Daily life in Kaifeng dormitory

Failing to seduce her, she died of shame. Ni Yexin felt very uncomfortable after eating a meal, and felt that everything she ate was stuck in her stomach.

Especially since his body was still wet, he hadn't had time to wipe off the water drops, and his hair was also wet, so he felt uncomfortable when the clothes stuck to his body.

Murong Changqing ate calmly, he looked very good-looking when he ate, and he finished eating quickly.

Murong Changqing stood up and said, "Change some clothes, I'll go out and wait for you."

Seeing that Murong Changqing had left the house, Ni Yexin quickly grabbed two mouthfuls of braised pork. He was fed a stomach full of vegetables just now, and felt that his mouth was tasteless.Although since I made a strong request, I have braised pork in almost every meal, but I am almost full after being fed a bunch of vegetables, and I can't eat any meat.

Ni Yexin's cheeks were bulging, and then she hurriedly changed her clothes, took off the wet clothes, wiped them clean, and changed into a neat new one. Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief and feel much more comfortable.

Murong Changqing stood outside and waited for him for a long time, his only patience was about to be worn out, but fortunately Ni Yexin came out quickly.

Ni Yexin was neatly dressed, with the jade pendant not as big as a palm on her waist, which looked quite eye-catching, but she had the feeling of being gentle and gentle like jade.

Murong Chang glanced sideways at the jade pendant on his waist, but didn't say anything, just said: "Let's go."

Ni Yexin said: "Let's go to the widow Zhu's house first, and then go to Chi Long and Zhao Yin."

Murong nodded affectionately.

It is said that the snake pattern totem was found in the widow Zhu's home. Murong Changqing was only interested in the snake pattern totem, so he naturally agreed.

The widow Zhu's family has almost no one left. Originally, there was a master, three maids and a housekeeper living in the mansion. Now a maid has entered the yamen, the master died, and the remaining two maids were dismissed by the housekeeper.Now such a big mansion is all owned by the housekeeper. After all, the widow Zhu has no son, and no one inherits it.

The widow Zhu's home is easy to find. From a distance, the mansion looks quite big, and it seems to be very comfortable to live in.

Ni Yexin and Murong Changqing went to the door, and someone answered the door. It was a man in his forties, who should be the housekeeper of the widow Zhu, and he looked shrewd.

The housekeeper took a few glances at Ni Yexin and Murong Changqing. He seemed to be in a bad mood, looking at the two with disdain and disgust.

When Ni Yexin saw his eyes, he was taken aback for a moment, then couldn't help but wanted to laugh, and said, "I'm Ni Yexin from Kaifeng Mansion, and I'm here to investigate the case."

The butler was stunned when he heard him, and the expression on his face quickly changed, becoming a lot more humble, and said: "It turns out that you are two adults, please come in quickly, if the hospitality is not good, I hope Haihan."

The housekeeper seemed to be a different person before and after, Murong Changqing couldn't help frowning, seemed a little unhappy.

The two of them followed the butler into the door, and Ni Yexin whispered in Murong Changqing's ear: "Do you know why the butler looked at us with disdain just now?"

"Why?" Murong asked puzzled.

Ni Yexin said: "He must have taken the two of us as the widow Zhu."

Murong Changqing's face turned dark, and the temperature around him seemed to drop several degrees.

Ni Yexin said "tsk tut" twice, and said: "It seems that after the widow Zhu's death, there may be many friends who came to her, and they must all want to get a share, after all, the widow Zhu is very rich. "

Ni Yexin guessed well. After the housekeeper opened the door, he saw two men. He was a little surprised that these two men were so young and had such outstanding appearance, but he didn't think so, thinking that these two men must also be widow Zhu. In the past few days, after the death of the widow Zhu, many friends came to make trouble, and they all took some tokens and ran to tell the housekeeper that the widow Zhu would leave all the inheritance to him.

Naturally, the housekeeper would not give the money here to anyone. He has been working here for many years, and he has always held the money in the house. Now that the widow Mrs. Zhu is dead, it is even more impossible for him to distribute these things to others. other people.

The housekeeper didn't expect that the two young men outside the door were here to investigate the case, and they came from Kaifeng. They seemed to have a lot of background.

Ni Yexin followed him in, and looked around as he walked. The layout of the mansion was good, but it was very clean, and there was no servant there.

When the widow Zhu Shi was alive, there were no servants in the mansion. She was afraid that others would see her so many faces and gossips, so she simply dismissed all the servants and left three servant girls. If she dares to talk nonsense, she can do whatever she wants without any restraint.

The butler invited them to the front hall, served them tea, and said, "You two adults, please drink tea."

Ni Yexin took a sip of tea, and said straight to the point: "We are here to investigate the death of the widow Zhu, can we see the room of the widow Zhu? We also need to look at the study."

The widow Zhu did not have a study room, her room was in the small courtyard inside, the housekeeper led them in, and stood outside respectfully waiting for them to see.

Ni Yexin took another look at the housekeeper. The housekeeper was really shrewd and knew how to advance and retreat. No wonder the widow Mrs. Zhu gave him all the money in the house.

Ni Yexin and Murong Changqing walked into the widow Zhu's room. There were many rare ornaments inside and a lot of jewelry on the dressing table. It seemed that the widow Zhu had a lot of money.

Ni Yexin turned around, then stood in front of the long case, picked up a scroll, and said, "Is this the widow Zhu?"

There is a good painting scroll, on which a woman is drawn. The woman looks very young, but it can be seen that it is the widow Zhu, but the painting is a little younger, and she is much more beautiful than the actual widow Zhu.

Murong Changqing walked over to take a look and nodded.

Ni Yexin picked up another scroll from the desk, and opened it to see that it was also the widow Zhu Shi. They were all portraits of her, but the poses were different, but they were all pretty good.

Murong Chang raised his eyebrows affectionately, and said, "Strange, it wasn't written by one person."

The painters of the two paintings are obviously different, and Ni Yexin can see this.

Ni Yexin pulled out another portrait of the widow Zhu, and said with a smile: "It's so strange, these portraits were not drawn by one person, but they must have been drawn by the widow Zhu's good friend. It's because she wants to please the widow Mrs. Zhu, isn't there many talented scholars among her friends?"

Murong Changqing felt that it made sense, smiled disdainfully, and went to look at other things.

Ni Yexin watched him turn and walk away, and followed him relentlessly.

There were a lot of jewelry on the dressing table, many of which were not put into the box. It seemed that the widow Zhu didn't cherish those things very much.

Ni Yexin walked over, pulled Murong Changqing's sleeve, and said, "So it's here."

Murong Chang said affectionately, "What?"

Ni Yexin reached out and took out an emerald green bracelet from a small box. The bracelet looked ordinary, but the color was good, so it should be able to sell for a good price.

Ni Ye held the bracelet in his heart, tilted it slightly, and they saw a circle of patterns engraved on the inner layer of the bracelet.

"Snake pattern totem?" Murong Changqing immediately frowned.

The inner side of the jade bracelet is really engraved with a snake pattern totem as a decoration, but this snake pattern totem also has no horns and claws, it is just a very ordinary snake pattern totem, which is the same as the dagger in Murong Changqing's hand.

Ni Yexin looked at it carefully, and then reached out to touch the engraved pattern. The engraving was very careful, but it could be seen that the engraving was a bit jerky, and the engraving was not very good.

Standing outside the door, the butler was a little strange when he heard them talking about the snake pattern totem. He walked in and said, "My lords, is this the snake pattern totem you are looking for?"

The housekeeper took them to the corner of the room, and Ni Yexin saw a piece of ashes in the corner, which should be burning something. There was still a lot of paper beside the ashes, and a small piece of snake pattern was drawn on the paper, but Because it was almost burned, I couldn't see it very clearly.

The snake pattern totem mentioned by the officials and the police is not the bracelet of the widow Zhu, but the rice paper that was burned.

People in small places don't know anything about the snake pattern totem, and they don't pay much attention to it.On the contrary, the court, especially the emperor, is the most sensitive to this kind of thing.However, they are naturally unwilling to publicize the fact that someone threatens their rule, so the police and officials here don't know anything at all.

The ashes and scraps of paper were still lying in the corner, and no one had picked them up.

Ni Yexin quickly squatted down to have a look, and picked up the little bit of paper that was left. The paper was a little brittle, obviously after a long time, and a small snake pattern was drawn on it. Because the snake pattern is very distinctive, so such a small Blocks are enough to tell the difference.

"It's strange." Ni Yexin couldn't help saying after taking a look at it.

Murong Changqing also leaned over to look at it, was also taken aback, and said, "Why doesn't the snake pattern on the jade bracelet have horns and claws, but the snake pattern on this piece of paper actually has claws?"

The snake pattern totem on the piece of paper happened to have the part with claws left, so they could see it clearly.It is obviously different from the one on the jade bracelet.

Ni Yexin shook her head and said, "I don't know."

He stood up holding the paper and asked the butler, "Do you know what was burned?"

"It should be a few letters." The housekeeper said, "I have seen such a pattern before, but I don't remember it clearly. It should be drawn on a few letters."

"What letter? Did someone send it to the widow Zhu?" Ni Yexin asked.

The housekeeper nodded, and said tactfully, "It should be. My master knows a lot of people. I don't know who wrote her letter. I just remember reading it before."

Ni Yexin frowned and said, "Are there many such letters?"

The housekeeper said, "Not many, like three or four letters."

Ni Yexin hurriedly looked down at Ashes, and said, "There shouldn't be so many letters burned here?"

There wasn't much ashes, and it didn't look like three or four new letters had been burned.

Ni Yexin said, "Where are those letters? Can you find them?"

The housekeeper was a little embarrassed, because the widow Zhu kept the letter, so he didn't know where it was, only that it must be in the mansion.

Besides the question of where the letter was, there was the even stranger question of who had burned it.

The housekeeper said with certainty: "When my master left for the last time, her room was still clean, and there was no such a pile of ashes. I don't know when it was burned, but I heard it later. Things, after rushing back from the outside, I found a pool of ashes here. Because apart from this annoying thing, I never came in this room again, and no one cleaned it. "

Fortunately, it was not cleaned, otherwise even the ashes would be gone.

Ni Yexin and Murong Changqing rummaged through the boxes and cabinets in the widow Zhu's room, trying to find the remaining letters, but they couldn't find them after a while.

Seeing that it was getting dark, Ni Yexin had no choice but to ask the housekeeper to deliver a message to the Yamen, telling Chi Long and Zhao Yin that they were checking things at the widow Zhu's house, so that the two people would not think they were missing.

Ni Yexin was lying on the ground, holding an oil lamp to illuminate it, and looked under the bed vigorously, but there was nothing underneath, it was empty, and one could tell it at a glance.

Murong Changqing leaned against the table with arms folded, watching Ni Yexin rummaging through the boxes and cabinets, making himself look ashamed.

Murong Chang said affectionately, "What did you find?"

"Nothing." Ni Yexin patted the dirt on his body and stood up, saying: "It's really strange, if I were the widow Mrs. Zhu, I would definitely hide important things in the room, and it is impossible to hide them in other places Ah. But why didn't I find it?"

Murong Changqing raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why?"

"Because she has a lot of good friends!" Ni Yexin said: "She has so many good friends, and she handles things well, which shows that she is a person who is good at keeping secrets and is more cautious in doing things. If this is the case, she will definitely not keep important things Hiding too far away will make her uneasy and even unable to sleep."

Murong Chang looked at the sky outside and said, "Don't talk nonsense, look for it quickly, it's already very late."

Ni Yexin murmured in a low voice, "Obviously you asked me."

"What did you say?" Murong Chang asked coldly.

"Nothing." Ni Yexin replied heartily.

Ni Yexin got up from the ground, and ran to search for the cabinet again, but there were mostly jewelry in the cabinet, and there were countless of them, tens of thousands.

Ni Yexin rummaged through it, but found nothing, and then opened the closet next to her.

As soon as he pulled away, Murong Changqing who was beside him rolled his eyes immediately, then turned and walked away.

It was a closet, and there were women's clothes hanging in it, as well as close-fitting belly wipes, red and green, and a fragrant smell rushed over when it was opened.

Ni Yexin glanced at it, raised her eyebrows, and said, "Although it's a bit embarrassing, I'll just go through it."

Murong Changqing didn't speak, and leaned against the table again with folded arms, watching him toss and turn between red, green, and green belly wipes.

Ni Yexin turned over twice, and there seemed to be nothing inside except the slippery and soft clothes.

Murong Changqing became a little impatient, and said, "Are you addicted to touching?"

Ni Yexin said: "Of course not, don't you think it's a bit strange?"

Murong Changqing had blue veins on his forehead, and said, "What's so strange?"

It's unimaginable that Murong has a long relationship, Ni Yexin is holding a belly wipe and talking to him strangely.

Ni Yexin pointed to the cabinet and said, "The cabinet has a mezzanine."

When Murong Changqing heard this, he immediately walked over.

The cabinet is very high, but the space inside is not that big after opening.Ni Yexin gestured and said, "Look, there should be a section on the top, is there a sandwich?"

Murong Changqing stretched out his hand to touch the top of the cabinet, and sure enough there was a sandwich, and there was a very small keyhole in the deep place.

Ni Yexin said, "Need a key?"

"I don't think so."

As Murong Chang said affectionately, Ni Yexin heard a crisp "crack".

"The board is very thin." Murong Changqing shattered the laminated wood board with his bare hands, and suddenly something fell from it, besides sawdust, there were many other things, such as bottles and cans Yes, and the little box.

Fortunately, there were soft clothes underneath, and those things fell and did not break.

Ni Yexin immediately said: "Look, there is a letter!"

Murong Changqing picked up the fallen letter quickly, and quickly opened it to see that it was a letter that was a few years old. At the end of the letter, it seemed to be stamped with a snake pattern. The sign of the totem, this snake totem is similar to the one that was burned, with claws and horns, it is not an ordinary snake totem.

Ni Yexin stretched her neck, unable to see what was written on the letter, and asked, "What is written on the letter? Show me."

Murong Chang looked at the letter affectionately, frowned and did not speak.

Ni Yexin was very curious, but seeing Murong Changqing's frowning, he knew that he was thinking about something, so he shut his mouth and did not speak again.

The laminated boards of the cabinet were broken, and besides the letters that fell out, there were many other things.

Ni Yexin picked up a small box and looked at it. Inside was a super big pearl, which seemed to be very valuable.

Ni Yexin said: "Is this the treasure bag of the widow Zhu's family? Are all the treasures hidden?"

There are many precious jewels hidden in the mezzanine, which are different from those displayed outside.There are also some oddities.

Ni Yexin held a small box that looked like a rouge box, opened it and smelled it, and said, "Is this rouge? It smells so good, but the color is not very red."

Murong Changqing was thinking about something, when he suddenly asked about a faint fragrance, the fragrance was very elegant, and it smelled very comfortable, but after the fragrance entered his stomach, it suddenly rushed up, the good fragrance was like a ball of fire, and it started burn.

Murong Changqing's expression changed, and he immediately reached out and knocked the "rouge box" off Ni Yexin's hand.

The small "pata" box fell to the ground, and the tender pink ointment inside spilled all over the floor.

Ni Yexin said strangely: "What's wrong? Is it poisonous?"

Murong Changqing quickly grabbed some clothes from the closet and covered the spilled pink ointment.In this way, the fragrance is a little weaker.

Ni Yexin had a confused expression on his face, his cheeks were slightly flushed at this moment, but he still didn't seem to realize that it wasn't 01:30 that was slow.

Murong Changqing hurried out of the widow Zhu's room, there was no such scent outside, but he could still feel the heat in his stomach.

Ni Yexin chased him and ran out, only then did he feel something was wrong, as if he was in a ball of fire.

Ni Yexin said in surprise: "It's really poison? What should I do then?"

Murong Chang rolled his eyes affectionately, and said, "I'm not convinced that you haven't even grown hair yet. It's a soft incense for fun, and you don't need to burn it."

Ni Yexin: "..."

Ni Yexin's mind buzzed, and he finally knew what it was. The moment he knew it, he seemed to finally feel strangely hot.

Ni Yexin was stunned, and asked repeatedly: "Then what should I do..."