Chapter 654: The beautiful woman is imprisoned
The testimony of my own sister! Exposed her lies!
Everyone looked at Zhu Liuran with blazing eyes, and her pretty face was red and white for a while, which made people feel even more suspicious. At this time, the conversation between the two brothers attracted the attention of many people.
"Brother, after you and your third sister finished talking in the garden, didn't you also go to the East Chamber?" Peng gradually spoke without thinking, and actually drew the fire to his own brother.
Peng Shi frowned for a moment before he replied: "I received a post that said, 'If you have something to discuss, please be sure to come over, cut it', and the payment is Niu Wenlan." I thought twice about it, so I went anyway. After he finished speaking, the faces of Fake Angelica and Zhen Bai Yangbai were immediately a little excited, because he also received a similar post, so he went to Niu Wenlan's room.
Peng gradually said in shock: "Could it be that the murderer is you, brother!" If you didn't try to be rude, you burned Niu Wenlan to death! ”
Peng Shiku made a face, stretched out his strong arm, and pressed Peng Yan's surprised face to the wall hard, before turning around and explaining to the people who had been holding their ears high: "When I went, I didn't see Niu Wenlan at all, I only saw Zhu Liuran's back in the distance, and I vaguely saw Li Xianqian walking into He Angelica's room, that's all, and then I left, and the mother-in-law behind me clicked and locked the door." I still have that invitation, but I don't know if this font is Niu Wenlan's own words. ”
As he spoke, he took out a flower and snow note invitation from his bosom, and I don't know what incense was smoked on it, it was sweet and greasy, and everyone in the room smelled it.
The maid handed the invitation to Lord Geng Bingxiu, and he asked Zhu Gutan to identify it, Zhu Gutan shook his head and said, "No, these words are too beautifully written, and they are definitely not Miss Niu's words." ”
There was another fragrant breeze wafting outside the door, and it turned out that a few grandmothers had called lotus root, fragrant mushroom, and pampas grass for questioning. Geng Bingxiu's face couldn't see joy and anger, and his voice slowly crept out between his teeth: "Your master said that she was in the room for two hours from the beginning of the first month to the end of the year, have any of you seen it?" ”
Pu Cao said sincerely: "The slave maid was not serving in the East Chamber at that time, so I can't say it, but the county lord didn't know Miss Niu and Li at all, and the slave and maid introduced her at the tea banquet, so the slave and maid believed ......."
"You just say you didn't see it, adults don't care what you believe." Xu Siniang sneered.
The lotus root twisted the corners of her clothes and said worriedly: "Although the slave and maid are in the east chamber, they are embroidering in the room far away from the county lord's room, and they are sleepy in the afternoon, and it is already dark when they wake up. ”
"Sleeping from mid-afternoon till dark?" After hearing this, Gao Jue wrinkled his brows, pointed out the window and said, "You go and see her!" ”
A black shadow jumped in outside the window, coldly grabbed the wrist of the lotus root, and frightened her into shouting twice, "Big master, spare your life!" When I came back to my senses, I found that it was an extremely clear-looking man, about thirty years old, with small and focused eyes, a thin and straight nose, and thin lips pursed into a straight line, as if he was listening to her pulse. The lotus root has never been touched by a strange man, which made her blush, buried her head in her chest, and didn't dare to come out.
When he was young, the man in black succinctly left a sentence: "Mandala pollen, aconitum is a sweat medicine." Then, the same way flew away through the front door and window.
He Angelica peeking at the back door window, there is a huge door, how can that person jump out of the window? is also dressed in black, cherishing words like gold, it is simply the second most superb, but the appearance is not as heroic as Gao Jue.
Geng Bingxiu looked at the confused lotus root, and judged: "Someone thought she was in the way, and fed her sweat medicine." Niu Wenlan died at the beginning of the year, when she was still sleeping. If her testimony is correct, the person who was related to this servant and was in the East Chamber at the time should be the prisoner. ”
Listening to this directionality, coupled with Niu Wenlan's testimony, the prisoner who was about to come out was He Angelica. Duan Xiaolou said disapprovingly: "Killing people is about motives, no one will kill a person who has nothing to do with them, or start with the interpersonal relationship of the deceased, and you will definitely be able to find clues." ”
Gao Jue pointed to the third maid Xiangzhi, and said in a deep voice: "Have you ever seen your young lady in the room?" Have you ever seen her out of the room? ”
He Angelica looked at Xiangzhi coldly, and Bai Yangbai said that the fake He Angelica he pretended to be received an invitation from Xiangzhi and went to Niu Wenlan's room. You should ask Peng Shi again, who gave his invitation, and you can find out who is behind Xiangzhi. Thinking of this, He Angelica pulled Meng Xuan's ears and instructed him with a warm air: "You tell Bai Yangbai in a secret voice, and let him ask in public who gave him Peng Shi's invitation." ”
Meng Xuan held the beautiful woman's slender waist with one hand, and was full of the warm fragrance of Zhilan, and smirked happily: "Okay." ”
He Angelica was angry when he saw him so lazy and a little stupid, and twisted the flesh on his waist through his clothes, and found that it was so hard that he couldn't twist it. Meng Xuan hurriedly grabbed her little hand and led her to find the softest place on his body, and He Angelica was ashamed to withdraw it...... The two were in a quarrel, only to hear a terrible scream in the room, and they both looked in shock.
The scream came from Xiangzhi's mouth, and she held her head in pain and screamed twice, and then, a large amount of black blood flowed from her eyes, nostrils, and mouth, staining her beautiful and fair face miserably. At first, it was only black blood, but after half a moment, the black blood rushed out of the eyeballs and tongue, and rolled down the clothes to the ground.
A room full of delicate owners, the two Miss Zhu, Concubine Fang and those little maids, who has ever seen such a scene? Immediately, the two teenage girls were scared, and the other women were also screaming.
Meng Xuan was stunned at first, but when she turned around, she found that He Angelica couldn't take her eyes off it, her lips were pale, she was busy covering her eyes, and she clicked on her sleeping hole. Feeling the delicate body lying softly on his chest, the alertness and sharpness disappeared, only a slow snort remained, Meng Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, hugged He Angelica into an empty room not far away, settled her on an embroidered bed to lie down, and came back to listen to the situation inside.
The corpse is being collected in the front hall, and it is the body of Xiangzhi. There are more than half of the women standing, only Zhu Liuran, Zhu Gutan and Xu Siniang are left, and then there are a few grandmothers. Of course, Bai Yangbai's fake Angelica can't go.
Meng Xuan walked straight in, looked at Gao Jue, and asked, "How did you die?" ”
"Poison, she's poisoned." Gao Jue frowned and said, "This is not a poison that can be bought in a pharmacy, I have dealt with thousands of poisoning cases, but there are only three cases of poisoning. Looking at it this way, the poisoner also calculated the time, let the maid finish her work, and then poisoned her life with Gu. ”
"Let her finish her work?" Meng Xuan raised his eyebrows and repeated.
Gao Jue nodded and said, "Peng Shi has already recognized that the dead maid is the one who sent the invitation to him to find Niu Wenlan." The handwriting on the invitation, after careful identification, is very similar to He Angelica's left-handed handwriting. ”
Meng Xuan took the invitation and looked at it, and sure enough, it was He Angelica's left-handed handwriting, if someone imitated the handwriting, then this one would be too similar. And the strangest thing is that not many people know that He Angelica can write smoothly with both hands, and even fewer people have seen her left-hand handwriting. But there are four of them here: Meng Xuan, Duan Xiaolou, Gao Jue and Peng Jian, all of whom have seen her left-handed letters.
Peng gradually looked incredulous, not believing that all this was done by He Angelica, and even that maid was poisoned by He Angelica...... No, these things are so smooth, who is secretly controlling all this?
In the end, Geng Bingxiu groaned and said: "There is no way, now all the evidence points to the county lord of Qingning, so I have to temporarily detain her." She is a member of the royal family, and she cannot be imprisoned in ordinary prisons, so she must immediately send a letter to Dali Temple, let them vacate a single room, and let the county lord temporarily go in and live for a few days. ”
"Nope." Duan Xiaolou said, "Again, she has no motive to kill." ”
Fake He Angelica showed a touched expression, and said with flickering tears: "Brother Duan, it's still your best, woo woo." Duan Xiaolou was stunned, and Meng Xuan squinted dangerously.
Not to be outdone, Peng gradually grabbed his brother's collar and asked angrily, "Did you frame the third sister?" At dinner I saw you eye-to-eye with her, and after the meal you went to the garden one after the other. Later, you said that you received an invitation and went to the East Chamber, but no one saw you until the fire started! You've got time to commit the crime! In order to rescue He Angelica, he even sold his own brother.
"Oh?" His words attracted Gao Jue's attention, and Lian asked, "Meet in the garden after dinner?" Peng Shiyue's Angelica? When was that? ”
Pu Cao explained: "There are only two meals a day in the palace, lunch and dinner, which are earlier than the meal time of ordinary people, and the dinner is finished in Shenshi, at that time, the slave maid did see Young Master Peng...... Glancing at the dinner table. ”
Peng Shi took back his collar from his younger brother's hand, and said coldly: "I have already made it clear what I said about Angelica, and there is nothing to hide, but just talk about the past, you can ask her if there is anything suspicious in the conversation." ”
Peng gradually asked in disbelief: "Reminiscence?" What do you have to talk about? ”
"As for after going to the East Chamber," Peng Shi said to himself, "I went to the library of the palace, and all the scholars there could testify for me. ”
Immediately, two subordinates of the official clothes went to check and brought back a positive answer. During the time of the crime, Peng Shiren left the library building when there was a lot of noise.
Of course, Peng gradually didn't believe that his brother would do murder and arson, but he just wanted Peng Shi to be a suspect for a while, and to exchange He Angelica to avoid the pain of prison. Unexpectedly, Peng Shi didn't know how to do anything at all, and he didn't even know how to do anything to protect his sister.
At this time, the man in black who flew in and out of the window just now said coldly at the window: "The case of Niu Wenlan's death is confusing, and at the same time, the death of the county lord of Xiancao is still unclear. The suspicion of the county lord of Duran also exists, and she, like the county lord of Qingning, has to go back to Dali Temple until we find more clues. ”
Geng Bingxiu bowed his head and said, "Very much." ”
Zhu Liuran wiped away her tears silently, speechless. Zhu Guqin was in a corner that no one could see, quietly revealing a slight joy. At the same time, Xu Siniang's face was solemn, and she couldn't tell whether she was happy or dissatisfied, only the dark fire beating in the depths of her eyes poured out her truest thoughts at the moment.
For a while, both He Angelica and Zhu Liuran were placed under house arrest in the back room, waiting for the prisoner car from Dali Temple to pick them up. And Duan Xiaolou, who has always been very protective of He Angelica, didn't say a word, and after a while, he turned around and walked out of the house. A corner of hunting clothes flashed in the night wind, and the man had gone far away.
Meng Xuan used the secret sound technique to tell the fake He Angelica a few words, let him eat in prison for a few days, and he would specially arrange his best treatment in prison, and then, Meng Xuan went back to the empty house just now and wanted to take He Angelica away.
When I lifted the curtain on the bed, there was no one in the quilt!