Exquisite ingenuity

Chapter 69 The Ronghua Building Murder Case

Ronghua Building is quite old.

There are three floors in total, the lower floor is a brick-and-wood structure, and the upper two floors are wood structures.It had been newly painted a while ago, and it was shining brightly in the spring sun.

When the strong wind blew, the lady in charge of Ronghua Building greeted them with a smile on her face, led the Zhao family to the third floor, served hot tea and refreshments, and then personally presented the wedding dress in the shop to Zhu's face.

It was dark outside, and it was even darker inside the house.

The shopkeeper's wife hurriedly ordered someone to light several glazed bead lamps, and it was daytime in the room.

It is said that it is to choose a wedding dress, but in fact there is nothing to choose.In the folk marriages in the country of Lu, all the men wear red shirts and the women wear Zhai clothes.It's just that the styles of Zhai's clothes and tiaras are different because of the differences in family background and wealth.According to the laws of the State of Lu, on the day of the wedding, the bride and groom's attire can be overstepped, also known as shesheng.But to put it bluntly, in the final analysis, power and financial resources determine everything.If the family is poor, no matter how much they can afford, they are no match for having nothing in their pockets.Those who are rich in their families will naturally create great things in every detail.

The lady in charge is familiar with the Zhao family, and the wedding dresses and tiaras she presented in person are beautiful and exquisite, which shows how meticulously the craftsmen of Ronghualou made them.

Of course, the price is not cheap.

If that incident hadn't happened, Mrs. Zhu probably didn't feel the need to be so nice.

But this time she made up her mind to support her eldest daughter.

Zhao Jinyun was overjoyed.

The wedding dress and tiara were actually a bit better than when the eldest sister Zhao Jinxiu got married.

Zhao Jinyi and Zhao Jinhua naturally spared no expense of praise, and praised Zhao Jinyun, who was trying on the wedding dress, like a fairy descending from heaven.But there is no nonsense, Zhao Jinyun's face is indeed as beautiful as a flower, wearing a wedding dress and a tiara, and his skin is as creamy, looking bright.At this time, she was willing to put on the wedding dress, and she was naturally infinitely more beautiful than when she was being held up to wear the wedding dress a few days ago.

The torrential rain outside knocked the windows of Ronghua Building.

Perhaps the servant who was in charge of closing the window just now did not close the window tightly. Suddenly, under the raging wind and rain, a window suddenly fell off, without the cover of the window sash, the wind and drizzle came in through the window, and several hangers were blown down. .

There are wide-sleeved wedding dresses with winding skirts on the hangers, which are extraordinarily bluffing when they fall down.

As soon as the clothes hanger fell down, accompanied by the howling wind, the drizzle blew into the house, and there was a bit of a miserable smell.

Not knowing who screamed, people began to panic.

The shopkeeper's lady shouted: "Yunniang, Zhuniang, come and protect the nobleman quickly." She rushed to the window to check the situation.The wedding dress on the third floor is all her painstaking efforts, and it cannot be destroyed by wind and rain.

Mrs. Zhu naturally wanted to protect the girls, she called: "Mother Fang, Mother Fang, quickly lead the girls downstairs!"

Mother Fang didn't have time to respond, she just watched those glass bead lamps in the room fall down with a bang, shattered to the ground, and the room was suddenly dark.

Someone screamed.

Listening to the voice does not save who it is.

Zhao Jinyi frowned, tightly grasped the hands of the two sisters, and called out: "Mei Ran, Ya Qing!"

Mei Ran and Ya Qing hurried over, as did the second sister's maids, Tao'er and You'er.Only there is no third sister's maid.Zhao Jinyi didn't care about that much, and just called out to Mrs. Zhu: "Auntie, go!"

There were two maids beside Zhu Shi, who carried Zhu Shi to the girls.

A group of people were about to leave when they heard someone screaming again.This time Zhao Jinyi heard it clearly, it was the voice of the lady in charge of Ronghua Building.

"Dead, dead!"

Zhao Jinyi's heart suddenly jumped up.

The gust of wind stopped suddenly.

Zhao Jinyi looked in the direction of the shopkeeper's lady, and saw a mess, someone lying motionless on the ground.

She has good eyesight, and she can tell at a glance that the dress that the man is wearing is exactly the style worn by the Zhao family's little maid.A pair of thin-soled ankle boots,

Zhao Jinyun yelled: "It's Zhuyue! It's Zhuyue!" As she spoke, she was about to pounce on Zhuyue.

Zhao Jinyi pulled her back with great strength, and shouted sharply, "Third Sister!"

Zhao Jinyun looked at her in a daze, then at her mother, and suddenly shed a line of tears.

The sound of rain was rushing, the torrential rain continued, and the wind continued.

Although the lady shopkeeper had received countless nobles, this was the first time she saw such a scene. She stood tremblingly beside Zhuyue, looking at Zhuyue's wide-open eyes, she couldn't move her feet.

The one who died was the servant girl who served her daughter, so Zhu's naturally wanted to make the decision.In the current situation, the Zhao family cannot leave.

She was about to speak when she suddenly heard a calm male voice: "What happened?"

The people in the room looked blankly at the source of the sound, but they saw a man wearing a bamboo hat holding a window sash in his hand, dripping water from his whole body, standing upright at the top of the stairs.

The lady shopkeeper subconsciously asked: "Is this the window sash of my house?"

The man said: "I was taking shelter from the rain downstairs when suddenly a window sash fell from above."

After he finished speaking, without waiting for the shopkeeper's lady to answer, he went straight to the window without the sash, facing the strong wind, his sturdy figure would not be shaken in the slightest, and reinstalled the sash under the eyes of everyone.

He didn't seem to see Zhuyue lying on the ground.

It doesn't matter what method he used, but after fumbling around for a while, the window sash was firmly embedded in its original position.

The strong wind was blocked outside, and the house suddenly became quiet.

The man bent down again, picked up an unbroken glazed bead lamp, took out a torch from his pocket and lit it.

The flames were dancing, and he bent down again, reaching out his hand to feel Zhuyue's pulse, and after a while, the voice was still calm: "Report to the official."

After he finished speaking, he stood up again, nodded to the shopkeeper's wife, and was about to raise his leg, when someone suddenly shouted: "Bold man wait a minute!"

It was a feminine, but somewhat stern female voice.

It sounds a little familiar.

The people present were all female relatives, it was hard for Song Jingxing to look directly at him, but luckily the bamboo hat covered half of his face just right.

He stopped thinking and waited quietly.

The female voice said: "Strong man, is there a problem with the window sash just now?"

It was Zhao Jinyi who asked the question.

She came back to her senses at this moment, and her mind began to run rapidly.The window sash that fell suddenly, the glass bead lamp that shattered, and Zhuyue died quietly in the blink of an eye. No matter how you look at it, it was all a premeditated murder.

But from the moment they set their marriage agreement to deciding to come to Ronghua Building to choose the wedding dress, in just half a day, someone planned everything?
She remembered clearly that before the window sash fell, Zhuyue was happily holding a mirror and serving her third sister.

In just a moment, Zhuyue died.A chill crept up her back.All this is terrible.

The fallen window sash is the key to all problems.

Song Jingxing suddenly remembered that it was Zhao Chengde's favorite girl Zhao Si who spoke.This is Ronghua Building, a place that specializes in making wedding dresses.Miss Zhao Si, are you ready to get married?However, Miss Zhao Si's marriage has nothing to do with him.

There is indeed a problem with the window sash.

He replied calmly: "There is a problem with the window sash. I can't go into details at this time. After the girl reports to the official, if you have any questions, just ask the official to summon me to testify."

Zhao Jinyi asked subconsciously: "I don't know the name of the strong man Gao, where can I find the strong man?"

(End of this chapter)