When the maids heard this, they hurriedly got out of the way, only to see a maid squatting on the ground pouring water into the mouth of a woman lying on her back, Meng Tianchu quickly stepped forward and walked to take a look, only to see that the woman's eyes were closed, her face was blue, as if she had fainted.

Meng Tianchu squatted down, and the maid who was irrigated with water next to him said: "My lord, when I found her, she was lying on the edge of the well in pain, and I came to ask, only to know that she had taken poison." ”

Meng Tianchu: "Did she herself say that she took poison?" ”

The maid nodded and said, "Yes, she said that she was so uncomfortable and didn't want to die, so I found some water to pour it into her, hoping to make her spit out the poison." ”

Meng Tianchu: "You did a good job. ”

The maid smiled sheepishly.

Meng Tianchu pinched the woman, the woman opened her eyes slightly, Meng Tianchu helped her up and slammed it behind her back a few times, the woman spit out several mouthfuls of black water, Li Xin quickly took a few steps back in disgust, covering his nose.

Meng Tianchu asked the maid to pour a few mouthfuls of water into the woman, and after the woman spit out a few more mouthfuls, she finally lay weakly in the maid's arms.

Murong Zhenxue stepped forward and said to Meng Tianchu, "Didn't this woman run past us with her mouth covered just now, and the housekeeper taught her a lesson." ”

Meng Tianchu thought about it, and then remembered that it was indeed the woman Murong Yuxue said, and then said to the woman: "Why are you looking for death?" ”

The woman shook her head bitterly. Didn't speak.

Li Chu stepped forward and kicked the woman lightly, and said, "My lord asked you something, why are you pretending to be dead." ”

Meng Tianchu: "Don't be like this, have something to say." ”

Murong Yuxue squatted down and said to the woman, "If you have anything to say, just say it, and our lord and the prefect will be the master of the land for you." ”

Cai Zhao hurriedly said: "What the sixth lady said is true. You just say it's what it is. ”

Li Xin looked at Murong Yuxue from the side, thinking that this woman was the concubine of this lord named Meng Tianchu, and she was really smart.

"Tianchu, I chased my sister back."

Li Xin turned his head when he heard the sound, and his eyes lit up suddenly. I saw two young women, one green and one pink dress, smiling and holding hands, both women are beautiful, especially the one who spoke, who was younger. There were still two shallow dimples when he laughed, and a smile was really soul-grabbing, Li Xin couldn't help but whisper: "Good two ladies in Peugeot." ”

Xiao Nuo took Xiao Wei and approached, and walked straight to Meng Tianchu, Meng Tianchu pointed to the woman and said, "She took poison, ask her, she doesn't speak." ”

Xiao Wei looked at the black water spitting on the ground. Then he looked at the woman. said indifferently: "She doesn't want to die, but she wants to poison herself." ”

Meng Tianchu looked up at Xiao Wei, Xiao Wei pointed to the black water on the ground, and said, "She can't speak." Meng Tianchu: "Xiaowei, how do you know?" ”

Xiao Wei was still talking very seriously, but suddenly smiled stupidly and said, "I guess, hey, hey, hey." ”

Meng Tianchu was speechless again, and at this time Wang Yi found Lang Zhong, who approached and took a look. "My lord." Most of the poisonous water was spit out, and his life was worry-free. It's just that she can't speak anymore. ”

Meng Tianchu smiled secretly in his heart, looked at Xiao Wei, and saw that Xiao Wei was looking around, but he didn't look at Meng Tianchu, Meng Tianchu thought, Xiao Wei, just continue to pretend, I see when you want to pretend.

Meng Tianchu got up and asked, "Steward Li, what does this maid do in the house on weekdays?" ”

Li Chu: "It's the little young master's personal maid, called Yezi." ”

Meng Tianchu felt a little strange when he heard this, and said, "You said that the child who died in the corner of the wall by the gate?" ”

Li Chu nodded again and again and said yes.

It seems that this maid named Ye must know something, and even said that she may not know who the murderer is, so she chose to poison herself in order to save her life.

Meng Tianchu looked at Ye Zi, Ye Zi glanced at Meng Tianchu sadly, and hurriedly lowered his head.

Meng Tianchu knew that he couldn't ask anything now, so he said, "Then you go and call the maid who is waiting for the old man to come over."

The maid who served the water on the side whispered: "Master, the slave maid has been serving the master's maid Lianzhu." ”

Meng Tianchu took a closer look at this girl, who was about eighteen or nineteen years old.

Meng Tianchu: "I heard the housekeeper say that you live next door to the master at night, didn't you hear any movement last night?" ”

Lianzhu: "No, the old man has been sleeping badly recently, and he has to get up several times at night, last night when the second watch, the slave maid waited for the master to get up at night and returned to the next room to sleep until dawn, and later, someone knocked on the door and said that the master had an accident, and the slave and maid only knew." ”

Meng Tianchu: "Does your master get up every night on a fixed basis?" ”

Lianzhu: "It's the ground, but it won't rise again after the second watch until dawn." ”

Meng Tianchu: "How long have you been serving the master?" ”

Lianzhu: "It's been four years. ”

Meng Tianchu: "Who knocked on the door at that time to tell you that something happened to your master?" ”

Lianzhu: "Guy who carries water." ”

Meng Tianchu: "Carrying water? ”

Lianzhu: "Yes, he said that when he passed by the old man's door, he saw that the door was not closed, which was a little strange, and when he approached and pushed the door, he found that something was wrong." ”

Meng Tianchu: "Master Li died in bed, have you ever gone to see Master Li's body at that time?" ”

Lian Zhu nodded and said: "The master was very good to the slave and maid when he was alive, and if he said something disrespectful, he was the same as the slave's grandfather, the master who carried the water went, and I naturally didn't believe it, so I went in to see it." ”

Meng Tianchu: "Okay, tell me what you saw?" ”

Lian Zhu looked at Meng Tianchu suspiciously, and said, "My lord, haven't you gone to see it all?" ”

Li Xin said impatiently: "My lord asked you to speak." That's it. ”

Meng Tianchu turned to Li Xin and said, "Has Gongzi Li been there?" ”

Li Xin hurriedly said: "Aren't the grass people in a hurry to meet the two adults, they haven't had time yet, hehe!" ”

Meng Tianchu smiled indifferently and said, "Then Gongzi Li should go and see your father for the last time, because we will take away the corpses of Ling Zun, his brother and sister-in-law, and his nephew in a while." ”

Li Xin: "Okay, okay, grass people will go." After saying that, he bowed his hand. And then left.

Xiaonuo whispered: "What kind of person, my father is dead, how can I act like a nobody." ”

Meng Tianchu said to Lianzhu: "Okay, don't worry about him, what you say is yours." ”

Mon Province.

Zuo Jiayin sat in Meng Tianchudi's study. There is a cup of freshly brewed Longjing on the coffee table, which is exuding bursts of tea fragrance.

"Tianchu, Mr. Gongsun and I went to look for the ear, asked about some information, and decided to secretly send someone to keep an eye on him during this period of time. Especially at night, although the symptoms of the place where the disease occurred were somewhat like lantern disease, my husband and I still thought that it would be better to give it a try for the sake of caution. ”

Meng Tianchu: "How to try?" Can you try it out? ”

Zuo Jiayin smiled slyly and said, "Mr. Gongsun and I have already thought of a way. ”

Meng Tianchu remembered Xiao Wei and said, "Then you and Mr. also think of a way to try Xiao Wei?" Zuo Jiayin walked up to Meng Tianchu and leaned over and whispered in his ear: "Xiaowei doesn't have to try, you already know that she is pretending." Just let her pretend. ”

Meng Tianchu looked at Zuo Jiayin in surprise. Zuo Jiayin patted Meng Tianchu's shoulder with a smile and said, "Don't think that you alone know, I know too." ”

Meng Tianchu smiled, pointed at Zuo Jiayin and said, "Just you ghost elf!" ”

After dark, Tu Long took the two people to Meng Tianchu's study by taking advantage of the night, needless to say that they knew that it was the Dongchang spies by looking at the sign on the waists of the two people.

After the two of them gave Meng Tianchu a salute, they slaughtered the dragon and said, "My lord, according to my lord's orders, I will let people keep an eye on their ears." Then he sent someone to check the maids and subordinates who had worked in Liu's house back then. I found a few and asked, and they said that the ears were initially very good in Liu's house at that time. Later, a maid found that the ears were peeking under the window of the young lady, and when the Liu family learned about it, they drove the ears out. ****”

Meng Tianchu: "What, it's also a peek?" ”

Tu Long smiled and nodded, "Exactly, and the maid who found the ears at that time was Yuqin." ”

When Meng Tianchu heard this, he felt that things were a bit coincidental, and said, "Why is it Yuqin again?" ”

Tu Long: "So my subordinates were a little confused, and I also felt that this matter was a little strange, and I wanted to discuss it with you, but you had the Li Jiadi case entangled, so your subordinates made their own decisions, and asked the two brothers of Dongchang to go to Yuqin's village again and check the details of Yuqin and Yuming's two siblings, and let them tell you about it." ”

One of the tall men said: "My lord, I went to Yuqin's village and found out some information, it turned out that Yuqin and Yuming were not born to the same mother, Yuqin Yuming was two years old, Yuqin's father died very early, Yuqin's mother took Yuqin to remarry to the current village, married Yuming's father, Yuqin was only five years old at the time. I heard from the people in the village that Yuqin and Yuming had a very good relationship, and even broke off the marriage contract with Xu Hai for this reason. ”

Meng Tianchu thought for a while and said, "When Yuqin was working in the Liu family, was Yuming also there?" ”

A short man next to him said: "A maid who served the second lady in Liu's house at that time said that Yuqin was the only one at that time, and I heard that Yuming was working in a silk village, and later because his hands and feet were not clean, the boss of the silk village didn't want it." ”

Meng Tianchu: "Silk Village? Blessed Silk Village? ”

The short man nodded and said, "Exactly." ”

Meng Tianchu understood, Yuming had worked in Du Qin's Silk Village, and he should be very familiar with the pillar.

Meng Tianchu: "Did you really like the second miss when you were in the Liu family?" ”

Short man: "According to the maid, it's true, and the second lady is also interested in the ear, and then after the peeking incident, the ear was driven away, and the second lady and her family moved away quickly." ”

Meng Tianchu thought for a moment. In this way, the ear should not like a woman who once caused her to have no job, if Yuqin and Yuming really have an affair, then Yuqin naturally will not like the ear, and Yuqin seems to want the ear to leave the Meng Mansion, is it hoping that Yuming has the opportunity to become a housekeeper? What is the purpose of that ear suddenly pursuing Yuqin? Regardless of the previous suspicions? Or is it pure revenge?

Meng Tianchu pondered. The tall man said: "My lord, I also heard from the people in Yuqin Village that Xu Hai once had a big fight with Yuming, and the people in the village at that time still talked that Xu Hai was killed by Yuming, because the day after they fought. Xu Hai died, saying what kind of plague it was, but Xu Hai's father and mother said that Xu Hai had no signs of illness before, and after the accident, Yuqin went out to do things. Yuming also went to the silk village. ”

Meng Tianchu smiled and said, "In this way, it is necessary for us to go to Yuqin's village to have a look." ”

Slaying the dragon: "What the lord said is that if it was really him who killed him, we should give Xu Hai justice." ”

Prefect's Yamen.

Cai Zhao insisted on letting Meng Tianchu sit in the hall and sit on the side to listen, and the two of them each insisted for a while, and Meng Tianchu saw that Cai Zhao really wanted to let him interrogate him personally. I sat in the same position I had ever sit.

Butterflies kneel under the hall. With his head down, his hands on his thighs, and a handkerchief in his hand wrapped around his index finger back and forth, this is not a formal hall, there are no ordinary people watching, and there are no servants standing on the side to scare people, only Wang Yi, Chai Meng, Tu Long, Xiao Nuo, Xiao Wei and Murong Zhenxue, everyone is very quiet, just like that. It made the butterfly even more uneasy.

Meng Tianchu looked at the startling wood on the table. After thinking about it, he still raised it and slapped it heavily on the case, and everyone present couldn't help but be startled. The butterfly's body trembled even more, and her eyes looked flustered and uneasy.

"Butterfly, if the official asks you, you have to answer them one by one, otherwise, the official will punish you strictly, do you understand?"

"It's... Yes, Patrol Lord. ”

"Say, what did you do in the big *** room at that time?"

"Slave... Slave, I really didn't do anything. ”

"It seems that you really don't say it, someone is coming!" As soon as the words fell, a token had landed. The butterfly's eyes were wide, and she hurriedly said, "My lord, don't, the slave really didn't do anything, please spare the slave." ”

Meng Tianchu sneered: "Didn't do anything? What are you still doing there? Let's put 20 boards on it first. ”

Murong Yuxue watched from the sidelines, thinking to himself that Tianchu had always disapproved of finding evidence under torture, what happened today?

Seeing that Meng Tianchu was really playing, no one dared to slack off, so he hurriedly stepped forward to put the butterfly on the ground, and couldn't help but say that he would hit it when he stepped forward, and when the first board fell on the butterfly's buttocks, Murong Yuxue clearly saw Meng Tianchu's body shook slightly, and the strange thing was that the butterfly did not scream, but just bit his lip tightly, his hands were clenched, and his mouth made a small sound.

Before the ten big boards were finished, Xiao Wei suddenly walked out, shouted, and said, "Okay, stop." ”

The servants looked at Meng Tianchu, Meng Tianchu motioned for them to stop, at this time the butterfly was no longer good, how could a weak woman afford such a beating.

Meng Tianchu: "Xiaowei, this is not the place for you to speak. ”

Xiaowei: "I know, but let me say a little bit more." ”

Meng Tianchu: "Then you can say it." ”

Xiaowei: "I think it's better to let her go." ”

Everyone in the venue was very surprised, and looked at Meng Tianchu in unison, Meng Tianchu smiled slightly, and said, "I think so too." ”

Cai Zhao: "But Lord Patrol, you haven't asked anything yet?" ”

Meng Tianchu: "Don't ask, the four of them will not be killed by a weak woman." ”

Cai Zhao: "This... This..."

Meng Tianchu: "Wang Yi, find someone to send this maid back to the Li Mansion." ”

When Wang Yi heard this, he hurriedly called the two officials to help the butterfly out.

Meng Tianchu got up and walked down the hall and said to Cai Zhao: "Okay, I am also thundered today, and I am tired of Lord Cai to order his subordinates to take care of the four corpses, and be careful that the rats eat them." ”

Cai Zhao didn't know what kind of gourd Meng Tianchu was selling, so he had to agree, and watched Meng Tianchu stretch his waist, and then walked out with his hand.

After getting in the car. Xiaonuo couldn't hold back anymore and said, "Tianchu, how can you listen to your sister?" There is clearly a problem with that butterfly, if there is really no problem, how to hit her when she suddenly became so strong, as if she was enduring humiliation. ”

Meng Tianchu: "Since you can see that she has a problem. But she would rather be beaten than speak, which shows that beating will not solve the problem. ”

Xiaonuo: "But you can't let her go, right?" ”

Xiao Wei smiled stupidly and said, "This Tianchu of yours will naturally not let go of the butterfly, otherwise when he went out just now, he and the tall man muttered about the butterfly." ”

Xiao Nuo looked at Xiao Wei. said: "Sister, are you really stupid or fake stupid?" ”

Meng Tianchu said with a smile: "Okay, don't talk about your sister like this, but the case of the Li Mansion is not simple, after dinner in the evening." We split up. ”

Xiaonuo: "Is there anything else that happened after eating?" ”

Murong Zhenxue: "The weather is so hot, the corpse can't be left for too long, Tianchu probably wants me and you to accompany him to Yizhuang for an autopsy." ”

Xiaonuo: "I see. ”

Meng Tianchu smiled and said, "What do you understand?" ”

Xiao Nuo smiled playfully at Meng Tianchu and said, "I understand everything." ”

After several days of heat, God finally sneezed and it began to rain heavily.

Many people moved the rattan chairs under the eaves to enjoy the coolness, until it was a little cool in the middle of the night, and then they reluctantly returned to their respective rooms to close the door and rest.

The rain is getting lighter. In the rain, two black shadows walked out of the back garden of Mengfu, one east and one west. Behind a hidden rockery, two people entered a cave in the rockery one after the other.

"Qin'er, the eldest lady called me over today."

"Say what?"

"Hehe, good thing."

"Don't... Don't kiss it, say it quickly, what's good, oops... Okay, now that the girl from Osmanthus is following me step by step, I easily found some sweat to put her to sleep, and there is not much time. Talk about things quickly. ”

"Alas!"

"Yuming.... Are you angry? ”

"Nope."

"Okay, good. Come and let me kiss it, giggles... I hate it, as long as you kiss it, don't touch it, cluck..."

"Qin'er, you make me think so hard, Qin'er... Although I can see you every day, I can't even hold your hand, think about it, we haven't been together like this for a long time, I think..."

"Hmm....ah... Yuming, don't, don't... Yes... Yuming, I miss you too, but now is not the time. ”

"Okay, anyway, you and I can't wait long, do you know, today the eldest lady asked me to go, saying that the ear had been in Liujiadi before, and the master had asked someone to check it, and felt that although he was very capable, he stayed in the house for a long time for fear of ruining the reputation of the Meng family, and it happened that Miss Yin's cottage was in urgent need of manpower, so let him go."

After a burst of sound of sorting clothes, a woman's voice said happily, "Is that the eldest lady asking you to take his place?" ”

"No, but the eldest lady said that for the time being, let me help Miss Lin first, now the fourth lady has just given birth to a child, the eldest lady's body is not very good, and the lord has been busy recently, so I think, it's time for me to get ahead."

At the same time, the Lee House.

"Ouch, you tap, you're going to die!"

"Yes... I'm sorry, Sister Butterfly, I'll tap. ”

"Hmph, clumsy, I really don't know how to say hello."

"By the way, let you send someone to call the second young master, did you go and call it?"

"Called, called, but the second young master is not at home, out... Went out. ”

The butterfly lay on the bed, listening to the little maid next to her, she got up from the bed, and suddenly a heart-piercing pain made her frown and sigh, the little maid hurriedly went to help, the butterfly pushed her hand away, and said angrily: "There is such a big thing at home, and he still runs outside?" Say, "Where has he gone?" ”

"I... I..."

"What are you, where did the second young master go?"

"I really don't know."

The butterfly took out an itch under the pillow and gave the little maid a board, and the little maid screamed and quickly shrank to the side and looked at the butterfly pitifully.

The butterfly gritted her teeth and pointed at the little maid and said, "Is it the one who was instigated by Li to go to the Crisp Red Mansion again?" ”

The little maid was afraid of being beaten again, so she quickly nodded.

After hearing this, the butterfly couldn't wait to grow a pair of wings to fly to Li Xin's side, she motioned to the little maid to come to her side, the little maid hesitated, the butterfly sighed, and said, "Come here, I won't beat you, I have something to say to you." ”

The little maid cautiously approached and leaned over, who wanted to grab the butterfly by the ear, the little maid screamed in pain, and the butterfly said viciously: "Shut up for me!" ”

The little maid didn't dare to scream, and she didn't dare to make a sound with tears in her eyes.

"You go to the Red Mansion and call the second young master back to me, and say that I have something important to tell him."

"Sister Butterfly, I beg you to spare me, I don't dare to go, the second young master will beat me to death."

"Hmph, don't you go, okay?" The butterfly let go of the little girl's ears, and then sneered: "You can not go, then you can return the two taels of silver you owe me." ”

When the little maid heard this, she panicked, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged: "Sister Butterfly, you promised to delay me for two months, I don't have so much money now, my mother is still lying on the hospital bed, I beg you." ”

Butterfly said slowly: "I don't want you to be embarrassed, but I also lack money to spend." The little maid thought for a while and said, "Sister Butterfly, I'll help you go to the Suhong Mansion to find the second young master, but if you can't find it, don't blame me." ”

Butterfly smiled and said, "That's right, I'll give you something, as long as you give it to him, he will definitely come back with you." ”