The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 41 Magpie Bridge Immortal (10)

Wei Rutao took a deep breath, took the letter, but did not answer.I watched from the side, and I was a little bit disturbed. Wei Zhiyan had just been buried in the pond, and the old lady Zhou was on her deathbed. If she told the truth, it would be worse for Zhou Zhier, but such an important matter had to be told to her. , so Wei Rutao was also hesitant to decide, and was overwhelmed for a while, not knowing what to do.

Seeing that Wei Rutao didn't open the letter, and didn't ask Zhou Zhier to come out, the patrol horse was a little surprised, and asked, "Why don't you see Young Mistress?"

Wei Rutao sighed, and actually told him what happened to the Wei family, I was secretly amazed, it seems that this patrol horse has a very close relationship with the Wei family, otherwise how could the Wei family tell such a thing to a messenger? people?

After hearing this, the patrolling horse also had a look of surprise on his face, and thought deeply: "This matter is too coincidental, and it's actually intertwined. I'm afraid it's not that simple."

"I thought so too, but when I think about it carefully, I still can't figure out what went wrong." Wei Rutao looked disheartened, "It just so happens that you are here, please help me to find out."

The city patrol horse pondered: "Of course it is impossible for the young mistress to harm the young master, but the note and the letter are indeed written by her. If there is a problem in the middle, it must be caused by the two maids. One of them will The note from last year was kept until this year, so that the young master went to the Lang's house, and one returned to the Wei's house by coincidence when the young mistress wrote the letter and hadn't sent it. This timing is really accurate."

"However, Zhi'er brought the needlework basket to Lang's house by herself, and that's why she took the letter by mistake." Wei Rutao was a little puzzled, "If someone is really plotting against the Wei family, can this be counted? "

"Don't you understand?" the patrol horse stared at him, "young mistress said, she had already forgotten about the letter, and she didn't know where to put the letter. That is to say, she had Maybe put the letter in the sewing basket, maybe not. If in fact she didn't put the letter in the basket, but someone else did, she'd think she put it herself."

Wei Rutao was still skeptical when he said this: "These two maidservants are indeed the most suspicious in this matter, but why did they do this? If Qiu'er has a grudge because Zhiyan refuses to accept her, that's not a bad idea." It makes sense, but what about Ye Er, what enmity do you have with my Wei family?"

"Are these two servant girls always in the house?"

"It was after we moved here that we entered Wei's house. They are all children of innocent people. This is for sure. After we got here, we only found these two maids. The rest are old people who were in the house before. " Wei Rutao said, putting his hand on his forehead, as if he suddenly remembered something important, and sighed again and again, "There is one more thing I forgot to tell you, that sign is gone!"

The patrolling horse was shocked: "When did you disappear?"

"It was the night when Zhiyan was sunk in the pond." Wei Rutao told him, "When I took the plaque off Zhiyan's neck, because I was in a trance for a while, I casually put the plaque on the table in the hall, and went to Then the sign disappeared."

"Haven't you ever thought about it, maybe all of this is because of this brand?" The city patrol horse trembled, seeming extremely anxious.I glanced at Bu Ying again, thinking about the origin of this sign, why Wei Rutao deliberately took it down when Wei Zhiyan was about to sink into the pond, and how did it get into Ruan Lang's hands?

Bu Ying looked at his nose, nose, and heart, pretending to have no distractions, and looked like an old monk in meditation, which made my hands itchy. If I punched him on the nose at this time, I wonder if it would make him fail.

"Don't keep thinking about my nose, okay?" Seeing me staring at his nose again, Bu Ying sighed, "I'll tell you everything you want to know, and now I can trouble you to concentrate on reading the whole thing first. Is it? You see that I've tried so hard to show you the whole thing, so can't you be a little patient?"

"Oh," I was stunned for a moment, seeing that he was finally willing to speak, I couldn't help but sneer, "It seems that it's really hard for you to breastfeed after such a big battle."

That's what I said, but I got his own confirmation that he really planned to show me the whole thing, so I suppressed my doubts and continued to watch the development of the matter.

"If you say that, there is a possibility, because that brand is always on Zhiyan's body!" Wei Rutao trembled, and even his voice fell silent, "Otherwise, my Wei family has never offended anyone, so how could I have suffered such a catastrophe? !"

Listening to what he said, this brand seemed to be an extremely important thing. I turned my head to look at Bu Ying, and Bu Ying nodded to me, indicating that the thing was really important.

The patrolling horse was obviously a little anxious, and asked: "That maid named Qiu'er, has she ever left the Wei family for a while?"

Wei Rutao nodded.

"Did you say that she had contact with anyone during the time she left the Wei family?" the patrol horse said, "Otherwise she left in shame and anger, how could she come back by herself?"

"Her father is the same as Zhiyan, a teacher who opened the Mengguan. The only difference is that he wants to make a living from it. You also know that the income of the Mengguan is meager, and it is not easy to use it to support the family. So Qiu I sent my daughter to the Wei family to be a maid, and I also thought that I could find a good family for her after staying in a rich family." Wei Zhiyan said, "That's why I came up with the idea to let Zhiyan take her into the side room, but Zhiyan Yan and Zhi'er were in love with each other, so they refused. She returned home after leaving Wei's house. It seemed that her family forced her to get married. .”

"It doesn't sound like a problem." The patrol horse pondered, "Where is Qiu'er now, can I have a word with her?"

"After tossing all night, I asked them to go back to their rooms to rest." Wei Rutao said, "If you want to ask any questions, I will ask Uncle Zhou to call them. You can wait in the hall with me first."

The patrolling horse nodded, and went from the front yard to the hall together with Wei Rutao, while Zhou Bo went to the back yard to call for someone.The two of them hadn't warmed up their chairs in the hall when Uncle Zhou hurried over and said that he didn't find Qiu'er in the backyard, not only Qiu'er was not there, but Ye'er was also not there.

Hearing this, Wei Rutao and the patrolling horse suddenly stood up from their chairs and looked at each other. Wei Rutao said, "Where did they go just after dawn?"

Uncle Zhou shook his head in bewilderment, "They didn't go out at dawn, and the bedding on the bed showed no sign of being disturbed. They should have left the house when the master asked them to rest."

Wei Rutao paused and said: "The problem really lies with them, hurry up, call someone to chase them back!"

Uncle Zhou hastily responded and went out. Seeing him going out, the city patrol horse said to Wei Rutao: "If the two of them really escaped at night, they must have packed up the things long ago, and there will be traces in the room. , I want to go and see."

"Okay." Wei Rutao agreed without hesitation, and led him to the backyard.Qiu'er and Ye'er lived in a side room, not far from the east wing where Zhou Zhi'er lived. Wei Rutao was afraid of disturbing Zhou Zhi'er, so he walked lightly all the way. When he came to the side room, he found everything in the room inside As usual, there is no sign of cleaning up.

The patrolling horse looked around the room, then walked to a table, and opened a dressing box on the table. There were a few simple jewelry lying in the box, nothing more than silver earrings and a bracelet mixed with copper. , I don't know if it belongs to Qiu'er or Ye'er, but some of them are gold, there are hairpins and rings, the styles are extremely exquisite, and they should be very valuable.

The patrolling horse reached in and picked up a hairpin, held it up in front of his eyes and said, "This hairpin is still new, it should have been made recently. How much is Qiu'er and Ye'er's monthly salary at your house?"

When Wei Rutao saw him asking a question, he naturally knew what he meant. These gold ornaments were expensive, and even if they could afford them with Qiu'er and Ye'er's financial resources, it would be very difficult for them to buy them, so the patrol horse suspected that they took someone's money. This is used to frame the Wei family, but Wei Rutao shook his head and said: "You have wronged them. Zhi'er treats them well, and every year they will give them a piece of jewelry. These are gifts from Zhi'er, not bought by themselves. of."

"Oh? The young mistress is really kind." The patrolling horse put the hairpin back into the box and praised, "These ornaments are very valuable, and they don't take up much space when they take them away, but they didn't take them away. It doesn't look like you're running away."

"Perhaps, it's not yet determined what other people promised them is far more than these." Wei Rutao said.

"Even so, since you have time to take these things away, why not do it?" said the patrol horse, and walked around the room again. There were two beds in the room, Qiu'er and Ye'er. One for each, and a camphor wood box is placed at the end of each bed, presumably for storing clothes.

"Which bed is Ye'er's?" He probably remembered what Ye'er said. She left the note from last year in the pile of clothes, and this year she found it and put it on Qiu'er's bed, so so ask.

Wei Rutao shook his head, "They are all young women, so I never come to their room. I don't know which bed is whose."

The patrolling horse nodded. Although Wei Rutao said so, he didn't put on a show, but went straight to open a box, and turned out the clothes inside neatly one by one and put them on the bed. Wei Rutao seemed very Trusting him, she didn't stop her. When she saw the clothes in the box, she said, "I've seen Ye Er wearing this dress, this box probably belongs to her."

The city patrol horse suddenly paused when he heard the words, took out some small clothes from the box, and said to Wei Rutao: "Is this Ye'er already married?"

This dress looked like it was worn by a newborn baby, Wei Rutao hurriedly said: "She is the same as Qiu'er, she has not been married yet. Didn't Zhi'er just give birth to Xiushu, this dress must have been made for Xiushu."

"Made for the young master?" The patrol horse tilted his head and thought for a while, with a thoughtful expression on his face. Seeing this, I felt strange in my heart. If this little clothes were made for the young master of the Wei family, it should be in It's right in Zhou Zhi'er's room, why did Ye'er hide it in her own box?

The patrolling horse didn't find anything else from the box, so he put the clothes back one by one, without saying anything, just said: "These two maids may be suspected, but they didn't run away— —Even if you don’t need gold jewelry, you still have to wear clothes, right?”

"Then if they don't sleep in the middle of the night, where will they go?"

The city patrolling horse shook his head, obviously helpless, "If the person behind this matter is really interested in the brand, I am afraid that the brand has already left the house by now."

Wei Rutao's face was ashamed, although the patrol horse was also concerned about the brand, but seeing that he had just suffered the pain of bereavement, he hurriedly comforted him and said: "You don't need to be too anxious, even if someone gets this card, only That sign is of no use either."

Wei Rutao reluctantly nodded, when Uncle Zhou's voice came from outside the door: "Master, Qiu'er has been found!"

Wei Rutao was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Where did you find it?"

Uncle Zhou came in from the house, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Qiu'er doesn't look like she's about to run away. Master, this matter is really strange. We found her at the hotel in the town. Guess she Who are you with? The mason! Qiu'er didn't sleep in the middle of the night and ran to find the mason."

Several people in the house were stunned at the same time when they heard that, the mason wanted to blackmail Qiu'er to deliver the note to the Meng Pavilion, but was dismissed by the Wei family. It stands to reason that Qiu'er should avoid him as much as possible, Why did he run to find him alone in the middle of the night? Could it be that there is some unknown secret in it?

(End of this chapter)