"At that time, the old lady took us to confront the princess in the middle of Huiyue, and Mother Zhao was not present, she should be the same as the other people in the mansion, she just heard the wind and stood outside the courtyard to guess what was going on inside."

Cheng's mother confirmed: "Grandma is right, the slave maid was also standing outside the yard at that time, and she also saw Mother Zhao. ”

Li Qingyi continued: "In this case, the old lady ordered the princess to be imprisoned, and only the people in the courtyard knew what it was for, and the people outside, including Zhao's mother, obviously did not know about the crimes committed by the princess. But Zhao's mother directly used the means of imprisoning her subordinates, leaving the princess and the housewife in the house alone, and locked the door without leaving any room! Isn't it strange? ”

Everyone looked at each other, all shocked.

Mrs. Cheng was stunned: "Could it be that she helped the princess?" ”

The two of them have been serving in the old lady's yard for about the same time, and the relationship is not bad, could it be that Mother Zhao is the princess's person?

Li Qingyi looked at Jishuang and asked, "You saw Mother Zhao lock the door with your own eyes, and she has been guarding the door since then, and she has never left, right?" ”

"No, the slave hasn't left an inch!" Jishuang replied categorically, and said, "When Mother Zhao sent the meal in, the slave maid also kept guard at the door. ”

"When you just went in, you said that you were going in for the first time, that is, when Mother Zhao went in to deliver food, you didn't follow."

Frost nodded in a daze, "Yes, if there is any movement, the slave and maid can see the house and the yard when they tilt their heads when they stand at the door, so the slave and maid don't go in, grandma...... Is there something wrong? ”

"That's not right! Very wrong! Li Qingyi said: "There is no secret passage in this house, unless the Lin clan will be invisible and will go to heaven and earth, otherwise, how can it disappear out of thin air?" Unless...... She had never walked into this room at all! ”

"This ...... How can it be? ”

Li Qingyi pointed to the door lock and said, "Mrs. Zhao seems to be acting safely, but in fact, she is just trying to cover up the fact that there is no one in the Jusi Pavilion at all!" Lin's ...... She's afraid she'd run away between the creams and the juthscars! ”

"But......" Mrs. Cheng was stunned, "Frost obviously saw someone behind the screen!" ”

"It's supposed to be that dress! You should remember the messy futon on the bed! It's just a trick that someone put there to mislead us! ”

"Grandma means that the shadows that Frost sees are piled up with bedding and skirts?"

"That outer skirt, it wasn't left there by the Lin family at all, someone put the clothes there in advance, firstly, to mislead us that the Lin clan really came in, and on the other hand, it was to let the frost see the shadow of the Lin clan outside."

Frost was dumbfounded, "But...... After Mother Zhao came out, the figure was still there, until this morning when she went in to deliver meals and found that the princess was missing, during this time, Mother Zhao has been with the slave and maid, and she has not been separated for a moment, she has no time to disrupt the clothes and quilts and food boxes, and the slave and maid are separated by the door, and they also hear the sound of cups and plates colliding inside! ”

Li Qingyi already knew the mystery, and pointed in the direction where the black cat left, "Have you forgotten that little thing?" ”

Everyone was stunned, and Mrs. Cheng exclaimed: "It's the big black cat!" It must have been the big black cat that knocked down the food box, and the sound that the frost heard should have been made by it! ”

"No wonder someone sent yellow croaker to the house last night, not because the old lady loves to eat it, let alone for anyone else, but for the big black cat!" It seems that the princess has long been ready for both......"

As long as Mrs. Zhao uses the futon to circle the food box in the middle, after the big black cat smells the fishy smell, it will burrow into the futon and rummage through it, so the mattress will be messed up.

"But the furnishings in the house are simple, let's open the door back and forth and go in to check, no one found that the cat is hiding in the house, even if we don't see it, it doesn't run or bark."

Li Qingyi said with deep eyes: "This is the most critical point in the Lin family's disappearance trick. Did you hear this cat meow? ”

Several people looked at each other and shook their heads.

"Dumb medicine is not only for people to eat, if I guess correctly, the big black cat should have been fed dumb medicine, there is no way to scream, Zhao's mother only needs to stun it, together with Lin's outer skirt in advance into the house to hide, and when she goes in to deliver food at night, she will wake up the cat, all this, it will be, and ......"

Li Qingyi looked at everyone and sighed, "Why didn't Mother Zhao go in to retrieve the food box last night, and didn't pick up last night's food box by the way when she delivered the meal this morning?" Don't be too lazy to wait for the princess to finish her breakfast and take away last night's and this morning's food boxes, right? Do you serve your master like this? From Mother Zhao's standpoint, she doesn't know what the princess has done, so doesn't she have a chance to turn over? How dare she snub the princess like this? ”

Changning is full of question marks, can he still have this kind of operation!!

"The princess disappeared in the morning, and when the old lady brought someone to check, with the habits of a cat, it is very likely that she jumped on the beam of the house and hid like Fang Cai." It was hungry just now, and it came down again to rummage for something to eat, but it happened to be bumped into by us! ”

Li Qingyi was also a little helpless, "Open the door." ”

Frost opened the door, and the crowd entered the room again.

Li Qingyi picked up the dirty outer skirt on the bed with her fingers, then threw it down, and snorted, "This is not the one that the Lin family wore yesterday!" The three holes of the cunning rabbit, she had expected it a long time ago and prepared a way out for herself! ”

Jishuang was anxious and angry, "After you and the old lady left, Mother Zhao came back for a trip, brought food for the slave maid, and then saw that Chang Yan and Changning were staying here, so she said that since there were enough people here, she would go back to the old lady to see if there were any instructions...... She must have seen the right moment! ”

If Zhao's mother didn't come back, Jishuang would definitely be suspicious, so she waited for Li Qingyi and others to come to check, and then left before she appeared and explained to Jishuang! At this time, he said that he wanted to return to Jingyuntang to listen to the instructions, maybe he had already run away!

Changning listened to the explanation for a long time, only to feel that his brain was stimulated and itchy, and before the words came out, his legs had already moved first: "The slave is going to chase it!" ”

Li Qingyi let her go and said to the others: "You don't have to stay here, Mother Cheng went back to tell the old lady the truth, and the others followed me to find Nanzhu." ”

Since Nan Zhu said that someone has been in contact with the Lin family, this person is likely to be the contact person of the Lin family, so maybe this person is also the one who picks up the Lin family outside!

*****

In the firewood room, the south candle sat still.

Last night was probably the hardest night of her life!

Therefore, when the wooden door of the firewood room creaked open, the pores of her whole body were much smoother as if they were relieved.

Waiting for someone else to decide her own destiny, without a fall, is not a good experience, it is simply a blunt knife to cut the flesh, she never wants to experience this pain of scratching her heart and liver again.

Nan Zhu looked up at the person who came, it was the eldest grandmother's personal maidservant.

She hurried and hurriedly said the results of her stomach search, "I remembered something, I want to see grandma!" ”

Chang Yan gave her a cold look, "Come with me." ”

Li Qingyi had already returned to Fulingju and gave instructions to go down, and Nanzhu was taken.

"Looks like you've remembered something."

Nan Zhu knelt down honestly, "Grandma is right, the slave maid thought about it for a long time, and she did think of some things, which should be useful to grandma." ”

Li Qingyi bent his eyes, "If the information you provide is useful, I will definitely strive for a good result in front of the old lady for you." ”

"Thank you, grandma!"

Nan Zhu hurriedly thanked him, and then said cautiously: "Every time that person meets the slave maid, he is very tightly covered, his face is tied with a face scarf, his eyes are also covered by a hood, and he even wears gloves, and he doesn't speak, but, according to the slave maid's observation, her figure is only slightly taller than the eldest grandmother, her shoulders are narrow, although she wears gloves, she can also see that her fingers are slender, and the only exposed wrist is also very white and delicate, she must be a woman!" ”

Li Qingyi's eyebrows moved, "What else?" ”

"Also, the slave maid once smelled the smell of fat powder on that person, although it was only a faint point, but the slave maid could be sure that the aroma should be the fat powder of the deep incense rouge shop! At that time, the slave didn't think much about it, but after realizing that the person should have been negligent for a while, or something temporary, and he didn't have time to remove the smell on his body. ”

The deep incense rouge shop is one of the best rouge shops in the capital, whether it is balm or rouge gouache, the aroma is light and pure, and it lasts for a long time, and it is very popular among the grandmothers and daughters of various provinces, and Li Qingyi also uses the things of this shop.

"It could also be a smell on someone else."

Nan Zhu cautiously replied: "The slave maid can't be sure, but the slave's nose is still quite smart, and I think it should be the smell of her own body." Besides, how close does a woman have to be to another woman before she can be contaminated with the smell of fat powder? Or, she often stays in the rouge shop, or she may be infected with the fragrance, and she is in it for a long time, so it is easy to ignore the smell of her body, or she can't smell it at all. ”

Li Qingyi's eyes showed a little surprise, but he didn't expect Nan Zhu to really be able to explain useful things! Then her efforts were not in vain.

"Chang Lang, immediately let people go to the deep incense rouge shop to explore the reality, it is very likely that the Lin family is hiding here or temporarily settled!"

Chang Yan said excitedly: "Yes, the slave will order to go down!" ”

Li Qingyi looked at the south candle, "What else can I think of?" ”

"This ...... Her light skills should be very powerful, and between actions, like a ghost, she always ...... quietly"

"Can she see Lin often?"

Nan Zhu shook his head: "The slave maid is not inseparable from the princess day and night, and I don't know if she will sneak into the palace to meet the princess at night, but it should not be common, otherwise, why do the slaves and maids need to pass the news back and forth?" ”

Li Qingyi nodded in agreement, "What you said makes sense, it seems that this woman is not a free body......"