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Chapter 25: Forged

Tang Tianyuan also looked at it. He felt that although the two handwritings were respectively neat and distorted, they were similar in general, and should have come from the same person. He asked suspiciously, "Are you sure?"

Tan Lingyin raised her eyebrow, "I'm an expert." Seeing that he still didn't believe her, she took a pen and wrote a few words on another piece of paper and showed it to Tang Tianyuan.

Looking at the almost identical handwriting, Tang Tianyuan was shocked.

"It’s just a minor skill," Tan Lingyin lifted her chin proudly, "If you give me more time, I can imitate it better. This is still a little lacking."

Genius, this is genius! Tang Tianyuan was very excited, but soon found that this was not the right time. He calmed down immediately and asked Wei Zitong to be taken out first, and then asked Tan Lingyin to identify the other letters.

Conclusion: They were all imitated handwriting.

That is to say, someone pretended to be Wei Zitong, communicated with Qi Hui, and tricked her into eloping. Yuhuan must have known this and provided help, otherwise that person would not have been able to deceive Qi Hui so easily.

This was the third time that maid has deceived the county magistrate; she was too cunning.

So who actually wrote this letter?

Tang Tianyuan and Tan Lingyin looked at each other, they had a tacit understanding, and said in unison, "Sun Bufan."

No, it may not necessarily be Sun Bufan. Qi Hui was a well-known beauty, there should be many men who admired her, and it may be anyone who bribed Yuhuan. To determine this person, further evidence was needed, or Yuhuan needed to confess. It's a pity that Yuhuan was extremely cunning. If there was no hard evidence, she probably wouldn't tell the truth.

Tang Tianyuan frowned and pondered, his eyes slowly rolled a few times as he pondered, and finally, his eyes stopped on Tan Lingyin's face.

Tan Lingyin under needles when she saw Tang Tianyuan staring straight at her, "You, you don't want me to sacrifice my looks to seduce Sun Bufan to confess, right?"

"You think too much." Tang Tianyuan said, and took another step closer. He looked down at her; they were face-to-face.

Tan Lingyin stared back at him. Because they were so close, she had a clear look at his face. She quickly realized that the magistrate was really good looking. She was a little nervous, but pretended to be calm, "This... I think, for things like Sun Bufan, you will definitely be more effective than me."

Tang Tianyuan didn't answer, his eyes moved down and landed on her lips.

Tan Lingyin's heart was trembling, "What the hell are you trying to do? If you want to kill or cut, just end it quickly!"

"What would you do if I were to disrespect you now?" Tang Tianyuan asked suddenly.

"I'll kick you into a eunuch with one kick."

Tang Tianyuan took a few steps back decisively and looked at her with a tangled expression. Watching her raise her head and chest full of momentum, he shook his head and sighed, "Tan Lingyin, you are a hooligan."

Tan Lingyin was particularly aggrieved, "You are obviously trying to disrespect me, so why are you calling me a hooligan? Why are you so unreasonable?"

"I don't want to disrespect you, my vision is not that bad... I just want to know if other women were like you, and if their first reaction after being disrespected was to kick someone down there?"

"No, there aren't many witty girls like me. They'll probably slap, um, slap in the face?"

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"Slap." Tang Tianyuan repeated and smiled suddenly.

Tan Lingyin shrank her neck, "Stop laughing, you're scaring me. What the hell are you laughing at..."

Tang Tianyuan came back to his senses and tapped Tan Lingyin's head lightly with a folding fan, "I know why Sun Bufan has the same hairstyle as a brothel girl."

"Because he's a pervert. I know that too."

"No, because he has a wound on his face."

"Eh?"

"He was frivolous Qi Hui, Qi Hui's first reaction was to slap him. If his face was only swollen, the swelling would probably go away overnight, but if the skin was cut by a fingernail, it wouldn’t heal so quickly, so he could only hang down a lock of hair to cover it."

Tan Lingyin patted her head, "Yeah, why didn't I think of that? But how do we prove it? Do we have to go and take a look under Sun Bufan's hair? Would he agree? Would he say we molested a good man and make up bogus accusations?"

"We can take a look after he falls asleep. Tonight, this official will visit Sun Residence in person."

Tan Lingyin patted him on the shoulder, "Leave early and return soon. Just look at his face, don't be disrespectful."

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Tang Tianyuan slapped her hand away.

Tang Tianyuan really went that very night. Tan Lingyin was anxious for the results and couldn't sleep, so she waited at the entrance of the county magistrate's courtyard, like a stalker.

When he came back in the middle of the night, Tan Lingyin hurriedly asked, "How was it? Is it him?"

"He did have nail scratches on his face. Now it can be basically determined that Sun Bufan did something disrespectful to Qi Hui, but this cannot be used as direct evidence for homicide."

"Then what to do?"

"I’ll question Yuhuan again tonight, we’ll hold the Official Hearing at court tomorrow."

"But we still don’t have evidence."

"I have a way."

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