Forced to be a concubine, I went to my husband's place to become a wealthy merchant

Ye Xi suddenly felt angry. She remembered that when she first moved in, she had someone clean the attic. She even went up to take a look and found that the things in the attic were not goods but just sundries. She didn't take it seriously because Pei Lin said that he would not touch the sundries and couldn't deal with them now. She would leave them alone and inform Pei Lin in advance if they needed to be moved. But now, someone came up without notifying him?

She wanted to make trouble, but then she changed her mind and thought that they were going to move to Suzhou soon, so it seemed inappropriate to bring up this matter at this moment, so she stopped thinking about it. However, she continued to walk forward to see what was going on inside. She held the candlestick and walked along the footprints. She found that there were only two sets of footprints, one going and one returning. Some of the footprints overlapped, which meant that only one person had been here.

She walked to the end where the footprints stopped and found two gaps, one on the left and one on the right, forming a cross-shaped walkway with the main aisle. This was done to facilitate the access to the sundries that were stacked closer together. She didn't know which side of the gap the visitor wanted to take. Suddenly she saw something unusual. The floor on the right side of the end of the footprints seemed much cleaner than the left side, which meant that the visitor should have wanted to take the sundries on the right, but the clean marks didn't look like they were made by footprints. She was puzzled, so she ignored the problem, and then took the candlestick and looked at the gap on the right. Suddenly her expression changed.

What is this? The sundries were stacked up in wooden boxes. She saw a few black marks on the box on the right. Was it moldy? No, these boxes were painted with a layer of paint, which was specially waterproof and mold-proof. It shouldn't be caused by mold. She brought the candlelight closer to the marks, trying to see what it was. As a result, under the candlelight, she saw a familiar luster on the marks. It was blood! Although it was coagulated and blackened, she should not be mistaken. Why is there blood here?

She looked down along the box. Although there was no blood on the floor, it was rubbed very "clean". Ye Xi wiped it with her hand and found that it was actually covered with a layer of dust. Compared with the nearby unrubbed areas, it just looked "clean". She suddenly turned back to look at the footprints and found that the blank areas of the footprints were also covered with a layer of dust, which meant that some time had passed since these traces were left.

Suddenly, she thought of the soldiers who had been searching everywhere recently. Could it be that the assassin had been here? Was it an assassin? Otherwise, how could she explain the bloodstains? She felt cold all over. If someone found out that the assassin had been here, even if it was not hidden by Pei Mansion on purpose, if someone with ulterior motives used it, wouldn't it be a disaster?

She wanted to call someone, but she stopped herself. Who could she tell? Pei Zhu had gone to Suzhou and would not be back in the short term. Although Chun Tao was brought here by herself, she was rather timid and afraid of hiding the truth. So she decided to remove these traces herself and pretend that nothing had happened.

She rested for a while, pretended to be calm and went downstairs, then asked Chuntao to fetch a basin of clean water, saying that she wanted to wash her hands. After the clean water arrived, she asked Chuntao to go out and buy her some snacks, saying that she was greedy.