Chapter 19: The Shadow Haunts
"My lord, my lord asked me to invite you over to discuss the matter."
Ye Feifei didn't know that a long time had passed since he thought about it, and it wasn't until the knock on the door sounded and the servant's voice came that he suddenly came back to his senses.
"Got it!" In response, Ye Feifei looked at the watch in his hand (a few o'clock in the afternoon), put on a fur coat, opened the door with a long sword on his back, and a gray-clothed servant was waiting for him respectfully.
"Let's go."
"My lord, come with me."
Closing the door, Ye Feifei followed the servant through several roads and came to the Zhang family's living room.
On the main seat of the guest hall sat Zhang's father, next to him were the eldest elder, second elder and third elder of the Zhang family, Xun Tianxing had taken him to see them, but he had some impressions in his mind, and the rest of the people around him were some juniors, and they were even a few years younger than him.
"Who is this man? So handsome! ”
"Where did you buy that dress?"
"Shhhh Tell you that this is a distinguished guest invited back by the head of the family, who saved Zhang Da's life last night, and it is estimated that there was something big that called him over. ”
"Don't talk, listen carefully."
"The housekeeper died yesterday, and the head of the house probably asked him to come over and see what was going on."
……
They are all a group of children of the family who have never seen the world, Ye Feifei feels that they are exactly the same as the group of people in the Xun family, and even their faces are infinitely close.
Bringing Ye Feifei to the living room, the slave withdrew, and Father Zhang also stood up and bowed his hand to Ye Feifei and said, "Brother Xiao is here, please take a seat." ”
After Ye Feifei sat down, Father Zhang also introduced the three old men around him.
For some reason, Ye Feifei was very panicked when he saw this scene, and the familiar script appeared in front of him.
The Juvenile Trial in Black? Pioneer of the divorce stream? Fortune is fickle?
One by one, Ye Feifei knew that Father Zhang's search for him was definitely not polite, most likely for the mysterious housekeeper's fall case, so he asked directly: "The head of the Zhang family doesn't have to be polite, I also have a fate with your son, if there is anything that needs Xiao's help, Xiao's definition of what can be done is unavoidable." ”
"Alas... To tell the truth, Zhang does need Brother Xiao's help. ”
"Oh... I don't know what the matter is, the head of the Zhang family, please take your time. ”
To be honest, the performance of the head of the Zhang family is still inferior, but Ye Feifei didn't show it, he speculated that the scheming bad old man was waiting for him.
"The housekeeper died last night, but the people guarding the door said that they didn't see anyone coming in, and I heard Da'er say that Brother Xiao has a way to find out the murderer, and asked Brother Xiao to help find out the truth, and count my Zhang family owing Brother Xiao a favor." As he spoke, the head of the Zhang family bowed his hand to Ye Feifei.
Ye Feifei didn't speak, first kept pinching his fingers and pretending, and then said: "I see that the Zhang family's complexion is not very good, it should be that something sucked away the yang energy, and when I came in before, I found that the Zhang family's yin energy is also very heavy, did the Zhang family master provoke something ominous?" ”
"Yang Qi?" The head of the Zhang family was stunned for a moment, and then gasped, finally knowing the reason for his weakness.
Some ancient books also have a comprehensive introduction to yang energy, which is said to be the vitality of living people, which is transformed by the essence absorbed from heaven and earth.
In ancient history, "those who gain yang live, and those who lose yang die" is not groundless, those who run out of yang energy will die, and the more vigorous yang energy is, the stronger the body.
A while ago, the head of the Zhang family thought that someone was plotting against him, but when he heard Ye Feifei say this, coupled with Zhang Da's account of last night, he estimated that there was really something dirty at home.
Seeing that the head of the Zhang family was in a daze, Ye Feifei muttered: "Yang Qi, if the sky and the sun, lose its place, then lose your life!" Don't think too much about the head of the Zhang family. ”
"I see, no wonder we can't catch the murderers, we can't see them...... Please also ask Brother Xiao to help. "The head of the Zhang family is also an old fox, so he sighed that he had a problem for Ye Feifei, and he still couldn't refuse.
If Zhang's father's request is refused, Ye Feifei's side quest is estimated to be uncomplete, and on the other hand, it will also harm the Zhang family, and the matter of investigation will be blown by then.
It seems that there will be no thundershowers in today's weather, and the unknown should not come out, and he still has to find a way to deal with it.
"The head of the Zhang family doesn't need to panic, take me to the scene of the crime to have a look, and I'll see when the time comes."
"Thank you, Brother Xiao, please come with me."
The three elders and Zhang Da also walked out of the guest hall with Zhang's father, and Ye Feifei followed Zhang's father, checking the surroundings from time to time, while asking about the distribution of the Zhang family's main house.
The Zhang family is divided into five courtyards, southeast, central and northwest, the east side is where the head of the family lives, the south side is where the guests live, the north side is the place where the concubines live, the middle is the place where the guests are met, and the west side is the place where the martial arts field and servants live, the layout is exactly the same as the Xun family, he speculates that the big family is distributed in this pattern.
The butler died in the courtyard to the west!
When I came to the courtyard to the west, a row of rooms came into view, and the doors of the rooms were carved from mahogany, similar to some patterns, and all of them were locked, presumably to prevent thieves.
Father Zhang took Ye Feifei to find the place where the housekeeper died, and also found the maid who found the body, and asked the maid to describe to Ye Feifei some problems in finding the housekeeper's body this morning.
The butler's body had not been moved, his face was black, it looked like he had been poisoned, and there were many bruise-purple fingerprints on his neck, but it was not clear whether it was left by a man or a woman, and it was very likely that he was strangled to death.
Lifting his clothes, the butler's body was covered with countless sharp wounds, and the blood had coagulated to black, and there was fear in his eyes, and he looked dead.
After looking at the corpse, Ye Feifei didn't find anything crucial, so he asked the maid in a question-and-answer manner, and recorded some keywords with a pen and a small notebook to deduce clues.
"Does the butler have an enemy?"
"No, the housekeeper is very good."
"What's going on on a weekday night?"
"Nope."
"What about last night?"
"I could only hear a knock at the door, and it was so close that it sounded like it was ringing in my ears."
"A knock on the door?"
Ye Feifei turned to look at the portals, walked over and looked at them one by one, Father Zhang and the others were also in a cold sweat, obviously shocked by the maid's answer.
After patrolling around and finding nothing abnormal, Ye Feifei walked back and continued to ask.
"Were these rooms open when the butler's body was found?"
"It's all locked, and generally no one lives there."
"What are they for?"
"It's full of utility rooms, some of which are reserved for some of the new servants in the future."
"Has anyone ever died in the house before?"
"Never died."
"Did you send any suspicious people in the morning?"
"Nope."
……
After some inquiry, Ye Feifei knew the housekeeper's level, and he also sighed in his heart, the housekeeper was bought back from the slave farm.
Between being very grateful to the head of the house, the housekeeper seems to have forgotten his name, and has always regarded himself as a "housekeeper", and he can be said to be dedicated to the affairs of the Zhang family, and the relationship with his subordinates is also handled very well, everyone calls him the housekeeper, and the housekeeper has become his name imperceptibly.
If he is really a good person, the scene in front of him will be very unjustly killed, I am afraid that it is the existence of that kind of human-faced beast heart, and I can't tell if the red-clothed driver pulled something here......
"Was there anything special last night?"
The maid was confused for a while, shook her head, and seemed to remember something again, and said, "I vaguely heard 'please get in the car' or something last night,"
As soon as the maid spoke, Zhang Da's face changed first, and the car passed by their house, and he was stupid enough to run to the Beichen Tea Pavilion to take the car, there won't be anything dirty here, right?
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