Song Wan Yue came out and also saw the carriage not far away, before she could even wait to approach, Gu Yi jumped down from the carriage and ran over quickly, eagerly sizing her up, “Little girl, are you alright?”
“Yes, where is Doctor Yao?”
Gu Yi nudged his mouth towards the carriage, “In the carriage now, as if he had never seen a dead person before, and now he’s scared out of his wits.”
Song Wan Yue, ……
smiled and looked at him, trying to see the clues from his face.
“Is there something on my face?”
Gu Yi subconsciously touched his face.
“No, I just think that you look better after not seeing you for a while.”
As if he had received a great compliment from the sky, Gu Yi instantly straightened his back, “Indeed, I’m growing better looking every moment.”
Song Wangyue,……
Inside the carriage, Doctor Yao had returned to his normal appearance and was sitting against the wall of the carriage on one side, waiting for Song Wangyue to ask him.
The first thing you need to do is to get out of the carriage and call out to the magistrate who lent her the sword, and give him another piece of silver, “This is to pay for the loss of your sword.”
The sword was a special item for the magistrate’s office, so if it was broken, you could get it again, but only when you were solving a case. If it was broken in an unusual way, he could only pay for it himself. Song Wangyue had dragged it all the way to the Yuan residence, and the blade had rubbed against the road, which did damage it.
The magistrate didn’t expect Song Wangyue to pay for it, and after he froze for a moment, he refused to take it, but Song Wangyue forced it into his hand, “Maybe we’ll have to deal with each other again in the future, so I’ll ask for your help when there’s something.”
The magistrate was flattered and repeatedly promised that he would help if anything really happened.
The magistrate went into the magistrate’s office, and a quarter of an hour later Master Gu came out with him, and each got into a carriage and went to the restaurant.
Song Shu and Song Si were also at the tavern.
“How was it?”
Seeing them, Song Si asked anxiously.
“It’s fine, it was just a misunderstanding.”
Song Wangyue downplayed it.
Master Gu also stroked his beard and said, “It was indeed a misunderstanding, Yuan Cheng has already checked it out, Yuan Min’s death has nothing to do with us.”
Song Si breathed a sigh of relief, as he waited just now, he had been thinking about how he could help to keep him safe if Yuan Min’s death was really related to Elder Gu.
After all this tossing and turning, it was already noon.
Master Gu had instructed Master Wei to fix a table of good food, and after everyone had eaten, Song Shu, Song Wan Yue and Gu Yi sent Song Si to the study.
The shopkeeper Wei stood guard at the door.
Inside the house, Doctor Yao whispered to Master Gu that Yuan Min had been struck by Beauty’s Smile.
Master Gu looked serious.
“Are you sure?”
Doctor Yao nodded, “Not far off, Yuan Min’s symptoms are the same as back then ……”
Master Gu raised his hand, and the words after Doctor Yao swallowed back.
……
Yuan House.
All the maids serving in Yuan Min’s courtyard were taken to an empty courtyard, surrounded by a circle of household servants with sticks.
Master Yuan stood with his arms folded, his gloomy gaze sweeping over them one by one, “Who served Miss before she died?”
One of the maids crawled forward a few steps and replied warily, “It was slave servant. I was on duty the first night and kept watch over Miss, I didn’t notice anything unusual about her, until dawn, when I tried to feed her some water as usual, only to find that she had ……”
“And before that?”
Another maid crawled forward, “It was the slave servant who served, helped to medicate Miss’s wounds and wipe her body, and didn’t find anything unusual about Miss.”
“What else?”
The rest and the rest of the maids also crawled forward, saying that there was no abnormality in Yuan Min at that time.
“Who has been here in the last few days?”
“Only Madam Zhang and Miss Zhang.”
“When did they come?”
“The day before yesterday.”
“What was done?”
“When Lady Zhang came to comfort her ladyship, Miss Zhang did call out to Miss a few times, and seeing that she did not respond, she did nothing more.”
“Not true!”
Another maid suddenly yelled, “That day when Miss Zhang came, she insisted on looking at Miss’s injury and even used a hanky to wipe it for her.”
Yuan Cheng snapped, “Say more in detail.”
The maid who spoke trembled and said with trepidation, “On that day, Miss Zhang came and insisted on seeing Miss’s wound, naturally we wouldn’t let her see it, but she was so sick that she insisted on seeing it and said she would wake up if she blew on Miss. We didn’t think much of it, so we let her be.”
Yuan Cheng staggered back a step, unable to accept this reality. The two houses had been friends since more than ten years ago and had grown deeper over the years, there was no reason for the Zhang family to do this, but if not the Zhang family, who could have done this to Min’er?
He trusted Doctor Yao’s judgement and could not possibly say that Min’er had died of poisoning because he was shirking his responsibility.
“Lock them all up, and don’t let a word of what happened today get out!”
……
The Gu family.
Mrs Gu received a long sigh of relief when she received a report from the tavern mate that Master Gu was all right.
Gu Hui’s eyes flickered as she spoke, “That Yuan family is really something too, biting off more than they can chew. It’s just that my father is kind-hearted and doesn’t bother with him, or else he could have had the county magistrate sentence him for this false accusation alone.”
“That’s right.”
Gu Wen was also angry, she already knew what had happened, this matter was the Yuan family’s fault from the beginning, if they hadn’t had black intentions, how could they have taken their own daughter’s life?
“He’s just giving us bad luck! I think he knows that today is the day that my younger brother and the Song girl are engaged to be married, so he deliberately went to the magistrate’s office to sue father so that my younger brother would not be engaged to be married.”
“Oops ……”
Gu Wen remembered something and exclaimed, “The Song family will not back out because of what happened, right, after all, little brother and the Song girl haven’t even changed their gengtis yet.”
“No way!”
Gu Hui immediately got up, “Why don’t I go to the Song family and appease them, the Song family are also sensible people, they shouldn’t have too much of a problem with us.”
Gu Wen said, “How can you not care? Anyone’s daughter would be uncomfortable if something like this happened on the day of her engagement. I will go with big sister.”
Mrs Gu didn’t think of this, and when she saw that Gu Wen had also got up, she waved her hand at her, “The Song family is very kind and righteous, they won’t regret the marriage because of this.
……
The first thing you need to do is to take Song Si to the school, and Song Shu drove the ox cart home. He had to go back early to tell his family.
Song Wan Yue also sat on it.
Gu Yi saw it, and after his eyes slithered around a few times, he also followed.
Song Wangyue,……
Xiao Si, ……
