Raiders of the Duke and Duchess

When these portraits were handed over to Li Yuqi, Li Yuqi's face was all dark, and the veins on his temples were faintly visible.

There are some with crooked melons and cracked dates, some with fleshy faces, some with sallow complexions, and some with eyes as big as a cow, as small as a soybean, and triangular. In the thick stack of portraits, there are not many that look human. Unfortunately, none of these pictures are similar.

Li Yuqi bit his back teeth and knocked on the top one, almost laughing out loud, "Look, look, what are these? Don't talk about anything else, just this one, this is a boy Isn't this a girl?" She still has two buns and looks like she is about ten years old. If such a little girl can do this job, the people in the prison will not have to worry about it all day long. It is said that there is no work.

Ah.

Although he had been mentally prepared for this group of uneducated old men, they probably wouldn't be able to draw anything good, but when he saw these monsters, Li Yuqi was still so angry that he couldn't speak. He threw his hands to Sanji , and at the same time gave him a cold look - what a bad idea!

He seemed to have forgotten that when Sanchi came to ask him, it was he who said, "If you can't describe it, then draw it!"

The result now is that everyone is talking about the same thing. They are just drawn, but none of them look normal. There are monsters, ghosts, snakes, and all kinds of things. Sanji had no choice but to take back the portraits. He lowered his head and saw that the top one did indeed look like a frail little girl. He was about to shake his head when he suddenly remembered what a woman had said to him before, and he suddenly paused. Looking at Li Yuqi, "Your Highness..."

He clutched the pile of paper, hesitating a little, not sure whether he should say it or not - after all, not long ago, His Highness the Crown Prince had just expressed his displeasure with his "thinking" subordinates.

Li Yuqi raised his eyes and said, "Say."

"When my subordinates were following the clues given by Xu Siniang to find this young boy named Xiao Lu, they asked Xu Siniang's neighbors if they had ever seen such a young boy. However, most people were afraid of Wu Zuo, and when they heard "Xu Siniang 'With three words, he disappeared behind closed doors. There were only a few people, but most of them shook their heads and said they didn't know or weren't clear..."

He wanted to speak clearly, but Li Yuqi didn't have the patience to listen to all this. He waved his hand to him and said, "Just tell me the result."

Sangji paused and responded in a low voice, but he couldn't find the words after being interrupted. In addition, he himself felt that these words sounded very nonsensical. If not, he would not "keep it a secret". Looking at this portrait of a female doll at this moment, I feel that the almost absurd possibility, maybe...maybe...is not so ridiculous.

"According to what the woman said, she said that although Xu Siniang was a widower, she had a good personality and was a well-educated person at heart..." Although Sanji couldn't chase him with two kitchen knives. Shen Qian, a woman on several streets associated with the word "knowledgeable and sensible", reported truthfully with a straight face, "The woman said that even if Xu Siniang wants to find an assistant, it should be a girl. After all, this is The mother and daughter live outside, and if there is always a young boy accompanying them when they go in and out, I am afraid that gossip will spread."

Girl?

The widower brought a female apprentice?

Li Yuqi's first reaction was that he didn't believe it at all - how could it be possible? It’s not like working as an uncommon errand! In order to support his family, but he really has no other skills, it makes sense that he has to deal with dead people. If the girl's family conditions are not good, she will either get married early and have children, or find a wealthy family to work as a slave. If she is still somewhat beautiful, she will be lucky enough to be noticed by the owner of the family and take her as a concubine. I will have enough food and clothing for the rest of my life. Which one is not more rewarding than being a widower?

Li Yuqi rested his chin lazily and snorted coldly. He didn't believe such words at all. He waved his hand and let people go down. It seemed that he was still not satisfied, so he smiled and said, "That's what an idiot like you would believe... but you Why don't you ask yourself, when you have a daughter, will you be willing to send her to that kind of place to be a widower? Why do you think the prison has allowed Siniang to be a widower for so many years? Or you can ask Xu Siniang and let Shen Luo Would you like Xin to be her second widow? Ha..." After saying that, he shook his head and laughed.

I was just smiling and laughing, but suddenly I couldn't laugh anymore. He watched Sanji bow quietly and retreat. Just when the other party was about to cross the threshold, he suddenly paused and called, "Wait!"

"That boy...has been following Xu Siniang before?" Li Yuqi asked him.

"Yes……"

"When did you start disappearing?"

Sanji frowned, shook his head after a while and said he didn't know clearly. After thinking for a while, he added, "It seems that it was after the fire... I don't know exactly when. I just heard from the people in prison that at first they came occasionally, Xu Siniang When he was busy, he would come to help, but then he became increasingly invisible. Did Your Highness think of something?"

Xu Siniang has always been a weirdo, so when he heard that she never allowed others to be present during autopsies, Li Yuqi didn't think it was that weird, but what if... her habit was to protect the identity of the servant next to her? The boy who was carrying a box and walking with his head lowered looked exactly the same when he passed by. He looked dry, thin, and had dark skin. As for what he looked like, naturally no one would pay so much attention to an inconspicuous boy.

But if they live in the same room, it is not necessarily the case. After all, a girl's family is different from that of a man. Between the eyebrows and the bones, for these two people, it is a world of difference.

This idea was a bit too bold. If it were anyone else, Li Yuqi would never believe that a mother would take her daughter to do an autopsy, but the other person was Xu Siniang...that woman couldn't do anything.

In this way, it can be explained that when the aunt saw someone asking about "Xiao Lu", she quickly broke down the basket and went to Ji's house to find Shen Luoxin on the pretext of buying vegetables. Xiao Lu, Xiao Lu... I'm afraid it's not Xiao Lu, but... Xiao Luo. Shen Luoxin's... Luo. As for Ji Wuyan... it makes sense why that woman with more clever ideas than the stars in the sky would be friends with Shen Luoxin.

Li Yuqi found that if he explained it with the fact that "Shen Luoxin was the boy who accompanied Xu Siniang to perform the autopsy on Shangguan Yuan", many details that once seemed far-fetched suddenly became clear, like a stick. Invisible sky silk threads the pearls scattered on the ground one by one, forming a string of precious bead curtains.

Shen Luoxin...ah, those two ladies kept it a secret.