Guo Wan was silent for a moment, her eyes swept over the old object, nodded, and said in a very soft voice: "This looks a bit like my father's handwriting." ”

When the words landed, her expression calmed down, and she took out the small wooden horse from her sleeve cage and placed it on the table alongside the wooden carving.

When looking at them separately, Chen Ying only felt that these two were similar, but when they appeared at the same time, she felt more and more that these two things were not just similar, they could be said to be exactly the same.

"The third girl looks, do you think it's very similar?" Guo Wan asked softly.

Chen Ying was silent, her eyes kept sweeping over the two wood carvings, and she couldn't stop thinking about it, and she couldn't come to a conclusion for a while.

Guo Wan turned the two wood carvings over, with a clear expression on her face, pointed to her pony and said: "Three girls, please see, my pony's hooves are carved with auspicious clouds, bats, dragonflies and curly grass Lingzhi patterns, it is said that these four things imply wishfulness, peace, auspiciousness and wisdom respectively." ”

As she spoke, she flipped Chen Ying's wood carving over, pointed to the four hooves and said, "I just took a cursory look, and I saw the pattern on it, although it has almost been flattened, but I can also vaguely see a rough idea, especially the dragonfly and Ganoderma lucidum, which are almost the same as mine." ”

Chen Ying looked in the direction she pointed, and her eyes lit up.

Even if you glance at the pattern on the bottom of the hoof, you can see that it has the same shape.

For fear of being mistaken, Chen Ying took the two objects in his hand and compared them repeatedly, and finally came to a conclusion:

They are indeed the work of the same person.

Thinking of this, her eyebrows furrowed.

According to Guo Wan's words, this is a thing made by Guo Zhun and given to his beloved daughter, which is very commemorative, so Chen Ying can temporarily determine that the wood carving on the hand of the nameless female corpse should also be a souvenir given by Guo Zhun to his close relatives or friends.

However, this is also where the problem lies.

Guo Wan is a horse, so Guo Zhun carved a pony for his daughter, which is to be consistent with his daughter's genus; As far as Chen Ying knows, Guo Yuan is a chicken, the eldest princess is a pig, and the wood carving on the hand of the female corpse is clearly impossible to be a chicken, if it is a pig, it doesn't seem to look like it.

That is to say, the things in the hands of the female corpse are not the items given by Guo Zhun to his wife and daughter.

So, is this a gift for a friend?

However, this small wood carving is full of interest, and it is not like a gift that can be given to a junior, an elder, or an adult man, but only to a younger or younger woman.

Could it be that this is Guo Zhun to give to his friend's children? Or, Guo Zhun still has a secret lover?

Chen Ying groaned a little for a while.

"Attached to the horse...... Do you do this often? After much thought, she asked softly.

If Guo Zhun is a carving enthusiast and likes to give away his works everywhere, the range of objects of suspicion will be even greater.

When Guo Wan heard this, she covered her sleeves and smiled: "Naturally not." My father likes literature and dislikes martial arts, and he doesn't like to do these things in his life. ”

Chen Ying let out a "hmm" and relaxed a little in her heart.

If this is the case, the owner of the wood carving will be limited to a limited range, and it will be much easier to investigate.

At this time, I saw Guo Wan flatten her sleeves, stretched out a hand, and rubbed her pony with her fingertips, looking a little nostalgic: "Father likes poetry and books, and thinks that everything else is a strange skill." What these craftsmen can only do, if there is no perfect reason, he will not touch it. ”

"I see." Chen Ying said, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

Guo Wan has always been close to her, and because she is close, some questions are not easy to speak.

"Smoke willow she ......"

Guo Wan opened her mouth abruptly.

After only saying three words, she smiled apologetically at Chen Ying and said: "I want to teach Miss Chen San to know that this Yanliu was the most useful big girl around Xianci, and after Xianci went, I left Beijing that year, and all those who served were sold, but because this Yanliu was literate and knew how to manage accounts, my grandmother left her in Bofu to listen to it." ”

Her face was a little confused, and her voice was delayed, and she continued: "My grandfather used to have a few shops in the capital, and at the beginning, every year during the Chinese New Year, Yanliu would ask the steward to bring me a letter and some news. Later, the shops in Beijing could no longer last, so my grandfather sold them all, and the news was interrupted for a year or two. Fortunately, as I grew older, I began to learn to take care of the housework, and I had some inheritance left by Xianci, so I started walking around with the smoke willow again. ”

Speaking of this, she raised her sleeves to cover half of her face, and said self-deprecatingly: "Having said all this, I just want to tell the third girl that because I have not heard from me for a few years ago, I was able to hear some news from Yanliu, and I knew a joke about this thing. ”

She took down her jaw and clicked on the wood carving in the hand of the female corpse, her eyebrows were curved, her lips were curled, and her smile seemed to be sweet, and she said:

"My father carved the wooden horse for me, and somehow Her Royal Highness the eldest princess learned about it, and Her Royal Highness didn't like it very much, but said that my father favored one over the other. In order to appease His Royal Highness's anger, his father carved a rooster and gave it to the county lord of Xiangshan. But the princess was annoyed again, and said that the rooster had only two legs, and was not as good as a horse's four hooves, so in a fit of rage, she threw the rooster into the stove and burned it to ashes. ”

She laughed when she said it, but her face was cold, and her words were also cold: "In desperation, my father had to carve a pony that was exactly the same as me and gave it to the lord of Xiangshan County. ”

"Is this the one?" Chen Ying pointed to the wood carving on the case and asked softly.

"Probably yes." Guo Wan said lightly, and put her little pony into the sleeve cage.

Then, a question suddenly arose in her heart, and she looked at Chen Ying: "How did this thing get into the hands of Miss Chen San?" It stands to reason that it should be by the county lord's side. ”

This is also Chen Ying's doubt.

If what Guo Wan said is true, then the death of the nameless female corpse must be related to the county lord of Xiangshan County, and maybe she is the murderer.

But on the other hand, there is something extremely unreasonable about this matter.

With Guo Yuan's respect, why do you need to cover it up when you kill a servant?

The nameless female corpse was tied up with iron chains and stone locks, obviously for fear that others would know about her death, so the body was destroyed. If the identity of the murderer and the deceased are the same, this move is understandable, but the murderer can be placed on Guo Yuan's head, Chen Ying always feels a little distorted.

Could it be that this thing was not in Guo Yuan's hands at the time, but was held by someone else?

Thinking like this, Chen Ying didn't answer Guo Wan's question, but asked, "I don't know if Fourth Grandma Qiu knows, how did the county lord collect this thing?" ”

Guo Wan covered her lips and smiled: "I don't know this." But ......"

She dragged out her voice, with a look of memory on her face, and said, "...... Yan Liu said that she had occasionally seen the county lord holding this thing to show it to others, and she seemed to cherish it quite much. ”