Chapter 152 Not that person

When Lin Shuran came out of Fangda's room, she ordered Lingqin to sneak into the Censor's Mansion next door to find the old lady of the Fang family and tell her that Fangda had woken up. Dr. Mei said that as long as she rested for a while, she should be fine.

Soon, Lingqin came back from next door and brought a reply from the old lady of the Fang family, saying that she was very grateful for what Lin Shuran had done and asked her to continue taking care of Fangda. The Fang family would never forget this kindness.

Early the next morning, Xiao Chen came to the General's Mansion to meet Fang Da. The two of them talked about something in the room, and then Xiao Chen came out and asked to meet Lin Shuran.

Xiao Chen came wearing official clothes. Lin Shuran invited him to take a seat in the main hall of the front yard. She thought that Xiao Chen asked for Fang Da to be carried away. Unexpectedly, Xiao Chen said that Fang Da was in good health and Dr. Mei said that it was not suitable to move him.

He wanted to move, so he was allowed to stay in the General's Mansion for a while.

"Brother Xiao, thank you!" When they were alone in private, Lin Shuran called Xiao Chen Mr. Xiao without being polite.

Xiao Chen looked at her intently and said, "You don't need to thank me. Without the Emperor's decree, I would not have allowed the guilty person to stay in your house!"

"The Emperor doesn't believe that Mr. Fang and Mr. Fang would commit corruption and bribery to hide the pagoda, right?" Xiao Chen is also considered a close official of the Emperor. Although his relationship with the Emperor is not as close as Xu Junze's relationship with the Emperor, he is

A person who is very important to the emperor.

Xiao Chen didn't want to talk to Lin Shuran about the case. If possible, he hoped that Lin Shuran would not be involved in these things from the beginning, but many things happened that made him have to think more.

"You can't just look at a person's appearance. Sometimes no one can tell the difference between good and bad people. I won't make a judgment easily before the case is investigated." After Xiao Chen said this, he looked at Lin Shuran and asked, "

Shu Ran, tell me the truth, when you were at Long'an Temple last time, was there another person in the meditation room where you were?"

Xiao Chen suddenly mentioned the matter of Long'an Temple. Lin Shuran looked at him pretending to be confused and asked: "What's wrong? Did Brother Xiao find out the identity of the person who wanted to harm me?"

Xiao Chen glanced at her with an unclear expression, and then turned his eyes to the outside of the hall. After thinking for a while, he turned his eyes and said to her: "Although the man's body was damaged by wild beasts, Wu Zuo has experienced that he was twisted by someone.

He died with a broken neck and no other injuries on his body, and the person I am looking for is not this person."

"I don't know about this. This was the only person who appeared in my room at that time. If he hadn't intended to harm me, Hong Gu wouldn't have made a sudden move." Lin Shuran replied pretending to be calm.

Xiao Chen is such a shrewd and cautious person. He investigates the case in detail, but he didn't expect that he would find out so quickly that the person who died was not the person the Ministry of Punishment was looking for.

"But I found out that the Zen room originally belonged to Princess Xiqing of Prince Qing's palace. Princess Ling led people to catch the thief and went directly to that Zen room. I know that you have nothing to do with Prince Ling's palace, but it is Princess Xiqing.

I had some conflicts with Princess Kerou. Didn't that person go after you?" Xiao Chen stared at Lin Shuran with firm eyes, not letting go of any expression on her face.

Lin Shuran smiled helplessly, met his scrutinizing gaze calmly, and replied: "As expected, I can't hide anything from you, Brother Xiao. I was also in a hurry that day. Someone was threatening to harm Princess Xiqing's good reputation. You also

Seeing such a big fight between Princess Ling and Princess Kerou, if someone discovers that a man has entered Princess Xiqing's Zen room in Long'an Temple, and if the man talks nonsense again, Princess Xiqing's reputation will be ruined, I'm afraid.

I have no shame in living in this world, I cannot let Princess Ling and the others succeed in their conspiracy."

After receiving Lin Shuran's affirmative answer, a trace of pain flashed across Xiao Chen's face. When did his simple and kind-hearted "Sister Shu Ran" become so scheming and even learned to kill people to save others? Does she know that once she gets her hands on something?

She will never be able to get rid of it in her lifetime.

"You are different from before!" Xiao Chen sighed slightly. He didn't want to admit that Lin Shuran was different from before, but everything in the past three years told him that she had really changed, "You never used to

You will get involved in these things, you are the spoiled daughter of the Lin family, those intrigues and schemes should not have anything to do with you."

Lin Shuran used to always avoid Xiao Chen's eyes, because she was always afraid that Xiao Chen would see the difference in her, but now she bravely looked directly at him with disappointed eyes, smiling from the corners of her eyes.

He said to him: "Brother Xiao, you are right. I am no longer the Lin Shuran before. On the day when Brother Gu was buried, the Lin Shuran before him had already died with him. The Lin Shuran now is a brand new one."

I am a grown up and mature me, a more worldly and smooth me, so please don’t take me to heart anymore, I have really changed and I am no longer the simple and kind-hearted girl in your mind.

I'm married and have more family members that I want to protect!"

Xiao Chen felt even more painful and uncomfortable after listening to Lin Shuran's words, but he was unable to change anything. She had changed. Didn't he himself change? But no matter how he changed, his feelings for her would not change, but this feeling could no longer be changed.

He declared it with his mouth, but he could only bury it deeply in his heart.

"Shu Ran, I'm just asking you one last time, was there another man behind the screen in the meditation room that day?" Xiao Chen calmed down his emotions, quickly restored his calm face, and stood up.

Got up.

"No!" Lin Shuran replied without any hesitation.

"Okay, I believe you, it's better if you don't have it!" After saying this, Xiao Chen left without looking back, and Lin Shuran stared at his leaving back for a long time, and then slowly started to change his mind.

She stood up from the chair she was sitting on, and only now did her eyes show guilt.

Maybe Xiao Chen had guessed that she was lying, or maybe he was just testing. In fact, she had guessed before that the reason why Xiao Chen allowed the General's Mansion to take Fang Da in was for some other purpose!

Xiao Chen left the General's Mansion and returned to the Criminal Department Yamen. After that, he locked himself in the room. He looked at a pile of case files about the Fang family and the Ren family in front of him and fell into deep thought for a long time.

Just now, he couldn't tell whether Lin Shuran was telling the truth or a lie. He even had doubts about her. He didn't know whether it was his intuition in handling the case or because he was overly concerned.

These days, he has found out that the suspect in the serial murder of officials is probably the remnant of the Ren family's Jinta case, and this person is most likely to be Ren Yong, the third young master of the Ren family. When the entire Ren family was beheaded, he seemed

A lucky escape.

He even found out that the eldest young masters of the Ren family, Ren Ying and Xu Junze, were in the same military camp. When something happened to the Ren family, Xu Junze had appeared near the old house of the Ren family. Is Ren Yong's disappearance also related to Xu Junze?
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