Second Master Xue of the Red Chamber has space

Chapter 4
Xue Wang's face turned red when she heard this, and she seemed very angry: "It's the opposite! Who is so bold, dare to enter the house and murder the second girl? Qianxue, have you chased that person?"

It was Xue Wang who asked for the treasure to be enshrined in his own name.Now that the incense for Baoxiang in the ancestral hall has not been burned out, such a thing happened to Baoxiang right under her nose. If she doesn't find out, everyone in the house will think that she can't tolerate concubine daughters and make excuses on purpose It is not known whether he will die or die.

But if you really did it yourself, you don't need to be angry or feel wronged.It's just that she didn't even know a shadow about this matter, so it can be seen that the person behind it deliberately wanted to kill Baoxiang and slapped her in the face severely.

That Qianxue was a ten-year-old girl, and when she heard his wife's question, she also had tears on her face: "Madam, Qianxue is useless, and he didn't catch up with that person. That person is taller than Qianxue and runs faster than Qianxue. I saw that person running towards the backyard."

backyard?

The house of Xue's mansion was built by Mrs. Xue in the early years, and it is a courtyard with five entrances.

The first entrance in the front is the concierge and the living room, and the second entrance is Xue Yi's study and flower hall, which are basically for office use, and there are also guest rooms.The third entrance is the main courtyard of Xue Yi and Xue Wang's family. Xue Baoxiang lives in the small courtyard next to this main courtyard.And further on is the residence of three brothers and sisters Xue Pan and several aunts.

Xue Yi was so angry that his face changed color, and he was about to make trouble, but he heard the servant came to report: "Aunt Zhu committed suicide in fear of crime!"

'Ding, please complete the side mission to the host to investigate the incident of Baoying's murder. After completing the mission, you can receive 100 experience points as a reward. '

The system that hadn't moved for a long time suddenly "ding", which startled Xue Hong.

'Are you awake? '

'Yes, host.Please follow the system prompts to complete the task, and you will get rich rewards after the task is completed.At present, the experience value of space level 1 is 0, and it needs 2 experience points to upgrade to level 1000. '

'...well, the pits always have to be filled.So what should I do now? '

'The system's prompts are limited, but to complete this task, it is necessary to find out who is behind the murder of Baoying. '

The conversation between Xue Hong and the system was just a few sentences. After the voice of the system disappeared in her head, Xue Hong ran to the backyard like an arrow, and followed her memory to find the courtyard where Aunt Zhu lived, completely ignoring the group of women behind her headed by Xue Wang. People yelled things like "it's not clean there" and "stop him quickly".

When Xue Hong arrived at Aunt Zhu's courtyard, she saw her maid, Maisui, struggling to hold Aunt Zhu down from the beam.

When Maisui saw Xue Hong, she was surprised for a while, and then cried out loudly.

"Auntie~ My hard-fated auntie, why are you so overwhelmed~ What will you do when you leave Maisui..."

Listening to Maisui's crying, Xue Hong felt a severe pain in his brain. He took two steps closer, carefully watched Aunt Zhu's death, and felt a cold hum in his heart.

"Hong'er don't mess around!"

As soon as Xue Yi entered the door, he saw his son patting Aunt Zhu's dead body with his hands, and his face was so ugly that no words could describe it.

He is only a young man, his eyes are too clear, what should he do if he really collides with him?

But Xue Hong's calmness and calmness made even Xue Yi feel ashamed for a moment.Is it an illusion?Why did he actually feel that his youngest son's maturity beyond his age made him a little startled?
Seeing this, Xue Hong couldn't stop complaining in her heart, hey, wouldn't it be good to cosplsy an ancient coroner?Seeing that Xue Yi's complexion was unkind, Xue Hong didn't bother, but quickly withdrew her hand: "Father, Aunt Zhu was strangled to death."

"what?"

Xue Hong's words were too straightforward and strange, which made Xue Yi's mind go blank for a while, and for the time being, he couldn't care about the young son's premature performance, and was only surprised by this assertion.

Afterwards, Mrs. Xue Wang and all the servants who came over heard these words, and they couldn't help but change their expressions. Only Maisui stopped crying in fright, his eyeballs were dripping, and he didn't know what was going on in his heart.

With such a big commotion, Aunt Liu, Aunt Jin and Aunt Xia all rushed to the scene.

When these people saw the dead body, they also had different expressions.

Although Xue Pan and Baochai were one step behind, they both knew that things were not easy, so while everyone was chasing Xue Hong, they also tried to get rid of the people around them, and followed them. Died strangely.

This time Xue Hong was in front of her parents, so she didn't touch Aunt Zhu's body again, and only ordered the servants beside her: "Go and lift Aunt Zhu's head up so that everyone can see the strangle marks on her neck."

When the man tremblingly revealed the strangle marks on Aunt Zhu's neck, Xue Hong asked Tang Jiu to sit on the embroidered bed, and brought a silk sash by herself.

"Let's see, if a person is hanged to death, then the strangle marks go upwards, and if a person is strangled to death, like this...then the strangle marks left on the neck after death will go upwards. The back is slanted, just like what Aunt Zhu's neck looks like now."

Xue Hong demonstrated while talking, and everyone gasped when they understood it, and some whispered who was the murderer.

Zhuxi and Tangjiu looked at Xue Hong with admiration like a surging river: "Master..."

Xue Hong shuddered, and said in a low voice: "Don't look at me like a pervert seeing a beautiful woman, I have been wise and wise for a long time, as a celebrity around me, you should get used to it early. "

Xue Hongxin said that living in modern times, those criminal investigation dramas and detective novels can kill people just by their names, so they are afraid that they will not understand such tricks?
Hong Jian's heart was already confused, and she said with a smile: "It's just that the murderer who killed Aunt Zhu was not smart enough, and left too many clues on the scene. Now, I already know who did it, and it's all here." If you haven’t come out and pleaded guilty, do you still want the master to send you to the government in person?”

In fact, although there is some evidence, Xue Hong is really not sure who wrote it. To say this is just to break down the murderer's psychological defense line.

And the murderer seemed to be very calm, the room was full of people, and no one came forward to recognize him.

Xue Hong smiled bitterly and shook his head, walked around in front of several aunts, and suddenly sneered: "Maisui'er, why don't you cry?"

Maisui raised her head abruptly, with fear written all over her face.

"Slave...The slave just heard that my aunt was strangled to death, and was frightened...so..."

"Oh? Didn't you watch her being strangled to death and hang up Aunt Zhu with that person? Why are you still afraid?"

The ears of wheat trembled like sifting chaff, and the words were messy: "Master! Why did the second master say that? Slaves... Slaves don't have... Not slaves... Auntie is taller than the slaves, and the slaves have never done rough work. How can I have the strength? Hang her up? No... not a slave..."

Xue Hong smiled and said, "Did I say that you hung her up? I obviously meant that you watched others hang her up, didn't you?"

"Slave...slave..."

Maisui knelt there as a "slave" for a long time, and couldn't even utter a whole sentence.

Xue Hong turned around and asked again: "I don't know what kind of ointment do the aunts use on weekdays? I smell it, and it seems that everyone has a different fragrance."

Aunt Liu heard the words, although she didn't know what he meant, she stood up and said: "What the second master said is very true. I use goose pear balm, Aunt Jin uses osmanthus balm, and Aunt Xia uses magnolia balm. And Aunt Zhu used jasmine balm."

Xue Hong nodded: "Oh, that's it...except for a few aunts, can maids like Maisui use balm on weekdays?"

Aunt Liu shook her head: "Second Master is joking. Although our Xue family is not short of these few taels of silver, and the maids are not short of oil and powder on weekdays, they cannot use this ointment. Even the housekeeper next to my wife is not able to use it." I only use some when there is a big happy event at home.”

Xue Hongxin said, sure enough.

Although women in ancient times loved incense, they usually used incense or put some incense balls and cakes in their sleeves and arms. Not everyone can use this kind of spice that can keep the smell for a long time.

Firstly, the price is expensive, and secondly, the identity is different, so the fragrance of the ears of wheat seems too suspicious.

"Aunt Liu can tell the smell of the balm? If you can, you can smell the smell of the wheat ears. Be careful, smell it on your body, hands, and clothes."

Aunt Liu walked up to Maisui suspiciously, grabbed her trembling hand, smelled her pulse, her wrist, her clothes and the back of her neck.

After careful identification, Aunt Liu's complexion changed: "Mai Sui's hands smell of jasmine balm, while her body... has the scent of osmanthus flowers on her body, but there is no scent at all on the back of her neck."

"Snapped!"

Xue Hong slapped the table hard, and Mai Sui also shivered in fright.

"And you said it wasn't you! You have always served Aunt Zhu, and it's not surprising that you have jasmine scent on your hands. The lack of scent on the back of your neck means that you didn't use the balm secretly, but if you haven't stayed with the person who uses sweet-scented osmanthus scent for a long time , how could you be contaminated with that scent? How many masters do you have?!"

Aunt Jin's face turned pale, but she still stood there without saying a word. Before Maisui opened her mouth to distinguish, Xue Hong spread her palm, revealing a piece of incense. The ecstasy incense that was found here was obviously a little longer than the one found by Madam Lu.

"Father, I just ran over and found this in the basement of this house."

Xue Hong walked up to Xue Yi, Xue Yi took a look at Duanxiang, and said, "Search for me! Search up and down, and see who has that nasty stuff in their house!"

With the master's order, the big housekeeper Liu Zhihe immediately reached out to take the broken incense from Xue Hong's hand, Xue Hong whispered a few words to him again, Liu Zhihe and Fang took Xue Yi's confidantes to the place in a mighty way. up.

Not long after, Liu Zhihe came back and handed the things directly to Xue Hong. Xue Yi's expression changed, he was surprised and took it for granted that the old housekeeper who had been with him for many years acted so only Xue Hong would follow his lead.Unexpectedly, this old servant was so obedient to Xue Hong, but Xue Hong's calmness and wisdom made him feel that it was a matter of course for the servants to listen to him.

(End of this chapter)