CH 57

Chapter 57: First Night Sleeping Together (1)

She sighed deeply. "However, I didn't expect that I was not only stupid but also not very lucky. I was crippled, and then I was framed for killing a rooster two days ago. Now, most of the people in the Academy are still saying that I secretly killed Wu-dou."

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"Little Marquis, did Teacher Sun ask you about me?" Wen Yantong asked tentatively.

Chi Jingxi's eyes, which had been still for a long time, moved slightly. His fingertips picked up the book’s page that had not been touched for a long time and turned it over as he replied, "No."

Wen Yantong slumped her shoulders and said with a shriveled mouth, "Could it be that Teacher Sun doesn't believe my testimony? What if they still suspect me and expel me from the Academy?"

Chi Jingxi said, "Isn't that exactly what you want?"

"That's because I was out of my mind before. With so many excellent teachers in Songhai Academy, I realized that no other institution could compare in the whole Shao Jing." Wen Yantong said in a low voice, "I also want to live up to my Father's expectations."

The other side remained silent for a while.

Just when Wen Yantong thought Chi Jingxi was ignoring her, she heard his calm voice, "If you don't want people to suspect you, just find the murderer."

Wen Yantong was internally overjoyed but outwardly continued to frown. "But I don't know how to find the murderer at all!"

Chi Jingxi replied, "Suspect all that seems suspicious. That’ll be enough to find the murderer."

Wen Yantong knew that what she had just said had already made Chi Jingxi somewhat interested in her. Although this interest was very small, it was enough because she would be taking all the initiative.

She put half her body on the table, leaned a little closer to Chi Jingxi's spot, and said, "I suspect that it was the person who was on the nightwatch that night. Although we were complete strangers, he came up and identified me as the person who killed the rooster. If it wasn't for having Teacher Li as an alibi, I'm afraid he wouldn't have changed his words."

"Little Marquis, you are so smart. Can you tell me if my suspicions are right?" she asked.

Chi Jingxi's drooping eyelashes fluttered slightly. "Wrong."

Wen Yantong was surprised. "Even without thinking it through, you’re telling me that my suspicions are incorrect? "

Looking a little absent-minded, Chi Jingxi replied, "Apart from you, that night watch servant is the most suspicious murder suspect."

Wen Yantong was startled, and in an instant, her whole mind became clear.

Of course! Why didn't she think of such a simple truth?!

The alarm rooster was murdered with reason, and the most suspected person was Wen Yantong, who once attempted to murder Wu-dou in the middle of the night. However, once she was ruled out, the second most likely suspect was the night watch servant. This was why he was so anxious to identify Wen Yantong. It wasn’t because he was setting her up. Instead, he wanted to quickly find the murderer to prove his innocence.

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But with Wen Yantong taking out irrefutable evidence, Uncle Zhou was the biggest suspect. There was no need for her to interrogate Uncle Zhou because he wanted to catch the real rooster killer more than anyone else.

This level of framing was quite low and unreliable; the murderer only killed the rooster. If they had hidden the murder weapon in her bedroom, that would have been enough to forge evidence, but the murderer did nothing else.

Even if she didn't go to Teacher Li's bedroom that night, there was still no conclusive evidence that she killed Wu-dou. That meant that the person who planned this whole incident behind the scenes probably didn't want to use this incident to completely bring her down but to cause trouble for her or to smear her reputation.

But to be honest, her reputation was already bad enough.

If Uncle Zhou had any brain, he would not risk his life planning such an unstable murder plot.

Therefore, Uncle Zhou should have been ruled out from the beginning.

However, because Wen Yantong's thoughts were tunneled, she thought that Uncle Zhou's persistence was due to ill intentions. In addition, since he was the only person who had access to the rooster coop at night, she had thought he was the most suspicious.

After being enlightened, Wen Yantong’s mind quickly turned into shambles, so she hurriedly asked, "Then who killed the rooster? If it wasn't killed by the night watch servant, someone must have killed it during the time between the watchmen exchanging shifts. I have inquired before. The handover time should not exceed one minute, so who could kill a rooster silently then?"

Chi Jingxi pondered for a moment and asked, "What did the scene look like? Let me hear it."

Wen Yantong thought about it carefully and recalled everything she noticed at the time. "The head of the rooster was cut off from the neck root. It was thrown next to the rooster's body. It bled a lot, and when I arrived at the scene, the blood had already frozen."

"Is there blood on the chicken coop?" he asked.

Wen Yantong frowned, then shook her head, "No, there was no blood in the surrounding area."

Chi Jingxi tapped his fingertips twice on the study desk and said nonchalantly, like it didn’t take much to solve this case, "When you go to the dining hall in the future, pay more attention to the 'inextricable' dish, and you will be able to find the murderer."

"Ah?" Wen Yantong was shocked. Why did he suddenly change the subject to food?

She wasn't sure what Chi Jingxi meant and asked, "Is the Little Marquis hungry? Should I call someone to bring in some food?"

"The murderer is in the dining hall. It’s a cook," he confidently stated.

Wen Yantong: ? ? ?

This magical feeling was the same feeling as one gets when the math teacher asked a difficult question. As a bird-brained student, one would try to formulate the solution step by step. While still contemplating how to go on with the next step, a nerd writes an answer directly under the question!

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Big Brother, even if the answer is correct, you don’t get full points without showing your work, okay?!

Wen Yantong asked eagerly, "Why is that?"

In fact, she had already figured some hints from the limited information that Chi Jingxi gave. First of all, the rooster should have been killed while in a comatose state. This was because this animal was very alert. If one wanted to silently kill it, the rooster must be knocked out first. And then there was the fact that there was no blood around the coop, which is enough to prove that the killer took the rooster out of the chicken coop alive. The murderer had put it on the ground before cutting its neck with a knife so that the blood only gathered on the body.

Because of these thoughts, her second suspect was the person in charge of feeding the rooster.

Unexpectedly, Chi Jingxi skipped the step of doubt and gave a seemingly irrelevant answer.