Brocade clothing

Chapter 12 Murder Suspect

"Master went out to collect the bill at the moment, and he hasn't come back yet. I'll take Brother Cui to the lobby to wait. The master will be back later." The housekeeper replied as he walked.

"Where are my cousin and two nephews?" Chu Qing frowned slightly, but she didn't show it.

"The old lady hasn't seen these two great-grandchildren for a long time. I'll take them there to let the old lady have a look. Because you are a foreigner, I hope you can forgive me for not being able to enter the back house." The housekeeper replied politely.

After thinking about it, Chu Qing agreed with this statement. After a while, she followed the butler to the lobby, while Liu Cui and the two children were taken to the backyard.

The housekeeper arranged Chu Qing to the lobby and left as he had something to deal with. For a while, Chu Qing was the only one left in the lobby.

The surroundings were strangely quiet, and it was night again, so it was pitch black outside, only occasionally a few lamps gave off faint light, swaying in vain, like will-o'-the-wisps.

Chu Qing frowned, feeling something was wrong, at least in such a huge Zhao Mansion, the lobby for hospitality was so deserted, it was not normal.While Chu Qing was thinking, a pink figure came lightly and appeared at the threshold of the lobby, holding a tray with a cup of tea on it, seeing Chu Qing looking over, smiling, revealing two Liwo, delicate and cute: "Young master has been waiting for a long time, drink a cup of tea to moisten your throat, the master will come later."

Chu hummed lightly, and the servant girl put down the tea and didn't leave, she stood close to the side.

From the corner of her eye, Chu Qing saw her glance around and wring her hands, as if she was very nervous. Although her face showed no trace, the hand holding the tray was trembling slightly.

"Are you unwell?" Chu Qing picked up the cup, flicked the tea with the lid, but didn't drink it.

"Ah, slave, slave is fine." The maid shook her head, but secretly looked up at Chu Qing.

"If you have something to do, you can tell it." Chu Qing said.

"Slave, my maidservant's name is Abao." The maidservant answered irrelevantly, she got up suddenly and closed the door of the lobby, and knelt down in front of Chu Qing: "My lord, help me!"

Chu Qing put down the cup and raised her eyes: "Miss Abao, what are you doing?"

"My lord, please help me! I really can't stay in Liu's house anymore... If you don't save me, I really won't survive tonight..." The maid who called herself Ah Bao bit her lower lip, her eyes were red, He lowered his head tremblingly.

"What's going on? Who's going to kill you? Why are you begging on me?" Chu Qing's eyes swept across her twisted hands, and she got up to help her stand up.

"The servant really doesn't know who to ask. Madam said she would kill the servant, and the master doesn't care about the servant. The servant really can't survive! My lord, please save the servant..." Ah Bao cried out of breath.

"Why did Madam beat you to death?" Chu Qing asked.

"...It's the master, he...he forcibly occupied the servant girl, the servant girl really didn't want to stay here, so she wanted to escape, but she escaped a few times, but was arrested, and the people in the mansion didn't dare to help Slaves... Only a few days ago, a grown-up came to the mansion because of a murder case. After hearing what happened to the slaves, he was willing to take the slaves away from the mansion, but, I didn't expect that the lord would... actually..." Ah Bao cried until tears rolled down, and his voice was miserable, but the information revealed in a few words made Chu Qing's eyes tighten, and she stood up straight suddenly, her whole body stiffened.

"Who are you talking about, my lord?" Chu Qing felt that her voice was trembling.

"...I don't know about the slave, I just know that it is a very powerful master. He is from Qingshui Town next door. After hearing what happened to the slave, he felt that the slave was pitiful. He originally planned to take the slave away... but he didn't expect... that one After my lord suddenly had an accident, the servant fainted and was found to be pregnant and was found out by the madam. The madam secretly told people that the slave was going to be killed tonight. ...The servant came out secretly, I beg you to take the servant away..." A Bao cried even more terribly.

Chu Qing's scalp was tight, her mind went blank, and she said in a hoarse voice: "You get up first, I will take you away, first you tell me, what happened that night? Then... how did Wu Zuo die?"

"This... you, my lord?" A Bao asked him uneasily with swollen eye circles.

"I have something to do with that adult, so I want to find out about this matter. You just need to tell me, and I will definitely take you away." Chu Qing was anxious to know what happened to the master. asked.

"This...that's it, oh yes, the lord was in a bad mood at the time. He said he had to go back for a business trip, and when he came back, he would take the slave away and give the slave something, but I didn't expect the lord to fail to come back. ..." Abao wiped away tears.

"What is it?" Chu Qing was startled.

"My lord, wait for the servant, the servant secretly hid it behind the hall, and wait for the servant to bring it to the young master, the young master must keep quiet." Ah Bao said.

"Yeah." Chu nodded lightly.

I saw A Bao hurried to behind the screen in the lobby, and there was a rustling sound from inside.Standing under the glazed lamp, Chu Qing was dazzled by the bright light, and her mind suddenly cleared up. How could the master give things to an outsider?However, before she could figure out why, she found that there was no movement in the back hall. She frowned and walked towards the back of the screen, but at this moment, there was a sharp "ah" scream from inside, Chu Qing suddenly quickened her pace and went around behind the screen.

But when she saw the scene in front of her clearly, Chu Qing's pupils shrank and her eyes narrowed.

At the same time, the door of the lobby was suddenly kicked open, and a group of people rushed in, headed by the housekeeper who had brought her here earlier.

They hurried in around the screen, and couldn't help but gasp when they saw the scene in front of them.

I saw Abao lying on the ground in disheveled clothes, with a dagger stuck in her chest, a little blood smudged beside her dagger, her eyes were closed tightly, her face was full of peach blossoms, her mouth was smiling, and her seven orifices were bleeding, no matter how you looked at it, it was terrifying .

"You! You beast!" The steward pointed at Chu Qing angrily and scolded: "We treat you as our honored guest, you are so brave, you dare to do such obscene things in Liu's house, it is really abominable! Come on!" Hurry up and tell your lord to arrest the murderer!" As soon as the butler finished speaking, a servant ran out in a hurry and disappeared into the night not long after.

Chu Qing stared at the housekeeper expressionlessly, and saw his eyes flicker, then became fierce, and there was no trace of hospitality before.There was a "buzz" in Chu Qing's mind, no wonder she felt something was wrong, since they welcomed them into Liu's house, separated her from Liu Cuishi and others, and then A Bao appeared, A Bao said that the master wanted to save her ... All of this is probably a trap.

The master probably doesn't know this Ah Bao at all, the reason why she said that is just to lure herself into the bait.

Chu Qing was so angry that she calmed down instead. She turned her gaze back to Abao's body, focused on her bleeding orifices, and without speaking, she directly moved a stool over, sat there, and waited quietly. Yamen come over.

The butler was furious, but when he saw this scene, he frowned.

The yamen servants came very quickly, and drove everyone out in a short time, leaving only the housekeeper and a few people. The head of the clerk was a man in his thirties, tall and thick, with straight and solemn eyes: "What happened?"

"Captain Qin, you are here. Take a quick look. It's been two days since something happened in this mansion. I didn't expect it to happen again! This little brother actually raped the maid in my mansion and killed him. Captain Qin, you must seek justice for Abao!" The butler spoke with a sense of purpose and conviction, as if he saw Chu Qing molesting Abao with his own eyes.

That Qin catcher frowned, his eyebrows were very thick, it is said that such a person values ​​affection, Chu lightly looked at his facial features, his eyes were black and white, he should be upright, stood up, and looked at him: "I have seen Qin catcher head."

"Is what the butler said true?" After hearing what the butler said, Qin Tutou asked Chu Qing again.

Chu shook his head lightly: "I didn't kill this person."

"Who else could it be if you didn't kill it? When we came in, the door was locked from the inside. There are only you and Abao in this lobby. Who are you if it's not you? Don't argue!" the butler angrily scolded.

"Are there only two people?" Chu whispered softly, "I don't think so."

"What do you mean? Do you want to say that ghosts can't be killed? Qin arrests the head, and the witnesses and evidences are all there. This is a matter of iron and steel. Take him away!" The butler seemed anxious to let him go Chu lightly pleaded guilty.

Chu Qing's eyes turned cold. Is this how they forced the master to confess the crime of theft?

She looked at Qin Butou, did she miss it?
"Be safe and don't be impatient." Qin Butou glanced at the butler, and waved his hand: "Let me do the autopsy first. Come and do an autopsy!" As soon as he finished speaking, an old man, small and thin, came out from behind the yamen servant, followed by an apprentice , carrying an autopsy box for him, and when the old man got to the corpse, the apprentice bent down to open the autopsy box, handed out the matter, the old man started the autopsy, and the apprentice wrote the autopsy form.

"A female corpse, five feet three inches long, aged between 14 and 20 years old. Wearing a pink skirt, thin and slender, in good health. The clothes are intact, with slight bleeding from the seven orifices, except for the waist and abdomen being stabbed with a dagger , three inches deep knife wound, no trauma, presumed to have died from a dagger, fatal with one knife. No corpse spots, skin elastic, presumed time of death is not more than two hours." After finishing speaking, the old man stood up and spit out his mouth. After washing his hands, he looked at Qin Butou.

Qin catcher glanced at Chu Qing, raised his hand: "Take it back to the yamen!"

"Slow!" Chu Qing glanced at the old man, and said expressionlessly, "I have objections to the autopsy done by Mr. Wu Zuo."

"Huh?" The old man had already planned to take his apprentice away, but when he heard this, he stopped, turned his head, and gave Chu Qing a critical look: "Do you doubt the old man's ability?" He has been in Longmen Town for so many years. Wu Zuo, apart from the lame Zhang, no one dared to challenge him like that.

(End of this chapter)