Chapter 177: The Temptation of the Butler
"I don't bother you with how to handle the case in Tiandu Mansion, I naturally know that you are the domestic servant of the late Prime Minister, but you should know what I am asking, who is your other master?"
The woman didn't say anything, just looked at Zhen Chutian quietly, and some smiles leaked out while looking, seeing this, Zhen Chutian turned around and left, leaning on the window edge and looking at Gu Chenghan, the meaning was very obvious, and she wanted Gu Chenghan to go in person.
Seeing this, Gu Chenghan really took a step forward.
"Say, this official has no patience."
Different from the gentleness towards Zhen Chutian, Gu Chenghan looked at the woman in front of him, his eyes were full of impatience.
"Say? Let me say what? I'm just a little maid in the Prime Minister's Mansion, you indiscriminately arrested me here and locked me up in the firewood room, this is the way your Tiandu Mansion handles the case, could it be that you can't find the person who killed our master, so you hurriedly pushed me out to confess? Amusing! ”
The woman lost the fear and forbearance she had when she saw the two of them before, and the words in her mouth became more and more calm, and the eyes of Zhen Chutian and the others were mostly puzzled and disdainful.
thought that he had hidden it well, but he didn't know that Zhen Chutian had already seen it through.
"I wanted you to say it yourself, but I never thought that you would toast like this and not eat and drink, in this case, why don't you tell me where you were last night?"
Gu Chenghan became more and more impatient, and he didn't have the good words he had before for the woman in front of him, he wanted to get angry directly, but when he saw Zhen Chutian leaning against the window not far away, his tone couldn't help but be a little softer, and the anger that originally wanted to burst out couldn't help but be extinguished.
The woman was slightly stunned when she saw this, and her head was lowered and she didn't know what she was thinking. But he didn't respond to Gu Chenghan's question for a long time.
"What? Is it so careless that you don't even know where you were yesterday? ”
The woman didn't speak, and Gu Chenghan became more and more dissatisfied.
"Think about it first, and we'll come back to you later."
Zhen Chutian grabbed Gu Chenghan and turned to leave, leaving Xiao Li alone and continuing to shrink in the corner.
However, at the time of a stick of incense, the white dragon envoy looked at the two of them, a little strange, but looked at the faces of the two people and didn't ask much, no, just walked out to the side, and saw a person coming towards him.
"Master Gu."
The person who came in front of him was the butler of the Prime Minister's Mansion, but because it was dark, he couldn't really see it.
"Butler, what's the matter?"
Looking at the appearance of this person who wanted to speak and stopped, Zhen Chutian couldn't help but take a step forward and said.
Gu Chenghan's mood had already improved, but looking at Zhen Chutian's sudden nervousness, he was very amused in his heart, but he was reluctant to step forward.
"I heard from someone today that Lord Bai seems to have taken away a little maid in the mansion, isn't this a special question to ask, what did this maid do?"
Hearing this, the two glanced at each other and exchanged glances quietly, but Zhen Chutian involuntarily took a step back, and Gu Chenghan took Zhen Chutian's position.
"Is the housekeeper so well-informed? It is true that there is a little maid here with me, but we can't say what happened to this maid now, and please forgive the housekeeper. ”
The corners of Gu Chenghan's mouth rose slightly, and he looked at the housekeeper and said with a smile.
"Lord Gu laughed, but it was just an extra word."
The smile on the housekeeper's face did not change, but Gu Chenghan said one sentence and one answer.
"That being the case, now the housekeeper also knows that there is indeed such a person on our side, but there are other things, if there is nothing important for us, we will take the first step."
After finishing speaking, he was about to leave with Zhen Chutian, but he didn't want to stay at all.
"Don't, don't worry, Lord Gu, after all, someone still asked me to ask, this Xiaoli sister is very worried, if I go back and ask three questions, it's not easy to explain, you say yes, Lord Gu, Lord Zhen?"
"Does the housekeeper also need to explain to a subordinate? Why don't you tell the housekeeper who asked you to come? ”
Zhen Chutian looked at the housekeeper in front of him and said casually.
"Naturally, there is no need, and the contemptible people don't have such a big right, Lord Zhen laughed, but although that kid is just a maid, he is also a member of our Prime Minister's Mansion, so he will pay attention to it."
"That's it, since you want to know a little more about the housekeeper, why don't you tell us about this maid's daily life and the situation in the mansion?"
"Naturally, you can."
Regarding Zhen Chutian's doubts, the housekeeper readily agreed and slowly told what he knew.
"That Xiaoli has been on an errand in the house since he was a child, and this time he came to this Lizhou city with the master from the capital, and he has an excellent temperament on weekdays, and he also takes great care of the children next to him, and has always taken care of the young master's side, and now he is taking care of the side lady."
The butler had nothing to hide, and told everything he knew.
It's just a little maid, and she quickly told Xiaoli about everything.
"If you really have a very good temperament on weekdays, otherwise you wouldn't have come to inquire about the situation by the labor housekeeper."
pinched his chin and spoke, but he blinked when he looked at Gu Chenghan.
"Lord Zhen laughed, it's just that the contemptible people also have a good impression of Xiaoli on weekdays, I think that the kid won't do something too bizarre, will the adults catch the wrong person?"
Until now, the housekeeper has not taken the clues and words he wants from the mouths of Zhen Chutian and Gu Chenghan, but his face is still as kind as ever.
The things they wanted to know had already been learned from the butler, and the two of them didn't want to waste any more time here, they had enough time to think about it.
After saying goodbye to the housekeeper, Zhen Chutian and Gu Chenghan, who had originally planned to go farther, turned around and went back to the firewood room where they were holding the little maid.
Probably because the little maid is imprisoned here, Gu Chenghan's subordinates are guarding not far away, and the maids and servants in the house are very eye-catching, for fear that these things have something to do with themselves.
In the mansion, because of the bizarre death of the prime minister and the prime minister's eldest son, the death of the two masters has filled the entire mansion with this downturn, everyone is cautious, not to mention that they have been walking one after another in the past few days, which finally has a little clue to catch a person, and naturally they have to try their best to clean up the relationship.
"I think the sister of the maid when I came to the housekeeper's mouth should frame us."
On the way back, Zhen Chutian said to Gu Chenghan, who was walking beside him.
"Why do you say that?"
Gu Chenghan stopped and looked at Zhen Chutian, a little curious, as if he wondered why Zhen Chutian would talk like this, after all, in Gu Chenghan's opinion, it was normal for the housekeeper to come to inquire about the news.
"You think, in this current situation, everyone should avoid suspicion, although the appearance of the housekeeper is indeed impeccable, but I look like someone has pushed him up."
Zhen Chutian's face was a little more serious, and he stopped.
"Where did you find it?"
Gu Chenghan was really curious about where Zhen Chutian had discovered so many things that he had never cared about, especially when he looked at Zhen Chutian's appearance, he was really curious.
"Of course, I have my own way, but that's just one of my opinions."
Continuing in Fang Cai's footsteps, Zhen Chutian left directly, Gu Chenghan then followed the pace, couldn't help but shake his head, looking at Zhen Chutian, who seemed to be a little happy, Gu Chenghan couldn't help but be a little happy.
The white dragon envoy had long since disappeared, and the two of them didn't care too much, and when they walked into the firewood room, the woman had long since lost her desperate appearance, and the two couldn't help but glance at each other.
"Seems to have figured it out? If so, why not? ”
Zhen Chutian looked at the woman in front of him who was still huddled in the corner, but he was not as scared as before.
"Say what? I didn't do anything, I was caught here by you for no reason, if you didn't find anything, you arrested me for no reason, even if you are Tiandu Mansion, you shouldn't be like this, right? ”
The woman's extremely slow voice came, but it made Zhen Chutian and Gu Chenghan very surprised in an orderly manner, as if they had been taught how to speak.
"Oh? Who is this to listen to? ”
Looking at the people in front of him, Zhen Chutian was very curious, and it seemed that there was a mistake in a place they didn't know.
Neither of them spoke, just quietly looked at the woman in front of them.
It seemed that the two of them were a little panicked, and the head was lowered and the two didn't see any eyes, "I've been in the room all the time, and I've never stepped out of the room." ”
"Oh? And how have you been brought here today? ”
Gu Chenghan looked at Zhen Chutian, who was silent, and said to the very dissatisfied woman.
"Of course, I don't know why I'm here, after all, I was forced to bring it."
"You really don't know anything? I see that you are more and more forbidden to drink and want to eat and drink, so you have been thinking about it, thinking about why you are here. ”
"Nope! I don't want to be here all the time! I clearly didn't do anything! ”
Seeing that Zhen Chutian and the others were about to leave, the calmness on the woman's face disappeared, and she hurriedly said loudly.
"Did you really do nothing? Then let me ask you, what do you think about the fire in this mourning hall? ”
"I guess the candlestick made the fire."
The woman panicked for a moment, trying to suppress the fear in her heart.
"Candlesticks? You know that. ”
Gu Chenghan sneered, so far they haven't investigated what the specific cause of the fire is, but this person said it casually.
"I... I'm just saying it casually, after all, the most popular reason for the fire at the moment is this candlestick, this Lizhou is the tightness of the sky, and the candlestick fire is the biggest disaster, you should know this. ”
The woman became more and more flustered, nervous and wanted to explain, but she didn't know that the more she explained, the more flustered she became.
"It's one thing to know, but after all, we are catching fast, so naturally we don't dare to talk about it casually, but we will check the candlestick you just said, thank you for the clues."
Seeing that the woman was dodging more and more, Zhen Chutian couldn't help but step forward and say.
"Let's get out of here."
Zhen Chutian pulled Gu Chenghan and left, closed the door that could shine into a little light, and locked the woman's screaming body in the door.
Without saying a word, he left with Gu Chenghan, Gu Chenghan rarely didn't say much, just looked at the hand that was held by Zhen Chutian, and the smile on his face expanded more and more.
All the way to the mourning hall, Song Jiang had already been in the mourning hall for a whole day, and the white dragon envoy who had just disappeared was also in the mourning hall, and Han Shuangyi no longer knew where he went.
"You're here?"
Song Jiang watched the two walk in, his face a little tired.
"Well, what did you find?"
Gu Chenghan looked at Zhen Chutian and Song Jiang's eyes, and felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, so he couldn't help but stop it.