Lizi continued: "Wangmei also asked: 'Why can you have a good relationship with Sister Feiyan if you embroider well?' I said, 'Sister Feiyan is not jealous, but she is greedy for money.' If your embroidery can be sold for money and generate income, Sister Feiyan will value you and have a good relationship with you. 'I'm right, right?' ”

Du Yiming replied: "That's right! Sister Feiyan's biggest advantage is that she understands righteousness. She is willing to lead the little wives to get rich together, and with her, I can save a lot of worry. ”

"Before you get married, you start calculating these?"

"It's called strategizing. Have you seen Wangmei's sister? ”

"No, but when I walked out of Wangmei's house and passed by her sister Wanglan's boudoir, I overheard a secret. Brother Bai, if you don't talk about my gossip, I'll tell you this secret. ”

Du Yiming said: "Lizi, you can't hide secrets in your heart at all, and, according to what I know about you, you didn't pass by Wanglan's boudoir, most of the time you found it yourself to eavesdrop, right?" ”

"I didn't mean to eavesdrop, at that time, I saw a girl sneaking into Wanglan's room, I thought, in my own home, why is it so ghostly, there must be some secret, so I quietly touched it."

Bai Haohong complained: "Lizi, this is called gossip!" Why are you so curious that you're not afraid of being discovered? ”

Liz deliberately said, "If you don't listen, I'll go back to the house." ”

Du Yiming's appetite was raised, and he said, "Lizi, Brother Bai is joking with you, tell me quickly, what is the secret?" ”

Liz said mysteriously: "I heard Yahuan say to Wanglan: 'He said, come late at night.'" ’”

Du Yiming became energetic when he heard this, and immediately said: "This must be a private lover!" Let's go check it out late at night. ”

As soon as Du Yiming's words fell, he was scolded by Bai Haohong, and the two had to give up.

After Liz left, Bai Haohong put out the oil lamp, and the three of them lay down. Du Yiming took Huang Wangmei's wooden comb, so excited that he couldn't sleep, he was moved by Huang Wangmei's infatuation, and couldn't help but say: "Brother Bai, I think Wangmei loves me more and let her be a concubine, I can't bear it." ”

Bai Haohong replied: "Is there anyone who falls in love with someone so quickly?" Don't you think that Miss Huang is willing to marry you because she can't stay at home and wants to change the environment? ”

Du Yiming said unconvinced: "Brother Bai, you are denying my charm. Wangmei loves me as a person! ”

"Okay, even if I love you as a person. These words, you save them for tomorrow to talk to Liz, she loves to hear them. It's not early, go to sleep. ”

"It seems that Brother Bai doesn't believe in love at first sight, although Wangmei is not as good-looking as Sister Feiyan, but her temper is better than Sister Feiyan, and both of them have figures to my taste."

After stopping for a while, Du Yiming saw that Bai Haohong didn't say anything, so he deliberately said: "Actually, Brother Bai, you are a little more handsome than me and richer than me, if you want to talk about charm, I am still slightly better." ”

Bai Haohong still didn't respond, but Bai Cheng couldn't listen to it, and quarreled with Du Yiming, and the two quarreled all night.

Early the next morning, Lizi came to see Bai Haohong and them, Bai Haohong had just gotten up, Bai Cheng also got up after hearing the sound, and Du Yiming couldn't wake up. Bai Haohong said: "No need to call, Yiming made a fuss all night last night, let him continue to sleep." ”

After freshening up, the three of them went to the dining room to eat, and Lizi asked while eating: "Brother Bai, is it decided whether Yiming will make Wangmei his wife or concubine?" ”

Bai Haohong replied: "You go and ask Yiming directly." ”

As he was talking, he heard the maid ring outside the dining room banging on the door and shouting: "Girl, open the door!" Girl. ”

Then, there was a sound of banging on the door, and then, I heard Yahuan exclaiming: "Someone! Help! Come on! ”

Bai Haohong rushed over quickly when he heard the sound, Bai Cheng and Lizi followed closely, and when they arrived at the house, they saw that Huang Wangmei had already hanged herself. Bai Haohong stepped forward and found that Huang Wangmei's body was cold, and her whole body was almost stiff, and according to the degree of stiffness, the time of death should have been late last night.

Bai Haohong said to Bai Cheng and Liz: "You protect the scene and don't let anyone else in." Then he said to Yahuan, who was standing aside in a daze: "You go and inform Huang Yuanwai, and ask him to send someone to the county government to report the case immediately." ”

After Yahuan left, Bai Haohong swung his knife to cut the rope, took off Huang Wangmei's body, put it on the bed, and carefully checked her neck, only to see a strangulation mark, indicating that it was not after being strangled, and then hanging the person up. Bai Haohong pondered: "Miss Huang just made a private engagement with Yiming yesterday for life, it is impossible to commit suicide, he must have killed him!" ”

Bai Haohong looked at the latch and saw that the fracture was new, and it should have been broken when Yahuan hit the door. There was only one back window in the room, Bai Haohong came to the window, pushed open the window, and saw two clear footprints on the dirt floor outside the house, obviously the murderer entered and exited from the back window. He looked at the bolt in the back window again and saw that it was already broken.

Bai Haohong looked around the room and saw that the furnishings were very simple, only a bed, a table, two chairs, and no decoration. He walked to the table and saw two teacups and a teapot on the table, and there was still some tea left in the two teacups, and he thought, "Liz came last night, this teacup may be Huang Girl and Lizi's." ”

Bai Haohong picked up the teacup and looked at it carefully, and noticed that the tea in one of the cups was a little turbid, he opened the teapot again and took a look, and saw that half of the tea in the pot was left, and it was also a little turbid.

Outside the house, Bai Cheng explained Bai Haohong's identity to everyone, and persuaded Huang Yuanwai and his second daughter Huang Wanglan to return to the room, and the other servants who watched the excitement gradually dispersed. Seeing that Bai Cheng alone was enough to protect the scene, Lizi said hello to him and walked into the house.

Liz asked, "Big Brother Bai, how is it?" What did you find? ”

Bai Haohong said: "Liz, you came just in time. If you look closely, is there any difference between the situation in the house and when you came yesterday? ”

Liz sighed: "There is not a single furnishing in the Wangmei House, it is too simple." When I came here yesterday, I was very emotional: In this world, it is really, a motherless child is a root grass! ”

"Don't just express your feelings and answer questions."

"Didn't see any difference. However, today I smelled a fragrance in the Wangmei House, but yesterday I didn't. I was still thinking yesterday that most of the boudoir is a little floral and fruity, and she is too colorless and tasteless in this room. ”

Bai Haohong walked to the head of the bed, took out a sachet, and handed it to Liz. Lizi sniffed it and said, "It turns out that the fragrance comes from this sachet, and this fragrance doesn't smell very good, and it's not as good as the natural floral fragrance of Baifu......"

Bai Haohong saw that Lizi's verbosity came up again, so he didn't say anything, and continued to look for clues, seeing this, Lizi hurriedly changed the topic and asked, "Brother Bai, is it a murder in a closed room?" ”

Bai Haohong took Lizi to the back window, pointed to the muddy ground outside the window, and said, "Look at it." ”