Su Xinyan stopped talking, got up and walked out of the room directly, and went straight to the maid's bedroom.

If that maid really didn't have a ghost in her heart, how could she put those things away? Especially the one-person-tall puppet on the bed always made her feel a little uneasy.

When I kicked open the maid's room, I saw that the tables and chairs inside were simply displayed, and when I looked at it, they were the same as other poor maids' rooms, without the slightest difference.

She thought to herself, no wonder no one was surprised that the maid had put such strange things in the room, it turned out that those things only appeared at night.

Could it be that there will be any secret rooms?

She flipped through the few wardrobes, but she couldn't see a place to hide them. He knocked the walls around him, and then walked back to the room with a confused face.

Gu Fengjin and the official were still waiting in the room at this time.

Gu Fengjin said: "Did you find those few things?" ”

Su Xinyan shook her head, "It should be that maid who is hiding, but I don't know the purpose of her hiding." ”

The official stood up: "I'll tell the head the news now." ”

Su Xinyan thought for a moment to stop him, "Don't worry, if that woman bites and doesn't admit it, we don't have any evidence." But since she has doubts here, the puppet's body is definitely abnormal. You go to the surrounding area to inquire about the origin of the maid, it would be better if you could find the servant who had stayed in the Chu family before, no matter how cautious this maid is, it is impossible to hide it from everyone. ”

The official took the order and left, Su Xinyan sat down very scared, "I won't agree to let the child come back in this kind of family, when the truth is found out, let's go through a process to eliminate this Chu family, and I'll raise the child there." ”

"It's up to you." Gu Fengjin has no other opinions on this.

The two waited in the house for a while, but no other useful news came from outside.

Because Gu Fengjin still had something to do in the palace, he left early, but Su Xinyan stayed, planning to wait for those officials to finish asking before leaving together, but he didn't expect to wait for a gossip at this time.

At this time, it was already afternoon, and after she finished eating, she strolled out of the courtyard and found a step a little far away from Chu's house to sit down.

I was thinking of finding a quiet place to rest for a while, but I didn't expect that it didn't take long for three or two women to come over with dustpans in their arms, and look at the way they talked and laughed as they walked, obviously this is a place where those people often chat.

Su Xinyan was a little embarrassed, just about to get up and leave, but he didn't expect that the women didn't recognize her, and after seeing her, he just smiled faintly, so he found a place to sit down, picked up the scissors and hemp balls in the dustpan, and began to do farm work.

Seeing that the other party didn't care too much, Su Xinyan was embarrassed to leave for a while, but fortunately, she had a sweet mouth, her sister kept screaming, and she looked good, and she dispelled the doubts of those people in a few words, and occasionally talked a few words.

"Look at the little boy's fabric, the fabric is extremely high-quality, it must be from a big family, right?" One looked at her curiously.

Su Xinyan smiled, "A few sisters laughed, what kind of big family, that is, a cloth seller, fortunately, my father is diligent and opened a cloth shop in the capital." ”

"I see, how could that little boy come here, although this county is next to the capital, it is not as prosperous as there."

"I went out with my father to visit my family."

Su Xinyan responded casually, but he couldn't resist it, after all, one lie needs another lie to complete. Although she didn't want to go back to Chu Mansion so early, she didn't want to reveal it to these people like this.

As soon as she was about to leave, she heard another woman ask vigilantly, "The family of the little prince visiting relatives can't be the Chu family, right?" ”

Hearing the Chu family, everyone else stopped what they were doing, and there seemed to be something unnatural on their faces.

Su Xinyan hurriedly said, "No, it's someone else." ”

As she spoke, she diverted the topic elsewhere, and when the people had forgotten about it, she brought it up casually.

"From the outside, the Chu family should be regarded as a big family here, why do the sisters seem to be a little disdainful?"

The woman who mentioned the Chu family before was stunned, and was about to say something but was poked by the person next to her, as if she didn't want to get into trouble, the woman pursed her lips and muttered, "It's not a secret, everyone knows something, what is there to hide!" ”

Su Xinyan was even more curious when he was hooked by this sentence. After thinking about it, he put on an innocent appearance and inquired curiously.

The women were sought after by her honey and oil, and then they talked about it without a match.

It turned out that this master of the Chu family was a bastard when he was young, and the Chu family still had some family background at the beginning, and after a period of prosperity, he not only invited a lot of servants but also married two daughters-in-law or was proud, but after the parents of the Chu family died one after another, the person had no restraints, and he fought cocks and horses all day long, lingered in the land of fireworks, and was particularly unprofessional.

When the family business left by his parents was almost ruined, he was worried about his wife, and he lost all the money that his wife had earned so hard, and after the defeat, he vented his anger on his wife and son, which is simply not a thing.

"Wait, sister means that this Chu family had a son before?" Su Xinyan was suddenly a little shocked, why didn't anyone find out.

"There is a son who was also beaten out by him, and it is said that the father-son relationship has been severed a long time ago, and he has not seen anyone since then, it was ten years ago...... If the son is still there, he should be old enough to marry a wife. ”

The woman wasn't sure, but said casually.

"But even if the child is still there, he is not welcomed, it is said that he had a high fever before and delayed his treatment, and he is stupid all day long, and it is ......normal to be left behind."

As soon as she said this, she was suddenly pulled down by the person next to her, "You can't talk nonsense like this in the future, listen to my family, the court promulgated the law a few days ago, if there is any more indiscriminate abandonment of children, it will be a big prison!" ”

"Oh yes, yes, I heard that I didn't accidentally forget!"

The woman hid the embarrassment on her face, apparently in the old notion that it was not a big deal to discard such a stupid son who could not bring any benefit to the family.

Su Xinyan said: "Did that kid really not come back?" ”

The woman said: "No, otherwise Master Chu's temperament would have been scolded on the street a long time ago." She thought about it and suddenly shook her head again, "But those bastard things were all done when he was young, and now that he has reached this age, he must be in a hurry, so in fact, he has cultivated a lot of self-cultivation later, and he has never done those bastard things again."

It is said that the old man was very happy before, and my family has eaten his full moon wine. But the pity is that the child's biological mother did not survive after all, and died after giving birth to the child. ”

Speaking of this, the woman was also embarrassed, and she inevitably had to lament a few words.

However, Su Xinyan didn't hear anything unusual when he heard this, which can only prove that the Chu family's master has a bad reputation, and it doesn't seem to match the attitude of other people towards the Chu family.

Su Xinyan smiled casually, "It sounds like the Chu family is not a place where jackals, tigers and leopards cannot be visited, then Master Chu is still a lost prodigal son!" ”

Another woman, who had been silent, suddenly shook her head, "The young man is still young, if it's just these things, then the Chu family is nothing, but it's strange in this year's time." As if he had lost his mind, Master Chu often ran to the street and yelled, especially at night, when people couldn't sleep! Once, the surrounding families couldn't stand it anymore, so they went to call the door to judge him,"

She paused, and suddenly found that everyone else was looking at her intently, and suddenly said with some pride, "Guess what Master Chu is doing, I didn't expect him to be wearing a cloak of hair, holding a wooden stick on the ground and constantly beating him, and saying debt collector, let you come to me!" Kill, kill, kill, etc. That's like you've fallen into an evil spirit! Tsk, it seems that I did too many bad things when I was young, and now retribution is coming. ”

Su Xinyan couldn't help but feel cold behind him after hearing this.

I thought it was just a case of child abuse by a concubine, but I didn't expect to dig out so many things, Master Chu is so abnormal, that Erniang may have done a good thing by stealing Sanya, so to speak, if that maid is good friends with Erniang, it should not be bad in nature. ”

The people here believe in the cycle of cause and effect the most, if Master Chu only behaved when he was young, people would not be taboo against him, but now that this kind of thing about retribution has happened, others have become wary of him, after all, knowing people and faces but not hearts, who can know if this Master Chu has really changed his ways, instead of doing more unconscionable things behind his back.

In this way, the reputation of the Chu family was completely stinky, so the servants were almost dispersed, and the fields were gradually defeated under the suppression and encroachment of the opponent, and finally became this place where only an empty shell remained.

Su Xinyan asked the words to this point, but he couldn't ask anything anymore, think about it, no matter how deep it is, these people can't understand.

She exchanged pleasantries with a few more people before finding an excuse to leave the place.

In her opinion, there must be something strange about this old man Chu's death, but since there is a son who has been cut off from father and son, she can't help but find out by some means.

She walked a few steps and suddenly thought of the puppet man before, they always thought that the puppet on the bed was Master Chu, could it be that they guessed wrong, and the maid fell in love with the missing Master Chu?

But if this is the case, then Chu Gongzi is probably not as simple as people say that he disappeared.

If it is according to the age of seventeen or eighteen years old now, he should only be seven or eight years old when he disappeared, and the maid was also a child at the time, so he should not have feelings, unless the person came back later, and then secretly contacted the maid, and fell in love with the maid for a long time, beads, and secret knots, so as to explain the maid's infatuation with the puppeteer.