Gray clouds obscured the cold moonlight, and bamboo leaves rustled by the fish pond. The wind that passed through the cloister in the distance whimpered incessantly, as if he had seen too many bleak scenes, and couldn't help but tell the stalker in the dark night.

Ning Zhu held back a breath of anger, and lightly followed behind Meng Hui, the words she had just heard kept echoing in her head, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that her girl's life was miserable.

Before the half-pillar of incense, Meng Hui told her that Master Zheng's marriage had been decided, and the fate of her parents could not be violated, and if she wanted to break free from her fate, she could only wipe her neck and hang herself, so she could only make a fuss about the murder of Cuifu.

When Cui Yuying died, there were no visitors in the house, and there were no thieves, so it could only be done by people in the house. As long as tangible evidence is found and the matter is publicized, Master Cui will definitely be anxious, and Master Zheng will definitely not marry this pro-lagging relative.

Ning Zhu was so angry when she heard about this marriage, and when she thought of the death of the eldest girl, she was sad again. Looking at Meng Hui calmly, he pulled her out of the yard and went straight to the fish pond, secretly saying that after this stimulation, his girl's temperament was finally tougher.

The Cui Mansion has a small population, and it is not a high-ranking family, only two old men guard the outer gate and the back door at night, and the inner courtyard never sends people to patrol the night.

"Girl," Ning Zhu came back to her senses, and lowered her voice so low that it was almost swallowed up by the wind, "what are we looking for here?" If the person Mama Li saw this morning was really an old man, then he ...... Then he ......"

Meng Hui knew what Ning Zhu wanted to ask, but she didn't answer.

She was squatting on the edge of the bamboo forest and looked down at the ground, and said in a suppressed voice: "Pay attention to the footprints on the ground first, if not, let's go in again and see if we can find the missing objects." ”

Conan and Sherlock or something, don't they always find something from the crime scene and follow the vine? She could have tried it too! Regardless of whether the person Mama Li saw was Master Cui or not, it must be doubtful that person sneakily appeared here before dawn.

"Girl, look at those very yellow bamboos, are there footprints underneath?" Ning Zhu's eyes were sharp, squatting beside Meng Hui, and his finger pointed to a place that was very difficult to stand on.

Following her hand, Meng Hui saw five or six messy footprints, clearly someone passing through the path at the other end of the bamboo forest, and stopped there for a while.

Far from standing there in a daze, the man turned around several times, and there were exactly six footprints, each with three different directions.

The footprints are very large, and they must be men in their prime.

"A ...... in the prime of life who can walk around this backyard"

"There are only the lord and the eldest son."

"The eldest prince?" When Meng Hui heard Ning Zhu's words, he couldn't help but be stunned, how could he forget him!

Cui Fu has two sons, one is Cui Er, who was born by the Wang family, who is ten years old this year, not tall and strong, and the suspicion is negligible. The other is Cui Da, born to Aunt Li, fifteen this year, younger than Cui Yuying and Cui Yuwei, and one year older than Cui Yuzhen.

Cui Da and Master Cui's size and face are very similar, it is simply carved out of a mold, Cui Yuzhen once made shoes for the two of them, and their feet are about the same size.

Cui Da rarely hangs around in the backyard, and Childe and the girl have no conflict of interest, so Meng Hui subjectively ruled out his suspicions, just like excluding Master Cui and Wang.

The more Meng Hui thought about it, the more he felt that he was too rash.

"On the day the eldest sister was killed, were the lord and the eldest prince in the mansion?" Cui Yuzhen almost fainted when she heard the bad news, and her memory was very vague, so Meng Hui asked about the condensation. She was reluctant to call Master Cui her father, but fortunately, Ning Zhu didn't care about this.

"In the early morning when I found the eldest girl, the lord and the eldest son went with a body of alcohol, because the day before was Aunt Li's birthday, the lord allowed the eldest son to stay in the backyard, and let the second girl also go."

Meng Hui frowned after hearing this, and felt that he really shouldn't easily erase anyone's suspicion, because judging from the current situation, these four people are very suspicious.

Cui Yuwei may kill people because of jealousy, Aunt Li may also take action for her daughter's marriage, and the footprints in the bamboo forest belong to men, and Cui Da and Master Cui are suspected.

Based on the footprints alone, it is not possible to determine which of them it is, and Mama Li's horror can only be used as a reference, and a decision cannot be made based on this point. After all, it was not dawn in the morning, and from a distance, Cui Da and Master Cui were too similar.

Cui Da is as lustful as Master Cui, fifteen years old is the age of learning, he doesn't take the usual path, skips classes and fights, and often sells Aunt Li's gold and silver jewelry to visit the kiln.

The Wang family not only didn't care about Shu Cuida, but also deliberately indulged him, and even turned a blind eye to him and the maids in the house. Last year, Cui Da robbed a little maid in Cui Yuwei's yard, and Cui Yuwei was so angry that she didn't go out for several days.

Later, the Wang family rewarded Cui Yuwei several times and persuaded her not to worry about her younger brother, and the matter passed so easily. Later...... "Ning Zhu, I remember that the maid that the eldest prince robbed last year seems to be dead?" ”

Ning Zhu squatted behind her and replied softly: "Yes, I haven't served the eldest prince for long, and I have to die of a sudden illness." ”

"It's an emergency illness again, there are so many acute illnesses in this house!" Meng Hui had doubts in his heart, and he felt that something was wrong when he saw anything.

After Ning Zhu heard this, she asked in a low voice, "Could it be that there is something wrong with that girl's death?" Could it be the eldest prince......"

"I can't say it either, anything is possible before I find out." A cold wind blew, and the sound in the bamboo forest seemed a little permeable at night.

Meng Hui suddenly thought of something, stood up and asked, "Big sister, someone smashed the back of the head, and then fell head-on in the fish pond, right?" ”

Bi Qing next to the big girl said so. She got up early in the morning and found that the eldest girl was gone, so she hurriedly searched for it quietly in the house, but found it by the fish pond, with a hole in the back of her head and blood everywhere. ”

She was so frightened that she turned the big girl up and saw that her mouth and nose were full of mud, sand, water and grass...... "Ning Zhu couldn't bear to continue, biting her lower lip fiercely, for fear that she would sob.

After hearing this, Meng Hui thought for a while, and two doubts arose in his heart.

First, suppose that the owner of the footprints is a murderer, has lost something, and has been searching for it for a long time without results, so he thinks of going to the scene of the crime to find it. But why did he go to the bamboo forest instead of the fish pond?

Second, Cui Yuying had mud and sand in her mouth and nose after her death, and the cause of death hanging from Hades was also drowning, which shows that the smash on the back of her head was not a fatal injury. Since the murderer decided to smash people, why didn't he just smash them to death, and he had to smash them and drown them again? This superfluous act can't hide the fact of murder at all.

Meng Hui had some guesses in her heart, but because there were too few clues, she couldn't put them together, and at this moment, she heard the exclamation of Ning Zhu being suppressed.

"Look, girl, there's blood underground!"