no soul

Lin Hong thought about it.

The matter is too complicated, the twelve maidservants shuttled twice in his dream, and brought him here, probably to let them find their bodies... But what do these twelve maidservants have to do with the old affairs of the Chen family? ?

Complicated and fragmented events...

Twelve handmaidens...

Li Qingshuang's soup...is enough for ten Duan Yu...then...is it enough for twelve girls?

Lin Hong was startled, "It was Li Qingshuang who drugged them."

"At that time, the soup Li Qingshuang brought was for them to drink." Lin Hong said, "Let them fall asleep, and then commit murder in the middle of the night."

"They didn't hang themselves, but someone hung them up."

"Oh my god..." Duan Yu felt goosebumps all over his body when he thought of that scene... "So, the person who sneaked into Chen's house was Li Qingshuang?"

"I think it's unlikely to be her." Lin Hong said, "She has difficulty moving, and her voice is too distinctive."

"What if she pretended these things now?" Duan Yu asked.

Wan Guchuan stared at the bones on the ground, and said, "The twelve maidservants were given by Yushitai, and she can't get in."

"However, there is a mistake in the record of the servant in the chronology book, and the possibility of her getting in among other servants is not ruled out," Lin Hong said.

Wan Guchuan raised his eyes, "I think it's more likely that the inside should cooperate with the outside."

"How?" Lin Hong asked.

"Ms. Chen's family keeps saying 'someone'. She has seen people hiding in this house, but she didn't respond when she saw Li Qingshuang yesterday," Wan Guchuan said, "There are people other than Li Qingshuang in this house."

Li Qingshuang was in charge of administering the drugs, and the man in the courtyard was in charge of hanging the twelve maidservants to death.

Although he also knew that there was someone who couldn't be found hiding in this house, but now that Wan Guchuan said it, coupled with the fact that there were corpses everywhere, Duan Yu suddenly felt terrified...

"I still have a question," Lin Hong said, "Who is alive when the twelve maidservants said 'he's not dead'? Is it Chen Bingchun? Is it Mrs. Chen? Or..."

"Li Tiancheng." Wan Guchuan said.

Lin Hong was stunned, "Li Tiancheng hanged himself to death! Then he sneaked into the Chen family to commit murder! Li Qingshuang cooperated with him inside and outside. This also explains why Li Qingshuang's family is not poor, because there are still relatives who are still alive and supporting her."

He had always thought that there was a ghost and a person in this house, but now that he thinks about it, this "ghost" may be just a person, a person who appears and disappears like a ghost, and a "dead" person can do this. Miss Jia went crazy with fright.

"Then why can't Li Qingshuang's husband fake his death? Isn't her husband dead too?" Duan Yu whispered, looking from Lin Hong to Wan Guchuan.

"It's also possible." Lin Hong said.

"Whether it's Li Tiancheng or his son-in-law, the Chen family and the Li family must have a deep connection. We need to figure it out." Lin Hong said, "And why did the twelve maidservants die? And why did the pawn shop owner help Li? family to cover up the truth?"

"Let's check again." Wan Guchuan said.

The three of them walked out from the backyard, and saw Miss Chen's dancing on the wind and rain corridor again.

Dressed in dirty white clothes, with unkempt hair and unkempt face, he was laughing for some reason, crazily, staggering, "Hahahahahaha!"

Lin Hong felt that she was too elusive, "Where do you think you are hiding?"

Miss Chen's family didn't answer her, she was immersed in her own world, smiling and singing out of tune.

Lin Hong couldn't help asking her, "The person hiding in this house—is the 'someone' you mentioned Li Tiancheng?"

Still ignoring him, Miss Chen climbed up the fence of the wind and rain corridor with a smile and jumped down again, applauding happily for this.

"Hey..." Lin Hong knew that there was no breakthrough in this crazy Miss Chen who lost her mind.

The three of them passed by her and were about to go out.

But the crazy girl grabbed Lin Hong's hand!

Lin Hong was stunned.

Wan Guchuan on the side moved extremely quickly and grabbed her wrist in an instant.

She let out a painful scream, let go of Lin Hong's hand, and struggled with the iron-like hand that clamped her.

Seeing that she didn't seem to be threatening, Wan Guchuan let go of her.

The girl who had a painful face just now laughed again, and ran away bouncing around.

"How are you?" Wan Guchuan asked Lin Hong.

Lin Hong raised his hand in a daze.

In his hand lay a neatly folded note!

It was given to him by the crazy girl!

Wan Guchuan was also stunned for a moment.

Open it to see, it reads in neat and beautiful fonts:

Run away.

The hearts of the three thumped, and Lin Hong raised his eyes to see Miss Chen.

The girl stopped at the end of the wind and rain corridor, looked back at them, turned and ran away.

"She pretended." Wan Guchuan held the note.

Miss Chen's insanity is faking!

"Why is she..." Duan Yu felt a chill down his spine.

"She discovered the person hiding here, and she was threatened by that person—remember her cat?" Wan Guchuan said, "She pretended to be crazy to protect herself and told everyone that there were people with impure motives hiding in this house .”

"It's a pity that no one will believe her." Lin Hong said, "She should protect herself more."

Duan Yu couldn't figure it out, "But we all believed her, why didn't she answer any questions I asked her?"

"She is still afraid, which means that that person is indeed still in this room." Lin Hong was thinking, it seems that the person standing by the window he saw half asleep that day was real, could it be Li Tiancheng...

"Let's find out the relationship between the Li family and the Chen family first." Wan Guchuan looked in the direction where Miss Chen disappeared.

"Going to the downtown area will definitely not get what we want." Lin Hong said.

"Why!" Duan Yu still didn't understand why he didn't go to the teahouse and restaurant to ask about the old affairs of the Chen family and the Li family. Isn't it written like this in the story books?

"Think about it, if everyone knows about the grievances between the Chen family and the Li family, Chen Bingchun must know about it too, right? Will he still ask Li Tiancheng to build him a house?" Lin Hong explained to him.

The three of them walked towards the old house of the Li family. The more they walked, the more remote and sparsely populated they became.

Lin Hong continued: "Besides, everyone won't say that Li Tiancheng is chasing fame and fortune, and admiring vanity."

"Then maybe the government will find out later." Duan Yu was not convinced.

Lin Hong laughed angrily, and asked him back, "If the government finds out, do we still need us?"

"Hmph!" Duan Yu was furious.

Lin Hong thought of a question, "But the Chen family is gone, and the Li family's great hatred must be avenged. How could Li Qingshuang tell us those past events to make people suspicious?"

This is indeed a problem.

Wan Guchuan also thought about it before, but they really had no breakthrough, "Ask the neighbors, we can only try."

However, as expected, when I asked several households near the Li family, they didn't know anything about the grievances between the Chen and Li families, but they told the three of them a lot about the differences between the other neighbors.

The three of them became peacemakers between neighbors.

Lin Hong: "..."

Duan Yu "..."

Wan Guchuan: "..."

Wan Guchuan remembered something, and asked the nearest family to the Li family: "Has Miss Li ever lived in poverty?"

The family said firmly: "No, I haven't seen her live a hard life. A widow with a child has a better life than me!"

This person cursed for a long time, and the three of them quickly resigned.

Things are not progressing.

"Hey! Look." Duan Yu pointed to the Li family's old house in the distance, "Isn't that the owner of the pawn shop?"

Lin Hong and Wan Guchuan looked over.The owner of the pawn shop stood at the door and looked back after he came out of the Li family's old house. He seemed very reluctant, but he was afraid of being discovered, so he didn't stay for long and walked away.

"My God! No way!" Duan Yu shouted, "So Li Qingshuang is not living in poverty because of the pawn shop owner? They won't..." Duan Yu opened his eyes wide but didn't say anything behind .

Lin Hong also fell into deep thought, "Is it a coincidence? Or..."

Wan Guchuan frowned, looked at the direction where the pawn shop owner was leaving, "It should be what you think."

Lin Hong nodded, "Yes."

Duan Yu: "??? What are you talking about? What kind?"

No one paid attention to him, and the two had already walked back.

Duan Yu: "??????"

There was a luxurious carriage parked in front of the Chen Mansion. The carriage was covered with wind and dust. The groom seemed very tired, so he seized a moment to sit on the carriage and rest while two servants stood aside.

A well-dressed middle-aged man looked at the plaque and the closed gate of the Chen Mansion with his hands behind his back, sighing and sighing:

"The old man was mad when he was there, and Qiuma was light and fat and a drunkard;

Laughing and throwing a longbow to a flying bird, drunkenly riding a horse on Chang'an Road;

Everyone in the world is an ox (note 1), but I am the only one who rides on the hub of flowers (note 2);

The old story is old and no one mentions it, and the old friend Chenghe has passed away. "

Hearing his chanting, Lin Hong guessed that he must be a visitor from the busy capital, an old friend of Chen Bingchun, and the extravagant and dissolute Gaoyang alcoholic described in his poem should be Chen Bingchun.

Are you here to pay tribute to an old friend?But there seems to be irony in the poem?

Lin Hong felt that this person must know something.

"Old man, what's the matter here?" Lin Hong stepped forward and asked.

The man turned to look at Lin Hong. He had a clear face, high cheekbones, sunken cheeks, sharp eyes, high nose and thick eyebrows. He could still see the handsome shadow and youthful and frivolous spirit at that time.

He didn't answer Lin Hong's question, but instead asked, "Are you the owners of this house?"

"No, it's just a renter." Lin Hong said.

"Tenant..." the man murmured, and took another look at the house.

"Excuse me, who are you?" Lin Hong asked.

The man still didn't answer, smiled and said, "This house is indeed well-fengshuied, but Chen Chizheng has committed too many evils, so it's reasonable that he can't suppress it."

Lin Hong listened to his words, and for a moment he was even more uncertain whether he was here to pay tribute to his old friend—couldn't he be here to seek revenge?

After thinking about it, he felt that Chen Bingchun's words "upholding integrity" made people laugh, regardless of whether the person in front of him was an enemy or a friend, Lin Hong couldn't help but commented: ""Bingchun upholds integrity" is not worthy of the name."

Hearing this, the man began to size up Lin Hong, looked at his clothes and behavior, felt that he was either rich or expensive, and became a little interested, "Why are you renting this house?"

Lin Hong smiled frivolously, like a cynical dandy in the capital, "Tired of playing in the capital, he ran away from home, came to Xicheng for a stroll, spent all his money on wine shops, and only had enough money left to afford the rent of this dead man. The house is gone."

Duan Yu looked at Lin Hong from the side, wondering how he managed to say a lot of nonsense without blushing.

Wan Guchuan couldn't help but look directly at him.

If it were said that Lin Hong was a sorghum dandy who hangs around in three tiles and two alleys, few people would not believe it, but now, the man in front of him believed it.

The man stroked his beard and laughed loudly, "Back then, Chen Chizheng and I were as young and frivolous as you!"

Lin Hong: Very good...

"But don't go too far." The man said with some earnestness.

Go too far?Lin Hong felt that this person must know a lot.

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Note 1: Niu Ding: Plantain, referring to worthless things.

Note 2: Gao Yang: Refers to a person who likes to drink and be unrestrained.

Huahu: Refers to the luxuriously decorated carriages used by princes and nobles in ancient times.

Whole sentence: Other people's lives are worthless, and I am the most honorable person, living extravagantly and debauched all day long.