"That can't be!" Shi Yuning interjected on the side, "We have brothers guarding here last night, if someone comes down from the tree, we will definitely find it." ”

Nie Xiaohu squatted on the fork of the tree and squinted his eyes to look carefully, when suddenly a few leaves with something black on them caught his attention.

Nie Xiaohu picked off a leaf with a black substance, and the leaves still had morning dew on them, and twisted them with his hand, and his thumb and index finger were immediately stained with a lot of black things, Nie Xiaohu sniffed it, and it smelled a little.

"Got it!" , Nie Xiaohu sneered.

"Are all the people of the Shen family together?" , Nie Xiaohu asked after coming down.

"Tiger head, all together, all in the front hall!" , Shi Yuning said.

"Last night, the musicians and singers were on one side, and the others were on the other," Nie Xiaohu said to a group of male servants and maids in the front hall.

Soon, all the subordinates were automatically divided into two teams, standing on the left and right sides.

"First of all, what I want to tell you is that Master Shen was not killed by a ghost, but by someone pretending to be a ghost!"

As soon as Nie Xiaohu said this, all the people in the hall exploded and chattered.

"Quiet!" , Shi Yuning let out a loud shout.

"Mrs. Zhao", Nie Xiaohu looked at Zhao who was sitting on the side with red eyes and asked, "Do you know that Master Shen has any enemies?" ”

Zhao shook his head at first, and then nodded heavily, as if he had made up his mind.

"Yes!" Zhao pointed to one of the people standing in the line on the left with his hand and said, "It's him, Mr. Jin Manpo!" ”

Nie Xiaohu looked in the direction of Zhao's finger, and saw an old man about fifty years old, his body trembling, and his face twitched unnaturally a few times.

"Anyway, the master has been killed, and I will be released today!" , Zhao glared at the old man, and stood up abruptly to speak.

"It's him, he once blackmailed my lord a few days ago, and he asked him to give him two hundred taels of silver, otherwise he would hand over the evidence of the lord's false accounts and tax evasion!"

"Oh?" , Nie Xiaohu was happy when he heard it, "Jin Manpo, is there such a thing?" ”

Jin Manpo didn't speak, and nodded with a panicked expression.

"Where were you last night?"

"He wasn't at home last night, all the subordinates were there, and no one knew where he was if he wasn't there?!" , Zhao said angrily, "Maybe he did it!" When he saw that he couldn't blackmail the master, he became murderous! After speaking, Zhao began to cry again.

"I really wasn't at home last night, and I... I...", Jin Manpo stammered.

"I'll ask one last time, where were you last night?" , Nie Xiaohu said coldly.

"I... I'm in Cuihong Courtyard", Jin Manpo lowered his head and whispered, his face flushed.

"Emerald Red Temple? Isn't that a green house? ”

"What a shameless one!"

"Is the old guy okay? Hahahaha! ”

There was another burst of chatter.

"Quiet!" , Shi Yuning glared.

"Who can prove it?" , Nie Xiaohu asked.

"Little... Xiao Cui can prove it", Jin Manpo muttered, his voice almost inaudible.

"Xiaohui, you send someone to the Emerald Red Courtyard."

"Got it, Brother Tiger!"

"What's your name and what do you do in the Shen family?" , Nie Xiaohu looked at the first person in the row on the left and asked.

"Master Hui, the little one's name is Shi Qizheng, and he grabbed medicine in front of the counter."

"Where were you last night?"

"After closing last night, I took inventory at the counter, but I always couldn't check the account, so I was delayed for some time, and I didn't go to the backyard until the fireworks were off."

"Is the account right?" , Nie Xiaohu asked casually.

"No, the strychnine has three dollars less, but the angelica has three more dollars, I can't think of what is wrong after thinking about it?"

Shi Qizheng shook his head and said: "Nux is highly poisonous, if it is stolen, it is better not to lose your life." ”

"What about you?" , Nie Xiaohu asked the second person again.

"Back to the official, we were all serving guests in the backyard last night, and we didn't go anywhere", the young man next to Shi Qizheng glanced at the others and said, and everyone else nodded.

"What about you?" , Nie Xiaohu looked at the first person in the row on the right.

"Back to the official, the slave maid is called Yuhe, and I sang last night's little song", the maid Yuhe bowed and said softly.

"Slave ** peach, she plays the pipa", the maid next to Yuhe continued.

"The slave's name is Dongmei, and she plays the kite."

"The little one is called Shunfu, and it's a."

"The little one is called rich, and he plays the flute."

Nie Xiaohu nodded, his eyes were fixed on Laicai's body like a poisonous snake, this was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy, with clear eyebrows, fair skin, and a pair of bright eyes revealing an aura, which looked very clever.

"How are your hair and eyebrows scorched?" , Nie Xiaohu asked coldly.

"Oh, that's right," Laicai said unhurriedly, "I was playing the flute last night, and after Yuhe sang two little songs, the old man called someone to set off fireworks behind the tree, and while everyone was watching the fireworks, the ghost appeared, still holding a knife in his hand."

In a hurry, I rushed up to protect the master, but I saw a puff of white smoke rise, followed by a fire, and I happened to rush into the fire, but the ghost disappeared, and I saw the old man fall to the ground, with a knife stuck in his chest, and my hair and eyebrows should have been burned at that time. ”

"Oh? Are you really brave enough to catch even a ghost? ”

"The lord is very good to me on weekdays, I didn't think about it that much at the time, I just thought that the lord would be in danger, so I rushed up."

Nie Xiaohu nodded, looked at the wealth with appreciation, and then turned around and looked at the man and woman beside the Zhao family.

"What about the two of you?"