Old Madam Luo lay peacefully in the coffin, although she was not breathing, and she couldn't speak, but her momentum before her death was still there, even if she closed her eyes, the servants guarding the coffin did not dare to look directly.

Xing Ruyi nodded at Steward Luo, reached in, and gently pushed Old Madam Luo's chin.

There are two obvious bruises and purple strangulation marks on Mrs. Luo's neck, and the middle part is slightly overlapped, but the points of first application and bearing force are different.

Seeing Xing Ruyi, Steward Luo stared directly at the strangulation marks on Mrs. Luo's neck, and looked at Yun Xi, the young lady of the Luo family, who accompanied Xing Ruyi, with some confusion and some uneasiness.

"Young lady, this girl is ......"

"Steward Luo is an old man in the mansion, so Yun Xi doesn't want to hide these things from you. Some rumors in the house, I believe you have also heard it, butler. ”

"That's what the young lady is talking about?"

Steward Luo's face changed slightly.

"That's it." Yun Xi said, standing next to Xing Ruyi: "This is Miss Xing, the righteous sister of Master Chang." ”

When the housekeeper heard this, he didn't speak, but just glanced at Xing Ruyi with that incredulous gaze, then lowered his head and silently stepped aside.

can be a housekeeper in Luofu, even if he doesn't have the ability to be exquisite, he knows how to judge the situation. Now, the old man is seriously ill, and there are these messes in the family, and it is naturally the young master Luo Ping who will be the master of the house in the future. The eldest young master was doubly fond of the young lady in front of him, and the housekeeper did not dare to offend.

Besides, the current situation is also clear, the young lady invited someone to find out the cause of the old lady's death. Mo said that he was just a housekeeper, even if the master himself stood here, he couldn't say anything if he was afraid.

Yun Xi saw that the housekeeper had already expressed his attitude, so he lowered his voice and asked Xing Ruyi: "The girl insisted on coming here, but she has already found the answer." ”

Xing Ruyi tugged at the corners of his mouth, revealing a very shallow smile.

"Old Madam Luo didn't hang herself, but he killed her! Hard worker, take a trip and tell Brother Chang about the result. ”

"It's not hard, I'll go and go back." Aunt Lu nodded, "Please ask the young lady to take care of my shopkeeper on her behalf." Luo's family has a lot of miscellaneous affairs, and my shopkeeper is recovering from a serious illness, I don't want her to be bullied again after her hard work is not a little better in the end. ”

"Don't worry, Aunt Ruyi was invited by Yunxi. Yun Xi on the side didn't dare to guarantee it, but Yun Xi, the young lady of the Luo family, was not in vain. ”

Yun Xi said, looking around from the mourning hall.

"If you can't protect the girl's safety in the mansion, then Yun Xi and the child in her womb don't need to stay here anymore."

When Steward Luo heard this, he lowered his head. The maids and servants who were in charge of serving next to them didn't even dare to come out.

After Aunt Lu left, Xing Ruyi turned her gaze back to Old Madam Luo's neck, and then said to Yun Xi: "The two strangulation marks on the old lady's neck just now, young lady should have seen them. There is no doubt that the old lady died of suffocation. But those who hang themselves usually only have a strangulation mark left on the lower part of their neck, which is this one. ”

Xing Ruyi said, and gently lifted Mrs. Luo's chin with her hand again: "It's a pity that this strangulation mark was not left by the deceased before his death, but after his death. This other thing is the cause of the old lady's death. Young lady, please take a closer look at this strangulation mark, is it a little different from the one just now? ”

"After being reminded by you, girl, Yun Xi noticed that these two strangulation marks are indeed a little different."

"This fatal strangulation mark was left by someone who suddenly strangled the old lady's neck from behind. The young lady looks at it again. Xing Ruyi motioned to the housekeeper to help, helped Mrs. Luo's upper body up, and then opened her back collar to show Yun Xi: "This knot formed an X-like mark on the back of the neck, which is what the murderer left when he committed the murder, and it is also the real cause of the old lady's death."

Needless to say, the young lady also knew in her heart that there were not many people in the Luo family who could strangle her to death while Old Madam Luo was unprepared. ”

"That's right! Mother-in-law, she doesn't get close to people on weekdays. Yun Xi said, glancing at the housekeeper: "What the Ruyi girl said just now, you should have heard it clearly, the housekeeper, right?" Count the hours, and it should be time for the Chang to arrive. Now that my father-in-law is seriously ill, the only person in the Luo family who can take charge of things is my husband. Please ask the housekeeper to invite the young master over, and by the way, I will pick some key words that Miss Ruyi just said to tell my husband, so that he can have a bottom in his heart. ”

The butler promised and left the mourning hall.

"Mother-in-law's affairs have already been seen, what about grandma? Could it be the same person who killed her? ”

"Yes or no, let's take a look."

According to Xi'er, Mrs. Luo's soul has been taken to the underworld by her. There is no direct grudge between Xi'er and Mama, and I don't think she will have much to do to bring Mama's soul to Hades. If you don't take it to Hades, where will Mama's soul be?

The answer is: the land of the dead.

After death, if there is no ghost to guide you, the soul will always stay in the same place. If he goes in time, Xing Ruyi may be able to meet this grandmother.

"Has anyone ever died in this courtyard before?"

Xing Ruyi opened the ghost eye, only to see two circles of black gas of different shades surrounding the courtyard. Even Yun Xi felt that this courtyard seemed to be colder than other places, she rubbed her hands, put her hands together, and sighed heavily.

"I've vaguely heard people talk about it. said that it was a maid, who made a mistake and was punished to kneel in this courtyard, but it snowed heavily that night, and the maid was frozen to death. ”

"Could the maid's death have something to do with Mama?"

Xing Ruyi also rubbed his hands and took a breath of hot air.

"Related! Mama is considered to be her mother-in-law's dowry, and her status will of course be a little different. The maid who froze to death was bought after the house, and it is said that she was less than thirteen when she died. ”

Yun Xi followed Xing Ruyi's gaze towards the courtyard, although she didn't know what Xing Ruyi was looking at.

"If you talk about it, it's not that Mama did it on purpose. Originally, she just scolded the little maid, and didn't think about anything. As a result, her mother-in-law temporarily asked her to do something, and she forgot about the little maid who was still kneeling in the yard and being punished. If it is an ordinary maid, she will get up by herself if she can't stand it, but this little maid is also dead-eyed, and she knelt motionless, kneeling like a snow sculpture. It was also because of this incident that her mother-in-law sent her mother out. It's just that Mama and she didn't have a good time, so she returned to the Luo family. ”

"I really didn't expect that there was such a thing hidden in this Luo family."

"It's not that Yun Xi is cold-hearted, but things like this are not uncommon for big families. The maid who was bought, who didn't have a few people who died unexpectedly. ”

Yun Xi deliberately bit the words "accidental death".

Xing Ruyi shook his head, not wanting to listen to the shady things in this mansion again. She took a deep breath and pushed open the door of the courtyard, only to see three sets of unusually obvious shoe prints in the courtyard.

"On the day I found my grandmother's death, how many people came to this courtyard?"

"There should be only one Steward Luo!" Yun Xi thought about it carefully: "After discovering that her mother-in-law had hanged herself, her father-in-law ordered the housekeeper to call her to ask her over for questioning, but she got a reply from the housekeeper, saying that her mother was dead. After that, the father-in-law asked the housekeeper to remove the body of the grandmother, and specially explained that the scene should not be disturbed, so that people from the government could come to investigate. ”

Xing Ruyi hummed and carefully examined the footprints on the ground. At first, she wondered why there were only three sets of footprints at the scene. Then, it occurred to her that she was using a ghost eye now. Ghost eyes, things that can not be discerned by the human eye, and the three sets of footprints that appear in the eyes must be related to the murderer.

These three groups of shoe prints look very strange, three groups of footprints are in a row, three pairs of shoe prints, each pair of shoe prints is the left and right feet together. The shoe prints in the middle are long and large, left by the man's feet, and on either side are two groups of women's small shoe prints, and the shoe prints finally extend to the mother's bedroom.

"This footprint is so strange!" Xing Ruyi stared at those footprints carefully, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

"What's wrong? Is there anything strange about the footprints on the ground? ”

"How many people live in this courtyard?"

"Yun Xi doesn't know much about the past, but since the day Yun Xi married into Luofu, this courtyard has been where Mama lives alone. Mama has a strange temperament, and she doesn't like others to be in front of her on weekdays. ”

"Judging from this set of footprints on the ground, on the day of Mama's accident, a man and two women came in here."

"A man and two women?" Yun Xi was also stunned: "This male Yun Xi can still be understood as a murderer, but who is the other woman?" ”

Xing Ruyi glanced at it and pointed to the room: "Perhaps, the answer is in that bedroom." ”

Inside, the house is neat and orderly, only the bed is messy. And there was a very bad smell of corruption in the house.

"...... in this room"

Yun Xi only said one sentence, and couldn't help retching.

"It's not easy for the young lady to get in, just stand here."

Xing Ruyi stopped Yun Xi outside the door, lifted his spirits, and walked in. The closer you get to the bed, the worse the smell becomes. That smell is very familiar to Xing Ruyi, it is the smell left after the body of a person is decomposed and rotted after death.

In front of the bed, there were many water stains dripping wet, and the bed was also wet, even the quilt seemed to have been soaked in water. The quilt is bulging, and judging from the shape, it looks like a person is hidden.

Xing Ruyi stepped forward, grabbed the corner of the quilt with his hand, and pulled it upwards hard, a white, swollen face soaked in water appeared in front of her.

"Young lady, I want to ask you something!"

"Girl, excuse me!"

Yun Xi stroked her chest and looked into the room.

"Where is Mama's body now?"

(Education 123 Literature Network)