daughter-in-law next door

Jiang Shi saw that Tang Mingze was sitting in the courtroom, and he was the person who came to the house to inquire a few days ago, she shifted her eyes a little guilty, but shook her head.

Seeing this appearance, Gu Mingde sneered, "Jiang Shi, don't make excuses anymore, do you really think that I am blind and can't see it?"

Panicked, Mrs. Jiang kowtowed her head a few more times, tears streaming down her cheeks, "The woman really doesn't know why Mrs. Min died! When the woman saw Mrs. Min, she was already out of breath!"

"Then did you see any suspicious people wandering around?" Tang Mingze asked.

Min shook her head again, her eyes flickered, she lowered her head and said, "The woman didn't see it."

Tang Mingze frowned, and stopped talking. Seeing that Tang Mingze didn't take him seriously, Gu Mingde felt angry, but he endured it, and said: "Put this Jiang family in prison first, and continue to look for evidence."

Next, some government servants dragged Mrs. Jiang away, and Gu Mingde also announced his resignation.

Su Jinshi watched from the sidelines for a while, and only felt three doubts, how did Jiang catch this?What is Chiang hiding?Why did Gu Mingde suddenly change his attitude towards Tang Mingze?

After the trial ended, Su Jinshi and Nian Su returned to the room, while Tang Yaxin followed Tang Mingze and Lu Ning into the room.

Su Jinshi sighed, and after entering the room, he asked hesitantly, "Susu, do you think I should talk to them?"

Nian Su understood what Su Jinshi meant, so she also sat down, thought for a while, and then said: "Jinshi, if you think we will meet them again in the future, then go, if we want to earn these ten taels of silver, We must cooperate with them, but..."

She paused, looked up at Su Jinshi's expression, saw that there was nothing the same before continuing: "It's just that although we don't know their identities, I can feel that they are not from the same group. If they are willing to tell us, we must I can't leave easily."

Su Jinshi also knew about Nian Su's worries, she smiled and said, "It's not like we confess to them and they will confess. We are not even friends with them."

Nian Su also nodded and fell silent.

Su Jinshi thought for a while, and said: "Don't think so much, let's take a look again, now this Gu residence is staying, if Tang Mingze and the others leave, we will go too, as for us and them, it's all up to Tang Mingze, Or Lu Ning."

Nian Su didn't understand what Su Jinshi meant by Lu Ning, but she didn't ask. She thought for a while and said, "Then what about this case?"

Su Jinshi sighed, "Let's investigate first. This time Jiang's arrest probably has something to do with Tang Mingze. If they are all like this, why should I tell them everything?"

Nian Su sighed in her heart and felt a little tired. When she looked at Su Jin, she felt that she seemed to have changed a little. She used to be impulsive and reckless. She was very kind to people and never cared whether she would be cheated.

Now she can also calculate in her heart.

"Susu, what's wrong with you?" Su Jinshi stretched out his hand and shook Niansu reluctantly, and asked.

Nian Su shook her head. She looked out of the window and saw that it was still early, so she said, "Shall we go out and investigate?"

"How do we investigate without clues? Although I have some clues, I don't know where to start. Today, the Jiang family came here to make a fuss, which made me understand a little bit. It's just that the Jiang family has been imprisoned, and we can't easily I see." Su Jinshi thought while resting his chin.

"Ms. Jiang has something to hide just now. She refuses to tell Master Gu. Will she tell us?" Nian Su asked suspiciously.

"If you ask directly, of course you won't say it, and we can't expect her to tell us everything, but if you ask in a roundabout way, it's okay, but I don't know if Master Gu will torture Jiang." Su Jinshi was a little worried say.

She suddenly remembered that when she was in prison, Nian Su also visited her, so she asked: "When I was in prison, you visited me, how did you get in?"

Su Jinshi just asked casually, but saw that Nian Su's complexion changed a little, she shifted her gaze to another place, "The jailer is easier to talk to, I talked to him for a while and he let me in, but there is a time limit."

Su Jinshi nodded, "You said if we go and talk to the jailer, will we be allowed in? I don't know if the city in this city will be the same as the one in Taohua Town..."

Nian Su pursed her lips and persuaded: "Of course it's different, let's find another way."

"But what can I do? There is no one in Jiang's family anymore. When I went to her home that time, I also asked the neighbors, and no one said that there was something abnormal..." Su Jinshi said with a frown.

"What about Jiang's other relatives? A normal woman would marry when she was sixteen, but Jiang looked like someone in her forties. If she was sixteen, she would marry, and her son would be nearly 30 years old, but that The Min family is eighteen years old, there are some problems at this age..." Nian Su said with a frown.

Su Jinshi's mind suddenly lit up, she hadn't thought of the level of age, but after listening to Nian Su's words, she was really enlightened!

"You mean that Mrs. Jiang might have been a widow before, but she remarried later?" Su Jinshi guessed.

"I don't know, maybe that's the case, let's go out and check first." Nian Su said.

Su Jinshi nodded, and the two went out together, they came to Jiang's neighborhood together, because Su Jinshi also came to ask last time, those peasant women also had an impression of her.

Yuanshi was the one who talked the most with Su Jinshi last time, and Su Jinshi chose her first. When she came to Yuanshi's house, she saw her flipping through things.

This Yuan family is also over half a hundred years old, and his temple hair is a little gray, but he is extremely tough, and he has lived here for most of his life.

Last time I came to ask, this Yuan family was also very cooperative and easy-going, but he was very nosy, she only chatted with her a few times, this Yuan family wanted to introduce her to her husband...

"Mother-in-law, how is your health recently?" Su Jinshi stood outside the fence and shouted with a smile.

Yuan Shi looked up and saw that it was the girl with the bright smile from last time, so she put down the work in her hands and went to open the door with a smile, "Why is Miss Su here again? But what do you want to ask?"

Su Jinshi smiled, "I do have something to ask for."

"Miss Su thinks the man I told you about last time is good? Why did you come here specially?" Yuan Shi let the two of them in, and after closing the door, he saw Nian Su again, and said with some surprise: "This girl looks so good. She is very handsome, but it is a pity that she is wearing a woman's bun, but she is already married?"

Nian Su was taken aback for a moment, and said with a smile, "My husband has already gone."

When Yuanshi heard this, he sighed a little, and said: "It's a pity that you are young, and this Fengcheng has somehow happened in the past few years, and there are more and more widows."

Su Jinshi looked at Nian Su teasingly, and seeing her blushing, he changed the subject and said, "Mother-in-law, have there been more widows in recent years?"

Yuan Shi nodded, led the two of them into the house, poured them a glass of water, and said, "Yes, I don't know what happened. Over the years, there have been more widows, but more dead ones. Last time you came to ask I told you about the Min family, but in fact, several girls were killed, and the government didn't know about it."

Su Jinshi frowned and asked, "Why didn't the government know about it? But no one reported it?"

Yuanshi nodded, and said helplessly: "Even if you report to the government, it's useless. After all, Fengcheng is so big and there are so many cases. Naturally, the government is not capable of trying all of them. Besides, those cases in the past have never been investigated." Some people feel that it is useless to report to the official, and the ones who died are all married daughters, so some people admit their own mistakes and simply do not report to the official."

After hearing Yuan Shi's words, Su Jinshi gasped, she looked at Yuan Shi in disbelief, she did not expect the common people to have such thoughts.

The one who died was her married daughter, so she didn't even report to the official...

"Don't be surprised. The water thrown by this married daughter, besides, these are all widows, and there are very few who will avenge widows." At this point, Yuanshi sighed faintly.

Nian Su listened to her ears, and tightly grasped the hem of the clothes with both hands. Su Jinshi noticed Nian Su's abnormality. She covered the back of Nian Su's hand with one hand, feeling her tight hands due to exertion, and Su Jinshi gently comforted her.

"I heard that Mrs. Jiang was captured by the government. What's going on?" Su Jinshi changed the subject and asked.

Yuan Shi also felt that the topic just now could not be discussed well with the two girls, so he smiled awkwardly and said, "Don't worry about it, the two girls, the future destiny is entirely in their own hands, and you must not completely rely on your husband."

Su Jinshi didn't expect Yuan Shi to have such thoughts, she raised her eyebrows and nodded with a smile.

"You just talked about Mrs. Jiang, so I'll tell you about it." Yuanshi took a sip of water, as if recalling something, and said after a while:

"This Jiang is also a poor woman. Before she came here, she married a man and gave birth to a son, but the man left shortly after the child was born, and Jiang raised the child by herself, but she has nothing , and brought another child, how can I survive in this huge Windy City?"

"When her son was five years old, she found someone to marry, but that family didn't want her son, and Mrs. Jiang was cruel, so she married the child after leaving it on the side of the road. , Not long after they got married, they gave birth to a son to that man, and the two of them lived a happy life. After 15 years of marriage, the man also left, and Mrs. Jiang didn't want to make any more troubles, so she continued to live here."

"I also married a daughter-in-law for the child, but I didn't expect that the child would also be short-lived. He went away not long after getting married, and did not leave a child behind."

Yuanshi said slowly, "This time she was arrested by the government. I heard that she killed the Min family before being sent to the government. In fact, how could she? This Jiang family has gone through so many things and lived a good life." Now, how can you have the same knowledge as the Min family?"

After Su Jinshi listened, she cleared her doubts, but she also had more doubts, "Mother-in-law, but Mrs. Jiang has always been disliked by Mrs. Min. I asked Mrs. Jiang last time, and she said that Mrs. Min never does housework at home, and Very lazy."

Yuanshi was taken aback, but he didn't expect this to happen. He frowned and said, "Why? The relationship between their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has always been good, and Minshi is also hardworking...how could she say that?"

Seeing that the Yuan family didn't know about it, Su Jinshi fell into deep thought.

At this time, Nian Su suddenly asked: "Mother-in-law, why do you say that their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have a good relationship?"

"Mr. Jiang often goes to the fields with Mr. Min, and they often go shopping together. Last time I saw Mrs. Jiang bring a black-bone chicken back, saying it was for Mrs. Min's health. Mrs. Min is not pregnant either. Why do you need black-bone chicken supplements? Mrs. Jiang told me that she bought it because Mrs. Min was too tired." Yuan recalled.

Su Jinshi felt even more strange, this Jiang's behavior was not consistent, he must be hiding something.

"According to my mother-in-law, the Jiang family and the Min family have always had a good relationship before the death of the Min family?" Nian Su continued to ask.

Yuan Shi nodded, "Yes, I have never seen them argue."

Nian Su stopped asking questions, and Su Jinshi saw that it was almost time, so he bid farewell to Yuan Shi. Seeing that the two girls were very in love, Yuan Shi kept talking about showing Su Jinshi and Nian Suxiang their husbands...

Su Jinshi and Nian Su hurriedly said not to run away and left.

After the two left Yuan's house, they didn't want to look back at the mansion, so they went to the Yinxie Pavilion on the water diversion lake. Because it was daytime, there was no moonlit lotus pond. The weather became hotter, and the lotus flowers on the lake were a little listless.

The two sat in the gazebo, looking at the not-so-good view, neither spoke.

Su Jinshi's thoughts were all about that case. The Jiang family might have something to do with the murderer, but she didn't know what the relationship was.

"Susu, tell me... Could it be that Mrs. Jiang knew who the murderer was, and that's why this happened?" Su Jinshi muttered to himself.

Nian Su leaned on Su Jinshi's shoulder, did not speak, and quietly looked at the distant scenery.

For a long time, Su Jinshi was still immersed in her case, and Nian Su felt a little bored, so he took Su Jinshi's hand and looked at it carefully, only to see that her fingers were slender, with distinct joints, but very fair and well-proportioned.

Nian Su turned to look at her palms again, and saw that the lines on her hands were so faint that they were almost invisible. Her heart skipped a beat, remembering that her mother told her a long time ago that people with light lines on their palms are not good for life.

She still remembered that after her mother told her, she looked at her palm and found that her lines were also very light.

"What's the matter?" Su Jinshi asked in a low voice when he saw that Nian Su was holding her hand, and he didn't let it go in a daze.

Nian Su put down her hand, sniffed, and said, "It's okay, did you think of anything?"

Su Jinshi didn't care about her abnormality, and said out the thoughts in his head: "I guess, this Jiang family must know who the murderer is to protect the murderer in this way, this murderer Jiang family must know, there must be something wrong Shallow relationship."

Nian Su raised his head, looked at Su Jinshi, and said, "Could it be her first son?"

Su Jinshi shook his head and said, "It's not clear, maybe it's her first son, or someone else, but the attack must be on Jiang."

"It's just that Mrs. Jiang is in prison now, and we can't see her, what should we do?" Nian Su asked doubts.

Su Jinshi also sighed, "If we want to go to prison to see Mrs. Jiang, the only way is Tang Mingze. He has a good relationship with Mr. Gu. If he says so, Mr. Gu will definitely let us in, but, this way Then we'll tell him everything we know..."

Nian Su understood Su Jinshi's meaning, she sighed, "I didn't expect that we would have to rely on the brothers and sisters of the Tang family in the end."

Su Jinshi didn't say a word, now all the clues are on Jiang Shi, no matter what she has to go to the prison to ask Jiang Shi, even though she may not get the result.

"Let's go back first, put this aside for now, and see how the relationship between the brothers and sisters of the Tang family and Mr. Gu is going. It's not too late for us to take action." Su Jinshi said.

Nian Su nodded, they only had this choice now.

**

On the way back to Gu's mansion, Su Jinshi bought a candy figurine from a roadside stall, planning to go back and give it to Xiaodouzi.

They have been busy with this case for the past few days, but they forgot about Xiaodouzi, and they don't know if this little guy is angry.

When they returned to Gu's mansion, the situation was calm, and the servants of Gu's mansion still treated them very politely. After some questioning, they found Xiaodouzi in the courtyard of the butler of Gu's mansion.

Xiaodouzi was having fun with the housekeeper's children, and the two children were chasing and running in the yard, having a great time.

"Little bean!"

Su Jinshi yelled, Xiaodouzi saw his mother and Aunt Jin Shi coming, he ran over happily, his little face blushing, "Mother, Aunt Jin Shi! Why are you here? Me and Ye Ye Having fun!"

Su Jinshi smiled, and put the sugar figurine in his hand in front of Xiaodouzi and shook it around. Just as Xiaodouzi was about to grab it, Su Jinshi deftly took the sugar figurine away.

"Go and wash your hands and face before eating." Su Jinshi said with a straight face on purpose.

Xiaodouzi raised a smiling face and "hummed" and said, "Then I won't eat, I still want to play with Ye Ye!"

Just as Xiaodouzi was about to run away, Nian Su quickly grabbed his hand, took out a handkerchief, wiped the dust off his face and hands, and said, "Don't play for now, let's eat first, and we'll meet again tomorrow." Play."

Xiaodouzi turned to look at Ye Ye who was still playing, and said with some reluctance: "Ye Ye, I will come to play with you tomorrow!"

Ye Ye smiled and said, "Okay!"

Seeing the two children's reluctance, Su Jinshi suddenly felt sad. After all, they won't live in this place forever. Xiaodouzi and Ye Ye have such a good relationship. If they want to leave in the future, can Xiaodouzi bear it? ?

After returning to the house, Nian Su helped Xiaodouzi wash his hands and face, and Su Jinshi gave the candy man to Xiaodouzi. Xiaodouzi was very happy eating the candy.

"Xiaodouzi, if one day we have to leave, will you be sad?" Su Jinshi looked at Xiaodouzi and asked in a low voice.

Xiaodouzi was taken aback, looked at Su Jinshi with some precautions, and said, "Leave? Where are you going?"

Su Jinshi looked up at Nian Su, and she sighed, "Xiaodouzi, this is not our home after all, we can't live here forever."

"Then where is our home?" Xiaodouzi asked suddenly, with tears in his eyes.

Su Jinshi was taken aback for a moment, she really couldn't answer this question.

our home.

where.

At this time, Nian Su squatted in front of Xiaodouzi, reached out and touched Xiaodouzi's head, and said with a smile: "I will definitely give you a home in the future, we must trust Aunt Jin Shi."

Su Jinshi saw the faint firmness on Nian Su's face, and her heart warmed up. The responsibility on her shoulders seemed to be a little heavier, but it was a sweet burden.

Xiaodouzi nodded half-understood, he raised his head and asked Su Jinshi, "Aunt Jinshi, when shall we leave?"

Su Jinshi patted Xiaodouzi's head again, "I don't know, but it's probably only a few days away, you should say goodbye to Ye Ye well, if you have the heart, you can still see each other when you grow up."

Xiaodouzi nodded and said solemnly, "Okay."

Su Jinshi stood up, but he couldn't bear it in his heart. Xiaodouzi was a very sensible child, and he would never ask for anything too much. She had hardly seen him act aggressively.

Such a child made her feel even more distressed.

The three of them went to dinner together, and they still ate with the brothers and sisters of the Tang family. Su Jinshi ate leisurely, but not so with the brothers and sisters of the Tang family.

Tang Yaxin wanted to speak several times, but she couldn't. Tang Mingze, although with a normal expression, was also very silent.

Su Jinshi didn't take the initiative to break anything, and still served Nian Su and Xiaodouzi with vegetables.

The meal was very embarrassing, only Su Jinshi ate happily, Tang Yaxin and Tang Mingze hardly ate.

After eating, Su Jinshi took Nian Su and Xiaodouzi's hand and planned to leave, but Tang Yaxin stopped him after walking a few steps.

"Jin Shi, I have something to tell you."

Su Jinshi stopped in his tracks and looked back at the three with a smile in his eyes, "What's wrong?"

"I want to talk to you alone, is that okay?" Tang Yaxin's tone was a little hesitant, but neither Tang Mingze nor Lu Ning spoke.

The smile in Su Jinshi's eyes deepened, "Is there anything that can't be said in public? Why do you have to be alone?"

Tang Yaxin choked for a moment, and felt that Su Jinshi might be angry, so she was a little uneasy. She looked at Nian Su: "Miss Nian, can I talk to Jinshi alone?"

Nian Su looked at Su Jinshi, then at Tang Yaxin, finally nodded, and said to Su Jinshi, "I'll take Xiaodouzi back to the room first, and I'll go shopping later."

Su Jinshi nodded, let go of Nian Su's hand, and then Nian Su left. After letting go, Su Jinshi looked at Nian Su's back, feeling that he might never see her again.

"Jinshi?" Tang Yaxin called Su Jinshi.

Su Jinshi came back to his senses, looked at Nian Su intently, and laughed at himself for thinking too much.

Su Jinshi turned around and returned to the position just now, sat down, and said with a smile: "What's wrong? You seem to be eating me up."

Tang Yaxin smiled awkwardly, but did not speak.

Su Jinshi put his eyes on Tang Mingze and looked at him with interest.

"Miss Su, are you going to finish this case?" Tang Mingze asked in a deep voice.

The corners of Su Jinshi's mouth raised slightly, and she probably guessed why Tang Mingze was looking for her. She relaxed her body, propped her chin with her hands, and said with a smile: "Isn't this decided by Mr. Tang? If there is no Mr. Tang's connections, we won't have any." progress."

Tang Mingze's expression was secretive, he looked at Su Jinshi quietly for a while, and then said: "I think Miss Su has discovered something."

He paused, moved closer, and asked in a low voice: "Miss Su already has an idea in her mind, can you tell me about it?"