ancient criminal minds

The steward of the Lu residence led the British princes Lu Qing and Lu Zheng towards the mourning hall, and they heard miserable cries before they got close.

Lu Qing sighed: "Is the matter behind the eldest cousin settled?"

The housekeeper wiped his tears and said: "Grandpa Lao is worried, the master left suddenly, most of the family members are women in the house, and the second young master is taking care of everything."

A tall and thin man came over. He was Lu Yuan, the second young master of Lu's family, but he was just a concubine. The eldest son of the Lu family passed away three years ago, and he has always been in charge of the Lu family's external affairs.Lu Yuan is about 40 years old, he is in the prime of life, but due to hard work, he looks tired and haggard.

He cupped his hands at Lu Qing: "My nephew has met my third uncle."

Lu Qing helped him up: "Okay, my family members don't see each other anymore, but what else can I help with?"

Embarrassment flashed across Lu Yuan's face, but he still said to Lu Qing: "Tomorrow will be a funeral, and I have to trouble my third uncle to say hello." After all, he is just a bastard. There is no way to replace the man in the family.

Lu Qing also understood his difficulties. He had always had a good impression of this nephew, and he acted prudently and knew how to advance and retreat, but it was a pity that he lost his identity.

Several people walked into the mourning hall, and saw a graceful figure lying on the coffin and crying loudly: "Master, why did you go so early, leaving us orphans and widows...Master, I wish I could go with you!" ..."

Lu Yuan's face darkened, but he still held back his salute and said, "Mother, the third uncle and the seventeenth brother are here." Lu Zheng's ranking among the men in the Lu family is seventeen.

The woman stopped crying, wiped her tears and turned around. She had a delicate and gentle face with a few teardrops hanging on her cheeks, and her filial piety added a bit of delicacy to her.

"My concubine Lu Wu has met my uncle."

Lu Qing's face was sullen, he couldn't yell out "Sister-in-law", so he could only nod his head and said, "My condolences."

Wu Shi wiped her eyes and was about to cry again.

Lu Qing was so annoyed, he took the incense from Lu Yuan, and after offering incense with Lu Zheng, he was about to go out.

He has long been displeased with the step-wife married by his first cousin, she has no brains and beauty, and she can't do anything at all. Fortunately, the Lu family is not in the court now, otherwise I don't know what troubles will happen.

Wu's face turned pale with anger, Lu Yuan chased him out embarrassingly while saying "Mother calm down".The British government has been separated for a long time, Lu Qing can't understand that Wu can throw face, but he can't, otherwise, if the hat of filial piety is suppressed, he will peel off his skin even if he doesn't die.

Lu Qing followed him to the side room, and asked, "Has the cause of death of eldest cousin been found out?"

"It's poisoning." Lu Yuan said in a low voice, "The doctor said it was the poison of the hook kiss. When the father was found, the poison was already deep, and it was hopeless."

Lu Qing frowned, because Lu Che was also suffering from hook kiss poison, but the symptoms were much milder. Now the poison has been cured, but because of his weak body, he is still recuperating at home.

As soon as Lu Yuan saw Lu Qing's expression, he understood. He couldn't help but smiled wryly and said: "Our Lu family is just a farmer now, and I don't know who has such a deep hatred with the Lu family, and even made the third brother involved."

"You can't say that." Lu Qing shook his head, "Che'er will inevitably make enemies in the court, but I'm worried that the murderer will not kill him, but let the elder cousin die instead."

While Lu Qing was talking to Lu Yuan, Lu Zheng looked around in the garden, and saw a servant woman cursing at a doorway.

Lu Zheng wanted to go around, but accidentally saw the filial piety on the scolded woman, which was clearly only for relatives to wear. For example, the servant who scolded her was not qualified to wear filial piety, so she had to tie a white cloth around her arm.

This is interesting, the majestic master will be scolded by a servant, from Lu Zheng's perspective, he can't see the woman's face, but he can hear their voices.

The servant woman was still scolding fiercely: "...Shobaxing, Madam told you to stay in the room, what are you doing out?"

The woman just kept her head down and didn't speak.

Lu Zheng wanted to go over to have a look, but was held back by a big hand.

"Seventeenth brother, what are you looking at?"

Lu Zheng turned his head and found that it was Lu Yuan, he pointed to the door opening: "Who is that?"

Lu Yuan glanced at it and then withdrew his gaze, and said with no surprise, "That's Aunt Seven."

In Lu Zheng's memory, the Lu family had two sons in the house of Da Da Bo, except Da Da Da Bo, who was Seventh Uncle, but Qi Shu got polio when he was a child, and one leg was shrunk, so it was very difficult to get married, and later married Yan's eldest daughter.

The original owner had never seen this seventh aunt before, but he did not expect such a weak person.

Lu Yuan didn't explain much, and took him to the mourning hall, but just in time to see the youngest grandmother Lin and stepmother Wu quarreled immediately.

"...my father-in-law was poisoned and died. I don't know who did it. You are in such a hurry to be buried. Could it be that you have a ghost in your heart?!" Since her husband and son died one after another, Lin's temperament has become much weirder. Without any scruples about face, he directly sneered at Mrs. Wu.

Trembling with anger, Wu rushed over and slapped Lin on the face: "You bitch! Let you slander me!"

Lin Shi was not easy to provoke, so he grabbed Wu Shi's hair and threw it underground.

The people around were fighting and persuading, and those who were accidentally injured screamed tragically, the scene was simply chaotic.

Lu Zheng was dumbfounded, and Lu Qing beside him was so angry that his forehead was bursting with blue veins, he shouted: "Stop!"

"How decent are they all?" Lu Qing glanced at the crowd with a gloomy expression, "Big cousin's bones are not yet cold, so you are messing around in front of his spirit like this, do you want him to have no peace after death?"

Everyone was silent, Wu Shi wanted to cry, but was scared back by Lu Qing's glare.

"Every family will come to express their condolences tomorrow, are you planning to make such a fuss in front of them and make the Lu family the laughing stock of Yanjing?!"

Lu Yuan quickly knelt down: "Third Uncle calm down."

Lu Qing glanced at Mrs. Lin who was pulled away and was still twisting his face to hit Mrs. Wu, and said to the two servants beside him, "The eldest young lady is too sad and has hysteria. You still don't want to help her back?" .”

Under his strong coercion, the two servants did not dare to speak, they could only honestly go over and help Mrs. Lin down.

Lu Qing asked again: "What was the fuss about just now?"

Just as Wu was about to answer, Lu Qing had already turned his gaze to Lu Yuan: "Second brother, tell me."

Lu Yuan had already heard what his wife had told him, and lowered his head to hide the anger in his eyes: "Third uncle, my mother said that she would be buried in three days after her death, and we are not allowed to report to the officials, but..."

Lu Qing looked at the restless Wu Shi, "How do you explain it?"

Wu wiped her tears: "Uncle misunderstood the concubine's status. The concubine's life is the most uncomfortable when the husband passes away, but how can he stay at home for seven days after such a violent death? If his resentment is hard to dissipate, what will happen to this big family?" That's good... I'm a concubine for the sake of the whole family, but I don't want to be misunderstood, so I might as well go with the master..."

Seeing that Mrs. Wu was about to cry, make trouble and hang himself, Lu Qing said impatiently, "Enough!" Then he looked at the people kneeling in the mourning hall, "What do you think?"

There has always been a custom in the Great Xia Dynasty that the resentment of those who died suddenly must be buried as soon as possible.If you stay at home for too long, you will offend your family. Therefore, people who died suddenly in this dynasty must be buried within three days. However, Lu Zhi, the master of the Lu family, saw that it was murder.

Sure enough, after Mrs. Wu's explanation, the eyes of all the female family members flickered, and no one made a sound for a while.Seeing this situation, Lu Qing couldn't help feeling chills in his heart.

Suddenly, a woman stood up among the female family members: "The concubine believes that since the father-in-law was murdered by others, if we as children cannot find the murderer to avenge him, I am afraid that the father-in-law will not rest in peace in heaven."

This person is Tong Shi, the Fourth Young Mistress of the Lu family.

"That makes sense." Lu Qing relaxed slightly, and glanced at Mrs. Tong approvingly. He didn't bother to ask other people's opinions, and said directly to the guard who followed him, "Take my post to Jingzhao Mansion, please." Mr. Jing Zhaoyin must give the eldest cousin justice."

Lu Qing had already sent a message, no matter how much other people thought about it, it was useless, they could only respond one by one.

Back at the British residence, Lu Qing was already physically and mentally exhausted, Lu Zheng helped him back to his room to rest, and hurriedly went to Feihong Courtyard to see his elder brother.

Lu Che was lying on the bed, and Mrs. Pei was feeding him medicine.Fortunately, his poisoning was still shallow, and Lu Qing had the foresight to ask Xu Yuan for a judgment, and then the toxin was expelled, but now he is still weak and needs to rest in bed.

"Brother, how is it today?" Lu Zheng asked.

Lu Che nodded, and asked softly, "You went to the uncle's house, what happened?"

Lu Zheng shook his head: "I always feel that each house has selfish intentions, but I really can't see it."

"There are many things in my family, it's really..." Lu Che hesitated to speak.

"By the way, big brother, do you know what happened to Seventh Aunt?" Lu Zheng asked curiously.

"What's up with her?"

Lu Zheng told the story of seeing the servant girl scolding the Yan family in the Lu family, and said: "Isn't the seventh aunt the eldest daughter of the Yan family? Even if the family has fallen, how can it be reduced to the point of being insulted by a servant girl? "

Lu Che was as calm as talking about business: "The Yan family participated in the treason case of the king of Wei back then, and they were liquidated after they ascended the throne. These years have been very difficult. Seventh aunt's mother died early, so she My father married another stepwife. It would have been fine if the Yan family hadn't been defeated. She would not have dared to humiliate the daughter left behind by her original spouse like this. If not, Seventh Uncle would not be able to marry Seventh Aunt."

Lu Zheng felt a little sad when he heard it.

"Seventh Uncle passed away six years ago, and Seventh Aunt has no sons or daughters. She can only be regarded as living with the uncle's family. Naturally, she will suffer some grievances." Lu Che shook his head, "But according to what you said, even a servant girl can do this. Insulting her like this shows how bad the rules of our family are."

The Lu family has been going downhill for these years. If it wasn't for the British government behind them, they might not be able to stay in Yanjing long ago, but they still don't know how to think about it at all. Instead, they are fighting in a mess at home.

While the two were talking, a maid came in and whispered something in Pei's ear.

Pei frowned.

"What happened?" Lu Che asked.

Mrs. Pei sighed: "Father sent someone to Jingzhao Mansion to report to the official, Tang Zhifu accepted the case, and then went to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to borrow someone."

In the past, Jing Zhaoyin and Tang Min often did this, and Lu Zheng was not surprised, but seeing that Mrs. Pei was not in a good mood, he couldn't help but ask, "Who did you borrow?"

"Zhao Xueqian."