Pingzhuang, who followed on the side, paused: "Master Qiao, Master Xie is not so bold!" ”

"I'll just say it." The girl said, "It doesn't matter if this matter is really or not, as long as Mrs. Xie starts to be suspicious." ”

Pingzhuang fell silent.

After coming once last night, she came again today, and the steward who had greeted them earlier was very "considerate" and did not disturb them, and retreated to the courtyard to wait.

Qiao Ran pushed the door into the house, sat down on the chair from yesterday, and then looked at the furnishings in the room while drinking tea.

"Master Qiao, shall we help with the search?" Tang Zhongyuan, who had been silent, asked at this time.

The girl just paused for a moment, then nodded and said, "Then search for it!" She said, "I searched the bookshelf here yesterday, you go to the bedside where Lord Xie lives." ”

Tang Zhongyuan answered and walked towards Xie Chengze's bedroom.

The girl looked at the green plums soaked in the tea, and her eyes narrowed slightly: "Pingzhuang, you also go to search inside, I'm a woman, it's always not good to search for the adult's bedroom." ”

Pingzhuang glanced at the girl who was sitting there drinking tea, and said in his heart: Look at you so comfortable, but you don't look embarrassed.

Besides, what's so bad about the Dali Temple official search? It's not something unsightly, he glanced at the girl suspiciously, but he still followed Tang Zhongyuan to the bedroom according to his words.

The girl also got up at this time, walked to the bookshelf, paused for a moment at the stack of letters, and still picked up the letters and opened them one by one.

Yesterday, I only read the last few letters hastily, but this time I simply flipped through them from beginning to end.

With the sound of rummaging inside, the girl read more and more letters on her right.

Pingzhuang, who was looking through the wardrobe, heard the sound of movement outside, so he poked his head out and looked, and saw that the girl was looking down and quickly flipping through the letters, and after looking at it for a while, he felt that there was nothing to see, so he continued to turn over the wardrobe.

At this moment, he suddenly heard Tang Zhongyuan, who was rubbing the bed board not far away, "Huh", Pingzhuang hurriedly walked over and walked to Tang Zhongyuan's side, but saw Tang Zhongyuan pointing to the nicks on the head of the bed and said to him: "Look! ”

Pingzhuang curiously touched it, the notches were shallow, as if they were carved with some hard object, but such nicks were in stark contrast to the entire clean, tidy and exquisite bedroom.

The ornaments in Lord Xie's bedroom may not all be new, but it seems that the bed that has been obviously damaged like this looks a little out of place in it.

Realizing that he had found some amazing clues, Pingzhuang suddenly became excited, and shouted with a raised voice: "Lord Qiao, come and see!" ”

"Well, I saw it." The girl had already appeared behind the two of them at some point.

Pingzhuang was startled by the girl who suddenly appeared behind him: "Master Qiao, you scared me to death." ”

The girl replied casually, and her eyes fell on the nicks on the bed: "I heard it when Tang Zhongyuan said something." ”

As she spoke, she looked at the nicks on the bed: "There are ninety-seven marks in total." ”

Tang Zhongyuan, who was about to count the nicks, was suddenly startled, looked back at the girl in surprise, and said in surprise: "Miss Qiao, how do you know?" ”

The girl raised a letter that had been taken out separately in her hand, and then said: "Because from that day to yesterday, Xie Chengze disappeared for a total of ninety-seven days. ”

That day, it was precisely Miss Xu Shi who complained in the letter about the reply that should have been written that day, but Xie Chengze himself did not reply. The day mentioned in the letter was the same day she smelled the strange smell of Xie Chengze when she returned to the garden.

Until yesterday, it was ninety-seven days.

And the notches on the bed board seem to confirm her inference again, probably to remember that she is a substitute or something else, and the notches on the bedside seem to warn this "Xie Chengze" not to forget what he has to do.

Many speculations flashed in Qiao Ran's heart for a while: "This bed board ......"

"Do you want to take it back?" Seeing Tang Zhongyuan move his lips, Pingzhuang hurriedly said before he could speak.

Anyway, they came out to do things together, and it doesn't make sense that the surname Tang has the eyesight to see, and the eyesight to see this kind of thing, he Pingzhuang also has it.

"Okay." The girl was stunned when she heard this, her eyes fell on the bed board, but she hesitated, "Will such a big wooden board be too heavy?" ”

Pingzhuang hurriedly patted his chest and promised: "Master Qiao, don't worry, I'll carry it." ”

Tang Zhongyuan glanced at him and said, "This bed board and bed are connected together, I'm afraid it's not easy to carry it away." ”

"Then bring the car." Pingzhuang said busily, as if he was afraid that Qiao Ran would not give him the opportunity to perform, and he assured, "Master Qiao can rest assured." ”

The girl couldn't help but chuckle twice when she looked at him, then nodded, and said, "It's okay, then trouble the two of you to pull the evidence back to Dali Temple, I still have some things I want to go to the Xu family." ”

Why are you going to Xu's house again all of a sudden? Pingzhuang, who was staring at the bed board, was startled, but when he saw Tang Zhongyuan's calm expression in front of him, he also calmed down, but he still couldn't help muttering in his heart: This surnamed Tang is right, this Lord Qiao's thoughts are really unpredictable, after running back to Yuanfang, he came to Xie's house again, and after running to Xie's house, he was going to Xu's house again.

The Xu family's mansion is not Qiao Ran's first time to go back, but the previous few times she went to the Xu family, Xu Hexiu was there, with him leading the way, and she had no contact with the Xu family, but this time she came to the door alone, and she came to the door with a card.

Listening to the sound of the curtain behind the curtain in the side room of the guest hall and the "whispering" of many girls and children, Qiao Ran was a little helpless.

That's it, just watch it, there's nothing you can't watch, it's just that those whispers are too loud, so that she, the party, can hear it clearly.

"That's Master Qiao, Ah Yuan has been talking for a long time, the last time we were away, the fourth cousin invited her to come to the house to sit as a guest, but unfortunately I didn't see it, but this time I saw it."

"Yes, it's as rumored to be in spirit."

Spirit? The adjective is new. In the Xie family, he had already drunk a belly of tea, Qiao Ran didn't move the tea cup next to him, and sat in the living room waiting for the supervisor to come over.

As soon as she came, she said that she wanted to ask for some things, and the master of the Xu family, who was entertaining, should go and ask the supervisor to come over, and the trivial matters of the Xu family are not the masters of the Xu family, but the supervisors of the Xu family.

The sound behind the curtain came one after another.

"It's a pity that Ah Yuan is not here again, this time she is the only one who has not seen Master Qiao."

"yes, she's out of luck!" The girl's laughter came, "I'm out again!" It seems that Ah Yuan has no fate with the Lord Qiao she admires, just like those scholars who ask for paintings want to ask to see famous artists, but they can't see them after seeing them several times, this is a destiny of God, there is no way! ”

……

In the sound of "fate", the director of the Xu family hurried over, and when he entered the guest hall, he gave a salute to the Qiao who suddenly came to the door.

"No need to be polite," Qiao Ran smiled at the head of the Xu family, "I just came to ask if the Xu family has been robbed in the past six months to a year?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the broken voice behind the curtain disappeared all of a sudden, and everyone was stunned by her words, even the master of the Xu family who was entertaining guests was startled, and he couldn't react for a while.

Thief?

The supervisor was stunned for a moment, and after thinking seriously for a while, he still nodded, and said: "It was indeed a thief half a year ago, but only a few masters' clothes and some sundries were lost, and they were not valuables. ”

A trace of consternation flashed in the officer's eyes as he spoke: How could this Lord Qiao of Dali Temple know about such a trivial matter? You must know that it is the masters who lost their clothes and him, the person in charge, if she hadn't reminded her, she would have forgotten about it, not to mention that the matter was not publicized at the time, and even the rest of the Xu family's masters didn't know about it, how could this Lord Qiao know? Could it be that the fourth prince told this Lord Qiao? Do you have to tell your colleagues about such a trivial matter? The fourth prince doesn't seem to be such a verbose person!

"And this matter!" The master of the Xu family, who was sitting on the main seat, also came back to his senses at this time, turned to the supervisor, and said strangely, "I didn't even know before, who lost his clothes and sundries?" ”

The supervisor said: "It's a few sons." A few old clothes and some worthless sundries were lost, and the sons did not pursue it again. ”

The old man of the Xu family suddenly said "oh", this kind of trivial matter is indeed not generally pursued for them, but seeing that this Master Qiao of Dali Temple is here, he thought about it, and continued to ask: "Can this kind of theft happen later?" ”

The supervisor shook his head and said, "Only that once, I haven't heard about it again." ”

The girl who was sitting in the guest chair asked loudly at this time: "Are the sons who lost their old clothes in their twenties?" ”

This question is too strange, everyone doesn't know why, and they follow her gaze to look at the supervisor, who thought about it, nodded and said, "What Master Qiao said is right, that's exactly what happened." ”

The smile on the girl's face faded sometime: "Then let me ask again, is there still Xu Heming among the sons who lost their old clothes?" ”

The name Xu Heming has not appeared for a long time, and when she suddenly mentioned this name, the atmosphere of the entire guest hall suddenly froze, and even the girl who whispered behind the curtain stopped talking, and the expression on her face turned solemn.

The matter of Que Lou is like a taboo and is not allowed to be mentioned by others, and they all know in their hearts that Xu Heming has probably encountered an accident, but because His Majesty is not allowed to mention it, it has cast a shadow on this matter.

At this time, in the girl's faint voice, this layer of shadow was suddenly revealed.

The old man of the Xu family, who was entertaining guests, suddenly exhaled heavily, and turned his head to the people around him: "You go to the second room to keep an eye on, don't let the second couple come to this neighborhood." ”

For the loss of the second room, the grief of the two-room couple these days is in everyone's eyes, at this time, if there is news to the second room, I am afraid that the couple will not be able to hold back and run to the guest hall to block people.

The more this time, the more you can't let the two-room couple disturb the normal case-handling process of Dali Temple.

Therefore, after the old man of the Xu family finished his order, he turned to Qiao Ran and asked her: "Lord Qiao suddenly mentioned this matter, is there any clue?" ”

The girl was silent for a moment and shook her head: "This matter ...... I don't know how to elaborate. However, when facing the disappointed look of the master of the Xu family, the girl still added a sentence and said, "I will take over this matter, you can rest assured." ”

Obviously a girl who is still young and has never been in the same grade, the old man of the Xu family subconsciously looked at the curtain when he heard this...... About the same age as the girls in the family.

He had heard and Xiu that child said how many times "their Dali Temple Master Qiao" was amazing, because he didn't know how many times he had said it, and those children in the Xu family had a little bit of worship for this rumored Lord Qiao who did not belong to his peers.

However, these Xu family adults didn't have much feeling. After all, receiving a reward from His Majesty in his position must have some ability, but it doesn't stop there. In their opinion, the Xu family and the Dali Temple that investigated the case were not all the way, and ordinary people would not deal with Dali Temple.

Therefore, they are noncommittal about the praise that the child Xiu has on weekdays.

Now that I saw this girl with my own eyes, I heard the reassuring words in her mouth, and for some reason, I suddenly made him feel like the girl sitting in front of him as if she was the same generation as him, and there was an inexplicable sense of stability and peace of mind.

The old man of the Xu family looked at the girl in front of him seriously, and said with a smile: "Master Qiao's work is naturally reassuring, and He Xiu often talks about you." ”

Qiao Ran smiled and got up to say goodbye, but when he was leaving, he made a reluctant request.

"I have an urgent trip out of the city now, I wonder if I can ask the Xu family's coachman to give me a ride?"

The old man of the Xu family was stunned when he heard this, but he still asked the supervisor to take her out.

It's a trivial matter, and naturally there is no reason why it shouldn't be.

It's just that I don't know why this Lord Qiao asked about the theft of the Xu family half a year ago and hurried out of the city, and now outside the city...... Did she go to those people who were searching for the Xie family's boy?

What does this matter have to do with the disappearance of the Xie family's child?

……

probably guessed that she was in a hurry, and the supervisor deliberately picked a good hand to hurry, so that when he went out of the city to see Zhang Xie and his party, the sky had not yet darkened.

The girl jumped out of the carriage and ran this way.

"Xu Hexiu is not here?" The girl who ran to the front looked around and asked.

Zhang Xie helped the girl who didn't stand firmly, and said, "He Xiu took people into the city to search." ”

"That's right." I don't know if it's his delusion, the girl seemed to be relieved when she heard this, and then hurriedly said: "You quickly let the official road in front of you pay attention to someone." ”

The girl's expression became more and more solemn in the sunset: "Let them pay attention to Xu Heming!" ”

Zhang Jie's face changed slightly: Isn't Xu Heming dead?

And the next moment, the girl's words made his whole person freeze in place as if he had been struck by lightning.

"I've been wondering, why add a skinned corpse to those strange corpses in Que Lou? After all, it is said that they are all guilty of the punishment of tongue and tongue, and they all hang the body that pulls out the tongue, why is this different? ”