The mind-reading coroner drove the court crazy

Ye Lingrong was so angry that she jumped up and down, and was about to curse back, but Qin Miaoxi gently pulled her back.

Qin Miaoxi walked up to the villager who had spoken, her tone calm but with a hint of authority: "Who are you to the deceased? How did you hear the sound?"

Seeing a woman asking questions, the man immediately showed a disdainful look and said in a contemptuous tone: "Who are you? Why should I tell you?"

Seeing this, the yamen runner next to him immediately shouted, "How dare you talk like that! This is Qin the coroner, show some respect!"

The man was obviously a bully who only feared the strong and the weak. When scolded by the yamen runner, he immediately shrank his neck and answered honestly, "It was their neighbor who heard the noise last night."

Qin Miaoxi continued to ask: "When did you hear the sound?"

The man frowned and thought for a moment, his tone uncertain: "Probably during the hour of the Ox... I don't remember clearly."

After saying that, he couldn't help but add, "They must have hired someone to beat them to death!"

"You..." Ye Lingrong was immediately furious when she heard this. She was about to swear, but Ye Junyan covered her mouth with his hand.

He scolded her in a low voice: "You are a lady from a noble family, how can you speak like that?"

Ye Lingrong struggled unwillingly for a few times, but she was not as strong as Ye Junyan, so she could only give up and glare at him angrily.

Seeing this, Qin Miaoxi comforted them softly, "Don't worry, it has nothing to do with you. They died of poisoning, not being beaten to death."

When Ye Lingrong heard someone speaking for her, the anger on her face subsided a little.

She turned to the villagers, her tone filled with a mixture of pride and dissatisfaction: "Did you hear that? This has nothing to do with us!"

The villagers immediately shut their mouths and lowered their heads, not daring to look her in the eye. The atmosphere became awkward and quiet for a moment.

Suddenly, one of the villagers shouted, "Do you remember how the Zheng family died this way before? They were poisoned!"

"I remember now, that family was poisoned with arsenic and died!"

"I remember too, all eight members of the Zheng family died. It was so tragic!"

Qin Miaoxi's heart immediately moved when she heard about arsenic, and she immediately asked: "Tell me, what's going on?"

The villagers started talking about how the Zheng family was stingy, mean, and cruel, and that the neighbors were unwilling to associate with them.

Qin Miaoxi listened patiently for a while and finally caught a useful piece of information: "Yes, that family must have offended the Poison King, otherwise how could they be poisoned to death?"

Qin Miaoxi: "..."

At this moment, she couldn't help but imagine what the Poison King Xiao Yan would think if he heard these words? Using arsenic to kill people was really "honoring" the Poison King.

She ignored the villagers' nonsense and directly brought Lu Shiya, Ye Junyan, and Ye Lingrong to the yard. She sternly warned them: "Don't run around. Be careful not to destroy the scene left by the murderer."

The three of them were immediately energized and stood straight in their places, it really looked like that.

She nodded with satisfaction, then turned and walked back into the house.

Shi Xinzhe was walking over with something in his hand, his expression solemn: "Coroner Qin, we found something strange in the room."

Qin Miaoxi took the item from his hand and took a closer look. It turned out to be an exquisite hairpin.

The hairpin was exquisitely crafted and inlaid with several crystal gems. It was obviously worth a lot of money and was definitely not something that the old woman's family could own.

She frowned slightly and asked in a low voice: "Where did you find this thing?"

Shi Xinzhe pointed to a corner of the room and said, "It's right under the old woman's bed. It looks like it fell accidentally."

Qin Miaoxi held the hairpin tightly and said, "Let's check the owner of the hairpin. I'm sure we'll get something."

"This is my hairpin!"

Suddenly, Ye Lingrong's voice came from behind.

When Qin Miaoxi turned around, she not only saw Ye Lingrong, but also Ye Junyan and Lu Shiya walking in together.

Her vision went dark, and she complained helplessly in her heart: Didn't I tell them not to run around? Why did they still come in?

Ye Lingrong blinked her clear eyes, staring straight at the hairpin in Qin Miaoxi's hand, and said with gratitude: "Sister Qin, thank you for picking up my hairpin!"

She was about to reach out to take it, but Shi Xinzhe suddenly spoke in a serious tone: "Ms. Ye, is this your hairpin?"

Ye Lingrong nodded, her face filled with confusion and inexplicable sympathy, but she secretly muttered to herself: "I've already said it twice, why are you still asking? This Lord Shi doesn't look very old, why is his hearing not working well? No, his brain isn't working well either."

Qin Miaoxi: "..."

She suddenly didn't know whether to sympathize with Shi Xinzhe who was secretly complained about, or sympathize with Ye Lingrong, the silly girl who had no idea that she was being suspected!

Although Ye Lingrong didn't understand, Ye Junyan and Lu Shiya keenly noticed that something was wrong.

Ye Junyan asked cautiously: "Master Shi, is there any problem?"

Shi Xinzhe looked solemn and said in a heavy tone, "We found this hairpin under the deceased's bed."

"Ah? When did I drop the hairpin here?" Ye Lingrong blurted out with a confused look on her face.

This sentence almost scared Ye Junyan half to death, and Lu Shiya couldn't help but roll her eyes, sighing in her heart: "This girl is really hopeless."

Shi Xinzhe stared at Ye Lingrong with a burning gaze, his tone probing: "So, Miss Ye, do you admit that you've been here?"

Ye Junyan hurriedly explained: "Master Shi, you misunderstood! What I meant was that she didn't know when she lost the hairpin, and she had never been here."

"Really?" Shi Xinzhe looked at the brother and sister doubtfully, obviously not completely dispelling his doubts.

Ye Lingrong finally reacted at this time and nodded in agreement: "Yes, yes, yes! I lost my hairpin yesterday, and I didn't expect Sister Qin to pick it up. Sister Qin, you are so kind!"

Lu Shiya couldn't help but slap her forehead, leaned close to Ye Junyan's ear, and whispered: "You should pay more attention to your sister in the future! If you can keep your sister from going out, don't let her go out."

Ye Junyan nodded seriously, feeling helpless: [My sister's IQ... is really worrying.]

At this time, a yamen runner came in and found a witness who saw the conflict between Ye Lingrong and the old woman. According to the witness, the old woman left the scene out of shame after failing to blackmail others. The other party also saw the old woman stealing Ye Lingrong's things in the chaos, but because he thought less trouble is more trouble, he did not report the old woman's theft.

Later, after identification, it was found that the old woman had stolen that hairpin.

Shi Xinzhe immediately looked at Qin Miaoxi, who shook her head slightly at him, indicating that he had nothing to do with Ye Lingrong.

Shi Xinzhe couldn't help but look at Ye Lingrong with regret, as if sighing: We almost caught the murderer!

He turned around and whispered to Qin Miaoxi, "Coroner Qin, you just said the murderer was tall, and...?"

"Oh, I just said the murderer should be..."

Qin Miaoxi was about to answer, but was suddenly interrupted by Lu Shiya, "Wait!"