Chapter 416: Green Phoenix Stone
Seeing this, Ji Yunshu and the rest did not press the issue any further.
They waited until Li Yuan's condition improved.
After a while!
Li Mingzhou raised his head, looked at everyone, and took a deep breath.
His Adam's apple bobbed for a long time, as if he was preparing his words for a long time. Finally, he lowered his eyes and said helplessly, "That's right, Ah Yuan is not completely insane. Most of the time, he's normal. This is an illness that he contracted many years ago."
"Can you tell me now?"
He nodded. "Alright, I'll speak."
His tone was solemn.
The surroundings were very quiet. No one made a sound, and no one interrupted Li Mingzhou.
Speak!
Speak!
Everyone's ears perked up!
The boorish Constable Zhang even dug his ears, trying to hear more clearly.
On the other hand, Fang Mingshan leaned forward to prevent his ears from overhearing and missing something!
Wen Lingyang hurriedly opened his notebook and picked up his pen, afraid that he would miss the slightest clue.
As for Ji Yunshu, she focused all her attention on Li Mingzhou and Li Yuan.
But —
After waiting for a long time, Li Mingzhou stammered without saying a word.
His entire demeanor was complicated!
Ji Yunshu observed his expression, and suddenly, she noticed a pendant around Li Yuan's neck.
A pendant made of green phoenix stone!
When she saw the patterns on the pendant, her heart skipped a beat!
Her mind buzzed, and she instantly understood something. All the clues began to come together bit by bit.
She took a deep breath and said to Li Mingzhou, who had been silent for a long time, "If you think it's difficult, then why don't I say it? You just have to answer yes or no, or nod or shake your head."
What?
Even Ji Yunshu knows?
As soon as these words came out, everyone's gazes fell on her in an instant.
Ji Yunshu straightened her face. "Miss Yu 'in's bracelet has the words' Shang Xi 'engraved on it. I think it's not referring to you, but Li Yuan?"
She waited for Li Mingzhou's reply!
After a short while, Li Mingzhou lowered his body and nodded.
He raised his head and asked, "How did you know?"
"It's not difficult."
She pointed at the pendant on Li Yuan's neck and explained, "Although the pattern embroidered on your collar is the same as the one on Miss Yu 'in's light muslin, the Green Luan Stone on Li Yuan's neck is also engraved with the same pattern as Miss Yu' in's. However, the pattern on this Green Luan Stone is more intricate and it was carved by hand. The string connecting the pendant is red, so it's obvious that it was a gift from a woman. Other than Miss Yu 'in, I can't think of anyone else.
More importantly, the Green Luan Stone is a type of Twin Stone. When a woman places her affections on the other party, she will usually give a Green Luan Stone to the other party. The stone is also carved with the same pattern as the one on Miss Yu 'in's veil. It's obvious that the person Miss Yu' in really wants to place her affections on is not you, but Li Yuan. Am I right? "
As it turned out, he had made a huge mistake before!
The person Miss Yu 'in truly liked was Li Yuan, who was sometimes crazy and sometimes normal.
However, Li Mingzhou neither nodded nor shook his head!
It was probably a tacit agreement!
Everyone was so dumbfounded that their eyeballs almost fell out of their sockets!
This was definitely big news.
Zhuo Wei, are you sure you don't want to take a peek?
You can even take a peek in secret.
Ji Yunshu asked, "Then, Li Yuan, was he one of the seven leaders of your clan back then?"
Li Mingzhou nodded!
Six of the seven brothers had already appeared.
However, Ji Yunshu didn't know that Yun Tongyang was also one of them!
She didn't intend to pursue the matter.
Instead, she said, "Fine, this one doesn't care what happened between Li Yuan and the three deceased twenty years ago. The only thing I can confirm is that Miss Yu 'in was instructed by Li Yuan to pretend to be a ghost to scare the three deceased. Then, he used this to his advantage and killed the deceased. In the end, he could pin the crime on the theory of ghosts and gods. Of course, there are two possibilities. Either he really didn't kill them, and only saw the murderer, which was why he kept saying that the ghosts were after their lives. Or, it's what I'm talking about now.
Actually, you already knew that Li Yuan would kill them. You must have tried to stop him, but he didn't listen. Let's not talk about how the previous two died. Let's take Old Master Chang's death as an example. Not long after you left Yuzhou City to run errands, you heard that Chang Shiliang had encountered a ghost. His condition was exactly the same as the previous two. So, you were worried that Li Yuan would kill again the next day, so you quietly rushed back from the outer city. You didn't even go to your jade shop to retrieve the account book, but rushed to the Chang Estate to stop Li Yuan from killing them, am I right? "
Li Mingzhou didn't speak. He lowered his head even more and hugged Li Yuan even tighter.
His silence seemed to mean that he had admitted to it.
"The reason why you dug up the grave in the middle of the night wasn't because of your so-called thumb ring. There were two reasons. First, you wanted to destroy the corpse, because there was a tattoo of your Liu gang on the corpse. Second, there might be something related to Li Yuan in the coffin, so you had to retrieve it."
"Something?" Fang Mingsan asked, "What is it? Apart from the thumb ring, there are only some clothes and funerary objects left. "
"Then, I'll have to trouble Lord Fang to send someone to search Chang Shiliang's coffin. Perhaps, it might be among the funerary objects."
Fang Mingsan didn't say anything else and quickly gave the order.
A few yamen runners quickly left to carry out their tasks.
Li Mingzhou was completely dumbfounded. Everything had been explained clearly by Ji Yunshu. What else could he say?
However, Jing Rong asked, "But what was his motive?"
Ji Yunshu shook her head. "We'll have to wait for him to say it himself. Or, we'll have to wait for Li Yuan to wake up and let him answer it himself."
Suddenly …
"Why don't I say it?"
A person stood outside.
It was Yu 'in.
She stared coldly at everyone as she walked in under the watchful eyes of a few yamen runners.
Then, she squatted beside Li Yuan, took out her handkerchief, and gently wiped his head.
"You've all misunderstood. Ah Yuan and I don't have that kind of relationship. The person he likes is my sister."
Huh?
"Twenty years ago, my sister and Ah Yuan fell in love. They were supposed to get married, but the leaders of the Liu gang tried their best to stop them. They beat my sister to death in front of Ah Yuan. From that day onwards, he was afflicted with this illness." As she spoke, she picked up the Cyan Luan Stone on Li Yuan's neck. "The pattern on this Cyan Luan Stone was personally carved by my sister. She gave it to him. All these years, he has always kept it. He has never let go of my sister."
At this point, Yu 'in's eyes were filled with hatred and pity.
Tears welled up in her eyes, but she stubbornly 'swallowed' them back.
Then, she stood up, tightened her neck, and said to Ji Yunshu, "Ah Yuan definitely didn't kill anyone. No matter how right Teacher Ji is, he didn't kill anyone. Because on the night Chang Shiliang died, Ah Yuan … he was with me."
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