At the sweet water wharf at the beginning of the lanterns, the lights and shadows were everywhere, the porters who were rushing to unload the goods were in a hurry, Li Qianqian took Mother Ye and others to eat on the deck, and the two officials sent by the government followed from afar.

Chunshou asked a little angrily, "Didn't you say you wanted to ask us, why haven't you moved until now?"

"It's not good that you didn't come to ask?" Chunjiang glanced at her angrily, "This is outside, be careful when you speak." The next sentence is almost breathy, and if you don't get close, you can't hear it clearly.

Chunshou pouted and nodded, "Got it." ”

Mother Ye also felt strange, it was said that someone had been sent to inform them and ask them to come over for questioning, but after waiting for a whole day, there was no movement?

"Maybe this is someone else's strategy, waiting for me to make trouble!" Li Qian smiled, "Didn't you say that I have a big temper? ”

Also. Mother Ye nodded, "That's ......"

"Let's start!" Li Qianqian grinned, then put away his smile, and said with a straight face, "I don't care, I don't care! I want to go home, I want to go home!"

"Miss, bear with me, and when the matter is resolved, you can go home. ”

"I don't care, I'm going home now. ”

"However, the official still wants to ask us!"

"Tell them to go home and ask, I don't want to stay on the ship anymore! As he spoke, he jumped to his feet, and this movement attracted the attention of everyone on the deck.

Among them was Geng Protector, who was helped out by the guards to blow the wind, seeing that he was interested, the guard armor quietly asked people to inquire, and then said to Geng Protector with a somewhat strange face, "My lord, that's that girl." ”

At first, Geng Protector didn't quite understand, but after seeing the face of the guard armor, he realized who he was talking about.

"It turned out to be that child! With such a appearance, it is no wonder that the family is used to it. ”

The guard smiled and didn't answer.

After Li Qianqian made a fuss, he was persuaded by the servant women around him, although he was still a little annoyed, but he was not as noisy as before.

"What was she arguing about?"

"It seems that the two adults said they wanted to ask her, but after waiting for a day, they didn't ask, so they ......"

Geng Protector nodded, "Then she should be angry." ”

Guarding Jia Xin said, it should be, sir, you are not mistaken, right? It can't be that the girl is so partial to her because she is good-looking, right?

Li Qianqian made such a fuss on the deck, and Huang Shilang and Wang Shaoqing naturally knew, "Whose daughter is this, so delicate?"

Wang Shaoqing thought for a while, shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of it, I haven't heard of this person." ”

"This identity can't be fake, right?" said Huang Shilang.

"Even if it's fake, so what? As long as she and her people have nothing to do with this case, we can't care about it. ”

That's right.

Wang Shaoqing's headache now is, who is this eighth maid? The guards of the Xie family, who were guarding both sides of the passage, said that no one had entered Mingxiu before, so they had specially gone to the cabin where the accident had occurred and made sure that there was no other entrance or exit, and there was only one door for people to enter and exit.

There was no door between the cabins, and where did the eighth maid enter? Where is she now?

As for the motive? No one was found, and there was no way to guess the motive of the other party's murder.

"Tomorrow morning, will you invite that girl to come over and ask questions?"

"It's fine. ”

The next morning, just after breakfast, the official came to invite someone, Li Qianqian deliberately put on a stinky face, and under the soft persuasion of Ye's mother, he took Chunjiang and others to see Huang Shilang and them.

Several officials have already seen Li Qianqian, but they still looked at her and were stunned for a while, even though Huang Shilang and Wang Shaoqing have seen a lot of beauties, but when they saw Li Qianqian, they couldn't help but take a look at it, this girl is really beautiful!

The people waiting around her are also very good at dressing her up, she is young, so she doesn't use too much gold and silver jewelry, but just uses a small flower hairpin on the hairpin, with a pink dress, so that she looks as delicate as a fairy.

Huang Shilang said in his heart, this girl is so outstanding, how can she pass in front of the Xie family's guards without attracting attention? Before asking questions, he had already eliminated the possibility of Li Qianqian's crime in his heart, and after he finished asking, he sent Li Qianqian and his party back.

After Li Qianqian went back, she asked Chunjiang to help her remove the flowers from her hair.

"It looks good in the plug. Chunjiang persuaded.

"Tear it down! I don't dare to move these flowers. Li Qianqian smiled at her flatteringly.

Chunjiang had to help her remove the flowers, "Sect Master, those two adults won't come to us for questioning again, right?"

"No, it won't. Li Qianqian replied categorically, "What they are worried about now is how to find the eighth maid from the Xie family's maid." ”

Not only did Chunjiang not understand this, but Chunshou and Ye's mother were also curious, "How do you know that they can't find the eighth maid?"

"Didn't Chunshou say that when Gongzi Xie had an accident, there were eight maids in the room?"

Chunshou nodded, looking at Li Qianqian with expectant eyes.

"But Cheng Qian said that there are six maids who usually wait for Gongzi Xie, and the seventh is the maid who found Gongzi Xie dead, and what about the other one? ”

"Since that maid is the murderer, why don't the others recognize her?"

Li Qianqian said, "What if the six maids had already fallen asleep before Gongzi Xie was killed? They didn't see the murderer at all, and after the murderer killed Gongzi Xie, before they had time to escape, they found that the maid who had died of Gongzi Xie had entered the door, maybe she and the murderer were accomplices?"

The Xie family guards heard the screams of the maid and rushed into the house, Gongzi Xie was dead, and the maid was stunned, and then they sent someone to find someone. Chunjiang said thoughtfully.

"Then they saw that there were eight maids in the house, and they all fainted, and when they received the news, they all rushed over, and there was a mess in the cabin, and then the captain arrived, and cleared out those who were not in the cabin, and then questioned them. Cheng Qian and the others had already inquired about the situation that day, and with the assistance of the captain, Li Qianqian, who was naturally very clear about the whole process.

After listening to her, Mother Ye asked, "Do you know who the eighth maid is?"

"I don't know. Li Qianqian spread his hands, "I'm not at the scene, and I don't know the Xie family, so I don't know who those eight maids are." ”

"But with one sword, this person has two blows. Li Qianqian touched his chin with some admiration, "I'm guessing if it will be a hired killer, otherwise a maid, even if she has the guts, does she have that strength?"

Huang Shilang took the corpse presented by the servant, and he was also questioning this, "One knife, only one knife?"

"Yes. Gao Qizuo said that there was only one knife, so he suspected that it was not a woman who did it, but a man. ”

Huang Shilang thought of the rumors in Beijing that he had heard before, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at Wang Shaoqing, Wang Shaoqing also thought of the same rumor, and after the two looked at each other, it took a while before Wang Shaoqing spoke, "The murderer can't be a man dressed as a woman and mixed in with the maid, right?"

"Is it possible?"

But the guard said that no one went in before Mingxiu entered. ”

Huang Shilang said, "What they said is that before Mingxiu went in, when was the wine and food in the house delivered?"

"Half an hour before the incident. Wang Shaoqing replied after looking at the guards' interrogation records.

"In half an hour, who delivered the food and drinks? How many people were there? After delivering the food and drinks, how many people came out?"

Wang Shaoqing flipped through several pages up and down, but did not record the questions asked by Huang Shilang.

"I didn't write it. ”

"Call someone to ask at once!"

This question has finally made some progress.

It's just a little far from the answer.

At the same time, the Geng family finally rushed over from Dongqi, and the guards of the Geng family finally got out of the sea of suffering, and they no longer had to wait for their masters.

Li Qianqian made a fuss a few more times, and Li Shu finally arrived with Jinyi, pretending to be a tired father, and wanted to pick up Li Qianqian and the others from the boat.

After Huang Shilang and the others saw Li Shu, they were all a little puzzled, if this person was an official in the court, why didn't they have any impression of him? This person didn't seem to be a person who could make people ignore his existence!

However, if people want to pick up their daughter, they really can't stop them, and besides, Miss Cha and her party clearly have nothing to do with Xie Gongzi's murder, and their fathers have come to pick them up, so it's a bit too much if they don't let them go.

But just letting people go like this, they felt a little depressed.

had to leave him in contact and then release him.

Li Qianqian and the others got off the boat and left, and nearly an hour later, Geng Protector learned about it, but he had no intention of paying attention to this bad-tempered official daughter.

Li Qianqian and others temporarily settled down in an inn near Sweet Water Wharf.

Li Shu waited for them to rest enough before calling Li Qianqian over. "Are you having fun now?"

"I'm not happy, that Geng Protector is stupid. Li Qianqian complained.

Li Shuxin said, with your stupid method, I am afraid that there are few people who can guess who you are. "Then don't play, let Geng Protector and Li Ye's people fight!"

On the one hand, he explained what happened in Dongqi to Li Qianqian.

Geng Hufa's third son's family and the youngest son's family had accidents one after another, the third son was paralyzed, all the children died in the accident, the whereabouts of the third daughter-in-law were unknown, and the younger son's family was shipwrecked, and the whole family, together with his parents-in-law and the three brothers-in-law's family, were all killed.

"It's ......"

"This is Li Ye's hand. ”

"Kidnapping Geng Protector before that?"

"If you don't kidnap him, how can the guards of the Geng family leave Dongqi? No matter how powerful Li Ye's people are, they can't deal with the guards while creating these accidents. Li Shu never mentioned how many hands and feet they had moved in the middle.

Li Qianqian shook his head, "It seems that even if Protector Geng doesn't want to tear his face with Li Ye, it won't be done." ”

"Li Ye had already torn his face with him when he believed that his sons had died at the hands of Geng Protector. ”

Li Qianqian thought for a moment and asked, "What about Geng's wife and the rest of his children and grandchildren?"

"It's probably gone wrong now. Li Shu said, "The news of the accident of Geng's family has also been notified to other Dharma protectors." ”

The Dharma protectors who support Li Ye, seeing the fate of Geng Protector's family, will only be cold to Li Ye, and as for the other Dharma protectors, eighty percent are happy to see it.

"The marriage of the owner of Fengzhuang has been stopped. ”

"Huh?

"That woman thinks she wants to get it, but in fact, her every move is all watched by Feng Da's kid, since you know that the woman has ulterior intentions, do you think he will marry her back?"

Li Qianqian was speechless, do you know all about the co-authorship?" "Then call Feng San back?"

"Of course you have to call it back, otherwise how can you win the trust of others?" "Is this girl stupid? Think about it, she should be stupid, or how would she think of pretending to be a squeamish official daughter, so that Geng Protector can automatically come to the door, well, come up with such a stupid method, isn't it stupid? But it's okay, let her go out for a show, and look, her complexion is much better than before.

This stupid girl actually just wants to come out and play, right? I didn't expect to encounter a murder.

Huang Shilang and Wang Shaoqing are veterans in handling cases, and they were killed by Xie Gongzi with one knife, and even thought that the murderer might be disguised as a woman.

In the end, it was found out that the person who started it was actually Grandma Xie's brother, who was a wizard who practiced martial arts, and was taken as an apprentice by the head of the guards in Grandma Xie's house at a young age.

After completing his studies, he followed his master to work at Grandma Xie's mother's house, and when Grandma Xie's brother learned of Xie Gongzi's behavior, he was very worried about the situation of her and her children.

Once or twice, the friendship between father and son and brother is consumed, even if it is a blood relative, there is no single party to continue to pay, and the other party only accepts without paying any price, no matter how deep the friendship is, there will be a day when it is exhausted, not to mention that Xie Gongzi once wanted to replace the eldest brother as the son.

Although he knew that Xie Gongzi was seriously ill, but the name of the Dongqi Divine Doctor was loud, who knew if a miracle would appear on him? Could it be that if he went to Dongqi, Xie Gongzi's illness would be saved?

If he gets better, will he change his mind and change his ways? Or will he become more and more unrestrained? Grandma Xie's brothers don't want to gamble, dare not gamble, and don't want to gamble.

If he can survive, Grandma Xie can reconcile with him, but what about the child? Without his mother by his side to take care of him, will his nephew be raised by Mrs. Xie's two mothers-in-law and daughter-in-law to be a second son Xie?

If he dies, with Grandma Xie's mother-in-law guarding him, Mrs. Xie's two mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law are not easy to snatch the child from her, because her husband is dead, and the child is her lifeline.

"So Grandma Xie's brother sent her brother over and killed Gongzi Xie?"

"Hmm. Chunshou nodded, she had just gotten the first-hand news from Cheng Qian, and when she talked about it with Li Qianqian, she couldn't help but feel a little proud. The man was mixed in with the people who delivered the wine and food, and when those people left, he waited for the opportunity to stay in the cabin and did not go out, Xie Gongzi and the six maids were playing crazy, and no one found out about his existence. He moved his hands and feet in the wine, and after Xie Gongzi and the six maids drank the wine and all fell asleep, he appeared and killed Xie Gongzi, and then turned his clothes over and put them on, dressed up as a maid, and lay on the ground with the six maids and pretended to be unconscious. ”

When the people came in and found that Xie Gongzi was dead, he originally wanted to escape from the cabin by taking advantage of the chaos, but he was afraid that he would be suspected of the person who brought in the wine and food, so he held on and waited for the captain to ask before leaving quietly.

It's just that the captain sent someone to guard the passage, so he couldn't leave the cabin where the Xie family lived smoothly, and he could only hope that the adults who came to ask the case would focus on the eighth maid.

He never expected that the method of killing with a knife would make the two adults think of men pretending to be women, and then of the person who delivered the wine and food.

"Grandma Xie's mother's family is really well-intentioned!" Chunjiang sighed, although the milk brother took it all in, but Grandma Xie was estranged from the Xie family.

Mrs. Xie knew that it was Grandma Xie's brother who did it, so she rushed to slap Grandma Xie several times. Chunshou felt pain for her when she thought about it.

Xingguohou father and son also came, and I heard that after Xingguohou asked Grandma Xie to finish the funeral, he took the child back to his parents' house to live. Chunshou said a little puzzled, "He said, the child's surname is Xie, no matter where they grow up, they are all the children of his Xie family, let Grandma Xie remember." ”

Mother Ye sighed, "This is to let Grandma Xie have a good birth and raise a child, and she is not allowed to remarry, Mrs. Xie is pitiful, her only son died unexpectedly, and even her grandchildren will be taken away." ”

"If she doesn't pamper the child, Xie Gongzi will not die tragically, in the final analysis, she has to bear a lot of responsibility for the reason why Xie Gongzi was killed. ”

"Isn't Mrs. Tai responsible?"

"She is the mother of the Marquis of Xingguo, even if she is at fault, her son dares to accuse her?"

Also.

However, Mrs. Tai is afraid that she will no longer be able to raise her great-grandchildren in front of her in the future, with such an example as Gongzi Xie in front, no one in the Xie family dares to hand over the children to Mrs. Tai to raise, right?