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When Xiao Zhouheng rushed there in a hurry, the cat's body was gone, not even a trace of blood on the ground, and there was no maidservant nearby, Xiao Zhouheng was still worried, and decided to go to the residence of the [-]th Miss Li Longsha. .

Twenty Miss Li Longsha lived in the Immortal House in the Inner Mansion, because she was born in winter, Li Yanqing hoped that her daughter would grow up safely under the protection of the plum blossom gentleman.Xiao Zhouheng also knew that it was really wrong for him to rush to the inner mansion, but at this moment, he was so anxious that he didn't care about etiquette, he just wanted to solve the troublesome things one by one.

Xiao Zhouheng had a vague feeling that these scales and claws were related, but he couldn't think of a reason. He was so absorbed in his thoughts that he didn't know that he had arrived at Li Longsha's courtyard, and he didn't even know that there was a person standing in front of him.

Xiao Zhouheng stumbled and bumped into the man's back.

"Why are you so flustered?"

Facing Li Zhongnan's soul-stirring eyes without warning, Xiao Zhouheng panicked, moved away in a hurry, and spat out a word: "Cat..."

Li Zhongnan couldn't help laughing: "Mr. Jueyan is so anxious because he came to see the cat." After speaking, he slightly moved away, and saw Li Longsha sitting in the nurse's arms with the cat in his arms, and said crisply: " Mr. Jue Yan also came to see Long Sha's cat!"

Xiao Zhouheng took a closer look, it was still the lion cat that Li Longsha cherished very much on weekdays, several times she wanted to carry her into the study to attend class together, Xiao Zhouheng refused to allow it, and cried for several days.Now the cat didn't look like it had been skinned, it was clearly dozing in Li Longsha's arms intact.Xiao Zhouheng's mind became more and more confused, and he felt that he was inappropriate, so he couldn't help but wiped the thin sweat from his forehead, and said to Li Longsha: "Miss just said that the cat was lost, Xiaosheng just came..."

Li Longsha couldn't hide her joy, hugged the cat and kissed it several times: "I found it, my eighth brother helped Longsha find the cat."

"It's good to find it, it's good to find it."

Xiao Zhouheng apologized again, and was about to leave, but was stopped by Li Zhongnan: "Where are you going, I still have something to say to you."

"What?" Xiao Zhouheng's mind was full of the cat hanging from the tree, Feng Yueben who caused the wives to quarrel, the inexplicable assassination when he returned home, the Wenshan Tower that was on fire yesterday for no reason, and even inserted Yuying-down. The -body- paperweight, this room has no intention of entangled with Li Zhongnan.Li Zhongnan tugged on Xiao Zhouheng's sleeve with one hand, while turning sideways to Li Longsha, he said, "Little sister, starling will come to see you some other day."

Li Longsha complied, and asked a few maidservants to send the two of them out, Li Zhongnan waved to stop them.

Li Zhongnan tugged at Xiao Zhouheng's sleeves and walked a few steps, then smiled again: "The purpose of staying in Jueyan is naturally to speak."

After saying that, Li Zhongnan hooked his lips again: "Aren't you going to investigate Yuying's death? I asked a few things: first, Yuying is kind to others, and has no enemies in the mansion, and has never quarreled with others; , Sixth Brother intends to take Yuying as his concubine."

Xiao Zhouheng said: "I'm afraid that the sixth young master and his wives are capable of fighting for power and jealousy."

"Do you suspect it's my sisters-in-law?" Li Zhongnan said, "I don't think so. Do you know that Sixth Brother was ill a few days ago?"

Xiao Zhouheng thought for a while: "That's right, what does this have to do with this matter?"

"I heard from the people in the house that the sixth brother fell ill at the beginning of July, and Yuying took care of her personally. After the sixth brother recovered, he went out to work with Mr. Qu on July [-]. When the sixth brother said that he wanted to take a concubine, he must have been on the sick bed. As I said, I asked a few maidservants who are acquainted with Yuying, and they all said that Yuying complained to them before Sixth Brother's trip, and I didn't mention it before."

Xiao Zhouheng was puzzled: "What are Yuying and them complaining about?"

"Naturally, it's difficult. Yuying has a good friend named Fu Er from the Li family, and the two have a very good relationship."

"That is to say, the Sixth Young Master will ask Yuying to reply when he comes back this time?"

Li Zhongnan nodded: "I asked Sixth Brother, and he also admitted that before leaving, that is, on the morning of July [-]th, he suddenly raised his mouth in front of Second Auntie, asking Yuying to give him a piece of cake when he returned. Answer, of course Yuying was there at the time, but he didn't know anything about Fuer and Yuying."

"In the end, Mrs. Zeng..."

Li Zhongnan smiled helplessly: "The suspicion is quite serious."

"No, didn't you say that Yuying's death was caused by my paperweight? If she wanted to frame me, she could ask the two officers to investigate, and the paperweight would be found, and I would be arrested on the spot. There is no suspicion, and no one will pursue Yuying's broken tongue and blame me, so why didn't she take this beneficial step?"

Li Zhongnan raised his eyebrows playfully.

"Therefore, there are two possibilities. First, as you said before, she didn't know that Yuying had cut off her tongue, and she stopped her purely to protect the face of the Li family; second, she thought that Yuying died because of the severed tongue. Ask the people around, even if the second lady silences the insider, but deceiving the court officials is a felony, I believe that sooner or later it will be found out that she or someone in the mansion cut Yuying's tongue. She is afraid that Yuying will feel unable Live again, swallow your tongue and die. That’s why the two adults got the wrong idea and did such a scene.”

"So, she didn't know that Yuying died in a paperweight." Xiao Zhouheng said, "It wasn't Mrs. Zeng who killed Yuying, she just chose to hide something."

Li Zhongnan said: "Mr. Jueyan has good eyes and ears, and Li admires it."

"Furthermore, the person who framed me was either someone Mrs. Zeng wanted to protect, but Mrs. Zeng didn't know that person was going to frame me. So this person can't be the Sixth Young Master. If he wanted to frame me, he wouldn't listen to Zeng." Madame's dissuasion. So I think further, there may be someone else who wants to frame me."

Li Zhongnan said: "That makes sense."

"So no matter what Mrs. Zeng is, we can start with the people she shelters. As a woman in a deep house, Mrs. Zeng has little contact with the outside world, so naturally she will not shelter any outsiders. Let's start with her own flesh and blood. .”

"I'll check." Li Zhongnan agreed, "But you have to check that Yuying's friend."

"That's right, but it's because Yuying made a decision to follow Master Six, after Fu Er knew about it..."

"It's very possible, we must find Fu Er now."

After saying that, the two found Steward Li. It happened that Steward Li was reprimanding several servants. Only then did he know that Fu Er had not returned after going shopping with others in the house yesterday. I asked someone to ask, only to find out about Fu Er's disappearance. Unfortunately, no one who traveled with Fu Er that day knew where he went.

"Yu Yuying didn't see her before and after the accident, which really makes people think about it."

Xiao Zhouheng asked Steward Li a few more questions, and only then did he know that Fu Erben was from Jinling, and he and Yuying entered the mansion one after another, and stayed in the mansion for more than ten years, responsible for daily purchases, and also in charge of several boy.After Li Xiao and the two wanted to come to Fu Er's address, they left Butler Li's place.

"I'll go to his residence to check. If he has something to do with this matter, there must be clues at home." Xiao Zhouheng said, "Jintang Lane in Hexi is not very far away."

Li Zhongnan said, "I'll go with you. It's not safe for you to go alone. You just got assassinated today. Maybe there's still some danger. Besides, if Fu Er kills Yuying, you won't be able to secure his residence and he will attack you." .”

"Eighth Young Master is joking, I am safe in the mansion? Someone in this mansion wants to frame me and drive me out of the mansion. If he really killed Yuying, he probably escaped from Jinling by now." Xiao Zhou Heng laughed at himself, "Mrs. Zeng will trouble the Eighth Young Master." After saying that, he saluted and was about to leave, but he saw Li Zhongnan's expression was a bit unnatural.

Xiao Zhouheng didn't understand, so he asked, "Master Eighth?"

Li Zhongnan smiled: "You should smile more."

Xiao Zhouheng was startled, not knowing how to react, Bie Hong also said the same thing as herself, but the same words came out of Li Zhongnan's mouth, but they were a little more provocative.

In a flash, Li Zhongnan left Xiao Zhouheng's sight.

Now Xiao Zhouheng felt that Li Zhongnan's words and deeds were unpredictable, and was about to move, but bumped into Wu Niang, who was walking in a hurry, who was in the back kitchen of Li's mansion.

Wu Niang was holding some soup in her hand, she almost fell over Xiao Zhouheng.

Wu Niang was out of breath, seeing that she bumped into Xiao Zhouheng, she apologized directly to him.

"It's okay." Xiao Zhouheng recognized that Wu Niang specially cooked side meals for the family members of the family. The pastries made by Wu Niang are small but delicate, sweet but not greasy. Xiao Zhouheng naturally tasted some, but seeing Wu Niang It was the first time to deliver meals in person, so he asked, "Why are you here? Where's the servant girl in the front yard?"

"The girls have all gone to find the cats, how can they still remember Miss Twenty's meal?" Wu Niang smiled, "I have to ask the old slave to make another trip, so Miss Twenty is the only one who won't be hungry."

Xiao Zhouheng said: "These maidservants are really, how long has passed, Maozao has been found by the Eighth Young Master."

"Did the Eighth Young Master hold the cat? It's terrible!" Wu Niang didn't show a happy expression when she heard that the cat was found, but instead frowned, "I remember that the Eighth Young Master can't touch these beasts."

"what?"

"Eighth Young Master will get ringworm if he touches those hairy ones." Wu Niang said, "This old slave will not remember wrongly. When he was young, he got a rash all over his body because he touched the cat in Jiang's house next door, and he had a high fever. Ten days. The eldest lady is crying."

"When did that happen?"

Wu Niang thought for a moment and said: "It's the eighth young master's trip back to the mansion ten years ago. In fact, he is not too young, seventeen or eighteen, but in the eyes of the old slave, he is still a baby."

Xiao Zhouheng wanted to ask a few more questions, but Wu Niang left in a hurry by saying that the soup was cold.Looking at Wu Niang's leaving figure, Xiao Zhouheng suddenly felt something vaguely in his heart, but it was a pity that it all disappeared in a daze.

Thanks to Li Zhongnan's slow pace, even after talking to Wu Niang, Xiao Zhouheng still caught up with Li Zhongnan at the end of the courtyard.

"Master Eighth, I forgot something earlier. Where did you find Miss Twenty's cat?"

"Could it just jump up to the giant cypress in front of my yard, and I'll hug it down."

Xiao Zhouheng sized up Li Zhongnan, but he couldn't see any red spots where he was exposed.

"What are you looking at?"

Xiao Zhouheng quickly withdrew his gaze, hesitated and said, "Do you feel uncomfortable?"

"What's wrong with me?" Li Zhongnan said with a smile, "When did Mr. Jue Yan care about me so much?"

Xiao Zhouheng saw that Li Zhongnan seemed to be teasing him again, so he immediately stopped talking.

Unexpectedly, Li Zhongnan was not forgiving, and for some reason he became a little serious: "I really want to get closer to Mr. Jueyan, but Jinling's Jueyan Caiyu is indeed as arrogant as the rumors say, and he doesn't want to be with me. This half of the rivers and lakes are scattered, but I don't ask Mr. Jueyan to be lenient to me."

Li Zhongnan said with a warm smile: "Just because Mr. Jueyan got on the pirate ship, he will share my life with me, and it's too late to bite the navel."

Xiao Zhouheng didn't know the reason for Li Zhongnan's obsequious and flattering behavior, so he turned around and left, angrily said: "Who will die with you."

Seeing Xiao Zhouheng throwing his sleeves away, Li Zhongnan suddenly said to the hollow flower window in the garden: "Have you heard enough?"

"The eighth young master is very good at playing." There was a rustle in his ears, and Qu Yeliang got out from nowhere, with a leaf on the end of his hair: "I'm not afraid of getting into a peach blossom debt, I can't pay it off."

"Mr. Qu is so idle, and you have time to listen to other people's corners. Can you invite me?" Li Zhongnan, who was caught, didn't feel anything, and laughed, "I came back and thought about it. The trick of framing people in restaurants is very clever."

Qu Yeliang also laughed: "The eighth young master spouts blood, which is really ugly."

"What are you trying to do with him?"

"Of course it is." Qu Yeliang leaned forward, speaking decisively, "No, yes, report, report."

"Why, are you afraid that I will find something like that?"

"Of course I'm not afraid." Qu Yeliang's eyes fluttered, "Although I don't know what you are looking for, but I know that if it is very important to Master Six, he will definitely pay close attention to it."

Li Zhongnan raised his eyebrows: "For example you?"

Qu Yeliang laughed instantly, his pupils faded quickly, and it took him a long time to answer: "Really?"

The two of them were speechless again, they could hear the whispers of the wind, and they could also see the distress of the person in front of them.

"I've found Wu Zuo. I'm in Yizhuang in the mansion. You can do what you want." After a moment of silence, Qu Yeliang seemed to have become the cynical Mr. Qu again, with a playful and flamboyant smile on his lips, "Eighth Young Master I hugged the cat today, it should have a rash."

Li Zhongnan bowed his head: "Thank you."

Qu Yeliang laughed twice, and his figure suddenly disappeared into the path.

After being dazed for a long time, Li Zhongnan took a deep breath, and then walked towards Yizhuang.