General's Mansion ———

"What? Have you seen the person who killed the son of the Xu family? Xiahou sat up on the couch, her apricot eyes slightly open.

"The maid hid on the wall that night according to the instructions of the young lady to investigate the situation, and happened to see the real murderer coming out of the window, it was a man." Kitty replied with her head down, but her back was straight.

"Do you see what he looks like?"

"He was masked, and the maid didn't see it clearly, but ......" Xiaoying quickly stepped forward and whispered in Xiahou Xi's ear.

After hearing this, Xiahou Ji looked at Xiaoying and shook her head incredulously: "It's terrible." ”

"Miss, what shall we do? Now everyone is rumoring that Miss Xu is a murderer. ”

Xiahou Ji hesitated. If you don't help, this matter will inevitably affect Brother Chen; If she helps, she hates Xu Chaodu.

Xiaoying saw her embarrassment and proposed, "Miss don't be embarrassed. As long as the real culprit cannot be caught in this matter, Miss Xu will not be able to tell even if she has a thousand mouths, and then we can take this opportunity to secretly create public opinion pressure. The prince is a royal family, how could the saint allow the prince to leave a murderer in the mansion? ”

Xiahou Xi's eyes flashed when she heard this, and she couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth: "Okay." Then we'll just sit and watch the play. Xu Chaodui is a person who is paranoid and willful, and he has caused trouble now, hehehehe. ”

The next day, the young man took several subordinates and Li Hanchen and his wife to Changxing Houfu.

The blue sky is cloudless, and the birds are crisp.

It was obviously a sunny day, but the sky over Changxing Houfu was shrouded in thick gloomy clouds, and the atmosphere was extremely depressing.

The passing servant door lowered his head, and An An divided himself into his own business.

A group of people followed the much haggard Marquis of Changxing towards Xu Xiangyang's residence.

"Little slut, you return my son! You give back my son! ”

As soon as he stepped into the courtyard where Xu Xiangyang lived before his death, the Yang family rushed up like the crazy big yellow-haired hound in the Chang'an Palace, crying and screaming.

"Take Madame back!" Chang Xinghou shouted, and immediately several maidservants stepped forward to stop the Yang family and coaxed her to the mourning hall.

"What a faux pas. After Inuko passed away, Uchiko was overly sad and became like this. Changxinghou's eyes were red, and the whole person seemed to have aged several years overnight, and his demeanor was no longer what it used to be.

The man surnamed Sun nodded, and his tone was slightly reassuring: "Understood, Hou Ye's Day mourning is smooth." We will find out the real culprits and punish them severely. ”

Xu Chaodui watched Chang Xinghou become like this, and his mood was complicated.

This is the difference between a sister-in-law and an outer room. When his younger brother was killed, although Chang Xinghou looked sad, it was far less than the despair at the moment.

kept saying that he was sorry for his mother, and he was indeed sorry.

Entering Xu Xiangyang's house, the faces of the man surnamed Sun and Li Hanchen changed slightly.

The room was cleaned and tidyed, and the bed was replaced with a new one, as if nothing thrilling had ever happened here.

The man surnamed Sun frowned and asked Chang Xinghou: "Master Hou, what's going on?" ”

Chang Xinghou didn't know either, and greeted the servant outside the house in a deep voice: "Who asked you to clean it?" ”

At this time, a manservant knelt on the ground, his voice trembling: "Wait... Master Hou, I saw the chaos in the house, thinking that there was an official coming today, this... Then I took it upon myself to clean the house..."

After hearing this, the man surnamed Sun secretly scolded "idiot" and said in a deep voice: "Don't you know that there was a murder and you need to protect the scene of the crime?" ”

The manservant shook his head in fright: "Little... The little one really doesn't know ......."

The man surnamed Sun shook his head when he saw him like this.

How could a servant know? Now it's a bit difficult to investigate the case.

After a moment of silence, Li Hanchen asked, "Who was in the house that night?" ”

Changxing hurriedly said: "I went back to the main house to take care of Neizi, leaving six servants to take care of Yang'er in the house." ”

Li Hanchen nodded: "The Hou Ye called those six servants." ”

After Chang Xinghou nodded and ordered, the six servants were brought in a short time.

The servants knelt on the ground and hung their heads, waiting for the official to ask.

After Li Hanchen and the man surnamed Sun looked at each other for a second, the man surnamed Sun stepped forward and asked, "Tell me about the situation that night." ”

The six servants trembled, and no one dared to step forward to answer.

Changxing Hou urged: "If the lord tells you to say it, you will say it." ”

Only then did a manservant step forward and touch his head on the ground and say, "That... That night, we were ordered by the marquis to take care of the son. When everything is done, it is... waited on the side to guard the child's ...... In the middle of the night, everyone was drowsy, and suddenly a peculiar fragrance came, and the little ones felt that something was wrong, and the incense burner was not smoked with this kind of incense, and then the little ones wanted to go and see, but as soon as they took their feet, they felt that their heads were confused, and they fell down......"

After hearing what he said, the man surnamed Sun glanced at the other servants and asked, "What about you?" ”

"The little one also smelled a fragrance, and then I fainted in a daze......"

"Small is also ......"

"Small is also ......"

The man surnamed Sun frowned and thought about it, and muttered to himself: "This incense is a common method, not a clue." ”

He asked, "When you wake up, do you find anything unusual in the house?" ”

"Yes!" The servant from before replied: "After the little one woke up, he saw the eldest prince being ......"

He glanced at Chang Xinghou, and after finding that Chang Xinghou's face was getting heavier and heavier, he didn't say any more, and went straight to the point: "The little one found that the window was opened!" ”

Hearing this, the three of them turned their heads to look at the wide-open window, and the man surnamed Sun immediately called a servant in.

The official walked to the window, sprinkled white powder all over every corner of the window, and then took out a small fine brush for investigating the case and gently brushed off the powder on the surface.

The man surnamed Sun watched quietly. Since the man went out of the window, he must have left a mark.

After a while, the official turned around and reported: "My lord, there are no fingerprints or footprints, and this window has been wiped over." ”

The man surnamed Sun looked over coldly, and the manservant trembled in fright: "My lord, spare my life...... The villain doesn't know... Didn't know anyone escaped through the window. The villain is ignorant...... I cleaned all the house, and I hope that the adults will spare the little ones for the sake of ignorance. ”

The man surnamed Sun hated iron in his heart, but he didn't show a smile on his face, and said lightly: "Ignorance should be punished." ”

"My lord—"

At this time, another official hurriedly came and announced: "My subordinates have found footprints on the wall in the corner of the backyard of the Houfu!" ”

"Check it out." The three of them lifted their feet to the corner where the clue was found.

This place is the most remote corner of the whole Houfu, and it is full of clutter. In addition, no one cleans it on weekdays, so the walls and things that have not been used for a long time are covered with a layer of dust.

This also makes the shallow footprint on the wall particularly visible.

Obviously, it's a woman's foot.

The man's first reaction was to look at Xu Chaodui's feet hidden by the long skirt.

Xu Chaowan just wanted to speak, but saw Li Hanchen step forward, stretched out his hand to compare the footprints, and said to the man surnamed Sun after a while: "Don't look at it." The size of this footprint is the same as the size of my twilight. ”

The man surnamed Sun pondered for a second, then nodded: "If the murderer has someone else, then this footprint must be forged." The murderer can be both male and female, but the only thing worth knowing is that the murderer is next to Madame, or someone who is familiar with Madame. Only then will there be a chance to forge exactly the same footprints. ”

After the man surnamed Sun finished speaking, he saw that neither of the couple paid attention to him.

A calm look on his face without waves, looking at the footprints on the wall with his negative hands, I don't know what he is thinking; A big eye, as if covered with a layer of frost, stared at the hem of his skirt in a blink, not knowing what to think.

"Ahem ......" In front of his subordinates, the man surnamed Sun couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed in his heart, and coughed lightly to show his existence.