Seeing the lights in the room blazing and the slender silhouette of a girl reflected in the window, Shiqin quietly pushed open the door, lifted the curtain, and walked into the bedroom.

The candle smoke curled in the bedroom, so quiet that only the sound of a pen falling on a wooden tablet was the sound of small pieces.

Shiqin glanced at the side face of the lady who was flushed by the lights, bowed her head, and whispered: "Lady, as you expected, the maid named Ah Qiao is dead!" ”

Gu Yu carried the pen in his hand, and continued to write the last word on the wooden tablet as usual, before he stopped writing and looked at Shiqin.

"And what did you inquire?" She asked.

Shiqin was stunned for a moment, paused for a moment, and then replied: "The slave heard the maid under the door say that after Ah Qiao was taken back to Woyun Pavilion by the eldest lady, the eldest lady did interrogate her, however, that Ah Qiao only confessed, and someone gave her ten gold baht and a topographic map, and asked her to put the bird's nest on the designated poplar tree by the Jinlu Pond, and nothing else. ”

After a pause, she continued, "I heard that under the heavy punishment of the eldest lady, Ah Qiao refused to tell who that person was. ”

"It's not that she won't tell who the man is, but she can't tell who the man is." Gu Yu answered.

Shiqin was stunned again, hesitated for a moment, and finally asked the doubts in her heart: "How does the lady know that Ah Qiao is not the real murderer, and how do you know that she will die at this time?" ”

Even if she really knew the art of Xuanyi, she had never heard of it, and she would calculate the time so accurately, no, this is not a Xuanyi technique, but it is clearly ......

Seeing the fear and anxiety in Shiqin's eyes, Gu Yu smiled and said: "It's very simple to know that she is not a real murderer, a person who is good at layout will not be so ignorant of advance and retreat, does not know how to hide it, and is so stupid that he does not know the height of the sky." "Thinking of the reaction of the servant after being slapped at that time, it was not at all like a person with strict training.

Thinking of this, Gu Yu thought of the place where she was sold in her previous life, Chongqilou, originally thought that it was just a place to sell music and music, but after entering, she realized that that place was even more terrifying than the theater, she had never seen the owner there, but she was locked in a cage and killed each other with a group of hungry boys and girls.

"A soldier is an ominous weapon, and if you hold it in your hand and still have mercy in your heart, it is the way to bring evil. If you don't want to be eaten, you can only measure the knife in your hand! The man said to her.

She had never seen the man's face clearly because she was wearing a mask, and after a bloody fight, she was released and then given some skill in how to create an accidental kill. What she didn't expect was that after Yicheng, she was not given to a certain dignitary as a concubine like other women, but met him.

Huan Che!

She didn't know what kind of deal Huan Che had made with that person to save her from that hellish place, and in the days after that, although she was only an inferior maid, although she had to pay a great price to learn a lot of things to meet his requirements, but that kind of life was much better than Chongqilou after all.

It was also from Huan Che's mouth that she learned what kind of work was going on in the Chongqi Building, which was originally the place where Shi Chongjin House was hidden, and the women who were sold into it would be divided into different levels according to their qualifications, and each level of people would be awarded different skills, some were piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing and dancing, some were women's unique seductive skills, and some were taught how to arrange the scene to kill people by accidental means like her.

In addition to a little bit of mechanical skills, these people usually have to have a certain quality and ability, a kind of ability to hide themselves to the greatest extent without being anxious or strong.

This is the meticulous work trained in Chongqilou!

Thinking of this, Gu Yu couldn't help but laugh in her heart, in her previous life, she probably never thought that the reason why Huan Che was so familiar with Chongqilou was because there was some kind of connection between him and the owner of Chongqilou.

The candle flame flickered, and in Gu Yu's thoughtful silence, the room was quiet for a long time.

Until Shiqin couldn't help but mutter: "Layout? What the lady said, but the situation set up by the person who trapped the lady and Shi Niang in the water? ”

Gu Yu nodded and said, "Yes, you are very smart." ”

Hearing the praise of the lady, Shiqin was slightly happy in her heart, but this joy was just a breath like a dragonfly in the water, and it was instantly replaced by fear and confusion.

"Why did that person plan to frame the lady and put the lady to death?"

Gu Yu's expression was condensed, and the light of the candle flame reflected a dazzling red flame in her eyes.

"I also want to know, why did he put me to death?" She whispered suddenly, her eyes turned out of the window, intentionally or unintentionally, her expression distant and lonely.

Shiqin's heart trembled, and she was inexplicably sad and sad, at this time, she actually felt that the eleventh lady was also a poor person, her grandmother didn't like it, her biological mother was crazy, and the sisters in the house took her as a joke, and there was a person hiding in the shadows who wanted her life all the time.

"Lady, you must feel uncomfortable!" Thinking like this, she also asked.

Gu Yu turned around suddenly, looked at her and smiled slightly, this smile was like Lin Lan dissipating at a glance, and Xiaoxue was sunny at the beginning.

Shiqin was stunned for a moment, it turned out that the eleventh lady laughed so beautifully!

"Come here!" Gu Yu suddenly ordered, then walked to the side of the desk and handed one of the books she had copied to Shiqin.

"Find an opportunity to give this book to Zhang Shishilang for me." She said.

"Zhang Twelve Lang?" Shiqin was slightly surprised, lowered her gaze to this book, this look, the eyes are bright, no matter what is written on this book, the words on it look unusually pleasant, and it can be described as "fluttering, like a dragon".

"Lady, your handwriting is so beautiful!" After staring down for a while, she couldn't help but blurt out praise.

Gu Yu smiled: "If you want to learn, I can teach you later!" ”

Shiqin was suddenly flattered, couldn't help but fall to her knees, and said repeatedly: "Lady, how can this be?" "In this era, literacy is the right of superior people, and it is great that a subordinate like her can follow the master to know a few words, how can she dare to expect the master to teach her to learn words?

"If you want to, there's nothing you can't do." Gu Yu said directly and simply.

Shiqin suddenly smiled like a flower, and tears even oozed from her eyes, and she said repeatedly: "Thank you, lady!" Thank you, lady! Then he stood up at Gu Yu's signal.

The room fell silent for a while, and seeing that Gu Yu had been staring out the window and not speaking, Shiqin seemed to think of something again, and asked, "Lady, can you really have a premonition that after tonight, it won't be long before the murderer will inevitably appear by himself?" ”

Gu Yu turned around and replied with a smile: "Yes, as long as the old lady conveys that order!" ”

……

At that time, the night was dark, all the sounds were silent, and the atmosphere in Zhang's courtyard was also stagnant, and several servants under the corridor looked at the terrible maids who were crawling on the ground in a strange posture and bleeding from their mouths and noses, and they were so frightened that their shoulders trembled and they were silent.

Zhang's face was also a little pale, and his expression also revealed a trace of surprise, stunned or incomprehensible nervousness, it was not uncommon to kill a slave maid in the family compound, but if it appeared in her Zhang's Woyun Pavilion, it would be surprising.

She is known for being "virtuous", and has never criticized the people of her subordinates, and has always believed in Buddhism and Taoism, paying attention to "three primordial and then execution", which is more tolerant of benevolence than Confucius's "no two faults...... At this moment, she actually beat a maid to death in her courtyard in public, and this maid was also a subordinate she personally selected to serve her son's diet and daily life.

In the courtyard of the family, which personal maid who serves the concubine is not of high quality and good character, if not, the master who chooses the slave is clumsy and stupid.

At this time, Zhang's was hateful, angry and indescribably depressed, and at this time, a heavy scolding suddenly came from outside the courtyard gate.

"Stupid!"

Seeing that the old lady was coming in front of the Hanging Flower Gate with a group of people, Zhang, who was already restless, immediately got up.

"Auntie, why are you here so late?"

"My grandson was almost poisoned, and such a big thing happened, do you still want to hide it from me?" The old lady said, then swept her gaze to the maid who was lying in a pool of blood and had lost her breath, and said sharply, "Why don't you ask her first who is behind her, who has an enmity with my Gu family?" In such a hurry, I killed her, Zhang, what are you doing here? ”

Zhang's expression was frightened and embarrassed, which was quite unpleasant.

"Auntie, it's not that the daughter-in-law didn't ask, but the girl refused to say it, and she couldn't say it, and the daughter-in-law didn't ask anyone to beat her a few times, but I didn't expect this girl to ......"

Old Madam Gu's face sank, her eyes swept towards the servant again, she muttered for a moment, and suddenly said decisively: "Go check the origin of this maid, see where she bought it, and whose slave she was before?" ”

Zhang hurriedly continued: "Returning to Auntie, this girl was originally the person I married to Zhuangzi, I saw that she was handsome and smart, so I ...... it."

"When choosing a servant, the first thing to look at is loyalty, Zhang, you don't even have this eyesight, how can I expect you to take care of my Gu family's children and grandchildren!" Old Madam Gu suddenly said in pain.

This is a bit heavy, Zhang is sincerely afraid, for fear that Mrs. Gu's next sentence will be to take her son away, and hurriedly replied: "Auntie, motherhood, even if the child is only a little injured, it seems to be in pain in the mother's body, this maid is indeed chosen by the son-in-law, and the child-in-law also regrets not being at the beginning, but the top priority should be to find out the real murderer hiding in our house is the most important thing!" ”

Speaking of the real murderer, Old Madam Gu's heart lit up, flashing like firelight.

Immediately, she thought of the Xuanyi technique

I thought of Eleven Niang again!

"Go, call Eleven Niang over for me!" She commanded suddenly.

The poetry and painting who followed her were nervous in her heart, as if she wanted to remind something, but she saw that Old Madam Gu stretched out her crutches steeply and stopped Zhou Yu, who was about to go, and changed her words: "Forget it, the night is heavy, Eleven Niang has just gotten better, and she has been punished by kneeling in the hall, let her rest well, don't bother anymore!" ”

The tense nerves of Shihua were relaxed, and her heart was also shocked, thinking of what Eleven Niang said when she taught her to do this.

"Lady, if the old lady doesn't believe what the slave said, what if she wants to question you?"

"She won't, the old lady is also a person who believes in the Tao of the Heavenly Master, and for her, a person who understands the art of Xuanyi is a rare treasure, and since she has obtained this treasure, she will not spread it everywhere, because the more people who know, the more people will rob."

So the old lady doesn't want more people to know that Eleven Niang knows the art of Xuanyi, right?

Shihua looked up at the old lady, and saw that the old lady was thoughtful, and paused for a while before he ordered Zhang again: "Then you don't go to check quickly, immediately send an order down, and send people to search in each courtyard to see who has been stabbed by the bamboo tip!" ”