The boudoir in the embroidered building is still neat and tidy. The only difference is that the bronze mirror on the spring stool is gone, leaving only the frame holder made of ivory. Chen Mengsheng turned around and asked: "Master Su, besides you
Who else can enter this embroidery building?"
Su Zhongfan said angrily: "Except for me and my daughter's wet nurse, Lin Shusao, no third person can enter the embroidery building. Dujuan, go and call Lin Shusao. I have something to ask her."
"Yes, sir." Du Juan hurriedly left Su Zhaoqing's boudoir.
Chen Mengsheng picked up the ivory mirror frame and asked, "Master Su, don't you know where this bronze mirror comes from?"
Su Zhongfan frowned and said: "My wife takes care of all the things used in my little girl's boudoir. I never ask questions. Madam, where did you buy that bronze mirror?"
Mrs. Wen looked at everyone, and after being embarrassed for a long time, she said: "The bronze mirror... the bronze mirror was bought in Jiangzhou..."
"Jiangzhou? Huh! You're such a vicious woman, you actually bought a ghost mirror to harm my young son!" Su Zhongfan was furious and stepped forward and slapped Mrs. Wen. Mrs. Wen covered half of her face, her eyes closed.
With tears in her eyes, even though she felt a thousand grievances in her heart, she was suppressed by the angry Su Zhongfan's curses. Mrs. Wen shed tears and ran out of the embroidery building without looking back...
Su Zhongfan said to Chen Mengsheng with still angry anger: "What a misfortune for our family! What a misfortune for our family! The little girl Qing'er was not born to me and Mrs. Wen, but to my second wife. How should I deal with this kind of thing that happened?"
Qing'er's dead mother..."
Du Juan brought a young woman in her thirties. Seeing Su Zhongfan's angry look, she stood silently in front of the boudoir door and did not dare to say anything. Su Zhongfan pointed at the young woman and shouted: "Sister-in-law Lin Shu, let me ask you about the situation in your little girl's room.
Did you take the bronze mirror away?"
Hearing this, the young woman shouted anxiously: "Mr. Su Mingjian, I come to Miss Xiulou every day to clean up. Where can I get Miss's things? The bronze mirror was still there when I came to clean it. Why did it disappear when I knew how to do it?
?”
Su Zhongfan shouted: "Bold woman, you are the only one who can enter and exit the iron gate of the embroidered building except me! If you don't follow the truth, I will escort you to the lobby of Anqing Mansion."
Lin Shu fell to the ground and said sobbing: "Mr. Su, the little lady has been staying in the Su family for fifteen years. Miss Qing'er is like her own child, and the sky and the earth can show the sun and the moon. After the miss disappeared, the little lady
Although she was placed in the front yard by the master, the young lady still thinks of the young lady in her heart..."
Su Zhongfan shouted: "If I found the bronze mirror because of you, I will never forgive you!" Su Zhongfan wanted to drag Mrs. Lin Shu out...
"Wait a minute! Mr. Su, this woman is not someone who hides mirrors. Miss Su has been missing for half a year. If Mrs. Lin was really greedy in the house, I wouldn't have discovered that the bronze mirror was still in the boudoir last night.
"Sister-in-law Lin Shu, when do you come here to clean here every day? Did you see who came to the embroidery building just now?"
"I come to clean the lady's boudoir every day at dawn. I didn't see anyone coming when I was cleaning here today!" Lin Shusao replied affirmatively.
Chen Mengsheng walked to the window and said, "Sister-in-law Lin Shu, did you open this window yesterday?"
Sister-in-law Lin Shu shook her head and said: "No, the little lady will close the doors and windows after cleaning the house and the courtyard. The window that the gentleman mentioned, the little lady often sees open when she comes. The little lady thinks it's Su
The master misses his daughter so much that he often comes to the embroidery building with the windows closed, so the young lady has never told the master about this matter."
Su Zhongfan said in shock: "What window? I have never opened the window of Xiulou?"
Chen Mengsheng stood where the woman in Tsing Yi was last night. Looking north, he could only see the long river in the rain in the distance. Nearby, the courtyard was clean and there were a few willow leaves blown down by the wind. Su Zhongfan came over to take a look.
Said: "Brother Chen, what are you looking at?"
"Mr. Su, my concubine was standing here looking northward last night." Chen Mengsheng said in a low voice.
"North? Could it be that something happened to my little girl in Jiangzhou? As a father, I don't know anything. Alas! I'm so confused. I'm a father in vain. Sister-in-law Lin Shu, please go down with Du Juan. I want to be here.
Be quiet for a moment..." Chen Mengsheng saw Su Zhongfan looking at the window, looking much older, so he stopped disturbing his meditation, and quietly exited the embroidery building with Xiang Xiaotian and others...
Back in the guest room, Chen Mengsheng stopped Cui Lan and Mu Dan. The two little girls knew that Chen Mengsheng was a distinguished guest in the Su family, and they stood on both sides with their hands lowered respectfully. Chen Mengsheng asked: "Apart from the disappearance of the young lady in the Su family, is there anything else that has happened recently?
Has anything strange happened?"
The two little girls looked at each other, and Mudan said: "Sir, except for the sound of pipa singing coming from every now and then, there is nothing weird happening in the Su Mansion."
Chen Mengsheng asked again: "I heard from Mr. Su that your young lady's biological mother has passed away. Why did she die? Is there anyone in the family who has any grudge against your young lady?"
Cuilan girl waved her hands and said: "The young lady's biological mother died before we two entered the Su Mansion, and we have never heard of the reason why the second lady died. Everyone in the Su Mansion is very fond of the young lady, how can anyone have such affection for the young lady?"
What grudge!"
Xiang Xiaotian shouted from the side: "What do you two little girls know? You know people but don't know their hearts. It's hard to paint a tiger's skin but its bones. If someone has the intention to harm you, will they still talk about it? That's the only thing that doesn't
Only barking dogs can bite people to death. You all go and do your work. Even if I tell you this kind of thing, you won’t understand it!”
After the two girls went out, Xiang Xiaotian quickly closed the door and said mysteriously: "Daughter-in-law, brother, you and Miss Shangguan are coming here. You all saw Mrs. Wen's expression in the embroidery building just now.
Well, I saw it for real. Mrs. Wen must have had something to do with the disappearance of his young lady. All the things Miss Qing'er spent were bought by her. How could she be willing to give birth to someone else if she was not her own mother?
Daughters who work hard, being wise is the most poisonous woman!" Shangguan Yanran and Qi Ying both looked at Xiang Xiaotian with a look that could kill. Xiang Xiaotian swallowed a mouthful of saliva and immediately stopped talking...
…
Chen Mengsheng said with a smile: "What the elder brother said is not unreasonable. Now I also doubt Mrs. Wen. But it's not what the elder brother said. It's because we are talking in Mr. Su's study, so there is no need for Mrs. Wen to hide.
.If I heard correctly, this was the second time that Mrs. Wen eavesdropped outside the study. The first time I noticed someone eavesdropping in the study was when Miss Dujuan was talking about what happened that night, so it was not inconvenient for me to interrupt.
she……"
"Listen, even my brother said this. I'm just saying, then Mrs. Wen must be the one who planned it. Huh? Brother, that's not right. Mrs. Wen knows that the female ghost in the bronze mirror only treats young girls.
Are you going to take action? What if the female ghost in the mirror harms everyone in the Su family? She won't be able to escape. This...I don't understand this. Could it be that Mrs. Wen is the female ghost in the mirror? "
Chen Mengsheng sighed: "Brother, Mrs. Wen is not a female ghost. I can vouch for this. But I know nothing about what happened. We can't make wild guesses until there is no conclusive evidence that it was Mrs. Wen who did it. Feng Yu
There will always be sunrise, let’s wait and see what happens.”…
Su Zhongfan and Mrs. Wen were not seen out the whole day. During the two meals, brothers Su Zhaoyun and Su Zhaohe accompanied them. When Chen Mengsheng asked about Mr. Su and Mrs. Wen, the two brothers from the Su family were vague and said it was Su.
The master was still in the embroidery building, and Mrs. Wen was even sick and could not excuse herself. The matter in the Su Mansion was not yet clear, so Chen Mengsheng and others ate something hastily and went back to the guest room to rest.
When it was time to watch, Xiang Xiaotian and Qi Ying went back to their rooms to rest. Chen Mengsheng dismissed the two little girls in the guest room, taught some Shangguan Yanran the Thousand-foot Movement Technique in the Great Compassion Mantra, and then went back to their rooms. Chen Mengsheng
Alone in the room, whenever I close my eyes, I will think of the skeleton female ghost with a face hanging down on her shoulders. Are she and the female ghost that Du Juan saw raising her head and combing her hair in the bronze mirror the same female ghost? Su Zhaoqing is not a ghost.
body, but where is it hiding? Who hid the bronze mirror when the bronze mirror suddenly disappeared? Or did the bronze mirror disappear on its own? What kind of object is the bronze mirror? Where did it come from? These links are linked one by one.
The question left Chen Mengsheng unable to find an answer...
"Tuk, dun, dun..., dun, dun, dun..." There were intermittent knocks on the door outside the guest room. Chen Mengsheng thought it was Cuilan and Mudan who came to deliver tea. He walked out of the room and opened the door.
She called out in a low voice: "Mrs. Wen, why is it you?" Outside the door, Mrs. Wen leaned against the door with a haggard look on her face. All her clothes were soaked by the rain. Her bun and hair stuck to her pale face.
Chen Mengsheng hurriedly invited Mrs. Wen into the living room, poured her a cup of hot tea and said: "Mrs. Wen is here late at night, and I would like to invite you to drink a cup of hot tea first to drive away the rain and coldness on your body."
At this moment, Mrs. Wen no longer looked any graceful and elegant. Her white lips moved and she said in a voice as light as a mosquito moan: "Sir, please help me..., Sir, please save me..." She fell softly.
on the ground.
The force of falling to the ground knocked over the teacup on the small table, and the crisp crackling sound of the porcelain cup alarmed Xiang Xiaotian and the others. Shangguan Yanran opened the door and looked over and said: "Ah, it's Mrs. Wen who has fainted. Senior brother
, what happened?" Immediately outside the guest room, two girls, Cui Lan and Mu Dan, came knocking on the door and asking urgent questions. Chen Mengsheng told them in the hall that he accidentally hit the tea cup, and told them to go back to rest and clean up tomorrow.
The two girls waited outside the door for a while, but no one came to open the door, so they left in frustration...
"Brother, Mrs. Wen... What happened to Mrs. Wen?" Xiang Xiaotian asked in confusion.
"It's okay. It's because Mrs. Wen is weak and has been exposed to the rain and hasn't eaten for a day. I can just cast the nectar spell." After Chen Mengsheng cast the spell, Mrs. Wen woke up and cried loudly to Chen Mengsheng.
Shangguan Yanran helped Mrs. Wen sit down and said, "Mrs. Wen, if you have anything to say here, just say it."
"I...I am wronged. I never harmed Qing'er. I bought that bronze mirror because Qing'er liked it. I really didn't know there was a female ghost in it. Qing'er, Qing'er.
.I...I can't argue now. Sir, you must save me." Mrs. Wen sobbed.
Chen Mengsheng looked at Mrs. Wen and said, "I'm sorry for Chen Mengsheng's abruptness, but please don't blame Mrs. Wen..."