APTnovel Chapter 147: A Time Traveler
Chapter 147: A Time Traveler
"Is there any evidence?"
Feng Jia took out the gold beads from his sleeve.
Shi Xun spread his hands and took it. The woman's round and slightly cool fingertips gently swept across his palm, like a cat's claws scratching his heart.
At this moment, he suddenly remembered that it was at Cheng'en Temple, when they first met.
——He is Shi Xun.
——He is the dream lover of the women in Beijing! Half of the women in Beijing are attracted to him!
——Then I would choose Shaoqing Shi.
……
She chose him?
Do you like him?
Or, like other women in Beijing, she just liked his appearance.
Thinking of this, Shi Xun's eyes turned slightly cold.
He held the gold bead in his hand and looked at it in the sunlight: "Gold jewelry designed by Wuyuan Silver House a year ago."
Feng Jia smiled and said, "Your Excellency has a good eye."
"Where did you find it?"
"I found it in the well where my student Lu Tan fell to his death."
"Lu Qin?" Shi Xun read the name and hummed. "I remember him. He was a student enrolled in the Gu family's private school. He committed suicide by jumping into a well a year ago because of the pressure of further studies. As for the golden bead, we didn't find it in the well at that time."
As expected. Feng Jia raised his hands and bowed: "That is, after the people from the Dali Temple took the body away, someone else came to the well. But a well in the academy where a murder had occurred would be avoided by normal people. Who would come?"
"It is very likely that he is the murderer." Shi Xun looked at her with heavy eyes.
Feng Jia snapped his fingers.
"Then why does Miss Nine think that Miss Zhou's disappearance must be related to the Lu Tan case, and how is it related to this case?"
Feng Jia took a deep breath and said, "I have asked the students of the academy. Zhou Muqi often bullies the weak. Lu Qin was probably forced to death by her. Lu Qin had asked for help from the dean of Gu's private school many times, who is the victim in this case, Gu Weifeng, but dean Gu did not respond and just let it go."
If what Xie Lanzhao said is true, then these three people are connected.
"Jiang Yun." Shi Xun shouted to the side.
Feng Jia stopped him and said, "Sir, do you want to ask the staff at Wuyuan Silver House to confirm the owner of this golden bead? Or do you want to investigate whether Lu Tan has any relatives?"
That’s right, Jinzhu is a very important clue, and the murderer is a revenge murder, so the murderer is likely to be Lu Qin’s relative or friend.
Feng Jia smiled and said, "I have already checked before you, sir. This golden bead was made by Chen Xing, sir Chen, from Yuntaisi in Youzhou, for his daughter Chen Yangyang a year ago. However, Chen Yangyang gave it to her elder sister Chen Siyan, and according to Chen Siyan, she gave it to Zhou Muqi."
If it was given to Zhou Muqi, then Lu Qin was probably forced to death. After Lu Qin's death, the murderer returned to the crime scene, feeling guilty or happy, but accidentally dropped the golden bead.
"What about Lu Tan?"
"Lu Tan was originally from Luoyun County. After her parents died of illness, she followed her brother Lu Xun to the capital to visit her relatives. However, her only uncle also died of illness three years ago. Since then, the two siblings have depended on each other for survival. Lu Xun is three years older than Lu Tan. He works as a waiter in a restaurant in the capital and saves money to support his sister's schooling."
"According to the shopkeeper's recollection, after Lu Qin fell into the well, Lu Xun was depressed for a while, and then he started to do multiple tasks at the same time. The shopkeeper asked him the reason, and he said that he wanted to make money quickly, and then take his sister's body away from the sad capital, and go to his hometown Luoyun County to buy a house!"
"However, Lu Xun quit his job two months ago and has not been heard from since."
Shi Xun did not answer, but only asked: "What do you think, Miss Nine?"
Feng Jia pursed her lips into a line. "This Lu Xun is very suspicious. I asked you to check the records of him leaving the city in the past few months. His name is not there, proving that he is still in the capital. But he seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth... Either he knows something and was silenced, or he is the murderer and is hiding."
Shi Xun looked down at the embroidered boots on her feet. A delicate young lady from the Prime Minister's Mansion, only thirteen or fourteen years old, was not only a martial arts expert, but also meticulous. She could unravel the mystery with just a golden bead. It was too suspicious.
He even had some doubts as to whether this Miss Xie Jiu was the same Miss Xie Jiu.
It is not uncommon for a substitute to impersonate the real person in the capital. Wasn’t the young girl of the Lu family replaced in this way ten years ago?
"Miss Nine seems to be very persistent in solving the case." Shi Xun said calmly, "That night at Cheng'en Temple, Miss Nine wanted to follow me to the Dali Temple to check the files. I tentatively assumed that you were motivated by your thirst for knowledge at that time. What about this time?"
After a pause, his eyes turned slightly cold: "I will not accept the same reason a second time."
Feng Jia was really alert. She looked him in the eye with a frank look. "Before Zhou Muqi disappeared, she had a quarrel with me. Now I am the biggest suspect."
"so?"
Feng Jia smiled and said, "Master Shi should know better than me what people are saying about me outside, otherwise he would not have questioned me again and again. But I didn't commit this crime. I hope more than anyone else that Miss Zhou can be found and her grievances cleared."
"Is this reason enough?" After saying this, he blinked his black and white eyes, looking innocent.
Forget it, thinking that she would not tell the truth, Shi Xun sighed slightly, and said in silence for a while: "I will take you back."
"No need." Feng Jia smiled slightly and walked out. After a few steps, she remembered something and turned back to ask, "Sir, is this servant's gold bead?"
Shi Xun said: "This golden bead is related to an important case and needs to be kept in the Dali Temple."
Feng Jia nodded and said, "Since Your Excellency acknowledges that I have provided important evidence to the Dali Temple, can you agree to my two requests?"
Shi Xun frowned, not expecting her to take credit for it, but still said, "Ninth Miss, please speak."
"First, I want to participate in the entire case."
Shi Xun said: "It's not difficult. I also need to rely on Miss Nine."
"Secondly, please keep my participation in the case a secret, my Lord and his men."
Shi Xun was puzzled, Feng Jia said: "My daughter's family education is very strict, my father does not allow us to show our faces in public, and strictly forbids us to do anything dangerous, so I would like to ask the adults to do a favor."
Shi Xun smiled and said, "It's just a piece of cake."
Feng Jia returned to the apricot garden, sat under a wisteria tree in the yard, overturned a cup of tea, and used water as ink to sort out the clues.
Assuming it was a vendetta, the clues are related.
One year ago, Lu Qin fell into a well and died. The golden beads that Zhou Muqi was wearing were found at the mouth of the well.
A year later, Zhou Muqi disappeared and her life or death was unknown.
Two months ago, the Land Cruiser disappeared.
Seven days ago, Gu Weifeng was killed and his heart was taken out.
But why did the murderer take Gu Weifeng's heart?
She assumed that it was done by a cultist, but she had just inquired about other cases in the past year and found no evidence of the victim's organs being taken away, which meant that Gu Weifeng's case was just an isolated case.
The last possibility is that the murderer was seeking revenge for Lu Tan, but he is also a cultist.
In this case, all clues point to Lu Xun, and as long as he is found, the case will be able to be solved.
At this time, Qingshu came in from outside the courtyard, holding a black lacquered wooden box in his hand. He bowed to her and said, "Miss, the doorman just came over and said that Aunt Gao from Shicheng sent something to you."
Feng Jia put down the folding fan in his hand and asked, "Give it to me?"
Qingshu nodded: "The sender brought a message saying that this box was found in the burned-down house of the Wang family. The box was coated with fireproof tung oil, so it was not burned. Look, your name is on it, so it should be your old thing!"
Feng Jia took it and held it in her palm. It was a square red lacquered wooden box. The box looked simple and light. The three words "Xie Lanzhao" were engraved crookedly on the top. It should have belonged to the original owner.
"This box was found two months ago, but it was not sent to me. But it was sent to me at full speed this month," Qing Shu cursed softly, "They must have heard about your deeds in the capital. What a bunch of flatterers, ugh!"
Feng Jia didn't care much about it and just focused on playing with the small wooden box.
There was a small lock on it, which seemed to be a combination lock. The scales on the gears were marked with "zero, one, two..." There were three gears in total. Feng Jia simply turned it, but it didn't open.
It should be that only when the three gears rotate to the correct position at the same time can it be opened.
Feng Jia touched it with her hand and found that there was a string of characters engraved crookedly on the back of the paulownia lacquer box:
[The password is 9x9x9=? ]