Leng Yi looked at Ding Zhutou: "What is your opinion?" ”

Ding Zhutou smiled and said: "I agree with Song Zhutou's opinion, no one can get in, only suicide, as for why she chose this way, this, hehe, I'm afraid only she knows." ”

Leng Yi nodded, silent.

Wu Zhutou smiled and asked, "Then what do you think, big man?" ”

Leng Yi said: "At present, I am more inclined to kill him, because there are too many places where the deceased committed suicide, and it is difficult to justify himself." And if he kills, he only needs to solve a mystery - how to enter the secret room to kill! All doubts can be solved. ”

"Has the old man figured out this mystery?"

Leng Yi smiled bitterly: "If I figure it out, what am I still standing here for?" Headache! - Okay, that's all for today, tomorrow morning, let's leave for Kuli Village! ”

A few people hurriedly agreed.

Leng Yi said to Master Dong again: "Sir, please come with me to the inner house!" ”

Master Dong agreed, he naturally knew what Leng Yi meant by letting him follow.

At this time, the sun was already setting, and the golden sunlight shone on the dilapidated houses of Yamen, looking at a bleak beauty.

Leng Yi was a little apprehensive in his heart, he didn't know how to face the wife of the magistrate who was impersonated by himself, and he was also a little curious, what kind of person that wife was. Perhaps, this woman will be his partner in this life, at least, the person he needs to take care of for a lifetime. What kind of woman will you live under the same roof?

Behind the front yard of the yamen is the second hall, separated by a ritual gate. The trial here is a civil case or a case involving secrecy or privacy.

On the left side of the second hall is the reception flower hall, and on the right is the signing room, which is where the magistrate and the master work.

After that, it's the inner house. Separated by a high fence, the two gates are usually locked. There is only one corner door in and out.

Leng Yi followed Master Dong into the corner gate, and the soap who helped carry the luggage could not enter. Just give the things to the maid and old mother in the inner house who is waiting here.

The porter and the old mother and maid who took the luggage greeted Leng Yi one by one, calling them "big man".

Only a young woman, standing there, smiled, and called out a little shyly: "Official! ”

This should be Zhuo's wife, the county magistrate who he imposted.

Leng Yi raised his eyes and saw that this woman was only twenty-eight years old, petite, her hair was slightly scattered, she might be busy, there were still fine beads of sweat on her forehead, and a strand of hair was wet with sweat, crookedly sticking to her cheeks. The appearance is dignified, delicate and elegant, but the skin is slightly dark, and when he smiles, he reveals two small sharp tiger teeth. Wearing a coarse cloth skirt, his two hands cramped at the corners of his clothes, the hands were rough and slightly red and swollen, he must have done a lot of rough work.

Leng Yi chuckled in his heart, where does this look like a county lady? is clearly a peasant woman doing rough work in the countryside.

Zhuo Shi immediately noticed the abnormality of Leng Yi's hair, his small mouth opened into a circle, and he looked at him in surprise.

Leng Yi didn't speak rashly, and glanced at Master Dong. Master Dong understood, and hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Madam, Dong Weng needs to pretend to be a monk in order to investigate the case this time, so he cut his hair, but he didn't have a knife to shave his head, and he temporarily cut it with scissors, so it became like this." Hey. ”

Leng Yi was very satisfied with Master Dong's explanation, and glanced at him with a smile, and now that it was confirmed that this young woman was the wife of Nazhi County, he smiled and said to Zhuo's family: "It's okay." Hair grows fast, don't worry. ”

Zhuo Shi was relieved, took a bag of luggage from Soap Li's hand, and looked at Leng Yi.

Leng Yi guessed that she might not dare to walk in front of her, so she waited for herself to go first. But I'm not familiar with this inner house at all, and I don't know where to go. He had a quick brain and immediately came up with an idea. said to Zhuo's family: "You bring the luggage to our bedroom first, and I have to tell Master Dong something." Don't move things, I'll talk about it when I get back. ”

Zhuo nodded hurriedly and took the things away with the maid.

Leng Yi faced them, watching them enter the right one of the three large houses directly opposite. Knew it was the bedroom. walked to Master Dong's side, put his mouth to his ear, and said in a low voice for a long time, Master Dong nodded again and again, gave up his hand in agreement, and then said goodbye and left.

Leng Yi stepped into the bedroom, things scattered on the ground, and some scattered clothes on the bed. Zhuo was busy putting his clothes in the wooden basin. The maid and mother-in-law stood by, standing by.

Leng Yi frowned and said, "What are you doing here?" ”

Zhuo Shi smiled and said, "I was about to do the laundry, and you came back." ”

"Laundry?" Leng Yi glanced at the maid and mother-in-law next to him, "Why don't you let them wash?" ”

A mother-in-law said lightly: "We want to wash, but my wife won't let us wash." ”

Leng Yi glanced at them suspiciously, judging from their expressions, they seemed to be a little angry, and even more strange. Then he waved his hand and said to the maid, "Go out!" ”

The maid is gone.

Leng Yi walked to the chair and sat down, he couldn't directly ask why they didn't let them wash, in case they had discussed this issue before, it would be easy to arouse suspicion. Watching her busy, she didn't speak.

Leng Yi said that they should not move these luggage, so Zhuo Shi did not move, hugged a basin of clothes, smiled at Leng Yi, and then went out of the room.

Leng Yi quickly got up to the beam, and put his suitcase and the bag of bloody clothes in a hidden corner of the beam. Got down lightly, pulled out the latch of the rear window, and then walked out quickly, and saw Zhuo Shi enter a small door next to the inner house from a distance, so he followed in. Inside, it's a back garden. There are rockeries and there is a small pond. I planted some lotus leaves, but now it is early winter, and they are all withered and yellow, floating on the water. At the edge of the pond, a thin layer of ice has formed.

The water in this pond is alive, flowing in from one small ditch and out from another.

Not far from the ditch where the flow out, there was a well, and next to the well, a platform for washing clothes was built with bluestone slabs. There are small ditches that connect to the outlet of the pond to drain the dirty water out of the yard.

Zhuo Shi took the wooden basin, walked to the well and put it down, took out a wooden box containing soaphorn powder from the wooden basin and put it aside, got up and walked to the well, knelt on the bluestone that surrounded the mouth of the well with one leg, grabbed the well rope, and put the bucket into the well.

"I'll do it!" Leng Yi said.

Zhuo didn't know that Leng Yi was following her, Leng Buding heard it, his hands trembled in fright, and the bucket fell into the well with a bang.

Leng Yi was afraid that she would fall into the well, so he quickly grabbed her arm.

Zhuo Shi turned around and saw that it was her, so he smiled reluctantly: "Official! ”

Leng Yi took the well rope from her hand and began to draw water. Zhuo Shi looked at him in surprise. I turned my head to look at the backyard door again, and saw the two mothers-in-law standing there looking this way, and couldn't help but show an embarrassed and cramped look. Reaching out to get the well rope back, but he didn't dare.

Leng Yi took the well rope and began to draw water. But this well is relatively deep, and it is not clear to see inside, and Leng Yi has never had the experience of drawing water from the well, the bucket floats on the water, no matter how Leng Yi shakes the well rope, it just does not sink into the water.

Looking at Leng Yi's clumsy movements, a smile appeared on the corner of Zhuo's mouth, and he said, "Official, let the concubine come." Then he stretched out his hand, but he did not dare to take the rope from his hand.

Leng Yi had no choice but to hand the well rope to Zhuo's.

With a slight flick of Zhuo's slender wrist, the bucket obediently burrowed into the well.

Leng Yi praised: "Madame's hands are really skillful. ”

Zhuo Shi looked at him strangely.

Leng Yi intuitively felt that he had said something wrong, and said suspiciously: "What's wrong?" ”

"Officials used to call me Qiaoniang, but today ......, why are you so polite?"

Qiao Niang? Zhuo Qiaoniang? It turned out that the lady of the county she replaced was named Zhuo Qiaoniang.

He reacted quickly, didn't move, smiled, and said, "Now that I'm outside, in front of people, it's better to ask Mrs. to respect something." ”

"Oh," Zhuo Qiaoniang nodded, looked left and right, and didn't see anyone, not in front of people, but she didn't tell the difference, just smiled and continued to lift water up quickly.

Leng Yi wanted to say that he was coming, but looking at Zhuo Qiaoniang's actions, he didn't seem to care about the weight of this bucket of water. He watched as she lifted a bucket of water out of the well and poured it into the tub.

Zhuo Qiaoniang was about to carry water, but Leng Yi took the bucket: "I'll come." ”

Just now, Leng Yi carefully observed Zhuo Qiaoniang's movements, learned from her appearance, and finally brought up a bucket of water after a long time. He smiled proudly, glanced at Zhuo Qiaoniang, and poured water into the wooden basin.