Liu Qing walked a few more steps before saying, "One day I was accompanying my young grandmother to buy apples at the back door, and suddenly I saw this man in a trolling house hurrying out of the back door of the Shang family. At that time, his white face rose like that of Master Guan, and his steps were flustered, and after a while, we heard the eldest lady of the Shang family next door slap the table and scold loudly.

Her words paused again, Jing Mo was afraid that she would come to another pass, so she hurriedly urged without bounds, in fact, Jing Mo was also anxious for a while, and because she didn't understand the mind of a woman in this kind of house, although this girl was young, she had already been contaminated with the bad habit of talking about people's privacy that ordinary ignorant women and the three aunts and six women were good at, if Jing Mo lightly understood the temperament of some such people, she would know that even if she didn't ask, she couldn't bear it.

Don't you know, the reason why there are as many as eighteen layers of hell is most likely because the first layer is the hell of tongue pulling, and it has long been crowded, because it has long been full of this kind of long-tongued women who have no ink on their chests and no wind and waves, and they have no choice but to expand down layer by layer.

Jing Mo said a little anxiously: "This is strange and interesting, your young grandmother is naturally going to be weird." ”

"That's right! Isn't it strange that one day, my young grandmother secretly asked Chunlan about it, only to find out that the eldest lady went out to buy something that day, and the person in the towing room was chatting with the third lady in the room, and the eldest lady suddenly entered through the front door, and the person quickly slipped out of the back door, but the eldest lady had seen it. Chunlan said that the third lady cried all night because of this. The next day, when I saw her go out the door, her eyes were really red and swollen. After Liu Qing finished saying this, her chubby cheeks flushed.

Jing Mo thought to himself that this Liu Qing was a girl at a young age, and she would be well versed in the customs of men and women, these women in the house did not know how to read big characters and etiquette, but they understood the private relationship between men and women, and they often knew it without a teacher, and they didn't know what fun it was to chew these tongues? But Jing Mo still had to smile on his face, Jing Mo hadn't answered yet, and the little maid laughed again and continued to explain automatically.

"Actually, the eldest wife of the Shang family is too powerful. Chunlan told me that the second wife was also in the room at that time, and the two of them didn't have any tricks. ”

Jing Mo couldn't help crying and laughing, and said casually: "Alas, Liu Qing, how old are you this year?" Do you think you also know how to do tricks or not? ”

Liu Qing's face turned red, so she pretended to be serious again, and replied, "I don't know anything, this is completely what Chunlan told my young grandmother." …… Alas, you can't tell Chunlan what I said. ”

"I won't say, but when did this happen?"

"It was still hot, about two or three months."

"Then since this incident, this man in tow has come often?"

Not so, until yesterday morning, he came to the funeral again. In fact, he didn't come very often at first. Chunlan said that before the eldest lady quarreled and scolded, that person had only come two or three times, and he had only secretly talked to the young lady at the back door for a few words. ”

"So, you don't know this person's name, do you?"

The little girl shook her head. "Even Chunlan doesn't know."

Jing Mo thought for a while, and then returned to the question of the funeral: "Yesterday, the Shang family had a funeral, didn't the second wife send one?" ”

Liu Qing shook his head and said, "I didn't see it, I only saw the third lady who was wearing a drag, and there were only three people in total, including Chunlan."

"Didn't the eldest young master of his family send one away?"

"I didn't see it either, probably not."

"When did you last see the eldest young master of his family?

"Just the night before yesterday, when those masters were chanting the scriptures, I also saw the eldest young master of his family walking out and walking into the ground to be busy, but I didn't see it for a day yesterday, but the second young master had already returned from Jinling yesterday afternoon."

Jing Mo thought to himself, and caught another clue. He was going to go further, so he continued to ask.

"I see, did you go to Shang's house the night before to see the monks chanting?"

"I only glanced at the front door, and I didn't go in."

"Have you ever seen the corpse of the eldest lady?

"No, no, I'm scared! Who likes to see the dead? ”

"So, who did you see in the Shang family at that time?"

"I saw that the eldest young master of his family and Chunlan were in the guest hall, and a white curtain was hung in the guest hall, and there were six or seven monks blowing outside the white curtain, and inside the white curtain must be dead people." She shuddered, and her feet tightened.

Jing Mo took a long breath and asked again, "Do you know who the third lady of the Shang family usually interacts with?" ”

Liu Qing opened her mouth and said, "There is nothing ......" In the middle of speaking, she suddenly couldn't help but glance at Jing Mo with a cunning gaze, and said in a tone pretending to be an adult.

"Brother Su, I don't think you're just looking for Chunlan, right? Hum! Aren't you also taking a fancy to the third lady of the Shang family? ”

This joke was also unexpected, but Liu Qing saw her flaws, even if she had other problems, maybe she would deceive herself with other jokes. Liu Qing's conversation has given him a lot of clues, and his unintentional investigation can be regarded as quite successful. Jingmo decided to put an end to it for the time being, and at this time he had already walked to the teahouse.

Jing Mo still replied with a smile: "Liu Qing, don't talk nonsense, I'll ask casually because you said something interesting." It's all because you're so funny, and I can't help but get it out of the way. Now I don't ask you, if you see Chunlan, it's best to ask her where she is working now, I'll come to see you again in a day, if you can tell me Chunlan's whereabouts, I will thank you very much. …… This is my reward for today. As she spoke, Jing Mo took out two coins of silver from her pocket and stuffed it into her hand.

Liu Qing clenched his fists when he saw it, and his body retreated: "I don't want it, I don't want it." ”

Jing Mo grabbed her little hand and stuffed the silver coat into her palm: "You take it, it's nothing, it's so procrastinating, how ugly." I have a chance to come to see you again, if you know the location of Chunlan, when the time comes, you remember to tell me that you know, and I will definitely reward you again. ”

After returning to his home, Jing Mo wanted to watch "Journey to the West" again, but he was in a state of confusion and couldn't watch it. Jing Mo sat alone in his study, sorting out his thoughts during the day in his mind, recalling the conversation with Liu Qing during the day, and after a while, he picked up his pen and wrote the clues obtained from the conversation into the following conclusions.

First, the maidservant Chunlan did not disappear until after the funeral on the morning of the 23rd yesterday, and Lai's statement that Chunlan had left three days ago when his wife Qin's illness was obviously made up.

Second, on the night of the 22nd, when the monks were chanting in front of the corpse, Chongming was still there. Then, Chongming's disappearance was only on the evening of the 22nd day before yesterday, or the morning of the 23rd yesterday; In any case, it is also noteworthy that his disappearance occurred after Qin's death.

Third, Jin Chuan already has a lover, and the combination of this person and Jin Chuan is obviously disapproved of by the deceased Qin. And the so-called funeral last day, although it was a mysterious act in other aspects, this scholar participated in it.

This point cannot but be regarded as an important clue in this suspicious case.

Fourth, the confrontation between their families has been given a glimpse of the situation. Although the deceased Qin clan held the financial power. is in the highest position among the family, but her biological son Shang Yuan Jiduo is not at home in the school hall, except for the little maid Chunlan who is a confidant, the Qin family can be regarded as isolated. On the opposite side, Na Lai, her son Chongming, and daughter Jin Chuan are clearly in the same voice. With this kind of confrontation in a family, there is naturally no good thing to speak of, not to mention that the Qin family holds financial power and has opposed Jin Chuan's personal relationship with men outside? In such a situation, there is a real possibility of a catastrophe between families. ”