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Chapter 87 Secret Cell
This thief was a prisoner in Jingzhao Prefecture, so Zhu Yu certainly couldn't interrupt. She was only responsible for restoring the part of the truth related to the deceased.

Jingzhao Yin glared at the thief and snorted, "If you were that honest, you wouldn't have concealed the fact that you witnessed a murder for so long, keeping all of us in the dark!"

After saying this, he turned to the yamen runner beside him and said, "Go find some people who know how to swim and go down into the water to search carefully! Take this thief back to the jail!"
If what he said today is true, and he tries to make amends later, but it turns out he lied, give him a good beating!"

The thief was so frightened that he dared not bargain anymore and did not say a word.

No wonder Jingzhao Yin was so angry. He was so furious that he couldn't vent it.

If this thief had confessed that he had accidentally walked into the crime scene when he was caught, it would at least have indirectly proved Cao Chenfeng's innocence, and he wouldn't be in such a dilemma at a time like today, being caught between a rock and a hard place!
But even if the thief didn't say anything, wasn't it ultimately the incompetence of his own men? Yu Changshi, who was beside King Xiaoyao, made such an analysis. Not only did he see the abnormality of the wound, he also discovered the bloody footprints at the scene, and from them he deduced the thief's appearance and identity.

When Lord Wu, the prefect of Jingzhao, thought about how capable Zhu Yu was and how it was thanks to her help that the matter finally had a direction, he felt relieved.

But then he thought that the other party was King Xiaoyao's man, and this time he owed King Xiaoyao such a big favor... He secretly glanced at Duke Yan and King Yi, and his head began to ache again.

"This matter... still doesn't make sense..." Lu Zhang had just arrived a little late, so he stood aside with his grandfather and watched. By now, he had probably figured out what was going on. "The thief said he saw Cao Chenfeng leave, and then saw another person come out.

But he didn't see anyone go up after Cao Chenfeng left...

So where was this person who left last before?"

As soon as he expressed his doubts, almost everyone's eyes turned to Cao Chenfeng.

He was the only one who was with Miss Zhuang that night. Now Miss Zhuang has turned into a cold corpse. The only living person who can explain what happened that night is Cao Chenfeng.

Although other people's reactions were perfectly normal, for Cao Chenfeng, who had finally found a glimmer of hope to clear his suspicion, Lu Zhang's words were like an attempt to seal up the window through which the light had finally come.

He immediately became a little flustered, and without thinking, he started to defend himself: "That night I went to meet Zhuang Lanlan privately, so of course it was just her and me in the room!

If I hadn't heard that she was pregnant, I would have been so panicked that I would have hurried away without even finishing my business...

If, if there were other people present, even if I went crazy, I wouldn’t dare to deal with Zhuang Lanlan..."

He was anxious for the moment, and he felt that everyone present was a grown man, so he spoke without any hesitation.

Zhu Yu felt a little embarrassed after hearing this, but he didn't know how to show it. He frowned slightly, looked away, and pretended not to pay much attention to what Cao Chenfeng said.

Cao Tianbao slapped his nephew, who had once been his most respected, in the face: "You have no sense of shame! How dare you say such words!"

Cao Chenfeng's face was twisted sideways from the blow. Knowing he was making a mistake, he didn't dare say anything. He could only look at Zhu Yu, regarding her as his only hope. "Where in this room could someone hide?" Zhu Yu muttered subconsciously, looking around.

The Jingzhao Yin quickly signaled to the two remaining yamen runners beside him, and the two yamen runners hurriedly looked around the house.

The room looked empty, but with a lot of things placed inside. It didn't look like it could hide a living person.

The two yamen runners searched here and there, but still couldn't find any place where the person could be hidden.

Suddenly, a yamen runner stumbled, fell forward with a thud and fell down.

Zhu Yu caught a glimpse of Lu Qing standing next to him, and his toes which had just been completely retracted under his robe.

The yamen runner fell to the ground and was about to get up when he suddenly realized that the sound under him seemed a little strange. He knelt on the ground and knocked with his hands, but there was a hollow sound coming from under the dark wooden floor.

He hurriedly searched along the wooden board, feeling his way to the side of the bed, and finally found a gap that seemed out of place. He used his hands to pick it up and lifted it up with force, and he actually managed to lift it up.

Under the door panel disguised as the floor, there was a small secret room hidden under the bedroom in the embroidery building. The yamen runner looked down and found that the height was about enough for a person of normal height to crawl.

"Sir! Here!" The yamen runner was greatly surprised. He quickly stood up and pointed out his discovery to Sir Wu. "There is a secret compartment here. It is big enough to hide a person!"

Jingzhao Yin hurried forward to check, and it was true. Not to mention hiding one person, if one really wanted to, he could hide several people as well!

"Boss Zhuang, your daughter is an unmarried girl, and she has hidden a secret compartment in her room. What do you want to do?" He questioned Zhuang Zhi in a bad tone. After all, there was a secret compartment in the bedroom, and in his daughter's room, which was indeed a bit strange. Moreover, Zhuang Zhi had made a fuss about this matter for so long before, but he had never mentioned a word.

Zhuang Zhi's face had already turned ugly when he just said that there was someone hiding in the room. Now, seeing the yamen runner open the wooden board and reveal the secret compartment underneath, his face quickly turned pale, as if he had thought of something.

At this moment, the secret compartment was opened, and Jingzhao Yin asked about it. Zhuang Zhi knelt down and explained: "Sir, I originally built this wooden building myself, intending to use it as a riverside courtyard. Later, I changed my mind and thought that the environment here was quiet and suitable for cleaning it up, so I turned it into an embroidery building for my daughter.

This secret compartment was originally created when the house was being built, with the idea of ​​living by the river. It was designed to be a mezzanine to protect the house from the damp and cold in winter, or to temporarily hide valuables that would be easily exposed to the elements.

Later, after my daughter lived in the embroidery building, I forgot about this matter.

Could it be... Could it be that someone sneaked in, hid here, and harmed my daughter?

But…but I'm usually kind to others. Even in business, I never push others into a corner. I always leave a way out for others and never make enemies. Who would want to deliberately harm my daughter like this?"

(End of this chapter)