Daming King of Punishment

Xiaowan's whereabouts have become a mystery, but Xiaowan must be found anyway.

There are too many secrets hidden in the Hou's mansion. Several of the women brought back by Lord Hou have died, but how they died and where their bodies were taken after death, these are not special. clear.

In addition to the dead, there are several who have disappeared.Not to mention the small bowl, the woman who lived in this room before the incident disappeared without a trace.

The people in the Hou Mansion could not tell their exact whereabouts, whether they were concealing it intentionally, or they really didn't know where they were going.

"I remember that when you investigated the scene, you found that bloody handprints should have been left on the windows of the scene, but they were covered up by those bloodstains." Situ Wen also added a sentence: "This shows that before the murderer committed the crime , bloody handprints have already appeared on the window. But the bloody handprints have not been completed, which also explains why there is no blood in the study. And when Lord Hou came here, he should have seen the bloody handprints here, but he didn't He left in fear, and still stayed in this room. It is enough to show that he is not afraid of these bloody handprints."

After a short pause, Situ Wen continued: "Of course, it's just as Wu Ya speculated. The blood handprint was obviously not completed at the time, and the person who pretended to be a ghost was in this room. She met Lord Hou. This The person is very likely to be this Xiao Wan, but she stopped all this until the murderer came. I can't figure out one thing, that is, when the murderer came here, he must have seen the unfinished pictures on the window. Doesn’t he suspect that there is another person in this room?”

Speaking of this matter, it is also a strange thing. After all, in this room, the unfinished bloody handprints are very obvious.

Unless it is said that the lights in the room are always off, otherwise there is no need to enter the room, but anyone who passes by here can see this.And they would also suspect that the usual haunted blood handprints were going on continuously, so why did it stop.

"It's very likely that the room was completely dark at that time." Thinking of this, Song Wuya said.

But Bai Zhuo immediately shook his head and questioned: "Brother Wuya, I don't think so. You know, when the ghosts are haunted, everything in the room is very bright. I don't think the person who pretends to be a ghost will choose to live in the dark." Do it under the circumstances?"

"It's hard to say! Not all the people in the Hou's mansion are afraid of this matter, and some people want to solve this mystery. If she continues like this when she is not discovered for the first time, it will be very dangerous. It may be blocked in the room and exposed. So, at other times after the first time, maybe this person did these things in the dark." Song Wuya gave her own explanation, she didn't think This man would be so bold.

This is very possible. The room was probably pitch black at the time, so it was reasonable for the murderer not to have seen the bloody handprints on the window.

At this point, Situ Wen brought the problem to the source: "You said before, if this little bowl is really the instigator of this pretense, then where did she get so much blood? Do you want to go to the kitchen and have a look?"

"You don't need to go to the kitchen to see, just ask a few people." Song Wuya didn't go to the kitchen to check, and was going to ask a few servants to ask.

Not long after, they found a maid with some effort.

The maid stood obediently in front of them, lowering her head and not daring to look up at them.

"What do you usually do in this Marquis Mansion?" Song Wuya immediately asked the maid in front of her what she did every day.

The maid lowered her head and said with a smile, "Clean the courtyard."

"Clean the courtyard?" Song Wuya looked at her in surprise, very puzzled: "A little girl like you to clean the courtyard?"

"Yes." The maidservant replied in affirmation.

Although they are all servants, compared to the masters of the Hou Mansion, they are a little humble.But even so, most people are not willing to let a little girl do such a thing.

Cleaning the courtyard is a tiring job, I am afraid that the little girl in front of me is so thin because of this reason.

"Then which courtyard do you usually clean? Do you clean here?" Song Wuya asked after thinking about it.

He pointed to this yard specifically, and it wasn't intentional, but he just remembered that he had asked someone to find the servant who watered these flowers and plants, so he asked.

When he asked this question, the maid really nodded.

"Yeah!" The servant girl hummed with a smile.

That's good, it's easy to find nowhere to go after breaking through the iron shoes.Just now he was thinking of finding the watering maid, but now a maid who cleans the courtyard in front of him appears.

Immediately, Song Wuya asked about this matter: "Then the flowers and plants in the yard, but are you watering them every day?"

"Yes!" The maid in front of him gave him an affirmative answer again in a low voice.

"Is it you who water here every day?" Bai Zhuo also exclaimed.

"Who told you to water this place?" Song Wuya ignored Bai Zhuo's exclamation and asked the maidservant.

He saw the obedient look of this maid, so he didn't have much courage, what if Bai Zhuo was frightened.

"It's the housekeeper." The maid replied.

"The housekeeper?" Song Wuya asked suspiciously, "Then how did he tell you?"

"The housekeeper told me to water the place every day at noon."

"Noon? Is this time suitable for watering?" Song Wuya was a little surprised by watering the flowers at noon.

Whether it is heard from others or based on scientific evidence, watering flowers at noon seems to be wrong.Especially in this hot summer, watering flowers at noon is not conducive to the growth of flowers and plants in most cases.

"I can only do what the steward told me. He said to let these flowers and plants grow well." The maid did not explain anything, but said that she followed the steward's order to do this.

After hearing her words, Song Wuya nodded thoughtfully, and did not continue to ask questions about these.

"Do you know Xiao Wan?"

"I know." The maid replied affirmatively, "I haven't seen her for a while."

"Then do you know where she went?" Xiao Wan has become a key person now, Song Wuya really wants to find out what Xiao Wan is thinking.

But the maidservant in front of her shook her head helplessly: "I don't know!"

"Then do you know the relationship between Xiaowan and Lord Hou?" Song Wuya continued to ask.

"Xiao Wan has a child of Lord Marquis." The maid said it without hesitation.

"What?" Bai Zhuo exclaimed again: "So, Master Hou and Xiao Wan have such a relationship! No wonder Master Hou came back that night, after arguing with his wife, he went directly to find Xiao Wan!"

"Then do you know when Xiao Wan disappeared?" Song Wuya asked another question.

"I never saw Xiao Wan again after the day Hou Ye died." The maid gave a date.

The timing is considered to be a coincidence, so their previous speculation can be regarded as having some credibility.And now Song Wuya also has a bold guess. After Hou Ye's accident, perhaps the murderer entered the scene again. He noticed the bloody handprints on the window, or the shoe under the bed, and thus knew that there was still a secret hidden here that night. one person.

Thus he deduced that the person hiding under the bed should be Xiao Wan.It is precisely because of this that Xiaowan disappeared on the day the crime happened.

"What does Xiao Wan do?" Song Wuya asked after thinking for a while.

"Xiaowan is helping in the kitchen, killing chickens and dissecting fish all day long." The maid gave Song Wuya a more definite answer as soon as she opened her mouth.

They guessed just now that this pretender must be able to touch some blood, and the kitchen is the best place.

Now I know from the maid in front of me that what Xiaowan did is related to this, doesn't this just verify their previous guess?

However, Song Wuya became suspicious about this matter again.

"She is a weak woman, why would she do such a thing as killing chickens and dissecting fish?" Song Wuya asked in surprise.

When answering this question, the maid obviously hesitated.What was rare was that at this moment she quietly raised her head to look at Song Wuya.

After that, she said in a voice that was almost inaudible: "Madam asked her to go."

"Madam Hou?" Song Wuya frowned and said, "Because of what?"

"Madam found out about her and Lord Hou, so she punished her to go to the kitchen to do such a thing." The maid responded in a low voice.