Chapter 358: It’s hard to see each other again
The whole thing seems very complicated, and Li Chengqi also feels that there must be a black hand behind it.
But the information obtained now is too little. Let alone who the black hand is, even the purpose is completely unclear.
I had only focused on the murder of the Wen family's accountant, but now I have a clue.
First of all, the deceased was a new arrival and found Wen's accounting office in the name of defecting to his cousin.
In real society, if a relative whom you have never met, or who is even known to be several generations away, suddenly comes to you, you will definitely not be welcomed by others.
But Yang Yiyi’s side is different and cannot be directly applied with realistic values.
After all, they are relatives. If they are driven away, the reputation of the accountant will be bad, and the neighbors will whisper behind his back that he does not recognize his relatives.
But we couldn't leave an idle person at home to eat. I also heard that the deceased had been a teacher and had some knowledge in mathematics, so I recommended the deceased to be a bookkeeper.
Although this part of the decision is made by the accountant, it is actually predictable. After all, if you go to a cousin who is an accountant, the job he can recommend is either an accountant or a servant.
If someone had investigated the Wen family before and found out that an old accountant wanted to go home at the beginning of autumn and there was a shortage of someone in the family, and if someone acted like this again at this time, there would be a high probability that he would be recommended as an accountant.
To put it simply, Li Chengqi had doubts about the identity of the deceased. He felt that he was not a simple victim, but more like an abandoned son who had lost his use value.
Secondly, there is another very critical point.
Li Chengqi believed that the deceased and the murderer knew each other and had chatted for some time before his death.
The ability to make this kind of judgment is really not something that can be calculated as Yang Yiyi said, but is deduced from the ledger.
The accountant said that there were several errors in the deceased's account book, and they were not just typos or miscalculations.
To be honest, would a cashier who sneaked in by disguise really do something that would obviously expose himself?
And I also said that the errors in the front of the ledger are normal and are not as outrageous as the latest pages.
So Li Chengqi made a hypothesis.
Is there a possibility that when the deceased was settling accounts in the room, the murderer suddenly came in? And the deceased also knew that the murderer's purpose was probably to kill him.
But the window paper was not broken at first, so the deceased chatted with the murderer while keeping accounts before his death. And used this time to leave some kind of information on the ledger.
This information must not be too blatant, otherwise the murderer will destroy the account book as soon as he sees it, but it must not be too obscure, so that only he can understand it, which will be useless.
So, what kind of information is neither suspicious nor easily seen in the ledger?
Of course, some wrong accounts were recorded. This is the so-called death message.
So far, these are Li Chengqi's inferences based on the account books. To prove this inference, evidence is needed.
The key evidence is the wrong accounts left in the ledger.
If the message left by the deceased can be found from the wrong part of the account, then this reasoning can be established. Otherwise, it is just pure imagination.
And therein lies the problem.
When Yang Yiyi and Qin Yan were flipping through the ledger, Li Chengqi specially zoomed in on the camera and took screenshots of the ledger. He took screenshots of every page they turned over.
There were five outrageous misaccounts, but looking at these screenshots, Li Chengqi felt a headache.
Because the visual inspection is just a record of very outrageous accounts, no matter whether we pick them out and connect them according to the ending words, or ignore these five mistakes and look at other accounts on the same page, there seems to be no clues.
Li Chengqi then changed his mind. The focus was not on accounts, but on numbers. Would that be better?
Lighting up his phone, he input the wrong numbers. Looking at the string of numbers, Li Chengqi still had no idea.
The only thing that can be regarded as regular is that there are no 9s and 0s in the numbers, and they are all two-digit numbers.
Just getting this row of five numbers without any further hints is of little use.
Li Chengqi felt that he must have overlooked something. The deceased deliberately wrote such outrageous wrong accounts. He must have thought about how to make others see it, and the clues must have been laid out.
The question is, how to parse the key hint of this number, and where is this thing. According to the reasoning puzzle games he had played, such clues were usually placed in very inconspicuous places, and for a while he really couldn't think of anything suspicious.
So Li Chengqi said to Yang Yiyi:
"We already know the situation of the Wen family pretty much. Let's go to the Qing Mansion and have a look. Didn't they have a boy who died? There seems to be some connection between the two murder cases. Maybe we can get new clues by going to the Qing Mansion to see the situation."
Naturally, Yang Yiyi had no objection. She didn't quite understand Li Chengqi's reasoning just now. However, with Li Chengqi watching, Yang Yiyi seemed to have taken a reassurance and no longer worried.
I have to say that sometimes there are disadvantages to relaxing too much.
For example, Yang Yiyi left the toilet and found that she was lost...
This Wen Mansion has been built several times instead of tearing down the old house and rebuilding it. As a result, the new and old buildings are mixed together, coupled with the greening and gardening, Yang Yiyi can't find her way back soon after leaving the toilet.
This is not a big problem. The Wen family is not a royal palace and it is not that big. Just ask the servants for directions when you meet them on the road.
But I don't know if Yang Yiyi was unlucky. She walked for ten minutes without seeing any servants. Instead, she became more and more confused as she walked.
Standing on the corridor outside the room, Yang Yiyi wanted to jump to the roof because she could stand high and see far.
At this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind:
"Nvxia Yang, here, I am here."
Looking back, there was no one, but the voice kept saying "here". It wasn't until Yang Yiyi took a closer look that she noticed that there was a small hole in the window nailed with wooden boards behind her, and there was a person with eyes. He kept talking to her in the small hole.
Moving closer, Yang Yiyi could see clearly through the small hole in the window.
"Are you Wen Yun?"
"Nvxia Yang, I have been grounded by my father. Please forgive me for having to meet like this."
"Just because you are with Qingliu? Speaking of which, what is your relationship?"
"..."
Wen Yun was speechless when he saw Yang Yiyi burning with gossip.
"I heard Qingliu mention that Miss Yang once saved Qingliu's life. Yun, I'm very grateful."
Qingyun behind the window lowered his head and saluted, and Yang Yiyi quickly waved her hand:
"No, it's easy. I wanted to escape at that time. Oh, yes, what is your relationship?"
Do you have to ask this?
But it doesn’t hurt to talk to an outsider like Yang Yiyi.
"Qingliu and I have known each other since we were young. We always sneaked out to play together since we were young. When we grew up, we had secret feelings for each other. However, Nuxia Yang also knew about the relationship between our two families. I once thought about running away with Qingliu, but I didn't know about it. Why did my father find out?"
Wen Yun tried his best to enlarge the window paper and handed a hosta out from it.
"I don't know if I will see you again in this life. Please give this hosta to Qingliu. Please."
This is like a token of love. Yang Yiyi took the hosta and said strangely:
"Why do you say you don't know if we will see each other again in this life? Your father can't lock you up for the rest of his life, right?"
"Nvxia Yang doesn't know. Qingliu's father plans to betroth her to someone else. My father may want to lock me up until Qingliu gets married."
"Who is it?"
"I heard that he is the son of a high-ranking official from the capital. Once this happens, Qingliu will definitely go to the capital with her husband's family. They will live in a high-walled house. They may never see him again in this life."
This sounds very cruel...
(End of chapter)