First Wife of Zhu Family

Chapter 332 The Maid
"Is there such a thing?"

"Isn't it?" Guo Tai said, "At first, only a few people knew about this matter. Later, Madam's health was not good, and in the end she disappeared because of the trouble of giving birth to a young master... So this matter has become more and more serious in the house. The taboo, no one dares to mention it at ordinary times."

Song Zixun pursed his lips and thought for a while, then suddenly changed the topic, "You said that you have never seen your wife since you came to Huo Mansion?"

"Yes." Guo Tai nodded, "Madam has been raising babies in her own yard, and never comes out easily."

"What about the servants?" Song Zixun asked thoughtfully, "Who in the mansion are the servants who served Mrs. Huo before?"

Guo Tai thought about it seriously for a while, "At the beginning, my wife died in childbirth, and the master was so angry that he sent all the maids and women around the wife away. The young ones were sold directly to Yazi, and those who had worked in the Huo Mansion for many years were sent away. Went to the farm in the country. Apart from Madam's former personal girl Jingsi, there is also an elderly Madam Jiang who is still in the mansion. It is said that she is an old man who served Mrs. Huo before. Mrs. Huo passed away Since then, I have been following my wife... Because she has no children and is old and feeble, my master saw her pity, so he left her to live in the mansion for the elderly."

Song Zixun also had some impressions of this Madam Jiang... an old mama who visited the ancestral hall.Because I am getting old, my ears are already a little hard. Last time when the police were questioning me, my lips were wrong and I made a lot of jokes...

Song Zixun saw that the inquiry was almost done, so he said to Guo Tai calmly, "You go back first, if there is any discrepancy between your statement and Liu Youcai and the others—"

"Don't worry, my lord, absolutely not!" Guo Tai promised, patted his chest.

Song Zixun waved his hand, "Go down."

Guo Tai hurriedly got up from the ground, thought for a while, and tentatively said, "My lord, the little one has confessed, the little one borrowed money from Liu Youcai..."

Song Zixun raised his head and looked at him coolly.

Guo Tai's heart trembled, "The little one knows, the little one should get out, get out!"

... Seeing his figure quickly disappearing at the door, Song Zixun rubbed his brows helplessly.

He seemed... really brainwashed by Du Rongzhi.

Seems a little weird...

"My lord." The policeman who went down earlier strode in from the outside, and said to Song Zixun, "Liu Youcai, Xiaochun has been brought here."

Song Zixun nodded, "Let Liu Youcai in."

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As expected, what happened was roughly the same as what Guo Tai said.Then Liu Youcai and Xiaochun have been hooking up for a long time. The two often meet in the garden of the Huo family in the middle of the night when no one is around. On the night when the incident happened, they were bumped into by Guo Tai who followed him. , and used this as a threat to extort a sum of money from them as "hush money".The three of them had their own ulterior motives, and they were afraid that their scandals would be exposed. Therefore, during the first two rounds of questioning by the police, they all insisted that they were sleeping in the house during the time of the crime.As for the other servants in the same room, either they really fell asleep without knowing it, or they were frightened by his coercion, or they made friends with him, but none of them came out to testify.If it wasn't for the boy next door who got up at night to vaguely see a figure, and later thought it looked like Guo Tai, I'm afraid that these things could not be announced to the public.

Only in this way, the suspicion of several people was ruled out.

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"Are you Jing Si?"

Song Zixun looked at the young woman on the ground wearing a white-washed green dress with a dark yellow and rough face, and found it difficult to connect her with Mrs. Huo's personal maid.

Not to mention the dead Xiao Hong, I'm afraid that even the other girls in the mansion look more glamorous than her.

Jingsi fell on the ground and said respectfully, "Yes, servant Jingsi, I have seen you."

"What were you doing the night Xiaohong had an accident? Have you ever heard a strange cry?"

"Responding to my lord, the servant girl was collecting slops with Lu Song at that time." Jing Si lowered her head and said, "...it seemed that I heard a call, but we didn't think much about it at that time—" She explained somewhat awkwardly, "The maidservant and the poor man also explained that the weather has been warmer recently, and cats sometimes..."

Song Zixun nodded in understanding, "I heard that you used to be Mrs. Huo's personal maid." He paused, looked at her curiously, and said, "Why now..."

Jing Si lowered her eyes, "It's because the slaves didn't take good care of Madam... Now that it's like this, it's already my master who is extra merciful."

Song Zixun disagreed and said, "Although your wife's matter is sympathetic, but a woman's childbearing is half a foot into the gate of hell. You are neither a doctor nor a stable woman. You should not be blamed for this matter anyway. On your head." He said, and couldn't help sighing, "I think it's Yuanwai Huo and Mrs. Huo who are deeply in love with each other, and they can't bear the pain of losing their wives and children, so they vent their anger on you servants." He said, with a pair of But the eyes landed on Jing Si's face right and wrong.

There was still no expression on the latter's rough face.

Song Zixun thought for a while, then asked, "Do you have any friendship with the deceased?"

Jing Si shook her head, "The servants clean the pails in the back yard every day..." She pursed her lips, "Because the servants have a smell, people usually...don't want to get close to them."

Song Zixun nodded slightly, "You should have heard that the place where the deceased died was the yard where your wife lived... Do you know why she appeared there in the middle of the night?"

Jing Si raised her head blankly, stared at him for a while with a pair of dull eyes, then shook her head slightly, "I don't know..."

"When I first came to Shanyin County, I heard rumors that the Huo family was haunted by ghosts." Song Zixun looked at her drooping hair again, amused. After your wife dies, you cannot enter the path of reincarnation, so the resentment gathers and turns into a ghost, which comes out to cast spells to harm people... She also plans to invite a master with profound morals to come to the house to do the practice and take away your wife's soul..." He asked slowly , "I don't know what you think about this matter?"

Jingsi's face was as calm as before, but Song Zixun could clearly see that her hands lying flat on her legs were clenched tightly, and the knuckles of those rough hands, which were different from ordinary women's, had begun to turn white.

Song Zixun didn't urge her, but just looked at her coldly.

"Lord Song," it took her a long time to hear her speak slowly and in a slightly hoarse voice, "My wife is kind-hearted and willing to do good. Even to us servants, she has always been kind and tolerant. You How can such a person become a ghost after death?"

Song Zixun nodded and said seriously, "Yes, I have also heard of Mrs. Huo's virtuous name. I think she must be a virtuous, kind and respectable woman."

Jing Si paused slightly.

For some reason, Song Zixun suddenly had a feeling: since entering the door, what she showed at this moment is the truest self.

I saw Jing Si bent down deeply, and said very solemnly, "I also ask Mr. Song to find out the truth as soon as possible, and return my wife's innocence and justice!"

(End of this chapter)