Chapter 59: The Bottleneck
"Girl, it's the Mid-Autumn Festival in three days, and the slave has prepared a few clothes for you, and you can't wear them so plain on festive occasions." Behind Shi Manman stood a maid dressed in a bikini, with some baby fat and childish faces, only the slightly hanging apricot eyes added a familiar charm.
The maid gently combed the stone vines like a waterfall, she was the maid Yalian left by the stone vines. The scar on Yalian's forehead was covered by the bangs she combed, and if you didn't look closely, you couldn't see the wound hidden under the bangs.
After she was accepted by Shi Manman, she waited in Qiansuju, and Yun Bi had thought about returning to Moyuanju Xiao Lei didn't agree for some reason, but let her continue to stay by Shi Manman's side and wait. For this reason, Yunbi almost crushed her silver teeth secretly, and she could only stay here.
Yalian's dexterous hand pulled a bun behind Shi Manman's head, and instead of sticking beaded flowers for her, she only inserted a hairpin. Serving Shi Manman these days, Yalian gradually figured out her temperament.
Shi Manman looked at the few dresses in front of him, and casually reached out and took a group of flowers, which were so complicated that Shi Manman couldn't tell the appearance of the flowers. put it aside, and picked out a gold thread gauze skirt, the bright gold thread was very dazzling.
"Didn't the girl choose the one she was happy with?" Yalian saw that Shi Manman had looked at all the clothes and accessories, and threw them all aside. She couldn't help pouting, she had chosen the most expensive fabrics with gorgeous textures, all of which were the most popular styles of clothes at the moment.
In these days in the Xiao Mansion, Yalian inquired about the origin of Shi Manman, and the so-called "Young Lady of the Xiao Family" was just a life-saving benefactor who had not yet passed the door but had a "private life" with Xiao Lei.
She didn't feel grateful for Shi Manman for saving her life, she just thought that Shi Manman was just trying to make a good impression on those newcomers, and she had become her stepping stone.
The most important thing is that she thinks that Shi Manman's birth is not higher than her, and she is just sold to Ya Po by her gambling-addicted father, and she is considered a child of a "serious family". Why did Shi Manman just save Xiao Lei, so she could become the future young lady of the Xiao family, and she could only be a maid.
This kind of unfair thinking took root in her heart, so much so that at first, Xiao Lei cut her in order to teach Shi Manman to establish his prestige, making her feel that everything was Shi Manman's trick.
"Can you not pick from this? I remember a few pieces that were simpler than these fancies. "Stone vines really can't put these fancy clothes on their bodies, wearing these clothes like an eye-catching butterfly is easy to be targeted by prey.
"No, you can't. The hosts of the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner were all dressed up. Yalian refused, and casually dialed through the clothes messed up by the stone vines, and saw a glimmer of light in the soft silver light Luo Lily group of apricots, and took out the clothes and said: "The girl doesn't like complicated colors, this one is very good." ”
Shi Manman glanced at it with interest, compared to those colorful colors, but it was relatively plain. She nodded, elbowing her chin again.
"Childe." Yun Bi's voice sounded outside the door, she rarely stayed in the stone vine house for some reason in the past few days, and it seemed that she couldn't finish it, and went out frequently.
As soon as Xiao Lei entered the door, he saw a stone vine with a head and a half-exposed wrist. Immediately behind Xiao Lei was Yuan Changqing, Shi Manman vaguely remembered that a few days ago, Xiao Lei seemed to tell Yuan Changqing to do something, and the next day, he became the "scholar" next to Xiao Lei, and now it is almost where Xiao Lei goes, where Yuan Changqing is.
After entering the door, Yuan Changqing saw Shi Manman's still exposed wrist, and his eyes immediately dodged, just in time to see the soft silver light Luo Yi held by Yalian.
Yalian saw that Yuan Changqing's gaze fell on her face again, and she glared back at the other party arrogantly, twisting her face away with her nose facing the sky. She is confident that her open appearance will definitely make Xiao Lei obsessed with all kinds of meat and vegetables, and sooner or later she will become the aunt of the Xiao family, how can she be stared at by a subordinate like this.
"You go out first, and you don't have to stand guard under the porch." Xiao Lei opened the maid in the house, took out a ball of things from his sleeve and put it on the table.
"Phew, phew! The smell of humanity stinks to death. "That mass is the little hooked snake, yesterday Xiao Lei came to find the stone vine, wanting the little hooked snake to do him a favor. How could the tsundere little hooked snake be willing to let a human be "enslaved", but under Xiao Lei's delicious overcome, the little hooked snake was defeated.
"What did you let Xiaolong do?" Shi Manman asked.
"I asked him to help me find something." Xiao Lei had heard Shi Manman mention that they could find witnesses, and the little hooked snake's sense of smell contributed a lot, and Xiao Lei was interested in it at that time.
Xiao Lei said and took out a wrapped embroidered handkerchief, and when he opened it, he was wrapped in an ordinary silver needle.
"The little dragon can smell the viper liquid and a hint of blood on this needle." It turned out that what Xiao Lei asked Yuan Changqing to do was to go to the mountains to catch the tabby snake, and Yuan Changqing really caught the snake and collected the venom with his agile skills. Then the little hooked snake searched all over the Xiao Mansion through the smell of venom, which was really a huge project for the small size of the little hooked snake.
Xiao Lei thought that if Xiao Jin's wound was really man-made, then there would definitely be a murder weapon, and the murder weapon that could cause such a small wound would definitely not be very large. Ordinary people will casually throw away such a small murder weapon, and it is more prudent to clean up the murder weapon and put it back in its original place.
Xiao Lei suspected that the murder weapon was still on Xiao's mansion, so he borrowed a small hook snake to find the murder weapon.
It took the little hooked snake a few nights, and even the little spiritual power it had recovered, to find the silver needle.
"I found it in a maid's room in my sister's yard." Speaking of this, Xiao Lei's sword eyebrows were almost connected. He thought that this little murder weapon might be thrown in a corner at will, but he didn't expect that the man would be so thoughtful that he would put the silver needle in the maid's sewing box.
"Are there any doubters?" There were only two words written in Shi Manman's eyes, "trouble", and she really hated complicated and troublesome things.
"That room has been vacant for a long time, it used to be my sister's other maid Huanqing lived, before I left the house she begged my sister to let her go home for her mother to keep filial piety, my sister read that she had filial piety, burned her death deed and let her go home." This is what makes Xiao Lei a headache, no one lives in that side room, which means that no one pays attention to whether anyone enters or leaves that room. Then it was harder for him to find out who had put the silver needle back in the sewing box than it was to find it.
"Little Dragon, can you ask about other scents on this?" The stone vine asked the little hooked snake.
"Humph!" The little hooked snake turned its head, and the reason why it took this thankless task was also fueled by the stone vines, and now it felt that its letter was swollen and painful, so it even held a grudge against the stone vines.
"No need to ask, this silver needle is poisonous, it should be wrapped in other things, and there will be no other smell left on it. And after searching all over the Xiao Mansion, I didn't find the smell of venom except for this silver needle. Xiao Lei's words were helpless and a little tired, and the clues were broken again.