, but it has become somewhat different these days.

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After the butler finished speaking, he couldn't help curling his lips in disgust, and quickly explained to his master that just now the Marquis was so nervous that the two of them went into the swamp for the sake of their health and did not want the two nobles to be in danger.

"I know that the Marquis has good intentions."

Lu Qingfan nodded, and then looked at the progress on Yun Xi's side: people kept delivering grass leaves to Yun Xi. After seeing them, Yun Xi shook her head and said no. The boring errand did not make her show any impatience with disappointment.

Lu Qingfan continued to ask the housekeeper whose house this path was closest to and who liked to come here the most.

The housekeeper thought for a moment and said, "It is quite close to our first wife's courtyard, but my wife rarely goes out, and my brothers live in the outer courtyard and rarely come here."

Lu Qingfan nodded when he heard this, and then let the butler go about his business. He wandered around the area and asked about the servants and servants coming and going in the garden.

Just as the housekeeper said, the young masters and even Madam Hou rarely come to Merlin, and the sweepers rarely see them.

As night fell, Yun Xi shook his head at Lu Qingfan, who had been waiting aside for a long time.

The clue just ended.

The two of them returned empty-handed, and the people in the Punishment Department were a little surprised.

"We thought there would be another court hearing tonight." Mr. Chao Zhong had returned a long time ago. He licked his lips at Ran Piao and others, indicating that they were searching for files.

After Yu Zhi and others from Dali Temple, Lu Qingfan returned step by step.

"I found the kind of grass clippings that Miss Yun mentioned. It was in a village near the fireworks field, but it was not the village where the herbs were grown." Yu Zhi knew that everyone would immediately think of that village, so he immediately clarified.

Yun Xi heard this and asked, "What is Wu Tao doing there?"

"It was said that some special things were to be planted in the swamp, so Wu Tao went to see if there was any land in the village that could be used to create a swamp. In addition..."

Yu Zhi took out a small handkerchief and said, "I got a little unexpected gain."

What was stained on the veil was the kind of grass that was in the belly of Wu Yan who drowned.

Yun Xi was surprised: "In that village?"

The connection between the two deceased people was finally found!

At this time, everyone cheered up again and excitedly prepared for a big fight.

In the next few days, everyone simply expanded the clues and continued to search the social network of the two deceased people.

I searched for clues on grass clippings but made no progress.

Three days have passed.

Everyone in the Criminal Department was huddled in Lu Qingfan's study, feeling a little wilted.

"What's going on? I can't find any traces."

While flipping through the files in his hand, Ran Piao said, "If I keep flipping through it for a while, I will have to memorize all the clan relationships of these people."

"Isn't that just right? There is another connection between aristocratic families in my mind." After Ren Danqing finished speaking, he yawned unconsciously.

Yun Xi and Qing Guo were still looking through the autopsy records and comparing the evidence over and over again.

There is a connection between Wu Tao and Wu Yan, does that mean that Xiang Zhun also has secrets in common with the two of them?

Qingguo suddenly stood up and asked: "You said, if these three people were originally doing the same thing, but ended up being silenced after the thing was done, wouldn't the implication be ready?"

Yun Xi held her chin and said warmly: "I don't even dare to write like this in a script..." The little maid really dared to make it up.

Qingguo stuck out her tongue, "It's not impossible."

Everyone's thoughts once again fell into silent dejection.

Lu Qingfan gently touched his temples, while Master Ren beside him was flipping through the files and muttering in a low voice, "How come there is no news from Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate?"

"In these two yamen, the Metropolitan Procuratorate does not oversee the cases of the Criminal Department; they only help us fight."

As for Dali Temple, it is still good at solving crimes. Except for Yu Zhi, no one else can really help the younger generation. The ability to solve cases is only the knowledge in the oil pot, not the parallel imports in the water pot. Don't count on it.

"No, it's not good!"

While everyone in the Criminal Department was chatting away, a middle-aged man with a slightly familiar appearance rushed into the study room in a hurry, and his eyes immediately locked on Lu Qingfan, who was sitting in the center.

He suddenly knelt down in front of Lu Qingfan and wailed: "Sir, help me!"

"Get up and answer." Lu Qingfan said in a deep voice.

Master Yun Xi and Ran and Ren also poked their heads out from the side.

"I, my master has killed someone! Sir, please go and have a look!"

Dead person?

Yun Xi immediately stood up straight and winked at Qingguo, who hurriedly walked to the side and picked up the big bundle.

"Who died? What happened?" Lu Qingfan asked in a low voice.

"I, my lord is Niu Hanlin. He went to the Hanlin Academy as an errand today. Unexpectedly, my ancestor's head was cut off as soon as the lord pushed the door open!"

The middle-aged man seemed to have seen such a bloody and horrific scene. After finishing speaking, he kowtowed again and said, "Sir, please go and take a look!"

Why is it Niu Jingyuan again?

Lu Qingfan stood up, glanced at everyone in the Criminal Department, and said calmly: "Let's go together."

Sitting on the carriage, Yun Xi looked at the prosperous scenery of the capital that was passing by quickly, and said helplessly: "It's really like one wave after another."

Niu Jingyuan just lost his son, and now he has been designed to become a "murderer", and there are still two days left on the case in their hands.

A warm palm fell on Yun Xi's palm, and her clear eyes looked at Lu Qingfan.

"If there is a case, there will be clues."
Chapter completed!