Who Said I Was a Coquettish Bitch

Jiang Shangshu said that the Jiang family's population is not large, but after they came to the hall one after another, they counted them in detail, not to mention much more than the Wang's mansion, and more prosperous than the Pingxihou's mansion.

"The old lady is resting, and I didn't dare to disturb her." Song Fu bowed and reported.

"Yeah." Jiang Shangshu nodded slightly, "The old lady is not in good health, so it's right not to disturb her."

Song Fu nodded, and then stepped back knowingly.

"Lord Luo, except for my 80-year-old mother, all my family members are here." Jiang Shangshu said, "If you are a servant, you can summon me at any time."

Luo Lanye cupped his hands, "Master Jiang is here."

After some introductions, Bai Chen roughly figured out the composition of the Jiang family's family members.

The person sitting next to Jiang Shangshu is naturally his married wife, Mrs. Jiang.

Mrs. Jiang was born in a noble family, and her father was Xiaoyaohou, who had no real power like Pingxihou.

She has two sons and two daughters under her knees, two brothers, Jiang Haoran and Jiang Haochen, the eldest sister is married, and there is a daughter who is in her teens and is waiting to be married. She looks obedient and sweet.

There are two concubines, and the second wife is the biggest suspect in this case, Jin Niang.

She was originally a ditty singer in Wangyue Tower. She is beautiful, has a good figure, and has a sweet voice. When Mr. Jiang went to Wangyue Tower for a banquet, he fell in love with her and took her back.

To Bai Chen's surprise, the second wife, Jinniang, is actually not too young. She gave birth to a son and a daughter who are already in their teens, but she takes care of herself like a young woman in her early twenties. No wonder Mrs. Jiang Doted on her for ten years.

The third wife is named Ling Shuang, she is handsome and lovely, she was born in a merchant, and she gave birth to a daughter, who is only three or four years old this year, and is held in her arms by a nanny.

There was also a young woman standing next to the third lady. She didn't look like her master in her dress, but her demeanor was different from that of ordinary servant girls.

At first, Bai Chen thought it was strange, Jiang Shangshu still half-covered her when he mentioned her, but later Mrs. Jiang revealed the truth with a cold snort.

This woman's name is Huan'er, and she is a maid brought by the third wife from her natal family.Two months ago, after Jiang Shangshu got drunk, he had a flirt with her. Unexpectedly, she was pregnant with the flesh and blood of the Jiang family just that time. For concubines.

……

It's messy enough, bloody enough.

Just by introducing it like this, Bai Chen felt that he could imagine the bloody drama in Shangshu's mansion where the back house competed for favor.

Jiang Shangshu is really, um...almost sixty years old and still unabated, growing stronger and stronger, and won the bid once.

In comparison, Bai Zhanyuan's self-indulgence seems not so ridiculous, and Kang Wang is an ancient man who is infatuated to the point of extinction.

Although the maid who slept in her concubine's room is not a scandal, it is not something to be glamorous, and people will make fun of her for being unrefined if she talks about it.

Jiang Shangshu's face turned red and then pale, he coughed, and quickly changed the subject, "If you have any questions, Mr. Luo, just ask."

Luo Lanye didn't care about Jiang Shangshu's personal affairs, he only cared about the case.

"How about it." Luo Lanye said, "Master Jiang, please send someone to take Qin Yucheng and Wu Zuo to examine the corpse."

Jiang Shangshu nodded, "Song Fu, take a few adults to the autopsy outside the woodshed."

"Yes, master." Song Fu bowed, "My lords, this way please."

"You guys go first, I'll go there later." Luo Lanye reminded Qin Yucheng, "Let me do a careful inspection, don't be sloppy."

After Qin Yucheng agreed, he took Wu Zuo and two yamen servants with Song Fu to the backyard.

……

"I heard that it was the eldest son who found out that the nanny poisoned you, right?" Luo Lanye looked at Jiang Haoran.

Jiang Haoran cupped his hands and said, "Exactly."

"Then let the eldest son tell the story of this matter."

"Okay." Jiang Haoran asked Jiang Haochen to sit down, took two steps forward, looked around, and when it fell on Jinniang's head, he obviously burst into anger, but soon he restrained his emotions and told the whole story things come.

"Haochen has been in poor health since he was a child, and he fell easily when walking. Apart from this, he has no other symptoms. But since last month, he would faint instantly after falling. The fainting time was only for a moment at first, and gradually It took a quarter of an hour. We found many doctors from all over the country, and even the imperial physician, but we couldn't see what kind of disease it was."

"However, I was inspired by a friend's words a few days ago." Jiang Haoran said, "He said that we can start with other ideas, maybe someone is playing tricks behind the scenes. I didn't believe it at first, but after investigation, I found out yesterday that the nurse I actually caught Hao Chen and her mother’s soup with poison. I locked her in the firewood room the same day and asked her who ordered her, but she refused to speak up. The nanny couldn't bear it and passed out. I could only lock the firewood room and wait for her to wake up for interrogation. I didn't expect that when I went there last night, I saw the servant at the door fainted, the firewood room was pried open, and the nurse was dead. "

The nanny also signed a death contract, and Jiang Haoran's use of lynching to interrogate her did not violate the laws of the new dynasty, so he did not shy away from it.

"What is the state of death?" Luo Lanye asked.

Jiang Haoran said: "When she died, her face was down, her forehead was red and swollen, and there were bloodstains on the wall, so at first she suspected that she committed suicide by hitting the wall."

Dali Temple Zheng Lu Guangting interjected: "Then how did Mr. Jiang find out that there was something inside the nanny's death?"

Jiang Haoran looked at Jinniang and snorted coldly, "When I ordered someone to examine the nurse's body, I found that there were marks on the nurse's face and she was holding a hairpin in her hand. After identification, this hairpin was given to Jinniang by my father."

"It's this bitch!" Mrs. Jiang became emotional, pointing at Jinniang and yelling, "It's this bitch who bribed the nanny to poison both my mother and the child. Heart to death!"

When she was cursing, the third wife and the maid Huan'er were so frightened that they stood aside with their heads bowed. Jin Niang was in a trance and her face was pale.

Jiang Haochen's eyes were red, and his face was disbelieving. His sister and the children born of several other concubines all looked frightened, and seemed very afraid of this mother.

"Mother, don't be angry." Jiang Haoran walked up to Mrs. Jiang, patted her on the back filially, "It's not worth being angry for such a wolf-hearted person."

"Where is that hairpin now?" Luo Lanye asked.

Jiang Haoran took out a golden hairpin from his sleeve and presented it, "Lord Luo, this is it."

Luo Lanye took the hairpin, "Master Jiang, did you really give this to the second lady?"

Jiang Shangshu looked at it, closed his eyes, sighed, and nodded slightly.

"Except Mr. Jiang, who else saw this hairpin take out from the nurse?" Lu Guangting asked.

Jiang Haoran said: "Besides me, Uncle Song and several nursing homes also saw it."

"It's not me, it's really not me!" Jinniang, who was in a trance, suddenly seemed to be stimulated, "I haven't found this hairpin for many days, someone must have stolen my hairpin and framed me!"

"Who, who framed you?" Mrs. Jiang sneered, "You are lawless because you are favored by the master, who dares to frame you? Ling Shuang and Huan'er usually have to look at your face, right? You still want to persuade the master to promote you For a flat wife, shameless. The reason why you let the nanny beat me up is to poison me to death, and then you will be in power, right? Don’t take a pee and look at yourself. You are just a slut who sings and laughs in a restaurant, and you still want to do it Madam Shangshu?"

Jinniang was so scolded that she was trembling all over, and she looked panic-stricken, "But I really didn't poison, let alone order the nanny, you are wronging me! Master, save me, master!"

"Shut up!" Jiang Shangshu said angrily, "I've spoiled you so much that I've spoiled you so much that I've actually set my mind on Madam and Haochen. If you did it, you'll admit it, and it won't be too late. suffer from that flesh."

"I really didn't do it!" Jin Niang broke free from the hands of the two maids suddenly, knelt down in front of Luo Lanye with a plop, hugged his thigh, and cried, "I beg Mr. Luo to make the decision for me!" , I really didn’t harm Eldest Sister and Hao Chen!!”

Bai Chen: ...

This is true.Hug your thighs...

The man and the woman couldn't kiss each other, Luo Lanye was hugged by Jinniang, his whole body seemed to be stiff, and he quickly looked at Jiang Shangshu with eyes for help.

"Bastard!" Jiang Shangshu angrily scolded the two servant girls, "Don't go and pull Jinniang up!"

The two maids pulled Jinniang up with great difficulty. Jiang Shangshu couldn't bear it anymore and called two servants to send Jinniang back to the courtyard and lock her up for release.

Luo Lanye looked at everyone in the Jiang family calmly, and finally said, "Let's go and see the nurse's body first."

The women and children were afraid, Jiang Haochen was not in good health, so he stayed in the hall to talk with Lu Guangting.

Jiang Shangshu, Jiang Haoran and his son accompanied Luo Lanye and his party to check the autopsy in the courtyard of the firewood room.

When they arrived, most of Wu Zuo's inspection work had been completed.

The nanny's body was placed in the courtyard, except for the yamen servants and clerks, all the servants of Jiang's mansion hid away because of fear.

"Has the cause of nurse's death been found out?" Luo Lanye asked.

Wu Zuo put down his work, "My lord, she has wounds from the whip, her forehead is red, swollen and ruptured, but these are not fatal injuries. She was suffocated to death because someone covered her mouth and nose."

The results of Wu's investigation showed that the nanny was indeed killed by someone, not suicide.

Luo Lanye continued to ask, "Any other discoveries?"

Wu Zuo paused, "Not yet."

Luo Lanye frowned slightly, apparently he was a little dissatisfied with Wu Zuo's remarks.

"Master Luo, can I ask a question?" Bai Chen suffered another occupational disease.

Luo Lanye: "What do you think of Bai Lu?"

Bai Chen looked at Wu Zuo: "Excuse me, have you checked the nurse's fingernails or hair?"

Wu Zuo said: "I have checked it, and there is nothing in it."

"Can I see the body?"

"Master Bai, please."

Regardless of other people's astonished gazes, Bai Chen went straight forward, grabbed the nurse's hand, and examined it carefully.

The nails on each of her fingers are very neat and short, almost so short that they are all fleshy.

"Too long fingernails will affect how you do things." Bai Chen put down the nurse's hand, "But it doesn't matter if they are too short. If our nails are cut to her length, they will definitely bleed and hurt."

Luo Lanye said: "You mean, the nurse's nails were cut off after death? Because she probably caught the murderer's clothes and body."

"It's most likely that he caught the back of the murderer's hand or arm." Bai Chen said.