When the book-traveling little detective meets the two-faced prince

Lin Lezhi's words sounded completely contrary to the truth and even more unbelievable.

A normal person would just find it incomprehensible, but a careful person would be able to realize that Lin Lezhi's words are very likely the key to solving the entire case.

At the same time, it was also risky for Lin Lezhi, as it undoubtedly added to his suspicion.

Cheng Su lowered his eyes, and asked with consideration and vigilance: "Why did I appear in your room?"

"This story started five days ago."

"Five days?"

"Please rest assured, General. I will keep my words short."

Lin Lezhi’s mind flashed through all the scenes of his time with Guan Ziheng over the past few days.

Come and squeeze into the same room with me, and look down on those who follow me for not making any money.

Apply medicine to yourself.

When the two were eating candied haws together at the market, she and Guan Ziheng were arm in arm.

He cooked medicine for himself, and even when he came to the island and was suspected by others, he never forgot his injuries.

He was pulled together to steer the boat away from the burning lantern boat, and later he risked his life to come to the lake island alone for his own sake.

The two sat by the lake and talked, and they agreed to go back together.

Knowing that Cheng Su was unwilling to waste time, he briefly said, "Five days ago, Ziheng and I hit it off at Jianghu Inn. That night, my left shoulder was accidentally injured, so he moved to my room to take care of my injury. Brother Qingchuan knew that I was injured and sent me some ointment to apply on the wound. Yunhe also got some Chinese medicine for my injury and sent it to my room."

Hearing Lin Lezhi say that his left shoulder was injured, Liu Yunhe, as the culprit, was undoubtedly pulled out and whipped again, and he felt guilty.

But at the same time, I also admire Lin Lezhi's ability to tell lies.

He and Guan Ziheng had clearly known each other three months ago, but he had been acting in front of others, pretending that they had just met.

Although he shouldn't have such thoughts at this time, Liu Yunhe felt a little warmth and a little pride in his heart besides guilt.

Because of this matter, Lin Lezhi did not hide it from them.

Not hiding anything.

Does this mean that in Lin Lezhi's heart he still considers them as friends, and he is not as free and easy as he says, as if he can let go of everything at any time and doesn't care about anything.

There is a reason for separation and reunion, and everything comes together as fate dictates.

From Lin Lezhi's distraught look after Guan Ziheng got into trouble, it can be seen that Lin Lezhi is actually a very sentimental person.

But on the surface, he always appears to be able to do without anyone.

"That night, Ziheng applied medicine to my left shoulder. Before I left for the island, and even after I got there, he cooked medicine for me, hoping that I would recover soon."

When saying this, Lin Lezhi's eyes darkened slightly, and an unclear emotion flashed in his eyes.

"During the Lantern Festival, Guan Ziheng's palm was accidentally scratched, so I left the bottle of ointment to Guan Ziheng."

As he spoke, Lin Lezhi walked to the charred corpse, picked up a piece of debris from the ground, held it in front of everyone and said, "This is the bottle of ointment."

Cheng Su didn't want to listen to Lin Lezhi's nonsense anymore, and said impatiently, "How can these trivial matters help solve the case?"

"General, don't underestimate these little things. The truth is often hidden in these little things. It's thanks to Yun He's reminder that I was able to notice it."

Liu Yunhe, who was still feeling guilty the second before, now couldn't hide his feelings when he heard Lin Lezhi praising him, and that little bit of pride was almost revealed on his face.

Lin Lezhi repeated: "Sometimes, you can't judge a person just by what he says, you also have to look at what he does."

"Speak the key."

Not to mention the displeasure revealed in Cheng Su's tone, just the impatient look Cheng Su shot at him made Lin Lezhi feel like he was being crushed to death by this look.

"Have you noticed that Guan Ziheng has not applied medicine to me since the second day after I was injured?"

Lin Lezhi directly stated the key point.

Upon hearing this, Cheng Su's eyes darkened immediately. He felt something was wrong, but couldn't tell what was wrong. He frowned and said, "So what?"

"This broken ointment on the ground means that Guan Ziheng has been carrying this ointment with him, but he didn't help me apply the ointment."

"He didn't help me apply the medicine not because he didn't want to, but because he didn't know that the injury on my shoulder required applying medicine in addition to taking the medicine."

Lin Lezhi suddenly lowered his eyes and said sharply, "Because from the second day, Guan Ziheng was no longer Guan Ziheng, but someone else."

He paused, looked at Qiao Ying, and said with a complicated look in his eyes: "If you think carefully, you will find that since the day when the coffin was found in Uncle Wu's basement and Qiao Ying was sent back to Village Chief Wang's house, Qiao Ying and Guan Ziheng have never appeared together again."

What Lin Lezhi said before had already shocked everyone to the point of being speechless. Not long after, Lin Lezhi said something even more shocking.

Cheng Su thought about it and it seemed to be just as Lin Lezhi said, and Qiao Ying and Guan Ziheng were of similar stature.

Immediately, Cheng Su's brows knitted even tighter, and he looked at Qiao Ying who was squatting beside him, his eyes darkened a little as he asked, "What evidence do you have?"

Lin Lezhi held up the white porcelain fragments and the dead leaves in his hand and said, "This piece and this leaf are the evidence. In addition to these two, there are two other things that can prove that Guan Ziheng has been replaced."

"What?"

Under the anxious gazes of the crowd, Lin Lezhi temporarily put the dead leaves and porcelain pieces aside, and then took out Guan Ziheng's account book and the ten taels of silver from his bag.

In the dusk, the ten taels of silver sparkled.

Lin Lezhi weighed the heavy ten taels of silver in his hand, and said with a complicated expression: "I wanted to give Ziheng a surprise with these ten taels of silver, but I didn't expect that I didn't deliver it to him."

Lin Lezhi knew that now was not the time to regret these things, so he picked up the silver and account book in his hand and said, "Because we are going to the island, I am worried that the silver will be lost if I carry it with me, so on the day I got the silver, I took the opportunity when Ziheng went out to get the book to put the silver into Ziheng's account book, hoping that he would keep it for me, and also wanted to give him a surprise."

As he spoke, Lin Lezhi opened the account book.

When you turn to the page you want to read, you can clearly see deep dents on the front and back pages.

Meng Dafeng thought of a possibility and said, "Is it possible that Master Guan didn't find it, or didn't know the origin of the silver, so he left the silver in its original place."

"impossible."

Lin Lezhi said directly without any hesitation.

Putting aside the case, based on his understanding of Guan Ziheng, he would never refuse to take the money. Moreover, when Guan Ziheng saw the silver, he knew that the ten taels of silver were given by Cheng Suzheng's servants. He would understand that he had deliberately put it in there as a surprise for him, so he would not refuse to take it. Instead, he would put it in his own purse with peace of mind.

Lin Lezhi did not hide it, picked up the latest page of the account book and showed it to everyone, saying: "It can't be because Ziheng carefully copied the books that the people wanted to order that day into this account book every night so that he could settle the accounts."

"Until just now when we were by the lake, Yun He's words reminded me, and then I opened the account book to check. As a result, not only was the ingot of silver still sandwiched on the page where I placed it, but the book that the people ordered on the fifteenth day of the Lantern Festival was not copied on it."

Lin Lezhi paused for a moment, his eyes calm as he said, "If it is said that Ziheng learned about the incident on the island on the 16th and did not intend to copy the order on the 16th into this account book, then Ziheng had been staying in the inn since the Lantern Festival on the 15th, so there is no reason for him not to write it down."

"Not only that."

Lin Lezhi placed his hand on the column for September 14th, his finger pointing directly at a book title written on the page.

Those who could read and knew about this book immediately showed expressions of disbelief.

"On September 14th, someone else ordered a copy of the Four Great Mysteries. Together with the copy that Brother He had ordered earlier, which was to be picked up on the 14th, there are two copies in total."

People who have not read this book and are illiterate showed expressions of horror when they heard the words "Four Mysterious Cases".

After all, the strange things that happened in the past few days were all related to the fourth case that was replaced, "Murder between Resentful Couples".

Just thinking about it makes my hair stand on end.

Those who can read can see the words "Four Strange Cases" written in the column of September 13, not far from September 14, without Lin Lezhi having to say it out loud.

The two books appearing on the same page are particularly eye-catching and difficult to ignore.