Liang Xinming and Wang Heng went in.

The place has apparently been cleaned up, and there are no bodies in the courtyard of the house, but it is a little deserted and desolate, because it has not been inhabited for several months.

Liang Xinming came here for half a day and found that the layout of this general's mansion was atmospheric and elegant, similar to the ordinary Jiangnan official mansion. In addition, it also has a typical Hui folk style: a large number of wood carvings and stone carvings, many wood carvings in lintels, columns, windows, beams, etc., and many stone carvings on the ground, wall skirts, shadow walls, etc., all exquisite.

Ding Ding and Kou'er were waiting in the courtyard.

This is the little flower child of the day, who was originally the daughter of General Niu, in her teens, with a pair of black eyes that are extremely flexible, combing her double buns, wearing a tight and neat short dress, and saluting Wang Heng and Liang Xinming, "My lord." ”

Returning to the garden, things are no longer human.

The little girl's eyes were red.

Liang Xinming saw that her neckline, cuffs, and belt were beautifully embroidered, and the deerskin boots under her feet were also exquisite, guessing that this was her own clothes, which she had just changed, and wanted to come to General Niu to train her to practice martial arts since she was a child, so she loved to wear tight clothes and pants.

The little girl's real name is Niu Juan, and Kou'er is her maid's name, and Kou'er died on her behalf, so she was able to escape her life, so she said to people that her name was Kou'er, one was to cover up her identity, and the other was to miss Kou'er.

Wang Heng did not sit in the house and ask Kou'er, but asked Kou'er to act as a guide, leading him and Liang Xinming to inspect all parts of her house and introduce the situation on the night of the incident.

Buckle led them around.

The group started from the third courtyard, then the fourth, and then to the east-west courtyard—each courtyard had four entrances, and finally to the back garden.

Nearly 200 people from top to bottom, along with their guards and servants, were killed.

According to Gu'er, on the night of the incident, her father hurriedly gave her a picture and told her that if she could escape her life, she would go to Qianxian County, Lu'an Prefecture to find Liang Xinming, the county magistrate, and give the picture to Lord Liang, and then ask Xu Tao to hide her in a basket of grass ash in the toilet in the backyard of the subordinate - the grass ash is used to pad the bottom of the toilet.

As soon as she hid, she heard the screams outside, and she remembered her father's instructions, covered her mouth and didn't dare to make a sound, nor did she dare to move.

The carnage didn't last long, about a quarter of an hour, and then it was quiet, but she still didn't dare to move, and her intuition was that the people hadn't left.

In the middle of the night, it was really quiet.

It was only in the morning that she emerged from the ashes. She was greeted by corpses and piercing blood in all the houses and courtyards, all of them in a miserable state, and she did not find a living relative, and she saw the maid Button, wearing her clothes and combing her hair, dead beside her mother.

Although she trembled with fear, she didn't dare to stay for a moment, and according to her father's prior arrangement, she removed a few large stones under the root of the northeast wall of the garden, secretly absconded, and met Xu Tao at the agreed place. However, when she got there, it was Xu Tao's subordinates who greeted her, the man wearing the hat, named Chen Er.

Xu Tao temporarily changed his plan and divided into three ways: he went to Tongbai Mountain to find Guo Jun and attracted the thief to him by the way; Chen Er went to Lu'an Mansion to find Liang Xinming; and Kou'er pretended to be a person asking for food and secretly followed Chen Er.

As Xu Tao's subordinate, Chen Er was also noticed by the anti-thieves, and his whereabouts were also exposed, and he was chased by the anti-thieves to Liang Xinming's construction site.

Fortunately, Xu Tao thought carefully, and the buckle that really carried the treasure map was able to get out safely and hand over the treasure map to Liang Xinming.

Wang Heng looked at Liang Xinming and asked curiously, "How did you pay attention to this girl?"

Liang Xinming said: "Judging from the shape of Chen Er's mouth before he died, the last sentence he said was 'treasure map...... Checkmate...... Daughter'.

"Xu Tao was ordered by General Niu to visit the students before, and when he was chatting, he said that General Niu was empty under his knees, and he only had a ten-year-old daughter, who was good at martial arts.

The student came out of the tavern and saw Kou'er huddled in the corner in front of several corpses, the fight was very fierce, and the real one who asked for food was scared away, but she stayed there, and the student thought she was very unusual. This is one.

Then there is the student who found that the skin on Kou'er's face is delicate and dirty, but it does not look like a flower child, and she is not afraid of people. ”

So she took the buckle back.

Wang Heng turned to the buckle, his eyes were sharp, and said, "Before the incident, did your father and mother behave abnormally, who did you associate with? ”

Buckle said: "Yes." ”

She said three names.

The first is Hongliu, the youngest son of Hong Jia, the former governor of Qinghua Prefecture, the younger brother of Wailang Hongfei, the current chief secretary of Qinghua County, and Li Jingshan's son-in-law.

The second is to check Cai Yong.

The third is Qiao Yan, a battalion commander surnamed Qiao under General Niu.

Wang Heng asked, "Which family is your grandfather?"

Kou'er said: "My grandfather's surname is Yan. ”

The Yan family is a great merchant in Huizhou, and he is a family friend and in-law with the Fang family, and there are also people in the court who are officials. Before Liang Xinming entered Beijing, Governor Lin gave her a letter of recommendation, that is, she was asked to go to Beijing to go to Huizhou Hall to find a master surnamed Yan to arrange accommodation.

If in the textile industry, I am afraid that no one does not know the Yan family of Huizhou, a brocade family; if there is one person in the officialdom, it is the famous "six champions" Yan Duyang, then everyone knows and everyone knows.

Liang Xinming said strangely: "If something happened to your family, why didn't you go to your grandfather?"

"My father said that you must not go to your grandfather's house to seek refuge. ”

Wang Heng and Liang Xinming glanced at each other.

Wang Heng asked again: "Is your father and your mother usually on good terms?"

Kou'er said: "It was good before, but then it was not good." ”

Liang Xinming asked, "When did it start?"

Kou'er said: "Last year...... It was the year before last. ”

Wang Heng asked, "Why is it bad?"

Buckle shook her head, I don't know how to say it.

She can't tell about adults, but whether the parents are good or not, there is no warmth in the home, and children can feel it.

By that time, they had already walked into the garden.

Liang Xinming smelled a strong fragrance of osmanthus, raised his eyes to see, a belt of flowing water in front, a bend of the three-hole stone bridge on the water, two large laurel trees on the opposite bank of the hillside, pavilion canopy, dark green leaves between the stars and golden.

Liang Xinming has never seen such a big osmanthus tree, I am afraid that it has been hundreds of years, and it looks like a big banyan tree, no wonder the fragrance is so strong.

Turning the gaze, all other places are exquisite garden landscapes, or mountains or waters, pavilions or pavilions, or exotic flowers and plants, or rare birds and beasts.

Liang Xinming wanted to praise a few words, looked at the buckle around him, and swallowed the words - the more praise, the more sad the buckle was to listen.

Liang Xinming worries about Kou'er: Does she know her situation? She also has a deep hatred of blood, and Kou'er and Xiaoluo's situations are very different.

After the case of Zhennanhou was clarified, the Gu family was rehabilitated, and Xiaoluo was named the lord of Yunluo, and the Niu family would not be rehabilitated, this case was clarified, even if the emperor thought that General Niu would restrain himself from the precipice, he would not punish the nine clans of the Niu family, and spare his daughter's life, and the life of the detaineer would be turned upside down.

Thinking of this, Liang Xinming wondered: Why did General Niu defect to the battle? How could he be willing to take his life in exchange for his daughter?