Chapter 14: Temptation
The child is not beautiful, but the words he can say are creepy.
"I'm not afraid of eating people, what is he afraid of......"
"Say no more!"
Not to mention that Mrs. Hu, who had little endurance, turned pale and nauseated, and even Hu Shenglin and Tao Ji were sick to their stomachs after they reacted to what Xue Nuo's words meant by "eating people".
Xue Nuo pursed his lips a little aggrieved after being drunk, and his eyes drooped: "You asked me first......"
She seemed to think of her sister, sucked the tip of her nose and whispered, "Although I hate the people of the Hu family, I didn't hurt him, I have been in Liuyuan since I was brought back by Gongzi last night, and I went to the dock after serving Gongzi with breakfast this morning." ”
"Can anyone testify?" Tao Ji asked.
Xue Nuo thought for a while: "I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night to get up to pull weeds, and I met the guard brother in the yard, and he also borrowed my shovel and broom, and later when I went to the kitchen to fetch water, there were also people over there." ”
Shen had been paying attention to Xue Nuo's expression, and when he heard this, he twisted his fingertips and glanced at Shi An.
Shi An turned around and retreated, but after a while, he brought a few people up.
The guard Xue Nuo said was the one who followed Shen from the Shen family in Beijing, and when he heard Tao Ji and their questioning, he said:
"Last night, Gongzi asked me to guard the Rongji Hall, he stayed in it until the second half of the night, and he didn't come out until the second half of the night to squat in the corner of the wall to pull weeds, he borrowed a broom and shovel from me, and then he swept the yard and swept the inside of the Rongji Hall before returning the things to me."
"When was it?"
"The rain just stopped for a while, about two minutes."
"Did he leave last night?"
The guard shook his head, "No." ”
Tao Ji frowned: "So sure." ”
The guard glanced at Shen Ke, and saw that he didn't mean to stop him before he spoke: "After Gongzi brought him back last night, he asked people to guard outside Rongjitang, and Rongjitang never turned off the lights last night. ”
"Not long after the son and the doctor left, Xue Nuo got up and walked back and forth in the house for a while, and then sat by the window in a daze, and his subordinates have been guarding the front of the courtyard, and they can see the situation in the house when they raise their eyes, and I will definitely know if he has left."
"When he came out to clean the yard and pull weeds, his subordinates stayed with him all the time, and they didn't continue to follow him until he went to the kitchen."
After he finished speaking, Uncle Luo, who was in charge of the kitchen, hurriedly said: "Childe, this child entered the kitchen and was busy helping to carry water and light the fire, and the maids and women in the kitchen saw it, and he said that he wanted to cook a meal for Childe to repay Childe's kindness, and then I accidentally burned my arm before I took him to see the fire, and I didn't leave until Xiaoshi came to the kitchen after dawn." ”
Shi An nodded beside him: "When I went to the kitchen, he squatted in front of the stove, and it was already dawn at that time, even if he wanted to go to Hu's house, it was impossible." ”
Liu Yuan looked cold and deserted, but he knew that there were many guards inside and outside this courtyard, although Gongzi went south this time to find someone, but he also took care of serious errands, so almost all of the people around him were good guards in the house.
These people are guarding the courtyard, and it is not easy to go out silently, not to mention that Xue Nuo has hardly left under his nose after dawn, and has also asked him how to serve his son, how can he have time to run to the Hu family and hurt people.
After Shi An finished speaking, he said to Xue Nuo: "Show them your arm." ”
Xue Nuo pulled his sleeve to reveal the burn on his forearm when he heard this, the wound was ointmented, and some of the burns had already wilted, and he knew that it was not just left when he looked at it.
Tao Ji glanced at the scar and turned his head to Hu Shenglin and said, "So he is indeed not the one who hurt your son." ”
"Who knows if they lied to cover it up for him." Mrs. Hu's face was unwilling.
Shen Ke's eyes suddenly sank: "What else does Mrs. Hu want?" ”
Hu Shenglin saw that he was angry and wanted to say something, but at this time, someone outside walked in quickly, saying that there was a person from the county government outside the house who came to look for Tao Ji, and when the people came in, they found that it was the county government's errand officer, and the person came in and said to Tao Ji urgently:
"My lord, there are a lot of people from the government."
Tao Ji was surprised: "What's the matter?" ”
The yacha glanced in the direction of the Hu family, and then said in a low voice: "Those people are all here to sue the Hu family, saying that they shielded the second son of Hu for murder, and brought several corpses, all of which were placed in front of the yamen......
"Nonsense!" Hu Shenglin suddenly got up, "When has my son ever killed someone!" ”
The yacha was frightened by his shouting, but he still stubbornly said: "That's what the complainant said, now they are all in front of the yamen, saying that they want the adults to make the decisions for them, and the master said that they should carry the corpses into the yamen first, but they refused, so they had to wait for the adults to go back, and when I came, the yamen was already full of people." ”
"My lord, Master Huang, please go back quickly, otherwise I'm afraid there will be a big mess."
Tao Ji didn't expect that the front foot followed the Hu family to come to Liuyuan to ask for justice, and someone on the back foot made a fuss to the county government, so he hurriedly said: "Then don't go back quickly." After speaking, he remembered Shen Ke, turned his head and said, "Shen Gongzi, today's incident is offended, I have to go back first if something happens to the county government, and I will apologize next time I have the opportunity to come to the door." ”
Shen waved his hand: "It is Lord Tao's duty to investigate the case, not to mention offending or not offending, Lord Tao has to go and be busy in advance." ”
Tao Ji didn't care about greeting Shen Ke much, so he hurriedly raised his feet and left, and when he took two steps, he saw that Hu Shenglin was still stunned in place, and frowned directly: "Master Hu, what are you still doing here?" Didn't you hear what you just said, the people on the county government side are all suing the Hu family. ”
"Please also ask Master Hu to go with this official."
Hu Shenglin's face was shocked, he didn't expect that he was originally here to seek justice for his son, but in a blink of an eye, he was sued.
He opened his mouth to say something, but Master Tao didn't give him a chance at all, and only asked people to "invite" Hu Shenglin and Mrs. Hu to leave with him, and he didn't give them a chance to refuse from beginning to end.
The county government and the people of the Hu family hurriedly came and went, and seeing them leaving, Shen frowned and said, "Jiang Cheng, you go over and see what's going on." ”
Jiang Cheng nodded and followed.
After only Liu Yuan's people were left in the hall, Shen Ke looked at Xue Nuo calmly, and his eyes were full of scrutiny.
Xue Nuo looked at him suspiciously: "Childe? ”
"Does the Hu family's affairs really have nothing to do with you?" Shen asked in a deep voice.
Xue Nuo frowned directly: "Childe is suspicious of me?" ”
Shen didn't speak, but the look on his face was obviously saying that he didn't believe Xue Nuo's words at all, the injuries on Hu Rong's body were too much like the little Chitose torture methods in his dream, he had a grudge against people, and he would never let people die easily, but the life that would be tortured was better than death.
Xue Nuo pursed the corners of his mouth tightly, and when his hand suddenly clenched, his peach blossom eyes turned cold, and the gratitude and intimacy of the morning were gone.
She sneered abruptly, pulled the corners of her mouth and mocked: "Childe is not suspicious of me, but he simply believes that I did the Hu family's affairs." ”
"You don't believe that the people who crawled out of the mud would be clean, and you never thought of believing me at all, in that case, what did Childe want me to sell my body for?"
She looked at Shen Ke as she spoke, as if the light in her eyes had been extinguished, and she let go of her hand for a while, and sneered,
"What else did Childe like besides this face?"
"What is there in me worthy of your disdain for me, but you still want to deliberately ruin my previous errand to join the Hu family, and still endure the disgust and keep me after killing me completely?"
Shen looked at her eyes full of anger for a moment, her eyes were full of flames that burned after being unbelieved, her originally pale face was flushed with anger, and the corners of her mouth were tightly pursed with spikes all over her body, as if she wanted to stab everything that came close.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Xue Nuo sneered and turned to leave.
"Xerno!" Shi An hurriedly grabbed her, "Where are you going?" ”
"My deed of sale is in the hands of Childe, where else can I go?"
Her little face was full of frost, "No matter how lowly my son thinks I am, you find my sister for me, I said that selling myself for twenty years is twenty years." ”
"If the son thinks that I killed the second son, he will send me to the county office, and I won't owe the son if I die."
"Anyway, my life is not worth anything!"