The silly girl fell down on the snowy ground, curled up in a ball, her shoulders trembling, and she lowered her head, not daring to look up at anyone. Huo Weilou looked at the silly girl, as if he didn't expect that it was a little girl he was holding.
Bo Ruoyou said in a low voice: "Master Hou, she is a fool."
That night when I checked the servants in the mansion in the front yard, the idiot stood in the corner and was not conspicuous, so it was the first time Huo Weilou saw her at this moment, Bo Ruoyou whispered the fate of the eldest lady and the idiot again, The brow wrinkled even tighter.
Surrounded by embroidered envoys standing with knives, Huo Weilou was even more imposing, so Bo Ruoyou squatted down and said softly, "Silly girl? Why are you here?"
The silly girl shrank even tighter, and Bo Ruoyou said, "Look at me, you saw me last time."
The silly girl froze for a moment, then slowly raised her eyes to look at Bo Ruoyou, but her eyes were dull and blank, as if she couldn't remember when she had seen Bo Ruoyou at all.
Everyone knows that idiots are demented, and Bo Ruoyou is not surprised to see that she can't recognize him, but looking at these eyes, although they still feel beautiful, they are not as beautiful as that day, but under the light, they are inexplicably a little bit familiar. And the scar was still lying across her face, Bo Ruoyou only had a glimpse of it that day, but now that she looked closely, she felt it was even more terrifying than that day.
Bo Ruoyou felt weird, and asked softly, "What are you doing here?"
Although this place is close to the ancestral hall, it is also remote, and the ancestral hall has just been burned, and there is still a puff of smoke and fire around here. If there is nothing wrong, how come here
Sha Gu lowered her eyes again, shrunk her shoulders and said nothing.
This is a bit difficult, she is obviously more afraid of people than that day.
Bao Ruoyou looked her up and down, she was still wearing the plain jacket from last time, and her shoes were stained with slush, but there was nothing unusual about her, and her legs and feet were not smooth, so she couldn't be the one who committed the crime.
There are only the footprints of the embroiderers and Shagu on the ground. Comparing them, Shagu's footprints are very obvious. Her left leg was injured, so the footprints are always one deep and one shallow, and smaller than the footprints of the embroiderers. Ruoyou looked in the direction of the bamboo forest, and then at the trace left by the murderer.
The wormwood was withered and yellow, covered with layers of snow, and the traces of being trampled back and forth were very obvious. Bao Ruoyou compared it carefully, and found that it was exactly the same as the footprints she saw outside Zheng Wenyan's study last time. Naturally, it can also be seen that it is different from Shagu's footprints.
Bo Ruoyou frowned for a moment: "The person I saw just now did not appear to be crippled, and she was wearing a winter jacket of a different shape. She should not be an idiot, but she refused to speak, and she couldn't ask why she came here."
Among all the suspects, the most troublesome one is a demented or insane person like Sha Gu. Huo Weilou said decisively: "Take it to the front yard and ask the steward who lives with her."
The embroidered envoy responded, and He Cheng also hurried over at this time. On the way, he knew that Bo Ruoyou had met the murderer, and when he saw Bo Ruoyou, he was afraid and said, "Little Bo, don't come out alone. ,Too dangerous."
Bo Ruoyou hurriedly responded, Huo Weilou glanced at He Cheng, at this time the embroidered envoy stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, I have searched all around, there are many traces, but they are all very messy, there are important roads everywhere in the Hou Mansion." There are guards, and the subordinates suspect that the murderer has been detouring these remote places to avoid the martial law these few days. Further north of this bamboo forest is a plum forest, and behind the plum forest is the high wall of the backyard."
After the words were settled, Bo Ruoyou belatedly smelled a faint fragrance of plum.
Huo Weilou raised his footsteps to the direction of the plum forest, He Cheng and Bo Ruoyou followed, but after a while, a yellow fragrant plum forest came into view, and the bamboo forest was untended, and the further north, the more barren it was. In this way, in the winter season of the first lunar month, the plum blossoms bloom in the cold, and under the light of the fire, the light yellow stamens are clustered on the branches, and the dark fragrance floats and is fragrant.
The embroidered clothes envoy raised his hand and pointed, "There are some people in the plum forest, but it's empty here, and it's not easy to hide people. There is a dry well in the far north. My subordinates checked it just now, and no one hid in it."
The dense bamboo grove can still hide people, but the plum grove is sparse and can be swept away at a glance. Huo Weilou looked at the high wall in the distance, pondered for a moment and led everyone back to the front yard.
The murderer appeared suddenly and was almost caught. Huo Weilou ordered people to search the entire Hou Mansion. Half an hour later, Zheng Wen'an and others in the mansion gathered in the main hall of the front yard again, but everyone including Zheng Wenrong was there tonight certificate.
Zheng Yunni was the latest to come. As soon as she entered the courtyard, she saw an idiot standing outside the hall. The idiot stood quietly with her head down, but when she heard the footsteps, she turned around and saw Zheng Yunni, with a frightened expression on her face. He took a few steps back, hitting his back on the corridor railing.
Bo Ruoyou was standing at the door, just in time to see this scene.
Zheng Yunni looked at the silly girl coldly, as if she was dissatisfied that she was here, it could be seen that Bo Ruoyou was looking outside the door, she raised her chin, and entered the hall gracefully.
Zheng Wen'an was talking in the hall, "I have been ordered by the Marquis, I have been watching them clean up the fire in the ancestral hall. The foolish girl is clumsy and clumsy, and today she is doing physical work. Those who call me are servants. I don't know why she ran over there. .”
"Master Hou," Zheng Yunni said at this time, "She went to pick Huang Xiangmei for her mother. Although there are many plum blossoms in the mansion, my mother loves Huang Xiangmei alone. Only the plum forest in the north is Huang Xiangmei."
There is an explanation for this, but it sounds a little weird to ask a stupid person to pick plums at night.
Huo Weilou glanced at Zheng Yunni for a moment, then at Zheng Wen'an, "Are you sure your mother's robe was burned?"
Zheng Wen'an hesitated and said: "Third brother sent the servant girl beside my mother to burn it. Generally, no one will keep the things of the dead, and the robe is not gold, silver, pearls or jade..."
He said this because he never saw the robe burn with his own eyes.
Huo Weilou glanced at He Cheng, and He Cheng left the hall.
Seeing that Huo Weilou was silent after finishing speaking, Zheng Wenan asked hesitantly, "Master Hou, what clues do you have?"
Huo Weilou searched the Hou's mansion, but he didn't say the reason. When everyone arrived, they also asked about the idiot first. Therefore, everyone still didn't know what happened tonight. The bamboo forest in the east was bumped into."
As soon as these words came out, everyone's expressions changed, especially Zheng Wen'an froze in place, "What... did you meet the murderer?"
Zheng Yunni also asked: "Can you see the appearance clearly?"
Huo Weilou said in a deep voice, "I didn't see clearly."
Zheng Wenrong stood aside and said: "Then she must be hiding in the bamboo forest, maybe she has been there for the past few days, there are quite a lot of such remote places in the mansion, Lord Hou can send more people to search."
Eunuch Fu sighed: "Fourth Master, we have already searched. There are indeed many people around, but we still haven't found anyone, and we don't know where they hid. Everyone should be careful in the past few days, so as not to be injured by the murderer. "
Zheng Yunni clenched her cuffs tightly with her fists, her expression was serious, Zheng Wen'an was also thinking about something, her mind was not in the right place, at this moment He Cheng entered the hall, Huo Weilou saw that he hesitated to speak, so he ordered everyone to retreat.
After everyone retreated, He Cheng said: "Master Hou, I went to ask. It was the old lady's maid, Mo Yi, who burned the clothes that day, and gave the clothes to a rough envoy to burn them. The woman was a little jealous, so she threw the robe After entering the brazier, I left. According to the woman, when I went to hold the brazier later, a lot of sundries were burnt in it, and I couldn’t see the clothes, so I guess they were completely burned.”
I have never seen it with my own eyes, so I still have doubts. At this time, another embroidered clothes envoy came in and said: "Master Hou, the idiot usually lives in the servant's room, and lives in the same courtyard with more than a dozen rough envoys and wives in the inner courtyard. Because she is loved by the eldest lady, she has a separate small room." After a pause, the embroidered clothes envoy said: "The rough envoy who burned the old lady's clothes also lived in this courtyard."
Huo Weilou frowned, "Take someone to her room to have a look."
Bo Ruoyou also had a strange feeling in her heart, such a coincidence, could it be that she was thinking wrong
She looked out of the hall, and saw the idiot huddled in the corner, very shy of Zheng Yunni and others, she hesitated for a moment and walked towards the idiot, and pulled the idiot to let her follow her into the room, maybe because Bo Ruoyou was friendly, the idiot followed suit After following into the hall, Bo Ruoyou closed the door and squatted in front of Sha Gu, softly said: "Si Gu, I'm a doctor, can you show me your old wounds?"
The silly girl stared blankly at Bo Ruoyou, seemingly surprised, but she didn't dare at first, but she also felt that Bo Ruoyou was friendly, so she didn't resist, so Bo Ruoyou's hand touched her ankle. .
On the top is the slender calf, but there is almost only a layer of skin and flesh sticking to the bone at the calf. The scar is rough. With careful perception, you can feel the traces of bone fracture and healing. Bo Ruoyou frowned first, and then relaxed. After taking a breath, she stood up and gently stroked the top of Shagu's hair, "The wounds are all healed, I'm fine."
Silly girl's eyes loosened a bit, Bo Ruoyou took her out, and when she entered the door again, she said, "The injury on her leg is real, and so is her lame leg. She can't commit a crime."
The author has something to say: When everyone feels the most confusing, the truth is near.