When Qin Shuyao died, she held the peach blossom rouge that Xing Ruyi gave her.

The rouge box is opened, and the edges are stained with fingers. Among the traces, Xing Ruyi also found some oleander pollen powder. This shows that the murderer has touched this box of rouge.

Xing Ruyi first checked the hands of the deceased Qin Shuyao. There are varying degrees of wear and tear on the tips of the index fingers, but this wear and tear is not left by years of labor, but because of playing the piano. The thumb, index finger and middle finger also have traces left by holding the pen over the years.

Then, Xing Ruyi carefully examined Qin Shuyao's flushed cheeks.

"Miss Qin did use my peach blossom rouge, but after her death, the murderer smeared this inferior rouge on her cheeks, probably for revenge."

"Revenge?"

"A kind of revenge between women." Xing Ruyi clapped her hands: "Miss Qin's family is beautiful, and she should be involved in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. It is very likely that the murderer was motivated by jealousy, and after the death of Miss Qin, he deliberately smeared her cheeks with this inferior rouge to make her look ugly. Oh, by the way, you stand a little further away. ”

Xing Ruyi took a step back, pointed to his side, and motioned for Liu Sheng to stand up as well.

"Have you ever seen the kind of paper man in a paper shop? It is the kind that uses white paper to paste out the face of a paper figure, and then draws two big red circles on the face. You are standing here looking at Miss Qin, her makeup is very similar to the kind of paper figure in a paper shop? ”

Yanagi's brow furrowed.

"The murderer is a woman?"

"Quite possibly, I'll need to make sure." Xing Ruyi stood on tiptoe and asked outside the door: "Bi Tao is here?" ”

"Bi Tao is here." A maid in a plain shirt squeezed out of the crowd.

"Does your young lady not like to dress up?"

"How does Madame know?"

"Dresser. Your lady's dresser is in space. ”

Bi Tao glanced at her own young lady's dresser, blessed her body and said, "Madame is really careful to observe." My young lady really doesn't like to dress up, the old man went out to buy goods, and he also brought back a lot of good things from outside for the young lady, but those things were either asked by Miss Cousin, or given to us people. ”

Bi Tao walked over to the dresser and opened the boxes on it.

"This bracelet was left by the first lady to the young lady, and it is also the only bracelet for the young lady. There is also this hairpin, one is left by the lady to the young lady, one is given to the young lady by the master, and the other is bought by the young lady herself, because she likes the pattern on it. During the New Year's holidays, when she needs to meet guests, the young lady only takes the one given to her by the master.

And these, are the only things that Miss uses to dress up, and these rouge gouaches have been added one after another in the past year. Unless the old lady asks for it, the young lady will not use it. ”

"Why?"

"Because Miss finds it troublesome." Bi Tao said helplessly: "Miss Su Ri doesn't like to go out, and she spends most of her time in this courtyard, so she refuses to put on makeup, and she doesn't let Bi Tao groom her." Oh, even the young lady's hair is only allowed to comb the simplest kind of bun, which is said to be convenient. ”

"But your young lady accepted the rouge I gave her and used it."

"If Bi Tao tells the truth, will you be angry, madam?"

"When I asked, I listened to the truth. If I am telling the truth, how can I be angry? Say, let me hear if the reason why your young lady accepted this box of peach blossom rouge is as I guessed in my heart. ”

"When I was in the Ruyi Rouge Shop, Mrs. gave Miss this box of peach blossom rouge, and Miss wanted to refuse, but she couldn't bear to brush off Mrs.'s kindness, so she took it. On the carriage back home, the young lady also specially talked to Bi Tao about this matter, saying that fortunately she held back at the time, otherwise she was afraid that she would break Madame's heart. Saying that, the young lady also took out this box of peach blossom rouge, saying that although she didn't like to use these rouge gouaches, she had given her a lot since she was a child, but such a delicate rouge box as given by Mrs. was very rare. The young lady also joked with Bi Tao, saying that she gave the rouge in the box to Bi Tao, and she only kept this box. ”

"Who opened the rouge?"

"It's Bi Tao."

"When did it open?"

On the carriage back home, after the young lady finished saying that, Bi Tao grabbed the rouge and then frolicked with the young lady. My young lady is very quiet all day, but for some reason, my young lady seems to be in a good mood. During the frolic, Bi Tao accidentally opened the rouge, so she dipped her hand a little and said that it was for Miss to try. ”

"Did your young lady try?"

The young lady dodged left and right, saying that since she wanted to try it, she would let Bi Tao smear it on her face. Only in this way did the young lady know whether the color of this box of rouge was good or not, and whether the effect of the application was as good as the lady said in the rouge shop. Bi Tao felt justified and wiped it on her face.

The young lady came over at that time, held the face of the peach, looked left and right, and took back the box of peach blossom rouge after looking at it for a long time. said that she repented, and she wanted to keep this box of rouge for herself.

Bi Tao didn't think much about it at the time, thinking that it was also an excellent thing that the young lady was willing to use rouge to modify her makeup. Later, when she returned to the house, Bi Tao couldn't help but look at herself in the mirror, but she didn't feel any special changes. Oh yes. Madame's peach blossom rouge seems to be a little different from the one bought elsewhere, it seems that the color is lighter, if you don't look carefully, you can hardly see any changes, but it makes people feel that the complexion seems to be brighter, and the whole person feels soft. ”

"It's not strange that your young lady doesn't like to groom herself, but she doesn't like to paint herself too brightly. Like me, she likes nude makeup, so when I was at the rouge shop, I gave her this box of peach blossom rouge. ”

"What is nude makeup?"

"It's just that you have painted your eyebrows, applied rouge, and even wiped lipstick, but others can only see that you have become beautiful, but they can't see that you are using these things to make you show natural beauty. It attracts the attention of others, but it does not make people pay too much attention. ”

"Bi Tao understands, no wonder my young lady will regret it and will ask for that box of rouge back."

"Let me ask you another very important question." Xing Ruyi beckoned to Bi Tao, "Does your young lady have a favorite person?" ”

"I don't think so, why does Madame ask that?"

"Nothing, just a casual question."

"Madame has mentioned it to the master several times, saying that the young lady is not too young, and it is time to tell the young lady about the family. The lord invited someone to Zhang Luo, and also invited someone to come to the house to let the young lady look at each other secretly, but the young lady didn't look at any of them. ”

"What's the reason for not looking at it?"

"Some are good-looking, but they have empty bellies and straw bales. Some can write poetry, but they are extremely pedantic, don't say that the young lady doesn't like it, even the old man can't look down on it. Although our Qin family does not say that it is a big business, the master only has such a daughter as Miss, and he is unwilling to let Miss be wronged. Oh, Madame also gave Miss Zhang Luo. In terms of family background and appearance, they are not bad, but he is a prodigal. The old man secretly looked for someone to check, and he gave it a no. The young lady didn't even see each other. ”

"What is the origin of that cousin and sister in the Qin Mansion?"

"It's a relative of Madame's side, we only know that it's Young Master Cousin and Miss Cousin, but we don't know their true origin." Bi Tao hesitated for a moment, lowered her voice and said, "There is something, Bi Tao can tell Madame, but please help Bi Tao keep it secret." ”

"What?"

"It is rumored in the mansion that Madame brought that young master cousin to the Qin Mansion just to match the young lady with the young master. Madame was not in good health, and she did not give birth after arriving at the Qin family. If the young lady finds a husband, more than half of the Qin family's future inheritance will inevitably fall into the hands of that uncle. Madame is a shrewd person, so she naturally refuses to watch the Qin family's property fall into the hands of others, so she has matched the young lady with the young master many times. ”

"Is it matched?"

"Naturally, no." Bi Tao said with some disdain: "The people that the master brought back, the young lady still looks down on them, let alone this young master who is unlearned and misbehaved." ”

"Misbehaving?"

"Hmmm! The young master came to the Qin Mansion during the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, and at that time he also came to ask his wife for peace, but since he arrived in the mansion, he refused to leave.

It's been about half a month. One night, while the young lady was playing the piano, she suddenly heard someone knocking on the door in the courtyard, and it was a loud bang, and she sounded very urgent. So, I went to the courtyard to check, and when I opened the door, I smelled a smell of alcohol, and before I could see the other person's face clearly, he pushed it away. When I reacted, I heard the voice of the young lady's reprimand, and rushed over to see that it was the young master.

It was this young master who intended to mistreat the young lady with the intention of drinking, and kept saying that the lady had secretly promised the young lady to him. Whether the young lady wants it or not, she will be his wife in the future, and the huge family business of the Qin family is also his. He also said that if the young lady is interested, he will treat the young lady better in the future, if he is not interesting, when he gets this huge industry, he will definitely find a few more intimate and warm people.

Miss Mo said, even Bi Tao felt very annoyed when she heard these words. Immediately, he helped the young lady blast the young master out of the table. Bi Tao originally wanted to tell the master about this, but the young lady didn't let her, saying that she was worried that the old man would be embarrassed, so she let Bi Tao do nothing and nothing happened. ”

"And after that? Has this young master ever come to pester Miss? ”

"I've been here a few times, but I haven't been drunk and made a lot of trouble, and the young lady has always refused to give him a good face, and after that, he rarely comes."

"What about Miss Cousin? Does she come over often? ”

"All the time." Bi Tao replied and looked outside: "This young lady is more cheeky than that young master, no matter whether the young lady ignores her or not, she will come over every once in a while." If you see something good, you ask for it. In addition to the things that the old lady gave to the young lady, the young lady next to her didn't care much, she asked for it, and the young lady gave it too. ”

"Your young lady is really used to her."

"Miss is just too lazy to bother with her." Bi Tao curled her mouth: "Miss misses the master, thinking that she is always the person from the lady's side, if it is too ugly, I am afraid that the lady will find something to make trouble with the master again." ”

As soon as Bi Tao finished speaking, her eyes lit up, as if she had thought of something particularly important, she pulled Xing Ruyi into it a little more, and whispered: "But there are exceptions." At the end of last month, Miss didn't know what to do with Miss Cousin, and in her anger, she hit Miss Cousin. I remember that the day Miss Biao left here crying and crying, and said a lot of cruel things. Madam, do you think my young lady was killed by Miss Cousin? ”