All in all, General Shi Ben almost smashed into the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet of three thousand taels of silver, and finally broke up unhappily.

In the next day, General Shi Ben didn't have to go to the military headquarters anymore, but started to prepare for the trip at home, just in time for Chen Hao's rare half-day rest. Because General Shi Ben and Su Sanniang were about to leave Beijing, Ru Ji and Chen Hao didn't have any intention of going out to play by themselves, but after discussing it, they sent the medicinal herbs, tea, fat powder, clothing and some daily necessities bought in advance to the main room of the third room: "General, mother, this is a little bit of our heart." ”

General Shi Ben and Su Sanniang happily accepted it, and also told them a few words of common words that they should take care of themselves in Beijing and support each other.

After that, General Shi Ben pondered for a while before he straightened up a little: "After we set off on August 20, you two will go back to your own house in the north of the city." The old lady's birthday, I don't want to make a big deal about it, and you will also add a sum when we leave the birthday gift on August 19, and I will not say anything in Beijing. As for the day of your birthday, if you are busy in your own house, you should be busy with your own first. This way...... It's okay not to come, more is better than less. ”

Chen Hao and Ru Ji both responded, and General Shi Ben also said the words that had been circling in his heart for the longest time: "If in the future, Brother Zhong commits something that is not allowed by law, Brother Mao, you will follow the regulations of the Criminal Department, what should you do." Looking at the current style, they have not learned any lessons, so they can only rely on their destiny in the future. ”

Chen Hao and Ru Xi looked at each other, and answered again, and they didn't say much. In the end, it is General Shi Ben's relatives, and no matter what legal principles are greater than human feelings, General Shi Ben feels uncomfortable when he thinks about it.

A few days passed in a blink of an eye, and on the evening of August 19, General Shi Ben and Su Sanniang led Chen Hao and Ru Xi over, sent some satin and jade as birthday gifts, and kowtowed to Mrs. Shi, so that the full number of gifts was counted.

Mrs. Shi likes to listen to Mrs. Shi's instigation again, and she is about to part with her son in front of her. I didn't say anything more than I was sad, as for Su Sanniang and Chen Haoru and his wife, in fact, they were out of sight and out of mind, and they were vague for a few sentences.

Returning to Jiang Yuexuan in the evening, it was about the last night of Chen Hao and Ruxi's stay at Shi's house, and Ruxi's mood was also complicated when she packed her luggage, on the one hand, she was reluctant to Susan Niangzi, and on the other hand, she was finally going to leave this place where there were so many nightmares, which was somewhat relieved.

"Ruji, what is this?" Chen Hao could see that Ruxi didn't like the maids to serve too much in the room, especially when the husband and wife were alone, and no one should disturb them when they were near. At this time, Ru Ji was tidying up her things by herself, so Chen Hao talked to her and helped collect some sundries. At this time, I saw a small porcelain vase on the ground on the side of the dressing table, and it seemed that some red color was sprinkled out, so I picked it up and handed it to Ruji.

Ru Ji took it and wiped the red that had been sprinkled with her hand: "This is Kodan, which is used to dye nails." ”

"Nail dye?" Chen Hao had never paid attention to Ruji's fat powder makeup table before, and was a little curious at the moment, "How to dye this?" ”

Ru Xi smiled, took a small flat-headed brush from another box, dipped it in some red juice, and brushed it on his tail finger to show Chen Hao. When she bought the brushes and paints for dyeing her nails from Linglong Pavilion, Ru Xi was even more sure that the boss or previous boss of Linglong Pavilion was a fellow villager, and she loved to buy these improved ancient cosmetics even more. It's just that she hasn't dyed the nails of her whole hand, so Chen Hao hasn't seen it yet.

"The brush design is very small." Chen Hao, like all straight men, began to be confused when he saw cosmetics.

Ru Ji smiled: "Do you want to try it for you?" ”

Chen Hao waved his hand again and again: "Nonsense, nonsense, I'm a big man, how can I try this." ”

Ru Ji's heart suddenly rose: "Try it, I'll wash it for you when you put it on, just see if it's okay?" ”

"Not good!" Chen Hao hurriedly took two steps back, "You put it away quickly, don't get it everywhere, it's such a red color, wait be careful to make people think it's blood." ”

Scarlet?

Ru Xi was suddenly stunned, as if Conan was on top of her body in her mind, and a flash of inspiration flashed, of course, there was no back light, but Chen Hao's words seemed to suddenly string together some of her previous scattered memory fragments, and for a while a strong feeling was about to come out.

What did she see in Jiang Yuexuan at the beginning?

"Ruji?" Chen Hao saw that her face suddenly changed slightly, and he was suspicious, "What's wrong?" ”

"It's okay, it's okay." Ru Ji coped with it, and while quickly piecing together those chaotic and fragmentary old things, she walked to the door and called a maid: "Magenta, Shuangying, I'm tired, you come and help me sort it out." He handed the brush and the kotan to Magenta, and went directly to the hall to sit down, and took a bowl of tea to drink.

"Ruji?" Chen Hao chased to his side, "What's wrong with you?" But what's wrong with your body? ”

"Don't talk yet." Ru Xi pressed Chen Hao's hand, "I have something to think about." ”

Chen Hao was a little puzzled, but he still sat next to him and didn't ask for the time being.

Ru Ji held the tea bowl in both hands, and the messy fragments in her mind finally slowly gathered into coherent memories. Jiang Yuexuan was originally a hospitality courtyard in the middle of the three-room house, and I heard that when General Shi Ben's original wife, the third wife, Zhan, was alive, this cross-courtyard was for the younger generations of the Zhan family who came to be guests. Later, the three rooms of the Shi family went to Chenzhou, and the entire three rooms were empty, and this courtyard was naturally the purity of the clean, and later it became the most suitable place for the entire Shi family to cheat.

In the first life, the gentle and cowardly original owner Ru Ji should have been newly married, because Shi Zhonglang was amorous and kept alone in the empty room, lonely and bored, and inadvertently walked here, but ran into Shi Zhonglang cheating on someone here.

Judging from Shi Zhonglang's debauchery later, such an affair is actually not a big deal, but the object of the affair at that time was not the maid at home, nor the woman outside, but Master Shi's aunt!

No matter how much this family doesn't care about fame, there is no adultery. The truth of adulterous fathers and concubines. What's more, Ru Ji in the first life was the most docile and cowardly, and she didn't even have the courage to talk back with others, where would she have thought that her newlywed husband would do such a thing. At that time, I was so frightened that my whole body was numb, my heart was beating wildly, and I only felt that the sky was about to fall, but I also asked Shi Zhonglang to find out about her whereabouts, and that night I went back to the room and tossed her hard, pinching and twisting, and warned her that no one could say. At that time, Ru Ji was already weak, so she was afraid and panicked, so she naturally kept silent.

Later, Shi Zhonglang's cheating became more and more frequent, and all kinds of women changed every day, and they couldn't tell the difference clearly, so they gradually left what Jiang Yuexuan saw behind. After two years, Master Shi's aunt was still pregnant, and Master Shi was originally very happy, but he didn't expect that the aunt would disappear soon after. Lord Shi was furious about this, but he was embarrassed to go to the yamen to report the escape concubine, but he tortured and traced the maids and mother-in-law in the house, and he seemed to have a big temper when he was tortured. It's violent. But tossing and turning, the matter of this aunt's disappearance had no result, and in the end it was over.

At that time, Cai Wan seemed to be a little uncertain, but because the wedding date was imminent, Ru Ji didn't care, and only cared about preparing for Cai Wan to leave the cabinet. It didn't take long for Cai Wan to have an accident, and Ru Ji would care about anything else.

In the second life, Ruxi had a very good relationship with Shi Renlang in the first year of marriage, so she had never been to Jiang Yuexuan, nor had she ever bumped into the cheating of Shi Zhonglang, the eldest uncle in the next room. But in the third year, the relationship between Ruxi and Shi Renlang has gradually faded, and when she was aggrieved and depressed, she inadvertently walked to Jiang Yuexuan, at that time, Master Shi's aunt's pregnancy and disappearance had already happened, Ruxi didn't care, but found a familiar purse in Jiang Yuexuan, which seemed to be Shi Zhonglang's habitual use, and at the same time there was a broken nail, the red color on it was very special, and Ruxi at that time only felt that it seemed to have seen it somewhere, but she didn't think about it carefully.

Now that everything is strung together with fragments, it is easy for Ru Ji to piece together a complete plot. Shi Zhonglang had an affair with his father's concubine, and later the concubine became pregnant, whether it was Shi Zhonglang's fear that his deeds would be revealed, or what the concubine had in mind, the final so-called disappearance was likely to be made by Shi Zhonglang in the name of a private meeting and then killed people.

In the first life, Cai Wan was uncertain at that time, and maybe he had seen some clues.

However, after figuring out this whole thing, Ru Xi felt a little bored. Shi Zhonglang has done so many evils, she already knows a lot, what's the use of thinking about an unsolved case so much?

"Have you thought about it?" Chen Hao saw that Ruji's eyebrows finally stretched, so he asked tentatively.

Ru Ji came back to her senses at this time: "I thought about it, but it's very boring, it's all someone else's business." ”

Chen Hao still didn't understand too much, but seeing that Ruji's expression had regained his usual lively and cunning appearance, he relaxed a little: "Since it's someone else's business, then don't think about it." We'll go home tomorrow, so let's relax. ”