The maid who opened her mouth was Xia Yu, one of the four big maids, Zhen Shicheng's attitude made her muster up the courage and said: "The day before yesterday, the maid entered the house at noon to serve his wife, and accidentally found that Qiu Lu's eyes were red, as if she had cried ......"

"So, maybe Mrs. Bo reprimanded Qiu Lu?" Zhen Shicheng guessed.

"Impossible!" Xie Qingqi was quite excited, "My mother has always been kind to them, and I have never seen my mother get angry with them!" ”

Hearing Xie Qingqi say this, Xia Yu hurriedly lowered his head and didn't dare to say anything more.

Zhen Shicheng was quite helpless: "Miss Xie, you'd better not interject when the official asks." Your emotions affect them, and there's nothing more important right now than finding out the truth, don't you think? ”

Xie Qingqi bit his lip, and his eyes gradually turned red.

Her mother died so miserably, and she is likely to have a reputation for treating her subordinates badly, how can she not be annoyed? But Master Zhen is right, the truth is the most important thing. Only the truth will put an end to the wild speculation about the mother by outsiders.

"Xia Yu, do you think Mrs. Bo will reprimand Qiu Lu?" Zhen Shicheng asked again.

Xia Yu hesitated.

Zhen Shicheng glanced at Xie Qingqi.

Xie Qingqi understood, and said softly: "Xia Yu, as long as what you said is true, no one will blame you." ”

Xia Yu raised his head and looked a little dazed: "As the eldest girl said, Madame has always been kind to us, and she has hardly spoken to us loudly. But the day before yesterday—"

Xia Yu hesitated for a moment and said, "Looking at Qiu Lu's appearance the day before yesterday, it seems that he was really trained-"

"After you went in, did Mrs. Bo say anything to Qiu Lu?"

"Madame let the autumn dew go down."

"How is the tone different from the old days?"

"Madame was a little cold at the time, and Qiu Lu lowered her head and hurriedly went out when she heard this."

Zhen Shicheng stroked his beard.

Will the reprimanded big girl hold a grudge and kill the housewife? After killing someone, he knew that he could not escape the death penalty, so he committed suicide by throwing himself into a lotus pond?

The maid came to report: "My lord, there is mud and sand in the mouth and nose of the deceased, and the preliminary judgment is that he drowned, not after death......

Zhen Shicheng nodded and said to Yongchangbo: "At present, there are two possibilities, Qiu Lu committed suicide by throwing herself into the water, or being pushed into the water. The lotus pond is not very far from the place where people live, and if the autumn dew is pushed into the water, someone should hear the movement when shouting for help. ”

"Did any of you hear the garden last night?" Yongchangbo asked the people in the backyard.

At night, the door from the front yard to the backyard is locked, and only the people in the backyard can hear the movement.

No one answered Yongchangbo's words.

These people may not have heard the movement, or they may have heard it but did not want to cause trouble, and even the head of the family could not pry everyone's mouth open.

"Lord Zhen, if Qiu Lu is already unconscious when she falls into the water, she won't have the ability to cry for help, right?" Jiang seemed to speak.

Zhen Shicheng glanced at the maid.

The maid said: "There are also mud and sand and aquatic plants in the fingernails of the deceased, so it can be judged that the deceased struggled after falling into the water, and she should have been awake at that time." ”

Jiang seemed to take a serious look at the female servant.

The maid was about the same age as her, with black hair wrapped in a plain cloth towel, and she was a delicate and neat girl.

Seeing Jiang Ru looking over, the maid smiled at her.

Jiang seemed to have a good impression of it.

She admires all women who rely on their ability to eat, although it is a lowly job in the eyes of the world, but a girl can do such a good job, it is worthy of admiration.

Jiang seemed to smile back.

The maid didn't seem to expect that the girl of the Xungui family didn't show the strange look she was used to her, and she was slightly stunned and lowered her eyes embarrassed.

"Who else is in Qiulu's family?"

"There is a mother, a brother and sister-in-law, and a sister." Stewardship.

The doorman said suddenly: "Yesterday, Qiulu's sister came to look for Qiulu, and then Qiulu hurried out with her sister-in-law." ”

"Uh, how long will it be out?"

The doorman thought for a while and said, "It's just more than half an hour, Qiu Lu is a child, and their family lives in the alley north of Bofu." ”

"Is there anything different when Autumn Dew comes back?"

"With a calm face, I don't look very good." The door is humane.

"Since Qiu Lu is the son of a family, her brother and sister-in-law are all working in the house, right?" Zhen Shicheng asked again.

The steward hurriedly said: "Qiu Lu's brother is an idle man, he was tired of doing things in the house earlier, and her sister-in-law couldn't come out to do things after giving birth to a child in one breath, and her sister-in-law was a second-class maid in the house, because the old lady was sick and took leave to go back to serve the old lady." Alas, the most promising thing in this family is the autumn dew......"

Zhen Shicheng understood that Qiu Lu's family was supported by Qiu Lu.

"Uncle, call someone to notify Qiulu's family to come over."

Before Yongchangbo sent someone to shout, a high cry came from far and near.

"Qiulu, why did you leave so ruthlessly—" Several people soon approached, and the loudest crying was a woman in her thirties.

The steward reminded Zhen Shicheng in a low voice: "That's Qiu Lu's sister-in-law." ”

"Uncle, Qiulu served Mrs. for a while, but she couldn't just leave miserably." The woman cried to Yongchangbo.

When Yongchangbo heard this, he was angry and shouted, "Shut up! ”

The subordinates shook their heads secretly, and the person closest to the woman whispered, "Madame has passed away." ”

The woman shook her head and looked at Yongchangbo with a frightened expression.

Killing a thousand knives went out to gamble with the money early in the morning, she was busy taking care of her three children and didn't even have time to go out to breathe, if someone hadn't come to say that her sister-in-law was gone, she wouldn't know anything.

How could Madame's good looks be gone?

It's really unlucky, I thought that Qiu Lu would be able to ask for some money from Mrs. when she was gone, but now there is nothing......

"Sister-in-law Qiulu, what did Qiulu do when she came home yesterday?" Zhen Shicheng asked.

The woman looked at Zhen Shicheng.

"This is Lord Yin Zhen of Shuntian Mansion, you can say whatever the adults ask you!" Yongchang Bodao.

"Oh, why do you ask? Isn't our autumn dew already-"

Zhen Shicheng is very experienced, and he knows that he can't be polite to such a woman, so he said with a straight face: "Mrs. Bo was killed by someone, and Qiu Lu was supposed to be on duty last night, but was found dead in the lotus pond." If you don't make it clear, then Qiu Lu is likely to be the murderer who killed Madame Bo and committed suicide, and then—"

The woman's legs weakened with fright: "Great, my lord, it is impossible for Qiu Lu to kill Madame." Yesterday...... Yesterday, my mother-in-law was going to die, so the woman called Caizhu to find Qiu Lu to go back. ”

The woman said and pulled the girl who was standing not far away and pushed it in front of Zhen Shicheng: "Caizhu, tell this old man quickly, is that the case." ”

The girl named Caizhu looked at the appearance of only thirteen or fourteen years old, her eyes were red at the moment, and there were tears in the corners of her eyes, and she was pushed by the woman and sat on the ground.

The girl didn't exhale pain, nor did she rush to get up, but looked up at Zhen Shicheng slightly, bit her lip and said, "My sister won't kill anyone, she, she was forced to death by my brother and sister-in-law!" ”