The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, Chapter 37: Its not the Widow but the Widow's waiting maid

The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty. 《成化十四年》Chengnian Shisi Nian
The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, Chapter 37: Its not the Widow but the Widow's waiting maid

Han Zao's school attendant servant was called Little Gao, this incestuous name was coined by Han Zao, he was not much older than Han Zao, after being imprisoned for a few days, he was already so thin, when he saw Han Hui, he burst into tears: "Young Master, you've come! I'm innocent, I didn't kill Young Master! Please help me to intercede with Madam!"

Han Hui soothed him: "I know, don't worry about it, Madam is not feeling well these two days, we don't dare to provoke her, you have to feel aggrieved first, stay here for a few days, I will ask them to bring you more food, when Madam is in a better mood, then you will be fine. These two are Da-ren sent by the court, to investigate the case of Little Zao, you have to cooperate with them and answer all questions truthfully, if you are innocent, these two Da-ren will naturally do you justice."

Little Gao nodded in succession, "Yes yes yes! Little Gao must know all about it!"

Tang Fan said to him, "You should repeat the original story of that day when you went out with Han Zao."

Little Gao calmed down a bit, thought about it, and said, "That day, we went out as usual, and I called for Young Master to get up, and served him a meal, so I waited outside, and left at about 3:00 p.m., and the Young Master looked well, and there was nothing wrong with him, and when we left, he took the sedan chair, and I followed him....."

Tang Fan interrupted him: "Did you meet anyone before you went out?"

Little Gao said: "There's something there, we met Aunt Zhou."

Tang Fan: " Little Zhou-shi? Your master's cousin? Say more carefully."

Little Gao said: "Yes, that's her, Auntie Zhou spoke to Young Master for a while, Young Master ate fast, his sleeves were wrinkled, Auntie Zhou helped Young Master tidy up."

Tang Fan said, "How is her relationship with your Second Young Masters?"

Little Gao said, "It's fine, Young Master likes her a lot, but Madame doesn't like Aunt Zhou, so she doesn't allow him to go to her, and told us to keep an eye on him."

This is the same as what Han Hui said.

Little Gao said: "But when I met Aunt Zhou, Young Master would still greet her, and Aunt Zhou knew that Madam was sick, and did not come to see Young Master specifically, but sometimes gave him some trinkets when they met."

Tang Fan: "What trinkets?"

Little Gao: " Something which we can eat, play with, sometimes it's the cloud cakes she bought outside, sometimes it's the small cloth fish she sewed herself. The Second Young Master loves it. He even asked us to help hide it from the Madam."

Tang Fan asked: "After you went out that day, did you meet anyone else, did the carriage ever stop in the middle?"

Little Gao shook his head: "No, after leaving the gate, I went all the way to the outside of the palace gate, I saw the second young master being taken away by the palace people, so I came back, I originally said I was going to pick them up in the evening, but I didn't know, but I didn't know that the young master just....."

Tang Fan felt no need to ask any further, he looked towards Han Hui: "We want to meet Little Zhou-shi."

Han Hui nodded: "Please come with me."

Little Zhou-shi had obviously got the news as well, and when she came out, her eyes were red and miserable, and judging from her age, she was indeed younger than Lin-shi, and no wonder Lin-shi was very wary of her.

Little Zhou-shi listened to Han Hui's introduction of the Tang Fan's identity, first saluted them, then said: "Widowed woman, it's ominous, if I hadn't always visited Little Zao, maybe Little Zao wouldn't have been in trouble."

Tang Fan naturally did not comfort her mood, and asked directly: "I heard Little Gao say that on the day of Han Zao's accident, before he went out to the palace, you had seen him...?"

Little Zhou-shi nodded and said, "Yes, I was going to greet my aunt in the front yard when I met her, and I knew that my cousin's wife didn't like me to have much contact with her, so I didn't go to visit her. But Little Zao is a child who is very affectionate, once I met him, I couldn't help but tease him, and chat with him for a while. I spoke to him that day for a little while, for about a cup of tea, when Little Gao, Little Gao's school attendant servant, was present, my lady-in-waiting, La Mei, was also present."

She was talking about La Mei, a young maid who was standing behind Little Zhou-shi, about the same age as Han Hui, with her head bowed, and her hands clasped on her stomach, and when she saw Little Zhou-shi talking about herself, La Mei bowed to Tang Fan.

Tang Fan took a look at her, looked at Little Zhou-shi again: "You also helped Han Zao to tidy himself, right?"

Little Zhou-shi froze for a moment: "Yes, this, what does it matter?"

Tang Fan didn't answer, just said: "I want to see your room, can I?"




Little Zhou-shi looked at Tang Fan, stunned: " Da-ren, Da-ren is this suspicious of me?"

Tang Fan said: "Yes and no, let's see it first."

Little Zhou-shi biting her lower lip, a woman being searched in the house, is a great insult, and that in itself seems to send a message to outsiders." What if I don't say yes?"

Tang Fan looked at Wang Zhi.

Eunuch Wang, who had been acting as a backdrop to the scene, laughed at Tang Da-ren and said, "Let us search now, or wait until I bring you back to the Western Depot, it's your choice."

Tang Fan secretly threw a thumbs up to Eunuch Wang.

If Tang Fan were to move out of the Shuntian Prefecture, the effect would be ten times greater.

Tang Da-ren thought to himself, when His Majesty asked Mr. Wang to spy on himself and help him, it wasn't useless at all.

The reputation of the Western Depot, even the women of the court, had heard of it. Little Zhou-shi's face suddenly lost its color.

She took two steps backward, La Mei hastened to hold her.

Little Zhou-shi bowed down: "Dear Da-ren, this matter really has nothing to do with me, I love Little Zhou-shi as a son and nephew, how could I hurt him? I am a woman, if people search the house, how can I behave in the future?

Tang Fan's voice was gentle, but his tone was unmoved: "I'm on duty, so please understand."

He ignored Little Zhou-shi, and went straight to the house first.

Wang Zhi's men came in handy at that moment, plus Wang Zhi Tang Fan, and a few of them searched the house.

Of course, the Western Depot people could not go anywhere gently, in a short while, the bedding trousseau and so on were searched in a mess, as a woman's boudoir, she had to go to the house.

As a woman's bedroom, Little Zhou-shi was the first one to be searched by Mr. Wang himself.

However, Eunuch Wang was even more rude. He searched the corners that were rarely noticed, even ripped off the tops of the bed curtains and the tops of the tents. The most rude was Tang Fan, the most ruthless.

The most generous was Tang Fan, he looked for the corner of the bed, rarely causing destruction.

Han Hui couldn't come in, so he waited outside.

Could not stop it, could only follow Tang Fan and Little Zhou-shi who came in after them saw the mess, immediately had a weak leg, almost fainted.

La Mei panicked to hold her, shouted up: "Master! Master!"

"Factory Master!" One of the two men brought by Wang Zhi suddenly shouted he was standing at the window sill, holding a magnet in one hand, and was sucking out a fine needle from the gap where the window was closed Wang Zhi and Tang Fan went over to look at it.

Wang Zhi and Tang Fan immediately went over to check.

If the Western Depot spy had not listened to Tang Fan's words, and brought the magnet with him, he might not have found the existence of this thing.

"This is a broken needle!" Wang Zhi Dao, then turned to Little Zhou-shi who was limp on the ground, his eyes cold." Han Zao died because the broken needle didn't enter the moisture point, and you dare to say you didn't do it?"

Little Zhou-shi's eyes widened, shaking his head: "Not me! It's not me! I don't know whose needle it is!"

Wang Zhi didn't listen to her defense either, and just said to the right and left: "Arrest her first!"

Little Zhou-shi cried: "I'm wronged! Da-ren, wrongly accused of ah!"

La Mei also pulled her sleeve and screamed.

Han Hui thought that she heard the movement inside, and walked in, and was dumbfounded at the sight, and asked Wang Zhi: " Eunuch Wang, what is going on, is there, is there any misunderstanding?"

Wang Zhi grunted coldly: "Is it a misunderstanding, just take it back and ask to find out!

If Tang Fan was here with the Shuntian Prefecture's people, it would have been inconvenient to take them away directly, because no matter what, the Han family is a family of officials, Han Fang and the Chenghua Emperor relation, but Eunuch Wang had no such scruples, he just waved his hand and asked someone to take Little Zhou-shi away.

Han Hui could not be stopped at all, he could not talk in the Han family, and had no official position, this is why Wang Zhi did not even bother to explain to him, Han Hui had no choice but to go out after them, hurry to report to Han Fang.

La Mei, a maid, even more at a loss, full of panic, she looked at Wang Zhi still in the house, and ran out with them.

Wang Zhi turned back, saw Tang Fan still standing at the window, at first glance seemed to be looking at the scenery, at a closer look only found that he was staring out the window.

"I can't leave now?" Wang Zhi frowned, and slapped him directly on the back.

Tang Fan almost lost his mind when he slapped him, coughing all the time.

While coughing, he said: "What a coincidence, we came to say that we needed to search, just happened to find a broken needle. A needle so small, thrown in a bush, thrust into the soil, wouldn't it be more difficult to find it, Little Zhou-shi, who was not in his right mind, would not have stuck it in the window, waiting for us to find it?"

Wang Zhi said: "What do you know about a lady in a lady's court? Lin-shi hated her so much, she was in so much trouble and humiliated so much that she almost hanged herself, Little Zhou-shi hated her so much, she wanted to kill Han Zao to get back at Lin-shi, she was in pain, not at all surprising. She was in a panic after killing someone, naturally didn't think much of it, hid the silver needle everywhere, didn't think we would find it here..... What are you looking at me for!"

Tang Fan asked lightly: "With Eunuch Wang's shrewdness, don't you think his words are full of holes?"

Wang Zhi sneered: "What do you mean?"

Tang Fan said: "I understand Eunuch Wang's desire to close the case as soon as possible, but is it too early to make a conclusion before the case is known and the killer is not really found?

Wang Zhi put his hands behind his back, narrowed his eyes, and his feminine tenderness turned into a fierce force.

Tang Fan was not afraid of the other's faint killing aura still met the other's eyes calmly.

They looked at each other for a moment, and Wang Zhi slowed down his tone a bit, saying: "I understand how you feel, once this case is over, I'll play a game for you, although I haven't fully identified the murderer yet, Little Zhou-shi is a big suspect, there's no doubt about it, I'll have someone interrogate you closely, if you're interested, you can join in.

Before Wang Zhi and Tang Fan were in a cooperative relationship, they had a common goal, which was the Dung Palace case, but in detail, their focus was different.

Tang Fan's focus is to find the murderer, Wang Zhi's focus is to solve this case, without causing too serious consequences.

Now Little Zhou-shi has plenty of motive, the process of the crime has been completed, and some people have taken the initiative to bring evidence to the door, and the best part is that she has nothing to do with the people in the palace, and not counting the Han family, she has preserved the emperor's wish to appease his teacher.




If Tang Fan is allowed to dig deeper, there is no guarantee that she will be involved in something scandalous, then it won't be a happy ending.

So Eunuch Wang is not unsavvy, but he is too smart and always adds all kinds of political considerations into asimple  murder case.

That's the difference between him and Tang Fan.

Smart people don't need to talk too much, they already understand each other's thoughts.

However, Tang Fan did not intend to do what Wang Zhi said.

He smiled slightly: " Eunuch Wang seems to have forgotten that His Majesty said that I should lead the case, but only asked you to assist in the investigation."

Wang Zhi angrily said: " Tang Runqing, don't be shameless, what should be done about this case, I know better than you, this is the best result!"

Tang Fan said lightly: "But it's not the most true result. If Little Zhou-shi is not the murderer, will she not have been wronged for nothing? We are all educated people, and we have to be conscientious of the world, though we are all working hard, it doesn't mean that everyone has forgotten this saying, I don't dare to forget what I said back then."

He said that, and then he waved his hand to Wang Zhi, and then he turned around and left.

Wang Zhi frowned, thought for a while, then remembered what the phrase "What Yu Qian said" was referring to.

Tang Fan was referring to Yu Qian, who was unjustly killed in the time of Emperor Yingzong, and was vindicated in the early years of Chenghua, his life was just like his own poem.

He is not afraid of being smashed into bones and killed, but he wants to stay clean on earth.

Tang Fan's character is not as strong as Yu Qian's, but Yu Qian is an idol of the civil servants of the world, this pride, however, is what many people aspire to.

But some people have the courage to do it, while others can only talk about it.

Eunuch Wang since he forced the resignation of the Shang Lu, since the sweeping of the opposing forces in the dynasty, when did you encounter this kind of dare to reject his proposal, and he sang the opposite of the people?

Pah, it's really the same as the Shang Hongzai, looking soft, but actually  hard!

Eunuch Wang scolded him several times, when his temper came up, even Han Fang didn't bother to deal with it, he just wiped his sleeve left, but he sent someone to explain to Han Fang, as a way to save his face.

Tang Fan is actually angry with me too, either you should not let me handle this case or you should let me take charge of it, but now you are interfering a lot!

But he also understands, the current climate is like this, it is very difficult to do a thing, so much so that even the commercial chariot as the chief auxiliary, can not stand it, directly give up the job and run.

But Tang Fan does not intend to give up, he and Wang Zhi quarreled and then went directly to the Northern Administrative Court.

Xue Ling followed Sui Zhou on his errand, but his other man, Pang Qi, was still there.

Tang Fan asked Pang Qi to help check Little Zhou-shi's background...

Since he had a disagreement with Wang Zhi, he didn't want the Western Depot to help him, if the Western Depot wanted to fabricate some evidence with Wang Zhi's permission, it would have been easy to do so.

However, the results of Pang Qi's investigation surprised Tang Fan.

Little Zhou-shi left her hometown after her husband's death and stayed with the Han family. Tang Fan knew about this before, but Little Zhou-shi's late husband was a doctor and used to run a small pharmacy in the area, Little Zhou-shi herself knew a bit about medicine and helped run the shop, but then Little Zhou-shi's husband died early and she was not good at running the business, so she closed down and went north to the Han family.

When investigating the cause of Han Zao's death, the Imperial physician Sun said that the Shuihui point is a very dangerous point that improper operation can lead to death, but people would never know about this kind of thing only a person who is well versed in medical books knows medical science would think of using this method to kill people.

And now, Little Zhou-shi fits the bill.

She had a grudge against Han Zao's mother, had been in close contact with Han Zao on the day of his death, and was an expert in medicine himself, and had found the crucial silver needle in her room.

Tang Fan's brow furrowed tightly, he felt it was too strange, as if someone had deliberately led them in a direction, delivered the "murderer" to them, and provided perfect evidence, but because it was too perfect.

But because it's so perfect, it's all the more suspicious.

However, this result was surely the best for Wang Zhi.

If he wanted to stop Wang Zhi from convicting Little Zhou-shi as the murderer, he had to find stronger evidence, to prove Little Zhou-shi's innocence.

The next day, Tang Fan went to the Shuntian Prefecture to check in.

Although the case he was working on was not under the jurisdiction of the Shuntian Prefecture, but no matter what, he was still the officer of the Shuntian Prefecture, and Pan Bin was his top officer, so Tang Fan had to follow the rules and take into account Pan Bin's feelings, so that Pan Bin would not feel that he had climbed a big tree and forget his old man.

Pan Bin is satisfied with Tang Fan's knowledge, he has no opinion about Tang Fan's investigation of the Eastern Palace case, Tang Fan is a man from the Shuntian Prefecture, he should call him "sSenior brother", no matter what his future will be, this love will never go away, instead of being jealous of Tang Fan, he should take advantage of the opportunity now to manage his relationship, so that he will be rewarded one day.

In the face of his senior brother's passion, Tang Fan only wanted to smile.

When he was appointed by the emperor to handle the case, he seemed to be a great man, but in fact, he could be unlucky at any time because of an unsatisfactory result, and he would be in trouble if he found out the truth.

But he didn't say much to Pan Bin, just a few words, and then, on the pretext of investigating the case, went straight to the Western Depot.

At the Western Depot, he met Little Zhou-shi, who was still crying and complaining about the injustice, but she didn't get beaten up, it wasn't because Eunuch Wang suddenly knew that she was a good girl, but the case went to heaven to listen, there was enough evidence, in the end, the emperor would decide, Wang Zhi didn't have to do anything unpleasant.

Seeing Tang Fan arriving, Wang Zhi took out a light file, and threw it on the table next to him.

"See for yourself, don't say I'm trying to create a prison charge on purpose, Little Zhou-shi's late husband was a doctor, and she knew medical science herself, if not, how could she know where to use the needle!"

Tang Fan smiled bitterly: "I already know about this."

Wang Zhi lifted his chin a little, waiting for him to give in: "That's good, Little Zhou-shi, because she resented her cousin's sister-in-law and hurt her reputation, then she attacked Han Zao, now the evidence is overwhelming, but she still won't admit it, the cause and the consequence are clear, when you go to the palace to see His Majesty, you should know what to say."

Tang Fan shook his head: "I'm sorry, Eunuch Wang, I didn't plan to enter the palace with you."




Wang Zhi didn't expect him not only to be unyielding, but also so stubborn, saying: " Tang Runqing, don't think that I don't dare to do anything to you, if it wasn't for the fact that you were entrusted with the important task by His Majesty himself, I would have kicked you to the side to cool off!"

Tang Fan still looks like a slow-witted man: "Eunuch Wang doesn't need to be so angry, in my opinion, the case is not yet finished, so we should continue to investigate, if you want to report to the palace, report to yours, and I will investigate my case, we have nothing to do with each other."

It's nothing to do with you, my ass!

Wang Zhi is about to explode, you keep on investigating, I'll close the case and take the credit, if anything goes wrong, I'll be buried with you.!

Now he has begun to regret why he recommended Tang Fan in front of the emperor in the first place, he should have directly given it to the Western Depot to handle, he can investigate as he wants, why so much trouble now?

Wang Zhi took a deep breath, and suppressed his anger: "What do you really want?"

Seeing that Eunuch Wang was forced to lose his temper, Tang Fan couldn't be tough anymore, otherwise, no one would be benefited if the case was not investigated.

Tang Fan said, "Please Eunuch Wang, don't be so fidgety, I think the Han family has something to investigate and I want to go to the Han family again, if Eunuch Wang wants to go with me, I'll explain to Eunuch Wang on the way, how about it?"

Wang Zhi couldn't do anything about him, but just because Wang Zhi himself recommended Tang Fan, he was afraid that he'd implicate himself, and that it wouldn't be too late for the eunuch to take revenge.

With this thought in mind, Wang Zhi's tone and countenance improved a bit: "Tang Fan, His Majesty has asked us to take charge of this case together, so we must be honest with each other, and I don't want this to happen again!"

It was obviously Eunuch Wang who was anxious to catch the murderer, but he accused him first, and turned black and white into white, but Tang Fan had no choice but to pinch his nose and nod his head in recognition.

Seeing his low posture of submission, Wang Zhi finally relaxed a bit: "Say no more, what have you found?"

Tang Fan said, "It's just my guess I don't know if it's accurate I'll find out only after going to the Han family."

Wang Zhi glared at him again, Tang Fan laughed bitterly: "Xing Xing Xing, I said, I said. I think Little Zhou-shi's handmaid is a bit suspicious."

Wang Zhi: "Wow, that what, what was her name?"

Tang Fan: "La Mei."

Wang Zhi: "Yes, La Mei, why do you think she is suspicious?"




Tang Fan: "I have read the file you gave me, before I asked my friends at the Northern Administrative Court to help me investigate Little Zhou-shi..."

Wang Zhi snorted, "I don't think you're looking for anyone, the Northern Administrative Court, that kind of trash can it be codmpare with the Western Depot!"

That's not the point at all, and besides the Jinyiwei, the Eastern Depot and the Western Depot, the Jinyiwei is trash, so who else is not?

Tang Fan was powerless: "I'm not talking about this. When Little Zhou-shi was not yet northward, this La Mei was already under her control, La Mei this year is whehat 17 or 18, that is to say, she has been with Little Zhou-shi for several years, such a person, supposedly, should be close to Little Zhou-shi, the master and servant are deeply in love, but her performance yesterday, but this is very doubtful. People always behave impulsively when they are in a hurry, but when Little Zhou-shi was arrested, La-Mei just tugged at her sleeve, screaming more than she did, as if she was afraid of being touched by the army, and when Little Zhou-shi was taken away, she just cried after her, which made me feel a bit too calm."

Wang Zhi snorted, "What's surprising about that? Women are cowardly by nature, not to mention like her, she has never seen much of the world, something happened to her master, she's planning for herself, she's worried about being implicated, it's normal for people to have selfish intentions, too."

Tang Fan shook his head and said, "Eunuch Wang, think about it, when La Mei was able to accompany Little Zhou-shi to the north to join the Han family, two weak women, even with one or two servants escorting them, there must have been a lot of hardships on the way, right? How can she say she has never seen the world? Even if she is still timid and introverted, she should have exercised some courage long ago."

There's something suspicious, he didn't tell us, but we won't find out until we meet La Mei.

Wang Zhi contradicted him: "Tang Runqing, you can't look like a person, I really don't see it, you keep saying that you are a scholar and know so much about women!"

Tang Fan is speechless, what is this all about?

Eunuch Wang's temperament is really unpredictable, he can talk and laugh at any time, he can make jokes at any time, and he can change his face to a businessman's face, he is so smart that he is shocking. Such a person, it is no wonder that his men are always looking bitter, in the face of such an unappealing boss, can you not look sad?

When the Han family saw Wang Zhi's arrival, they didn't dare to stop him, they hastily went to inform Han Qi others, while listening to them enter the house, they went to Little Zhou-shi's compound.

As a result, Wang Zhi and Tang Fan had just arrived at Little Zhou-shi's courtyard, and collided with Lin-shi, who had rushed here in a hurry.

"It's that crazy bxtch again, it's really bad luck!" Tang Fan heard Wang Zhi muttering at the side.

The next development fulfilled Wang Zhi's complaint, only to see Lin-shi as soon as he saw them, he jumped at them directly.

Fast movement, quick to cover their ears...

Eunuch Wang had a great skill, dodged to the side agilely, immediately dodged.

As a result, Tang Fan was pounced on by her.

Wang Zhi showed a sly smile to Tang Fan, "A dead Taoist friend or a poor Taoist".

Tang Fan: "..."




As it happened, Lin-shi looked crazy, grabbed his clothes and never let go.

Lin-shi stared at him: "I heard you caught the killer, didn't you!"

Tang Fan said: "Madam, you let go of me first..."

Lin-shi ignored his words: "I knew it was her, I knew it was her! She's a shameless bitch, seeing that I have a son, and she doesn't, she's jealous, and wants that old pious woman to leave me, and marry the master, one plan doesn't work, another plan is born, I thought she would do such a thing at first....."

She was getting stronger and stronger, Tang Fan was strangled by the collar, couldn't help but take two steps, Lin-shi still wouldn't let go, Eunuch Wang stood by again, without his order, the Western Depot people didn't come up to relieve him.

Tang Fan had to reach out his hand directly, with brute force, pushed Lin-shi away, and shouted: " Little Zhou-shi is not the killer!"

As soon as the words came out, everyone was stunned. Lin-shi was pushed backwards, almost fell to the ground, but did not care to cry out for pain, directly held the hand of the servant girl to get up, then saluted Tang Fan apologized.

Lin-shi was pushed backwards by him almost fell to sit on the ground, but not able to cry out in pain, directly holding the hand of the maiden, she crawled up apologized to Tang Fan: "My concubine was just thinking about the death of my child, she was lost in her mind, her words actions were unbecoming, please Da-ren forgive me, if Little Zhou-shi is not the murderer of my son, then who would it be, please tell us."

She looks and speaks like a whole person, as if she's a different person.

This kind of symptom was very uncomfortable for Tang Fan, but once Lin-shi was normal, she behaved herself, and was very graceful, it was no wonder that Han Fang was very sympathetic to her.

Tang Fan, who had a full collar, did not answer her questions, but instead said: "Where is La Mei?"

The Han House Steward who just shpwed them the way was busy saying, "She still lives in this courtyard."

On Wang Zhi's order, someone from the Western Depot broke in and searched for him, searched all over the house inside and outside, and hastily came out and told Wang Zhi: "Depot Master, no one was found, half of the embroidery work was done and left by the bedside, and the back door of the small courtyard was open, I think she just left a short time ago!”

By the time this was said, another of the Western Depot's men had gone out through that door in pursuit.

The courtyard where Little Zhou-shi lived, the small door behind it led to the flower garden outside, which was for those subordinates to enter.

Although La Mei was more familiar with the route of the Han House, but she was a weak woman, how could she pass the Western Depot's footsteps, and was caught back in a short time.

She looked panicked, her sideburns were disheveled, I think she struggled in the process of being chased caught.

Tang Fan asked: "La Mei, why did you run?"

Lame mumbles: "I, I don't..."

Tang Fan's gaze swept over her face: "That silver pin we found on the windowsill in the inner room yesterday, you put it there, didn't you?"

Lame: "No, not!"

Tang Fan looked at her coldly: "Now that it's over, do you still want to lie, say no more, whose child is the flesh and blood you're carrying?







- The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty -



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