This is what Gong Lianxue said just now.
The girl was slightly pleased with herself and nudged Li Qingcha with her elbow.
"Brother, my proposal has also been accepted."
Li Qingcha: “…”
"Senior brother?!"
Li Qingcha came back to his senses and looked at the girl.
"Did you hear the detectives talking about the 'Ji Mansion'? Could it be that 'Ji'?"
Chapter 44 It’s really him
Li Qingcha predicted that crime would escalate.
Feng Weiqi attached great importance to her judgment.
The next day, the detectives from Jingzhao Prefecture went out to search for clues.
Within three days, Gong Lianxue's proposal worked. A constable found out the identities of the two victims in a jewelry store. They were the daughter and personal maid of a merchant named Lin Hui in the capital.
Captain Zhao invited Li Qingcha and Gong Lianxue to go together.
In the morgue, Lin Hui saw the body.
His eyes were red as he squatted there, but his overall condition was very strange, neither crazy nor stupid.
Gong Lianxue asked in a low voice: "Is this the father's reaction when he saw his daughter's body?"
As she spoke, her brows furrowed deeply.
"Will he know?"
Women have a very sharp sixth sense.
On the surface, this thing sounds very mysterious, but it is actually very useful.
The so-called "sixth sense" is actually intuition, which is a kind of induction of the five senses of vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell that humans instinctively make.
In many novels, the protagonist "feels the murderous intent", which actually means the same thing.
Li Qingcha valued Gong Lianxue's intuition.
She asked quietly, "What do you mean?"
Gong Lianxue looked at her and said nothing, but her black and white eyes gave a clear answer.
Li Qingcha nodded imperceptibly.
"understood."
She also felt that the Lin family's daughter had been missing for several days, but she did not report it to the police, but instead had to wait for the police to come to her house to inform her that a body had been found.
This is outrageous!
Li Qingcha stepped forward and whispered a few words to Feng Weiqi.
Feng Weiqi walked behind Lin Hui and said, "Mr. Lin, before, we didn't know the identity of the deceased, so we didn't conduct a detailed examination of the body. Now that we have found you, you see..."
Lin Hui was stunned.
"I don't want my daughter to be humiliated again after her death."
This reaction...
Li Qingcha and Gong Lianxue looked at each other and saw "as expected" in each other's eyes.
Feng Weiqi said: "Mr. Lin, this incident may not have been done by a bandit, so it is necessary to find out the cause of death."
Lin Hui opened her mouth to argue.
did not expect,
"Alas, since there hasn't been such a vicious case in the capital for a long time, I would like to ask the fortune teller from the Imperial Observatory to help."
After saying this, Feng Weiqi stared at Lin Hui.
Lin Hui panicked instantly and stepped back in fear.
boom--
It hit the coffin where the body was placed.
Lin Hui turned around to see if the body in the coffin was intact.
Simultaneously,
"Your daughter is looking at you~"
Li Qingcha's sinister voice drifted in from the distance, like the call of a messenger from hell.
"Gudu..."
Lin Hui swallowed.
Li Qingcha said: "Mr. Lin, I have reason to suspect that you are closely related to Miss Lin's death."
Lin Hui yelled, "You are slandering me!"
"She has been missing for a long time, why didn't you report it to the police?"
“This… um…”
This is indeed difficult to explain.
Everyone stared at Lin Hui, trying to find out the hidden meaning from his changing expression.
Lin Hui stuttered for a long time before saying, "My daughter went to Daxiangguo Temple to pray for blessings, and she might stay at a friend's house afterwards, so I didn't..."
"Do you believe this?"
"..."
"..."
No one said a word.
The virgin girl ignored the rules of propriety and went to her friend's house to stay overnight...
What a bold idea.
However, Li Qingcha felt that this story was too absurd and might be partially true.
When faced with a sudden interrogation, people often find it difficult to quickly find a lie that makes sense, so they are more inclined to modify the facts.
"Is this friend you are talking about a man or a woman?" Li Qingcha asked.
Feng Weiqi: ???
Gong Lianxue: ???
Captain Zhao: ???
They looked at Li Qingcha in surprise, and all thought the question was strange.
However, when he saw Lin Hui's expression, that thought immediately disappeared.
Lin Hui's eyes widened in astonishment, her face was covered with cold sweat, her forehead even stuck to her hair, it was obvious that what he said hit the mark.
"Have you found out?"
"No results found." Li Qingcha replied.
Feng Weiqi: ???
Gong Lianxue: ???
Captain Zhao: ???
The three of them were confused again.
Shouldn't the intention here be to bluff and say that he has found something in order to induce a confession?
They looked at Li Qingcha.
Li Qingcha was seen with his arms folded, looking down at Lin Hui with a confident expression. He said "I haven't found anything", but his demeanor made him look as if he had everything under control.
Gong Lianxue couldn't help but secretly gasp.
The stupid senior brother is playing tricks again.
However, one has to admit that his grasp of human psychology is indeed accurate. Seeing him like this, Lin Hui will definitely be exposed.
As expected,
"Since we have found out, why bother..." Lin Hui said, "Ah... Are you trying to trick me into telling you more information? Actually, there is no more information, that's all."
"Haha." Li Qingcha's lips curled up.
"To be honest, I regret it now. The Ji family looks down on our small family, so why should we try to please them?"
"..."
Li Qingcha thought to himself that it was indeed so.
Princess Sirou had said before that Ji Ji had always wanted to help Ji Cheng find a marriage, and he had very high requirements for the woman.
Ji Ji probably doesn't think highly of the Lin family, a merchant family.
People like him are the typical example of someone who is neither high nor low. Respectable officials look down on him as a eunuch, and ordinary landlords and gentry cannot afford to marry his position in the Imperial Household Department.
Gong Lianxue smacked her lips in disgust and moved closer to Li Qingcha.
"Brother, is it really Ji Cheng?"
"Do you have any questions?" Li Qingcha said.
"Think about it, when we first met Ji Cheng, he looked fierce but was actually weak. It was hard to associate this kind of person with a vicious serial killer."
"Then let me ask you, would a brave man do such a thing?"
"This……"
"The brave are angry and draw their swords against the stronger; the timid are angry and draw their swords against the weaker."
Gong Lianxue pondered over these words.
She thought of the time when the second victim appeared, which was two hours after Ji Cheng failed to provoke her.
It seems that he is the murderer.
On the other side, Lin Hui and Li Qingcha continued their conversation.
"You knew this all along?" Li Qingcha asked.
"No, I can't possibly know..." Lin Hui sighed, "That day, I asked my daughter to go to Daxiangguo Temple to pray for blessings, and informed the Ji Mansion of the matter, thinking of sending my daughter there to be a maid."
"Your daughter doesn't know?"
"She should know."
"should?"
"She was very obedient. Maybe she had guessed what I was thinking, but she didn't resist."
"Ah."
"If I knew Ji Cheng...I would never do such a thing!"
"You really didn't know that Ji Cheng would do such a cruel thing, but even so, you didn't take the initiative to provide information just now. I'm too lazy to guess what dirty thoughts you had."
"I……"
Lin Hui lowered her head, not daring to look Li Qingcha in the eye.
a long time,
"Take him!"
Feng Weiqi suddenly gave an order.
Lin Hui was stunned, then yelled: "Feng Weiqi, how dare you frame someone!"
Feng Weiqi sneered, "False imprisonment? Does conspiracy to kill count as a false imprisonment? Does trafficking in human beings count as a false imprisonment? You are not a father!"
