Chapter 7373 Cheng Mansion
Xiyan was taken back to the Ministry of Justice.
Facing the woman, Shi Er had no sympathy for her. He asked her several sharp questions, "Do you know that your father killed someone?"
"Are you guys together?"
"Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? Or do you want to kill him to silence him?"
Xiyan clutched her handkerchief and sobbed softly.
Liang Yi said: "She is so ferocious, she should be sent to the forest to confront the tiger. Xiyan did nothing wrong, why are you being so cruel to her?"
Shi Er looked at Liang Yi and frowned.
Liang Yi raised his eyebrows provocatively.
He and the lackeys are sworn enemies! He will resist Shi Er to the end! No matter how cruel Shi Er is, he will stand on the opposite side of Shi Er!
Shi Er: “…”
He asked shyly, "How to be gentle?"
Liang Yi: “…”
Is this what Shi Er said?
Liang Yi looked at Shi Er in horror for a while, then went to demonstrate to him.
He walked towards Xiyan with a smile on his face, "Ah, isn't this Miss Xiyan? Miss Xiyan, listen to me, I..."
Shi Er studied hard, "I understand. I need to be more flattering, more vulgar, more polite, and more..."
Liang Yi was dragged out by Su Yan.
A thousand words of "pig" passed through Liang Yi's ears, and Su Yan rolled his eyes at Shi Er and Liang Yi.
Considering that she had no power and was used to flattery, Su Yan did not dare to roll his eyes at her.
Liang Yi: “…”
It looks even scarier.
Su Yan said to Xi Yan seriously, "Can we talk about Cheng Jian and Cen Da?"
Xiyan raised her eyes, the strength in her hands gradually loosened, the handkerchief slipped off, and she said in despair, "Dad...he killed someone for me."
When Xiyan was born, her mother died during childbirth, and she depended on Manager Xu for survival.
Shopkeeper Xu was a man of great eloquence. He brought Xiyan to the capital, and it only took them more than a decade to develop the teahouse from the initial small tea stall.
"Dad treats me very well. He cares about me and takes care of me. I am willing to serve him for the rest of my life."
Shi Er frowned slightly.
Liang Yi rushed to ask: "Why do you want to serve me for the rest of your life? You are already old enough to get married, and your family is not short of money."
Xiyan said: "I don't know why, my father doesn't want me to get married, he..."
Xiyan frowned and recalled for a while before saying, "Dad was worried that I would suffer after getting married. He said that the capital is full of playboys and there are no good matches. Two years ago, I and...he came to our house to propose marriage, but Dad was very opposed and it ended in nothing."
Su Yan asked: "Is it because of bad character?"
Xiyan said: "He treated me with sincerity and was an upright person."
"No matter who you choose, will Manager Xu object?"
Xiyan smiled bitterly for a moment before saying, "I am ready to take care of Dad forever."
Shi Er whispered, "It's not right. How could a father do such a thing? He doesn't consider Xiyan at all. His love for Xiyan is extremely selfish."
Liang Yi said: "What's the matter?"
Shi Er: “?”
"When I was seven years old, I made my father angry and he almost chopped me off. Manager Xu has been very good to Xiyan."
Shi Er: “…”
He was angry at Liang Yi's stupidity but also felt a little sad. Liang Yi seemed to be of noble birth, but he was not that noble.
Xiyan admitted that the person who killed Cheng Jian and Cen Da was Manager Xu.
At the beginning of the year, Cheng Jian came to the teahouse for the first time and fell in love with Xiyan at first sight.
Xiyan doesn't like Cheng Jian, who is good at sweet talk and has a bad temper, but Cheng Jian keeps pestering her.
"My father was very wary of the men around me and had hurt someone before. I was worried that he would find out that Cheng Jian had feelings for me and would have a falling out with him, so I kept it a secret from him, but it was discovered anyway. Dad was really angry. Before Cheng Jian died, he came to the teahouse to look for me, but my father lured him to the woodshed and killed him."
"Cen Da has been chatting with me in the past two days. Dad said that Cen Da is almost old enough to be my father, and he even wants to marry me. He told me not to care. Then I learned that Cen Da is dead."
Shi Er asked, "Do you know Doctor Liu?"
Xiyan shook her head blankly.
"Do you recognize the officials in the court?"
"I only do some groceries in the teahouse, but Dad knows more people."
Shi Er frowned.
Su Yan suspected that Manager Xu was a scapegoat, but now it seems that Cheng Jian and Cen Da were indeed killed by Manager Xu. The motive for the murder was obvious, it was for Xiyan.
Moreover, there were the imperial physician and the chief official, and Manager Xu had nothing to do with them, so it was impossible for him to frame them.
Could it be that the deaths of these four people were not caused by the same person, and the meeting between the person in charge and Cheng Jian was just a coincidence?
Xiyan cannot leave the Ministry of Justice until the murder case is solved.
Shi Er was just about to make arrangements for Xiyan when he saw Su Yan sitting in front of the window holding a teacup.
He was about to walk over, but Liang Yi stopped him and said, "She is thinking."
Shi Er: “?”
Liang Yi pretended to be deep, "This is her state of thinking, we shouldn't disturb her."
Shi Er walked around Liang Yi and came to Su Yan. Seeing her holding a teacup, he said, "The craftsmanship is really good. If I bury it secretly and let my descendants dig it up, I will definitely make a lot of money..."
Shi Er: “…”
Shi Er asked: "How much silver do I have to give you to find the real murderer?"
Su Yan's eyes lit up, and then he stared at Shi Er and said, "No, no, no, it's our duty to find the real murderer."
——"Is it not too much to ask for one million taels of silver?"
Shi Er: "..., just pretend I didn't ask."
"Minister! I can give you a discount! One hundred taels is fine! Fifty taels is also fine! Ten taels is not bad either!"
Shi Er couldn't stand it any longer, "Su Yan!"
Su Yan put away his greedy face in dismay, "I know, I know, there are still many doubts in the case..."
She looked at Xiyan, "Miss Xiyan should be able to help us solve some doubts."
Xiyan was stunned.
Liang Yi said: "Miss Xiyan has already admitted that it was Shopkeeper Xu who committed the murder. What else can she hide?"
Shi Er's voice suddenly became cold and stern, "Could it be that she is the real murderer?"
Liang Yi: “?!”
Su Yan smiled and walked towards Xiyan, "That's not the case, it's just that Miss Xiyan seemed to be hiding something when she told the story of Cheng Jian."
Xiyan stepped back nervously.
Shi Er immediately said, "Xi Yan, if you hide the truth, I can't save you."
Liang Yi said: "Manager Xu is not dead yet. You will know what you are hiding once he wakes up."
Su Yan looked at Liang Yi.
Manager Xu was so severely poisoned that he was already dead when he was carried out of the prison.
It seems that their little prince has really read military books.
Su Yan said: "The Cheng family speculated that Cheng Jian left the house to meet a woman, and it was not an ordinary meeting. You have been with Cheng Jian for a long time. Is it really just him who was courting you unilaterally?"
Liang Yi was shocked and asked, "You and Cheng Jian are in love with each other?!"
Shi Er said: "The relationship is not ordinary."
Xiyan: “…”
Perhaps Liang Yi's words frightened her. She looked at Liang Yi for a moment and nodded nervously, "Indeed, I beg Cheng Jian to take me away."
After spending more than ten years with Manager Xu, Xiyan came to the conclusion that he was definitely not an ordinary person.
"He always looked at me with strange eyes. He didn't allow me to have contact with any man. In the teahouse, if I said a few more words to a man, he would lock me up in the woodshed at night. I really couldn't stand it. I would rather die than stay in the capital."
The horrible memory awakened, and Xiyan's voice became more and more firm, "I must leave, I must leave, I commit myself to Cheng Jian, just hoping that he can take me away."
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