Chapter 44: Loopholes
Xiao Lu was quickly recovered from the gambling house in the east of the city, he was unlucky today, lost a lot of silver taels, and was very dissatisfied with the tolerance to destroy his chances of turning over. However, Yiqiē's dissatisfaction suddenly subsided when he saw Lu Qinghuan.
Lu Qinghuan is wearing a red pipa sleeve placket with rabbit fur today, and she does not wear any headdress on her double-ring bun, only wrapped with ribbons.
At this moment, Lu Qinghuan was standing indifferently under the eaves, quietly watching Xiao Lu's approach with water-cut eyes like autumn waves.
"It turned out to be Mrs. Lu!" Although Xiao Lu looked obscene, his appearance was not bad if he looked closely, and he deliberately pretended to be gentle and elegant at this time, but he still looked like a human! Seeing that Lu Qinghuan looked at him and didn't speak, Xiao Lu's narcissism suddenly attacked, shook off the hair behind him, and asked in a chic voice: "I don't know what happened to the lady calling me?" ”
"Wutong is dead, I don't know if Xiao Langjun knows?"
Lu Qinghuan lost a smile on his face because of his bad feelings, and his tone was a little cold when he spoke, and even his eyes had a cold feeling.
"W-What?" Xiao Lu was shocked, his face was a little pale, and he didn't care about being elegant in front of Lu Qinghuan, so he asked hurriedly, "How can this be?" ”
Regarding his question, Lu Qinghuan avoided answering, but asked about the situation last night. Although Xiao Lu was a little strange, he still answered truthfully.
It turned out that Xiao Lu came back from gambling last night, and heard that Wutong was locked up as the murderer of Xiao Dalang, so he wanted to go and see her, and he brought a cup of bird's nest before leaving. After bribing the guards of the door, Xiao Lu entered the room smoothly, stayed for less than a quarter of an hour, and left.
Lu Qinghuan saw that his expression was different, so he asked tentatively, "Do you know that Wutong is pregnant?" ”
Sure enough, after hearing Lu Qinghuan's question, Xiao Lu's face changed drastically, his mouth opened wide, and it took a long time to spit out two words, "I know ......" After finishing speaking, he seemed to be a little indignant, and scolded contemptuously: "This woman is really ridiculous, thinking that she wants me to marry her because of the child in her belly, and she doesn't want to think about what she is?" She doesn't know whose seed it is! ”
People are dead, and they still insult and slander like this, what a scumbag!
Lu Qinghuan looked at Xiao Lu coldly, and asked him coldly, "Where did you go after you saw Wutong last night?" ”
"I had bad luck yesterday, lost all the silver, and planned to come back to get the capital, after seeing the sycamore, I went to the account room to pay some silver, and went to the east of the city again to gamble money, if it wasn't for the tolerance to find, I may have turned over!" Xiao Lu replied casually, suddenly realizing the purpose of Lu Qinghuan's question, and let out a cold sweat, "You...... Are you suspicious of me? ”
"Before the truth is revealed, all the people in the Xiao Mansion are among the doubts." Leaving these words, Lu Qinghuan returned to Wutong's room, she was worried that if she looked at Xiao Lu's face more, she would not be able to help but punch him.
At this time, the autopsy was still underway, and Lu Qinghuan sat alone on the low couch on one side, looking ethereal.
"Lady, don't be too anxious, it's better to take a break and think about it!" Rosary was worried that Lu Qinghuan would hurt herself by thinking too much, so she said softly while kneading her temples for her.
"Yes, Lu Niangzi, you naturally can't think of a reason by yourself, according to the contemptible people, the Wutong is the most suspicious, Xiao Dalang must have been killed by her, and then abandoned by Xiao Lu, so he committed suicide in despair!"
The inference that Wang Erniu said was that Lu Qinghuan had thought about it a long time ago, and judging from the current evidence, Wutong's suspicion was the greatest.
Is that really the case?
Lu Qinghuan frowned and was silent, but he happened to see that he had found two books from Wutong's bed, and he felt useless and put them down.
"Bring the book and I'll take a look at it."
Seeing Lu Qinghuan pointing to the two books on the bed, the rosary was a little strange, but he still walked over according to his words, took the book in his hand, looked down, his face suddenly turned crimson, and said with an abnormal expression: "Lady, if you want to read, go back and buy you a few books, this kind of book is not suitable for women......"
"Bring it!" Where did Lu Qinghuan know what the rosary was thinking, and when she saw that she was going to hide the book behind her, she said loudly: "Hurry up!" ”
The rosary was helpless, so he had to hand the book to Lu Qinghuan, but he was so embarrassed that he almost buried his head in his arms.
Lu Qinghuan flipped through the book casually, and his face suddenly stiffened a little - this is a Spring Palace novel, with pictures and texts on it, and the content is detailed, no wonder the rosary is reluctant to let himself read it! If it is known that she Lu Qinghuan has read this kind of novel before she leaves the cabinet, I am afraid that she will soon become the laughing stock of Ming County......
Lu Qinghuan was about to throw away the book, but a crooked font suddenly broke into her eyes, she hurriedly turned the page again, but saw that a few lines of words were written on it with cinnabar, the handwriting was sloppy and ugly, but it could be seen that it was written by a woman.
To dispel the embarrassment in his heart, Lu Qinghuan carefully turned the book from beginning to end, and soon found the same font on other pages, and on the last page of the book, the word "Wutong" was also written, obviously these red words were written by Wutong.
In this way, Wutong is literate, so why is Xiao Dalang's account books stacked together?
Thinking of this, Lu Qinghuan hurriedly asked Wang Erniu to find the maid who was familiar with Wutong, and after asking, he learned that Wutong had a good family background earlier, and he had studied for two years in women's school, and was later sold by his stepfather to Xiaofu as a maid. After the Xia family entered the house, it was Wutong who helped him take care of the back house, and even when he checked the account book on weekdays, Wutong read it to Xia.
The more Lu Qinghuan listened, the more strange he felt, so he asked the maidservant, "Are you Xia Niangzi illiterate?" ”
The maid nodded, "Xia Niangzi has never gone to women's school, so naturally she can't read." ”
Hearing this, Lu Qinghuan had more and more doubts in his heart, Xiao Dalang's account books were messed up, and there were only two possibilities - one was that the murderer did not have time to put it up, but according to the time when Xiao Dalang's body was found, it was inferred that the murderer had plenty of time, and one possibility was that the murderer was illiterate, so he would pile up those account books indiscriminately.
From this point of view, Wutong is definitely not the murderer of Xiao Dalang.
When Lu Qinghuan was puzzled, Liu Ming walked in, "Lu Niangzi, Helan Langjun asked someone to send a letter over and invite Niangzi to go to Yizhuang." ”
Helan called her to Yizhuang at this time, could it be that she found some clues from Xiao Dalang? Lu Qinghuan hurriedly got up and was about to rush over, but Wang Erniu called her, "Lu Niangzi, this place is some distance from Yizhuang, it's better to let the contemptible people send you over!" ”
Yizhuang is in the west of the city, which is where he passed into the city that day, a few streets away from Xiao Mansion, after listening to Wang Erniu's words, Lu Qinghuan nodded and agreed, and several people took a carriage and ran towards Yizhuang.