"Red willow? I didn't see it! The little girl shook his head: "I remember very clearly, the moment the door was knocked open, I deliberately glanced inside, and I didn't see the red willow girl, but saw a red dress." Strangely, when I got up from the ground, the red garment was gone. ”

"Red clothes?"

"Yes, the red garment floated in front of my eyes. How do you describe that kind of redness? It's like a pomegranate flower, and it makes people feel happy when they see it. I was still thinking in my mind that when this lady was there, she didn't like this kind of bright clothes, so it wasn't a maid in the house who sneaked into the lady's room to steal things while the lady was away. Girl, don't you know, although Madame doesn't have much cash in her hand, she has a lot of jewelry in the house, and if you take out one or two pieces at will, it will be enough for people to eat for several months. ”

"Listen to your tone, could it be that you have taken something from the lady's room?" The housekeeper glanced at the little servant: "Our Yunfu doesn't raise this kind of person who has unclean hands and feet and steals the master's things!" ”

The little guy's face changed suddenly, he lowered his head, silently walked back to the housekeeper, and said, "The little one is quick to talk for a while, don't you know the housekeeper?" I was a little one, but I just had the heart of a thief, and I didn't have the courage to be a thief. Besides, when Madame was there, she always treated the little ones well, and the little ones said nothing, and they wouldn't get Madame's things. ”

The housekeeper glared at the little guy with cold eyes: "Is it possible, you can move something else?" ”

"That can't! As long as it's something from our Yunfu, no matter which one it is, the small one can't be moved. ”

Xing Ruyi looked at the appearance of the little guy, and only came to one conclusion, this thing is a powerful and heartless person, just this mouth that says everything, according to Hongliu's shrewdness, he should not conspire with him.

Seeing that there was no useful information from the mouths of these two people, Xing Ruyi could only speed up his steps with Chang Tai, hoping to rush back to Yunfu as soon as possible, so as to find clues related to the previous case from the scene of the secret room where the disappearance case had just occurred.

Mrs. Yun's bedroom didn't seem to have changed, and the dress was still hanging on the screen, gently swaying with the winter wind.

"Ruyi, look!"

Chang Tai pointed to a place in the room to Xing Ruyi: "Do you look at the watermark like a curled up person?" ”

At the corner between the screen, the dresser, and the inner room, there was a clear sign of being soaked in water, and from the angle from which the two of them were standing, it did look like a person lying there.

"It's a little like, and looking at the shape, it looks like a girl. You see, this watermark obviously has a waist as well. ”

"This shouldn't be a red willow, right?" The little guy who slammed on the door also followed in at some point, and when he heard Xing Ruyi's words, the whole person obviously became nervous, and he stared around the room with a pair of small eyes, and finally his eyes fell on the small amount of spider silk wrapped around the screen.

"Girl, look? With so much spider silk, could it be that there is really a spider spirit hidden in Madame's room? ”

Xing Ruyi didn't speak, but lowered his head and carefully examined the watermark on the ground. It is not accurate to say that it is a watermark, because this beach of traces does not look like it is directly splashed with water, but like the feeling when people sweat through the quilt or mat in summer, and her nose smells a faint smell of silk

Silk! Gossamer? Silk!

Thinking of those two words, Xing Ruyi suddenly got up, walked to the screen, and carefully removed some of the spider silk hanging on it.

"Brother Chang, we are all wrong, this is not spider silk, but fine silk, and it is fresh silk that has just been spit out."

"Silk?" Chang Tai was stunned for a moment, and was a little surprised by Xing Ruyi's conclusion: "If it is just pure silk, I can still understand that in the wardrobe of this rich and noble family, there will be some silk fabric clothes, and this kind of clothing is the easiest to hook silk, and it is normal to be hooked and hung in some places in the room." But, is it possible that this newly spit silk is still raising silkworms in her own room? ”

"Silkworm farming? This is impossible, although our wife is not a lady, but she is also a small jasper, and she has been raised in the boudoir since she was a child. Don't say that Mrs. can't do such rough work as silkworm raising, even if she wants to do it, I'm afraid she won't have this opportunity. Besides, Madame, she is timid, and she is most afraid of this kind of bug. In the summer, when I happened to see a small green worm, I couldn't wait for the maids to pull out the grass in the whole yard, how could I raise silkworms in this house. ”

"It's a little weird indeed." Xing Ruyi carefully put away the silk, and glanced at the clothes hanging on the screen by the way. She felt as if the dress in front of her had changed. Not only has the size become much smaller than the original, but even the color has changed from plain white to white with pink now.

"Strange! Could it be that there is really another piece of clothing of the same fabric in this world, and it was all bought back by Mrs. Yun? Xing Ruyi thought in pieces, touched the dress with her hand, and then she noticed something even stranger, this dress was the one she had seen not long ago.

"Brother Chang!"

"What's wrong?"

"There's something strange about this dress, but I can't tell you exactly what it's like for a while. My perception tells me that the disappearance of Lady Yun and Hongliu is most likely related to this garment. I think my previous assumptions may be wrong, the disappearance of Mrs. Yun and Hongliu has nothing to do with the people in the Yun Mansion. ”

"I see what you mean." Chang Tai walked up to the butler's ear and whispered for a while. A flash of horror flashed in the butler's eyes, and without waiting for Chang Tai to finish speaking, he hurriedly ordered someone to take a brocade box over, put the clothes hanging on the screen into it, and then handed Chang Tai his hands with both hands: "Trouble Lord Chang." If the disappearance of Mrs. and Hongliu is really related to this dress, please ask Brother Chang to deal with it on your behalf, but what is the final result, please inform my master. ”

"Chang Tai will, please also ask the housekeeper to tell Master Yun, no matter what the results of the investigation are, Chang Tai will inform Master Yun in time and return this thing."

"If this thing is really as the adults said, please take care of it! Although my wife loved this dress very much, my lord did not like it, and perhaps at that time, my lord had already faintly sensed something. By the way, the clothes shop, Miss Ruyi should not go. ”

"The butler also knows about the shop that sells clothes?"

"Yunzhai and Yunjiaji are like a pair of siblings, no one in Yunjiaji doesn't know about the things in Yunzhai, and the chickens and dogs on this Yunjiaji will be transmitted back to Yunzhai in an instant. To put it bluntly, they are all surnamed Yun, and it is not clear who is with whom. This Yunsheng is a good boy. Although he is gloomy on weekdays and doesn't like to talk much, on the whole, he is still a generous, honest and good boy, but his mother is a little hot. Of course, this buying and selling of clothes originally had nothing to do with his mother, but I heard that most of the clothes sold in Yunsheng's shop were unclear, and many of them were old things that had been worn by people. ”

"Old things that have been worn through? Could it be that this Yunsheng is selling second-hand clothes. How I hadn't thought of this before. When I was in Luoyang, the clothes of Jinxiufang were hard to find, and many young ladies and wives from large families couldn't buy a close-fitting dress even if they broke their heads, let alone the ladies and ladies of ordinary people. Brother Chang, you said, if I had opened such a shop selling second-hand clothes in Luoyang at that time, the business would definitely be no worse than selling rouge. ”

Chang Tai nodded very face-savingly, and gave Xing Ruyi an appreciative look by the way.

Steward Yun listened, but he couldn't laugh or cry.

"Ruyi girl, you misunderstood, the second-hand clothes that the little one said are not the kind of clothes that the girl said, they are old clothes worn by the living or disliked, but the kind that are taken from the dead people. Although it is a gossip that some people say after dinner, it is groundless and not unfounded. Ruyi girl, do you know, what does this Yunsheng family do? ”

Xing Ruyi shook his head. That night, although she talked a lot to Hui Niang, she never asked her mother-in-law what she did at home. Probably because Hui Niang mentioned it at the time, saying that her home was in the suburbs, she subconsciously thought that the other party was a Zhuang family. Judging from what Steward Yun just said, this Hui Niang's mother-in-law's house doesn't seem to be so simple.

"Yunsheng's father is originally a hunter. When I was young, I fell and injured my leg due to an accident, and since then I have to stay at home. In order for his wife and children to have something to eat, he repaired several thatched huts at home and used them as temporary inns for those farmers and hunters and porters to rest. But because the place in his house is relatively special, the location is relatively private, and it is not easy to attract attention, so later, the people who really go to their house to stay are some miscellaneous and unsightly people. To put it bluntly, it's not a serious deal. Because of this, the nearby villagers saw that the people in their families were all walking around the road, and over time, they also developed Yun Shengniang's tricky and extremely eccentric temperament. These, not the most scary, the most frightening thing is that I heard that many of the people who lived there have disappeared for no reason. ”

"Missing?"

"This is rumored to be missing, but when the big guys talk about it in private, they all say that those people were killed by Yunsheng's father and mother. Not only did they kill people and rob things, but they also took off all their clothes and sent them to Yunsheng's shop to sell. By the way, I heard that they also dug graves and took off all the shrouds they wore for burial to sell. ”

"Doesn't the government care about such a bad thing?"

Xing Ruyi said, his eyes involuntarily glancing at the wooden box containing clothes.

(Education 123 Literature Network)