The carriage was tapping and trolling, neither fast nor slow. Wu Niang is a very competent coachman, and when she is fine, she walks the streets and alleys to recognize the road of Fucheng. Where the Qi family is, she still knows.

Nie Shuyao's sister and brother, Yuqin's sister and brother, as well as Da Niu and Moon Shadow, these people must go. In order to keep a low profile, they only used this carriage, and although there were six people seated in the carriage, it did not feel crowded at all.

For this reason, the second artillery has a lot of opinions, everyone has work to do, and he waits alone in the house, which is really uncomfortable. If it weren't for Nie Shuyao's instructions and instructions, he wouldn't be willing to follow Yongbo around.

This time to go to the Qi family, Nie Shuyao also made full preparations, she and Yuqin changed into men's clothes, and also brought the investigation book written by the prefect for them, and the Qi family had to receive them from an official point of view. But privately, they still brought worship items to mourn Qi Wenzhai.

The Qi family is in the wealthy area of Dongcheng, and there are also a few carriages parked sporadically in front of the gate, and Wu Niang parked the carriage at the end.

After Nie Shuyao and his entourage got out of the car, Nie Tianxi and Da Niu walked ahead, and he was the main part of the trip. After explaining the intention to the butler standing in front of the door, the servant took them in.

The Qi family is a large local family, and the family is also prosperous, although Qi Wenzhai is the son-in-law of the family, he also has a few uncles and cousins, and there are people coming and going everywhere.

After a few people came to the mourning hall to make a show, they were invited to the side to drink tea. Qi Wenzhai has not yet started a family, this funeral is not easy to do, but it can't be buried in grass, the mourning hall is surrounded by ice, they are waiting for the prefect's promise, and the murderer will be buried after ten days.

Nie Shuyao really didn't know about this, but it was not a secret in the Qi family. It seems that everyone who comes to mourn and receives them will say this again.

Nie Shuyao sneered, it seems that the head of the Qi family is not a fuel-efficient lamp, judging from the pattern of this house, the Qi family is also a person with status, and the descendants and nephews of the family can't just die in such an unknown way.

With that, the little guy who received them stepped back and left.

Nie Shuyao also stood up and said, "Yuqin, Moon Shadow, let's go out for a walk." ”

Before they came to Qi Mansion, they had thought about how the soldiers would act in two ways, Nie Tianxi and Da Niu and Hu Tou were superficial; Nie Shuyao and the three of them wanted to mix in the crowd to investigate, anyway, the Qi family was now very bustling.

After Nie Shuyao came out, he walked two steps quickly, grabbed the little guy, and said with a smile: "Little brother walk slowly, I want to ask my little brother about something." ”

As he spoke, Yuqin stuffed a few pieces of broken silver into him, and the little guy accepted it with a smile.

Nie Shuyao looked left and right and said, "Little brother, this is not the place to talk, let's find a quiet place and ask you something." Luckily? ”

This little guy knows very well that the mouth of eating people is short, and the hands of people are short, so he nodded and answered, and led them to the edge of a rockery at the Moon Gate, where few people came, and it didn't matter if he said something a little disrespectful to the master.

"Little brother is the long-term worker in this family?" Nie Shuyao asked with a smile.

The little servant said: "Our whole family is a slave bought by the Qi family, which is a little better than a long-term worker, at least we can still have a bowl of rice to eat when we are not working." ”

"That's right. However, I think there are a lot of people here today, can you family members be busy? Nie Shuyao answered.

As soon as the little girl heard that she was asking this kind of question, the conversation box opened and said: "Usually we are enough for these families, but when we are busy, we will still hire some short-term workers." ”

Nie Shuyao then asked: "So, last time the old lady in your house also hired a short-term worker outside when she was on her birthday?" ”

"That's it. That time was about as busy as today, only one was a happy event, and the other was a funeral, alas! The little girl sighed, and it could be seen that he was still very considerate of his family.

Nie Shuyao also sighed, "Yes, I don't know which god killed Second Young Master Qi, but he is the leader of our poetry club." ”

The poetry meeting or something is purely made up by Nie Shuyao, and if you think about it, an ordinary guy shouldn't know these things.

Who knew that the little girl shook his head and said: "Alas, our second young master has no other hobbies, so he likes to chant poetry against him, and the classmates of the second young master's poetry club came yesterday." I didn't expect that among the people who usually befriend the second young master, the people in your poetry club are quite a little conscientious. ”

"Huh!" Nie Shuyao scratched her head and smiled innocently. Who doesn't know that Second Young Master Qi died unexpectedly, if he wasn't a person who usually had a very good relationship, he wouldn't want to trouble him in a short time.

"I don't know where all the day jobs you hire are from. I heard that these short-term workers are basically acquaintances? ”

The little guy said: "Basically." ”

"What about the last birthday party?"

"The last birthday banquet was the same as the short-term job invited this time, but it was ......,"

"Just what?" Nie Shuyao's favorite thing to hear now is a turning point.

The little guy tilted her head and thought for a while, Nie Shuyao couldn't wait to go up and knock on his head, but fortunately, she still had a little patience.

"I just heard that a cook in the kitchen had a bad stomach last time, so I hired a few helpers temporarily. The other part-time workers are familiar faces. The little guy said.

Nie Shuyao muttered to herself: "Cook? How old are you? ”

"I don't know about this little one. The helpers stay today and leave tomorrow, who knows how old they are. ”

"Oh, I see. Thank you, brother, please keep this matter a secret. Nie Shuyao gave the little guy a little bit of broken silver.

The smile on the little girl's face deepened, and he promised not to tell anyone else.

Nie Shuyao was not afraid of him saying that what she was asking about was not some unsavory secret.

Then he called Yuqin and said: "You go and change into women's clothes to find out, find a way to get something out of the mouth of the maid here, and focus on asking Qi Da and Qi Er what the relationship is usual." ”

Yuqin nodded heavily, hid behind the rockery and took off her clothes, casually pulled her hair in a bun and became a little girl, and soon went out of the moon gate.

Moon Shadow felt that Nie Shuyao was very powerful, and her eyes were full of admiration, and asked, "Miss Nie, Moon Shadow can also do things." ”

"What do you call me?" Nie Shuyao frowned and asked.

"Ah, Nie Gongzi." Moon Shadow immediately changed her tune.

Nie Shuyao nodded and said, "Of course you did it, take me to the place where your master quarreled with Qi Er last time, remember?" ”

"Remember!"

Nie Shuyao followed behind Moon Shadow and walked to the other side. Don't look at the moon shadow is not yet ten years old, but she is clever, and she is beautiful, so she asks the little maid who passes by where she doesn't know, and her mouth is sweet, so she goes back and forth, and finally arrives at her destination.

This side is the door of a courtyard, one side of the door is planted with green bamboo, and the other side is also a small rockery. The turning point of the hand-copying verandah is also here, and there are many tall plants planted on the side of the rockery, forming a dead end.

"Childe, this is it." Moon Shadow pointed to the small open space and said, "At that time, the master was leaning on the verandah, and the second son of Qi reluctantly gave the painting to the master. ”

"Oh."

Nie Shuyao saw that the environment here was very quiet, but on the other end of the verandah, there were many people coming in and out, and asked, "Where is that?" ”

Moon Shadow pouted, "Kitchen." We ate there after the last performance, and the Qi family is really not very good, except for the second son of Qi, who looks down on us. ”

"The kitchen." Nie Shuyao said softly, she felt that there was something wrong with the helper in the kitchen.

At this moment, hearing the sound of coming, Nie Shuyao pulled the moon shadow behind the rockery and moved a plate of potted plants that were growing luxuriantly.

"Bastard! My Qi family has already forced the Fu to give us a ten-day deadline, what else do you want? ”

Nie Shuyao smiled at the corner of her mouth, and said in her heart: "This ten-day limit has really helped the prefect a lot." ”R1152