Nongmen Shenjue

In other words, Caiju was not the first to discover the bride's death.

"Who was the first to find out what happened?" Boss Jiang Bu asked urgently.

Strangely, the four servant girls looked at each other and shook their heads.

"It's not you?" Chief Jiang frowned: "Who is that? Don't you know?"

The maid named Shuihe opened her mouth hesitantly: "At that time, we heard a shout from the room, and then the door opened suddenly. We were worried about the accident of the young lady, so we ran in quickly, only to see that the young lady had already passed away. ...I, I didn't think about it that much at the time, but when I think about it later, I don't know who was yelling in the room at that time. It wasn't the voice of the young lady, but the four of us were guarding outside and entered the room at about the same time. Caiju She came back later."

Jiang Butou'er suddenly felt dizzy: "Who did you see?"

"We were terrified at the time, and ran out in a hurry, trying to find someone. We happened to meet Caiju who ran back from Xunsheng. After discussing it, the others guarded the courtyard gate, and Caiju went to find the master and young master." Shui He I exchanged glances with several other people, exchanged words with each other, and said: "We didn't see any outsiders, or maybe we didn't pay attention. We originally planned to find the master quietly, but we didn't know who shouted, which alarmed many people." When the guests leave, many people came running over, but it was the young master who was quiet when he came."

"Is it a man or a woman who yelled? What did you yell?"

"Catcher, which cry are you asking about?" Shui He asked uncertainly.

Chief Jiang's eyebrows jumped: "Which time? How many times? Tell me about it."

"The first time was a short scream, it was a woman, I couldn't tell who it was, it was too sudden, and then we rushed into the house and found that the young lady had an accident. The second time it was a man, just outside the east courtyard, shouting Said 'something happened in the east courtyard', and called many servants over. The third time I couldn't hear clearly, it seemed to come from the banquet in the front yard, and it was also a man's voice. Later, I heard that someone shouted Said 'the bride was hanged'."

Boss Jiang is not an idiot, these three shouts are very suspicious.

The first woman, probably the murderer, used her shouts to create an opportunity and escaped from the East Courtyard.It's hard to be sure about the second man, but if he yelled on purpose, he must be creating chaos and achieving an ulterior purpose.

Create chaos, cover the real murderer to escape?

Boss Jiang was puzzled, who did Liu Lanzhi offend?Actually caused a murderous disaster.

"Where's Second Young Master Yang?" Chief Jiang was surprised, realizing that he hadn't seen Yang Rubai for such a long time.

The Yang family father and son looked at each other, helplessly and worried: "Ru Bai, he is missing!"

"Missing?" At this sensitive moment, Boss Jiang couldn't help feeling suspicious.

Yang Rusong saw it, and quickly explained to his second brother: "Boss Jiang, my second brother must have nothing to do with this matter, no, or... maybe it has something to do with it." Sighing, he finally explained the reason: " Many people wondered why the second brother didn't show up at the banquet. In fact, the second brother is the one who handles a matter for me. Boss Jiang should know about Tao Peng, right?"

Tao Peng?Of course Boss Jiang knows!

The Tao family used to run a grocery store in Shizhu Town, and their family was well off. Tao Peng had three older sisters, and he was the only son.Tao's parents have been looking forward to their son for many years and doted on him very much, which has cultivated Tao Peng's lazy temperament.Not only that, Tao Peng was addicted to gambling, spent all the family savings, mortgaged the grocery store behind his parents' backs, and sold his third sister.If the first two sisters hadn't married early, they wouldn't have been able to escape.Tao's father was pissed off, but Tao's mother still doted on him. For this reason, she didn't even hold her own daughter accountable for being sold, and often went to the homes of two married women to borrow money and food, which made the two daughters miserable.

In order to avoid their natal family, the two sons-in-law had to move.

Even though Mother Tao's behavior is disgusting, under filial piety, a daughter can't stop her mother from coming to her door.If the mother cries at the door of her daughter, it will cause outsiders to gossip, and no one can bear it after a long time.

If that's all, it's just the Tao family's family affairs.

The reason why Yang Rusong mentioned it was because the Tao family had arranged for Tao Peng to marry her as a child, and the woman was Liu Yunzhi from the Liu family.

Liu Tuhu only had one daughter, and he loved him very much, so he naturally didn't want his daughter to marry such a person.According to Tao Peng's temperament of gambling, he is afraid that he will be sold within a few days after marrying in.

Fortunately, the Tao family is short of money, or in other words, Tao Peng is short of money all the time.

Seeing the right time, Butcher Liu found a middleman, and the Liu family was willing to pay the Tao family a sum of money as long as the Tao family retired.At that time, Tao Peng Lion asked for 50 taels.Where does the Liu family have so much money?After grinding and grinding, it was not until Tao Peng, who was pressed for debts, became anxious, that he settled on 20 taels.

The two officially divorced.

He thought he had nothing to do with him since then, but Tao Peng was a shameless rascal who actually relied on Liu's family. If he had no money, he would go to Liu's butcher, and if he didn't give him money, he would harass Liu Yunzhi and spread rumors.Even if everyone knew that the rumors were false, but Liu Yunzhi was an unmarried girl, and Tao Peng was his fiancé, how could they stand up to the slander?

Knowing that the Liu family was married to the Yang family, Tao Peng restrained himself.

Of course, it's just a restraint on the surface.

Tao Peng once said after drinking that the Yang family blocked his way of making money, and sooner or later he would teach them a lesson.

Yang Rusong said with a cold face: "Tao Peng came today and asked me to give him 100 taels of silver, otherwise there would be trouble. At that time, I couldn't get away, and my second brother took care of it for me. Who knows, I couldn't find anyone later. I didn't think much about it at first, but now..."

Yang Rusong regretted it very much, in case something happened to the second brother...

"Didn't you send someone to look for it?" Boss Jiang just felt that the matter was a little more complicated, but now there are suspects.

Master Yang was worried: "I did. I searched everywhere in Zhuangzi, but I couldn't find it. I sent someone to Tao's house again, but Tao Peng didn't come home. The door of his house was locked and there was no one there."

Boss Jiang suddenly thought of a possibility, and hurriedly urged, "Where's Yang Shitou's old aunt? Has anyone been found yet?"

It wasn't until a quarter of an hour later that a servant with a woman in a cloth skirt appeared.

"Boss Jiang, this is Yang Shitou's old aunt. I found her only after going to her house."

This woman was in her forties, she looked panic-stricken, she didn't know why she was found in the middle of the night.

Jiang Butou asked Caiju: "Is that her?"

Cai Ju's eyes widened: "No, no, it's not her."

Chief Jiang was not surprised, and asked the Yang family father and son: "Have you met Mrs. Tao Peng?"

Yang Rusong's heart moved: "Boss Jiang is saying that the person who pretends to be Yang Shitou's old aunt is Tao Peng's mother? She... But even if there is a dispute, it is not that the Liu family is sorry for the Tao family, nor is it that our Yang family is sorry for their mother and son. There's no point in killing people! What's the benefit if they kill Yunzhi?"

Boss Jiang Bubo couldn't figure this out, but the biggest suspect at the moment was the mother and son of the Tao family.

Wu Zuo also checked the lotus seed and lily soup left in the soup bowl, which contained arsenic.

In this way, the process of the incident can be deduced.

Mother Tao pretended to be Yang Shitou's old aunt, and sent a bowl of lotus seed and lily soup with poison to the East Courtyard, and Liu Yunzhi ate it unprepared.It stands to reason that Mother Tao should leave the east courtyard immediately at this time, otherwise Liu Yunzhi will be locked up immediately, and she will not be able to escape even if she wants to.Unexpectedly, Liu Yunzhi asked Caiju to drink the rest of the soup, and Caiju scattered the soup again, and then left to fetch water...

No, how did Mother Tao hide in the room?

Chief Jiang asked Shui He and the others again, asking them to describe the scene at that time.

Shui He spoke more fluently this time: "When the soup was delivered, the door was open. Both Gui Xiang and I heard the young lady exclaiming, so we hurried in to check. It turned out that it was Cai Ju who knocked over the soup bowl. Afterwards Caiju went to fetch water, and Guixiang and I came out. Me, we...the soup bowls were indeed taken away at that time, and we only cared about the eldest and youngest mistress, thinking that the old lady had left."

Thinking that the person didn't leave at that time, but hid in a corner of the room, I felt a chill down my spine from fear.

The two maids guarding the gate hurriedly shook their heads: "No, we didn't see anyone coming out, and then there was chaos in the yard, so..."

No one suspected that the lady who delivered the soup had any plans. At first, they focused on the bustle in the front yard, and then the yard became a mess, and no one thought about the person who delivered the soup.

The matter is basically clear, and now they are looking for someone, not only the mother and son of the Tao family, but also Yang Rubai whose whereabouts are unknown.

It was finally dawn, but the gloom over the Yang family was getting heavier and heavier.

Yang Rusong came forward, apologized to the guests who stayed overnight last night, and sent everyone away one by one.When such a tragedy happened in the Yang family, the guests naturally wouldn't be too harsh, said "sorry" and left.

The villagers came to help as usual.Clean up tables, chairs, benches, pots and pans, many things are borrowed from the village, and returned to each family after cleaning.

Many chores were taken care of by the housekeeper. Master Yang stayed up all night and was worried about Yang Rubo. Mrs. Yang didn't hide it, everyone fell ill, and Master Yang couldn't hold on.

Yang Rusong had no choice but to suppress his grief and persuade Master Yang to rest.

Overnight, the handsome bride turned into a haggard widower.

Mu Qingyan and the others were the last to leave. Although they were interested in the affairs of the Yang family, they couldn't intervene too much. Firstly, it would poke the wounds of the Yang family, and secondly, the county government's arresters seemed to have a clue.Chen Shiliu could only give up the idea of ​​investigating the case, and instead asked about the troupe's next itinerary.

Leader Li said: "When something like this happened, we naturally couldn't stay any longer. Originally, after we finished singing the Yangjiatang meeting, we planned to walk around the county towns and sing new operas. We packed up our things and set off for Shizhu Town in a while. , singing in town for two days."

Just right.

Chen Shiliu still couldn't forget the second half of the new play, and looked at Mu Qingyan: "Brother Mu, shall we also go to Shizhu Town?"

Mu Qingyan nodded indifferently, anyway, they were going to pass Shizhu Town.