The old woman retreated after hearing the words, Shi Xue paused, and said: "We found two bloody footprints next to my father's body, which seemed to be left by the murderer, but these two bloody footprints are far away from the window and door, and we really don't know the murderer. How did you leave?"

What Shi Xue told the second aunt was the same as what she said to the housekeeper and the aunt, and wanted to see how the second aunt would react.

"The bloody footprints disappeared out of thin air? How is this possible?" The second aunt was too deep in thought, she shook her head slightly, and her reaction was similar to that of the housekeeper and the auntie, "No, it's impossible. Although I believe in Buddhism, I don't believe in ghosts and gods in the world, let alone believe in them." Good and evil are rewarded."

Shi Xue thought it was funny: "Do you know who that 'ghost' is?"

The second aunt smiled bitterly, "Do you really want to know? Your father is not as noble and great as you know, he is a great kind man."

"I think I can accept it." Shi Xue is not a flower in a greenhouse. She knows a little bit about what her father did in the early years. For example, this second concubine, it was her father who tricked her into marrying her because her fiancé was dead. For him, the second aunt never spoke to Shi Wensheng again after she knew the truth.

"Okay." The second aunt sighed: "It's ridiculous. For such a plundering and ungrateful person like him, there is a daughter like you who is willing to find the real culprit for him, and those who buried their bodies in the wilderness have not been able to find out the real culprit so far." Clearly. You must have asked Butler Liu and Auntie too, counting the people they mentioned, you still have to call him uncle!"

"What?" Shi Xue asked in shock.

"Your father started his business from scratch. His early years were full of ups and downs. He couldn't settle down until he was 30 years old when he met your mother and entered into Ran's family. His luck changed. It can be considered that your father has the ability to do business well in just a few years. From birth, you will soon become rich. A few years later, your grandfather died of illness, and your father competed with your uncle for the family property. Climbing from the gate to the ancestral hall to apologize to him, the bloody footprints... It is said that the heavy rain has washed away for three days and three nights, so it's no wonder Liu Butler and the eldest wife thought of this when they heard the bloody footprints."

Qiu Lingxuan was extremely shocked, and Shi Xue must be no better.

The second aunt went on to say: "Before your uncle died, he said that he would not let him go if he was a ghost. It's a pity that his wish can be realized because of you. By the way, your mother died of dystocia just because she knew about it." of."

ah what?Qiu Lingxuan was shocked again.

Shi Xue swayed and suddenly fell to the side.

"Cousin!" Qiu Lingxuan wanted to help her, but forgot that she was still sitting in a wheelchair. With a push on her upper body, the wheelchair flipped out, "Come on, Lan'er, come quickly..."

……

Shi Xue was lying on the bed, her left forehead was wrapped in gauze, and she was staring at the ceiling blankly with her eyes open.

Sergeant Lin, the housekeeper and a group of close servants were all guarding her in the room, for fear that something might happen to her.

The housekeeper said earnestly: "Miss, the master did many bad things in his early years, but since his wife passed away in dystocia, the master realized his mistakes. He copied Buddhist scriptures every day, held masses, and funded temples and churches. Eliminate your own sins, we don't tell you, it's for your own good, you can hate him, hate us, but don't make it difficult for yourself."

Shi Xue was still in a daze, just when the butler thought she couldn't hear and was about to say something to comfort her, Shi Xue slowly turned around, "Is he really regretting it, is he guilty?"

"Of course...the Buddhist scriptures he copied, the churches he funded..."

Shi Xue shook her head weakly, "You all go out, Qing'er stays here."

"Then...Miss Shi, rest well, don't think too much, I'll come see you at night." Sergeant Lin and a group of people left one after another, and soon Shi Xue and Qiu Lingxuan were left in the room.

Shi Xue stretched out her hand with difficulty, wanting to touch Qiu Lingxuan's face, but due to excessive grief and lack of strength, Qiu Lingxuan moved her face closer, "Has he really felt guilty, Qing'er?"

Qiu Lingxuan didn't know how to answer, "Yes, I should feel guilty."

"Hopefully, I don't want to check anymore."

Nani?Do not check?Wait a minute, Qiu Lingxuan slammed her forehead, realizing that this might be a good solution. The system only let her collapse the plot, and didn't let her investigate the case. If she couldn't find out, let the murderer get away with it, how could it not be collapsed?

"Okay, if you don't check, don't check!" Qiu Lingxuan said excitedly, but Shi Xue was already asleep.

Also, she has experienced too much in the past two days. For a while, her revered father was killed by someone, and for a while, her mother and uncle were all killed by her father. No one can bear it. Let her sleep for a while and digest it. Bar.

Qiu Lingxuan opened the door and asked Lan'er to bring her a blanket. She was going to accompany Shi Xue's bed tonight. Lan'er brought the blanket as she said, and said mysteriously, Miss Biao, are you afraid? I will accompany you.

"I'm not afraid, are you afraid?" Qiu Lingxuan said with a smile.

Lan'er: "I, I'm not afraid. Didn't you listen to what people said? The nanny said, such a big typhoon must be punished by God? The long-time worker Agui also said that when he got up at night yesterday, he always I feel the chill behind my back, and I always feel that something is watching him..."

"Really? What else did they say?"

"They also said that the master must have been murdered by the grieving ghost, and his death was terrible."

Of course Qiu Lingxuan didn't believe this, "Can the grieving ghost swim? Can the grieving ghost survive such a big typhoon?"

"The butler said it might be a water ghost. I have it in my hometown. Miss, what are you laughing at?" Seeing Qiu Lingxuan suppressing her smile, Lan Er proved that what she said was true, and said, "You don't have to believe what I said, but The cook is crazy like that, you have to believe it, maybe she has yin and yang eyes and can see real ghosts."

On the contrary, if the theory of ghosts and gods is false, but the madness of the cook is true, Qiu Lingxuan still remembers the look in which the cook looked at her through the crack of the door, as frightened as seeing a ghost!

On the night of the typhoon, there was this girl chattering, but it didn't feel like a long time.

On the third day after the incident, Qiu Lingxuan woke up and found herself lying on Shi Xue's bed. Lan'er and the wheelchair were beside the bed, and Shi Xue was nowhere to be found.

"Where's my cousin?"

"Miss is already awake, she should be in the meeting hall now." Lan'er said while helping her get dressed and get out of bed.

"The chamber?!"

In the conference hall, the aunt, the third aunt, Shi Xue, Steward Liu, Sergeant Lin and others were discussing Shi Wensheng's funeral. The aunt was in a much more stable mood and was presiding over, "Master has already left. The glorious story has spread, so, Sergeant Lin, please save the master's face for the last time..."

What the two aunts and wives meant was that big things were turned into small things. Shi Wensheng lived to this age, and it was considered joy and mourning.

Shi Xue didn't say anything, she defaulted to this approach and didn't investigate the real culprit.

Qiu Lingxuan opened the system panel to check the progress of the collapse, and found that Shi Xue's character design had collapsed by 47%, but the plot basically did not collapse.

What do you mean, Shi Xue has given up investigating the real culprit, why didn't the plot collapse? Could it be that the plot is not really over until the storm is over?

No, no, Shi Xue gave up the investigation, but the plot did not collapse, which means that the original plot did not find out the truth, and if it wants to be different from the original plot, it is necessary to find out who the murderer is and bring him to justice.

"Wait a minute." Qiu Lingxuan knew that this didn't fit her personality, but she had to say something, otherwise everyone would be led astray and the murderer would really be at large. Resentful ghosts claiming their lives?"

Sergeant Lin was puzzled, didn't everyone spread it like this?

Qiu Lingxuan shook her head, "If my cousin was too shocked and didn't remember it, what about you, did you forget a major premise?"

Sergeant Lin was about to ask what the premise was, but the third aunt rushed: "Miss Ran, you don't have the right to talk about the Shi family's affairs, right?"

Qiu Lingxuan: "I know I don't have the right to speak, so I'll just say something, Sergeant Lin, don't forget, the bloody footprints were not left by the murderer at all, but were deliberately printed by the murderer or an insider."

"Yes, I remembered when you said that, Steward Liu, you said you didn't see bloody footprints when you found Master Shi, but the maid Axiu said there were. Which one of you is lying?"

Butler Liu was at a loss for words.

Sergeant Lin: "During the re-examination of the scene yesterday, we found a pair of slippers full of blood. It is obvious that you deliberately took the bloody footprints printed on Mr. Shi's slippers, and then hid them in a vase. Tell me, why did you do this? , did you kill Master Shi?"

"No, it's not me. I really didn't see it. Maybe, maybe I was too nervous and didn't see it." Butler Liu argued.

"No, you must be able to see it." Qiu Lingxuan said firmly, "Everyone, come with me to the study, and I will prove it to you."

"No, why listen to you?" The third aunt came to stop her again, as if she would stop her no matter what she did.

Fortunately, Shi Xue had recovered, and said seriously: "Listen, if the bloody footprints were not intentionally printed by the housekeeper, what are you afraid of?"

Everyone couldn't refute, they got up one after another, and the butler followed Qiu Lingxuan, asking Miss Biao if you misunderstood, the little one treated you well in the past...

"Master Butler, can you help me get the painting in the middle?" Qiu Lingxuan stopped suddenly, asking for a painting hanging in the middle of the conference hall.

The aunt gave her a dissatisfied look, and the third aunt could not help but roll her eyes, "Don't play tricks on us, or you will feel better."

The housekeeper glanced at Shi Xue, and Shi Xue signaled him to get it, so the housekeeper had no choice but to go around the tables and chairs in the middle of the main hall, and walk from the left to fetch Qiu Lingxuan's painting.

"Okay, that's fine, let's go." Qiu Lingxuan suddenly didn't want it anymore.

This time, not to mention the third aunt, the housekeeper, who has always been good-tempered, got a little angry, "Miss Biao, don't make fun of this old slave."

Qiu Lingxuan said more confidently: "I am not looking for the butler to be happy, you will know later."

When they arrived at the study, Qiu Lingxuan briefly introduced how the three of them found bloody slippers in the study yesterday...

"I think the key to the problem is time, Mr. Butler, please take down the clock."

"Yes." Steward Liu walked around the desk, intending to get the clock from the left, but when he walked to the left, he suddenly realized something, slowed down his steps, and wanted to go to the right.

"Stop." Qiu Lingxuan shouted, "Everyone, do you understand? Do you understand why I believe that the butler must be able to see the bloody footprints?"

"That's it? How do you understand this?" The others, like Sergeant Lin, didn't understand.

"I understand." Shi Xue was smart enough to understand immediately, "Uncle Liu, you are used to walking from the left, because there is a cedar tree on the right side of the study, which is relatively narrow and difficult to walk. It is the same in the meeting hall, you take the painting I also used to walk from the left, because there are many ornaments on the right side of the meeting hall, if you are used to walking from the left, it is impossible not to see the bloody footprints on the left side of the study."

"So, you are lying!" Sergeant Lin Zhuge said afterwards: "There is only one possibility, that is, the bloody footprints were made by you. Because of the guilty conscience, you told me that you didn't see the bloody footprints."

"Old Liu, is it really you?" Auntie couldn't believe it.

Uncle Liu took a deep breath, "It's me, I left the bloody footprints, but... I really didn't kill the master. I have followed the master for more than 20 years. If I want to kill him, there are many opportunities. If I want to do it, I will do it sooner."

Shi Xue: "Then why did you print bloody footprints?"

"I..." Butler Liu hesitated to speak, "Oh, just treat you as masters and I killed you! Don't ask, it's all my fault."

"You spread the word about the ghost's death on purpose?" Qiu Lingxuan asked.

"That's right." Butler Liu answered frankly, but when Qiu Lingxuan asked, who do you want to protect, Butler Liu didn't say anything.

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