All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Shen Lingxi remained calm and followed them into the main hall.

Chu Yan sat at the head with a very cold expression, and when he saw Shen Lingxi coming in, he waved to her, "Come here."

Shen Lingxi knew that Su Chengye would have something important to report, and was planning to sneak forward while no one was paying attention.

But Chu Yan waved at her in full view, she was inexplicably cautious, subconsciously lowered her head, walked quickly to his side and stood still.

Su Xian sat on the east side of Chu Yan's lower head, and the dead ancestor's soul stood beside him.

The mother and son saw Shen Lingxi lowering her head, "lowering her eyes shyly".

Unanimously, they showed a gratified smile.

I knew that although Liu Lang didn't say anything on the surface, he couldn't do without this little girl no matter where he went.

Shen Lingxi panicked from being stared at by one person and one ghost, and vaguely felt that they must be thinking about something.

She could only pretend not to see, hold her breath and focus, seemingly inadvertently glanced behind the two, looking for the ghost of Xie's mother in the hall.

After searching back and forth several times, I finally saw the silent ghost of Xie Mama in a dark corner farthest from Chu Yan, where there was no light at all.

"Yesterday she was very frightened, for fear that she would be ejected from Liulang's body like Yang Shuangwen." The old ancestor explained for Xie's mother.

Shen Lingxi hooked her lips and looked away.

She didn't forget that when she was being chased by Yang Shuangwen yesterday, she inadvertently caught a glimpse of the joy on Xie's mother's face.

As a person, her biggest advantage is to hold grudges.

Xie's mother pretended to deceive first, and gloated later.

Shen Lingxi will settle this account with her slowly.

In the main hall, Su Chengye brought the middle-aged man to greet Chu Yan and Su Xian, and said straight to the point: "Your Highness, I have found evidence to prove that the murderer is not Uncle Jiu."

Chu Yan raised his eyebrows slightly, looked sideways at Shen Lingxi, and saw the same astonishment in each other's eyes.

Su Xian was also quite surprised.

He is the old man of his ancestors, not a few years older than Su Chengye.

However, when he was young, he left home to follow his master to practice Taoism in Mount Taiyi, and his family relationship was already weak.

Su Chengye was also stationed at the border with his eldest brother, and rarely returned to Beijing.

He didn't have a deep relationship with Su Chengye, and he didn't expect this elder nephew to speak for him, so he felt a little embarrassed.

The old ancestor was full of relief, "Dalang has a temperament like his father, and he is a man of affection."

Chu Yan looked at Su Chengye, "What evidence?"

Su Chengye: "Yesterday, when I heard that my second sister-in-law was talking about the accounts, I told my father, went to my own account room and the Wan'an Bank to check the accounts, and accidentally discovered that Uncle Jiu used two private seals on the accounts of the bank. Withdraw silver taels."

He said, pointing to the middle-aged man behind him, "This is the son of my grandfather's old friend. His name is Zhu Huai. He is very accomplished in calligraphy and seal cutting. He is known as Mr. Nanshan."

Mr. Nanshan took half a step forward and saluted Chu Yan again.

Since they are family friends, Su Xian is naturally very familiar with Mr. Nanshan, so he also nodded to him.

Su Chengye continued: "Your Highness does not know that the private seals used by the men of the Su family and the names engraved on the family jade pendants are all from Mr. Nanshan.

He signaled Mr. Nanshan to present the evidence in his hand.

Those were the deeds of two bank accounts, each stamped with two bright red seals.

Shen Lingxi stepped forward, took the ticket deed, and took a quick look at it. The seals on it were almost exactly the same, and there was no difference.

She presented the ticket deed to Chu Yan.

Chu Yan glanced down, "I can't see the difference between these two seals. How do you see the difference?"

Su Chengye: "The lower official is about the same age as the ninth uncle. The seal of the lower official and the private seal of the ninth uncle were engraved together. Except for the different names, the jade material and size of the seal are almost exactly the same."

"The lower official compared his private seal with Uncle Jiu's seal on the account, and found that one of the two seals was slightly smaller."

"Your Highness, please put the two pieces of paper together, and observe the difference under the sunlight. This is only a very subtle difference, and it would be difficult for ordinary people to find it unless the official compares it with private seals."

According to Chu Yan's words, he overlapped the two tickets and looked at the sunlight shining through the window lattice, and he saw the very subtle difference.

He handed the ticket to Shen Lingxi and motioned her to take it to Su Xian.

Su Xian took it, took out his private seal from his sleeve, compared it, nodded to Chu Yan, and confirmed Su Chengye's statement.

Seeing this, Su Chengye said again: "Mr. Nanshan's seal script is a school of its own, and it is not something that ordinary people can imitate privately. I went to find Mr. Nanshan to check it out. Only then did I learn that last year, Mrs. Xie, who was next to my grandmother, asked him to do it for nine. Shuxin engraved a private seal."

Mr. Nanshan added: "At that time, Mama Xie brought the ancestor's seal letter, saying that Master Nine's seal was accidentally lost, and the ancestor asked me to carve a new one for Master Nine, and insisted on matching the old one. They're exactly the same."

"I was worried that it would be difficult to distinguish between the old and new seals, so I slightly changed the size. On this deed, the slightly smaller one is the one I engraved for Master Nine last year."

Su Xian's eyes showed surprise, and he lit up the seal in his hand, "I want to use this seal to withdraw money, and I carry it with me all year round. I never dare to throw it away, and I have never lost it. Why do I need to make up the seal?"

The ancestor also looked at Mama Xie in the corner.

"You are full of lies!" She questioned in a deep voice: "I never asked you to engrave a seal for Jiulang. Could it be that girl Yan forced you to do it?"

"Yes, it was the Second Grandma who forced the slaves." Mama Xie said bravely.

The old ancestor laughed angrily, "This fake seal was engraved last year. What you said yesterday is that after my death, both of you, grandpa and grandson, were forced by Yan girl. Even the time is not right. You can return it in your mouth." Is there a truth?"

"Yes...it was last year, it was indeed last year."

Mother Xie plopped on the ground, and hurriedly defended, "I said this before, because I was afraid that you would find out about the private seal and blame the slave..."

"Old Ancestor, I swear to the heavens that I only hid this one thing from you, everything else is absolutely true..."

The old ancestor snorted coldly and looked at her deeply.

Obviously, in my heart, I have doubts about what she said.

At the same time, in the main hall, with Su Xian's words, Su Chengye confirmed the conjecture in his heart, and his tone couldn't hide his excitement.

"Thus, the lower officials deduced that Mama Xie engraved the seal under the guise of Uncle Jiu's name so that she could withdraw the money that Uncle Jiu had deposited in the bank. It is really strange that she died suddenly this time. Maybe she committed suicide out of fear of crime."

"As long as you can reconcile the account of the bank account, the money that was withdrawn with a fake seal, and the account of the tiger skin money in Wanjulou, then it can be confirmed that this is true. The person who killed grandma will be with Mama Xie If it is related, it definitely can't be Uncle Jiu."

It seems that Su Chengye has put in a lot of effort to clean up Su Xian's grievances.

It should be sincere, wanting to help Su Xian.

Su Xian was very moved, and said with emotion: "It's Lao Dalang who did this for the poor."

"Pindao has nothing to repay you..." He stood up, took out two amulets folded into triangles from his cloth bag, and handed them to Su Chengye, "I consecrated these amulets in the Qing Palace on Mount Taiyi The magic talisman can protect against evil spirits, so you take it and give one to your niece and daughter-in-law when you go back."

Su Chengye quickly took it and put it away solemnly.

Shen Lingxi sighed silently.

Chu Yan pinched his eyebrows.

He did not comment on the evidence provided by Su Chengye.

He just left evidence and said that he would send someone to investigate, so he asked the embroidered envoy waiting at the door to send Su Chengye and Mr. Nanshan out politely.

After they left, Chu Yan bent his fingers slightly, tapped on the table, and said meaningfully: "I didn't expect that the evidence would point to Mama Xie so quickly, and now it's time to listen to Lianqiao's confession. Come..."

"I'll go."

Shen Lingxi glanced at Mother Xie, who was kneeling down in the corner, and took the initiative to ask Ying, "Lian Qiao just lost her mother, if Your Highness asks Xiu Yi to come forward and bring her for interrogation, there is no guarantee that she will not pretend to be weak and faint and escape, or will she escape?" Let me go meet her."

Chu Yan naturally would not refuse her request, "Let Chun Jun accompany you."

Shen Lingxifu went down, and silently looked at each other with the ancestor's dead soul, turned around and walked out one by one...