Ding Tian's Ancient Life

"The lid?" Jin Buhuan took a look: "It's there."

Ding Tian picked up the lid and looked at it: "Have you been using the medicine jar for a long time to decoct the medicine? It's all black."

"Really?" Jin Buhuan was not sure: "I'll ask those servants later."

"Okay." Ding Tian agreed, but packed the medicine jar, medicine dregs, and the lid of the medicine jar separately, and asked Ma Xiaofeng to put it away: "These physical evidence must not leave your sight."

"Understood, Young Master Tian." Ma Xiaofeng is very handsome now, Jin Buhuan took him for three years, and finally brought him out, at least he can be used as an assistant.

The rest, Wang Ershi, was the helper, and it was the first time he saw how Tian Shao and the others investigated the case with his own eyes.

Then he discovered that he couldn't understand many actions.

Ding Tian saw his confusion: "After seeing more, you will be able to figure it out."

After looking at it in the room, the place is still sealed off as it is, and no one is allowed to damage the scene. The group went to the front courtyard again.

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The mourning hall stood here, and Ding Tian and Jin Buhuan brought their two little assistants to burn incense respectfully first to show their respect for the deceased.

And those who guarded the spirit of the deceased were her former maids and wives.

Young Master Lei called a housekeeper over: "This is Mrs. Hua, who is in charge of the maids in the back house. If you need anything, just tell her."

"Sister-in-law Hua, please come out with the two big maids who are serving Mrs. Lin Ru." Jin Buhuan ordered unceremoniously: "After you have asked them, go and invite the four little maids out."

"Okay, this way please." Mrs. Hua quickly invited them to the next room, served tea and snacks, and then went out to call for someone.

The first ones to come in were the two big maids, probably because of their filial piety, these two big maids were wearing plain dresses and silver hairpins on their heads, their eyes were red and swollen, and they looked sad.

Although they didn't wear mourning, they didn't look festive, and they could be regarded as being loyal to their master.

After all, the person who died was not the wife of the family, but a concubine. It is already very good to have such a mourning after death.

"These are the two maidservants next to Aunt Lin, this is Feng Ye, and this is Liu Ye." Sister-in-law Hua said: "If you have any questions, please feel free to ask."

After Feng Ye and Liu Ye gave Ding Tian and Jin Buhuan a salute, they stood there honestly.

Ding Tian asked Maple Leaf: "Who is on duty that night?"

According to the rules of the big family, when the female relatives go to bed after nightfall, without the company of a man, they must be accompanied by a maidservant or mother-in-law on the footsteps under the bed. serve.

"Aunt Lin doesn't like people watching at night. She usually doesn't need people watching. Since she found out that she is pregnant, she doesn't want people watching at night. Even incense is not allowed." The big maid Feng Ye said with red eyes: " And Aunt Lin has said more than once that she was also a maidservant and knows the hardships of a maidservant, so if she can take care of us, she will take care of us for a while, there is no need to keep watch at night, and only an oil lamp will do."

"Then who made the medicine that day?" Jin Buhuan asked again.

"It's the medicine made by the servant." Liu Ye said: "My aunt's miscarriage medicine is all cooked by the servant or Sister Fengye herself, and it's fried in the tea room, and it's never faked by others."

Although the Lei family has a wife and manages it very well, the means of the women in the back house are unimaginable to outsiders. Aunt Lin has not conceived for many years, and she has such a baby after drinking bitter medicine soup for half a year. Can you not cherish it?

Besides, Aunt Meng is a newcomer, but she is very popular.

Aunt Lin thought that if she had a child, she would have someone to rely on for the rest of her life.

Naturally, I became more careful.

"Who went out to get the medicine?" Jin Buhuan asked again: "Where did you get the medicine?"

"It's not the medicine that I went out to grab, it's the prepared medicinal materials sent from the medicine hall." Liu Ye said: "The doctor I invited was not from outside, it was Zheng Ming from the imperial hospital, the imperial doctor Zheng, and the medicinal materials were also his little ones. The servant, my aunt is like a madam, she has a high grade, although she is a little low, but if you give enough money, you can also invite the imperial doctor to go. Besides, this matter is allowed by the madam..."

"He's an acquaintance." Ding Tian recorded it: "Is there anyone here to see your aunt?"

"Since my aunt became pregnant, my wife came to visit once, the master came twice, Aunt Zhang and Aunt Li came once,

I still came with my wife. When others came, my aunt would not accept them, because the imperial doctor said that my aunt needed to protect her pregnancy and take care of her health, so they all refused. They sent a lot of gifts, but my aunt was useless. in the warehouse. "Feng Ye said: "No matter what it is, none of it is useless. "

This also includes the ginseng given by the wife, the cloth rewarded by the master, etc.

In fact, what my aunt is guarding against is everyone, not just one person.

"Did anyone come near when the medicine was decocting?" Jin Buhuan asked the two of them, "For example, help to add charcoal, pour water or something?

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"No." The two answered very eloquently: "This is the antinatal drug that my aunt wants to import. How can anyone use it casually? The two slaves and servants take turns decocting the medicine, and the other goes to the small kitchen to watch the meals. Auntie The meals are always made by the servants themselves. Although the taste is not as good as that of the cooks in the mansion, the mother of the servants is the cook in the mansion, and the other's father is the cook in the front yard of the master in the mansion. He knows how to cook. It won’t make my aunt unable to eat, and my aunt takes good care of her servants and doesn’t just tease them...”

"Is there an aunt in your house who tortures people?" Jin Buhuan heard a gossip.

"No...the aunts in our mansion are all very good." Liu Ye hurried back to find love: "I only heard of other people's aunts who are good at making girls..."

Feng Ye was outspoken just now, but now she didn't know what to think of, her face turned pale, as if her tongue had been cut off, and she didn't dare to speak again.

"Where did you hear that?" Jin Buhuan insisted on this point.

Sister-in-law Hua could tell that Jin Buhuan seemed to be finding fault on purpose, and she not only glanced at the young master a few times.

But Young Master Lei was drinking tea very calmly, without any sign of displeasure, and Sister-in-law Hua didn't dare to speak rashly, so she had to endure

resistance.

"Uh... I met a few maidservants when I went to worship Buddha in the temple with my aunt, and I heard them talking about it..." Liu Ye stuttered and gave a seemingly reasonable explanation.

In fact, her reason is a bit vague, if it can be said to hold water, right?It is true that only the female family members of the rich family go to offer incense, and the maids below have the opportunity to leave the mansion, and they may meet with the maidservants brought by the female family members of other families.

But if you say that you can't stand... There are too many high-ranking families in Beijing, and there are too many things like this to torture maids. Everyone is used to it, but they will never shout it out, let alone gossip with maids who meet by chance.

With such a tutored maid, the family reckoned that the walls in the mansion were all like fences, and they were very drafty.

Ding Tian and Jin Buhuan looked at each other, and they bypassed the question tacitly, and continued to ask another question: "Then, what did you eat that day, auntie? Let's start with breakfast."

"Breakfast is millet and jujube porridge, served with steamed rose dumplings, leek omelette, stewed beef, pickles are pickled cucumbers fried ham and a plate of pickles we pickled ourselves; Chinese food is yam pork rib soup , pickled cabbage fish, dry pot beef..." Liu Ye opened his mouth and came, Feng Ye didn't dare to say another word.

But it can be heard that this aunt eats very good food, even white fungus soup, Jin Buhuan teased Ding Tian: "The food is better than yours.

it is good. "

"It also eats better than my mother." Young Master Lei laughed at himself: "My two younger brothers and I eat stewed beef and leek omelette, while my mother only eats pickled and crispy cucumbers, and they all eat fried ham with pickled cucumbers." gone."

The two maidservants bowed their heads and remained silent. They have lost their masters now, and from now on...it depends on how the madam arranges them.

"Don't be jealous!" Ding Tian said with a smile: "Anyway, she was pregnant before she was alive, and she was delicate; it's useless to say these things now, they are all dead, we can only investigate carefully and return her A justice."

"What Master Ding said is true." Young Master Lei drank the tea in the cup: "What else do you want to ask?"

"Invite the four little servant girls over here again." Jin Buhuan continued calling.

Sister-in-law Hua went out with two big maids, and after a while, brought in four young maids.

The four little servant girls, the oldest 12 years old, and the youngest [-] years old, are all about the same age.

After they came in, they were a little frightened, they were crowded together, and they didn't dare to lift their heads. They were also wearing a primary-colored muslin dress, with jade-colored velvet flowers on their heads, and plain silver earrings on their ears. There are no accessories, and there is only a small pouch around the waist, with their names embroidered on it.

At first glance, this is a childish little girl, what can you know?

From Ding Tian's point of view, they hadn't graduated from elementary school yet.

Ding Tian only asked a few words, what are their names?how old are you?What do you usually do in Shuangmuju?

The little girls don't really have much work for them, but they all have their own strengths, one is good at needlework, one is good at beating legs, and the other is good at settling accounts. They are not very capable, but they can take care of things more or less.

But the gold is not changed, so the questions he asked are more complicated, who knows which little girl in the yard?Who do you have a good relationship with?Is it a relative?Or a sister?

The result was really asked.

The elder sister of one of the little maids works in the young master's yard. She is just a little girl who cleans the house on weekdays. The young master Lei was surprised: "I don't even know."

"It's strange for you to know." Ding Tian didn't take it seriously: "How many people have you put in your yard?"

"In the yard of my two younger brothers and I, there is a nanny, which is the dowry chosen by the mother herself. When we go out, there is an elder Chang, who is the mother's confidant; the yard is under the care of the nanny. , how many maids are there? Didn’t pay much attention, there was a regular follower, a servant, a book boy, and two guards when going out.” Young Master Lei said: “The maid didn’t care too much, but there should be a few Bar?"

Sister-in-law Hua, who was standing by the side, finally had a place to use her skills: "Back to the eldest master, the three young masters in the family all have their own courtyards, named after the three friends of Suihan. Bamboo Courtyard, the Dongmei Courtyard of the Third Young Master, each courtyard is equipped with a nanny, two first-class maids who are good at sewing, and four third-class maids who can make tea, make snacks, know a little bit of medical skills, and read books. Maid, there are no big maids and little maids, Madam is afraid that the big maids will have a bad heart and seduce the master, and the little girls are too young to do much work, so they are not assigned to the three young masters."

In fact, even the maids who were matched with her were carefully selected. They should not be gorgeous in appearance, but only delicate. If they have a positive mind, they don't need to be aunts, but they must not climb the bed.

"That's not right!" Ding Tian frowned: "It says in the file, what's the matter with the eldest young master's personal servant girl?"

"The Eldest Young Master doesn't have a personal servant girl, not only the Eldest Young Master, but also the Second Young Master and the Third Young Master." Sister-in-law Hua said, "All the stewards in the house know this^"

Ding Tian and Jin Buhuan looked at each other again, and Ding Tian wrote down this suspicious point in his notebook.

Jin Buhuan said: "After asking them, I will bring the wives up."

"Do you want to bring all of them?" Sister-in-law Hua hesitated for a moment: "There are a lot of women... and they are all rude women..." "Bring them here!" Jin Buhuan is not afraid of any mess: "We must all to ask."

"Yes." Sister-in-law Hua led people down and brought them back.

It's just that Ding Tian and Jin Buhuan frowned at the rough envoys who came in...