Mrs. said: "I really don't know the specific situation at that time, at that time I was on the tenth day, still in the confinement, that night the eldest lady suddenly said that her stomach hurt, the lord because he was Langzhong, looked at it and said that he was going to give birth, so he called the housekeeper to call Wen Po, it was winter, and the lord did not let me get out of bed to see." Later, I heard my maid come back and say that the eldest lady gave birth, but gave birth to a freak without a lower body, and the eldest lady was so frightened that she fainted. After she woke up, the lord had already issued an order to the whole house, saying that it was not allowed to be said to the outside world, and that the eldest lady's pregnancy was fake, but it was actually ascites. ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Didn't you also invite Wen Po?" It's impossible for Wen Po not to say it to the outside world. ”

The second lady said: "The old man gave Wen Po a large sum of money to seal her mouth and let her leave here, and the Wen Po took the money and left with the whole family the next day." ”

Meng Tianchu said: "How can it be a freak? ”

The second lady said: "At that time, I just heard that the lord was still very fond of me at that time, I asked afterwards, and he said that probably the eldest lady didn't know that she was pregnant, so she may have eaten some herbs and caused the child to be born like that." ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Was the eldest lady in poor health at that time?" What to eat? ”

The second lady said: "Actually, it is also some supplements, the master said that Mrs. is qi deficiency and needs to be conditioned, so she eats some supplements or something on weekdays." ”

Meng Tianchu said: "I heard that the eldest lady doesn't like your two children very much, right?" ”

When the second lady heard this, she smiled coldly and said, "Whose child did she like again?" It's easy to get pregnant, but it's like that. Since then. She was probably too stimulated physically and mentally, and she never mentioned anything about having a child again, that is, from that time. She never had the same room with her master again, and set up a Buddhist shrine in her room alone, and did nothing all day long, just burning incense and chanting scriptures. ”

Meng Tianchu thought about it, and couldn't help but feel that the eldest lady was still very pitiful.

Meng Tianchu said, "Can I ask you a question?" I hope the second lady doesn't care. ”

The second lady said, "I know what you want to ask me, I admit it." When the third lady entered the door, I had fallen out of favor, I couldn't be as dead as the eldest lady after the pure heart, I don't want to live my underground half of my life like that, fortunately, after the third lady entered the door, I did not compete for favor, and I still get along with the eldest lady and me, in addition to writing and embroidering for a day. I'm not enthusiastic about the master, and I'm gradually relieved, but after Xue'er enters the door. Things changed completely, and she was pretty. Publicity, everywhere seems to be so outstanding, the lord was completely fascinated by her, never to me and the third lady's room, the third lady seems to be indifferent, or the same as before, do what you should do, but I can't balance, I didn't expect that the little slut soon had a child, I thought she had a child, the lord should come to my room with the third lady, I didn't expect the little slut to say clearly, she slept alone afraid to be accompanied by the master, the lord naturally agreed, so, since she entered the door, The three of us women are equivalent to widowhood. ”

Meng Tianchu said: "What about later? ”

The second lady said: "Later, after the slut gave birth to a pair of twins, he was even more rampant, and he didn't put me and the third lady in his eyes at all, as long as the eldest lady went to the room to ask for peace every day, that day, she said that she wanted to go back with the master to celebrate her mother's birthday, I thought to myself that if I killed her two children, she would probably not be so arrogant, so I took advantage of the nurse and the maid were not there to go to the two children's room, I didn't expect that I was bumped into by the maid, maybe God blessed me, although I didn't kill, But someone killed them for me. ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Then who do you think will be the one who will take this evil breath for you?" ”

The second lady said: "Actually, that person is not a bad breath for me, I think no one in this house will like those two children except the master." ”

Meng Tianchu said: "You mean that both the eldest lady and the third lady are possible?" ”

The second lady said: "Don't ask, I don't know anything, and I won't guess who it is, aren't you the master of solving the case in our Renhe County?" You go and check it yourself, you are such a smart person, you will definitely be able to find out who is the murderer and clear my name. ”

After speaking, the second lady sighed, stood up, and said, "You are going to eat and drink enough tonight, and you have something to do." Then he walked to the door, opened it, and prepared to go out.

Meng Tianchu followed and said, "People sometimes know that sharing is actually a kind of happiness. ”

The second lady turned around and smiled ruefully: "Really? Then why don't you take out a few of your wives and share them with other men? ”

Meng Tianchu was stunned, standing in place, not knowing what to say, the second lady brushed her sleeves and left.

Murong Zhenxue and they kept listening, and when they saw the second lady leaving, Murong Zhenxue spoke: "The second lady is so strange today. ”

Meng Tianchu walked to the corridor, watched the second lady disappear into the darkness, and said, "I think she was dead at the moment she left."

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Zhu Hao sighed: "She is not dead, she is desperate." ”

Wang Yi asked, "Is there a difference between the two?" ”

Meng Tianchu returned to the room, closed the door, and said: "The former is probably just about one thing or one person, and the latter is afraid that he is even disappointed in himself, that is to say, in terms of despair and death, the latter is afraid that he is even more resolute." ”

Murong Yuxue said: "It seems that behind this glamorous compound on the surface, there is a bloody battle in the open and in the dark. ”

Meng Tianchu nodded, there was another knock at the door, Murong Zhenxue went to open the door and said, "Why is it so lively tonight, who is it?" ”

When I opened the door, I saw that it was the third lady.

The third lady still smiled as usual, stood at the door and said, "I heard what Miss Murong said, what's the matter?" Has anyone been here before? ”

Murong Yuxue looked at Meng Tianchu, not knowing whether to say that the second lady had come.

Meng Tianchu said with a smile: "The third lady's ears are really pointed, come, come in and sit." It's cold outside. I think it's going to snow again. ”

The third lady walked into the house and said, "I just came from the master's place, and I learned that Master Meng's wife is happy. So I came to congratulate him. ”

Meng Tianchu then remembered that he had told Miao Zhe during the meal that the third lady seemed to have gone to the kitchen and was not at the dinner table, so he nodded and said, "Thank you, third lady." ”

The third lady took out a brocade box from her arms and said, "This is a little bit of the heart of my master, I hope Master Meng will accept it." ”

Meng Tianchu took it. When I opened one, it turned out to be a ginseng, which looked very valuable. Meng Tianchu said: "How can Meng bear such a generous gift? Thank you Master Miao and the third lady, I will never accept such a gift. After speaking, Meng Tianchu closed the brocade box and handed it to the third lady.

The third lady saw that Meng Tianchu insisted on not wanting to, so she had to put it away. Then he said, "In a little while I will have the supper of the four of us brought up. It's going to be hard for everyone again. ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Where is the third lady's words, she says that she catches ghosts, but in fact, she still arrests people. If it is a catcher, it is a person in our part

The third lady smiled and said, "Master is really good at talking, then you are busy, I will delay you, call me or the housekeeper at any time, I am downstairs." ”

Meng Tianchu nodded in agreement, the third lady stood up, walked to the door, suddenly stopped and said, "If Mrs. Meng has time, let her come to us to sit down, and let us prescribe her a few pairs of clothes to protect her pregnancy." ”

Meng Tianchu said: "The third lady is really too polite. ”

Suddenly, there was a noisy sound upstairs, and the third lady immediately opened the door and walked to the corridor to look, and Meng Tianchu and they also followed.

At this time, it had been dark for a long time, and the sky began to drift with goose feathers and heavy snow, and the cold wind was whining, and all corners of the yard were haunted by the previous few days, and the fourth lady said that she was afraid, and there were more lanterns hanging in the yard at night, and the lanterns in the yard were also blown around.

Meng Tianchu followed the third lady out of the door, and saw that many people came out of the downstairs all of a sudden, and the scene was very chaotic, as if many people were arresting a person, the third lady looked at it, and immediately said to Meng Tianchu: "Let's go down and have a look." ”

Walking downstairs, Meng Tianchu saw a woman in a light shirt and tulle, running in the yard with her hair scattered, the woman turned her back to him, he couldn't see the other party's face clearly, and shouted that it was so hot, and he wanted to find cold water to take a bath, which made him wonder what it was, on such a cold day, who was in such a good body, and was still running around outside in midsummer clothes.

The woman was running around, and several of the housekeepers tried to catch her like chickens, who thought that this woman was so flexible that a few people couldn't catch her. Hearing the sound, Miao Zhe saw it, shouted, rose into the air, and grabbed the woman as if she was grabbing something, and a maid next to him hurriedly handed over a long cotton robe, and Miao Zhe finally wrapped the revealing woman.

Miao Zhe said: "Which tendon are you wrong? In the middle of the night, do you want us to sleep? ”

Meng Tianchu didn't see it clearly at that time, but when he saw it at this time, he was surprised, the woman in Miao Zhe's arms was actually the second lady, and he thought, how long has it been for a while, why has it become like this?

The second lady struggled in Miao Zhe's arms as if she didn't know Miao Zhe, and said in her mouth: "You let go of me, I want to find water to drink, I'm going to die of thirst, you let go of me, do you want to cover me to death?" I'm about to be killed by you, and on such a hot day, you're about to let go of me. ”

The eldest lady stepped forward, gave the second lady a slap, and said, "Aren't you ashamed enough?" Master, if you don't hurry up and lock me up in the house, I keep saying that I can't let her come out, you just have a soft heart, look, it's embarrassing to come out again. ”

Before Meng Tianchu could walk to their side, Miao Zhe had already carried the second lady into the room quickly.

Miao Rou was also watching from the sidelines, and saw that her father hugged her mother

was also about to follow up, but the eldest lady scolded: "Aren't you messy enough?" ”

Miao Rou looked at the eldest lady, sneered, and said, "You asked me what I was doing in there?" Don't you know what I'm going in there for? ”

When the eldest lady heard this, she was furious and said, "Why did you talk to me?" ”

Miao Rou showed her very disdainful expression again, looking at the eyes of the eldest lady, she also wanted to see an outsider-like rustiness, she said, "Who do you think you are?" I'm looking at my mother, and who are you? ”

After Miao Rou finished speaking, she didn't pay attention to the eldest lady who was so angry that her face turned blue. followed her father directly into the door. Then the door was shut.

Meng Tianchu looked at the third lady who had never said a word, and saw that she had been standing aside without speaking or interfering. It's like an outsider, completely looking like he's watching a good show, but there is no expression on his face, and he can't tell whether he is happy or angry.

The second lady in the room was still arguing, and the eldest lady waved her hand to signal everyone to disperse, saying that the second lady was going crazy. Everyone doesn't have to pay attention to it, thinking that it was stimulated to have such a reaction, and everyone quickly dispersed when they heard it, knowing that the eldest lady had taken the eldest lady, and the eldest lady must be very angry now, and no one would be stupid to provoke this Taishang Laojun now.

The eldest lady was so angry that she didn't pay attention to Meng Tianchu and the others, and went straight back to the room and closed the door, and the third lady saw that everyone had dispersed and was about to leave. Finding that Meng Tianchu and the four of them were still standing in place, Meng Tianchu thought that maybe the third lady was just concentrating on watching the play, and forgot that there was someone behind her.

The third lady said, "Master Meng, you are all scattered." ”

Murong Xue said, "Second lady, what's the matter?" It was all fine just now. ”

The third lady said, "Oh? Have you ever seen the Second Lady Land before? ”

Murong Yuxue knew that he was speechless. Immediately stopped talking. Meng Tianchu said: "The second lady came upstairs before, said a few words to us and left. I really didn't see anything unusual about her at that time. ”

The third lady nodded as if she understood, and said, "In this way, who knows? The family is all strange, a self-righteous daughter. A son who thinks he is smart, something. ”

The last four words were very small and almost inaudible, but Meng Tianchu, who was standing near her, still heard it sincerely, and thought, I really can't see that this woman, who looks so demure and gentle on the surface, is so vicious when she talks about the rights and wrongs of others. Then I remembered the first time I saw her and the second lady, and the second lady couldn't help but sigh when she saw that she was about to fall up to help her.

Meng Tianchu said: "Then we will go back, if there is something to call us, it is." Then he turned around and took Zhu Hao and the three of them upstairs.

The third lady looked at the backs of Meng Tianchu and the three of them leaving, let out a long breath, and then walked towards her room.

After Meng Tianchu and the others walked upstairs, the second lady's voice suddenly disappeared, Meng Tianchu thought, probably she had calmed down, saying that there was nothing unusual, in fact, the second lady's behavior at night was really unusual, and she told him so many things, isn't this abnormal? It's just that this kind of abnormality is just an abnormality in thinking, and it is probably a different thing from the abnormality just now.

Murong Yuxue said, "Is it a ghost possessed?" Those two imps came to her for their lives. ”

Meng Tianchu said: "You are superstitious, what kind of little ghost, what kind of life, what possession, you can think of it." ”

Murong Xue said: "Then why is she suddenly so abnormal, on such a cold day, she actually said that she was hot, isn't it strange?" Didn't she want to kill those two children before? Probably the two children will come back to her. ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Why don't those two children go to find the real culprit who really killed them?" ”

Murong Xue said: "Then how do you know that this second lady is not the real murderer who killed these two children?" ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Judging from the scene, it is impossible for a woman to hang two children on the beams of the house, women generally do not have this strength, and the second lady is not like the eldest lady, she has not practiced martial arts, she has practiced kung fu, it is impossible to do this; Second, I don't think it should be the second lady, who was playing with three other people downstairs at the time, and she had alibi evidence. ”

Murong Xue said: "Then she can be said to go to Gong, leave for a while, and use this time to kill the child?" ”

Meng Tianchu said: "It's not impossible, but why didn't you hear the child's cry?" I've always wondered about this. ”

Everyone was talking in the corridor, and saw Miao Rou walking out of Miao Zhe's room, returning to her room, and then closing the door, Wang Yi said: "I think the second lady finally didn't make trouble, this second lady is actually quite pitiful." ”

Meng Tianchu looked at the room where the lights were still on, and he didn't know why he always felt a very ominous premonition.