"How is it possible?" Cui Xixin's face was pale and his expression was terrified, "Really, really dead? How did he die?"
The policeman put his hand on the woman's nose on the bed again, checked her neck carefully, and said with difficulty: "I was strangled to death by Mr. Chu."
Chu Ping sat on the ground in a daze, still muttering to himself: "It's not me, it's not me..., I said, I said, if she can't take it, pat the bed, pat the bed, I will stop." It's down..."
"Chu Ping, hurry up, put on your clothes quickly, and come with us!" Cui Xixin finally came back to his senses, looked at Chu Ping, said something anxiously, and then ordered the arrester: "Go and close the window behind the window." Open it, you two, stay here and don't let anyone in!"
Their original plan was to take advantage of Chu Ping's prostitution and let the Chu family accept a small favor from them, but who would have thought, who would have thought that someone would be killed? Get up!
He looked at Chu Ping who was still in a daze, and said solemnly: "Remember, the one who killed Shuangshuang girl was the court criminal who jumped out of the window and fled. When that villain wanted to hurt you, fortunately there was Jing The police from Zhaoyin Mansion arrived in time..."
Seeing Chu Ping still sitting there, muttering to himself, Cui Xixin slapped him hard on the face and said angrily, "Did you hear clearly?"
The corners of Chu Ping's mouth were bloodshot, and he looked up at him, his eyes gradually became clear, and he nodded, "Listen... I heard clearly."
Cui Xixin went out, closed the door, and said to the two police officers at the door: "You look here, no one is allowed to enter or leave."
The glamorous woman came over and asked worriedly: "Young Master Cui, inside..."
"Shut up!" Cui Xixin gave her a cold look, and said: "Let everyone go downstairs, I suspect that there are imperial court criminals among them, if it is found out, you Miaoyin Pavilion will not be able to get rid of the responsibility!"
The beautiful woman's face turned pale, "Chao, did the court commit crimes?"
…
The Cui family, Cui Qingming was sitting in the hall, drinking tea slowly, saw Cui Xixin running in from the outside in a panic, stood up, frowned and said: "Why, didn't the matter not be done? Didn't you already spend a thousand taels of money?" Did the money buy off that woman?"
Cui Xixin swallowed a mouthful of saliva, tremblingly said: "The thing is done..."
"Since it's done, why are you panicking?"
"But, but that woman was played to death by Chu Ping!"
"What!"
Cui Qingming stood up abruptly, and the teacup fell to the ground with a bang and shattered into pieces. He looked at Cui Xixin and asked in disbelief, "Then, that woman is dead?"
"Father, don't worry, no more people know about it yet. I've got people to control it." Cui Xixin looked at him and asked anxiously, "Father, what should we do now?"
If they only acted in secret, a few human lives are nothing to them, but the bad thing is that today's incident was specially arranged by them, and those arresters made such a big noise, it is impossible to cover it up easily past…
"Where is Jing Zhaoyin's mansion?"
Cui Xixin immediately said: "No one has notified yet."
"Send someone to tell Mr. Zeng to slow down his movements."
"What about you, father?"
"Let someone prepare the car, I'm going to Chu's house right away."
…
In Chu's house, a middle-aged man looked at Cui Qingming and said, "Brother Cui came to Chu's house late at night. What's the matter? Father has already fallen asleep. Let's talk about it tomorrow."
Cui Qingming took a deep breath and said, "Brother Chu, time is urgent. I don't have time to explain to you now. If there is a delay, nephew Chu Ping may be in serious trouble."
Hearing his son's name, the middle-aged man immediately asked, "What's the trouble?"
Cui Qingming said in a low voice: "It's about the life of my nephew Chu Ping, and even more about the name of the Chu family."
The middle-aged man's face changed drastically, and he immediately said: "Brother Cui, sit here for a while, I'll go and invite father over right away."
Cui Qingming didn't sit for long, when he saw Mrs. Chu wearing a thick cloak, being supported by others.
He got up quickly and said respectfully: "I have seen Mr. Taifu."
The old man waved his hand and asked, "What happened, tell me."
Cui Qingming hesitated for a moment, and said: "Tonight, Xi Xin and nephew Chu Pingxian went to Miaoyin Pavilion to listen to the music. There was a woman in the pavilion who expressed her feelings to Chu Ping. Young people are inevitably a little eager to act, and it coincides with the arrest of Jingzhao Yin's mansion. Searching the imperial court for criminals, I accidentally bumped into two people having sex with each other..."
The face of the middle-aged man softened a little. If it was just this matter, it was not serious. It was just a normal relationship between a man and a woman, and it was not considered a prostitute, but a real prostitute. Not serious enough to be life-threatening.
The old man looked at him with sharp eyes: "You came here late at night for this purpose?"
Cui Qingming lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "When the arresters from Jingzhao Yin's Mansion entered quickly, that woman... died."
A frightened expression appeared on the face of the middle-aged man, and the old man's body trembled, and he couldn't even hold his crutches steadily.
His beard was trembling, he barely stood still, and said repeatedly: "This beast, this beast..."
Cui Qingming looked up, and asked: "Xi Xin has asked people to temporarily suppress this matter. Now, the people from Jingzhao Mansion may have to pass. They came here late at night in Qingming to ask Mr. Grand Tutor. how to deal with it..."
The old man walked tremblingly to the chair and sat down. After a long silence, he waved his hand in frustration and said, "This old man is not Jing Zhaoyin, so don't ask me about it."
There was a look of anxiety on the face of the middle-aged man beside him, and when he was about to speak, Cui Qingming suddenly said: "The court prisoner arrested by the Jingzhaoyin Mansion is really insane, and he is hiding in the Miaoyin Pavilion. Not only killed the girl with cruel means, but also wanted to harm nephew Chu Ping. Fortunately, the police arrived in time... "
The old man didn't answer, he leaned on the chair, stood up with difficulty, his cloudy eyes stayed on Cui Qingming's body for a long time, he waved his hand and said, "I'm tired..."
"Teacher Qingming is really sorry for disturbing Grand Tutor, please rest assured that nephew Chu Ping will not be implicated in this matter." Cui Qingming said, bowed and said: "Teacher rested earlier, Qingming will go back first. "
Leaning on crutches, the old man walked out the door, throwing off the support of the middle-aged man, and said in a hoarse voice: "When you come back, let him kneel in the ancestral hall."
The middle-aged man nodded slowly with a complex expression.
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"Fifth Master, I'm going out."
The Qin family, the big man looked at the middle-aged man who had already undressed and went to bed, said something, and then slowly backed out.
A woman in rough clothes came over, holding a stove in her hand, and said, "Master is afraid of the cold, so I'll take another stove in."
The big man pushed open the door and said, "Let me put it in for you."
The woman shook her head with a smile, and said, "No need, you have rough hands and feet, and your footsteps are heavy. The master just fell asleep and was woken up again. I'll go and you go to rest."
The big man rubbed his head in embarrassment, "Then, then I'll go to bed first."
The woman nodded and waited for the big man to leave before entering the house and putting the stove on the floor beside the bed.
She straightened up, looked at the middle-aged man on the bed in the dark, and said with a sigh: "You don't have to be sad, Shuang'er's body doesn't have many days left, Lian'er used to love her the most, you can see Lian'er now She must have been very happy to do something for you before."
In the darkness, the eyes of the middle-aged man lying on the bed opened suddenly.
He clenched his fists tightly, scratched the quilt, and let out a suppressed roar like a beast in his throat: "There is a way, there must be another way, she, she doesn't have to be like this, she doesn't have to be like this..."
In the Miaoyin Pavilion, a policeman looked back at the bed again, with doubts on his face, stretched out his hand and pushed the person next to him, and whispered: "Look, is she smiling?"
The catcher looked back and found that the dead woman had a faint smile on her mouth. He walked over, put the quilt on her body, and let out a long sigh.
"Also a poor man..."
…
In the early morning, the big man opened the door and came out. He was shivered by the cold wind blowing in front of him. He looked at the whiteness of the courtyard in a daze, and murmured: "Didn't it get warmer a few days ago? Why is it snowing again... "
After returning to the house, I wrapped another piece of clothing, then walked out, walked across the garden path, and walked towards a courtyard.
He stopped in the middle of the walk, and in the depths of the garden, a tree of plum blossoms quietly bloomed at some point, immediately adding a little more embellishment to the white garden.
In front of the plum tree, amidst the snowflakes all over the sky, there was a figure standing there straight.
"Fifth Master, you came out so early today, why didn't you hold an umbrella?"
The big man walked over and carefully slapped the snowflakes off the middle-aged man's shoulders and body. He saw a thick layer of snow on his head. I don't know how long he has been standing here...
Gently helped him to sweep the snowflakes off his hair, but there were a few places where the snowflakes could not be swept away no matter what.
The movements of his hands froze, and he looked at the middle-aged man in a daze, with a look of surprise on his face, "Five, fifth master, you..."
The middle-aged man looked back at him, with a smile on his face, and said, "This man, if you don't pay attention, you will grow old..."