Li Qitang pondered for a moment and said, "From the point of view, there may be only one possibility, that is, the screen was attached by demons and ghosts after leaving the palace. ”

"So, it's the ghost I met in this listening to the water pavilion......" I leaned on the window, propped my chin, looked at the dark water, and asked, "It's weird." At the beginning, I only went to scare Miss Jiachen, but now, I am alarmed, and I only go to find Miss Jiachen's bad luck, is it possible that I only have a deep hatred with Miss Jiachen? I don't know if Miss Jiachen offended anyone. ”

Li Qitang nodded and said, "It must be inseparable from Mrs. Gu." But Mrs. Gu was frightened today, and we can listen to it tomorrow. ”

As he was talking, Yiru probably settled Miss Jiachen and Tanhualang, pushed the door out, and closed the door lightly, I thought, the one who knows the situation of Miss the most, isn't this Yiru!

I hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Sister Yiru, has Miss Jiachen rested?" Are you feeling good? ”

Yiru nodded, and said with a reluctant smile: "Miss today is really scared, fortunately, my uncle is back, there is a way to coax Miss, otherwise, Miss doesn't know how to survive this night!" ”

I asked: "Miss Jiachen encountered this incident, and she is really pitiful, Rong Meicai is talkative, and she takes the liberty to ask, but I don't know, has Miss Jiachen offended anyone?" It's not that Mei Cai says cool things, everything has a cause and effect, and investigating things clearly is the solution. ”

Yiru was stunned, thought about it, and said: "Miss has always been in the boudoir without going out of the door, even outsiders rarely contact, how can you offend anyone, and in the house of our uncle's mansion, Miss is also very popular, and the aunts and grandmothers and the young ladies next to them are also very harmonious, Miss this marriage, aunts and other young ladies are very reluctant, all crying." In addition, Miss has no shelf, and she is also very sympathetic to the slaves, and everyone's mouth is full of the benefits of Miss, and it is unlikely that anyone will hold a grudge. ”

Li Qitang said: "Mrs. Gu's character is naturally excellent, but people's hearts are unpredictable, and there are often people who hide knives in their smiles, have you ever noticed it?" ”

Yiru still shook her head in confusion, and said, "There really hasn't been, speaking of which, what benefit can you get if you hurt Miss?" She didn't compete with any young lady for power, nor did she have any entanglements with outsiders......"

"In that case, how can I find out the relationship between Miss Jiachen and that female ghost?" I looked at Li Qitang worriedly.

Li Qitang thought for a moment and said, "There is always a way to hear the news, since this Yiru girl doesn't know, let's ask the other people tomorrow." ”

Because I was not used to living in other people's homes, the next day it was bright, I got up, as soon as I went out of the door, I didn't want Li Qitang to get up earlier, I saw that Li Qitang was already in the corridor, what to look at in the pool, I hurriedly went to see the excitement, and asked: "Li Gongzi, what are you looking at?" ”

Li Qitang pointed to the surface of the water and said, "That thing doesn't look like it was discarded at random." ”

I looked at his hand, and saw a velvet hairpin floating on the water, the hairpin was pink and bright, and there was a bunch of budding peach blossoms waiting to be released.

I wondered: "Such a hairpin, so exquisite, it doesn't look like it was lost when you were tired of it, I don't know if someone left it in the basin, I can't find it." ”

Li Qitang heard that he went over the railing to the window, and scooped up the hairpin, although the hairpin was drenched, but it had more charm and was very beautiful.

Li Qitang asked: "Since this kind of hairpin is so bright, it must be worn by a young girl." ”

I nodded again and again: "Yes, if a woman is married, or a little older, she should wear a golden hairpin, a pearl hairpin, even if she is a little poorer, she will be a silver hairpin as a head, this hairpin must be worn by a girl of the same age as me, a teenager. ”

Li Qitang nodded: "It must be something from a maid!" After a while, you can ask the girl. ”

I took the hairpin from Li Qitang and played with it, the hairpin was rounded with bamboo skewers, drilled out small holes, passed through the silk thread, bound the flowers, and hung a string of tassels of vermicelli, and it also fell into the water dripping.

After a while, Yiru came with tea, saw us, saluted first, I took the peach blossom hairpin out, and hurriedly asked: "Sister Yiru, have you ever seen this flower hairpin?" ”

Yiru looked at it carefully, hesitated for a moment, and said: "This kind of hairpin is not rare, the merchants in the streets and alleys have sold it with fat powder, and the slaves and maids have seen many people wearing it, and they don't know whose one it is." ”

After speaking, he confessed and served tea into Miss Jiachen and Tanhualang's room. I had no choice but to say, "Maybe it's just a worthless thing for them, and they don't want to look for it if they lose it!" ”

Li Qitang was just about to answer, when a small guy came from the corridor of Shi Shiran outside, carrying a pair of brand-new soap boots in his hand, probably specially serving Tanhualang to go out and dress, because he couldn't enter the door, he stood outside the door, waiting for Tanhualang to clean up and come out, and when he saw us, he saluted us very smartly, but his eyes fell on the string of flower hairpins in my hand, and he couldn't help but say "Huh".

As soon as I saw the little guy like that, I hurriedly asked, 'This brother, do you know this hairpin?' ”

The little guy hesitated for a moment and said, "The little one looks very familiar, as if he saw someone wearing it a few days ago." ”

"Really?" I hurriedly asked, "Little brother, where have you seen it?" ”

The little guy thought for a while, and said: "At the gate of Tanhua Mansion, on the corner of Ziyuchai Street, the little one went out with Tanhualang that day, and served Tanhualang on the horse, originally the horse was quite spiritual, but it was a golden jade lion skull given by the uncle of the country, and he had always been docile, and he didn't know what happened that day, he was frightened, and he fell back and rushed forward like crazy, Tanhualang clenched the reins and almost fell from the horse.

It just so happened that a woman came from the corner of the street, and the horse was running towards the woman and galloped wildly, almost trampling the woman to death under the horse's hooves, and then Tanhualang probably tried his best to strangle the golden and jade lion, and our group of small servants and family members also hurried to restrain the golden and jade lion, and the woman escaped, but she was also so frightened that her soul was not possessed, and her hair was messy.

The little one remembered that the woman's head was in a black bun, and her hair was scattered, so she hung this peach blossom hairpin crumblingly, because the color was really eye-catching, and the thing was too thrilling, and before she knew it, she remembered it in her heart. When I saw this peach blossom hairpin today, it was exactly the same as the one on the woman's head! I just remembered this. ”

"Woman's ......" Li Qitang hurriedly asked: "But I don't know how old that woman is and what she looks like?" ”

The little guy hurriedly said: "This little one remembers very clearly, the woman has a goose egg face, and the raw one is also quite colorful, Chu Chu is moving, about twenty years old, that figure, willow thin waist, very slender, wearing a plain linen shirt and skirt, probably from a poor family, I don't see any jewelry on the body, only the peach blossom hairpin." By the way, the most surprising thing about that woman is that her fingers are as white and thin as spring onion roots, but for some reason, it seems to have a broken finger, which looks strange and terrifying. ”

No wonder the little guy remembers it so clearly.

I hurriedly asked, "What about later?" How's that woman? ”

The little guy was stunned for a moment and said, "It's not good!" It's just that the horse was frightened, and he was scared on the ground, and he looked very pitiful, and Tanhualang was quite reluctant to go, but he was in a hurry to go to the government to deal with official business, so he sent me a small bag of silver to talk to the woman to apologize, and then the woman got up by herself, and she didn't ask for the silver, and she went back tremblingly. ”

"I see...... I stared at the hairpin in my hand, and couldn't help but say, "It's strange, this woman, will she enter the Tanhua Mansion?" ”

"What woman?" While talking, Tanhualang and Miss Jiachen had already walked out of the house and asked curiously.