The concubine wants to farm: the alluring wife raises the emperor

Chapter 292 The person in charge of the cellar

Li Yin quickly put on his own close-fitting clothes, walked up to Xu Yuan, and pulled away her hand covering her cheek.

"Daughter-in-law, your face is so red." He reached out and touched Xu Yuan's cheek.

Xu Yuan glared at him angrily: "Li Yin, do you know what is the difference between men and women?"

"I know, whether a man or a woman can kiss each other..."

"Then you just stood up from the sink just now?" She twisted the flesh on his arm.

He frowned in pain: "But you are my wife."

"What's wrong with me being your wife?"

"Should husbands and wives also avoid taboos?" He remembered that he didn't mention it in the books he read.

Xu Yuan took a deep breath and pulled the corners of her mouth: "Don't be shy, let's go, go back to the room to rest."

Li Yin followed behind her dizzily, and felt a little cold when he got out of the bathroom. He just put on his underwear and came out.

Xu Yuan felt the person holding her hand tremble, and looked back at him, her heart trembled again: "Why are you wearing so little?"

"Before I had time to wear anything else, my daughter-in-law, you brought me out." His teeth were chattering.

Xu Yuan quickened her pace and brought him back to the room, pushed him to bed, and piled all the quilts on him.

"You are so stupid, don't you know how to call me when you are so cold?"

"It's okay." He pulled the quilt tighter on himself.

Xu Yuan was so angry that he had nothing to say, took a dry cloth, and helped him wipe the excess moisture from his hair: "Go to sleep, if you do this again next time, I will leave you alone."

He obediently agreed, then pulled Xu Yuan into his arms and closed his eyes.

The next day, when Li Yin woke up, he felt dizzy and dizzy. It seemed that he still had some cold last night.

Xu Yuan prescribed some medicine for him, and asked Xia Hua to grab the medicine and decoct it for Li Yin.

Li Yin was recuperating in bed, while she went to Xu's father and Xu's mother to ask about what happened that year.

When Xu's father talked about that year, his memory was already a little fuzzy. What he remembered most was that suddenly a government servant rushed to Shilixiangju to arrest people, and he also watched the girls being brought out one by one from his cellar.

"I don't even know. Where did so many girls come from, all of them skinny and small, and they huddled in the cellar of our house. It's really a crime." Mother Xu sighed, "It's strange to say that it took so long. We have never heard any sound coming from the cellar, but the yamen servant at that time said that the girl was locked up the longest, it has been half a year..."

Xu Yuan raised her eyebrows: "Our cellar won't be used for half a year?"

"Of course it needs to be used, but it's all taken care of by servants. How did we know these things at the time?"

"Then since this girl can live for half a year, someone has been delivering food, otherwise how could she have survived for so long..." She seemed to have found some clues, "Who was in charge of the cellar back then?"

"I forgot a long time ago, there are so many slaves in the house, I can't remember every one of them..."

"I remember." Aunt Hua couldn't hide the excitement on her face, "During the years when the accident happened, I kept seeing this servant wandering around Shilixiangju..."

"Then where is he now?"

"I haven't seen you in recent years..." Aunt Hua lowered her head, "But if we meet again, I will definitely recognize it."

Xu Yuan lit on the table casually with one hand: "Father, didn't the yamen servants have these doubts back then? Didn't the magistrate ask?"

She didn't seem to have seen this record in the file.

"No, the yamen servant just saved the girl and convicted me. I didn't even have a chance to ask."

If they are interested in investigating the case, then it is impossible not to pay attention to such an obvious point... Unless, this servant is bribed, or the yamen servant is bribed...

"Aunt Hua, after Shili Xiangju is in Zhao Yuanyi's hands?" Xu Yuan remembered this important point.

"Yes, he changed hands several times without success, and it has been in his hands since then."

"The servant in charge of the cellar, didn't he go to Zhao Yuanyi at that time?"

Aunt Hua was taken aback: "I remember what you said, it seems that I saw that servant and someone meet outside Shilixiangju..."

Nine times out of ten, there is nothing wrong with it. The servants are likely to be bought by Zhao Yuanyi, and they will send food in regularly, and help Zhao Yuanyi to hide it.

If it is really necessary to count them, then this servant is probably the biggest accomplice.

"I'll send someone to find this servant first." She turned her gaze to Aunt Hua, "Do you remember which servants were there back then? Let's find them together..."

Aunt Hua counted several names one after another, Xu Yuan wrote them down, and asked Xu Chi to send someone to look for them.

"Are there any abnormal things in the house back then?"

"When Zhao Yuanyi met me back then, he was just a peddler selling medicinal materials in the city. When he brought me down, he was already a well-known medicine dealer in the city." Father Xu smiled wryly, "It's also my fault that I didn't know people well back then." Qing, this old story, when I think about it, my heart turns sour..."

"Father, what do you want from that kind of person?" Xu Yuan shook her head, "It's not a good thing for you to be so nostalgic."

Father Xu put away his emotions: "I know, that's all, let's think about it."

"Brother, did you see anything unusual at that time?" Xu Yuan pinned her hopes on Xu Chi to see if he could have any useful information.

Xu Chi looked very troubled. How could he think of paying attention to things around him when he was in smooth sailing.

Moreover, Xu's father and Xu's mother protected him well at that time, and almost never saw any ugly things.

"No." He shook his head, "I didn't have the time to pay attention to those..." At that time, he passed the exam very smoothly. It is estimated that Zhao Yuanyi took advantage of the slack of the Xu family to win in one fell swoop.

"Forget it, since there are no other clues, let's look for it later." She stood up, "Aunt Hua, come with me and describe the servant's appearance, and let Li Yin draw it. Find some."

Aunt Hua followed Xu Yuan out and walked towards the yard together.

"Miss, I can't remember some of the servants in the mansion, but I have a deep impression on the ones I am most familiar with." Aunt Hua tried hard to recall the things in Xu's mansion before, "I remember when , the servant in charge of the cellar always said that he had a distant relative who wanted to visit him, and often had to go out..."

"Have you ever met the distant relatives?"

"No, he is very mysterious, and none of us have ever discovered it."

"Once we find him, everything will be clear." She opened the door and entered the room. Li Yin had already woken up, and the room still smelled of medicine.

He was taken aback when he saw the two people who came in: "Aunt Hua."

"Uncle."

Xu Yuan asked Aunt Hua to sit down opposite Li Yin, and explained to Li Yin: "Later, Aunt Hua will describe a person's appearance to you. Listen to her and try to draw that person."

Li Yin nodded obediently, and took out a pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the side.

(End of this chapter)