There seemed to be a bug at the end of the previous chapter, but I could not think of a solution for the moment—I could only ask everyone to ignore it for now. I would study it again tonight and patch it tomorrow.
Although they had obtained some information from the corpse, none of it constituted directional evidence—at least, until they acquired more information, they could not determine where it pointed.
Thus, after completing the examination, Sun Shaozong requisitioned the Lin Mansion's flower hall and began investigating the relationships among everyone in the household.
According to the Lin family, ever since Lin Qisheng had resigned from office, he had remained behind closed doors, refusing visitors, merely waiting to move the entire family back to their ancestral home in Shanxi at the end of the month.
Since he had not even stepped outside, much less met any outside visitors, those closest to Lin Qisheng were naturally the prime suspects.
Yet when everyone in the household had been assembled, Sun Shaozong discovered something strange: the Lin Mansion had more masters than servants.
"Lord Sun may not be aware of this."
Facing Sun Shaozong's question, Lin Qisheng's eldest son, Lin Xiuyuan, took the initiative to explain. "Most of the servants employed by our household came from respectable families in the vicinity of the Capital Region."
"As the saying went, it was difficult to leave one's homeland. In the end, only a small number were willing to follow my father back to Shanxi to spend his retirement years. Once Father set the date for our departure, he simply dismissed them all."
So that was it.
In fact, this was customary. After all, not every family was like the Rong family, which had already put down roots in the capital, with generations of household-born servants