Tianchu asked Murong Zhenxue to bring up his forensic investigation box, and then after collecting the traces, he instructed Wang Yi to accompany Miao Zhe and came to the room where the nurse lived next door, there was no one in the house, Meng Tianchu closed the door and examined the bloodstains, and after a while he walked out of the house.

Miao Zhe had already entered the house, Meng Tianchu walked in, and saw Miao Zhe sitting at the head of the bed looking at the two children wiping tears sadly, Meng Tianchu walked to Miao Zhe's side and said, "By the way, you can't always fall, what do you say?" ”

Miao Zhe looked at Meng Tianchu and nodded, wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said, "Did Master Meng find anything?" ”

Meng Tianchu said: "I found that there were blood stains on the fence outside the door, and after inspection, it was found to be human bloodstains, and it should be a woman's bloodstains, so, I suspect...

Miao Zhe stood up and said, "Master Meng, if you suspect anything, you can do it, do you suspect that this is the bloodstain left by the murderer of my child?" ”

Meng Tianchu said: "It's not clear yet, we have to find out after we check, I hope that Master Miao will gather all the female dependents and maids in your house, as long as they are women, they will be concentrated in the courtyard for me, and I will check them one by one." ”

When Miao Zhe saw Meng Tianchu say this, he immediately walked out of the door quickly, and Meng Tianchu and the others also went downstairs.

After a while, Miao Zhe had already gathered people in the middle of the courtyard, Meng Tianchu walked up to Miao Zhe and asked, "Aren't there any missing?" ”

Miao Zhe replied: "Except for Xue'er, because she ate the herb and fell asleep, I didn't call it, but I know that she has always been by my side." She has not been injured recently. ”

Meng Tianchu nodded. Judging from the bloodstains that he examined, this bloodstain should have been left within three hours, and the fourth lady was not in the house at that time. It shouldn't be her bloodstains, so it's okay if she doesn't come.

Meng Tianchu said: "Then let the fourth lady rest well, and we won't disturb her." ”

Miao Zhe asked the women in the courtyard to line up in two rows, Meng Tianchu looked at it, and there were probably less than twenty people, and the eldest lady and the third lady were among them. But I didn't see the second lady.

Meng Tianchu asked, "What about the second lady?" ”

Miao Zhe looked at it, turned around and asked his housekeeper: "I asked you to call the second lady, where is her person?" ”

The housekeeper seemed to be very embarrassed, and said, "Shouting, she said that she fell asleep and didn't come." ”

When Miao Zhe heard this, he was furious and scolded: "Presumptuous! When will it be her turn to say something that she can't come. If I don't come now, I'll never let me out of her door. ”

The housekeeper listened. Pale with fright, he stumbled away.

Meng Tianchu watched coldly from the side. He found that Miao Zhe was a little in awe of the eldest lady, he was fond of the fourth lady, and he was not bad to the third lady, but he was not good to the second lady who added children to him.

Miao Zhe saw that the housekeeper was gone, his face softened, and he said to Meng Tianchu: "Master Meng, let's start first." ”

The sky has cleared, the snow has not fallen, but everyone is still shivering in the cold wind.

Meng Tianchu nodded, walked to the eldest lady's side, and said before speaking: "If you can find out the murderer, Master Meng, you can just let it go." Meng Tianchu nodded gratefully, carefully checked the eldest lady's head, then asked some simple questions, and then walked to the third lady's side, checked the side as usual, and found no scars, and checked them in turn, and when the inspection was almost halfway through, the housekeeper came back, followed by the second lady with an unhappy face, and her hair was not combed, just like that, wearing a plain cotton robe, looking from a distance, like a female ghost.

After Miao Zhe waited for the second lady to approach, he said sternly: "Who are you doing like this?" Have you forgotten the filial piety and daughter scriptures that you learned in the past? If a woman leaves her boudoir, she can't dress like this, and there are outsiders present, if it is spread out, you are really ashamed of my Miao Zhe's face! Get back in here, re-go through the combing and come out again, without delay. ”

The second lady was blue and red by Miao Zhe's face, and she couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground and get in.

Meng Tianchu stepped forward and said, "Since I'm here, then I'll take a look at the second lady first, anyway, it's just a small amount of work, and the second lady will go back to sleep after seeing it." After speaking, he walked behind the second lady and looked at it, and found that there were no injuries, so he said, "Okay, second lady, you can go back." ”

The second lady didn't dare to speak, and stayed: "Pack up, come out for me, the guests haven't left, what are you doing in the house?" ”

The second lady said: "Yes, I went to dress Jue'er and came." With that, he left.

Suddenly, Meng Tianchu found a scar on the head of a maid, the little maid saw Meng Tianchu walking to her side before, seeing that he was looking at the heads of all the earthlings, she subconsciously touched her head with her hand, and when she saw him coming, her face changed, Meng Tianchu looked at it and thought that she had finally found it, so she asked, "When did you get this injury?" ”

The maid's face changed in fright, and she snorted, "I... I don't know, ah....no, it's not that I don't know, I forgot. ”

Miao Zhe stepped forward, looked at the wound on the maid's head, looked at the maid and said, "This injury is a new injury at first glance, and it is not more than three hours, do you really not remember?" ”

The maid looked at Miao Zhe's gloomy face, and on such a cold day, she was scared out of her sweat.

Meng Tianchu asked Miao Zhe: "This maid is the maid in that room?" ”

Miao Zhe said: "It's from Xue'er's room." ”

Meng Tianchu asked again: "Did she interfere in the care of the two children on weekdays?" ”

Miao Zhe hadn't answered yet, and when the maid heard that it was related to the death of the two young masters, she was so frightened that she knelt on the ground and kowtowed and cried, "Master, I didn't." I didn't kill the young master, my injury was accidentally knocked on the fence, it really has nothing to do with me. ”

Meng Tianchu smiled, brushed the hair around the wound to reveal the wound to Miao Zhe, and said, "Master Miao." You are also studying medicine. Naturally, I know the depth of the wound, if this wound is not caused by the hard impact of others, one of my own carelessness probably will not be such a deep wound. ”

Miao Zhe looked at the wound and looked at it. said: "I, Miao Zhe, have never used family law to my subordinates, you have always been obedient, there is such a big thing in the family today, if you want to hide something, I will kill you, and I am not afraid to go to the yamen to reason." Chamberlain. Take out the family law for me, I don't believe that I can't pry open this dead girl's mouth. ”

When the maid heard this, she quickly crawled in front of the eldest lady and begged for mercy, and the eldest lady said: "You know that your life is at stake, so why don't you say it, if you do, who will beat you and do what?" ”

When the maid heard this, she hurriedly said, "Master." I said it, your men showed mercy, I said it. Miao Zhe scolded: "Then don't say it quickly." ”

The maid said: "It was yesterday at dusk, and the nurse asked me to send the diapers of the two young masters upstairs. The weather is bad these days, and diapers need to be baked on the fire before they can be used. So I took the baked diaper from downstairs and went upstairs, and when I got upstairs, I happened to meet the young master's room..."

Speaking of this, the maid stopped talking again, and Meng Tianchu thought that she must have something unspeakable, so he walked to her side and said softly

The lord and the lady are here, if you don't say it, the lord won't be able to live when he uses it later. ”

The eldest lady also said: "What Master Meng said is that if you don't say it, I won't be able to save you for a while." Who's it you've met, you say. ”

The maid gritted her teeth, as if she had made up her mind for herself, and said, "I just met the second lady." ”

Miao Zhe's face immediately changed when he heard this, and he asked, "What is she doing in the young master's room?" ”

The maid said: "When she saw me suddenly walk in, she seemed to be very nervous, and her speech was also stumbling, so I asked her what she was doing, and she stepped forward and gave me a slap, saying that I didn't talk big or small, saying that I just wanted the two young masters, come and see them." I was still squinting at the young master sleeping on the bed, and found that they were lying on the bed, how their heads were covered by the quilt, I quickly rushed forward, the quilt was lifted, at this time the nurse came in, the two young masters cried out, the nurse was frightened, thought I made the young master cry, and blamed me, the second grandmother took the opportunity to say that I made the two young masters cry, and beat me with a feather duster on the table, I hid out of the door, she chased to the door and grabbed my hair and hit me on the fence, So...

When Miao Zhe heard this, he was furious, and immediately called the housekeeper to call the second lady, and then asked the maid: "Then why didn't you say it before?" ”

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The maid said: "I was very scared when I knew that the young master was dead in the morning, and then the second lady came to me and said that if I dared to tell what happened yesterday afternoon, she would ask someone to kill my whole family, so I didn't dare to say it." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, the second lady hurriedly came with a child about ten years old, and when she saw the maid kneeling on the ground and the menacing Miao Zhe on the side, her face changed from one to the other.

Miao Zhe almost rushed to the second lady's ground, and before the second lady could say a word, he slapped him, and the slap directly caused the second lady to fall to the ground, and the corners of his mouth were bloody. Meng Tianchu thought, with Miao Zhe's strength, I am afraid that even the big teeth of this second lady will be knocked out. The little boy next to the second lady was frightened and started crying, Miao Zhe turned around and asked the third lady to go over and take the child away, the third lady stepped forward to pull it, the child cried and didn't leave, and fell down with his mother's side.

Miao Zhe said impatiently: "Don't you know to take him away?" ”

When the third lady heard this, she quickly picked up the child, and no matter how the child kicked and beat her, she took the child away. The second lady who fell to the ground saw Miao Zhe's appearance and knew that she was in a catastrophe today.

Miao Zhe walked up to the second lady, lowered his head and stared at her viciously, grabbed her hair violently, shook it back and forth, and roared loudly at the same time: "What did you do in Xue'er's room yesterday?" Say! ”

The second lady saw that Miao Zhe looked like she was going to eat people, and snorted: "I... I just went to see the kids. ”

As soon as the second lady's words fell, Miao Zhe pulled her hair violently, threw her to the ground, and then snatched a leather whip of about two meters from the butler's hand and whipped it over, the second lady screamed, and everyone present was so frightened that they didn't dare to make a sound.

Meng Tianchu stepped forward and was about to dissuade him, Miao Zhe said: "I know that you are from the Yamen, and I am beating my own family, if it is really this slut who harms my child, I will beat this slut to death here, none of you can persuade me, none of you can persuade me." ”

Meng Tianchu knew that this Miao Zhe was angry, and he was a martial arts practitioner, except for Zhu Hao, I am afraid that no one was his opponent, and others were afraid that they would not dare to persuade him, and after thinking about it, let him ask, maybe this child would be over soon, so he stepped aside and watched the excitement with everyone.

The second lady was whipped, and the flesh on her face was about to be twisted together, she probably didn't expect Miao Zhe to really beat her, this whip, she immediately understood everything.

Miao Zhe asked again: "What did you do in Xue'er's room yesterday?" You say it or not, if you don't say it, I'll just kill you. ”

The second lady cried and said: "Master, Xue'er's child really didn't kill me, I went to her room yesterday, I just looked at the two children at that time, and then I never went again, I have been in the eldest lady's room with the eldest lady, the third lady, and the nurse to play with the horse hanging, about the second watch when we dispersed, and then I went back to sleep." ”

Miao Zhe asked, "You still don't want to tell the truth, do you?" The maid in Xue'er's room has already said that you came out of Xue'er's room when she saw you, and you covered the child's head with a quilt.

When the second lady heard this, she thought about it, but she nodded, and as soon as Miao Zhe saw her nodding, the whip hit her head and face. I could only hear the screams of the second lady rolling on the ground, and many people didn't dare to look at it and closed their eyes.

The second lady said loudly: "Master, I was wrong. I won't dare again. ”

Miao Zhe roared: "I killed you today, what is there in the future." What kind of heart do you have to do such a thing? ”

The second lady cried: "At that time, they had lifted the child's quilt, the child was not dead, and when we played horse hanging (mahjong) at night, the maid also held the child to the nurse and let her breastfeed, which the eldest lady and the third lady saw." ”

Meng Tianchu also thought on the side, judging from the temperature of the child's corpse, it should be less than four hours from the time of discovery to the time of death, and when the child died, it was hung on the beam of the house, hanging very high, with the strength of a woman, it was impossible to strangle the two children and hang them at the same time.

Miao Zhe turned around and looked at the nurse on the side, stepped forward with a sneer, and said, "You actually left the child to the maid, and you went to play with the horse hanging by yourself?" ”

The nurse knew that she had done something wrong, and immediately knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, at this time the fourth lady Xue'er thought that she was woken up by the second lady's scream, and walked down from the upstairs alone.

When the third lady saw her, she immediately stepped forward to help her, and Miao Zhe stepped forward and said lovingly, "Didn't you let you sleep?" How did you get up? ”

The fourth lady looked at Miao Zhe, her eyes were full of tenderness, she didn't speak to him, but walked up to the second lady and said, "Your son is a son, is the son I gave birth to a thorn in your eye?" On weekdays, I treat your son as my own, how do you treat my two sons who are not familiar with the world? Cher burst into tears as she spoke, and everyone present was sad when she said it, and it seemed that she had heard everything.

When the second lady saw the fourth lady say this, she looked guilty and said: "Sister, I was confused for a while, and I couldn't see that the master was only good to you on weekdays, so he did such a foolish thing, and I regretted it afterwards, but the two little masters really didn't kill, even if I really still have that heart, but I was seen by your maid at that time, I was afraid that she would say it, and naturally she wouldn't do anything again, you believe me." ”

The fourth lady Xue'er ignored the words of the second lady, just walked up to Miao Zhe and said: "I said when the lord spoiled me on weekdays, don't put all your love on me alone, and snub other sisters, they will hate me, and now this is the case, but I didn't expect that it would be retributed on my children." Hahaha..."Xue'er suddenly laughed a few times, her body shook, and the third lady hurriedly held on tightly, and a mouthful of blood spurted out of Xue'er's mouth.