Jinyi Music

Chapter 288

The pair of little beasts were feeding their children, they were more vigilant than usual, and would not easily come out of the hole. If they wanted to take a look at them, they would have to wait for a long time with bated breath. After waiting for a long time, there was finally movement in the mud hole, and a fluffy, pointed mouth was poking out cautiously...

The two were smiling and waiting, but suddenly there was a rustling sound of footsteps outside the dense forest, and the little thing in the cave shrank back immediately. Si Lian and Wang's mother looked at each other, and saw a young couple coming from the dense forest. Men and women, the man's attire should be that of a farmer in the village, and the woman's attire should be that of a girl in the manor.

The two entered the woods one after the other, poking their heads between their heads, looking at the edge of the dense forest, on the side of Fifth Yiniang, where Jinzhu, Yinzhu and Cuiqiao were feeding the pheasants, the woman stretched out her hand pull the man's shirt,

"Fifth brother, that's Fifth Aunt over there, let's stay away..."

The man nodded and took her hand back, and the two of them held hands and turned to the depths of the dense forest, but they didn't notice Si Lian and Wang's mother squatting behind the stone from the beginning to the end, so that people walked away , Mother Wang whispered,

"Young madam, that's the rough girl in the madam's yard..."

Silian nodded, and Mother Wang said again,

"Looking at the closeness of the two of them, I'm afraid this girl is having an affair with the man in the village in private!"

Silian quietly replied,

"Even the people in Madam's yard, it's not up to us to take care of them, we just pretend we didn't see them!"

In this big family's house, there are too many servants and servants. There will always be those who have reached the age, have been with each other for a long time, and have affection for each other in private. How can that stop the young Mu Ai and the young girl Sichun?

This kind of thing, as long as the masters don't find out, the servants will all tacitly know it, Si Lian naturally knows about it, and she will definitely not go to blame and expose this matter!
So, Si Lian and Wang's mother both forgot about this matter afterwards, but they didn't expect it. On the second day, early in the morning, Si Lian was still dressing up in front of the mirror, and there was a commotion outside. When Mama Wang heard about it, she sent Cuixi away.
"Go out and see, what happened?"

Cuixi was young and lively. Hearing the voice outside, her heart flew away. Hearing the words, she agreed and ran out like flying. Mother Wang smiled and shook her head.

"This little girl..."

The three of them were in the room, Cuiqiao had just combed Si Lian's hair when Cuixi came back in a panic from outside,
"Young Madam, it's not good! It's not good!"

Cuixi's little face was a little pale, and when she came in, she said in a trembling voice,
"Young Madam, someone is dead in Zhuangzi!"

"Dead... who died?"

Silian frowned, Cuixi said,
"It's the incense bell in Madam's yard..."

"Xiangling?"

Si Lian hadn't figured out who she was, but Mama Wang was on the right track.

"Young Madam, that Xiangling is the girl we met on the mountain yesterday..."

Four lotus suddenly,

"How did you die?"

Cui Xi said,
"Dead in the dense forest on the mountain, with... all the clothes on his body were taken off... naked and hung on a tree!"

Si Lian looked at Mama Wang in surprise,
"Does the lady know about this?"

"Madam lived in the city last night, and only returned to Zhuangzi today..."

"How did you find out that Xiangling was dead?"

Cuixi shook her head,

"The servants don't know either. They brought Xiangling back just now. The servants went to take a look. Xiangling's whole face was covered in bruises and her tongue stuck out. It was so scary to look at!"

Cuixi was young and had never seen these things before. Thinking of Xiangling's terrible death, her face turned pale with fright, and her body trembled wildly. Mother Wang said,

"Young madam, even if something like this happens, and madam is not on the Zhuangzi, you should go and have a look!"

The matter in the Zhuangzi is related to the family, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will naturally not let Si Lian intervene, but even if such a big thing happens, it is unreasonable for Si Lian to ignore it, so it is right to go and have a look.

Silian nodded, changed clothes and went to Guan's yard. In Guan's yard, Xiangling's body was covered with a white cloth, and it was placed under the patio. A group of maids and women in Guan's yard They all showed fear and avoided them from a distance. Guan Shi sat in the hall, staring at the courtyard, and her face was also pale, but she is the housekeeper's daughter-in-law. Others can be afraid, but she can't be afraid. She took a long breath and suppressed her heart. trembling in fear,

"Come on! Go and call the second master..."

A girl below responded,
"Second Madam, Second Master made an appointment with friends last night, and went fishing by the upper river at night..."

Guan just remembered that after her husband left the city, he even put down his books and made appointments with people outside for horse racing, hunting, or fishing, and he would not be able to come back within three to five days... …

"Then...then ask someone to look for it!"

Guan slapped the table, and reprimanded angrily, the subordinate hurriedly took orders, and the servant who went out collided with Si Lian, saluted hastily and ran away,
"Second sister-in-law..."

Guan Shi saw Si Lian coming, forced a smile,
"You...how did you come here?"

Silian glanced at the corpse in the courtyard,
"I heard that a girl died, so I came here specially to see what's going on..."

As he spoke, he walked down the steps and walked to Xiangling's body. Seeing this, Guan quickly got up and took two steps.
"Eighth brother and sister, you... what are you doing?"

Silian looked back at her, squatted down and lifted the white cloth from Xiangling's body with one hand,

"what……"

Xiangling's frightening face immediately appeared, and all the maids and women in the yard couldn't help screaming, Si Lian frowned and turned to Guan, saying,
"Second sister-in-law, there are too many people in this yard, it's useless, send them out!"

Guan looked at the corpse on the ground from a distance, and said in a trembling voice,
"You...why are you so courageous?"

Silian smiled slightly,
"Second sister-in-law forgot, my father is a gangster!"

Speaking of this, Guan immediately thought of it, and felt as if she had some support in her heart, so she hurriedly ordered,

"You all go down!"

Everyone in the yard retreated in a hurry, leaving only Guan Shi and her two close maids, the steward outside, Si Lian and Wang's mother, and Si Lian reached into her arms and took off her handkerchief. Come out and put it on your hand, reach out and pinch the limbs and places of the corpse, said in a deep voice,
"Zombie has formed..."

Then I looked up at the sun that was already high in the sky,
"This weather..."

She silently calculated in her heart,
"She should have died in the daytime yesterday..."

After speaking, he stretched out his hand to touch the obvious bruises on the neck of the corpse, and lifted the white cloth on the lower body to look at it. There was a foul smell, but it was the size of the dead man who covered the two stiff legs.
"...She should have been strangled to death with a rope..."

After that, he looked up at the steward outside.
"Where did you find her? Did you find her clothes nearby, or something suspicious?"

The steward shook his head,
"Madam Eighth Young Master, there is nothing nearby, only a rope..."

After finishing speaking, she pointed out the rope thrown aside to Si Lian, and Si Lian picked it up and looked at it. It was just an ordinary hemp rope, which was found on the farmer or in this farmyard, and this rope could not prove the murderer.

Silian put down the rope, turned her head to look at Guan Shi,
"Second sister-in-law, in your opinion, should you report this matter to the officials, or wait for mother to come back to discuss it?"

Guan thought for a while and said,

"Let's wait for mother to come back!"

Si Lian nodded, she expected that the Guan family would be like this, most of the lives of the rich and powerful families would not be reported to the officials, firstly, for the sake of face, secondly, most of these things were done by their own family members in the house If you want to deal with it, it is better for the host to deal with it yourself!

"If that's the case, please send someone over there to seal up the mountain where the corpse was found, so that no one is allowed to go up the mountain at will!"

Guan nodded repeatedly,

"well……"

Immediately ordered to continue, Si Lian took another look at the corpse on the ground,
"In such a big weather, I'm afraid the corpse will smell after a long time, and we need to find a place to store it..."

"This one……"

Guan was a little embarrassed, thought for a while and asked,
"Can't find a place to bury it?"

Silian glanced at her and said,

"Second sister-in-law is a homicide case. According to the government's rules, the corpse must be used as evidence. Even if the mother comes back and prepares to deal with the matter privately, she must wait for her old man to see it before making a decision... Or find someone place, put the body away!"

The steward outside thought for a while and said,

"Second young lady, there is an abandoned water cellar in the village, and it has dried up long ago. Why don't you move the body there, and then move some ice from the ice cellar to cool the body, and make a decision when Madam comes back!"

"Okay, okay, let's do it!"

Guan's forehead was covered with sweat, he didn't know whether it was from heat or fear, someone in this room carried the corpse down, Guan just dared to come over and was about to hold Silian's hand, only then remembered that she had touched the corpse just now, although Through the veil, but my heart is always responding, the hand pulling her stopped in the middle of the way, whether it is pulling or not.

Silian smiled and relieved her embarrassment,

"Second sister-in-law, I have already seen this matter, so I will go back now..."

After finishing speaking, he wished her well, and took the people away.

After Silian left, Guan sat back on the chair in a slump, and the woman beside her hurriedly came over to play the fan,
"Young Madam, this is a rare occurrence in eight hundred years. It's not surprising that I don't know how to deal with it. Fortunately, Madam Ba Shao is calm!"

Guan smiled wryly,
"This daughter of a writer is indeed more courageous than ordinary people!"

So everyone waited for Mrs. Liu to come back. Mrs. Liu rushed back to Zhuangzi at noon, and when she came back, she frowned when she heard that someone died in Zhuangzi, and she was still a girl in her yard.

"Where is the body?"

Immediately, someone took it to see, and looking at Xiangling's naked body, she immediately guessed that there might be an affair between a man and a woman, so she called someone to interrogate them one by one, but she didn't know who Xiangling was with in private. There is a beginning and an end?
(End of this chapter)