"The deceased's concubine?"
On top of the beam, Di Xiangling looked at Mrs. Hu, with half of her body almost under the bed. She didn't care about the dust staining her delicate hair bun. She just gritted her teeth and compensated with her face, as if she wanted to take something.
Of course she wasn't in a hurry to leave, she just looked down quietly.
Di Jin's overall plan for this investigation is to first observe the expressions of the Liu family's servants to see if anyone expresses sorrow for Liu Congguang's death. If so, remember their appearance and name, and then interrogate them as witnesses.
Then we went to the room where Liu Congguang's body was found and conducted a careful on-site investigation, looking for clues that might have been ignored by the Kaifeng government office. No clues were found, but it was too clean, and it was also a clue.
Next, there are several important targets involved in the case.
Liu Congyi, who was the first to discover the body the day before yesterday, Liu Congde, who yesterday sent the "Su Wuming Biography" to the government office as a clue, concubine Madam Hu, wife Qin and their son and daughter, especially the speechless one. daughter.
Now, leaving aside the others, Madam Hu took the initiative to come to her door.
This girl was born in a small family and had no status or background. However, she was very beautiful and was taken into the family by Liu Congguang. She was the only one who was favored. However, it was rumored that she was unruly and had sex with men, and everyone in the house gossiped about her.
However, paper cannot cover the fire. If the adultery is true, Liu Congguang will find out one day. With his temperament, it is easy to imagine what will happen to Madam Hu.
The status of concubines is sometimes unimaginably low. Let’s put it this way. In the Song Dynasty, a master who beat a maid to death, that is, a hired female servant according to the legal definition, may be punished. There are indeed examples of punishment in history, but If the master beats to death his adulterous concubine, the government will not even bother with it, let alone murdering the husband.
Therefore, in normal development, once Liu Congde, the mastermind of the family, takes the "Biography of Su Wuming" and thinks that Madam Hu killed his younger brother Liu Congguang according to the method of the adultery and husband-murder case mentioned above, then it is okay to beat Madam Hu to death directly. of.
Of course, now that the case has been paid attention to by the Queen Mother, it is impossible to impose the death penalty. It has to be handed over to the Kaifeng government office for interrogation. However, the Kaifeng government office informed Liu Mansion that there is currently no evidence to prove that Madam Hu is the murderer. She can only be kept in the house and cannot be privately Interrogation, let alone punishment.
"Normally, if a concubine loses her beloved husband and almost suffers such a fate, shouldn't she hide in her own house and be afraid? This woman is so courageous that she dares to come to the scene of the murder?"
Under Di Xiangling's scrutinizing gaze, Madam Hu finally succeeded. She heard a click and seemed to open a partition, then reached out and took out something.
Madam Hu wiped her forehead with the back of her hand, which was already covered with a layer of fine sweat, but she looked at the object in her hand with such eager eyes that her body trembled with excitement.
From Di Xiangling's perspective, he could easily see that it was a box that looked very solid and was locked.
Madam Hu panted for a moment, regained her composure, took out a delicate key from her waist, inserted it into the keyhole, and turned it.
Eventually the box opened, revealing a stack of papers inside.
"laugh!"
Madam Hu took out one of the pictures, looked at it carefully, and suddenly laughed in a low voice, with a bit of nervousness in her laughter: "Finally! Finally got it!"
"A shop? No... wait! Could it be the property deed of the capital?"
Di Xiangling could see clearly that the format of the paper should be a deed. He originally thought it was a shop, but seeing how excited the other party was, he suddenly realized that it could be the deed of the capital's house?
It doesn't matter if it's real estate elsewhere. Real estate in the capital. It's no exaggeration to say that as long as it's in the inner city, even if it's a single-entry house, it's still a huge sum of money!
And there are five deeds in this box!
"Hahahaha!"
Madam Hu laughed nervously a few more times, then carefully folded the deeds and stuffed them into her waist. After thinking about it, she took out one of them, stuffed it into the gap in the bed, locked the box again, and started again. Tuck it back under the bed.
Her mentality was still very calm. She didn't just fool around with it, but put it completely into the secret compartment and covered the outer partition to make sure that no one who knew about it could find it. Then she got up.
After getting up, he patted the dust on his body and even went to the mirror beside the table to straighten his hair in a bun so that no one could see it.
This busy work consumes a lot of energy and even more time. It is already dark outside. The candles in each room are lit, but it is still dark in this room. Madam Hu is shining and shrinking. , a little scared.
But after a while, she seemed to have figured it out, and bowed to the bed, saying in a sweet voice: "Husband, since you have passed away and you are alive in heaven, you don't want the slave family to be alone, right? These slave families will take it, It’s better than leaving it to the heartless wife and the brother who is looking forward to a separation!”
Di Xiangling felt that Mrs. Hu's suspicion could be completely ruled out.
Unless the other party is a master of concealment and can know that he is staring at her from the rafters, there is no need for a person to talk to himself and show off.
From Madam Hu's words, it not only showed that Liu Congguang was not killed by her, but he still had to be protected by the spirit in heaven, but also revealed many circumstances.
It's normal to have no affection for your first wife. After all, they both want to pamper their concubines and destroy their wives. Even if they were affectionate before, they probably hate each other now. However, the Liu family is planning to separate the family. This makes no sense...
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It is normal for wealthy families to separate their families. Some of them do it to spread their branches and spread their branches all over the world. Some of them deliberately downgrade their households to avoid the labor of the court.
But the Liu family does not meet these two points. Is this so-called family separation a fight for property between brothers?
That's why Liu Congguang carefully hid the deed of the house under the bed. Judging from the current situation, others really didn't know about it, but he couldn't hide it from his beloved pillow concubine. As a result, he died without anyone noticing. Immediately transfer his inheritance to your own pocket...
"It's a very smart calculation, but it's a pity that the mantis stalks the cicada, and the oriole follows behind!"
Di Xiangling glanced outside, shook his head, and quietly swept down: "It's okay if we can't let this concubine be convicted now, so I'll reluctantly help you!"
"call!"
Madam Hu was ready to leave at this time, but after opening the door, she suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing behind her, and her whole body was agitated.
But before she had time to look back, her expression had already changed.
Because a group of more than a dozen people were walking toward the courtyard holding oil lamps. The leader's eyes met hers, and then he immediately shouted: "Bitch! You are really here!"
Madam Hu managed to calm down and walked out of the room: "Isn't this the second brother? Why are you talking so harshly to the slave family?"
Liu Mei had five sons in total, one died in infancy and the other died of illness. The ones who are still alive today are the eldest son Liu Congde, the second son Liu Congyi and the youngest fifth son Liu Congguang.
The person who came was Erlang Liu Congyi, his face was as dark as water, and he said coldly: "Second brother? Are you a bitch concubine worthy of calling me like this? Fifth brother is stupid and wants to pamper his concubine and destroy his wife. I don't want to let him do what he does. I didn’t expect it...it’s still too late! It’s too late!”
Madam Hu's eyes turned red, and she cried: "My husband met with an accident the day before yesterday, and now his body is still cold. As the second brother, do you want to oppress this widow of the slave family?"
When Liu Congyi heard this, he spat directly on the ground: "You still dare to show off here? Bring the people up!"
Two maids were brought over, one was safe and sound, the other was covered in wounds, with her head hanging down, both beaten until she was about to faint.
Madam Hu first looked at the safe and sound maid, and sighed: "Mother Jin, were you the one who tipped off the news?"
Then he looked at the one who had been beaten with a bruised nose and face, his eyes were distressed, and his tone was low: "Yun'er is very innocent, she is just getting close to the slave family, why do you bother to be so cruel..."
Liu Congyi ignored him and shouted: "Say, you, this cheap concubine who steals people, is obviously locked up in the house, what are you doing here?"
Tears welled up in Madam Hu's eyes: "The slave family has never stolen anyone, it's just that the servants were jealous of the slave family being favored by the husband and started making trouble... They came here to pay homage to the husband!"
Liu Congyi sneered: "Sacrifice? Ha! Are you afraid that you came here to steal the fifth brother's inheritance and are waiting for an opportunity to escape?"
Madam Hu's body swayed slightly. Although she was still crying, her voice was trembling uncontrollably: "You are spitting blood!"
"You can't help but admit it! Go and search me!"
Liu Congyi waved his hand, and three servant girls flashed out and rushed directly towards Madam Hu. The other servants also watched eagerly.
Madam Hu took a step back, but she knew that if she really wanted to run away, she would probably be beaten half to death on the spot. Despair appeared in her eyes, especially when a servant girl's hand reached her waist.
But after carefully searching the hands on his waist, he found nothing, and then all over his body, even his private parts, were not spared. Finally, the three servant women stepped away and shook their heads at Liu Congyi.
Mrs. Hu knew that her waist was empty, and the house deed she had just obtained disappeared. She collapsed to the ground, not knowing whether she was happy or sad.
Liu Congyi frowned and almost blurted out: "No? Impossible! Daddy was drunk by Xiaowu and gave away all the family's money..."
The words stopped abruptly midway through, but the meaning was almost revealed.
When Liu Mei was still alive, she favored her younger son the most and secretly gave many of her family's properties to Liu Congguang. As Liu Congguang's beloved concubine, at this juncture, what else could she do if she sneaked into the dead man's house except to take the money? Really worship? He doesn't believe it!
Liu Congyi was very unwilling to give in, but he also knew that the servant woman didn't look like that after being searched. She really didn't. He waved his hand irritably: "Lock her up again! This time she must be behind bars and no one is allowed to get close to her!"
"yes!"
The maid stepped forward and pulled Madam Hu up from side to side, using such force that her sobs turned into screams, but apparently no one paid attention to her and dragged her away.
From the beginning to the end, no one took a single glance at Liu Congguang's house...
A moment later, Di Xiangling walked out of the house gracefully. First he shook his head at the feud between the big families, then clapped the five house deeds in his hand, imitating Madam Hu's laughter just now: "Hee hee! Hee hee!"
After laughing, he felt nauseous, stuck out his tongue, swayed and disappeared without a trace.
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