[Zhan Zhaotongren] Hongchen

The next day, when Su Xiaoxiao woke up from the dream, it was already broad daylight outside the window.

Before she fell asleep last night, she planned that it would be great if she could sneak out to buy vegetables with the kitchen master today, but now that the weather is looking at it, the master probably returned from shopping long ago.

While complaining about her biological clock imbalance, she tidies herself up.

After leaving the room, he went straight to the kitchen. Sure enough, Master Li had already started picking vegetables on a small stool.

Seeing Su Xiaoxiao approaching, Master Li complained, "You kid can't help boasting, I just said hello to you yesterday, and you came so late today, where did you go to be lazy?"

"Hey..." Su Xiaoxiao scratched her head and smirked, did she really regard her as a helper? "Master, take a rest, I will do the rest."

Su Xiaoxiao found a small stool and sat next to Master Li to pick vegetables. Eat leeks today?This thing tastes delicious, but it is too troublesome to pick it up.

When Master Li saw someone taking over, he wiped his hands and sat aside to watch, "Where did you go all morning? I couldn't find you, and no one would tell me if I asked."

"Hehe... I overslept," Su Xiaoxin thought, of course she didn't know, she didn't really come to help the cook, she was brought back by someone as a suspect, "Master Li, you cook all the meals in Kaifeng mansion." ? It's a busy day."

"That's right, there are no five or sixty people from top to bottom, and there are four or fifty people. They cook all day, hey!"

"There are so many people in Kaifeng?" Su Xiaoxiao was startled, four or fifty people, are there so many?

"That's right," Master Li stretched out his hand and counted, "Counting those who don't eat in the mansion, there are quite a lot of people in our Kaifeng mansion, servants, servants, maids...ah, and those children in the ancestral hall behind us .”

"What child?" She also walked around the mansion yesterday, but she didn't see any children.

"Oh, that's only after this lord took office. The ancestral hall is at the back of Wu Zuofang, where there is an independent small door to get in and out, so those children usually don't come in and out through the front door, of course you don't know .”

Su Xiaoxiao still didn't understand, but it turns out that the back of Wu Zuofang is also the territory of Kaifeng Mansion, and this Kaifeng Mansion is quite big.

"Those children are orphans or the children of prisoners. Our adults are kind-hearted. We hired a gentleman in the ancestral hall to teach these children to read and write every day. I am responsible for delivering meals every day, one meal at noon and one meal at night. , Those children are also very pitiful, some of them live in the ancestral hall." Master Li didn't care whether Su Xiaoxiao was listening or not, and said to himself.

Su Xiaoxiao thinks that the poor one should be the chef in the kitchen. There are so many people eating, and there are a group of children, but there is only one person cooking. It's really...

After picking and washing the vegetables, Su Xiaoxiao put the two large baskets of leeks in a cool place in Lishui, and then started to wander around by herself.

Wuzuofang?She should have gone to see that Lai Yonghua's body, but she didn't dare to look at it alone, so she walked around and went back to the front door.

The two guards stood at the door, wondering if they saw her, Su Xiaoxiao moved forward, thinking that at most she would be driven back.

If she was driven back, she would go to help the master make dumplings, Su Xiaoxiao went out bravely, and the two gatekeepers saw her nodding and smiling at her.

Really friendly?Su Xiaoxiao also smiled at them, and after laughing, she found that she was already standing on the street outside the gate of Kaifeng Mansion, opposite to the plaque of the God Detective Division, the sun was good today, and she was dizzy with the golden light.

Su Xiaoxiao lowered her head and walked in the opposite direction. She didn't know where Lai Yonghua lived, but the people in Yihongyuan should know where Lai Yonghua lived. Go back to Yihongyuan?

Forget it, there is nothing difficult in the world, as long as there is a heart.This is her father's wise words.

The mouth under the nose can not only eat but also ask directions. About an hour or so was lunch time, and Su Xiaoxiao sat in the corner opposite to Lai Yonghua's house in a daze.

No one cares where a beggar like her sits in a daze. She wraps her hands around her calves, puts her chin on her knees, and stares at the door of Lai Yonghua's house in a daze.

"Guess, what is he thinking?" Not far away, Zhuiming elbowed Zhan Zhao and asked in a low voice.

This tracking is not too difficult. He has been following Su Xiaoxiao since he left Kaifeng Mansion in the morning. Later, he found that this Su Xiaoxiao was a master who was not afraid of following. alert.

But what's interesting is that it didn't take long to find out that someone else was following this Su Xiaoxiao. At first he thought it was Su Xiaoxiao's accomplices or came to kill people. Who knows, he found out later that another follower Su Xiaoxiao's person is Zhan Zhao.

Followed by one person is also followed, followed by two people, and finally it becomes like this.

Zhan Zhao clasped his arms around his chest, holding a sword in one hand, and glanced at Zhui Ming, is this guy here to handle a case or to cause trouble?

They kept chasing their lives all the way, although their voices were not loud, it was still annoying. Why did the people from the God Detective Division follow Su Xiaoxiao?Do you also suspect that this case has a great relationship with Su Xiaoxiao?

Zhan Zhao and Zhui Ming are not secretive, if Su Xiaoxiao is determined to find them, it is a bit of a test to do so, but Su Xiaoxiao's thoughts are not here at all.

She stared at the big "Dian" sign in front of the Lai Mansion, wondering if she should sneak in to have a look, but on the surface it looked nothing unusual.

Lai Yonghua's body must still be in Kaifeng Mansion, this is just a mourning hall, but people who come in and out should cry, and there is nothing wrong with showing filial piety.

This Lai Yonghua has both parents, and the family is not short of money, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, and it is considered to be a marriage when he is in his twenties. Before the bride is married, this person will die first.

Either way, it would be unlucky for any girl to marry him... Su Xiaoxiao suddenly stood up from the ground and made an engagement!Could this Lai Yonghua be murdered by love?

Then she remembered that there were three more dead in front of Lai Yonghua, so it shouldn't be a love murder.

Just at this time, a small door next to her was pushed open with a "squeak", and an aunt in her thirties came out with a basin, and then the basin of water was splashed on the street with a "crash". .

Seeing that the person turned around after splashing the water and wanted to go back, Su Xiaoxiao hurriedly stepped forward to stop her, "Big sister, excuse me!"

When the woman heard someone call her, she turned her head and saw that it was a handsome young man, so she turned around and asked, "What's the matter, little brother?"

"Sister, I'm a relative of the Lai family. I just came from another place. What happened to their family? Who died?" Su Xiaoxiao pointed to the door of the Lai family and asked.

"Oh, you are a relative of their family," the woman said when she heard that she was asking the Lai family, put down the empty basin in her hand, "Master Lai's eldest son, Lai Yonghua, died, and someone found him dead in a brothel two days ago. Now I don’t know who did it, the corpses are still in the government, and they are not allowed to be taken back.”

"Why don't you give up?"

"The cause of death is suspicious, probably murder."

"Ah?! Murder, who would want to kill him? There is no vengeance," Su Xiaoxiao pretended to be surprised, and then asked.

"What I'm talking about is that although Mr. Lai is not very good, it's not that he has such a big enmity with anyone." The woman shook her head, "I heard from their girl two days ago that Mr. Lai set him up. The next relative, this talk is about to start a family, whoever knows..."

"Yeah, I just accepted the letter and told me to come to my cousin's wedding. Who knew I'd see it when I arrived today..." Su Xiaoxiao said along, "By the way, uncle has ordered a wedding for my brother. Whose girl is it? This girl is unlucky enough, she just..."

"It's the Liu's family that sells silk and satin on the East Street. You can say that this girl has a hard life. She is a widow before she even gets married. I'm afraid it will be difficult to find her husband's family again in the future."

"East Street?" Su Xiaoxiao frowned, as if muttering to herself, "How do I remember, my brother's letter said it was the Li family in the back alley."

"Back alley?" The woman was also taken aback, then shook her head and said, "Mr. Lai may have remembered wrongly. There is a daughter in the Li family in this back alley, but the child is only five years old."

"Oh," Su Xiaoxiao nodded, "My brother is sometimes confused, maybe his memory is wrong. I'll go in and have a look first, thank you, big sister!"

Su Xiaoxiao made a gesture to go to Lai's house, and the woman who poured water also picked up the basin at hand and planned to go back to the house, still muttering in a low voice, "How can a person be fine, if you say nothing, you will be gone. Say you want to make a fortune, and in a blink of an eye, people will disappear."

"What?" Su Xiaoxiao was about to leave, but suddenly she turned around and reached out to block the door of the aunt's house, "Sister, what did you just say?"

The woman had already entered the door of her house, and was about to close the door when suddenly the door was blocked.She looked at Su Xiaoxiao with some puzzlement, "It was only a month ago. I was drying clothes at the door that day, and I heard Mr. Lai tell a few people that he was about to get rich. His father took some money to spend, but Mr. Lai was in a hurry with them. At that time, I thought, it's really unfair that such a prodigal son can still get rich."

After the aunt finished speaking, she realized that she had said too much. This person is Mr. Lai's cousin, so she glanced at Su Xiaoxiao, and found that Su Xiaoxiao didn't seem to hear, so she felt relieved.

Su Xiaoxiao thanked the woman and walked towards Lai's house, thinking that she should sneak in and have a look. Now that she heard it, the more she listened, the more she felt that this Lai Yonghua had nothing to do with the deaths of the other three people. Could it be someone? Deliberately misleading the government, and then get away by himself.

Zhan Zhao and Zhui Ming also heard what Su Xiaoxiao and the woman said, they frowned and looked at each other, they knew about Lai Yonghua's engagement, but what about getting rich?

Seeing that Su Xiaoxiao didn't intend to leave, but went to the gate of Lai's house instead, he asked curiously, "Tell me, why is he so interested in this case?"

"He hopes that the adults can take him in," or he is simply trying to confuse the public, so that they will not suspect him.Zhan Zhao only spoke half of what he said, and now it seems that there are two possibilities.

"He wants to stay in Kaifeng mansion?"

Zhui Ming asked, but Zhan Zhao ignored him.The Kaifeng Mansion and the Shenhun Division have always been responsible for their own duties, and he is not very familiar with the people in the Shenhun Division, so it is useless to talk more.

"What's so good about Kaifeng Mansion?" Everyone was so boring, Zhui Ming muttered, why don't you want to come to Shenzhusi, it seems that the master likes him very much.

Su Xiaoxiao waited at the gate of Lai's house for a while, and then sneaked into Lai's house with a mourner.

The process was simpler than she thought, because the person died not long ago, and there were many people who came to express their condolences every day. There was only one person at the gate of Lai's house to take care of her, and no one stopped her at all.

In the mourning hall, Lai Yonghua's father

The mother was there, as was a younger sister and a younger brother. The younger sister looked twelve or thirteen years old, her eyes were red from crying, and the younger brother was still young and ignorant, so he just stood aside.

Mr. Lai and Mrs. Lai took a pair of children to return gifts to those who came to express their condolences. Both of them looked very tired, which made people feel heartbroken. The white-haired man gave the black-haired man.

Although this family is not considered a small family, it is quite well-behaved, and the people who come and go are ordinary people. Su Xiaoxiao looked at it for a while, and then walked quietly to the backyard. My condolences, giving birth to such a son is nothing better than having one.

Because it happened to be noon, some of the people who came to express their condolences were invited to the back hall for dinner. Su Xiaoxiao followed her feeling and didn't know where it was. She had no direction at all, but she thought she should come in and have a look.

Su Xiaoxiao was stopped when she walked outside a door, and a man who looked a little older pointed at her and asked, "You help the cook? Why are you here!"

Helping the cook again, Su Xiaoxiao turned around resignedly and said, "I... I... lost my way."

"The kitchen is over there, hurry up, there are many people eating today, and the master and wife haven't eaten yet." The man pointed with his finger, urging Su Xiaoxiao to hurry over.

Su Xiaoxiao trotted along the direction of the man's finger, how could she be treated as a helper wherever she went?The word "help cook" is written on her face?

In Lai's kitchen, there are servant girls coming in and out to do everything. Su Xiaoxiao found the most hidden job for herself - lighting a fire!

She sat down by the stove and added firewood to the stove one by one.Actually, she couldn't make a fire, but now that the fire was burning, all she had to do was add wood to it.

Usually listening to gossip in one place, besides embroidery, adding firewood to the fire is also a good choice.

"Hey, it's so pitiful that the young master died, and he can't even get his body back now."

"The young master is pitiful? I think it is the master and wife who are pitiful. After giving birth to a son like the young master, he will not be able to enjoy the blessings while alive, and he will torture the master and wife after death."

"Who says the young master is not filial? A few days ago, I heard the young master say that he must be filial to the master after he gets rich, and then he will go to the examination for fame. This is considered honoring the ancestors. The master of the province scolds him for being unfilial all the time."

"Get rich? How can someone like the young master get rich? He still needs to be tested for fame? How many words does he know..."

A group of servants who sneaked in while they were busy said everything, but they didn’t grit their teeth and want him to die, but most people lamented the impermanence of life. Su Xiaoxiao stared at the red stove in a daze, and got rich again. How did this young master of the Lai family get rich? ?

Unless it's pie in the sky, or... extortion, someone has something in his hands, so he can extort a sum of money, otherwise why is he so sure that he can make a fortune.

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