Divine Doctor's Daughter: The Imperial Concubine

Chapter 111
The lotus pond in Sheng Junior Courtyard has already surrounded a circle of people, and the maids are still some distance away from the pond, pointing at the people in the pond in fear and curiosity, and there is even a woman kneeling by the pond without any image, Looking at the woman in the pool, she cried, "Zhen'er, how did you become like this! Zhen'er"

The people around couldn't bear to shed tears when they heard it. They raised their hands to wipe the tears from the corners of their eyes, and comforted the woman softly.

Chu Ruoying turned her head to look at Li Xia, and Li Xia immediately whispered: "Miss, the maid who is crying is Guo Er who has a good relationship with Zhen'er on weekdays, and she is also a law-abiding person on weekdays."

Chu Ruoying nodded, thinking that Chu Lie hadn't come back in the early morning, she raised her hand and asked the servant girl behind her to call Aunt Qin and Aunt Pei, and walked forward slowly.

When the surrounding maids saw Chu Ruoying coming, they immediately stepped aside, quietly waiting for Chu Ruoying to deal with her.

Chu Ruoying already knew the ins and outs when she came, so she didn't ask any more questions at this moment, and asked the servant behind her to fish out Zhen'er from the pool, and then she went forward to have a look.

Chu Ruoying carefully looked at Zhen'er's body, and found that her body was swollen a bit, and her whole body was bloodless, as pale as a piece of white paper, and there were scars scratched by lotus leaves on her cheeks. Yingying squatted down and pulled the clothes around Zhen'er's neck a little. Seeing that there was a black and purple circle around her neck, she knew that Zhen'er was probably strangled to death before being thrown into her yard.

Chu Ruoying looked around at the maids around her, and said coldly, "Who is Tassel?"

As soon as the words fell, a servant girl came out from the crowd, knelt on the ground tremblingly, and said in a low voice, "It's a servant girl."

"Get up." Chu Ruoying glanced at her indifferently, and waited for Liusu to stand up before walking to the lotus pond, and asked in a deep voice, "How did you find out the truth, come forward and demonstrate again."

"Yes." Although Liusu was afraid in his heart, he did not dare to disobey Chu Ruoying's order. He moved to Chu Ruoying's side, pointed to the crooked lotus leaf and said, "This is where I saw Zhen'er's hair." , and then carefully pushed aside the lotus leaves, and saw Zhen'er's current appearance."

"Did you carefully push the lotus leaves aside?" Chu Ruoying stared at a broken lotus leaf in the lotus pond, and asked again.

Liusu nodded hastily, and said in a panic: "Because I was worried that the lotus leaves would be damaged, the servants did push them away carefully, so they can be pulled back after a while, just like usual."

Chu Ruoying saw that beads of sweat were dripping from Liusu's face, she believed in her heart that she was not lying, she nodded and said, "Okay, you should step back first."

"Which one of you was the last to see Zhen'er?" Chu Ruoying thought for a while, and asked facing the maids in the yard.

"It's a slave." Guo'er, who had been crying all the time, knelt on the ground and cried: "Miss, you must be the master for Zhen'er. Zhen'er has always kept her duty. Yesterday Zhen'er said it was her turn to guard the yard. In the evening Put on a coir raincoat and go out."

"Coir raincoat?" Chu Ruoying's eyes flickered, looking at Guo'er who was crying, "Did you really go out wearing the coir raincoat?"

"Yes." Guo'er replied resolutely, and continued: "The maidservant put the coir raincoat on for her, thinking that it can protect her from the rain and keep her warm."

Chu Ruoying suddenly fell silent. A maid suddenly died in the courtyard. She was only a third-class maid. She was strangled to death and thrown into the lotus pond. strangeness.

While Chu Ruoying was contemplating, Chu Lie had already returned to the mansion, and after hearing the news, he walked directly towards the Sheng Junior Courtyard. He happened to bump into two aunts on the way, and at the corner, he bumped into someone who was rushing over. Yan Ruwei, Chu Xin'er, Aunt Jin and Aunt Hua were huddled in their own yard. They didn't know if they hadn't heard the news, or they didn't want to participate in this muddy water at all, so they stayed behind closed doors.

"What happened?" Chu Lie frowned when he saw Chu Ruoying standing beside the lotus pond in a daze as soon as he entered Sheng's junior courtyard, and there was a maid's body lying not far away.

Chu Ruoying came back to her senses, looked at the mighty group of people behind Chu Lie, couldn't help squinting her eyes slightly, stepped forward to salute Chu Lie, and then slowly told all the things she found, Hearing this, Chu Lie also stepped forward to investigate, and his eyes darkened a bit.

"Since father has also read it, let people bury Zhen'er. As for the rest, father can handle it." Chu Ruoying said everything that should be said, and how Chu Lie judged her I didn't want to say any more, but as soon as Chu Ruoying's words fell, Chu Xiner made a sound in confusion.

"Isn't that servant girl holding sister's hairpin?" Following Chu Xin'er's exclamation, everyone's eyes shifted to Na Zhen'er's hand. Sure enough, her palm was tightly held, and a little light could be seen only carefully. of black.

With a sullen face, Chu Lie opened Zhen'er's hair, then took out the hairpin, took a deep look, and then looked at Chu Xin'er with a hint of deep meaning in his eyes.

Chu Ruoying's face turned cold, she turned her head and reprimanded Chu Xiner: "Second sister, don't talk nonsense."

Seeing Chu Ruoying's cold face, Chu Xiner felt even more joyful in her heart. She felt that Chu Ruoying must have not found out, and there was no other way at the moment, so she wanted to shut herself up. Although it was low, it was enough for the important people in the courtyard to hear clearly, "That is obviously my sister's hairpin. My sister also said that it was a gift from Prince Jin, and it was inlaid with black pearls. Only then did Xin'er remember it clearly."

Hearing this, Chu Lie's face became more gloomy. From the corner of the eye, he looked at the calm Chu Ruoying, and the hand holding the hairpin was even stronger.

"Shut up!" Chu Lie looked at Chu Xin'er in front of him, and finally shouted.

Chu Xiner's face was full of disbelief, she looked up at Chu Lie with hatred in her eyes, Yan Ruwei on the side smiled and stepped forward, patted Chu Xiner's back lightly, with With a sense of appeasement, she said to Chu Lie, "What are you doing so fiercely, Xin'er is still a child."

"Miss Yan is very generous. Now that someone died in the house, I thought that a benevolent person like Miss Yan would be very sad, so I didn't ask anyone to come over. Miss Yan got the news from nowhere, and I I didn’t say anything, but there was always a smile on my face, it’s really my Buddha’s mercy!” Chu Ruoying didn’t have a trace of expression on her face, and her words were also in a flat tone, but it made Yan Ruwei pale and weak He took a step back and let Nanny Sun carefully support her.

Looking at Yan Ruwei's smiling face, Chu Lie felt a little suspicious in his heart, then saw Yan Ruwei retreating weakly, couldn't help feeling pity, turned around to look at Chu Ruoying, and said dissatisfiedly: "After all, Ruwei is Your elders, listen to what you say, where are your etiquettes?"

Chu Ruoying suddenly felt that pretending to be weak could really satisfy Chu Lie's caring heart with a human face and animal heart, but her face was calm, and she said flatly: "Father is wrong, this is a family matter after all, and Miss Yan is an unknown person. In other words, people who temporarily live in the Chu Mansion shouldn't be participating. Now you look at Miss Yan, the maids and servants around her have not fainted from fear. Miss Yan looks as if she is about to faint. If Miss Yan People from the Chu Mansion, if it spreads out, it really disrespects the General Mansion!"

Yan Ruwei is really at a loss at this time, dizzy, that is what Chu Ruoying said, don't be dizzy, I am afraid that Chu Lie will have doubts about her, and immediately froze there, not knowing what to do.

"Miss, are you okay? It's all the old slave's fault. Last night you made clothes for the general and stayed up all night. Miss, you are not in good health. If anything goes wrong, the old slave will definitely die. what!"

"Nurse Sun! Don't worry, general, Ruwei is fine, it's just..." Before Yan Ruwei finished speaking, Chu Ruoying interrupted her, "Miss Yan, please rest more, my Chu family Although the family is not considered a big business, my father's embroidery room can still afford a few clothes, so I don't bother Miss Yan. After she finds a place to live and moves out of the Chu Mansion, outsiders will say that my Chu Mansion has treated Miss Yan badly. "

"No, miss misunderstood me, I mean" Yan Ruwei saw that Chu Ruoying compared her with ordinary embroidered girls, she felt a cloud of anger in her heart, but she bit her face aggrieved She was talking in a low voice when Chu Ruoying interrupted her again, looked at Chu Lie and said, "Miss Yan doesn't care what Miss Yan means, what matters now is the death of a servant girl in my courtyard for no reason. What does father think?"

Chu Lie looked at Yan Ruwei's weeping look, although his heart ached, he couldn't comfort her in front of the daughter who was about to become Princess Jin, he could only give her a look, and then put his mind back to this matter.

"Why for no reason, doesn't that maid have sister's hairpin in her hand?" Seeing that neither of them focused on the hairpin, Chu Xiner couldn't help becoming impatient, and opened her mouth to shout.

Chu Ruoying couldn't help shaking her head when she heard the words. She really couldn't understand how such a capable person like Ye Shi could have such a mindless daughter. She turned around and looked at Chu Xin'er with a smile that was not a smile, and said lightly: "Second sister Do you think it was my hand?"

"Xin'er didn't say that. Xin'er was just puzzled by the hairpin in the maid's hand, and she didn't understand." Chu Xiner almost said it directly, and she came back to her senses after being pinched around her waist. He spoke the words he had thought up before.

"Speaking of not understanding, I want to know how Second Sister saw that hairpin. I didn't see it through careful inspection before." Chu Ruoying said with a puzzled face and eyes full of curiosity.

"Xin'er is just a coincidence." Chu Xiner said anxiously with a little panic in her heart.

(End of this chapter)