The wind

I don't know if it was the maid's wailing, or Li Yunyi's sudden disrespect, but now the hall is truly silent.

Han Tieyi also forgot to chew, and a mouthful of gravy dripped onto Xiao Zhouheng's shirt with a thud.

Although this Yuying is a maidservant, she is a newly promoted steward.She used to be a second-class maidservant with Mrs. You. Since Mrs. You passed away, because of her innocent background, quick hands and feet, can read a few big characters, and looks quite good-looking, Li Yunyi was reluctant to be dismissed, so she asked to come over to be her maid in her own room. The maid in charge.

Li Yunyi also regained his composure, took a few deep breaths, ignored the pipa player who had suffered tears, and said in a weary voice to the crowd: "I'm guilty." Then he said to the attendants who were still stunned: "Send the young masters back home. Room."

Immediately, he quickly walked out of the hall, intending to ask the servant girl who was prostrate on the ground clearly.Qu Yeliang followed closely behind.

Hearing the strange noise, the female family members in the next hall went out to check the situation one by one, Qu Yeliang stopped in front of the leading female family members, and said softly: "It's nothing important, ladies and gentlemen, go ahead and eat." Li Yunyi was also there Responding in the distance, the ladies didn't know why, and they didn't want to ask more questions, so they retreated into the hall one by one.

"What's the matter?" Mrs. Zeng didn't leave with the other female relatives, she went straight to Li Yunyi, and bowed to everyone.She wore a pair of bright moon pendants by her ears, and was wearing a skirt of auspicious clouds. The night and gouache covered the fine lines at the corners of her eyes, revealing a beautiful portrait with still charm.

"A servant girl died."

"Dead? On which room?" Mrs. Zeng twitched the corner of her mouth, her tone was slightly contemptuous, she obviously didn't care about this matter, "If you die, you will die. How can you mobilize people like this?"

"It's Yuying."

Madam Zeng's breath stopped, "How did she die?"

Li Yunyi shook his head slightly: "I don't know yet, why don't mother avoid it and greet the guests for my son, Wei Ji and I will go and see." As soon as the words fell, Qu Yeliang and a group of attendants were standing beside Li Yunyi with the lights on. side.

"No, let's go together." For some reason Madam Zeng's attitude was suddenly firm, "Let the younger sisters greet the two adults, and go to apologize to the two adults tomorrow for the sake of mother." Li Yunyi saw that Madam Zeng was like this, so naturally it was not easy to shirk, After all, it is extremely impolite to leave the guests behind, if you want to blame, you can blame the song...

"Where did Yuying happen?" Putting away his thoughts, Li Yunyi asked the little maid, her legs trembled, and she spoke incoherently. After asking for a long time, she realized that this maid was called Xiyan, and she was the rough envoy of the third wife Qin's house. The servant girl was trembling and couldn't say anything, she just muttered that Yuying was killed.In desperation, Li Yunyi asked two guards to drive Xiyan, one on the left and one on the right, to show them the way.

At this time, Lu Hongqiu, who was at the table, also came to the door. Lu Hongqiu was born with big arms and a round waist. He stroked his beard and spoke in a Beiyin way, "I and Mr. Lou also go to see it together." Let's see who dares to commit crimes under my watchful eye." Lou Beiyin stood on one side and nodded in agreement.Then Han Tieyi followed, not forgetting the unfinished leg of lamb in his hand.

The young masters of Li Yunguang were sent back to the room by several servants at the same time.Seeing a few people leave the table, Xiao Zhouheng followed them out of the hall with his eyes, but he didn't intend to move his body.Xiao Zhouheng was so hungry that he was dizzy, he hadn't eaten anything in the shishamei just now, and he drank a few drinks forcefully, now his stomach was burning and uncomfortable, he couldn't bear it anymore seeing Han Tieyi gorging himself, and there was no one around, just now Eat some food and press it.Just as he was about to stretch out his hand to the big goose leg that had been roasted golden and dripping with oil, a teasing voice came from his ear: "Mr. Jue Yan, why don't you go and see it?"

Xiao Zhouheng trembled in fright, and when he looked up, he found that it was Li Zhongnan who was standing beside him at some point, and he missed the man's eyes, so he could only swallow a mouthful of saliva, "Go .”

The group took care of the wealthy Lu Hongqiu, the slender Mrs. Zeng, and the frightened Xi Yan, so they walked a little slower, and Li Xiao quickly caught up with the crowd.

Xiao Zhouheng himself followed behind Li Zhongnan, but Li Zhongnan seemed to be waiting for him intentionally, slowed down and walked alongside him, and said: "What do you think?"

"Xiaosheng dare not comment on the affairs of the family." Xiao Zhouheng was thinking about the big crispy goose leg, and didn't want to talk to Li Zhongnan.

"Isn't Mr. Jue Yan making unreasonable comments?"

Xiao Zhouheng's heart trembled, his right eyelid twitched, and he said in a low voice, "Xiaosheng thinks that Xiyan is a little deliberate."

"Oh? How can you see it?"

"Knowing that there are guests in the mansion, you shouldn't disturb the cleanliness." Xiao Zhouheng's mind flashed the panicked face of Fangcai Xiyan, and he felt that he was using too much force. Obviously, the whole mansion knew that today's banquet guests should not be disturbed. An important minister in charge of punishment in the court, Xiyan has disturbed the situation in this way, and he doesn't know what it means.Xiao Zhouheng thought of Li Yunyi's complex expression at the banquet just now, so he gave Li Zhongnan a meaningful glance, and said: "My humble opinion, Eighth Young Master, don't take it to heart."

Li Zhongnan naturally understood Xiao Zhouheng's implication, nodded and said: "That servant girl is indeed behaving strangely." He paused for a while, and then said: "It seems that he was also panicked, and he didn't care about etiquette, so he ran to a crowded place stop."

The two were thinking about each other, but they didn't speak again after that.Seeing that everyone entered the inner mansion following the erected stream smoke, Han Tieyi also gnawed the goat's hooves at this moment, threw it casually, and wanted to hook up with Xiao Zhouheng to wipe off the oil on his hands, but unexpectedly there was a Li Zhongnan and Han Tieyi had no choice but to give up.Stepping into the inner mansion, you will find the Begonia Pavilion where all the female relatives in the mansion use to enjoy flowers.The pavilion was hidden under a few osmanthus trees in Nanshan. When the cool wind blew, I could see the rustling dust. Xiao Zhouheng took a deep breath, but it was hidden in the scent of osmanthus. After smelling it a million times late at night, it made his calves go weak, and then a gust of sour water flooded his throat.

"Ah." Immediately after the front of the line came Madam Zeng's scream, and the crowd became commotion. Madam Zeng sat on a stone pier with the help of her maid, covered her chest with her fingers and yelled loudly. gas.Xiao Zhouheng and Li Zhongnan squeezed forward, seeing the scene in front of them, the sour water in Xiao Zhouheng's buttocks really came up——

Yuying's corpse was lying face down in front of a row of bamboo groves, with a dent in her loose and messy bun, her neck twisted into an inhuman arc, her eyes closed, her right arm stretched straight forward, Press the left arm under the body.Clean clothes, no blood.Its legs are herringbone-shaped.Other than that, there doesn't appear to be any obvious trauma.Perhaps it was because of the rain that some water stains had accumulated on the bluestone slabs that had yet to seep into the ground.

From this point of view, if it weren't for Yuying's rigor at the moment, she seemed to have just fallen asleep in a weird position.

Qu Yeliang stepped forward to snort, and nodded to the people behind him: "He's dead."

Seeing Yuying, who is buried in incense, made Xiao Zhouheng feel strange—when he was looking for her yesterday, people were still talking and laughing, why today... Thinking of this, Xiao Zhouheng couldn't bear to look at it any more.

Just as he was about to get out of the crowd, he heard a light snort from someone next to his ear.Xiao Zhouheng turned his head, facing Shang Xiyan's slightly frowning face, Xi Yan also noticed Xiao Zhouheng's suspicious gaze beside him, was slightly taken aback, then lowered his head in panic.

"It's really weird." Li Zhongnan murmured.

Xiao Zhouheng was startled, did Li Zhongnan also see it?Then echoed: "It's really weird."

"Brother Xiao, what do you think is strange?" Han Tieyi didn't hear Li Zhongnan's words, but caught Xiao Zhouheng's words, and asked directly, full of anger, and everyone looked sideways.

Xiao Zhouheng was a little embarrassed. Seeing everyone staring at him, he was puzzled and couldn't speak up, so he had to bite the bullet and say, "Isn't it raining today? Why does Yuying's clothes look dry?"

"Mr. Jue Yan's words are wrong, and that's not what I call weird." Li Zhongnan said, "It's raining in Jinling today. It rained for a while at noon, but it stopped within an hour. , it would make sense if Yuying killed her clothes later."

Han Tieyi glanced at Xiao Zhouheng, and said with a smile: "Brother Xiao, aren't you taking people into the gutter?"

Xiao Zhouheng choked for a moment, and was about to open his mouth to argue, but Li Zhongnan continued, "Mr. Jueyan went to Jiaofangsi area in the afternoon, so I don't know about it."

Everyone was stunned, the Jiaofangsi area...isn't it... Then everyone showed a clear expression, Xiao Zhouheng only felt the blood rushing upwards, and his face turned red in an instant Bai: "No, Xiaosheng is..."

What happened to Li Zhongnan's plague?Do you have to mention this in the crowd?It's a pity that no one seems to want to listen to Xiao Zhouheng's pale and powerless explanation, Han Tieyi laughed in a strange way, and took advantage of the opportunity to imprint a handprint on Xiao Zhouheng's back.Li Yunyi cleared his throat, and there was a trace of compassion in his eyes: "The eighth brother is right. Maybe Yuying suffered such misfortune after the rain. After all, the accident happened in her own home. Yuying has devoted herself to Li's family for several years. Why don't you hire a clerk to do it?" have a look?"

"No!" Mrs. Zeng got up at some point, and hurriedly said, "How can I let Wu Zuo and others come to the mansion? The concubine feels that this servant girl clearly had a quarrel with others and ended her life, so why don't I just give it to her like this?" Just throw some money around the house."

Li Yunyi frowned slightly, obviously very displeased with his mother's self-assertion, especially with the presence of a judge and a member of the criminal department, Wailang, not only quite ridiculous, but also very trying to cover up.Mrs. Zeng saw that Li Yunyi was not moved, she hurriedly pulled him aside, and persuaded in a slow voice: "Boy, listen to my mother, don't you...that maid...think about Li's residence."

Seeing the mother and son whispering for a while, Xiao Zhouheng's heart turned cold, and he said to Mrs. Zeng's gesture of making a trivial matter, this girl is about to turn into a wronged soul.

After a while, Li Yunyi returned to the crowd, and was about to speak, but was stopped by Lou Beiyin: "Sixth Young Master, Mrs. Zeng, everyone, please be safe and don't be impatient, let the officials check." He knelt down and looked at the corpse.

Today Lou Beiyin was wearing a blushing gown, kneeling on the side of the corpse regardless of the dirt. Seeing this situation, Xiao Zhouheng's admiration for Lou Beiyin increased a bit.

Lou Beiyin opened the mouth, looked at it by the light of the lantern, put the two fingers of the middle food inside to explore, picked out something, threw it on the ground, said: "Yuying committed suicide, it has nothing to do with others. "

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