Peasant Woman is in Her Prime

Jin Xiaolou calmed her emotions and turned to look at the handkerchief in Kuang Ruyue's hand.

The small, thin needle flickered with a cold light.

"Shopkeeper, I saw that she was going to get into trouble, so I took out this needle. I knew that she would put it in tomorrow. Should we take advantage of that little hoof to catch her?" Kuang Ruyue said angrily.

The hands and feet of Ru Yi were unclean and had already been chased away once. It was only because he felt pity for her that he brought her to Jin Xiaolou and advised her to give her another chance.

However, not only did she not know how to repent, she even increased her strength by doing such a thing. She was truly a farmer and a snake. In exchange for her kindness, she became cold-blooded.

Jin Xiaolou took the thin needle and took out a brocade handkerchief from her bosom. She placed it together with the one from the day before.

"I won't wait any longer." Jin Xiaolou held onto the silk handkerchief, she knew that all the servants were good people, and she was even more benevolent towards this ruyi. Jin Xiaolou wanted to personally ask Ru Yi why she had done this.

"I'll go to Ru Yi room now and ask her thoroughly."

Kuang Ruyue nodded and led Jin Xiaolou through the courtyard to the left wing.

"She had a headache after lunch today and has been gone all afternoon." Kuang Ruyue muttered, "The cats have been staying in the houses these past few days, I wonder what they are doing!"

Standing in front of the door, Kuang Ruyue knocked on the door.

For a long time, nothing happened.

Kuang Ruyue panicked a little: "Don't tell me she found out something and escaped right?"

He raised his leg and kicked the door.

With the first kick, the door creaked open, but did not move an inch, instead Kuang Ruyue took three steps back as she grimaced in pain.

Jin Xiaolou immediately supported her.

"Looks like the door is bolted." Jin Xiaolou walked up two steps to push open the windows of the room. Inside the two rooms on both sides of the backyard, the windows were all facing the courtyard. Jin Xiaolou raised her hands and pushed at the windows with all her might, but she was still unable to push open the windows.

For some reason, Jin Xiaolou had a bad feeling about this.

She quickly called for two cooks to break open the door of the room.

The two cooks were both strong men, tall and strong, they bumped into each other a few times, and the banging sounds attracted all of the servants and Attendant s out of the house to watch the show.

Huang Guizhi saw that Lin'er was woken up by the noise and was groaning to find someone. She immediately put down her sewing and went to pick Lin'er up, standing at the opposite side of the room to watch.

The two cooks turned red, took a deep breath, and rammed the wooden door with all their might.

With a loud bang, the wooden door was finally slammed open, the Lin'er was so scared by the crash that he began to cry loudly.

The scene in the room made the two people's faces turn pale as they retreated.

Jin Xiaolou took a step forward, and only then could she see that the opened door was actually filled with scarlet blood, and was dripping all over the room.

In the middle of the room, there was a huge wooden bucket. Inside the bucket was a turbid pool of blood, and Ru Yi's head was revealed with her eyes closed tightly. Her black hair and clothes were all neatly soaked in the blood.

Seeing that the three of them did not dare take a step into the house, Kuang Ruyue gritted her teeth and rushed in.

His body was still warm, but there was no breath left in his mouth and nose.

"Ru Yi committed suicide!" Kuang Ruyue blurted out, "Quick! "Hurry up and report this to the official!"

Lv Yun who was at the side trembled, and immediately ran towards the yamen.

The servants and Attendant s in the courtyard were all terrified, they immediately vomited two, and two more of them hurriedly tried to leave for home.

Jin Xiaolou, who was standing in front of the door to the private room, was also quite frightened. She thought that she was pretty bold, but she couldn't stand the scene in front of her.

But at the same time, he felt that something was wrong.

Seeing that the courtyard was in a mess, Jin Xiaolou asked Gui Qi to take the rest of the workers to the Mountain Note to rest. He first separated out the backyard, so that there wouldn't be too many people that would ruin the scene.

Jin Xiaolou didn't know how to solve cases, but she had seen quite a few televisions, so she knew how important it was to be in first place.

He could not release any of the employees who wanted to take a leave of absence. Presumably, there were people in the government office who wanted to interrogate them one by one.

When Kuang Ruyue came out, the bloodstains on the cloth shoes had already left a fresh red footprint on the courtyard, Jin Xiaolou finally understood what was wrong.

She squatted down and reached out to touch the bloody footprints Kuang Ruyue had brought out just now. She frowned: "This isn't blood."

It seemed to be some kind of red dye, no wonder Jin Xiaolou thought it was strange from the start.

The room was filled with blood stains and should have the pungent smell of blood, but not only did she not smell any of it, there was even a faint fragrance in the air.

What was even more strange was that this wooden barrel had been used by no one for a long time, because a wooden board at the bottom of the bucket had opened up a few long and thick wooden thorns, causing people to prick their feet the moment they entered it. Jin Xiaolou had not long since repaired it, so she kept it away and placed it in the utility room.

Currently, all of the employees of Mountain Note used another small wooden bucket to bathe.

As he was thinking, before he could stand up, he saw Gui Qi running over with Lin'er in his arms. "Lou, Ru Yi's brother is here. He's making a ruckus in front of us."

"How did he know so soon?" Jin Xiaolou was confused and curious at the same time, she stood up and followed Gui Zhi and walked out.

Kuang Ruyue also followed him, "Didn't Lv Yun report to the officials? I might have heard the news from the yamen."

When he turned around, he saw that there was a man slumped at the Mountain Note entrance.

The man wore a set of grey clothes and had a pair of triangular eyes. He cried until his nose was mucus and tears flowed down, and then shouted for Mountain Note to repay his sister's life.

It was already time for them to return home, so there were fewer and fewer people walking on the street.

However, once the man began to wail, he would gather many pedestrians from time to time.

"My sister and I are mutually dependent on each other for life. Your Mountain Note's boss, Jin Xiaolou, has a heart of darkness and a heart of poison. "Fellow villagers, if you pass by, please help me denounce justice!"

Initially, Jin Xiaolou felt that he had lost his loved ones and did not chase him away, but at this moment, she could not help but shout out, "Ru Yi is a suicide, the house's doors and windows are tightly locked, and everyone in the Mountain Note can testify, don't you dare speak empty words to wrongly and wrongly!"

"Whether or not I wronged him, the county magistrate will decide!" The man seemed to be grieving. After shouting out this sentence, he saw a group of officials holding torches walking towards him, with the middle-aged official in the middle.

The man knelt and went forward to hug the middle-aged man's leg. "My lord, you have to seek justice for this humble man's sister!"

The young master was the most upright of them all. He supported the man and promised him, "Don't worry, I will find out what happened to your little sister and give you an explanation."

As the officials were on guard outside, everyone within the Mountain Note followed the year manager to the rear courtyard.

At this moment, the moonlight was bright and the moonlight shined on the courtyard was as cold as water, adding to the desolate atmosphere.

When she saw Ru Yi's corpse, Song Yi started crying again. She sobbed and continued to support the Jade Magnolia Tree in the courtyard. She pitied her sister on one side and cursed Jin Xiaolou for dying a horrible death on the other.

The coroner was given the order to examine the body, and the result was revealed after a short while.

The coroner returned with the box on his shoulder, clasped his hands at the middle-aged man, and said, "Miss Song Ruyi had twisted two rounds of hemp rope around her neck, and her face was swollen and purple. There were bloodstains on her eyes.

He continued, "As for whether there are any other injuries, we must go back to the yamen and carefully examine the corpses."

With that, Song Yi'e immediately jumped up and pointed at Jin Xiaolou: "Master Official, I'm not wrong, right? My sister was killed by this Jin Xiaolou! "

"Why do you say that?" The middle-aged man turned his head and asked.

Song Yidao paused for a moment, his eyes bulged and he said, "A few days ago, Boss Jin sent my sister back home. She said that her hands and feet were dirty, so I don't know what kind of person she is. It's not that her hands and feet were dirty, but that my sister was foolish enough to see things that she shouldn't have seen and say things that she shouldn't have! "

"At first, I didn't know. I forced little sister to beg Boss Jin to return to the Mountain Note. Who knew that this would push her into a pit of fire!" "Yesterday, my sister said that the Boss Jin is unkind to her, she was afraid, afraid of dying in this Mountain Note, so I advised her to make it a new year, after the new year we leave, who would have known that today … … Today, she really died … It's all my fault! "

The middle-aged man nodded his head and said to Jin Xiaolou: "This has happened at Mountain Note, so no matter what, I need to ask the servants of Boss Jin and Mountain Note to follow me to the yamen. The Mountain Note must also be sealed in the yamen's seal, and after a few days, when the criminals have been investigated, I hope that Boss Jin does not mind."

The seal was quickly put up, and the officials kept watch over the Mountain Note from inside and outside. The Mountain Note backyard was even more so the scene of a murder where no random person was allowed to enter.

The attendants of Mountain Note were all being held in the yamen. After tossing and turning for an entire night, they were finally able to get to the bottom of everyone's questions.

However, the doors and windows were tightly shut. Everyone in Mountain Note had seen it, and the two cooks only entered after knocking open the door.

Unless the culprit was a mosquito, he wouldn't be able to fly into that tightly sealed room. No one could kill Song Ruyi no matter how much they asked.

It was dawn when the coroner walked into the hall and whispered a few words into the ear of the middle-aged man.

The Registrar Official nodded and immediately ordered his men to search him.

After searching for a long time, he found some insignificant items until a granny took out a brocade handkerchief from Jin Xiaolou's body.

When he opened the brocade handkerchief, there were two thin needles wrapped inside it.

The young master frowned, looked at Jin Xiaolou, and asked: "Is this thing yours?"

Jin Xiaolou trembled, and after shaking her head, she spoke the truth: "This is Ru Yi. Ru Yi doesn't know why, but for two consecutive days, she placed the fine needle into my Mountain Note's food. The reason why I went to the Ru Yi's room yesterday was precisely to ask about this matter.

"Alright, everyone else can go back now." The middle-aged man said, "If anything happens, we will summon you here to inquire. Jin Xiaolou, Lv Yun, Kuang Ruyue, the three of you stay behind."

Jin Xiaolou immediately asked: "Is it related to the silver needles?"

The middle-aged man nodded his head, "Do you know that Song Ruyi's eyes and ears have been pierced by this needle?!"