Lan Congxiao

"Have a good rest? Why don't you go back first." Seeing Lin Qi beside him, Qiu Zhu kept yawning like this for the past few days, and he followed her around to learn about the winery, running here and there, which was really hard. Yu Xin couldn't bear it and proposed to let him go back.

Lin Qi yawned again and waved his hands, "I can't leave you alone, can you?"

Qiu Zhu put down his pen, smiled helplessly, "I can always grind for myself and refill my tea." Lin Qi always takes care of everything for him on weekdays, it seems that Qiu Zhu can't take care of himself without him.

"Xun Fei is a child who always likes to sleep in someone's arms, which makes me wake up several times every night. I can't grow up." As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Qi glanced at Qiu Zhu's direction, not knowing how to stop.

Qiu Zhu was quite natural, and said with a smile, "It's fine to go back to each house, why bother asking for trouble."

"It's not because I'm afraid that his old problem will flare up. What if I see the female ghost on the beam again and disturb my master's cleanliness." Seeing that Qiu Zhu's mood eased a lot, Lin Qi began to probe, "My lord, thank you At the beginning, you had the foresight to put a small bed in the room, otherwise you would have made trouble."

Qiu Zhu remained silent, so Lin Qi wisely stopped talking.

"My lord, why has Eldest Young Master been missing all day since he came back from a long trip with the master?" When mentioning Xun Fei, Lin Qi thought of Lin Qiusheng.

"The male college is getting married, what do you think the elder brother is doing at this time?" Qiu Zhu calmed down and wrote down her pen without being affected by Lin Qiusheng at all. Villa."

"My son means that the second wife hopes that the eldest and young master will get married as soon as possible and choose the best wife." No wonder the second wife has been in a good mood recently, sweeping away the previous haze, always going up and down to take care of something.

"A few days ago, my father asked me to go with him, but later he became the eldest brother. Erniang must have blown the pillow wind. First, she settled her career and then got married. This series of actions was really lightning fast." Qiu Zhu said calmly, but there was a hint of sarcasm in his words.

"Young master, why don't you ever mention it? As long as you mention it, the master will not change his mind." Lin Qi understood that the owner of the villa has always secretly favored his young master over the years, but the young master always does the opposite. OK.

"Do you think the wind on the pillow can really be useful? If it is, she has been straightened quite a few times in the past ten years. If the wind blows too much, what should be straightened is still not straightened. Besides, we will I'm too lazy to interfere, my father doesn't like to talk to me, my elder brother always likes to be unforgiving, but he doesn't care about everything, so in the whole villa, the person who is worthy of these four words is Er Niang." Qiu Zhu's matter has nothing to do with it His own appearance made Lin Qi very anxious, and it made sense after listening carefully, "Young Master said the same thing, but I am also surprised that although the second wife is not really so virtuous and virtuous, in front of the owner of the villa, she is also the owner of the villa. She is well-organized, so why didn't the owner of the village right her? On the other side of the second lady, the eldest lady may have committed seven crimes, so she wished the owner could fix her."

Asking this question, Qiu Zhu was also puzzled, there was no answer for more than ten years, his mother was still alive, but for some reason, she left home and never returned, her father was never angry about it, and the second wife did not dare to do anything about it .

"A concubine is a concubine. When my father brought her back to the mansion, in my opinion, it was just that a wife is not as good as a concubine, and a concubine is worse than stealing. Not to mention helping her upright, she was never even given the qualification of being a wife. She was allowed to make small troubles. It’s just to let it out.” Qiu Zhu has a lot of experience, but she is extremely narrow in this matter, as if in Qiu Zhu’s heart, having a wife and a concubine is like throwing away chaff.

Thinking of this, Lin Qi couldn't help snickering, "Young master, why are you so fussy? It's the fault of the villa owner for taking a concubine? There are many men in the world who have wives and concubines."

"But there are always people who only take one scoop to drink from three thousand weak waters." After finishing the sentence, Lin Qi couldn't help admiring his son, who only married one wife in his life, and who knows who is so lucky in the future.

"Stop chatting, Lin Qi, how was the matter that I asked you to investigate last time?" Qiu Zhu never forgot about the woman who committed suicide, so she asked when she remembered.

As soon as Lin Qi heard this, he was about to close the doors and windows, but Qiu Zhu waved his hand.

"Let's turn it on, there will be more straight ears if you are separated by a wall."

"Young master, you asked me to check the origin of that woman. According to the second lady, she is a dowry girl. Over the years, the servants have come and gone several times without knowing it, and few people have any impression of this." What is difficult is that an insignificant servant who makes a mistake casually can just be driven away, and no one cares, just like the night of autumn candles.

But Lin Qi said again, "But I paid attention to it. I have inquired inside and outside the winery these few days. The wine cellar was abandoned ten years ago, and it has been left unused since then. It was said that it was going to be demolished. Second Madam But he has always refused, bluntly saying that it destroys Feng Shui, the land is barren, but the water is gone for no reason."

"Ten years ago? So to find out the identity of this woman, she is very likely to be in the house ten years ago." Qiu Zhu leaned on the back of the chair, thinking for a while, Lin Qi continued talking, and then from the side He took out a thick booklet from his vase, "I secretly went to get a list of servants in the manor from the manor. In that year ten years ago, there were ten people who came and went, and the one who left There were seven people, three of them entered the mansion, but among the seven who left, three were old and four were going to other places because they were young, all of them were men."

"Give me the roster." Qiu Zhu opened the dilapidated and ancient roster, which recorded the situation of all the servants in the villa in a year, the distribution of wages every month, and the details of the servants who belonged to each place. "I can't find it in other years." ?”

"I checked the roster of the years between the abandonment of the wine cellar and the flood, but there were very few people in the villa in those years, and this year is still the most."

According to what the second lady said, this person is from the mansion, why there is no trace.

"Are there only a few people who left ten years ago?" It wasn't among the seven people, that is, this woman disappeared from the house without a sound, so it was not recorded in the book.

"There are only a few of them on record...Young Master, what you mean is that this woman disappeared too quickly, so she was unprepared to leave?" Lin Qi suddenly realized that he was only looking for the list of people who left, but he never thought about it. Such a person will not be recorded and will not be held accountable.

Qiu Zhu began to search it himself, and he didn't finish the whole book until dark when the winery workers had left.

"Young master, can't you see the flaw?" Lin Qi refilled his tea, Qiu Zhu picked up the teacup and asked casually, "Where's the tea I drank before?"

"I went to look for it. I probably ran out of it but didn't buy it. There are quite a lot of other teas. Maybe they think they have a lot of tea, so it doesn't matter if they don't have one or two." Lin Qi explained.

Qiu Zhu put down the teacup, looked at the tea and the roster, Lin Qi thought that the young master had been upset recently, even a cup of tea could make him unhappy, but Qiu Zhu suddenly realized and was quite excited.

"Just now I thought there was something wrong with this roster, but I found out after you reminded me." Qiu Zhu opened the roster again, counting a few pages carefully, Lin Qi couldn't help but approach curiously.

"The number is wrong. The roster is accurate to the person, the monthly salary, and where they belong. But since July of this year, one person has lost the salary, and the seven who have left have removed the three newcomers. The entire book The roster is actually missing eight people." Qiu Zhu carefully explained to Lin Qi, "If there are more than a dozen people missing from the roster, it will definitely attract attention, but if one person is missing, the situation will be very different. Very few people will notice."

"The eighth person is that woman?" Lin Qi took the roster and compared it before and after. Sure enough, in July, one person was missing. "The person missing in July is...Qin Juan'er."

"Qin Juan'er." Qiu Zhu chewed on the name repeatedly, as if she had known each other before.