Reborn on the day of marriage! After the marriage exchange, the elder sister went crazy

Has your house been ransacked?

Li Jinglan raised her eyebrows.

Now there are only a few people left at home to look after the house.

The man who looks after the house is Niu Dayi's father.

All the rooms are locked.

Li Jinglan did not leave the key to the house to Niu Dayi's father, but only left the key to the yard door for daily cleaning.

Lu Sheng said: "I checked the list and nothing is missing."

Lu Sheng even found a box of silver that Lu Zhang had hidden away in Li Jinglan's bedroom, about one hundred taels.

The box had been hidden in a hole under the bed.

The lock is rusty.

There was still some oily sheen on the keyhole.

Is anyone looking into Lu Bozhou's past?

"I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but later I found a lump of mud next to the bed. When we moved, I checked everything in the eldest lady's bedroom, and I even cleaned it up after the move."

"I felt something was a little strange, so I touched the four corners of the bed. I found that the lattice ends at the bed legs had been sawed off and glued back together."

"After removing the lattice head, there is just enough space under the bed for a relatively thin person to fit in."

"Then I sawed off a little bit of the lattice and crawled in, and found a hole in the ground. The hole had been dug up and then filled in, and there was no sign of soil being transported out, so I concluded that there was only this box inside and nothing was missing."

Li Jinglan thought for a while and told Lu Sheng, "I understand. Don't make this public."

Did the King of Jin do it?

Or someone else?

Friend or foe?

The emperor had seen Lu Bozhou's arm and should have confirmed Lu Bozhou's identity.

The fact that the emperor did not transfer Xu Jingchen and others proves that Xu Jingchen was not only the Prince of Jin's man, but also the emperor's man.

Xu Jingchen is at home, and he is probably also responsible for protecting Lu Bozhou.

Thinking of this, Li Jinglan instructed Lu Sheng again: "From tomorrow on, when the master goes out, you will drive a carriage and secretly follow behind to see if there is anyone following your master."

"If anyone asks, tell them that our home in Nanli County was robbed. I'm worried about the master's safety, so I asked someone to follow behind to protect him."

Lu Sheng is just an ordinary person.

If he watched from a distance, he would definitely be discovered.

Li Jinglan was waiting for the emperor's reaction.

Based on the emperor's reaction, she could roughly determine whether the people who went to Xishui Village were friends or enemies.

Seeing that Lu Sheng was about to leave, Li Jinglan remembered something: "It has been a while since Lu Xuande and his family moved to the capital. Although he was unkind to Bozhou, we cannot be unjust."

"It's August 15th soon. You can prepare some gifts for them."

"Observe the people nearby to see if there is anyone with an unusual expression."

Although Lu Sheng didn't understand the intention of Li Jinglan's words, he bowed honestly and said, "I will go buy the gifts in a while."

Lu Sheng came back in less than an hour.

"No one was at Lu Xuande's house. I knocked on the door for a long time, and the neighbor came out and said that this family had not appeared for five days."

Li Jinglan frowned, feeling a little uneasy: "Find someone to find out where Ningxin is."

Then he stood up and said, "Come with me to see Lu Xuande."

After changing into clothes for going out, Li Jinglan took a dozen servants and headed towards Lu Xuande's house.

Lu Xuande's house is in a small alley.

All the people living around here are merchants.

After knocking on the door for a long time, no one responded from Lu Xuande's house.

At Li Jinglan's command, several servants climbed over the wall and entered.

Seeing someone climbing over a wall in broad daylight, a neighbor stepped forward and asked: "What do you do? Why are you climbing over someone else's wall in broad daylight?"

Lu Sheng stepped forward and answered, "The lady sitting in the carriage was our eldest lady. She heard that I came here to deliver a gift and the door was not opened, so she was a little worried."

The neighbors already knew that Lu Xuande had a nephew who was the champion. When they heard Lu Sheng say this, they were in awe: "She is the wife of champion Lu?"

He raised his thumb again: "Lu Zhuangyuan is a kind and righteous man. I heard that Lu Xuande had abused Lu Zhuangyuan for four years, but the wife of the Zhuangyuan did not hold a grudge and actually took the initiative to visit him."

The neighbor went on talking nonstop.

Just then, the door opened from the inside.

A servant came out from inside with a look of fear on his face.

"Madam, there is a dead body in the house!"

Li Jinglan couldn't sit still anymore, so she put on her veil and got out of the carriage.

Lu Xuande's yard is not big, with only one entrance.

There is a screen wall at the entrance.

There is a small courtyard behind the screen wall.

The door of the main room was open, and several servants were standing in the yard without entering the house.

A gust of wind blew, bringing the stench of corpse out of the main room.

Disgusting.

Li Jinglan walked towards the dark main room.

I stood at the door for a while, letting my eyes adjust to the darkness in the room.

A corpse was lying on the floor of the main room, and its appearance could not be seen clearly.

He was wearing all black.

The longer you stay in the house, the stronger the stench of the corpse becomes, making you dizzy and nauseous.

Li Jinglan covered her nose with a handkerchief and took a few steps back: "Report to the police."

The neighbor who came in with him was horrified by the scene in the house and ran out screaming: "Murder, murder!"

With this scream, all the neighbors were alarmed.

Everyone gathered around the door of Lu Xuande's house, pointing and talking.

Just at this moment, the sound of gongs and drums was heard.

After the gongs and drums sounded, the suona continued to sound.

Li Jinglan walked out of the yard and looked in the direction where the sound came from.

At first glance, I only saw the white flag.

Then, the sound of wailing was heard.

A neighbor saw Li Jinglan looking around and sighed, "This is the Cui family at the end of the alley. How pitiful! First, old Cui got tuberculosis, and then the whole family got sick. There have been deaths one after another in the past few days."

The funeral procession was getting closer.

A woman was lying on the coffin, patting it and crying.

"You all left, leaving me alone. How can I live? How can I live..."

"Oh my God! Why don't you open your eyes?"

The woman cried miserably, and the neighbors were all sad.

A neighbor took out a hundred yuan and placed it on the coffin: "Mrs. Cui, please accept my condolences. This is the money that the people in the alley have collected for you."

Madam Cui didn't even look at the money. She just cried and banged the coffin hard.

"My father-in-law is dead, my mother-in-law is dead, my brother-in-law, sister-in-law and our children are all dead... Now you are dead too, how can I live?"

The high-pitched sound of suona rang out again, covering up Madam Cui's crying.

Li Jinglan felt sad and said softly, "Give me a hundred bucks as a token of condolence."

Lu Sheng took out a hundred taels of silver and handed it over. A woman walked out of the funeral procession and asked cautiously, "Please leave your name so that I can return the favor in the future."

When Lu Sheng heard that Li Jinglan didn't reply, he cupped his hands and said, "No need, we're just passing by."

The woman cupped her hands again.

Through the veil, Li Jinglan saw that the woman had a pair of unusually white and tender hands.

After just a brief glance, Li Jinglan turned around and got on the carriage.

As soon as he got on the carriage, Li Jinglan glanced towards the front of the funeral procession as if he was sensing something.

At the entrance of the alley, a corner of a blue-green dress disappeared from sight.

"Taoist priest?" Li Jinglan entered the carriage.

The funeral procession left not long ago.

The bailiffs from Jingzhao Prefecture came over.

Yin Zhihai has resigned from the post of prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture, and the new prefect is a man named Ouyang.

Upon hearing the report from the number one scholar's wife, Prefect Ouyang sent three foot soldiers and two constables.

After the five people entered the yard and investigated, they invited Li Jinglan in.

The body has been moved to the yard.

His face was covered with a white cloth.

Li Jinglan took a look and shook her head: "I don't know him, I've never seen him."

The officer cupped his hands and said, "There are signs of fighting and dragging in the house. There are many footprints, both male and female. We can't see anything for now."

"These are the only things we can find now. For the rest, we need to seal off the scene and examine it carefully."

A murder occurred right under the emperor's feet, and it was the wife of the top scholar who reported the case.

The bailiffs were very nervous.

Li Jinglan didn't know how to investigate the case, so she didn't plan to get in the way at Lu Xuande's house.

As soon as I walked out of the gate, I saw many neighbors walking back from the entrance of the alley.

Everyone sighed.

Li Jinglan called out to a neighbor: "What's going on?"

The neighbor cupped his hands and said, "What a chaste and heroic woman! After her husband's coffin was buried, Madam Cui committed suicide by hitting her head against the coffin."

"Alas, she is the only one left in the family of seven. Now the family can be reunited." The neighbor was in a depressed mood and had no interest in talking. He turned and left.

Li Jinglan also sighed softly and got on the carriage.

There was a sense of uneasiness in my heart, which was growing bigger and bigger.

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*There will be another chapter later, but it is not coded yet. I am going to write some words now.