"Who else is there in this courtyard besides you and your father?"

"Also... and Zhou's mother", Li Xiaoling sobbed and said intermittently, "She is the only maid in my family, and she lives in the West Wing." ”

The corpse was quickly handed over, the time of death was around the ugly hour of last night, an arrow was fatal, and it was a short-distance arrow, and the person who shot the arrow would not be more than two feet away from the deceased.

Nie Xiaohu came to the outside of the study again, and stared at the small hole facing the window, the height of the small hole was about one meter six, and the place two zhang away from the window happened to be at the root of the wall, and there was a small door next to it, and there was no lock on the door.

There are a lot of footprints going in and out on the ground at the small door, adults, children, men, and women, Nie Xiaohu sighed lightly and shook his head slightly.

"Although the distance is not far, in the middle of the night, if you can shoot an arrow through the pane to hit the target, this person should be a master of archery," Cao Xiaohui whispered beside Nie Xiaohu.

"Hmm", Nie Xiaohu nodded lightly.

"Does your father have any enemies?" , Nie Xiaohu looked at Li Xiaoling and asked.

"Enemies? Didn't you? At least I've never heard of it," Li Xiaoling shook her head.

"Did you hear anything last night?"

"No, I'm sleeping in the bedroom on the second floor, I've been missing sleep lately, and I sleep until dawn every day, and I sleep very deeply, and I don't hear anything."

"You're Mother Zhou?" , Nie Xiaohu turned to look at a middle-aged woman standing with Li Xiaoling.

"The slave family is", Zhou's mother replied carefully.

"How many years have you been here?"

"Back to adults, the slave family has been working here for almost twenty years, Xiaoling, this child is something I grew up watching, what a hard-working child, my father and mother are gone, she is only sixteen years old this year!" After speaking, tears flowed out, and Li Xiaoling also cried infectedly, and gently snuggled in Zhou's mother's arms.

"Did you hear anything last night?"

"I didn't come back to live last night, I cleaned up after dinner and went to see my daughter, she just gave birth half a month ago, is in confinement, I stayed with her last night, and came back before dawn this morning."

"How many keys are there on that door?" , Nie Xiaohu pointed to the small door and asked.

"There are four keys in total," Zhou's mother looked at the door.

"Four? So much? ”

"Yes! It's easy to get in and out! Zhou's mother nodded, "The master, the me, and the two apprentices of the master each have one." ”

"Two apprentices?" , Nie Xiaohu's brows were furrowed.

"Hmm", Zhou's mother nodded and said, "One is called Hu Mingquan and the other is Hong Jincheng, both young men in their twenties!" ”

"Where are they? Why isn't it here? ”

"They haven't arrived yet, but it's almost there", Zhou's mother looked up at the sky.

"That's right! I remember! Li Xiaoling suddenly broke free from Zhou's mother's arms, as if she remembered something.

"What?" , Nie Xiaohu asked suspiciously.

"I remember! Just a few days ago, Senior Brother Hu didn't have enough silver bracelets for others, and my father found out that there was tin in them, so he scolded him severely, and said that he would be kicked out next time, breaking the master-apprentice relationship, and he had a grudge against my father! ”

"Where do they both live?" , Nie Xiaohu frowned and thought about it and asked.

"Not far away, they live in a courtyard, a total of two rooms, one of them lives in one, just on the street to the south, only a quarter of an hour's walk from here, and that yard is also the master's," Zhou's mother said.

Nie Xiaohu thought for a moment and asked, "What happened yesterday, why is your master still in the study so late?" ”

"I don't know about this", Zhou's mother shook her head.

"What about you?"

"I don't know either", Li Xiaoling also shook her head.

"But yesterday afternoon, the old man seemed to be very angry, and I don't know why", Zhou's mother added.

"Oh? How do you know he's angry? ”

"Yesterday afternoon, when I went out to buy vegetables and came back, I heard the old man talking loudly in the study, as if he was reprimanding someone, and he didn't give them a good face when he finished eating."

"They? Who else? ”

"It's Hu Mingquan and Hong Jincheng!"

"Are they eating dinner here, too?"

"That's not it," Zhou's mother shook her head and said, "It's just that yesterday was Miss's sixteenth birthday, and the two of them stayed to celebrate together." ”

"When did they leave?"

"After dinner, they went back, around midnight!" , Zhou's mother thought about it.

"Mother Zhou, junior sister", at this time, a handsome young man walked in, looking completely stunned.

"Senior Brother Hong", Li Xiaoling said hello and hugged the kitten to greet her.

"Wait, you know I get a rash all over my body when I touch a cat", Hong Jincheng waved his hands and took two steps back.

"Oh, I forgot", Li Xiaoling bent down and put the kitten on the ground.

"Bai Xue, let's play by myself", Li Xiaoling pushed the kitten, and the white kitten walked away lazily.

"Senior sister, what's going on, why are there so many catches?" , The young man walked up to Li Xiaoling's side and asked in a low voice.

"Senior Brother Hong, my father ...... him", Li Xiaoling couldn't help crying again as she spoke, making Hong Jincheng at a loss for a while, and he didn't know what to do.

"What's your name?" , Nie Xiaohu stared at Hong Jincheng and asked.

"Back to the adult, the villain's name is Hong Jincheng", Hong Jincheng replied cautiously.

"You are Li Shunzhang's apprentice?"

"It's the master's second apprentice", Hong Jincheng nodded, "My lord, is something wrong?" ”

"Your master, he was shot to death with an arrow in the study last night", Nie Xiaohu stared at Hong Jincheng's face, capturing every subtle change on his face.

"What!?" , Hong Jincheng seemed to be completely stunned, the whole person seemed to be electrocuted, and his body shook violently.

"Senior sister, is this true?"

Li Xiaoling cried and nodded.

"Master! ~~~", Hong Jincheng raised his head and yelled, and then knelt on the ground crying.

"What's going on?"

At this time, another young man walked in, looking at everything in the courtyard, with a puzzled and shocked expression on his face.