"Why don't I lend Jiang Lang and Pi Qing to my sister for a few days?" she said as if she was innocent and kind, "Anyway, I'm idle in the house for a while, and I don't have anything special to tell them." ”

Chen Jiao'er immediately said: "Thank you sister for your kindness, but the lord has already been in the ward, and most of the family members in the mansion have been waiting with my sister at any time these days, and there are enough people, so there is no need to borrow people from my sister." ”

"Alright then, my sister will always tell me if she needs to. She nodded, said no more, and turned to leave with the pear.

Halfway through, she instructed Lizi: "You go to Chen Jiao'er's yard to see if Liu'er and Ping'er are really washing in the courtyard." Be cautious and only do passing. If you don't see them in the courtyard, you don't have to go in to look for them, just come back and tell me. ”

"Yes. "Pear took the order.

She first went back to the house alone, and thought about it carefully, it seemed that everyone had traveled together since that day, and they had not seen Ping'er since then. If she said how much she cared about Ping'er, it had been five or six days, and today she just asked Chen Jiao'er casually, Chen Jiao'er's expression was ...... It made her feel not so good. Originally, she proposed to borrow Jiang Lang and Pi Qing for Chen Jiao'er for a few days, but she also wanted to ask the two of them to pay attention to Chen Jiao'er's house. There was nothing wrong with Chen Jiaoer's refusal, but it made her feel even more unsteady. She always felt that Chen Jiaoer was also guarding against "outsiders" coming to her house at this time, as if she was hiding something that no one could see. And the "thing" that cannot be seen is the screen that has not been seen for a few days. In the end, it was all from the General's Mansion, she thought about it again and again, and couldn't help but send Pears over to take a look.

After a while, Lizi came back with a strange expression and said, "Miss, there are indeed some clothes drying in the courtyard of the second lady, but it seems that they were washed early in the morning." At this time, Liu Er and Ping Er are not in the second lady's courtyard. ”

"Why is your expression so strange?" she asked bluntly.

Lizi frowned and replied: "I followed Miss's instructions, pretending to pass by, and only walked by far in front of the second lady's courtyard, but I clearly smelled a strong smell of medicine in the second miss's courtyard." As he spoke, a look of disgust appeared on Lizi's face, and he hesitated, "It seems that it is not just the smell of medicine, there is also some kind of ...... mixed in there Some kind of ...... Very disgusting taste. I couldn't think of a way to describe it. ”

She listened and pondered for a moment. At first, she also smelled some medicine on Chen Jiaoer, but it was very light, she didn't think much about it, she just thought that Chen Jiaoer was going to raise for a month before it was full, and she still took the medicine prescribed by Dr. Zhang every day, and there was nothing on her body with some medicinal smell. Hearing Pear say this at this time, it is definitely not so simple. In particular, the disgusting taste of the pear is indescribable, which is very suspicious. She recalled carefully, and the faint smell of medicine on Chen Jiao'er's body seemed to be mixed with some kind of ...... Something faintly came to her mind, but she wasn't sure yet.

"You go and call Jiang Lang and Qi Qing over. ”

"Yes. ”

Pear quickly called Jiang Lang and Qi Qing.

She asked, "Which of you has the sharper nose?"

Jiang Lang and Qi Qing were a little strange, but immediately replied, "Qi Qing's nose is a little smarter. / My nose is smarter. ”

She instructed Qi Qing: "You pretend to pass by and go to Chen Jiaoer's yard." Smell her courtyard carefully, don't go in, and it's better not to let people see it, and come back to report to me as soon as you smell it clearly. ”

Jiang Lang and Pi Qing glanced at each other, and their hearts were even more strange, but Pi Qing immediately responded: "Yes." And he went alone.

"Miss......"

She waved her hand first, didn't ask Jiang Lang to ask, and instead asked Lizi, "Are you bold?"

Lizi was also strange in her heart at this time, thought about it, and replied with a smile: "My courage is greater than that of Meizi, who is terrible and ghostly, and I don't dare to go out by myself when I get up at night." I don't believe in that, and I've never been afraid. ”

She also laughed when she heard this, and scolded: "Meizi used to be timid, and that's because she couldn't see clearly." Now that she has her glasses on, she can see clearly, and I think she's bold. Since she put on glasses, but you still want you to wake up with her at night? Let's ask, have you ever killed a chicken or a duck with your own hands?"

Pear was stunned for a moment and replied, "No...... Didn't kill. However, when I was a child, I saw my mother kill chickens and ducks with her own hands, and listening to the struggle and howl of chickens and ducks before they died, I did feel a little afraid, and I fled back to the room after just one look. Since then, I have needed a helper in the kitchen, but my mother has never asked me to do this job. ”

She shook her head and said, "You're still timid." There's nothing to do with you, so you go down first. ”

Pear was even more strange in her heart, but she knew that the young lady was deliberately supporting herself, because she was timid, and it was also out of good intentions, so Pear obediently withdrew.

When the pear left, she said to Jiang Lang: "Do you recognize the screen in Chen Jiaoer's house?"

Jiang Lang nodded and said, "I recognize it, but I'm not familiar with it." ”

"Yes. She also nodded, as long as Jiang Lang recognized Ping'er, and continued, "Since the day of the fight, everyone went out together, and you have seen Ping'er in the mansion after that?"

Jiang Lang thought about it carefully before shaking his head.

She lowered her voice and said, "I met Chen Jiao'er with Lizi just now, and she has some medicinal smell on her, and there is a faint fishy smell in it. I didn't think much about it at the time, I just thought that she was drinking tonic medicine to regulate her body, and the late menstrual period happened to be just these days. Just now I asked Lizi to go to Chen Jiaoer's yard to have a look, and Lizi just walked in front of her courtyard from a distance, but she clearly smelled a very strong smell of medicine in her yard, mixed with a very disgusting smell. I felt that something was wrong. I remember that it was the medicine that the big kitchen used to make for Chen Jiao'er. If Chen Jiaoer later changed to a maid to boil medicine in her own yard, it was just an ordinary tonic for the body, it should be said that it would not have such a big medicinal smell. Besides, the disgusting taste......" she said, and a hint of timidity appeared on her face.

At this point, the smart Jiang Lang had already understood, waved his hand uselessly, she continued, and said, "Let's wait for Qi Qing to come back first." ”

"Yes. ”

Pi Qing's legs are very fast, so it doesn't matter if they wait longer.

As soon as she entered the door, Qi Qing frowned, and said with some emotion: "Miss, there is obviously a heavy ...... in the second lady's room."

Jiang Lang stopped Qi Qing and pulled Qi Qing to whisper a few words to each other.

Then Jiang Lang weighed the words on her behalf and reported to her: "Miss's guess is likely to be true. Since we were children, we also followed my grandfather to the mountains to hunt. There are remnants of prey from tigers and leopards on the mountain......"