In the quiet pavilion where Xiao Song's mysterious disappearance, the doors and windows are closed, and the houses are uninhabited all year round, and the houses are covered with dust, showing a sense of desolation from the world.

Because the matter is very important, the egret and the deer take turns to guard here, not daring to leave an inch.

Qing Ruxu didn't feel sleepy after interrogating the fishing boat, so she simply came to the quiet pavilion to investigate. When she walked into the courtyard, Lu'er and the two mothers-in-law were each sitting on the small pestle and resting against the door, half-squinting their eyes and pretending to sleep, and they were startled when they heard the movement, and they were so frightened that they did not dare to move.

"It's me."

When the three of them heard that it was the eldest girl in the house, they breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly got up and saluted.

Lu'er stepped forward: "Why did the girl come in the middle of the night?" Is there any command? ”

When she saw that there were candles lit in the room, she asked, "Why is there a light inside?" ”

Lu'er said, "The house is lit, and the slaves and maids can faintly see what is going on inside the house from outside. The disappearance of the eldest lady is so strange, in case there is any movement inside, the slaves and maids can also find out the clue as soon as possible, and there is no need to fumble to light the candle. ”

She stepped forward and opened the door, and immediately there was a rotten smell from inside: "Girl, don't go in, it's hot, and all the spilled food is gone." ”

"It's fine." Qing Ruxu covered her nose and walked into the door, but she couldn't help but see a black shadow swishing out behind the screen!

"Who is it?" Meng Pozi was bold, picked up the bench on the side and rushed to the front of Qing Ruxu, but there was no movement inside. Shizhou and Lan Zhou were so frightened that they grabbed Qing Ruxu's arm tightly from left to right.

Qing Ruxu said tentatively: "Who is in it?" Come out! Otherwise we're welcome! ”

However, there was still no movement inside, and the only thing that responded to them was the smell of sour food.

Qing Ruxu no longer hesitated, and walked directly behind the screen.

"Girl be careful......"

Meng Pozi closed her mouth before she finished speaking, because there was nothing behind the screen, and all that came into everyone's eyes was the messy bed.

Everyone looked around and found nothing, and the scene just now was a good trial and error. Qing Ruxu didn't believe that she was dazzled: "I clearly saw a black shadow. ”

The others chimed in, "The slave has seen it too!" ”

Qing Ruxu approached the bed and asked everyone, "Do you think that the bed seems to be more messy?" "When she came to see yesterday, the food was spilled out because the boxes were tipping over, but they were almost piled together. But now they were all scattered everywhere as if they had been picked up, and a piece of fish bone even fell to the ground.

Lu'er said: "The slave and maid still came back to see what happened yesterday. "The others didn't come in yesterday.

Qing Ruxu thought about it carefully and said, "I can be sure that these things must have been passive!" ”

"Could it be the black shadow just now?"

At this time, they suddenly heard a slight "bang" from the side, and everyone's nerves tensed up almost instantly, and they immediately turned their heads to look over, but it was a big black cat that jumped down from the beam above their heads, glanced at the fishbones that were spilled on the ground with nostalgia, licked their tongues, jumped out of the door, and disappeared into the night.

"It turned out to be a cat? When did this beast come into the house? Mrs. Meng said a sigh of relief and breathed a sigh of relief, it's good that she is not a villain.

Qing Ruxu stared at the place where the cat disappeared and breathed a sigh of relief, but she couldn't hide her disappointment. If the mystery of Xiao Song's disappearance is not solved, she always feels that something is blocked in her heart.

Everyone came out of it, Lu'er locked the door again, and Qing Ruxu frowned and stood under the window to look inside. "The doors and windows are locked tightly, and there are people around to handle them, how the hell did she get out of here?"

Shizhou said: "It would be nice if there were two people staring at it at that time......"

Qing Ruxu was stunned when she heard this, and couldn't help asking: "By the way, who brought Xiao Song over at that time?" Why didn't she let people guard her in front of Xiao Song? ”

Lan Zhou said: "At that time, when the girl and the masters were talking inside, the slaves and maids were waiting outside, Sister Baizhu took someone to search Mrs. Madame's house, and Sister Moshan wanted to stay and listen to the old lady's instructions, so Sister Egret went." ”

Lu'er said on the side: "That's right, the third lady followed and sent the slave maid to the quiet pavilion to guard, when the slave maid came here, Sister Egret was about to lock the door, I glanced inside, and saw the eldest lady sitting on the bed. ”

"You are clearly separated by a screen outside, how can you see the bed?" Qing Ruxu looked at Lu'er and asked, "Did you see Xiao Song with your own eyes, or did you only see her shadow through the screen?" ”

Lu'er couldn't help but be a little panicked when she heard her tone change: "Shadow...... The slave only saw the shadow of the eldest lady, and the egret sister locked the door, saying that the eldest lady had been grounded and no one was allowed to touch her. ”

Qing Ruxu frowned, it was not wrong for the egret to do this, but it always felt a little strange. Father said that the little Song family would be confined in the Jingyou Pavilion, and if it was ordinary, it would be enough to send someone to guard the door...... How did you think of locking it directly?

"You were outside, could you hear what we were saying in the house?"

Everyone shook their heads.

Qing Ruxu thought of something in an instant, and the feeling of sudden realization was as if she had been electrocuted! At that time, his father ordered someone to detain Xiao Song, and only the people in the house knew the specific reason, and the people outside, including Bailu, obviously would not know that Xiao Song had committed such a big crime.

And the egret actually used the means of imprisoning his subordinates and directly locked the housewife in the house in the house, isn't it too strange!

Qing Ruxu turned her head and asked Lu'er, "After the egret locked the door yesterday, you have been guarding the door all day and have not left, right?" ”

"Nope." Lu'er hurriedly shook her head, "The slave and maid have never left a single step, and when the egret enters to deliver lunch and dinner, the slave and maid are also guarding the door." ”

"Guarding the door? In other words, you haven't been in it from beginning to end, and it's always been the egret that has entered to deliver food? Qingru asked hurriedly.

Lu'er nodded: "Yes, girl, is there anything wrong?" ”

"Of course not, big not!" Qing Ruxu narrowed his eyes, "Xiao Song's family is not in the sky and into the earth, nor has it disappeared mysteriously, but from beginning to end, he has never entered this room at all!" ”

The egret doesn't seem to leave any gaps and does things safely, for fear that the little Song clan will run away, but in fact, it is just to cover up the fact that there is no one in the quiet pavilion at all! Xiao Song fled long before Lu'er arrived!

The people on the side were shocked when they heard her say this, and Shizhou said, "However, the deer clearly saw that there was someone behind the screen......

"Do you remember the messy bedding and the outer dress on the bed? It wasn't left behind after Xiao Song's disappearance at all, but a trick that someone had set up there in the first place! ”

"Huh?" Lu'er was dumbfounded, "Could it be ...... Could it be that the shadows I see are piled up with bedding and skirts? That's not right either...... At dinner yesterday, the figure was still there after the egret sent the food box out! During the period of time when the eldest lady was found missing until he entered the food box, the slaves and maids were all egrets together, and they were never separated! She simply didn't have time to mess with that pile...... Also, the slave and maid heard the sound of the food box and porcelain plate colliding outside! ”

"Have you forgotten the dumped food box and the black cat?" Qing Ruxu's eyebrows showed an insightful look.

Everyone was stunned, and Meng Pozi shouted, "It's that cat!" It was the big black cat just now who knocked down the food box and messed up things! ”

"So the voice the slave heard was made by the big black cat?"

"That's right, that morning, someone specially sent crucian carp to the house! Actually, it's not for anyone, it's for that cat! ”

As long as the egret puts the food box in the middle of the futon, the big black cat will desperately look for it when it smells of fish, so when a group of them come in, they will see such a messy scene!

"But if there's a cat in the house, how can we not find out? The front and back doors opened several times, and it didn't run or scream! ”

Qing Ruxu chuckled, "This is the key to the ruse. Did you hear the cat meow? ”

Everyone shook their heads when they heard this.

Qing Ruxu said: "If what I expected is right, that cat was fed dumb medicine and can't bark anymore." All the egret had to do was stun it again, hide it in the house in advance, and wake the cat up when she went in to put it in the food box at dinner time, and it was all done! ”

"When you find out that Xiao Song is gone, and you call someone to come and see it, with the habits of a cat, it is very likely that you jumped on the beam of the house and hid like Fang Cai. Just now it was hungry, and it came down to rummage for something to eat, and we just happened to find it! ”

Meng Pozi opened her mouth wide, she really didn't expect that there would be such a trick!

"Lu'er, open the door again."

Hearing this, Lu'er hurriedly did so.

Everyone entered the room again, Qing Ruxu looked at the purple-brown skirt on the bed, and sneered: "If you look closely, this is not the one that Xiao Song wore yesterday!" ”

Lan Zhou was shocked: "Could it be that she had already left a way out for herself before going to Songhe Hall?" ”

Qing Ruxu sighed: "The three holes of the cunning rabbit!" ”

Lu'er didn't expect the egret to be so treacherous and play so many tricks under his nose! She hesitated and trembled, "Girl, what ...... Now what? Today, the egret said that she had something to go home to see, and she took leave with the old lady, so let me be on duty first today, will she have escaped? ”

Qing Ruxu sneered: "If she thinks that her little cleverness can be effective all the time, she is wrong!" ”

Shizhou was surprised: "Girl! Didn't Jiang Gongzi help you with those two hits? ”

Qing Ruxu smiled: "Finally, there is something comforting!" Lu'er go back to the third room, there is no need to guard it here. The rest of you, come with me and get the egret back! ”

Meng Pozi seemed to be very fond of catching bad guys, and when she heard this, she was immediately eager to try. "Don't worry, girl, whatever you command, the old slave will do it, and you will definitely let the egret spit out everything she knows!"