After the autopsy, Meng Tianchu said to Cuilian, "Madam, can you let us go and see Xiaohong's room?" ”

"Of course there is no problem, whatever Master Meng says is fine." Cuilian smiled.

Meng Tianchu faintly felt that this Cuilian today was not the same as the first time he saw it, and as for what was different, he couldn't tell clearly.

The average big family has a maid, in fact, a few people live in one room, this Xiaohong is the personal maid of Wu Xiaomei, the grandmother of the Hao family, so it is special to live alone.

"Who of you found out she jumped into a well?" Meng Tianchu looked at the furnishings and objects in the house, and generally asked Cuilian who came with him casually.

"It's... It was found by the maid Xiaoxing, who was burning the fire in the kitchen this morning, when she went to the well to prepare to carry water. ”

"Call me Xiaoxing." Meng Tianchu said.

Cuilian hurriedly went out to call someone.

After a while, Cuilian came back, and said with a reluctant smile: "Master Meng, Xiao Xing, this ghost girl doesn't know where she ran to, I have already asked someone to find it." ”

"Oh, there's Mrs. Law."

"Master, you are really polite, you have been here for such a long time, I think you and other officials are also hungry, I asked the kitchen to prepare some water, wine and food, we have a small place, there is nothing to entertain, you can use it casually, and then it is not too late to work, what do you say?"

Meng Tianchu was really hungry when she said this.

"Okay, then I'm sorry to bother Madame."

"I'll go see how Master Hao's illness is, and call me when the meal is served."

Cuilian smiled and agreed, turned and left.

Meng Tianchu watched her background disappear out of the door thoughtfully, and thought for a moment. said to Murong Zhenxue: "You also go to the kitchen to have a look, don't let them make a lot of things we don't like to eat." Anyway, don't worry, Wang Zhutou and I went to see Hao Tianbao, the poor guy. ”

"Okay, I see." After Murong Yuxue finished speaking, she went out and followed.

Meng Tianchu and Wang Yi came to Hao Tianbao's room, there was only a little maid waiting in the room, Hao Tianbao thought that he had tossed for a night, and finally fell asleep at dawn, and the little maid was fanning him with mosquitoes, and she was also dozing off. Didn't notice the people who came in.

Meng Tianchu approached, and the little maid found him. Meng Tianchu only came the day before yesterday, so these maids all knew him. Standing up and saluting, Meng Tianchu hurriedly motioned for her to speak quietly, for fear of waking up Hao Tianbao.

Meng Tianchu called the little maid to the door and asked in a low voice, "What's your name?" ”

"Yu'er"

"How old are you?"

"Fourteen"

"Is it the maid in the old man's room?"

"No, the maids in the master's room are Ling'er and Huan'er, and now they have been put in the laundry room by grandma."

"Then you're waiting in the old man's room right now?"

"Yes, the slave is the maid in the grandmother's room. Grandma said that she hadn't found a suitable person to serve the master for a while. Let me wait here first. ”

Meng Tianchu took a look at this Yahuan Yu'er, although her name was pure. But he looks crooked and inferior to jujubes, with small cross-eyes and freckles. Speak with a mouthful of macular teeth. I thought, this Cuilian called such a living treasure to take care of Hao Tianbao, it is still very powerful, presumably the one called Ling'er and Huan'er is not bad, she is afraid of stealing her limelight, so she switched to do heavy work, and called such a "three hearts" card (looking disgusting, thinking sad, stay at home and rest assured) Diyahuan to take care of it.

Meng Tianchu asked again: "How many years have you been with your grandmother?" ”

"Less than a year."

"And who used to serve your grandmother?"

"I don't know, when the slave came, grandma was not a grandmother, she was just a maid next to the big grandma." As she spoke, Na Yu'er also looked out the window cautiously, for fear that someone would hear it.

"Are you saying that Cuilian is Wu Xiaomei's personal maid?"

Na Yu'er nodded and did not speak.

"Do you think your former grandmother was nice to you?"

This question obviously made it difficult for this girl to answer, so after thinking about it, she boldly whispered: "If Master still wants Yu'er to live, please don't ask." Grandma explained, the eldest grandmother is dead, no one is allowed to mention her affairs in the future, I have just had more mouths, if I let grandma know, I will not be able to live. ”

"Well, then I'm not going to ask about that. I only ask the last sentence, how is Wu Xiaomei to Cuilian? ”

"Okay. Grandma is very good to everyone when she is here, the old man often does not come home when he is away, this home is taken care of by grandma, she is very capable, and has a good heart, never beats and scolds us people. After saying that, I thought I had to say more, so I quickly covered my mouth with my hand.

Meng Tianchu thought to himself, this is still a child after all, and he doesn't want to embarrass her more, and he is afraid that the wall has ears for others to hear, but it will hurt this child, so he stopped asking, and saw that Hao Tianbao slept well, and there was nothing to ask urgently, so he turned around and prepared to go out. Suddenly remembering something, he turned around and asked, "Yu'er, didn't your housekeeper say to ask for a doctor?" Why haven't you come back yet? ”

"I don't know, the housekeeper also served by the master's side last night, and I don't know when he left in the morning."

"That's really hard for your grandmother, it's not easy to rely on her to be busy inside and out."

Na Yu'er raised her eyes and glanced at Meng Tianchu, and stopped talking.

Meng Tianchu said in a low voice: "If you have anything to say, just say it, don't be afraid, I won't tell others." ”

The girl nodded, lowered her voice and said, "Now grandma is reluctant to come to this house, saying that it is hot, and the master has no way to take a bath, so the smell in the house is very sour, so she won't come." ”

Meng Tianchu nodded when he heard this, and then left. Walking out of the door, he happened to meet Murong Yuxue who was walking towards him, and asked with a smile: "Are you back?" What do you think? What did the new grandma entertain us? ”

Murong Yuxue said angrily: "That Cuilian didn't let me enter the kitchen at all, she was far less gentle to me than she was to you, and before I went in, she closed the door of the kitchen, and actually said something with a smile for fear of smoking me." ”

"It doesn't matter. If you don't enter, you won't enter. In fact, it is not important what we eat, but what we eat. Meng Tianchu said meaningfully.

While the two of them were talking, Na Cuilian walked over with a smile on her face: "Master, it's ready, please go to the dining room to eat." ”

"There's Mrs. Law."

"Where is it, the master has worked so hard for our Hao family, and I don't know how to thank it."

Meng Tianchu and the others, who were talking, had already come to the dining room under the leadership of Cuilian, and the wine and food had been placed on the table, which seemed to be very rich, and it was really worthy of being a big family. The menu is also very rich.

After everyone sat down, Meng Tianchu found that Cuilian was just standing aside. Hurriedly got up and invited: "Madam, why don't you have dinner together?" ”

Cuilian repeatedly excused herself: "No." No, master, please use it, I still have to go to the master's room to serve the master, I let two subordinates serve the master, I won't accompany you, there are too many chores at home in the past few days, and I really have no choice. ”

Meng Tianchu listened. and no longer hindered. Cuilian looked at them and smiled. Then he walked away quickly.

The catcher at the table saw that Meng Tianchu didn't move his chopsticks, and he didn't want to eat first, but Meng Tianchu didn't seem to be in a hurry to eat at all. said to the old mother who was waiting next to him: "Please ask Yahuan Xiaoxing if she has found it, and if she finds it, call her over quickly, I have something to ask." ”

Wang Zhutou said with a smile: "Master, let's eat first, don't starve you." ”

The catchers thought they were hungry: "Yes, master, it's not too late to do anything after eating!" ”

"Don't be in a hurry, there are some things that you can be anxious about, go to a place like the Netherworld, but you don't have to be in such a hurry."

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and they didn't know what Meng Tianchu meant by this.

Meng Tianchu said to the old mother again: "Please ask, did Xiao Xing find it." Is it that your old man is old, and he can't remember that there is a maid named Xiaoxing in this Hao family's house? ”

That Wang Yi was a rough man, and walked up to the old mother and shouted: "Master asked you to call Xiaoxing, are you deaf or dumb?" ”

The old mother hurriedly agreed and hurried out.

Just a while later, Cuilian came back with her old mother, and said with a smile: "Master, Xiaoxing, this girl doesn't know where she has gone, she must teach her a good lesson when she comes back, and you can't let them do this kind of thing." ”

"Really?" Meng Tianchu smiled, as if it was all he expected, and ordered Wang Yi to take a few brothers to help find Xiao Xing.

Wang Yi looked at the table of delicacies, swallowed his saliva, and said with a huff: "Master, where can this little girl run, her little belly is really a little hungry, or she will pad her stomach first, and then go and find this little girl ring immediately." ”

"Hehe, the old birthday star hanged himself - you have a long life, right?"

Meng Tianchu said such things again, this time Wang Zhutou slowly came to his senses a little, and stared at the table of food: "Master is saying..."

Murong Zhenxue had already plucked the silver hairpin on his head and tried the food, and the first half of the silver hairpin was suddenly black - arsenic was in the wine and food!

Wang Yi was surprised and scared, and slapped the table: "What a thief, you dare to poison the wine and food!" ”

Cuilian was so frightened that her face turned pale: "Master... Master, what's going on? ”

Wang Zhutou stepped forward and grabbed her and pressed her to the ground, and slapped her on the head: "What's the matter?" You have poison in your food and drink, and you want to poison us, and we are just about to ask you what is the matter! ”

"Spare your life, all the officials! It has nothing to do with me, and I don't know what's going on? I've been wronged. Cuilian fell to her knees and wailed.

"Where's your butler?" Meng Tianchu didn't hold on to the problem of poisonous wine and food, but instead asked about the housekeeper, which made Wang Zhutou and the others a little puzzled.

"He went to invite our lord to invite Langzhong..."

"Hehe, no, Wang Zhutou, please take your brothers to search the Hao Mansion carefully."

Under an order, Wang Yi first ordered Cuilian to be locked and knelt in the patio, and then led people to search around in the Hao family's compound, and finally, found two hemp bags from under Cuilian's bed, opened them and saw that there were two people inside, it was Zhenjiang, the housekeeper of Hao's mansion, and Xiaoxing, the maid.

Meng Tianchu immediately questioned separately, and both of them said that they were beaten unconscious from behind in Cuilian's room, although they didn't see who beat them, but there was only Cuilian in the room at that time, so it is estimated that she beat her.

Meng Tianchu returned to the courtyard, sat down on a Taishi chair, squinted his eyes and stared at Cuilian on the ground, and said coldly: "Madam, how can there be poison in the food?" ”

"I... I really don't know, if I get poisoned, how can I not run away. ”

Wang Zhutou kicked her hard: "You want to run, but it's too late, fortunately our master is clever, otherwise, you would have killed you!" ”

Meng Tianchu waved his hand to stop Wang Zhutou, and said to Cuilian: "I want to know how I guessed that you were poisoned?" ”

Cuilian and everyone looked at Meng Tianchu.

Meng Tianchu smiled: "It's very simple, when you said that the town housekeeper went to invite Lang Zhongdi, I suspected that there was a problem, there are many people in your Hao Mansion, how could you ask the housekeeper to invite Lang Zhong in person, Master Hao is sick, and there are so many things waiting for him to deal with at home." Then I found that the corpse was gone, and it was not time to eat, but you were courteous and entertained, which made people even more suspicious. Finally, and most importantly, on a few plates in the vegetable field, I smelled a faint fragrance, which was the strong fragrance in your hands, very special, I was thinking, how could your new grandmother in Haofu be so enthusiastic to serve the dishes in person, there must be a cat. And so it was! ”

Cuilian was pale and stupid on the spot.

Murong Zhenxue and Wang Zhutou were all glad to have this clever master, otherwise it would be over.

Meng Tianchu continued: "Since you want to kill us, there must be a very important reason, it is likely to be related to the town steward and Xiao Xing, so they let them search for one, now you tell me, you tied them under your bed, so why?" ”

Cuilian didn't answer, she sat on the ground, her head hanging and motionless.

"Just now, the contemptible man has asked the two of them, and when they fainted, they saw that it was you who attacked them from behind, how do you explain it?" In fact, the town housekeeper and Xiao Xing both said that they didn't see who knocked them unconscious, and Meng Tianchu was just deceiving Cuilian here.

Cuilian lowered her head and still didn't speak.

Meng Tianchu understood that he was right in this trick, and said with a smile: "Although I don't know why you knocked the housekeeper Zhenjiang and Xiaoya Xiaoxing unconscious and hid them under the bed, I know that it was you who bought the cell head with a gold ingot, and went to the cell to poison the Cao family in the cell and poisoned her to death, right?"

Cuilian's body shook, and she lowered her head and still didn't speak. Wang Zhutou and the others were also full of doubts, not knowing where Meng Tianchu's conclusion came from.

Meng Tianchu stood up, slowly walked in front of Cuilian, bent down, and said in Cuilian's ear in a low voice: "And I also know that it was you who bought the Wenpo Cao family, and when you induced labor, you broke the uterus of Master Hao's original wife Wu Xiaomei, causing her to bleed and die." Right? ”

Cuilian's body went limp, and she sat on the ground. She didn't know if Meng Tianchu was an invisible ghost who had been following her like a shadow, otherwise, how could she know all this?

"Don't look at me like that, I'm not a ghost, I know this, in fact, you told me. Precisely, it was your hands that betrayed you! ”

Cuilian couldn't help but look at her hands, and there was nothing unusual.

"It's the rich scent of your hands! And these balms, which thou hast rubbed with thy hands, have adhered to the silver and the gold as thou hast taken them. You know? The organ of pride in my body, besides my little brother, counts my nose, so that the scent of the silver is faint, but my nose smells it accurately, and, as I remember accurately, the scent came from you, which almost stunted me when I first saw you. Hey. ”

Cuilian involuntarily raised her hand and smelled it, but it was not the true face of Lushan, just because she was in this mountain, she was used to this fragrance on her body, how could she smell it.

Meng Tianchu stood up, walked back to the chair and sat down, and said loudly: "You buy Wen Po and let her create a man-made medical accident, causing Wu Xiaomei to collapse and die." This kind of thing is relatively common, and most of them will hold a funeral and it will not alarm the government, so you took the silver with the seal of the Hao family and gave it to Wen Po, but you never thought that Wu Xiaomei's younger brother Wu Lai would sue the official later. You were afraid that Wen Po would be punished, but you were summoned out, and in panic, you decided to kill people and kill people. So he disguised himself and came to the prison, bought off the cell boss, and poisoned and killed the Wenpo Cao family. Right? ”