The woman was stunned for a moment, as if she didn't expect Caizhu to say such a thing, and then she reacted and hit Caizhu with her hand: "What are you talking about, feed the unfamiliar white-eyed wolf!" ”

"Stop!" Zhen Shicheng frowned and snorted, and immediately a servant stopped the woman.

The woman still opened her teeth and claws: "For you to eat and drink, you still say such things?" Do you still have a conscience! ”

Caizhu sat on the ground and cried: "It's my sister who feeds and drinks for me, not you!" ”

"You still say! You conscienceless little hoof, have you forgotten your mother? ”

Caizhu froze, hid her face and cried: "Anyway, my mother won't be able to do it soon, I, what else do I have to be afraid of-"

She kowtowed to Zhen Shicheng while crying: "My lord, the servant has heard of you, you brought the Hou Shizi of Changxing to justice, and you are a big man in the sky." Please make the decision for my sister, I can't let my sister die and suffer unjustly-"

The woman became more and more angry: "Little hoof, you wait for me, and when I go back, there will be a time to clean you up!" ”

"Shut her mouth." Zhen Shicheng commanded lightly.

As the woman stuffed a sweat towel into her mouth, the scene suddenly fell silent, and only the low cry of the girl could be heard.

Zhen Shicheng sighed and personally helped Caizhu up: "This official will not let go of a wicked person, let alone wronged a good person." Little girl, don't cry, tell me about your sister. ”

"Yes." Caizhu wiped her tears and looked at the woman decisively.

The woman was speechless, her eyes widened with a hint of threat.

Caizhu simply stopped looking at her, sniffed and said: "Actually, everyone in the house knows that only my sister does things in our family, and all the money for eating, drinking, chewing, including my mother's medical treatment, is given by my sister." Originally, I thought that my mother's body was a little better and I went back to the house to do things, who thought that my mother's body was not as good as one day at a time, and five days ago I was in a coma, and I invited the doctor to see it and said that I wanted a lot of money to recuperate. When my sister found out, it didn't take long for her to bring the money—"

"How much is that?" Zhen Shicheng asked.

Generally speaking, the causes of murder are nothing more than three situations, because of hatred, wealth or affection, and the kind of random killing is a very small number of people, which is not within common sense.

"Fifty taels of silver."

"How much moonsilver is in Autumn Dew?"

The steward immediately said: "Qiu Lu is the eldest maid who serves the lady, and the moon silver can get the second class among the subordinates, and there are two halves." ”

"Two and a half, quite a lot." Zhen Shicheng said lightly.

For ordinary people's families, a few taels of silver are enough for most of the year's expenses.

"But since Qiu Lu has to feed a family, she must have no savings at all, where did these fifty taels come from?"

Caizhu's face turned red, and she trembled her lips and said, "At that time, my sister didn't say it, she just let us take it to recuperate for my mother, but——"

Speaking of this, Caizhu glanced at the woman hatefully, and cried: "But yesterday my mother suddenly vomited blood, and the maid hurriedly went back to my sister, and under the pressure of my sister, I learned that my brother and sister-in-law did not use the money to buy medicine for my mother, and the medicine I fed my mother was simply what they used to make up for it." ”

"Woo-woo-" the woman struggled desperately when she heard this.

"Take the cloth out of her mouth." Zhen Shicheng commanded.

As soon as the woman's mouth was free, she immediately cried and said: "Wronged, my lord, that money was not spent on the people's women, and it was all used by the one who killed a thousand knives to pay off the gambling debts——"

Zhen Shicheng patiently listened to the woman scolding the man for a cup of tea, and had a count of what kind of person Qiu Lu's brother was.

A puddle of gambling-like mud.

"How did your sister react when she knew about this?"

My sister hugged her mother and cried bitterly, but the result was ...... As a result, the mother said that she knew about it, and she agreed to let her brother take the money. My sister was even more sad when she heard this, and she ran out crying—" At this point, Caizhu choked up and couldn't speak.

"You haven't seen your sister since?"

Caizhu suddenly raised her head and looked straight at Zhen Shicheng: "No, the servant chased him out." ”

Zhen Shicheng's heart moved.

With experience, the little girl in front of her probably knows something.

He didn't rush, and looked at the beads with gentle eyes.

Caizhu bit her lip: "I've never seen my sister so sad, my sister has always been the pillar of the family, and it was my sister's decision to take a long vacation to take care of my mother." I always remember my sister telling me that as long as she was there, the difficulties at home would definitely pass. But yesterday my sister cried in despair. Maybe she was so sad at the time that she finally told me why. ”

Caizhu couldn't help but look at Yongchangbo as she spoke.

Yongchangbo sighed: "You say, my wife and I have always been people who distinguish between right and wrong. ”

My sister said that the fifty taels of silver were secretly taken by her from Madame's makeup, and she wanted to solve the urgent need first and then slowly make up for it, but who knew that Madame suddenly wanted to find a magnolia that she wore many years ago, and found out that she had stolen the silver. Madame asked her sister why she had stolen the money, but she did not pursue the money, but told her that she could no longer stay with her. Mrs. Charity, saying that her sister had been with her for many years after all, and she suddenly had a hard time when she was sent out, so she kept her sister for a few more days and found a suitable person for her to marry. ”

"In that case, why do you say that your brother and sister-in-law forced your sister to death?"

Caizhu laughed miserably: "My sister has always been proud of serving her wife, but she took Mrs.'s money for her mother." If my mother used this money to recuperate, it would be fine, but the money was used by my brother to pay off gambling debts, only keeping my sister and me in the dark, and my mother also said that she was in charge of her brother's ...... At that time, my sister said that she knew that she would do such a conscienceless thing, not only did she lose her errand, but her mother could not save her, and the most important thing was to live up to her wife's love, it was better to die clean. I thought my sister was talking angrily, who would have thought that my sister had really done something stupid......"

Zhen Shicheng looked at Uncle Yongchang: "Usually Mrs. Bo will leave the maid on duty at night?" ”

Yongchangbo nodded.

"In this way, only Mrs. Bo sent Qiu Lu out last night." Zhen Shicheng touched his beard and sighed, "The money that Qiu Lu stole was squandered by her brother, and her mother was seriously ill and vomited blood but was devoted to her son, and then Mrs. Bo obviously didn't want to get close to her anymore, so it made sense that she couldn't think of committing suicide for a while." ”

Everyone was silent, and there was only one thought in their hearts: Caizhu was right, Qiu Lu was indeed forced to death by her brother and sister-in-law, to be precise, Qiu Lu was forced to death by her mother-

"Since Qiu Lu committed suicide in shame, who killed my mother?" Xie Qingqi muttered.

Zhen Shicheng was not discouraged.

Many cases are like this, and the clues that emerge are irrelevant in the end, but this does not mean that the truth will always surface.

"Lord Zhen, since there was no one in the closet at sunset yesterday, does it mean that the murderer is among these people in the inner courtyard of Bofu?" Jiang seemed to ask suddenly.