Chapter 182: Catching the Murderer
With Ji Yunyi's departure from Beijing, the entire Jihou Mansion, especially the West Courtyard, has a sense of tension that the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings.
On this day, after everyone had said good morning to the old lady, they were about to disperse.
Gui Mingyue, who was sitting in the corner, suddenly shouted slowly, and everyone looked at her in confusion, especially the third aunt who suddenly felt a little uneasy in her heart.
"Bring people in!" Gui Mingyue ignored the whispers of these people's chatter, and shouted coldly.
I saw that the strong Zheng family twisted the arm of a mother-in-law and carried it in as if dragging a chicken.
"Grandma Dou!" When the third aunt saw that this embarrassed mother-in-law was Grandma Dou beside her, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart, and then said to Gui Mingyue calmly: "I don't know what mistake my Grandma Dou has made, why did the young grandmother treat her like this." ”
"What did you do wrong? Naturally, it was a heinous mistake to kill! Gui Mingyue said coldly.
"Guishi, what is your purpose in doing this?" The eldest lady asked anxiously, the old lady who had been silently watching all this was not as fuss as them, looked at Gui Mingyue with a scrutinizing face, and said slowly: "Say, this Dou Pozi is the old man next to your third aunt, you bring her here today, so what's the matter, let's make it clear." ”
"Old lady Qiyu, the murderer of Ning Xiang has been found, it is her, Mrs. Dou." When Gui Mingyue said this, she didn't look at Dou Pozi, who had been struggling, but at the third aunt.
Mrs. Dou was found in her hometown by Boss Long's people, and it turned out that she had returned to her hometown to recuperate a month ago. But when the people who went to look for her saw her, her body was very clear and strong, and she looked like she was sick.
The people who followed were Shuyu, who felt familiar when she saw this Dou Pozi, and then decided that her back seemed to have been seen in the Xu family's tailor shop that day.
Later, Gui Mingyue sent someone to the Xu family's tailor shop to confirm, and the little maid there also remembered that this Dou Pozi did appear that day, but she didn't know what happened, and she left in a hurry as soon as she entered the shop.
"Grandma, the old slave did go to the Xu family's shop that day, but as soon as he entered the shop, he remembered that the Shunji dim sum ordered by the third aunt's wife had not been bought, so he hurriedly came out of the shop to buy dim sum, but he really didn't see Miss Ning Xiang and Miss Shuyu......" Mrs. Dou explained in a mournful voice.
"Miss Shuyu, you said you didn't see Miss Shuyu, since you didn't see it, how did you know that Shuyu also went with Ning Xiang? I remember that no one ever said that Soyu was going too, unless, you, saw it with your own eyes. Gui Mingyue asked step by step.
"No...... No...... The old slave didn't see it with his own eyes, but he ...... It's just that I heard later, yes, I heard that Miss Shuyu and Miss Ningxiang went together...... "In the cold weather, Grandma Dou was sweating profusely, and a group of fierce and vicious people suddenly broke into the house yesterday, arrested herself, and took away her baby grandson, she didn't expect this young grandmother to always smile when she looked at Mianshan, and she was indeed so ruthless."
Now that her little grandson is in her hands, there are some things she has to weigh whether she says or not.
"Even if the old slave went to the Xu family's shop that day, it can't be concluded that Miss Ning Xiang's death has something to do with me, after all, the old slave has no grudge against her at all......" Grandma Dou paused when she said Ning Xiang's death, her eyes shrunk, and Gui Mingyue looked at her coldly.
"Maybe there's no grudge, but what if she found out some of your secrets?"
"The old slave didn't understand, the old slave was wronged......"
Unwilling to listen to the old minion's quibbles anymore, Shuyu on the side really couldn't bear it anymore and threw a thing to the ground.
Everyone looked at it, it was a purse embroidered with clusters of ink chrysanthemums, although the cloth used was not very valuable, but the embroidery of this ink chrysanthemum was actually good under a closer look.
"This purse is you, right?" Gui Mingyue asked: "Don't try to quibble, although you don't dare to wear it in the Hou Mansion in Su Ri, there must be many people who have seen it, such as the work in the Xu family's shop, isn't it?" ”
"Mrs. Dou, tell me, is this purse yours? If it's yours, what does it have to do with the death of the incense girl, say it quickly! "What a shrewd person the old lady is, she grasps the point at once.
Grandma Dou shut her mouth tightly, and she didn't say that the purse was hers, not to mention that the purse was really not hers.
"Let me tell you, you have taken and used this purse, but it is not yours, it is actually the dead fifth aunt's, am I right?"
"Grandma Daxiao...... This purse is ...... The old slave picked it up, but I didn't know that it was related to the fifth aunt. Grandma Dou kowtowed.
"This, why did it get to the fifth aunt again? Guishi, tell me what the hell is going on? Old Madam Ji didn't react for a while.
It turns out that this purse is worn by the fifth aunt, in the past, she often went in and out of the West Courtyard, and Ning Xiang dealt with the most, and also liked to find her to do some "essential oil massage" or the like, once Ning Xiang saw this purse in her clothes, the more she looked at it, the more she felt that the embroidery was exquisite, so she asked more. This purse was left to her by the fifth aunt's mother, so she has been carrying it closely.
Although the fifth aunt was greedy for small gains and her temperament was not very pleasant, her relationship with Gui Mingyue was not bad, and Gui Mingyue was also sad for her death for a while, and she also wanted to find out the real murderer who killed her and the seventh aunt.
These incense sticks are all in my heart.
That day, Mrs. Dou forgot for a while in the shop of the Xu family, thinking that no one would see it when she left the house, so she took out her purse, and was seen by Ning Xiang, so she followed her out, trying to figure out what was going on, but when she had a dispute with this Mrs. Dou, she was killed by mistake.
"These are all speculations of the young grandmother, I can't count them, my grandmother won't kill anyone, and please let the old lady know it......" The third aunt stepped forward and knelt down with an innocent face.
Ji Yun beside her also jumped up all of a sudden, pointed at Gui Mingyue, and scolded: "You are so ruthless, my aunt has always been the gentlest, did she provoke you?" Today you actually framed her nurse Dou Grandma for murder! Ji Yun looked at Gui Mingyue with hateful eyes.
"It's not speculation, it's not a false accusation, you can only say this if you have evidence, Grandma Dou, do you think it's so easy to kill people under the blue sky and white sun without being discovered?" Gui Mingyue clapped her hands, and a ragged man limped in with his head down.
"This person is a witness, he saw Grandma Dou kill with his own eyes." Gui Mingyue pointed at him and said.
This man's name was Wang Su, a lame beggar who was begging in the area of Anhua Festival, and on that day he begged for a pot of wine, and when he was drunk, he plunged himself into a pile of waste chicken baskets in an alley, and fell asleep.
During this time, I heard the sound of a woman arguing, and when I tried to open my eyes, I happened to see the old woman pick up a stone and hit the back of the young girl's head, and the young girl fell down...... Wang Su was in a cold sweat, and the wine was half awake, until the woman looked left and right, and then left in a hurry, Wang Su dared to take a breath.
Later, Jing Zhaoyin's side and the Zhenguo Marquis Mansion also investigated, but where did Wang Su dare to come forward to report, like the Gaomen Compound of the Zhenguo Marquis Mansion, who dared to provoke it, maybe he offended which way the immortals, and lost his life somehow in someone's hands.
Mrs. Dou was already sitting on the ground at this time, and the beggar clearly saw the process of her killing Ning Xiang clearly, and she had no way to quibble.
"Grandma Dou, you ...... It turns out that you really killed the person......" The third aunt looked at her in disbelief and looked at her in a daze.
"Yes!" Mrs. Dou glanced at her master, closed her eyes and said, "Miss Ning Xiang was killed by an old slave, but this purse ...... It was picked up by an old slave. ”
"Think about it clearly," Gui Mingyue said coldly.
Mrs. Dou was excited, remembering that her little grandson was still in her hands, she couldn't help sweating, and when heaven and man were fighting, she only heard a pop, and the third aunt fainted sadly and fell to the ground.
"Auntie!" Ji Yun anxiously called out loudly: "Auntie, what's wrong with you?" Then he turned to Gui Mingyue and said hatefully: "It's all your fault, but there is only a dead maid left and right, and she is so aggressive, if my aunt has three long and two short, I will never spare you!" ”
"Don't be angry, you kid, help your aunt back to lie down, call the doctor!" The old lady commanded.
"Then let's do this first, put Mrs. Dou in the firewood room first, guard it, and try it again tomorrow." The eldest lady also hurriedly said.
"No!" Gui Mingyue hurriedly said: "Mrs. Dou can't stay in the Hou Mansion, she should report to the official and put him in a cell." ”
"What?" The old lady frowned, "Guishi, how confused are you, how can such a trivial matter be reported to the official?" ”
In fact, the old lady also sensed in her heart that this matter might not be a trivial matter, because it might involve something else, and it could not be humane to outsiders.
Mrs. Dou was imprisoned in the firewood room.
Something happened that night, and someone sneaked into the firewood room, trying to kill people without knowing it. Who knew that before he could get it, he was caught by the guards who were arranged around by Gui Mingyue.
Then before dawn, the Zheng family dragged the injured Dou Pozi and another family who wanted to kill the mouth to the old lady in the north courtyard.
"What an idiot, he can't even kill an old woman!" The eldest lady jumped to her feet angrily, and then scolded: "This Gui has a lot of eyes, does she know something?!" The eldest lady was angry and anxious.
"Although the eldest lady relaxes, this matter is not suspected of you, when the family went, the old slave had already arranged it, and once he missed, he said that it was instructed by the third aunt......" Grandma Yuan persuaded.
The eldest lady was a little relieved, and then snorted and said: "It's not a loss to say that she instructed her, the death of those two concubines, she can't get out of it, don't think I don't know." ”
Dou Pozi was stabbed in the neck, touched the bloody wound, and fainted in fright for a while.
When she woke up, she was listening to the confession that it was all instructed by the third aunt, and Mrs. Dou was sad and resentful, and finally she sent the two aunts on the road, but they were all instructed by the third aunt. Including killing an inconspicuous girl in the room before, it was all done for her by Mrs. Dou.
When Mrs. Dou confessed this, the aunt who sat down again looked at this third aunt, who was the most obscure and gentle in the world, and had so many lives on her hands? ! Ji Yun was even more stunned and couldn't say a word.
She doesn't believe it, she doesn't believe it!
Old Madam Ji was furious: "Hurry up and take down this vicious slut!" Say, "Why do you want to kill these men?" What kind of enmity do they have against you? ”
"Hehehe, what's the grudge? You ask me what kind of grudge I have, aren't all grudges between so many women in this house? It's all grudges! I wish they were all dead! The third aunt's calm and gentle face in the past finally showed a hideous appearance, those vulgar fans in this courtyard, why do they compete with themselves for the Hou Ye, just relying on some fresh skins, but the hated Hou Ye is still confused by them.
The third aunt remembered that at that time, when she had just entered the mansion, the Hou Ye praised herself as "the son is home, and it is suitable for his family", so she was determined to be a gentle and knowledgeable interpreter flower. Who would have expected that the fourth aunt and the fifth aunt were carried into the door again, and the Hou Ye praised the fourth aunt for "looking forward to the displacement is all soul-stirring", and praised the fifth aunt for "lively and innocent lips like honey"......
She hated, she wanted to drive all these women out of the house, or one day they would all die violently!
But she is only a weak woman, and she is only a daughter under her knees, and she has no son to rely on. It's no wonder that these people are not good, either they are suddenly seriously ill, or they are injured accidentally, and when they are bedridden for a long time, no one cares, she will do it!
For such a psychopathic woman, Gui Mingyue couldn't help but shudder, and several aunts had a chill on their backs. Ji Yun had already fainted after hearing this.
Old Madam Ji only gave a faint and ruthless order: "Fill the well with this guilty concubine, and Mrs. Dou will be killed with a cane!" No one is allowed to mention this matter in the future, if it spreads, the family law will not tolerate it! ”
After speaking, he rubbed his brows and went back to the room.
Only the eldest lady was left to deal with the aftermath, and the eldest lady hurriedly followed the old lady's instructions, gagged the third aunt who was already crazy with her teeth and claws, filled the well, and Dou Pozi was killed with a cane.
Later, she looked at Gui Mingyue again, and seeing her burning eyes, the eldest lady couldn't help coughing a few times, and then said solemnly: "This case is over, you should also stop, and stay in the west courtyard in the future, it is better to cause less trouble." ”