All afternoon, I sat quietly on the ground, sifting through my mind over and over again what happened after returning home, trying to find a little suspicious clue from the words and demeanors of the people in the house, but in vain.

It's only been four days since I returned home, and I haven't had much contact with your aunts and sisters, and most of my cognition comes from Aunt Jiu and Xuan'er, which is one-sided and biased.

I have long wanted to send tea to visit their yard under the pretext of taking the opportunity to investigate one or two. I have a sensitive nose, especially the smell of herbs, and even if I am blindfolded, I can clearly distinguish the types of herbs. The man was a master of poisoning, and I went to her yard, and I should be able to distinguish the fragrance of the flowers of the woman's fat powder, the faint fragrance of the incense, and the bitter smell of the herbs used for medicine.

It's just that in the past few days, things have happened one after another, and I have been overwhelmed, and I have no time, let alone the patience to be false with them.

After dinner, it was completely dark in the room. My stomach was a little hungry again, and I still didn't clear my mind, so I simply stopped thinking about it, and only concentrated on how to clear my current crime, which was imminent.

It's not hard to get my mother to believe that she has been poisoned, but will she still believe my words?

The purple clay pot is not made by Xuan'er, so it has nothing to do with her mother. No wonder she was so angry that day, in her heart, I must be shirking responsibility with strong words, which is unreasonable.

While my mother misunderstood me, didn't I misunderstand her again?

Killing two birds with one stone, that man is so cleverly calculating.

There was a sound of unhurried footsteps outside the house, and the person who guarded the firewood room greeted him respectfully, and then the locked door of the firewood room was opened, and the little servant in front of the father walked in with an octagonal lantern, hung the lantern on the window edge, turned around and retreated, and the father brought a cold spring night and walked in slowly. The little guy outside the door closed the door softly.

In the turbid yellow shadow, my father stood with his hands in his hands, frowned, and looked at me with a little distress: "Is the wound very painful?" ”

I bowed my head, not wanting to look at him, and the image of a loving father that he had easily established in my heart collapsed yesterday when he had allowed his eldest brother to whip me and stood by and watched. And because he is my father, I can be willful in front of him, and I don't have to be hypocritical to curry favor. So I didn't want to pay attention to him, so I kept my head down and kept silent.

My father came over, his boots in sapphire blue satin soles on the hay in front of me, and I still stubbornly did not look up or squeak, ignoring his presence.

My father simply lifted the hem of his shirt and sat down in front of me, the whole movement was chic and neat, indescribably calm and beautiful. It's no wonder that the aunts in the house will do anything to win his favor.

"I'll give you the crystal shrimp dumplings and crab roe buns that I packed back from the street, all with a bag of sesame oil, eat them while they're hot." My father opened the two oiled paper packets and placed them in front of me, and suddenly a mouth-watering aroma came to my nose.

My stomach growled twice, and I swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, forcing my eyes to take my eyes off the shiny and transparent shrimp dumplings, the snow-white and pink plump shrimp under the dumpling skin, still dangling in front of my eyes.

"Qingwu, Mo Sheng went to look for me just now, and I just knew that you had suffered so many grievances in the past few days. Silly boy, why don't you know to tell me? He paused for a moment, then whispered, "I'll keep the little guy at the door, and don't let anyone get near here." You don't have to have any scruples. ”

I looked down and tossed the hay on the ground, picked it up and folded it into sections, still silent.

I used to want to have a long conversation with my father, face to face, as I do now, and asked him to use his decades of experience and familiarity with the house to help me sort out the things that have happened in the past few days, peel back the cocoon, and guide me to analyze the doubts and truths of the matter.

But today, I sat opposite him, on my knees, and I could even smell the nice smell of ink on his body very clearly. It's a pity that there seems to be a gap in the middle, transparent, or invisible, can't be seen, can't be touched, the air can flow freely, but the heart and heart can't communicate honestly.

"You're blaming me, blaming me for not helping you yesterday, aren't you?" The father's voice was magnetic, low, very pleasant, as tempting as the crab roe buns on the ground.

"You're here for your mother's antidote, aren't you?" I twisted my face in anger, and there was no annoyance in my tone.

My father chuckled under his breath twice, doting, as if to laugh at my childishness. He picked up a shrimp dumpling and shook it under my nose: "I have no strength to speak, and only when I am full can I have the strength to quarrel with me." ”

At that moment, I was in a trance for a moment, remembering that once when I was a child, I delivered medicine to Grandma Li on the street, and she bought two meat buns for me to eat. When the master found out, he lost his temper and said that Grandma Li was alone, life was so difficult, and I was greedy for other people's things. I cried aggrievedly for a long time, and I didn't eat in anger, and the master went down the mountain in the dark to buy me a few meat buns, wrapped them in lotus leaves, and dangled them under my nose, hungry for me.

As it is now.

Thinking of the master, my nose was sore, and I couldn't help but have tears in my eyes.

My father's hand froze in front of my eyes, and he sighed in a low voice: "Qingwu, I'm sorry for making you wronged." ”

Not to mention that it was okay, as soon as he opened his mouth, the suppressed grievances in my heart instantly swelled up rapidly, filling my entire chest.

"Qingwu, in fact, my father knows that you didn't give the poison, and I also know that the person who poisoned it is very likely to be in that house. If you say something in a hurry, it is very likely that it will startle you, so I pretended to be angry and interrupted you, and put you in strict custody, so that no one should come near you, lest that person take advantage of the situation and attack you. It's the father who is bad and doesn't take your feelings into account. ”

I looked up in amazement, and my father was smiling at me.

"When your aunt came back from Yunwu Mountain and talked to me, I was suspicious, but thinking that in those two years, there were several people in the mansion who died in vain for no reason, and I was afraid that your aunt would be suspicious and secretly investigate by herself, and she would encounter that person's murder, so I reprimanded her for nothing and nonsense, and did not allow her to cause trouble. Secretly, I've been investigating. The father frowned, and his deep voice carried deep vicissitudes and helplessness.

"But what's the clue?" I couldn't wait to ask.

The father shook his head: "Not only did it not have a clue, but things became more and more confusing. ”

"Why, as long as she makes a move, there will definitely be clues to be found."

"The point is, she hasn't done it since. And there are more than once black-clothed people of unknown origin in the house, who come and go without a trace, and they are quite skilled, like ghosts. He didn't seek money, he didn't rob sex, he never rummaged through things, and I don't know what he was here for. I'm not sure if it's someone from the house who poisoned it. For this reason, I have hired a lot of martial arts people with unique skills to take care of the home, and the man in black seems to have noticed something, and he has not been here for more than ten years, and he has slowly relaxed. It wasn't until that day that a thief broke into your yard that I re-strengthened my guards. ”

My father's words made me secretly frightened, I originally thought it was just a jealousy between my aunts, but now it seems that there are still people or helpers behind the scenes. At the beginning, I wondered how the aunt in the house could have such skills and means after living in a deep house for a long time, but now it makes sense. There are so many incredible things, if they are done by someone as skilled as Brother Lin, it is simply easy.

"The poisoner must be someone close to the mother." I say for sure.

"How so?"

"Since the man could put an inch of red poison in his mother's diet, he easily sneaked into his mother's room and poisoned the medicine, as if he were probing for something. She could have taken her mother's life directly, without much effort, could she use such a lot of effort? She chose the chronic poison of one inch red purely to hide the appearance of confusing her mother's poisoning, and not to arouse the suspicion of others. It can be seen that it must be someone close to the mother. Moreover, the second poisoning was intended to frame me, not to take my mother's life, and outsiders did not need to take this risk at all. ”

My father looked at me with satisfaction, and nodded frequently: "In this way, it must be someone in the house who colluded inside and outside the house to report the news." ”

I let out a soft "um," "But there's one question I've been figuring out all sorts of. ”

"Oh? Will you tell me about it? ”

"I have just returned home, and I have no grudge against her, so why is that person targeting me everywhere? Is it because I can unravel my mother's poison? ”

The father sighed: "This is also where I am entangled, and I can't figure out her motives and purposes. But through these few things, I feel that she has no intention of hurting you, and may just want to get rid of you. ”

"Get rid of me?" I pondered it for a moment, and it was true, and she didn't kill me every time. Maybe it's really just trying to scare me and make me retreat. "So what should I do?"

The father smiled brightly, "Eat, fill your stomach before you have the strength to do things." ”

I took the crab roe bun from my father's hand without any interest, only to find that most of his sleeves were wet. He smiled indifferently, "I didn't want to be seen by others, so I stuffed it into my sleeve and brought it secretly." ”

I lowered my eyelids and stared at the still hot bun in my hand, only to feel that my father must have been thinking hard about this matter and enduring it for many years. If I had said it in disregard yesterday, his previous efforts would have failed. The anger in his heart gradually subsided: "What do you need me to do, does my father have a plan?" ”

"It's been a few days since you've been back, and you should go to see your grandmother." Father said: "If I want to wronged you externally, I will say that the Fuhua Nunnery is pure and can cultivate your self-cultivation, but you are stubborn and unbearable to educate, so send it to your grandmother to be disciplined." ”

"Do you mean to make me a deserter?" I knew that my father was worried about my safety and wanted me to go to the mountains for a while, but I didn't want to be poked in the back like this and run away.

"I've been investigating this matter for all these years and have found nothing, without the slightest eyebrow or direction, and I'm completely passive. And as soon as you returned home, you were repeatedly secretly targeted everywhere. Qingwu, you are too dangerous, sending you away is the most rational choice. ”

"But father, have you ever thought that the man did anything to get rid of me? Maybe my presence hindered her plans. If I leave, does she have any other plots? I asked.

My father patted me on the shoulder and smiled, "There is still my father, you don't have to worry." ”

"However, once she finds out that her mother's poison has been resolved, will she have no scruples and blatantly attack her mother?"

The father bowed his head and muttered for a moment: "If the poison in your mother's body is temporarily incomprehensible, and only rely on your prescription to suppress it, how long can it last?" Harmless to her body? ”