Lin Jingmo opened his eyes, and like every ordinary morning, warm sunlight slanted in through the window lattice.
Lin Jingmo sat up and instinctively shouted softly in the direction of the soft couch: "Mother Li..."
There was no response for a long time, so she looked towards the soft couch, but there was no sign of Mother Li.
Lin Jingmo got out of bed and opened the door. The girls and women cleaning the yard were busy with their own business. She called Qiaoxiang and was watering the potted plants, so she asked: "Qiaoxiang, is Mother Li still awake?" "I didn't see Mother Li." Qiaoxiang replied: "Maybe I have been taking care of my wife for the past two days. I am tired and sleepy."
Lin Jingmo nodded when he heard this. Yes, she has been in bed for the past few days. Mother Li must have been exhausted from all the busy work.
She looked up at the sun and said, "It's better to wake her up. She's sleeping so hard now that she won't be able to sleep at night."
Qiaoxiang put down the barrel in her hand and said, "You little man, go shout."
"No need." Lin Jingmo said, "I'll call him myself." After that, he walked towards the lower room where Li's mother lived.
She walked to the door and knocked lightly, but no one responded, so she said: "Mama Li, it's late, it's time to get up. I want to pack some things to pay homage to my sister."
Not wanting anyone to respond, Lin Jingmo pushed the door gently and it opened. So she walked into the house and walked to her bed. Then she saw Mother Li lying in a pool of blood with a knife stuck in her heart.
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Lin Jingmo shouted, and people in the courtyard rushed over.
More and more people slowly poured into the room. Lin Jingmo slowly came back to her senses. She pushed aside layers of obstacles and came to Li's mother. She held her hand tremblingly: "Quick, quick
Go and call the doctor!"
The old mother on the side said: "Mother Li has run out of energy, so we should report it to the official first."
When Lin Jingmo heard this, he looked at her angrily with red eyes: "I told you to go find the doctor!"
The servant at home hurriedly went to the Hubu Yamen to call Shang Shixu back. As soon as he entered the main courtyard, he saw many people gathered at the door of the lower room where Mrs. Li lived. Looking through the crack in the door, he saw Lin Jingmo sitting paralyzed in a large pool of blood.
Li, with dull eyes, held Mother Li’s hand and refused to let go.
The double voice on the side said: "At the beginning, we were asked to find a doctor. Several rounds of doctors came, and they all said that there was no way to save it. The government officials wanted to take away the body, so my wife kicked us out and no one was allowed in.
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Hearing this, Shang Shixu gently opened the door. Lin Jingmo turned her head alertly. She was like a frightened little animal, her eyes were scarlet, but she didn't have an attack when she saw it was Shang Shixu.
"Madam..." Shang Shixu squatted beside her, looked at Li's mother's wound, then hugged her with one hand and covered her eyes with the other.
The tense nerves were instantly broken, and the covered eyes were instantly moist.
Ever since she woke up, Mother Li has been by her side, taking care of her food and daily life. For Lin Jingmo, Mother Li is not a servant, but more like a mother-like existence!
Shang Shixu patted her back gently with the hand holding her: "Don't be afraid, madam, can we go out?"
Lin Jingmo shook her head violently and uncontrollably and cried: "No, no, they are going to take Mother Li away! No, Mother Li can't leave me, I can't live without Mother Li." After that, she stretched out her hand.
Jiang Shang Shixu held the hand that was covering her eyes and begged with tears in his eyes: "Please, husband, please save Mother Li, please?"
Shang Shixu tightened Lin Jingmo's hand, looked at Lin Jingmo with a sincere face and said, "Listen to me, madam, if you let the government people in, they will definitely give Mother Li justice."
"Justice? What justice?" Lin Jingmo fiercely let go of Shang Shixu's hand, and continued to hold Mother Li's hand, saying fiercely: "I don't want any justice, I just want Mother Li to stay by my side!" Shang Shixu hugged her tightly from behind and said, "Madam, Mother Li... is dead!"
"Death?" The tears in Lin Jingmo's eyes were like droplets without emotion. Her eyes suddenly froze, and she broke away from Shang Shixu's arms as if losing her mind: "What did you say? Who died?"
Shang Shixu looked at her distressedly and replied unbearably: "Mother Li, she is dead!" After saying that, he stood up, hugged Lin Jingmo, and shouted outside: "Why don't you come in quickly and take the body away?" The officials from outside came in, carried Mother Li's body and left. Lin Jingmo screamed heartbreakingly and struggled with all his strength, but Shang Shixu never let go. In the end, Lin Jingmo had no choice but to collapse on Shang Shixu's body.
Crying in my arms.
I don’t know how long she cried or shouted until Shang Shixu took her back to the room. She was sitting on the bed as if she had no soul. Shang Shixu saw that she was covered in blood, so he said to Qiaoxiang beside him: "Go madam
Get some clean clothes from the main courtyard."
Lin Jingmo looked around aimlessly. This was not the main courtyard where she usually lived, but the side courtyard where Shang Shixu lived.
She didn’t understand why things turned out like this. Her sister was dead, her unborn nephew was dead, and now even Mother Li was dead!
And the source of all this is...
In Lin Jingmo's mind, she suddenly remembered what Li's mother said to her a few days ago: There may be only one murderer, the person who killed her! And that person... that person held the hairpin! As long as the hairpin is found, maybe
You can find the murderer!
The Shang Mansion doesn't say it's big or small, how could a good person die in the yard! Who could be the murderer? He must still be in the Shang Mansion!
Lin Jingmo stood up suddenly and was about to leave. Shang Shixu quickly stopped her and asked, "Where are you going, madam?"
Lin Jingmo said: "The murderer is in the house! The murderer of Li's mother, the murderer of my sister, and...the murderer of me."
Shang Shixu's body trembled when he heard this, a trace of uneasiness flashed across his eyes, and he said with some guilt: "Do you mean, madam, that these murderers are all the same person?"
Lin Jingmo said with firm eyes: "Yes! He is in our house!"
Shang Shixu asked: "How could it be?"
Lin Jingmo said without thinking: "Mother Li told me the day before yesterday that she found that I had lost a hairpin. She felt that the murderer must be related to the hairpin. She discovered the clue and went back to investigate, but she was killed today!"
My murderer must have been discovered by her. The murderer was afraid that the matter would be exposed, so he killed Mother Li."
"If Mother Li really found the hairpin, what about the hairpin?" Shang Shixu took Lin Jingmo and said, "This matter still doesn't make sense, so what does the person who killed Her Royal Highness the Queen have to do with this person?"
Lin Jingmo replied: "My sister usually doesn't eat spicy beef. It's because I want to eat spicy beef, so that person would poison the beef. The murderer's target is me, so he must be the one who wanted to kill me before."