Daily life in Kaifeng dormitory

Ni Yexin nodded and said, "It should be here."

As Ni Yexin said, he took the lead to walk to the room on the left in the courtyard. He was about to open the door when he was suddenly stopped by Murong Changqing behind him.

Murong Changqing grabbed his outstretched hand and said, "I'll do it."

Ni Yexin looked back at him, but she was smiling and looked very happy.Because Murong Changqing is caring about himself, he must be afraid of any ambush or unexpected situation inside.

Murong Changqing stopped Ni Yexin, and then pushed open the door.

The door squeaked and opened slowly. Inside was a very empty house with nothing in it, let alone anyone.

The servant followed them, stood outside the door and took a look in, as if he was quite frightened.

Ni Yexin walked in with Murong Changqing, there was indeed no one inside, he circled around, pointed to the mark on the corner, and said, "Is there something here before?"

The servant took a look and found that there were some black marks on the edge of the wall. The top was dirty, and the bottom was a little cleaner. There was a clear boundary. There should be things piled up here for a long time, so the soil on the top looked darker, while the bottom was much cleaner. up.

The servant said: "Yes, yes, there were some goods piled up here before. They were some cloth, but they were all poor quality cloth. They have been here for a long time, and they are the kind that can't be sold. The master asked us to put everything away. We moved all the things away when the Zhuangzi was no longer used."

Ni Yexin said, "Where did all the things go?"

The servant said: "I don't know about that. The master has been in poor health in recent years, and it's all the butler who is helping the master deal with these things."

Ni Yexin nodded, glanced roughly, and the black shadows on the wall walked out of the room.

Whether there was blood in the room, or whether it was the scene of the first crime is unknown now. What is known is that this place, like the dry well yard, has been cleaned by someone.

Everyone walked around the yard a few more times, and then asked the servant to walk the whole Zhuangzi with him.This place is really big enough. If you have never been here before, you can almost get lost if you walk around inside.

When they came out of the Zhuangzi, the weather was gloomy. The villa seemed to be built in the shadow of a rock, and the lighting was not very good. Even when there was sunshine, the whole Zhuangzi looked gloomy, which really gave people a feeling not too good.

Chi Long asked: "Master Ni, shall we still go to Xie's house?"

Ni Yexin nodded and said, "Of course, we haven't questioned the Xie family yet."

They left the villa and went back to Xie's house. When they arrived at Xie's house, it happened to be almost noon. When they entered the door, they happened to meet the housekeeper of Xie's house.

The butler looked younger than Mr. Xie, with a shrewd face, but he didn't seem to dare to talk nonsense when he saw them bowing their heads.

Ni Yexin said: "Housekeeper, I heard that a lot of goods have been piled up in the villa halfway up the mountain. Is there any ledger or something, can you show me?"

Hearing this, the steward showed a embarrassed expression, and said, "Although some of those goods are not important, but... the lord wants to see the account book, I still need to ask the master for instructions first."

Upon hearing this, Ni Yexin nodded and said, "It's okay, you go."

The butler hurriedly said: "Then I'll go and tell the master, my lords, please wait a moment."

The butler led them to the flower hall to sit, then trotted away.

The butler walked forward, and suddenly, they heard a woman shouting loudly outside.

The woman's voice was very high-pitched, crying and screaming: "Give me back my son! Give me back my son! You poisonous woman! You killed my son! It was definitely you!"

Ni Yexin looked out, and saw a crazy woman running quite fast, rushing over from a long way.

Behind her were three servant girls, those servant girls chased her with all their strength, finally caught up with her, and wanted to take her away with their arms, but who would have expected that woman to bite someone with her mouth open, and a little servant girl was bitten on the hand, There was a lot of blood on the back of the hand, which looked quite hideous.

There were two little maids standing in the flower hall, they were startled, and hurried over to help, and then a few tall and strong servants came, and finally restrained the woman, coaxing and persuading her, and finally Take the woman away.

Standing in the flower hall, Ni Yexin couldn't help raising her eyebrows, and said, "Could this be the second lady?"

Murong Chang gave him a sideways look and said, "How do you know?"

Ni Yexin said: "The age looks more similar."

Just when the woman was about to be persuaded to go back, another woman suddenly came.

This woman looks a bit older, but she is really good looking. Although she is a middle-aged woman with gray hair, she looks very beautiful, and she has a temperament at first glance.

As soon as she walked over, the little maid next to her immediately called out: "Ma'am."

When the eldest lady saw the crazy woman, she showed a surprised expression and said, "What's wrong with my sister?"

When the woman saw the eldest lady, she became even more insane. She was about to grab the eldest lady with her hands waving wildly, grinning her teeth, and shouted: "You poisonous woman! Give me back my son! Give me back my son! You killed her!" My son! Give me back my son!"

When the eldest lady heard the woman's words, she was taken aback for a moment, then a sad look appeared on her face, her body swayed, and the maid beside her quickly helped her up.

The little maids shouted in panic: "Madam, Madam, are you okay..."

Da Furen's body was tilted, and she almost fainted, and the crowd was even more chaotic.

Soon, the housekeeper also rushed over, and hurriedly asked someone to help the eldest lady down, and then got the crazy second lady down as well.

It took a long time for this farce to break up.

The butler hurried back, showing apologetic expression, and said: "My lords, I'm sorry, my master just took medicine and fell asleep. It seems that we need to wait a little longer for the account book."

Ni Yexin said: "It doesn't matter, we are here to investigate the case, and there is nothing else. We can wait for this little time."

The housekeeper apologized in embarrassment.

Ni Yexin said: "I saw the second lady's mood just now, it seems that she is not in a good mood..."

When the butler heard him mentioning this, his expression became a little stiff, and he said, "The young master suddenly had an accident, and the second lady couldn't accept it for a while. It's like this these days, alas..."

The butler didn't seem to want to say anything more, so he found an excuse and left quickly.

Afterwards, a servant girl and a servant came over, brought some dishes, and invited them to have lunch in the flower hall, and then waited for the master to wake up for a while before going to look at the account book.

While eating, Ni Ye seemed to casually inquire about the affairs of the eldest lady and the second lady.

The maid seemed to have been working in Xie's house for a long time, as if she knew everything.

The little maid said: "The young master has passed away, but the one who is most sad is actually the eldest madam."

Ni Yexin asked curiously: "Why is it the eldest lady, isn't the second lady the young master's biological mother?"

The little servant girl said: "My lord, you don't know that the young master has been so kind to the young master since he was a child. Maybe it's because the young master looks a lot like the old young master."

When the little maid said this, her voice was suppressed quite a bit, and she continued to say: "In private, we all know that the second lady beat and scolded the young master not because the young master is playful, but because the young master is close to you." Ma'am."

The second lady was brought into the house by the old lady. Mr. Xie was very kind to the eldest lady, and once said that he would not take concubines, but later he had no other choice, so he took a concubine and gave birth to the young master.Later, Master Xie felt that he owed the eldest lady, and treated the eldest lady better than before, and always brought the young master to let the eldest lady get along with him.

The eldest lady said that the young master looks very similar to his son, so she has doted on this child since she was a child. Two-thirds of the young master's clothes every year are bought by the eldest lady. The teachers who have been hired since childhood are also all big Madam entrusted someone to find him.

The second wife is young and can't teach children, and she has a tricky personality. Sometimes she always beats the children in private. The young master was closer to the eldest lady when he was a child.

A few days ago, the young master died suddenly, and the second wife completely collapsed, feeling as if the sky had collapsed, she fainted and woke up and began to curse madly at the eldest lady, saying that it was definitely the eldest lady who killed her son.

Because Mr. Xie only has such a son, the young master will definitely inherit the entire Xie family in the future. The second wife has always thought that when her son grows up, she will be able to stand up, but now there is nothing left.

They ate at Xie's house and waited for a long time, but Master Xie didn't get up. In the end, Ni Yexin couldn't wait any longer. He wanted to go to the Yamen to see the results of the autopsy, so he asked Chi Long and Zhao Yin to wait and inform them when there was news. .

The body of the young master of the Xie family was still parked in the yamen, because it was not long and the case was not solved, so there was no time to bury it, but the burial is only two days away, if it is left, the body will probably be destroyed.

When Ni Yexin and Murong Changqing left Xie's house, Murong Changqing frowned and said, "What did you find?"

Ni Yexin turned to look at him, suddenly smiled, and whispered, "Hero, give me a kiss and I'll tell you."

Murong Changqing: "..."

Ni Yexin kindly added: "You can kiss anywhere, forehead, cheek or mouth, you can choose whatever you want."

Murong Changqing's face turned blue, he simply ignored him and walked straight forward.

Ni Yexin hurriedly chased after him, and said, "Hero, are you angry?"

Murong Changqing did not speak.

Ni Yexin said: "Don't worry, there is no one around us, no one will see us."

Of course Murong Changqing knew that there was no one around. If there were, he would have slapped Ni Yexin to death long ago. He didn't want to embarrass himself with Ni Yexin.

Ni Yexin saw that Murong Changqing was still ignoring him, so he chased after him like a dog, and said, "Okay, hero, I've made an agreement with you."

Only then did Murong Changqing show a trace of expression on his face.

Ni Yexin said, "Actually, I didn't find anything."

Murong Changqing: "..."

Murong was in love, but he felt a puff of air from his chest, almost blowing him up. He fought back and pulled Ni Yexin over, and almost killed him by pulling his collar. picked up.

However, at this moment, Ni Yexin raised her head and kissed him resoundingly on the cheek.

There was a sound of "Bo--".

Murong Changqing was stunned.

Ni Yexin succeeded in stealing, almost laughed out loud, quickly grabbed Murong Changqing's hand, and said: "Heroes are merciful."

Ni Yexin knew that it would be very difficult for him to sneak attack on Murong Changqing. Before he got close to him, Murong Changqing probably avoided him quickly. After all, his martial arts were not as good as him.

So Ni Yexin thought of a good way to let Murong Changqing catch him, so that it will be absolutely no problem to push the boat along.

Murong Changqing didn't know that he had fallen into a trap, the expression on his face was very strange.

Ni Yexin took a look, quickly tugged on his sleeves, carefully wiped Hero Murong's face, and said, "Hero, I just kissed your face, I really didn't get any saliva on your face."

When Murong Changqing heard this, his face became even colder, he glared at him, pushed him away, then found a quick handkerchief, wiped it on his face, looking disgusted.

Ni Yexin followed happily, and said, "Hero, I didn't lie to you, I really didn't see anything strange."

Murong Changqing secretly rolled his eyes, and simply ignored Ni Yexin.

Ni Yexin succeeded in cheating, and he is still alive. He feels that this is simply a milestone in the historical development, and it is worthy of warm celebration.

The two of them walked all the way to the yamen, but they didn't expect that someone came to the yamen, it was Prince Jing who came with his bodyguards.

When Ni Yexin saw Zhao Yuanjing, he was very surprised. Why did Prince Jing come here again? He felt like a follower, but he didn't dare to say that.

Zhao Yuanjing and his party also just arrived at the yamen, saying they wanted to see the body of young master Xie's family.

Ni Yexin thought that Prince Jing would not come here. After all, they had caught several people related to the rebellion before, and the masters of the Xu family were taken over by Zhao Yuanjing, so they needed to be escorted back to Kaifeng.

Zhao Yuanjing just glanced at Ni Yexin indifferently, and said, "Master Ni, is there any progress in the case?"

Ni Yexin didn't hide anything, after all, it was Prince Jing who asked, and told them all the things they found, including the desolate house and dry well halfway up the mountain.

After hearing this, Zhao Yuanjing just sighed and said, "It seems that no matter where it is, there are always secrets."

The officials in this small place have never seen any princes, they were so frightened that they were so frightened, the official and all the officials ran over quickly, leading Prince Jing to see the body of Young Master Xie.

Wu Zuo also came, waiting to analyze the condition of the corpse for them.

Young Master Xie's body was parked in the yamen, because the weather was relatively cold, so the smell of the body was not serious, but the smell of blood and putrefaction was unavoidable.

Young Master Xie really looked very young, and people couldn't help but sigh, such a young boy died suddenly.

The young master was covered in blood, and the wound on the back of his head was very obvious. Wu Zuo said: "The fatal injury is the wound on the back of the head. It should have been hit by a heavy object, not directly caused by falling into the well. As for the various wounds on his body The bruises and fractures were caused by falling into the well."

The dry well is at least ten meters deep, which is not a short distance. Apart from the back of the head, the young master has multiple fractures and fell badly.

Wu Zuo said: "There is no trace of poisoning, we just found some fragments of teeth in his stomach, which should have been broken when he fell into a dry well."

Ni Yexin couldn't help frowning when he heard this, and said, "Look at the many wounds on his hands, can you tell if he struggled before he died?"

Wu Zuo shook his head.

Young Master Xie had too many bruises and fell too badly. Even if there were traces of struggling and fighting before his death, they couldn't be seen at this time.

This is a small place, and there is little work experience, so there are even fewer things that can be seen.

Ni Yexin saw Young Master Xie's body and was about to go back to Xie's house soon. Chi Long ran over to inform Ni Yexin that Master Xie had woken up and agreed to show them the account book.

Master Xie was very cooperative. He heard the housekeeper relay Ni Yexin's request, and immediately asked the housekeeper to take out all the books for Ni Yexin to check.

Ni Yexin talked to Lord Jing about the whole story, Zhao Yuanjing waved his hand and said, "You are the main one to investigate the case, you can investigate as you want, you don't need to come to me to report, I am just curious about this case, so come and have a look." Just watch."

Ni Yexin hurried back to Xie's house with Murong Changqing.

When he left the yamen, Murong looked back affectionately, and Ni Yexin asked, "What's wrong?"

Murong Changqing said: "This Zhao Yuanjing probably knows more about the snake pattern totem than we do."

Ni Yexin tugged at the corner of Murong Changqing's clothes, and whispered, "Hero, let's go a little further, and you can call Lord Jing by his name again, okay?"

Murong Changqing: "..."

Zhao Yuanjing glanced at the gate of the yamen, Ni Yexin and Murong Changqing had already left, and there was nothing outside.

The guard called out in a low voice: "Master."

Zhao Yuanjing waved his hand and said, "I'm going somewhere, you don't have to follow."

The guard seemed to feel that something was wrong, worried about Prince Jing's safety, but in the end he still didn't speak, not daring to go against Zhao Yuanjing's intention.

Zhao Yuanjing quickly left the yamen, and when he went up the mountain and arrived at the gate of the deserted villa, it was already dark, and the villa looked even more desolate, the gate was not closed at all, like a big black same mouth.

Zhao Yuanjing went in, searched around, and soon found the legendary courtyard. There was a dry well in the corner of the courtyard.

In addition, there was another person standing in the courtyard.

The man was wearing light blue clothes, and he looked a little thin from the back. Night Breeze helped his skirt, and he looked harmless.

Zhao Yuanjing walked forward step by step, and finally walked behind that person.

"Would you like to hear a story?"

That man spoke, he was really the young man Zhao Yuanjing had met earlier, he suddenly turned his head and stared at Zhao Yuanjing indifferently.

"About this well?" Zhao Yuanjing walked to the well, looked down at the bottomless dry well, then turned to look at the young man, and continued, "Or about the child who died in the well many years ago?"

The young man asked, "Which one do you want to hear?"

"That child." Zhao Yuanjing looked at him and said, "I just suddenly thought that if that child is still alive, after all these years, he might be as old as you."