"Your name is Xiaoxiu?" Liansheng looked at the little maid standing opposite.

"Yes, slave and maid."

"Are you the son of the Zhou family or did you take refuge later?"

"My lord, the slave is not from the Zhou family, the slave is the son of the Qin family, and the slave and maid's mother is the nurse of my young lady."

"Why did you come out of the Qin family again?"

Xu Yan interjected on the side.

"My young lady is the Qin family in Yangzhou, my lord used to be a salt political platform, and he didn't have it in office, and my young lady was only eight years old at that time. The old lady of the Zhou family sent someone to take my young lady and his wife to Hangzhou, and the slave maid followed the young lady from Yangzhou at that time. ”

"In this way, you and your young lady have grown up together, and you know everything about young lady better."

"Yes, my young lady is two years older than me, she is sixteen years old this year, and she is about to get married, who would have thought that such a thing would happen."

"Who else is in the Qin family in Yangzhou?"

"My lord is the eldest son, and there is a younger brother below, my second lord is an official in Shandong, and the Qin family is all other distant relatives, and it is precisely because of this that the old lady took my young lady from Yangzhou."

"That means that there are no close relatives in Yangzhou, and your young lady has been living in the Zhou family with peace of mind?"

"What the adults said is that the old lady feels sorry for the young lady, and she is closer to my young lady than her own granddaughter. My wife, oh, my wife is the eldest daughter of the Zhou family, and the old lady is such a daughter, who doesn't hurt my wife and young lady. ”

Such...... Liansheng thought that this plot was so familiar, and thought about it carefully. Isn't this similar to the story of Lin Daiyu in "Dream of Red Mansions", the difference is that Miss Qin's own mother is still there, which is slightly better than Lin Daiyu's situation.

"Miss, my miss......" There was a cry outside the door, and Xiaoxiu shouted: "Mother, you are here." ”

A middle-aged woman walked into the courtyard crying, followed by a young man in his twenties, with a good appearance, looking good and dressed, he should be the son of the Zhou family, and behind him was a man in his thirties who looked like a housekeeper.

The monk said, "My lord. This is the third son of the Zhou family. ”

The third son of the Zhou family stepped forward to see Liansheng: "In the next Zhou Yunsheng." I've seen the Punishment Lord. ”

"Master Zhou, please mourn."

The third prince looked sad and said, "I'm here to pick up my cousin home, I don't know when I can pick someone up?" ”

"This still needs to go through a procedure, and someone has been sent to the government office. I might not be here until tomorrow. ”

"Didn't you get stuck to death with a bamboo? What else needs to be checked? ”

"This is a necessary procedure for the government to investigate a case."

Liansheng pointed to the chair opposite and said, "Sit." ”

Then he looked at the monk who knew the guest: "I want to talk to Gongzi Zhou." ”

Spiegel took people out with a lot of eyes. Xiaoxiu also helped the nurse to go out to see Miss Qin's body. Lian Sheng asked, "Master Zhou." What do you think about this? ”

"Isn't that an accident?"

"Maybe it's an accident, maybe it's not." Lian Sheng pondered and asked, "I think it's strange, the Zhou family is also a famous family of wealthy merchants in Hangzhou. Why do you have to ask a young lady who has not been out of the cabinet to come to the temple to pray for blessings? This is very counterintuitive. ”

Zhou Yunsheng didn't expect this female sentence to get straight to the point, and asked so directly, hesitated and said: "These things in the backyard are not very clear below, my cousin is deeply favored by my grandmother at home, not what adults think." ”

"Oh? How do I think Zhou Gongzi is very clear? ”

"This ...... Didn't you mean that my cousin was bullied in our house and sent to this monastery? As far as I know, this is not the case, my cousin is very favored at home, my uncle's family is illustrious, he has been hairpins for generations, my aunt came back with a large amount of property, and my aunt still has a fate, who dares to be mean to their mother and daughter? Adults are worried. ”

"What do you mean, your aunt, that is, Miss Qin's mother, returned to the Zhou family with a large amount of property, and Miss Qin is the heir to this large property, right?"

Zhou Yunsheng didn't expect his explanation to become darker and darker, and he stood up anxiously and shouted: "My lord, you are trying to add to the crime." ”

"Calm down, I'm just asking casually."

Liansheng smiled: "Childe on Wednesday doesn't need to be so alarmed, could it be that I said something?" ”

"My lord, although you are an official of the imperial court, our Zhou family also has status and status, so you can't slander at will."

"Calm down, Gongzi Zhou, I'm just casually asking about Miss Qin's situation."

Zhou Yunsheng sat down, his upper half was straight, his hands were on his knees, Liansheng saw him put on an uncooperative posture, and motioned for Xu Yan to serve tea. At this time, someone knocked on the door, Xu Yan opened the door, and saw Xiao Shami Miaoguang standing outside the door with a tea tray.

"Master Miaoguang, I'm just about to make tea, you're really raining in time."

"This is Uncle Yuanzhi's good tea." Miaoguang put down the tea tray and said, "Uncle Shi said, adults are very Zen, I would like to invite you to taste it." ”

"Thank you Master Yuanzhi on my behalf."

"Yuan Zhi? But the painting monk? Childe asked on Wednesday.

"Exactly."

"Painting monk Yuanzhi, famous all over the world, to be able to taste this master's good tea, or to the blessing of the adult."

Wednesday Childe is clearly more interested in drinking tea.

The third person to talk was the nurse.

"My lady jumped off by herself? How can it be? The nurse's eyes widened: "Which one is it?" See that I don't have big ears and shave and hit him. ”

Xu Yan pursed her lips and looked at Xiaoxiu, who was so frightened that she hid behind Liansheng: "Mother, it's true, Miss She stood on the swing, suddenly laughed happily, and said that she was going to fly away." ”

"Fuck your mother, how could Miss be like this? Although she had spoken to ...... before," the nurse said this, and stopped quietly.

"What before? And what? Liansheng asked.

"My lord, my young lady is dead, so don't talk about these things."

The nurse has a difficult face.

"Do you believe that your young lady committed suicide?"

"Alas, I scolded Xiaoxiu just now, also because I felt uncomfortable, my daughter won't lie, it seems that Miss really committed suicide."

"Then why did she kill herself? An official lady, with a large amount of property inheritance, is only sixteen years old, which is the age of a flower, and she is still smiling and swinging when we pass by, how can she suddenly jump off the swing and commit suicide? ”

Lian Sheng held the nurse's hand: "Tell me everything you know, this can help your young lady." Even if she really committed suicide, find out the reason for the suicide and give her an explanation. ”

The nurse sighed and said: "My young lady and eldest son are very good, my wife is worried about accidents, so she sent the young lady to the temple in the name of praying for blessings, I wanted to live in the female master at the back of this temple, then I knew that there was an accident last month, so I could only go to this small courtyard, thinking that although it was in the temple, it was also in a corner, and there were my own family guards, which Cheng thought it would be like this." ”

"The eldest prince? The eldest son of the Zhou family? ”

"Yes, there are two masters in the Zhou family, this eldest son is the eldest master's son-in-law, and the eldest grandmother married is from an official family, and she is the most shrewd ......."

"Then the eldest prince has a family?"

Xu Yan asked in surprise on the side. "That...... Be...... The eldest son is six years older than my young lady, and he has also been raised in front of the old lady since he was a child, this ...... It's no wonder that my young lady. The nurse wiped her tears.

Lian Sheng sighed, and understood the general situation of this Miss Qin: an heiress with a large amount of property, living in her grandfather's house, having an affair with her married cousin, was sent to the temple by her family for quarantine, and an accident happened. From this point of view, is she really in a bad mood and committed suicide?

Xiaoxiu said that she wanted to be free, which was really depressed and tight.

"Alas, the women's temple only had an accident last month, and this temple is not clean, so the young lady should not be allowed to live here." The nurse chattered endlessly and regretted it very much.

"What happened to that female temple?"

"There were two nuns, well, somehow, they suddenly hanged themselves in the house, and it is said that the bodies were all laughing, and some people said at that time that the women's temple was haunted, and my wife called the lady to live here."

"The dead are all smiling?"

Lian Sheng stared out the window: "Xiaoxiu said that your young lady also jumped down with a smile." ”

She sighed and continued, "After she jumped, a bamboo went right through her heart, and she was so shocked that she didn't close her eyes. ”

"Amitabha, what is this for?" When the nurse heard this, she couldn't help but recite the Buddha's name.

"yes, what the hell is it for? Why would a good young woman jump down with a smile? ”

Liansheng closed her eyes, she felt so powerless for the first time.

Outside the window, a gust of wind passed, the swings swayed by themselves, and the bamboo rustled, as if nothing had happened.

At this time, Miaoguang suddenly shouted outside: "My lord, my lord is coming out, I'm scared to death, Miss Zhou Jiabiao, something happened!" ”

What can happen to a dead man?

Liansheng hurriedly ran out, Miaoguang pointed to the mortuary room, trembling all over, and his teeth rattled: "I just wanted to go over and take a look......"

"Okay, what do you see a dead man doing?"

Xu Yan asked.

"That ......" Miaoguang patted her bald head embarrassedly: "I heard the senior brothers say that the young lady was born very beautiful, and I didn't see it clearly just now, so I thought that the left and right people were dead, and it was nothing to look at, but I saw that the young lady's skirt was suddenly all red!" ”

At this time, Liansheng had already opened the door and couldn't help but sigh.

Xu Yan shouted, "Master, something happened." ”

Lian Sheng looked at Xu Yan and turned pale: "Slippery fetus, she is pregnant." (To be continued......)

PS: Pregnant, whose child is it?