Forensic lady champion husband

Chapter 28

The maid who walked in front turned around along the rockery path in the garden, and finally arrived at an old hut. The corners of the peeled walls were covered with moss marks. It seemed that the gardeners usually rested and piled up their flower hoes. .

The two sat down separately, and the maid took out a string of money from her sleeve and handed it to Mingshu. Mingshu was puzzled and asked, "Who are you? What... do you mean?"

The maid said: "I am Xiaoqiu's friend, do you know what bought her life? It is this string of copper coins."

A string of copper coins to buy a life?Ming Shu frowned, unable to figure it out, and waited for the servant girl to say the following.

The servant girl asked, "Does Mrs. Yan know about the relationship between our young lady and Master Zeng Yizhan?"

Mingshu said in her heart: "Of course Miss Wu is unrequitedly in love with Zeng Yizhan, but Zeng Yizhan doesn't appreciate it. In fact, sisters have been married to one person since ancient times. It is not a new thing in this dynasty, but it also requires mutual consent. If you force a match, you won't be able to achieve a good relationship." But she didn't say anything, pretending to be ignorant, and let's see how the maid explained.

"Our little lady has always been in love with that person, and it's no secret in our family. It's just that Uncle Zeng's attitude has never loosened... Maybe it's because he still misses his dead wife. But one night, Xiao Qiu came back suddenly and took I bought this string of money, and said that I would do something tonight, these are the rewards. She refused to say it at first, but I chased her and asked her for a long time before she let go, and only said that the matter between Master Zeng and the young lady had something to do."

Mingshu asked: "A eyebrow? What eyebrow?"

The servant girl said: "She didn't say that much, it's just that we live in the same room, and I heard her go out in the middle of the night, and her footsteps came towards the garden. The news that she died in the dry well the next morning came out. He was killed by Uncle Zeng that night."

Mingshu said: "Why do you say that Uncle Zeng killed him?"

The maid said: "Mrs. Yan doesn't know something. The mothers of the two ladies in my family left a lot of treasures. Most of the things that the eldest lady didn't take with her when she got married were left in the hands of the young lady. Master Zeng lost his wife and his family was poor. Naturally, Focus on the little lady. Maybe he asked her for a tryst, and the little lady bribed Xiaoqiu, who was in charge of the garden, to find out about the news, but Master Zeng mistakenly thought she was the young lady, and deliberately killed him, but unexpectedly, he killed the wrong one."

The servant girl spoke very proudly, as if she was very confident in her deduction. Mingshu pointed out the problem, "According to what you said, if he wanted money, he could just marry the young lady of the Wu family. Why bother!"

The servant girl was speechless, her fingers turned white, and said in a daze: "My inference is not wrong, the garden is very close to my residence, and I clearly saw Uncle Zeng walking through the garden to the corner gate of your courtyard in the middle of the night last night. Holding a hanging copper coin in his hand, he must have been coerced from the little lady."

Mingshu didn't want to complain about the servant girl's thoughts, she seemed to have preconceived malice towards Zeng Yizhan, why must it be a threat to take the money?But there is one thing worth noting—the "ghost" that Du He saw last night was really him, and suddenly he remembered the sound of "cracking" and "ringing bells" that Du He mentioned, maybe it was the sound of copper coins colliding with each other when walking fast. crisp sound.

"Is your little lady's copper coin still engraved? How do you know it came from her?" Mingshu asked.

The maid pointed at Xiaoqiu's string of money, and said: "Look, the money is not worn with ordinary rope, but a red satin belt, the money left by the little lady's mother is like this, I can guarantee, Uncle Zeng's money must have looked like this."

Ming Shu heard her talking more and more mysterious, so she looked over to the Moon Cave Gate, there was no sign of Yan Ziqin, she must have stumbled at the dinner table, Zeng Yizhan was also at the dinner table, why not take the opportunity to go to his room Look carefully, if there is such a little lady's copper coin as the maid said, it's another matter. If I don't go now, I don't know when I will have a chance when I come back.

So I went straight through the corner door and went back to the courtyard where I lived last night, and walked into the east room. The room was empty and tidy, except for a lot of letter papers piled up on the desk, some written by Zeng Yizhan, and one unfinished Yes, Mingshu didn't pay attention at a glance, and looked for the hanging money that the maid said several times, but there was no such thing on the surface, and she didn't dare to turn over his baggage. She went back to the desk and thought hard, but saw that the money was just under the desk. In the locker?
Sure enough, it was worn with a red satin belt. The satin fabric has been used for many years, and the original bright red has an old color. See the words on the table.

"Huh?" She thought to herself, "Why is the handwriting on this unfinished letter exactly the same as the other old works?"

The handwriting of the same person must be consistent, but it will never be exactly the same. It turns out that someone is copying Zeng Yizhan's handwriting to make up a brand new letter, and the content of the letter is even more surprising. My little lady will go to the garden for a private meeting tonight.

Ming Shu sat down and read the letter involuntarily, not paying attention to the changes around her. Suddenly, a tall figure grabbed her neck from behind, and she struggled subconsciously.

When she woke up again, Mingshu was sitting paralyzed in a dark room, her eyes were not quite used to the dim light here, rubbing her eyes, she couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat—snakes, the whole room was full of snakes. The bamboo cages are densely packed all around, there are tens of hundreds of them, spitting out scarlet letters and staring at her coldly.

Resisting the urge to scream, she suppressed the overwhelming fear and looked around the room.It is not so much a room as it is a dark compartment separated by wooden boards. The dark and humid environment is like a cave for snakes and insects. Coupled with the hiss of poisonous snakes, it looks even more eerie.

The only source of light was a fist-sized transom on the wall. Under a ray of light, two figures gradually approached.

"Tell me, what should we do with her?" The speaker was a stranger, wearing an ordinary white shirt.

"She seems to know a lot of things, kill her." This is a thin and small man with a stooped back and looks like Wu Fang.

"What about her man? Does he know the same thing?" The stranger asked.

"Trick him over and kill him together." Wu Fang said with a sneer.

"It's better to kill the one in front of you first." The stranger took out a porcelain bottle from his sleeve, which was glowing with luster under the light, "Do you know what's in this bottle?"

Mingshu shrank back vigilantly, the stranger rushed up and pinched her cheek, and a hideous face appeared in front of her eyes.

"This is a poison made from the venom of the five-paced snake. Do you know why Xiaoqiu bleeds to death from his seven orifices? It's all thanks to this little thing. Don't worry, the poison will be released quickly, and the pain won't last long."

The five-step snake, scientific name Agkistromus acutus, is even more poisonous than cobras. One drop is fatal and can cause systemic bleeding, especially in the eyes, nose, mouth and ears.

Mingshu struggled, the snake cage was caught and fell to the ground with a crackling sound.Seeing that the porcelain bottle was close in front of him, and the poison with a pungent smell was about to be poured into his mouth, at this moment, a familiar voice sounded.

"Let go of her!" A person appeared in front of the dark wooden door, Ming Shuqiang opened his eyes blurred by tears and looked, it was indeed Yan Ziqin.

"What she knows and does is all at my behest. I am your opponent." Yan Ziqin said.

Wu Fang sneered and said, "Then how can I be sure if you have told other people, for example, your brother surnamed Du? When they see that you don't come back, they go to the government to sue me, what should they do?"

Yan Ziqin said: "I didn't tell anyone else. Believe it or not, you can go out and have a look. No one is suspicious of you except us."

Wu Fang snorted coldly, and the stranger pushed Yan Ziqin in, and he immediately rushed to Ming Shu, seeing that she was fine, but he was frightened, but still held her hand uneasily, his eyes were hot, and his eyes were full of tears. Distressed and concerned.

Wu let go, but the stranger was still guarding the door.Mingshu anxiously asked Yan Ziqin softly, "Why are you here?"

Yan Ziqin said: "Everyone is looking for you separately. I found your purse at the Moon Cave Gate where you disappeared. I suspected that you were kidnapped by Wu Fang, so I left a clue for me." Although the process is somewhat different from the reality , but the results are not far off.

Ming Shu said, "Then why don't you call more people over here?"

Yan Ziqin said: "I was the only one when I found the purse. I was too anxious to see if you were all right, so I couldn't wait any longer. I went to his courtyard to try my luck. I saw traces of dragging on the ground, and followed the traces. Fortunately, I came here in time, if I was a little later..." He couldn't continue.

Hearing that he was so nervous about herself, Mingshu was a little moved, but the more important thing now is how to get out, "You mean, we are still in Wu's house? So what should we do now?"

Yan Ziqin pursed his lips and didn't want to say anything. Seeing Mingshu's distraught look, he couldn't help but soften his heart, and said softly, "Wu Fang went out to make sure that no one else knew about their tricks. Before they came back, they didn't dare to kill us. Then we will It’s up to Du He, I hope he’s smarter.”

"You really told others!" The stranger rushed in. It turned out that he had been eavesdropping on the conversation between the two, but he didn't understand that the two had tried to lower their voices, so how could he hear it so clearly outside the dark room.

As he rushed over, he touched the poison in his sleeve. Yan Ziqin had quick eyes and quick hands, and he threw a snake cage over and hit the man. The man became furious and took out a silver needle to stab Yan Ziqin.

Ming Shu recalled the stabbing pain in her head before she lost consciousness. Could it be that he also pricked her acupuncture point with a silver needle?

She yelled to be careful, and hurriedly pushed Yan Ziqin away, the stranger dodged around and restrained Ming Shu with a backhand, with the silver needle pressed against her neck.

"There is a death spot on a person's neck. If you squeeze it lightly, you will die. You can kill yourself by taking poison, or I will kill her."

The so-called death point is actually the carotid sinus. In the modern news, there was a case where a lover accidentally pressed the other party's carotid sinus during intimacy, resulting in the death of the other party. Ordinary people in the Song Dynasty seldom knew that there was this part on the human body, let alone found it immediately. The stranger was likely to be a doctor, and a good one at that.

Mingshu knew that she was in a critical situation now, and what was even more critical was that Yan Ziqin took the poison without saying a word, slowly opened the lid, and was about to drink it.

Seeing him like this, Mingshu couldn't tell what it was like, and wanted to tell him not to be impulsive, but his actions were so calm and composed, as if he was not afraid of death, maybe he had planned everything, maybe there was still a glimmer of life?
Suddenly, a long stick hit the stranger in the back of the head, followed by a whine.

"It's fortunate that I have been looking for you for so long, benefactor, you should also leave a clear message. I don't know if my mind is not good!"

(End of this chapter)