The courtyard where everyone is now is Jing Mo Xuan next to the garden, and the place where the guards found Hongxiu is in an empty courtyard next to Jing Mo Ju, and the originally empty courtyard is surrounded by a group of mothers-in-law and miscellaneous servants who have heard the news, all of whom bow their heads and whisper.

"Get out of the way, the old lady is coming!" the guards dispersed the crowd.

The old lady walked to the well and saw a woman in maid's clothes, lying on the ground motionless with her face drenched and sideways.

"Who found the body first?"

As soon as the old lady's words fell, a stooping handyman took a step forward and said, "It was discovered by the villain, who is a gardener, and when he came to fetch water, he found that there was someone in the well who was motionless, so he salvaged her and found that she was out of breath." ”

"Turn her over!" Xiahou Lin ordered.

One of the guards stepped forward and stabbed the corpse with a matching sword, and the corpse was turned face up, and some of the timid screamed in fright.

"It's Hongxiu, it's my maid, what the hell is going on?!" Xiahou Yanyuan glared at her eyes and pointed with a frightened expression.

I saw Hongxiu's eyes wide open, a few strands of wet hair scattered on her cheeks indiscriminately, her forehead was broken, and there was a lot of blood on her face and scattered hair, mixed with water droplets rolling down drop by drop!

"Go check for me, check it out for me since this girl started in the morning, who has come into contact with her, I want to know who is so bold and dares to commit murder in the mansion!" Xia Houlin's face turned pale, and he said sharply to several guards.

After several people were ordered to retreat, they began to check everyone in the house one by one.

Yuxia never left the corpse by the well from the moment she entered the courtyard, and when the people were turned over, she screamed, covered her mouth tightly, inadvertently left a few tears on her face, and gritted her silver teeth and struggled in her heart.

When he heard the second master's order to investigate thoroughly, he couldn't help but plop down and knelt on the ground, knelt down a few steps to the old lady and said, "Old lady, the slave knows who killed Hongxiu. ”

"Who is it?" asked the old lady.

"If the slave and maid said it, please ask the old lady to be kind and forgive the slave and maid's life. Yuxia said with a vigorous kowtow.

"Well, if you tell the truth, you will be sure to be safe. The old lady slowed down her tone and said slowly.

"It was the third miss who killed it, it must be the third miss!" Yuxia pointed at Xiahou Yan and said with a resolute face.

"What nonsense are you talking about,, how could I possibly kill my own maid!" Xia Hou Yan jumped up directly regardless of her slope feet and scolded loudly.

When Lin heard that his maid actually came forward to identify his daughter, he immediately felt ridiculous and unbelievable, and his throat was sweet for a while, and he swallowed a mouthful of old blood with force.

What's going on today, it's clear that it's a good thing to be designed, but it didn't go according to the plan, and now there are human lives, although I don't know what the people behind the scenes want to do, but the current scene is unfavorable to Yan'er, if Yan'er's hands are contaminated with human life again, today will definitely not be a good end.

"You slut, why are you climbing the third lady for no reason, why don't you step down quickly!"

Seeing that the Lin clan was about to erupt into a fire-like gaze, Yuxia shrank back and whispered, "I'm not lying, you can take a look at the injuries left by the third lady on Hongxiu's body." ”

The old lady nodded, and the housekeeper next to her stepped forward and lifted the clothes on Hongxiu's arm with his hand, and the arm exposed in front of everyone was covered with scars, some of which were old and some were new, which showed that this girl had suffered a lot of sin in her life.

"Lin, what else do you have to say!" the old lady asked with an unpredictable expression, holding back her raging anger.

"Even if Yan'er is a little harsh with her on weekdays, it is impossible to kill her. Lin quibbled.

"I didn't kill her, why should I kill her?" Looking at the strong light thrown by the old lady, Xiahou Yan muttered in a panic.

"Then tell me why the third lady killed someone?" the old lady turned to Yuxia and asked.

"It must be because the third lady had a private meeting with someone, Hongxiu persuaded the third miss to anger her, and was pushed into the well by the third lady. Yuxia insisted that it was Xiahou Yan's doing.

On weekdays, Xiahou Yan is arrogant and domineering, and she scolds the people around her, and even asks for people's lives at every turn, this reason sounds a bit far-fetched, but the person who shot it is Xiahou Yan Everyone believes it.

As soon as Yuxia's words fell, Lin stepped forward and slapped him directly: "You slut who eats inside and out, fabricating and biting Miss San for no reason out of thin air, I think you are tired of living!" Lin gritted his teeth and scolded viciously.

Yuxia was beaten and sat directly on the ground, and didn't get up for a long time.

"Enough!" the old lady scolded.

At this moment, all the guards who went out to investigate returned, and said to Xiahou Lin: "Everyone said that Hongxiu was by the third lady's side all day today, and in the end, this girl saw Hongxiu and the third miss walking towards this side, and no one ever saw the two again. ”

After the guard finished speaking, he dragged out a twelve or thirteen-year-old little maid, and the little maid saw this formation, so she was so frightened that she knelt on the ground without waiting for everyone to ask and said directly: "The slave maid saw that the third lady was taking Sister Hongxiu, and she had been wandering in the garden after the banquet, and then I saw them walking towards this way, and then I never saw them again." ”

Hearing this, Xiahou Yan knelt down beside the old lady and said, "Grandmother, I didn't kill anyone, please grandmother must believe me, someone framed me." ”

"Then tell me who framed you?" the old lady endured and didn't let Xia Hou Yan drag away, and asked patiently.

Xiahou Yan looked around, and saw Xiahou Shuang, who was standing next to her and had been silent since she came in, and said, "It's the eldest sister, the eldest sister framed me!"

"Enough!" The old lady looked at Xiahou Yan's round face, how cute she thought she was on weekdays, and how disgusted she felt now.

"You had a private meeting with a foreign man at your grandmother's birthday banquet, and let our Xiahou Mansion lose face with you, a wicked obstacle!"

"Narrow-minded, cruel and vicious, he is ruthless and scolds his maidservant, he is not worthy of being the lady of my Xiahou Mansion!"

"I don't know how to repent when I make a mistake, I bite my own sister indiscriminately, what is the use of me keeping you for such a disloyal, unrighteous and unfilial person!"

The old lady scolded with a sad expression, closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, she said with a serious expression and a stern and firm look: "The ladies who came to congratulate all the prefectures today know that you have a private meeting with a foreign man, and tomorrow everyone in the capital will know that your reputation is also ruined, and it is difficult to find a mother-in-law." ”

"The boy just now said that he was a talent who entered Beijing to take the exam, and he was also famous, and if I asked him if he didn't have a wife in his family, I would organize a wedding for the two of you, and you just waited to get married. ”

"Grandmother, don't, I don't want to marry him!" Xiahou Yan cried with pear blossoms and shook her head vigorously.