Chapter Seventy-Four: Death in the Secret Room
As soon as the door opened, facing Mrs. Chen's enlarged face, Mrs. Chen hurriedly took a step back, eavesdropping, so she put on an embarrassed smile, held her hands and didn't have time to say anything, a woman with scattered sideburns suddenly rushed behind her, grabbed Mrs. Chen and asked sharply, "Did she agree?" Did she say yes? β
It was Chen Die.
She was facing the sky, her face was still stained with tears, her eyes were swollen, her hair was sticking to her cheeks, she stared at Mrs. Chen, and then at Chen Tongsheng.
Chen Tongsheng looked at her: "I can't help." β
"Can't you help?" Chen Die's face came up, with two swollen eyes: "Why can't you help?" Didn't you follow Master Hou? Don't you live in the Hou Mansion and live a good life? My mother went to the Hou Mansion in person and couldn't see you! Oh...... You're on a big shelf now, aren't you? She reached out to grab Chen Tongsheng's shoulder, Chen Tongsheng frowned and retreated, she quickly grabbed her shoulder, and her long nails dug into the fabric of her clothes: "You hooked up with a man yourself and turned your face and didn't admit it, so you won't take the Chen family in your eyes!" If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be where I am today! β
Chen Die said as she spoke, as if she was very aggrieved, and tears overflowed her eyes again: "Why are you favored by the Hou Ye?" You stutter, what will you do with piano, chess, calligraphy and painting?! You don't understand anything at all, you bastard born of a trick, a vixen who hooks up with men with your face! β
Chen Tongsheng grabbed one of her hands, and Chen Die's hand immediately softened, and immediately exhaled in pain. Chen Tongsheng let go of his hand, Chen Die immediately withdrew his hand, and hurriedly checked his wrist, but heard Chen Tongsheng say: "You don't even have the face of a fox, a fox spirit." β
This sentence was like a slap on Chen Die's face, her face was red and white, and she pointed at Chen Tongsheng and said, "Did you hear that?" What am I talking about?! I just said that she didn't think she was the Chen family at all, and she didn't take us seriously! I said I didn't need to beg her, it was useless! One of you is a mother and the other is a father, is it useful to speak? No! No! β
She waved her hand back violently, so hard that she almost hit Mrs. Chen: "You get out of here!" Get out of my house! It will have nothing to do with my Chen family in the future! β
Master Chen hurriedly shouted: "Butterfly! β
Mrs. Chen also realized that this was not the time for Chen Die to lose her temper and play with her temperament, so she hurriedly stepped forward and comforted: "Don't talk nonsense, Die'er, you and Kiryu are sisters of the same father, you say it well, why wouldn't she help you?" β
Chen Die sneered: "I have never regarded her as a half-sister, look at her face...... The Chen family? Scold. β
Chen Tongsheng narrowed her eyes, she heard another meaning in Chen Die's words, which was very subtle.
Chen Die didn't want her to help at all.
Even if she was deceived, the powerful Zhang family was helpless, and she was arguing at home all day long to ask Zhang Gongzi to be responsible, and she didn't want Chen Tongsheng to help.
This happened to be what she wanted, Chen Tongsheng bypassed Mrs. Chen, said goodbye and left, Mrs. Chen wanted to chase, but was stopped by Chen Die: "Mother, why do you bother to look at her face again!" β
Mrs. Chen's voice was sad: "I'm not all for you!" β
The mother and daughter immediately hugged each other and cried as if they were playing.
Master Chen is not majestic as a father, and he can't pull off this face and call Chen Tongsheng again. After all, when Chen Tongsheng left, he said something like goodbye, and the Chen family did not go to Chen Die before the accident. Master Chen didn't believe that this daughter had good luck for a while, so he just begged not to cause trouble outside and come back with trouble, which was equivalent to letting this daughter go.
However, Chen Tongsheng's intuition was accurate, and only one night later, Chen Tongsheng met Zou Shiyun, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, who was eating noodles at a stall on the street.
Zou Shiyun seems to have a soft spot for this little ravioli, and the person who accompanied him last time was not there, so he ordered two wontons by himself and put them in front of him to eat purringly.
Chen Tongsheng saw him, but he didn't notice Chen Tongsheng.
After a while, the little scribe who accompanied him walked quickly and said, "Shaoqing, the case is not under our control!" β
Chen Tongsheng also asked for a bowl of wontons, waiting for the wontons boringly, and heard Zou Shiyun say coldly: "It's not under our control, but the Zhang family has been friends with my family for generations, and they have never disliked me The Zou family once declined, and now I have a request for me, how can I not care?" β
When someone's ears heard the word "Zhang family", they subconsciously pricked up.
The accompanying scribe sighed and suddenly raised his voice: "Where's my ravioli?" β
"What your ravioli ......"
"Didn't you order two bowls of ravioli?"
Zou Shiyun: "No, this is for me to eat, you can call it yourself." β
"Shaoqing, how can you be like this!"
Zou Shiyun lowered his head and drank the soup, and the accompanying scribe was angry about not calling him wontons, and he had to mention it halfway through eating.
Chen Tongsheng didn't know whether it was her ear power that was too good, or Zou Shiyun who was too shy about discussing the matter in a small stall where people came and went, and the two of them analyzed the case of the violent death of the young son of the Zhang family in a chatter, until Chen Tongsheng ate the wontons with milky white soup in front of him, and he listened to the same words, and when he was about to get up, Zou Shiyun suddenly said: "After listening, I will leave, and I won't say hello, it doesn't seem right?" β
Chen Tongsheng was stunned, then turned around and looked at Zou Shiyun behind him, and the other party deliberately showed a smug smile.
"You know me?"
"Miss Chen, the fifth lady of the Chen family, the people around Hou Ye." The porcelain spoon in Zou Shiyun's hand knocked on the wall of the bowl: "I just understood it clearly." β
The person next to him whispered: "Shaoqing, don't say that you just understand ......"
Zou Shiyun pushed him away with an elbow, and the smile on his face remained unchanged: "May I ask what Miss Chen thinks after hearing Fang Cai's case?" β
"What does it have to do with me?"
"Of course it matters," Zou Shiyun said: "Because just this morning, Zhang Gongzi's fiancΓ©e, the young lady of the Ning family, Ning Xin'an, went to the government to report the case, saying that Zhang Gongzi really had a personal grudge with your sister recently, and she died at her hands." β
"Died at her hands," Chen Tongsheng smiled: "No, died at my hands." β
Zou Shiyun did not show weakness: "Since Miss Chen thinks that this has nothing to do with you, why did she stay and listen?" β
Chen Tongsheng followed his example, and the spoon knocked on the wall of the bowl: "Eat wontons, can't you?" β
"Yes, of course." Zou Shiyun put the money on the table: "Since Miss Chen is not interested in this matter, there is nothing to say." I also begged the girl not to spread the words she had overheard today and to teach others to know. Leave. β
Zou Shiyun deliberately bit the sound of the word "unintentional", and then got up very calmly and left with the accompanying scribe, but after turning around, his pace stopped again, and said with a smile: "However, Zhang Gongzi's death is strange, and it is related to the Chen family, so it shouldn't be the second-ranked lady." β
"Wait."
Chen Tongsheng frowned slightly: "What do you want to say?" β
Zou Shiyun turned sideways and showed an unfathomable smile and left.
Walking out of the two streets, the accompanying scribe said, "Shaoqing, did we overdo it just now." β
"......" Zou Shiyun said, "Is it too much?" I don't think so, I feel like I'm still acting pretty well. β
"At first glance, I knew that we deliberately went to people to leak secrets, and then whetted people's appetites...... I heard that this Chen Tongsheng is indeed not close to the Chen family, but Hou Ye values her very much, and he specially took her with him when he went out a few days ago. β
"That's why I emphasized at the end that this matter has something to do with her!" Zou Shiyun rubbed his hands: "If you can pass her, you can get on the line with Hou Ye......"
Saying that, the two turned a corner, and Chen Tongsheng, who was deliberately hanged, appeared in front of them.
She leaned against the wall, her movements a little rambling. The black hair and white wall are really very beautiful qualities, Zou Shiyun has seen her a long time ago, but when Chen Tongsheng's figure just came into view, he still paused, and then said: "Miss Kiryu, so coincidental?" β
"Unfortunately, I'm here to find you." Chen Tongsheng asked: "It has nothing to do with the second miss, what's going on?" β
Zou Shiyun said that the person died of Chen Die, and said that Zhang Gongzi's death was too strange, but it was actually related to another person in the Chen family.
This is to make it clear that this matter is related to Chen Tongsheng.
Zou Shiyun walked into her: "Girl, do you know how Zhang Gongzi died?" β
Chen Tongsheng asked, "Don't you need to keep it secret?" β
Zou Shiyun's original momentum was suddenly interrupted, and he opened his mouth: "According to the rules, unrelated people shouldn't know about this, but Miss Chen helped me talk before, and I, Zou, am not a person who doesn't know about Entu." What's more, I believe that Miss Chen knows what she can and can't say, so I'll tell you today, so it's okay to think about it. β
"Yes," Chen Tongsheng said: "The main thing is behind me, there is another one, Hou Ye." β
β......β
It seems that sometimes the other party weighs too clearly, which is indeed a displeasing thing, and Zou Shiyun began to wonder if Chen Tongsheng had overheard their conversation.
However, since Chen Tongsheng thought so well and was so calm, Zou Shiyun also felt that he had nothing to hide, and said directly: "Zhang Gongzi died in a closed room. β
"He had three stab wounds, which were serious, but there was no blood in the room, the wounds were very clean, and no weapons were found in the room."
Chen Tongsheng didn't think there was anything strange about this, and waited for him to continue.
The problem, however, was that the room he was in had been locked up by Mrs. Zhang. The doors and windows were nailed shut, leaving only a small hole for dishes and chopsticks to enter. Zhang Gongzi was locked up in the room for five days, during which he was sent in from the small hole by his subordinates to eat and drink, and Zhang Gongzi would also eat normally and respond to the outside world. But on the fifth day, the servant found that Zhang Gongzi did not come to pick up the dishes and chopsticks, and no one answered his calls. The servant initially thought that Zhang Gongzi was still sleeping, and waited until the afternoon to call again, but there was no response for a long time, so he panicked, and looked for someone to take off the wooden board and go in to take a look, only to find that Zhang Gongzi was dead. β
In the past five days, except for the servants, no one has approached the bedroom where Zhang Gongzi is. The doors and windows were not damaged, the people inside couldn't get in, the people outside couldn't get out, and there were no sharp weapons in the room, but Zhang Gongzi died like this. β
"The most important thing is that before he died, he wrote a word in the room: Chen."