The population of Shangshu Mansion is not large, there are only about twenty in detail, the master is of course Ye Shitian, Ye Qing is the young master, and these are the two who are in charge, it is said that Ye Shitian married a concubine in the early years, but soon died of illness, so the others are all subordinates.

There are two rooms, two waiting for Ye Shitian to live, two waiting for Ye Qing, two accounting rooms, a big housekeeper, and the rest are all guards and guards.

Although the people of Shangshu Mansion are withering, the family members in the mansion have always been superior to others, let alone the big housekeeper. Not to mention anything else, his brother in Yongle Fang has a loser, I don't know how many things happened, but he almost died, and he didn't settle it all.

These things are transparent in the mansion, not a secret, who made him deeply valued by Ye Shi.

The housekeeper's name is Li Tianyang, in his forties, he is still heroic, the maid and maid in the house, because Miss Ye Qing disposed of the house elsewhere, rarely comes back, and he is very bored every day, and cheating with Li Tianyang has become the biggest pastime.

Shortly after noon on this day, the maidservant Hongjuan came to Li Tianyang's bedroom outside, wanting to find this hot butler to "flirt and scold", and by the way to ask for some pocket money, but after knocking on the door for a long time, the room was still deadly silent.

Hongjuan was suddenly a little unhappy in her heart, and said secretly: "This dead ghost! appeared for a while this morning, and after drinking some porridge, he disappeared, and he didn't see anyone at lunch, if it wasn't for the old lady to carry it for you, the old man would definitely be investigated, could it be that he did something bad last night, and he is still asleep?"

Thinking of this, she thought that her relationship with her was extraordinary, so she went up and pushed the door, but the door was not locked, and it opened as soon as she pushed it.

It was a rather spacious bedroom, with the bed on the east side, and you had to walk in to see it clearly.

"Hmph, I'm really lazy, I must be seduced by a little sao hoof, be careful that someone ......tells the master" Hongjuan said a little angrily, taking lotus steps, twisting the fat buttocks and going in, and then looked in the direction of the bed, and the muttering stopped immediately, and the little face changed, and there was no blood all of a sudden.

I saw the chief housekeeper Li Tianyang sitting in a pool of blood under the edge of the bed, the pool of blood was connected to the chest, the blood mouth was already dark red, his hands hung down weakly, his face was pale, he had been dead for a long time, and his eyes were wide open, and he couldn't blink his eyes.

"Ahh

The piercing scream resounded throughout Shangshu Mansion in the next moment.

As mentioned earlier, like Jingzhao Mansion, the place where Shang Shutai works is also Shang Shuling's mansion. The mansion was located in the back office of Shangshutai, very close to Ye Shitian, so the news of Li Tianyang's death soon reached his ears.

Shangshutai is important, located to the east of the Shengshi Palace, although it is outside the imperial city, but it is only separated by a wall from the East Palace, in such a noble area, the chief steward of his own family was actually killed, Ye Shitian looked angry, and immediately put down the things at hand and rushed to the scene.

When Ye Shi arrived, Hongjuan's mood had stabilized a little under the comfort of the other maidservants, and she immediately told the process in a trembling voice.

Ye Shitian listened with a calm face, glanced at the room, and saw the porcelain piece on the side of the window door, which should have been caused by the vase placed next to the window door after it fell, and glanced at the corpse again, only to see that there was a piece of porcelain left outside the wound, and the killing method was not too clever.

He frowned, then breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Let Lao Yi come here to see me." ”

Lao Yi is the account office in the house, in charge of all the entry and exit details and the treasury of the Ye Mansion, and has followed Ye Shitian for more than ten years, and the attendants of the Fuzhong Nursing House all call him Mr. Yi.

Mr. Yi was close to the age of sixties, wearing a white robe, and when he learned that Ye Shitian had summoned him, he ran non-stop, panting and still didn't dare to slack off, and saluted: "Old, sir, you are looking for me." ”

"Who is coming from the mansion in the past two days?" Ye Shiqian asked.

The recruitment of Ye Mansion is also fully responsible for Li Tianyang and Mr. Yi, and Ye Shitian never asks.

Mr. Yi glanced at the corpse, his face suddenly changed, and said, "Back to my lord, the mansion has not recruited people for several months. ”

Ye Shitian pointed outside and said, "So, everyone is outside?"

"Exactly. Mr. Yi replied.

Ye Shitian thought for a while, then turned to Hongjuan and asked, "Have you seen Steward Li this morning, when was the last time you saw him?"

Hongjuan said: "Back to the master, Master Li drank some porridge this morning, and then disappeared." ”

I asked others, but they all said they didn't see it.

At this time, a nursing home emboldened and said: "Master Qiqi, two days ago, Master Li took our brother to Yongle Fang, arrested a murderer, and locked him in the dungeon of the front office. ”

"Murderer?" Ye Shitian said, "How old?"

"I'm about ten years old, and I'm still a little girl. The nurse paused and hurriedly added, "It is said that she killed Li Ye's nephew." ”

Ye Shitian thought about it, he did see a little girl in the dungeon last night, and he suddenly felt a little clear in his heart, and went to check on the nursing home, and sure enough, the little girl was missing.

"The murderer should still be hiding in the mansion, and quickly send someone to Jingzhao Mansion to report the case, and let them send someone to search. ”

After Ye Shitian finished his order, he planned to go back to the front office, and for him, this matter would end here, after all, it was just a housekeeper who died, and since the truth was found, he didn't care.

Who knew that he had just walked out of the courtyard, and the nursing home who was ordered to report the case hurriedly ran over and said, "Master, Lord Jingzhao Yin Zhang asks to see you." ”

"Huh?" Ye Shitian was really a little surprised, could he be a prophet in Jingzhao Mansion?

Not long after, Zhang Huanfa, who was wearing civilian clothes, came to the courtyard outside the murder scene and arched his hand: "Xiaguan Zhang Huanfa, meet Lord Ye." ”

"Brother Zhang, why be polite. Ye Shitian greeted him with a smile, took his hand and said, "Looking at Brother Zhang's dress, I'm afraid it's not for official business, I also said that Brother Zhang is not a prophet." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Zhang Huan smiled, a little curious.

"There was a murder in my house, and I was sending someone to report it, but Brother Zhang came to the door. Ye Shitian said with a smile, and led Zhang Huanfa into the murder scene.

Zhang Huan glanced at the corpse casually, and didn't care very much, but closed the door and said, "Brother Ye, the Black Mountain fugitive is in the dungeon of your mansion, and the Adjudication Division will find you soon." ”

"What?" Ye Shitian was taken aback, "How can a Montenegrin fugitive be in the dungeon of my mansion?"

Zhang Huanfa sneered and said: "The steward of your house has an elder brother, I don't know that she is a fugitive from Montenegro, and I want to buy it by force, but my son was killed, and in order to retaliate, I asked the steward of the house to hide the little girl in the dungeon." ”

"Is this true?" Ye Shitian's face changed several times.

"If Brother Ye doesn't believe it, he can torture him personally. Zhang Huanfa sneered, "But I'm afraid the adjudication department won't give you this time." ”

Ye Shitian glanced coldly at Li Tianyang's corpse, if it wasn't for the fact that he was already dead, he would have the heart to skin and cramp. He remained silent on the surface, and said, "Brother Zhang's intelligence source is actually one step ahead of the Adjudication Division, which is really strange and strange. ”

Zhang Huanfa shook his head and said, "The Adjudication Division needs to be deployed, and I will travel lightly, of course, one step faster." Now there is only one way to save Brother Ye, hand over the fugitive to Zhang, and bring him back to Jingzhao Mansion, so as to wash away the suspicion of Brother Ye's collusion with the underworld. ”

Ye Shitian said lightly: "Brother Zhang, what good is it to do this." ”

Zhang Huanfa said: "The first step to catch the fugitive by the adjudication department, plus the favor of the real power of the three grades of the dynasty, of course, the benefits are countless." Speaking of this, he gritted his teeth and said hatefully, "But the most important thing is that I hope that Brother Ye can help me deal with Yan Li." ”

"Yan Li?" Ye Shitian suddenly realized. Of course he had heard of this Yan Li, defeating Qin Yiqiu, the young master of Yanshan Thief, the first-class real name, all of them had some unbelievable aura, and he had heard people say that Zhang Huanfa's son died in Yan Li's hands.

"It's easy to say, but unfortunately, the fugitive is missing. He spread his hands, "I'm afraid it has something to do with the murder that Brother Zhang saw." ”

"What?" Zhang was taken aback this time, "what the hell is this?"

Ye Shitian said: "It's Ye who has no way to discipline him, the so-called color word is a knife on his head, and the steward in my house lost his life for this, and Ye was guilty." However, the fugitive should still be in my house, and Brother Zhang will search with me, and she will not be able to escape. ”

However, when the words fell, he rushed into a nursing home from outside, and said in a trembling voice: "Old, old, master, that crazy, mad dog Li, Li, Li Yong came with a lot of people, came, and said, saying that there are Qin criminals hidden in the house, and they want to bring them in, bring people in to search!"

Ye Shitian frowned deeply and said, "Brother Zhang, please go back to Jingzhao Mansion quickly and bring someone over, be sure to find her before the Ruling Division, I will buy time for you." ”

Zhang Huan nodded solemnly.

......

Lan Yu met Li Jiming in a nearby house, which made him feel a lot more comfortable.

After all, in his eyes, although Li Jiming is the pavilion master of Xiao Pavilion, there is no reason for him to let himself see him, the shelf is so big, Xiao Sibai is almost here, but unfortunately the latter is dead.

It can be seen that the majesty of the Great Xia Dynasty is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Li Jiming was very anxious, more anxious than Tang Sanghua, and as soon as he saw someone, he got straight to the point and said: "Lord Lan, there are two reluctant invitations below, the first is that there is a nephew below who intends to join the adjudication department, and the second is that there is a friend below who is locked up in the prison of the adjudication department, and wants to ask the lord to release him." ”

When Lan Yu heard this, the anger suddenly came, and he said in his heart that when Lao Tzu is your subordinate, this is a request or an order, but the next moment he gasped and calmed down.

"In exchange, under the willingness to provide the whereabouts of the Montenegrin fugitive. Li Jiming didn't give Lan Yu a chance to react at all. First of all, he couldn't expose his urgency, and secondly, he couldn't expose Tang Sanghua's existence, so he put forward two conditions that were not difficult or easy.

As the saying goes: if you want to take it, you must give it first.

If he wanted Lan Yu to believe this information, he had to make a request, otherwise how could the other party believe it.

Only by convincing the other party will he treat it with his heart.

Lan Yu grabbed Li Jiming's shirt and glared at him: "I will keep the matter of Pavilion Master Li in mind, and tell me immediately now, where is the fugitive from Montenegro?"

Li Jiming said word by word: "Shangshu Mansion dungeon." ”

Ye Qing, who had been silent for a long time on the side, suddenly raised her head, and her eyes burst into astonishing brilliance: "Do you say it again?"

Of course, Li Jiming knew Ye Qing, after all, she was a frequent visitor to Xiao Ge, but at the moment, she didn't care about her mood, and said stubbornly: "The Black Mountain fugitive is hiding in the dungeon of Shangshu Mansion. ”

Ye Qing was in a trance, her brain was a little dizzy, and a memory suddenly came to mind.

That was what happened last night, she was taken into the dungeon by Ye Shitian and tortured for more than two hours, after the end, Ye Shitian left first, after she dressed herself with the wound medicine, she met a little girl who was in sympathy with the same disease when she walked back.

She was locked at the exit of the dungeon, hugging her knees, and her eyes were blank on the cold ground, shivering from the cold, but refusing to move.

Ye Qing saw full of misfortune from her gray face, and somehow a nameless fire welled up in her heart, and she sneered coldly: "Don't think that if you put on this expression, someone will come to sympathize with you." ”

Yes, since she was a child, she has despaired countless times, whether it is shouting, calling, pleading, or crying, she can't get a little sympathy, only double the pain.

Happiness is a legend that she can never find.

The little girl looked up at her, perhaps touched by her words, and her dead eyes revealed a hint of anger: "You are like me, and it is very painful to live. ”

"Since it's very painful, why don't you die?" Ye Qing had the illusion that the secret was being spied on, and couldn't help but mock, "If you live secretly, it will only be in exchange for double the pain, it's better to die early, anyway, no one will be sad for you, cry and cry for you, think that a person can recover by hiding in the corner and secretly licking the wounds? Don't be delusional, some injuries can never be cured! Never!"

"Are you talking about yourself?" the little girl pierced her mercilessly.

Ye Qingbei gritted her teeth slightly, and said coldly: "Don't be too arrogant, little ghost, even if I suffer a lot more than you, I still have unimaginable rights in my hands." ”

"Now, do you have a deep hatred for this place and the man who just walked out, is he the master of this place?" the little girl's dead eyes suddenly revealed a strange red light.

"What's the matter!" Ye Qing was a little uncomfortable and couldn't help frowning.

"I'll help you ruin this place, this family, and the people you hate......" The red light in the little girl's eyes grew stronger.

"Just you?" Ye Qing couldn't help but look away, and didn't pay attention to her crazy words, and walked away.

In my memory, the little girl didn't speak again, but there was always a strange feeling behind her, she was still staring at herself, and this thought couldn't help but be creepy.

Ye Qing calmed down for a moment, turned to Lan Yu and said, "My lord, my subordinates have indeed seen a person who is suspected of being a fugitive in the dungeon, without further ado, please give the order to rush to Shangshutai quickly." ”

Lan Yu was stunned and said, "Oh, yes, go and tell the commander first and mobilize people." ”

Ma Guanshan looked at Ye Qing, who was more anxious than Lan Yu, and whispered to Lian Hai Changjin: "I heard that she and Ye Shitian disagreed, but I didn't expect it to reach this level, I can't wait to arrest her father immediately, if I have this kind of daughter, I can't be angry with her." ”

"Maybe there's something hidden in it. Lian Hai Changjin smiled.