Mrs.
Dong's expression froze, she lowered her head and thought for a long time, and finally spit out a few words from her mouth, "I have always cared about the Dong family's business, so even if my mother and officials have a grudge against others, I don't know, but my lord, why did you suddenly ask about this?"
The mother was killed by the officials, and the officials committed suicide in fear of crime, these two things have been clearly distinguished, how can they involve others?
” Cheng Muyou shook his head, "There are a lot of doubts in this matter, and it is too early to say that it is too late, but when I came in, I heard a few people say that Madame was going to send them away, can this matter be serious?"
” Mrs.
Dong closed her head, "The women didn't want to stay in this sad place anymore, so they simply sold their family wealth and went away to see things and feelings in the province."
She paused for a moment, then continued, "Maybe for adults, finding out the truth of the case is the most important thing, but for the people's women, since the official is dead, I don't want to pursue anything anymore, because he is not there, nothing matters anymore, even if the real murderer is caught, it can't get my husband's life back, so what's the use for me?"
” As she was talking, Jiang Xixi walked in from outside the door, she held a cloth bag in her hand, walked up to Cheng Muyou, and put it on the ground, "My lord, my subordinates found some charcoal in the ruins. ” "Charcoal?"
Jiang Xixi spread out the mouth of the bag, revealing some black charcoal inside, the size of a fist, a total of more than ten pieces.
"My lord, there are still a lot of these charcoal nuggets in the ruins, and this is only part of it."
Cheng Muyou leaned down and squatted, picked up a charcoal block and put it in his hand to look at it carefully, and muttered in his mouth, "This is firewood, firewood for fire, when it is burned by the flames, it becomes a charcoal block, but this west wing is not a stove room, how can there be so much firewood?"
” Jiang Xixi saluted, and then said, "The subordinates also found out that this was firewood, so they went to ask the people, but they said that there was no shortage of firewood in the stove room yesterday, and they didn't know where these things came from." ” Cheng Muyou narrowed his eyes slightly, "This is strange, this Dong Zongyuan wants to commit suicide, and there is a large amount of firewood in the room, as if someone knows that he is going to die, so he is prepared in advance." ” Jiang Xixi sighed "Huh" and said softly, "Unless it is the Yama of the underworld, how can one person's death date be known to another person?"
” Out of Yushan Village, Cheng Muyou stopped and looked down at this small mountain village shrouded in smoke and clouds from top to bottom.
Seeing that he didn't speak for a long time, Jiang Xixi walked up to him and whispered, "My lord, do you still have doubts about this case?"
” Cheng Muyou looked at the looming houses in the distance and said lightly, "Although I have doubts, I don't know who to suspect, which is also the most tricky part of this case." ” Jiang Xixi nodded, "Yes, there is only one Dong family left in the Dong family of three now, but she has no time to commit the crime at all."
As for the motive, she didn't, we also asked people today, and they all said that the Dong family was filial to her mother-in-law, and Dong Zongyuan was in harmony with her husband and wife, and she was a docile and kind woman, and these descriptions were not different from my perception of her.
Speaking of this, seeing Cheng Muyou looking at her, she touched her nose, and then said, "But the adults said that you can't just look at the surface of everything, let alone startle the snake, so I want to stay in this Yushan Village and secretly monitor the whereabouts of the Dong family to see if I can find other clues." ” Cheng Muyou's expression slowed slightly, shook his head and smiled, "We regret that this time it is a long memory, and now we also know that there is a degree of advance and retreat, and we don't move when we hear the wind." ” Jiang Xixi smiled "hehe", "It's all taught by adults." ” Cheng Muyou nodded, and then said to Shi Fei behind him, "The Dong family is not deeply rooted in this Yushan Village, I have never seen other relatives of their family, I think they also migrated from other places, you go and inquire carefully where the Dong family moved here, and the reason why they left their hometown, by the way, even the business and family history of the Dong family must be checked together, I always feel that this family is not as simple as it seems on the surface, and there must be a secret hidden behind it that is difficult for others to detect." ” The night came silently, and the entire Yushan Village was in a deep sleep, leaving behind a deathly silence and silent darkness.
Jiang Xixi had been lying on the wall, staring intently at the silhouette in the wing room for two hours, and now, the man began to freshen up and bathe, she took off her clothes, stepped into a steaming wooden barrel, and carefully wiped every inch of her skin, as if to wash away the tiredness and sadness that had accumulated for many days.
Her movements were gentle, like now, when she raised one of her arms, the back of her hand hung down slightly, and droplets of water fell from her fingertips, smashing into the water, and the sound she made seemed to reach the ears of the voyeur.
Jiang Xixi was a little fascinated, and in a trance, the soft arm seemed to have turned into a snake, and the slender jade hand was its snake head, it was demonic, but vicious, and it could bite anyone in the dark.
Jiang Xixi was frightened by this thought in her heart, she patted her somewhat stiff face, but her heart was still palpitating, she didn't understand why she suddenly came up with such a thought: That Mrs.
Dong, who is obviously supple and kind, why did she think of her as a poisonous snake?
Jiang Xixi took a deep breath of the cold air, rubbed her eyes, and looked at the figure in the room again, now she had put on her middle coat, her wet hair was casually on her shoulders, and she was sitting in front of the dresser playing with her hair.
Her waist is very thin, and her waist socket is deeply sunken, which seems to be different from ordinary women.
Jiang Xixi had a trace of doubt in her heart: she had seen many beautiful women, such as Yan Niang, who also had a slender waist and soft hands, but it was completely different from this Dong family's feeling.
Although Yan Niang is scheming, she is clear and transparent in the affairs of men and women, and she still has the innocence of a girl.
But this Mrs.
Dong, she only discovered today that she is like a poplar flower, a poplar flower that goes up and down in the flowing water, light and changeable.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xixi suddenly broke out in a layer of cold sweat on his forehead, and his body became stiff and tight, and he was no longer as flexible and soft as usual.
She asked from the bottom of her heart: Who are you?
Who are you?
Why do there be two faces in front of and behind people?
But the doubt in his heart had not been eliminated, and another figure suddenly broke into his eyes, it was a man, he was standing behind Mrs.
Dong, slowly stretched out his arms, and wrapped his arms around her slender shoulders.