Daming's Bizarre Story: Painted Skin

Meng Chengtian came soon. He was wearing a navy blue dress, with a sense of confidence in his suave manner. He stepped into the door and gave Jiu Ru a salute first: "Sir, don't come here without any problems."

His body is bowing slightly, but his eyes are raised, looking deeply at Jiuru.

"Thank you for your concern, that's fine." Jiuru replied flatly.

"That's good." Meng Chengtian twitched his lips into a smile, and glanced quickly at Zhao Ran's face.

Obviously, although he knows that a young man like Meng Chengtian can spend 30 gold to buy a secret, he must have something special, but he still doesn't like Meng Chengtian, his arrogance, arrogance, and his attitude towards Jiuru. overlooking.

"Young Master Lao Meng." The county magistrate greeted him very politely.

"The magistrate." Meng Chengtian then turned around and bowed to the county magistrate.

The county magistrate pointed to Hengsheng who was kneeling and said, "Hengsheng confessed that you once rewarded him with a pair of pearls, but there is such a thing."

Meng Chengtian didn't look at Hengsheng either, he just nodded and said, "It's true."

Zhao Ran opened his mouth and said: "Young Master Meng casually rewards my servants with pearls, what an arrogance!"

Meng Chengtian said with regret on his face: "Xiaosheng was drinking at the time, and after thinking about it afterwards, Meng Lang really did a little bit, and gave a servant some inappropriate ideas."

Jiuru said, "Where were you the day Yinniang died?"

Meng Chengtian turned his head to look at Jiuru and said, "Are you suspicious of the students, sir?"

The county magistrate coughed: "Young Master Meng, don't get angry, this is just a routine inquiry."

"That day was Xiaosheng's father's birthday banquet, and many people in the city can testify for me." Meng Chengtian replied indifferently.

Zhao Ran said: "Sir, that Hengsheng is really strange. The owner of the family had a birthday party, but he ran out to buy books."

Hengsheng's face was pale and he said: "Meng's mansion is huge and there are many servants. Although there is a banquet at home, not everyone needs to hold a birthday banquet."

Meng Chengtian raised his chin slightly, as if he didn't even bother to answer such questions.

Jiuru said indifferently: "Why wasn't Yinniang in the Meng residence that day?"

"Yinniang..." Hengsheng paused, "It seems that the old lady asked her to go back."

Meng Chengtian said: "My mother is kind-hearted. This Yinniang heard that her mother is not in good health. It is understandable for her old man to ask Yinniang to go back to take care of her mother for two days."

The county magistrate twirled his beard and nodded, "That's good! The old lady is really kind-hearted."

Unexpectedly, he said clearly: "Sir, this old man has a really good memory. While he is busy with his master's birthday banquet, he still remembers that the mother of a poor servant girl is not in good health, so he specially took her leave to go back to rest for two days."

As soon as the little skull opened its mouth, the county lord felt a pain in his head. He felt that he was no longer riding a tiger, but rather like riding a donkey with a carrot hanging on its head. The donkey was chasing the carrot. , but can only run along.

"Then please... the old lady came out and asked something." The county magistrate bit the bullet and said.

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Mrs. Meng really had a kind face on her face, but her complexion was a bit uneasy. After she sat down, she coughed twice and said, "Master Lao County has something to do with the housewife."

"You're welcome, you're welcome." The county magistrate smiled, "As usual, is this Yinniang the old lady who asked her to go back?"

Mrs. Meng nodded and said, "I let her go home."

"Oh, why?"

Mrs. Meng coughed twice before she said: "Yinniang has been a servant in our house since she was a child. She is very smart, so I let her work in Qingwan's courtyard. It's a pity that she doesn't keep her duty. If it weren't for the difficulty of reading in their house, I would have given up on using her a long time ago. A few days ago, Qingwan told me that she always secretly went to the outer courtyard. Something unruly happened to hurt Qing Wan's Qing Yu, so I resigned her cruelly, but I didn't expect that something happened to her in the end. After all, she grew up in the mansion, and I felt very sad when I heard it. "

She picked up the handkerchief and wiped the corners of her eyes lightly as she spoke, the county magistrate hurriedly comforted him: "It's justifiable for the old lady to dismiss an unruly servant, so don't feel sad about it. I think this matter... ..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Zhao Ran opened his mouth again: "Old lady, as the saying goes, if you catch a traitor, you must be in pairs. Why did you only fire Yinniang, but keep the other one?"

Mrs. Meng put down her handkerchief and said, "Yinniang has some signs of this, but it hasn't worked out yet, so I only dismissed him."

Zhao Ran continued to ask: "Madam, do you know why Yinniang is still in the mood to buy rouge after being dismissed?"

"This... I don't know, but when I dismissed her, I did give her five taels of silver as severance pay, which can be regarded as the end of my relationship with her master and servant."

Zhao Ran said to Jiu Ru: "I think the most powerful person in this yard is Miss Meng, who knows every move of the rough servant girl in the yard."

Mrs. Meng coughed twice before replying: "This is what other maids in Qingwan Court reported to her."

The magistrate had no choice but to say: "Then why not ask the girl in the courtyard who discovered Yinniang's problem to talk back."

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Soon, a maid with a slightly plump body came in, she glanced at Hengsheng who was kneeling at the side, squatted down and said: "Little man Sufen, I told Miss Yinniang to sneak into the outer courtyard."

The county magistrate nodded and said, "As a rough envoy, Yinniang will inevitably go to the outer courtyard. How did you find out that she went secretly?"

Su Fen spoke articulately: "My lord, there are eight maids in our yard, and Yinniang is usually the laziest one, but recently she would rush to do any chores in the outer courtyard, so I have some doubts in my heart." , so I paid more attention to her. Sure enough, I caught her and sneaked out of the yard several times, so I reported to the young lady. This young lady's yard can't get any trouble."

"Who did you think Yinniang would have an affair with?" Jiu Ru asked suddenly.

Zhao Ran glanced at Jiu Ru, only to feel that the words "intimate love" from those pale pink thin lips couldn't be more attractive.

From the county magistrate's eyes, it seemed that the extremely talkative little skull suddenly turned red, its two little paws hooked each other, and its body was still writhing, it couldn't be more weird.

He took a deep breath, and Sufen looked at Hengsheng who was kneeling on the ground again, and said, "I don't know, but Yinniang is quite rustic, and sometimes she falls in love with her." Anyone who doesn't achieve their goals will never give up, even us first-class maids in the yard sometimes can't help but suffer from her."

Zhao Ran opened his mouth and said: "Sister, you have won the trust of the young lady so much, but you also want to be idled by a rough girl?"

Su Fen said: "My lady also misses her old relationship with her for so many years, otherwise she would have been kicked out by the old lady long ago. I said that if she had been kicked out early, maybe she wouldn't be able to harm anyone." She said, eyes He glanced at Hengsheng again.

Zhao Ran said: "That's really strange. In the past, the old lady wanted to drive Miss Yinniang away and still defended it, but this time she just listened to some rumors and asked the old lady to drive her away. Not only was Yinniang not depressed, nor was she worried about where the family's food money would come from in the future, she was in a good mood and bought herself rouge and gouache."

Sufen said urgently: "Why is it a rumor, Yinniang sneaked out in the middle of the night!"

When she said this, she couldn't help covering her mouth, Jiuru said: "That means Yinniang sneaked out in the middle of the night?"

Sufen stammered: "Yes, yes."

The magistrate frowned and said, "What's going on?"

Sufen seemed to be stuttering Huang Lian and said: "One day, I had some diarrhea, and I went to the toilet a few times when I woke up at night. When I heard a movement by the door, I, I lifted my trousers and poked my head out to have a look. It turned out that Yinniang came from here. Sneaked in from outside the door, and when I came out of the clean room to look for her, she denied it and said that she hadn’t been out the whole night. It was raining lightly that night, and I sneaked a look at her shoes afterwards, which were stained. Mud, it can be seen that she is lying."

Zhao Ran said: "So sister also told Miss Meng about this?"

Sufen nodded and said: "Yes, this matter is not only related to the reputation of our young lady, but also the reputation of us maids. No matter how old the lady is, she has to tell the old lady about this matter. Our old lady is the last It's charity, but I can't tolerate it, so I had to drive her out."

The county magistrate breathed a sigh of relief again: "The matter is now clear."

Zhao Ran jumped out again: "Sister, I still have a few questions to ask."

No matter how much the county magistrate was concerned about Jiuru's face, he had no choice but to say: "This is a case, not a game for playing, children should not talk too much."

Jiu Ru bowed slightly: "Although my student is young, he is extremely smart, why don't you let him ask him."

Even if the county magistrate had a hundred reluctances in his heart, Zhao Ran over there had already started to ask. He raised his head and said, "Sister, you have been following Miss Meng all this time, haven't you?"

Sufen nodded: "I used to work in the outer courtyard, but later I met a young lady who liked my snacks, so she transferred me to her courtyard."

"Yinniang has been with Ms. Meng since she was a child, but she has always been a rough girl. She must have made a mistake. What is that mistake?"

Sufen sneered: "Yinniang, this girl, took advantage of Miss's nostalgia to steal things from Miss's room. This is something that everyone in our house knows."

"She took the lady's clothes, didn't she?"

Sufen was taken aback for a moment, and said clearly: "Let me guess again, is the young lady similar to Yinniang in appearance, especially in figure, both are thin and tall, and both have natural feet?"

"You, what exactly do you want to ask?" Sufen said in a serious manner.

Zhao Ran said again: "Does Miss Meng often reward you with some delicious food, especially when you are on duty at night, but you didn't eat those things that night because of your stomach discomfort. I told you that she sleeps lightly at night, so once she enters the room, she doesn't like people coming in and out."

Sufen's round face turned purple: "You, you can't accuse my lady."

Zhao Ran was surprised and said: "I'm asking about my sister, when did I accuse Ms. Meng? Unless my sister has the answer in my heart, the person who left the yard privately is actually Ms. Meng."

There was a burst of ringing rings outside the door, and a young woman with a tulle face came in with the help of a maid, and gave the county magistrate a gentle gift, her voice was as cold as a spring: "My little girl, Meng Qingwan, has seen the adults .”

The county magistrate was getting numb from Zhao Ran's question, and said dryly, "Miss Meng, you're here."

Meng Qingwan nodded and said softly: "Qingwan is not married to Yunying, please ask the county magistrate to let the little girl wear a veil to speak."

The county magistrate hurriedly said: "It's okay, it's okay, Miss Meng just wears it."

Meng Qingwan said: "Yinniang is the servant girl in our yard. My mother thought of the little girl's reputation, so she asked the maid to answer the questions on her behalf. But human life is at stake, and the little girl has the responsibility to cooperate with the adults in the investigation."

The county magistrate praised: "Miss understands righteousness deeply."

Meng Qingwan said indifferently: "I also heard the question just now. It just so happens that the little girl has something to prove her innocence."