Chapter 20 One inch of gold 20
I went to search for the embroidered clothes in Sha Gu's bedroom and found nothing.
"Mr. Marquis, the size of a room is in a small size, and there are only a few items for changing clothes and daily use, and there are no more."
The silly Gu happened to appear where the murderer appeared, which naturally attracted suspicion, but she was lame and could not find any evidence now. Even if she was strange, she could be temporarily excluded.
Huo Weilou looked at He Cheng, "That Taoist hasn't finished yet?"
"Xiaguan has only been to see it in the afternoon, I'm afraid it will take half a day." He Chengdao looked at the sky outside, "I will definitely calculate it tomorrow."
"How about Madam Yu?"
He Cheng said: "After changing the residence, it seems that the sorrow is more than the heart is dead. He recites scriptures all day long, without food. There is a yamen guarding him and never leaves the room all day."
Huo Weilou's eyes were condensed, "Get up tomorrow morning to ask the servants in the mansion, and ask tonight, you must not let go of anything unreasonable. The murderer started to attack on New Year's Eve and left such words, so he was looking for revenge. He was a person in the mansion, and perhaps he had done something before, but he was not taken seriously by everyone."
Most of the masters in the mansion concealed something. Since they could not find out the secret, they could only start with the servants. The murderer did not hide in the mansion overnight. Has he not taken any action before?
The little one moves slightly in his heart, and he also feels reasonable.
At this time, Huo Weilou stood up and strode out of the door, standing in the corridor and said to Zheng Wen'an and others: "It's too late tonight, and it can be dispersed. You will also recall that before the old lady's accident, strange things happened in the mansion. Since the murderer dared to commit crimes repeatedly, he must know a lot about the target. You who are standing may be the next target."
This made everyone feel disgusted. Zheng Yunni stood in front of her, and was particularly nervous and afraid at this moment. She did not dare to look directly at Huo Weilou. She subconsciously closed her eyes and looked at the ground in front of her, which was very cramped. This expression shocked Bo Ruoyou to see it.
She hurried to see the silly girl in the corner. When she saw it, she felt as if she was shaking the clouds and seeing the sun.
No wonder she felt that Sha Gu’s eyes were a little familiar by the bamboo forest... It turned out that Sha Gu’s eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to Zheng Yunni!
The two of them have different auras. Sha Gu shivered and stupid, Zheng Yunni was arrogant and graceful. With the scars on Sha Gu's face, they could not see any similarities between the two of them on weekdays, but once they had the same expression, the similarity suddenly became several times more obvious.
Bo Ruoyou felt stranger in his heart, and everyone who had the words of Huo Weilou had begun to leave. Bo Ruoyou looked at Zheng Yunni's back and wanted to say something, but Huo Weilou looked at her, "You can't be alone anymore."
Bo Ruoyou quickly responded. Huo Weilou didn't say anything more and took He Cheng out of the yard. Bo Ruoyou stood for a while, and turned around. Sha Gu was still standing in the corridor. She walked up and said softly, "Sha Gu, I'll take you back."
Sha Gu raised her eyes and looked at her in a daze, shrank her shoulders and walked towards her residence.
She was not really stupid, but she was just slower than ordinary people. Bo Ruoyou did not ask any questions along the way. After leaving everyone, Sha Gu also relaxed a little. When she arrived at her residence, she was as small as the embroidered clothes said, and she swept away all the items at a glance.
The location of the lower courtyard is slightly off. Although her room is alone, she is leaning against the eaves. The house is extremely humid, and a smell of dampness floats in from behind the house. Bo Ruoyou sighed. It is hard for those who are slaves and maids. "There is no peace in the house. Don't run to Meilin alone at night."
Sha Gu nodded with her neck, but she didn't dare to look at Bo Ruoyou.
The embroidered clothes guarded outside, and there were only two of them in the room, but Sha Gu was obviously still a little afraid of her.
Bo Ruoyou's beautiful eyebrows suddenly frowned. That day she helped Sha Gu pick up the fruit. Although she shrank and did not dare to look directly at her, she clearly remembered that Sha Gu looked at her when she took the fruit and nodded to her to express her gratitude.
A strange feeling made Bo Ruoyou feel uncomfortable all over. She stared at Sha Gu for a moment, but she still couldn't figure it out. When she glanced at Sha Gu's eyes, she saw a sachet made of silk sewn on the side of Sha Gu's bed. Although the fabric was expensive, the embroiderer's stitches were sparse and chaotic. Bo Ruoyou's eyes changed a lot, "Is this the eldest lady sewn?"
Sha Gu slowly turned her head to look, and nodded gently.
Seeing the stitches so messy, Bo Ruoyou guessed that it was from the eldest lady. It seemed that Chuntao was right, and the eldest lady was indeed quite pity for Sha Gu.
With her here, Sha Gu was uncomfortable. Bo Ruoyou comforted her and then left the house.
On the way back to the guest yard, the strange feeling always lingers in Bo Ruoyou's heart. Sha Gu clearly looks timid, but Bo Ruoyou just stood in the cramped hut and felt a sense of uneasiness.
She returned to the living yard with all her thoughts. Chuntao waited for her for a long time, and when she saw her coming back, she came to greet her, "The girl finally came back. I didn't know what happened just now, and the mansion was searched again."
Bo Ruoyou smiled bitterly, and after finishing the bath, he talked about Sha Gu with Chuntao. Chuntao said, "Silly Gu is indeed pitiful. It is said that she fled due to the plague and her parents are gone. If she was not picked up by the eldest lady, she would be afraid she would not be able to survive."
"Due to the plague?"
Chuntao nodded, "There was a plague in Luozhou seven or eight years ago. Don't the girl know? The eldest lady picked her up. The old lady thought it was inappropriate, so she asked me to investigate. Because she was innocent, she left her in the mansion."
Seven or eight years ago, Bo Ruoyou was less than ten years old, so he really had no impression.
Bo Ruoyou said again: "I saw the eldest lady make sachets for Sha Gu today."
Chuntao said, "This is what makes me envious of the silly aunt. When the eldest lady is good, she also does needlework. Not only that, she also does two at a time, giving one to the eldest lady and one to the eldest lady. Look, this treatment is just like the eldest lady. Because of this, the eldest lady doesn't like the silly aunt very much."
Bo Ruoyou's heart skipped a beat, "Do it two at a time? It's exactly the same?"
Chuntao nodded, "Yes, but you should be able to think that the eldest lady never uses it and is rewarded to the servants, so the servants have seen it from several sisters."
Bo Ruoyou couldn't help clenching his fists. Thinking of Huo Weilou's words, he asked Chuntao again, "Have you ever had strange things in the mansion over the years? For example... have you encountered dangers?"
Chuntao frowned and thought for a while, shook her head, "I have only been in the mansion for two years... I haven't heard of any master in danger and is sick occasionally."
As she said that, Chuntao's eyes suddenly lit up, "However, I heard from the nanny talk about the past. If you want to say which master has the most disasters, the eldest lady has the most disasters. She had a serious illness at the age of five or six, as if she had hysteria. She had not recovered yet, and almost fell into a lotus pond in the mansion. At that time, the marquis was still there, so she ordered people to fill the lotus pond."
Chuntao frowned and thought, "It is said that she almost got burned..."
Bo Ruoyou frowned, "Being burned?"
Chuntao hesitated, "It was a long time ago, it seemed like a mess during the Chinese New Year. The nanny who told this matter couldn't tell it clearly, and I was not sure whether it was true or not."
Seeing that Chuntao couldn't think of it, Bo Ruoyou stopped asking questions. Chuntao turned to talk about other people's illness. Bo Ruoyou didn't feel suspicious, but just thought about the incident of being born in Zheng Yunni, and always felt strange.
That happened many years ago. If the murderer had already taken action at that time, wouldn’t he even be able to murder a baby of a few years old?
But Sha Gu's eyebrows and eyes are similar to Bo Ruoyou. Although the eldest lady was suffering from madness, she loved Sha Gu very much. If she treated Sha Gu as Zheng Yunni, in addition to her similar eyebrows and eyes, her face shapes and outlines were very different. Moreover, Sha Gu's face had scars, so it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was ugly and terrifying...
All kinds of thoughts were stirring Bo Ruoyou's heart. Before going to bed, Bo Ruoyou said, "Tomorrow morning, please accompany me to see where the young lady fell from the lotus pond..."
Chuntao responded quickly.
After a light sleep, Bo Ruoyou woke up again before the sky was dawn. She rubbed her forehead, woke up for a while before she woke up. After washing, she woke up Chuntao and let Chuntao lead the way.
Chuntao came all the way east, and it was the direction of the bamboo forest last night. "After the lotus pond was filled, it was planted with purple bamboo because it was close to the bamboo forest. I don't know, but I thought the bamboo forest was so big."
Chapter completed!