Hearing Zhen Shicheng say this, Yongchangbo and the others immediately took a closer look.

Two long hairs lay on the yellowed oiled paper, one of which was completely black, and the other was half white from the roots. These two hairs have a distinct characteristic, curved like waves, and look at the long hair of the damselfly, curled like seaweed.

This kind of naturally curly hair is very rare, and no one will believe it if it is a coincidence.

The eyes of everyone looking at the bean lady immediately changed, some were disgusted, some were hateful, and some were curious.

The hair that Lord Zhen found from the murderer's hiding place was the same as Dou Niang's hair, and Madame must have killed Dou Niang. But why does Dou Niang, a cook, want to hurt Mrs.? Mrs. is obviously kind to the bean lady.

Everyone thought about this question together, and they all stared at the bean lady.

A housekeeper suddenly sighed.

Zhen Shicheng immediately looked at the housekeeper who spoke up: "Did you think of anything?" ”

The housekeeper looked uncertain, hesitated and did not speak.

"You can say whatever comes to mind, it's okay to be wrong, no one will hold you accountable." Zhen Shicheng comforted the housekeeper and gave Yongchangbo a look.

After mistakenly thinking that he had killed his wife, and then to the big girl Qiulu and Tongfang Chaoyun, now he finally pulled out Dou Niang, what Yongchangbo wants to know most now is Dou Niang's motive for killing, so after Zhen Shicheng gave him a look, he immediately said: "My lord said it well, you can say what you think, don't worry if you say it's wrong, if you say it useful, you will be rewarded." ”

When the housekeeper heard this, she no longer worried, and quickly glanced at Dou Niang and said: "Seeing Dou Niang's hair, the old slave suddenly remembered a maid, and that maid had long hair that was born curly, but she was kicked out more than ten years ago. ”

Zhen Shicheng's heart moved when he heard this.

The roster says that Dou Niang is Chinese New Year's Eve four years old today, and it was the age of being a maid more than ten years ago.

"That maid is called—" The housekeeper tried to recall, and suddenly slapped her thigh, "The old slave remembered, that maid's name is Ah Pei!" ”

As soon as the word "Ah Ping" came out, some old people in Yongchang Bofu vaguely had an impression.

The chief steward who had been talking back to Zhen Shicheng before stared at Dou Niang, and his face changed greatly, and blurted out: "Are you Ah Peo?" ”

Dou Niang's eyes trembled, and she slowly turned her eyes to look at Yongchangbo.

That glance was full of bitter hatred.

The words of the chief steward made the housekeeper's mother-in-law suddenly realize: "I said that the more I look at Dou Niang, the more familiar I feel, oh my God, isn't she the Ah Pei who was kicked out back then!" ”

More than ten years is enough time to make a person unrecognizable, especially those who are already unfamiliar, and it is not unusual to not be recognizable when they meet again after more than ten years.

But when a distinctive feature is pointed out, the human memory valve is opened.

From the hesitation at the beginning to the firmness at the end, the housekeeper clapped her hands and said, "That's right, she is Ah Pe!" ”

The crowd talked.

"Who's Ah Pee?" The young maid asked curiously.

"I don't know, I've never heard of such a person in the house."

"At that time, you hadn't entered the house to do things, but I had a vague impression that more than ten years ago, there was a maid named Ah Feng who was kicked out because she upset her uncle and wife, but I don't remember where she was on an errand at that time......

The bean lady stood in the center, letting people talk, although her face looked calm, the hand hanging by her side trembled slightly.

Is it still recognized? Her hair was so tightly wrapped, how could this Lord Zhen conclude that the two hairs that fell in the closet were hers? Is it just because she's the only one left in the kitchen and doesn't come out?

Zhen Shicheng put the bean lady aside for the time being, and continued to ask the housekeeper: "Why was Ah Peo kicked out back then?" ”

The housekeeper's mother-in-law obviously still had an impression, and when she heard this, she immediately looked at Yongchangbo.

Yongchangbo couldn't remember Ah Feng at all, how could he remember a little girl who was kicked out more than ten years ago, and said immediately: "Say! ”

The housekeeper's mother-in-law said with a heart: "At that time, the lady was pregnant with the son, so she had to choose a maid to serve the uncle. Mrs. picked several at that time, and finally settled on Chunmei, who knew that Ah Feng suddenly ran to Mrs., and had to say that the uncle had ...... has already got her body. The lady thought that Ah Feng was not right-minded in order to become a master and talk nonsense to ruin her uncle's reputation, so she kicked her out of the mansion......"

Yongchangbo frowned as he listened, and had a vague impression.

More than ten years ago, it seemed that there was such a maid who ran to his wife and cried, but he didn't take it to heart at all, and he didn't even pay attention to what the maid was called.

Could it be that this calamity is the root cause of the year?

At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps.

"My lord, I found it!" A servant walked quickly in front of Zhen Shicheng and presented the things in his hand.

It was a pair of women's cloth shoes, which looked a little old and had oil stains on the uppers, which were very suitable for the shoes worn by people who worked in the kitchen.

"My lord, these shoes were turned out of the cage in the bean lady's room, and they were wrapped in this clothes." The servant picked up a half-new garment and said.

Wrapping a pair of worn shoes in a garment is clearly unconscionable.

The official quickly flipped his shoes over to reveal the soles: "Look, my lord! ”

There are light lines on the soles, and the gaps between those lines are stained in some places, and the color is brown in some places.

Zhen Shicheng stared at those browns, his eyes shrunk.

As a rule of thumb, this is left by the blood that the shoe stepped on.

Zhen Shicheng raised the shoes in front of Dou Niang: "Dou Niang, you may still be able to quibble with two hairs, plus these bloodstained shoes?" ”

He had sent his subordinates to rummage through the Damselfly room for clues, and he deliberately emphasized the shoes, for a simple reason.

Bean Niang can wear two layers of clothes before the murder, and after the murder, she takes off the outermost clothes splashed with blood and buries it, and her body is clean, but she will not prepare two pairs of shoes nine times out of ten, which is too inconvenient. In this case, Dou Niang can't bury the shoes on her feet with the bloody clothes, otherwise she will go back to the house barefoot, and once she meets others on the way, she will not be able to tell.

A pair of shoes worn at the time of the murder, with the meticulousness of the bean lady, will definitely not be worn out again, but it is too late to completely destroy it in a short period of time, and it is the best choice to hide it temporarily.

And the facts proved that he was right.

"My lord, there's this." The official took out a plain purse and presented it to Zhen Shicheng, "This was found in the bean lady's pillow case, and the subordinates smelled a strange fragrance, and saw that this purse was hidden and there might be something strange, so they brought it over." ”

Zhen Shicheng put the purse to the end of his nose and sniffed it, and sneered: "Bean Lady, the fragrance left in the wardrobe is exactly the same as your purse, what else do you have to say now?" ”

Dou Niang stared at the purse with white lips, knowing that the general trend had gone, and laughed miserably: "I have nothing to say, I just hate that Yongchangbo did not kill his wife by mistake because of shame, it is really unfair!" ”