Gongsun Ying's attitude made Elder Hong a little dissatisfied, she pursed her sexy red lips, and silently stepped aside, but her eyes swept to Gongsun Huan next to her, and she quickly took it back.

The atmosphere in the main hall was a little inexplicably tense for a while, and Elder Gray put his hands together in his wide sleeved robe, looking at this, and then at that, he moved his lips and still didn't speak.

At this moment, someone hurriedly ran in, knelt in front of Gongsun Ying with a pop, his head fell to the ground, and his voice was sad,

"Patriarch Qiyu, Mrs. Ning's maid Little Peach has been overly sad because of Mrs. Ning's sudden death.... He has already hanged himself and died of his lord! ”

"What?"

Gongsun Ying was stunned, and then waved his hand, "Elder Gray, hurry up and take a look!" ”

"Yes."

Elder Gray arched his hand, glanced meaningfully at Elder Red beside him, and flicked his sleeves away.

After he left, Gongsun Ying reached out and grabbed Gongsun Huan's collar and forced him to look directly into his eyes.

"Patriarch, what are you..... Want to kill me? ”

Gongsun Huan raised his eyebrows, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, his voice was very soft, and the mockery was very strong.

"You dare to say," Gongsun Ying leaned close to his ear, the knuckles of his fingers tugging at his collar were white, and his voice was low and angry, "You dare to say that Mrs. Ning's death has nothing to do with you?" ”

Gongsun Huan only snorted lightly, which was considered a tacit acquiescence.

"You!"

Gongsun Ying was angry, staring disappointedly at the younger brother in front of him, who was the same mother as him, and after a long time, he slowly let go of his hand, took two steps back, gritted his teeth and squeezed out four words,

"Do it yourself!"

After speaking, he flicked his sleeves fiercely and strode towards the door, without looking at Elder Hong on the other side from beginning to end.

Looking at the back of Gongsun Ying striding away, Gongsun Huan stared at the door for a long time before laughing out loud.

"Ha, hahahaha, hahaha......" The laughter startled a sparrow outside the hall with its wings flapping and flying away quickly.

"Deputy Patriarch, you.... Are you alright? ”

Elder Hong hesitated for a moment, but still stepped forward and asked with concern.

"Hahaha....." Gongsun Huan's somewhat puffy eyes actually burst into tears of laughter, he raised his sleeve and wiped it vigorously, his eyes were red, and he smiled a little sadly at Elder Hong, "Look, this is my brother, my brother!" ”

"I don't ask a word, and I don't have any evidence, so I am so sure that I killed the person, hehe, this is my brother, the brother of a mother's compatriots! Hahahaha......"

While smiling, he grabbed the blue-glazed teacup on the small table next to him and smashed it heavily on the ground, and suddenly, the fragments were scattered, startling Elder Hong and hurriedly took a few steps back.

"Deputy Patriarch ....."

Elder Hong wanted to step forward, but when he saw Gongsun Huan's face that had become hideous, he hesitated for a long time and stopped, not daring to step forward to persuade him, but only looked at him worriedly.

"Get out!"

Gongsun Huan turned his head and yelled at Elder Red with tears in his eyes.

Elder Hong couldn't help but shudder, she saw that Gongsun Huan's eyes were already bloodshot, and that look, if she didn't leave, she thought he would definitely crush his throat.

"Get out! I'll let you go! Gongsun Huan continued to yell.

Elder Hong sighed, but after all, he still didn't persuade again, and retreated silently.

Everyone in the hall was gone, pointing to the empty room left, and Gongsun Huan's own rapid gasps. It took him a while before he slowly calmed down.

"Gongsun Ying, let's see!"

********

"Patriarch, there is nothing abnormal about the strangulation marks on Xiao Peach's neck, and there are no other injuries on her body." A middle-aged woman wearing a pair of white gloves said to Gongsun Ying after carefully looking through Xiao Taozi's body.

Little Peach's body was placed in the open space in the room where she lived, with a dark face, a pair of pupils wide open, and a deep rope mark on her neck.

Above her head, the noose that had ended her life still swayed gently, watching it all in front of her sarcastically like an insignificant bystander.

Gongsun Ying's gaze fell on Xiao Taozi's clenched fist hidden in her sleeve, and she frowned.

Seeing this, the woman in white was the work of the Shadow Clan, and when she saw this, she quickly squatted down again, and said while lifting the sleeve of the little peach, "This girl's hand is so tightly pulled that I can't break it." ”

She pulled the little peach's fist out of the moonlight's long sleeves, and sure enough, exactly like what she said, the dead person is not easy to break.

Gongsun Ying slowly squatted down, reached out and broke it, uh... It's really useless. Although the girl's fingers were small, the short nails were pinched into the palms, the fingers were stiff, and the joints were white with all the strength of the body.

"Seventh sister-in-law, do you say that the hands of the person who hanged yourself will be so tight?"

Gongsun Ying thought for a while, and asked the middle-aged woman sideways.

The woman bowed and muttered slightly, "It stands to reason that if she had wanted to hang herself, her fingers would have been slightly bent or straight, but now she is holding them like this....."

She lowered her voice,

"Patriarch, I'm afraid it's weird."

"Find a way to break her hand!"

Gongsun Ying coldly ordered.

The woman who was called the seventh sister-in-law beckoned, and a boy of twelve or thirteen years old ran next to her, it was her little assistant, a boy with clear eyebrows.

"Eleven, come over and help."

The seventh sister-in-law commanded.

A little eleven, squatting down, he used his hand to break the fist of the little peach, but he didn't break it.

The seventh sister-in-law smiled and raised her eyebrows to look at him, "Stupid or not, how can you break her hands when they're cold?" Go, get my toolbox. ”

"Yes, Master."

Eleven's face turned a little red, and she quickly got up and left.

After a while, he came with a small wooden box. He placed the wooden box on the ground at the feet of the seventh sister-in-law, and then opened it, revealing some small and delicate tools, knives and clips, and silver needles and other utensils, which were no different from those used by the doctor.

The seventh sister-in-law took out a two-inch square gray-brown flake from it, and Gongsun Ying frowned suspiciously, "What is this?" ”

"Oh, this is a horn sha board I made myself, a small utensil for ordinary gua sha."

The seventh sister-in-law explained.

Gongsun Ying nodded, didn't speak again, and only carefully stared at the movements of the seventh sister-in-law.

The seventh sister-in-law took a breath softly, but in fact, she was not sure, she just gave it a try. She pulled up the sleeves of the little peach above her arms, and her entire slender arms were exposed.

Eleven pressed the little peach's fist, making her arm straighten, and the seventh sister-in-law picked up a small bottle in the box, and didn't know what kind of slimy liquid was poured on the horn piece, and the horn piece actually absorbed the liquid at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Then the seventh sister-in-law began to gently scrape back and forth in the crook of Little Peach's elbow with a piece of horn, scraping for a while.

Eleven exclaimed in surprise, "Master, her hand fist is open. ”

The seventh sister-in-law smiled, glanced at her hand, only opened it a little, and then quickly scraped back and forth at the crook of her elbow, and slowly, one of the little peach's hands slowly opened like a living person.

It's just that what made them dumbfounded was that there was nothing in her palm except for the pinch marks on her nails.

The seventh sister-in-law looked through her nails again, but found nothing.

Eleven was a little discouraged, but the seventh sister-in-law comforted him, "It's okay, isn't there another hand?" ”

As she spoke, she walked to the other side of Little Peach, rolled up Little Peach's sleeve as before, and then concocted it in the same way, and soon, Little Peach's other fist slowly loosened. (Apocryphal, don't dig into it!) ）

"Patriarch, look."

Eleven was sharp to find that there was a thin thread between the little peach's fingers, but it didn't look like it had been torn off her clothes.

"What is this?"

Gongsun Ying frowned and asked. The thin red line, two or three inches long, lay quietly in the palm of the little peach's hand.

The seventh sister-in-law glanced around, and there was nothing red in the house, and she went into the inner room where Little Peach slept, and the bedding and other things on the bed were not red.

She opened the cupboard where Little Peach kept her clothes, rummaged through it, and found a red undershirt.

The seventh sister-in-law hesitated, but still took out the underwear and compared it with the red thread in the palm of the little peach.

"This ...... It's different, right? ”

Gongsun Ying was a little unsure.

The seventh sister-in-law carefully inspected the clothes, nodded and shook her head, "Well, it's really different, and besides, there is no damage to this shirt." ”

Eleven frowned and said, "But Little Peach has been holding this thread tightly, there must be something weird!" ”

The seventh sister-in-law smiled, a little relieved, "Eleven, you're right, there must be something wrong with her, she won't let go of it until she dies, maybe, whoever it is, maybe it's anyone......"

"But ......"

Eleven's eyes were confused, "How can there be only one thread on the shirt?" Isn't it supposed to be a corner of clothes or something? ”

Gongsun Ying also frowned, and kept flashing in his mind: red threads......... Red line...... Line? Red?

He remembered the bewitching woman in the red robe in the main hall before, but he didn't even notice whether there were red thread-like ornaments on her body.

Looking back, he was relieved again, why would a dignified Shadow Clan elder do something to an inconsequential little girl? Even if you do it, just find a reason to kill her by mistake, and you have to go to great lengths to arrange for her to commit suicide?

"Pack this up for me first, and then check it carefully, if it's okay, put her in the ice cellar first, and bury her next to Mrs. Ning after the funeral is dealt with."

Gongsun Ying stood up and instructed the seventh sister-in-law.

Prince's Mansion, it was late at night when Lan Xing returned home, Nangong walked beside him with his head down, half a head shorter than Lan Xing, and the expression on his face was a little solemn.

"Senior brother, I'll go with you, the crown princess ......"

He wanted to say that the crown princess was so weak that she didn't know how to do any kung fu, and if she really fought, the senior brother would still be distracted to take care of her...... Besides, looking at the appearance of the senior brother, his condition is not very good, how can he be distracted to take care of others?

"Pay attention to your name!"

Blue Star clutched his chest and replied coldly.

Nangong flattened his mouth, took a deep breath and continued, "Your Highness, I am also for your good, just the two of you, it is too dangerous, in case ........."

What else was he about to say, but Blue Star had already walked to the gate of the main courtyard and stopped.

As soon as Nangong looked up, he saw a thin woman wearing only a white middle coat and a shawl with long hair leaning obliquely on the side of the gate, holding her arms with her hands folded, her willow eyebrows raised, and the corners of her mouth looking at the two with a smile on her lips.

Isn't that who the crown princess is?

Nangong glanced at the motionless prince beside him, and hurriedly saluted,

"I've seen the crown princess."

"Hmm."