"Thank you, cousin!" An Shaohua saluted Li Cun.

Li Cun held his hand, "Weiqing, there is one more thing."

"Cousin, please speak up."

"I've actually never seen Liu Xiaoxiao before."

An Shaohua was taken aback, and immediately said: "Cousin, don't worry, Liu Guang and I are not the ones who gossip."

"Huh? Hahahahaha..." Li Cun hesitated for a moment, then laughed. "It's okay, my father always thinks that a man standing in the world, admiring the flowers and stealing the fragrance is all romantic, so..." He said with a wry smile, "So this is harmless, but I really don't know who Liu Xiaoxiao is."

"But……"

"On the night that Master Lu was killed, I didn't drink the hangover soup."

Hearing this, An Shaohua could not help but sit up straight.

"The heat was unbearable, and I couldn't sleep. After knocking on the clapper in the middle of the night, Qi Ran opened the door and went out for a while. I should have fallen asleep in a daze. Then the Qi Ran door rang, and I was woken up , So I opened the back window to enjoy the cool air. When I heard Qi Ran’s door ring, I thought he had come back, but who knows when he had already returned to his room, and this time he went out again.”

As Li Cun said, he opened the window.An Shaohua sat by the window as he pointed out, and Li Cun pointed out the window for him: "I am sitting here to pass the time, and I have no intention of intruding on people's privacy."

An Shaohua nodded when he heard the words, "Although there is a small path outside the window, there should be no one walking there on weekdays." It was obvious that Li Cun had seen his private affairs and was always brooding about them, An Shaohua spoke out to comfort him.

"That's right, this path doesn't lead anywhere. There is only one swing on the turn, but it has been in disrepair for a long time, and there is only one shelf left." Li Cun pointed to An Shaohua, there was a wooden shelf behind the flowers.Then he pointed to the place where they were standing, "The one who was with Qi Ran at that time was the ninth day of junior high school. Qi Ran said something like 'Miss Liu Xiaoxiao, you and I are destined to meet each other from thousands of miles away'," he said, glancing at An Shaohua, She raised her eyebrows, "Then, Wei Qing doesn't need to know every word of some ordinary slutty words."

An Shaohua nodded, and Li Cun wrung his hands, as if he was considering his words: "Then, then they..."

"That's enough...the lewdness..." An Shaohua helped him answer the question.

"No, no, it's not that kind of thing. Well... it's just up and down."

An Shaohua covered her eyes with her hands, and smiled wryly: "It's really insulting."

"I heard Qi Ran speak presumptuously, so I left the window. Later, when I heard the voice was wrong, I wanted to stop it." Li Cun said, first left the window, then walked to the window, leaned out, "At this moment, I saw a cloth bag falling out of Chu Jiu's arms. The color is not very clear, it's just black and white."

Under the moonlight, the colors are naturally not clear, black and white, probably both dark and light colors.

"Thank you cousin."

"Also, when Qi Ran picked up the cloth bag, he let out an exclamation."

When An Shaohua heard the words, he looked at Li Cun, and Li Cun nodded, "Then they made an appointment to meet in Qi Ran's room at the first shift of the next day."

"After all, it is related to a woman's reputation, so when you asked me the next day, I only told the truth about her identity, and didn't say anything about them. And Qi Ran..." Li Cun was a little embarrassed, after all, he said behind his back People, especially that person is dead, Li Cun is a little speechless.

"It's a villain's behavior." An Shaohua helped him complete the sentence.

Li Cun smiled wryly: "Oh, I'm really afraid of what Qi Ran will say if he becomes angry from embarrassment. Even if Qi Ran's family background is ruined, he is still a son of Yong'an Jing. If he says something about me, I will never be able to refute it. Yes. So I lied. Besides, I thought it was just an affair, but the next day..."

"Li Cun didn't make it to the first watch at all."

Li Cun nodded. "So I went to look for you early in the morning, but it was still a step late."

"Do you still have any memory of that cloth bag?"

Li Cun didn't realize what kind of cloth bag it was at first, but An Shaohua asked him twice before he understood.Li Cun told An Shaohua that the cloth bag was about the size of a gown, and Qi Ran took it away.

"Qi Ran took it?"

"Yes, he put it in his arms, and said that if he wanted the cloth bag on the ninth day of the ninth day, he would go to his room at the first watch of the next day."

An Shaohua sat by the window, looking at the direction Li Cun pointed, with far-sighted eyes, and remained silent for a long time.

The breeze blows, the shadows of the trees dance, the flowers sway and rustle.A faint fragrance is sent, and a figure walks by on the path in the distance.

The path of the two people's night party that Li Cun said was not close to the window, An Shaohua thought about it for a while, and the moonlight on the night of the twelfth was not too bright. "Cousin," An Shaohua suddenly stood up and walked in front of Li Cun, "Cousin, was this the first time you met Chu Jiu on the night of the [-]th?"

"No, I should have met on the morning of the [-]th."

"Early on the twelfth?"

"Yes," Li Cun thought for a while, and said that he did not leave Beijing ahead of schedule for various reasons. It was only on the day of Lu Zhongyuan's marriage that he came with a few college students who were not planning to come to Cangzhou. It was not to please Lu Zhongyuan, but to Just for fun.

An Shaohua followed his lead and said a few words, Li Cun took the lead and said, a group of nine of them came to Cangzhou by boat on the evening of the [-]th, and arrived at the ferry early in the morning of the [-]th.

On the morning of the [-]th, the rain stopped and the air was cool and comfortable. They walked out of the cabin, stretching their muscles and exchanging greetings, all very happy.Turning around, I saw Qi Ran get off the boat, and Qi Ran took another boat, which was supposed to arrive in Cangzhou on the night of the [-]th, but it rained heavily in Cangzhou on the night of the [-]th, and the boat stopped on the other side for the whole night, and only crossed the river at dawn. Qi Ran and the others scolded the boatman while getting off the boat.

Several porters came to try to get some work.People on the pier came and went in a hurry, shouts, farewells, and hawking were all Cangzhou accents, very noisy, but also very fresh.

Li Cun first saw the Lu family's carriage, and was about to step forward, but saw Qi Ran pass by.Some of the people traveling with him knew Qi Ran and did not want to ride with him.Li Cun didn't know Qi Ran at all, so he went to inquire out of curiosity and listened to the arrangement.It's nothing more than saying that Qi Ran is a lustful, greedy, treacherous and cunning person, so we can't get along with him.

Some people said that the maid from Lu's mansion who came to pick up Qi Ran was very familiar, but she couldn't remember where she met her.

The porter who helped Li Cun with his luggage heard the news, glanced at it, and said, "This little lady picked up people here before dawn. It rained heavily last night, so few boats came. There is a young man from Yong'an Jing. He hugged this little lady. Tsk tsk tsk..."

"Boy?"

"That's what the porter said. I don't know why he said it was a boy."

"That maid who went to pick him up is Chu Jiu?"

"Yes, at that time Qi Ran went up to talk to Chu Jiu, and the mood of the two of them talking was not right." Li Cun described it, and now it sounds like an ordinary dude's molesting attitude when he sees a fireworks girl, but at that time Li Cun and others From the human point of view, it was just an inappropriate teasing between a guest and a maid sent by the host to pick him up.So someone from the Li family stepped forward to stop him, Qi Ran stopped temporarily, Chu Jiu thanked, and the carriage took the guests back to Lu's house first, but Chu Jiu stayed at the pier to wait.

An Shaohua nodded.After asking Li Cun a few more words, Li Cun knew everything, and explained the matter clearly in a few words.An Shaohua wished Li Cun to go to the main hall of the Lu family to have a banquet together in the evening, Li Cun was stunned for a moment, and did not push it in vain, and agreed simply.An Shaohua's affairs are over here, so she won't stay any longer.

Going out of the yard, An Shaohua turned around and arranged for the people from the Ministry of Criminal Justice to find the porter who brought them things according to Li Cun's description, while he walked towards Lu Quan's study.He still couldn't let go of the screen in Lu Quan's study.

He went straight to the study and looked at it for a long time, but he couldn't see anything except the exquisite double-sided embroidery technique.Not long after, Gu Li and Gao Xinli came, and Gu Li looked at the screen and said, "The embroiderer of this screen is very..."

An Shaohua and Gao Xinli stared at him, and Gu Li couldn't say the right words. After thinking for a long time, he finally said, "Very dumb."

"Stay?" Gao Xinli put on a dumbfounding expression.

An Shaohua went up to look again, but couldn't see anything.

"It's right here, here!" Gu Li walked forward in two or three steps, pointed to the auspicious cloud behind the Antarctic fairy and said, "Look, this auspicious cloud is so beautiful, um, chic, elegant, and it feels like it can move But the other auspicious clouds are very rigid, just like the ones that Jing He traced out from the words on the wall."

After hearing the words, An Shaohua leaned over to take a look, and then realized that this embroidery screen should be embroidered by two people. The main pictures of Anji Xianweng and Songhe Yannian, together with Xiangyun and Shouwen at the beginning, should be a person with superb craftsmanship. It was embroidered, and the subsequent auspicious clouds and longevity patterns should have come from another person.That's why it gave people a feeling of incongruity. An Shaohua felt enlightened, and suddenly realized.Going forward to hug Gu Ling, Gu Ling let him hug him, but his face was half a smile, and his eyebrows were raised.

"In this way," Gao Xinli said suddenly, "this auspicious cloud's embroidery method." He pointed to the first auspicious cloud, which was the elegant auspicious cloud repeatedly praised by Gu Cheng, and said, "it's similar to the Xuan Yun embroidery that Lu Quan wore when he died. The embroidery work on the color gown is very similar."

After finishing speaking, it seemed that he couldn't remember clearly, so he recruited people to compare the clothes of the deceased.

Sure enough, the auspicious clouds on the neckline, cuffs and belt of that dress were very similar to the embroidery on the screen, but the ones on Lu Quan's dress were somewhat not detailed enough. "If Lu Xiamiao is not lying, this screen should have been here for more than ten years." An Shaohua said leisurely.

Gu Cheng looked at him, then looked at the clothes on the tray, and suddenly realized: "Presbyopia!"

If screen embroidery and clothes are made by the same person.The double-sided embroidered screen is exquisitely crafted. It is impossible for a beginner to embroider it with more than [-] years of experience. Then this person should be around [-] when embroidering the screen. After more than ten years, forty or fifty years old, Presbyopia is also normal.

The three big men were facing the embroidery screen and comparing patterns with the clothes. Lu Zhongyuan and Qiao Lai came over together to inform them that it was time to go to the main courtyard.Mao Zhou has arrived at Lu's house and is about to have a banquet.

An Shaohua looked at Gao Xinli, Gao Xinli straightened his clothes, "Master An, please."

He turned around to look at Gu Zhen again, and stretched out a hand: "Madam, please."

Gu Cheng put his hand in his, smiled and said "Let's go"

The three walked towards the main courtyard.

The setting sun is like blood, and the tree shadows are like ghosts. In the empty study room, the Antarctic fairy is still smiling.

A few servants came over and carried the embroidered screen to the main courtyard.

The servant girl trotted all the way, hastily dodged, held up her sleeves and wiped the sweat from her forehead.

An old servant with red eyes muttered something, and with trembling hands lit the white lantern at the door.

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