Chapter 12: Overheard
Hearing Wen Yukou say that the murderer was found, Dou's face changed drastically.
No one came out of the rockery.
It is a rockery transported from Hainan, mottled and steep, the mountain rocks are craggy, the wind tunnel is like that, the raised stones are like branches, the texture is dry and cautious, the touch is rough and stiff, it is enough to be hugged by ten people, it is huge. Wen Yukou stood in the right corner, stretched out her hand and patted it, and said with a slight smile: "Mrs. Dou, your eyes are so big, do you want to find the murderer?" ”
Dou frowned: "Naturally." Since the eldest lady said that she knows who the murderer is, why bother to make a mystery? The old lady's people are still watching here, and the eldest lady will tease me, even if the old lady doesn't pay attention to it? ”
"Jade Kom didn't dare. I said that I found the murderer because, the rockery is the murderer. ”
As soon as the words fell, the grandmothers beside Mrs. Dou sneered, and even Hua Yue couldn't help but put away her tears and looked at Wen Yukou with a puzzled face.
"Well, I think the eldest lady has just read too many miscellaneous books, so she said some nonsense to amuse us. As long as it doesn't hurt Daya, it's okay, come here, collect Jiaoyue's body, and ask the eldest lady to go back to the room. Dou sneered, thinking that this little girl had really discovered something, but he didn't expect that his mouth was ridiculous and unobtrusive.
"Wait! Why didn't Mrs. Dou listen to me and rush to send me away, wasn't it to cover up something? What if I say that the cause of Jiaoyue's death was not man-made, but something else? Wen Yukou was still unhurried, and fixed to observe every change in the expression on Dou's face.
"Oh, what is the reason, could it be that Jiaoyue was accidentally walking by herself, hit a rockery and fell into the river and drowned? And what about her bloody, broken hand? Miss, although I am your mother-in-law, I shouldn't have said this, but the strict and solid family motto of the Wen Mansion, I hope that the eldest lady can also remember it, don't always think about it. If you can't say anything, please recuse yourself and let the official perform an autopsy to give Jiaoyue justice. ”
The corners of Dou's lips drew a cruel smile, nodded with a handkerchief, shook his head, and quietly glanced somewhere. Wen Yukou was already delicate, so she didn't hide her small actions from herself. The place where Dou looked was the side of the rockery, where there were huge boulders.
Generally, the rockery will be decorated with a few boulder feathers, and the boulder is marble, with excellent color and appearance. And the place where Dou Shi looked clearly had traces of moist water.
"Mrs. Dou is right. The blood stains on Jiao Yue's body were soaked with blood on her head and hands when she struggled, which looked terrifying, but in fact, there was not much blood, not a fatal injury. When we checked, we found that although her clothes were messy, there were no tattered points, and there were no traces of sword piercing, so we ruled out killing by outsiders. And in the shade of the rockery, which is where I found something. Wen Yukou walked to the other side of the rockery, because it was backed by a bamboo forest, it was narrow and crowded, and no one paid attention. She held out her finger, which protruded in one place, and the group approached.
"Ah, blood!"
"It's so bloody, it's terrible...... Look, there are footprints! ”
Some of the young maids looked at the pool of blood, panicked, and almost screamed. Mama Jin glared angrily and scolded a few times before she quieted down, but everyone's eyes invariably looked at Wen Yukou. Obviously, the eldest lady's words are not finished.
"That's right, Jiaoyue hit the rockery here, and her face was destroyed, she must have felt a lot of pain, so she ran out, because her eyes were covered with blood, she couldn't see clearly, and hit this boulder. When she fell to the ground, she subconsciously used her right hand to prop up, because the momentum was too great, and the boulder itself was struck by lightning last year, and the gap was sharp, and Jiaoyue's hand was easily broken. Look, this is it......"
Wen Yukou walked to the boulder that Dou was looking at, she squatted down, touched the water stains, and there seemed to be a rush of happiness in her chest, hearty. If people don't know what to do unless they do it, she was thinking about how to deal with Dou Shi, but she didn't expect Dou Shi to dig a hole for herself, just waiting for her to push it.
"It's just that the boulder was splashed with water and wanted to wash away so much blood...... So here, someone must have been here. ”
"Who is it?" Hua Yue listened attentively and couldn't help but ask.
"Silly Huayue, I wasn't here at the time, how do I know about Lu Dao? Jiaoyue was in a terrible pain, got up from the ground and continued to run, and then fell into the lake, her right hand was broken and she couldn't exert her strength, so the more she struggled, the more hopeless she became, and she gradually sank to the bottom of the lake and drank a lot of water......"
"Jiaoyue was drowned?"
Wen Yukou stood up, looked at the calm lake, and Jiao Yue, who died tragically on the shore, and nodded silently: "Her belly is bulging, her eyes are bulging, and her facial features are bleeding, which is a sign of drowning." If she had been killed first and then thrown into the lake, she would not have drunk so much water, so the real cause of death was drowning. ”
However, there is still something she has to say. Turning her head to look at Mrs. Dou, she was full of lightness, and smiled at herself: "The eldest lady is really careful and knowledgeable, and she actually knows so much at a young age." Since Jiaoyue really drowned, and there is a guarantee from the eldest lady, then I can go back to the old lady. ”
Dou only thought that he was fine, but the words he said made the faces of the grandmothers and girls on the side change. Just now I was talking about the eldest lady's nonsense, but now she is full of flattery, Mrs. Dou's appearance of seeing the wind and steering the rudder, and her words and deeds are inconsistent, which is most despised by the masters in the mansion.
Wen Yukou saw some maids turning their heads and whispering, but Dou didn't pay attention to it, so he didn't say anything, and said: "Mrs. Dou thinks highly of Yukou, Yukou just learned a little miscellaneous with her mother, and now she is only concentrating on embroidery and calligraphy, these are all put down, and she can't do it." Mrs. Dou still asked the adult to come to the autopsy, so that the old lady could rest assured that the house was peaceful. ”
Now they are just some mothers-in-law, and they have no weight, and they are not in a hurry to make Dou lose face at this time. Jiaoyue's death, whether in the past or present life, is related to the Dou family, are you afraid that you won't be able to hold this weak-hearted mother?
After they all left, Wen Yukou asked Hua Yue: "Do you recognize the little girl who met the old lady just now?" ”
Hua Yue thought for a while: "It's the jade in the courtyard of the third lady, we often embroider together, and she embroiders well." ”
"Really? It turns out that you are still little sisters, and I have asked her to come to my yard tonight, and I want to ask her for some embroidery work. Wen Yukou smiled.
Hua Yue did not doubt him: "Yes." Then he looked at Wen Yukou hesitantly: "But, miss, is Jiaoyue really drowned?" She died so miserably......"
Wen Yukou slowly looked away and looked at the place where Jiaoyue's body was lying just now: "Jiaoyue is indeed drowning, but where is the person who forced her to drown?" ”
At this time, I only heard some movement on the rockery, "What a smart girl!" ”
But it was a man's voice.
The master and servant couldn't help but change their faces.