"There shouldn't be too many people going to the courtyard. It's easy to be discovered. I'll go and have a look with him. The two of you, Zewen, are waiting in the room. We'll be back as soon as possible."

After Qin Shuiyue finished speaking, she looked at Qiu Zewen and told him: "You two are in the same room. You have to protect him. To protect him is to protect yourself. In order to prevent accidents, you'd better protect him at every step."

Qiu Zewen raised his eyelids, glanced at Sang Yu, and said in a deep voice, "Okay."

After assigning the tasks for the afternoon, the four of them walked down the wooden stairs to have lunch.

Lunch is the same as dinner, eight dishes and one soup, with meat and vegetables, and the dishes are changed.

Song Qingshu put the vegetables in his mouth while peeking at Zhizi and the others from the corner of his eye.

The person who eats is not thinking about eating, so the meal will naturally be eaten quickly.

Song Qingshu and Qin Shuiyue walked towards the toilet after eating first, passed the window on the first floor on the way, looked at the window, there was no one around, and the two quickly turned out.

The gate of the courtyard is facing another street. The wall of the main house is backed by the stairs from the first floor to the second floor of Zuihua Building. There is a side door on the wall between the main room and the wing room. Usually, Shaoyao and the others enter the courtyard through the side door. .

After landing, Song Qingshu and Qin Shuiyue leaned against the wall and carefully circled to a corner and turned over from the wall.

The two were agile and moved quickly, and no one noticed that there were two more living people in the yard.

Once entering the courtyard, it is divided into the main room, the east and west wing rooms, and the inverted room. The two of them first went to the simplest inverted room and took a look. It was empty and there was nothing in it.

There are some sundries piled up in the west wing room, and a thick layer of dust has fallen on it. It seems that no one has entered it for a long time.

There was a lock on the door of the East Wing, Song Qingshu and Qin Shuiyue quietly went around to the back of the East Wing, carefully pried open a window, and jumped in in order not to startle the snake.

It seems that a woman has been living in the East Wing. The things inside are not only free of dust, but also very clean and organized.

Although it's not good to rummaging through other people's things, they can't care about the situation right now.Song Qingshu and Qin Shuiyue seized all the time and raced against time to search in the room.

Song Qingshu rummaged through the dressing table, but there was no valuable information except for some rouge and gouache.He opened the drawer of the dressing table and took a look. Inside were a few hairpins and headgear.

Qin Shuiyue opened the cabinet next to the dressing table, which contained women's clothes, summer cheongsams, winter jackets, all kinds of clothes.

He touched lightly among the folded clothes, and suddenly touched a sharp corner of something. He took it out along the sharp corner, and it was an unopened letter.

Qin Shuiyue opened the letter, glanced at it quickly, and quickly stuffed the letter into her arms.He continued to grope in the clothes room a few times, and closed the closet door after making sure there was nothing else.

He turned around and walked to Song Qingshu's side, leaned his head almost close to Song Qingshu's ear and asked him in a very small voice: "How did you find it?"

Song Qingshu shook his head, "Nothing."

"If you don't have it, let's go. I still haven't seen the main room. If Shaoyao lives in the main room, there should be more things in it." Qin Shuiyue said.

Song Qingshu agreed to his proposal.

The two figures came out of the window like two rays of light, and the window returned to its original state, as if no one had ever opened it.

They used the same method to jump in from the side windows of the main house, and were stunned as soon as they landed.

The room where they landed should be Shao Yao's bedroom according to its location, but apart from a painting on the wall, the bedroom didn't even have a bed, it was empty, and it didn't look like someone lived in it at all.

What shocked them was the painting, which showed an extremely beautiful woman.

Wearing a fiery red cheongsam, her hair is tied like a peony, and a white jade hairpin is stuck on her head.On the hairpin is a layer upon layer of red flowers, like peonies embroidered on a lantern.

If you look closely, you will find that the woman's face is somewhat similar to that of peony, but more beautiful than peony.

The woman was sitting on the stool, holding something in her arms, which looked like a cat. At this time, there was nothing here, as if someone had deliberately dug it along the edge.

The flowers on the woman's feet are blooming brightly, and the flowers are of the same type, but the colors are different.

At the foot of the painting, it is written vertically: "Only the peony is the real national color, and the capital will move when the flowers bloom. Give the peony as a gift."

Song Qingshu and Qin Shuiyue looked at each other, Song Qingshu took the initiative to observe the painting, paying attention to every detail.

Qin Shuiyue went to other rooms.

There is only one curtain between the bedroom and the living room, and the moment Qin Shuiyue opened the curtain, the movements of her hands stopped.

The floor of the living room was full of half-finished lanterns, and there was a large basin next to the half-finished lanterns, which was filled with bloody meat, piled up in one ball after another, forming a hill.

He was about to go to the living room to examine the semi-finished products carefully, when he suddenly heard the sound of small footsteps.

He quickly put down the curtain, rushed to the bedroom in a few steps, pulled Song Qingshu out of the window, and flew all the way back.

Hearing movement in the house, Shao Yao arrived in the house almost instantly, and there was no one there.

The slightly fluttering curtains and the opened windows clearly indicated that someone had indeed been there.

Shao Yao jumped out of the window and saw a window on the first floor shaking back and forth a few times. As for who came in, she still couldn't see.

Shao Yao looked at the window lattice shaking back and forth, her eyes became more and more gloomy.

Qin Shuiyue pulled Song Qingshu and jumped back from the window on the first floor. Taking advantage of the crowd, she went up to the second floor without stopping. This time, she went directly to Qiu Zewen and Sang Yu's room.

Qiu Zewen and Sang Yu were sitting on the bed and the other at the table, staring at each other silently, when they heard the door of the room rang.

Sang Yu stood up abruptly from the bed, his tone could not conceal the excitement, "They must be back, I will open the door for them."

After letting Song Qingshu and Qin Shuiyue into the house, Sang Yu hurriedly asked, "What did you find?"

Qin Shuiyue took out the letter from her clothes.

The letter was written by a man, and the object of the letter was Peony.

The content of the letter was that the man encountered a group of bandits on his way home, the servant was beaten to death, and he was seriously injured.

He was rescued, but his injuries were serious and he continued to recuperate.

I don't know when I will be able to go home, and I don't know when I will come back to marry Peony, and let Peony wait for me for another half a year.

The final signature is Xu Lang.

The handwriting is exactly the same as the painting.

Song Qingshu told the two people about the painting.

"The envelope is intact, which means that Peony did not see the letter." Qin Shuiyue took the letter from Sang Yu, folded it neatly, and put it back in the envelope.

"According to what Xiuniang of Xiufang said, this Xu is the young master of the rich family. If a person makes an appointment with you, and if that person does not come when the time is up, it will definitely be regarded as a breach of the appointment.

At this time, it is easy to think wildly and be suspicious. If someone tells you every day that he will not come, what will you think? "Qin Shuiyue said.

"In this situation, many people will think the worst. After a long time, people's spirits will not be able to bear it. This letter was hidden immediately after receiving it, but did not open it to see. That's what Su Xiuniang said."

Song Qingshu followed Qin Shuiyue's thinking and analyzed, "If this is the case, Peony is likely to die of heart disease."

"In this way, Su Xiuniang indirectly killed Peony. Her death is more like a cat demon avenging Peony. And the part that was dug up on the painting looks like a cat that was dug out. If the cat was Peony raises everything, so everything will be explained."

"Peony raised a cat, and later met Xu Lang who came to the inn, and the two fell in love. Xu Lang went home and told his parents that he encountered robbers on the way and could not return as scheduled. Su Xiuniang was jealous and hinted in Mudan's ear that he would not come back up.

As the days passed, Mudan became more and more suspicious. She didn't even dare to open Xu Lang's letter, and her self-suggestion day after day led to her serious illness and death.The cat avenges Peony and kills Su Xiuniang.

In this way, all the information can be connected in series to get a relatively reasonable explanation.As for what role Bai Xiuniang will play here, we have to find her. "Qin Shuiyue said, as trivial clues were pieced together, the truth of the matter seemed to be floating to the surface bit by bit.

"But it's really the cat demon that Peony is holding. It also proves that Bai Xiuniang is not a cat demon, so we have to find her." Song Qingshu said, "And I suspect that Shaoyao is the cat demon!"

"Not only that, but the painting also tells us..." Song Qingshu said, his eyes fell on the extinguished lantern by the bed, "The one on it is not a peony flower, but a peony flower."

Sang Yu felt that listening to the two people's words silently, he felt that his brain was not enough, "What is painted on the painting? How can you tell the difference between peonies and peonies? Don't they all look similar."

"The painting says 'Only the peony is the real national color, and the capital moves when the flowers bloom', and the flowers in the painting are exactly the same as those on the lantern.

It is because peony flowers and peony flowers look so similar to ordinary people that it is difficult to distinguish them, so we have been misled. "Song Qingshu explained.

"Why did the cat demon embroider peonies on the lantern? To commemorate the owner?" Sang Yu was puzzled, as expected, the ghost's brain circuit was not something normal people could follow.

Song Qingshu shook his head and said, "This is not clear."

There was a knock on the door, and the four of them were stunned at the same time, no longer discussing this matter.

Sang Yu got up and walked to the door, opened the door and saw Shao Yao standing outside the door expressionlessly.

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