The mind-reading coroner drove the court crazy

Qin Miaoxi's fingers slid across the damaged areas, and she said meaningfully, "This skirt is already in tatters. Why don't I help your young lady throw it away!"

The maid didn't hear the hidden meaning in her words and pleaded anxiously, "Sir, you can't do that. The young lady asked me to find someone to mend it and send it back. You can't throw it away."

Lu Qingchen glanced at it casually. "Oh? I don't think this skirt is anything special. Your daughter is quite good at managing life! Or do you want to secretly take it back and wear it yourself when it's no longer suitable?"

Only poor families would mend torn clothes and wear them again. Once the clothes of wealthy families were torn, they would be thrown away, so it was normal for him to have doubts.

"No, I dare not." The maid's face turned pale with fear. "The young lady said that this dress has special meaning to her and cannot be thrown away."

[You can't let the young lady hear this, or I'll definitely get a beating.]

Qin Miaoxi raised her eyebrows. It seemed that this Miss Wang was even more ruthless than she had imagined.

"I'll give you my clothes back."

"Thank you, sir!" The maid took the clothes and ran away without looking back, fearing that they would change their minds and want to go over.

"Sir, let's go to the city wall first."

As she said that, she pulled Lu Qingchen along and walked away quickly.

On the way, Lu Qingchen couldn't help but ask curiously, "Do you like that dress too? After we finish our business, I'll take you to the Yunyin Pavilion's clothing store to buy some. The clothes there are much better than the one we just wore."

[Oh! I'm so stupid! Why didn't I take the initiative to buy clothes for my wife? Now she has to envy other people's tattered clothes.]

Qin Miaoxi: "..."

Brother, we are just saying that it’s okay if you just use your imagination, but excessive imagination can easily lead to baldness!

"That dress was bought by Sheng Mingyuan."

"Well, don't worry, my wife. Since other people's husbands buy things for them, ours won't be less either." Lu Qingchen promised solemnly.

Qin Miaoxi looked up at the sky speechlessly and repeated helplessly: "That dress was bought by Sheng Mingyuan for Fan."

"Well, he bought it for...Fan?" Lu Qingchen finally understood what he was saying. "Then how did his wife's clothes end up on Miss Wang?"

"Yes, that's what I'm curious about."

Qin Miaoxi walked forward and said, "You didn't go to the palace banquet that day. You didn't know that Fan once beat and scolded Miss Wang in front of everyone, saying that she seduced her husband Sheng Mingyuan. At that time, everyone thought Fan was hysterical, but now it seems that Fan's madness may have a reason."

Lu Qingchen followed her silently, with a subtle undercurrent in his dark pupils.

Soon, they arrived at the city wall where Miss Wang was found. It was overgrown with weeds and there was no luminous orchid as she said.

Lu Qingchen looked around and checked. Apart from a few small wild flowers growing in a gap at the edge that was big enough for a person to squeeze in, he really didn't see any other petals.

"How could there be such a rare orchid growing in this godforsaken place, a luminous variety I've never seen before?" He sneered and said with certainty, "That woman is lying."

"Not necessarily."

Qin Miaoxi squatted on the ground and picked up some soil with some liquid scattered on it. She covered it with her hand, and could still vaguely see the fluorescence.

"Is it fluorescent powder?"

"No, it's the liquid from the fireflies. Look! There are firefly corpses in the soil over there."

Looking where she pointed, I saw seven or eight fireflies buried in the soil.

"Why so many?"

Fireflies fly in groups, but if they encounter danger, they will not be trampled to death on the ground together. The corpses of these fireflies are distributed very densely, which does not seem to be an accident.

"The soil is dry, but the insects haven't shriveled up yet, and the ants haven't gathered to devour them. They must have died not long ago."

After saying this, Qin Miaoxi checked the surrounding ground again. "The footprints here are very chaotic and complicated. Miss Wang must have fallen in here and was later found and rescued."

"Wife, what are you doing?" Lu Qingchen was not paying attention for a moment, and Qin Miaoxi jumped down and got stuck in the gap.

She could see traces in the crack by tilting her head. Halfway down, there was a spot where the soil was soft and had been stepped on. She looked down, but at the bottom of the crack there was only some scattered sand and soil, but no footprints.

Isn't this wrong?

Shouldn't people who fall in here land on their feet like her? Why isn't there anything there? She looked around again, unconvinced, and it was as clean as before.

Could it be that Miss Wang didn’t fall at all?

Once I thought about this, I couldn't help but speculate anymore.

At this moment, a hand reached out from above his head, and Lu Qingchen shouted anxiously: "Wife, I'll pull you up."

Qin Miaoxi grabbed his hand and flipped over lightly.

Before she could express her gratitude, her eyes widened in anger and she roared, "Nonsense! Do you know that trampling on the scene will destroy the original traces?"

When she saw Lu Qingchen leaving some footprints on the already chaotic ground, her anger immediately rushed to the top of her head.

Here, Lu Qingchen still said confidently: "But I want to rescue you!"

[Is there still a problem with me saving my wife? ]

Qin Miaoxi: "..."

She was already so angry that she couldn't speak. Lu Qingchen keenly sensed that something was wrong and immediately used his ultimate move.

"Wife, these are what you dropped!"

Suddenly, a silver ingot weighing twenty taels was stuffed into her hand. She laughed in anger, "Is this what I dropped?"

"Of course, I saw it with my own eyes."

"Haha! I don't even have twenty taels of silver on me."

Lu Qingchen was shocked, "Wife, why are you so poor? Oh! You fell again."

As she spoke, a handful of banknotes fell in front of her. Lu Qingchen picked them up like a treasure and said, "Wife, this time it really fell from you."

Qin Miaoxi's eyelids twitched wildly, thinking that she must be blind to not see the banknote he threw out.

The color on her face grew as her anger increased. Her hands moved quickly, and in the blink of an eye, she pocketed the silver ingots and banknotes. She said coldly, "This won't happen again."

Lu Qingchen chuckled foolishly and immediately breathed a sigh of relief. He said that his wife was just being honest in her words! This time, she should finally calm down.

In order not to annoy his wife too much, he asked anxiously, "Have you found the glowing orchid?"

"No, there are some traces of trampling below, but they don't reach the bottom. Miss Wang must have been hanging in the air, then climbed up by stepping on the depressions above."

"Impossible." Lu Qingchen denied her statement without hesitation. "The woman said she fainted after falling into a crevice. How could a fainted person be hanging in mid-air?"

Qin Miaoxi nodded in agreement, "People can lie, but evidence won't..."

The two looked at each other and said in unison: "She is hiding something."

"Didn't the night watchman see someone leaving the Wang family and heading towards the Sheng family?" Lu Qingchen paused. "Wife, do you think it was Miss Wang who went to the Sheng family?"

Qin Miaoxi murmured, "Before the case is concluded, we should make bold assumptions and carefully verify them."

Lu Qingchen chuckled foolishly, and his wife also agreed with what he said!

He patted his chest and promised, "I will send Wen Zhu to investigate Sheng Mingyuan right away. I will definitely find out everything about his eight generations of ancestors."

Qin Miaoxi: "..."

Looking at the man running away in a hurry, she sighed helplessly.

At this moment, a surprised cry came from above her head, "Nan... Madam Hou!"

She looked up and saw the Regent and his wife standing on the several-meter-high city wall.