The exquisite space of the ruffian concubine

Chapter 138 Find out the truth
The two left the space, and the surprise on Qiu Lian's face did not disappear for a long time.

"Tomorrow I will marry that Yin Tianqi. I don't know when we will see each other again. Aren't you always curious about the truth about Huan Yan's fall into the well? Today I will go and find out with you." Meng Xiaosuo said.

Qiu Lian nodded blankly, as if she didn't hear what she was saying at all.

Meng Xiaocomo repeated these words, and Qiu Lian came back to his senses a little bit: "The matter of Cha Huanyan falling into the well? Okay."

If she hadn't been dazed, she might have noticed the loopholes in Meng Xiaosuo's words—the Kunning Palace is not far from here, and the Seventh Prince's people can come and go freely when they are under house arrest. Why can't Meng Xiaosuo? This farewell, I don't know when we will meet again" said?
But she kept thinking about the scene just now, and she didn't have the heart to think about it at all.

"Let's go." Meng Xiaocom touched her arm.

Qiu Lian nodded, followed her, left the room, and walked towards the well where Huanyan drowned.

This well is in the Xining Palace, it is the well that Meng Xiaosuo made Qiu Lian throw into the dead leaves, and it is also the key to the spread of this "plague".

Because of the plague, those who investigated the case had already left, and did not seal off the place to protect the scene.

In fact, even if there was no order to block it, no one dared to come here. The maids and eunuchs who passed by here would all speed up their pace and keep their eyes fixed, wishing they could grow a pair of wings on their backs.

After all, in this day and age, people are very trustworthy.

But Meng Xiaosuo didn't believe it, and Qiu Lian didn't believe it when she experienced the famine that starved people to death when she was a child.

Standing by the well, the two looked very strange and attracted a lot of attention.

Meng Xiaocom didn't bother to pay attention to those people, observed carefully for a while, pointed to the muddy ground and said, "Look, what is this?"

Qiu Lian took a look and saw a row of footprints on the ground, which were very slender. They should have been left by a woman. After thinking about it, she asked curiously, "It's just footprints. What's there to see?"

Meng Xiaocom raised her eyebrows slightly: "This is not an ordinary footprint. It rained heavily yesterday. If this footprint was left before, it would have been washed away by the rain. Such a clear outline, it is obvious that it was left after the rain yesterday."

"What does this prove?" Qiu Lian was still puzzled.

"Think about it, in Xining Palace, or even in the entire palace, who doesn't know that there is a murder case here? Ordinary court ladies and eunuchs don't even dare to look at this well, let alone get close to it. It stands to reason that there is only one A person will approach this well after the murder, and that person is the murderer. I guess she must have left some traces and wants to come and erase them." Meng Xiaocomb explained.

When she said this, she deliberately kept her voice extremely low.If these are heard by the murderer, I'm afraid it will hinder the investigation.

If she was a murderer, the first thing she would do when she knew someone found her footprints would be to burn the embroidered shoes she wore that day.

Qiu Lian nodded: "That's right, but this shoe print should be that of a court lady. The flat-toed shoes she wears are nothing special... Strange, girl, how do you know so much?"

"This..." Meng Xiaocom didn't answer, she couldn't say, it's because she often watched a certain anime called "Detective Conan" in her previous life, so she can reason about it now, right?

"I'm making random guesses. At least, we can almost be sure now that it was the court lady, not the eunuch, who killed Huanyan," she said.

"Girl, you are amazing!" Qiu Lian was full of envy, "If only I had your brains..."

"Think about it carefully, did Huan Yan offend anyone before she was alive?" Meng Xiaocomo changed the subject.

Qiu Lian thought for a moment, then shook her head.

"Then, before Huanyan's death, did anything special happen in Xining Palace?" Meng Xiaosuo continued to ask.

Qiulian shook her head again.

Meng Xiaosuo frowned slightly, not believing that he couldn't ask anything useful today: "Is there anyone who behaves strangely?"

Qiu Lian raised her head, looked at her meaningfully, and said, "Speaking of which, you are the weirdest. On that day, you suddenly asked me to sprinkle a kind of potion into the well. Afterwards, you told me what kind of dry potion it was. The juice of leaf grass can make people have scars on their faces..."

If it wasn't for the fact that she was with Meng Xiaosuo that night, she might have suspected that Meng Xiaosuo was the real murderer.

"Wait!" Before she could finish speaking, Meng Xiaoshu interrupted her, muttering thoughtfully, "Withered leaves and grass, why didn't I think of..."

"What's wrong with the dead leaves?" Qiu Lian asked in confusion.

"Have you ever seen Huanyan's corpse, what does her face look like?" Meng Xiaocom asked.

"This...is the same as before, except it's a little whitish and swollen..." Qiu Lian recalled seriously.

"Yes, she is the same as before, and there is no scar on her face." Meng Xiaocom said.

Qiu Lian seemed to understand something, but couldn't figure it out: "So?"

"So, she was drowned before you poured the dead grass juice into the well." Meng Xiaocom pointed to the well, with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth.

Withered grass is only effective for living people, and dead people will not have allergic reactions to it, so they will not grow scars.

Qiu Lian was still a little puzzled: "So, when I came, there was already Huanyan's body in the well? But, what does this have to do with the real murderer?"

"Stupid!" Meng Xiaocom couldn't help but patted her on the head, "Isn't the timing of the murder roughly certain? The person who investigated the case had already confirmed it before leaving. The time of discovery was only one day at most. When you poured the potion into the well, it was midnight, and the murderer should also be in the middle of the night, and before you. The place where the eyes are opened, people who come and go have to pass through here, if it is daytime, it is inevitable that people will not be seen."

"It makes sense." Qiu Lian nodded, with a happy expression on his face, "So, we are one step closer to the answer!"

"Now we just need to find out what all the maids in Xining Palace were doing that night. In this way, many people should be excluded." Meng Xiaosuo said.

Of course, it does not rule out the possibility that everyone has alibi, and the murderer may not be the maid of Xining Palace, but somewhere else.

"I'm going to report to Concubine Lan Gui, and ask her to order an investigation!" Qiu Lian said happily.

"Wait!" Meng Xiaocom hurriedly stopped her.

Qiu Lian looked puzzled, wondering why she wanted to stop herself.

Just at this moment, something came out of Meng Xiao's sleeve and fell to the ground.

It was the antidote for dead leaves. A few days ago, she wanted Qiu Lian to pour it into the well to end the plague. After Qiu Lian reminded her, she remembered that this well had soaked corpses. How could anyone dare to drink it? Come fetch water?Therefore, the drug did not come in handy.

Since everyone did not continue to touch the well water with dead grass juice, the scars on their bodies would no longer spread, but would gradually disappear.In fact, the scars on the faces of many people, including Meng Xiaocom and Qiu Lian, are gradually fading.

The eyes of the two fell on the bottle of antidote together.

Because the cork bounced out of the bottle when it hit the ground, the colorless and odorless potion flowed to the ground and penetrated into the soil, turning the soil into a deep purple!

"What's going on here?" Meng Xiaoshu squatted down, frowning and looking at it, quite puzzled.

Qiu Lian also squatted down, grabbed a handful of mud and squeezed it in her hands.

"Put it down!" Meng Xiaosuo was startled and knocked it down, "Be careful!"

Qiu Lian was taken aback by her: "It's just dirt..."

"There must be a reason for the soil to change color. This antidote won't..." Meng Xiaosuo suddenly stopped, and suddenly realized, "This antidote will only change color when it comes into contact with dead leaves! In other words, there are dead leaves and grass in this soil?"

"Yes, I poured the potion into the well and accidentally spilled some outside." Qiu Lian nodded and said.

Meng Xiaoshu came to the footprint and carefully sprinkled some antidote on it.

As expected, the footprint also turned purple.

She dripped the antidote with the mouth of the well as the radius, and the soil in the nearer place turned purple, but in the farther place, the color did not change, but the line of footprints all changed color .

"Is there something wrong?" Qiu Lian asked.

"There's nothing wrong, just the opposite. Both are right." Meng Xiaosuo smiled confidently, bent down to follow the footprints, and sprinkled the antidote all the way.

Next to the well is a mud field, and not far away is a bluestone path.

Following Meng Xiaosuo's movements, a lot of purple color appeared on the bluestone path, which was obviously left by the murderer who stepped on the soil stained with dead grass juice.

Qiu Lian followed behind Meng Xiaosuo, staring curiously with wide eyes.Not long after, the two came to a door.

"It turned out to be her..." Qiu Lian understood no matter how dull her mind was, and covered her open mouth.

Meng Xiaocom straightened up, didn't knock on the door, but turned around and left.

"Girl, don't you want to continue the investigation?" Qiu Lian asked.

"It's not whether you want to investigate, but whether you can." Meng Xiaocom smiled wryly, "Do you think I want Huanyan to die for no apparent reason?"

"Why can't we check?" Qiu Lian asked suspiciously.

"Do you know who this woman belongs to?" Meng Xiaocom asked back.

Qiu Lian thought for a long time before suddenly realizing it. Looking left and right, seeing no one around, she whispered, "Yes...it belongs to the imperial concubine."

"That's right." Meng Xiaocom's expression was a little helpless, "I can't protect myself, so I can't make enemies for the time being."

"But haven't you offended Concubine Lan Gui long ago?" Qiu Lian insisted.Huanyan is not too bad a person, and she often talks to her on weekdays. Although she is not a friend, she still wants Meng Xiaoshu to avenge Huanyan.In her opinion, the villain has done evil things and deserves to be punished. How could he escape so easily?Didn't it mean that the emperor broke the law and committed the same crime as the common people? What's more, Concubine Lan Gui is just a concubine...

"What I did before was just to annoy her, not to be hostile to her." Meng Xiaocom explained.

What she thought was much more complicated than Qiu Lian.

(End of this chapter)