Chapter 108 Clear
Yin Feiqiao was always in a bad mood and left without eating here.

Aunt Ming had already prepared the meal at home. Pearl happily handed over the hot handkerchief and said, "Master, there are small steamed buns today. I went here to learn how to make them."

Yin Feiqiao nodded, noticed a scratch on her hand, and asked: "Injured while cutting vegetables? Did you apply medicine?"

Pearl nodded shyly but sincerely, "Yes, I have already been given the medicine. Thank you for your concern, sir."

Aunt Ming came over with the food, and explained as if she heard what she just said, "Maybe he went to be a thief. I don't know what he did in the middle of the night the night before yesterday."

"Isn't this an injury caused by cutting vegetables?" Yin Feiqiao frowned.

Pearl looked flustered for a moment, looked down at her toes, and said softly: "I don't have a hairpin, I want to carve one myself."

Yin Feiqiao said: "Didn't I ask Aunt Ming to give you a month's money?"

Pearl felt a little wronged, the monthly money for a month was only two taels of silver, and she could only buy the cheapest silver hairpin, the kind of hairpin that was everywhere in the street, she didn't wear it and didn't want it.

"I want a special one," she whispered: "People in the capital are either rich or noble. I am neither rich nor noble, but I don't want to be vulgar."

Yin Feiqiao felt that Pearl was quite desirable, so he nodded and said, "There is a carpenter's shop on Zhanghang Street. The master there is very skilled in craftsmanship. If you go over there, just say my name and ask him to carve a special pattern for you."

Aunt Ming jokingly said: "Our Miss Pearl is very ambitious. She obviously yearns for wealth and glory, but also thinks that the monthly money given by the master is too small, so she is so pure-hearted."

The tone was joking, but it was completely rude.

Even Yin Feiqiao, who didn't have much ill feeling towards women in his mind, could tell something was wrong.

Aunt Ming is an acquaintance. Yin Feiqiao knows her a little bit. She has a good temper and won't be so mean to others easily.

Seeing the master looking at her, Aunt Ming smiled and said, "There are two more dishes, I'll bring them to you."

Then he walked out.

Pearl's face turned red from holding back, her eyes were a little moist, and she looked infinitely aggrieved.

Yin Feiqiao knew that she was sensitive and said with a smile: "Aunt Ming is an outspoken person. She may be in a bad mood today."

This consolation is tantamount to nothing.

Pearl's eyes widened slightly. Could it be that she was in a bad mood and said bad things about me, and she wanted me to listen in vain?

Aunt Ming came in with two more plates of food, glanced at Pearl, and said, "Miss Pearl, you came to the master's house to be a servant. Why don't you even know how to use a pair of chopsticks now?"

Pearl couldn't help biting her lower lip, "Aunt Ming, it's not that I don't want to work, there's no need for you to criticize me like this."

"Master, it's rare for you to be so lively here." Yuan Chen's laughing voice sounded outside, and the man walked in, his eyes lingering on Pearl for a moment, "Miss Pearl just came, so you're going to have trouble with Aunt Ming? "

Aunt Ming smiled and said: "Second Young Master, you haven't been here for a long time. Come on, I'll get another pair of dishes and chopsticks."

Yuan Chen handed the two oiled paper bags to Aunt Ming, "Osmanthus duck, glutinous rice cakes."

Aunt Ming took it with both hands, "Master was still talking about this the day before yesterday."

He turned to Pearl and said, "Let's go to the kitchen to do some work."

Pearl looked pitiful, bowed her head and followed her out.

Yuan Chen looked back, and when the two of them disappeared from sight, he said to Yin Feiqiao: "Master, the ugly girl you saved this time is not easy."

Yin Feiqiao picked up the rice bowl in front of him and asked, "What did you find out?"

Yuan Chen also picked up his chopsticks, picked up the dishes in front of him, and said, "Shopkeeper Liu asked Lai Er to ask. A beggar who has been entrenched in Hua Street all year round said that he saw an ugly girl there last night."

"An ugly girl is a pearl?" Yin Feiqiao didn't believe it, "Chen'er, everyone has the love for beauty, but don't be swayed by the love for beauty."

Yuan Chen said: "Master, I haven't finished yet. The beggar said that the moonlight was like water the night before yesterday, and the hood worn by the ugly girl was blown away by the wind, and he saw a piece of pimple skin."

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"How can you see so clearly?" Sunlight streamed in through the window pane, and Li Tongzhi was interrogating the key witness who was only found this morning.

The beggar, who was covered in patches and had a dirty face, knelt down three feet away and answered carefully: "I have been in Hua Street for several years, so I have some ability to judge people. In the middle of the night last night, there was a lot of people on Hua Street." There were not many people left. When Xiaomin saw the person wearing a big cloak, he knew it was a woman just by the way he walked. At that time, he thought he was here to arrest a man. When he saw that no one was following her, he wanted to follow her and blackmail her. A few ingots of silver."

Who knows, just saw such an ugly woman who could scare people into tears.

Li Tongzhi asked: "If you see this person again, can you still recognize him?"

The beggar nodded repeatedly: "Young people can recognize it."

Li Tongzhi waved his hand, "Take him down."

During the previous interrogation, the boy brought by the young master who went to Qianxiang Tower to have fun the night before gave testimony. At [-] o'clock in the morning, he saw a man wrapped in a tight cloak wandering around the stable.

The person who followed in was a stablekeeper arranged by Qianxiang Tower.This man looked at the stable every day and often drank a sip or two of wine. He had already been questioned when Yuzhu jumped off the building yesterday.

At this time, he was called to the government office again, and when he came in, he just said, "Governor, did you really not notice any suspicious person last night?"

The man was startled, and immediately knelt down and cried, "My lord, grass people dare not lie."

Li Tongzhi: "--I didn't say you were lying. If you think about it carefully, was there really no suspicious person last night?"

The person looking at the stables: "No, my lord, you know that is the Flower Street, and there are people of all kinds coming in and out every day."

"Is there anyone who has been near the stable?"

The person looking at the stable was thinking hard and suddenly said: "Last night, when I was serving the horses for a distinguished guest, I saw a man in a cloak. He was wandering around there."

Later, the noble man left, but the man was still there. At that time, he thought that someone was trying to steal the horse. After he came out, he turned around and looked at it several times. He saw that the man was just wandering around a horse hitching post and stopped paying attention.

When they were leaving, the man guarding the stable asked, "Did something fall?"

The person agreed solemnly and left.

Li Tongzhi sorted out these clues, came out to find Xin Nuo, and handed all these new clues to Xin Nuo.

"At present, it is generally confirmed that the real culprit is this ugly girl in the cloak." Li Tongzhi said: "Your Excellency has been busy recently, and this case will bother the new girl."

Xinnuo looked through the file in his hand and nodded: "Master Li has organized it very well. I will go to Miss Yuzhu's room to take a look later."

Master also asked for this matter, and now that there is another clue, she plans to investigate this case in one go.

The old bustard of Qianxiang Tower is still locked up in the palace and is in a state of no management. It is not open at night. Xinnuo went to the Yamen. Other flower towers have opened to welcome guests, but the door here is still closed.

Xin Nuo jumped off the horse, walked to the gate and patted it.

"Who is it? We are closed today."

A man's rough voice came from Menli.

Xinnuo said: "A scribe in the government office."

The official position of secretary is not very popular among the people.For the common people at the bottom, scribes are the most powerful officials.

Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, the door opened quickly.

The tall man standing in the door said: "Why are there women among the scribes? Are you a liar?"

Xin Nuo was amused, "Who dares to lie about the reputation of the government office? I was here yesterday."

As he walked through the door, another man came out to greet him.

There are many beautiful and talented women in Hualou, and there are also many men, who are basically thugs. There is also a character called Turtle Gong.

The role of Duke Turtle is usually the person closest to the Madam, either the Madam's brother or a close friend.

Qianxianglou is the pretty boy hired by the old bustard Zheng.

Yesterday, it was Yuzhu's room that he took Xinnuo and Chu Wei to check on the third floor.

"Girl, this way please." The old bustard was not at home, and the young Gui Gong didn't look very happy.

When Xin Nuo was about to go upstairs, there was another hissing sound from outside the door. She turned her head and saw Chu Wei who got off his horse.

"How did you come?"

Don't we still need to check Cao Yueling's ancestral home?This old guy is an old fox. The day he came out of the mountains, he had put on more than a dozen layers of shells.

Xinnuo helped out today and knew how difficult it was to track down Cao Yueling.

Today's household registration does not have any description of appearance, and many people go out to do business. Often people have changed their names for several years, and their relatives at home don't even know.

To know where Cao Yueling's real identity is, we need to conduct on-site verification one by one according to the identities he uses in daily life and communication.

According to Xin Nuo's previous guess about Cao Yueling's daughter's illness, the first place to go is near Zhenxiong Mansion.

After a hard day, Xin Nuo thought Chu Wei was going back to rest early.

Chu Wei walked in and said, "How can I not come in a case where human life is at stake? Let's go."

Signaling Xin Nuo to go first.

On the third floor, Yuzhu's room was still decorated as it was yesterday, with a book on the table by the window and a faint footprint printed on the book.

This is a story book often sold in bookstores. It tells the story of a daughter who meets the true love of a scholar.

Xinnuo flipped through two or three pages yesterday and found nothing.

On the left is the inner boudoir, which is very elegantly furnished, and there is also a calligraphy and painting work, which is said to be made by Yuzhu himself.

Yuzhu's little maid also replied, but they were also of little value.

"When did that ugly cloak girl find the jade beads? Then what words did she use to make her suddenly decide to die?" Xin Nuo looked at the furnishings in the room one by one and was very confused.

Chu Wei turned around and sat down on a stool and said, "Bring Yuzhu's personal maid here and ask again."

After Yuzhu's death, her maid immediately found a new master for herself. In a place like this, it is difficult to protect herself without finding a powerful girl.

In fact, even if she is a powerful girl, a little maid cannot avoid the fate of receiving guests, unless her appearance and reputation can make people ignore the woman who appears next to her.

Yuzhu is such a charming woman, and her maid used to be very beautiful.

As for her, a brothel woman who is comparable to the top card, why did she contract such a disease?These questions were asked routinely during the inquiry yesterday, and they were calculated by a woman who held a grudge.

But the woman's suspicion could basically be ruled out. There was no intention to investigate her from the beginning.

Yuzhu's maid walked in cautiously and knelt down to receive the gift.

The best way to discover doubts is to ask the person involved to repeat what happened before.

The maid frowned and started talking about the events of the previous day, starting from the first thing she did when she opened her eyes and came in to serve. She hesitated for a while and said, "Our girl probably won't commit suicide because there was an old man in the morning. , come here and tell my girl that I hired a miracle doctor to treat her."

"Why didn't you talk about such an important thing yesterday?" Chu Wei frowned.

In fact, Xin Nuo already knew about this and did not tell Chu Wei.

The maid raised her hand to wipe the tears on her cheeks and said, "That old man is kind to our girl. I don't want such a thing to involve the old man."

"But I heard people say that someone sharpened the stake outside on purpose, and someone wanted to harm my girl."

Chu Wei nodded, "Tell me something else."

The maid knelt there and held her breath for a while. She thought of something, raised her head and said, "Do you want to tell me everything, no matter how big or small?"

"Everyone has to say it," Xin Nuo affirmed.

"After the old man left, he sent a maid over to deliver something." The two adults did not ask about the old man's affairs, and the maid breathed a sigh of relief.

Xinnuo asked: "What do you give me? Do you remember what that maid looked like?"

The maid hesitated and shook her head, "She was wearing a veil, so I couldn't see her exact appearance. It was just that her left cheek seemed vaguely uneven."

Suddenly an idea crossed his mind.

Xinnuo remembered the newly adopted pearl beside his master.

She perfectly fits the characteristics of an ugly woman described by these people, and if she is "careful", she may have a motive for committing the crime.

Xin Nuo suppressed these thoughts and said, "Are there any other doubts?"

The maid thought for a while, then shook her head: "No, the girl was very polite to that maid, and then asked me to send her away."

Xinnuo looked at Chu Wei: Do you have any more questions?
Chu Wei stood up and said, "Go back."

After leaving the Qianxiang Building, he said, "Did you know the identity of the ugly girl in the cloak?"

Yes, but if you think about it carefully, you have to take the initiative to recognize your senior brother.

Xinnuo thought for a while and said, "I wonder if you know Yin Feiqiao of Jinmen Yin Sect?"

Chu Wei's heart moved and he said very naturally: "I've heard of it."

Xin Nuo:? ? ?
I've heard that if you don't know that you are that senior brother, you won't be able to tell that Yin Feiqiao is also your master.

Xin Nuo didn't have any psychological burden to make it up, "Grandpa Yin is my grandfather's friend. He came to the capital recently. I met him a few times, and there was an ugly girl beside him who echoed those people's description."

Grandpa's friend?
Chu Wei was puzzled and amused in his heart, remembering that the master said in the previous lectures: "A student who has been accepted will be a generation shorter", and this is what he said.

Little girl, I think you can make it up when you see Master?
"How about this? Let's go back to the government office now to bring this ugly maid to your grandfather's friend for interrogation?"

Xinnuo was a little confused, "Don't you still want to investigate Cao Yueling? I can just watch this case."

Chu Wei smiled and said: "The matter of Cao Yueling cannot be found out in a short time, so I can't do anything."

(End of this chapter)

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