"I searched the whole room, and there was only one jewelry box with a lock, but the keyhole was very strange, and it was not opened by a normal key."

"Does she have anything like a key on her?"

"I didn't think about what to look for in her at the time, but after sitting in front of the mirror and researching it, I immediately found a way to open the jewelry box."

"What is it?"

"I won't tease you, just use the blood jade golden hairpin."

"Is this hairpin the key?"

"Two keyholes, one with a hairpin and one with a hairpin tail, I put them in, but they couldn't turn." Yan Lingsha still looked very proud, "But it's too late to see the time, and if you don't turn off the lights, you will be suspicious, so I came to tell you early in the morning." ”

"So that's the case, where is the hairpin now?"

"Of course." Yan Lingsha put her hand into the inner bag, but there was nothing, she immediately searched all over her body, and exclaimed, "Strange, missing?" ”

"It doesn't matter, use this." Hu Yanshi took out a blood jade golden hairpin from the secret compartment of the drawer.

"Isn't there only one blood jade golden hairpin?"

"That's right, it's with me that hers is a fake, or rather, I'm more real. The old fox didn't trust her for a long time, so he found someone to build an identical one and store this ancestral hairpin with me. ”

"Why didn't he take it himself?"

"I don't know." Hu Yanshi, "At this time, someone should go to fetch water." If she wants to go to her room, she can't go there, so she has to find another opportunity. ”

"It's up to me." Yan Lingsha smiled and hugged Hu Yanshi's neck.

"Young Master, Steward Mo sent me to invite you to the front hall." A little guy walked in with his head bowed and reported it, and when he looked up, he realized that the situation was wrong, so he quickly knelt down, "Meet the third lady." ”

"It's okay, you go down first!" It's no secret that Yan Lingsha came here, Hu Yanshi waved his hand to let the little guy go down.

"Yanlang, it's up to you for a while!" Yan Lingsha lay on Hu Yanshi's chest, raised her head and said.

"Hmm." Hu Yanshi didn't push her away, but he just replied to her coldly.

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Bai Qiuchi returned to the well and found that Steward Mo had already carried the body away.

"Bai Dao Chief." Steward Mo had been waiting for him to come back, and when he saw him coming, he hurriedly greeted him, and said, "Everyone has been notified to gather in the front hall." ”

"It's hard work. What about the blood jade golden hairpin? ”

"This is because it was handed down by my ancestors, and the master is not there, so I have to put it on my body." Steward Mo reached into the inner bag close to him, but his face suddenly turned pale, "It's gone!" How so? I put it on my body! ”

The blue blood golden hairpin unexpectedly disappeared, and such an important physical evidence was missing, and Steward Mo didn't seem to be lying.

"Where was Madame's body sent?"

"Temporarily in the Ice Pavilion to the north."

"Okay, good work. Don't ask Steward to trouble you to run. Tell everyone to wait, I'll be over in a moment. ”

Bai Qiuchi performed light skills and came to the eldest lady's room. Jin Su and Wei'er were waiting anxiously, and when they saw him coming back, Jin Su hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Master, how is it?" ”

"It's gone, it's strangely gone." Bai Qiuchi shook his head, since this was the case, he was even more sure that it was because this hairpin had an important role. This jewelry box must be taken away.

"Let's go to the front hall first, and then Jin Xu will also help." Bai Qiuchi took the jewelry box, and he quietly whispered in Jinxu's ear, "Later, you will also pay attention to it, who will have a different reaction when they see this jewelry box." ”

"Okay."

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In the antechamber, everyone was waiting.

"What are we going to do?" The third lady, Yan Lingsha, was already waiting impatiently.

"Madam, please be patient and wait, Bai Dao Chang has something important to ......," Steward Mo hurriedly explained.

"What is it that is so exciting? I've been waiting for a quarter of an hour, and I haven't come yet! Yan Lingsha was a little angry.

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting." Bai Qiuchi and others came.

Bai Qiuchi deliberately let the jewelry box be held by Jinxu to observe who would react differently.

"The eldest lady passed away last night." Bai Qiuchi said things slowly.

Everyone was surprised, and it seemed that Steward Mo didn't know how to deal with it, so he didn't say anything just now.

"Oh my God, another human life!" Some of the subordinates couldn't help but gasp.

"What! How could the eldest lady ......" The second lady took a step back.

"Sister, I'm so scared!" Hu Nianan threw herself into the arms of her sister Hu Nianci, and Hu Nianci comforted her sister in a low voice.

Yan Lingsha didn't comment on it unusually, she stood next to the eldest young master and observed Bai Qiuchi.

Jin Xu also carefully observed everyone's reactions on the side.

"This is the apprentice of the poor road, Jinxu." Bai Qiuchi took the lead in introducing brocade.

"Jin Fu is holding something, and it is inconvenient to salute." Jin Xu deliberately held the jewelry box in his hand, observing everyone's reactions, and Bai Qiuchi also pretended to watch casually.

"Then the family will trouble the Steward Mo to ask one by one." Bai Qiuchi made a gesture of "please" and said, "Ladies and gentlemen of the Hu family, I hope you will be troubled to move to the side hall, and the poor road needs to understand the situation one by one." ”

"We don't need to, right?" Yan Lingsha, who had been silent for a long time, was the first to speak, "I was with the eldest young master last night. ”

"Hmm." Hu Yanshi agreed with Yan Lingsha's statement, which caused the people next to him to sigh.

"Lingsha, you ......" The second lady Shu Xueyan was very surprised.

Now that it has been made public, Yan Ling grabbed Hu Yanshi's arm, didn't care about everyone's reactions, raised his chin and asked Bai Qiuchi, "So we can go, right?" ”

"I'm sorry Third Madame, Poor Dao still needs to know the specific situation."

"Okay, let's go first."

"Then the third lady pleases first."

"What? Wouldn't we go together? ”

"Third lady, please." Bai Qiuchi said in an affirmative tone.

"In that case, you should ask someone first!"

If the third lady and the eldest young master colluded to confess when they went to ask others, it would be troublesome, but Bai Qiuchi didn't seem to have any reason to force the third lady to be investigated first.

"I'll go with you first." At this time, Hu Yanshi actually spoke.

Bai Qiuchi was a little surprised, this eldest young master has always avoided it, and this time I really want to ask him if I have the opportunity.

"Yan Shi, you ......" Yan Lingsha was also surprised that Hu Yanshi would take the initiative to accept the questioning first, although he had already confessed in advance, but if there was a little discrepancy in what they said, wouldn't this not simple Bai Dao Chang see through the suspicion to her? But on the surface, she was not good at seizures, so she had to hold back and pretend to be calm and let Hu Yanshi and Bai Qiuchi go.

Bai Qiuchi deliberately took the jewelry box before leaving, and the brocade stayed behind to watch the rest of the family.

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"Bai Dao Chief, I know you have a lot to ask me." Coming to the side hall, Hu Yanshi was the first to speak, "Actually, I have a lot of questions that have not been solved. We have time to talk about this, and I can tell you directly about this matter, Yan Lingsha was not with me last night, but she did not kill anyone. ”

Hu Yanshi didn't sit down, he didn't seem to want to stay longer.

"Young Master, how do you say this? Are you informed? Unexpectedly, he was so honest, Bai Qiuchi really had too many things to ask him, but he could only start with this matter first.

"The specific situation, I don't fully believe in Yan Lingsha, but I can be sure that she did not kill anyone, according to her temperament, if she killed, she will not hide it from me. And if you ask her later, she won't tell you anything useful. Hu Yanshi said with certainty.

"I hope that the eldest young master will tell you the truth."

"I can't tell you yet." Hu Yanshi instead stared at Bai Qiuchi and asked, "What is the purpose of your coming to our house?" I know you're not much of a Taoist. ”

Bai Qiuchi was taken aback, the eldest young master actually questioned him against the guest.

"For love." Bai Qiuchi quite frankly acquiesced that his identity was not a Dao Chief, "However, I really want to solve these things, although it may not help my affairs at all." ”

"Well, in that case, we have the same purpose in some ways. I also want these things to be resolved quickly. Hu Yanshi had already started to walk outside, "Let's sort out the clues and then talk." ”

"Yes, but I hope that the eldest young master will not break his promise at that time."

Hu Yanshi nodded in reply, and walked out without looking back.

This eldest young master, when are you going to let go?

Then, as Hu Yanshi said, Yan Lingsha insisted that she was there with Hu Yanshi last night, and she was disrespectful, and after asking more, she began to speak amorous language, Bai Qiuchi almost couldn't resist, so she had to let her go first. The others also finished asking one by one, and there was no alibi: the second lady said that she was embroidering in the room, the second young master who was walking alone, the third young master still never appeared, it is said that he has been recuperating in his room, and he usually does not step out of the door, but occasionally the twin sisters will go to him to play, but they will definitely not go at night.

According to the results of the investigation with the help of Steward Mo, in addition to the subordinates who need to keep vigil and serve the master, in addition to each courtyard. The other slaves who did not have a task would gather in a few large servants' rooms after eating at night. There is no alibi and the ones who have gone out in the middle are Ah Lai who went to the thatched house and Xuan'er, the maid who temporarily changed shifts, and Ah Liang, who said that he had been staying in the room to pack things but did not know where to go after asking.

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When I finally finished asking, it was already afternoon, and it was already past lunchtime.

Bai Qiuchi sat at the table in the room and thought.

"Big Brother Bai, what are you thinking? Hungry, right? This is a meal sent by Steward Mo, and I will help you warm it up. Jin Su knocked on the door with a plate of dishes, interrupting his thoughts.

"Thank you, Nishiki." Bai Qiuchi saw that it was Jinfu who came, and when he smelled the fragrance of the food, he realized that he was really hungry, and his tense nerves loosened a little, "Have you eaten?" ”

"I've eaten ......" before I finished the word "", Jinxu's stomach growled, and the uncompetitive stomach gave this girl a bad scenery! It's so stupid for this girl! Jin Fu covered his stomach and smiled embarrassedly, "hehe".

"Let's eat together!" Bai Qiuchi couldn't help but smile, this little girl, every time she was hungry, she couldn't help but sing a "song", obviously she was already very hungry, and when she saw that he hadn't eaten, she gave it to him first. Bai Qiuchi got up and asked Xin'er to prepare an extra pair of dishes and chopsticks.

"Sit down." Bai Qiuchi helped her pull out the stool.

What a shame to die! Jin Xu covered her face and sat down embarrassedly.