Chapter 49: I Don't Have a Heart

Su Liuyue picked up the thing and frowned slightly, "Willow branch?"

This is clearly a wilted willow branch!

Feng Yang was slightly startled, and took a look, but he didn't look surprised. "There are several willow trees in the forest where Zhou Hao hanged himself. This willow branch must have been accidentally mixed into the painting and put into the box."

This did seem to be just an accident, but Su Liuyue had been investigating cases for many years and knew very well that he must not let go of anything in the case that seemed to be an accident.

She looked at Zhou Yunke, "Who sorted out these relics? Who was responsible for investigating these cases?"

Zhou Yunke raised his eyes slightly and said, "This case was originally handled by Kang Shaoyin. After the Kang family fell, it was handed over to Lu Shaoyin. However, Feng Dali and Sun Zhaoan followed up on the case. Do you want me to send someone to call them over?"

Su Liuyue looked at the sky outside through the window, curled her lips secretly, and said, "No need, it's too late now. It's heartless to call them to such a far place so late at night."

Zhou Yunke was silent for a moment, then glanced at her with a half-smile.

This woman was secretly slandering him again.

"Besides, there are many things to investigate. Today I just need to get a general understanding of the case."

As Su Liuyue spoke, she opened the box of the second deceased, Wei Yong, and saw inside, a house deed and a purse with several patches on it.

There was some dried blood on the purse. Wei Yong committed suicide by cutting his wrists, so the blood on the purse should be his own.

According to the file, Wei Yong cut his wrists while sitting at the table in the room, and these things were placed on the table at the time.

Su Liuyue was slightly stunned, and then she heard Zhou Yunke beside her whispering, "Wei Yong's father died when he was very young, and his mother raised him. For this, his mother suffered a lot. His greatest wish in life is to make money so that his mother can live a good life.

After joining the army, he lived frugally and saved his monthly salary. Later, he returned to his hometown and bought a two-story courtyard in the city, where he let his mother, wife and children live. After that, he sent most of his salary back home every month, preferring to wear clothes with more than a dozen patches on them.

His hometown is Suizhou. At that time, we were originally attacking Qizhou next to Suizhou. Unexpectedly, a riot broke out in Suizhou suddenly, and the army temporarily decided to attack Suizhou as well. Wei Yong was among the troops sent there.

It was at that time that he saw with his own eyes his entire family being trampled to death by the horses’ hooves of the rioting army.”

Su Liuyue couldn't help but look at Zhou Yunke.

In the late period of the previous dynasty, riots broke out frequently in various places due to dissatisfaction with the central government's government.

In this way, Wei Yong's family was not killed by the army of the previous dynasty, but died at the hands of the rioting army.

This house deed is the house deed for the courtyard that Wei Yong bought for his family in Suizhou.

Su Liuyue put down the house deed, picked up the money bag, opened it and poured out everything inside. She saw that it was filled with copper coins and silver that was broken into pieces. Every copper coin and silver was shiny and glossy. She didn't know how many times Wei Yong had counted them with joy in the dead of night.

This was the money Wei Yong had worked hard to save so that his family could live a better life.

Su Liuyue was silent for a moment, then asked, "Now that Wei Yong's family is gone, who should these things be given to?" Zhou Yunke said, "Wei Yong had previously told other soldiers that his closest family members are gone now. His parents' relatives were unwilling to help him and his son, and regarded them as disaster stars. In his heart, these relatives are no longer his relatives.

If one day he is gone, he hopes to divide these things into two halves, one half to the neighbors who helped him and his mother when they were young, and the other half to his wife's family.

Su Liuyue frowned, "Who did he say these words to? So, he did have thoughts of suicide before."

Zhou Yunke nodded. "It should be said that these four deceased people did have thoughts of suicide. Wei Yong said these words to the other soldiers who returned with them at that time."

Su Liuyue was silent for a moment, then suddenly chuckled and murmured, "Interesting..."

If these four victims were really killed, then the murderer must have known them very well, even knowing exactly what they had said.

It is precisely because both the paintings left by Zhou Hao and the house deeds and silver left by Wei Yong are related to their deepest concerns that people feel that they did commit suicide.

Suddenly, Su Liuyue's eyes focused, and she picked up a small piece of pink and white thing from a pile of copper coins and silver coins with two fingers, and said in surprise: "Is this... a petal?"

Zhou Yunke was slightly stunned, and also looked at it intently, and said: "This should be a small part of the lotus petals. After Wei Yong returned to Xinjing, he was depressed at first. Later, in order to cheer up, he and several soldiers who came back with him went for a walk every few days.

There is a pond nearby with many lotus flowers in it. The soldiers who often went out with him said that the day before Wei Yong died, they went to relax near the pond. When they came back, Wei Yong picked two lotus flowers and said that his wife loved flowers when she was alive. Whenever the flowers were in full bloom, she would pick many flowers and put them in the house as decoration.

He died in his own residence, and there was a vase on his table with two lotus flowers in it. "

"So, these lotus petals were also accidentally mixed into the purse by Wei Yong?"

Su Liuyue couldn't help but chuckle and said, "There are too many coincidences."

Feng Yang quickly asked, "Young Master Su, do you think that the petals appearing in the purse were not an accident? Was it...put in there by someone else?!"

The only possibility is... the murderer who killed Wei Yong!

But what was the murderer's intention in putting such a broken lotus petal into Wei Yong's purse?
Su Liuyue was silent for a moment, but shook her head. "Everything is just speculation at the moment. Wei Yong has the habit of counting money. It is also possible that he wanted to count his own money before he died, and accidentally mixed it in."

To be honest, seeing now, Su Liuyue fully understands why the government closed these cases as suicide.

On the contrary, the fact that it was homicide has always been their unilateral inference, and there is no very strong evidence to prove it yet.

After she finished speaking, she put the purse back into Wei Yong's box and went to the box of the third deceased, Shi Tai. After opening the box, Su Liuyue couldn't help but be stunned.

But there was only a brand new envelope in the box, nothing else. It was the simplest relic so far.

Beside him, Zhou Yunke's slightly deep voice came again, "The Shi family is a big family in the north. Although Shi Tai is a bastard, he is quite talented in military affairs. He was promoted to captain within a few years after joining the army.

However, because he was not favored in the family and his mother died early, he was always taciturn and sensitive, which was why it was difficult for him to move up after becoming a captain. "

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