The original wife who died young and dressed as the villain regent

"Did you find the murderer?!"

Lin Xi was shocked when she heard this. Although she felt that with Shen Chen's ability, it would be a matter of time before he was found out, but she really didn't expect it to be so quick!

She quickly pulled Shen Chen to sit down and asked curiously: "Then please tell me what's going on. You don't know, I was thinking about these cases in my dreams last night!"

Shen Chen hummed and pulled her to sit down. Then he quickly walked to the soft couch, opened a corner and took out the Zhiyi book, sat down and handed it to Lin Xi.

"Why are you giving me this?" Lin Xi asked doubtfully.

Shen Chen said: "Open it and take a closer look. Is there anything strange inside?"

Lin Xi looked at him confused, knowing that Shen Chen must have a deep meaning in doing this, so he did so.

But she looked over and over twice, but couldn't figure out what was strange, so she couldn't bear to ask Shen Chen to tell her directly.

Shen Chen shook his head helplessly and opened Yi Zhi half way for Lin Xi to see.

What is recorded above is an anecdote investigated by the former county captain. More than thirty years ago, a child was extremely cruel and poisoned his father and stepmother with arsenic.

Because of his disregard for human ethics, he was executed by the county captain and imprisoned.

However, just the night before the execution, the boy mysteriously disappeared from prison and has not been found to this day.

"You asked me to see this..." Lin Xi was puzzled, "Does this have anything to do with the Yueqin case we are investigating?"

Shen Chen said in a deep voice: "When I discussed with Dr. Lin this morning, he suggested that I check the man who died in this inn a month ago, as well as Zhiyi from this county."

Lin Xi was stunned.

Shen Chen continued: "So after I returned to the Yamen, I checked the cases from a month ago and read them carefully. Then I looked through the county annals and went back to more than thirty years ago. I found this to be the weirdest thing.”

"What's weird?" Lin Xi asked, "Do you think that this anecdote is too difficult for a child to handle, or that the disappearance of this child is strange..."

Lin Xi suddenly reacted, "The mysterious disappearance and no trace can be found. This is similar to the disappearance of Yueqin we are investigating. They both disappeared for no reason."

Shen Chen nodded.

Lin Xi said: "But it's different now. We have discovered that there is a secret passage in the inn. Yueqin must have disappeared from that secret passage, and the body of the substitute was probably transported up from that secret passage."

In this way, the mystery of the secret room in Yue Qin's case disappears.

So what else are the similarities?

Shen Chen explained: "Not only Zhiyi, but also the man who looked like a month ago. I looked through the case files at that time, and the most obvious thing about the man's physical appearance was that he had a mole on his back. I also asked the county lieutenant to look for him. I asked an old man who had lived in this county for decades and asked about old news from the county. When he described the childish boy, he mentioned that he also had a mole on his back."

Lin Xi immediately understood: "The child of that year was the person who died a month ago?"

Shen Chen said: "It seems that it should be so at present. For the sake of stability, I also asked people from the Yamen to look through old case records from the past, and finally found the relevant cases, and the records are exactly like this."

Lin Xi was suspicious: "But at this age... Isn't that right?"

"It's a human skin mask." Shen Chen said.

Lin Xi suddenly sat upright.

Shen Chen said in a deep voice: "After it was proved that Zongzi and the man who died Yue Qian were the same person, I still didn't understand how the two incidents were related to the Yue Qin case, so I went to interrogate the arrested suspect. In the end, he confessed , He is indeed a craftsman planted here by the Hu people, and he and Yue Qin are indeed acquaintances."

"He said that their brothers were not locals, nor were they the owners of that store. A month ago, they suddenly received an order from the superiors in the field, asking them to come here to deal with a traitor. So they came here in disguise. And this store The inn is their meeting place."

"The idea given to them from above was to take away a list from the traitor before dealing with him. But they failed. When they were questioning, someone broke into the place and did not rescue the person, but took the person away. List.”

Lin Xi Fu Zhi's heart: "This person can't be Yue Qin, right? The important thing in Yue Qin's hand is this list?"

Shen Chen nodded: "Not bad."

Lin Xi was a little confused: "Then this traitor refers to the young man who died a month ago?"

"Um."

"But since he was a traitor, in order to prevent the news from being leaked, why didn't the two of them execute him secretly and let his body be discovered instead? This doesn't make sense," Lin Xi said.

Shen Chen explained: "In fact, in order to hold those two people back, he deliberately sought death to attract other people to the inn, so that Yue Qin could leave in the chaos. Later, in order to find other news, the two people deliberately spread rumors, and in that room They were pretending to be a ghost so that there would be no tenants in that house so that their secret would not be discovered."

"If that's the case, what's the connection between this man and the child case?" Lin Xi couldn't figure this out.

Shen Chen reached out and took it from Zhiyi, and turned to the last page, which had the names of successive county captains.

He pointed to one of them and said: "Back then, this childish boy did not murder his parents, but because of the terrible reputation and no evidence to prove his innocence, the people forced the county magistrate to execute him. But the county magistrate was kind and secretly let him go. He was handed over to an official who was sent to another place. The official appreciated his intelligence and carefully trained him. In the end, he became the liaison between the official and the Hu people."

Lin Xi understood, "That's why this person has a list, and that list is probably the officials he came into contact with when he was working for that official. Wait -"

Her eyes widened slightly, "To be honest, isn't this official a traitor to Qin and Tonghu? Are the people on the list in this person's hand all officials who colluded with the Hu people?"

Shen Chen nodded solemnly.

Because of this, this list is important enough to sway the people behind the scenes.

It is estimated that the people who colluded with the Fifth Prince’s old party are also on that list!

Only then did Shen Chen understand why this case was related to the old Yanmen Pass case.

"Something must have happened that made this person want to leave his old master, so he disguised himself and returned to his hometown. Maybe he knew that his time was running out and wanted to return to his roots at the end." Shen Chen said, "Or maybe, it was someone lurking in the background. Yue Qin, who had been separated for a long time, also wanted to leave, and she happened to know him, so she sent him a message that he was back."

Lin Xi thought about the clues he had discovered before and said: "But they must know that there is no way they can escape unscathed, so when Yue Qin knew that Yang Shizhong might come to the county, she wanted to use this list to exchange with Yang Shizhong for someone who could leave safely. Opportunity?"

"Yes." Shen Chen said.

In this situation, Yang Shizhong was the biggest protective shield they could come into contact with.

"But before they could see Yang Shizhong, that man was killed, and Yue Qin had to take the list back to the county captain's house to hide."

Lin Xi couldn't figure it out, "If that's the case, why would Yue Qin say that one of her accomplices would meet Yang Shizhong? Her accomplices are all dead."