Yun Sheng understood: "Young Master Wei has been to the pear orchard in the east of the city and bought the fragrant powder of Si apricot. That kind of incense powder can make people's faces look unusually pale, as if they were overly frightened. ”

The old housekeeper was stunned, and Yun Sheng continued: "Young Master Wei has been to the Wei family's old mansion more than once. One, it is to go there to see red beans; Second, I went there to see Xuedian. ”

"The young master wants the Xuedian girl to enter the Wei family tree." The old housekeeper pondered for a while before he said this: "But the master will not allow a Qinglou woman to tarnish the reputation of the Wei family." ”

"Wei Man has a deep affection for Xuedian, why not Xuedian? Why did Master Wei bother to beat the mandarin ducks? What's more, as far as I know, in the Red Bean Terrace, as long as the girl is unwilling, the red bean will not force the girl, so one thing I can confirm is that there is only one man in Xuedian who has Wei Man. After redeeming herself, she is a woman from a good family, why did Master Wei stop it again and again? Zhang Jiusheng raised his eyebrows, his fingers were cocked on the tabletop for a while, the old housekeeper listened, and was attracted by the rhythmic sound without paying attention, and his mind couldn't turn for a while.

The old housekeeper shook his head: "I also persuaded the master, but the master said that the reputation of a girl's family will last a lifetime, she is a Qinglou woman for a while, and someone will point to her backbone and say that she is a Qinglou woman for the first time, if the young master agrees to only accept the Xuedian girl as a concubine, the master will not stop it like that." ”

"What kind of block?" Yun Sheng couldn't wait to speak.

The old housekeeper sighed: "The old man almost broke the young master's leg, if it weren't for the young master's only son, I'm afraid he would have been expelled from the house long ago." ”

"I've heard about this, you protected Wei Man's legs?" Zhang Jiusheng squinted his eyes, and slowly stuffed his fingers into his mouth a little unconsciously, and was seen by Yun Sheng, who was sitting on the side, and knocked it off with a "snap".

The old butler nodded, and sighed when he arrived.

"No wonder even if you helped outsiders trap Wei Man, Wei Man didn't tell Master Wei about it." Zhang Jiusheng suddenly realized, and said with a "tsk": "The little rabbit cub is quite grateful for his kindness." ”

The old butler listened, but this time he didn't say anything.

"Butler, there's one more thing we have to tell you." Guan Chu got up suddenly, walked to the old housekeeper, walked back and forth around him several times, and sniffed around him again, not knowing what he was sniffing, Zhang Jiusheng and Yun Sheng looked a little confused.

"You say." The old butler stood respectfully.

Guan Chu suddenly stood still, rubbed his nose, leaned to his ear, lowered his voice and said, "Zhang Chi is dead." ”

After finishing speaking, Guan Chu stared at the old butler with a pair of eyes, and after a while, he turned around and sat back, hanging his head and not knowing what he was thinking, without saying a word.

"Does the housekeeper know Zhang Chi?" Before leaving, Yun Sheng stood at the door, holding the door frame with one hand and turning his head to ask the old butler who was still standing motionless behind him.

The old housekeeper raised his head, his cloudy eyes seemed to look at Yun Sheng, and seemed to look away through Yun Sheng, for a long time, he shook his head, Yun Sheng didn't speak again, turned around and trotted towards Zhang Jiusheng who was waiting there.

On the way back, Guan Chu shouted that he was in trouble because of the little catcher from the Yamen, so he followed, leaving Zhang Jiusheng and Yun Sheng to walk on the street bored.

"My lord, why did Guan Zhutou tell the old housekeeper that Zhang Chi was dead?" Yun Sheng twisted his sleeves and frowned.

Zhang Jiusheng raised his hands high, stretched his waist, yawned, put his two hands behind his head, and said, "I probably want to deceive the old housekeeper, right?" If his complexion was different at that time, then he would have nothing to do with Zhang Chi's death, and maybe Guan Chu would have taken him to the prison for a good trial at that time. ”

"But the old housekeeper doesn't know Zhang Chi."

"Isn't that great? It shows that the old butler is not the kind of person who kills innocents indiscriminately. ”

"One more thing." Yun Sheng pouted slightly, his face suspicious.

Zhang Jiusheng stretched out his hand to cover her brows and rubbed it gently: "Just ask, don't be so sad, this is a case, not an exam." ”

Yun Sheng sighed: "According to what Wei Man said, Hongdou and him are all connected with the old housekeeper, and the old housekeeper and Wei Man are still family, why don't they know each other?" ”

Zhang Jiusheng smiled and rubbed Yun Sheng's head: "You don't understand this, Hongdou is an old Jianghu, how can you only leave one hand to do things, of course, you have to prepare two roads to ensure that things are foolproof." Xuedian's ending has long been decided, Wei Man can't change anything, and Hongdou can't change anything, letting the old housekeeper drug Wei Man is nothing more than delaying time and letting Wei Man not disrupt her plan so quickly. ”

Yun Sheng is a smart person, and he can understand it at one point: "But didn't Wei Man drink it?" ”

Zhang Jiusheng took a deep breath: "At the beginning, he drank it. ”

The two of them arrived at the door of Hongdoutai as they talked, Zhang Jiusheng stopped, looked up at the gold-lettered plaque of Hongdoutai, things are people, as long as he stood in this place before, a large number of girls would rush out to surround him, but now he has been standing here for several minutes, but he doesn't even have a little guy to greet him.

"Do you want to go in?" Yun Sheng tilted his head and asked, "I don't know if the red beans have come back." ”

"It's time, it's time to come back." Zhang Jiusheng didn't look at her, he didn't even move his gaze, he just took a deflected footstep and didn't enter the red bean platform.

"Adults won't go in?" Yun Sheng was a little surprised.

"Didn't you like me in the past? Why do you keep asking me if I want to go in today? Did you like it once you went here? Zhang Jiusheng stopped and looked at Yun Sheng sideways, with a cunning expression.

When Yun Sheng heard this, he looked stunned and said solemnly: "What nonsense! ”

After that, he flicked his sleeves and turned around to leave, Zhang Jiusheng looked at Yun Sheng who was getting farther and farther away, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, he turned his head and glanced at Hongdoutai again, but saw a person standing at the door, a familiar figure, veiled, but not the original person, Zhang Jiusheng's heart turned a thousand times, and the taste was difficult to distinguish.

When he returned to the yamen, it happened that Zhang Tong walked head-on, and when he saw the two of them, he opened his mouth and said, "It's just right." ”

Before the two of them could react, they were dragged to the autopsy room by Zhang Tong's hand, Zhang Jiusheng looked at the direction and was shocked: "Let's make it clear first, is there any blood in your coroner's room?!" ”

"Nope!" Zhang Tong shouted.

"What can't you say calmly?!" Looking at Zhang Tong's anxious appearance, Zhang Jiusheng didn't even believe a fingernail cover and said that there was no blood in the autopsy room, he was deceived like this last time, and then he fainted and vomited all day.

Zhang Tong suddenly stopped, Yun Sheng was dragged by his hands, the little arms and legs were braked so suddenly, almost the whole person was thrown out, Yun Sheng patted his chest, out of breath, and was about to scold, but he heard Zhang Tong say: "Zhang Chi didn't drink when he died, he was sober, the cause of death was poisoning, and he was poured wine after death, so the wine did not enter his lungs, and his whole body was poured wine, so we think he was drunk and fell into the river to death, in fact, he was tied to a stone and sunk into the moat after death." Originally, the body could not float, and it was only when the boatman who cleaned the moat accidentally broke the rope that he was found. ”

Yun Sheng frowned, carefully recalling the appearance of Zhang Chi's corpse when he first saw it: "That is to say, kill people first, and then sink the corpse, what happened to the corpse before it was sent to the yamen?" ”

"Something did happen, when the body was delivered, there was an accident." Zhang Tong scratched his head, and immediately explained: "I just learned from the little catcher who brought the corpse over. ”

"What accident?" Yun Sheng was still panting next to him, but when he heard Zhang Tong say this, he immediately unconsciously held his breath and asked.

Zhang Tong swallowed his saliva: "On the way to deliver the corpse, he was knocked down by a drunkard. I don't think that person is a drunkard, but a ......."

"It's the murderer, or the accomplice of the murderer." Zhang Jiusheng said in a low voice: "Have you seen what that drunkard looks like?" ”

"The little man said that the drunkard was unkempt and ragged, and he couldn't see his face clearly." Zhang Tong's eyebrows have wrinkled into a "Sichuan" character.

For a moment, the three of them fell silent.

For a long time, until Zhang Jiusheng broke the silence and opened his mouth first: "You just dragged us to the autopsy room in a hurry, is there a problem with the corpse?" ”

"Oh, I just want you to see the corpse, so I can explain it more intuitively." Zhang Tong replied frankly, but Zhang Jiusheng glanced at Yun Sheng, whose little face was pale and almost out of breath, and raised his foot and kicked it.

This year's summer is especially hot, knowing that lying on the trunk of the tree is hoarse, noisy people's eardrums hurt, and there is no intention to stop at all, and there seems to be no wind flowing in the air, but people walk on the street, but after walking a few steps, the sweat beads on their foreheads fall down one by one like soybeans.

"It's hot weather, if you look for me next time, don't go to the academy, just take a letter to my house." In a teahouse, a man in a green shirt sits on a futon, holding his sleeve with one hand and adding tea with the other.

The person sitting in front of him was none other than Red Bean.

"There may not be a next time, this time thanks to you."

"We are all doing things for the master, helping you is equivalent to helping me, do you really plan to do this?" The man slowly pushed the brewed tea to the red beans, his eyebrows and eyes seemed to be warm, but there was a cold blade hidden in his heart, and he always felt uncomfortable, like suddenly falling into a cold pool, instantly cold to the heart, and after reminiscing, he felt that he was despised.

Hongdou didn't speak, reached out to take the tea, and then heard the man say: "Actually, you can send her out of Fan County, you made a good human skin, give her another face, and from now on incognito, it is not difficult to live a stable life." ”

"If she's willing to listen to me and leave, then I don't have to worry so much." Hongdou took a sip gently, the entrance was slightly bitter, but it was not astringent, the tea maker and the tea were complemented by the truth, Hongdou glanced at the man in front of him, he was the same as her, he had been dormant in this Fan County for several years, if it wasn't for the incident, she was unwilling to drag him out of the darkness.

"Whatever you want." The man in the green shirt only lightly spit out these four words, then closed his sleeves, put the red rope he had stolen from the corpse on the table, and remembered something before leaving: "I have already paid for this tea, you can drink it as long as you want, and this snack is not bad." ”