Chapter 283 - 179: Heart-to-Heart Talk
Ran Yan glanced at the calm and collected Xiao Song and said, "You suspect there is something unusual about the case?"
"It’s not suspicion, it’s certainty," Xiao Song replied.
Seeing Ran Yan’s attentive demeanor, Xiao Song’s eyes softened, and he didn’t hide any details about the case, "The night Luo Ling killed Ze Pingzhi, I had already arranged for my men to be nearby the inn. Yet when Ze Pingzhi was chopped to death, they didn’t hear a thing."
"What were the results of the autopsy?" Ran Yan was still more interested in the body.
"The forensic doctor who came over from Luoyang and Liu Qingsong examined the body, but the internal organs were too badly mutilated to determine whether he had been drugged with sedatives. There’s just..." Xiao Song recalled the scene in the inn’s main hall, "There were blood trail marks on the ground from the hall to the courtyard, and judging by the handprints beside them, we suspect that the deceased crawled from the hall to the courtyard. Let’s leave this matter aside for the moment. I had previously ordered Bai Yi to follow Luo Ling, but he was attacked."
Ran Yan was surprised. She didn’t know the level of Bai Yi’s martial arts, but as Xiao Song’s guard, he should have been quite skilled, right? It wouldn’t be so easy to be ambushed, unless the assailant’s martial arts were quite formidable.
And as for Luo Ling, it was still unknown whether her martial arts skills were considerable.
Xiao Song continued, "Zhuang Yin revealed an old incident from ten years ago. Just as we suspected, he had colluded with some prison guards to stage a deception in jail, but what’s incomprehensible is that the scapegoat turned out to be a son-in-law who had married into the Su Family."
"Such things happen?" Ran Yan’s usually calm face couldn’t help showing surprise; these people really could do anything for money!
"Lady Su..." Ran Yan slowly closed her eyes. She truly did not want Su Luan to be the murderer, but...