Xiangxiang, who was sleeping, suddenly heard a woman in his ear calling softly, and when he opened his eyes, it was Xiaoqing. He was a little surprised to find that Xiaoqing was wearing a plain dress and did not have a little fat powder on his face, looking at him with a smile.

He sat up, and Xiaoqing sat on a stool in front of him, looking at him and not speaking.

"Xiaoqing, why are you here?" Meng Tianchu asked.

Xiaoqing smiled slightly, put the hair in front of her forehead behind her ears with her hand, and then said softly: "I'm leaving, so I want to come and see you." After so many years, I have now found out that only Gongzi you treat me Xiaoqing as a person, but it's too late. If I had known you a few years ago, Xiaoqing would not have practiced herself like this. Even if I use up all my life savings, I will redeem myself and use you as a cow and a horse. ”

When Meng Tianchu saw Xiaoqing say this, he suddenly felt very sad, and he didn't know how to say it.

Na Xiaoqing continued: "There are some things, we don't just look at the surface, don't let some things in front of us blind our eyes. ”

Meng Tianchu couldn't understand: "What do you mean by my words?" ”

Xiaoqing walked in front of Meng Tianchu. took out a piece of jade pendant from his arms, and Meng Tianchu knew at a glance that it was a good piece of jade.

Xiaoqing handed the jade pendant to Meng Tianchu, and then said, "Look at it, how about this piece of jade?" ”

"Naturally, it is a high-quality jade." Meng Tianchu said.

Xiaoqing smiled and took the jade back and put it in his arms: "What the son said is wrong. ”

Meng Tianchu was even more puzzled when he heard it, so he asked, "What does the girl want to say?" ”

"Good or bad, it's not you who see it that way, I say so, you will always understand the day. Okay, I'm leaving, look at you, and I'll be on the road with peace of mind. ”

After Xiaoqing finished speaking, she got up and opened the door and went out, Meng Tianchu shouted at her vigorously, she just didn't look back.

"Young master, young master." Meng Tianchu was awakened by a scream, and Feiyan was in front of him, he rubbed his eyes and looked at Feiyan.

"Young master, are you having some nightmares? Loud voice, I happened to pass by, thought something was wrong, and when I entered the door, I quickly woke you up. ”

"Dreams?" Meng Tianchu thought about the scene just now and looked out the window, it was still dark.

"Feiyan, what time is it?"

"It's the second watch."

"Did anyone look for me just now?"

"No, both grandmothers are going to rest. The second grandmother said that it was a little uncomfortable, so I went to fry it for her, thinking that it was an old problem again, and it would be good if you woke up, I went to the kitchen first, and the second grandmother was still waiting. ”

"You're not a maid now, so you don't have to do anything yourself in the future, you know? It's so late, let the next person do these things, and you're already working hard during the day. ”

Feiyan smiled, gently touched Meng Tianchu Khan's forehead with her hand, and said, "I'll go get you some hot water, you will be more comfortable to take a bath and sleep." Wait, I'll get the barrel for you." After speaking, Feiyan was about to go out, Meng Tianchu grabbed Feiyan's hand, Feiyan turned around, like a red child, and said gently: "Good, I'll come when I go, the second grandmother is still waiting." ”

"No need to take anyone to the study, let them send them to your room. I'm going to wash in your room. I want you to wash me. "Meng Tianchu is playing tricks like a child.

When Feiyan heard this, her face turned red. Said embarrassedly: "It's not me who sleeps today, it's the second grandmother." ”

Meng Tianchu stepped forward, hugged Feiyan, and said in her ear, "Isn't she uncomfortable?" Besides, your sisters have such a good relationship, you won't care. Anyway, I don't care, I'm going to go to your room to take a shower, or I won't wash it. It stinks you to death. ”

Feiyan smiled, nodded Meng Tianchu's forehead with her hand, and went out with a smile.

The night was gentle, Meng Tianchu thought he was very tired, but he didn't expect that when Feiyan fell asleep, he hadn't fallen asleep yet, and the sky was already slightly bright. He didn't dare to turn over when he was lying on the bed for fear of waking up Feiyan, who had been tired for a day, so he thought about it, so he had to get up and go to the study.

Walking out of Feiyan's room, he gently closed the door, it was already a little cold in the morning of this season, and he couldn't help but shiver, so he quickened his pace and went back to the study to find a coat to wear.

As soon as he got dressed, the man guarding the door came, because he hadn't had time to close the door, so the man came in directly.

"Young master, I thought you were resting and didn't dare to disturb you, but I just saw you walking in the courtyard, so I came over to inform you that just now an errand from the yamen came, saying that it was dead again, and asked you to go."

"When did it happen? Why didn't the dead man's thing come to the times? ”

"He just left, and I saw you just when I was wondering if to report to you, so I hurried here."

"Did the people who came say who died?" Meng Tianchu asked as he got dressed.

"It seems that a girl from the Warm Spring Pavilion died."

Meng Tianchu's back suddenly cooled, and he couldn't help but think of his previous dream, and suddenly had a very ominous premonition.

Meng Tianchu came to the yamen, everyone was already waiting for him, Meng Tianchu hurriedly beckoned everyone to get into the carriage, and galloped all the way to the Nuanchun Pavilion.

The errand who came in advance had already surrounded the scene, and all the guests who spent the night in Nuanchun Pavilion were left behind to be interrogated, Meng Tianchu and the others were stopped by Feng Ming, the boss of Nuanchun Pavilion, when they arrived at the door, she couldn't smile when she saw Meng Tianchu.

"Master Meng, if you are like this, there is no way for our business to be done, I have no opinion on you investigating the case, but you detained all our guests for questioning, you let me offend so many guests, who will come to our Nuanchun Pavilion in the future?" Aren't you trying to force me to close the door? ”

Meng Tianchu ignored her, and led people upstairs, and Murong Yuxue shouted behind him: "You don't even ask who died, where are you going?" ”

Meng Tianchu turned around and said, "It's Xiaoqing." ”

Murong Yuxue, who only listened, sighed, and Meng Tianchu was already standing at the door of Xiaoqing's room.

The door to the room was open, and because the servants had arrived in time, it was assumed that no one had entered the scene except the man who had found the deceased.

Xiaoqing died by hanging from the beam, just like in Meng Tianchu's dream, dressed in plain clothes, with a pale face and no makeup, and the person also fell on the beam, and was tied to the beam with a piece of white silk and then hanged.

Meng Tianchu has seen countless dead people, but today he was actually a little sad, he walked to Xiaoqing's side, looked carefully, there was a fallen bench next to him, Xiaoqing was wearing a pair of white embroidered shoes on his feet, at first glance it was new, I think Xiaoqing specially bought it to wear it so that he could look clean and easy to go on the road.

The furnishings in the house were very neat, there was no trace of a fight, and after Meng Tianchu checked the things in the house, he motioned for someone to put Xiaoqing down. The corpse had already begun to stiffen, Meng Tianchu looked at the scar on the neck of the deceased, he had already hanged himself, and calculated that the time should be like the second watch. Thinking about it, it should be when I dreamed of her, it seems that this girl had something to say to herself before she died. Thinking of this, Meng Tianchu's nose was sour again.

Meng Tianchu walked to the door and instructed the messenger to call the first person to find Xiaoqing. After a while, an old woman in her fifties was brought by the servants.

Meng Tianchu asked, "When did you find out that the little green girl was dead?" ”

The old woman replied: "That is what it looks like on the second watch, I went to the room of every girl who did not pick up the guests to collect their clothes and wash them, and I knocked on the door several times but it did not open. Thinking that she was asleep, she was about to leave, when she suddenly heard a voice in the house, so she turned around and screamed again, but she still did not make a sound. I dipped my saliva in the window paper on her door and looked inside and scared me to death. I called for someone to open the door, and when I opened it, she was already sticking out her tongue. ”

"You say there's a sound in the house?" Meng Tianchu asked.

"yes, I guess the sound of something falling, probably the sound of her kicking the bench to the ground."

"How long did it take for you to find her hanging herself until you came in?"

"Alas! Don't say it, if the Oiran in this building had something like today, she wouldn't have died. It's just a little green girl. Alas, life. The old woman let out a long breath.

"What do you mean by that?"

"I don't mean anything, you can think whatever you like. I'm done, my clothes haven't been washed yet, it's time for me to go. ”

An errand officer next to him stepped forward and said to Meng Tianchu: "This grandmother told me just now, saying that she went to find someone to save the little green girl, but after looking for a long time, the people said that they were reluctant to get up while sleeping, and they easily found a few people, thinking that they had missed the opportunity to save people." ”

When Meng Tianchu heard this, he couldn't help but get angry, and suddenly he remembered something, walked to Xiaoqing's side, and asked Murong Zhenxue to search Xiaoqing's body to see if there was anything else, Murong Zhenxue carefully checked it, and there was nothing.

Meng Tianchu shook his head: "No, there should be, isn't it on your body?" ”

Murong Yuxue didn't know what Meng Tianchu was looking for, so she asked, "What are you looking for?" What would she put on her? ”

"It should be a jade pendant." Meng Tianchu said as he walked to Xiaoqing's bed and searched her bed.

"How do you know?" Murong Yuxue said suspiciously.

Meng Tianchu didn't answer Murong Zhenxue's words, and searched all corners of the room but couldn't find it, so he called Wang Yi and said to him: "You go and ask carefully about this girl from the Nuanchun Pavilion and the guests who stayed here today, have you seen a piece of jade pendant, which is a fine topaz with a phoenix pattern on it." If necessary, you can ask the brothers to search their rooms and bodies, and be sure to find the jade pendant. ”

Wang Yi received the order, and soon took a few brothers and went.

Meng Tianchu ordered someone to call Feng Ming to question, and Meng Tianchu asked, "Does Xiaoqing have any guests here today?" ”

Feng Ming glanced at Meng Tianchu, looking very dissatisfied, and did not speak. Murong Zhenxue stepped forward and said loudly: "If you don't cooperate like this, we will come every day, anyway, we are also doing things for the yamen, you can't tell us anything, if we come one more day, your business will probably be one day short, you can do it yourself." ”

Feng Ming's attitude was better at this time, and she said slowly: "She has been hanging outside for a day, and she only came back when it was almost dark, what are the guests?" Besides, who doesn't know that she's very unlucky, and who is still looking for her? As far as I have a good heart, I let her live with me for so long. In other words, someone else was her mother, she had starved to death a long time ago, and she didn't know how grateful she was to me, but she still died here with me, which really touched my mold. ”

Meng Tianchu thought about it, what Feng Ming said should be about the same as the time he last saw Xiaoqing, so in this way, Xiaoqing did go back to Nuanchun Pavilion directly.

Meng Tianchu continued to ask, "Then she hasn't gone out since she came back or no one has come to look for her?" ”

"Then I don't know, you all know that business starts to start in a place like ours when it's dark, who cares about her."

"Aren't you the girl in the room receiving any kind of guests, do you have a record? How do you not know if anyone has ever looked for Miss Xiaoqing? ”

"Then I'll find out if someone asks. I didn't see it anyway. After speaking, Feng Ming twisted his waist and went out, and after a while, he found a strong man who looked like a thug.

"You ask him, he's the one who was in charge of guarding the door last night."

Meng Tianchu nodded and asked, "Did you see the little green girl go out again after she came back yesterday or did someone look for her?" ”

The strong man thought for a moment and said, "Yes, a man looked for her before she came back, because no one asked her by name these days, so I remember it very clearly." The man was about fifty years old, and as soon as he entered the door, he directly said that he wanted Xiaoqing, and Xiaoqing was not there at the time, so I introduced other girls to him. He didn't want it, he said that he would come later, let me tell Xiaoqing, and let her wait for him when she came back, and then Xiaoqing came back, so I told her that she stayed in the room for about an hour or so, and then went out again. It was dinner time for us guys, so I remember. ”

"And when did she come back?"

"Soon back, less than half an hour. I joked at the time to ask her if she had gone out to look for business, and she ignored me. It looked like I was very sad, and I didn't go out again. ”

"If you think about it again, is it true that you haven't gone out yet? So the business was so good in the evening, maybe you didn't notice it. ”

"I've been in Nuanchun Pavilion for four years, and I'm very familiar with these girls, most of them are tourists lately, so there are almost no girls brought out, and if they are taken out, we also have records. Because you also know that it is more expensive to take out than here. So, we must have a record. ”

Meng Tianchu thought for a while, and then asked, "Did that man say anything when he came to find Xiaoqing?" Do you know the man who came to Xiaoqing? ”

The strong man thought for a moment and replied, "I don't know, and I didn't say anything." ”

After asking the strong man, Wang Yi and the others also came back.

"Master, my brothers and I have asked everyone here, and no one has seen the jade pendant you mentioned. We also searched them, but they were still not found. ”

Meng Tianchu nodded, "You guys go back first, bring back the body of the little green girl, after the examination, we should bury her as soon as possible and let her be buried in peace." ”

"Master, do you mean to let us bury her?" Wang Yi felt that today's Master Meng was a little strange. In the past, there were so many deceased, he had never been so out of shape, and today he was just a woman in a green building, but he was so nervous and valued, I really didn't understand.

Meng Tianchu glanced at Xiaoqing on the ground, Xiaoqing's expression seemed to be very desperate, his eyes were wide open, Meng Tianchu had seen too many people who were so blind, but Xiaoqing's death always seemed to have something to do with him, and he always felt that he was not saved when he saw death. No one can help this woman, she is desperate, so she will choose such a path of no return.

"Yes, I will pay for the burial alone, just please help me find a better cemetery, the girl had a hard life before her death, I hope I can be happy in the next life"

Wang Yi didn't speak anymore and nodded.

After Meng Tianchu and the others came out of the Nuanchun Pavilion, Murong Zhenxue, Wang Yi and others returned to the yamen, and Meng Tianchu took Zhu Hao straight to the place where Lian'er was attacked by the shopkeeper at that time.

The place where Lian'er was attacked was probably less than a mile away from Cuiyun Villa, and there were tall poplar trees and tall weeds on both sides of the road, and there was not much farmland nearby, so it was sparsely populated, so it should be a good place for a sneak attack.

Meng Tianchu and Zhu Hao got out of the carriage and came to the place where Xi Ruoyao told him, they didn't find any other clues, from the place where the weeds were overwhelmed, Meng Tianchu looked carefully, and found nothing, on the surface, there was no obvious trace of a fight, after all, she was a weak woman, and she must be powerless if she struggled to write it down.

The two of them were about to get into the car and prepare to leave, when suddenly Zhu Hao sighed, squatted down in front of the wheels of the carriage, and looked carefully.