"What the hell, I like to yell tonight!" The housekeeper was so frightened by the scream that he couldn't help but scold.

Yu Ruoxu frowned, "That seems to be Ah Si's voice." “

Li Afu and Xiu'er were also frightened, and they didn't know what terrible things were going on in the backyard. Li Afu hurriedly recited the Buddha's blessing a few times, "It can't be that you have met a dead person again, right?" “

"You're embarrassed to say it!" The housekeeper was angry and afraid, and when he saw his appearance, he became angry, and simply kicked him, "What are you doing here?" Why don't you hurry over and have a look! “

Before Li Afu could say anything, he saw several housekeepers running back from the backyard like a gust of wind, all of them were pale, and one of them simply ran over and hugged the housekeeper's thigh, rolled his eyes and almost turned his back on it, "Butler, butler, ...... behind"

The housekeeper was anxious, "What's going on in the back?!" “

One of the housekeepers leaned against the wall, leaned over and threw up a "wow-" spit, trembling all over, and looking delirious with fright.

Seeing this, Yu Ruoxu directly pulled away the housekeeper who was hugging the housekeeper's lap, and the backhand "snap" was two heavy slaps.

The family seemed to have been beaten back to his senses, and when he saw Yu Ruoxu standing in front of him, his face was iron-blue, and he suddenly trembled, "Xiao...... Miss! Miss spare your life! ”

Yu Ruoxu was helpless, just slapped him in a hurry to make him wake up quickly, but now he can't care about explaining so much, "What did you see in the backyard?" “

The family shook all over, and his tongue was knotted, "There are many, so many corpses, all of them are white bones, it's too scary, the small ones really can't do it......" After speaking, he almost fainted again.

Yu Ruoxu felt that Xiu'er beside her also trembled, "Miss, this, what is the matter, why did the white bones come out again......" After speaking, Xiu'er seemed to remember something, and said sharply, "Miss, this house used to be Zhao Gelding's other courtyard!" Could it be—"

Yu Ruoxu thought for a while and said, "You just wait here, I have to go to the back and take a look." “

"Miss!" Xiu'er grabbed her arm, her teeth were chattering, "Miss, this is really scary, you better not go, otherwise the master will be worried!" “

Yu Ruoxu glanced at her, and then looked at the housekeeper, "Does the housekeeper want to take a look?" ”

The housekeeper was also stunned, seeing that although Yu Ruoxu's face was slightly pale, he was still calm and calm, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, "Xiao naturally wants to go." Seeing this, Li Afu on the side also strengthened his courage, "The little ones will go too!" The small ones are blessed by the Buddha, and they are not afraid of the sword mountain and the sea of fire! ”

Seeing that everyone was going, Xiu'er pursed her lips and hesitated, "Then, the slave will go too." ”

Yu Ruoxu nodded, although her face was still faint, in fact, she was still a little stunned in her heart, and let Xiu'er grab her arm and walk towards the backyard of the wing room step by step.

The backyard of this wing house is generally used to dry some clothes, so there are a lot of hangers and clothes for the maids and maids. The fire burned almost everything clean, leaving only dust everywhere and half-burned bamboo poles. Yu Ruoxu saw Ah Si's face turned gray, trembling against the wall, while several other family members knelt on the side with shovels in their hands, their mouths wide open, but they couldn't say a word.

"Ah Si, what's going on?" Yu Ruoxu asked.

Ah Si seemed to be so frightened that he couldn't hear anything, just stared ahead in a daze, and didn't react at all. Yu Ruoxu clenched her fists, stepped forward to take a look, and her face turned pale in an instant.

"Ahh

A corner of the backyard was dug up by Ah Si and them with a shovel, and in the brown soil, layers of white bones appeared, as if they had been buried here a long time ago. It looks particularly eerie against the backdrop of the night. And each corpse was unexpectedly short, looking like the physique of a child of six or seven years old.

There are so many corpses and bones, piled up in the corner of the backyard layer by layer, and they look lonely, just like the lonely ghosts described in Zhiwei novels.

Yu Ruoxu was shocked, and he came to his senses for a long time, only to hear that Li Afu had been in Amitabha Buddha in his ears, as if he was overtaking these corpses. She closed her eyes, sorted out her thoughts, and said slowly, "Butler, don't move here yet, wait for the people from Jingzhao Mansion Yin to come." “

The butler was naturally too frightened to move, and when he heard her command, he said stiffly, "The little one understands." “

"And." Yu Ruoxu added, "Take Ah Si and them all down, when the time comes, the people from the Yamen will definitely come to interrogate, it's not a good thing that they have been overly frightened." “

The housekeeper nodded, "I will listen to the young lady's arrangement." “

"I'll leave it to you here." Yu Ruoxu turned around and took Xiu'er with her, her steps were a little chaotic, and she left the backyard as if she was fleeing. Xiu'er was dragged by her, as if she had come back to her senses, and cried out with a "wow-" on the road.

"Woo...... Miss, I'm really scared of the slave to death......" Xiu'er cried as she walked, as if venting the fright she received tonight, her voice was extremely loud, "Our Yu family is fine, why did we encounter this kind of thing......"

Yu Ruoxu was speechless, only patted her hand and comforted, "It's okay, let's go back to sleep, stay away from these bad things." ”

Xiu'er cried even louder when she heard this, "Where can you still sleep here, so many corpses...... Woohoo......"

Yu Ruoxu couldn't stand her crying the most, so she could only comfort her clumsily. Sometimes she can't figure out whether she is a young lady or Xiu'er is a young lady, "Don't cry, if you are seen by your father for a while, you have to ask questions." ”

Xiu'er wiped a handful of tears and sobbed, "Miss, I have long felt that Zhao Gelding's house is not clean, I heard that the group of eunuchs who made trouble in the capital before liked to raise some prostitutes in the mansion the most, maybe those in the backyard were ...... by Zhao Gelding."

"That's it!" Yu Ruoxu shouted loudly, "You don't understand the truth of three people becoming tigers, if it is really like what you said, why did Zhao Gelding bury the bodies of those children in his own courtyard?" Isn't he asking for bad luck by doing so? ”

Xiu'er was stunned, and the sobbing suddenly stopped for two beats, and she whispered, "Miss taught me a lesson." It was the slave who said the wrong thing just now. ”

Yu Ruoxu sighed, feeling that she was too harsh, so she softened her voice, "I know you were frightened today, but you must not be so reckless in front of your father in a while, do you hear?" “

Xiu'er nodded obediently, looking aggrieved.

Back in the patio, Yu Ruoxu saw Yu Zhongjun still standing motionless. Hearing footsteps, Yu Zhongjun turned around, "Is Ruoxu back?" How's that over there? The father heard several screams, as if something very strict had happened. “

"Don't hide it from your father, it's indeed a bit strict." Yu Ruoxu walked up to Yu Zhongjun, held his hand, and said everything about Liu's mother and the backyard. Rao is like this, Yu Zhongjun was also taken aback, "Bones dug up in the backyard?" “

"Yes." Yu Ruoxu said in a low voice, "My daughter thinks that this may have something to do with Zhao Gelding, so she sent someone to guard the backyard and wait for the people from Jingzhao Mansion Yin to come tomorrow." “

Yu Zhongjun nodded, "It's okay." After that, he followed her hand and touched her right shoulder, "You're not scared, are you?" Do you have any pain in your shoulder? “

"Frightened, a little. But the shoulder is fine, don't worry Daddy. When Yu Ruoxu heard this, her heart suddenly warmed, diluting the horrific scene just now. Yu Zhongjun sighed, "It's been busy for most of the night, and you're tired, so hurry up and go back and rest." “

"Daddy too." Yu Ruoxu responded.

But tonight, it is estimated that the entire Yu Mansion will not be able to sleep.

Early the next morning, Yu Zhongjun made a special trip to take leave and did not go to the morning court. And Jingzhao Mansion Yin personally ordered two old servants to send to Yu Mansion, and also brought a message, saying that Yu Zhongjun needed to go directly to the yamen and say it.

The two old men had white beards and hair, and they looked like they had reached the age of sixties, but they were still deaf and clear-sighted, and they carried a wooden box on their backs and went straight to the wing. Yu Ruoxu first followed an old man surnamed Jiang to Liu's mother's room, and Yu Zhongjun took the housekeeper directly to the backyard.

Li Afu had already led someone to remove the beam that was pressing on Liu's mother. As if he was used to seeing dead people, Jiang Yanzuo glanced at Liu's mother, her face was still light, she leisurely took out a bunch of tools from the box, inspected Liu's mother for a long time, and looked at the burned room for a long time, and finally circled around the entire wing room, before arching her hand to Yu Ruoxu, and said in a straight voice, "Miss Yu's guess is right, this fire did burn from the deceased's room." The deceased was burning something with a candle, but accidentally knocked over the candlestick, which happened to light a few handkerchiefs next to it, and the fire grew bigger and bigger, and finally spread to the whole chamber. “

"And what about the cause of her death?" Yu Ruoxu couldn't help but ask.

"I was hit in the abdomen by a beam, and I couldn't move because of the severe pain, and finally inhaled a lot of smoke and suffocated to death." Jiang Yanzuo stroked his gray beard, and his tone was affirmative.

Yu Ruoxu sighed, "Then what kind of fright did she receive before she died, so that she would die like this?" ”

"Maybe." Jiang Yan nodded, "This requires the head catchers of Jingzhao Mansion Yin to investigate, peel off the cocoon and solve the case or something, the small ones are not good at it." ”

Hearing this, Yu Ruoxu knew that she couldn't ask anything else, so she bowed half-blessed, "Today, there is Lao Jiang." ”

"Don't dare, Miss is tormented." Jiang Chengzuo hurriedly returned the salute, turned around and began to pack up his things, "It is estimated that He Chengzuo still needs help in the backyard, and the little one will go first." ”

Yu Ruoxu nodded, and when she saw Jiang Yanzuo carrying the box and walking towards the backyard, she couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

She always felt that Liu's mother's death was a little strange, and she showed such a frightened look before she died, and she must have seen what she was most afraid of in her life, so she would show such a look. And Liu's mother is usually most afraid of ......

It was like a flash of lightning flashing through her mind, and she muttered to herself, "Ghosts! ”

She still remembers that last time, Liu's mother said that she had seen ghosts in the house several times, and then used the family's earthwork to burn her hair into ashes and melt it into the water, saying that it could ward off evil spirits and drive away ghosts. And this time, too, according to those mothers-in-law, Liu's mother recently saw the little ghosts in the house again, and in a panic, she ignored her own ban and began to burn her hair again to exorcise the ghosts. I just didn't expect that one accidentally set the whole house on fire.

But is it really careless?

Those handkerchiefs had just been ignited, and the fire should not be so big, and Mother Liu could extinguish it by stepping on it with a few feet. But what kind of cow ghost and snake god did she see, so frightened that she didn't even have the strength and time to extinguish a little flame?

Yu Ruoxu was really puzzled, feeling as if she had fallen into a huge conspiracy, someone had already started to act in the shadows, but she could only stand here, helpless against the ruins of the courtyard.

"Miss, it seems that the inspection in the backyard has been completed, do you want to go and have a look?" Xiu'er's voice came from outside the house, Yu Ruoxu came back to her senses, and responded, "Okay, I'll come out now." ”

Almost all the family members gathered in the backyard, Li Afu and Pei Changyuan took them to dig out the buried bones one by one with shovels, while He Chengzuo and Jiang Chengzuo were busy under the scorching sun. Yu Zhongjun and the housekeeper stood aside, although they were no longer as frightened as they were when they first saw them, their faces were still a little pale.

"Daddy, what's going on here?" Yu Ruoxu walked up to Yu Zhongjun and asked softly.

"He said that it was almost ready, what about you?"

"It's not far from what I guessed at the time." Yu Ruoxu simply repeated Jiang Yanzuo's words, Yu Zhongjun frowned when he heard it, and said, "Mother Liu is the old man of our Yu family, and she has been following us since your mother was still there. This time, we still have to appease her family. ”

"My daughter has already ordered her to go down." Yu Ruoxu thought for a while, "The weather is too hot, I think that Liu's mother's body should be buried in the capital first, and then send someone back to Langzhong when it is cooler." ”

Yu Zhongjun nodded, "It's okay." ”

"Lord Yu, Miss Yu, we're almost there." He and Jiang Tongzuo saluted them and said, "There are forty-one bones here, all of them are boys between the ages of five and nine, all of whom were shot by an arrow and died of blood loss. But there were no other scars on his body. ”

An arrow hit?

Yu Ruoxu was taken aback, remembering that day at the West City Gate, Wei Yuanli, the commander of the five battalions of patrolling, summoned archers to shoot the victims. Dense white feather arrows came all over the world, and so many unarmed victims died in despair in front of the gate of the capital like this.

She couldn't help but glance at Pei Yuanyuan. His face also seemed to be a little bad, his rough hand held the shovel tightly, and the appearance of the green tendons was a little terrifying.

Yu Zhongjun pondered for a long time and asked, "How many years have these children passed away?" “

"Judging by the rate at which the corpses are decomposing, it has been about twenty years. If there is no special token, it is estimated that you will not even be able to identify your identity. He replied thoughtfully.

Forty-one boys died violently overnight. Thinking of this, Yu Ruoxu felt a little sad in her heart, if they could grow up healthy and healthy, what would be the situation now?