"Rui'er, go and ask the eldest lady! - And by the way, the old lady! ”

Liuli made a decision immediately. Ice @ Fire! Chinese.

Rui'er came back to her senses and immediately got up and rushed out the door. Mama Li hurriedly stepped forward to stop and said, "I'm afraid it's not good to alarm the old lady at this time." As I say—"

"The old lady will be held accountable then, can you be responsible!"

Liuli scolded Mama Li, and immediately frightened her into two steps back.

"How dare you yell at me?!"

Mama Li pointed to the glass, her eyes as big as a gong.

Liuli's face was as cold as ice, she glared back, walked to the bed and looked at Cui Ying's death carefully.

She thought that Cui Ying's worst ending would be to anger the Yu family and be expelled from the mansion, a house slave was expelled from the mansion, and the worst end was nothing more than being abandoned by her parents and family, or promising a lower person as a wife, it was better than death, so she didn't take it to heart. But she didn't expect that they were not prepared to leave a way for Cui Ying to live - if in this case it was said that her death was just an accident, then there would be no conspiracy in this world!

It's just that she doesn't understand, why did the Yu family have to kill Cui Ying?

The corpse in front of him was lying on its back upward, still bent because it had already stiffened, and even its face was slightly distorted. Liuli flipped it inward, and from the outside, it looked like a person usually lying on his side with his legs bent. At this glance, the distorted facial features have become natural.

It seems to have died in his sleep.

Mama Wang and grandma, who were not on duty in the courtyard, also heard the news and rushed over to see the excitement. Ruri looked down the wall around the window and walked back to her room to get dressed.

She ignored Tian'er and Mama Li, Mama Li was reprimanded by her just now, and now she wanted to make up for it, caught up with her and said, "How can the girl just leave?" ”

Liuli turned around and sneered: "I didn't kill the person, do I have to stay and wait for her to ask for her life?" ”

Mama Li choked, her face turned pale.

Liuli freshened up and dressed herself, and Rui'er also returned. She has calmed down a lot after this time, and said to Liuli: "The eldest lady said, but a maid died, I think it was the cold that aggravated the cold, there is nothing to make a fuss about, go back and wait for the corpse to be examined, and let her mother take it back." ”

Liuli frowned, but she didn't expect Yu's attitude.

Rui'er bit her lip and said, "Girl, I don't think that's the case...... Is it really going to be because Cui Ying just died? ”

Liuli was silent for a long time. Suddenly, he thought of something and raised his head: "She must have been dead for a long time, did you find anything abnormal when you went back to the room last night?" ”

Rui'er hurriedly said: "The slave also thinks that she has died a long time ago, because when she returned to the room last night, her posture was exactly the same as this morning, and the doors and windows were closed at that time. We are out of the door, and there are two hours to the time when the slave and maid return to the room, which is enough time for them to start! ”

The more Rui'er talked, the more frightened she became, and by the end she was already shivering. "Also, when the slave and maid returned to the room, Tian'er was not there......"

Liuli's eyes flashed, and then said: "Then I originally asked you to check Cuiying's whereabouts, did you find anything?" ”

Rui'er swallowed her saliva and thought for a while: "She often goes to the main courtyard, and the people she comes into contact with are nothing special. After speaking, he hesitated for a moment, and then said: "It's just that there is something that makes people wonder." There was a butterfly Huasheng on the head of the third lady, which I saw in Cuiying's baggage a few days ago. ”

Liuli didn't care when she first heard it, paused for a moment, and looked at it again in a blink of an eye: "Do you see clearly?" ”

Rui'er said: "It's true! Because the Huasheng was made of gold wire, it was very eye-catching, so the slave was very impressed. It was the day and night before the big day, I added clothes in the room, and it happened that Cui Ying also opened the bag to take underwear, so Huasheng inadvertently rolled down. The slave and maid picked it up and gave it back to her, and she saw it clearly at that time. ”

After listening to this, Liuli sat down on the plum blossom stool, and only exhaled after half a day: "It turned out to be her...... I know! In this way, it is completely clear, no wonder the Yu family wants to kill her! Rui'er didn't understand what she was muttering, so she had to stare at her, and when she stopped, she muttered to herself: "The Qi family will not suffer this loss, the Yu family is not moving, but waiting for the Qi family to move first - you go back to the room quickly, quietly search Cui Ying's things, and bring out all the suspicious things for me, especially that Huasheng!" ”

"Yes, slave and maid are going!"

Rui'er seemed to understand and received the instruction between understanding and not, and she knew that it was very important to listen to the tone, so she immediately turned around and went out.

And Liuli was neatly dressed and stepped out of the door.

Regardless of whether the person who drugged Huanhua was Yu or not, Yu planted such a big heel in front of Qi, and there was enough reason to retaliate. What's interesting is that the Yu family inserted people into the big kitchen, and the Qi family also inserted a Cui Ying by Liuli's side, plus Cui Ying repeatedly provoked Tian'er and Mama Li, Yu didn't take Cui Ying out of anger, it was simply impossible to say. Therefore, there is no doubt about Cui Ying's death, it must be the hand of Mama Li and Tian'er.

At this time, the sky was already bright, the snow was still falling outside, and the news of the death of the small cross-courtyard did not spread as fast as usual, but the garden was not as strict as the front yard.

Mama Li didn't know if she was frightened by this, so she sat silent and her face was unnatural. Tian'er was calm, and after making the stove, she had to go to get breakfast again. It happened that Rui'er had already come out, and secretly nodded at Liuli, and Liuli knew that she had succeeded, so she said: "It's snowing and the road is slippery, Rui'er and Tian'er will go to get food together." The enemy's face changed, and he wanted to refuse, but Rui'er had already gone to the glass room and came back, and quickly picked up the umbrella and came out.

Although the Yu family did not come, they also sent Qian Changsheng's daughter-in-law to come according to the rules.

Liuli entered the house and opened the cloth bag that Rui'er brought out, and then I heard someone come in quickly and say, "Mrs. Qian is here", Liuli hurriedly stuffed the cloth bag under the futon, opened the door and came out.

When I arrived at the bottom of the corridor, I saw a group of people coming in from outside the courtyard gate, headed by a woman in her forties, wearing a purple plain velvet embroidered jacket, covering a sable fur coat, and a flying swallow hairpin on her head. When he entered the door, the people on both sides helped him and said, "Lady, watch your steps." He reached out and brushed off the hanging ice.

As a rule, if a subordinate dies unexpectedly in the house, the stewards will come forward to deal with it, and the chief steward and his wife will personally intervene, and so far the number will not exceed one palm.

Liuli was thinking about the bag of things, and when she saw that the money lady was coming, she had no choice but to respond to it by the side.

The mother-in-law let Mrs. Qian into Cuiying's room and walked around, and came out in a moment. Seeing that there was no good place to sit, he went into each room to search, and finally saw that there was finally an eye-catching carved chair in Mama Li's room, so he immediately moved out and put it behind Mrs. Qian.

Mrs. Qian blew on the surface of the chair before she sat down, and someone found a newly bought jar of Biluochun from the warehouse on Mama Li's table, and hurriedly brewed boiling water on the stove to pay homage.

Qian Niangzi held the tea, frowned and took a sip, raised her head, stood there with her hands in her sleeves without comment, and said busily, "Why don't you invite the ninth girl to sit down?" "Liuli hasn't officially met her since she entered the mansion, so it's really hard for her to recognize her as the Ninth Girl at a glance.

Liuli said humbly: "The lady doesn't have to be polite. It's cold and frozen, and I have to bother the lady to come to take care of the funeral for Cuiying, and Liuli really can't help it. ”

Qian Niangzi said: "This is a matter of duty. Cui Ying is an unusual maid, the old lady sent her to wait for the ninth girl, and now she suddenly died, and we naturally have to give her an explanation to the old man. ”

Hearing her words, Liuli couldn't help but look at her. Qian Niangzi smiled slightly, lowered her head and took another sip of the frowning tea.

Liuli paused for a moment and said, "What the lady said is very true. I wonder when the errand will arrive? ”

"We're already on our way."

Liuli suddenly had a bold conjecture, no matter whether Cui Ying was killed or not, the youngest son of the Qian family was on an errand in the government, in case someone wanted to buy it through him, then it was not something she could predict which direction things would develop, she could think of this, and the Yu family and the Qi family couldn't think of it?

Ruri drummed in her heart and clenched her sleeves to calm herself.

Mrs. Qian instructed the mothers-in-law to take the bed and straw mat to hold Cui Ying's body, and prepared to carry it to the front yard, and at this time, a cry came from far and near at the door, and Cui Ying's mother and brother had already heard the news and rushed over.

While Mrs. Qian got up to deal with it, Liuli quietly returned to the room.

There are three things in the small cloth bag brought out by Rui'er, and there is indeed a familiar butterfly Huasheng with gold wire inlaid with rubies, which is delicate and dazzling, and the glass is vaguely seen on Qi's head. The other is an ebony hairpin for men, with an auspicious cloud-shaped end and engraved with the word "Chen". The last one is two jars of unopened Emei green wrapped together, which Liuli is very familiar with.

She had already guessed that Cui Ying had stolen the tea, and aside from this, the other two fell into the hands of the Yu family, but they were both things that could be used to make a big fuss, and Rui'er was able to get such an important thing back at this juncture, it was really lucky.

However, she still didn't understand what Cui Ying was doing stealing tea? and the plate of tangerines she hid when she first lived in this courtyard, which was also secretly taken out. Even if Cui Ying wants to eat greedily, with her temperament, she also eats it openly, how can she go to the trouble of stealing it out and eating it again? It's not a very expensive thing.

Tian'er once said that Cui Ying's family is on an errand in the house, so she can't even afford to eat cans of tea, who is she doing this for?

Liuli thoughtfully picked up the men's ebony hairpin, looked at it repeatedly for a long time, and found that the lettering on it had been smoothed out a little, and it was likely that it was often rubbed in his hand. Liuli couldn't help but think, could it be that this is another allusion to the dewy mandarin ducks under the melon field and plums?

Just as he was thinking of the entanglement, Qian Changshengjia suddenly pushed the door in.

"Although the maid's life is cheap, it is a human life, and now her family is also here, clamoring to find out her innocence, and after the autopsy is done later, then I will ask the ninth girl to move to the front yard to testify."

This is to invite Ruri to be tried. Mrs. Qian had a light smile on her face, but her back was straight.