One of the tall and thin guards nodded and said, "What the military advisor said is true, it is Cui'er. ”

"Cui'er is dead? How could this happen by such a coincidence? Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and thought for a while, then finally raised his head and asked, "How did Cui'er fall into the well?" Tell me slowly. ”

"Yes. Qi Yu Guogong, we have carefully observed the surroundings, there is no trace of push-pull fighting, if the subordinates speculate correctly, I am afraid that Cui'er jumped into the well by herself. The tall and thin guard pondered for a moment, and then spoke out what was on his mind.

"Hmm. The public of the country has its own measure, so go down. Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand a little anxiously and sent the two guards down.

"Guogong, what do you think about this matter?" Chu Liuyan slowly stepped forward and asked Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it, looked at Ma Xiuying, who was unconscious on the bed, and said: "This matter is very complicated, and there are many suspicious things. Although I always think that Cui'er's death is a coincidence, but if I think about it carefully, could it be that Cui'er has something to do with Mrs. Die's death, and I am afraid that she will be traced to her, so she committed suicide in fear of sin? ”

Chu Liuyan saw that Zhu Yuanzhang had a preconceived idea and decided that Cui'er was committing suicide, so he remained silent. She always felt that this matter was full of suspicions, everything happened too coincidentally, and as for Cui'er's death, it was not as simple as committing suicide in fear of sin. Since Cui'er would commit suicide in fear of sin, why was she involved in this matter in the first place? What's more, she is one of the most powerful maids around Ma Xiuying, and she has always been trusted by Ma Xiuying, so it stands to reason that she will not do anything unfavorable to Ma Xiuying.

Chu Liuyan comforted Zhu Yuanzhang a few more words, and also said goodbye and walked out. The more she thought about it, the more it was not so simple, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt as if someone was manipulating her behind it. Since Li Ningluo entered the mansion, a lot of things have happened in the Guogong Mansion one after another, is everything just a coincidence?

Still is..... Everything was carefully arranged by someone to deliberately lead them into the urn? Chu Liuyan stood in the courtyard for a long time, she always felt that everything was like a well-knit net, and all the people were slowly being encircled in this big net, which blocked the sky and blinded people's hearts.

Chu Liuyan was stunned, and two maids walked over from the garden path beside her. The two maids didn't find Chu Liuyan's whereabouts, they were whispering, and one of them said: "Cui'er is giggling on weekdays, and she can't tell that she doesn't want to live, why did she die suddenly?" It makes people feel cold in their hearts when they think about it. ”

"Isn't it? Guogong didn't doubt this matter, it is said that Miss Chu didn't say anything, Mrs. Ma was poisoned again, who would dare to ask privately? It's just that poor Cui'er is really wronged. Yesterday, she also told me that she had saved her brother in her hometown and got married, and she couldn't go back to congratulate her, so she asked me to find my cousin to help her take out the dozens of taels of silver she had saved out to give her brother the most congratulatory gift. When the two of us were talking, I still felt that this little girl had the heart to marry. Who knows how to say no today. If you want to say that Cui'er committed suicide, I don't believe it. ”

The two maids were talking to me, and as they were talking, one of them suddenly looked up and saw Chu Liuyan, and immediately turned pale with fright, and the tray in her hand fell to the ground with a "snap", and she only called out: "Miss Chu." ”

The other maid had her back to Chu Liuyan, not knowing that Chu Liuyan had come, so she smiled and said, "Don't worry, Miss Chu is not here, we said that she wouldn't know." You don't have to worry too much. Besides, if Miss Chu knows, maybe she can still administer justice for Cui'er. ”

"Well, but Miss Chu is right behind you......" said the frightened maid, who was a little nervous.

The maid said "ah", hurriedly turned around, and saw Chu Liuyan. Chu Liuyan said: "You two don't have to be nervous, I just overheard your conversation and asked as usual." You can rest assured that you will tell the truth. I will not embarrass you. ”

The two maids looked at Chu Liuyan, glanced at each other again, nodded vigorously and agreed.

"Okay, I'm going to ask you now, do you all think Cui'er's death is suspicious?" Chu Liuyan thought for a while and asked.

"Yes, Miss Chu," replied one of the maids, "and we don't dare to hide it from Miss Chu, we all don't think Cui'er is committing suicide." First, she is trusted by Mrs. Ma on weekdays, and secondly, Cui'er's temperament does not look like a suicide person. Merely...... That's what we little sisters think. ”

Chu Liuyan asked some Fu Cui'er in detail if she had ever made a feud with someone, and a maid said: "Cui'er has a lively personality, does not remember people's grudges, and is very compatible with people." ”

However, another maid said: "If it is said that there is a grudge, there is no revenge, but the maids under the various masters in the mansion are a little-for-tat, I remember that Cui'er seems to have had a dispute with the maid under Mrs. Li, who has recently been favored by the Duke of Wu." ”

Before the maid's voice fell, the maid next to her reached out and beat her, and the girl who spoke was stunned, and immediately seemed to remember something, nodded at Chu Liuyan in a hurry, and hurriedly walked over.

In such a situation, Chu Liuyan knew that if he chased after him and asked for details, the maid might not be willing to talk about it, and if he couldn't ask about it, there was no need to delay others. However, Chu Liuyan felt that this matter was not trivial, and he had to treat the two maids well, so he stepped forward and chased after the two maids.

"Thank you. If Cui'er really didn't commit suicide, I would definitely find out. After speaking, Chu Liuyan warned the two maids again that they must not tell others that they felt that Cui'er was not committing suicide, so as not to incur the disaster of killing. The two maids agreed in unison, and she continued to walk forward.

She thought about it as she walked, and after thinking for a while, Chu Liuyan turned her head and walked towards the well that the guards had pointed out, and when she arrived, she found that Cui'er's body had been fished up, but it had not yet been buried, and the two guards she had seen were guarding it.

When the guard saw Chu Liuyan, he was slightly stunned and asked, "I don't know if Miss Chu is here, I don't know what the important thing is?" ”

"There's something going on." Chu Liuyan said: "Cui'er's corpse, have you checked it?" ”

"Back to the military advisor, Cui'er's body was examined by the maid, and no suspicious phenomena were found. It's just that Cui'er fell into the well and broke her head. ”

With the consent of the two guards, Chu Liuyan carefully checked Cui'er's body, but found nothing unusual. I can't help but feel very lost in my heart, it could be that Cui'er really died of fear of sin.

Chu Liuyan pondered for a moment, and said to the two guards: "Okay, you can take me to the side of the well now to see if there is anything abnormal." ”

The two guards agreed, and led Chu Liuyan to the front. Soon, the three of them came to the well. The stone well is located in the backyard, in a relatively remote corner, the well is made of stone, and the mouth of the well is facing the sky, like an invisible mouth, ready to devour the world at any time.

There is some moss next to the stone well, and the road is a little slippery. Chu Liuyan carefully observed the moss, but could not find any traces of a second person stepping on it. There are usually not many people next to this stone well, if Cui'er is really killed, then it stands to reason that the moss next to the well should have traces of crime.

Is it really my own guess that I am wrong? Chu Liuyan couldn't help but be a little suspicious of his thoughts. However, although the facts she saw in front of her made her think impossible, in her subconscious, she always felt that this matter was not so simple. So, she took a closer look at the moss.

When one of the guards saw her observing the moss, he stepped forward and said, "Strategist, this moss is newly planted, and it wasn't like this when we came." ”

"The moss is freshly planted?" Chu Liuyan secretly said in his heart: "No wonder. ”

"Yes. When we found Cui'er's body, it made a mess next to the stone well. At that time, the steward of the house said that he would send a florist to repair it. I really didn't expect that their speed was really fast, so quickly they went to find so many inconspicuous mosses, and they planted the same as the real thing. ”

Chu Liuyan smiled bitterly: he should have understood a long time ago that this moss could not be free of messy traces. Now I see it so neatly, someone must have done something wrong. As for the traces of the trampling, it must have been trampled on by the gardener.

However, why is a stone well in such a deserted place so much attention, and these wild mosses will be planted by someone, isn't it a little strange?

Chu Liuyan said the question in his heart, and one of the guards replied, "Strategist, you misunderstood. The places where people have died on weekdays are clean and intact according to customs. Failure to do so is disrespectful to the dead. The subordinates didn't think it meant anything special. ”

"Yes." The other guard nodded in agreement, proving that his companion was right.

Now, Chu Liuyan finally felt the trickiness of the matter. Everything is so perfect and seamless, everything is so incomprehensible and flawless, but the more flawless, the more seamless, the more suspicious it is. Because it can only be done well if it is carefully laid out.

Chu Liuyan suddenly thought of something and asked, "By the way, didn't you say that you found Cui'er's bead flower?" Where is the pearl flower now? ”

"Qiqi Military Division, Zhuhua is here with me." One of the guards handed the bead flower to Chu Liuyan. Very small and delicate beaded flowers, nothing special. The only thing special is that the bead flower is very small, maybe it is because of the small size of the bead flower that the person who pushed Cui'er down the well did not find it in the panic.

"Strategist, that's where Zhuhua was found." The guard said, pointing a few feet away from Ishii.

Chu Liuyan looked at Shijing, then at Zhuhua, and immediately asked, "Where did you say Zhuhua was found?" ”

The guard pointed to a certain place on the side, and Chu Liuyan looked at it and was very suspicious. The place where the bead flower fell was too far away, which was really strange.

After looking at it for a while, Chu Liuyan decided to go back to the house first and explain the matter to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Chu Liuyan returned to Ma Xiuying's residence, and he was still suspicious of Cui'er's murder.

From Cui'er's body, there are no signs of injury, but this is also the strangest part. If Cui'er really committed suicide, why did the bead flower on her head fall there, there were no branches or other things in the courtyard, and it should not be a branch that swept the bead flower to the ground.

If it weren't for that, Cui'er's death would be very suspicious.

Chu Liuyan vaguely felt that this matter was very suspicious, and it was not something that could be thought of clearly for a while. If Cui'er did not commit suicide, someone must have deliberately harmed her.

In this way, things are a little complicated and unpredictable, and there is still no trace of who poisoned Ma Xiuying's Biluochun at the moment. Originally, I planned to find some clues on Cui'er's body, but now that Cui'er is dead, this matter is like a broken pearl chain.

Walking to the door of Ma Xiuying's house, it was suddenly dark.

A light is like a bean, full of slaughter and desolation.

Chu Liuyan found that someone had already stepped down some secret whistles outside Ma Xiuying's residence, and he was shocked.

But he soon understood that these secret posts must have been ordered by Zhu Yuanzhang, and in addition to these secret posts, Chu Liuyan also found that there were a lot more patrolling soldiers. I don't know if this is also what Wu Guogong Zhu Yuanzhang meant.

Chu Liuyan moved inside, only to find that Zhu Yuanzhang had not left, only to see Ma Xiuying's bedside, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was alone, sitting motionless beside Ma Xiuying, and I don't know how long it took.

Seeing this situation, Chu Liuyan was reluctant to step forward to stir things up. I had to walk lightly to the side of the bookcase, wanting to take out the list of medicinal materials I had prescribed during the day and hand it over to the maid in the house, which was fully prepared.

Chu Liuyan knew that if Cui'er was really harmed, the other party would definitely have bad intentions, and since he would attack Ma Xiuying, Xu Biyi's situation would not be much better.

What's more, Xu Biyi lost her son, and her heart hurt, not to mention that she didn't have the consciousness to protect herself. If Xu Biyi is allowed to fall into the hands of the opponent, won't her life be in danger.

Chu Liuyan wanted to take out the medicine list first, and try to get more medicinal materials first, so that Xu Biyi, who was in a trance and seemed to be seriously ill and didn't know it, could be regarded as living up to Xu Da's intention to earnestly obey the instructions before this invitation.

Chu Liuyan came to the side of the bookcase lightly, looked at Ma Xiuying and Zhu Yuanzhang with a face, and reached out to get the list of medicinal materials on the bookcase.

I could only hear the sound of "Peng", and an object fell from the table with a loud bang.

Chu Liuyan couldn't help but spit out his tongue, knowing that he had made a mistake, when Chu Liuyan was writing the book list during the day, he took a copper lion paperweight on the Bogu shelf and used it, and then the guards reported that Cui'er was killed in the well, Chu Liuyan went with the guards to find out, and naturally he didn't take care of the things in the study.

There was only a little lamp at the head of Ma Xiuying's bed in the room, and the room was extremely dim, and Chu Liuyan didn't see that the paperweight was still on the paper, so he took the copper lion paperweight down as soon as he smoked it.

"Who's here?" Zhu Yuanzhang reacted extremely quickly, and when he heard that there was something wrong in the room, he shouted.

I heard a commotion outside the house, and soon several guards rushed in through the door and window.

"Wu Guogong, not an outsider, it's me." Chu Liuyan replied to Zhu Yuanzhang, and someone among the guards had already lit a torch.

Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of the firelight, took a closer look, and said softly: "It turned out to be the Chu military division, and the national prince thought that someone had bad intentions, but he didn't expect that it was the Chu military division who went and returned, and it was a false alarm." ”

As he spoke, he waved his hand to the guards who had already rushed into the room, indicating that there was nothing important here, and there was no need for them to serve in front of him.

The guards followed Zhu Yuanzhang for a long time, and naturally understood his intentions. Only one person in the center could hear a shout, and in a moment the people who had just broken the door and broken the window retreated very quickly.

In the blink of an eye, it was as if no guards had entered, and the room was darkened.

Chu Liuyan saw the guards rushing in in response, and then dispersed, but the change in the rabbit fell was only for a moment, and he couldn't help but applaud secretly, feeling that Zhu Yuanzhang's arrangement was extremely meticulous and thoughtful, and it could suddenly occur as soon as there was a change in the situation.

It can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang, the Duke of Wu, really put a lot of thought into it.

Seeing that the footsteps of the guards were quietly gone, and after the guards in the palace disappeared, Chu Liuyan turned his face, smiled at Zhu Yuanzhang and said, "It seems that Wu Guogong still values Mrs. Ma very much, and he can be so well-guarded." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help sighing and said: "Chu Junshi's words are not a joke for his own father, but his own prince also knows that he has indeed snubbed Cunjing these days, and he is really guilty. Speaking of which, the national duke is still a little ashamed of his clumsiness. ”

Chu Liuyan listened to Zhu Yuanzhang's sigh, and already understood that Zhu Yuanzhang's arrangement was very related to the guilt of Ma Xiuying in his heart.

At present, Wu Guogong Zhu Yuanzhang is not this kind of person, and he can't help but be favored by the beautiful Li Ningluo, but he has never forgotten Ma Xiuying. At present, it seems that Wu Guogong is willing to bother to design and protect Ma Xiuying's residence, and he still has a lot of affection for Ma Xiuying, not a person who likes the new and hates the old, and sings and lustful.

Chu Liuyan sighed in his heart, feeling that Zhu Yuanzhang, a green-skinned hooligan who had been a low-voiced and a scoundrel since he was a child, could be like this, which was also commendable.

One day husband and wife, even if the combination of Ma Xiuying and Zhu Yuanzhang has an unsatisfactory beginning, and even some irony, it is not what the world often says. However, after a long time, Zhu Yuanzhang still does not abandon Ma Xiuying, and on this basis, Zhu Yuanzhang can also be called a good husband.

Chu Liuyan thought of this, his face was slightly red, and he secretly blamed himself and said, "What's wrong today, why did you suddenly comment on this matter." ”