Chapter 85
Bai Yong said with concern: "Brother has suffered too much in his early years. From now on, you can take good care of yourself in the church. When your skin becomes softer and smoother, you will naturally be able to adapt to these fine silks."

The old man chuckled and said, "When that day really comes, I'm afraid I'm not far from death."

"Cotton and linen are more comfortable and practical. You guys can rest a while. I'll go for a walk." As he said that, the old man stood up, threw the sandalwood bracelet aside, picked up the patched hat on the table next to him, and left.

Bai Yong and Lao Liu followed him to the door.

This is a place in the wilderness, and there are not many people outside the door. Bai Yong Lao Liu looked at this place where cars and horses were arriving, and he was looking forward to the arrival of the next day.

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Luohua Lane is as quiet as ever. An unknown flower tree at the entrance of the alley has petals falling leisurely in the breeze.But this tranquility is a little too quiet. In other alleys, there are women sitting outside doing work and children playing at the door. But in Luohua Alley, there is no sound except the sound of wind and falling flowers.

It seems that the murder a few days ago still has an impact on this alley.

Xinnuo followed Chu Wei's footsteps to the entrance of a small courtyard where the sewage was flowing. I don't know if the people living in the small courtyard are too lazy. Not only does this house not have a unified ground waterway, it seems that the domestic sewage is directly discharged. Splashed.

There was no one in the yard, but voices came from a room on the east side.

"Little Brother Du, look at all the trouble you've caused. You haven't even paid the rent yet. Let's not talk about it. The cook in your family was dishonest and ran out in the middle of the night and was killed. The other residents in the alley were all Already very dissatisfied,”

"Is Du Dongyuan here?"

The sudden questioning stopped the voices in the room, and then a fat middle-aged woman and a slender man in his 20s came out.

Du Dongyuan still remembered the master of the palace. When he came out and saw Chu Wei standing at the gate of the courtyard, he immediately knelt down and called him master.

The woman also knelt down.

Xin Nuo looked at Chu Wei, who had no intention of speaking, and said loudly: "Everyone, get up."

Chu Wei:---
He paused for a moment, then walked into the yard as usual and said, "Go inside and talk."

So Du Dongyuan and the middle-aged woman got up and entered the house one after another. Xin Nuo quickened his pace and chased after him. He wiped the only bench in the house and asked Chu Wei to sit down. Then he took out two blank papers. Zhang Lai opened the pen box and prepared to take notes.

Chu Wei endured so that he didn't look at her more, and asked the middle-aged woman, "I heard from you just now that the deceased was killed because he ran out in the middle of the night?"

The middle-aged woman trembled, saying that these were all rumors in private, and that the woman was killed by Little Du Ge.But she didn't dare not answer, and said: "A civilian woman doesn't know, I just heard people outside say so."

Chu Wei looked sideways and saw that Xinnuo had written it down, then asked again: "Why do people outside say this? Could it be that someone saw something?"

His words were gentle, and the middle-aged woman relaxed a little and said, "It's probably all nonsense. It's just that the old man in the yard in front said that a similar thing happened in Beicheng last year."

"What sort of thing?"

"There was also a woman from a family who was killed in the alley. There was blood all over the floor. I heard that the woman ran out after quarreling with the man in the family and was killed."

Chu Wei nodded, turned to look at Du Dongyuan, who looked even more haggard than the previous two days, and asked, "Have you seen anything unusual in this small courtyard these past two days?"

On the day the body was discovered, Du Dongyuan was taken to the prison of the government office and questioned for a long time. The fear of the government office was still rooted in his bones. When asked, he immediately answered: "No, there is nothing unusual."

Chu Wei changed his question, "Has anyone come here to inquire about the news, or has anyone in this small courtyard moved out?"

Du Dongyuan and the middle-aged woman both thought seriously for a while and affirmed: "No."

Chu Wei looked at the layout of the room again and said to the middle-aged woman: "Can you take us to see the other three residents on this campus?"

"Ok, Ok."

This small courtyard has three main rooms, and three rooms in the east and west wings. Du Dongyuan rented only one room in the east wing, and together with the other three households, the empty rooms in this small courtyard were not fully occupied.

The other three families, a family of five, old and young, rented two rooms in the main house. The man worked on the dock, his wife helped with starching, and there was an old woman and two sons.

It was a very lively family. The man and his wife were not there. An old lady and two little boys were washing radishes. When she saw the two young men brought by the landlady, the old lady was not afraid.

I only glanced at him and went about my business, asking and answering questions. There was nothing out of the ordinary.

The person who rented the other main room was a scholar. He came to the capital to take the exam a year ago and failed. He was too embarrassed to return to his hometown, so he used his remaining money to rent a place with such a mixed bag to live in, preparing to fight again in two years. .

The last family is a father and a daughter. The father makes a living by driving a carriage, but the daughter is sick and lies in her room all day long.

Chu Wei and Xin Nuo were led by the landlady into the dark cabin in the west wing.

The room was separated from the middle by a bamboo screen. There was only a simple bed outside, but inside there was a bed, table and cabinets.

It is conceivable that although the father and daughter live a simple life, the father loves his daughter very much.

The landlady also confirmed this guess, she may have taken Chu Wei and Xin Nuo away from the house, she was obviously not as scared as she was at the beginning, and said a lot of good things to the father and daughter.

Chu Wei signaled Xin Nuo to observe carefully in the inner room where his daughter lived, and he wandered outside.

Seeing him reaching out to lift up the bedding on the wooden bed, the landlady who followed him out said hurriedly: "It's really hard for Old Feng, she doesn't even want to spread a single sheet."

Xinnuo was asking the woman lying on the bed, "When does your father usually come back?"

The woman's face was sallow and she didn't have much energy to speak. "My father sometimes comes back early and sometimes comes back late. It just depends on how the business is doing that day."

Xin Nuo nodded and wrote it down.

The woman then said to the outside: "Mrs. Mu, my dad's sheets are dirty. I wanted to wash them yesterday, but before I even soaked them in, I felt dizzy. I had to come back and lie down, waiting for my dad to come back. I’ll take a shower later when I have time.”

The landlady's husband's surname was Mu. When she heard this, she sighed and said to herself: "It's really not easy for father and daughter."

If Lao Feng's daughter was good and he was so capable, he would have a lively family by recruiting a son-in-law for her daughter.

Xin Nuo glanced at the woman on the bed who was speaking out with her arms raised, and asked, "Are you very concerned about your father?"

The daughter of the Feng family nodded her head and said: "My father made life so difficult for me."

After that, Xin Nuo asked some questions that the previous Chu guards had asked, such as whether he had noticed anything unusual in the past few days, and whether he had seen Ning Cui getting close to anyone.

Before leaving, Xinnuo glanced at the black pottery bowl on the simple bedside table and asked, "What kind of medicine did you take? It smells strange."

"Is there a strange smell?" the Feng family's daughter asked in surprise, "I stayed in the house all day and didn't smell it. My dad gave me a doctor's prescription a few days ago, about half a month ago. medicine."

Xinnuo nodded and said, "Let's go." He came out and said to Chu Wei.

(End of this chapter)

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