I'm not unlucky at all

There was a heavy rain at night, and the wind rolled the clouds.

There was lightning and thunder, and there was a bang, and the sky above Sifang Town was as bright as day in an instant.

"Ahhhhhh!!!!!!"

A shrill scream resounded in the Tao Mansion, and the sleeping servants and maids were awakened one after another. Everyone shivered while hugging the bedding, with a little fear on their faces, but more numbness that they were used to.

"When will this day be the end?" On the common bunk, a round-faced maid shuddered, and pushed the good sister next to her who also opened her eyes and only stared at the beam in a daze.

The thin-faced servant girl's eyes moved suddenly, her face became more frightened, and she said in a trembling voice, "Ah Zhu, tell me quickly if I heard it wrong? Why is there more than one voice from the master tonight? ?”

The round-faced servant girl said: "Ah Huan, what nonsense are you talking about, besides the master's voice, could it be possible that you heard something else?"

Another scream came intermittently from the crackling rain into the house.

The thin-faced maid shrank herself into the quilt, and was so frightened that she was about to cry: "I, what am I, I seem to have heard Miss's voice?"

The round-faced maid also had an ugly expression on her face, she pulled the corner of her mouth stiffly and said, "Ah Huan, didn't you hear me wrong? Maybe it was some wild cat that was barking..."

The thin-faced maid finally felt less tense, and looked at the round-faced maid with hope in her eyes: "Really, really?"

The round-faced maid also lay down on the couch again, touched the thin-faced maid's soft quilt, and said calmly: "Don't be afraid, let's go to sleep, we have to work tomorrow."

The thin-faced maid covered the fear in her eyes, obeyed the round-faced maid's words, and closed her eyes uneasy.

Tossing and turning in the first half of the night, the rain stopped in the second half of the night, and most of the people in the town fell asleep.

The autumn rain was cold, and the air was filled with the smell of damp soil. Song Xing opened his eyes sleepily, and opened the door and window with his coat on.

The sky was still cloudy, and the dark clouds oppressed the environment, giving people a feeling of suffocation that could not be breathed.

After eating breakfast and feeding the listless old hens in the chicken coop, Song Xing picked up the pomegranate flowers that were knocked down by the rain last night from the ground, gathered them together and put them in the box.

"Dong dong dong."

The door in front of the courtyard was suddenly knocked three times in a hurry.

"Who is it so early?"

The servant woman who was busy in the courtyard asked in a loud voice, wiped her clothes with her hand, and went forward to open the door.

There was still some damp rain on Shen Wang's robe, his chest heaved and heaved, he didn't even look at the servant who opened the door, he only quickly caught the young man in the courtyard, and said in a deep voice with a voice that the other party could just hear: " Boss Tao and Miss Tao died at home together last night."

There was a sudden jump in the temples, and Song Xing's eyes widened in disbelief.

The bodies of Boss Tao and Tao Qiaoxiang were first discovered by Tao Qiaoxiang's personal maid Tweety.

The little maid originally just went into Tao Qiaoxiang's room to yell every day, but no one uttered a word after yelling outside the door for a long time. Tweety thought that the young lady was unwell, so she pushed the door and entered the room, but found that the room was empty.

"Later, the servants felt that something was wrong, so they called a few servants to scatter around the house to look for the lady." Cui'er knelt in the lobby of the yamen with red eyes, tremblingly talking about what happened, "But Who knows, who knows that the young lady was found in the master's room in the end."

The county magistrate pinched his little goatee, glanced at the many people crowded at the entrance of the county government office to watch the excitement, squinted his eyes and asked, "When you found out, Boss Tao and Miss Tao had already passed away?"

Tweety said: "Yes, when the servant girl entered the master's room, she saw the young lady lying on the head of the master's bed, and the servant girl, the servant girl thought that the young lady was worried about the master's illness at night, so she took care of the master's illness. She fell asleep immediately, so she was about to go up and wake up the lady." When she said this, she touched her tears with the back of her hand stiffly, but her tone became frightened, "But I didn't expect that I just used a lot Pushing the young lady with very little strength, the young lady fell to the ground at once, and her exposed face was covered with a dozen bloodshot scratches..."

"The servant girl was so scared that she was going to die, she couldn't hold back her cry, and all the maids and servants from the mansion came over... Later, it was the butler who rushed into the house to sniff the young lady and the master together, and found that the man had been dead for a long time gone."

The county magistrate said "oh", and glanced at the servant of the Tao residence who was kneeling on the ground behind Tweety, and the bodies of Boss Tao and Miss Tao who were placed in the open space next to her.

The corpse was covered with a white cloth, the county magistrate waved his hand at the yamen servant, and the yamen servant stepped forward and removed all the white cloth, revealing Miss Tao's scratched face and Boss Tao's bluish-white and stiff facial features.

At the gate of the yamen, the crowd of onlookers gasped, and those who had squeezed around to watch the excitement subconsciously took a step back.

In the crowd, Shen Wang stared at the two corpses.

Song Xing narrowed his gaze, and hurriedly said, "Shen Wang, look at Boss Tao's nails."

Shen Wang's eyes fell, and he saw that the tips of Boss Tao's slightly stiff fingers were black and purple with dried blood, and the gap between the index finger and middle finger of both hands was even stuffed with shredded meat...

"It seems that Boss Tao scratched Miss Tao's face." The county magistrate also looked around the two corpses carefully at this time, and finally raised his eyebrows, "So, Boss Tao killed Miss Tao?"

"How is this possible?" Song Xing frowned and looked at Shen Wang.

In the lobby, the servants of the Tao family also shook their heads to express that it was impossible, and the head of the housekeeper wept bitterly and said: "Our young lady has been the boss's favorite since she was a child, and she is loved so much. How could she possibly harm her life? The county magistrate is clearly aware, and now my family The cause of the death of the master and the young lady is strange, there must be someone who planned all this deliberately! I beg the county magistrate to help my master and young lady catch the real culprits who killed them, so as to comfort the soul in heaven!"

"If Boss Tao wasn't crazy, I wouldn't make such a judgment, but a crazy person..." The county magistrate shook his head halfway through the sentence, walked away from the two corpses, and said, "Miss Tao, except for the face , there are no other fatal injuries on the body surface, and Boss Tao is the same. So, I will ask you again, did you hear any other strange movements last night?"

When the servants of the Tao family looked at me and I looked at you, most of them shook their heads, only the two little maids looked at each other, looked at the county magistrate cautiously, and hesitated and didn't know how to speak.

The county magistrate naturally noticed the abnormality of the two maidservants, so he asked, "What sound did you two hear?"

"Back to your lord, servant girl... this servant vaguely heard screams from the master's room last night." The thin-faced servant girl squeezed the hand of the round-faced servant girl and said in a trembling voice, "Since the master has been insane, he has been making trouble day and night. So at first the servants only thought that the master was ill again... But, later the servants seemed to have heard the young lady's cry, but it was raining too hard at that time, so the servants only thought it might be the meowing of wild cats outside."

The county magistrate frowned, and immediately found some doubts and asked, "Your master has been ill for a long time in the middle of the night. Is there no one in the house to wait on you?"

The two servants looked at each other, finally gritted their teeth, and both bowed their heads in silence.

The county magistrate's eyebrows turned cold, and he looked at the housekeeper of the Tao family and said, "Steward, you talk back."

The housekeeper shook his head with a wry smile, and sighed, "Your magistrate doesn't know anything. Ever since the master got mad, the Tao family has been taken care of by the young lady. At the beginning, the young lady only waited on the old master all day long. At night, when the madness occurs, I will bring a bunch of servants to guard the master together. It's just that after such a long time, no one's body can bear it, let alone my lady? Later, she had no choice but to invite her to the town. The doctor on the bed prescribed a medicine for the master to make people fall asleep quickly, and he just drank it like this every day.

"Afterwards, the master will still have dreams in the middle of the night, but it will only be called twice, and people will still sleep on the couch." The housekeeper said, "So there is no need for people to serve at night."

The county magistrate pondered for a moment, then raised his eyes to look at the group of people at the gate of the yamen.

Shen Wang lip-synced with him: "Doctor."

The county magistrate frowned, and immediately ordered the yamen servant to bring the housekeeper to bring the doctor who prescribed the medicine to Boss Tao.

But a quarter of an hour later, a hunched over old doctor walked into the yamen with a medicine basket on his back.

The county magistrate spared the other party from kneeling, and asked him directly: "Did you prescribe the medicine?"

The old doctor's eyes were full of fear, he shrank and said: "Master Qingtian, it's not the old man, the old man didn't prescribe that medicine!"

"My lord, it's true that this old man didn't prescribe the medicine." The escorting yamen servant clasped his fists and said, "The butler only said that he took the medicine from the doctor in the old doctor's pharmacy, but I brought people in the pharmacy. After searching around, I didn't see the person described by the steward, and I asked the old doctor in the pharmacy to find out that the person who prescribed the medicine left the pharmacy seven days ago, and now he is nowhere to be seen."

"My lord, the little old man doesn't know anything at all!" The old doctor knelt down on the ground tremblingly, and said with a bitter face, "That doctor Yu came to our pharmacy suddenly one day, and he said he was Fleeing from the south, he already has nothing on him, because he knows a little bit about medical skills, the little old man kindly left him in the pharmacy to help the patients. Seven days ago, Doctor Yu said that he had saved some money and was going to the capital I went to find relatives, so I left."

The county magistrate's eyes sank, and he suddenly grasped something in his mind: "Old doctor, what do you think is the man's name?"

The bark-like wrinkles on the old doctor's face were crowded together, "The little old man only knows his surname Yu, but he never said what his name is."

For a moment, the county magistrate and Shen Wang looked at each other, and the eyes flashed.

"Jade Faced Lord."

The county magistrate sighed softly, raised his voice and asked the servants to temporarily put the servants of the Tao family in jail, and then ordered the servants to seal off the entire Tao family, and then went to collect all the soup and medicine residue that Boss Tao had drank in the past few days, and finally ordered Wu made a careful autopsy.

After everyone dispersed, Shen Wang and Song Xing waited in the gazebo in the backyard of the government office.

The servants served them hot tea and snacks, Shen Wang squeezed a piece into Song Xing's mouth and asked, "Little master, what do you think is the cause of Boss Tao's death?"

The dim sum is a bit sweet, Song Xing chewed it slowly and carefully, with puffed cheeks, and frowned, with a serious look on his face, he said vaguely: "Dr. Yu tampered with Boss Tao's medicine?"

Shen Wang said, "It's [-]% possible."

Song Xing said again: "Doctor Yu is Yumian Langjun?"

Shen Wang asked him, "Why do you think so?"

Song Xing said, "Intuition."

After Wuzuo's autopsy results came out, and Tao's house was surrounded by government servants and searched carefully, the county magistrate wiped his cuff impatiently and walked into the gazebo, picked up the cold tea, and drank it. a full belly.

"As a result of the autopsy, the same poison was found on Boss Tao and Tao Qiaoxiang. It was a dream, and the Tao family lost something yesterday. It is said that Boss Tao bought a Duan inkstone at a high price the year before last." County magistrate Qiao Qiao Stretching his legs, he took off the official hat from his head and fanned the wind, "This is poisoning people to death, and throwing things away. Don't ask the murderer, he must be the jade-faced gentleman."

"I didn't expect that the dirty tricks he used in the arena are now being used on ordinary people." Shen Wang sneered, "Sleep in a dream, poison, once taken for a long time, the user will frequently fall into a state of madness. If they are crazy, they will die violently."

Song Xing originally just sat quietly and listened quietly, but now she said in doubt: "But Miss Tao, it seems that she has never been crazy, so why did she die suddenly?"

The county magistrate bit a piece of snack and said nonchalantly, "Taking Mengsian several times in a short period of time may lead to sudden death, so what needs to be investigated now is what Tao Qiaoxiang did yesterday."

Song Xing said softly: "Miss Tao was with Second Master Qin yesterday."

"Oh?" The county magistrate tilted his head, changed his posture again, nodded and said, "The person who may have poisoned him will follow the two of them."

On the side, Shen Wang's eyes flickered slightly, thoughtfully, and suddenly asked: "Is tomorrow the old man of the Qin family's birthday?"

The county magistrate said yes without much interest, obviously not very interested in the old man of the Qin family's birthday.

Shen Wang was not polite to him, and said directly: "Little uncle, help me get an invitation card."

The county magistrate raised his eyebrows in surprise, and said with a light smile, "Why, do you think Mr. Yumian will sneak into the Qin family tomorrow? But what is he planning?"

Shen Wang ignored him, only turned around, gently held the back of Song Xing's fair hand under the cover of his sleeve robe and said, "I'll go with you tomorrow."