Chapter 42: Bamboo
After asking a few words about Master Cui, Governor Qiao stood up and said to Master He first: "Brother He's Day mourning, I will definitely ask about this matter, but ...... Before asking the reason, Ling Yan ...... It is necessary to stay here for the time being. ”
Lord He is also a staff member of Dali Temple, and the process is clear, so he nodded in response, but he couldn't bear to see his daughter's death anymore, and turned around and walked out of the clean room.
Qiao Zhifu was speechless the moment he stepped into the tea room: Why is it that little fat girl from Yan Zike's family?!Why is she everywhere?!No, to be exact, why did she have a life case anywhere?!This child is simply a decaying god possessed?!
Nonsense, what do you think Detective Conan relied on to make up more than 800 episodes.
Yan Qi and everyone saluted to Qiao Zhifu and Yan Zike, who came into the house, Yan Zike glanced at her, didn't say much, just listened to Qiao Zhifu ask a few people, until he talked about the bamboo under the pond.
"Why do you want to insert so many bamboos at the bottom of the pond?" Governor Qiao asked Cousin Lin, and the renovation of Yinghongxuan was all out of her own initiative.
"Because ......" Cousin Lin cried so much that her voice was hoarse, "the goddess said, because there is a dragon qi under Yinghongxuan, the black snake is the incarnation of the dragon, this is a rare treasure, insert bamboo at the bottom of the pond, it represents the 'pillar', so that the dragon plate pillar, it has the meaning of stable foundation, a total of thirty-three bamboos are inserted, representing the thirty-three heavens in the sky, the dragon qi is extradited by the hollow bamboo (pillar), rushing into the sky, you can turn into an auspicious dragon, and protect the Cui Mansion at the top of the thirty-three days...... Whining...... I really...... It's really just kindness...... Picture an auspicious ...... I didn't think about it...... I didn't think it would be like this......"
Hearing these words, everyone was speechless, the goddess was making money by fooling people, and when she arrived at the homes of ordinary people, she would tell you something if she was fine, bluffing you into ruining your wealth and eliminating disasters, and when she arrived at the home of the rich and official, she would also tell you that she was okay if she had something, coaxing you to make good things better, and spend money to be auspicious- Of course she didn't dare to say that there was something wrong, and if she angered the official family, she would be killed with a finger, everyone was willing to listen to good words, and the goddess must know that it was the birthday of the old lady Cui soon, where did she dare to say unlucky things at this moment, naturally how could she make the other party happily spend money.
It's no wonder that Cousin Lin believed the words of the goddess, how many people are not superstitious in this era? If it were someone else, I am afraid that they would do the same according to the words of the goddess, after all, no one would have thought that someone would jump into the pond.
"Poke the bamboo, just poke the bamboo, why do you have to sharpen the bamboo?" Qiao Zhifu sighed. He also felt very helpless about such ignorant boudoir women.
Cousin Lin cried in panic, helplessness, and anger: "How did I know that those rough people are so stupid! I said sharpening the heads of the bamboo, it was to make it easier to insert them into the mud at the bottom of the pool!
Young Master Cui heard it next to him and wanted to laugh a little out of place: This is really stupid, the master met a stupid person, what did he do...... Wait, is there such a stupid subordinate in our house? When I look back, I find out that they have all been sold!
Qiao Zhifu had no choice but to sigh again, a fool made a mistake, but even an innocent person was killed and killed, so he said, I'd rather lift the shoes of a smart person than let a foolish person serve, maybe when you will be killed by this foolish person inexplicably, you have no way to hold it accountable, who let people just do bad things with good intentions.
But she did not directly intervene and influence the behavior of the deceased, and the act of the deceased jumping into the pool is really not a normal natural behavior, which is like a certain A throwing a nail in a swill bucket, where would he think that a certain B would not go to eat the good food on the table and would go to eat the leftovers that were poured out in the swill bucket, but swallowed a nail by mistake and was stabbed to death, jumping into the pond and eating swill, which in itself is an incredible behavior.
If you really want to investigate, you can only punish Cousin Lin - this child is called Cui Meilin - ten thousand two pieces of silver as civil compensation, at most one year in prison - but she is a relative of Mrs. Cui's family, if Mrs. Cui is willing to be a guarantor, she doesn't even have to sit in prison for this year.
Master He has been listening to the side, and he is also clear about the rules of conviction and sentencing, except for admitting bad luck for his dead daughter at this moment, there is no reason to pursue Cui Meilin's wrong, but he still can't understand: "Why did Shuyuan jump off the pond in such a good manner? Didn't someone say something that stimulated her?" Shuyuan is Miss He's second lady's maiden name.
This is also the only and difficult doubt in this incident, Qiao Zhifu asked the people present to explain the situation in detail at that time, and when it came to the big black snake, Yanzi, who had not made a sound for a long time, suddenly interjected and asked Cui Meilin: "How big is that snake?"
Cui Meilin cried a few times, and finally said in a dumb voice: "It's a snake with thick arms, I'...... I'm exaggerating. ”
It's normal to exaggerate, and many people love to exaggerate when chatting stinky, but this ...... It doesn't seem to have anything to do with Miss He Er's death, right? Governor Qiao glanced at Yan Zike, and wondered if this snake spirit disease was so interested because he heard that there were similar people.
After everyone finished talking about the incident, Governor Qiao said: "According to what you young ladies said, then Miss He Er screamed without a moment after going to the clean room, and then jumped into the pool, before going to the clean room, her love was still extremely stable, what was the reason why she was in a hurry in a short period of time, and jumped into the pool regardless of it?"
Of course, everyone couldn't answer, so Qiao Zhifu asked Master Cui to call all the maids who were on duty in Yinghongxuan at that time, and then asked about the situation at that time.
At the time of the incident, it was the miscellaneous maid who was waiting in the clean room: "The slave maid went in to add incense ash after Miss Lin came out of the clean room, and then the second girl He went in, the slave and the maid took the washbasin and withdrew, and went to the next door to change the water, and only then opened the door and heard the second girl He screaming in the clean room, so panicked that she hurriedly put down the basin and went to open the door of the clean room, but she saw it...... Seeing that the door of the west wall on the opposite side had been opened, and the pond water splashed with a large splash, Miss He Er was gone......"
The angle of Qiao Zhifu's eight-character eyebrows was even more awkward: "From the clean room to the next door, the distance of seven or eight steps is short, and there is not even a time to count from one to ten, just such a few breaths, Miss He Er actually changed her feelings and threw herself into the pool in shock, this is simply incredible! What happened in the clean room in these few steps?"
A group pondered and walked out of the tea room to the clean room, Lord He also followed behind him, but Yan Zike did not move, only beckoned Yan Qi to the front, touched the top of the brain, pinched the meat on his face, and then handed her a piece of soufflé wrapped in oiled paper.
The corners of Master Cui's mouth twitched when he saw it beside him: Why do you go to someone else's house to a banquet and take it with you? ! This soufflé is obviously a refreshment for the guests when watching the play!
Looking at the little fat little meat mouth and eating sweetly, Young Master Cui had a sense that Yan Zike was feeding the domestic meat dog.
This uncle and nephew are too unparticular, there are still dead people over there, so they will eat here.
"I'm afraid I won't be able to eat today's dinner. Young Master Cui heard Yan Zike say to Yan Qi, and then saw Yan Qi stop, broke more than half of the remaining soufflé, and handed it to her uncle: "You also pad." Her uncle really took it, and the uncle and nephew stood there eating soufflé as if no one was there, and one of them ate a mouthful of crispy dregs.
Young Master Cui really wants to scratch the wall: The Yan family is full of snake spirit disease...... Hmm, Xiaosi, what are you doing?! Don't come over there! Don't share soufflé with those two snake spirits...... Damn! Eat it! He really ate it! My brother didn't stay in it, really! At this moment, his elbow began to turn outward, could it be that he really wanted to go to the Yan family in the future?!
As soon as the soufflé was finished here, the snake spirit patient group was looking for tea to drink everywhere, when they saw that Qiao Zhifu came back from the clean room, and said to the senior patient: "I have asked carefully, there was no one else around Yinghongxuan at the time of the incident, and even if there were, it was impossible to contact Miss He in the clean room through a pond, and there was no one else in Yinghongxuan except these parties, that is, there was no one in the clean room and the direction of the pond outside the west wall at the time of the incident, so the possibility of someone attacking Miss He was ruled out, in other words, Miss He jumped into the pond by herself." ”
Yan Zike walked to the west wall of the tea room with the tea cup, saying that it was the west wall, but in fact, like the clean room, this side was also designed in the style of a sliding door, because the west side is the peach forest, of course, the room should be open for viewing. Outside the door, the night is dark, the moon rises tomorrow, but there is almost no reflection on the surface of the pond, because the water in this pond is really not clean, thick like paint, even if you stand on the edge of the pond during the day and look down, it is almost difficult to find the bamboo erected in the pond.
Of course, Yan Qi, who compares the eyesight of beasts, does not count.
Yan Zike looked in the direction of the peach forest, and before he saw anything, he heard Yan Qi say: "Before the incident, no one approached Yinghongxuan from this direction. ”
"Oh. Yan Zike decisively withdrew his gaze, turned around and raised the teacup to take a sip.
"Oh?" This voice came from Governor Qiao's mansion, and a pair of beanie eyes stared at Yan Qi quite sharply, "Miss Seven, how can you guarantee Fang Cai's words?"
"I've got a good look. "Yan Qidao.
"...... "What kind of guarantee is this!" Qiao Zhifu was very speechless, but it was a child's words, Yan Zike's big neuropathy actually believed it without hesitation, even if your eyes were good, could you still stare in that direction without blinking during your stay in Yinghongxuan? !
"I'm facing that direction. As if he saw Governor Qiao's thoughts, Yan Qi added.
Governor Qiao will be suspicious, but before the incident, so many people in the tea room were sitting here to enjoy the flowers, even if someone had bad intentions, they would never choose to do it at such a time, how could he guarantee that one or two of so many people would not see him?
"This is strange," Qiao Zhifu's eight-character eyebrows tufted into sharp corners, "What is it that makes a person jump into the pool in a hurry? I just looked at the inside of the toilet, and the incense ash in it was dry, and the little girl said that after Miss Cui went to the toilet, she went first to fill the incense ash, and then Miss He entered, if the incense ash was dry, it means that Miss He was frightened because of something before she even went to the toilet...... But so what? From the time the little girl closed the door and went out to the incident, but a few breaths, there was no one in the clean room, and there was no one except the little girl outside the clean room, and the other girl was carrying the teapot out of the tea room, and the two girls could testify to each other, and several young ladies in the room could also prove their behavior at that time, and all the known clues put together were enough to prove one thing - at the time of the incident, Miss He was the only one in the clean room!