Seeing that the person outside the door was wearing an official robe, Zhou Yan was shocked, but he still insisted on calming himself, "Official, I wonder what kind of expensive things are there to come here?"

Xu Chong grinned, revealing his white teeth, "You should know very well what I'm doing here, right?"

"Ruyi's death has nothing to do with me," Zhou Yan looked straight into Xu Chong's eyes, his tone was tough, and soon softened, his voice even more swallowed, "But... But... I admit that I do have feelings for her. We two childhood sweethearts grew up together, but... my deep affection is not what she wants..."

"You can't give her the wealthy life she wants, so she killed her because of love and hate." Xu Chong said while observing Zhou Yan's expression. He thought that what he was waiting for would be a furious self-defense, but he didn't expect it to be a sneer.

"It is said that Lord Xu Chong and Xu handle cases as if they were fair and honest. Now it seems that this is the case."

Xu Chong smiled, and a dark cloud suddenly appeared on his face, "It seems that I haven't handled a case for too long, so everyone regards me, the Living King of Hell, as a living Bodhisattva. Even people like you dare to be arrogant in front of me."

Before he finished speaking, he stretched out a big hand and grabbed Zhou Yan's face. Zhou Yan didn't expect that he suddenly became angry and could not dodge his feet, so he could only raise his hand to cover his face. However, he understood in his heart that with Xu Chong's skills, even if seven or eight of himself worked together, he would not be his opponent.

But just as Zhou Yan was ready for injury, his wrist was gently held by Xu Chong. Through his fingers, he saw a smiling face, which was completely different from the angry detective just now.

"I'm sorry to you." Seeing Zhou Yan steady, Xu Chong let go of his hand, nodded at him, and then said, "Young Master Zhou has nothing to do with Cui Ruyi's death. I'm disturbing you, please bear with me."

After saying that, he bowed to the panicked old lady Zhou again, turned around and wanted to leave. Zhou Yan was surprised and hurriedly called him, "Mr. Xu, I... I went to the Yang family yesterday. Why didn't you ask and just leave?"

Hearing this, Xu Chong turned half of his body, and his cold side face was coated with a soft light by the warm sun behind the snow. "Just just heard the conversation between you mother and son outside the door, I knew that you were open-minded, not like the criminal. Later, after I tried you, I became even more sure of my guess."

"Try it?" Zhou Yan was puzzled.

Xu Chong smiled, "The murderer left a handprint on the inkstone."

Zhou Yan thought for a while and suddenly realized, "Is it... that the murderer is actually a left-handed man, and the lord just tried me on purpose just to see which hand I use to resist your attack?"

Xu Chong looked at him firmly, and after a while, he said, "Young Master Zhou, you are very smart. Miss Ruyi didn't choose you, because she was not lucky."

This sentence suddenly hit Zhou Yan's heartstrings. He stepped forward and said tremblingly, "Sir, although Ruyi and I have no fate, I still can't bear to die unjustly. Please find the real murderer and avenge her." Speaking of this, his eyes turned red, "I have never seen her look sick and curled up on the bed timidly, not like the energetic girl I knew. She also told me that she was very afraid that she would be taken away like the young ladies of the Yang family."

***

As soon as he stepped into Yang's mansion, Xu Chong saw Wu Yuanli coming to him. He was extremely excited and blushed like a persimmon.

"Sir, you're looking for a ghost. You're really a clever idea. You can guess that the ghost is pretending to be a human."

Xu Chong stood still, his eyebrows clustered, "Who?"

"Yang Ziyun's daughter, Sister Liu, the little girl has been spoiled since she was a child. After losing her mother, she became more and more angry, so she vented her anger on Cui Ruyi." At this point, he smiled proudly, "But the child is a child. When I was scared, I revealed the truth. She said, as soon as Cui Ruyi entered the door, she tried every means to scare her. She lay on the window in the middle of the night and sang, tearing Cui Ruyi's new clothes to pieces, scaring a good bride to the point of being entangled by a ghost..."

"Then did she admit that she had killed someone?" Xu Chong interrupted Wu Yuanli.

"Murder?" Wu Yuanli blinked his two small eyes, as if he suddenly remembered that he was here to investigate a murder case, "That... didn't... said nothing..."

Looking at the beads of sweat as big as beans rolling down Wu Yuanli's forehead, Xu Chong sneered, "Mr. Wu also knows that with the shape and figure of that little girl, she could only kill Cui Ruyi unless she stood on a stool?"

Wu Yuanli lowered his head and did not dare to look at Xu Chong's face. "Standing on a low stool...is also...is not impossible..."

"Mr. Wu, the inkstone is extremely heavy. If Liu Erdan wants to carry it, she has to use all her strength, not to mention that she has to carry a short stool herself, climb onto the stool first, and then lift the inkstone. Such a big noise, even though Cui Ruyi was already in a daze at the time, would she not notice it at all?"

Wu Yuanli rubbed his fingers and slapped his mouth for a while, "Then... this person who pretends to be a ghost is not the murderer. I really don't know who the murderer is. Could it be a real ghost?"

Hearing him say this, Xu Chong took a deep breath and pressed a swear word that was about to blurt out. He calmed down, closed his eyes and said softly, "Call Sister Liu."

"Didn't she say she's not the murderer?"

Wu Yuanli regretted this, because all the veins on Xu Chong's forehead burst out, his face was so gloomy that it seemed as if he was about to swallow him alive.

***

"I didn't kill anyone. I just wanted to scare her, but I didn't kill her." Sister Liu was so scared that she knelt on the ground, her body trembling like a sieve. "That day in the fish pond, I saw her scared to the point, and actually regretted it, but I couldn't say it, I was afraid that my father and grandfather would scold me..."

When Yang Ziyun saw her daughter trembling in fear on the ground, she rushed over without thinking, but was stopped by an arm. Xu Chong glanced at him and said sternly, "From now on, no one should talk except Liu'er. If anyone dares to say something more, don't blame the sword in my hand for not having eyes."

He was completely shocked by the sudden expression of the crowd. He turned around, strode to Liu'er, and looked down at her, "Liu'er, how did those two ladies die before Ruyi?"

Liu'er sobbed, unable to breathe, "The first one... the first one fell into the fish pond. She couldn't water. She didn't follow her at that time, so she drowned... and died. The other one was still fine when she got into the sedan chair, but when the sedan curtain, her body was already stiff. It seemed that she heard that she was... suffering from a heart disease..."

"Did you see her face?"

"I saw it, it was very dark, and I couldn't even hide the fragrance powder."
Chapter completed!