At the third watch, the moon was slanting like a hook and the stars were dim. Under the night, Duanyang led a guard beside Ning Yuande and climbed over the more than ten feet high courtyard wall from the backyard of Zhenbei Hou Mansion, like a cat. It fell to the ground silently.
Duanyang and the guard clung to the wall of the backyard. They listened attentively for a moment to make sure there was no servant on night patrol. The two looked at each other and nodded at the same time. Duanyang Leading the way, the guards followed behind. The two of them jumped behind the flower tree and reached the foot of the old plum tree without anyone noticing.
"This is it." Duanyang searched carefully at the foot of the old plum tree for a long time, and then found the loose ground where his sister said under the extremely dim moonlight.
The guard nodded when he heard the sound, and took off a leather bag the size of an adult's hand from behind, and poured out two short sticks and a small shovel. With two soft clicks, a small shovel half as long as an arm was assembled.
Duanyang saw that the area with the turning marks was not large, only two feet square, so he gave up the idea of assembling a small shovel to dig with the guards, and only lowered his voice and said: " Be careful not to dig too much."
The guard nodded and dug very carefully.
While Duanyang was distractedly listening to the movement around him, he kept his eyes on the ground.
All the soil that had been turned over was dug out, but nothing was dug out. Duanyang couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and whispered briskly: "Fortunately, there is nothing!"
The guard was stunned when he heard this. He used to dig in the ground hoping to dig out something, but Duanyang But on the contrary, he didn't want to dig anything out. He couldn't help but look at Duanyang in confusion.
Duanyang didn't have time to explain to the guards at the moment. He just took the small shovel in his hand and quickly shoveled the soil to fill the hole. After filling it, he walked back and forth several times to tighten the ground. .
"Brother Liu, we are all here, why don't we go find out some information?" Duanyang suddenly had an idea in his mind and said in a low voice.
Liu Weiwei nodded. He had been told before going out that this trip would be all arranged by Duanyang, so he had no objection.
Duanyang thought for a while and walked forward with his guards. It took a quarter of an hour before we left, and we arrived at the back wall of the east courtyard of the third courtyard.
Along the way, they did not encounter any guards on patrol at night. Duanyang was both happy and angry. When the wife was in charge of the house before, the night watchers never dared to be so lazy.
It is a rule set by the deceased old master that the palace guard should visit the palace every hour after nightfall. Now that the step-wife is in charge of the house, even this rule has been abolished. I wonder if there are any rules in the house.
"Brother Liu, let's go up to the roof in that room?" Duanyang searched and found the room his sister mentioned, and asked the guard in a low voice.
The guard nodded and jumped with DuanyangGo to the top of the wall, and then jump from the top of the wall to the inverted roof. Duanyang carefully opened a piece of tile and looked inside.
Fortunately, the room was not completely dark. There was a small flame like a bean emitting a grayish-yellow light.
A little maid was sitting on the footrest, lying on the edge of the bed and taking a nap. She also had a banana leaf fan dropped in her hand. Maybe she fell asleep after being extremely tired from the fanning.
On the bed, a woman with her head wrapped in a thick cloth was lying upright. Seeing that her chest was barely rising and falling, she didn’t know whether she was dead or alive. She must have been scratched. Grandma Wang.
"Brother Liu, you are this evil woman. How about we take her back and hand her over to the uncle for trial?" Duanyang asked in a low voice.
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After hearing this, the guard thought for a while, shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's wrong. Even if the person can be arrested successfully, there is no way to use it as evidence."
Ning Yuande sent out today The guard was a bit stubborn and a little stubborn, and his mind was still stuck on the procedure of handling the case with his family.
Duan Yang frowned and whispered: "What evidence do you want? We want to find out the truth now, not to settle the case."
The guard was startled by Duan Yang's rebuke, then shook his head and said: "That's not right. My master has told me not to alarm the snake."
Just as the two of them were arguing in low voices on the roof, the little maid who was dozing next to the bed slipped and fell onto the footrest and woke up immediately. come over. She quickly sat up straight, grabbed her fan and started shaking it.
After shaking it a few times, I saw that there was no movement from the mother-in-law on the bed. She had been humming non-stop even in the middle of the night. The little maid hurried forward and shouted in a low voice: "Grandma Wang... Grandma Wang..."
After shouting several times, there was still no movement from Grandma Wang. The little maid was so frightened that she trembled. With trembling hands, she tried to test Grandma Wang's breath, but she didn't notice even a trace of breath. Then he pushed Grandma Wang with his hand, and the touch was already a little cold.
The little maid fell back in fright and screamed "Ah...".
The scream was so terrible that all the rooms in the courtyard lit up in shock. A disheveled woman rushed out from the next room and rushed into Grandma Wang's room.
On the roof, the guard pulled Duanyang and was about to run away, but Duanyang grabbed him and pressed him against the roof, saying in a low voice: "You can't run now, or you won't be discovered, so hide first." Okay, wait until no one is around before going out."
After the screams, an angry and shrill female voice suddenly sounded from the upper room in the east courtyard: "What happened?"
After a while, a maid ran out of the main room quickly and bumped into a woman in her fifties. The eldest maid was knocked back several steps, and while rubbing her painful shoulder with her hands, she cursed angrily.
"Mr. Chen, I'm going to die! You're in such a hurry to be reincarnated!" The eldest maid cursed angrily.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry...it's all my fault, Miss Jinfeng, don't be angry, something really happened, Grandma Wang just passed away... If I don't rush to reply, just... ..." Mrs. Chen spoke sharply and explained the matter clearly in one sentence.
"What, you said my aunt is dead? How is it possible? Yesterday the doctor said she was fine." The maid named Jin Feng was stunned and grabbed Mrs. Chen to ask, obviously not believing it. Her words.
"Oh, my good girl, how dare I lie about this, old lady? It's true that Grandma Wang is gone and her body is cold." Mrs. Chen looked panicked and sad, but in her eyes But he said with a hint of gloating.
Jinfeng pushed Mrs. Chen away and ran towards Grandma Wang's room as fast as she could. Mrs. Chen sneered behind her and walked quickly to the upper room.
As soon as Mrs. Chen was passed into the house, Jin Feng ran back in a panic, "Madam, Madam...Mother Wang, she...Mother Wang, she is gone..."
A beautiful middle-aged woman sitting beside the red carved bed, waiting for her maid to dress, heard this call, her brows furrowed tightly, and she asked in a deep voice: "Yesterday I said See you well, why did you suddenly disappear? ”