Our Mommy is the Best Investigator!

  Chapter 694 Unfathomable Blue Palace

"who?"

  Chu Nanzhi and Lin Jinshu almost spoke in unison, urgently asking.

   "Du Jiuzhen, the groom next to Mr. Ting Wei."

  Tingwei Shi concluded: "Every time I see him driving a carriage, I always whip the horse with my left hand. For this reason, I was laughed at by my colleagues in Tingwei's mansion."

   "Groom?"

  Chu Nanzhi showed a puzzled face: "He is driving horses for Lord Tingwei, but also a loyal servant by his side, why did he assassinate Lord Tingwei?"

  She couldn't figure it out.

   "Catch groom Du Jiuzhen immediately."

   Seeing that he had a clue, Lin Jinshu didn't dare to delay, and immediately ordered someone to bring the groom to come for interrogation.

  The emperor wanted to solve the case within three days, and the time was very tight, but Chu Nanzhi still couldn't connect the death of the groom with Lord Ting Wei, so she seemed a little hesitant.

   Even, feeling a little panicked.

  Because if it was really the groom who did it, then this matter is very likely to involve the old case back then.

  She quickly looked at Mrs. Ting Wei, and asked, "Miss, is there only this left-handed person in the house?"

  Madam Tingwei squinted her eyes and thought for a long time, but she didn't recall that there was another person in the house who met this requirement, so she just shook her head blankly.

   "Then where did this groom come from?"

  Chu Nanzhi continued to ask.

   "This person was rewarded to the idiot by the palace more than 20 years ago, and he has been serving the idiot all these years."

Thinking of the groom's honest, honest and loyal appearance, Mrs. Ting Wei never thought that he would kill her husband, so she tried her best to defend her and said: "Princess, I'm afraid you guessed wrong. Uncle Du couldn't have killed the fool. But I have been with my poor husband for so many years."

   "You don't need to ask more."

  Chu Nanzhi was a little confused, and her tone of voice became a little hasty: "Please tell me, Madam, when did the groom enter the Tingwei Mansion?"

  Madam Tingwei thought for a while: "It was twenty-two years ago, the early years of the Ming Dynasty."

   "Twenty-two years ago?"

  Lin Jinshu was surprised: "That was the year when Shangguanrou was bestowed with death. At that time, many palace people in her palace were either punished or sent out of the palace and were rewarded by the ancestors to the servants."

   "Jin Shu, I want all the detailed files related to this person."

  Chu Nanzhi felt a little uneasy.

   It turned out to be an old man from Weilan Palace again.

  From Feng Yue, the regular attendant, to the disguised maid, to the current groom.

   Moreover, she remembered that the woman who knew how to disguise herself also pretended to be a groom, but her methods were unusual.

  Lin Jinshu sensed from her face that the matter was serious, and immediately sent someone to investigate the details of this person.

  Chu Nanzhi then ordered Tingwei Shi: "Master Tan stays here to help take care of the old Tingwei's matter, and protect the scene so that evidence can be collected at any time."

  Paused, she looked at Mrs. Tingwei, and comforted her with kind words: "Please rest assured, Madam, I will send Qian Xiaoniang and Zhang Wulang mother and son back to the mansion as soon as possible."

   After finishing speaking, he pulled Lin Jinshu, ordered someone to pack up the evidence, and hurried out.

   Madam Tingwei looked at her in a daze, and really didn't understand what kind of tricks this woman was playing.

  Lin Jinshu was also very anxious. After leaving the yard, he couldn't wait to ask: "Nan Zhi, why are you so anxious, but what's wrong with this?"

  Chu Nanzhi did not answer, but carefully observed the footprints in the snow that had been taken care of, and asked someone to bring Zhang Wulang and Qian Xiaoniang over.

   "If the groom is really the only one in the house who is left-handed, Jin Shu may have guessed why he assassinated Mr. Tingwei?"

  Chu Nanzhi looked at her and asked softly.

   "Could it be that, as the ancestors feared, someone noticed that the old Ting Wei was thoroughly investigating what happened back then?"

  Lin Jinshu's mind was spinning rapidly, and suddenly she also thought of the origin of the groom she asked just now, and said in a broken voice, "Could it be that this person is related to the old case?"

   "I'm not sure either."

  Chu Nanzhi squinted her eyes slightly: "But I always feel that the people who come out of Weilan Palace are not simple."

  The two of them were suspicious when they saw the guards bring the groom Du Jiuzhen up.

  Chu Nanzhi took a closer look. This person was thin and bony, and he was wearing a thick padded jacket, which was very plain. He really looked ordinary.

   "I don't know why the nobles called the young one here?"

  Du Jiuzhen calmly asked: "Such a shocking thing happened in the mansion. The mistress is not here, and the young lady is in prison again. The horses in the stables are left unattended, and the old servant has to take care of the horses."

   "It's nothing serious."

  Chu Nanzhi smiled and asked: "I just want to ask Uncle Du if he came to Mr. Tingwei's yard last night?"

   "My lord was joking, the old slave is a handyman, how can he enter the lord's yard at will."

  Du Jiuzhen also responded with a warm smile.

   "That's true."

  Chu Nanzhi inadvertently looked at his left arm.

  Du Jiuzhen pulled down his sleeves subconsciously. Lin Jinshu saw this scene very vividly, and then forcefully demanded, "Please roll up your sleeves, old man."

   "What do you mean, my lord?"

  Du Jiuzhen asked puzzledly.

   "You don't need to ask any more questions, this princess tells you to do it."

  Lin Jinshu reprimanded sharply.

  Du Jiuzhen looked helpless, so he had to roll up the left sleeve as instructed, and found nothing abnormal all the way to the shoulder.

  Lin Jinshu looked at Chu Nanzhi resentfully.

  Chu Nanzhi found that when he rolled up his sleeve, he purposely covered his right hand with the cuff.

   This made Chu Nanzhi very puzzled, but she pretended not to know and asked with a smile: "I want to confirm again, that old man Du did not come to Mr. Tingwei's courtyard last night?"

   "It's absolutely true."

Du Jiuzhen replied calmly: "The old slave rested after nightfall last night, and did not wake up until dawn. When he learned that Mr. Ting Wei was murdered by the young lady, although the old slave felt very heartbroken, he couldn't do much, so he had to take care of him." The horses in the house are silently praying for the murderer to come to justice soon."

   "Old man Du is really loyal."

  Chu Nanzhi smiled lightly, then slowly walked into the enclosed footprints, compared the footprints one by one, and found the footprints of four people with different lengths and depths.

  She looked at the guards beside her and asked, "From last night to before the incident, how many people have entered Lord Ting Wei's yard?"

   "Reporting to the princess, there are two people."

The guard replied meticulously: "Yesterday, there was a heavy snowfall in Jingling City in the evening. According to Qian Xiaoniang, the snow had just stopped when she came out of Lord Tingwei's study, so there were her footprints on the ground. Xiaoniang brought her personal maid to help Lord Tingwei get up, and when he found that Lord Tingwei had died tragically, he immediately sent someone to report the case."

After finishing speaking, he immediately added: "Qian Xiaoniang has been with Lord Tingwei for so many years, but she is very smart, she is not chaotic in times of crisis, she takes good care of the yard from the outside to the inside, and she didn't come out until I came. out of this yard."

   "Calm indeed."

  Chu Nanzhi followed suit.

   After all, he had served the old Ting Wei, so he could learn some skills to protect the scene of the crime.

  The guard only knew that Qian Xiaoniang and her personal maid had come to the yard, but Chu Nanzhi had four targets in his heart at this time, and the other two were naturally the sheltered Zhang Wulang and the perpetrator.

  (end of this chapter)